Dexter White returns to the podcast to confront his critics over his criticism of Vladimir Putin while further clarifying the need for everyone to be very discerning in their consumption of information in this world awash with all forms of bad information.
It is imperative we keep our heads clear of the all the propaganda and remain skeptical of everyone’s motivations. The answers are ahead of us, not behind us.
Previous Episodes:
Podcast Episode #98 — Dexter White and the Fog of Truth Around Ukraine
Podcast Episode #97 — Ron Unz and the Publisher’s Minefield
Podcast Episode #96 — Peter Boockvar and the Fed’s Hobson’s Choice on the Economy
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Much of the money being sent to Ukraine now (IMHO) will end up in the pockets of Biden and his flunkies (or maybe it is Obama and his flunkies–which includes Biden). Maybe follow the money is still the best rule.
They are sending various weapons — notably Javalin anti-tank missiles, ammo, and rifles. The money isn’t leaving the USA — the checks are made out to Raytheon and Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics.
The lobbyists for Raytheon, Lockheed and GD will be spreading cash all over Washington in the months ahead
Ukraine is one of the largest markets in the world for dark weapons. Many of these weapons will definitely end up in the wrong hands.
GNP: I agree with you. Donated funds could literally go anywhere, for any purpose.
Nato constitution.1949-Washington.
“The Parties to this Treaty reaffirm their faith in the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and their desire to live in peace with all peoples and all governments.
They are determined to safeguard the freedom, common heritage and civilisation of their peoples, founded on the principles of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law. They seek to promote stability and well-being in the North Atlantic area.
They are resolved to unite their efforts for collective defence and for the preservation of peace and security. They therefore agree to this North Atlantic Treaty :”
There is another treaty, signed and approved by the US congress, stating that Tennessee belongs to several Indian tribes.
There are several laws in which Congress promises to take care of US soldiers who were injured while fighting in the US military.
Good luck collecting. Uncle Sam’s word is only good if it suits them.
Who cares what the NATO treaty says?
Towards the end of the podcast, I mispeak and conflate the Eastern Bloc and the Warsaw Pact. NATO came first and the Warsaw Pact as an entity came second. My point was that NATO arose as a response to the broader Soviet threat.
Not sure if this comment was specifically related to that or not.
Cheers,
Dexter
Dexter says:
“If you think Putin is your saviour or on your side, it is a trap to waste your time.”
I think this is an incredibly stupid statement, and I can’t get further than 7 minutes on the Podcast.
Putin is unashamedly advocating a morality based global order. This is not a clash of civilizations, but a clash of civilization with barbarism. Barbarism for instance can be depicted as a Jihadist eating his victim’s heart. Barbarism can be depicted as a world without frontiers with terrorists sluicing freely around. Barbarism can also be depicted as the cancellation of culture, (in fact this is the true meaning of barbarian).
And if you don’t know who seeded the barbarism Dexter, you aren’t out of 3rd grade.
And Dexter really should note that there are many notable nations that have no trouble with Russia’s 153-0 vote to protect itself.
I made it a bit further than you into the podcast, but not by much. Dexter keeps referring to his “non-aggression” ethos while completely missing the point that NATO has been the clear aggressor ever since the Soviet Union disbanded. As for Putin losing stature because of that, well Dexter is simply delusional if he believes that. Nations operate on the basis of force, not some vacuous principle which noble as it sounds, has never been practised where deterrence wasn’t a fundamental part of the formula.
NATO Germany down, America in, Russia out Lord Ismay 1947
The reason for no limited incursion into the Donbass was because of the 2019 NATO wargame, which gamed this out. They predicted Putin would just go into the Donbass and that they would counterattack from the Kiev area with intact Ukrainian forces, and the war would escalate from there. (look it up)
Putin went into Ukraine for the same reason that Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, to destroy the American carrier fleet. Japan failed at that and six months later the undestroyed US carriers counterattacked and destroyed the Kidō Butai at Midway. Putin didn’t want to repeat that blunder.
The situation as it stands now, is that if there is to be a counter-attack, it will need to come directly from Poland and/or Romania. And if there is to be a guerilla war Poland & Romania will need to serve as a staging area, much like Cambodia did during the Vietnam War. And are any of those last two options palatable to either Poland or Romania?
Again, I think I said this last week, the idea of a partial war is an artifact of the American mentality. Only a Super Power protected by two oceans could think like that, whereas the Russians are old-school 19th Century Clausewitzians; they want a complete capitulation and a concrete resolution, not a bleeding ulcer.
“To introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity” ― Carl Von Clausewitz, On War
Personally, I can’t believe that NATO even gamed out the “partial incursion” scenario. On what planet were they on? Planet America is where. But the same thing happened in France, in 1940… the French were completely prepared for a replay of the First World War, with the “clever” idea of fighting the Battle of the Somme in Belgium, on the Dyle River, to avoid destroying the French countryside.
I don’t know if Putin will succeed, but he is playing for all of the marbles …and the West isn’t. IMHO
And if Xi is also playing for all of the marbles, which isn’t apparent yet, Biden will have to do a lot of hard and clever thinking.
That is a very convincing (and thus horrifying) analysis. Horrifying because I am having a hard time imagining the point where Putin gets the capitulation and concrete resolution you mention and then things just stop.
I agree that Von Clausewitz is the right lens to see this through.
I really like your analysis in these podcasts, but I think you and Tom are arguing from different presuppositions. There is no doubt that when the Germans crossed the French border on May 10, 1940, after 9 months of a Phony War, there were people who pulled out the Treaty of Versailles to figure out where it could be amended. But, by then, it was too late…
In the United States, we don’t look at war existentially the way Clausewitz did, as the final irrevocable breakdown of diplomacy. War is just another “management tool” in the US foreign policy tool box and if it goes wrong, we just pack up and go home as we did in Afghanistan & Vietnam.
Look at the last 20 years of US global leadership: Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria… with “likely” US participation in the recent coup attempts in Turkey, Myanmar(election fraud), Hong Kong and certainly Belarus last year & Kazakhstan a few months ago. Remember John Bolton calling for the “Libya Option” for Kim Jong-un and North Korea to sabotage Trump’s attempt at a dialog? And if you think that is all imaginary, two weeks ago George Soros called for the toppling of Xi and a few days ago, Sen. Lyndsey Graham called for the assassination of Putin.
And here is the democratically elected president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte asserting: “If I survive the CIA, I have five more years go”. (@10:52)
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_76642.shtml
And if all of those examples were not enough, Putin & Xi could get it straight from John Mearsheimer:
“they (Putin & Xi) think they are in the crosshairs, and you know what? …they are in the crosshairs, because our basic strategy is to topple regimes all over the world, not because we like democracy but because we believe that whoever gets elected will be pro-Western…”
For America, foreign policy is not existential, but it has made it existential for all of those on the other side.
And who wants to live in a world like that?
Given what just happened in Belarus & Kazakhstan, what fate lies in store for Putin if he plays along with the United States? …a stick up the tookus, like Muammar Gaddafi.
If you want to see Putin’s state of mind, watch this clip from the Mearsheimer-McGovern podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppD_bhWODDc&t=3198s
Putin: “Your people in turn don’t feel a sense of the impending danger – this is what worries me. How do you not understand that the World is being pulled in an irreversible direction? I don’t know how to get through to you anymore.”
I really like your analysis in all of these podcasts, but I think that the key difference between you and Tom is that Tom believes the world is slipping into an “anarchic period”, in the truest sense, where there are no international rules, and that you are applying the entrenched post-Cold War rubric.
I too don’t know how this is going to end, but I appreciate incredibly the time you and Tom take to do these podcasts. They are at another level. So, thank you very much !!!
DEXTER: I really like your analysis in these podcasts, but I think you and Tom are arguing from different presuppositions. There is no doubt that when the Germans crossed the French border on May 10, 1940, after 9 months of a Phony War, there were people who earnestly pulled out the Treaty of Versailles to figure out where it could be amended. But, by then, it was too late…
In the United States, we don’t look at war existentially the way Clausewitz did, as the final irrevocable breakdown of diplomacy. War is just another “management tool” in the US foreign policy tool box and if it goes wrong, we just pack up and go home, as we did in Afghanistan & Vietnam.
Look at the last 20 years of US global “management”: Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria… with “likely” US participation in the recent coup attempts in Turkey, Myanmar(election fraud), Hong Kong and certainly Belarus last year & Kazakhstan a few months ago. Remember John Bolton calling for the “Libya Option” for Kim Jong-un and North Korea to sabotage Trump’s attempt at a dialog? And if you think that is all imaginary, two weeks ago George Soros called for the toppling of Xi and a few days ago, Sen. Lyndsey Graham called for the assa**ination of Putin.
And here is the democratically elected president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte asserting: “If I survive the CIA, I have five more years go”. (@10:52)
h**p://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_76642.shtml
And if all of those examples were not enough, Putin & Xi could get it straight from John Mearsheimer:
“they (Putin & Xi) think they are in the crosshairs, and you know what? …they are in the crosshairs, because our basic strategy is to topple regimes all over the world, not because we like democracy but because we believe that whoever gets elected will be pro-Western…”
For America, foreign policy is not existential, but for all of those on the other side, it is existential. And who wants to live in a world like that?
Given what just happened in Belarus & Kazakhstan, what fate lies in store for Putin if he plays along with the NATO & the United States? …a stick up the tookus, like Muammar Gaddafi.
If you want to see Putin’s agitated state of mind, watch this clip from the Mearsheimer-McGovern podcast:
h**ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppD_bhWODDc&t=3198s
Putin: “Your people in turn don’t feel a sense of the impending danger – this is what worries me. How do you not understand that the World is being pulled in an irreversible direction? I don’t know how to get through to you anymore.”
I really like your analysis in all of these podcasts, but I think that the difference between you and Tom is that Tom believes the world is slipping into an “anarchic period”, in the TRUEST SENSE, where there are no international rules, and that you are applying the entrenched post-Cold War rubric.
I too don’t know how this is going to end, but I appreciate incredibly the time you and Tom take to do these podcasts. They are at another level! So, thank you very !!!
So if Putin’s military operation was defensive, than your argument fall flat. I think iwt was, based on years of NATO incursions and deceptions.
Putin has a PHD in Economics and a PHD in Law and fluent in 5 languages.
Probably a reincarnation of Napoleon, who also challenged the New World Odor.
I don’t think Dexter hates the neocons sufficiently, or hopes to get laid.
Eight years of Donbass being shelled every night are hard to swallow.
He doth protest too much, methinks.
LO.Ok guys Putin and Xi have had a secret weapon against the US.
1. USS Liberty Coverup
2. 911 Inside/Outside Job
3. The Corona-rama
But they both play along, as the rest of the world leaders.
OBJECTIVE: UN Agenda 2030 quick time. “You will own nothing and be happy.” WEF Schwab
“You can accomplish more in five years of War [#Coronarama] than in fifty years of Public Relations (Propaganda) to change society.”
– Carroll Quigley
LO.Ok guys Putin and Xi have had a secret weapon against the US.
1. USS Liberty Coverup
2. 911 Inside/Outside Job
3. The Corona-rama
But they both play along, as the rest of the world leaders.
OBJECTIVE: UN Agenda 2030 quick time. “You will own nothing and be happy.” WEF Schwab
“You can accomplish more in five years of War [#Coronarama] than in fifty years of Public Relations (Propaganda) to change society.”
– Carroll Quigley
Western media outlets are stuffed full of people who couldn’t hack English literature (“analyzing” and BS-ing about fictional writing). One can’t expect these folks to understand much of anything.
But its a little bizarre that anyone is betting on Obama’s foreign policy team to prevail against anyone. They lost against Iraq (at least twice). They lost versus Egypt. They lost versus Libya. They lost in Syria. They lost in Afghanistan (at least twice). They lost in North Korea. They had the US military and the US intelligence services helping them in all of those contests.
The Obama foreign policy team is 0-14. Their losing streak continues under Bite-me.
The reason the US is losing in Iraq is because the British already lost badly enough to be kicked out. The Brits lost Egypt too
The French at one point controlled Lebanon and Syria — but lost.
Not only is the Obama foreign policy team 0-14, they are getting help from people with a worse track record.
Perhaps that is why Ukraine’s Zelensky is proposing to give up Crimea (since its already lost) and Donbas region (since its already lost too). The guy is a comedian with no military tactical training what-so-ever…. but he has belatedly realized the US is fighting Russia and doesn’t give a damn whether Urkaine survives.
Russia wants Ukraine to survive as a buffer. The US government doesn’t care about Urkaine at all, and its being run by a team of losers.
Perhaps a week ago before any of the revelations about biological weapons labs you might be able to argue that a full invasion of Ukraine was a blow to Putin’s legitimacy, but now keeping in mind the possibility of Ukraine growing it’s on WMDs on the cheap (it’s easier to grow bacteria than manufacture a nuclear device), it is quite possible Putin can make a very good case internationally for a full invasion after the fact depending on how much evidence of bioweapons development the Russians manage to dig up.
Dexter is looking short term and with tunnel vision. Putin made it clear why Ukraine had to be de-militarized and de-nazified.
An health analogy is that the doctor needs to remove all the cancer cells not just the tumor.
Naive and simplistic.
Saying Donbass is not Russia just illustrates Dexter spews BS.
Those that believe their own BS are destined to eat it.
Putin does not claim Donbas is inside the borders of Russia, he recognized them as independent republics.
The rest of the world (except Abkhazia) maintains the LPR/DPR area is inside the territorial boundaries of Ukraine. And even if that changes because of this war, it is a fact that no country, including Russia, says that those 2 Ukranian oblasts are part of the nation of Russia.
Consequently, there is no valid invocation of self-defense by Russia in response to an (alleged) conventional assault on these areas by Ukrainian forces. If that is BS, please post some proof.
I recognize that Putin may try to construct the same type of WMD argument that the United States did to justify the invasion of Iraq. That allegation of an imminent non-conventional threat against Russia will require a high burden of proof. But, that is a distinct and separate issue from claiming self-defense over the invasion of a foreign territory.
Cheers,
Dexter
Putin watched the US and NATO bomb the tiny country of Serbia daily for three months straight in order to steal a chunk of its legal territory. It was a gross violation of international law and set a dangerous precedent. What is the point of adhering to laws that are blatantly violated by the very countries who are supposed to enforce them?
Hey Dexter, direct question here:
Have you read Defense Planning Guidance (1992)? I would assume someone like you has read it… but maybe not based on some of your comments. Paul Wolfowitz makes it very clear what NATO’s purpose is post Soviet Union.
Here’s the verbatim quote:
“Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival. This is a dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power. These regions include Western Europe, East Asia, the territory of the former Soviet Union, and Southwest Asia.”
Frankly, that says it all about what NATO is and who controls it. Clearly, if you just look at the process of NATO expansion that began immediately after the fall of the Soviet Union, it’s obvious what Wolfowitz and the Zio-Neocon faction that has since taken over the foreign policy establishment of the US, and the west generally, intended. Encirclement of Russia and a denial of any attempt by Russia to become a “global power”. Do you really think that NATO’s expansion right to the doorstep of Russia and the 2014 coup in Ukraine have any other explanation outside of this context? The plan is specifically laid out by Wolfowitz in 1992 and then was executed unceasingly until a few weeks ago. There is no way to hide the aggressive posture and approach the west has taken toward Russia. Victoria Nuland’s taped phone call during the Maidan said it all. She literally laid out the personnel that Washington had decided to install as the new CIA managed stooge government of Ukraine. Oh, and F the EU! Any rational and reasonable person cannot observe what has occurred in the Donbas since then as a Ukrainian domestic issue. It’s US State Department policy that prevails there now and the Ukraine ceased to exist as a remotely independent country after February of 2014. It’s a proxy state managed by the western elite. Period.
I guess I find it hard to understand why you would not see the ever increasing and imminent danger that the Russian’s would rightfully perceive as legitimate or accurate, and worthy of kinetic response. Especially given the nature and track record of their enemy. You seem like a smart guy. But your argumentation presupposes some extremely naive conclusions. The US and NATO have repeatedly proven they will conduct military operations illegally, based on lies, as they have in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc. How far do you want to go back go back? Vietnam? They have also proven they will use proxy forces to conduct those illegal wars. They already control Ukraine politically and militarily, so they have their proxy in position. And as Lavrov has said, in the context of negotiations over legitimate security concerns for Russia, the west has proven not to be “commitment capable”. The pattern is simple. They lie their way right to your doorstep via subversion, subterfuge, and propaganda, then they either force you to work for them and destroy your own country at their behest or they destroy your country for you, mostly with proxy forces and air support, and murder its leaders. Ask Gaddafi.
If the US essentially seizing control of the body politic in Ukraine was not a signal that Russia was already at grave risk of attack, or at the very least already in a completely untenable security situation on its border that could not be alleviated via diplomatic channels with known bad actors like Victoria Nuland on the other side, what in your estimation would qualify as an existential threat that required a military response? It seems like your standard of the NAP in the context of power geopolitics would only allow them to take action if Moscow was bombed or something. You do understand that is a crazy standard given everything I’ve just laid out right? You’re advocating that Russia just stand idly by and commit national suicide. That’s just not realistic in my humble opinion.
“The objective of war is to disarm the enemy” -von clauswitz
Putin must defang the snake; KISS principal keep it simple stupid
The CIA&MOSSAD lost their legitimacy long ago; Eight years of patience is beyond even a saint.
What a world it could have been had Russian done what Belarus did in early 2020 and called covid what it really was (and incidentally, what Fauci himself said it was in a published paper in Feb. 2020) — akin to a severe seasonal flu. Had Russia done that, the worst that could’ve happened is the hysterical narrative war that is being waged against them now, minus the kinetic war and actual dead bodies. Russian would have broken the WEF narrative and likely none of us would have gone through the hell we all did the last 2 years…and the future of the seemingly irreversible end game of digital IDs in order to live our lives. But at that point in 2020, it looked like Russia was in lockstep with the WEF. Probably because every government, including Russia, wants the kind of control over their own citizens that digital IDs provide. So they went with the least harmful tool, as Tom says, Sputnik V and not the mRNA poison. Up until last month I thought Putin was still in the Davos fold, but this overwhelming hysterical reaction of the West and its allies to the invasion of Ukraine shows that this isn’t what they had in mind. Tom, I think you are absolutely right, Putin is trying to break the WEF and NATO. But it could have been much easier and better for the world had he done it in March 2020 instead.
Putin and Xi have had a secret weapon against the US.
1. USS Liberty Coverup
2. 911 Inside/Outside Job
3. The Corona-rama
But they both play along, as the rest of the world leaders.
OBJECTIVE: UN Agenda 2030 quick time. “You will own nothing and be happy.” WEF Schwab
“You can accomplish more in five years of War [#Coronarama] than in fifty years of Public Relations (Propaganda) to change society.”
– Carroll Quigley
When the biggest bully on the playground gets a bloody nose from some other asshole, no one feels bad about that, and no one concern trolls the other asshole. Quite the contrary. And it doesn’t mean we all want to be bros with the other asshole either. It’s pretty simple.
Yes it’s all so baffling.
Why isn’t Putin using aircraft?
Why isn’t Putin cutting off the energy supply?
Why didn’t Putin move his reserves out of reach before this began?
Surely Jamie Dimon would never allow JPM to be disintermediated?
These are only mysteries to those that haven’t worked out that WEF Global Leader Putin is now just playing the Heel in the WEF kayfabe geopolitical drama. And once they bring the global financial system down and deliver their Great Reset, Putin will take his place at the Global Council table as an honoured ally who helped to bring such peace to the world. Just as Jamie Dimon will take his seat at the BIS or IMF-run Global Currency Board that will run alongside.
All your cognitive dissonances will resolve perfectly if you stop assuming your premises are correct.
P.S – Dexter is clearly a very bright guy, but if you add up all his uses of the word “like” I suspect it would comfortably run to three figures. And talking like a ditzy valley girl tends to strip about forty points of IQ. Just sayin’.
Like, you got me, totally.
;)
Looks like that Global Currency Board is about to form – Biden’s EO and today’s vote on MICA by the EU will begin the process of rendering private crypto numismatic.
Cue the cryptopaths screaming from their jail cells about how Bitcoin can never be banned.
You’re hilarious
I think it’s obvious. He doesn’t fight like the west does, to flatten everything first, then roll over everything. If you only want regime change and not permanently occupy, if you want to outst a government that was installed by foreign powers via a coup, you don’t use air power but to assure air power won’t hit you. You don’t flatten cities of those you wish to be neutral against you. You surround cities. You don’t March into them. The game is capitulation of government, not conquest for territory.
Exactly. “If you break it, you own it.” Comes to mind…stated by someone who helped break a lot of stuff.
I think the larger incursion into Ukraine most likely was seen as viable by Russia due to the russians possessing some intelligence and/or evidence of what goes on in those research labs. Perhaps COVID-19 related.
Having seen this witness of the plandemic https://odysee.com/@GrandJury:f/Grand-Jury-Day-3-en-online:7?t=13475 i think i can piece together a rough sketch of the globalist plan:
First note that the russian sputnik “vaccine” is not a MRNA “vaccine” and does not force production of spike protein in the body. The Pfizer “vaccine” could work to some degree by forcing the immune system to stop reacting to the spike protein which it forces production of. That could explain the repeated claim of mild cases among the injected. Most of the people of the world has recieved this one or one equivalent and suffered because of it with the notable exception of the russians. (Don’t know about the chinese, though).
Secondly the question of the MRNA vaccines was always; why would the globalists harm their subjects that trust them thus diminishing their own power? The answer could be that a second virus/spike protein bioweapon will be released to kill the russians and the uninjected. Suddenly there is no longer any opposition to the globalists anymore but the few injected who awoke during/due to the plandemic. It should be much safer (orders of magnitude(!) due to math) with the double protection of the slavic race targeting AND the spike protein treatment of the obedient populous. If it works as intended that is. COVID-19 may also have been a dry run of the bio weapon itself. With all the testing they should have a descent data set of how it affects diffrent ethnicities anyway.
If this is at all accurate we may not be in as good of a position as we may have thought in opposition to the globalists.
How about the Sputnik Jab and China whatever are inert and our troops got the poison? And Putin & Xi will sit as gods in the Roundtable of the New Order of the Age of Aquarius Total Totalitarian Socialist Government?
And I hope you ain’t on hopes of Desantis or Dump saving you?
“First note that the russian sputnik “vaccine” is not a MRNA “vaccine” and does not force production of spike protein in the body.”
Sorry, but that’s just wrong. Sputnik uses a different delivery mechanism, but like the mRNA vaccines, it also produced the spike protein.
https://www.precisionvaccinations.com/vaccines/sputnik-v-vaccine
The Sputnik vector vaccine based on adenovirus DNA, in which the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus gene is integrated. Adenovirus is used as a “container” to deliver the coronavirus gene to cells and start synthesizing the SARS-CoV-2 virus’s envelope proteins, “introducing” the immune system to a potential enemy. The cells then use the gene to produce the spike protein. A person’s immune system will treat this spike protein as foreign and produce natural defenses, antibodies, and T cells, against this protein.
When you remove war as a possibility on moral grounds, those who oppose you can use anything against you that only war will stop. This is how bad people bad organizations destroy cultures, peoples, lives. These people will not allow you to fight against them, when you say you will only fight if invaded.
Regarding Dexter’s analysis, which is deep and well thought out, he does seem to miss some of the messaging that Putin clearly spelled out for his citizens and the west, regarding Russia’s security concerns and his rationales for the invasion:
1) Nazi Germany invading in 1941 – Russia reacted too late and lost 25-30 million.
2) the Nationalist movement..aka azov battalions with a neo-nazi bent have become part of the political, military and security apparatus of the Ukrainian nation state. This is different than having neo-nazis (as many countries do), protesting in the streets. The Ukranian Nazis were incorporated into the political and military structure.
3) Nato encroachment meant that in the future, when the USA and NATO had hypersonic missile technology, that avenue to accept Ukraine and make it part of NATO would mean that offensive missiles could be on Russia’s doorsteps…within five minutes of Moscow.
If you read what Putin has messaged, and you try to look through the eyes of the Russian mindset, you can clearly see that they have legitimized this invasion as an existential necessity.
Putin Derangement Syndrome is nothing but the overwhelming horror that Ed Dowd may be correct.
The sanctions and seizing of Russian assets by European nations under EU control, all of which hastens the demise of the petro dollar, is the clear indication of whose primarily pulling most of the anti-russia moves and strings. Its just another attack against the US, which indicates its the Davos crowd.
Great Pod. Closing comments about how our Western leaders as a collective have driven Russia into China’s arms were spot on. Russia has culturally, economically, and historically has much more in common with Europe than Asia. Putin has very clearly been trying to say this in many ways for years and almost begging Davos and US MIC interests to come to the table in good faith. He has also as much as admitted that communism (in all its forms) doesn’t work and is therefore mistrustful of China.
Yet our leaders have ignored all this for 2 decades, thought they could pick on him, and are now reaping their just rewards.
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The problem with the analysis that Putin has lost legitimacy is that it assumes there is a legitimate legal framework for great powers to secure their national interests when faced with aggressive actions by other great powers that are acting against those national security interest. One can not simply wait until they are being attacked kinetically to respond when the opponent is a nuclear power, which NATO is. There is the issue of response time to a nuclear first strike, which has been openly adopted as the new American policy instance. I’m the kind of international diplomacy environment created by the west in the last few decades there are clearly no rules for the powerful. Putin was caught in a trap. Continue to try and operate within the “international rules based order” and have Ukraine absorbed into NATO with WMDs placed on his borders, a circumstance the US would never allow to occur on its own borders, which would have essentially been an act of surrender, or take the initiative and begin acting exactly the way the west acts, aggressively and without permission or apology.
I’m no Putin apologist either. Nor am I pro war. I’m absolutely not. But there is a difference between the world we want and the one we actually live in and unfortunately international relations is a realm of extreme pragmatism and even cynicism where the weak are ruthlessly destroyed. The NAP has zero relevance in that world. Zero. It would be naive to believe otherwise.
Was writing that in my car. Needs an edit. You get the point. It would be a nice option to add an edit button though.