by Eric Zuesse
Ever since Donald Trump won the U.S. Presidency, the U.S. aristocracy (who control or outright own all of the U.S.-based international corporations and especially the weapons-firms such as Lockheed Martin, whose sales-volumes depend upon increasing the nation’s ‘defense’ spending — and that requires restoring ‘the Cold War’) have been trying to abort his Presidency in any and every way they can. Above all, they have been trying to portray Trump as being secretly a Russian agent, a traitor. On February 14th, they clearly conquered him and brought him fully into line (and not merely partially into line, as before, such as by his abolishing environmental and other regulations that reduce their profits). But did this happen because he is a coward, or instead because he is a fool? How did they conquer him? At the current time, this can be determined only by close examination of the way in which he capitulated. So, the February 14th event will be scrutinized here, in detail:
Trump made unequivocally clear, on February 14th, that the new Cold War between the U.S. and Russia will continue until Russia complies with two conditions that would not only be humiliating to Russia (and to the vast majority of its citizens), but that would also be profoundly immoral. One of these two conditions would actually be impossible, even if it weren’t, in addition, immoral. For Vladimir Putin to agree to either of these two conditions, would not only be a violation of his often-expressed basic viewpoint, but it would also cause the vast majority of Russians to despise him — because they respect him for his consistent advocacy of that very viewpoint. He has never wavered from it. The support of Russians for that viewpoint is virtually universal. (This article will explain the viewpoint.)
TRUMP’S DEMAND #1: “RETURN CRIMEA”
In order to understand the Russian perspective on the first of these two issues (which any American must understand who wants to understand the astounding stupidity of Mr. Trump’s position on this matter), which is the issue of Crimea (which had for hundreds of years been part of Russia, but was then suddenly and arbitrarily transferred to Ukraine in 1954 by the Soviet dictator — and the U.S. now demands that his dictat regarding Crimea must be restored), two videos are essential for anyone to see, and here they are:
The first video (click here to see it) (and no one should read any further here who hasn’t seen that video or at least the first twelve minutes of it, because it’s crucial) shows the U.S.-engineered coup that violently overthrew the democratically elected President of Ukraine in February 2014, under the cover of ‘a democratic revolution’, which was actually nothing of the sort, and which had instead started being planned in the U.S. State Department by no later than 2011, and started being organized inside the U.S. Embassy in Kiev by no later than 1 March 2013. The head of the ‘private CIA’ firm Stratfor, has rightly called it “the most blatant coup in history”.
The second video (click here to see it) shows the massacre of Crimeans who were escaping from Kiev during the Ukrainian coup, on 20 February 2014, and which massacre came to be known quickly in Crimea, as “the Pogrom of Korsun,” which was the town where the fascists whom the Obama regime had hired were able to trap the escapees and kill many of them. That’s the incident which — occurring during the coup in Ukraine — stirred enormous fear by Crimeans of the rabid hatred toward them by the U.S.-installed regime.
Finally on the issue of Crimea, all of the Western-sponsored polls that were taken of Crimeans both before and after the plebiscite on 16 March 2014 (which was just weeks after Obama overthrew the Ukrainian President for whom 75% of Crimeans had voted) showed over 90% support by Crimeans for Crimea’s return to being again a part of Russia. Everyone agrees that there was far more than 50% support for that, among the Crimeans. Furthermore, even Barack Obama accepted the basic universal principle of the right of self-determination of peoples when it pertained to Catalans in Spain, and Scotch in UK, and neither he nor anyone else has ever been able to make any credible case for applying it there and generally, but not in Crimea — especially under these circumstances.
So, on the first issue, Trump’s demand that Putin force the residents of Crimea to become subjects of the coup-regime that Obama had just established in Ukraine, it won’t be fulfilled — and it shouldn’t be fulfilled. Obama instituted the sanctions against Russia on the basis of what he called Putin’s “conquest of land” (referring to Crimea), but Russians see it instead as Russia’s standing steadfast for, and protecting, in what was historically and culturally a part of Russia not a part of Ukraine, the right of self-determination of peoples — especially after the country of which their land had been a part for the immediately prior 60 years (Ukraine), had been conquered three weeks earlier, via a bloody coup by a foreign power, and, moreover, this was a foreign power whom Crimeans loathed. Putin will not accept Trump’s demand. Nor should he.
TRUMP’S DEMAND #2: RUSSIA END THE UKRAINE-v.-DONBASS WAR
The way that this demand was stated on February 14th was that Russia must “deescalate violence in the Ukraine,” referring to Ukraine’s invasions of its own former Donbass region, which broke away from the Obama-installed Ukrainian regime shortly after Crimea did, but which Putin (after having already suffered so much — sanctions, etc. — from allowing the Crimeans to become Russians again) refused to allow into the Russian Federation, and only offered military and humanitarian assistance to protect themselves so that not all of the roughly five million residents there would flee across the border into Russia.
Donbass had voted 90% for the Ukrainian President that Obama illegally replaced in his coup.
Francois Hollande, Angela Merkel, and Vladimir Putin, had established the Minsk negotiations and agreements, to end the hottest phase of the (Obama-caused) war between Ukraine and Donbass; and a crucial part of the Minsk-2 agreement was that Ukraine would allow the residents of Donbass a certain minimal degree of autonomy within Ukraine, as part of a new Ukrainian Federation, but Ukraine’s Rada or parliament refuses to do that, refuses to allow it, and the United States and its allies blame the residents of Donbass for that refusal by their enemies, and blame the Donbassers for the continued war, or, as Trump’s press secretary referred to it on February 14th, “violence in the Ukraine.” He’s demanding that Donbass stop the war, when Donbass is being constantly attacked by a Ukrainian regime that refuses even to fulfill a fundamental provision of the peace agreement that Hollande, Merkel, and Putin, had arranged, and that both Ukraine and Donbass signed. (Note: even Hollande and Merkel weren’t able to get the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Obama, to so much as participate in this effort for peace.)
A demand like that — for the victim to stop the fight — is impossible to fulfill. It’s like, in World War II, blaming the United States, Soviet Union, and UK, for their war against Germany, Italy, and Japan. It is a cockeyed demand, which requires only cockeyed credulous believers, for it to be taken seriously.
The way that Sean Spicer, President Trump’s press spokesperson, put this demand in his February 14th press conference, was:
President Trump has made it very clear that he expects the Russian government to deescalate violence in the Ukraine and return Crimea. At the same time, he fully expects to and wants to be able to get along with Russia.
To some people, that combination sounds idiotic. In any event, it’s not merely unrealistic; it is downright impossible. It’s not seeking peace with Russia; it is instead reasserting war against Russia.
Spicer said, with evident pride: “The President has been incredibly tough on Russia.”
A reporter at the press conference challenged that statement: “To me it seems, and I think to a lot of Americans it seems that this President has not been tough on Russia.” Spicer answered by referring to the statement that America’s new U.N. Representative, Nikki Haley, had made. She said at the U.N. on February 2nd:
I must condemn the aggressive actions of Russia. … The United States stands with the people of Ukraine, who have suffered for nearly three years under Russian occupation and military intervention. Until Russia and the separatists it supports respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, this crisis will continue. … The United States continues to condemn and call for an immediate end to the Russian occupation of Crimea. Crimea is a part of Ukraine. Our Crimea-related sanctions will remain in place until Russia returns control over the peninsula to Ukraine.
So, Spicer said that,
with respect to Russia, I think the comments that Ambassador Haley made at the U.N. were extremely forceful and very clear that until —
Q That was an announcement from Haley, not the President.
MR. SPICER: She speaks for the President. I speak for the President. All of us in this administration. And so all of the actions and all of the words in this administration are on behalf and at the direction of this President. So I don’t think we could be any clearer on the President’s commitment.
Trump is continuing Obama’s war against Russia, although he had not given America’s voters to expect anything of the kind. Some voters (this writer is one) had voted for him because Trump alleged that he strongly disagreed with his opponent Hillary Clinton about that — he outright lied to the voters, on the most important thing of all. He applied mental coercion — deceit — in order to win. But as it turns out, he’s not really opposed at all to Obama’s coup in Ukraine. Perhaps he is so stupid that he’s not even aware that it was a coup, instead of a ‘democratic revolution’ (the cover-story). Maybe he’s so stupid, that he believes Obama’s lies.
At least Hillary Clinton was honest enough to make clear that she was going to continue Obama’s policies (only worse). But she was so stupid that she couldn’t even beat Donald Trump.
Anyway, all of that is water over the damn, now.
Initially, it had seemed that the only way in which Trump was aiming to satisfy the U.S. aristocracy (owners of the military-industrial complex, among other things) about increasing the ‘defense’ budget, was going to be a buildup against Iran; but, now, that war might end up playing second fiddle.
The war with Russia can only escalate, unless or until President Trump reverses course and states publicly, and provides to the American people and the world, the clear evidence of, his predecessor’s perfidy, both in Ukraine, and in Syria. Unless and until he comes clean, and admits that the problem between the U.S. and Russia isn’t Putin, but instead Obama, it will continue escalating, right up to World War III; and here is why:
When it escalates to a traditional hot war, either in Ukraine or in Syria, the side that’s losing that traditional war will have only one way to avoid defeat: a sudden unannounced nuclear all-out blitz attack against the other side. A nuclear war will last less than 30 minutes. The side that attacks first will suffer the less damage, because it will have knocked out some of the other side’s retaliatory missiles and bombs. If Donald Trump were intelligent, then one could assume that he knows this. He’s not, so he doesn’t. He plods on, toward mutual nuclear annihilation. Perhaps, like Hillary Clinton, he believes that the U.S. has ‘Nuclear Primacy’ and so will ‘win’.
It’s all so stupid. But, even worse, it’s evil. And I’m not talking about Russia or Putin here. The real problem — on this ultimate issue, of avoiding a nuclear winter — is my own country: the United States of America. To call this a ‘democracy’ is not merely a lie; it is a bad joke. The American public are not to blame for this evil. The American aristocracy are. It’s an oligarchy gone mad.
Trump was never a principled person. He never really resisted, at all. He caved after only three weeks on the job. Clearly, then, he’s not only a psychopath; he is a fool.
Trump promised to ‘drain the swamp’. Instead, he’s feeding the alligators.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
You can’t be a coward without also being a fool.
The larger debate here and elsewhere – is angst over the death of the American State and Europe to the supranational interests of a new aristocracy. And yes, Zionist interests all ways find their way into that sewer.
The fundamental reason why Trump won and also why he capitulated, and also why America is eating itself is because America has become cowardly. Not just en masse, but individually and personally cowardly. And I mean this to hurt you Americans. The inner state appears ‘strong’ and effective because your presidents are weak and self serving cowards. You voted for a guy that you hoped would do the heavy lifting for you in return for a little cheering and flag waving while you went about your daily lives, and now you feel let down by a guy that, like you, has rolled over and looks to his own interest first.
You are a nation armed to the teeth and with the death penalty and not one iota of a chance of a French style revolution. Not one banker paying his due, Soros at large, Clinton and Bushes free to come and go, the outrages of the media. Betrayal and treason in plain sight.
I have said this before, and I’ll say it again. If you do not have the gumption to get up and do something about the insidious evil that your state has become in the world, be prepared, because that state’s rapacious greed and enslavement to debt will put its rowdier sons and daughters in uniform and march them off to an unwinnable war, and there the rest of the world will start and finish the job that you have failed to do at home.
It’s do or die time, America.
Trump has been good for just two things:
He stopped Hillary.
He gave you hope, and ‘hope ushers in revolution – as earthquakes are proceeded by bright weather.’
Funny, I was thinking today about selfishness, and how it has effectively become pathologized through the body politic – and not just in the US.
It’s the inevitable consequence of total self-interest where the end- point is cultural sociopathy, driven by a select group of psychopaths in power.
Even a coward has the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong, choosing wrong deliberately from fear.
So putting US current maladies down to cowardice is somewhat unfair to cowards.
I know, this place is not the Cafe, but it belongs here :
Things will not gonna move forward
When the fighter becomes a coward
Who is leading the promised fight
Doing wrong instead of right ?
Those who lead, but stay behind.
Don’t know where my previous comment went, but this proves my point:
https://www.rt.com/usa/377492-cia-deputy-torture-lawsuit/
Eric, I think the problem is that the president isn’t the top dog and he isn’t the one making the decision. Obama used to say that “they” might let him do what he wants second term. Trump isn’t as easy a tool, but there is something legal that the president has to administer the laws of the country and Congress passed the bill saying Russia invaded Crimea so we, by law, have to war with Russia to save Ukraine. With all the commitments we must have made to the elite in Ukraine and Europe to do so must be monstrous. And Trump would be between the Dems who want to impeach him, and the Neo-Con Republicans, both of which want war with Russia.
Or maybe he is a populist candidate and Russia isn’t as high on his agenda as you would like to think. Trump wasn’t that popular to begin with and he didn’t have the benefit of coming up through a three letter agency or a career in politics. He doesn’t have allies and must pick his battles. Obviously this is one he isn’t going to fight right now.
So alright Eric, you’ve just been elected president. A vocal minority wants you impeached and a silent minority would just assume have you killed and replace you with Pence. Yet somehow you move to should unite your enemies by engaging in premature detente with Russia. That is what would be foolish. The current situation conflict is frozen right now and it is fairly straight forward to keep it that way. It’s funny how the Russians know this situation better.
What would you do if you were in the hot seat? Purge the CIA and get yourself assassinated?
@ Mr Pindo:
“Or maybe he is a populist candidate and Russia isn’t as high on his agenda as you would like to think [..]”
I tend to agree with ^ that statement.
Who in here, or elsewhere for that matter, are putting themselves on Trump’s shoes? All I see is a lot of projection; he should be doing this, he should be doing that [etc]. Truth is he’s under a titanic and unrelenting attack from all sides and he’s only been sworn-in into the presidency, like, what? Three weeks? Four? Donno, I lost track since things are moving so fast, it’s hard to keep up :/
Chances are this guy wakes up in the morning thinking… “What now? What new crisis I’ll need to stamp out before it gets out of hand?”
I know I do wake up like that myself now every morning, before I fire up the computer to check what I missed while I was asleep, so I can relate to that, to a modest degree.
If I was Trump, foreign policy would be low on my list of priorities. If you’re the Captain of a ship, and you have a hull breach, plus systems malfunctioning left right and centre, your main concern is to plug the hole first, unless you want the whole operation to end at the bottom of the ocean… however vital functional radar systems maybe, they wouldn’t be a priority to fix at a time like that, no.
Perhaps that’s the reason why the Russians are being relatively patient with him [Trump]. Not even Putin managed to “drain his own swamp” overnight either […and after how many years? He’s still struggling to purge the 5th column infesting Russia], why would they, the Russians [or anybody else] expect Trump to achieve what Putin couldn’t in a fortnight?
Or in other words: he really should be concentrating on delivering his promised domestic policies [hence: plugging the hull breach]. Oh! But his opponents are not letting him do that, are they?
It’s been fake-scandal after fake-scandal [have you seen anything like it with previous US presidents? No? Me neither], distracting him at every turn, even the Flynn debacle it’s something most of us will forget in about a week or two time, and why? Because something else would come out by then. Mark my words.
No wonder why the latest episode of Cross Talk decided to go with Bannon [as their main topic] rather than going around in circles about the Flynn resignation, which will lead nowhere at least for the time being, and not until we get all the facts.
CrossTalk: Steve Bannon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUR5sglQWXo
Hence: the pending question is… after Flynn, who’s next?
My money is on this guy, but all bets are accepted ;-)
Washington Is Out to Get Steve Bannon
http://www.unz.com/article/washington-is-out-to-get-steve-bannon/
-TL2Q
Steve Bannon is an English spy in other words his loyalty is to england rather than to usa.
The same evangical and Baptist lot who worship English queen more than America.
@ Socho
“Steve Bannon is an English spy [etc]”
Can you back ^ that up with any sort of evidence or… you’re just talking out of your butt?
Otherwise; what’s the difference between what you just said, and the Fake-News Media accusations that Trump is Putin’s Manchurian Candidate? (for example)
Further… I’m not so sure if Bannon is a royalist, maybe he is maybe he isn’t, I don’t know, I haven’t checked that far, but if he has any religious affiliations, I thought he was supposed to be a Catholic [this has been mentioned in the Cross Talk link above].
But hey! Look at the bright side… maybe he’s an IRA sleeper-cell. Who knows? Let’s just add fuel to the fire and let’s all wildly speculate about anything and everything, shall we? :/
-TL2Q
This isn’t about “Russia.” It’a also not about Trump’s “popularity.” It’s about avoiding WW III — nuclear war. We’re now on the path to nuclear war, not only because Barack Obama and his coup in Ukraine and his lies that Russia ‘stole’ Crimea (as opposed to the reality that America stole Ukraine) and ‘should’ ‘therefore’ suffer sanctions and U.S. missiles on Russia’s doorstep (‘because’ ‘Russia stole Crimea’ placed us onto this path), but now also because Trump is such garbage that he doesn’t call Obama out on his lies, and on his having placed us onto this terrifying path to nuclear war on the basis of his lies, which Tump will renounce and condemn unless Trump is a liar just as despicable as the man he has replaced. That’s what this is about: the necessity, above all else, for Trump to call out Obama’s lies ON THAT! Because, if he doesn’t do this, then Trump will, essentially, be the person who pulls the trigger on Obama’s gun and kills us all. It’s his choice, and the whole world needs to understand it — on the basis of the truth no longer just Obama’s (and now also Trump’s) lies.
Funny, your entire post made it sound like it is all about Russia, and I’m curious what you would do in his place?
How about I go first. Lets speculate on waking up in the morning as Trump with typical assets.
Inside the Beltway your support consists almost entirely of the MIC and those big oil companies that defected from the American multinational faction. They are antagonistic towards Russia for a variety of reasons, none of which are quickly remedied.
Outside the beltway most of your popular supporters are American first’ers with a largely isolationist attitude. They care nothing about Russia.
A sadly short list.
What about liabilities?
The radical left is now mainstream and controls the Media. They are hostile to you in away that is unprecedented in American history.
There is a three letter agency that is actively planning a coup d’etat against you.
The Banks and American multinationals put their weight behind Hillary and are hostile as well seeing as they are the main beneficiaries to America’s globalist policy.
And that’s just the beginning; there are so many more. Every country in the world hates you personally. Eric Zuesse hates you personally, and on and so forth… All in all it’s not a good day to be president.
I thought it might be important to mention the notion of zugzwang because this is exactly the starting position the new president finds himself in. Obama’s handlers were skilled. If it is any consolation Russia understands his position well and seem to be largely accommodating it in spite of the bellicose rhetoric. And in this case, burning political capital for Russian rapprochement plays into your enemies narrative and it alienates those inside the beltway without gaining anything from those outside. Out of many bad moves this is one could be potentially the most damaging.
In closing, I’m not sure what going off the rails with hysterical name calling is supposed to promote. You call him a coward for not committing political and potentially actual suicide. That isn’t very sensible. If your goal is to stir up anti trump sentiment like the others on the radical left, you may realize that the next guy in charge will be picked properly and your WWIII fantasy may yet come true.
Point of terminology:
“The radical left is now mainstream and controls the Media. They are hostile to you in away that is unprecedented in American history.”
I’m radical left — mostly anarchical-socialist (or left libertarian,or left communist, depending on what flavor you like). The people you are talking about is hardly leftist, but liberal, neoliberal, neocon, zionist, imperialist, or authoritarian — could use various labels, but they are not actually left.
(Maybe call me a mortal Elf or half Elf, more grey elf than Eledhrim, at least in disposition — and I hate the orcs, goblins, trolls, and balrogs).
As for Trump, I’m willing to accept the ogre, or Gollum (Smeagol), corrupted by the One Ring of power, as Frodo had to do, for the time being until we can come up with someone better — not much choice for now.
The terms are all propagandized and messed up by now, but I do like to keep them straight, as I can.
Sure, I agree. It’s obvious they are not leftist in the traditional sense. Honestly I’m just using the term in the manner of MSM because I’m at a loss for something that accurately describes this sort of movement.
“I’m at a loss for something that accurately describes this sort of movement.”
Apologists of neoliberalism, and neoconservative warmongering, with left culture war sympathies.
blue said: “I’m radical left — mostly anarchical-socialist (or left libertarian,or left communist, depending on what flavor you like) [..]”
I agree with blue, I’m a leftist and a “radical” myself too :)
There was a guest in Cross Talk [at the link I provided] who took objection with Lavelle calling Trump’s opposition: “the Left.” He said that we should go back to the historical true definitions of the words: Right, Centre and Left, otherwise we can’t have a coherent discourse if the meaning of “Left” is turned on its head. And… something similar is happening to the term “Right” too: anybody even slightly leaning towards the Right from the Centre, is automatically labeled “Far Right,” which is of course ridiculous.
And yes, there was a time (in galaxy far far away…) when Liberalism included in their political ideology typical elements from the traditional Left like; true Social Justice, promotion of Social Safety Net Programs, things like that… but that time is long dead and gone. Now it’s all about neo-liberal economics, free markets, free trading and identity politics :/
So, Mr. Pindo, just call them “regressive” Left (I’m fine with that), or Fake-Left, or just cut to the chase and call them what I call them: Libtards ;-)
-TL2Q
Maybe neolibcons?
Myself, I like anarcho-socialism, but I am also very conservative in some ways as well as very left — and yet none of that because I want to look at each situation and find the right and most productive way of handling it, and get rid of the labels and identity politics.
Trump — he is terrible and way too rightist, but he is in now and my conservatism says he has to be supported as president, even while opposing his bad policies, because without the law and constitution, and orderly process, everything blows up, and we have to work through what we have to come out on the other side. No lynch mobs!
I support personal responsibility (and power) as well everyone working together and supporting each other: it’s a natural mix, but it doesn’t fit in with right or left. Reality is not linear, but very multidimensional. If a couple gives birth to an ogre instead of a child, then they should raise the ogre to be the best ogre it can be, because that’s the ‘human’ thing to do. About the same if you elect an ogre as president.
No one is completely wise or foolish, completely courageous or cowardly. Sticking a label on him is not helpful.
“The radical left is now mainstream and controls the Media.”
That is exactly what rush limbaugh and all the rest of israel’s nazi zio-gay media network (“conservative” talk radio the sods label themselves :D ) spew. The freak netanyahoo thinks the same, he called the corporate media “Bolshevik”. You picked a apt nick for yourself, I’ll give you that.
Nearly all media in the US, nearly 90% of all broadcasting and publishing, is controlled by 6 companies. They all have shown incredible bias and not just in the election. Just turn to any channel and it is obvious. Not just by the new propaganda but also their programming. The US is saturated by it. They actively censor other viewpoints and force others to to the same through their political and economic influence.
You may object to the term “radical left” and that’s fine but the objective reality is that they are hostile to america, it’s traditional values, and to politicians that don’t tow the party line of globalist multiculturalism.
Also, who said it is a nickname?
What I would do if I were in Trump’s place is what I said he should be doing, which is for him to be using the “bully pulpit” of the White House, and all of the Executive agencies, and Radio Free Europe, and all else that are under the U.S. Chief Executive’s control (in one way or another) to communicate to the America people, and to U.S. allies, the following: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2017/02/things-will-get-worse-u-s-stops-lying-crimea.html
or, in other words, to lay the blame not on Russia but on Obama, and on the Bushes, and on the Clintons, BUT ESPECIALLY ON OBAMA (whom, after all, he won the White House by opposing (Obama’s proxy Hillary).
If Trump doesn’t make the case for ending the war against Russia that had started in 1990 as I here described it,
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/09/how-america-double-crossed-russia-and-shamed-the-west.html
then there is no way he can be a transformative U.S. President, there is no way that he — and the U.S. that he now leads — will even possibly be able to achieve what must be achieved but never was: the type of international peace, the real end of “the Cold War,” in a way that won’t return in an even more dangerous fashion as a hot war leading to WW III.
I think Eric, you are running too fast, no surprise here, the events are also running very fast. Today in Bonn (Germany) Tillerson and Lavrov have met for first time officially. This is a first short step and surely will be followed by further steps, not to talk about the Putin and Trump personal meeting, and here lies the whole fear they have and promote in the media. To make enough chaos and a bad atmosphere as they could in order to make this meeting between the two leaders almost impossible or poisonous. Of course, they know that Putin cannot be engaged in such a miserable play, but they are doing everything possible to do that with Trump, cornering him relentlessly. The question is : will they succeed ? Trump faces a terrible fight, and here comes the support in question : where are his supporters in mass, are they really so scared by the relentless attacks against Trump better willing to go to war with Russia ? that would be a mass treason, treason of their ideals, of their souls.
Yes — Twitter is fine but doesn’t go nearly far enough, or reach that many people (many are not on computer). Someone suggested (forget who) he start a ‘Trump TV channel’. Also radio is powerful — people listen to it while they are working. I also wonder if he has franking privilege by which he could send letters. But he does need to get his public presentation together more and avoid factual errors — he is no FDR giving fireside chats.
Maybe he is working on this — it’s very early yet.
I’m just now about the hear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL3yF9wYR3U
President Donald Trump Full Press Conference Addresses Ties to Russia, Leaks, and “Fake News” 2/16
@ blue:
“I’m just now about the hear
President Donald Trump Full Press Conference Addresses Ties to Russia, Leaks, and “Fake News” 2/16”
I didn’t watch the full press conference (I can’t watch videos, I’ll try to catch the transcript someplace), but from snips I’ve seen here and there, and seeing the Lame-Stream-Media already having their panties on a bunch over it, I’d say he came out swinging. But as always with Trump, it wasn’t without a few hiccups here and there. Well… what can I say? He ain’t no Nigel Farage, let me tell ya, but he did his best considering the pressure he’s under. He seemed to go back to his no-nonsense style of communication that whether you like or hate Trump, most have to agree is a breath of fresh air to the stale, mausoleum-type atmosphere that plagued main-stream political rhetoric for the last… I don’t know, 20 years (!?)
Afterwards, the BBC had a couple of guests to comment on Trump’s conference, one was a Fake-News anti-Trump [vomit inducing, so let’s skip that] the other one was someone from the White House speaking to this obnoxious little rat from the BBC [Newsnight]
I was laughing all the way through, he really let it rip and lay it down on the big-eared little troll, to the point, near the end, the BBC idiot didn’t know what to with himself anymore. It was beautiful. I hope someone would upload the vid, worth a watch, at least for the giggles =)
PS: BTW; “neolibcons” sounds perfectly fine to me (as I’ve said before, they’re both Siamese twins conjoined at the hip)
-TL2Q
I’m only an hour in so far (but the garage cats are fed). and it sounded good.
I like Trump, even though his politics are way out from mine. Frankly he strikes me as an honest, well intentioned, and affable fellow who is fun to be around, with wrongheaded conservative ideas, and too much into ego, competition, and other capitalist nonsense. If he is conning me then he is very good at it, but I’d have a good lawyer look over the contract closely before I bought a house from him. He doesn’t make my skin crawl like the neolibcons do.
Trump garbage? Aren’t you a little overreacting here? President Trump personally didn’t say any crazy things about Russia yet, let alone that the Trump Admin. would act crazy against Russia. And there’s very little reason to think he (they) will, unlike what any of the other candidates would’ve done.
The thugs & thieves, child-murdering satanic pedophiles (Roth-child mob) who run the entire system (virtually all big companies and banks), all US presidents since GHW Bush, and virtually the whole media, are garbage (rock-bottom trash) and pathological liars.
Populist ???
Definition of a populist ??
Someone who listen to the people & does what the people wanted him to do !
Vox Populi ! Vox Dei !
Thank you, Eric, for putting the catastrophe of Trump’s election and his subsequent cowardice/stupidity into shimmering perspective. People around the world, including myself north of the border, wait, with apprehension and queasy stomachs, to learn of the next blunder and painful stumble.
‘Interesting times’
unfortunately for us, these 2 categories are not mutually exclusive, so he could very well be both.
Afterall, he showed his cowardice by betraying Flynn, and he proved he was a fool by demanding that Russia “return” Crimea.
So far, on several issues he is turning out to be a huge dissapointment to those who dared to tune out the manufactured noise and supported his candidacy.
I couldn’t agree more.
Whatever momentary respite, or ‘rational’ gain I considered made by the electoral defeat of the Clinton/neoconazionist warmonger cabal, rested on the cessation of obvious US provocations to war with Russia in Syria.
This respite/gain has now been negated by this ludicrous – ridiculous – statement by Trump, prodding War in Ukraine. As already pointed out , a proven CIA/USAID coup, where the ‘western interests’ are lined up behind identified fascist entities. Chickens home to roost.
Anyone stupid or bent enough to say “Russia has to “give back Crimea,” is revealed as dangerously witless, and continuing the USAMO war projection.
Victoria Nuland isn’t Secretary of State. It isn’t all bad.
Eric, you vacillate between ascribing policy to named politicians and occasionally zeroing in on the arms industry.
I wonder if you know that The Weekly Standard morphed from being an obscure, money-losing hobby of Murdoch’s to the vanguard of the neocon invasion of government at about the time as an interesting new person appeared on their Board of Directors: the vice-president for strategic planning of Lockheed Martin.
Both the US and the EU(+ fools like Canada,Australia etc)…they are THE 4th Reich.
Operation paperclip 2.0
These entities are dead(quadrllion of debts impossible to ever repay).They just need a big war.
Bariloche, Argentina is a great place to golf. Ask Obama.
@ natoistan
Yeah. The 4th Reich. We are watching fascism (integration of corporate and government interests) morph into proper Nazism in the US. For the same reasons, too: the phenomenal German economic model of the mid 30’s required continual expansion or else hit the buffers. And following the same trajectory: it will whip its serfs into a frenzy and send them off on a big territory grabbing expedition aka, war.
Similar economically driven, centrally controlled, aristocracy led expansions have swept across Europe over the last two millenia: Roman, Muslim invasion, Reformation; Napoleonic – the real first world war – WWI (Britain-led) and WWII (Germany-led). Now its the time of the US. Will they prevail? Well, looking at the historical record ………
“Trump was never a principled person.”
Trump is a billionaire, the only principle he knows is money. And if the establishment break his business (look his rants for boycott of her daughter’s trash), he’ll run to be in line with establishment.
IS it Trump or Spicer saying this? Either way it shows Trump as a fool to let it be said.
But at least here is a legitimate criticism — as opposed to the idiots who talk about impeaching Trump with the emoluments clause, and obviously have not read the constitution regarding this.
As I said before, we dumped the demon for an ogre. Now w have to deal with the ogre. This article addresses the ogre issues instead the left/Democratic lynch-mob nonsense and lies about Trump.
“On February 14th, they clearly conquered him and brought him fully into line”.
What is this about? What happened on the 14th? What does Zeuss mean? (Flynn resigned on the 13th). Trump talking about Russia? How is that “they … brought him fully into line”? This makes no sense to me. What did ‘they’ do on the 14th?
“Clinton was honest enough to make clear that she was going to continue Obama’s policies” — nope — got that wrong. It was never Obama’s policies, but Clinton’s and the neo’s. Obama was just acting the part, as puppet actors do, and had virtually no policies of his own. He’s a Borg Collective moron.
“The American public are not to blame for this evil. The American aristocracy are”. And who permitted the aristocracy to get where they are and do what they do, if not the public who went to sleep and were willing idiots? If it’s solely the fault of the aristocracy then there is nothing the public can do about it, against that all powerful Borg Collective: ‘resistance is futile”. Ot blame it all on Trump, Clinton, and the rest of politicians and media people in past years — but heaven forbid anyone should wake up and open their mouths to object and tell the truth — or even seek the truth?
There is too much of this that just does not properly hang together, such as what the causal event was that led to the resignation at that particular time.
“And who permitted the aristocracy to get where they are and do what they do, if not the public who went to sleep and were willing idiots?”
You’re into blaming-the-victim there. The person who has been fooled is not the perpetrator! The person who deceived is. What kind of mental illness do you have which turns that relationship around? If you’re saying that both a rapist and his victim are to blame for her being raped, the problem is with you, and not ONLY with the rapist. And it’s still not at all with the person who was raped, no matter what she might have done or not done that might have blocked the rapist’s success. The problem is with the victimizer and with persons (such as you) who refuse to recognize that crucial basic moral reality.
You think, and say, I am mentally ill? How sweet of you! :-D
Apparently I have enough sanity to not be taken in by the lies of the politicians and con men — and that is not a problem with me. And that’s more than I can say for the hundreds who I have talked to, explaining the reality, who fled into illogical fantasy for their comfort or their wallet.
BTW — this is not about rape or violent assault. What gave you that idea? And why would you think they are equivalent? Does not the person who is being raped at least know they are being raped, and who is doing it?
Bush messed up the ‘fool me once’ quote, but the original isn’t too bad. The people (as a whole) have allowed themselves to be fooled for decades, and refused to learn, preferring to double down and justify their delusions, throwing critical thinking out the window. Not all, of course: for some the true situation was obvious. But for most they would need to be severly beaten about the head by the fascists before they would even acknowledge having a headache, much less who did it to them. Their beliefs and their myths were more important to them, and for most people, being presented with the facts just results in their becoming more defensive and dismissive of and strike out at those who point out the fallacies and the truth.
I seem to have struck a nerve with you. Perhaps you should consider why you so sensitive.
Blue, I enjoy your posts, but you are not being honest here. The people had no choice in this election (sure, we told them about Jill Stein and they should have listened, but she was not on the podium which should have been open to all candidates but wasn’t.)
By the way, a judge has now found it illegal for the media oligarchs to have restricted the public forums in this last election to candidates having a 15 percent whatever it is, so making it impossible for third party candidates to be heard by the general public which is frantically trying to make ends meet in a slanted playingfield where only the rich can live lives in which leisure time isn’t occupied by that mandatory second lowpaying job and heaven forfend you get sick or need dental care or want an education.
Stop beating up on deplorables! They did the best they could.
I’ve been at for a very long time, and it not just this election. There were many things which might have been done all along, for decades, that people were unwilling to do or understand, down the primary levels and in between elections and in non-electoral areas.
40 years ago, for instance, there was a lot of corruption in the local Boy Scout council, such as lying about the number of members in the troops to HUD, embezzling, and appointing people to volunteer district positions instead of having elections — and there was a lot of corporate influence involved. A few of tried to end it, talking to other volunteers, until we were blue in the face, and made only marginal progress. Eventually the crooks moved on to the national level, while the county organization went downhill and the majority of troops folded. A while later the other volunteers, who had ignored it and done nothing to resist, asked what happened, and why no one had said anything to them about it at the time.
Now tell me, who was to blame?
This apathy and blindness has been going on for many decades. As unions were destroyed and exploitation of workers grew, many working people blamed the unions, and union members, for ‘slacking off’ on the job, and supported the companies. The media increased their lies and people still kept paying them for it. Stores gouged in their pricing and people just kept buying from them because it was ‘convenient’. People refused not only to resist, but to even acknowledge what was happening. And yes — some said I was not being honest, or was deluded.
Shakespeare said it in ~Julius Caesar~ — the fault, dear Brutus, is not in the stars but in ourselves.
Right! And so too did the people who voted for Hillary, and all of the people who wasted their votes on Jill Stein and on other candidates who had no chance at all of winning.
Blaming the public instead of blaming the aristocracy that’s manipulating them is disgusting, contemptible.
I never said the aristocracy had no responsibility, but when you say the public has no responsibility you also condemn them to having no power, and no ability to become aware. But many do understand what is happening, and the number is growing. They are not children or stupid as you make them all out to be, and I find your insistence that everyone plays the gullible victim to be greatly in error, to say the least — and truthfully, the typical liberal ‘snowflake’ position. and far more manipulating than to say that the other should wake up and smell the coffee.
One may not have the power to resist being exploited or victimized, but can certainly recognize what is happening to them, if one musters the courage and will to do it. But as for voting do you really think those who voted for Stein or other alternative candidate ‘wasted their vote’? Are you trying to pawn off that old propaganda?
But as for voting, there is much more to real democracy than just picking one of the two major candidates anointed by those in power. Democracy is what one lives all year round, in all aspects of life, if one is serious, and that included thinking and seeking various forms and sources of information — and now that’s almost trivial in comparison to what I had to do when young, now that the internet is available, even by using the computer at the public library as I started with before I could afford my own hookup.
So now I have been called both mentally ill and dishonest ( and even an extraterrestrial reptile by a moderator of a ‘peace group’) for insisting that people can and should be responsible for their own minds and seek the truth — which is rather typical of Americans and their emotionalism in my experience. And this gets to the heart of the matter — what is the matter with this country. I know lots of other ‘deplorables’ who woke themselves up, partly because they were victimized to a greater extent than the comfortable football couch potatoes who did not have to work three jobs to survive, and partly just because they had the guts to see what saw, listen to what they heard, and know what they knew. Those people — the ones I knew with guts — no one was able to manipulate them because they lived in reality. Some are smart and some aren’t, but they are all honest, and honestly questioned, and don’t live in fantasy, or accept the propaganda without question.
I say ‘power to the people! (and here’s a way you can get it)’, not ‘aww, you poor dumb dears, none of it is your fault and you can’t do anything about it, so just have a nice day and keep on sleeping until they come for you’. We don’t need gatekeepers, sympathy, or pessimism to know where the cold wind is blowing or that we need to defend ourselves. We are not many yet here in the US, but we are growing in number and waking up.
Save you contempt for someone who cares what you say about it — I’ve become far too accustomed to such pronouncements over the years, and spent far too much time helping to wake up those who were ready to break through the illusions, as well as those who already had.
BTW, if talking about victims of the aristocracy, who could do nothing to stop it, first on the list are the people in Central & South America, Vietnam, Afghanistan,, Ukraine, Georgia, Middle east — who for the most part do know who is behind the killing, and yet many Americans supported those aggressive wars and atrocities.
When the guy down the block, when I was trying to stop the war on Iraq, insists that Saddam gassed 200,000 of his own people and justifies the war, or when someone tells me that Gaddafi is evil and we should bomb Libya, and deserved to be sodomized and murdered, then I have to say those Americans are not the victims, but the enablers, and at fault.
And now when people are laughing at Bill Maher making outrageous and dishonest fun of Trump, then I have to point at those people not as victims but enablers, and blameworthy.
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The inhabitants of Scotland are “Scots” (or else “scottish”), but not “scotch”. Scotch is a drink…
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Thanks for calling that to my attention!
US increadingly reminds me of the Ukraine.
It seems to be an article of faith among its political establishment to assert US ‘identity’ in terms of ‘not-Russia.’
Just like the Ukraine.
And every bit as fascist.
A very insightful observation!
On February 14th, they clearly conquered him and brought him fully into line (and not merely partially into line, as before, such as by his abolishing environmental and other regulations that reduce their profits). But did this happen because he is a coward, or instead because he is a fool? How did they conquer him?
@Eric —
I got no further into your essay (so far) than the above.
Three weeks into a four-year (hopefully eight) term, you are so certain that Trump has lost the contest because one of his pawns is off the board that you fill cyberspace here with hopelessness and despair.
I think you might profitably (in the long run) suspend your certainty a minute and consider The Game of the Century :
“The Game of the Century is a chess game played between Donald Byrne and 13-year-old Bobby Fischer in the Rosenwald Memorial Tournament in New York City on October 17, 1956, which Fischer won. The competition took place at the Marshall Chess Club. It was nicknamed “The Game of the Century” by Hans Kmoch in Chess Review. Kmoch wrote, “The following game, a stunning masterpiece of combination play performed by a boy of 13 against a formidable opponent, matches the finest on record in the history of chess prodigies.
“. . . Donald Byrne (1930–1976) was one of the leading American chess masters at the time of this game. He won the 1953 U.S. Open Championship, and later represented the United States in the 1962, 1964, and 1968 Chess Olympiads. He became an International Master in 1962, and probably would have risen further if not for ill health.
“. . . Byrne (playing White), after a standard opening, makes a seemingly minor mistake on move 11, losing tempo by moving the same piece twice. Fischer pounces with brilliant sacrificial play, culminating in a queen sacrifice on move 17. Byrne captures the queen, but Fischer gets far too much material for it – a rook, two bishops, and a pawn. At the end, Fischer’s pieces coordinate to force checkmate, while Byrne’s queen sits, useless, on the other side of the board.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_of_the_Century_%28chess%29
@Anonymous
LOL, you’re seriously comparing Donald the 140 Tweet King, the High School Popularity Winner to a chess grand master?
Once the neocons neutralise Steve Bannon, Trump will be left stranded in his 1 minute tweet space, flip flopping and talking whatever shit he’ll come up in the moment to try to defend his ego.
Still, as the Saker said, it’s not nearly as bad as having Killary as a prez, and it will provide a lot more entertainment. Hassan Nasrallah got it right with his ‘optimistic’ view.
I’m actually hoping that Trump will get impeached, as that will cause a lot more self-implosion and infighting within the US – reducing the energy and focus for causing chaos overseas… The worse case scenario is Trump stepping down on his own, and I do consider it a serious possibility. Narcissists like him have very fragile egos and right now he’s getting incapacitated (in terms of the actual power) like never before in his life. I don’t see Trump being a willing 100% presidential puppet such as Obama.
There’s no explaining the obvious to someone determined not to see it.
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/157194850226/two-monday-mind-blowers
Only a Merkan, with their gift for narcissistic hyperbole, would call ANY game of chess the ‘Game of the Century’, thereby ignoring later Fischer, Tal, Kasparov, Spassky, Carlsen, Karpov, etc, etc.
Every official Trump nominated had to genuflect before the (misnamed) “mainstream” attitudinal icons and make supportive noises about them during the confirmation process. Otherwise they would have been blocked. Doing this left the orcs without plausible excuses to deny them their positions.
Apparently it is expedient to continue this charade for the time being while the White House gets its act well enough together to start taking on targets and forcing them to surrender or destroying them.
But, IMO, mistaking the Flynn dismissal for an signal of Trump’s actual intensions is like mistaking Congress’ ritual fellation of Netanyahu for the expression of authentic esteem and agreement. Keeping personal convictions personal and staying congruent with party platforms when speaking in public is expedient for survival.
“Talk is cheap” and “actions speak louder than words.” Let’s get a clear sense of the thrust of the White House from the initiatives his appointees take. Reading tea leaves (and animal entrails) is more entertainment than analysis except to the extent that this communicates information and pattern-recognitions of value in it (indeed abundant here).
“What is the hardest thing for your eyes to see ? It’s what’s right in front of your face.” (Goethe, translated idiomatically).
The deep state waged an unrelenting campaign of psychological warfare all through the election. “Hillary is a shoo-in.” “Trump stands absolutely no chance of being elected.” “Polls show Clinton winning in a landslide.” Yada yada yada yada.
Remember ?
Now it’s the same meme blasting out of every available media outlet except for Clinton being out of the picture and changing it from the future to the present perfect tense. Trump has lost ! Trump goes down in flames ! Trump’s position hopeless ! The game is over ! MSM orthodoxy triumphant !
Wake up and smell the coffee, folks !
Once again, We have met the enemy, and he is us. I know we have because we’re broadcasting his talking points for all we’re worth. The psychological warfare never stopped.
Suggestion repeated enough becomes consensus becomes conviction becomes despair becomes surrender.
That reality just b*tch slapped me.
The change is refreshing.
Mark my words.
The Zionists are going to burn the US to the ground.
It is not a matter of “if” or “when”….but a matter of “who will rule after this nuclear war”.
Will it be Israel ruling from Jerusalem ?
As for the Western populations, your comfortable lives have only 1 purpose, to lift and sustain the Western Elite and their banking system.
Are you to blame for what will happen to you at the hands of the elite?
Of course you are, just as the German people were to blame for Nazi Germany or the Japanese people for being nuked.
You stayed silent or were complicit in the crimes of your country.
Some nations are tested while others are punished. You will be part of the second group.
After a nuclear war the only ones left to rule will be few hardy bacteria and virii, if that.
Radiation will kill off everything else and all the food sources.
Patagonia will be just fine and there will be some cockroaches left on top of the nuclear ash heap to rule
All wars are plotted by england to be farmed out for usa and Islamic ISIS terrorists to fight on behalf of British English parasites.syrian war and both world wars were plotted and run by English race.
As a grandmother who voted for Trump so that my grandchildren would not suffer or endure a world war and its horrific consequences, I have been watching Ukraine and Syria closely. And I feel that fear in the pit of my stomach that the Donald is either uninformed or indeed, as this writer indicates, caved in 3 weeks. That is very terrifying. Indeed, Putin did right by Crimea and an election where over 85% supported a return to Russia is hard to deny. The military industrial complex warned by Eisenhower is alive and well in Washington. You know, I was on the streets in 1966-68 against the Vietnam War; we knew that policy would fail then and that Johnson was lying. We were correct. I had hope with Trump and now … no hope.
“The American public are not to blame for this evil. ”
I disagree. The idiocy displayed by American public in recent months is breath taking. They only deserve a civil war or some sort of punishment for their idiocy.
Hard to disagree with your statement. ‘It is not us it is our government’ excuse have been used and abused for decades by Americans, while country by country have been destroyed and millions of people have been killed by those you let kill in your name.
When the people give up their ‘helpless victimized snowflake’ position, drummed into them by the liberals and the oligarchs’ propaganda, and accept responsibility for it, they also get a good measure of power to end it. Many like to say that you cant fight city hall, but in truth, you *can* fight city hall if you organize, learn, and act together (proved many times).
US deep state still wants to divide the Sino-Ruso-Iranian axis by picking at them separately and waging a different policy towards each of them. To me its apparent that they want to beckon Russia but isolate China and Iran. Putin must never forget this in the back of his mind.
“Is Donald Trump a Coward, or Just a Fool?”
Neither applies to what he has done or currently is doing. He may well be a coward, but very unlikely a fool. These fail to account for what is happening. He is a frontman, though. For the very forces intent on destroying Russia who are making all this anti Russian drama. This is a common strategy among pindo politicians. They feign certain views, then quickly drop them once they served the intended purpose, compromise and sell out.
Trump’s stance on Russian relations was never serious, it was part of psywar techniques to give him an air of independence and being reasonable. The speed with which he switched over to the zionazi/nazi establishment ordained view shows he shared the same views all along and was simply being dishonest.
This whole trump is a Russia loving traitor campaign is psywar directed at the population and is designed to provide trump reasons to switch ovrr to the anti Russia he’s had all along and allow him to keep a semblance of credibility, while at the same time, convince the population this anti Russian position is the correct one.
As I wrote this common practice in american politics. Variations of this manipulative strategy are as american as it gets.
One saw this planned switch beginning after trump had a meet with the spooks a few days before his inauguration. After that meet, he started saying the Russians did “hack the election”, just not the actual vote. Before he said there was no evidence. After that was when he began to switch from his fake neutrality about Russia to conform to the zionazi/nazi anti-Russia propaganda govno.
Perhaps he can’t do some things until he gets that remote controlled explosive tracking chip they planted in him removed? Or maybe planted in a family member?
I hear the CIA has six ways from Sunday to get him — that’s what Schumer told him.
It does seem he was impressed by whatever they told him. I suppose any group who has already killed a president should be taken seriously.
I’ve pretty much given up thinking trump was serious about his mending relations with Russia and ceasing american military aggression. I think it was calculated voter manipulation by his handlers. The ones who had him pick pence as his VP.
It is possible that flynn was genuine about mending Russian relations, though. This article claims that:
Trump Decapitates the Russia Peace Initiative
http://www.globalresearch.ca/trump-decapitates-the-russia-peace-initiative/5575052
If flynn was genuine, as that article claims, this raises the possibility he and the pence regime differed on this and flynn’s forcing out was due to this. IE: flynn wasn’t booted because of the media anti Russia hype, but because the pence regime also shares those same anti-Russia views and flynn did not want to go along.
Seriousness, integrity, and commitment are rare these days, as is forthrightness and honesty. But then, rare too is delving for truth, thinking through positions and policies, and direct statements and discussion.
You can see it in interviews and debates. One person lays out a reasoned position and gives some supporting facts, and the other points out: ‘look at the ugly tie that commie poopy-head is wearing — how could he be taken seriously?” People just make stuff up on the spur of the moment and say whatever they think will make them look good or get what they want. The dialectical processes have broken down — especially in politics.
‘The key to success is being able to look authentic’. (Or similar http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/12/05/fake-honesty/ )
So how can one tell what is happening or what someone thinks, assuming they do consistently think something and aren’t just making up blather on the spot? For one, we have to look at what is said and done over time, and while Trump has said many things, and hasn’t time to do much yet, what is emerging is not reassuring. Was he faking it then, faking it now, or was there any center or anything solid there to begin with? I don’t really know. Same with the rest of them, mostly.
A half decent actor can seem to be anybody, and some can change their ‘personality’ at will when playing a role, and fool others. Many people don’t even know themselves who they are and are always playing a different personas even to themselves. Psychopaths (and salesmen and politicians) are specialists in this, but most everyone does it to some extent. We have to look at peoples’ track record, but even then people can play a role for many years on end.
Mr. T is an incredibly great soul, wise and selfless.
Contrary to all of us, couch army, who were shocked and awaken by the victory in the election, who became all of a sudden “winners” in our deepest hope for a better, fairer society he alone fought with teeth and claws and a sharp wit the hordes of enemies, till the election day and then on.
Yes, people went with him and elected him but only because T’s words and fight and contrarian attitude made him their hope and hero.
He has and had everything that any of us here will never even dream of having achieved in ten lives. He does not need the power for its sake, he does not need the money, the stress and the potential for being killed any moment.
He is above many of us by his dedication and endurance and sheer strength to keep going on. Someone else would’ve given up long ago and gone to live his life in the riches with the elite and the sycophants – not him.
He always said, humbly, “Give me a chance!.”
Now he needs support and encouragement and positive feed back and good suggestions. A pack of wolves are attacking the bull; go ahead and hit the wolves, one at a time or all of them and help the bull!
If one looks at the history, from above, who were the conquerors of other people?
The cruels ones, the ones that never cared about morals or neighborliness or friendship, the ones that slit the throat of the conquered slave at a smallest sign of revolt; the slave learned fast to be a slave.
It’s worse today cause the modern slave is much refined, understands what’s going on and his pain is harder yet the fear and impotence is greater. The manipulators and the ones in power have all the strings to annihilate all of us.
To be a winner one should employ the tools of the enemy, if he is cunning you do it better, if he kills, you act accordingly; there is no more honesty, morals, laws this is a fight for life or death!.
Any group w/o a head is just a mob, a bleating herd. That’s why the hope was so great because the group got a head and the hope was growing and the group started to coalescence and organize and see the horizon. Don’t give up so soon, so fast you never know who will win this chess game after all. Cheer up, be positive, encourage, suggest and keep hope alive!
By the way why nobody writes about what is going in Dombass today? Did they give up for real?
Although the crescendo of bombardment has slackened a little, a very little bit, our people, soldiers and civilians, are dying every day, wounded every day.
It looked like the orcs would do a full scale attack two weeks ago but they didn’t. Who knows who whispered in their ear but they did not do a full scale attack and there are some who doubt they have the ability to mount more than a battalion sized effort, let alone a front sized effort.
However, it is a known, and admitted, fact that foreign ‘advisors’, generally from NATO, are in the front lines down to company level and in some areas to platoon level. If it comes to major hostilities again as in Debaltsyevo in ’15, this time the foreigners will not be allowed to leave during a 24 hour stand down nor will they be ransomed back as has happened in years past. This time any prisoners, foreign or ork, will be marched in the victory parade for all the world to see.
Auslander
To Everyone:
The ‘leaders’ USA are fools.
Here is Congress woman Maxine pranked by two Russian pranksters over the ( White House?)
phone.
Democrat Congress woman Maxine ” Limpopo”:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9YnWr5FQTPY
Regards,
Carmel by the Sea
He is not a coward, and he is not a fool. This presidency can cost him his life, his family and everything he has ever owned. He knew this right from the start. Some of the most powerful people in the world just became his arched enemies. The media onslaught is so insane and ferocious – historically, it is simply unprecedented. I have never seen anything of this scale. Never!
I think at this point he is losing and he is doing everything he can to steady the ship, and yes, some people had to be thrown off the ship, plus he had to flip-flop on a bunch of promises just to buy some time. His team knows that. He is not a refined human being. He is brand knew to politics. He has to learn a lot in a very short space of time…This is a race against death. I suggest we remind ourselves that with Hillary we would’ve been all fried already. There is no doubt about it.
Mr. Zeusse, the effect of all this hubbub– which after all is instigated by media controlled by bankers/globalists– is to admirably distract us from the project to eliminate cash. It is progressing at an incredible speed, and is catastrophic to our hopes to undo the NWO.
It’s my opinion that our 3 greatest threats at the moment are
-elimination of cash; -the global warming hoax in the face of falling temperatures; -Agenda 21.
To the extent that we are caught up in the minutiae and manufactured drama of the Trump presidency we fail to address these important matters. Let alone how to end the global banking cabal system. Surely you can see that the media was instrumental in pushing candidate Trump forward. Had they (the power structure) NOT wanted him as president they would have ignored him. Instead, they knighted him as an “outsider” with endless unconvincing negative coverage.
Penelope, global average temperatures have been at record levels three years in a row. The Arctic is currently ten to twenty degrees Celsius above normal. New South Wales here in Australia, 150% the size of Texas, last week had an average temperature over its surface of 44 degrees Celsius, two degrees higher than the previous record. And the global oceans are still at record high levels, and coral bleaching in the Pacific is now more or less constant, and is returning to the Great Barrier Reef. That IS NOT ‘falling temperatures’ under any circumstances, and to believe so is simply insane. I do however concur with your two other threats. But if we go on denying the ecological Holocaust now crashing down on our heads, we will all disappear with a few decades. In any case, as Bill Gates declared just the other day, he expects ‘bio-warfare’ by ‘terrorists’ to kill millions, soon-and he would know, wouldn’t he.
@mulga, you and farmerbraun need to have a talk.
Gates? “Be a globalist or we might decide to take your billions away from you. Or just take you out.”
Never roughly, never rudely, but very subtly. He got the message a long time ago.
But yes, they do wish to use fear and carbon tax to bludgeon all opposition to the NWO into line.
Allow me to repeat what I posted —
The deep state waged an unrelenting campaign of psychological warfare all through the election. “Hillary is a shoo-in.” “Trump stands absolutely no chance of being elected.” “Polls show Clinton winning in a landslide.” Yada yada yada yada.
Remember ?
Now it’s the same meme blasting out of every available media outlet except for Clinton being out of the picture and changing it from the future to the present perfect tense. Trump has lost ! Trump goes down in flames ! Trump’s position hopeless ! The game is over ! MSM orthodoxy triumphant !
Wake up and smell the coffee, folks !
What’s wrong with this picture ?
You make a very good point. (I don’t know why, but all of a sudden I am thinking about Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree. And Donald Trump saying we go with the army we have. We go with the president we have, or at least with the choice we made election time. It’s not perfect, but we haven’t decorated the tree yet.
Let’s do that. After we get the tree home.
Woops, I think I misspoke (interesting Freudian slip!) I meant “Donald Rumsfeld” of course.
The gangster elite does not just need a new Cold War against Russia to sell weapons, even more it needs a war against internal enemies, the profits from which will be many, many times that which can be earned by building 500 or a thousand billion dollar fighters.
Russia has much less to fear. Putin will wait them out as he has done from the begining. There will never be a direct confrontation because everyone would lose, especially the USA and Europe.
So did you think that Leviathan would go down quietly like the Soviet Union? Samson is the only option they have ever considered, only not for themselves but for people like me and you.
Neoliberal Zionists are a genocidal species. They seperated from us and our civilization a long time ago. Engineered from start to finish and for those of us who have been saying it over and over and over from the begining, I told you so.
There is no satisfaction in being the jerk who was right. Most of the people who agreed with me simply withdrew, drown out by the credulous and the Nazi sayanim who manipulate them so easily. Alt media is a shadow of it’s former self because truth seekers withdrew. The only thing I ask is that everyone learn from their mistakes and for heaven’s sake, stop falling for it.
They will need us to continue playing along.
Will you?
At least “someone” (Trump) tried to get the “lost Western elite” on a more pro living track instead of a full blown death cult. Sadly a lot of nobodies = the vast majority of western peoples don’t even see this is a culture war against a death cult. Sadly they embrace it and rioting in the streets to get back on the full blown death cult track.
Putin knows this very well that the “Nazi death cult problem” is so embedded in Washington. Most people who throw Nazi in your face at every turn are ironically the biggest Nazi’s pro-death cult themselves.
The powerbrokers of the death cult are arrogant in thinking the rest of the world are piglets for the slaughterhouse. No it doesn’t look good, I also live in the West but panicking won’t help nor will the blame game. Did people really think after years and years of putting “death cult power brokers” in charge it suddenly would be over?
This snake has so many heads it will need outside help to be conquered and help we will get willingly or unwillingly. Most Westerners are blind that their house is in disarray but some foreign countries are well aware and above all well prepared.
Those who have eyes always knew what was coming.
The eternal preschoolers, on the other hand, think, that what unfolds currently, is not the logical, algorithmic unfolding of Criminal Syndicates & Secret Societies having taken control of all US power structure way back in 1666, but the result of some character flaws of Donald Trump. How silly.
Each glitch in the matrix – and don’t they seem to occur at faster and faster pace – gives us the chance to see and understand the true nature of beast we are dealing with. This is the only way to mature. The rest is cognitive dissonance, regression, hissy fits, scapegoating.
I wish to thank Eric for his passionate piece, and every single commenter on here for their insightful comments. I think Russia has been sentenced to death by the western world, which is effectively the whole world. So whatever they do or say and whatever signals they make, it’s just a diversion. The fall of the soviet union back in 1991 gave the Empire enough food to keep going for another couple of decades. Now the empire has to eat again, and they are big eaters, lots of monkeys to feed. Gorbachev delivered the food right into the big maw. If they have their way, if Russia goes down, Russians will be eradicated with extreme prejudice, and all the bad things in the world will be written off to Russia’s account, going centuries back. Russia will only remain as a distant memory: some evil country that bedeviled the whole world. Then the new world order will truly take hold, the order that’s supposed to be “built on the ruins of Russia and at russia’s expense.” That will be a world order of extreme ferocity, a dictatorship of vice. Russia must be removed (1) to feed the empire, (2) to clean the slate (3) to end history and to end all humanity (everything that’s human in human beings), (4) to remove a witness, (5)… The exact same forces are moving against us now as the ones that assaulted us during WWII. They’ve been lying in wait, preparing, and now it’s time
Israel seems to be at the centre of so much of what is wrong in this world. Taking America as an example: There are others to be sure; the UK, France, Germany, Poland etc, but America is the prime mover/controller for Israel. It begins most likely when Israel takes control of communications: Like Americas’ telephone system. This provides a unique intelligence gathering tool providing information suitable as blackmail material to control key people. Doubtless this is equally true for the other countries in thrall to the Rothschild/Israel agenda.
This has led to a situation where Israel controls several vicious guard dogs, named above, that react to their masters’ needs.
This site posted news that 50 Tochka missiles arrived in Syria; which I suspect are a warning to two or perhaps three criminal States. This move was very clever, as well as timely.
Too, the truth is that ordinary people look at Russias adherence to rationality and principles and the rule of law with hope for a better future. Here in the festering UK I see people wondering about Russia and Putin. It is the same everywhere, except places like Poland.
Quite a burden for one man, but then his only responsibility is to the Russian interests: Or is it?
The foreign policy position of the American ruling establishment is this: Russia must make an unconditional surrender or it will be attacked. Certain elements in Russia would prefer the first option; every country has its Quislings and traitors after all. But even if Russia did give up the the Crimea and to cease to contiunue support the breakaway oblasts of Lugansk and Donetsk, the matter would not rest there; Russia itself would be pushed into surrendering its own sovereignty. If the Ukro-nazis take control of the Crimea and Don Bass, next on the agenda would be an attack directly on Russia itself. No ifs and buts – this means war, nuclear war.
Maybe the Americans think they can relax confident that their ABM systems will protect them. They would be very foolish to think this.
According to William J Perry who was the United States Secretary of Defense from February 3, 1994, to January 23, 1997, under President Bill Clinton,
‘When I think of the persistent history of the forlorn idea of defence against a nuclear attack, I am tempted to think that the notion especially typifies Einstein’s grim and painfully realistic observation that ‘the unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our modes of thinking’. It has certainly been normal in history to think of fashioning defences against evolving military threats. But with nuclear weapons, unleashed in a large scale attack, bring a sure destruction, one so massive as to rule out any defence. Defence in conflict, a traditional mode of thinking, is here no longer plausible.In a nuclear war the long-standing norm of reliance on defence has become a self-deception, a most human and understandable one, and one that is rooted into an aversion to a new reality.” (W.J.Perry – My Journey at the Nuclear Brink)
It is beginning to look like war is becoming inevitable. The is where the neo-con dream of a global empire is taking us. They are either completely insane or this is one huge bluff.
And the supreme irony of it is that they mighty American-led NATO cannot even subdue a rag-tag Taliban in Afghanistan. How do they expect the world to stay subordinate to their rule.
So, the die is cast. Trump is done for, Trump is a coward, Trump is a charlatan, Trump is a Russian agent, Trump is an idiot, etc etc etc. Blog is alive with ‘I told you so’ and ‘I knew he didn’t have it in him’.
Only a very very few of you have the stones dozens and in the end hundreds of our citizens, grandmothers and grandfathers, men and women and yes, teenagers, had during the last days of February ’14 when they blockaded, unarmed blockaded, the orcs in their bases and unarmed faced down the dreaded orc SBU when they tried to arrest Mr. Chalyi. How do you think these same ordinary citizens felt when on 26 February 2014 the Commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet units in Sevastopol said in a short news interview that his orders, his mission statement, was to protect the Fleet, not the city of Sevastopol? Did they stop, did they give up hope and go home only to worry about the proverbial ‘knock on the door’? Hell no, they continued to blockade, they continued the struggle as more and more men, military age men, joined them and blockaded this peninsula and this city. What would you have done?
Mr. Trump is your last hope and you had better use it or lose it forever. No one else had the stones to stand up to what he’s stood up to in the last year. How many of you were at his rallies, how many of you helped him and his campaign? Are some of you complaining and predicting doom and gloom for Mr. Trump trying to help, to continue the struggle against those who are against him and those who are openly fomenting a coup d’etat against the sitting President of the United States of American? I think not, I think many of you were either along for the ride and at the first little thunderstorm immediately abandoned ship or were never really in the struggle to start with.
Know this. You have no chance but with this man, President Donald J. Trump. If he fails so do you, each and every one of you. Those of you who have the intestinal fortitude had better get out there and help rather than sitting on the sidelines in Starbucks and complaining over your overpriced coffee.
There are now four threads on this blog with together over 500 posts combined, almost all chanting ‘the end is near’. Yes, I agree, the end is indeed near, but not the end you think it is. President Trump is but three weeks in to his first term as President. Are most of you so feckless that if you don’t get your instant gratification you immediately turn on the man who was to gratify you? Again, I think not. For those of you who have the ability, get out there and help. If you don’t help then whatever happens is on your hands just as much as it will be on the hands of those who are moving heaven and earth to destroy this presidency in it’s infancy. How are you going to explain that to your children and grandchildren? How are you going to explain that you were there when the last hope arose on the horizon and you watched that hope go down under a horde of barbarians and didn’t lift a finger to help? How will you explain that? I know I couldn’t and I won’t have to. But you will if you don’t get out there and help now.
Auslander
wholeheartedly agree with this statement! Thank you!
You are most welcome, Nightingale, and thank you for your support. I simply got tired of reading the constant denigrations extant in this thread and of late on this blog from the neocons and rinos.
Auslander
I am not a person who is not easily afraid… but I have a growing fear that Trump won’t make it… The ONE thing that brought hope and a sigh of relief when he and not Hillary won the election and he Trump made it into the White House was we avoided a WW3…. 3 weeks later.. I am not so sure about that … USA is beginning to look like the USSR’s collapse and the confusion that followed in the 90’s when a few incredibly criminal individuals destroyed Russia… Trump at his 1 hour speech yesterday looked more like a frantic … about to visible break…. into so many pieces. He definitely is in very deep water and don’t know how to swim. Overload… of just about everything … is how the enemy of the American people will kill him… no bullets needed he will disintegrate… he is that unprincipled and therefore easy to confuse and defuse. I am not a US citizen so did not vote, but I pinned my hopes on Trump as he seemed good for more peace than war… those hopes a waning fast.