As we end this third week of World War III it’s becoming clear that the West’s end-game strategy is now regime change in Russia. As the money and weapons pour into Ukraine the Ukrainian Flag further morphs into the 21st century’s version of ‘Old Shoe,’ all around the Twittersphere.
Zelenskyy’s even been invited to the Oscar’s for pity’s sake.
If you were ever in doubt about this, just watch Senator Lindsey Graham (Neocon – SC) triple-down on assassinating a world leader.
Speaking at a press conference, Graham said “I hope he will be taken out, one way or the other,” adding “I don’t care how they take him out. I don’t care if we send him to The Hague and try him. I just want him to go.”
“It’s time for him to go,” Graham further said of Putin, echoing Joe Biden’s blurted remarks that “He’s a war criminal.”
“I wish somebody had taken Hitler out in the ’30s. So yes, Vladimir Putin is not a legitimate leader. He is a war criminal.” Graham declared.
Graham further proclaimed that Russia is “going to have zero future” under Putin, adding “I think the world is better off without Putin – the sooner the better, and I don’t care how we do it.”
This is called Saying the Quiet Parts Out Loud.
Even Paul Craig Roberts is trying to figure out why Putin isn’t treating his enemies more ruthlessly. We awake Americans have a real sense of the depravity that our leaders carry and at times I think we get carried away with our own insights here.
As I said would happen, Russia’s go-slow war has played 100% into their enemies’ hands. Russia needed a quick victory to forestall a devastating psyops campaign against her and to intimidate further NATO expansion. What the Kremlin achieved by believing that the West would respect humanitarian intentions is infamy. Instead of discouraging provocations of Russia that will eventually lead to nuclear war, the Kremlin’s liberal goody-goodly war policy, which the West sees as irresolution, has encouraged more provocations
Dr. Roberts’ thesis is one I’ve heard from multiple people, including from my friend Dexter White on two recent podcasts we did (here and here). Putin’s slow rolling the Ukraine operation has further emboldened Neocon crazies whose whole being is focused on interpreting every action by their enemies as a weakness to exploit.
This analysis further solidifies my conclusion that they are left-brain possessed, betraying all the attributes of someone psychologically unbalanced to the point of madness. They become paranoid psychotics seeing everything in terms of their enemy.
It’s the most popular refrain of desperate globalists, “Putin did it.”
It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. What matters is keeping people in that suggestible state. It’s easy to do since they, themselves, are there too.
Lindsey Graham likes to play tough guy. So does Biden. Neither of these men have ever been in a real fight with their bodies on the line in their life. They’ve never really been in a life-threatening situation. For them their fear is far worse, it’s reputational which means fear of exposure.
They hide behind cameras, their positions, and their egos.
They live in fear of being shamed.
It’s easy to dismiss Graham as a buffoon, because he is. But he’s also a very important cog in the machine. So, when he speaks it’s important. Don’t be flip about these statements, they absolutely mean something.
If you look around D.C. you see the same psychological projection of inner rot every time one of these war mongers gets in front of a camera to manufacture consent. They are also fearful of the shame of exposure which drives them to madness like Lindsey displays now on a nearly daily basis.
This push for regime change in Russia, however, begs a very important question: “Why have they gone this far? Why do they think they can get regime change when Putin has 70+% support?”
Is it because they really are scared of the emerging facts on the ground, that Russia is grinding out, inevitably and inexorably, a victory in Ukraine on Russian terms that isn’t a reflection of bad military strategy and/or poor intelligence and logistics?
Or is it something deeper.
Something Darker
Alistair Crooke and I talked about this in our latest podcast. Russia’s collective psyche is a reflection of Putin’s. You’ll see that their anger and frustration is now real and complete. The West hates Russia and Russians with a burning passion that is irrational.
The fear of loss of potency has made war-mongers out of way too many folks because they refuse to blame themselves for this mess:
- That they allowed Biden to take the White House
- That they believed all the crude propaganda about Trump and Putin
- That they still wear their masks, now with Ukrainian Flags on them, to show their wisdom over those who are now clearly traitors.
- That their paychecks are getting smaller by the day.
When you see a push poll by Pew that states more than one-third of Americans are willing to risk nuclear war to stop Putin in Ukraine, you know something has gone way off the rails, and it ain’t the Russians.
It’s not fear that makes the Russian people and Putin angry, it’s disappointment at having their hand of friendship consistently slapped away so thoroughly in the post-Soviet era.
What goodwill that existed in the West towards Russia in the 1990’s, seeing them as victims of a terrible evil to be pitied, has morphed into disgust for following a man into war for threatening their comfortable existence behind their iPhones.
When Putin speaks now he is visibly, viscerally angry. He’s been systematically, for years, cutting Russia off from the influences of the ill-liberalism of the West.
Putin knows he’s been pushed into this by people who are powerful but psychologically small. And the Russian people have been deeply disrespected to the point of war. That’s why his poll numbers rise while Bidens’ barely budge.
That all leads to regime change as the end-game because it may be the only option, which implies continued escalation to the point of something unthinkable.
And it makes perfect sense that’s what they are planning, not just regime change, but a wider war (see the buildup of NATO troops) to grind Russia into a paste and atomize it, Russian culture and the Russian people.
That said, Davos has very little human intelligence on the ground to actually make that happen. All the sanctions and expelling diplomats helped Russia’s and Putin’s security.
The U.S. Embassy in Moscow has less than 50 people in it.
While that is a sad state of affairs and means there is little to no hope of diplomacy, it also means there isn’t any infrastructure to do what Lindsey is so desperately saying… Someone take him out, anyone!
That’s a sign of creating the new narrative while simultaneously betraying helplessness, in my view.
Now, unfortunately that leads me into an ever darker place. They don’t just want regime change and some kind of negotiated settlement for Ukraine. That’s actually way off the table now.
They see the writing on the wall for their financial system which has failed. The only option they see now is making open preparations for WWIII thinking they still have the materiel and the manpower to enforce their Great Reset, which was always leading to war.
Lindsey Graham’s job is to build up the propaganda war to justify NATO’s entrance into Ukraine in the next few weeks.
The program now is WWIII, possibly with nukes and the abject humiliation of Russia and its eventual destruction.
And ours.
I begged off ‘working’ yesterday because of this realization. I was drained to the point of exhaustion and planned on sleeping my depression off. I re-watched part I of Oliver Stone’s The Putin Interviews from 2016.
I recommend everyone watch these films, they are an enlightenment.
If you want to know your enemy, you should study him. Demonizing him may win you friends at the water cooler, but it will cost you your soul. About 20 minutes in, during their first conversation, Stone brings up the multiple assassination attempts on Putin.
If you watch nothing else, watch this segment (click here) to get a better understanding of Russia and Putin. The punchline is simple:
“Do you know what they say among the Russian people? Those who are destined to hang, do not drown.”
– Vladimir Putin
Putin is well aware, hyper-aware of his situation. A person in his position who has been fighting this way for more than 20 years, a project he has dedicated the 2nd half of his life to, is not so stupid as to be the willing dupe of Davos nor is he blind to the capabilities or the ruthlessness of his enemies.
This is why I hold to the positions about Putin that I do. He may fail here. War is hell and nothing ever goes according to the plan on the white board.
But, if you are going to be led into war who would your bet on? People like Lindsey Graham could never stand in front of a camera and say what Putin said to Stone. Why?
Because there is no there there. He’s just a shadow projector with a hand puppet up its ass.
But if you turn the camera away from Graham and Biden and look at Putin, he’s speaking to the world now. That’s what his latest speech was about.
It wasn’t aimed at his enemies.
He’s done talking to them. They aren’t listening.
That speech was aimed at everyone else including Americans and Europeans, “This is what they think of you. This is what they are willing to do to demand your obedience,” They will steal your money, take your children, burn your life to the ground.
And it isn’t like he doesn’t have a very sound point, folks.
If anyone was calling for regime change now, it’s Putin.
It may have zero effect or play here in the West. In fact, I predict it will have almost zero effect. But it will resonate around the world in those places now very scared of the conflict that Biden and Davos are forcing on everyone.
Under those circumstances clarity comes quickly. Big decisions happen fast.
I think a global mimetic collapse is in process as I type this. We can’t see it here in the West because we aren’t allowed to. But in parliaments and politburos around the that part that Davos just sees as ‘the help,’ it’s happening. The headlines are coming in almost too fast for anyone to keep up with.
This is what happens when fearful men become cornered. Davos is cornered. The drowning man will do everything to keep from drowning, including drowning his rescuer.
The hanged man has already accepted his fate. He is free.
What happens next is not in his hands, it’s in ours.
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Regime change is required if we are to survive, and we must start with the Obiden Junta by any means necessary.
Amen.
Trump isn’t any better. Both parties are mostly infested with “progressives”, and then we have the neocon radicals. The majority of both parties work for corporate interests and not the people, and not the Constitution. Trump wouldn’t use the laptop which had proof that Dementia Joe illegally colluded with Chinese business interests, which made him un-electable. Trump didn’t want to hurt a family, he was willing to throw us to the globaist/progressive/Marxist wolves, but he protected this family. What does that tell you? And Tucker Carlson protected this family using almost the same words. Trump is part of the problem. NOTHING he did lasted. At high levels nothing changes no matter who is in office or runs Congress. So don’t limit your investigations to the Scumocrats, BOTH sides are filled with corrupt traitors.
Saw this comment pop up on my email. I would love to have Tom give me his interpretation of just exactly what Trump is/was to the Davos crowd. He probably already has and if a link can be shared it would be much appreciated. As with Russia or anything else it is prudent to watch how the Zeitgeist reacts. From the very moment Trump came into power it was pretty clear the powers in Washington were dead set against it. They threw everything at him including covid, colour rev, and the election rig to remove him from office. It’s a clear sign that TPTB did not trust him for whatever reason. I am still skeptical though and hungry for the truth. Would love to hear cogent theories or links. This has been rattling my brain for many months. Something doesn’t quite add up.
I have covered Trump in grave detail..
Long story short, Trump was well-intentioned but unprepared for what he faced. He did a fine job forcing them out of the shadows but also helped give the media legitimacy again. He’s not Davos, he’s just mostly a putz
Tom, you are right about what you said about Trump from the beginning…the worst part about him is he’s a mercantilist boomer, and all his bad ideas and decisions flow from that starting point. In terms of his foreign policy he talked good during the campaign and years before on social media about the ME, but obeyed the neocons and zios just one month into his term and continued all the way to end with taking out “bad guy” Soleimani. In terms of his personal character, he has none. He isn’t a Davos man, but is a pervert who was in the same social circles as all the other Davos perverts his whole life. I think Davos only opposed him because they have no real blackmail on him (other than sluts, but that is common knowledge…so who cares), not because they were afraid of what he was going to do. In fact, lack of blackmail is probably the only reason he isn’t a member of Davos. Finally, to say covid was thrown at him, as luke does above, is totally incorrect. Covid policy was entirely his, and to this day he calls “Warp Speed” the greatest scientific achievement ever. He’s a dangerous buffoon.
Trump was generally clueless as to how Washington worked at first.
Chuck Schumer tried to clue Trump about who really runs Washington early on in his term.
Schumer Warns Trump: Intel Community Has Many Ways to ‘Get Back at You’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OYyXv2l4-I
And that IC / POTUS conflict goes as far back as Kennedy, not wanting support the Bay of Pigs or go into Vietnam.
KENNEDY
Kennedy’s disavowal of official US involvement in the De Gaulle coup came with a disturbing addendum — the American president could not vouch for his own intelligence agency. Kennedy told Alphand that “the CIA is such a vast and poorly controlled machine that the most unlikely maneuvers might be true.””
“French press accounts referred to the CIA as a “reactionary state within a state” that operated outside of Kennedy’s control.”
https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/government-integrity/jfk-assassination-plot-mirrored-in-france-part-2/
And with that state of affairs Kennedy wanted to “smash the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds”. He signed an executive order, NSAM 57, that would have done that, however he was killed before it could be implemented.
TRUMP
Once Trump understood the dire situation he was in, he revived Kennedy’s EO:
Trump Implements Kennedy’s NSAM 57 to Cut CIA Out of Power
http://americanpatriotcontacttracers.com/trump-implements-kennedys-nsam-57-to-cut-cia-out-of-power-video/
Here was the press conference nobody saw (7000 views):
Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller announces implementation of Kennedy’s NSAM 57
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2eIG38t4i0&t=113s
So, had Trump won a second term, the CIA would have been completely neutered.
Those were paramilitary controlled CIA bio-labs in Ukraine, built under Trump’s nose, but as they impeached Trump for simply DELAYING an arms shipment to Ukraine, they had him under immense pressure.
If Trump does win again in 2024 then NSAM 57 and Civil Service reform will probably be his first two executive orders. But as these are existential threats to the Deep State, I can’t ever imagine them allowing that to happen.
Wrong its a delusion/fantasy. I think far aggressive leader would come after Putin. He wont be so easy going as Putin. Thats a guarantee.
That! Putin is very calculated. One with a ”temper” could do much worse! Sometimes we are happy to get rid of the Devil and we get to have his father! It is a say.
Nevertheless, Putin has a very long life line, it was obvious in some of his public appearences when we got to see his palm! And is dobled at one point :)))
he was asked by Olver Stone if he is afraid of being assasinated and his reply was: one that has to die in fire will not die drowned or something like this. So I guess he already knows what is in cards for him
It is American regime change that is required. American leadership has lost their bloody minds. Putin demonstrates intelligence, fairness, and humaneness. At least someone hasn’t lost their minds. You’d better cool it, Lyndsay Graham, Biden, Obama, Mitt Romney, Hillary…. .and all you other lunatics, or you will totally destroy yourselves and the rest of the world. Thank you for your sanity, Mr. Putin. To the Russian People, I am sorry the U.S. leadership is so hateful toward you. I apologize for the shame of my country. Russia could be a wonderful friend and ally if we would only let them. I’m sorry, Russia, that America is full of jerks, imbeciles and lack of intelligence. The U.S. is a bunch of psychos. I keep Putin and Russia in my prayers. And Trump needs to go away. He is under the control of bad people.
Remember that famous quote ??
“If my sons did not want wars, there would be none.”
Gutle Schnaper. Mayer Amschel Rothschild’s wife.
Your view of this entire debacle is exactly what I see and fear. I’m just a mom and grandmom and my concerns are the people I am responsible for; their safety and well being are paramount to me. The West’s unfathomable calls for the assassination of a world leader just scream of the fear and desperation that they’re dirty dealings may be revealed to the whole world. The fact that they’d risk the death and destruction of a WWIII to cover it up is just breathtaking.
Excellent as always.
Waiting patiently for your thoughts on the elephant in the room. Become a member cause I’m convinced you’re the only one brave/strong enough to go there.
Just bought a milk cow for our herd-share.
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Thanks Tom. Hard not to get depressed. I think your analysis is very close. Let’s hope someone in power? The Pentagon ? Keep the crazy people from pressing any buttons.
It is not over for Putin…they are making other plans financially so they have friends…
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/03/this-is-important.html#disqus_thread
My money’s on Putin, he doesn’t have anything left to lose making him exceedingly formidable. Lindsey Graham et al are scared shitless. I see Putin “going slow” to limit civilian deaths; Roberts not comprhending this shows how brutal the USA has become.
Well said and I totally agree. Your closing statement is profound and is the sad truth.
The governments in the west say Putin is the enemy. The same western governments who treated us like their prisoners for two years. The same western governments who lied to us about the entire Covid narrative. The same western governments who destroyed our economies, trashed our currencies.
If it is true that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then, well, Putin is my friend.
Also, if Putin loses, then the whole world will be run by the WEF / Davos clowns. Biden and Trudeau will be the kings of the world. I’d rather be nuked.
Indeed!
If Russia loses, it’s President Markle and dildo parades
I have some Russian friends from Soviet era, all ex military and they tell that if something happens with Putin, then next will be best WW II Stalin style liberal treatment. Sralin infamous quote was if they do not love, let them be afraid.
Those Putin killers never think who might be his successor .
Think about how much intelligence the FSB and the former KGB must have gathered over the years. They potentially have the inside scoop on everything from 9/11 to JFK, including the 2020 election and the Clinton initiative and much, much more. I am sure the revelations about the labs and the laptop were just the start. Informational war was Davos’s weapon of choice and my suspicion is that Putin has turned the tables on them and playing them at their own game. They want regime change in Moscow because they have figured out he is playing for regime change across the west.
I am in SC. I am horrified by what Graham has done. I am a man of opportunity, and as Johnny said, “I keep my eyes wide open all the time…”
What happens when someone disagrees with Graham, labels him a war criminal and then calls for Graham’s assassination?
Once Graham let that toothpaste out of the tube, it doesn’t go back in
Yes, we used to have an unwritten rule not to target heads of state for that exact reason. But with the leaders running Western Civ all formalities have been tossed aside.
We need a regime change on Graham. What the hell is wrong with SC that it keeps electing a gutless QUEEN like Lindsey to a senate seat? Fraud or just gutless brain dead South Carolinians? Or perhaps a little of both?
This was brilliant
Biden and Zelensky are desperate to get the world’s attention for their little insurrection. It doesn’t matter.
Germany’s Bundestag listened to Zelensky and then voted on holiday dates.
China told Biden to stop lecturing everyone. XI remembers last month when Biden was condemning China over the Uighers and Taiwan.
Here in the USA, half the population (every woman I know) is up in arms about the male swimmer who identifies as a freak and is wrecking women’s sports.
The USA has had CIA operatives in Ukraine supplying weapons and training for the past eight years (at least). Did not go well at all. And now they are being hunted
I like the analysis. My thoughts may be both conflicting and complimentary.
Without the benefit of detailed explanation, the following might not be widely accepted, but its my view. I have my own significant analysis and background detail to support it. I also read Dr. Roberts’ recent criticism of Putin and Russia. All due respect to the doctor, but I feel his analysis is short sighted and ignores the potential that Russia is pursuing a pre-planned course that is intentionally not designed to achieve the best possible outcome for Russia, similar to the US regime following a pre-planned course that ultimately does more damage to America than good.
That being said, I suspect that the role that Putin is playing is by design, to be bad guy to the west and good guy to the east. The world will be increasingly divided into at least two major camps that will be in conflict, which will be harnessed to enflame public reaction and thereby justify increasing technocratic control. The polar division will result in strong alignment/unification within each pole, which will bring the globalists much closer to full alignment in a later phase, once the polar divisions are eliminated. Let’s say in 10 or 20 years, after much integration within poles, and then a final push towards global unification.
In the meantime, many stages of mass formation will occur, and multiple crisis, all to justify the rest of economic and national/international policies that will all be blamed on the numerous pre-planned crises, and offered as solutions.
Along the path we’re going to witness a plethora of so-called “errors” in policy, planning, and implementation. Analysts who refuse to see the globalist agenda, and gatekeepers, will continue to ponder the errors and make their recommendations, in either oblivion or obfuscation regarding the broader strategy in play to implement technocratic control over the world.
Crazy talk? Only if you ignore that this is what the WEF, UN, and all of their subordinate global leaders, NGO’s, and corporations have been shilling publicly for decades.
Judging what Mr. Puti has done for Russia and the Russian people over the past two decades is nothing short of remarkable. What Western leaders have done to their countries and people is nothing short of criminal.
To your comment: “This analysis further solidifies my conclusion that they are left-brain possessed, betraying all the attributes of someone psychologically unbalanced to the point of madness. They become paranoid psychotics seeing everything in terms of their enemy.”
They are insane, armed with nukes, and feel they can use them with impunity.
There are about 350 million people in the EU, about 330 million in the USA, and 125 million for Canada and 40 million-ish in Japan…. totaling 845 million-ish. Lets round up to 1 billion just for giggles.
There are 8 billion people in the world. Less than one eighth of those are on board with Davos and Biden and BoJo. 7/8 people on the planet either support Russia, or are neutral. Just because western media outlets say Russia is isolated doesn’t make it so.
Commedian Zelensky is making the rounds on all the talk shows — US Congress, UK parliament, Bundestag, CNN. He has a different message for each audience, the only common message is “SEND HELP NOW!!!!” These are not the actions of a guy who is winning or thinks he is going to win. Zelensky is scared.
Biden was just on the phone with China’s Xi this morning. Xi no doubt remembers being on the boycott list last month when Biden refused to attend the Olympics because Xi would not “obey” Davos’ commands on the Uighers inside China. Xi knows Biden is completely full of sh!t, doesn’t respect China. If the situation in Ukraine gets straightened out, does anyone think Biden won’t resume telling China what to do? Anyone?
As a major trading partner of both Ukraine and Russia, China can play the mediator, a role generally reserved for the global super-power. China will continue to buy Russian energy (just as Germany is doing). Heads, Russia will systematically tear Ukraine down and re-instate a Russian satellite — which worked fine for China and would work again. Tails, Russia gets bogged down and China can step in and act as mediator. Probably the first scenario, but the second scenario suits China fine.
India, southern neighbor Mexico, NATO ally Turkey, and most of the middle east have announced they will continue to trade with Russia — settling outside of SWIFT. Saudi Arabia is talking about selling *some* oil to China in Yuan. Its not an all or nothing decision for the Saudis, but it will have profound impact on the petrodollar status. Brazil hasn’t formally said what they will do, but Brazil depends on Russian fertilizer and is in a trading bloc with Russia, India and China — Brazil will not isolate Russia. Egypt is traditionally the intellectual leader of the middle east, and they depend on Russian fertilizer.
And Germany. Germany needs Russian gas and fertilizer more than they need Ramstein AFB. After listening to Zelensky tell jokes and giving him a standing ovation, the Bundestag voted on some birthdays and parking issues. Last week, Germany announced (for at least the 50th time in as many years) they will increase defense spending… but like the other 999 times, its all talk.
Russia seems to be accomplishing their military goals. The people who said they wouldn’t dare attack are now claiming to have knowledge of Putin’s timeline? The same people said everyone was going to die of covid, WMD are a slam dunk and the US did not have a humiliating retreat out of Kabul.
Tom seems a bit discouraged. Most of the world (at least 7/8ths of the globe) seems to think Biden and Graham and Pelosi and BoJo are not important enough to bother arguing with.
There is nothing Biden can do except mouth off. He doesn’t have support in the USA. Europe isn’t going to allow formal war operations from their soil. A few people are babbling like idiots about sending weapons and “advisors” — as though the US hasn’t been doing that already for the last 8-9 years.
Russia wants Ukraine under control. China wants Ukraine to funnel One Belt – One Road goods from China to Europe. Iran and Turkey support OBOR and know first hand the US government is full of crap.
Ukraine’s part in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization has been decided, and the US didn’t get a vote. That has Biden and his media dopes very upset.
Excellent post! But, you got the population numbers for Canada and Japan reversed.
Thoughtful article. Thanks for posting.
I was surprised by the Stone movie and our support for Chechen rebels while fighting against the like minded in Afghanistan. I forgot all about that. I assume this goes back to the Brzezinski doctrine, the lack of support for the Shah, and where support for radical Islam began. I always thought it was simply for that part of the world though, one I thought was trying to create another world bloc for the area, to expand the Middle East, by creating a trading block of some kind that over time would grow and consume everything. But after Afghanistan and Iraq, and because over time nothing happened there I never thought of “regime change” for Russia as part of the deal. I guess the use of multi faceted armed groups makes sense but is it always about depleting an area and buying up cheap minerals and assets? I assumed post war action was like Germany after WWII. But now it’s back to the indigenization process, in this case Zelensky acting like Lenin to gather support for his/the cause of the west. And Putin as the Stalin part, doing it too but more organically to support the indigenous population over an ideological disagreement. The indigenization of Zelensky is cloaked in democracy of the proletariat, yet proletariat to rise up in a now atheist EU. is ripe for change, and Instead of violent overthrow, they now join hands with their like minded western brethren. Maybe this is the subtext we must admit to and recognize as the scam for what it is. This isn’t about advancing democracy, this is about using democracy as a means to an end for totalitarian control, Socialism is nothing more than monopoly capitalism, and democracy is different in each location. Yankee Doodle is different that Voltaire.
Very sober analysis Tom; very sober indeed. Guess I’ll get drunk tonight or perhaps get to work on that bucket list.
“But it will resonate around the world in those places now very scared of the conflict that Biden and Davos are forcing on everyone…..We can’t see it here in the West because we aren’t allowed to. But in parliaments and politburos around the that part that Davos just sees as ‘the help,’ it’s happening. ”
I am trying to understand what you have just said here. I hope that there are those so called ‘whitehats’ at important positions to prevent humanity being destroyed by a nuclear war, which Davos may be seeing as their last chance to install the failing Great Reset dystopia. What Tony Blair just said may indicate what Davos crazies have actually in mind (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/tony-blair-promising-not-have-nuclear-world-war-russia-strange-tactic).
Also just look at the cover page of “The Economist” magazine of 2021 which is a well known Davos funded mouth piece. They usually like to reveal their plans on papers like “The Economist” in symbolic ways. Just notice the nuclear bomb on the second row on top of Biden’s face (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/2021-will-be-a-year-of-luck-risk-taking-and-chance-according-to-the-economists-the-world-in-2021-301174794.html). The nuclear option may have been always the Plan B for Davos all along the way.
I too do not know what Mr. Luongo meant here.
“I think a global memetic collapse is in process as I type this”
What collapse? What is happening in parliaments around the world?
Look up Rene Girard and the concept of memetics. Ive written about this before. It’s known colloquially as an Epiphany, where what you thought you knew becomes something else with new information
The end of Fight Club or the Sixth Sense are great representations of this idea
Putin and Russia have been preparing for this moment since 2007. They are the most advanced military power in advanced missile technology and armor, and at the top as well in signals and human intelligence. 1.0+ MM professional military with real fighting experience. They have the resources that matter- metals/minerals/wheat/gas/oil/gold and have significant gold and financial resources. China and over half the planet supports them as partners. They will win thee war that matters- the one fought on the ground and in the air, not the won fought on MSM/SM. Most of of the world gets it. Humanity gets it. Putin is God’s agent. The time has come. You can ignore the truth, but you can’t ignore the consequences of the truth.
Hear hear. Putin is the truth, the light, and God’s agent as you say.
WTF? Puttytang is worth billions. He kicked out some anglo and/or amish oligarchs so he could take over the hustle. All Western politicians are captured, what makes you think he isn’t? Taibbi reminisces living in Russia and the msm press lauding puttie’s secession of Yeltsin. How do you explain the QR codes and forced inoculation in Russia? He is not fighting the great Reset, just trying to shore up his position. The war is on us. No one is on our side. Returning to our roots is the only solution. Self sufficiency ie. gold goats and guns…..
Tom, a well written piece. I agree that the monetary system is collapsing at an accelerated rate; so they’re going full court press crazy. Everything is collapsing as I type. It seems at some point soon the blatant lies and propaganda all falls away and they just start killing people by the millions. Most people are still playing March 2020, not March 2022. These people have no idea what’s coming and how bad it’s going to be.
Well said, again. I agree 1000%. I firmly believe that Putin will accomplish what he is setting out to do, come hell or high water. He never would have gone down this road, if he did not believe as such. For Putin, “Failure is not an option.” And he has been quoted saying that “Russian does not start wars, it ends them.” History, Russian history, the WHOLE, UNABRIDGED, UNFILTERED history is so, so important, as it may help one to understand WHY Putin is so angry, and willing to tell it like it is, and do whatever it takes, to accomplish what he is setting out to do. It was just a matter of time, that a country, under the boot of Western tyranny, would rise up and say, ” Guess what? We’re not doing this crap anymore. No more. We’ve had it.” And it turns out, that country was Russia. The tide is turning…. I would never bet against him. Just wouldn’t.
When Biden took over the presidency, I looked at everyone around me and said: “Okay, two things are going to happen. First, a hysterical campaign to bully people into taking the pharmaceutical injection. Second, after that goes over like a lead balloon, it’ll be open war on Russia.” And just…crickets.
I feel sad for all the liberals or really anyone who thought that Biden would represent some sort of improvement in their lives. Clearly these are people who don’t have a clue how this system works. Worse yet, I feel sad for all the idiots who either joined or did the bidding of the Covid Kool-Aid Cult, thinking that it was all just about getting Trump, (who was a pathetic excuse for a pathetic excuse.) On other the hand, now they’re getting what they deserve. Enjoy, dummies!
Thanks for your analysis and articles. They are a lifeline to me.
Like I said before, I think the scope of the US play here is “all-in”. It is an attempt to sandbox Russia, because the primary strategic aim of the US in this conflict is to splinter the Russia-China axis. So the playbook here is really that of the Roman Empire: crucify the rebels and the rest will shrink back into their holes.
This tactic though is incredibly lame, since the world is now well-accustomed to US aggression and treachery, and so threats at this point are of no real consequence. Even the worst case scenario is, at worst, not much different to the US status quo. The US has overplayed their hand.
Tom, you said a couple of weeks back that the game has changed. Has it? In one sense yes. We have entered a world of visual communication, (Putin sitting 10 metres from Macron for instance), and symbols, since the Russians realized that plain language was incomprehensible to the West.
“What do you not understand?” (Exasperated Putin to Australian spook, I mean, journalist).
Again, the Z symbol, What does it mean?
Zared
Zelinsky
Zemmour
Zion
Zorro
naZi
Or is it a reference to the Russian troops attack formation. A ‘Z’ in Russian is a ‘3’.
?
I don’t know. My guess is: “Zero-Sum Game”. The West is infected with binary thinking, (1 = The Global Rule-Maker, 0 = Zero sum game). I think the white Z simply means that Russia has taken a seat at the chess game. (So far Ukraine are a bad black – they should have resigned several moves back). But the use of symbolism is very telling, it says:
“You are not listening to us, so from now on we will talk in code, you will no longer have the luxury of understanding what we mean. We have a lot of feelings and thoughts, but we will use private language to talk amongst ourselves.”
But this symbolism is not restricted to the Russians. We talk about Russia, China, and the satellite nations of the silk road, but there is another party at the table, Islam. Islam comprises 25% of the global populace. Immediately prior to the invasion, Vladimir Putin spoke very deliberately about the sanctity of Islamic religious beliefs. The sanctity of Islamic religious belief, and the sanctity of the personal religious space.
Last Saturday, the Saudis executed 81 people. Why 81 specifically?
Because 1981 was a very significant year in global geo-politics. In 1981, Paul Wolfowitz became Director Of Policy Planning in the Reagan government. 45 days later an attempted coup took place when Ronald Reagan was shot, (the intention being to replace him with Bush senior). Wolfowitz immediately set about implementing the neocon policy of co-opting Islam into a radical/fanatical cult for US foreign policy objectives, through the channels of Saudi mosques and religious institutions. In the 80’s the goal was creating terror cells in Soviet Islamic satellite states, as a means to overthrow the Soviet regime, but thereafter fanatical Islam became the third arm, the extreme-terror arm, of the CIA.
Mohammed Bin Salman has simply sent a private message about his real intentions. His vision of the Middle East is as a new Europe, a peaceful centre of culture, civilization and commerce. The US’s days of chaos are numbered. There are too many countries with scores to settle with the US Tom. I don’t think the Pentagon will let Liquid Food pull the nuclear button, so I think Ukraine will just end up as a massive waste of time and resources for the West.
Win. Y’all are reading the attack strategy wrong.
Russia is perfectly capable of a shock and awe attack. Why didn’t they do that?
They want the infrastructure intact and minimal civilian casualties.
And any Ukrainian with a gun is no longer a civilian.
I fully understand what Russia’s strategy is, the question is whether it is working. We should remain open to the possibility that that is possible
Russia’s strategy is lies and deception. They have proved it by invading Ukraine, having repeatedly assured they have no plans to do so in the days and weeks before. I don’t know why *anybody* would Putin still give any credit. He has lost any credibility that he still might have had. There is zero chance that Russia will be able to continue with Putin.
Whether or not Russia “wins” in Ukraine, there’s no going back in the reserve currency war, this is it. Can’t see any way around that. Not implying Ukraine resolution is irrelevant. Who seriously thinks Putin will tuck tail and leave though?
Taiwan sooner, or later?
Great podcasts by the way.
I hope they use shock and awe when needed to prevent certain criminals from having time to hide in bunkers.
This was on the front page of Revolver News:
2019 interview with Oleksiy Arestovych, adviser to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine: “Our price for joining NATO is a big war with Russia”.
https://twitter.com/SDyorin/status/1503626407309713411
And Arestovych talks as if everything is unfolding is exactly as they foresaw, including the nature of the operation and the “surrounded cities”.
And how how does a POTUS get impeached for DELAYING an arms shipment to Ukraine? What would have happened if Trump had refused? And now there is a sudden interest in Hunter Biden by the DOJ and NYT? A little leverage perhaps to ensure Biden makes the right decisions?
The last two guests that Tom had on Peter Boockvar & Dexter White were suggesting that this is just 1] the financial system bumbling along and 2] Putin acting disproportionately and irrationally… with Tom arguing the opposite, that there is a “hidden hand” acting behind the scenes, that we can only glimpse.
The more I see, the more I think Tom is correct. (sigh)
Indeed. I thoroughly enjoyed Mr. Crooke’s perspective on Russia. Their orthodox Christian beliefs and immense resources makes them persona non grata yet irresistibly attractive to the filth that holds sway in the West. The non-sequiters that haunt the rational mind around what is going on suggest that what we are seeing and hearing from our politicians and pundits hides much more sinister intentions. Russia needs to turn its back and walk away. Not that they will be allowed to.
Hi Tom,
You nailed this article from the get go. I am amazed at the ‘commentators’ that lambast the slow, methodical and more moral approach that President Putin has taken. As you say, they are probably have never been in a real fight and have never had to endure the pain and fear of imminent death. They all hide behind tablets and screens and scream for blood. They want the entertainment but do not want to endure the real pain and suffering of war. Thank goodness Russia has taken the non ‘total war’ approach that the West seems to want. Have we that short a memory that means we have forgotten the horrors of total war? Or are we all just cowardly bullies? The western leaders and media seem insane. I have watched VVP for nearly 20 years and he has been consistent. Unpredictable but consistent. He is a patriot to his country and guards his people. If the west guarded its own people and kept its nose out of other peoples business, the world will be a far better place. And I say that from the place of a westerner that loves his country but not his politicians or media.
I tend to agree with you Tom. This is approaching a dark place and the point of no return is being passed.
Just got in from work cutting trees all day in northern Ontario and was very pleased to see another gem from our man Tom. I am 100% on board with the Russian actions. Putin has displayed the patience of a saint to the dismay of some. However I think this is all about de-dollarization. I glean several information sources daily and am confident Putin and Xi have gamed this all out. Will the ride get bumpy? No doubt! Putin is not going to sacrifice so many young Russian men for nothing. Currently we are paying 2 dollars a liter for gas in northern Ontario..that’s 8 dollars a gallon and we still have a mask mandate. I’m anxious for change..best of luck to everyone. Love your insight Tom..especially your delivery.
Hi. Can you please tell me which sources you visit? Thank you
To paraphrase the madness into a preschool format in four words or less as the sun sets on 2022: The.Preppers.Were.Right.
Capiche. (bought my nephew a yearly. I can only hope he wraps his head around ours)
I am sooo beyond furious and afraid. I like Russia very much. No one in my family or anyone I have talked to has said anything bad about Russia or Putin. I know bullshit when I hear it. It’s infuriating to hear and read all the hate and accusations against them. Putin has been a great leader for Russia. All of us citizens of all countries are victims of the corrupt criminals. It’s not just Russian people they intend to kill and/or enslave. The main problem in the USA and west is propaganda lies. Too many people are too stupid to see it’s propaganda like the nazis used. Or people just ignore and deny that evil is at the door. They figure if they ignore it, it’s not real. So this is why they have been successful in the USA. If a larger percentage of us saw this decades ago, it would’ve been stopped. The internet has actually made it possible to know the truth if a person is interested in truth. But it is late to the game. But hopefully not too late. When the stupid and gullible finally realize they have been duped, and they don’t get free stuff, that they get death or enslavement instead, we may finally have the numbers and anger to have regime change where it’s needed most. And it’s not in Russia.
It was Tzar Alexander II who helped us out during the civil war. I believe that God is working through Russia to help save the world. God bless the Russian people. And God save us all.
If I were a betting man, and right now it doesn’t seem I have a choice but to gamble with my feet on the future, I would say a war with NATO would open on the Russian side with a salvo of hypersonic weapons on military targets, then to a round of negotiations, and then a limited nuclear strike on the centers of western finance. Perhaps the Russians would combine step 1 and 2 and use some tactical nuclear weapons. Either way, Franky, and unfortunately, the best outcome of a declaration of war by NATO seems like it would be a pre-emptive nuclear limited strike by the Russians to dispell the crazies who rule over us of the idea that they could possible make a first strike on Russia and therefore prevent a full scale nuclear war.
It is what I would do in Putin’s position anyway.
Maybe the next step in theRussia-China plan is China’s retaking of Taiwan in a flash of lightening with the USA being confronted with a fait accompli!! The USA simply cannot react on two fronts. I think it could be checkmate.
Indeed, Putin’s a clever lad; a true Statesman. When he says de-dollarise he means it.
So it’s encouraging to see Hunter’s hand in the destruction of the corrupt globalist world order.
And as far as blasting those biolabs to smithereens; well, that’s put the lie to the Plandemic whoopsie.
Very well played I’d say!
“Putin must go!” has replaced “Assad must go!”, they will fail as they always do, the only question is the body count.
JJHW I naively used to think that was opposition hyperbole, but it actually appears to a statement of fact:
General Wesley Clark Tells ‘Democracy Now’ The Truth About Middle East And War On Iraq!
https://youtu.be/7ARtGrSrvCA
Mearsheimer says the identical thing:
John J. Mearsheimer, “The Case for Restraint”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsonzzAW3Mk&t=1700s
For many years I believed that WMDs in Iraq was an “intelligence failure”, but as Gen Clark said they decided within the first week that Iraq was to be invaded.
This is also supported in Glen Greenwald’s recent Rumble podcast “The White House’s game-playing denials of bio labs in Ukraine”. Greenwald reminds us that the Anthrax attacks following 9-11 were immediately blamed on Iraq because of the presence of “bentonite” (a common clay) and that the US scientist who was eventually found responsible, conveniently “Epsteined” himself before the US government had to produce evidence at trial.
It is all a hall of mirrors, but I think Tom is helping us see through the illusions.
Exactly…Lindsay Graham tried very hard to get Assad assassinated, or otherwise removed, demonizing him to the American public. Evidence was faked against him too. I was pleased to see Assad was not replaced.
Lindsey,the neocon tool, is always very quick to urge assasination.
The west has spent every bullet they had, and all they accomplished was to speed up Russia’s pivot to Asia (while slowing the US/EU’s pivot).
Ukraine is toast unless they find a settlement quick. Zelensky is now pleading for talks directly with Putin, and Zelensky says Ukraine joining NATO is off the table. Unlike the Pentagon, Russia’s military doctrine is not designed with CNN ratings in mind. According to NATO, Russia still has 80-90% of its forces in Russia proper (they haven’t moved into Ukraine yet). It is going to get much much worse for Ukraine if this war drags on.
Zelensky isn’t a nazi, but a lot of people fighting for him inside Ukraine are. Why wouldn’t Zelensky throw the nazi’s under the bus? Bad for Davos, good for Ukraine and for Russia.
China is going to mediate talks between Russia and Ukraine — and more critically to the world the US won’t be at the table.
Zelensky will give Putin everything Putin has asked for (no NATO, no western missiles, no nazis), and Zelensky will get Ukraine independence.
Its the mirror outcome of the Cuban missile crisis. Missiles and Soviet Union gone. Castro remained in power. Cuba remained (and remains) independent.
Ukraine is a transit hub for China’s one belt / one road initiative … so if Zelensky plays has cards right, Ukraine will end up much better than Cuba.
Russia and Ukraine win (at a cost that didn’t need to happen). The US loses power, influence and future trade — all the while taking our eye off the ball. We need to pivot our economy (not the military) to Asia. We need to have more exports to Asia / more jobs here. Instead, we have a dementia patient trying to cover up his past bribery scandals.
Chris, thank you for this. Fyi I trashed the 2nd instance of this comment. To remind everyone, I moderate all comments before posting them.
So if your comment doesn’t show up initially it is not a bug, but a feature. I know sometimes double posts are an internet lag issue
The west has spent every bullet they had, and all they accomplished was to speed up Russia’s pivot to Asia (while slowing the US/EU’s pivot).
Ukraine is toast unless they find a settlement quick. Zelensky is now pleading for talks directly with Putin, and Zelensky says Ukraine joining NATO is off the table. Unlike the Pentagon, Russia’s military doctrine is not designed with CNN ratings in mind. According to NATO, Russia still has 80-90% of its forces in Russia proper (they haven’t moved into Ukraine yet). It is going to get much much worse for Ukraine if this war drags on.
Zelensky isn’t a nazi, but a lot of people fighting for him inside Ukraine are. Why wouldn’t Zelensky throw the nazi’s under the bus? Bad for Davos, good for Ukraine and for Russia.
China is going to mediate talks between Russia and Ukraine — and more critically to the world the US won’t be at the table.
Zelensky will give Putin everything Putin has asked for (no NATO, no western missiles, no nazis), and Zelensky will get Ukraine independence.
Its the mirror outcome of the Cuban missile crisis. Missiles and Soviet Union gone. Castro remained in power. Cuba remained (and remains) independent.
Ukraine is a transit hub for China’s one belt / one road initiative … so if Zelensky plays has cards right, Ukraine will end up much better than Cuba.
Russia and Ukraine win (at a cost that didn’t need to happen). The US loses power, influence and future trade — all the while taking our eye off the ball. We need to pivot our economy (not the military) to Asia. We need to have more exports to Asia / more jobs here. Instead, we have a dementia patient trying to cover up his past bribery scandals.
** duplicate??? My previous attempt didn’t say it was submitting, it just went blank
Tom, are all my comments getting blocked?
Three tries, and they all failed
No. I moderate them Chris. Patience
OK Tom, so I guess you are blocking all of my comments now?
Never have. I just don’t always get to them immediately.
I will block obvious spam and comments that don’t add to the conversation. It is rare that I junk a comment
Tom, you don’t need to post this comment. Just FYI
I submitted a comment yesterday. when I hit “post” it just blinked and redrew the page. I never saw the “submitting comment” message that I see when a comment goes through.
The same issue happened earlier this morning.
Yet, on the same computer with same browser and same everything else — the recent attempt worked.
I have no clue why some posts get submitted and others do not. As far as I know, I’m doing the same thing each time. It should work always or not work always?
I know that posts successfully submitted wait in a queue for your review. Its not that. Some other issue.
Just FYI…. the problem might be on my end. I have an email into a computer friend
Thanks chris. Things have gotten really weird with all the port sniffing etc. since the war began. It’s clear there’s something going on.
I read that Ukraine is desired by the Jews as a second homeland after Israel. It was once part of or adjacent to Khazaria where the Askenazi Jews originate from. I don’t wish to be rude or bring unwanted negative attention to the blog but I wonder why WW3 is being risked for such a limited ethno-centric project. I see this war as an ethnic cleansing by the Zionists to further that project. I think Putin understands this. The US and NATO should quickly withdraw all support and let Russia finish what it started in the manner it sees fit. Then we need to purge all Zionist elements from government.
“Russia is grinding out, inevitably and inexorably, a victory in Ukraine on Russian terms that isn’t a reflection of bad military strategy and/or poor intelligence and logistics”
Jim Rickards agrees with you. He says all the crap about “stalled Russian convoys” is just part of the general plan – you don’t push one prong forward until the others are ready, lest it get chopped up. The Russians are on plan and winning.
If you had to choose, would it be Biden, Blinken and Milley? Or Putin, Lavrov and Gerasimov? My money’s on the Russians.
Let no one forget that the Ukraine “response” is being managed by the same geniuses that left us with the Afghan mess. Never in the course of human events has a government been managed by such incompetents. Every US rival is taking advantage of the opportunity to advance their agendas.
COMPASSIONATE EXTINCTION PLAN (CEP)
1. Every country on the planet is on board with the Injections. Even Sweden. When have all countries aligned on any issue? Never.
2. Not a single MSM outlet is interviewing any of the expert dissenters – Yeadon, Bridle, Montagnier, Bossche etc… and the mainstream social media platforms are blocking them.
Why?
Conventional Oil peaked in 2005 http://www.euanmearns.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/C-Cdec141.png
Shale in 2018.
According to Rystad, the current resource replacement ratio for conventional resources is only 16 percent. Only 1 barrel out of every 6 consumed is being replaced with new resources
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Biggest-Oil-Gas-Discoveries-Of-2019.html
Shale binge has spoiled US reserves, top investor warns Financial Times. https://energyskeptic.com/2021/the-end-of-fracked-shale-oil/
Shale boss says US has passed peak oil | Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/320d09cb-8f51-4103-87d7-0dd164e1fd25
SEE PAGE 59 – THE PERFECT STORM : The economy is a surplus energy equation, not a monetary one, and growth in output (and in the global population) since the Industrial Revolution has resulted from the harnessing of ever-greater quantities of energy. But the critical relationship between energy production and the energy cost of extraction is now deteriorating so rapidly that the economy as we have known it for more than two centuries is beginning to unravel https://ftalphaville-cdn.ft.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Perfect-Storm-LR.pdf
Our fossil fuel energy predicament, including why the correct story is rarely told https://ourfiniteworld.com/2021/11/10/our-fossil-fuel-energy-predicament-including-why-the-correct-story-is-rarely-told/
“The global economy was facing the worst collapse since the second world war as coronavirus began to strike in March, well before the height of the crisis, according to the latest Brookings-FT tracking index. “The index comes as the IMF prepares to hold virtual spring meetings this week, when it will release forecasts showing the deepest contraction for the global economy since the 1930s great depression. https://www.ft.com/content/9ac5eb8e-4167-4a54-9b39-dab48c29ac6c
Collapse Imminent: https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/a-self-fulfilling-prophecy-systemic-collapse-and-pandemic-simulation/
The Illusion of Stability, the Inevitability of Collapse http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-illusion-of-stability-inevitability.html
Fed is sharply increasing the amount of help it is providing to the financial system https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/23/fed-repo-overnight-operations-level-to-increase-to-120-billion.html Banks did not trust each other – similar situation when Lehman collapsed
Oil Gluts – do NOT indicate we have found more oil. We just pumped what’s left too fast.
Summary In 2019 a second Perfect Storm was approaching – the central banks had been doing ‘whatever it takes’ for over a decade…. Essentially nothing was off the table — throw the kitchen sink at pushing GFC2.0 into the future. In 2019 the guns were blazing but the beast was no longer held at bay…
What do you do when you are burning far more oil than you discover — and your efforts to offset the impact of expensive to produce oil push you to the edge of the cliff? You can accept your fate and allow the beast to shove you into the abyss…. Or you can take the ‘nuclear option’ and shut down as much of the economy as possible, preserve remaining oil and pump in trillions of dollars of life support to keep the system feebly alive.
Punchline: The problem global leaders face is that if you unleash the nuclear option without some sort of cover, the sheeple and the markets would be thrown into a panic and you risk blowing things up prematurely. So you need a reason for putting the global economy on ice — one that does not spook the masses – one that is big enough to justify such epic amounts of stimulus and extreme policies — and one that allows you to explain ‘this is just temporary – once this is gone — we will get back to normal’
A pandemic is the perfect cover.
End Game – Covid was foisted on us as cover for the response to peak oil (if we don’t slow the burn oil prices go through the roof and we collapse) but it is also being used to convince billions to be Injected. The Injection is meant to cause extremely deadly variants similar to Marek’s this .. only worse because we are deploying into a pandemic https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/tthis-chicken-vaccine-makes-virus-dangerous.
“Mass infection prevention and mass vaccination with leaky Covid-19 vaccines in the midst of the pandemic can only breed highly infectious variants.” https://www.geertvandenbossche.org/
French virologist and Nobel Prize winner Luc Montagnier called mass vaccination against the coronavirus during the pandemic “unthinkable” and a historical blunder that is “creating the variants” and leading to deaths from the disease.
The Vaccines and Boosters will Result in a Catastrophic Outcome – From a scientific viewpoint it is, therefore, difficult to understand how booster immunizations using vaccines which are not evolution-proof could prevent a highly mutable virus from escaping neutralizing anti-S Abs while driving the pandemic in a catastrophic direction, both in Israel and worldwide. How can the WHO stand by and watch as this additional experiment unfolds, soon to be followed by other countries? https://thehighwire.com/videos/vaccine-expert-warns-of-covid-vaccination-catastrophe/
If you have a large pool of hosts that all have the same fixation, then you have a large number of individual labs in which to have such a mutation occur. You have far more hosts in which to have random chances occur, all selecting for a mutation that attacks one specific weakness and that weakness is in most of the population, so once it’s out, there is no stopping it. And if this fixation prevents the hosts from developing strong new immunities based on these novel pathogens, this becomes iterative. you get wave after wave of pandemics until you wipe out the susceptible population. https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/homogenizing-herd-level-antigenic
The reason for this is that 8B people need cheap oil to live. They would starve without it. And 8B people without food would result in epic starvation, violence, rape and cannibalism. Industrial civilization ends soon after peak oil. Unfortunately we also have 4000 spent fuel ponds that will boil off and release toxic substances for centuries. These facilities cannot be controlled with computers and energy. So even the few remaining hunters and gatherer tribes will die as they consume these toxins in the food, air and water.
The PTB understand all of this and that is WHY every leader is on board with the Injections. There is NO way out of this — so they have decided to mitigate the suffering as much as possible by putting us down and here is the mechanism https://www.geertvandenbossche.org/post/why-the-ongoing-mass-vaccination-experiment-drives-a-rapid-evolutionary-response-of-sars-cov-2.
You have been describing Revelation, chapter 6. Nuclear war is the 6th Seal. Most US forces moved to Europe before Putin nukes the US. Then Gog/Magog (Ezekiel 38,39), the confirming of the Oslo Accords and the beginning of the Tribulation. Putin will probably eventually move through Odesa, down through Turkey, Iran, Syria and be destroyed by God on the “mountains of Israel”. Exciting times. Jesus is coming soon.
Excellent post Tom. Thank you!
Yep, excellent analysis right here and helluva a road-map of events to come…But Brexit is not over by a longshot, and financial Brexit hasn´t even started yet. Meanwhile, most of the EU gold many EU members imagine they have available is physically vaulted in London… Just sayin´
WW3 was started by the WEF, it’s been going on for a while. And as far as the US is concerned, we’re losing.
I can tell you that if the Russian Federation loses and falls, the whole world loses…everything, as this will mean an escalation of the conflict into realms that are unimaginable. If the Russian Federation prevails, the world prevails, as US hegemony and the endless wars for world domination slow, then end. There is no scenario where the Russian Federation loses and the west (the USA) prevails.
For these reasons, those who can see the now unfolding schemes and plans to enslave the world should unite in mind and heart for the Russian Federation to now stop the empire of lies.
Under current financial & geopolitical circumstances, more than ever whoever has the gold makes the rules (no pun intended).
So, the question is… who has the gold ? how much ? where ?
You have to wonder if Putin ‘allowed’ a good chunk of Russia’s physical gold to be at risk by being held overseas. Partly because he could not directly force his central bank to keep it in Russia (that has now changed after their incompetence) but also because the fact of freeze the central bank assets by the US has at one stroke shown that nobody can trust the US in any way – including their vassal states
If so, did it really cost Russia a lot… it depends on how you think of ‘money’.
Strictly speaking, both money and currency are just tokens to handle the accounting. Gold is one of the best forms of token because until very recently it had no other practical usage (although being pretty does help when negotiating with women).
So a trading nation needs some ‘tokens’ that are acceptable to both sides of a trade – and gold is good for that at a large scale as when nations trade.
But you only need lots of gold to settle your trade if you are at a trading deficit – and Russia is not. It has an excess of real assets that are essential for technology – and for consumption (food and energy).
Having part of Russia’s gold frozen (stolen) is a minor annoyance for Russia’s trade settlement concerns – it still has sufficient gold to trade for items it wants to purchase, and mines a lot more each year. Add to that, at some point, under the pressure of really, really needing actual resources, and trying to recover some good reputation, the US may to be forced to release that gold – perhaps… but on a long timescale.
Regardless of anything else, Russia will easily rebuild new additional reserve of gold simply because it has a trade surplus, and it still retains significant gold reserves under its own control.
My understanding which I am willing to have corrected is Russia is the largest single gold mining & refining jurisdiction on earth. Also for petroleum but Russian oil is problematic owing to wateriness, muddiness & siltiness. Those are just 2 commodities of many Russia has abundantly wherewith to supply a robust sophisticated economy. How western elites must rage in envy.
You got it right again Tom.
As usual the West underestimates the ability of Russians to persevere. The Russian military cultivates the traditional virtues of a soldier. They also take much better care of those who served the Russia with distinction and such things are never forgotten. Russia is in survival mode.
You are absolutely correct about Russia losing the PR war in the West and I don’t think they care. The rest of the world is paying attention.
It seems to me that it is becoming very hard to get a picture of what is actually going on because of the way the media exaggerate, lie, and change everything as they report it. This creates the equivalent of a roomful of mirrors with multiple images instead of one single image, and thus it has become difficult or impossible to get an accurate picture of anything from the media. As a result all the decision-makers on the planet are operating in a hall of mirrors, and have no clear picture of what is really happening so they inevitably make the wrong choices, which is why the world is now in a tailspin.
I agree that Putin is “not so stupid as to be the willing dupe of Davos nor is he blind to the capabilities or the ruthlessness of his enemies.”
My theory is that the Davosians have spent decades installing their agents or Manchurian candidates in every government and central bank of the world (and only Russia and China had the sense and strength to partially resist) – their instructions were to lay the groundwork for global governance by weakening national cohesion, identities and currencies. Cloward-Piven. Coudenhove-Kalergi. Identity politics.
But Putin and Xi were holdouts, so needed to be forced to the table by the Davosians – they were told a decade ago they must agree to take their seats at the Global Council, or Russia and China would be slowly crushed and then excluded from the global decision-making.
Xi was a pragmatist and said yes. He started trialing the social credit systems that the Davosians plan to use globally (the compliant character of the Chinese people made them the perfect test environment) and then signed off on the Americans funding the research into COVID so a plandemic could manufacture global consent for digital IDs. That’s all done – he is now shutting down our supply chains so the global financial system comes under increased stress and a CyberTonkin (blamed on Putin) can then topple it.
Putin was an optimist and said no. He thought a multipolar world would be preferable to global governance, and desperately reached out to the West, hoping to find partners he could build a coalition with. He found nothing but Deep State actors and layers of imbeciles, all in thrall to Davosians in one way or another. Despairing, he finally capitulated and started playing their game.
He is now playing the Bad Cop as instructed, so we all believe his cyberattack is the culprit when the Davosians flick the switch on the current monetary system.
Then once we have been softened up by a Dark Winter we will beg for the Great Reset.
At that point the Davosians, Putin and Xi can all call a truce, link arms and the Global Council and Currency Board can be openly established by these “global statesmen”- a Benetton ad of globalist tyrants who will ban cash and outlaw private crypto, and pay us a universal basic income using their new global cryptocurrency. To be spent as they demand.
So yes, Putin is not a willing dupe of Davos. And if he hadn’t resisted as long as he did, we would already be in the Davosian technogulag.
But he understands their capabilities and ruthlessness all too well, and so has become a reluctant convert.
CyberTonkin imminent.
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Tom – four years ago you said that..
“Marxism is exactly where this comes from. So does gender fluidity, extreme open-borders policy, the European Union, all forms of political correctness, sixty-three gender pronouns and the Pope.”
https://tomluongo.me/2018/02/16/the-alt-right-collectivism-and-why-everyones-asking-the-wrong-questions/
Do you still believe that this is a Left vs Right battle, or do you accept now that the Davosians did all this in order to destroy national identity and societal cohesion, and installed a pet Pope (and many other world leaders) to help them lead humanity into a Davosian technogulag?
That is, the Cultural Marxists are merely their brownshirts.
Still believe its the Marxist impulse driving Davos. Remember Ivor collectivism = Marxism. Its not a separate thing with me. Marx didn’t discover anything new, he just illuminated that which already existed.
Playing definitional games to sub divide different collectivist movements into different camps is a marxist conceit to conceal what their strategies are
Understood, although I suspect the collectivists that DO consider themselves Marxists (BLM?) are attempting national socialism, rather than the global variety being pursued by the Davosians?
Bernie Sanders and AOC might be retards, but they’re not Davosians, right?
Just useful idiots.
I guess it depends on whether you think the Davosians are ideological – are they just the global version of Sanders and AOC, or is there something darker going on?
Yeah. They are lieutenants Ivor. Order takers, not order makers
Ivordeaacon: You might find this interesting.
THE LEFT-RIGHT DICHOTOMY
“…now almost always abbreviated as Nazis, thereby burying its socialist component.”
https://theindependentwhig.com/haidt-passages/sowell-the-left-right-dichotomy/
In the article Sowell says the acronym NAZI was a Western academic construction as the Germans didn’t use it but called themselves “National Socialists”. However, the full name (NSDAP) creates a problem for political taxonomists: how to put socialists and workers on the far-right?
Sowell posits that the Left-Right Political Spectrum, that was drilled into us in grade school, was an academic construct designed intentionally to put Fascism & Communism on opposite sides of the political spectrum. So you can keep the Good Guys v. Bad Guys narrative going, while obfuscating the reality.
A better political spectrum would look something like this, based on the amount of government control:
Anarchists Libertarians Classical Liberals Socialists Totalitarians
Under that rubric you can then put Fascism & Communism together. To the average person living in either regime it is not going to make a whit of difference if the State owns the corporations or directs them.
So, if you are on the more libertarian side of the spectrum above you are apt to reflexively refer to the “other” as Communists (or Marxists) and if you are on the more socialist side of the spectrum you are apt to reflexively refer to the “other” as Fascist.
And that immediately re-ignites the Left-Right debate, as Sowell posits, was the intention. Therefore, you and Tom have a difficulty even getting to “first base” on agreement because of the semantics.
The WEF/Davos crowd are simply TOTALITARIANS, or want to be.
*To give Tom his due, the Marxists/Communists had a large body of written work regarding how to organize a socialist society. Whereas the Nazis had a very confusing 25 point platform. So if you are trying to find an antecedent to the WEF, Marxism would be it, as it has the most documentation.
That’s good information AnonX
The use of the word “socialist” was a brilliant marketing ploy by the Germans . It confused the electorate.. Because of the parliamentary system, Hitler needed every vote. Ronald Hingley said the following on page 203 of his recognized bio of Stalin…..
“Both at home and abroad the dominant feature in Stalinism of the early 1930’s is the maintenance of the extreme leftist position signalized by the overthrow of the Bukharin group. In foreign affairs, this policy results in instructions given by Stalin, through the Comintern, for foreign Communist parties to abandon all alliances with the non-Stalinized Left in their own countries, and to treat these as their political enemies. Throughout the world a Stalinist anathema is now, accordingly, pronounced on all Socialists other than those taking their orders from the Kremlin. The policy leads to especially disastrous results in Germany, where it splits working-class opposition to Hitler during the period of his swiftly growing influence from 1930 onwards. Whether the German National Socialists would have obtained power in 1933 without Stalin’s aid we cannot say. Certainly they would have found it more difficult to do so had Stalin permitted the German Communist Party to confront them with resolute opposition. ‘Without Stalin there would have been no Hitler’—this comment on the Austrian dictator’s rise to power was frequently made by Germans of the non-Stalinized Left, and they may well have been justified in saying so. It is certain that Stalin underestimated Hitler’s potentialities as a totalitarian ruler who would one day come near to destroying Russia. ……. The misreading of German National Socialism up to 1941 (when he was at last forced to face reality) remains the single most colossal blunder of Stalin’s entire career….”
Yes that’s solid – love Tom Sowell.
But the Left/Right fraud is the small one.
Here’s the big one:
https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/false-eastwest-paradigm-and-the-end-of-freedom/
Hi Sheryl, I see that and understand what you are saying. However, there is also an overarching economic narrative that has to be taken into account as well:
Before Stalin went Left he was Right and supported the NEP as the “moderate course”. Trotsky wanted full agricultural collectivization and that appalled Bukharin. Then, after eliminating Trotsky, Stalin implemented collectivization, which then made him an enemy of Bukharin. Collectivization was Stalin’s attempt to “industrialize agriculture” and duplicate the western American farming system in the USSR. Trading grain was Stalin’s only way of obtaining the foreign capital he need to buy western industrial machinery and technology.
And as Stalin was in the midst of all of that political maneuvering with Bukharin, covered in the treatise you cited, the the Great Depression was going on in the United States.
The reason Stalin reigned in the Comintern and the communists abroad was because he needed American help to industrialize and he could not do that with a social movement that wanted to do away with capitalism. And this “ceasefire” was met by the United States more than halfway. In 1933, FDR recognized the USSR. And so, American corporations, which were suffering greatly from the Great Depression in the United States could then do business in the Soviet Union. If you look at the factories in the USSR circa the mid-1930s, (eg, Magnitogorsk) they are exact duplicates of those in the United States.
However, there was a HUGE problem in the US-USSR relationship, because at that time Stalin was purging the Bukharin faction, which resulted in the Moscow Show Trials & The Great Terror as well as the repression of the peasants in the Ukraine which resulted in the Holodomor. Had these things been widely publicized in the United States, American corporations would have been called to account for their doings in the USSR.
However, this was “solved” by Walter Duranty and the New York Times (the national paper of record). Duranty (who was no dupe) wrote that the Moscow Show Trials were legitimate and that Holodomor was a fiction concocted by opponents of Stalin. Duranty was told to do this by the wealthy and “connected” Sulzberger family who owned the New York Times. (See: “The Gray Lady Winked” by A Rindsberg). No one at that time doubted the New York Times as we do today. It was unimpeachable. Thus, Soviet industrialization proceeded unimpeded until the outbreak of World War II.
Now, all of the above has to be overlaid on the Left-Right political wranglings in Germany. Yes, some voters were deceived, but others probably got exactly what they wanted. However, to say “without Stalin there would have been no Hitler” seems to me somewhat superficial. From what I outlined above, I could just as easily posit that without FDR, Walter Duranty, American corporations, The Great Depression and the New York Times there would have been no Hitler.
I have a lot of friends who can’t see beyond the Repubican – Democratic divide and swear that Trump was a fascist totalitarian and the Jan. 6th was an insurrection. And the stories they tell make COMPLETE SENSE and are hermetically sealed… assuming you don’t examine the presuppositions. There are even books published about it.
However, Tom gets beyond all of the Left-Right noise. So, when I first saw his WEF/Davos Thesis it reminded me of the US-USSR history I outlined above… well beyond the Left-Right Dichotomy that currently and has always divided us. IMHO
I think that Tom and I are in agreement about most things – both libertarians, Austrians, fans of sound money etc.
The two areas of disagreement have been Davosians and crypto.
I believe the Davosians are globally entrenched and on the brink of what they would call victory. Tom thinks they are overrated – a crew of ancien regime Eurotrash shooting for the moon.
And Tom thinks that crypto is a useful invention, whereas I believe it is a Davosian creation that the cryptopaths have whetted into a blade that the Davosians will now hold to our throat.
Of the two of us, Tom is hopeful there are still “good guys”. I’m of the view that there are none of note, and we are just seeing “Good Cop, Bad Cop”
If we want to put a date on the start of WWIII, I would not put it on February 24 2022, but August 4 2020, the Beirut port explosion. Lebanon is important because in 2006 it was the site of the first major defeat of the neocon, or zionist or Davos part of the global establishment. Once you lose a major conflict, you can hardly be considered to be the major global superpower, and the previously mighty and unbeaten IDF was taken to ground in Lebanon by a rag tag group of guys armed with rifles. Lebanon was a signal of the end of air superiority as the long term contributing factor in conflicts. This obviously led to a global shift in the balance of power, which the Russian military was quick to exploit. Think Georgia, Syria and so on. Hell, think Ukraine, where Russia is hardly even using its dominant air power.
Of course, you can go along with the idea that the Beirut explosions were accidental, as has been the Lebanese currency crisis, the Turkish currency crisis, the attempted color revolutions in Belarus and Russia… But much more importantly, since we have had actual shots fired 18 months ago and no major military stand off until now, it is quite clear that the Davos people are unable to marshal enough willpower in the American military establishment to go along with a war that the American generals are fairly sure they would lose. So I think you can sleep easy. You can also sleep easy as far as Putin’s supposed anger is concerned, the man is only using his body language and tone as a signal to his opponents not to get ahead of themselves. Neither Putin nor the Russian establishment is doing any of this lightly and without preparation. I would also say they would not be doing this is they did not have at least an implicit backing by parts of the American establishment opposed to the Davos people. The stated objective of the Russian military incursion, de-nazification, has not been chosen lightly and it really has nothing to do with the Ukranian nazis.
Good point. But I tend to go with March 2014 and the reunification of Crimea
Sure, that one could be taken as the first salvo too. Whatever date we choose, the important thing is once boots had landed on Ukranian soil, this became a military affair, and thus really bad for Davos. We have seen that they control the police and assorted mercenary thugs, but they do not seem to have any kind of control over the military. In their home base of Europe the only military power to speak of is the French one, and it seems to me that the French military is much closer to pulling a coup d’etat than engaging the Russians.
I don’t really care how much the French weapons industry might like the prospect of rearming Europe or whatever, that entire country is on a razor’s edge of collapse, and the military is still really loyal to De Gaulle, not Macron. Davos really had only one chance, and that was to enforce the euro as a substitute dollar in 2020, and they botched it. This is just an unravelling of the whole mess, which is why they are so heavily using the only “weapon” available to them – their media dogs of war. You did great work against the entire media establishment, and you are just one dude with a brain and a keyboard. That tells you all you need to know about the real strength of the media public private partnership facility.
I have valued your thoughts and opinions for a year or better while I listen to your podcast. After seeing your performance on your live stream the day that the Russian special operation began, I became rather turned off. It appeared that you were reveling in the moment and quite inebriated.
I don’t claim experience or expertise on the subject matter of foreign affairs. But isn’t it obvious in this day and age that Russia is going to arm proxies that oppose the U.S. and vice versa. That is seems just standard operating procedure and shouldn’t come off as a surprise or dirty trick. It is what it is. Nuclear powers don’t want to face each other face to face so this is what happens.
Hope your goat kidding is going according to plan this season.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson today publically compared — obviously quite on purpose — the Ukraine crisis with Brexit. His statements instantly triggered literally tons of nasty pushback from anybody that matters in the UK and the EU per https://www.rt.com/news/552337-johnson-ukraine-brexit-tusk/
Still, and whatever BoJo may opine regarding my post yesterday vis-á-vis today´s existential importance of physical gold possession, his statements may very well turn out having a grain of — for now still hidden– truth. For starters, BJ clearly implied that the EU wasn’t about freedom, but quite the opposite.Think about it re gold possession…
Always a voice of reason, Lara Logan tells both sides….but the announcer wants her to stop!
https://www.israelunwired.com/watch-lara-logan-tells-the-truth-about-the-ukraine-russia-conflict/
Tom, sorry, but above I pretty much re-posted the same content in 2 different consecutive posts. The reason is that I suffered the same non-acknowledgement as others posters here before per their own spontaneous comments I´ve read.
Consequently I originally thought my first post got somehow “lost” in the ether and not received by your blog… so I decided to repeat it… to later find that my first post had gone through although with a great delay.
Still, sorry about that.
Tom, of course you may delete either one of my posts or just leave them both, I dunno I don´t mind !!!
Congrats and take care
Chinese and Russian twitter feeds are blowing up with video of Dementia Joe Biden bragging in Congress that it was his idea to bomb Kosovo for 89 days (sending in other people’s children to do the bombing of course).
Joe’s idea killed 2500 people, including 89 children.
Even though it was Joe’s idea (according to Joe himself) — Bill Clinton was Commander in Chief. So either Clinton or Biden are war criminals.
On the subject of China kow-towing to Joe’s decree for China to isolate Russia… The Chinese citizenry are pointing out that Joe’s bombing campaign resulted in eight bombs being dropped on the Chinese embassy (which was clearly marked on maps of Kosovo, as it had been the Chinese embassy for several years when it was bombed).
Joe’s idea was to kill 2500 civilians and to bomb the Chinese embassy. NICE!!!
Back before his mind went to mush, Joe Biden was a war criminal. His idea killed 2500 civilians including 89 children. He took bribes from MBNA. Then as VP, he droned (aka murdered) lots more people, all the while taking bribes from China, Russia and Ukraine (that we know of) — and laundering the bribes through his drug addict son.
Time to hang Anthony Fauci for killing 900,000 Americans — Fauci is a mass murderer. Time to hold all the unelected bureaucrats in Washington DC for their crimes — its illegal for citizens to tamper with evidence, its also illegal when the FBI does it. Time to hold all the politicians — especially Dementia Joe — accountable in international courts for their crimes.
Anthony Fauci must hang.
Joe Biden must die in a prison cell.
The US legal system lacks credibility until this happens
Beyond and above the hubris, have the EU and NATO strategists even thought through the possibility of Russia winning this war ? Honestly, I do not think so…
For starters, let´s take a look at the definetly undesirable and unmanageable massive MIGRATIONS already taking place with guaranteed spillover throughout the EU which will necessarily continue to grow firmly as days, weeks, and months go by.
10 million people have SO FAR migrated into countries neighboring Ucraine per UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi statements on CNN today. So forget about Russia´s hypersonic air-to-ground Kinzhal strategic missiles and just about all the rest quite frankly. This MASSIVE migration in and of itself is no more and no less than Russia´s neutron bomb capability exploding before our eyes.
Ten million is helluva lot of foreigners unexpectedly showing up in a very brief period of time needing absolutely EVERYTHING and having close to NOTHING to offer other than hunger. Skeptics please ask EU politicians re the impact of the above upon EU internal politics. It´s like having 10 million poor and disadvantaged Mexicans of all ages showing up in Texas on Monday morning.
Most of these Ucranian migrants are underfed and/or physically affected, don´t have any “money” to speak of, don´t even speak the local language or have adequate skills, with lots of children, teen-agers and elderly. And everything indicates that many more millions will come.
Simultaneously, Europe at large would be facing massive shortages and logistics problems as a result of their catastrophic handling of this crisis which BTW should have never ever happened in the first place.
What gives ?
Putin has now a big problem whatever the outcome of the war: given the repeated assurances in the weeks and days before the invasion that the massing of troops at Ukraine’s border was just an exercise and that the claims of Western intelligence agencies an invasion was imminent were hysterical and wrong, he has no credibility anymore whatsoever. Nobody wants to have a compulsive liar as an enemy never mind a friend. He has no future on the international scene anymore, most likely not at home either if all the information is available to the Russian public and in view of the economic problems that are due to hit Russia because of the sanctions.
In politics you have to be credible and accountable for your action. Putin is neither. His associates shooting down a passenger plane? It wasn’t us, it was the Ukrainians. His henchmen poisoning political adversaries at home and abroad? It wasn’t us, our agents traveled a few thousand miles only to see the spires of the world famous cathedral.
Any terrorist organization has a higher moral stance than Putin. At least they take responsibility for the atrocities they commit.
Anyway, the alleged plan to de-militarize and de-nazify the Ukraine would be complete nonsense without Russia being able to control this. In other words, they could never leave Ukraine again. But then a) they may have to live with guerrilla war in the Ukraine for years to come, and b) they would now essentially have direct borders with NATO countries, which is what they wanted to avoid in the first place. So the whole invasion was nonsense from the outset. If he wanted to have Ukraine as a kind of buffer to the NATO states, he should have tried to get on better terms with them, so that they would not have to look to NATO as partners. And you are not getting on better terms with somebody by attacking them.
Thomas –
Above you say that “…in politics you have to be credible and accountable for your action”(sic)… which of course DOES INCLUDE complying with the Minsk Agreements right ?
And you do know what the Minsk Agreements were, don´t you ?
BTW, Putin is winning and you also figured that out by now, right ?
The Minsk Agreements relate to an internal Ukrainian conflict in a small part of the country. Yes, the agreed ceasefire was broken many times by both sides, but ask yourself who had the biggest interest in maintaining the conflict. Ukraine? That wouldn’t make any sense at all. It is only the Russia backed separatists that would have an interest in that, namely in order have a pretext for Russia to invade and establish Russian rule in the region. Now Putin duly obliged by announcing that he would recognize the independence of the region and that he would send a ‘peace keeping’ force to end the conflict there. That’s were it could have ended, but it is clear now that he again fooled everybody by using this in turn as a pretext to attack the whole of the Ukraine, a country that was not threatening Russia in any way at all. Putin claims that the invasion was/is an act of self-defence, but this is a bizarre and ludicrous claim. Putin may have had his concerns over some developments in the Ukraine, but his reaction was completely disproportionate. You can’t claim self-defence if you smash somebody in the face just because you don’t like his face. His real motives were made clear in his recent speech: he questions the legitimacy of an independent Ukrainian state in the first place, based on some sentimental historical reasons. But his claim that Russians and Ukrainian are ‘one people’ certainly has to be questioned on the basis of what we have seen in the last few weeks.
Thomas, You might be correct in all that, however, that is based on what we are all told by our media.
But is that all there is to the story?
Nekrasov’s previous film was about the Polonium poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, by Putin, however Nekrasov arrived at the opposite conclusion here and it cost him his career. And what bothers me is that the United States Senate never bothered ask the same questions Nekrasov did:
The Magnitsky Act: Behind the Scenes
(Full documentary at bottom of page. Click white arrow a few times and wait to load to play.)
https://swprs.org/the-magnitsky-act-movie/
A Blacklisted Film and the New Cold War
Why is the U.S. mainstream media so frightened of a documentary that debunks the beloved story of how “lawyer” Sergei Magnitsky uncovered massive Russian government corruption and died as a result?
Nekrasov’s powerful deconstruction of the Magnitsky myth – and the film’s subsequent blacklisting throughout the “free world” – recall other instances in which the West’s propaganda lines don’t stand up to scrutiny, so censorship and ad hominem attacks become the weapons of choice to defend “perception management” narratives in geopolitical hot spots such as Iraq (2002-03), Libya (2011), Syria (2011 to the present), and Ukraine (2013 to the present).
But the Magnitsky myth has a special place as the seminal fabrication of the dangerous New Cold War between the nuclear-armed West and nuclear-armed Russia.
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/08/02/a-blacklisted-film-and-the-new-cold-war/
How Russia-gate Met the Magnitsky Myth
Near the center of the current furor over Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with a Russian lawyer in June 2016 is a documentary that almost no one in the West has been allowed to see, a film that flips the script on the story of the late Sergei Magnitsky and his employer, hedge-fund operator William Browder.
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/07/13/how-russia-gate-met-the-magnitsky-myth/
And if you listened carefully to Putin’s February 24th speech he made reference to this “the West will just fabricate another reason to sanction us”.
I don’t mind taking up a just cause, and have done so numerous times, but I find it unforgivable if I am “duped” to do so.
Caveat emptor.
Only wide spread and severe economic collapse can save us now. Will it happen in time?
The race is on.
Cheers.
Putin is not slow rolling the war. The Red Army is a cluster fuck.
Just recently discovered your website and am so glad I did. Great article.
I find this Game of Thrones vignette emblematic of the USA (playing the role of information and spin master, Littlefinger) vs. Russia (in the role of Cersei Lannister)
@Anon….official explanation. I know there are others…
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/ussr#:~:text=Roosevelt%20hoped%20that%20recognition%20of,grappling%20with%20the%20effects%20of
The Eurasians hold all the cards. The is no getting around that. Strong economy, debt free and utterly loaded with commodities including the most important ones. Militarily superior as well. The only thing they don’t do as well as the West is marketing. Already I see enthusiasm for the Ukraine war fading. Americans and Canadians don’t want war. They want inflation reduced. They want better lives for their children. The Ukraine war is a passing fad. Russia will turn this into an other victory like Crimea and create indisputable facts on the ground. I think they take everything east of the Dnieper river. The choice for the West is clear: Nuclear war or total economic collapse. I think the second scenario is more likely.
The issues in the next few years will be overwhelmingly domestic. The breakup of European nations or the breakup of the United States. That’s worst case. Actually worst case is 200 million COVID vax deaths, but at least in that case, the collective west won’t be strong enough to hurt anyone.
If Tom’s theory that we can see a replay of the Reagen-Volker plan is correct then America can rebound. It may be a Great Depression, but that pales in comparison to WW3.
I don’t want to say we have turned a corner, but its a helluva lot better than 60 days ago.
You are completely right. I was apprehensive before the whole thing started, more apprehensive 60 days ago, but as soon as I saw that denazification was stated as the goal, I started breathing much easier. Europe is especially bad, Nazi forces are much stronger than they must have been in the 20s and 30s, and they were just getting warmed up.
The Saudis have the infrastructure but are running out of oil. The Qataris have the LNG, but no infrastructure. They are a good fit.
So the Saudis offered America another fifty years of dollar hegemony, ensuring the Qataris only accept dollars for their LNG. If only the Americans would help get rid of the main competitor. Russia.
So the Americans equipped and supported proxies in Ukraine and Syria in an attempt to cut off the supply routes for Russian LNG. But the regime change in Syria failed, and was only partially successful in Ukraine. The Saudis and Qataris were…………..disappointed.
Having failed to control the supply, the Americans are now trying to control the demand. They are hoping that pressuring Europeans countries to turn away from Russian LNG and start accepting Qatari LNG will enable them to achieve piecemeal what they failed to achieve wholesale. For the Americans, this is about the petrodollar.
See any holes in that Tom?
“I wish somebody had taken Hitler out in the ’30s.” – ” I wish somebody hadn’t funded, re-armed and rebuilt Hitler’s capacity to make war during the ’30s.” Fixed it for ya Graham..
Any comments yet, on Russia’s demand for payment of gas (oil next?) in rubles for ‘hostile countries’ … primarily the EU.
Many. I’m swamped with work at the moment. I’ll get something out to the public tomorrow.
Taking care of my Patrons today.
GREAT Tom, please do fill us in with your info and your take, the sooner the better !
In my humble opinion, the Putin rubles-for-fuel move is sheer genius as the EU and the US have neither. They both DO have gold though to pay for oil & gas… or sell for rubles with which to pay for oil & gas. Whichever way the Western enemies end up paying for Russian fuel in gold bullion. Russia doesn´t care about dollars or euros, both are garbage now.
Which takes us back to my recent posts above regarding the fact that (a) Brexit in many ways has not even started yet, let alone from the financial perspective and (b) London still vaults a very LARGE chunk of the EU physical bullion, delivery of which is managed and approved by Brexiteers NOT the EU member states.
So the existential importance nowadays of physical possession of gold bullion is crystal clear. And the fact that BoJo just left on record that the EU project “was never about freedom” is also very clear.
However it unfolds, Putin acts as if he were winning doesn´t he ?
Well he actually IS winning guys…
And I´d just love to see how Western minds try to figure this one out.
Keep up the good work Tom, great job
When Russia’s idiotic Central Bank Manager raised interest rates to 20% to ‘defend’ the ruble, I commented it was absurd and if they wanted to raise the value of the ruble, demand payment for gas in rubles. I am not a banker or economist, or anything of the sort. So, genius? I would call it obvious. What I can’t understand is the stupid policies of the RCB over the past decade, holding back Russia’s economy. Putin is a smart guy, but not in this instance.
Nabiullina is IMF trained. She’s an Atlanticist as well and she has pushed the BOR into the position of getting nationalized. That was Putin’s goal here
Vladimir Putin’s apparent fear of NATO expansion, though especially the deployment of additional U.S. anti-nuclear-missile defence systems, further into eastern Europe is typically perceived by the West as unmerited paranoia. Surely he must realise that the West, including NATO, would never initiate a nuclear-weapons exchange.
But, then again, how can he — or we, for that matter — know for sure, particularly with the U.S.?
For example, while Ronald Reagan postulated that “Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong,” who can know what may have historically come to fruition had the U.S. remained the sole possessor of atomic weaponry. There’s a presumptive, and perhaps even arrogant, concept of American governance as somehow, unless physically provoked, being morally/ethically above using nuclear weapons internationally. (After all, absolute power can corrupt absolutely.)
After President Harry S. Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur as commander of the forces warring with North Korea — for the latter’s remarks about using many atomic bombs to promptly end the war — Americans’ approval-rating of the president dropped to 23 percent. It was still a record-breaking low, even lower than the worst approval-rating points of the presidencies of Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson.
Had it not been for the formidable international pressure on Truman (and perhaps his personal morality) to relieve MacArthur as commander, could/would Truman eventually have succumbed to domestic political pressure to allow MacArthur’s command to continue?
…From California Sun…. read between the lines…
When Russia invaded its neighbor in February, it was said to be stunned by the ferocity of the Ukrainian military. But the California National Guard wasn’t surprised. Under a partnership that began after the breakup of the Soviet Union, the California Guard has been training Ukrainian forces for nearly 30 years. Our pilots have been telling people for years that the Ukrainians are not to be trifled with, said Maj. Gen. David S. Baldwin: “A lot of other people in the West were pooh-poohing them. Well, the proof is in the pudding.” Task & Purpose | DOD News
G3 were absolutely spitting when Putin took Crimea (I guess buggering up an alternative southern gas pipeline), and even more livid when Vlad stopped taking his sponsors calls for him to develop Russia’s ‘middle class’ so the west could pay for their gas in handbags… And thus dear readers, we find ourselves on the brink of WWIII.. (Anyone remember The Opium Wars to pay for the UK’s tea and porcelain habit..)