by John Freeman for the Saker Blog
I don’t get it. I’ve been watching the hysteric reaction of the news media, the MIC, the Deep State, the Zionist neocons, and politicians on both sides of the aisle to President Trump’s new detente with Russia, and I’m left wondering why the prospect of peaceful coexistence with a nuclear-armed superpower is seen as a bad thing. After listening to the usual drivel on the idiot box, which includes accusations of treason in the executive office, you’d think they actually want an adversarial relationship with a country that our own generals acknowledge could annihilate us and end the world as we know it in the process.
I’m told by these mad dogs that Russia “has something on Trump”, that Putin is a “thug” who murders political opponents, that the evil Russkies “annexed” Crimea, and even that they somehow stole our election, all without the slightest shred of hard evidence to bolster their claims. Yet this never-ending stream of Russophobia has been somewhat successful in the sense that propaganda always works on the gullible, as Goebbels, Orwell, and Huxley could all tell you. Plus, of course, there are plenty of folks who are paid very well to imagine Russia (or North Korea, Iran, or China) as our mortal enemy, and are only too happy to take train loads of cash from the rapidly shrinking private sector to prove it. Thus, following the money: if there is no enemy, there is no military-industrial complex.
Yet still I’m perplexed, because I have to say in my own little slice of life it isn’t Russia that has threatened me at all. No, instead, it is my own government that violates my rights every single day, and nary a squeak about this is heard from the elites among the MSM, academia, or what passes for an intelligentsia in this country precisely because they are not personally affected in any demonstrable way by these policies and/or because they are in fact part of the power structure themselves, and thus keep pointing the finger at the enemy without while allowing the enemy within to quietly but efficiently destroy our families, our jobs, our schools, our communities, and our churches.
After all, it isn’t Moscow that takes one quarter of my annual income as taxes paid to Caesar. No, that would be Washington, DC. It isn’t the KGB (FSB) that spies on my household and tracks all of my web communications. No, that’s the NSA. It isn’t isn’t the Supreme Court of Russia that tells me that you cannot have a cross on the White House lawn (while a menorah is A-OK), or that my children must be bused across town to achieve some kind of racial balance, or that a bakery must make a cake for a gay “wedding”. No, that’s our own homegrown “justices”. It isn’t the Russian State Duma that has devastated entire economic and social strata of our society through the implementation of open borders immigration policies, H1B visas, and free trade ideology. No, that would be our US Congress. It isn’t the Russian Ministry of Finance that has devalued the dollar by 96% since its inception. No, that’s our Federal Reserve Board. It isn’t Russia that has militarized its police to the point that there’s hardly any difference between the local constabulary and a mechanized infantry platoon. No, that would be, you guessed it, the USA. Nor was it Russia that used Israeli “advisers” to teach those cops how to crush its civilian population just as effectively and brutally as the IDF does Palestinians.
This is a process that has been going on for decades now, and it will continue so long as we believe that they are telling us the truth when they invent a new “monstrous” threat to Our Way Of Life, whether it be from Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, Slobodan Milosevic, or Kim Jong Un. It isn’t that these are necessarily nice guys-far from it. It’s that they represent no more a threat to you and I personally than Freddy Krueger, and the “danger” these “monsters” represent to the USA is based on theater so absurd and preposterous that even the smoke and mirrors of the Wizard of Oz seems quite realistic in comparison. If we only had the sense of Toto, we wouldn’t fall for it over and over again, like a dog who doesn’t get that he’s being tricked. Yet every single time we go to war with people we don’t know for reasons we cannot fathom we prove that we are worthy of the contempt of the oligarchs that rule us, who play us like cheap violins. Meanwhile, the figurative rape and pillage of our own “homeland” (and oh, what an Orwellian phrase that is) continues apace.
So the next time some “expert”, “think tank”, PAC, military officer, professor, politician, or info- babe tells you that Russia (or North Korea, Syria, Iran, etc, etc) is a “threat”, think about the last time any of those countries interfered in any way in your day-to-day life. Yes, sure, our rulers will have all kinds of maps, charts, and pictures designed to scare you into believing that any minute now our so-called adversaries will nuke us ’til we glow. They’ll have frightening anecdotes told by nefarious “unnamed sources” about the horrific atrocities committed by these terrible despots “against their own people”. They will look you in the eye and tell you with absolute certainty that the security of our nation, and possibly even Western Civilization itself, hangs in the balance, and that if we do nothing now, millions of innocent lives, including women and children, will likely be lost, and the blame for that will belong to us.
When that happens (and happen it will…again, and again, and again) just remember-it was those very same people who told you that Iraq had WMDs and that they never spied on the American people. Recall the Bay of Pigs, 9/11, and the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Know that both Osama Bin Laden and the Washington Post were (are) CIA assets. Remember the murder of US citizens at Ruby Ridge, Kent State, and Waco, among many others. Think about all those lies, deceptions, blunders, assassinations, and treachery, then decide for yourself who you think is the bigger threat: Russia, or Uncle Sam?
I’ve said it before, and I have no doubt I will be saying it again in the future:
Christian Russian and the Christian U.S. Are Natural Allies
George Soros and his anti-Christian cadre, including Barak Hussein and Hillary Clinton, represent the #1 threat to all Christians. They are the architects of mass non-Christian migration, a policy deliberately designed to force Christians out of government and media. This is so they can promote like minded, Soros Globalist, operatives such as :
— James “I tweet about babies” Gunn, and
— Jeffery “Lolita Express” Epstein.
So there’s a slight problem with your hypothesis: what “Christian US” are you referring to? The half that is consumed in arguments over if God is a woman or merely gender neutral, and if “married” lesbians can be priests, or the half whose highest aspiration is to see al-Aqsa destroyed so that a “third temple” can be built so they may await the return of their (shared) Messiah with the Talmudists? That’s about 95% right there. Maybe 4% “traditional Catholics” who have their own terrifying personality quirks, and maybe 1% Orthodox, most of whom only identify as such because their grandparents are from Greece. So who are these “natural allies” of the Third Rome?
Yip. All nicely stated. And full of deconstructivistic blabla.
Yeah, however truthful and accurate it might be, huh? Just remember who it is that is Zionist Israels strongest supporters and enablers in the US. Hint: They’re not Muslims.
Very accurate description, as I do not see real Christians in the US. Not even Catholics. Even listening to Orthodox Christian sermons I wonder who dictates them, and why are they using Old Testament.
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Yes, Christian Americans and Christian Russians could have been natural allies in the 19th century, when Lincoln tried it. Most Americans don’t know that in 1863 Lincoln appealed to Tzar Alexander II for aid. The Army of the Potomac was not doing too well, and both Britain and France were prepared to recognize the Confederacy. Tzar Alexander II responded, and sent the Russian Pacific Fleet to San Francisco and the Russian Baltic Fleet to New York City. Britain and France backed down. Result ? Lincoln was assassinated in 1865 and Tzar Alexander II in 1881. Why ? Not only because of a potential alliance between Russia and the US, but because Lincoln introduced a Government currency and Alexander II did the same. The international bankers were furious. The results are well known.
Can an alliance now be created. Only theoretically. The chances are minimal, bearing in mind the power of the US elite, the bankers and the corporations, especially the Military Industrial Complex, which needs perpetual war fought under absurd excuses. Can Trump do something about this ? Nothing by himself. If he was backed by the military ? Perhaps. I fear that the chances of any Russian-US alliance are virtually non existent.
I agree. All wars benefit the bankers. The Federal Reserve is a private institution designed to shovel enormous profits to elites via the issuance of a nation’s currency. The more debt that a nation has, the better, so far as they are concerned.
So it is highly unlikely that any private central bank would want to see peace break out anywhere on earth. The more war, the more debt a nation has, and the more profit that the private banker makes.
One of the reasons that Putin is despised is that the Russian Central Bank is actually controlled by the City of London, and Putin is (I believe) maneuvering himself into a position from which Russia may be able to assert its independence. That is what I think is at the heart of much of the rabid Russophobia: the bankers don’t want to see a financially independent Russia.
Unfortunately, things don’t usually end well for leaders that dare to issue their own bank notes. Andrew Jackson is the only one to have survived (though they tried to kill him). Lincoln and Kennedy were assassinated.
jon
Correct. However, the Russian Central Bank is going to be nationalized during 2021/2022, while Putin has already kicked out the Rothschilds. Trump has not.
Uhhh . . . mass non-Christian migration? As in, to the US? Look, I know this is irrelevant to the kind of paranoid racism we’re dealing with here, but most migration to the US is from Latin America, and almost everyone in Latin America is Christian–mostly Catholic, but increasingly, aggressive US evangelist efforts have been bearing fruit so some of them are probably US-style protestants.
The US HAS accepted a total of 11 Syrian refugees so far this year . . . is that the kind of “mass” you had in mind?
There has been mass non-Christian migration to European countries due to US wars and destabilizations in the Middle East and Africa, all of them backed to the hilt by the US Christian right (and by stupid servile European politicians). If Soros backed those wars too, he’s got plenty of Christian company.
John Freeman. I live in the UK, and I am again findng it hard to post anything much in the UK. It’s again like in 2005, when I got banned for Headlining a Post
“All Terrorists are C@nts”
It is the C word, they couldn’t tolerate.
When I started posting in the USA….The guys on Alternet tolerated me brilliantly for years, and I learnt so much about American culture. Maybe I should go back to America (virtually). Never been there. Been invited many times.
If this hot weather is getting to you…then you don’t know nuffin’ yet
For many years, I worked with this very nice man, who was of Indian origin, though born in Africa. We got lots of holidays 34days a year + stats. He never took any holidays, and worked the bank holidays – for 2 years…
Then he would take his annual leave from two years together 68 days plus which is like 14 weeks (sat & sun don’t count)
So he used to go to India every 2 years for 3 months, and come back and tell us what it was like – which was actually quite spiritual….but he said it hadn’t rained for 3 years – and then it did…..
Massive Celebrations – the Difference Between Life & Death is The RAIN
“The Who ☮ Love, Reign o’er Me (Highest Quality)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJLf6UCGVj4
Tony
Obviously, he doesn’t get it because he doesn’t know about PNAC: Project for the New American Century, Rebuilding America’s Defenses – Offenses – and the much expanded MIC which requires an enemy in the form of Russia (and to an extent China), and the original – neocon – wolfowitz Doctrine from 1992, of containment and curtailment of Russia etc to ensure the USA remains as #1 for the rest of this century.
Due to murderous american arrogance, stupidity, pride and greed, or just plain evilness, the wheels are already falling off, as Eurasia, with a population of 5X compared to the americas, is on the rise, while the US is on the demise.
The American definition of “threat” = any nation that challenges American unipolar tyranny over the planet.
By this warped American definition, Russia (and many other multipolar nations) are indeed a “threat.”
In this particular sense, it is actually a *compliment* to be smeared as threat by the American Empire.
The other option–to be labelled an “ally” of the USA–in reality means that you are nothing more than a glorified prostitute of America….much like Poland, the Ukraine, or other Europeans.
Government intolerance is well described as is the intolerance gripping the domestic Outlaw US Empire. The government says it welcomes competition then says out of the other side of its mouth that said competition is existential and immediately turns to demonizing it–intolerance at its acme! Putin wants all to accept all and says so often. The author’s correct: Putin wants to befriend us all and wants us all to succeed–Really: He says so at almost every opportunity. He expects what’s called healthy competition where the foe is respected, perhaps even admired. Only the aim of the competition is to better humanity and its basis, not to generate one winner and one loser. But Exceptionalism and Manifest Destiny make many deaf, dumb and blind to such ideas of overall betterment instead of never-ending one-upsmanship: Zerosumism, which thrives on intolerance.
You see Mr. Freeman, you actually answered your own puzzlement.
Look at all those travesties of justice, decency and humanity you listed which various bits of the system known as the USA has committed [ and, indeed, been committing for a very very long time].
The people who do those things know they’ve done them. Moreover, deep down “in places you dont talk about at parties”, they know that what they do is wrong. Evil in fact. Even people who didn’t actually do the things, but are part of the group, or class, or profession, who did, they know that by saying nothing, doing nothing to prevent the evil, that they too are guilty of a horrendous act of evil.
This becomes impossible to face, to accept. If you could knock down all the walls they have built in their minds, to hide themselves from what they are, what they’ve become, they would go screaming mad.
So they project. Everyone has to believe that “others” are evil. Kim and N.Korea. Putin and Russia. Because if those guys are evil, then it’s not so bad, being evil. It’s like the thief who says “everybody steals”, and the husband caught in infidelity who says “everybody cheats”
That’s why they are screaming now. Because the veil actually is starting to fall: more and more people are seeing what these SoB’s are – the illusion is being destroyed. And maybe, just maybe, they will have to see themselves for what they are. And then they end either suiciding or in an asylum.
The closer it gets to “masks off guys” time, the louder and more insane the screaming will get. Be ready.
Sorry Isabella, but now you are projecting.
You might have a conscience and assume other do to,
but they don’t!
The Clintonites are freeking out because it’s jail-time, that’s why
they are in attack-mode to discredit Trump before he gets a
chance to go against them.
There has been so much much more evil than just that done by the Clintons – it wasn’t the Clintons at Mi Lai; nor raping a 14 yr girl then murdering her entire family in Iraq – nor committing rape and crime on a massive scale in Japan around the US Bases; nor running the Federal Reserve in order to drain the people dry of their last cent, nor ……do you get my drift? And it’s not a conscience I’m talking about. It’s about the absolute knowledge of self: of knowing the self to be evil and to want only death.
It’s a bigger thing than I think you are referring to, than just the Clintons and their psychopathy.
The people who know deep down that they’re evil will, never change, IMO. They are few and far between in any case, and there is no amount of unmasking that would cause them to do anything more than shrink further into the lair from whence they came while they waited for a better opportunity to emerge-all the while still holding the reigns of power of course, via shadowy financial agencies such as the Federal Reserve.
Such folk have no pride or honor: they know that they are reptilian and evil, as you said. But I don’t think it bothers them what others think. So long as they still breath and control the money supply, they will profit, and money is their god, so no amount of shame or dishonor will ever cause any change of behavior in their ilk.
The only fix for such people is death.
No, the biggest problem is from the millions of people who represent the tentacles of the monster: the military man who is convinced he’s “serving his country”, the politician who believes that the USA is somehow “exceptional”, the fundamentalist Christian who seeks to usher in the Tribulation, the Zionist who is willing to kill for Israel, the professor who preaches the need to “spread democracy”, the media whore who parrots the party line:
All of them are true believers. They don’t think what they’re doing is evil. Oh, contraire! They believe sincerely that, as one banker said with a straight face, they’re “doing God’s work”, and they won’t be dissuaded from that cause.
These are the folks who really scare me because they will not be turned away from the cause even at the cost of their own lives. The only light I can see is that some of them can change with the help of the unmasking you mentioned because they do not want to intentionally do evil. IOW, they canbhave a change of heart because in fact they have hearts. The banker class? They have sold their souls to the devil.
This is a good perspective. Because it allows for hope. “The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” (2 Cor: 10: 4-5)
Some of the battle is against pure evil (Soros?) and requires standing firm and maybe an exorcism. But most of the battle against the Nikki Haley types. True believers that, perhaps one day, after hearing good arguments over time, will change their minds.
There are a few times in your life when you have a conversation that is a “game changer”. The thing is, you don’t usually know it at the time. Someone plants a seed, and it takes years to germinate.
And so it is with many people. They will be confronted with an event…perhaps personal, perhaps historic or political. It doesn’t matter. What’s important is that the event causes them to challenge their own worldview, and it is in that moment that they come to think, almost miraculously, of the conversation they had long ago about the same subject, and they’ll begin to turn it over in their head, and for the first time perhaps, seriously consider another point of view. For a select few, there will be an epiphany, and their lives are changed forever.
“Yet still I’m perplexed, because… … …”
Your perplexion only shows that you are still clinging to the programming, conditioning and mind-control you have been subjected in your formative years by parents, teachers, preachers, comic books, silly movies, etc, John Freeman. Be brave, and adjust your world view to ‘how things are’ and you indeed might become a ‘free man’ one day.
Au contraire, IMHO.
Freeman is already incredibly free compared to his enslaved fellow Americans. He doesn’t need any lectures about the Leave It To Beaver banality and Cold War Mind Control that so many in the US were deep rinsed in during their “formative years”.
Clinging?? Well, everything is relative. Compared to WHO. Compared to what?
HE’s posing these questions from the hypothetical point of view of an imagined someone slowly awakening from those American Dreams (which have nightmarish effects elsewhere, especially) as a literary journalistic device, so I am in perplexity as to the lecturing tone in your comment. Unless you are really addressing those same Rip Van Winkles still rubbing their eyes.that John is addressing….instead of John himself..
I enjoyed your article, Mr Freeman……as well as your comment in this comment section that sort of proves my point…..to me at least. LOL.
I usually reserve this for my older sibling, but…thanks, Bro! :)
Excellent article. Short and to the point. Things are as John Freeman has stated. Can the political situation in the US be changed ? As things stand now, this is virtually impossible, short of a military coup d’etat (overt or covert), or short of a financial collapse, which appears to be approaching.
The reasons are written in NSM68, a link to which I have posted at Cafe.
NSM 68 dated 1950, in part of the seminal document set establishing the cold war. The Policy has evident fissures or contradictions, but the only fix is to double.
These comments on just who is causing us harm (not Russia) reminds me of Muhammad Ali’s similar, if pithier, comments on the Viet Cong.
If one used search word string “James Angleton interview” on some search engines one will discover from interview with the man himself precisely the answer to the author’s question in opening para.
Thames TV 1976 does a good job. Recall in viewing that your apriori assumptions are probably those of a bright and sane person… While Mr A is…well, other than sane.
He’s delusional and sociopathic… His role in numerous “wet jobs”, including Mary Meyer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRVUN7pw6Vw is highly likely, as they say…
JJA interview on Thames TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTgneJQxCts
NSM 68 goes with these as background foundation that created the arena and conflict, and fissures, of now.
By coincident fates it seems that old Jimmy the spy is dealt with baldly in an article just published at
http://www.unz.com/article/americas-allies-against-russia-iran/
This too explains the “why”…
excerpt: “…one can reasonably infer that in 1945, the 56-year-old Hugh Angleton passed along to the 28-year-old Jesus Angleton, his contact list of approximately 3,000 secret operatives of Hitler and of Mussolini in Europe, and that this son (Jesus) proceeded promptly to recruit these secret Nazis and Fascists to work for the OSS. The father could retire rich, while the son went on to grow and harvest his crops, for America’s war against Russia (not actually against communism — which was the cover-story)….”
John, Wonderful piece. I loved it. So, true.
Thank you.
I fully agree with Anonius.
You took a page right out of my brain and said it better than I ever could. Bravo!!