There is nothing good about war. On this point all civilized people can agree. So, those that support the ‘current thing’ can stop reading right about….
Now.
But one of the things war does is expose everyone’s real intentions. Even though the first casualty of war is the truth, nothing clears the air more than than troops and tanks crossing political borders and forcing people to react to such a thing.
Since the beginning of Russia’s “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine, nee invasion, there’s been an acceleration of every conflicting agenda on the world stage, with mixed results for all involved, including Russia.
As I’ve talked about at length, this is a conflict of existential proportions for every major player. From the Neocons in the US/UK foreign policy establishment to Davos and the EU, from the terminally corrupt grifters in Congress to Putin’s inner circle in the Kremlin.
Ukraine represents the battlefield which will determine the outcome of World War III.
It’s both the beginning and the end, Alpha and Omega.
Because of this political leaders around the world are under the kind of pressure which will define them.
Some will rise to the challenge, others wilt under the glare of the klieg lights .
Regime change is in the air all around the world either from the ground up as populations express their frustration with leadership intent on not serving their needs or from the top down as political elites attempt to retain control or open up new fronts without openly declaring war.
Like the Russian intervention into Syria in October 2015, this invasion of Ukraine also exposes a great deal of the lies and motivations behind those lies for the tensions leading up to it.
Think back to 2015 for a minute. All year long we were told that ISIS was too strong for anyone to really contain. We held Senate hearings on this. A new caliphate was rising in the eastern part of the country. These radicals just sprang up seemingly out of holes in the ground to overrun the Syrian army and begin knocking on the door to Assad’s presidential palace in Damascus.
Russia chose to intervene in Syria after Vladimir Putin’s speech at the UN General Assembly two days prior, where he asked the West, “Do you realize what you have done?” By bringing in air support and precision bombing Russia proved to all the world that ISIS wasn’t unbeatable, it was the exact opposite, a paper tiger created by virtual newspapers.
And that raised the simple question, if a few dozen Russian planes running sortie after sortie can turn the tide in this war in a matter of weeks why couldn’t the US Air Force do the same thing? It’s not like anyone at the time thought the Russian air force superior to that of the US, so what in the holy hell was going on?
Clearly, at that point Occam’s Razor applies and you have your answer, the US was turning a blind eye to ISIS’s rampage and likely assisting it in operations against the Syrian Arab Army.
After all President Obama in 2013 tried to form a new “coalition of the willing” to oust Assad from power after a false flag chemical weapons attack which never formed when the British parliament defied Prime Minister David Cameron and refused to join Obama’s invasion.
Putin negotiated a a face-saving compromise which saw Assad give up his stockpile of chemical weapons and his reward was three months later a coup in Ukraine which brought down corrupt President Viktor Yanukovich. This led to the current state of affairs with the Donbass declaring independence sparking a civil war and the Russians allowing Crimea to join the Russian Federation of its (mostly) own free will.
So, fast forward to today and shouldn’t we be asking the same questions about the war in Ukraine itself?
To even casual observers of this conflict, whether we agree or disagree with Russia’s red lines over NATO’s intentions or Ukraine’s right to ‘self-determination,’ there was clearly a relatively peaceful outcome on the table should both sides have been willing to deal honestly about it.
So why didn’t it happen? Why are we here? Again I refer you to the existential threats to various people, groups and countries for whom Ukraine represents something bigger than just Ukraine itself.
Moreover, today we are clearly not allowed to raise these questions. If you do then the Thought Police come in to take away your Twitter account or worse.
We are seven years advanced from those halcyon days of being able to take in information and discuss it and draw our own conclusions.
Because of this the fog of war has never been thicker in my lifetime. It begs another question as to why. Why should it be verboten to question what happened at Bucha?
Or why Russia invaded in the first place?
Why we’re even contemplating expanding the official presence of NATO in Ukraine as it resists foreign occupation?
Again, it doesn’t matter if conceding to Russia’s demands on Ukraine violate some so-called Western principles of self-determination. When politicians are hiding behind principles you know there is a far different agenda lurking beneath the headlines.
That said, to my mind it is very clear why. When all aspects of this conflict are balanced it is hard to ignore the conclusion that the foundation on which the entire Western neoliberal order rests is crumbling.
It means there can be no quietly going our separate ways, West and East, without one side gaining and the other losing prestige and power.
This is why “regime change” is now the catchphrase of the day. While everyone involved officially denies that’s what’s going on, the actions say otherwise.
The West is openly lobbying for Russians to rise up and overthrow Vladimir Putin. Russians are ignoring them completely. We are mobilizing thousands of troops and tons of materiel into Poland.
The EU’s top diplomats is now saying only a military solution is possible in Ukraine as Russia prepares its next major assault on Ukraine’s forces trapped in the eastern part of the country, incapable of coordinated strikes of militarily strategic significance.
Russia smothered the pivotal city of Mariupol and has finally secured some of the last holdouts in the Azovstal Steel Complex where reportedly hundreds of NATO officers of French, British, Canadian and (yes) American allegiance were trapped when the Russians surrounded the city and were apparently held as hostages by the remaining Azov Battalion forces holed up there.
That is the subtext of Emmanuel Macron’s poor showing in last weekend’s first round of the French Presidential elections. And it has him in the thinnest position an establishment French President has been in electorally in decades, having not gotten French military men out of harm’s way before things got out of hand.
When I say regime change is in the air, I don’t just mean some nefarious intelligence agency operation.
Viktor Orban’s impressive showing in Hungary was also a black eye for Davos as this election campaign was widely reported as very close with polls showing him in danger of losing to a Not-Orban coalition. And then on the day see him win with stronger support than he had previously. This leaves the EU vulnerable to Hungary’s clear unwillingness to get involved in a war on the European continent.
In the US, President Biden is in serious trouble as the issues surrounding his son, Hunter, and his involvement in shady dealings in Ukraine. If you needed a reason, other than Biden’s obvious cognitive decline and inability to project US influence over countries necessary to isolate Putin and Russia, for the Democrats to come up with a reason to get rid of him before the mid-terms in November look no further.
If you want you can add in rampant inflation and his administration’s ridiculous claims about it being “Putin’s price hike.”
No wonder Jenn Psaki wants out of this clown show.
But, Biden was put into power to be the fall guy for US incompetence in the hopes that they can scapegoat him for the administration’s struggles.
As if no one has a memory capable of going back farther than a month or so.
With these troubles brewing in important countries in the West. The pressure on countries unwilling to agree with the West’s characterization of this war as only Russia’s fault has increased substantially.
In Pakistan, Imran Khan is now the former Prime Minister, as a combination of his own failings as a leader mixed with intense external pressure led to him being ousted from power but also not leading to a new election, which was the path he tried to choose.
Sound familiar? This is similar to what happened in Italy in 2019 when Italian political insiders closed ranks to oust Lega’s Matteo Salvini from power and putting Italy on the path to a fully unelected government led by former ECB President Mario Draghi in charge of the country just in time to destroy it for Davos’ Great Reset and the COVID-19 great leap into tyranny.
Pakistanis are coming out in huge numbers protesting the “Imported Government” now forming up after Khan successfully made the pitch to the people that the situation there is a product of US intervention.
I would keep a close eye on what’s happening in Pakistan over the next few weeks. Biden was in India to meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi to pressure him into giving up his support of Putin through bilateral trade.
The goal is to get India to re-establish ties with the US and, more importantly, the US dollar.
And that’s the real crux of what is going on now. The dollar isn’t in trouble today. A quick look at the US Dollar Index tells you that.
But it is in trouble in the long run, as I’ve discussed in previous articles (here and here).
It seems the only guy not in some kind of political trouble is the one person supposedly suffering the most, Vladimir Putin. A few weeks ago I asked the question whether Putin was destined to drown or hang over his refusal to bow to 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.
That something unthinkable is what Robert Kagan, husband to Victoria Nuland, thinks is worth getting rid of Putin over, nuclear conflict with Russia.
Kagan knows that Putin, for all of the issues he’s navigating now, is in no worse a position than he was six weeks ago. The Russian people are lining up to fight in Ukraine, his popularity hasn’t been this high since reunification with Crimea and he’s begun the process of reversing the nothing for something global monetary order having tied the ruble to gold and, by extension, all commodity trading worldwide.
But it seems now, with the surrender of most of the Azov forces in Mariupol and the Russians massing a huge force to roll over the rest of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the next few weeks in the Donbass, a small dose of reality is beginning to filter into the minds of neocons and Davos.
When they send out a CFR Senior Fellow to write a massive apologia for a return to realpolitik for the New York Times (link to a non-paywalled version of the story here) you know we are now beginning to look at the costs of escalating this conflict any further.
The right move here for everyone is to get back to the bargaining table, accept the fact that the Great Reset has failed and live with the idea that to survive what damage has already been done to the global economy and humanity itself, post-COVID, is already an Herculean task which doesn’t need regime change on a mass scale but the barest modicum of humility to let sane minds begin the rebuilding.
Sadly, I don’t think that is the most likely outcome.
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Dammit Tom, was heading to bed and got the email linking your new post. As I read further into it I caught a glimmer of hope. I’m not some thumb sucker in despair but since 2020 I could sense some very dark forces swirling around us. It was hard as I evolved watching and waiting for the next thing I didn’t understand to evolve. About this time last year I stumbled across your site. Really was the first time it hit me across the face as to who the real villains were. I assumed it was the Chinese responsible for our woes until then.
Have learned a great deal reading you and my portfolio has stabilized thanks to your newsletter and teachings. More importantly so has my dad’s as I deal with both. I Had been outta work for damn near a year. I forfeited half a dozen jobs to forgo the ultimatum of Operation Warp Speed. Finally got around that and rearranging things has taken a load off my shoulders. Going well at my new place lots of stress but fuck it I’m addicted to it I suppose.
Back to your piece. Unfortunately I don’t see any out at this point. I hope that I am wrong. BRICS either pulls thru and ends up crushing our hegemony along with a lot of other shit, or we press forward into the technogulag run by cross dressers. Then you have WW3 as the ultimate option not far removed from the scene if neither option is acceptable. Sun Tzu said “Build your enemies a golden bridge.” It’s a brilliant concept and makes a lot of sense. Never more so than the world we live in now.
Do you see anyone who can construct such a bridge? Seems to me only the people in BRICS could but it would mean their surrender as a nation and a culture. I really have no hope for the other side when it comes to surrender. It’s not that they are honorable fighters, anything but. They are truly the scum of the earth. The devil if you believe in that sort of thing.
I can tell you this; early in 2020 during the lockdowns I got to a place where I thought we were heading for hell I came to. I decided that I would do my best to take care of my family and myself. I would not go quietly into the night. And I would live and make myself the biggest pain in the ass of whoever was behind it all. That was late March 2020…..and it stands!!!
I think there are plenty of people who want something different and they will make their voice heard if we are willing to listen. LePen has a real shot in France which could hasten the collapse of the entire program very quickly.
We win by refusing to allow them to force us to live their way. So keep on keeping on with whatever plan you have and it will drain them of their momentum.
I live in France. You’re right, if Le Pen wins it will bring the whole thing down. This is why she will never be allowed to win.
Yes, if Le Pen wins it will bring the whole thing down.
And as that is exactly what the Davosians want, I think it’s quite likely.
They want national (and supranational) governance to fail, so we beg for global governance – the Great Reset.
Will be interesting to see how the commentators here contort their views to explain away her victory. I guess Tom will call it a loss for the Davosian’s familiar Macron? Whereas if Macron wins it would be……..a victory for the EU?
“We win by refusing to allow them to force us to live their way. So keep on keeping on with whatever plan you have and it will drain them of their momentum.”
Brilliant! Thank you for this and your tenacious persistence!
Great reference to the CFR article from NYT. The conclusions in the article are that this crisis be used to further nuclear agreements, alternative fuels, international trade, climate change, North Korea, digital governance, and public health. The UN SDGs and the Davos agenda. No surprises. Problem, reaction, solution.
“Kagan knows that Putin, for all of the issues he’s navigating now, is in no worse a position than he was six weeks ago. The Russian people are lining up to fight in Ukraine, his popularity hasn’t been this high since reunification with Crimea and he’s begun the process of reversing the nothing for something global monetary order having tied the ruble to gold and, by extension, all commodity trading worldwide.”
I don’t think they’re lining up to be fricasseed like chickens in their tanks, Tom. In fact this war has put paid to all the stories about mighty Russian armor sweeping across the steppes into Western Europe, and revealed major shortcomings due to cronyism and corruption, IMHO. And just because he was forced to use gold to defend the cratering ruble does not mean Putin is in any way “tying the ruble to gold.” When it reads “payable on demand for gold” as the dollar did till 1933, give us a call
And your 30 year military experience in continental combined warfare with how many victory parades? Please share your glorious military career with us all ( resume please).
NOTE 200,000 Russians vs 600,000 Ukrainians + tax payer funded mercenaries ….
Ukraine navy destroyed, Ukraine airforce destroyed. In short order. Public display of Russias super missiles “doin the business !” Finally 100,000 ukiy nazis trapped under ground..Putins Punt.
All this in six weeks. Compare that too the 20year NATO Afghanistan disaster and then add Syria.
Why so emotional?? Or can you not read? “No worse” not “worse”
Kagan believes these things and therefore will argue this war is winnable.
That does not mean the Russians didn’t fail in Kiev. They did. It’s a fact not a value judgment.
Re Tom’s comment on Kiev as a Russian loss, his buddies at The Duran ascribe to the theory that Kiev was and remains a strategic diversion intended to bottle up a huge Ukraine force while the Russians andFriends focused on Mariupol and encircling another large Ukraine army in Donbass. Even now, they contend, the Kiev-based Uke forces cannot relocate to support the Donbass troops for fear that the remaining Russian forces will move into Kiev. Gonzalo Lira agrees with this.
The most interesting thing I am hearing is that the Russian population, and military, are growing frustrated with the pace of the Russian operation and with Putin’s “softness”. The great irony would be if the US and Europe were to have their dream of regime change realized only to inherit a new Russian leader far more hardline and hostile than Mr. Putin.
It’s not a theory. It’s a fact. They lost at Kiev. It also served as a distraction, so it’s a strategic success on one vector and a tactical loss on another
And yet for a group about to collapse in disarray, the Davosians seem to have all their ducks in a row.
National currencies are sickening, national leadership is mistrusted, the global economy is gangrenous, supply chains are vulnerable, universal basic income is on the table, and the technology, legislation and consent for a global technogulag have all been manufactured.
It all looks propitious for them.
All they need now is a manufactured crisis event, and someone to play the villain.
Who claims they don’t have that?
The failure of the current crop of national governments (who all seem to be Davosians) doesn’t mean that the Globalists will be the natural resutl. More likely everything breaks apart into hyper-nationalistic or hyper-regionalistic pieces. Like Bosnia. The world will become less governable, not more. The Great Reset will blow up in their faces. As it should.
Exactly.
Not the natural result, no. The manufactured result.
But I agree with your prediction – IF the Davosians fail to kill national sentiments, they will have strengthened them. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
But as Martin Armstrong has understood, the Davosians NEED a war now, and are provoking Putin in order to manufacture one.
He has said “We are not getting back to normal. The system is crumbling from within, and it’s just like the fall of Rome, basically.”
So now Putin has reacted to their provocations (I’m actually still uncertain whether he is a scapegoat or is playing Bad Cop) they can create chaos (my guess is a cyberattack that takes down key financial systems and utilities, blamed on Putin) and then sit back and wait for us to beg them to save us.
They finalised all their global governance and technogulag preparations using COVID, and then provoked the conflict that would enable them to blame a patsy for the chaos they intend to start, knowing that we will beg them to bring order out of it.
I appreciate I have repeated myself a fair bit here, and Tom has patiently agreed that this is what they are ATTEMPTING, and simply believes like you that they will fail and we will then be stuck tidying up their mess.
But I think there’s some motivated reasoning going on here, and possibly also some wishful thinking.
And underestimating your enemy is recommended nowhere in the Art of War.
To your other point (national leadership seems to be full of Davosians) I would say that this appearance is deceptive.
Do Trudeau, Orban, Johnson, Biden, von der Leyen, Scholz, Ardern and Le Pen look like the kind of consiglieres the Davosians would trust to oversee the crucial late stages of their scheme for them?
Or do they more closely resemble an assembly of enemies and nincompoops that will carry the can for the failures of national and supranational governance?
P.S – Are you seeing the Davosian media covering Le Pen? Lots of photos of her looking…….electable, while Macron stays out of the way.
Tom, greetings from Melbourne. Good piece.
I’m struggling with why the conversion to gold seems to have stalled. It seems this is the “killer app” that Russia/China have to pull the sting out of the West, but they seem reluctant to pull the trigger. What gives?
If/When this does materialise, the scramble for physical and the demand to repatriate national gold from London & New York will fatally fracture the banking cartel; why don’t they do it?
There is no point in asking for a war. So, Putin will always raise the escalation proportionately to what’s been done to Russia and hope people on the other side come to their senses.
So far, no one is listening.
Tom;
Your insights are brilliant. It isn’t your fault that you have been cast into the role of posing more questions than you are offering answers but such are these times. We’re clearly in the death throes of the current geopolitical order. Perhaps we might view the period between 1918 and 1939 as its gestation period having given birth to the post 1945 US empire that we’ve spent the entirety of our lives living through. It is dying as we navigate our way through the leveraging up to the leveraging down part of the cycle. Davos was anointed as sort of “mother ship” for the globalists in which those who are able to afford the cost of a ticket are offered passage to escape the coming reckoning. I do think its clear that it has been the clear intent of Davos, complicit with much of the US political order, to weaken the US to a point where it is no longer viewed as possessing a government capable of governing itself least of all other parts of the world. Having a US President visibly manifesting at the least the middle stage of dementia is a sort of rorschach test making visible the collapse of US power. I’ve shared with others that we’ve had our 1789 French Revolution that having taken place in incremental steps from its inception some fifty years ago. Now its 1799 and we’re entering into the times of the Counter Revolution. Who will be our Napoleon?
Mark
Thanks Tom. I really hope that the US admin / deep state knows what they are doing. I fear they do not or have made gross miscalculations. They have arrogantly underestimated China’s resolve to eliminate any threat in there rise to global supremacy. And the USA is their only outside threat. An regime that controls 1.4b people, will be a force I fear unstoppable.
And for the US to push Russia into the hands of the CCP is just arrogant and stupid. Putin could have easily been an ally.
Bailout nation, printed money, Captured regulators and press. CEOs that hide behind the banner of free capitalism while shifting IP to China, has all lead to shallow career politicians and bureaucrats. Time is running out. Time to stop the bailouts to wake the people up. The public/shareholders/CEOs need some pain. Where is the creative destruction – -a key foundation of capitalism.
@ af
You hope the deep state knows what it’s doing? You are hoping for them to succeed?
“after Khan successfully made the pitch to the people that the situation there is a product of US intervention.”
Khan has friends in the UK Conservative party and according to many Pakistani commentators, he’s broadly aligned with the globalist agenda. His claim of US intervention (to oust him) is to garner support from the mainly anti-US Pakistani population. A pretty obvious ruse.
I agree with Tom. Macron is desperately seeking headwinds, and he is going for Le Pen as Poutine Vichyssoise, more à la carte skullduggery. Get past the ambiently fragranced window dummies, and there is a smell of desperation in the air. Nigel Farage pointed out that Macron is in a political dust-up for the first time in his life, and he looks very rattled. Perhaps now he has a fraction of insight as to what Jéremy Cohen went through, battered by the ubiquitous rabble for wearing a kippa, and then thrust under a tram to his death.
Macron’s problem is that his core demographic is old people. This suggests that there is an old guard who think that RN (Le Pen’s rebranded party) still stinks of anti-semitism.* Vichy is as burning issue to these folks as sectarianism is to Northern Ireland. For this reason, I think that this election has the potential to be an Easter election, the election where generations gather at the dinner table and talk, and where the younger generations implore the older generation to get out of the way.
I am cautiously doubtful of Le Pen’s chances, but that said, a lot can happen in the next 12 days, most of more detrimental to Macron than Le Pen. And given that Mélenchon’s party is “Rebellious France”, there is no guarantee that his base will follow his marching orders either.
* Jean-Marie Le Pen famously stated that the holocaust was ‘a detail of history’.
@AtoZ,
You probably already know that Jean-Marie and Marine are on different pages regarding France’s position in the world. Marine is supportive of an EU framework, the Euro (and ECB), and other aspects that make a person wonder how much of a nationalist she really is. Similar to Trump, perhaps? If the elite-controlled MSM weren’t giving her so much attention, I might be inclined to “hope” she were the winner. But I’ve been around the block a time or two. Recall when Dr. Paul was running in the primaries. His name wouldn’t even appear in the polling lists, even on so-called conservative FOX News (owned by a communist), although Paul entirely filled stadiums across the country and was clearly a front runner.
So what gives? In the age of cancel culture, now the MSM gives headline to their opposition, after a history of doing the opposite? The logic is incongruent.
Yes, I am aware that MLP has walked back her anti-EU stance, but you need to put all this into a particular context, French politics. …[Okay, several thousand books later]…
Only in a country with such a deap-seated affection for international communism, (French intellectuals were extolling Communism virtually up until the fall of The Berlin Wall, and maybe after…), can you get away with calling a democratic sovereign politician an extremist. But Mitterand engineered this cynical trick, in order that the right could be split into two, paying it forward for socialism to always have a dog in the race. It’s absolutely crazy really, since extremism denotes being in a very small fringe group which uses violence as a means to an end, but the French media and intellectual classes are so corrupt and steeped in gaucho-fascism, that they have casually perpetuated the idea that Marine Le Pen, and her steady 20%+ of core electoral support, are terrorists opposed to the democratic system…..
In this poisonous milieu, MLP has had to work assiduously managing her image, and staying relevant to changing facts on the ground. While she may be ideologically opposed to the EU, there is not the groundswell in France (the UK was always 70% anti-EU since forever and a day) to make it a pertinent policy. She has adapted and survived, but she will reform the EU with other sovereignist leaders if she gets in, “make no fucking mistake”, as Tom would say.
MLP will leave NATO and take France out of the cross-fire for starters, so this is terrific, for France, and for everyone really, in various ways.
You really need to listen now
https://odysee.com/@tom.luongo:1/gold-goats-n-guns-live-regime-change-is-coming:9
But MLP’s political dna is classic National Sovereignist. Check who supports her for starters. The rift with Zemmour is really over her left wing economic policies. For instance she treated the whole VaccPass tyranny with a pleasantly insouciant disdain.
My idiot neighbor who’s lived in the same house over 40 years is flying a Ukrainian flag over his front door. And boy, I’ll bet money he’s never flown an American flag there. And I’ll bet bigger money that he doesn’t know a single Ukrainian, or Russian for that matter.
I refer to the period that we’re currently living through (March 2020 onward) as the Death Agony of the Baby Boomer Generation, or maybe more precisely, the Death Agony of the Baby Boomer Democrat Horde.
This is a generation that grew up taking the word of the politicians and the news media as sacrosanct. In March 2020, the handful of moguls that control the media decided to fully weaponize their assets against the consciousness of the American public, especially that of the boomers, to usher in the Maoist-style hellhole psychic reality we currently find ourselves in. The huge point here is that the boomers actually *take to heart* the content of the clown show being dished out by the desperate, flailing ruling class. They’ve been whipped up into a hysterical fear of death and crisis in their middle age, so that this fear can be used to bludgeon their children and grandchildren—“Push whatever tyranny you want! I don’t wanna die! Aaahhhh!” For emotionally intelligent people in their 30s, 40s and 50s, this has been like being forced to witness animal torture.
Regarding millennials, the agenda of last two years has been to split us between those who wish to validate our parents’ death psychosis and go along with the clown show, lest we be forced to face the horror of the reality we’ve allowed to take hold and actually talk our parents off the ledge, and those who want to leave the theater whether our parents can follow or not, but run the risk of being labeled cold and heartless in the process. Sad.
Good insight about Milllennials. I see that divide with the ones I hang out with, very clearly
As an aging boomer who got religion, real religion, in his mid-60’s, I agree with you entirely. For every one like me, there are at least two who still long for the halcyon days of 1968, when the world seemed our oyster and we got to do what we wanted without worrying about the consequences. They remain incurable romantics, and romanticism is always regressive. Hence their allegiance to what is essentially a group psychosis like the one that enveloped 1930’s Germany. Utterly hopeless.
Meanwhile, my millennial children are a little slow off the mark when it comes to the properly wide lens that includes Davos, but they are all coming along. And they don’t even try to get through to their in-laws, despite the fact that two of them have built in-law living spaces next to their own homes.
Interesting insights Matthew. I hate to nitpick but the Boomers are not in their 30s & 40s. They’re late 50s and up. Technically I’m one. Nevertheless I view them as the most spoiled and willfully ignorant generation to ever exist. With the insanity of the past two years we can also add: the most cowardly
Looking at these people older than me, I chuckle at the old phrase about Dying With Dignity. These people can’t even Live With Dignity.
I sympathize with your frustration. Never have so many ruined so much with little understanding of the destruction they create.
I bet you your idiot neighbor went and took the death shots as well. Not long for this world I would say. There never was a virus, but a bunch of idiots ran in fear of a fiction virus and got goaded into taking the REAL bioweapon: the death shot. This death shot will be the undoing of the west and that is exactly what the globalists want: A complete dismantling of the west. Then, in short order they would deal with the more docile and compliant Asians, Chinese and Indians. I’m from India, I know how compliant the Indians are. Very sad indeed. But I still believe as Tom has stated earlier: There is a solid, fervent “I will not comply” stronghold in the population and ultimately, when you tell the globalists you’re not complying en masse, they lose. And they will lose I can assure you that.
I don’t think we’re going to vote our way out of this mess. They’ve just poisoned over half of the planet, along with over 80% of the population in the five eyes countries. The people behind this poison death shot play for keeps. I think a real change would occur if a government is toppled in Europe. From any country, just pick one. Im talking the leadership being run out of town and afraid for their lives. I think once one goes, they all can go. Momentum
Most of the poisoning of the planet has unfortunately happened in the west as those are the countries that got the Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson and Astra Zeneca shots. India had its own home made Covishield jab, while Russia’s Gamaleya Institute (state run Microbiology Institute), made their own Sputnik V. From all the data coming out: The 4 jabs that are the deadliest were all administered mostly in the western countries. The home grown jabs are a BIG UNKNOWN right now, especially the ones made in India and Russia.
You know that India synthesized the original virus to my understanding. This is how they found a 19 character nucleotide sequence came up to match the same patent Moderna was granted in 2016. Forgive me not sure I used the proper term “nucleotide.” This same sequence just happened to be found on the spike protein furin cleavage site. This was even admonished in The Daily Mail several weeks ago. The odds of it happening were 1 and 3 trillion. Not sure how they came about that.
Regardless of vaccine, mRNA delivery or adenovirus vector, the message is the same. Make spike proteins (original spike smh) so the body will produce an antibody response. Ok I am a complete dumbass at this stuff but I learned really quick about ADE and Original Antigenic Sin (OAS). You better believe the people making these things knew the risk. If a new virulent strain of Covid comes into play things could turn grizzly in a moment. There’s no doubt all of these vaccines cause it. Look at all the highly vax’d countries getting smacked right now.
Here is a write up from someone much smarter than I. It is from Dr Mercola who tried to sound the alarm early on. ADE is apparent in all of these vaccines. But IMHO I think the mRNA will prove to be the worst because it requires multiple shots. Personally I think it was a kill switch. If people started to get out of line they could release another virus and that would slow them down. No rabble rousing in the streets if you are afraid to die.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/04/joseph-mercola/fda-and-pfizer-knew-covid-shot-caused-immunosuppression/
Hi Tom,
A great essay! Over the past few months, I have been struggling to communicate a lot of what I have learned here at GG&G with others and one of the things that I noticed is that most people simply don’t have the background to comprehend much of anything beyond the Democrat v. Republican rubric. In fact, a lot of what you write taxes even my own knowledge and understanding of history. What I am worried about is that it will be a daunting task to get this generation and the succeeding generations up to speed such that they can comprehend world events. Recently, I was trying to talk to a very well-educated medical professional (veterinarian) over the Ukraine crisis and they responded, “Zelensky and the Ukraine don’t want to return to communism”. I was floored.
Interestingly, over the weekend I was trying to find information about the goings on in Pakistan and it was a difficult task. But what I did get out of the exercise was learning that there are people / analysts out there offering private new services / recaps of world events similar to the financial advice you and Dexter give to your Patreon subscribers. So, that is indicative of how bad it is out there. It used to be that you could turn to the New York Times for this, but no longer. Now you need a Patreon news service subscription and a private analyst/historian. I think was the market CNN + was trying to tap into, but to do that they would have had to contradict almost everything they were saying on their public “news” platform. No one is going to watch Chris Wallace and Rachel Maddow delve deeper into Deep State fictions. IMHO.
Even though you and Dexter focus on finances and investing, the big picture you guys provide is so far ahead of stuff even the Council of Foreign Relations is publishing. It would be great to see you and John Mearsheimer together in a podcast… he seems to struggle at times with understanding what the United States is doing with its foreign policy and I think you and Dexter provide the missing economic piece.
Can you get John Mearsheimer on GG&G? Or is that wishful thinking?
Cheers!
Thank you for that. Imagine being me talking with my Millennial friends? They simply don’t understand and are scared to let me even start the conversation.
As for Mearsheimer, I could reach out to him at some point. It’s a fine idea.
Let me as an Indian from India give you a brief summary of what is going on in Pakistan as you seem to be quite curious about that country: As you know Pakistan was created by the British and their British agents Gandhi, Nehru and Mohammad Ali Jinnah. Nehru and Jinnah both Cambridge educated were salivating to be first prime minister of India. The British obliged through their Divide and Conquer policy to split India into Pakistan and India and Nehru became the first PM of India and the cancer ridden Jinnah became the first PM of Pakistan. The Brits knew that by dividing the two countries, Pakistan would always be a thorn in India’s side and a dream come true for their Divide and Conquer Policy. Fast forward to the present day: Pakistan has been ruled through Marshal law and military dictatorship for most of its existence, save a few smatterings here and there. Imran Khan is a UK globalist toadie and the ex captain of the Pakistani cricket team who has deep hatred for India, and great “love” for the Brits. He had dreams of becoming the PM of Pakistan and the Pakistani military obliged. Imran Khan was and has been a puppet of the Pakistani military. Now that the military want him out, the military have installed the new puppet: Shehbaz Sharif, the brother of a former PM and puppet Nawaz Sharif who was also deposed systematically by the military. In short: Pakistan is run through a ruthless military dictatorship and the PM’s are merely a revolving door of puppets.
“Let me as an Indian from India” stopped reading at this point.
On Odysee right now….
So are you saying that in 2008 there was a switch & bait, and at that point Davos had slipped their pointman onto Capitol Hill?
But I don’t understand why if Davos wants to keep capital in Europe, they are about to trash the entire European economy, that surely is destruction of capital. Anyhow, they are commies – they hate capital. They hate money, (tokenized labour), they hate human beings, (communism mates with ecologism to produce TechnoMalthusianism), they seem to hate everything creative in humankind that reflects God.
….If you needed a reason, other than Biden’s obvious cognitive decline and inability to project US influence over countries necessary to isolate Putin and Russia, for the Democrats to come up with a reason to get rid of him before the mid-terms in November look no further…
This is the most titillating statement of your essay. Perhaps in a subsequent piece, you might elaborate on the scenarios for the alluded “regime change”.
To be honest Tom, I think the way to know what’s going on behind the curtain is to create half a dozen Twitter accounts, run different theorems through each account, and see which account gets banned, first and most regularly.
What do you make of the Russian announcement that it will strike Nato arms shipments? Does this mean on all European soil? Seriously, if I was Marine Le Pen I’d be on the phone to Putin, and then I’d just tell the French: “It’s ok, one phone call and we are jack shit to do with this, we are Switzerland, cowbells and green pastures.”
If that doesn’t win an election, well France can tuck itself up in bed with a Thomas Mann novel and embrace their inner thanatos….
Your are wrong, when you say: “what happened in Italy in 2019 when Italian political insiders closed ranks to oust Lega’s Matteo Salvini from power and put former ECB President Mario Draghi in charge of the country”. G. Conte remained as President also after 2019, M. Draghi came only in 2021. The rest can be, of course, arguable, but this is a fact.
You’re right… it’s too condensed a statement about the transition from the M5S/Lega coalition to the Draghi tyranny.
There is still time for enquiring minds to observe activity from the Davosians that either supports or sabotages Macron’s campaign.
Not least from Macron himself.
So if in the next ten days we see a series of puzzling “gaffes” and missteps from Macron (or perhaps some kompromat making its way into the public domain, blamed on Putin wanting a Le Pen win?), which the Davosian’s pet media outlets curiously give airtime instead of memory-holing them, we will know that Macron and his Davosian handlers have decided that it is time for him to row away from the coming EU disaster in a lifeboat and watch her sink from a safe distance, so that he remains available to work aboard SS Great Reset.
From Trumps deplorables to Putins Russians and too many in between WW2 is still being fought and the bogey man is still Adolf Hitler. It has been nearly 80 years of antichrist world communism and people still think there are nazis in government and under every bed. Either Hitler is immortal or people have gone cuckoo.
‘That does not mean the Russians didn’t fail in Kiev. They did. It’s a fact not a value judgment.’
But, what did they fail at? Marko Marjaovic (Anti-Empire Blog) and Vladimir Valentinovich Chirkin a Russian military commander and Colonel General. Former Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces (2012-2013), made a pretty good case that there was a political decision to try to topple the Ukrainian Government with a bunch of mad dashes all over the country, and avoid the kind of bloodbath we will now see. That approach did fail … too few soldiers, too many targets. And the Ukrainians were not ready to throw down their weapons. Their population may not be convinced Russia is there to stay, so afraid to switch sides. In any case, was it worth it? It failed, so in hindsight you could say no. But, I don’t think it’s easy to second-guess this.
In any case a ‘traditional’ war is about to begin. Mike Whitney interviewed Marjanovic over at Unz.com a couple of times, and those are worth reading.
They failed to secure a decapitation strike which would have really put NATO on its back foot. They failed, get over it. So much cope from the anti-Empire side on this.
Dexter was right in the podcasts we did. #eps 98 and 99. The failure to capture Kiev has set all of this in motion and now the US is just trying to manipulate events to officially enter the war with justification.
Had Russia taken out Kiev and forced a surrender, it would be a much different world today.
Russia’s strategy reminds me of US policy in Vietnam that resulted in a waste of >50k American lives and ultimate loss of the war. Its no wonder the Russian theater commander was replaced. That also reminds me of the replacement of MacArthur in Korea, who wanted total victory, contrary to the political objectives of the WH. Wars that had entirely different political objectives than were sold to the American people, and were never meant to be won. Same story for this Ukraine war. The stated objectives are a cover for the real goals, and the Russian and Ukrainian people are all cannon fodder as a means to achieve them. And this will expand as the West pushes hard in multiple directions to broaden the conflict.
My (admittedly limited) understanding is that the move toward Kiev was a feint that was helpful in other ways. Seems to me that if decapitation would have been a preferable approach, Russia must have had good reason(s) for not going there.
I gather the US plans to send a high-ranking official to Kiev.
If anything were to happen to them, that would give the US a casus belli?
The only people talking about Russia’s goal to take Kiev has been Western Media outlets. They didn’t even shell the city, yet they were trying to take it? Nonsense.
They didn’t need to shell the city to take the city. They got stomped there. Clearly, they wanted to encircle the city and failed. Why is it so hard to accept that Russia had wins and losses in various theatres of operation?
One has to be supremely naive to think that taking Kiev would have done anything to thwart NATO — and that is who the Russians are actually fighting.
The Ukranians are simply providing the battlefield. They don’t matter one bit. Zelensky is stupid for allowing his country to be used by NATO — actually USA — war mongers. NATO was always going to harm Russia and expand eastward. NATO did not and does not care about Urkanians or Ukraine — its just a place to launch missiles. Zelensky is a fool to put Ukraine’s future in NATO hands.
If the Russians wanted to trap Nuland’s nazis in eastern Ukraine — to make sure said nazis are killed, not merely shuffled around — then blocking the escape roads makes a lot of sense. Quite a few of those escape paths go to Kiev and then westwards after.
The Russians are taking more casualties than they planned, and I doubt they planned to lose their capital ship in the Black Sea. The Russians knew there were US and UK special forces “advising” the Ukranian cannon fodder how to stick it to Russia… but they apparently didn’t realize just how many US / UK advisors there are operating in Ukraine.
Add Nuland’s nazis and their CIA handlers, and its clear NATO’s involvement is much bigger than London or Washington are admitting to.
Remember when JFK sent thousands of US “advisors” into Vietnam? No worries, they aren’t directly involved in the fighting. The US spent the next decade “winning” in Vietnam.
Russia has figured out the true level of US / UK special forces involvement. Ergo they sent in a more ruthless Russian general (the one that defeated the US in Syria). They just realized they aren’t fighting the Ukranians in Ukraine
“There is nothing good about war. On this point all civilized people can agree”… In short you’re saying that the americans aren’t a civilized herd of MMS/3i’s.
Good to see that a least one knows that!
Do you really think this adds anything constructive to the conversation or just trying to make yourself feel powerful?
I am personally tactically agnostic, given that we know dribs and drabs, not much more. I presume there are advantages to taking Kiev, but given that we live in a much more decentralized world than 80 years ago, I don’t see the primary importance in this action.
From a military point of view how would it be achieved? I know that house-to-house fighting in a city of 3 million people would be extremely arduous, painstaking, skilled, and exhausting, and probably impossible, if not technically, then at such a cost to troop effectiveness that I don’t think it would be viable. This form of combat requires the soldier to be both field combatant and policeman, and really topnotch in both areas of expertise. Of course this is probably why Nato sidesteps the issue and just flattens cities.
So I am curious as to what the middle path would be here?
I was surprised to see Johnson strolling around a totally intact, rather bourgeois looking Kiev the other day, other than to endorse Russia’s narrative and strategy.
In strategy games like Age of Empires, you “win” by taking the enemy stronghold. This is the level of strategic analysis you get when people talk about the Russians failing to capture Kiev. The Russian military of course doesn’t have the luxury to act or think in such asinine terms, because they are very good at their job. They have to be, because for close to a thousand years they have been on the receiving end of the largest genocide campaign in history. Talking shit about their objectives, doing this kind of mental masturbation in which you try to present their actions as some kind of global reset plan and all of this shit is simply incredibly offensive to all the millions of people killed in this genocide campaign. We are all actually very lucky that there is something in the Russian worldview which forbids them from holding grudges and taking definitive action to finally defend themselves properly.
“I was surprised to see Johnson strolling around a totally intact, rather bourgeois looking Kiev the other day, other than to endorse Russia’s narrative and strategy.”
Hint – He wasn’t strolling around Kiev – he was faking it with Z the
cowrdly former Comedian in Pooland. It was just a propaganda scene – The russians have sealed of any flying in whole of Ukraine & not much escapes theit attention.
Further to my comment that Tom hasn’t posted (yet?) … even the geronocracy of Congress is suddenly realizing that many of their members have lost their last connection to reality.
Diane Feinstein, age 88, has been even more daffy and out of touch than “normal”. Congress is realizing they can’t pretend Feinstein is still mentally competent.
Its time for all these geriatric losers to go. All of them
Lets stop pretending that people who will die in the next 10 years — long before any plans to run balanced spending, much less pay down any debt — are not borrowing money. They are stealing from future generations and that is ALL of what they are doing.
Its time for everyone over 70 in Congress to be pushed out. And the senile fart in the White House too.
Look it sounds nice to call all the shitbags in D.C. a gerontocracy but the next generation of Congress critters might be a lot more AOCs, so don’t get your hopes too far up on them ageing out. It could get a lot worse.
Grow up man. These geriatric losers are 80+ years old. Whether they get a retirement party or a memorial service, they will be leaving soon.
Their failure to let go of the reigns and let the next generation lead is the problem. The smart people go somewhere else where they can continue to learn and grow, and the only crap left is AOC and her clique.
This is the same problem with pro sports teams with a top player or successful companies with dominant CEOs… arrogant narcissists refuse to step aside, refuse to develop the next generation of leaders… but time still marches on.
WHEN — not if — they leave, there is no one to replace them. The organization collapses.
Maybe Pelosi or McConnell were competent back in their day. Biden was corrupt but competent in his youth. All three are all too old to function now…. and they are also too old to train replacements.
Excellent work, as usual. I noticed your article on Zero Hedge which was blocked for everyone except premium members. Thought it was odd that they would be putting your work behind their pay firewall. I always come to your website for new articles anyways but just wanted to let you know.
What do you think of ZeroHedge taking this article and putting it behind their paywall for their “premium” package?
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/luongo-paris-karachi-regime-change-air
Seems odd when they also link to tomluongo.me where you can read it normally.
It’s their prerogative. Probably looked at it like an opportunity to boost subs. It’d be nice if they shared that revenue, but, honestly, it’s ben so good for me I don’t complain.
Looks to me like if Tom’s theory about a moderate, American centric oligarchy fighting globalist oligarchs is true, they are moving into a position where they can start firing some serious shots at the globalists on Twitter.
Elon Musk has begun trying to buy out twitter to force it back to allowing free speech (this from the man who said there would be fully automated cars 7 years ago) and now Warren Buffett comes out and offers moral support: https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/best-and-final-offer-elon-musk-offers-buy-twitter-5420-share
If Elon buys out twitter and allows Donald Trump and populists back on Twitter, that will be a nuclear level happening, especially if it is done in time for the AFU to get crushed in Donbass. Do not forget Biden’s approval rating took it’s first big nose dive after the Afgan National Army folded up like the paper tiger it was.
Now imagine twitter allowing populists back on it within the next month and Ukraine moving to a mopping up stage in the next eight weeks, plus all the effects of supply chain disruptions taking hold over the course of the same length of time. If all of that happens it wouldn’t be hard to believe that in November there would not only be a red wave, but a populist wave. Fuck, maybe Trump will become speaker of the house if they pull off the level of coup that would be Donald back on Twitter.
None of that is even touching the Hunter Biden laptop either.
It looks like Twitter is going to try and commit suicide and Musk’s old friend Peter Thiel is coming in to support him and help him counter the poison pill that Twitter just voted to put in place.
Stupid Millennials just told management to gut their 401Ks to stop evil Elon from taking over their woke paradise.
Welcome to real stakeholder capitalism folks
This new MUSK game of taking over TWITTER guarantees this outcome
Note that the partner of MUSK to BUY Twitter is Peter Thiel (human vampire), Bilderberg USA President and Campaign Trump-2024 manager.
Clearly everything is lining up just like a GOYIM being led to the cliff as a lemming.
During Ukraine War Thiel & Musk personally responsible for murder of over 20,000 Russian Soldiers using Clearview (facebook) facial recognition and Musk satellite GPS to send in facial recognition drones;
So essentially the people running the UKRAINE war using Nazi’s will be the NEXT USSA POTUS.
Listen to this. Scott Ritter being interviewed about what is REALLY going on in Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5RKNoIhE40
Putin is a well educated focused visionary. I have always felt he had deep connections to Byzantium whose reach lasted about 900 years, more as a Commonwealth than an empire per se. Recent history….
https://theconversation.com/the-byzantine-history-of-putins-russian-empire-90616
Decapitation of Kiev leaders would generate 3 outcomes:
1) installation of puppet government and Afghanistan 2.0. unrulable country.
2) loss of any legitimate presence in the Donbass or anywhere else.
3) International sympathy for neo-Nazi forces.
Kiev may be taken, bit only after Donbass is expunged of neo-Nazi forces, and war-crime trials, which will take years.
Do you not worry Tom that the boozehound might scent rotting flesh and
emerge from the catacombs with a lolling tongue hoping to feast?
Perhaps this is the play:
Scare everyone to death by putting a senile old codger in charge of a basket of grenades, then slap a bit of lippy on the high priestess of toxicity so that you can pass her off as the belle of the ball……..
And what’s up with Trump moving further left than Obama?
Is this some kind of political level scene-stealing? T shuffles left to take up the ‘new centre’ in order to push the Dems out into the wings whilst De Santis slots in on the right? So now two dogs in the race?
Oh dear. Germany has been complicit with the US lab programme. A very disturbing development.
The Russians have their work cut out…
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1809592/
Final paragraph……..note final phrase……
We urge German officials to immediately stop spreading false allegations about our country’s intentions to use weapons banned by international law. We believe that such statements can only serve to push neo-Nazi battalions to commit horrible provocations, and moral responsibility for their tragic consequences will be shared by Berlin.
What you are writing, I can not agree with you. Word for word we are arguing. History is repeating itself, we are arguing again. We have not learned anything about peace !!!!! SEE http://www.worldwitchcraft.com
Regime change could be soon, if this is true…
https://www.the-sun.com/news/1832396/putin-cancer-parkinsons-emergency-surgery/