To this point, the Biden administration has handled the crisis as badly as all the others. Which should surprise no one. War is the continuation of politics by other means, as a dead German once said, and Uncle Joe turns out to be phenomenally bad at politics.
Vladimir Putin doesn’t care what the bluechecks think of him. He doesn’t care if Anderson Cooper thinks he’s a mean mean meanie. If anything the anger of Western elites serves his purposes. He is cynical and brutal and he has seen an opening and he’s taking it.
At the most basic level, this crisis - like most international crises - is about leverage, and more specifically our lack of it.
We aren’t going to war for Ukraine. That leaves sanctions. Unfortunately the Russians could not care less about our sanctions. And thanks in part to the fact that an autistic teenage girl now sets global energy policy, oil is almost $100 a barrel and the Kremlin has money (and natural gas) to burn.
They know it and we know it. Plus, thanks in part to the fact that our President’s crackhead son became the wholly owned subsidiary* of a Ukrainian energy company - he was a board member, though his hydrocarbon experience is more or less limited to lighting up the ol’ pipe - we can’t even claim to be honest brokers.
*(Not wholly owned, the Chinese had a piece too.)
International order is about setting red lines that the other side KNOWS are red lines, and putting enough skin in the game to make clear the seriousness of our intentions. Like Poland, okay? Poland is a NATO member, and the Russians need to understand that an attack on Poland would be World War III, just like an attack on West Germany would have been back when there was a West Germany (it’s true, kids, there used to be a big wall that ran down the middle of Germany and if you tried to cross it the guards on the east side shot you. People aren’t always so nice.)
But Ukraine isn’t a NATO member, and we care so much about Ukraine that we just pulled our soldiers and diplomats out so that the Russians won’t accidentally kill them and make us fight for it. And the Ukrainians are well aware what this White House’s promises are worth. They just have to look about 2500 miles southeast to Kabul to know.
So as Tony Blinken and the gang talk about how terrible a Russian invasion of Ukraine is going to be, they might want to consider that all they’re doing is making us look even MORE impotent if and when Vlad the Impaler sends his tanks in.
And maybe I’ll be proved wrong. Maybe all our talk about how terrible a Russian invasion will be for the good citizens of Kyiv will convince the Russians to behave. Because they care so much about Ukrainian life!
But I’m guessing not. I’m guessing at this point we’d better start thinking about Poland. And maybe putting a division right close to the border, the kind of armor you can’t evacuate when the going gets tough, so both the Poles and the Russians know we’re serious.
Or we could just keep talking. That’s worked great so far.
Two wrongs don't make a right. @CargoShortGuy, Trump is NOT the president. For worse, we're stuck with Biden who CHEATED all the way to the White House. @DivdedUpWorld, for FOUR years, Russia, Iran, China, & North Korea behaved. NATO also under Trump got called out for its free ride under too many globalists including R's and D's. Biden might be the most corrupt, feckless dementia clown the Democrats or Republicans could ever toss into the WH. He's proving every day he's more than an embarrassment; he's dangerous. I did vote for Trump. I WILL vote for Trump again regardless of more ad hominem. READ: Calling Trump a narcissist is more political theater. PS - Alex is wrong about Ivermectin to bring the conversation back to more dangerous policy out of Democrats and more hand wringing out of RINOS. PPS - Is this another "wag the dog" moment w/ Russia to distract the world?
Yes to wag the dog. Not only that but this theater is pissing off ukraine and destabilizing their economy. All so Biden can look like a brilliant peace maker and get his poll numbers up.
Alex is a few steps behind. WAR is the imperative. We had the Cold War, where the CIA lied continuously to make the Soviets appear to be an existential threat, when in fact their economy was the size of Belgium's plus vodka. Vietnam, 2M innocents slaughtered but Dick Cheney's pals all made serious bank. Then the War on a Noun (Terror), but people eventually tired of incinerating faraway innocent brown goat herders with multi-million dollar missiles (hat tip to the genius business model, though, get taxpayers to buy incredibly complicated robots that are destroyed the first time they are used). In this WAR they decided to hone the business model further, no need to argue politics about faraway lands, just make WAR on your own people with injections that make them sick. Now as THAT war winds down and the taxpayer money extraction for poison abates a little they are at a loss. The War on the Weather is going OK, the same dreary "consensus of scientists and modelers" as the Covid scam, driving huge sums to their pals making "green" investments (LOL Germany leading the way into that abyss https://stopthesethings.com/2022/02/20/dumb-dumber-germany-wins-prize-for-worlds-most-idiotic-energy-policy/). Nobody asked to explain how reducing a trace gas that composes 0.04% of the atmosphere, of which human activity is 3%, would do anything anyway, especially when the sun affects weather much more profoundly and we are heading into a Grand Solar Minimum. But I digress. This takes us to today, when European tradition, white, Christians (the Russians) must be demonized for having the gall to try and protect their own national borders. There's that word again: nation. Can't have any of those, viz O'Biden's very first most urgent act in office, dissolving the U.S. Mexico border. Putin's scientists and engineers, unfortunately for the bloodthirsty war hounds in The Imperial City (D.C.), are classically trained and very pragmatic, these are men that sent back photos from the surface of Venus in the late 1970's. Vlad told them to get to work and get to work they did, and Vlad has now deployed a hypersonic missile fleet that completely negates anything and everything the US has, including nukes. Vlad can put The Sixth Fleet on the bottom of the ocean, not in a few hours as previously, but in 10 minutes flat. Disappointing! So we are dependent on the incredible forbearance of Mr. Putin...who has reduced his nations trade in dollars from 90% down to 10%, with 22% of his reserves in the anti-dollar, physical gold bullion. Meantime in the U.S. we count consumption with borrowed and printed money as "GDP" and just love the fact that our nearest neighbor and closest ally has declared martial law and is confiscating the assets of all of their political opponents. So be aware: these globalists are no longer satisfied with extracting all of your money through their various "war" schemes, they are coming for it directly, so plan accordingly.
Just because carbon dioxide is 0.04% of the atmosphere by volume doesn't mean that it doesn't have and outsized effect on retaining the Earth's heat. I don't say that it is the threat the the climate change hordes claim, but you cannot dismiss it just because of the seemingly tiny proportion in the atmosphere. For example, seven molecules of botulism toxin can kill a mouse, and 1 ounce is enough to kill the entire population of the world. Methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, yet people are loath to give up their methane belching bovines.
Besides, higher temperatures and some genetic engineering might enable us to bring back giant ferns and dinosaurs. Wouldn't that be nice?
Understood. But let's remark shall we that the global mean temperature today is precisely the same as the 1979-2000 average. 73 of the 73 models at the IPCC are, in their exact words, "all running much too hot". We're in the throes of global economic destruction caused in very large part by panicked and completely W-R-O-N-G modelling about Covid, would be great to avoid another such own goal. Where I live in New South Wales, Australia, they just spent $500M in taxpayer money "to make electric vehicles economical". What we did not hear, just like the virus, was ANY of the science justifying it. What is the EROEI (Energy Returned On Energy Invested) of an electric vehicle? When you count everything, like the truckloads of lithium that must be mined and carried around? Can we get some other math going, too? A commercial windmill contains +/- 200 tons of steel. In the lifetime of the machine, will it produce energy that exceeds the energy spent to make that steel? (answer = No). Dig deeper into the "climate" debate and you'll find a cornucopia of grifters, financial conflicts of interest, ideologues, politicians, bankers, mega corporations, and definitely, again, NO open scientific debate. The War On The Weather is unscientific and entirely unnecessary....just like all the other wars.
Amen to that. I also want to know how we’re going to make all the additional electricity to charge these electric vehicles. Windmills? Solar farms? Both of which are blights on the landscape and kill the natural wildlife. How come we never hear how many birds are killed by the monstrous wind turbines. Inquiring minds and all
I believe it was Clinton, mid 90s, after the Soviet Union fell and several states broke away, retaining the old Soviet nukes, and they were trying to figure out how to limit nuclear proliferation. But good grief - to promise to protect without getting the buy in of many other countries and not foreseeing that even here we can have Very weak, feckless leadership (When Russia rattled its sabres before, Obama’s offer to send Ukraine blankets and MREs is a perfect example - one of many of his) is, shall I say, idiocy (but probably expedient at the time to be able to say the problem was solved.)
Your pissing off ukraine take is interesting. How much more of this bs will it take for Ukraine to start looking at Putin as the more reasonable negotiating partner? Not as crazy as it sounds.
China Joe is like the Devil. He knows he has but a short time.
He has been working for this day his entire career, and every move he makes is targeted toward weakening the USA, and strengthening our enemies so we can be more easily conquered for the NWO.
I have the better choice, Troll numbers, because let’s face it, the people who follow Joe Thanos Biden are truly trolls, there’s just about 80 million of them among us…
And I'll add that I don't give a shit if Trump is a narcissist, a womanizer, or a big fat baby. Voting for president isn't like voting for Prom King. It's not a popularity contest. He's setting policies, presumably with the consent of your elected representatives, for the country's economy, security, and foreign relations. Period. He's not your BFF. You're never going to break bread with this person or "watch Netflix and chill" together. So vote like you care about policies, not Anderson Cooper's opinion.
(All of this is directed at the Collective You, not you in particular, MDP.)
Trump is still a born & bred corporatist, he’s pro-Pharma now & the was known to consult with the head of Blackrock at the WH. Policy-wise he was on track to privatize water (very bad) & he removed wolf protections, which was purely political bc wolves are vital to ecosystems & still very much endangered w/ a negligible impact on livestock populations.
Protecting wolves is your reason to let Dems get us in to war? Trump being a corporatist is your reason to allow Biden to destroy the pipeline, impose medical tyranny and record inflation?
My point is that neither would’ve saved us bc we’ve long been headed down the path of corporate fascism & there was always a certain inevitability to these outcomes (w the exception of war- it’s theater). Can we not thank Trump for the vaxx & letting the virus into the county? Cause & effect, corporations decided a mandate would save $ so many employees would be facing it regardless of a so-called nat’l mandate that they could hide behind…it’s all a shell game & corps call the shots. As for the pipeline- it wasn’t just any oil pipeline using standard processing- it was for dirty tar sands which was a humanitarian & environmental disaster waiting to happen. And inflation had already started under Trump bc of bad Covid policies including China’s own “0 Covid”, along w its water/electricity & semiconductor shortages, & just major changes in consumption patterns due to C-19- like more spending on goods than services.
Yep. What "invasion?" This is misdirection to convince American voters that our inflation, supply problems, employment problems, failing Fiat currency, murderous covid policy failures and kill shots are Putin's fault. Everything's Putin's fault. And Xiden is a better president to Ukraine and China than to us.
I do blame you, you didn’t vote for a responsible accountable and well seasoned candidate , which neither party will ever give us, the Democrats give us sociopaths, the Republicans give us narcissists.
George Carlin said it perfectly in 1996, he has the right to complain as I do, because we didn’t vote, we didn’t put selfish incompetent corrupt immoral people to rule us, and then bitch about how they are fucking up our lives. You people put these fucking assholes in our lives, so, shut up!!!
the ongoing ever present attempt to frame Prez Trump with a term that is used in field of psychology , yet has no bearing on his mastery of presidential challenges, is a psy-op that many americans have swallowed hook. line and sinker.
Trump is actually very nice and loved by many people who have been helped by him. He's human. How well he gets along with his ex wives and all his children says a lot.
He’s a fucking sociopath, narcissists sometimes either upgrade or downgrade into just wanting to ruin and kill everybody, so, pay attention to that little detail!
Maintain that terminal ignorance, the Obamas Clintons Cheneys Bidens, they depend on you to keep sitting in front of your screens and mentally jerking off…
Policy? reject evil, take a stand, show your children at the very least that you care about their future, what do you want me to do, walk into your home and start outlining common sense?!
I recall 44’s speeches: I I I, me me me,Michael, I mean Michelle and I, I I I , me me me. Climate change is the biggest threat of our future, hey, I just bought my second ocean front mansion in Hawaii, but Bernie has 3 dachas waaaaaaaaaaa….
And that bothered you enough to not like them? I'm a former Democrat who wants his eyes were open too how bad the media was treating Trump I ran away from the Democratic party. At the point now if you can't see the difference then you haven't put into work to find out what's going on
I’ve explained this before so I’ll do it one last time: narcissists need an audience, which Trump truly gave us, wanting an audience, but Obama, he doesn’t care about an audience, and in fact, he wants the audience to thin down, so it’s just people who are truly subservient to him. Sociopaths abhor the spotlight, because it can shine attention on them and can reveal their agenda…
Hmm. The world was quite stable under our last “unseasoned” President. We were also repatriating our factories, using our own steel and we were energy independent for the first time in decades. Also, no wars for 4 years. No one else can do that.
Narcissism has consequences, almost as much as sociopathy, so there’s your choice, someone who always looks in the mirror, or someone who smashes it and then wants to cut up everybody in his path…
I don't like that President Trump is pro Jab but he is not for Jab Mandates and Passports. Also pretty much all the Pubs (State Govs, Senate & Congress) are pro Jab but they are not for Mandates and Passports. That makes them a 10000000 x better than any Commie Dem.
Please tell me who was the responsible accountable and well seasoned candidate in the 2020 presidential election? Your solution to complain but not vote is clearly no solution.
That logic allows us to stay on this path, i.e. I don't like or agree with who I'm voting for but they're better than the other person. Tyranny is tyranny, no matter how you slice it.
Psyop - typical response when someone can't look at the moral equivalence for tyranny, literally the removal of someone's freedoms without consent. We could do this all day to no benefit. My only point is this, if you are convinced that your person is on the ballot, great. If not, a vote for the lesser of two evils is still evil and only perpetuates the problem we are in today. Peace.
Yes President Trump made horrible decisions regarding the Virus and Jabs but he would not have forced Jab Mandates and pushed Jab Passports. On the Economic and Foreign policy sides the Xiden Regime are beyond terrible. President Trump was 1000000000 x better than the Xiden Regime.
Certainly no one from the Democrat or Republican side, but, people vote for letters, you don’t pay attention to people outside that enclosed circle that wants to dominate the public with ruthless brutality…
As my parents told me, (paraphrasing) if you're so stupid that you think you're "doing something" by not voting, you have no right to complain about what you get in office. Therefore, you're one of the "fucking assholes" that needs to "shut up!!!"
I agree ! There was a very comprehensive, calm, well thought out O.P. piece on that very topic: the lack of sane, responsible, ethical, and morally grounded people in either party. Trey Gowdy (R), a former member of the House, and now a commentator on Fox News, has a program on Sunday nights. Last night he gave one of the most cogent, honest, explanations of how we got into this situation where NO ONE cooperates with anyone from the other party and we are in a perpetual cycle of no budget ever set so always an 24 hr. emergency deadline and deeper and deeper in debt, no compromises on things needed for ALL people (such as safe bridges, clean water, etc.), and he explained the deeper reasons behind this all.... a summary is difficult, but a general loss of our culture where we had a common moral foundation. Now, the rational, decent, honest people of both parties, who are intelligent enough to realize to keep the unique nation we have, requires courage, compromise, and the ability to admit another may have a better idea or plan, no matter what party. People like this no longer want to have themselves and their families exposed to what "politicians" have become. No longer the best among us, willing to make personal sacrifices (like having to pay for a place to stay in D.C. out of their own assets, pay for their haircuts in D.C. just as they would have if they were back at their home, and the whole list of "benefits", not "sacrifices" at all, so, it only appeals to those of a "certain" mind set. He really hit the heart of the target.... those with a true servants heart, to go and represent their fellow community members, would not even consider it. WE set ourselves up for this by voting to lavish every possible luxury on our political class, as if they are the royalty we "thought" we wanted to free ourselves from ! Instead of CRT, let's put the study of Marx, Stalin, and Lenin back into the public school curriculum, along with HOW we won our "freedom" from "the monarchy", then created our own monarchy. We made our own idols ! ! Why ?
Rooster head Gowdy is all talk and no action. He folded like a weak hand of poker while in Congress. He’s a Mitch and Paul Ryan puppet with a southern accent who puts on a cute cross examination display that goes nowhere.
Wasn't referring to his politics at all, don't know a thing about the man. What I meant to convey is I just happened to be channel surfing from one Olympic event to another and caught the program and was impressed with what a cogent (he's a former attorney), explanation he gave on how we've become so IN-cohesive as a people.
But the point is; how can we get past calling them, and the others from both parties, derogatory names (just another symbol of frustration I realize that), and relieve our frustrations on this and other sites, and get down to sharing well thought out ideas oh HOW to solve the problem of the lack of quality (by quality, I mean individuals who put ethical behavior above all and realize they are only in their positions to represent the views of those who SENT them as representatives) people to choose from when we vote ! IF we got past our anger, frustration, and name calling, we could use this forum to get at how we might begin to get "good" people on both "sides" to run for office, so we don't have to think about such foolish moves as giving up voting all together, and perpetually make choices between the evil of two lessers, or the lesser of two evils !
Well thank you also ! Nice, rather agree or disagree, to have people who can discuss matters without insults and cursing..like the typical "social" media postings where people seem to make their "points" by fowl language and name calling... sometimes it seems like an "adult" playground...lol... like congress...LOL !
“ Just to give a clarification to the morons below who didn’t read my comment above, I didn’t vote, because I don’t vote for evil, I don’t vote for incompetence, and I don’t appreciate these motherfuckers you just want to come in and ruin our lives!
You fuckers just vote for letters, admit it!
The people below, seem very happy and at peace with those issues and choices, so Enjoy your misery desperation and abject failure!
And I don’t want hugs, I want people to grow the fuck up and take responsibility for your lives, stop waiting for other people like corrupt politicians judges and fucking morons of influence to stroll in and ruin your lives!
Just to give a clarification to the morons below who didn’t read my comment above, I didn’t vote, because I don’t vote for evil, I don’t vote for incompetence, and I don’t appreciate these motherfuckers you just want to come in and ruin our lives!
You fuckers just vote for letters, admit it!
The people below, seem very happy and at peace with those issues and choices, so Enjoy your misery desperation and abject failure!
And I don’t want hugs, I want people to grow the fuck up and take responsibility for your lives, stop waiting for other people like corrupt politicians judges and fucking morons of influence to stroll in and ruin your lives!
Here's a bit of homework for you... Go look at all the people Trump pardoned on his way out. Look at some of his cabinet appointments while in office. He cried "China Joe", well, see how he did with his people. If you approve of that crap based on the "better than Biden" argument, then enjoy your 4 trillion spending stimulus BS and be happy. For me, I think we can do better.
Hmmm. Millions of people trying to avoid just the sort of disaster we are experiencing, by voting for the only candidate who was at least trying (Trump). Let me think....
No, you are the problem. You plus all of the idiots who support Biden, Obama, and the rest of the destroyers of civilization.
See, Tom here is example A of the problem, we either have to vote Democrat or Republican, because at the end of the day, 150 million morons who can’t figure out anything else besides the letter “D” or “R”, expect us to be clueless complicit leash-led morons as them…
And, it is emblematic of why polarization leads to interpersonally flawed losers.
Which is why, this country is dead, we truly have the public that votes in these fucking assholes because they identify with these failed horrific leaders…
Think about it, 30+ % of people in polls continue to think Biden and the Democrats are doing a great job, and 40 to 50% of Republicans think Trump should be in office in 2025, people don’t learn, people don’t pay attention, people are just basically stupid, and easily manipulated.
Not voting doesn’t give you the right to complain any more than not working gives you the right to get paid an income. You didn’t have to vote for Trump or Biden. You should have used your vote to vote for the candidate most aligned with your beliefs. I did not say for the ‘perfect’ candidate. That is the only way to show those in control that there are people who strongly disagree and are willing to vote for someone they know can’t win. There is nothing they would like better than a populace of weaklings that are satisfied to simply whine!
No. I’m a registered Democrat that votes Libertarian. I am registered as a Democrat so that I can vote for their worst candidate in the primaries. My wife and I are active in protests against the lockdowns, forced vaccinations and masks. We will meet the truckers in a few days as they go from California to DC. We are in Texas now but heading for home in California in a couple days. If you are in California and don’t know about all the protests going on but want to get involved go to savecalifornia.com.
I’d rather stay and fight. Are you going to flee your state before it is too late? Flee the US before it’s too late? Do you think patriots in other states want to welcome people who fled their own state rather than fight?
Maybe it’s the Head and Shoulders that gives him that hair effect?
People are always allowed to have an opinion, the problem is, when do people have choices and principles that are based on irrefutable evidence that would be supported by a sizable amount of people talking with you.
We haven’t had a decent president in my mind in a long time, that’s why I’ve been voting third-party for several decades.
Democrats and Republicans, they stack the deck, and then they throw the cards at you and try to Paper-cut you in the eyes…
Biden, Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, etc. are/were all Freemasons (satanists). Republican and Democrat are just opposite sides of the same coin.
When you come to threads like this, you have to realize, most of the people are either just pathetically inattentive and stupid, or, being provocative, or, or covert operatives for either side of the polluted aisle of Republ-ocrats …
Why should Putin stand down for anyone? Why should the US care what Putin does in Europe? Let Europe take care of its own problems. We need to focus on our own issues. We need to stop being every other country’s babysitter. It isn’t good for them or us.
Ukraine is to Russia as Mexico is to US. Arming Ukraine or Mexico by a meddling out of towner is a provocation for what purpose ? All our politicians are self serving and know credulous voters can be manipulated or silenced. We have a chance for major change every two years and we fail every time. I don’t expect a different outcome in 2022
All of the disharmony and chaos the Democrats did with Trump in office, if he had won reelection, do you really think that they would just say, “oh well, there’s always 2024…”
Cities would be burning, Trump would’ve been assassinated, and they would have become the prime example to Justin Trudeau above north.
Trump was a lightning rod for absolute chaos and hate, not that he deserved it, but, he wouldn’t get rid of it either.
By the way, how is that rushed vaccine going for all of you!?…
Americans vote like they use the toilet, except for this case, they’re not shitting into a receptacle, they’re shitting on the public who thought that voters knew better…
I don't think that Biden et. al. actually believes that Russia is going to invade Ukraine. I think they created the narrative. They know that Russia does these military drills all the time. They know that there is shelling/skirmishes in certain parts of Ukraine all the time. So they create this narrative that Putin is going to invade and the invasion is imminent. All the US media lapdogs spend all their effort promoting the story. It is the lead story on all the Sunday "news" shows and every morning show has footage of Russian tanks and missiles.
Why? So that they can pretend that Biden fixed it. Biden intimidated Putin into not invading. What a genius US President we have! He convinced Putin NOT to invade Ukraine! What a genius! And poof, we all forget about the disaster in Afghanistan and the stunning incompetence that got 13 American soldiers killed. And we all forget about Biden looking at his watch as their bodies came home.
I am pretty sure that is the plan. Biden's approval numbers really tanked after Afghanistan when everybody saw the incompetence and cruelty of this administration. They are trying to craft some sort of foreign policy victory. So why not make the narrative that Biden stopped an invasion of Ukraine? Biden prevents WWIII. Never mind that Putin was never going to invade Ukraine to begin with.
People in the Ukraine are less worried about an invasion than our corrupt deep state swamp media is. Zelensky even complained that Biden was fanning the flames. You can’t get much more wag the dog than that.
Yes, I was thinking that. Playing these games with Putin is not smart. Putin is a very capable chess player and he may just decide to thwart their little game by actually invading, knowing that the US really won't do anything about it. And I'm sure Putin has ALL the goods on Hunter Biden. If any Russian President has ever known how to use intelligence, it is the former KGB agent himself.
When you think about how Hunter was lining his pockets - and sending 10% to the "big guy" -and doing so in Ukraine, it isn't inconceivable that it was all a set up by Putin just to be able to compromise Biden.
The Ukrainians should hire military consultants or study the tactics/strategy from the Afghans. It ight take a while, but their tactics have defeated 2 super powers on a small budget.
On the mark. Only thing Dems are forgetting is that the voting public has a very short memory. It's February, and 8 months from now everyone will have forgotten about this incident, just like the Afghanistan departure has already dropped into the memory hole.
The purpose of the insertion of biden as "president" was chaos. Real chaos in every aspect of our lives. Not the fake chaos that the trash at nyt or wash post peddled about Trump. Real tangible chaos.
The question is really what would Obama and Susan Rice do, because Biden seems to be in late stage dementia. Obama already destroyed Afghanistan, I think he's fine with handing Ukraine to Russia.
Agreed on your points about Biden too demented to calling any shots. But how is Ukrainian border integrity a concern for Americans when the southern US border is wide open? This is so ridiculous.
True, but if you compare speeches and appearances of Biden from 5 years ago, 2 years ago, even a year ago, you can see a very obvious cognitive decline from year to year. My daughter works a lot with dementia patients. Their state can suddenly decline quite precipitously for no clear reason. Some people just plod along for longer periods with no major decline being seen. She thinks Biden is definitely on a fast elevator down at this point.
Tulsi Gabbard - former US Rep from Hawaii said last week, all Pres Biden has to do is to state that Ukraine will not become a member of NATO! That’s how a leader works to prevent bloodshed on both sides!! BTW - why do we care more about the Ukraine-Russian border than we do about our OWN borders??
She's still right. Tulsi might have attended WEF meetings, but from her words and actions it seems obvious she didn't sell her soul like the rest of them.
Yes. Participation in WEF (or CRF) by paying dues, subscribing to their publications, and attending rubber chicken lunches every now and then, does not mean you believe in depopulating the planet. Trudeau is a puerile little tyrant not because of his affiliation with WEF, but rather because he is Trudeau, a puerile little tyrant.
She went to the Klaus Schwab Global Leadership Program. This is the program that graduated such tyrants as Justin Trudeau, Putin, Jacinda Ardern and Macron to name a few. I don't think she can be trusted.
People forget that just like Crimea, there are large sections of Ukraine which are essentially already Russian. Even if Putin does invade, it's not for all of Ukraine. It will be limited to those areas that already want to (overwhelmingly) be part of Russia. I like your analysis, but it's a little overstated in who Putin actually is. With an unnecessary disclaimer, I don't think Putin is a good guy, but don't make him out to be another Stalin, Hitler, etc. when he's clearly not.
Mr Putin is the best president Russia had. He is also much better than a lot of American presidents. Why Russia is never allowed to protect her interests? Why only America can rule the world and destruct other countries?
Please don't be so defensive. My statement didn't have anything to do with what you're irate about. All countries should be able to protect their own interests. I don't believe America should be destroying other countries for world domination. And yes, we Americans know that many of our presidents have been horrible. Putin is a much more astute foreign policy player than probably all of our recent presidents. Saying he's the best president Russia ever had is not saying much but also saying something because who would want one of their previous ones? From my perspective, it's been the West that's been beating the war drubs and saber rattling over whatever the heck is going on over there right now. Personally, I'd like America to use it's position in the world to act more so how Switzerland does on the world stage.
a multipolar world with people talking to each other even when they are enemies seems a better option. and I agree with you about saber rattling. Russia is just trying to stop NATO and save some russian folks.
Crimea became Russia under Catherine the Great when she defeated the Tartar Khanate. Strategically Sevastopol is Russia’s most important naval port as it is unaffected by winter ice and gives access from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean: this is not going to change. Were it not for an administrative pen stroke in 1954, it would have remained Russian. The West needs to apply the same rules to it that the West applied to the Kosovar plebiscite. Historic Ukraine ie the northwestern part, that emerged after Mongol overlordship was part of alternately Lithuania and Poland. The Contested borderlands of Donbass and Lukhats were settled as free Cossack communities ie not serfs, admixed with Tartars and other minorities
I never said they didn’t consider themselves Russian, I pointed out that their origins differed from those in the northwest. The Black Sea is a patchwork of people and the southeast was never part of Ukraine until the 50s
Such is human nature, right? The grass isn't always greener on the other side. Whether or not it's better for them to be part of Russia is another matter.
Wag the Dog. This is nothing but a failed WH admin working to deflect the wholesale failure at home. They can then blame (and be parroted by their loyal Pravda members) inflation, economy and gas prices on the Russians. It's never been about truth and reality with this disaster in the WH, it's all about how many people they can convince their BS is actually the golden truth.
Ron Klein is working to set Biden up as the savior. He alone will stop WWIII.
People keep mistaking US domestic politics with the world. There is no dog to "wag." Putin doesn't care about the US "leaders," its State media or subsidiary pals think. Alex is 100% correct on this NOT to put this through a domestic prism. Putin doesn't care. He saw the US humiliated exiting Afghanistan. He saw the US break its word and scramble to leave. The entire world saw it and now the entire world will see undone the international order and the price for that void created.
"Price" for "undoing the international order"? I say bring it on. People with shared interests, culture, economy, and geography naturally aggregate into nations. Always have. They fight each other at the borders over time as those factors shift. Sometimes they get leaders who defend and pursue those interests. Today we have "leaders" answering to a higher sovereign, the WEF (and other supra-nationals). We need to change that, exactly as the Brits did Brexit, so that potato farmers in Dorset did not have 140 pages of rules written in Brussels about what shape and size potatoes they were allowed by law to plant. The post WWII "international order" was simply an updated "to the winner go the spoils". The U.S. But the leadership of the US migrated to the pools of billionaire capital sloshing around in places like The Cayman Islands ($34T). We built incredible prosperity under the Westphalian system of nations, time to restore it. No more rule by King Pfizer The First or Panopticon Prince Google or Supreme Warlord Raytheon. People, culture, and shared geography and economic interests. Peace on Earth, not Purity of Essence, please.
The 0Biden regime continues to rattle its (rubber) sabers in an effort to distract us from his other ongoing failures. Not working. Every time I go to the grocery or fill up with gas, the 0Biden failures are screaming.
Yet this is a group of people who seem to have seen through the government lies on Covid. Why is it they are lapping up everything the Deep State says on the Ukraine? I really don't get it.
Folks, let me say it: Covid shows our government cannot be trusted. PERIOD. They lied on Covid, they lie on this. They lie on EVERYTHING.
Being the Irish cynic that I am I'm going to join the 'Who gives a s***!" camp. All I see is yet another wealllly wealllly big distraction to have the hordes NOT focus on every failure of this administration, and there must be an entry in the Guinness Book of Records for the sheer number of these, and these are only the ones folk know about.
can you imagine Russia setting up shop in Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela? Russia is asking that US and its allies get out of its backyard with its missiles pointed directly at Moscow and St. Petersburg. A reasonable request, I'd say.
All of this is simply about the military industrial complex to get its money ($$$) and its has. How many times has this same ploy played out thru the decades?
Food for thought....we only know what they WANT us to know (or "believe" as the case may be). 50+% of the US whole heartedly believe(d) that President Trump colluded with Russia in 2016 because they were TOLD it was true by the very people currently telling us 'Putin is preparing to invade Ukraine' and 'Putin is an evil dictator'. Isn't it ironic that the country this administration is "protecting" is Ukraine, which has deep ties to Hunter and Biden (Obama/Clinton?) millions $$$ and the villian is Russia (of course it's Russia....its always Russia, right?) Is it a coincidence that the same players are being used in a different verse of the same song they've been singing since 2016 nonstop....I think not. I trust the people sharing the "intell" as far as I can throw them!! What's true? What's a lie? Who knows, but they are still using the same playbook and they haven't even tried to hide it by switching the teams!! Something just isn't adding up...I smell a rat.
Because in the Ukraine they know that Russia does these military drills all the time. This narrative about imminent invasion is just a way for the lying US media to craft a narrative about a foreign policy victory for the failing Biden administration.
Well said! I knew Slow Joe would be a bad president but he's proven to be awful beyond my wildest dreams. He and his corrupt, inept, clueless staff are going to destroy this country.
You don't have to like Trump but if anyone can't see the difference between him and Biden than they haven't put the work in to figure out what's going on.
Start with the world economic forum and Klaus Schwab because this is where all this is going. This is what Trudeau is pushing.
There's absolutely no evidence Trump was anywhere near that mess and that's why they wanted him out so bad.
"So as Tony Blinken and the gang talk about how terrible a Russian invasion of Ukraine is going to be, they might want to consider that all they’re doing is making us look even MORE impotent if and when Vlad the Impaler sends his tanks in."
Has anyone noticed that the agenda of the Biden set seems committed to making us look impotent? Hell, electing Biden was the profound first move that made us look impotent. It is so far off the hook now that one could imagine that our enemies are pulling all the political strings.
I have to correct you on something, Vlad the Impaler was Romanian and has nothing to do with Russia. Thanks.
Eastern Europe already knows US is using then dropping when they got nothing more to gain from all the little countries here. Anyway nations like Ukraine or Romania are already used to be slaves to corporations or bigger foreign powers. Independence? It's a joke to be put on papers and for the puppets in the governments. No country here is ever free.
I do wonder how much Putin is thinking about taking control of Ukraine for exactly the purpose of gaining compromising information on the Biden family though
Alex, I enjoy reading your commentary on COVID, but I think you’re delusional if you think Russia is thinking about invading Poland. If the US does not want Russia to invade Ukraine, it should stop egging on the Ukrainians to take the Donbass by force, and finally put pressure on Ukraine to implement the Minsk Accords, that are now codified under UN international law. Ukraine has outright refused to do this since 2015, and is now testing Russia by targeting Russian speakers in the breakaway region with Grad rockets. Russia never had it in their plans to invade Ukraine, but if western-backed Kiev continues shelling Russian speakers in the Donbass, this is exactly what will happen. Perhaps, that is what Biden actually prefers, so he can turn all of Europe against Russia and finally put the kibosh on Nord Stream 2.
At least someone has been paying attention...your analysis was a pleasure to read. The Biden Administration is so bereft of any historical sense it's hard to divine what they're thinking. May be as simple as trying to sell more LNG and weapons while they still can. People in the buffer states have long memories and literal skins in the game, while consumers in Germany and France care only about staying warm. NATO may be finished as a deterrent with the US not far behind, but the last thing Russia needs is to indulge in a failed client state. Not when they already possess what's necessary (Crimea) and Russian (Donbass). Putin should be able to negotiate water rights for both, and AB should stop indulging his lo-fi and lame MSM views on politics and race.
Alex, I highly respect your take on everything Covid related, but you should probably leave geopolitics to others. No offense, but it's not your forte.
I do not want our troops involved. Let the incompetent EU deal with this. Our political officials, corporate war mongers, and the complaint left wing media need to shut up and get out of the way before they succeed in placing our troops in the hands of directives issued by our feckless military senior leadership.
After the EU takes of it and Germany-Russia renew their energy love and for one another, you can pay the new energy bill you get. Because the EU won't be doing anything to pay it. Russia will be collecting from you, for starters. President Trump is gone and so is global stability.
Re the last part, let us not forget that NYT journalist Walter Duranty obfuscated this genocide to run cover for a cause to which he was sympathetic—and he won a prize for it!
Kamala Harris: "Within the context then of the fact that that window is still opening, although, open, although it is absolutely narrowing, but within the context of a diplomatic path still being open"
Well, that clears everything right up. Is Biden's dementia contagious?
Their 2022 campaign slogan is Tom Hanks dressed as Forest Gump:
Stupid is as stupid does!
And when Biden goes out to do campaign events, not many, he will just look into the crowd and snarl, if not whisper, “why aren’t you people dead yet!?“
Or better yet, maybe a sixth sense moment, “Jill, I see dead people!“…
Breathtaking how much history and facts Alex managed to skip over! Everyone might want to read Katrina Vanden Heuvel's latest. "Putin’s goal is the status quo: Keep Ukraine out of NATO. We have already made clear we aren’t prepared to defend Ukraine militarily. Isn’t it time for a deal that guarantees Ukraine’s sovereignty and independence in exchange for guaranteeing its neutrality? As I wrote last month, that outcome has already been detailed in the Minsk accords — negotiated by Russia, France, Germany and Ukraine, and endorsed by the European Union and the United Nations. Rather than invoking a global order that no longer exists, the Biden administration should consider an agreement that offers a path out of this mess." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/15/path-out-of-ukraine-crisis/
There's also the part of "who gives an ef about Ukraine"... but it is a wonderful way to get the attention off of inflation/southern border crisis/crime/COVID handling disaster: vaccines.masks.lockdowns/Biden not being cognitively fit for office /Biden not giving press interviews/ tech monopolies banning free speech / media being a mess
Does anyone else feel like this is purposefully being played up to distract us from Canada, failing vaccines, mandates, policies, and mainly from the fact that everyone wants their freedoms back?
"To this point, the Biden administration has handled the crisis as badly as all the others."
Weren't these truths about Biden, Hunter etc. obvious on their face before the election?
Yet, by your own admission, you withheld your vote and helped clear the way for this disaster. With all due respect, that alone - withholding your vote, somewhat disqualifies you from providing political commentary.
Don’t blame me. I voted for Trump.
Two wrongs don't make a right. @CargoShortGuy, Trump is NOT the president. For worse, we're stuck with Biden who CHEATED all the way to the White House. @DivdedUpWorld, for FOUR years, Russia, Iran, China, & North Korea behaved. NATO also under Trump got called out for its free ride under too many globalists including R's and D's. Biden might be the most corrupt, feckless dementia clown the Democrats or Republicans could ever toss into the WH. He's proving every day he's more than an embarrassment; he's dangerous. I did vote for Trump. I WILL vote for Trump again regardless of more ad hominem. READ: Calling Trump a narcissist is more political theater. PS - Alex is wrong about Ivermectin to bring the conversation back to more dangerous policy out of Democrats and more hand wringing out of RINOS. PPS - Is this another "wag the dog" moment w/ Russia to distract the world?
Yes to wag the dog. Not only that but this theater is pissing off ukraine and destabilizing their economy. All so Biden can look like a brilliant peace maker and get his poll numbers up.
Alex is a few steps behind. WAR is the imperative. We had the Cold War, where the CIA lied continuously to make the Soviets appear to be an existential threat, when in fact their economy was the size of Belgium's plus vodka. Vietnam, 2M innocents slaughtered but Dick Cheney's pals all made serious bank. Then the War on a Noun (Terror), but people eventually tired of incinerating faraway innocent brown goat herders with multi-million dollar missiles (hat tip to the genius business model, though, get taxpayers to buy incredibly complicated robots that are destroyed the first time they are used). In this WAR they decided to hone the business model further, no need to argue politics about faraway lands, just make WAR on your own people with injections that make them sick. Now as THAT war winds down and the taxpayer money extraction for poison abates a little they are at a loss. The War on the Weather is going OK, the same dreary "consensus of scientists and modelers" as the Covid scam, driving huge sums to their pals making "green" investments (LOL Germany leading the way into that abyss https://stopthesethings.com/2022/02/20/dumb-dumber-germany-wins-prize-for-worlds-most-idiotic-energy-policy/). Nobody asked to explain how reducing a trace gas that composes 0.04% of the atmosphere, of which human activity is 3%, would do anything anyway, especially when the sun affects weather much more profoundly and we are heading into a Grand Solar Minimum. But I digress. This takes us to today, when European tradition, white, Christians (the Russians) must be demonized for having the gall to try and protect their own national borders. There's that word again: nation. Can't have any of those, viz O'Biden's very first most urgent act in office, dissolving the U.S. Mexico border. Putin's scientists and engineers, unfortunately for the bloodthirsty war hounds in The Imperial City (D.C.), are classically trained and very pragmatic, these are men that sent back photos from the surface of Venus in the late 1970's. Vlad told them to get to work and get to work they did, and Vlad has now deployed a hypersonic missile fleet that completely negates anything and everything the US has, including nukes. Vlad can put The Sixth Fleet on the bottom of the ocean, not in a few hours as previously, but in 10 minutes flat. Disappointing! So we are dependent on the incredible forbearance of Mr. Putin...who has reduced his nations trade in dollars from 90% down to 10%, with 22% of his reserves in the anti-dollar, physical gold bullion. Meantime in the U.S. we count consumption with borrowed and printed money as "GDP" and just love the fact that our nearest neighbor and closest ally has declared martial law and is confiscating the assets of all of their political opponents. So be aware: these globalists are no longer satisfied with extracting all of your money through their various "war" schemes, they are coming for it directly, so plan accordingly.
Just because carbon dioxide is 0.04% of the atmosphere by volume doesn't mean that it doesn't have and outsized effect on retaining the Earth's heat. I don't say that it is the threat the the climate change hordes claim, but you cannot dismiss it just because of the seemingly tiny proportion in the atmosphere. For example, seven molecules of botulism toxin can kill a mouse, and 1 ounce is enough to kill the entire population of the world. Methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, yet people are loath to give up their methane belching bovines.
Besides, higher temperatures and some genetic engineering might enable us to bring back giant ferns and dinosaurs. Wouldn't that be nice?
Understood. But let's remark shall we that the global mean temperature today is precisely the same as the 1979-2000 average. 73 of the 73 models at the IPCC are, in their exact words, "all running much too hot". We're in the throes of global economic destruction caused in very large part by panicked and completely W-R-O-N-G modelling about Covid, would be great to avoid another such own goal. Where I live in New South Wales, Australia, they just spent $500M in taxpayer money "to make electric vehicles economical". What we did not hear, just like the virus, was ANY of the science justifying it. What is the EROEI (Energy Returned On Energy Invested) of an electric vehicle? When you count everything, like the truckloads of lithium that must be mined and carried around? Can we get some other math going, too? A commercial windmill contains +/- 200 tons of steel. In the lifetime of the machine, will it produce energy that exceeds the energy spent to make that steel? (answer = No). Dig deeper into the "climate" debate and you'll find a cornucopia of grifters, financial conflicts of interest, ideologues, politicians, bankers, mega corporations, and definitely, again, NO open scientific debate. The War On The Weather is unscientific and entirely unnecessary....just like all the other wars.
Amen to that. I also want to know how we’re going to make all the additional electricity to charge these electric vehicles. Windmills? Solar farms? Both of which are blights on the landscape and kill the natural wildlife. How come we never hear how many birds are killed by the monstrous wind turbines. Inquiring minds and all
I agree. I say bring back steam engine automobiles.
I seem to remember the US told Ukraine that if they discarded their nukes, we would protect them.
I think that was Obama. He is someone I would never make a deal with. I still wonder if he is the antichrist.
Hey,
I believe it was Clinton, mid 90s, after the Soviet Union fell and several states broke away, retaining the old Soviet nukes, and they were trying to figure out how to limit nuclear proliferation. But good grief - to promise to protect without getting the buy in of many other countries and not foreseeing that even here we can have Very weak, feckless leadership (When Russia rattled its sabres before, Obama’s offer to send Ukraine blankets and MREs is a perfect example - one of many of his) is, shall I say, idiocy (but probably expedient at the time to be able to say the problem was solved.)
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He is to pathetic
Just like what Democrats say today: give up your guns, we'll protect you.
You are correct. And now we’re saying, “Just kidding!”
Whether it was a rational, well thought out policy is another topic. I’d say the way it’s playing out, not so much.
Bingo!
Won’t happen , but you are right this is all distraction . We have more crisis here and who cares !
Americans are well aware how mentally incapable he is of fixing anything! The Great Destroyer!
Joe Thanos Biden…
You voted for him when you stayed home, dumb pfuck
Your pissing off ukraine take is interesting. How much more of this bs will it take for Ukraine to start looking at Putin as the more reasonable negotiating partner? Not as crazy as it sounds.
I would. We’re in disarray. Military focused on pronoun training while China circles Taiwan
That will be funny ,this studdering dementia men claiming to be great politician ....lol
I agree, but this will not go well for Biden. His poll numbers are not going up.
China Joe is like the Devil. He knows he has but a short time.
He has been working for this day his entire career, and every move he makes is targeted toward weakening the USA, and strengthening our enemies so we can be more easily conquered for the NWO.
Pollock numbers up..,
And yes, preemptive apology to Polish people, I couldn’t think of a better synonym to polls, I won’t make that mistake again, sorry…
I have the better choice, Troll numbers, because let’s face it, the people who follow Joe Thanos Biden are truly trolls, there’s just about 80 million of them among us…
No way PO S Commie Dem Xiden got a legit 80 million. No Fing way!
And I'll add that I don't give a shit if Trump is a narcissist, a womanizer, or a big fat baby. Voting for president isn't like voting for Prom King. It's not a popularity contest. He's setting policies, presumably with the consent of your elected representatives, for the country's economy, security, and foreign relations. Period. He's not your BFF. You're never going to break bread with this person or "watch Netflix and chill" together. So vote like you care about policies, not Anderson Cooper's opinion.
(All of this is directed at the Collective You, not you in particular, MDP.)
Trump is still a born & bred corporatist, he’s pro-Pharma now & the was known to consult with the head of Blackrock at the WH. Policy-wise he was on track to privatize water (very bad) & he removed wolf protections, which was purely political bc wolves are vital to ecosystems & still very much endangered w/ a negligible impact on livestock populations.
Protecting wolves is your reason to let Dems get us in to war? Trump being a corporatist is your reason to allow Biden to destroy the pipeline, impose medical tyranny and record inflation?
My point is that neither would’ve saved us bc we’ve long been headed down the path of corporate fascism & there was always a certain inevitability to these outcomes (w the exception of war- it’s theater). Can we not thank Trump for the vaxx & letting the virus into the county? Cause & effect, corporations decided a mandate would save $ so many employees would be facing it regardless of a so-called nat’l mandate that they could hide behind…it’s all a shell game & corps call the shots. As for the pipeline- it wasn’t just any oil pipeline using standard processing- it was for dirty tar sands which was a humanitarian & environmental disaster waiting to happen. And inflation had already started under Trump bc of bad Covid policies including China’s own “0 Covid”, along w its water/electricity & semiconductor shortages, & just major changes in consumption patterns due to C-19- like more spending on goods than services.
And 1000000000000000 X better than the Commie Dem Xiden Regime!
DeSantis/ Haley 2024!
Trump will be very old by 2028, too old , anything could happen, heart attack, stroke, cancer, it's not worth the risk.
Yes DeSantis, No Haley. She’s NeverTrump, for unlimited immigration and 1-way “free trade”
Haley is the worst kind of RINO and couldn’t be elected dog catcher in South Carolina let alone the United States!
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Yep. What "invasion?" This is misdirection to convince American voters that our inflation, supply problems, employment problems, failing Fiat currency, murderous covid policy failures and kill shots are Putin's fault. Everything's Putin's fault. And Xiden is a better president to Ukraine and China than to us.
I do blame you, you didn’t vote for a responsible accountable and well seasoned candidate , which neither party will ever give us, the Democrats give us sociopaths, the Republicans give us narcissists.
George Carlin said it perfectly in 1996, he has the right to complain as I do, because we didn’t vote, we didn’t put selfish incompetent corrupt immoral people to rule us, and then bitch about how they are fucking up our lives. You people put these fucking assholes in our lives, so, shut up!!!
Narcissists? Didn't pay much attention to 44 did you?
the ongoing ever present attempt to frame Prez Trump with a term that is used in field of psychology , yet has no bearing on his mastery of presidential challenges, is a psy-op that many americans have swallowed hook. line and sinker.
Such a good point. He is not a nice guy at all. But his policies were working for us and I voted for him twice.
Trump is actually very nice and loved by many people who have been helped by him. He's human. How well he gets along with his ex wives and all his children says a lot.
Touche'
He’s a fucking sociopath, narcissists sometimes either upgrade or downgrade into just wanting to ruin and kill everybody, so, pay attention to that little detail!
You have no clue what you're talking about. Do diligent research before you try to spout psychology terms.
Maintain that terminal ignorance, the Obamas Clintons Cheneys Bidens, they depend on you to keep sitting in front of your screens and mentally jerking off…
Try to fix Cheney but the edit button is not working.
talk policy
Policy? reject evil, take a stand, show your children at the very least that you care about their future, what do you want me to do, walk into your home and start outlining common sense?!
You'll vote for who they let you vote for and you'll be happy. Got it? Good.
"Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right"
Cue the Who, won’t get fooled again, “here comes the new boss , same as the old boss…”
I recall 44’s speeches: I I I, me me me,Michael, I mean Michelle and I, I I I , me me me. Climate change is the biggest threat of our future, hey, I just bought my second ocean front mansion in Hawaii, but Bernie has 3 dachas waaaaaaaaaaa….
And that bothered you enough to not like them? I'm a former Democrat who wants his eyes were open too how bad the media was treating Trump I ran away from the Democratic party. At the point now if you can't see the difference then you haven't put into work to find out what's going on
I’ve explained this before so I’ll do it one last time: narcissists need an audience, which Trump truly gave us, wanting an audience, but Obama, he doesn’t care about an audience, and in fact, he wants the audience to thin down, so it’s just people who are truly subservient to him. Sociopaths abhor the spotlight, because it can shine attention on them and can reveal their agenda…
You folks figure it out…
Have you published your political science psychology book, “political masters of the 20th-21stcentury, yet? Where can I get it?
“The idiots guide to creating a blog and then dumbing down the readers easily”
Great excuse to vote for the communist
Hmm. The world was quite stable under our last “unseasoned” President. We were also repatriating our factories, using our own steel and we were energy independent for the first time in decades. Also, no wars for 4 years. No one else can do that.
Narcissism has consequences, almost as much as sociopathy, so there’s your choice, someone who always looks in the mirror, or someone who smashes it and then wants to cut up everybody in his path…
I will take the narcissist who loves his country over the sociopath that wants to destroy it any day.
Excellent
Me too
Tip to the below retorts:
Trump rushed the vaccine, he’s as complicit as Biden, just proves my theory, democrat or republican, they’ll fuck you up the ass any chance they get…
I don't like that President Trump is pro Jab but he is not for Jab Mandates and Passports. Also pretty much all the Pubs (State Govs, Senate & Congress) are pro Jab but they are not for Mandates and Passports. That makes them a 10000000 x better than any Commie Dem.
Please tell me who was the responsible accountable and well seasoned candidate in the 2020 presidential election? Your solution to complain but not vote is clearly no solution.
Not voting was a vote for Xiden
That logic allows us to stay on this path, i.e. I don't like or agree with who I'm voting for but they're better than the other person. Tyranny is tyranny, no matter how you slice it.
Imperfection = tyranny. Bullshit moral equivalence. Typical psyop
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Psyop - typical response when someone can't look at the moral equivalence for tyranny, literally the removal of someone's freedoms without consent. We could do this all day to no benefit. My only point is this, if you are convinced that your person is on the ballot, great. If not, a vote for the lesser of two evils is still evil and only perpetuates the problem we are in today. Peace.
Yes President Trump made horrible decisions regarding the Virus and Jabs but he would not have forced Jab Mandates and pushed Jab Passports. On the Economic and Foreign policy sides the Xiden Regime are beyond terrible. President Trump was 1000000000 x better than the Xiden Regime.
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Unfortunately not where I live.
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Certainly no one from the Democrat or Republican side, but, people vote for letters, you don’t pay attention to people outside that enclosed circle that wants to dominate the public with ruthless brutality…
So you voted LoLibertian or stayed home and felt pure. Either way you helped install the Xiden Junta. Way to go!
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Yeah you’re right comrade. Having Biden in power is exactly like Trump being reelected
As my parents told me, (paraphrasing) if you're so stupid that you think you're "doing something" by not voting, you have no right to complain about what you get in office. Therefore, you're one of the "fucking assholes" that needs to "shut up!!!"
I agree ! There was a very comprehensive, calm, well thought out O.P. piece on that very topic: the lack of sane, responsible, ethical, and morally grounded people in either party. Trey Gowdy (R), a former member of the House, and now a commentator on Fox News, has a program on Sunday nights. Last night he gave one of the most cogent, honest, explanations of how we got into this situation where NO ONE cooperates with anyone from the other party and we are in a perpetual cycle of no budget ever set so always an 24 hr. emergency deadline and deeper and deeper in debt, no compromises on things needed for ALL people (such as safe bridges, clean water, etc.), and he explained the deeper reasons behind this all.... a summary is difficult, but a general loss of our culture where we had a common moral foundation. Now, the rational, decent, honest people of both parties, who are intelligent enough to realize to keep the unique nation we have, requires courage, compromise, and the ability to admit another may have a better idea or plan, no matter what party. People like this no longer want to have themselves and their families exposed to what "politicians" have become. No longer the best among us, willing to make personal sacrifices (like having to pay for a place to stay in D.C. out of their own assets, pay for their haircuts in D.C. just as they would have if they were back at their home, and the whole list of "benefits", not "sacrifices" at all, so, it only appeals to those of a "certain" mind set. He really hit the heart of the target.... those with a true servants heart, to go and represent their fellow community members, would not even consider it. WE set ourselves up for this by voting to lavish every possible luxury on our political class, as if they are the royalty we "thought" we wanted to free ourselves from ! Instead of CRT, let's put the study of Marx, Stalin, and Lenin back into the public school curriculum, along with HOW we won our "freedom" from "the monarchy", then created our own monarchy. We made our own idols ! ! Why ?
Rooster head Gowdy is all talk and no action. He folded like a weak hand of poker while in Congress. He’s a Mitch and Paul Ryan puppet with a southern accent who puts on a cute cross examination display that goes nowhere.
Wasn't referring to his politics at all, don't know a thing about the man. What I meant to convey is I just happened to be channel surfing from one Olympic event to another and caught the program and was impressed with what a cogent (he's a former attorney), explanation he gave on how we've become so IN-cohesive as a people.
Trey gowdy was nothing but a haircut. He let Devin nunes take ALL the flak. Did nothing but run his mouth. He was a chicken or bought or off.
Gowdy and Chaffetz are peacuck loverboys, doing their faux con mating displays on threat posturing on congress to attract the chumps
But the point is; how can we get past calling them, and the others from both parties, derogatory names (just another symbol of frustration I realize that), and relieve our frustrations on this and other sites, and get down to sharing well thought out ideas oh HOW to solve the problem of the lack of quality (by quality, I mean individuals who put ethical behavior above all and realize they are only in their positions to represent the views of those who SENT them as representatives) people to choose from when we vote ! IF we got past our anger, frustration, and name calling, we could use this forum to get at how we might begin to get "good" people on both "sides" to run for office, so we don't have to think about such foolish moves as giving up voting all together, and perpetually make choices between the evil of two lessers, or the lesser of two evils !
Yep. Never vote for RINOs in primaries
Yeah you completely convinced me that the Biden administration is exactly the same as the Trump administration. My bad
Like, again. Damn Substack!
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How much is Soros paying you for your dumb pfuck routine?
Like. Substack at it again.
Thank you, genuinely, for that well spoken comment.
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Well thank you also ! Nice, rather agree or disagree, to have people who can discuss matters without insults and cursing..like the typical "social" media postings where people seem to make their "points" by fowl language and name calling... sometimes it seems like an "adult" playground...lol... like congress...LOL !
You mean like this:
“ Just to give a clarification to the morons below who didn’t read my comment above, I didn’t vote, because I don’t vote for evil, I don’t vote for incompetence, and I don’t appreciate these motherfuckers you just want to come in and ruin our lives!
You fuckers just vote for letters, admit it!
The people below, seem very happy and at peace with those issues and choices, so Enjoy your misery desperation and abject failure!
And I don’t want hugs, I want people to grow the fuck up and take responsibility for your lives, stop waiting for other people like corrupt politicians judges and fucking morons of influence to stroll in and ruin your lives!
Idiots, I’m surrounded by idiots!“
-DividedUpWorld
Love your German and Pfauci/Pfizer play on words. Hits the mark for sure.
Trey gowdy was nothing but a haircut. He let Devin nunes take ALL the flak. Did nothing but run his mouth. He was a chicken or bought off.
Just to give a clarification to the morons below who didn’t read my comment above, I didn’t vote, because I don’t vote for evil, I don’t vote for incompetence, and I don’t appreciate these motherfuckers you just want to come in and ruin our lives!
You fuckers just vote for letters, admit it!
The people below, seem very happy and at peace with those issues and choices, so Enjoy your misery desperation and abject failure!
And I don’t want hugs, I want people to grow the fuck up and take responsibility for your lives, stop waiting for other people like corrupt politicians judges and fucking morons of influence to stroll in and ruin your lives!
Idiots, I’m surrounded by idiots!
You’re too smart by half you sanctimonious ass
Yeah, truly an astounding high IQ retort…
You stank-n-odious ass…
You can’t tell the difference between Trump and what we have now? You’re a total dumbpfuck
Here's a bit of homework for you... Go look at all the people Trump pardoned on his way out. Look at some of his cabinet appointments while in office. He cried "China Joe", well, see how he did with his people. If you approve of that crap based on the "better than Biden" argument, then enjoy your 4 trillion spending stimulus BS and be happy. For me, I think we can do better.
Your spellcheck went up your ass, or, you truly are as stupid as you claim you’re not…
Dumb Fuck
Also how many Republicans really stood up against the covid regime?
Certainly not enough.
Pfizter works on both sides of the aisle.
Oh Republicans didn’t do enough so I’m going to vote communist. Brilliant
Republ-ocrats or Demo-blicans.
Can you hear the moral applause 👏 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
No, in sincere honesty, all I hear is crying moaning and bitching, you know, the audience who voted for these motherfuckers ruling us?…
Hmmm. Millions of people trying to avoid just the sort of disaster we are experiencing, by voting for the only candidate who was at least trying (Trump). Let me think....
No, you are the problem. You plus all of the idiots who support Biden, Obama, and the rest of the destroyers of civilization.
See, Tom here is example A of the problem, we either have to vote Democrat or Republican, because at the end of the day, 150 million morons who can’t figure out anything else besides the letter “D” or “R”, expect us to be clueless complicit leash-led morons as them…
And, it is emblematic of why polarization leads to interpersonally flawed losers.
Which is why, this country is dead, we truly have the public that votes in these fucking assholes because they identify with these failed horrific leaders…
Think about it, 30+ % of people in polls continue to think Biden and the Democrats are doing a great job, and 40 to 50% of Republicans think Trump should be in office in 2025, people don’t learn, people don’t pay attention, people are just basically stupid, and easily manipulated.
Thanks Tom…
Very well put
R U alright? Anger management under Biden has been high.
Wait till those masked children grow up to be adults, if we already haven’t been invaded and killed off first…
When you stayed home you voted for all that you dumb pfuck
Goodbye, Phailed Phuck…
Not voting doesn’t give you the right to complain any more than not working gives you the right to get paid an income. You didn’t have to vote for Trump or Biden. You should have used your vote to vote for the candidate most aligned with your beliefs. I did not say for the ‘perfect’ candidate. That is the only way to show those in control that there are people who strongly disagree and are willing to vote for someone they know can’t win. There is nothing they would like better than a populace of weaklings that are satisfied to simply whine!
My money is you vote “R“ every damn time…
And that makes you better?! no, that makes you complicit, so you can’t complain especially when your Republican buddies fuck you up the ass…
No. I’m a registered Democrat that votes Libertarian. I am registered as a Democrat so that I can vote for their worst candidate in the primaries. My wife and I are active in protests against the lockdowns, forced vaccinations and masks. We will meet the truckers in a few days as they go from California to DC. We are in Texas now but heading for home in California in a couple days. If you are in California and don’t know about all the protests going on but want to get involved go to savecalifornia.com.
Well, good luck with that strategy. Maybe just register as Independent and piss off both sides of that polluted aisle of Republ-ocrats!?
My advice for what it is worth? GET OUT OF CALIFORNIA BEFORE IT IS BEYOND TOO LATE!
I’d rather stay and fight. Are you going to flee your state before it is too late? Flee the US before it’s too late? Do you think patriots in other states want to welcome people who fled their own state rather than fight?
Amen, yes please, smaller government... too bad that's never going to be reality :(
Voting LoLibertarian yields bigger government
👹alert!
True, 2 sides-same coin. Two party system is no bueno
Trump is head and shoulders above the last few presidents. My opinion, which I am allowed to have as of today.
Maybe it’s the Head and Shoulders that gives him that hair effect?
People are always allowed to have an opinion, the problem is, when do people have choices and principles that are based on irrefutable evidence that would be supported by a sizable amount of people talking with you.
We haven’t had a decent president in my mind in a long time, that’s why I’ve been voting third-party for several decades.
Democrats and Republicans, they stack the deck, and then they throw the cards at you and try to Paper-cut you in the eyes…
Psyop alert. Your 3rd party vote is a vote for the commies
Two alerts here:
👹and 💩for🧠s
Then how can it be two sides of the same coin?
We need to bounce the RINOs out of the R party. Restore the party of Lincoln, Grant, Coolidge and Eisenhower.
👹alert!
* alert
Well to be fair elections are rigged so voting won’t help.
I guess you didn’t notice the Virginia election
Who did you vote for?
Biden, Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, etc. are/were all Freemasons (satanists). Republican and Democrat are just opposite sides of the same coin.
https://thefreedomarticles.com/satanic-black-magic-rules-the-world/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/5zXIhPDhLlXc/
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I don't think things would be better with Trump. Perhaps they wouldn't be worse but there's a ceiling on outcomes and it doesn't look good.
Why do you not think that the man who made other world leaders stand down would make this leader (Putin) stand down again? That would be better, no?
MCZ And crossed over to North Korea! Stay ignorant snowflakes.
Why would Putin stand down for Trump but not Biden?
Is this a serious question?
When you come to threads like this, you have to realize, most of the people are either just pathetically inattentive and stupid, or, being provocative, or, or covert operatives for either side of the polluted aisle of Republ-ocrats …
Why would he stand down for a delusional drug-addled LOLibertarian like clown shoes Gary Johnson?
Why should Putin stand down for anyone? Why should the US care what Putin does in Europe? Let Europe take care of its own problems. We need to focus on our own issues. We need to stop being every other country’s babysitter. It isn’t good for them or us.
Yep
👹alert!
Trump wanted to work with Russia instead of isolate Russia. Why isolate Russia? We’re so much more moral than Russia? Are the Chinese more moral?
Ukraine is to Russia as Mexico is to US. Arming Ukraine or Mexico by a meddling out of towner is a provocation for what purpose ? All our politicians are self serving and know credulous voters can be manipulated or silenced. We have a chance for major change every two years and we fail every time. I don’t expect a different outcome in 2022
TUCK FRUMP
MAGA JABS OPERATION WARP SPEED IDIOT JUST LIKE THE REST OF THE PRESIDENTS
Amen, brother! 😄
Tip to all these Trump enthusiasts below:
All of the disharmony and chaos the Democrats did with Trump in office, if he had won reelection, do you really think that they would just say, “oh well, there’s always 2024…”
Cities would be burning, Trump would’ve been assassinated, and they would have become the prime example to Justin Trudeau above north.
Trump was a lightning rod for absolute chaos and hate, not that he deserved it, but, he wouldn’t get rid of it either.
By the way, how is that rushed vaccine going for all of you!?…
DC and NY and other big cities weren't boarding their windows in case Biden won.........
Americans vote like they use the toilet, except for this case, they’re not shitting into a receptacle, they’re shitting on the public who thought that voters knew better…
That's what I did.
You’re wrong, Alex. Our gender neutral and non-binary soldiers will scare the living daylights out of the Russians if they go marching in..
Don’t worry the Russian soldiers will be so scared when our soldiers just yell out their pronouns 😂😂
If that doesn’t scare them, then maybe when they get a look at our female pilots in pregnant jump suits, that’ll do it
😂😂
They scare me. Yikes!
Carrying their rainbow flag in retreat.
🏳️⚧️will be the flag they fight under!!!
On point
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"prancing in"???
Good one ☝️
I don't think that Biden et. al. actually believes that Russia is going to invade Ukraine. I think they created the narrative. They know that Russia does these military drills all the time. They know that there is shelling/skirmishes in certain parts of Ukraine all the time. So they create this narrative that Putin is going to invade and the invasion is imminent. All the US media lapdogs spend all their effort promoting the story. It is the lead story on all the Sunday "news" shows and every morning show has footage of Russian tanks and missiles.
Why? So that they can pretend that Biden fixed it. Biden intimidated Putin into not invading. What a genius US President we have! He convinced Putin NOT to invade Ukraine! What a genius! And poof, we all forget about the disaster in Afghanistan and the stunning incompetence that got 13 American soldiers killed. And we all forget about Biden looking at his watch as their bodies came home.
I am pretty sure that is the plan. Biden's approval numbers really tanked after Afghanistan when everybody saw the incompetence and cruelty of this administration. They are trying to craft some sort of foreign policy victory. So why not make the narrative that Biden stopped an invasion of Ukraine? Biden prevents WWIII. Never mind that Putin was never going to invade Ukraine to begin with.
#THEATER The whole agenda has been #THEATER‼️
People in the Ukraine are less worried about an invasion than our corrupt deep state swamp media is. Zelensky even complained that Biden was fanning the flames. You can’t get much more wag the dog than that.
I think your spot on
i agree that was the plan; except putin is about to throw a wrench in it, and actually carry thru w/ the attack.
Yes, I was thinking that. Playing these games with Putin is not smart. Putin is a very capable chess player and he may just decide to thwart their little game by actually invading, knowing that the US really won't do anything about it. And I'm sure Putin has ALL the goods on Hunter Biden. If any Russian President has ever known how to use intelligence, it is the former KGB agent himself.
When you think about how Hunter was lining his pockets - and sending 10% to the "big guy" -and doing so in Ukraine, it isn't inconceivable that it was all a set up by Putin just to be able to compromise Biden.
The Ukrainians should hire military consultants or study the tactics/strategy from the Afghans. It ight take a while, but their tactics have defeated 2 super powers on a small budget.
Just in time for the State of the Union Address ;)
Agree
Why do I keep thinking Ukraine is a distraction?
Is it designed to make Poor Ole Inept Demented Joe look like a World Leader--to redeem himself after the Afghanistan debacle?
Let's send that feckless idiot vice president to Munich, and hope she doesn't screw up too badly.
Pay no attention to truckers demonstrating in Canada...and never mind about the tyrannical prime minister!
That won't happen in the USA, but just in case let's barricade the Capitol.
Masks? What masks?
Failing vaccines? Vaccine side effects?
Fauci? Who's Fauci?
Just pay attention to that shiny object called Ukraine.
Spot on. And it's crickets when it comes to Western Countries condemning what Trudeau has done in Canada.
The silence is conspicuous. The dog that didn't bark.
Far from condemning what Trudeau has done, other theoretically "liberal democracies" are enthusiastically applauding it.
On the mark. Only thing Dems are forgetting is that the voting public has a very short memory. It's February, and 8 months from now everyone will have forgotten about this incident, just like the Afghanistan departure has already dropped into the memory hole.
Which is why candidates need to remind the voters because it's not like it's going to get better before 2024.
Elections. Have. Consequences.
I’ll go one better:
The public sucks, fuck Hope!
You need a hug.
Yet -- Whoever in a million years would have predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall?
Can’t prove it, but I did in 1980.
But ours got stolen
The Greta Thunberg quip was priceless. That alone would have probably gotten you banned from Twitter.
"All you care about is your money. You don't care about my future." Stomps foot --- Greta, the Great
Someone should freeze Greta’s crypto wallet.
The purpose of the insertion of biden as "president" was chaos. Real chaos in every aspect of our lives. Not the fake chaos that the trash at nyt or wash post peddled about Trump. Real tangible chaos.
yes.
The question is really what would Obama and Susan Rice do, because Biden seems to be in late stage dementia. Obama already destroyed Afghanistan, I think he's fine with handing Ukraine to Russia.
No, not really. Ukraine is the money laundering capital for the Dems. The Big Guy won't give up his 10%.
I think we ARE seeing what Obama and Susan Rice would do...
My thoughts exactly!
Agreed on your points about Biden too demented to calling any shots. But how is Ukrainian border integrity a concern for Americans when the southern US border is wide open? This is so ridiculous.
NATO is on offer to Ukraine.
Right-same as Crimea
Unfortunately, dementia can go on for a very long time.
True, but if you compare speeches and appearances of Biden from 5 years ago, 2 years ago, even a year ago, you can see a very obvious cognitive decline from year to year. My daughter works a lot with dementia patients. Their state can suddenly decline quite precipitously for no clear reason. Some people just plod along for longer periods with no major decline being seen. She thinks Biden is definitely on a fast elevator down at this point.
Tulsi Gabbard - former US Rep from Hawaii said last week, all Pres Biden has to do is to state that Ukraine will not become a member of NATO! That’s how a leader works to prevent bloodshed on both sides!! BTW - why do we care more about the Ukraine-Russian border than we do about our OWN borders??
Tulsi is part of the WEF.
She's still right. Tulsi might have attended WEF meetings, but from her words and actions it seems obvious she didn't sell her soul like the rest of them.
Yes. Participation in WEF (or CRF) by paying dues, subscribing to their publications, and attending rubber chicken lunches every now and then, does not mean you believe in depopulating the planet. Trudeau is a puerile little tyrant not because of his affiliation with WEF, but rather because he is Trudeau, a puerile little tyrant.
WEF?
She went to the Klaus Schwab Global Leadership Program. This is the program that graduated such tyrants as Justin Trudeau, Putin, Jacinda Ardern and Macron to name a few. I don't think she can be trusted.
WEF = World Economic Forum
https://www.globalresearch.ca/klaus-schwabs-wefs-school-for-covid-dictators-a-plan-for-the-great-reset/5764929
Putin is a pretty good troll. He spun donuts on ObaMao’s White House lawn anytime he wanted. With Trump, not so much.
I’m ok with invading Canada and freeing them.
I love the idea that Trump would have embarrassed the trust fund baby running Canada by offering asylum to Canadian truckers. Priceless
Just remember, Canadians will be shooting at you because they love being oppressed.
Using a pea shooter.
South Park the Movie - starts as comedy, ends as prophecy?
The most ridiculous part of the US invading Canada is the idea the Biden regime would help the truckers instead of Trudeau's WEF jackboots.
Putin quickly figured out how easy it is to make a monkey out of Biden.
Putin plays Biden like a puppet, emboldening Xi, which is where the real war will be
People forget that just like Crimea, there are large sections of Ukraine which are essentially already Russian. Even if Putin does invade, it's not for all of Ukraine. It will be limited to those areas that already want to (overwhelmingly) be part of Russia. I like your analysis, but it's a little overstated in who Putin actually is. With an unnecessary disclaimer, I don't think Putin is a good guy, but don't make him out to be another Stalin, Hitler, etc. when he's clearly not.
Mr Putin is the best president Russia had. He is also much better than a lot of American presidents. Why Russia is never allowed to protect her interests? Why only America can rule the world and destruct other countries?
Please don't be so defensive. My statement didn't have anything to do with what you're irate about. All countries should be able to protect their own interests. I don't believe America should be destroying other countries for world domination. And yes, we Americans know that many of our presidents have been horrible. Putin is a much more astute foreign policy player than probably all of our recent presidents. Saying he's the best president Russia ever had is not saying much but also saying something because who would want one of their previous ones? From my perspective, it's been the West that's been beating the war drubs and saber rattling over whatever the heck is going on over there right now. Personally, I'd like America to use it's position in the world to act more so how Switzerland does on the world stage.
a multipolar world with people talking to each other even when they are enemies seems a better option. and I agree with you about saber rattling. Russia is just trying to stop NATO and save some russian folks.
Crimea became Russia under Catherine the Great when she defeated the Tartar Khanate. Strategically Sevastopol is Russia’s most important naval port as it is unaffected by winter ice and gives access from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean: this is not going to change. Were it not for an administrative pen stroke in 1954, it would have remained Russian. The West needs to apply the same rules to it that the West applied to the Kosovar plebiscite. Historic Ukraine ie the northwestern part, that emerged after Mongol overlordship was part of alternately Lithuania and Poland. The Contested borderlands of Donbass and Lukhats were settled as free Cossack communities ie not serfs, admixed with Tartars and other minorities
Curious about where you acquired that understanding about people of Crimea? Who's regretting that they got their wish?
Wrong. I've been there multiple times and the large majority considered themselves russians.
I never said they didn’t consider themselves Russian, I pointed out that their origins differed from those in the northwest. The Black Sea is a patchwork of people and the southeast was never part of Ukraine until the 50s
I believe it. Happened with every commie revolution too
Such is human nature, right? The grass isn't always greener on the other side. Whether or not it's better for them to be part of Russia is another matter.
“An autistic teenage girl now sets global energy policy.”
Fact Check: TRUE
LMAO
The thing about Trump is that we never knew what he would do next…. and neither did the international villains. Turns out, that works pretty nicely.
Wag the Dog. This is nothing but a failed WH admin working to deflect the wholesale failure at home. They can then blame (and be parroted by their loyal Pravda members) inflation, economy and gas prices on the Russians. It's never been about truth and reality with this disaster in the WH, it's all about how many people they can convince their BS is actually the golden truth.
Ron Klein is working to set Biden up as the savior. He alone will stop WWIII.
People keep mistaking US domestic politics with the world. There is no dog to "wag." Putin doesn't care about the US "leaders," its State media or subsidiary pals think. Alex is 100% correct on this NOT to put this through a domestic prism. Putin doesn't care. He saw the US humiliated exiting Afghanistan. He saw the US break its word and scramble to leave. The entire world saw it and now the entire world will see undone the international order and the price for that void created.
"Price" for "undoing the international order"? I say bring it on. People with shared interests, culture, economy, and geography naturally aggregate into nations. Always have. They fight each other at the borders over time as those factors shift. Sometimes they get leaders who defend and pursue those interests. Today we have "leaders" answering to a higher sovereign, the WEF (and other supra-nationals). We need to change that, exactly as the Brits did Brexit, so that potato farmers in Dorset did not have 140 pages of rules written in Brussels about what shape and size potatoes they were allowed by law to plant. The post WWII "international order" was simply an updated "to the winner go the spoils". The U.S. But the leadership of the US migrated to the pools of billionaire capital sloshing around in places like The Cayman Islands ($34T). We built incredible prosperity under the Westphalian system of nations, time to restore it. No more rule by King Pfizer The First or Panopticon Prince Google or Supreme Warlord Raytheon. People, culture, and shared geography and economic interests. Peace on Earth, not Purity of Essence, please.
Hmm, would you please tell us exactly what side of Russian border got bigger for last…let’s say 100 years?
Also, can you provide us any evidence of when and how Putin attacked Georgia?
They'll never trust us again.
Ron Klein? How does WEF and UN Agenda 21 / 30 fit in?
Of course this is a wag the dog routine.
The 0Biden regime continues to rattle its (rubber) sabers in an effort to distract us from his other ongoing failures. Not working. Every time I go to the grocery or fill up with gas, the 0Biden failures are screaming.
It takes great will at self deception to not see that the US is the aggressor here
First sensible comment I've seen in this stream.
Yet this is a group of people who seem to have seen through the government lies on Covid. Why is it they are lapping up everything the Deep State says on the Ukraine? I really don't get it.
Folks, let me say it: Covid shows our government cannot be trusted. PERIOD. They lied on Covid, they lie on this. They lie on EVERYTHING.
Let me place a useful link, again. Please read it folks.
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/the-crisis-in-ukraine-is-not-about-ukraine-its-about-germany/
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How did you find time to type that without having to get off your knees and stop sucking Russian pelvis…
What did George Bush The First say after the fall of the Berlin Wall?
"NATO will not move one inch to the East", no?
You need to stop lapping up muh russia propaganda. 6 years is long enough don’t ya think?
Oh yeah, the US is invading Ukraine wearing Russian troop outfits!
Again, 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I wonder why ObamaBrandon keep pushing for Ukraine to be in NATO.
Eastern Ukraine wants to be Russian and Speaks Russian you absolute dullard.
And what next, it’s still Trumps fault right?! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Being the Irish cynic that I am I'm going to join the 'Who gives a s***!" camp. All I see is yet another wealllly wealllly big distraction to have the hordes NOT focus on every failure of this administration, and there must be an entry in the Guinness Book of Records for the sheer number of these, and these are only the ones folk know about.
Distraction.
The 2020 election was a national IQ test.
We failed it.
A-yup. No do-overs either.
No, it was a test of mass mailing voting. The test proved it works!!!
Even Jimmy Carter knew this, hence, my comment stands.
Ok, it was both. We failed.
Yes. People who should’ve known better voted for Brandon b/c Trump is icky.
Except now we see that Brandon is even ickier.
Ha!
can you imagine Russia setting up shop in Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela? Russia is asking that US and its allies get out of its backyard with its missiles pointed directly at Moscow and St. Petersburg. A reasonable request, I'd say.
You are an agent of Russia, like Trump.
How dare you think logically.
Or it's all theater...
90 billion to fund theatre
Actual quote:
Reporter: Will sanctions deter Putin?
Kamala Harris: "Within the context then of
the fact that that window is still opening,
although, open, although it is absolutely
narrowing, but within the context of a
diplomatic path still being open"
Kami has a way with words.
What a dolt
It's funny/frightening. I'm hoping she didn't actually say that in Germany or anywhere.
As always well written and I had to LOL about who sets global energy policy (what could go wrong?). Thanks for keeping the content coming.
All of this is simply about the military industrial complex to get its money ($$$) and its has. How many times has this same ploy played out thru the decades?
Now they don't even have to go to war they just have to bang the drums.
Exactly and look how easy 90 billion was designated!
Reminds me of 6 million, somehow.
😳
what 90B?
Is what I had heard was designated to provide resources including arms to Ukraine
Let's hope that's all.
I think it's about pure incompetence in the Executive Branch.
in the end...its looks like incompetence, but success to these perps is not about succeeding or failing. Its about money and control
Bottom line. Its the explanation for every problem we have
I don't understand why more people don't see this. Its why they HAD to get rid of trump. This is all its about. Like you say. Simple.
its money = we the people money
Food for thought....we only know what they WANT us to know (or "believe" as the case may be). 50+% of the US whole heartedly believe(d) that President Trump colluded with Russia in 2016 because they were TOLD it was true by the very people currently telling us 'Putin is preparing to invade Ukraine' and 'Putin is an evil dictator'. Isn't it ironic that the country this administration is "protecting" is Ukraine, which has deep ties to Hunter and Biden (Obama/Clinton?) millions $$$ and the villian is Russia (of course it's Russia....its always Russia, right?) Is it a coincidence that the same players are being used in a different verse of the same song they've been singing since 2016 nonstop....I think not. I trust the people sharing the "intell" as far as I can throw them!! What's true? What's a lie? Who knows, but they are still using the same playbook and they haven't even tried to hide it by switching the teams!! Something just isn't adding up...I smell a rat.
Alex, a word of advice: stick to what you know. You clearly know nothing about what is happening in the Ukraine.
If you'd like to get informed, I'd suggest this as a good starting point: https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/the-crisis-in-ukraine-is-not-about-ukraine-its-about-germany/
And if you don't want to get informed, then you're just as bad as the vaxx lemmings who don't want to get informed, aren't you?
I was thinking the same... Poor Alex
All the attention on Russia/Ukraine sure gets us to stop jabbering so much about the the "vaccine" fraud, injuries and deaths.
The Administration is just looking for a win given the abysmal polling numbers and midterm prospects.
Hell of a way to try and pull ones ass out of hole isn't it ? Lucky us.
Times of Israel sent a reporter to Kiev and Kiev was not in a war prep mode.
The only people who are in a panic over Russia invading are the political analysts on TV.
How about the Ukraine businesses losing millions every day so Biden and corporate media can change the subject
Because in the Ukraine they know that Russia does these military drills all the time. This narrative about imminent invasion is just a way for the lying US media to craft a narrative about a foreign policy victory for the failing Biden administration.
I think you spelled it wrong. It's now Kyiv. Why? Is this like changing definitions?
Well said! I knew Slow Joe would be a bad president but he's proven to be awful beyond my wildest dreams. He and his corrupt, inept, clueless staff are going to destroy this country.
You don't have to like Trump but if anyone can't see the difference between him and Biden than they haven't put the work in to figure out what's going on.
Start with the world economic forum and Klaus Schwab because this is where all this is going. This is what Trudeau is pushing.
There's absolutely no evidence Trump was anywhere near that mess and that's why they wanted him out so bad.
"So as Tony Blinken and the gang talk about how terrible a Russian invasion of Ukraine is going to be, they might want to consider that all they’re doing is making us look even MORE impotent if and when Vlad the Impaler sends his tanks in."
Has anyone noticed that the agenda of the Biden set seems committed to making us look impotent? Hell, electing Biden was the profound first move that made us look impotent. It is so far off the hook now that one could imagine that our enemies are pulling all the political strings.
I have to correct you on something, Vlad the Impaler was Romanian and has nothing to do with Russia. Thanks.
Eastern Europe already knows US is using then dropping when they got nothing more to gain from all the little countries here. Anyway nations like Ukraine or Romania are already used to be slaves to corporations or bigger foreign powers. Independence? It's a joke to be put on papers and for the puppets in the governments. No country here is ever free.
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I honestly could care less about Ukraine. How about we defend our own southern border instead of some other country’s border?
Exactly!
I do wonder how much Putin is thinking about taking control of Ukraine for exactly the purpose of gaining compromising information on the Biden family though
"an autistic teenage girl now sets global energy policy" - brutal!
… And a demented old sociopathic fuck is about to cause global annihilation…
Alex, I enjoy reading your commentary on COVID, but I think you’re delusional if you think Russia is thinking about invading Poland. If the US does not want Russia to invade Ukraine, it should stop egging on the Ukrainians to take the Donbass by force, and finally put pressure on Ukraine to implement the Minsk Accords, that are now codified under UN international law. Ukraine has outright refused to do this since 2015, and is now testing Russia by targeting Russian speakers in the breakaway region with Grad rockets. Russia never had it in their plans to invade Ukraine, but if western-backed Kiev continues shelling Russian speakers in the Donbass, this is exactly what will happen. Perhaps, that is what Biden actually prefers, so he can turn all of Europe against Russia and finally put the kibosh on Nord Stream 2.
At least someone has been paying attention...your analysis was a pleasure to read. The Biden Administration is so bereft of any historical sense it's hard to divine what they're thinking. May be as simple as trying to sell more LNG and weapons while they still can. People in the buffer states have long memories and literal skins in the game, while consumers in Germany and France care only about staying warm. NATO may be finished as a deterrent with the US not far behind, but the last thing Russia needs is to indulge in a failed client state. Not when they already possess what's necessary (Crimea) and Russian (Donbass). Putin should be able to negotiate water rights for both, and AB should stop indulging his lo-fi and lame MSM views on politics and race.
At this point, if you voted for Biden you're complicit and owe us a lot more than an apology.
Dont blame me! I voted for Trump
Anyone else notice that Biden et al have changed the pronunciation of Kyiv to "keev". Surely the original pronunciation was rayciss.
Alex, I highly respect your take on everything Covid related, but you should probably leave geopolitics to others. No offense, but it's not your forte.
It seems like the only ones Biden is scaring at this point are the Ukrainians.
ha! too true!
I do not want our troops involved. Let the incompetent EU deal with this. Our political officials, corporate war mongers, and the complaint left wing media need to shut up and get out of the way before they succeed in placing our troops in the hands of directives issued by our feckless military senior leadership.
Neverending COVID and neverending foreign wars stem from much the same mindset. Let the EU take care of itself.
After the EU takes of it and Germany-Russia renew their energy love and for one another, you can pay the new energy bill you get. Because the EU won't be doing anything to pay it. Russia will be collecting from you, for starters. President Trump is gone and so is global stability.
Right!
What why would I get an energy bill from Russia. Go home you're drunk.
We are importing dirty oil from Russia. From my understanding, we weren't in 2020
Re the last part, let us not forget that NYT journalist Walter Duranty obfuscated this genocide to run cover for a cause to which he was sympathetic—and he won a prize for it!
Reporter: Will sanctions deter Putin?
Kamala Harris: "Within the context then of the fact that that window is still opening, although, open, although it is absolutely narrowing, but within the context of a diplomatic path still being open"
Well, that clears everything right up. Is Biden's dementia contagious?
Their 2022 campaign slogan is Tom Hanks dressed as Forest Gump:
Stupid is as stupid does!
And when Biden goes out to do campaign events, not many, he will just look into the crowd and snarl, if not whisper, “why aren’t you people dead yet!?“
Or better yet, maybe a sixth sense moment, “Jill, I see dead people!“…
Breathtaking how much history and facts Alex managed to skip over! Everyone might want to read Katrina Vanden Heuvel's latest. "Putin’s goal is the status quo: Keep Ukraine out of NATO. We have already made clear we aren’t prepared to defend Ukraine militarily. Isn’t it time for a deal that guarantees Ukraine’s sovereignty and independence in exchange for guaranteeing its neutrality? As I wrote last month, that outcome has already been detailed in the Minsk accords — negotiated by Russia, France, Germany and Ukraine, and endorsed by the European Union and the United Nations. Rather than invoking a global order that no longer exists, the Biden administration should consider an agreement that offers a path out of this mess." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/15/path-out-of-ukraine-crisis/
There's also the part of "who gives an ef about Ukraine"... but it is a wonderful way to get the attention off of inflation/southern border crisis/crime/COVID handling disaster: vaccines.masks.lockdowns/Biden not being cognitively fit for office /Biden not giving press interviews/ tech monopolies banning free speech / media being a mess
Agree 100%!!!! This is to take our eye away from the BIGGER ISSUES THAT CAN DESTROY HUMANITY!!!!!!
Does anyone else feel like this is purposefully being played up to distract us from Canada, failing vaccines, mandates, policies, and mainly from the fact that everyone wants their freedoms back?
"To this point, the Biden administration has handled the crisis as badly as all the others."
Weren't these truths about Biden, Hunter etc. obvious on their face before the election?
Yet, by your own admission, you withheld your vote and helped clear the way for this disaster. With all due respect, that alone - withholding your vote, somewhat disqualifies you from providing political commentary.
To say so is heresy. Welcome to the new inquisition. Brought to you by Pfizer and The Science and The Truth (tm).