Looks like we will make it to December 31, 2022. Will we make it to December 31, 2023?
This question is not hyperbole. I would even argue that this is the single most important question for at least the entire northern hemisphere.
I have been warning that Russia is preparing for a fullscale war since at least 2014. Putin basically said just that in his recent speech before the Russian Defense Ministry Board. If you have not seen this video, you really should watch it, it will give you a direct insight into how the Kremlin thinks and what it is preparing for. Here is that video again:
I will assume that you have watched that video and that I don’t need to prove to you that Russia is gearing out for a massive war, including a nuclear one.
Foreign Minister Lavrov has publicly declared that “unnamed officials from the Pentagon actually threatened to conduct a ‘decapitation strike’ on the Kremlin…What we are talking about is the threat of the physical elimination of the head of the Russian state, (…) If such ideas are actually being nourished by someone, this someone should think very carefully about the possible consequences of such plans.”
So, we have the following situation:
- For Russia this war is clearly, undeniably and officially an existential one. To dismiss this reality would be the height of folly. When the strongest nuclear power on the planet declares, repeatedly, that this is an existential war everybody ought to really take it seriously and not go into deep denial.
- For the US Neocons this is also an existential war: if Russia wins, then NATO loses and, therefore, the US loses too. Which means that all those SOBs who for months fed everybody nonsense about Russia losing the war to the general public will be held responsible for the inevitable disaster.
So much will depend on whether US Americans, especially those in power, are willing to die in solidarity with the “crazies in the basement” or not. Right now it sure looks like they are. Don’t count on the EU, they have long given up any agency. Talking to them simply makes no sense.
Which might explain Medvedev’s recent words “Alas, there is nobody in the West we could deal with about anything for any reason (..) is the last warning to all nations: there can be no business with the Anglo-Saxon world because it is a thief, a swindler, a card-sharp that could do anything.”
Russia can do many things, but it cannot liberate the USA from the grip of the Neocons. That is something which only US Americans can do.
And here we hit a vicious circle:
The US political system is most unlikely to be effectively challenged from within, big money runs everything, including the most advanced propaganda system in history (aka the “free media”) and the population is kept uninformed and brainwashed. And yes, of course, a major defeat in a war against Russia would shake this system so hard that it would be impossible to conceal the magnitude of the disaster (think “Kabul on steroids”). And that is precisely why the Neocons cannot allow that to happen because this defeat would trigger a domino effect which would quickly involve the truth about 9/11 and, after that, all the myths and lies the US society has been based on for decades (JFK anybody?).
There are, of course, plenty of US Americans who fully understand that. But how many of them are in a real position of power to influence US decision-making and outcomes? The real question is whether there still are enough patriotic forces in the Pentagon, or the letter soup agencies, to send the Neocons back down into the basement they crawled out of after the 9/11 false flag or not?
Right now it sure looks like all the positions of power in the US are held by Neolibs, Neocons, RINOs and other ugly creatures, yet it is also undeniable that people like, say, Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard are reaching a lot of people who “get it”. This *has* to include REAL liberals and REAL conservatives whose loyalty is not to a gang of international thugs but to their own country and their own people.
I am also pretty sure that there are many US military commanders who listen to what Col. Macgregor has to say.
Will that be that enough to break through the wall of lies and propaganda?
I hope so, but I am not very optimistic.
First, Andrei Martyanov is absolutely spot on when he constantly decries the crass incompetence and ignorance of the US ruling class. And I very much share his frustration. We both see where this is all headed and all we can do is warn, warn and warn again. I realize that is is hard to believe in the idea that a nuclear superpower like the US is run by a gang of incompetent and ignorant thugs, but that IS the reality and simply denying it won’t make it go away.
Second, at least so far, the US general public has not (yet) felt the full effects of the collapse of the US-controlled financial and economic system. So flag-waving “morans” can still hope that a war against Russia will look like the turkey shoot “Desert Storm” was.
It won’t.
The real question here is whether the only way to wake up the brainwashed flag-waving “morans” is by means of a nuclear explosion over their heads or not?
“Go USA” is a mental condition which has been injected into the minds of millions of US Americans for many decades and it will take either a lot of time, or some truly dramatic events, to bring these folks back to reality.
Third, the US ruling elites are clearly going into deep denial. All this silly talk about US Patriot missiles or F-16s changing the course of the war in infantile and naive. Frankly this would all be rather comical if it was not so dangerous in its potential consequences. What will happen once the single Patriot missile battery is destroyed and the F-16s shot down?
How soon will the West run out of Wunderwaffen?
On a conceptual “escalation scale” what would be the next step up from Patriots and F-16s?
Tactical nukes?
Considering the rather idiotic notion that a “tactical” nuke is somehow fundamentally different from a “strategic” nuke irrespective of how it is used and where it is used is extremely dangerous.
I submit that the fact that the US ruling class is seriously contemplating both a “limited” use of “tactical” nukes and “decapitating strikes” is a very good indicator of the fact that the US is running out of Wunderwaffen and that the Neocons are desperate.
And to those who might be tempted to accuse me of hyperbole or paranoid delusions I will say the following:
This war is NOT, repeat, NOT about the Ukraine (or Poland or the three Baltic statelets). At its absolute minimum this is a war about the future of Europe. Fundamentally it is a war about the complete reorganization of our planet’s international order. I would even argue that the outcome of this war will have a bigger impact that either WWI or WWII. The Russians clearly understand this (see video above if you doubt that).
And so do the Neocons, even if they don’t speak about it.
The current situation is much more dangerous than even the Cuban missile crisis or the standoff in Berlin. At least then both sides openly admitted that the situation was really dangerous. This time around, however, the ruling elites of the West are using their formidable PSYOP/propaganda capability to conceal the true scope what is really going on. If every citizen of the US (and EU) understood that there is a nuclear and conventional cross-hairs painted on his/her head things might be different. Alas, this is clearly not the case, hence the non-existent peace movement and the quasi consensus about pouring tens of BILLIONS of dollars into the Ukrainian black hole.
Right now, the crazies are playing around with all sorts of silly ideas, including booting Russia off the UNSC (not gonna happen, since both Russia and China have veto power) or even creating a “peace conference” about the Ukraine without Russia’s participation (in a remake of the “friends of Syria” and “friends of Venezuela” thingie). Well, good luck with that! Apparently Guaido and Tikhanovskaia are not enough to discourage the Neocons and they are now repeating the exact same nonsense with “Ze”.
So, will we make it to December 31, 2023?
Maybe, but this is by no means sure. Clearly, this is not an assumption the Kremlin makes, hence the truly immense strengthening of all of Russia’s strategic deterrence capabilities (both nuclear and conventional).
God willing, the old adage “si vis pacem, para bellum” will save the day, as Russia is very clearly prepared for any time of conflict, including a nuclear one. China will also get there soon, but it is likely that 2023 will see some kind of end to the Ukrainian war: either a Russian victory in the Ukraine or a full-scale continental war which Russia will also win, (albeit at a much higher cost!). So by the time the Chinese will be truly ready (they probably need another 2-5 years) the world will be a very different place.
For all these reasons I submit that 2023 might well be one of the most important years in human history. How many of us will actually survive it is an open question.
Andrei
I must admit that during the past several months I have been obsessed with the minutiae of the Ukraine conflict. But now I see that, as Saker says, this is not about Ukraine.
What makes this situation scary is that the Neocons are not only incompetent but also clinically insane.
The questions that arise are: Who are the Neocons? How did they gain power? And most importantly who are they working for?
Voltairenet.com , scroll down home page for ‘Archives’ – Russia declares war on the Straussians, 5th March 2022.
Provides a good insight
It is quite naive to think that the Straussians are the only ones humanity is up against.
The straussians are just Jews paid to come up with evil ideas, whereas the real movers and shakers execute those ideas.
The organization humanity is up against was founded in Europe by a Fascist conspiracy between the Royal and Imperial Dynasties of Europe, the Vatican and European Jewish capitalists during the 8 century.
The top of this Dynastic Fascist Globalist Network is called the committee of 300.
They build a major network of Freemasonic agents, first in every Nation of Western Europe, then in Britain and later send their Freemasonic Agents to America.
The freemasonic Agents were behind the French Revolution, The American Revolution, The Russian Revolution, WWI, WWII, and are the driving force behind the fast approaching WWIII.
Today the Freemasonic network has grown into what is often referred to by western media as the international community.
All agencies like the US, UK, EU, UN, CIA, MI5, CNN, BBC, BLM etc. seems to be independent organizations, but they are all controlled at the Top by Agents of the Dynastic Fascist Globalist Elite, still controlling the West from behind the scene to this day.
The only way to end their tyranny and wars is for National populations to take back the control of their National currencies, and confiscate the wealth they have stolen for generations.
And that there are other nations in the Committee of 300 besides the Jews? The Committee of 300 is not final, there are more powerful organizations about which there is very little information, to whom the Committee of 300 reports. The organizations that you know are the tip of the iceberg.
Found the site voltairenet.org
Many prominent Neocons have been exerting political influence in the USA government since the mid 80’s, but they gained much more influence in 2000, during the George Bush Presidency. when the Neocon philosophical influence was embraced by key figures (Rumsfeld, Cheney, etc.) in the Bush II administration. Neocons and their supporters were hired into US positions within the State Department, etc. So, the presumed Bush administration had a bunch of Conservative War Hawks combining with a bunch of Liberal War Hawks.
The so called Liberal Warhawks became the New Conservative Warhawks or Neocons.
Essentially, many of the same Neocons appears to remain in influential positions in the US government. And there appears to be many anecdotal incidents that the Neocon supporters had major involvement in all of the US excursions since about 2000.
A very interesting view expressed by William Schryver is that China, India, and all the other countries in Zone B are supporting Russia with the expectation Russia will win.
https://www.sott.net/article/475678-In-for-a-pound
It seems the Collective West has been misreading Russia’s self-restrain as weakness and are becoming increasingly emboldened. If NATO is directly involved in this conflict – and the NS sabotage is just one clear example of this – perhaps it is time for Russia to strike directly at NATO targets and supply lines in NATO countries. Or perhaps the vessels involved in the NS sabotage need to be sunk as a tit for tat.
One way or another I sense after Orthodox Christmas, things will begin to move again.
(…Follow the path of money…the blood of moloc)
Money since 1972 has been created out of thin air. Any Sovereign country can create money (fiat currency). This current conflict has exposed the “money is power” scam for anyone worthy. Real power is a country’s natural resources and people. What a country does with this resource and what “in demand” tangible goods it creates represents real power and wealth.
Indeed it is not. All these facets discussed below A.G. . . .
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Expressed further under the Decline of The West, vectored via that failed, longest of the long LongShots, this engineered US-NATO-UK Ukrainian Proxy War over the lives of the poor Ukrainian people to weaken Russia, tip out its government and possess its considerable resources.
Judgment shall be by outcomes. Thus far, it is the EU and NATO that will disintegrate. Paradoxically, the present winners are simultaneously the United States, albeit temporarily and Russia in the short and long runs. Those in the way of superpower aspirations are ground up in the geo-political machinery.
Discussed here in lengthy, abstruse and eclectic prose across several essays that will leave the reader visibly aged, yet possibly far wiser although admittedly that is entirely speculative . . .
https://les7eb.substack.com
From the Islamic world there is one theory which was pioneered by Sheikh Imran Hosein and which is modelled around ultimately reinstating Israel as the ruling state in the world, Britain (e.g. reclaiming Jerusalem) and the USA (e.g. enslaving the ‘free’ world, bombing a perimeter around Israel, etc.) being stepping stones before Israel can openly take over under the rule of the False Messiah (your Anti-Christ). In this school of thought, nuclear devastation is inevitable as it does not seem possible to subjugate the ‘resistance’ (with Russia/China leading) with more conventional means.
Whether you subscribe to Christian or Islamic eschatology doesn’t even matter that much because there clearly are Zionist elements striving for that future (e.g. rebuilding the temple of Solomon), regardless.
While it is impossible to penetrate the layers of obfuscation of who’s actually behind this, which organisation, which people, this framework at least allows to identify them.
The Neocons are clinically both schizophrenic (hear diabolical “voices”) and psychopathic. The “peace movement” is stoned out of its skull with much higher THC than in the ’60s and ’70s. Also bought off.
They’re all traitorous “deep state” scum who work for the evil globalists like Klaus Schwab and his WEF pals. They gained power by buying it and through deceit and fraud (with the ignorant cooperation of the vast majority of weak, stupid, fat, and lazy Americans).
I believe I’ve said it before, but my wish for the MIC is this:
That the nuclear arsenal has received the same sort of maintenance as the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
And when “Biden” pushes that big red button, nothing happens.
I did not know until recently (well, I never thought about it) that nuclear weapons cannot simply sit on the shelf for sixty years and be expected to work. Radiation from the core slowly degrades the conventional explosive initiator, degrades the electronics, embrittles plastic insulation and components, etc. etc. etc.
But of course I know there is no “big red button” and “Biden” is not in charge of anything. It would be some psychopath in the Pentagon/State-Department/Agency blob.
And I also hope that they are stopped before they get to that decision point. But I have no idea how.
Well, it is a thought I guess. We know that if a gun is not kept in tip top working condition and clean, and if it gets blocked in any critical action, it can blow up in the users face.
Perhaps the same irony would be repeated – since in this most technological Age of all ages, a time when little to nothing is of prime use that is not highly technological apart from the people, we are ruled and controlled by morons with less technology know how than a carrot, some idiot might bark an order to push a red button and some idiot might gleefully do so, only to have the entire storage pod blow up where it stands.
Yes, I agree. Sleepy Joe will wake up to learn it’s already done, and they’ll tell him to read a transcript saying “I gave the order”.
Otherwise, how can these rabid Neocons ever suppress the knowledge that their lot is the only one in the world to have used it……TWICE!
Yes, it wasn’t a grenade that fell on Hiroshima, and people forgot about it. They will have known the destruction caused in the first one. Yet, there was a rabid human-hater giving orders to drop another one.
Amerikan nuclear brigades that sit inside silo is literally still running by 200MHz CPU and 2MB of RAM. It has never been upgraded / outdated version, perhaps it would still work normally if needed, effectiveness, could still be effective, but only God knows, so basically US left with the Air Force and the Navy if they really want to Nuke Russia, that’s if they are up to the task when the call is coming, it’s too obvious and will raise warning on Russian and Chinese sides, but well anyway, I don’t think those crews really want to see their Families die in Nuclear War. And so, the only possible thing that could happen is the 911 false flag style, but it is also very obvious the finger will be pointed on US-UK-Israel face. We can only hope God still save us this time.
A corollary article I came across that should not raise any eyebrows: “The CIA is using a European Ally’s spy service to conduct a covert sabotage campaign inside Russia under the agency’s direction*……”
*https://jackmurphywrites.com/169/the-cias-sabotage-campaign-inside-russia/
Unfortunately, (and anyone who has dealt with people in positions of power in the U.S. know this,) the people ruling over the U.S. only know how to “double down”.
Reading recently of the ways the CIA and others of the Empire have tried to use suspicion, “black magic” etc as a control and generator of fear in target nations, I came across the delightful rencontre, of when, whenever the CIA assassinated a VietCong – or supposed VietCong – they left a black Ace of Spades card on the body, this being known to the very suspicious locals to be a vehicle of vengeance. terror, demons, etc etc.
Hoevevr the Vietcong seemed not to be too bothered on finding these cards.
Turned out, much later, that they dont use the Western Card set, but their own, Oriental style cards, and the Western Ace of Spades Card meant absolutely nothing. !!!!! :-)
Pamela: The same was found on the body of U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld following his assassination:
“The Less-Cold Case of Dag Hammarskjöld”
https://consortiumnews.com/2021/09/18/the-less-cold-case-of-dag-hammarskjold/
Coincidence??
I didn’t know that. Thanks – how curious.
The true story the Irish UN contingent in Katanga concerns the heroic battle that inspired the Netflix film “The Siege of Jadotville” is worth watching
And a few know how to triple crown.
The Vatican is as devoted to the globohomo death cult as any Western “institution”. They have no authority, moral or secular, to act as anything but another toady to the neocons.
Besides, how many divisions does the pope have?
Agreed. I purged all that nonsensical crap.
The propaganda level is still low. I know that may shock you. Go back and read some vintage 1930s propaganda (all sides made their own) if you want to see how a government prepares its citizens for war. You will know when war is imminent.
If NATO launches a nuclear first strike against Russia it will only be after the populace has been browbeat into believing Russia was about to launch a global WMD Pearl Harbor. It takes a lot of two minutes of hate days to get Westerners to the point where they don’t mind dying as long as Russia is destroyed.
IMHO there will be a lull in 2023 while Western governments desperately try to get their economies on a war footing without fomenting revolution in their own countries. For God’s sake, Germany can’t even field an army, an air force or a navy as it stands today.
The only people who can **** this up are the Poles. If they get stupid and try some “it’s only Poland not NATO” occupation of Western Ukraine then all bets are off.
@You will know when war is imminent.
These usa kids are too bugged out to fight effectively in any war, they are admitted queers, and if drafted half would flee and other half would be shaking in their boots, the guys that want to fight, are already fighting and there is not much wiggle room if hostilities ramp up.
Only the US chemical labs are holding the UAF together. I know, a contradiction in terms.
Caught a glimpse on Telegram last week of a fighter in the trenches, on his knees, head tilted right back, off his face, with members of his unit laughing hysterically.
Mind you, with Right Sector patrolling your rear and Russian missiles exploding to the front, I might be inclined to pop those Hunter Biden inspired pills myself.
That was heroin. I saw the same scary stuff too. Not pretty.
That’s one scenario…
The other scenario is a possible false flag event that will happen “out of the blue” to be blamed on Russia of course.
Propaganda will churn out that “Ukraine is winning” and that this is was Russia’s “last resort”. This is exactly where we are now.
As I watched the video, and President Putin was making his sombre statement, the clouds of Ecuador, on a hot sunny afternoon, came rolling in black and heavy, and thunder started to crack. It certainly gave me the shivers.
But so does something else. Reading, recently, part of the Daniel Ellsberg book “The Doomsday Machine;. confessions of a nuclear planner”, I read something which should turn all our bloods to ice. And yet, worse of all, I never see this discussed, or even remotely mentioned. it’s this.
Ellsberg states that the idea we all have, that the President has this secret special suitcase he carries around which carries the “nuclear codes” such that the President of the US, and only he, can ever initiate a nuclear launch, is wrong, very wrong.
He cites a letter from way back, from FDR, which in fact hands over authority to a number of Admirals and Generals to do just that – initiate a nuclear launch. There is indeed some argument about the provability of the letter and the claim that he wrote it, but as Ellsberg says, what matters is that the Pentagon brass BELIEVES that the letter exists, which means that any one of them can, as the Dr. Strangelove movie said “go a little funny in the head”, and decide HE is going to take this action. They believe it. Now, Ellsberg wrote his book a couple of decades back, but he states in the Introduction, that from contact with his informants nothing has changed from when he wrote it to right now.
So given we have this bunch of Basement Crazies running around and no visible source of control on them, given the US has a President who clearly is now in control of nothing and none of us knows who is, if anyone, the likelihood that some Pentagon “Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore”,*** { “I love the smell of napalm in the morning”} is carrying or has access to, nuclear launch codes and decides he will use them since Washington is clearly beneath his contemp, seems to me to be very high.
And I dont hear or see a soul talking of this.
***Apocalypse Now.
People seem to forget that in the military there are those who issue orders and those who follow orders. Some of those who issue orders might be psychos, but those who follow orders always have the right to disregard those orders if they believe them to be illegal or harmful to the US. I personally believe that should such an order come down to attack Russia with nukes when Russia has not launched nukes first, someone in an important position in the military will refuse to obey those orders.
Umm. OK, we are all entitled to our beliefs after all. But I would have to ask, what is the liklihood that there are sufficient lower ranks willing to refuse the order? We would have to take into account the massive brainwashing they have been subject to, the hatred running rife for Russia among too many American people, and the fact that the best predictor of future behaviour is past behaviour.
I would have said, 3 years ago, that if a bunch of unelected oligarchs, ie the WEF, got up and demanded that nations around the world destroy their economies by unproven behaviour – lockdown – based on an unproven allegation, that most would refuse that order. In fact most obeyed it.
I hope your belief is well founded but I’m afraid I cannot subscribe to it myself.
The Millgram experiments showed that about 75% of people will follow authority even if they believe that “authority” is wrong.
There are techniques which can, quite easily, get the rate of compliance to 90%.
Let’s not forget that the Military are self-selected, and I would argue that they each have a pre-disposition to both Obedience and Authoritarianism. Why else would you join?
@ Victor
What if their is a false flag operation in the U.S. Inc just like ( 911 ) and set of a Nuclear Bomb in
NY city and blames it on Russia ???
TOM123
@ Pamela St
I came across one essay some time back by V.S. Solovyev. Just take this one shocking paragraph:
“In the meantime, the national risk posed every day by the current occupants of the White House, is far worse than the public generally realizes: the United States has been deliberately left open to attack from any number of sources (and at all borders), with no capable civilian leader. Not only is there no such thing as “President Biden,” there is no such thing as Commander-in-Chief Biden: The civilian command authority has been deactivated, which means the entire chain of military command is a question, and a risk (and recall Obama’s previous presidential purge of the nuclear command and other military senior leadership).”
https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2022/07/15/cultural-hatred-and-cyranic-illusion-there-is-no-such-thing-as-president-biden/
Yikes eh? You may wish to also follow my own paragraph on the subject!!
https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2022/07/15/cultural-hatred-and-cyranic-illusion-there-is-no-such-thing-as-president-biden/#comment-355625
Yes there will be a Nuclear WAR it will happen in 2023 or 2024 !!!
This information is predicted by a Program that Marty Armstrong called ” SOCRATES ” He was sent to
prison for 7 years with out a trial in solitary confinement , he refused to give his source code to the cia , until his case was heard at the U.S. Supreme Court and then he was released
His “SOCRATES ” program has never being wrong !!!! This program has predicted many world events.
If you would like to get more info , his blog is armstrongeconomics.com
If you want to have a better chance to survive you should move at least 15 Degrees south of the equator where
the so called “Cornelis effect ” takes place and the Jet stream of the Earth moves in opposite directions so that the Nuclear fall out will be less.
@ Five and half billion people in the northern hemisphere and two and half in the southern hemisphere.
Lets hope that God will intervene and remove the neocons and the Jesuits at the Vatican .
TOM 123
Putin , mentioned years ago that if you known that your enemy will strike , STRIKE first before he does ,
It will be interesting to see if he a binds by his words .
I think if he does what he said ( First Strike ) He will save many many millions of lives ,Compare to
Billions of lives lost !
I’am curious to see how Russian’s new weapons will prevail especially the ( Popsident under water
Nuclear Bomb ) which so suppose to create a 600 ft Tsuimi wave .
TOM 123
He didn’t exactly do that. In Machiavellian terms it’s true – you can only postpone war to the advantage of your enemy. But that’s when you talk just war.
There were full 8 years between Putin’s first chance and this year.
Reasons? Political.
In 2014 it would have been seen an aggression by the whole world, but in 2022 no one would believe it outside of maybe a half billion. Wheel has to go full circle.
It’s the Coriolis effect. You’re probably thinking of Don Corleone. A better strategy, IMHO, is to live in one of the world’s larger cities and go out with a bang. Losing your teeth one-by-one on Melbourne Beach doesn’t appeal.
Link not working. Removed. Mod.
Marty Armstrong & his computer called ” SOCRATES ” is a scam BS artist who I thought was genuine for some time. I got suspicious about all the BS questions he used to pretend came from readers & he then answers giving himself a big pat on the back. Read for yourself :
https://armstrongecmscam.blogspot.com/
Yes. Clearly this guy (a mix of paranoia and exagerated self esteem) is a scam making money out of credulous devotees..!
There are two truths at play. One is that God is merciful and compassionate. Everything will eventually work out for the best. The second is do not underestimate the depth of the brainwashing and soul sickness of America. It seems as if regardless of what skin they wear, Democrat, Republican, Neocon, Progressive, Qanon, Patriot, all are in fact just different skins worn by the Nazis. All roads of course leading to Rome and Christianity. It is of course possible to be a good person and a Christian, but this requires cherry picking the New Testament. God is perfect therefore what is from God would not require any selectivity. I am not sure if the Orthodox church does in fact distill out the psychopathy of Rome that is infused throughout the New Testament. I can only speak of what I am familiar with, a religion where people pick and choose what to follow while also being actively discouraged from critical thinking. My personal theory for which I have no evidence is the Orthodox church is an example of the old Chinese proverb…”China is a sea that salts all rivers flowing into it”. The native Russian culture is so strong that it altered the core Roman essence of the New Testament, though it couldn’t actually edit the text itself. Just my POV on a rather complicated subject, one I express meaning no disrespect but I had to state it since Christianity is one of the many brainwashing tools used in America.
Americans are as a whole very poorly educated and thus most don’t understand history, or really much of anything. They are also fed on poisonous “foods”… artificial chemicals, addictive sugars, and genetically modified almost everything. Then they are further poisoned by the Naziceutical industry… sick? Take an antibiotic? Scared? Vaccinate against everything. Feeling down? Take an antidepressant. An active, normal little boy? Medicate him. So much of the immune system is in the gut. Along with as many neurotransmitters as in the brain.
People are literally poisoned so they cannot actually function. If they abstain from the Naziceuticals and poisonous so called ” foods”, and manage to acquire an actual education they are further stifled by being surrounded by such people who are incapable of thought and also find obstacles to connecting with like minded people and finding accurate information. Such people wind up in isolation, fully aware of just how evil, rotten and corrupted America is but without the power to actually effect any real change.
Don’t count on God intervening – S/He is generally not into the ‘intervention business’. It’s up to us to do the ‘right’ thing.
Can we be certain that their is uniformity of opinion in USA gov? It feels like State Dept and Treasury are driving the bus. The Federal reserve and banks see to hang back. The Pentagon seems lukewarm except for weapon deals. There is no real mobilization, just a few volunteers to chaperone the weapons and keep from being sold. I think in time the USA will cut and run. Bayonet a few corpses hand out some battle ribbons and try to come up with a plan B.
D.M. predicts color revolutions in Texas and Cali. I think there is a Russian joke that” the US will never have a color revolution because there is no US Embassy there”. :)
If the State Dept and Treasury were driving the bus, it drove off the cliff some time ago and the remains are findable washed up on a beach down south.
Who is D.M.?
Dmitry Medvedev
@ Taffy and Gaius the Gleeful
Dmitry Medvedev was the former President of Russia ,Putin and Medvedev
I believe is a tag team Politically similar to a tag team in sport of wrestling ,,last week Putin and hi rank military went
to Belarus to a very important meeting ,,the same day Medvedev meet Xe President
of China , to deliver a message from Putin ,I think if some thing happens to Putin that he is no longer
The President of Russia ,Medvedev will be the President of Russia again , by the way both men have
Lawyers back round. Medvedev Made a big blunder when he was President , at the UN security council
when he allow the US and Nato to invade Libya Instead of veto it.
I think if War comes all four countries Russia , China Iran and North Korea may go in at the same time,
This way it would over Welma Kusa, and the West.
TOM123
State and treasury are run by neocons on behalf of military industrialists, Wall Street and the energy oligarchy.
If there is uniformity of opinion in the US it is that the system is wholly corrupt, self-serving, and not fixable.
>>>If there is uniformity of opinion in the US it is that the system is wholly corrupt….
Technically, you are correct, as there is little ‘uniformity of opinion’ in the Former USA.
Unfortunately, many Americans are indeed 1) poorly educated to begin with, and 2) genuinely brainwashed into the belief that the FUSA is not only the Greatest Country in the World, but also that the FUSA is the Greatest Country that ever was, or ever could be.
I do believe that the contradictions of late-stage Finance Capitalism will bring about radical change in the FUSA within a few years, at most. The job of the Russian and Chinese leadership is to avoid a massive war during the limited time remaining to the would-be World Hegemon. I think (and hope) they can do this: restrain the FUSA from world-annihilation… because I see no evidence that the FUSA can restrain itself.
The writing on this wall says there will be an execution by war, one day.
What possibility that they apply the same economic sanctions to India? for example, causing social and economic chaos in the subcontinent, leaving China out, for the moment, as a warning to sailors.
India is self sufficient in food. 70% of indias population lives in Rural areas or very small towns. .
We routinely function with electricity on normal basis, in most rural areas. I’m most non metros not having electricity for few hours a day is routine. In Rural areas having electricity for few hours a day is considered good..
Till 2 decades back our exports were less than 10% of our GDP. It’s higher now about 30% but it’s mainly IT services, textiles, pharmaceuticals, minerals.
If US shuts down India IT it will shut down aporox 40-50% of it’s large companies. There is no replacement for this in the world even worse than Russias gas and oil.
Same with Pharmaceuticals, it will shut down 30% of worlds and US’s production and you can’t replace physically beforeat least 3-4 years provided you have the talent to man it.
Indias population which mans these production and services os less than 5% of indias population.
We are resilient trained by our own incompetence.
@ OscardelaMadrid
One of the biggest fever China has and no one has mention it ,is the Kusa embargo of
China’s trade by varies choke points which would economical take down China ,This is what the Kusa did to
Japan and force Japan into WAR 2 basically a false flag operation so that KUSA could enter WW2 for the
neacons in Britan and take over the Empire roll New name KUSA but the same master’s
But China now has life line from Russia a great complementary Partnership ,Where much of the energy
many other commodities can be supplied from Russia also as a added bonus China can access by sea to Russia’ Thur the new northern Artic route which is 12 days shorter then to go thur the sezis canal
and much ,much safer
KUSA is a sea power and fake currency power ,like most Empire’s in past history ,The more China can trade over land ( China’s
One belt one road , like the old silk road ) the sea power Empire Kusa loses it’s ability to conquer.
TOM123
“Will we see Dec 31 2023?” – yes. Probably. OK, so I am a glass half-full guy but I do put a lot of faith in President Putin and his ability to straighten out geopolitical tangles. I am also not convinced that hard-line neocons like Blinken, Sullivan and Nuland actually have the power to get the red button pressed. Their role might be more as bad cop.
In the past the Pentagon has shown more restraint in handing out weapons (Raptor drones come to mind) for whatever reason. Also when Trump ordered a withdrawal from Syria the Pentagon blatantly disobeyed, So I think the Pentagon has quite a voice in this.
There was talk recently of a decapitation strike – presumably this means pre-emptive strike which will only work if the enemy (Russia) cannot meaningfully retaliate or is so cowed it will not do so. I think Putin is showing that the second option is not on the table. And as to whether all Russia’s nukes can be knocked out – well, look at the very public recent showing of a mobile launcher with ICBM being moved to a silo in West Russia. Any other mobile launchers around? Based where?
Perhaps Putin’s plan (he hasn’t told me) is to gradually increase the conflict in Ukraine to draw in more and more of NATO and bleed it out. A war of attrition followed by a peace treaty that suits Russia but can also be spun by the West as a resolution to Russian aggression and not a defeat. If anyone could bring it off, Putin can.
@ Haymer doots
These persons that we address on a daily bases are only acters and actress, the real power
that make the decisions are not known to the average people , if you knew who they are and could track them ,when they go to their bunkers ,Then you will know it,s time for the fire works , I think the trigger point will be when the dollar will not be excepted world wide , and then their will be a run on the US Dollar , they have to start the Nuclear War before this happens.
I think their plan is to destroy the White race especially the Russians this includes U.S. Inc ,Europe and
Russia.
TOM 123
I think that there is a fundamental driver of America’s war mania that is not often acknowledged.
Namely, the American and Western financial systems are lurching towards a massive world-historic implosion.
It’s called the Everything Bubble.
When the Everything Bubble pops, this implosion will devastate America and the West–not to mention sending economic shock waves around the rest of the world.
Given this looming implosion, the American ruling class in general (and not just the so-called “Neocons” either) would actually welcome an escalation of war as the ultimate political diversion and saving grace for themselves. While they don’t want to die in a global nuclear armageddon, a “limited” nuclear war would suit the American Empire and its oligarchy perfectly.
Blame for the Everything Bubble implosion can be directed outwards against those nations America is waging war against. Moreover, any type of political dissent and rebellion inside the USA could be stifled in a wave of militarist nationalism very similar to what America did after Sept. 11th “terrorist” attack.
In other words, escalation of the Ukraine War to an open World War 3 scenario against first Russia (and subsequently China, Iran, North Korea), involving the “limited” use of tactical nukes, would spawn an emotional Shock and Awe effect much greater than September 11th.
It would unite the masses with the American oligarchy that is responsible for creating the Everything Bubble and its economic devastation in a orgy of militarism and fanaticism that will make 9-11 and the phony “War on Terrorism” seem like a tea party in comparison.
This is the ultimate Shock and Awe scenario.
I am not so sure that a nuclear strike on Russia in the context of the implosion of the Everything Bubble would unite Amercans. The economic/financial implosion may actually be more traumatic for Americans than a nuclear exchange.
I should think that such a financial implosion would render the USA basically incapable of waging war—for instance, paying anyone to manufacture weapons, fight the war, or even keep the lights on in the USA.
It certainly is possible and I think probable that Americans would be most focused on survival—finding food, water, shelter, etc.—than on cheering on the maniacs who get us involved in a war with Russia because . . . the economy, Stupid . . .
If it truly implodes like many of those whom I trust are saying, then what happens in the DC (Collapsed) Bubble World will have zero bearing on the lives of Muricans. Once the trucks stop running, it’s back to the law of the jungle my babies.
Besides, if Russia focuses on places like NYC and DC with its counterstrike, most Americans would die happy knowing those punks got vaporized first.
You can sort of simulate the fun here: https://neal.fun/asteroid-launcher/
There is no such thing as a “limited” nuclear war. Any attempt by the SA to pull off such a stunt will result in a global conflagration. I hope the nutters in Washington appreciate that.
The Saker wrote:
This is sad but true. Accordingly, I see little chance for change. If we survive this we’ll have to be lucky. I don’t like to have to rely upon luck but I don’t see any other option at this point.
yeah – and they even have a ‘ How to Keep Control After a Nuclear War ‘ playbook
How vociferous would the noise emanating from the Anglo-Zionists be if Russia were hurling missiles indiscriminately into Kiev for 8 weeks, let alone 8 years as the vermin have been doing to Donbass?
The Nazi regime have the full blessing of the Biden Administration and most of the western state puppets to perpetrate such a genocide.
In the past couple of months the pseudo-anti-war left in the US and UK have been “campaigning” for peace talks, a negotiated end to the war. Their irrelevant absurdity has neve been more clear. Russia campaigned for negotiations for over a decade, only to be rudely ignored, when not ridiculed, by the West. The latest in this long line of rudeness was Angel Merkle’s candid admission that the Minsk Accord of 2015 were a ruse to allow Ukraine to build up its forces, just as Hitler got Britain to sign the Munich Pact to give him time to prepare for the invasion of Poland ( and then Russia). The West CANNOT be “negotiated”. It cannot be trusted. Moreover the Russian dominance on the battlefield has put the scare into the “liberals”. Their only hope now to save their “baby”–Zelinsky–is to get a cease-fire. Too bad the knock-off Winston is too pig-headed to see that it is his only way of coming out of this alive (unless the Banderists get to him).
Russia is not going to agree a cease-fire until it has achieved its goals – de-Nazification and disarmament of the Ukraine, and the added on aim now of discrediting NATO and nullifying the EU (which last aim the US has already started to help on). Russia is well on the way to achieving these goals – it’s just a matter of time. If the Nazis in Washington are smart, they will accept defeat and pass it of as a victory by getting an eventual cease-fire. If they are not smart, we are all dead. Looks like we’re all dead, but I remain optimistic that greed will win over pride.
Great article, but do you really think: “Which means that all those SOBs who for months fed everybody nonsense about Russia loosing the war to the general public will be held responsible for the inevitable disaster.”
No one was held accountable for Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, 911, the list goes on and on. I seriously doubt anyone will even be fired, must less held accountable.
There will be no nuclear conflict for one simple reason: “Wer davon lebt, einen Feind zu bekämpfen, hat ein Interesse daran, daß er am Leben bleibt.” (Whomever lives to fight an enemy has a vested interest in keeping that enemy alive) Nietzsche. A nuclear war ends all the profits, all the reasons for more war. This is “1984”, by the book. 2 minutes of hate (up to about half an hour, daily, these days), never ending war, terrorists forever, surrounded by existential threats … But no nuclear war. And Russia has no plans go into NATO countries because they are all collapsing.
What you say is true as far as it goes, but no one can predict what these panicky morons might do when the walls start closing in on their fantasy world.
A think the point in is that as a result or prospect of a such a catastrophic defeat the neo-cons world comes crashing down. Therefore to maintain their world of massive profit making for the few then they they resort to a nuclear first strike. So it goes nuclear to preserve profits. It wont work ,of course, but thats not the point.
For some, hate and destruction of their enemy may be more important than money.
Solid argument, and I would agree with that. The creepy thing however, is that this is based on sound reasoning. However, the points at stake for the people really calling the shots are so high – the financial system is collapsing. Add to that, most people there have a financial background, and not so much in that nasty stuff called ‘science’.
I have a background in industrial engineering, and can tell you that even there I have heard more often than I liked quite ridiculous problem solving propositions, which hinged on non-existing magical forces. I’m often surprised how people have ‘hope forces’ on their minds, or anticipate on overflying rainbow-spitting unicorns that will solve everything in the future (in Germany we call this ironically ‘ein eierlegendes Wollmilchsau’), or will extrapolate a single good result into a universal guarantee ‘while it would be so convenient’.
Keeping in mind that the western idea of ‘nuclear primacy’ (the idea to win a nuclear war against a nuclear power) was of 2006 and never disappeared, I fear that the idea is still alive that it’ still possible. Not so much ‘winning’ as keeping dry in the rain by moving between the falling drops, but by the ice-cold cynical calculation that a loss of a large part of the population and means would be accepted in order to ‘sustain dominance’ or whatever psychiatric term is appropriate here. People at the top reason like this.
I think even the reasoning of ‘some nukes, that will teach them’ is delusional. Even a ‘decapitating strike’ will not bring own safety, just read this: https://www.rbth.com/science-and-tech/334565-dead-hand-5-questions-about-the-scariest-nuclear-system , and I wish the west good luck in finding a few nuke subs under the North Pole ice, that is so damn stubborn in not melting.
Many sharp minds have analyzed for decades their as*** off in finding loopholes in the strategies, what makes us think that ‘but now it will be different’?
This aforementioned ‘eierlegendes Wollmilchsau’ comes from a poem of Berthold Brecht. It is a fantasy animal consisting of a pig that also gives wool, milk and eggs. It is used ironically in the German language as a fantasy solution that magically solves everything and has no disadvantages at all.
You cannot fix problems with fantasy promises the whole time.
Cheers and stay safe, Rob
Im almost certain that the population of collective West is so zombified and dumbed down that they still can spin a catastrophic defeat into victory.Crazy though it is but the people really are that gullible.Of course its not all of them but there is enough. Just watch what they do!
Observing right wing boards like 4chan or patriots.win shows no support for Ukraine. It is Democrats and RINOs sporting the Ulraine flags.
On a lighter note I just rewatched the Coen Brothers’ “Burn After Reading.” It’s an amusing skewering of the Washington scene, even funnier now.
And all those zany antics in the pursuit to pay for a boob job. Brilliant.
Some videos for today.
The FSB eliminated a group of Banderites that tried invading Bryansk oblast (18+):
https://www.bitchute.com/video/IAWXgmYCa1C2/
Russian mobilized forces operate Giatsint-B 152mm field gun:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/Giatsint:2
Russian S-300V air-defense missile system filmed on duty:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/S_300V_2612:1
Burning Kiev regime tank explodes:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/B3swKr9eiXrX/
Russian Lancet drone destroys NATO-supplied FH70 howitzer:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/uKNVHXyzU3Ko/
Russian Lancet drone blows up enemy S-300 radar:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/JJ93NvtbN3Vo/
Russian Uragan MLRS pounds enemy position:
https://rutube.ru/video/138f3280b18fe9b9cd474d195ef57be6/
Kiev has had to resort to using steam engines to pull its trains:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/3JJOX6toOLE9/
Nate, thanks so much for posting these videos!
Demilitarization proceeds. First Ukraine, then NATO, then the US.
Hi Andrei – you may not have time but this video – of Reiner Fuellmich – interviewing a former UN Executive Director – is an extremely eye-opening video – they don’t talk about the war – but many other things and what’s
happened to the UN and the other big ‘NGOs’
https://www.bitchute.com/video/wZ4qOS7Z3lGf/
Hi Ann
Thanks, I will check it out!
Time stamp 31. That did it for Călin Georgescu didn’t it? To learn about the people of the Marshall Islands and how before the arrival of the atomic testing were a people oblivious to such things as doctors and medicine with an average life span of 180 years old. A people now reduced to the life spans of barely 40 years and a tuna fishing industry wiped out!! That they UN buried his report speaks volumes does it not Ann? Yes, the truth needs burying alright. I remember watching the video how the military arrived and told the islanders about what they were going to do. How the land would be poisoned etc and those people not understanding it completely. What the military couldn’t show them the picture reels of the New Mexico testing?
A great deal of good info there thank you very muchly!!
As to the Question of who are the Neo Cons I would suggest a listen to a Gonzalo Lira video blog where he talks about Victoria Nuland, explaining her deep background, and that does get into a lot of it. I think it gets more complicated than that but its a good primer.
My only disagreement is with the comment that “the SOBs” will be held responsible.
They never have, never will, and won’t … except maybe by Russia. And if that comes to pass there is going to be a lot of collateral damage.
But hey, go around the world killing untold millions for profit, what did they think was going to happen? Nothing apparently, as greed is blind and stupid.
Those “crazies in the basement” has me thinking about what their agenda actual is and for that I’m taken two sources one of which i already posted elsewhere but heres the all-important addition.
https://vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/6-23-2009-3-27-02-PM.jpg https://vigilantcitizen.com/sinistersites/sinister-sites-israel-supreme-court/
Look well at their faces and consider, the three jpg’s together and the people involved https://henrymakow.com/upload_images/soul-scarring.jpg
Anglo-zionists indeed, eh? None of which by the way are Christians hence the question what are we facing ultimately but a war pitting the armies of Christ and Lucifer. Looks as if the final battle lines are being drawn. The only thing needed is of course that king with a small horn boasting great things.
Wow or woe rather? “Here is the mind that has wisdom.” Revelation 13
I am very pleased I took the time to watch the whole video. I feel confident that the Russians know what they are doing and have the means to accomplish their goal. I also agree with Andrei that the outcome of the war is perilously existential for the neoliberal/neocon world order that the US has been managing since WW II at such great cost to the lives and prosperity of global citizens.
I am pleased to hear big scale voices telling the truth to the American citizens, from John Mearsheimer & Tucker Carlson to Jeffery Sachs. I do have a concern though, as a friend of China’s, that some of the opposition to war with Russia do so because they want to co-opt Russia into their war on China.
“I am pleased to hear big scale voices telling the truth to the American citizens, from John Mearsheimer & Tucker Carlson to Jeffery Sachs. I do have a concern though, as a friend of China’s, that some of the opposition to war with Russia do so because they want to co-opt Russia into their war on China.”
I don’t know about Jeffery Sachs’ motive, but Tucker Carlson and John Mearsheimer are definitely controlled opposition and driven by the motivations that you stated
Carlson and Mearsheimer “oppose” war against Russia at the present time because they want America to focus on China as the preferred enemy. They hope to temporarily “befriend” Russia in order to buy its acquiescence to this agenda.
This just shows that there is very little *principled* opposition to war within the American ruling class.
The only political “differences” among the US elite are the tactics and targeted countries that these various factions agitate for.
However, I have to think that Russia, China–not to mention Iran, North Korea, etc–understand what Benjamin Franklin once stated in a different context:
“We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
I expect that things will continue to deteriorate across all sectors. There is no sign of reform as those forces are repressed, and by extension no need to co-opt. Without a positive model of development, and reliance on BS, propaganda and vapourware at some yet to determine tipping point all is lost. Neocons and neoliberals are like drunks in the casino, constantly escalating the bets; yet in their case everyone else gets to pay the tab in a consequences free world. Why wouldn’t they go for the big shiny red button. They get to hang out in bunkers moving imaginary armies around.
$64 question? Will the ‘collective west’ allow Russia/East in the next 2-5 years to become strong again?
They don’t have ANY choice!
This is a great article and I can attest to that the majority mindset here in the US is that we will bust out our wonder weapons and destroy anyone who messes with “us”. From my point of view this is a completely false understanding of reality. There are a number of people here in the US that get this, but as the article stated most are not in decision making positions and if by some miracle someone who understands this got anywhere near power they would quickly be destroyed.
I doubt even some major event would change peoples minds, they are too brainwashed.
Hope cooler heads prevail if their are any left here in the land of the “free and home of the brave”. What a joke.
Enjoyed the article sir. Thank you.
The point of US wonder weapons isn’t military effectiveness, it’s profitability.
The only performance that matters is ROI.
Season’s Greetings to all, especially the heroic Russian soldiers and their allies on their liberating mission in the Donbass. If there is one characteristic that the Americans really specialize at, it would be their ability to inflate/ exaggerate things which are intrinsically non-issues from start. Like a good second hand car salesperson talking and talking until the poor guy buys the dysfunctional car. The USA since its foundation has been behaving like a balloon gradually getting inflated and today existing at its biggest state. Similar to all balloons it’s big but made up mostly of hot air, in fact very light weight too so it could fly. The balloon metaphor isn’t only about the current economic/financial state of the US world but also also cultural – spiritual. Any decision about launching a limited or full-fledged nuclear strikes won’t made by idiots like Victoria Noland, John Bolton, Biden, Brandon and many others like them roaming in and around Washington DC. It will come from the big Head of the Straussian family, exactly as when they ordered a pull down of the Building # 7 during the 911 events. The US/neocons owe much of their uniquely inflated distinctiveness thanks to the very special relationship they maintain with the Arab sheikhdoms of the PG. It’s this relationship that keeps energizing all the lies, hubris and bellicose behaviors of the neocons. Russia might decide to fight NATO-Ukrainian thugs for as long as she wishes, but not much strategic will be gained by doing that in the long run. The Neocons will still be there only in another format. The best course of action would be to break the current vicious cycle by breaking all the special ties between the neocons and the Persian Gulf Arab energy suppliers, kicking the US and their basis out of the ME region. Like a big needle it will puncture /pop the huge USD financial balloon bringing the American era to a quick finish so that they won’t have enough time to play the nuke game. Iran, Russia, China and India would provide security guarantees for the Arab sheikhdoms in case the neocons try a regime change there.
@ maskeze2022
IT all ready happened, The Arab sheikhdoms Saudia’s plus 30 other energy countries have switch from WEST to the
East @ two weeks ago ze of China had a meeting in Saudia Arabia and the China currency (Yuan ) will be used ,contracts could be converted into GOLD ,
over 50 contacts where signed buy varies countries 30 year commitments and China worth many billions dollars in (yuans) not US Dollars
,The main reason is that the West is not going to use oil ,gas, coal, nuclear (Global warming ) ,how is the Middle East going to survive No- Brainer the world is splitting into two camps !
TOM123
One of the first and best that discussed the neocon’s increasing influence over US foreign policy and who they were (he didn’t call it necom though..) is Jerry Sanders: Peddlers of the Crises, South End Press, 1983.
Very important, well written article. Too many people are dulled out and/or in denial. Early spring, I began alerting as many as would listen that the probability of a nuclear war had increased dramatically. Few wanted to hear it (in Europe or the US), and even readers of this blog tried to skewer me for saying so in the comment section of some articles. Saker’s clear message here is more than welcome.
The “brakes” on this type of disaster do exist, but are difficult to discern. As Saker points out, good sense and sound thinking are long gone. But now we have some kind of ecosystem of the sick: you can see evidence of it in the uniformity of news stories, politics, and the almost complete lack of serious debate. This ecosystem works on degrees of influence from big money, as Saker points out, but is very difficult to pinpoint.
The uniformity of messaging reveals the influence of social manipulation think tanks like Tavistock. But the question of who drives all this and decides big issues is hard to answer.
Clearly, the driving force, whether a small group or something more amorphous, is dead set against giving up the Ukraine. But before they launch nukes, I imagine they will try every other possible type of dirty trick, and it is difficult to determine how long such games will continue.
I see on Warnews247.gr that Russia is making strong statements and mounting a large new offensive. If they have much success, the danger of nuclear war increases because the opposing force will grow more desperate.
All in all, I agree with the Saker that 2023 is an extremely dangerous year. People should understand that larger-scale war eventually (and rather quickly) means Internet cables being cut, no gas or electricity, money becoming meaningless, etc. Imagine if your internet world suddenly disappeared and all you are left with are your family and neighbors. A shocking number of people in the US do not even know their neighbors!
Some time about 1977 or so it was written in Wall Street Journal that a “decapitation” of USSR and a “decapitation” of USA were qualitatively differentiated, in that a job on Moscow would result in the dissolution of USSR and of Russia, while a similar job on DC would not result in the dissolution of USA. I well recall the essay. Perhaps in those days there might have been a grain of truth to the claims…the idea being that the US system was protean enough to survive, and the “decadentcommies” would be brittle and lose control…more or less.
Recalling the 1970’s posited “decapitation” gag, let us ask about right now. Which Country is protean and founded in long-held custom and beliefs, and which is not? Right. Which has resources? Which has real alliances between equals? Right.
It’s quite clear that the general views toward the freaks perverts and nazigangsters in DC. – the views held among deplorablevolk, nutzlossen – would be mixed. Many would be glad to see that gang sent upstairs for judgement. Some might say that by being brainless the goodfellas in DC have decapitated themselves…which might be seen as a start…eh?
Brother Medvedev’s amusing prognostications for 2023 may not mention it, but how else would a civil war in CONUS break out? I hear gunfire every day…not that it bothers me. So far I can count the shots…so things are “quiet”.
We have a new law, sez that cops can be cops even if they are not citizens…which traduces the oath to the constitution they must take…which might be seen as a thin edge of a wedge…a form of servile occupation force loyal only to the fellas that pay ’em…how jolly! Once we had a problem with the Brits doing that kinna stuff…it didn’t work out.
Thanks Mr Saker, serious stuff, and well said. Our Fates hang on the scale. I recall the argument between Abe (Lot’s uncle?) and God…they settled at 10% I think.
Best! P
I fully agree with you. 2023 is a most dangerous year as peace is not in sight. The fact that Europe is going to face a major economic crisis and a major influx of emigrants, might push EU into war to hide its own failure. Nothing can be done to prevent a major war if the elite managing the US and the western world has decided this madness
Until they provoked the Russia-Ukraine war, I naively believed that the USA was run by rational people, even though their sociopathic credentials were never in any doubt.
How could any human being dreamed up the illusion of ever WINNING a war against a country like Russia – a country that, apart from its vast geography and resources, has well-credentialed Armed Forces plus the largest arsenal of NUCLEAR WEAPONS!
I share The Saker’s apprehension about being blown up in a nuclear Armageddon that is engineered by the lunatics currently running the affairs of an important nation like the United States of America!
A couple of songs from years past to remind that the mad men (and now women) continue to play the games of power and death.
Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpyLDDiwKiM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkXG9wfajw8
The longer this goes on, the more conspiratorial junior officers will chatter, and think…as History suggests. Insubordination has probably already begun.
Of course the baddies are personal cowards, mostly, with soft hands and no trade – but they have placed themselves as MacBeth…when he ordered hangings (of those that speak of fear)…a classic projection of himself onto others, onto the innocent. In zugswang, as people say.
If it were a short story, we might jot down a plot> Properly done a countercoup matched to a tidal wave…and zippy flying machines…the latter two deus ex machina, of course!
Seriously, the longer this goes on, the greater the instability of structures of rule in “Zone A”, if there is a countercoup it would follow similar events in history…of course they mostly fail. Still, it happens.
Best! P
It’s every man for himself. There is no unity, no collective action. The entire program is divide and conquer. The more we are at each others throats (red vs blue, white vs colored, pro vs anti, religion vs religion, etc.) the less likely we are to unite against our common oppressor.
At least until things get so transparently awful that no other choice remains.
Coing soon to a theatre near you!
Saker: All I know is I don’t know. And as a very wise man once asked, “What man by worrying can add a single cubit to his stature?”
Andrei:
I agree with your analysis and your foreboding.
I think there are two possible outcomes for the US in the middle-term. One, nuclear destruction of its cities. Two, a failed state ruled by Mammon, that is, money.
In the first case, the US would suddenly become dominated by patriotic heterosexual White Christians as they are the ones living in the rural areas that are far enough away from the blasts to survive. The parasites who have a stranglehold on the country through control of the money will overwhelmingly die in the fiery cleansing. Rebuilding can begin.
In the second case, the ruling parasites will turn the US into a failed state. See the large Democratic controlled cities for a model of what this would look like. A failed state is one that is ruled by organized crime, by Mammon, rather than being ruled by impartial law. (Think: Haiti, Libya, Iraq, Lebanon, San Francisco, NYC, etc.) The entire wealth of the state is captured by the parasitic elites. There will no longer be a middle class. The parasitic elites will own everything. (“You will own nothing and be happy!”) The people will be reduced to drugged-up wage and debt slaves. At this point, the siren song of Mammon will be broken. The ‘American Dream’ of the good life will no longer be a possible lifestyle. The propaganda will fail. Then, and only then, will it be possible for patriotic Americans to say: NO MORE, and to unite in their resistance.
Long term? The moral philosophy of the ruling elites is one of living in the Now, living for individual happiness and individual pleasure. Eat, drink and make merry! There is no tomorrow to worry about, only an endless summer. (Think: the grasshopper in Aesop’s Fable.) These atheists certainly fear no afterlife! The western parasitic elites will self-destruct in an orgy of frenetic consumption, (think: a plague of locusts.) Those of us who plan for the future, who prepare for the future will survive to build the future. (Think: the ants in Aesop’s fable.)
In both cases there will be a glorious spring after the winter.
EastTexasDeplorable
” Will we make it to December 31, 2023?
This question is not hyperbole. I would even argue that this is the single most important question for at least the entire northern hemisphere.”
It’s a complex question with many possible alternatives leading to the end point to consider.
But I do think that in many ways they come down to one major one – and it’s this.
There are, roughly, two groups of people occupying positions of power and influence in the upper echelons of the Washington Mafia.
There are some sensible people, rational people, people well aware of the horror of a nuclear war, and realities of what strengths and weaknesses America currently has. They have souls, and can empathise. They, most emphatically, dont want a nuclear war followed by a nuclear winter. They want their family and children to be safe.
Then there are the ones we hear so much about – psychopathic, narcissistic, with no ability to empathise, nor any way of seeing why this is important;. They do not have a soul. Some have an almost messianic fervour, that they are tasked to rid the world of a great evil which they claim is Russia;, others are filled with hubris, arrogance, self importance and stupidity;, and others are filled with greed and a skill at using the emotions of others in order to grab land and wealth not theirs. Even now they produce papers talking of how to launch a nuclear weapon on Moscow, how to try to “decapitate” by killing President Putin, and claim that a nuclear war is win-able.
The thing is, I dont think we know which of these two groups is closest to the “red button”. If its the first, then we have nought to fear, and I think we will make it to Dec 31st 2023.
But if it’s the second, then we wont. Period.
In order to get a sense of the kind of arrogance based on personal pride, I’d suggest a listen to this latest discussion between Neapolitano and Col Douglas Macgregor. The Col was very closely involved in the plan to make a controlled, rational safe withdrawal from Afghanistan. He tells us of the ineptitude, and ultimate arrogance, which shot down that good plan, and ultimately led to the disaster we know happened. And the General who did it is very influential in the upper echelon of Power right now. !!!
It’s a bit of a worry, as an Aussie might say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T1OGKY55Mg
@ Pamela
There may be a third , forth , or more groups but they and their families do not live in
the KUSA most likely they have bunkers in Patagonia or New Zealand etc etc.
If you live in Ecuador which i think you mentioned , your a lot better place that North America ,a good place
to be is a country that has water, food supply ,weak government a small military and police force. and most
important as far from south of the Equator Ie Uruguay ,southern Chile , not Peru
If things get really bad May i visit you !!! Ha Ha
TOM123
I would like to add this second link, which is Brian Berletic of The New Atlas, showing — using a white board and his own diagrams, and explaining in easy to understand detail — exactly why Russia seems to being moving so slowly across Ukraine.
He gives an excellent lecture on the characteristics of modern weapons, and how they are shaping a change in strategy to a method of fighting not understood because it’s not been done before. Russia is fighting this war in a different way to all previous ones of modern times – which is a great advantage, because the clowns running the show in the WH have no way of understanding anything, let alone a skilled, disciplined, patient, strategy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F89iypG7k8s&t=5s
Great article and comments as usual. Yes, we in the US have to endure the most sophisticated, comprehensive and pervasive system of misinformation and conditioning in the history of the world, and it’s getting worse.
Also, I agree with some comments here that point out that folks like Tucker Carlson (someone who gets paid millions $$ per year to wear makeup, hairspray, suit-and-tie to be a “bait-and-switch” artist). He is there to create an illusion of alternative discourse, then urges everyone to vote for the R faction of representatives of the oligarchy. Although I may agree with him on some issues, he is just another proponent of the Status Quo. He is a cheer-leader for the R faction, the Murdoch Empire, and the anti-Iran, Pro-Israel, Anti-China.
I wonder if the U.S. is even a democracy anymore, in the strict sense of the word. I thought the democrats did suspiciously well in the last election, which makes me wonder if the votes were tampered with. I certainly don’t trust the people running the system, and there are loopholes…
EDward Q
America has never being a Democracy it was formed as a Republic !
A Democracy is a very bad form of government 51 % controls the 49 % .
This Democracy wording is pushed by the Tribe that controls 90 % of the media world wide an is owned by less
than a dozen people.
The best from of government is one person that loves his people and the country some one like V Putin
next would be like the Swiss system direct vote by each canton with a very weak federal gov. ,but the Swiss
have lost their country ,It has being taking over by the tribe.
TOM123
Yes, the U.S. is a republic, or used to be. I am concerned our votes are being tampered with.
The U.S. actually started out as a loose confederation, and then changed its form of government to the current more centralized form. There are different possible systems, but if criminals are running everything, none of them work well. Technically we have many rights and protections, but if the so-called “nation of laws” just ignores the constitution and other laws they don’t exist in practice.
IMO the first requisite for a functioning democracy is that the public is aware what the situation is IRL and isn’t propagandized 24/7. What good is a democracy if what the people (think they) known is controlled. And then form their opinions based on their warped view of reality.
And then when you can cast your vote you can choose between tweetle dum and tweetle dee. There is no peace party…
The Saker,
People here have mentioned “controlled opposition” regarding Tucker. I believe Tucker is worse. He is just an alternative face of the “Deep State.”
The “Deep State” is fractured. That’s why we get to see Tucker and his ilk. But that doesn’t mean there is a good and bad side to the “Deep State.” They are both evil.
We already know about the evils of current American liberalism. But the problem with Tucker-type ideology is that his thoughts, too, is based on hate: a hate now most concretely of liberals and a hate of China.
I am as disgusted with Tucker and his types and Biden and his Pinocchios. But the enemy of one should not necessarily make the other our friend. It is very dangerous to do so.
We must have more foresight than that. Do not make a friend of what you think is the lesser of evils. Evil is evil. If you think the world will be better if American can be trained to hate China instead of Russia, I think you are wrong. America should be trained to stop hating others and to love itself more, and then to work on developing itself instead of trying to spoil everyone else’s future.
Tulsi is interesting … but looking at everything she has said, I do not believe she is the messiah type that can change history. She will go with the military Borg in the end. She cannot offend it. She cannot afford to.
@ Allen
It’s not what you say ,It’s what you do ,What has this person done the past 30 years that should be
the Question , Good ,bad or evil ?
What has America done the past 246 years ? answer has being at WAR and or conflict thur out the
World for 223 years and has 876 military bases around the world and 7 million people in their prison plus
other prison and bio-labs around the world.
What do you think ????
TOM123
I am of the school that think America has not yet had a golden age. It’s best years were grown out of pillaging others.
Supposedly, MOHANDAS GANDHI was once asked: “What do you think of Western civilization?” “I think it would be a good idea,” he reputedly replied.
When authors use personal attacks to make a point, as in this article, I stop reading because they are presenting emotional biases rather than facts.
IMHO the most important question is “who wants to be the last Ukraine soldier to die for a war that can’t be won.” And one doesn’t fight a war for their country, they fight a war for their government. And maybe the Ukrainian soldier will figure out the government they are fighting for is the U.S. O’Biden administration (and their puppet masters). In Vietnam, the American combat soldier figured this out – leading to the revolt of the combat troops and “fragging.” Maybe the last Ukrainian soldier to die will be an officer – via fragmentation grenade?
In my opinion the forthcoming dark age will not involve a nuclear apocalypse (until it’s quite far advanced). I’m thinking of painting a boy sitting bareback on a horse, futuristic assault rifle on his back, looking down on a gray Victorian landscape of chimneys and workhouses.
Except for bruised egos there is no downside to neocons losing the war in Ukraine just like their was no real downside to the fleeing Afghanistan debacle.
They control the media.
They rig the elections.
Most Americans don’t really care all that much about it. The media can spin it in a way to benefit the neocons. They would probably use a defeat to increase censorship, get more money for the military industrial complex, and blame the other party.
At the end of it they would simply work on the next hoax to go after Russia and China
The neocons who provoked the war and who determine US foreign policy will not be banished or shunned in any way when the war ultimately ends in utter failure for the US. The neocons have not suffered or been held accountable for their previous foreign policy failures, and I see no one of power or influence who will call them to account this time. The entire political and media elite are complicit in the Ukraine debacle. An attack on the neocons would expose the members of the elite to criticism, which is why it will not happen.