[This article was written for the Unz Review]
Now that a little over a week has passed since the much awaited Putin-Trump summit in Helsinki took place, I have had the time to read many of the reactions and comments it generated. I am coming to the paradoxical conclusion that this summit was both a non-event and a truly historical watershed moment. Let’s look at the event itself and then at its consequences.
The summit itself: a much-needed non-event
First, one has to welcome the fact that Putin and Trump spoke to each other, not so much because that fact by itself is great, but because it is an immensely dangerous situation when the leaders of the two military (and nuclear) superpowers do not talk to each other. Over the past couple of years, almost all contacts between Russian and US officials have been unilaterally severed, all by the US side, of course. The sole exception to this quasi-total silence was the ongoing contacts between Russian and US military and security/intelligence officials, which is a very good thing. However, this is also not enough because neither military nor security/intelligence officials are supposed to actually make policies and, therefore, when they are the only ones talking two things can happen: either a) these military and security/intelligence officials are severely limited in their authority to make decisions or b) military and security/intelligence officials are forced to take matters into their own hands and begin making policies in spite of their lack of authority to do so. Such a state of affairs in inherently dangerous (not to mention un-democratic). Still, the fact that the two Presidents and their advisers talked to each other is a much-needed development which hopefully will mark the return to a normal multi-level dialog between Russia and the USA.
But besides the fact that talking is by definition good what else did the summit achieve?
Absolutely nothing. Nothing at all.
Oh sure, there were a number of general statements made about “positive discussions” and the like, and some vague references to various conflicts, but the truth is that nothing real and tangible was agreed upon. Furthermore, and this is, I believe, absolutely crucial, there never was any chance of this summit achieving anything. Why? Because the Russians have concluded a long time ago that the US officials are “non-agreement capable” (недоговороспособны). They are correct – the US has been non-agreement capable at least since Obama and Trump has only made things even worse: not only has the US now reneged on Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (illegally – since this plan was endorsed by the UNSC), but Trump has even pathetically backtracked on the most important statement he made during the summit when he retroactively changed his “President Putin says it’s not Russia. I don’t see any reason why it would be” into “I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t be Russia” (so much for 5D chess!). If Trump can’t even stick to his own words, how could anybody expect the Russians to take anything he says seriously?! Besides, ever since the many western verbal promises of not moving NATO east “by one inch eastward” the Russians know that western promises, assurances, and other guarantees are worthless, whether promised in a conversation or inked on paper. In truth, the Russians have been very blunt about their disgust with not only the western dishonesty but even about the basic lack of professionalism of their western counterparts, hence the comment by Putin about “it is difficult to have a dialogue with people who confuse Austria and Australia“. It is quite obvious that the Russians agreed to the summit while knowing full well that nothing would, or even could, come out of it. This is why they were already dumping US Treasuries even before meeting with Trump (a clear sign of how the Kremlin really feels about Trump and the USA).
So why did they agree to the meeting?
Because they correctly evaluated the consequences of this meeting.
The consequences of the summit: a unanimity of hatred and chaos
This is the proverbial case where the real “action is in the reaction” and, in this case, the reaction of the Neocon run US deep-state and its propaganda machine (the US corporate media) was nothing short of total and abject hysterics. I could list an immense number of quotes, statements and declarations accusing Trump of being a wimp, a traitor, a sellout, a Putin agent and all the rest. But I found the most powerful illustration of that hate-filled hysteria in a collection of cartoons from the western corporate media posted by Colonel Cassad on this page:
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/4330355.html
I won’t repost them here, but please do take the time to look at them and see for yourself what kind of message they hammer in. The message is brought from different angles and in different ways, but the overall unifying theme is this: Trump is infinitely evil, he sold out the USA to Putin-the-Devil, and everything the American people hold as sacred and most dear to their hearts is now in immense danger. I have always liked cartoons and the way they disrespect and ridicule the powers that be, but what we see today is not humor, or disrespect or even virulent criticism. What we see today is a hate campaign against both Trump and Russia the likes of which I think the world has never seen before: even in the early 20th century, including the pre-WWII years when there was plenty of hate thrown around, there never was such a unanimity of hatred as what we see today. Furthermore, what is attacked is not just “Trump the man” or “Trump the politician” but very much so “Trump the President”. Please compare the following two examples:
- The US wars after 9/11: many people had major reservations about the wars against Afghanistan, Iraq and the entire GWOT thing. But most Americans seemed to agree with the “we support our troops” slogan. The logic was something along the lines of “we don’t like these wars, but we do support our fighting men and women and the military institution as such”. Thus, while a specific policy was criticized, this criticism was never applied to the institution which implement it: the US armed forces.
- Trump after Helsinki: keep in mind that Trump made no agreement of any kind with Putin, none. And yet that policy of not making any agreements with Putin was hysterically lambasted as a sellout. This begs the question: what kind of policy would meet with the approval of the US deep state? Trump punching Putin in the nose maybe? This is utterly ridiculous, yet unlike in the case of the GWOT wars, there is no differentiation made whatsoever between Trump’s policy towards Putin and Trump as the President of the United States. There is even talk of impeachment, treason and “high crimes & misdemeanors” or of the “KGB” (dissolved 27 years ago but nevermind that) having a hand in the election of the US President.
What Trump is facing today is not a barrage of criticism but a very real lynch mob! And what is really frightening is that almost nobody dares to denounce that hysterical lynch mob for what it is. There are a few exceptions, of course, even in the media (I think of Tucker Carlson), but these voices are completely drowned out by the hate-filled shrieks of the vast majority of US politicians and journalists. Even such supposed supporters of President Trump like Trey Gowdy who has fully thrown his weight behind the “Russia tried to attack us” nonsense. With friends like these…
What has been taking place after this the summit is an Orwellian “two minutes of hatred” but now stretched well into a two weeks of hatred. And I see no signs that this lynch mob is calming down. In fact, as of this morning, the levels of hysteria are only increasing.
By the way, these are typical Neocon-style tactics: double-down, then double-down again, then issue statements which make it impossible for you to back down, then repeat it all as many times as needed. This strategy is useless against a powerful and principled enemy, but it works miracles with a weak and spineless foe like Trump. This is particularly true of US politicians and journalists who have long become the accomplices of the deep state (especially after the 9/11 false flag and its cover-up) and who now cannot back down under any circumstances or treat President Trump as a normal, regular, President. The anti-Trump rhetoric has gone way too far and the USA has now reached what I believe is a point of no return.
The brewing constitutional crisis: the Neocons vs the “deplorables”
I believe that the USA is facing what could be the worst crisis in its history: the lawfully elected President is being openly delegitimized and that, in turn, delegitimizes the electoral process which brought him to power and, of course, it also excoriates the “deplorables” who dared vote for him: the majority of the American people.
The process which is taking place before our eyes splits the people of the USA into two main categories: first, the Neocons and those whom the US media has successfully brainwashed and, second, everybody else. That second group, by the way, is very diverse and it includes not only bona fide Trump supporters (many of whom have also been zombified in their own way), but also paleo-conservatives, libertarians, antiwar activists, (real) progressives and many other groups. I am also guessing that a lot of folks in the military are watching in horror as their armed forces and their country are being wrecked by the Neocons and their supporters. Basically, those who felt “I want my country back” and who hoped that Trump would make that happen are now horrified by what is taking place.
I believe that what we are seeing is a massive and deliberate attack by the Neocons and their deep state against the political system and the people of the United States. Congress, especially, is now guilty of engaging on a de-facto coup against the Executive on so many levels that they are hard to count (and many of them are probably hidden from the public eye) including repeated attempts to prevent Trump from exercising his constitutional powers such as, for example, deciding on foreign policy issues. A perfect example of this can be found in Nancy Pelosi’s official statement about a possible invitation from Trump to Putin:
“The notion that President Trump would invite a tyrant to Washington is beyond belief. Putin’s ongoing attacks on our elections and on Western democracies and his illegal actions in Crimea and the rest of Ukraine deserve the fierce, unanimous condemnation of the international community, not a VIP ticket to our nation’s capital. President Trump’s frightened fawning over Putin is an embarrassment and a grave threat to our democracy. An invitation to address a Joint Meeting of Congress should be bipartisan and Speaker Ryan must immediately make clear that there is not – and never will be – an invitation for a thug like Putin to address the United States Congress.”
Another example of the same can be found in the unanimous 98-0 resolution by the US Senate expressing Congress’s opposition to the US government allowing Russia to question US officials. Trump, of course, immediately caved in, even though he had originally declared “fantastic” the idea of actually abiding by the terms of an existing 1999 agreement on mutual assistance on criminal cases between the United States of America and Russia. The White House “spokesperson”, Sarah Sanders, did even better and stated: (emphasis added)
“It is a proposal that was made in sincerity by President Putin, but President Trump disagrees with it. Hopefully, President Putin will have the 12 identified Russians come to the United States to prove their innocence or guilt“
Talk about imperial megalomania! The US will not allow the Russians to interrogate anybody, but it wants Putin to extradite Russian citizens. Amazing…
As for Nancy Pelosi, her latest “tweet” today is anything but subtle. It reads:
Every single day, I find myself asking: what do the Russians have on @realDonaldTrump personally, financially, & politically? The answer to that question is that only thing that explains his behavior & his refusal to stand up to Putin. #ABetterDeal.
Pretty clear, no? “Trump is a traitor and we have to stop him”.
By now there is overwhelming evidence that a creeping Neocon coup has been in progress from the very first day of Trump’s presidency and that the Neocons are far from being satisfied with having broken Trump and taken over the de-facto power in the White House: they now apparently also want it de-jure too. The real question is this: are there any forces inside the USA capable of stopping the Neocons from completely taking all the reins of power and, if yes, how could a patriotic reaction to this Neocon coup manifest itself? I honestly don’t know, but my feeling is that we might soon have a “President Pence” in the Oval Office. One way or another, a constitutional crisis is brewing.
What about the Russian interests in all this?
I have said it many times, Russia and the AngloZionist Empire (as opposed to the United States as a country) are at war, a war which is roughly 80% informational, 15% economic and only 5% “kinetic”. This is a very real war nonetheless and it is a war for survival simply because the Empire cannot allow any major country on the planet to be truly sovereign. Therefore, not only does the AngloZionist Empire represent an existential threat to Russia, Russia also represents an existential threat to the Empire. In this kind of conflict for survival there is no room for anything but a zero-sum game and whatever is good for Russia is bad for the USA and vice-versa. The Russians, including Putin, never wanted this zero-sum game, it was imposed upon them by the AngloZionists, but now that they have been forced into it, they will play it as hard as they can. It is therefore only logical to conclude that the massive systemic crises in which the Neocons and their crazy policies have plunged the USA are to the advantage of Russia. To be sure, the ideal scenario would be for Russia and the USA (as opposed to the AngloZionst Empire) to work together on the very long list of issues where they share common interests. But since the Neocons have seized power and are sacrificing the USA for the sake of their imperial designs, that is simply not going to happen, and the Russians understand that. Furthermore, since the USA constitutes the largest power component of the AngloZionist Empire, anything weakening the USA also thereby weakens the Empire and anything which weakens the Empire is beneficial for Russia (by the way, the logical corollary of this state of affairs is that the people of the USA and the people of Russia have the same enemy – the Neocons – and that makes them de-facto allies).
It is not my purpose here to discuss when and how the Neocons came to power in the USA, so I will just say that the delusional policies followed by the various US administrations since at least 1993 (and, even more so, since 2001) have been disastrous for the United States and could be characterized as one long never-ending case of imperial hubris (to use the title of Michael Scheuer’s excellent 2004 book). Here are some of the consequences of this:
- There is no longer such a thing as “US diplomacy” (long gone are the days of James Baker or even George Shultz!). All that the so-called “US diplomats” are doing is delivering ultimatums, threats, sanctions, human rights “scorecards”, lists of “terror-sponsoring countries”, etc. Even worse, any and all types of negotiations are now construed as signs of weakness or, worse, treason. The US politicians have convinced themselves that one should only negotiate with friends and allies, but the truth is that the USA has no friends or allies – only colonies, protectorates, puppet regimes and other comprador-run vassal states. To them, the USA gives orders, which is very different from negotiations which imply a search for a compromise between roughly equal parties.
- The US “intelligence community” has become a tool for petty political interests and competent analysts and foreign policy experts are clearly absent from the top levels of this community (Dmitri Orlov just wrote a good article about this issue here). The long string of lost wars and foreign policy disasters are a direct result of this lack of even basic expertise. What passes for “expertise” today is basically hate-filled hyperbole and warmongering hysterics, hence the inflation in the paranoid anti-Russian rhetoric.
- The US armed forces are only good at three things: wasting immense sums of money, destroying countries and alienating the rest of the planet. They are still the most expensive and bloated armed forces on the planet, but nobody fears them anymore (not even relatively small states, nevermind Russia or China). In technological terms, the Russians (and to a somewhat lesser degree the Chinese) have found asymmetrical answers to all the key force planning programs of the Pentagon and the former US superiority in the air, on land and on the seas is now a thing of the past. As for the US nuclear triad, it is still capable of accomplishing its mission, but it is useless as an instrument of foreign policy or to fight Russia or China (unless suicide is contemplated).
[Sidebar: this inability of the US military to achieve desired political goals might explain why, at least so far, the US has apparently given up on the notion of a Reconquista of Syria or why the Ukronazis have not dared to attack the Donbass. Of course, this is too early to call and these zigs might be followed by many zags, especially in the context of the political crisis in the USA, but it appears that in the cases of the DPRK, Iran, Syria and the Ukraine there is much barking, but not much biting coming from the supposed sole “hyperpower” on the planet]
- The USA is now engaged in simultaneous conflicts not only with Iran or Russia but also with the EU and China. In fact, even relationships with vassal states such as Canada or France are now worse than ever before. Only the prostituted leaders of “new Europe”, to use Rumsfeld’s term, are still paying lip service to the notion of “American leadership”, and only if they get paid for it.
- The US “elites” and the various interest groups they represent have now clearly turned on each other which is a clear sign that the entire system is in a state of deep crisis: when things were going well, everybody could get what they wanted and no visible infighting was taking place.
- The Israel Lobby has now fully subordinated Congress, the White House, and the media to its narrow Likudnik agenda and, as a direct result of this, the USA has lost all their positions in the Middle-East and the chorus of those with enough courage to denounce this Zionist Occupation Government is slowly but steadily growing (at least on the Internet). Even US Jews are getting fed up with the now openly Israeli apartheid state (see here or here).
- By withdrawing from a long list of important international treaties and bodies (TPP, Kyoto Protocol, START, ABM, JCPOA. UNESCO, UN Human Rights Council, etc.) the United States has completely isolated themselves from the rest of the planet. The ironic truth is that Russia has not been isolated in the least, but that the USA has isolated itself from the rest of the planet.
In contrast, the Russians are capitalizing on every single US mistake – be it the carrier-centric navy, the unconditional support for Israel or the simultaneous trade wars with China and the EU. Much has been made of the recent revelation of new and revolutionary Russian weapon systems (see here and here) but there is much more to this than just the deployment of new military systems and technologies: Russia is benefiting from the lack of any real US foreign policies to advance her own interests in the Middle-East, of course, but also elsewhere. Let’s just take the very latest example of a US self-inflicted PR disaster – the following “tweet” by Trump: (CAPS in the original)
To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!
This kind of infantile (does he not sound like a 6 year old?) and, frankly, rather demented attempts at scaring Iranians (of all people!) is guaranteed to have the exact opposite effect from the one presumably sought: the Iranian leaders might snicker in disgust, or have a good belly-laugh, but they are not going to be impressed. The so-called “allies” of the USA will be embarrassed in the extreme to be “led” by such a primitive individual, even if they don’t say so in public. As for the Russians, they will happily explore all the possibilities offered to them by such illiterate and self-defeating behavior.
Conclusion one: a useful summit for Russia
As a direct consequence of the Helsinki summit, the infighting of the US ruling classes has dramatically intensified. Furthermore, faced with a barrage of hateful attacks Trump did what he always does: he tried to simultaneously appease his critics by caving in to their rhetoric while at the same time trying to appear “tough” – hence his latest “I am a tough guy with a big red button” antics against Iran (he did exactly the same thing towards the DPRK). We will probably never find out what exactly Trump and Putin discussed during their private meeting, but one thing is sure: the fact that Trump sat one-on-one with Putin without any “supervision” from his deep-state mentors was good enough to create a total panic in the US ruling class resulting in even more wailing about collusion, impeachment, high crimes & misdemeanors and even treason. Again, the goal is clear: Trump must be removed.
From the Russian point of view, it matters very little whether Trump is removed from office or not – the problem is not one of personalities, but one of the nature of the AngloZionist Empire. The Russians simply don’t have the means to bring down the Empire, but the infighting of the US elites does and, if not, then at the very least the current crisis will further weaken the USA, hence the Russian willingness to participate in this summit even if by itself this summit brought absolutely no tangible results: the action was in the reaction.
Conclusion two: the Clinton gang’s actions can result in a real catastrophe for the USA
Trump’s main goal in meeting with Putin was probably to find out whether there was a way to split up the Russian-Chinese strategic partnership and to back the Israeli demands for Syria. On the issue of China, Trump never had a chance since the USA has really nothing to offer to Russia (whereas China and Russia are now locked into a vital symbiotic relationship). On Syria, the Russians and the Israelis are now negotiating the details of a deal which would give the Syrian government the control of the demarcation line with Israel (it is not a border in the legal sense) and Trump’s backing for Israel will make no difference. As for Iran, the Russians will not back the US agenda either for many reasons ranging from basic self-interest to respect for international law. So while Trump did the right thing in meeting with Putin, it was predictable at least under the current set of circumstances, that he would not walk away with tangible results.
For all his very real failings, Trump cannot be blamed for the current situation. The real culprits are the Clinton gang and the Democratic Party which, by their completely irresponsible behavior, are creating a very dangerous crisis for the United States: the Neocons and the Clinton gang are willing to say anything, no matter how destabilizing, to hurt Trump even if the US political system by itself is also put at risk. Furthermore, the Neocons have now completely flipped around the presumption of innocence – both externally (Russian “attack” on the US elections) and internally (Trump’s “collusion” with Putin). As for Trump, whatever his good intentions might have been, he is weak and cannot fight the entire US deep state by himself. The Neocons and the US deep state are now on a collision course with Russia and the people of the United States and while Russia does have the means to protect herself from the Empire, it is unclear to me who, or what could stop the Neocons from further damaging the USA. Deep and systemic crises often result in new personalities entering the stage, but in the case of the US, it is now undeniable that the system cannot reform itself and that when a personality tries to reform it, the system strikes back with vicious power.
Depending on its context the word “catastrophe” can have any of the following meanings: any large and disastrous event of great significance, a disaster beyond expectations, a dramatic event that initiates the resolution of the plot or a type of bifurcation, where a system shifts between two stable states. In the context of the political situation in the United States, all these definitions apply. Whether for better or for worse, the most likely outcome of the current crisis will be some type of political regime change.
The Saker
I have thought for a while that Russia, and to a lesser extent China, have been playing for time while they built up their strength – not just militarily, but also financially. That phase officially ended with Putin’s speech declaring check-mate militarily, and with the aggressive accumulation of gold, the renouncement of the dollar in trade, and the dumping of US Treasuries – China will follow suit with the latter.
China, Russia, India, Iran, and others have determined that the US and its vassals are a busted flush. And they are crafting their own path to the future independent of the US and its vassals – they are not relevant any more.
I believe Putin does not want a kinetic war; I’m not so sure about China. But if the West were foolish enough to start something then I would expect the response to make “Shock-n-Awe” look like a vicar’s tea party.
China is taking on the US through economic means. As Bannon said China is at war with the US economically. Once the $US is no longer the reserve currency then ducks are lined up ready to bring those disgusting neocons down.
Sorry, but “the majority of the American people” did not vote for Trump as barely 56% of the potential US electorate bothered to vote and Trump only won 46%! But can you imagine the levels of Russophobia if HRC was elected?
OH
You beat me to it. Trump lost to clinton in the vote count, but won on delegates. He never had a majority in support of actual voters. The person who actually had majority support was “nobody”, given the lame voter turn out.
You are excluding the voter fraud committed by hitlery…
That’s right Ralph. The reason for the overconfidence of Hillary was the vote fraud apparatus and the MSM.
OH and VT share an animus against Trump and the Fly-over Country Deplorables who turned out in droves at Trump rallies that is understandable, but misguided.
Why is it misguided? Right there in Saker’s article you will find the answer.
These Deplorables and Russia face the same globalist, NEO CON, AZ Empire enemy.
They are natural allies. And yet they are shunned by many here. Dumb! Really dumb.
The 2016 FIX was in for Hitlery…………”They Never Expected Her To Lose” Q…………. but it was overwhelmed partially by counteracting rigged voting machines, substantially by Deplorable Disgust with the Mainstream Media and millions of people turning it off and ignoring it and turning to ALT Media instead……....and by a lot more Trump votes than were ever counted….yet sufficient to overwhelm the FAKE projected Hiltery Victory based on rigged voting machines and a narrative rejected by anyone with half a brain.
And I assure you Deplorable America does have half a brain…….while the brains on the coasts are pretty much “GU-ON” ….as they.in New York, New Jersey …and LON GIGHLAND.
Of course Trump might be assassinated before the mid-terms…and some here……eagerly awaiting the Big NUCLEAR Smack Down of the Hegemon and the Hated NeoCons….would shed no tears along with their Deplorable ALLIES lamenting their fallen hero…but rather regard their natural but despised allies with a contempt equal to that exhibited by Maxine Waters and John McCain and Kathy Griffith.
However, should that hit fail to materialize I suggest ya’ll wait just a few short months (about 4….) to judge REAL 2016 results by 2018…..since in a very short time, historically….there is a very good chance, IMHO…..that some former BIG Blue States will turn RED.
Then we shall see how weak Deplorable America is, and how hostile they are to Russia.
NOT AT ALL is my prediction!
The deplorables who you refer to, those who voted for Trump, are in no way Russian allies, al least of Russian people whose relatives died in the millions fighting the fascist lacra from WWII onwrads, since many of them are plain nazis, thus, just what any Russian would oppose for the simple reason of its genetical and historical heritage, not to mention its memory…
The meme that those US far-righters who voted for Trump are Russia´s natural allies, as well of allies of wroking people is theTroy horse with which Trump would wish to fool the Russians again, as happened in the 90s….., along with the European wrking class….You tried hard this meme during the last campaign, but it will not wash for the already in the way of November mid-term elections, since people has already tested what Trump, and the people who continue campaigning for him is worth….
Maybe there are some Russians living abroad from generations and very well connected to US far-right and military , or a few people in Russia and certain Russian elites who they, yes, would be natural allies of these US people, those who would be willing again to sell the wellfare and security of Russia to the US for profit, but these are, in any case, a minority who would be neutralized and crushed immediately by antifascist majority of Russians.
NM
Very well expressed. The core public support base of the neocon trump regime are not Russia friendly at all. Exactly like their favoured media. Very hostile long time dupes of the worst of the israeli/pindoland cold war craziness.
The Libertarian wing of the “deplorables,” granted a minority but a large one, as exemplified by blogs such as Zero Hedge, is very sympathetic to both Putin and the Russian problem with the AngloZionist Cabal. Also, the voting fraud fix by the Hildabeast camp was so enormous, that it is miraculous that Trump was even able to eke out an electoral college victory. The Hildabeast’s general voter support was so weak that her campaign often offered $50 on Craig’s List for people to attend her rallies. The arrogance and stupidity of the DNC was so great that they put their greatest efforts into fraudulent rigging in the snowflake states such as CA and NY which they would have won anyway. If the truth were ever known, I would bet that if all forms of voter fraud had been eliminated including non-citizens voting, multiple voting, and hacking the voting computers, Trump won over 60% of the votes cast. I chose not to vote (registered in FL) though I viewed Trump to be the lesser of the evils. A resurrected Ganghis Khan would have been as well. As usual, the so-called Libertarian Party nominated a total airhead. They have besmirched the Libertarian movement in the same fashion as Elon Musk has besmirched the name of a great, scientific genius.
As to Trump’s role, IMHO he is doing some wonderful things, whether it be through arrogance and stupidity or playing 5D chess. He recently drove a stake through the heart of NATO. He reduced US influence in MENA by moving the embassy to Jerusalem. Attempting to sanction high tech German companies trading with Russia has caused them to open manufacturing plant subsidiaries in Russia and pushed Germany faster into the inevitable embrace of Russia. His sanctions have accelerated the rise of the petroyuan and the fall of the FRN as the world reserve currency. I suspect that he will be pulling US grunts out of Syria and Afghanistan, perhaps with an announcement preceding the November election. Speaking as a retired chemist, I can only admire his personal catalysis in the wrecking of the Empire.
Nathalie m:
It’s complicated.
The so-called ‘alt – right’ is largely a social media phenomenon, led not by flyover – country deplorables, but by very well – heeled individuals like Richard Spencer – born into a wealthy family and Ivy-league educated.
They lead only a small minority of largely disgruntled anti – immigrants who believe in a ‘white genocide’ plot to deprive them of their ‘natural rights’.
It is a partial truth – there is a UN-led mass migration, population ‘replacement’ agenda, intimately linked to the destruction of the MENA and deArabization/esource control/the Zionist Oded Yinon plan.
These alt -righters however do not care one whit about this, they are far more concerned about porous borders with Mexico and being outnumbered by Brown people.
Some of their leaders /herders are indeed heirs of known fascists, but the bulk of them have been whitewashed and are in mainstream political parties – Canada’s Chrystia Freeland is one of the best examples.
The Chalupa sisters, among others operate through the Democrat Party and are not associated with the alt – right publically, yet have done plenty to ensure funding continues to reach Ukrainian neo Nazis – most of the media coruscation of ‘far right’ Deplorables is coming from such sources. Ironic, no?
A percentage of alt rightets are Zionists, who do not want Muslim immigration into the US, despite being Israel – firsters and anti-Iran.
Breitbart is the best example of media – led herding of the large and much more varied swathe of Deplorables into the alt- right, pro – Zionist camp. . But that was before the election : it has nothing like the same influence now.
The alt – right has a grudging respect for Putin as a ‘strong man’, and perceive him as looking out for ‘white’ interests (mistakenly, as his concern is with Russian, not ‘white’ interests).
Another cohort, the evangelicals, are not truly Deplorables, but are herded into the Zionist camp for religious reasons. They voted for Trump, despite his ‘loose morals’, believing him to be more congenial then the atheistic immoral Clinton and are traditionally Republican voters anyway.
They are not alt – righters. They are ambivalent about Putin, but have a quasi – religious respect for him, seeing the Russian Orthodox church –
which has resurged under his reign – as a bulwark against the Vatican. Some even see him as Russias ‘saviour’.
Despite being Zionist-controlled, the Israelis have to thread carefully not to be openly hostile to Putin and Russia, preferring proxy and stealth disinformation /smears to avoid alerting the Evangelicals. As Putin is also seen as having ‘saved :Syrian Christians from the jihadists, the approach to Russia in zio – rags like Breitbart is deliberately ambivalent, sometimes overtly positive but with an underlying consistent hostility.
The last cohort , the bulk of flyover Deplorables – including disaffected ex-Democrats – have no real beef with Russia or Russians – they save all their resentment for Democrats, Wall Street and China – roughly in that order.
@NatalieM
Well said! The idiot die hard racists that think Trump is their saviour (a group of useful idiots that Trump is adept at manipulating) are no friends of Russia.
“And I assure you Deplorable America does have half a brain”
That reminds me of something, am, er, oh yes…
Erm…so why do they want regime change in Iran, as pushed by QAnon et al?
My take on this is that the reason why they (Dems, No-whatever) had the cards stuck up in the Hillary’s favor that in their mind there was no chance for her to lose, and yet she did. This also proves, that average John Doe is not as stupid as he is perceived to be.
Let’s examine a few facts about Trump. Just pure facts.
Trump was bailed out from bankruptcy in 1992 by the Rothschild Bank, specifically Wilbur Ross. He appointed Wilbur Ross to head the US Dept of Commerce. Read Bloomberg article 11/1992 “Donald’s Trump Card”.
His daughter dated Nat Rothschild for a time prior to marrying Jared “Netanyahu” Kushner.
Finally please read the strategic board and oil rights of Genie Oil, and Trumps roll there.
https://genieoilgas.com/about-us/strategic-advisory-board/
This will not end well, and US must realize you cannot fix a corrupt govt with a single election.
Precisely. When the Hildebeast tried to check the election ballots in sample states where the margin was thin and she thought the Repubs may have cheated, what they found out upon recount was that the results were either exactly the same or favoring Trump slightly. Ergo, in all likelihood Trump actually won the popular vote.
Of course, the popular vote doesn’t matter in terms of the election itself, so it’s simply a side show/rabbit trail to detract from the victory.
TrumpLand and Clinton’s archipelago maps:
https://www.google.com/search?q=clinton+archipelago+map&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi9x5jy-8_cAhXpdN8KHUOCB3sQsAR6BAgGEAE&biw=1858&bih=987
The secret to Trump’s victory was electoral roll cleansing of millions of voters by the Republicans. Add to that the abstention of Democrat voters thoroughly disillusioned by eight years of Obama treachery, and by the plain DNC theft of the nomination from Sanders, plus Sanders’ obvious complicity in that plot, and you get a difficult situation. But when that is all an added burden to a justifiably despised candidate, the feminazi Gorgon, Clinton, then you get Trump. One thing, however, really brightens my days-the continuing hysterical rage of the feminazis that a ‘female’ did not reach the Offal Orifice. Perhaps next time they should nominate someone not blood-soaked and psychopathic.
The American system was created by the Founding Fathers precisely so that it was not based on a majority. They designed it so the electoral college votes were what counted (as a way of balancing the different states).
Therefore any discussion of majorities is just an irrelevance. The American system functioned exactly as it was intended to. Trump won fair and square – absolutely no question about it.
Well . . . I don’t think TRUMP committed any fraud. He’d just arrived in the Republican party anyway. Doesn’t mean the Republicans didn’t, but it wasn’t UNUSUAL or UNPRECEDENTED fraud, just the usual gerrymandering, voter disenfranchisement, making it hard for people in poor areas to vote (minimal polling stations, extra ID requirements etc) and so on, with maybe a tiny assist here and there from Diebold. Historically and in this election as well, the Republicans probably committed significantly more fraud than the Democrats (more for structural reasons than from any residue of ethics among Dems), but if it wasn’t considered enough to invalidate the process before I don’t see why it should this time. Just business as usual in a rather corrupt country with rather crappy voting rules.
Agreed. The systemic election fraud historically favored the Bush-Clinton Cabal’s backers. I do believe a part of their hysteria post-Trump win is due to seeing there’s a new player in their previously monopolized election fraud arena. Oh the horror.
And no, I don’t think that new player is “The Russians”. I don’t have a clue who it is, and I don’t think the cabal knows either. Hence their headless chicken nonsense.
Well, as it happens I agree that majority of American voters actually refuse to vote (always), simply because they do not support any of the parties. So, taking this into account, argument like “But Trump did not have a majority vote” is invalid. He did have a majority vote of the people who participated in the election process. Too bad for the ones who did not vote, they are stuck with what’s given to them by the voting lot.
Those who refuse to vote have no one but themselves to blame for whoever wins, ergo they have no voice because they did not participate in the election process. If you don’t play the game, you have no right to complain about who wins the jackpot.
I could not vote in this election, they Catch 22’d me. Clever ‘them’…they think. That will never happen again, rest assured. This is the first Presidential election since I turned 21 that I did not or could not vote in.
Auslander
and we don’t vote for the deep state, all those non-elected bureaucrats, etc. No choice there.
I asked an American whom decided not to Vote, Why?
The answer was:
Whoever controls the Federal Reserve, controls USA.
The government is Irrelevant.
Anon, it does not matter if the government is irrelevant, but by not voting people actually support and prolong the situation. What I think must happen, in the USofA and other Western countries is to remove private funding from the voting process. All registered parties should be funded by the Budget and have an equal allotted money limit. Senate and Congress membership must be reformed as well none of this $hit for life. Unfortunately there is not much that can be done with the Bureaucracy, unless the get kicked out after each election, which is not very practical because the system has to operate.
I think these are historically consistent levels of voter participation.
So, I don’t think the Trump election is really an outlier in the context of prev. American elections.
I don’t find these arguments re voter participation/popular vote et cetera to be either valid or, actually, relevant.
Trump was certainly elected more “fair and square” than Bush Junior—that “election” decided by the SOTUS was an awful joke. But Americans and their institutions (such as Wall Street, political elites, MIC, Congress, etc.) basically accepted it.
The news that Gore had actually won Florida hardly created a ripple and was buried in the back pages of the NYT. Too late now!!! Ha ha. Imagine if such a finding concerning the Electoral College Vote were published today!!!
A very different situ from the current one, where not a day passes without someone pointing out that, basically, Trump is not the legitimate president. This is a very dangerous meme to keep hammering on.
And it has been hammered on since the day after the election. Obama kind of started it out, or modeled it for others, by withholding the basic courtesies accorded by an outgoing pres to the incoming one. Obama had a little tantrum. I think we now know that he had been active behind the scenes to derail the possibility of Trump’s being elected by politicizing the FBI probe into Russian “meddling.”What we had was domestic “meddling” and that is what we have seen for the past two years.
Like it or not, Trump is the president by dint of figuring out how to win, given our weird two party system.
There have been many close elections.
So, I believe that what we are currently seeing something new in the constant harping on Trump’s illegitimacy.
Americans are being mentally prepared for his removal, one way or another.
Katherine
Gore in no way won Florida. I still lived there back then and I remember watching the agonizing foolishness of the ‘hanging chads’ and such. The effort for the recounts was to spin the vote in Gore’s favor, and it didn’t work. SCOTUS finally stepped in and said enough, Bush wins.
By the by, as is usual the absentee votes were never counted, most of them kind of ‘disappeared’ during the hanging chad deal. Absentee votes are mostly military, and military votes generally Republican, as do a lot of expats. The remaining absentee votes tallied, if memory serves, almost a year later, threw the election securely in Bush’s favor. Why they were not counted before begs the question of were the same dark forces who tried to stuff the ballot boxes for Kankles at work for Gore? Absolutely.
Auslander
You seem to be referring to what occurred before SCOTUS stepped in.
I am referring to what occurred months later.
Living in Florida does not, IMO, confer special knowledge of what occurred months after the election—nor even during the election.
See:
https://www.cnn.com/2015/10/31/politics/bush-gore-2000-election-results-studies/index.html
Bush’s win came down to “counting strategy,” as described in a NYT story of July 7, 2001. I think I actually recall reading this story when it appeared. By then, the actual likely outcome was a “historical footnote.”
NB:
“Florida’s certified election results, listed on the Florida Department of State’s Web site, show that the Republicans’ sense of urgency was justified. Although Mr. Bush appeared to hold a fluctuating lead throughout the 36 days of recounts, the Web site shows that without the overseas absentee ballots counted after Election Day, Mr. Gore would have won Florida by 202 votes, and thus the White House. **But no one knew that until the 36 days were over; by then, it was a historical footnote.”**
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/15/us/examining-the-vote-how-bush-took-florida-mining-the-overseas-absentee-vote.html
Katherine
What Auslander is referring to is the recount process itself.
The DNC penetrated the recount centers and inserted operatives who would alter ballots to generate Gore votes. One of their most prevalent attempts to receive was the “hanging chad”. DNC operatives intentionally altered ballots by damaging a “chad” often with a fingernail. Then they declared “voter intent” based on the “hanging chad” and added ballot to Gore’s count.
This is one of the main reasons why Florida has changed over to optical scan ballots. It is much harder for the DNC to tamper with a recount.
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(*) For those who were not around at the time, Florida used to collect votes via a system that use perforated cards that were punched via a rod or pin. The perforated areas intended to be punched out are “chads”. if the chad stays attached to the ballot by one corner this theoretically can swing back into place during the mechanical counting process.
I was around at the the time.
A recall very well the controversy over “hanging chads, and all the rest of it.
I recall seeing the invastions of counting centers by various groups.
From a strategic pov, Gore’s strategy of concentrating the recount in a few counties backfired.
Major political pressure was brought to bear concerning the absentee ballots.
I also recall very clearly reading postmortems on what had occurred in Florida.
THat is why I recall the NYT article. It is very detailed. for those who “were not there” and are curious, it is worth a careful read.
The main takeaway was that the Republicans/Bush were far better organized than the Dems to respond both on the ground, and legally. The state and the Dem Party was, simply, outgunned. The funds were there, immediately, to hire powerful legal firepower. The Dems were caught playing catchup.
Here is another:
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/13/us/contesting-vote-strategy-gore-s-failure-ask-for-manual-statewide-recount-may.html
Katherine
“Living in Florida does not, IMO, confer special knowledge of what occurred months after the election—nor even during the election.”
My lady, I respectfully disagree with you. What you may or may not have seen on other news, in Florida it was 24/7 for weeks, endless live feeds of the idiots discussing whether this hanging chad was the voters choice or the not hanging chad that had a small circular depression in it so ergo the depression meant the voter cast a ballot for Gore. I was in country for some time, stuck at home recovering from an injury because of which I could barely walk, and with nothing else to do, I watched it all. In the end, SCOTUS decided to end the foolishness as it was apparent that the vast majority of the ‘chad’ teams were doing their utmost to swing the vote to Gore.
As for the absentee votes, most of them were never counted and a good percentage of them ‘disappeared’, some of which were found in dumpsters in Tallahassee after the election was formally declared for Bush. Most of the found ballots were for Bush, if memory serves in excess of 70%, but where they are now is anyone’s guess.
Putting links to cnn and NYT is a none starter for any discussion, even back then. Perhaps you should better find links for Florida Times Union, or Florida East Coast News, and even they can not be trusted by any stretch of the imagination.
Auslander
“in Florida it was 24/7 for weeks, endless live feeds of the idiots discussing whether this hanging chad was the voters choice or the not hanging chad that had a small circular depressio”
My dear Gentleman, all of this was shown on national TV.
It was 24/7 hanging chads etc. all over the country, not just in Flahdah.
Katherine
Aha, I was just waiting for the NYT ad hominem!
Actually, the NYT did cover the “after election” phase fairly well.
Katherine
Actually, he did (Gore, that is). You are totally wrong on that point. NYT and Wapo did a recount – it took them a year, and by the time they filed results, no one was interested. But they did find that Gore got more votes than the deplorable shrub (aka gw bush). Gore simply retreated… In 2000, there was a judicial coup d’etat (kinda like JFK, except for the dead body). Whatever that means… but it was the final nail in what was once known as US democracy…
@Gorakoshka The 2000 election is a good case study for those who persist in the belief that one US political party is somehow “better” than the other. In 2000 Bush was the designated candidate of the oligarchy exactly as Clinton was in 2016. Then as now, the entirety of the media was as strongly pro-Bush as the 2016 media were pro-Clinton. The media were uniform in asserting that Gore should step down. Despite opinion polls showing that the majority of those polled preferred an accurate counting of the votes, there was a mysterious urgency that the election had to be resolved as quickly as possible. Thugs such as John Bolton were actively inserting themselves into the situation in an attempt to stop the recounts. Had Gore actually been declared the winner similar attempts to remove him may have ensued as the current situation with President Trump. Following Florida, the drive toward electronic voting machines accelerated. No doubt because electronic election rigging is much simpler than dealing with the complexity of paper ballots. Didn’t save Clinton though. Can’t win ’em all, I guess.
Exactly. Glad to have confirmation from Gorakoshka on what I recall clearly.
There was enormous pressure on Gore to “gracefully” disappear, to spare the country a trauma of some kind. NEvermind the actual trauma of seeing the democratic process overturned.
I well recall footage of aggressive invasions of recount stations, etc.
The pressure on Gore was repeated four years later, when irregularities in Ohio were swept under the rug, and Kerry was more or less challenged to “gracefully” step aside to avoid unseemly political “fisticuffs” and questioning of the honesty of the vote. The “leftist” David Corn stated that raising issues with the voting machines in Ohio was “conspiracy theory” (yes, that David Corn writing in The Nation!). So, Kerry “gracefully” bows out. Later the evidence was irrefutalbe that the Ohio vote was rife with irregularities, turns out the secretary of state has an interest in that company that manufactures voting machines, stuff inside the machines were switched and votes were switched in a number of counties and on and on. Can’t recall all the chapter and verse, but Bev Harris of Black Box Voting did a huge amount of forensics and research on the shenanigans that had gone on. So, it happened in both 2004 and 2008, that the Dem candidate more or less “stood down.” Having worked in Maine to get Kerry elected (yeah, at that time I supported him; does anyone still recall the level of revielemnet of Bush Junior???), I was utterly incredulous that Kerry would be so “well mannered” and would not fight for his presidency, and for his constituency. When we went to bed at 1:30, Kerry was clearly in the lead. When we woke up at 5:30 and the Ohio vote had come in, he was behind . . . WTF????? Now it looks more maybe some kind of a deal maybe was cut.
Katherine
Just another footnote, but who can forget the witch of the South, Katherine Harris??
“Katherine Harris
Odds are that you haven’t thought about Katherine Harris for a while. When she was Florida secretary of state in 2000, of course, Harris’s maneuvering helped George W. Bush carry Florida, and with it the presidency.”
Just sayin’. For those who were not there . . .
Katherine
Calling Corn a ‘Leftist’ is daft. Only in the USA would a DNC Zionist nutter like Corn be called ‘Left’. He may be to the Left of dear old Genghis Khan, but I’d have to fact-check that.
Mulga you crack me up. What passes for left in the US these days (and is accepted as such,) is truly laughable.
If you check a global assessment of the left/right divide both parties are very right wing.
I also agree. He was designated to start the Desert Storm, which as we know was going to be nothing else but an oil grub. This is why he “won” They tried it again with Hillary, but this did not work, hence the hysterical “Rusia’s done it”, the usual scape goat. When all dirty tricks fail, blame Russia.
Given what happened in the following year on 9/11, I’ve come to suspect that the man “they” really wanted in the Whitehouse was Dick Cheney. Cheney was clearly the manager on the ground during that event with Bush clueless in Florida. Bush also gives the impression of being relatively easy to manipulate and something of a lightweight. Cheney remained relatively visible and critical of US policy during the Obama administration while “W” seemed to more or less go back to Crawford and disappear from the public eye. Cheney had also long been associated with the neocon movement. Bush had to ask his father what a “neocon” was.
The backup plan was to assassinate Gore on 9/11 and have Palpatine rule directly executing order 66.
Don’t forget the theft of Ohio that tipped the 2004 Presidential election to Bush. Kerry sucked that one up, like a loyal chap. The elections are Bunraku puppet-plays in any case-real power is the prerogative of the rich owners of society. Politicians are just marionettes.
To reiterate, but this story is really worth a close read to understand how it was done: how the final vote figures were massaged, and how much legal muscle (and $$$) and I am sure also calling in favors with various local officials in Flahdah, the DoD, the postal service, etc. went into this effort, carried out by corporate lawyers, etc. Was James Baker the major general in charge of the “vote count” campaign?:
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/15/us/examining-the-vote-how-bush-took-florida-mining-the-overseas-absentee-vote.html
Katherine
Excellent post, Katherine! This whole debate about “popular vote” versus “the way the system is” is irrelevant and nothing but an attempt to raise a dust storm behind whose cover some way can be figured out to remove Trump on some dreamt-up grounds of “lacking legitimacy”. Whatever the merits or demerits of the system, Trump won under the same rules that Obama and others preceding him did. Obama showed his spiteful, vindictive, and odious side by not according Trump the decencies per tradition. But then, what do you expect? The man was the most despicable President ever.
@Outlaw Historian: Well said. Facts matter. Trump was not supported by the majority of Americans, neither was Shitlery.
Trump’s infantile, idiotic and hateful outbursts are also starting to alienate many working class whites that voted for him but are now growing disgusted with his rhetoric that has encouraged racial divisions and vitriol in US society. They’re not stupid, they can tell when they’re being played. Ironically neither Trump himself nor his family necessarily believe in the “dog-whistle” racial rhetoric he or his “true-believer/useful idiot” acolytes spew: witness the multiracial make-up of his business empire and its executives and Trump’s public attacks on Steve Bannon for making racist comments against legal Asian American immigrants. That tells you that he often tweets nonsense to keep the more hateful and idiotic members of his “base” placated and “on-side”. It’s this inconsistency that the savvy among the working class are catching on to.
Add to that Trump’s utter weakness and backtracking -out of fear- on his own views (like his 180 on Russia -would vs wouldn’t, or his gutless foreign military intervention 180degree reversal -when he lobbed missiles at Syria) has also eroded his base among the antiwar and libertarian factions that voted for him.
If the economy falters or he caves against China’s absurd one-side mercantile trade practices against the US (where China sells $400billion more to the US than it buys (year over year): -via chinese dumping goods at near cost into the US while maintaining trade barriers to US product exports to China) then Trump’s political support will collapse.
Outlaw Historian
You are misinformed. The majority of the voters did indeed vote for Trump. Analysts estimate that between 5 and 10 million votes were added to the Hillary count, which means Trump also won the popular vote. The Deep State tried manipulating the elections, committing voter fraud on behalf of Hilary. When voters cast their votes for Trump, they ended up being shown as Hillary votes. This was reported on the Internet, after which the voter fraud was terminated.
Among the 5 to 10 million votes that were bestowed to Hillary, you had votes of immigrants as well as votes of deceased persons who rose from their graves to vote, an old American voting tradition.
I have written elsewhere that I was up till 2:00 in the morning watching the voting results. And when I finally went to bed, Trump was ahead in popular the vote count. What happened? Me thinks a little vote rigging.
Actually a LOT of vote rigging is my guess.
Interestingly, the half of the zionazi-gay media, in pindoland, backing the trump regime, run with obama/
clinton/democrat collusion with evil Russia nonsense, essentially a mirror image of the cnn propaganda.
The “bad guy” image all these zpc/nwo assets are reinforcing is Russia, not trump, not clinton. The Russians are the intended “bad guy” all this hysteria is calculated to instill in western minds. Trump is a very happy and willing vector for this psywar theater. That is why he opted to run and why the zionazis backing him arranged it so he would win.
Here’s some more zionazi-gayness from the Russian Embassy in Israel https://twitter.com/israel_mid_ru/status/1021716178530705408
“July28-August11 4th #ArmyGames2018 will take place under #Russia Defense Ministry @mod_russia initiative. #Israel military will contend in battlefield medicine relay-race, field kitchen contest, military motor rally. We welcome such 🇷🇺🇮🇱cooperation”
Yes. Also more from Kremlin;
-President Putin On Israel: Quotes From The Kremlin Website (https://orientalreview.org/2018/05/10/president-putin-on-israel-quotes-from-the-kremlin-website/)
LOL, the ISIS Defense Force gets to show off their field kitchen skills!
“We peel potatoes better than you!”
they try to capitalize on the “evil Russia” eme made by clintonites and turn that inertia against clintonites themselves. Good tactical move.
what about long-term consequences – that is strategy, and Team Trump just does not have luxury to have any, as they are fighting just to survive.
Motto: The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves! Lenin
I think that Trump was put in power by the deepest of the Deep State ( Cambridge Analytica a good example of how to win the swing states ) and the desire of many in US ( common people) to fight against the system ( wars,offshoring jobs,Fed and Wall Street financial bubbles and ponzi schemes,illegal immigration,etc )
In a way,he serves very well the globalist agenda when promoting Make America Great Again! It is like dressing an ugly woman in a beautiful dress. When the MSM or the democratic party make a fool of him,also his good deeds look bad,like MAGA or peace or at least good relations with Russia,or Christians,etc.
By allowing him to become a president,the elites destroy or make a parody of nationalism,the good one. Who will dare after Trump to say in the Empire ” Make that Country Great Again ” ? The exception here that proves the rule – Israel .
They also use Trump to put more pressure and sanctions on Russia. I agree here with Pompeo who said they need a truck to load the documents about those sanctions.
Alive ( all kind of privileges for the rich and MIC,embassy move to Jerusalem,Iran …) or ” dead ” ( all above ) he serves the elites. To me,everything look like a big show and is under strict control.
The circus with EU and NATO increased spendings in Stalin words ( updated ):
” If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a ‘peace conference’, you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.”
” If any president of America ( Trump ) begins to defend to the death a ‘peace conference’, you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.”
PS. Another childish tweet of Trump like the bad one about Iran:
” I’m very concerned that Russia will be fighting very hard to have an impact on the upcoming Election. Based on the fact that no President has been tougher on Russia than me, they will be pushing very hard for the Democrats. They definitely don’t want Trump! “……..Oh ” man ” !
Trump got beat soundly during the last election. The popular vote went to the dems by a large margin. If it the USA was a normal 21st century democracy he would never be president. Were it not for Cambridge Analytica Shenanigans, voter suppression (read Greg Palast articles on the subject) and black box voting (check out Bev Harris book), republicans would not even sniff the white house. Recently there were 3 maybe 4 factions fighting for power in Washington. Before 2008, each president had a relative stable configuration of power behind him. After the crash, they were all at the trough, each of them trying to elbow the next group grifting away at the expense of the masses. That’s why there’s little ideological coherence other than buying off the faction-flavor of the day for a limited bounce in the polls. Hence all the gimmicks for the Hoi Polloi about building a wall, infrastructure that never gets built and jobs that won’t come back. Trump’s antics are a smokescreen, well calculated distraction to mask very real confiscatory changes to law that benefit the elites and punish deplorables. His tax cuts are already priced in with a colossal deficit slated to hit next year. The fed is already raising rates accordingly… When Trump is done with demolishing America’s fiscal position, deplorables will be left only with their eyes to cry with. They made their bed and will have to lie in it.
The USA is not a Democracy it is a Republic – get over it – try starting with the name – USA means United “States” – no mention of people nor the words – popular vote!
notwithstanding the drivers licenses handed out like jelly beans for voting purposes for illegals in California and NY – the latter doesnt even check ID at the polling station – Primary documented Bernie was cheated – in Iowa / NYC ( missing 125,000 registrations – in Brooklyn – all new mostly white young relocated – Daughter of Nina Lowe fired – might check 2004 what she did – The brown bag Fixer) and many other places repeated in the final election.
many other point you made are wrong but that is enough for now
“We, the PEOPLE…”
Republic -> Res Publica – People’s deeds, People’s business, etc
I am reading that Trump means to take control of the Federal Reserve. Would that also count as demolishing America’s fiscal position?
Kenedy tried and paid the ultimate price.
Trump my be crazy, but not stupid to repeat the same mistake.
“On June 4, 1963, a virtually unknown Presidential decree, Executive Order 11110, was signed with the authority to basically strip the Rothschild Bank of its power to loan money to the United States Federal Government at interest.
With the stroke of a pen, President Kennedy declared that the privately owned Rothschild Federal Reserve Bank would soon be out of business. The Christian Law Fellowship has exhaustively researched this matter through the Federal Register and Library of Congress.
We can now safely conclude that this Executive Order has never been repealed, amended, or superceded by any subsequent Executive Order. In simple terms, it is still valid.
When President John Fitzgerald Kennedy signed this Order, it returned to the United States federal government, specifically the Treasury Department, the Constitutional power to create and issue currency – money – without going through the privately owned Rothschild Federal Reserve Bank.
This means that for every ounce of silver in the U.S. Treasury‘s vault, the government could introduce new money into circulation based on the silver bullion physically held there.
As a result, more than $4 billion in United States Notes were brought into circulation in $2 and $5 denominations.
$10 and $20 United States Notes were never circulated but were being printed by the Treasury Department when Kennedy was assassinated.
President Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 and the United States Notes he had issued were immediately taken out of circulation. Federal Reserve Notes continued to serve as the legal currency of the nation. ” Quote
Source:
Case Closed: JFK Killed After Shutting Down Rothschild’s Federal Reserve Conspiracy, JFK, Recent Articles, Rothschild
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/case-closed-jfk-killed-after-shutting-down-federal-reserve-lakhi
I just can’t with the Trumptards and their make believe dimensional chess moves. The Donald is owned by the Rothschild faction since the early 90’s. That’s why one of the first moneyed men to endorse him was Wilbur Ross. Ross manages the americans side of Rothschild family affairs for decades and helped finance Trump when he was bankrupt beggar in New York. One of Donald’s first appointments was Wilbur Ross and the next nevralgic economic portfolio was given to Mnuchin from Goldman Sachs. He’s just attempting to lure Russia into Kissinger’s trap by playing classical anglo-american balance of power politics. To survive eurasia’s existential threat, the united states must use the 2nd most powerful foe as a continental dagger to blunt China. Most deplorables sound ignorant and desperate. With the dumbing down of american education, I just don’t know anymore how stupid can one get…
“With the dumbing down of american education, I just don’t know anymore how stupid can one get…”
Bro 93 above provided the answer
“And I assure you Deplorable America does have half a brain”
SI
“Trump’s antics are a smokescreen, well calculated distraction to mask very real confiscatory changes to law that benefit the elites and punish deplorables. His tax cuts are already priced in with a colossal deficit slated to hit next year. The fed is already raising rates accordingly… When Trump is done with demolishing America’s fiscal position, deplorables will be left only with their eyes to cry with. They made their bed and will have to lie in it.”
Concur. The israelis conned the pindo right with their trump label in almost the same way they conned the pindo “left” with their obama label.
What is “pindo?”
Excellent analyses.
Your point… that it is absolutely pointless for any country to agree on anything signed or not with the US since it will renege on any agreement at the drop of a hat/CIC or whenever it suits its own personal hegemonic agenda…absolutely spot on!
The quality of ‘leadership’ and complete lack of diplomacy that we see in the Western world becomes progressively more appalling. Case in point…a psychopathic liar like Theresa May might seem like the absolute pits, but odds on she will soon be replaced by someone even worse…Boris is currently lining himself up as PM and has been enthusiastically endorsed by Trump…newsflash he is even more of a lunatic than May…more Russia-phobic too…if that’s possible!
Can we even imagine the circus that would unfold with The Donald and Boris working together!
Cheers
Col
Excellent article from the Saker, as always. I would like to add the following:
As I have written before, Trump during the elections had the backing of 200 admirals and generals, something I am still trying to understand. Why would high ranking military men support a 70 year old man with no political or military experience, unless they wanted a puppet in the White House. Yes, I have read articles that Trump was using the military to quietly clean the US of the Deep State, but I still have to see evidence of this.
Lets pretend that Trump was honest about “cleaning the swamp”, ie. eradicating the power of the Deep State. Can he do it ? All the evidence on the surface proves he cannot. Has he started reopening some of the 70.000 factories which have been closed down ? The answer is no. Has he improved American-Russian relations as promised ? The answer is no. Not only that, he has expelled Russian diplomats, confiscated Russian diplomatic property and openly accused Russia of that absurd nerve gas false flag in England. Worse, he has beefed up the US military in Europe, concentrating it on Russia. Even worse than that, he has increased sanctions against Russia, even making threats against EU states if they participated in the construction of the Nord Stream – 2 gas pipeline, to the utter astonishment of Europe. Has he terminated US involvement in regional wars ? The answer is no, as he has attacked Syria on two occasions and beefed up the US military in Afghanistan, a war the US has no hope of winning.
What is the role of Trump and the Office of the President in all of this ? As things stand now, Trump has been reduced to the role of an actor, impersonating the President of the US and doing as told by the neocons. The last time a US President dared defy the neocons was JFK, and we all know what happened to him in Dallas. The question which needs to be asked is if Trump himself believes he can achieve anything if he is indeed sincere in honoring his campaign promises. I have my doubts.
The point is that 70.000 manufacturing plants have been closed down in the US and those which remain are tied to the Military Industrial Complex, which needs perpetual wars and new enemies. A very dangerous internal and external situation has thus been created.
As I have also stated, the neocons in the US have found themselves in a new situation, which they did not expect. Their globalist plans cannot succeed if they do not place both Russia and China under their control, which is now impossible, as the two have united their economic policies, creating the Shanghai Cooperation Zone, the Eurasian Economic Union, the BRICS and the Silk Road, offering fair trade based on respect for the sovereign status of individual countries, which is a direct opposite to what Wall Street and Washington are demanding, namely submission to imperial decrees. Washington has even succeeded in alienating it’s European allies, who are now turning to Russia. Analysts have already stated that it’s a matter of time before a split occurs between US and European elites, as politics is at the mercy of economics and not the other way around.
When it comes to Russia, it can indeed break the US empire in conjunction with China, as both have created the stated international economic organizations, which are attracting new “recruits” and weakening Wall Street in the process.
Finally, in trying to isolate Russia, the US is indeed isolating itself, making enemies left, right and center. Both Washington and Wall Street are living in the past, thinking they still possess esteem and power. The US empire will indeed be dismantled by a combination of international economic organizations created by Russia and China and imperial arrogance of Washington and Wall Street. And the neocons ? As far as I can see, we shall get more of the same from them, as they are incapable of stopping. They will drag the US down, but not themselves, as they will be the first to flee the US, just like the Roman elite fled from Rome in 476 when the Vandals approached.
And Trump ? He might be removed from power, one way or another and Pence installed in his place. If he does retain the White House, he will continue doing as told by the neocons. The only thing which will change the current situation in the US will be a military coup d’etat (overt or covert), or the crash of the financial system, as expected by analysts. Not a pretty picture for the US, bearing in mind analysts are predicting a civil war in the country, either a “soft” political one or a “hot” military one.
And Putin ? He is just watching the show that is unfolding in the US. To the neocons he is more dangerous by sitting back in the Kremlin and doing nothing, than if was provoked into a military conflict, which he has skillfully avoided, while at the same time warning that Russia will fight back if attacked. The biggest enemies the neocons face are the neocons themselves and the financial mess they created in the US and the political mess they created on the international scene. And Putin knows it. That’s why he is sitting back in the Kremlin and waiting for developments, which can only go his way.
BF,
I agree with you. There are two reasons why I believe those 200 military honchos backed Trump. First, because Gen. Dunford said that creating a no fly zone in Syria, as pushed by Clinton/Neocons, would cause a war with Russia. At the time, Dunford clearly did not think that would be a good idea. Second, the West has always been at war with Russia. That’s partly because Capitalism needs resources to control through expansion, not unlike a disease that attacks healthy tissue in order to feed itself and further expand.
Second, and it’s important to remember, Trump spoke out of both sides of his mouth during the campaign. He advocated ratcheting down tension with Russia. But he also advocated increasing the military. He was following Kissinger’s plan, to sweet talk Russia, split it off from China, and then when Russia became complacent, as happened with Gorbachev, strike hard to get back control. The military was also saying that it was depleted after 17 years of war mainly in the Middle East, but also with new expansion back into Africa and Latin America.
The only difference between Trump and Clinton, long term, is one of tactics, whether to attack Russia now (Clinton/Neocons) or to attack later (Trump/Kissinger).
It doesn’t matter who won, because the plan has always been to destroy Russia.
40,000+ sealed indictments and rising since Trump was elected. (Typically in any year there about 1,000).
Good points, but I have to say that 200 high ranking generals and admirals isn’t was impressive as it sounds.
Believe it or not, I read somewhere that the navy has more admirals than ships, so just in that one branch I’m guessing there are 500+. Assuming the army, Air force, and Marine Corps are similarly bloated there are probably 1,000+ on active duty easily.
(As an aside, I know an Army general who commanded few soldiers than I did as a second lieutenant).
So, if we count retired and active duty, Trump’s 200 or so represents probably less than 10% of the total.
“The last time a US President dared defy the neocons was JFK, and we all know what happened to him in Dallas. ”
Small point here, but I don’t think “neocons” really existed in 1963 as the force that they later became. That is, individuals of course were a live, but the political evolution that brought them to the fore was still in the future.
Mainly, I reckon that the plot to kill JFK actually did originate in Texas, with LBJ.
See good recent articles and thought=provoking comments and links at the Unz Review.
Katherine
Yes, and that is why invoking neocons as the only culprits is just too simplistic. There is an entire MIC, plus security, congressional, hi-tech complex tat is part of the cesspool. Unfortunately, that means … no end in sight, as it cannot be dislodged easily.
Katherine
And who created the so-called Federal Reserve in 1913 ?
BF:
I don’t want to get into an argument about a side issue.
I think the term “neocons” used in connection with events that took place in 1913 and 1963 is an anachronism.
Find other terms.
Ball in your park.
If you want to spend time on this.
Katherine
Katherine
The neocons are bankers backed by private corporations. JFK was removed from power after he signed a Presidential Decree for the issuance of a Government printed dollar, which was outside the jurisdiction of the Federal Reserve, a private central bank controlled by the Rothschilds. He also gave the order for the withdrawing of all US military advisors from South Vietnam. The bankers were furious with him because they were losing control of the dollar, while the Military Industrial Complex was equally furious, because they needed a war for the sake of profit. JFK was also disliked because he was not tough enough on the Soviet Union.The result was Dallas. The Queen of England did not come his funeral, which says plenty. She lives in the same city as the Rothschilds.
Katherine, you are correct that the neocon movement, as we know it today, really only dates to the Six Day War. The neocons aren’t bankers. They are, however, a political and intellectual class of operatives that serve the interests of the global Oligarchy of which the owners of the major banks are central. However, the Money Power of the bankers has existed for centuries. You may be aware that Henry Ford, one of the most powerful men in industrial America, was humbled and broken when he tried to actively oppose them (in 1929). So ultimately, this point of BF is correct if not exactly correctly stated, strictly speaking.
By the way, since the term “neocon” is used so frequently it’s probably a good idea to understand exactly what it means. Here is a reference that I think is rather good for the modern neoconservative history
http://www.voltairenet.org/article178638.html
Also, Kevin McDonald is a very good source.
http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/understandji-3.htm
There are also books such as Heilbrunn’s book They knew they were right which are not bad.
It’s also worth pointing out that the most important difference between “neo” conservatives and “paleo” conservatives (which don’t really exist anymore) is that paleocons are “America Firsters” neocons are “Israel Firsters”
Revelation 3:9 :
Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie;
They were hiding with different names back then too
Kat,
The so-called neocons existed long before, the name was just re-invented in the 60’s. It’s just a “word game” in order to re-image the class that pulls on the strings. It’s like the Greek saying and I translate: “Manolios changed, by changing his clothes”, or the English “the wolf in sheep’s clothes” somewhat means the same.
Trump tweet from 9 hrs ago: ‘European Union representatives told me that they would start buying soybeans from our great farmers immediately. Also, they will be buying vast amounts of LNG!’ – They have got to be barking mad, LNG is more expensive.
So much for trump’s BS about level playing field etc, when the US has the advantage of the $ world reserve currency.
Also, his BS about EU NATO countries being bullied to increase spending up to the level of the US, is a satanic logic: it’s not that the others should increase their spending, but that the US should be DEcreasing its spending down to the level of the EU nations, i.e. no more than 2%. Then, maybe $500 bn pa could be spent on repairing the USA’s infrastructure, etc.
Ralph
Depending on sources, American LNG is either two or three times more expensive than Russian gas which is piped to Europe. Why indeed would any European country pay two or three times more for the same merchandise. What ever Europe decides to do about American LNG, there is no way that deliveries of Russian gas can be suspended.
When it comes to increased defense spending, I have yet to see this happen, when EU countries are having difficulty paying what they are currently paying. What will irritate Europe even more is that it is expected to pay for the upkeep of Wall Street’s globalist empire. This will not last too long
Probably a safe bet for the EU as there are very few LNG tankers available and so LNG shipments will be curtailed to a maximum of a few percent (2% – 3%) of the EU’s gas requirements. By agreeing to buying ‘vast amounts’ of LNG they meet Trump’s demands knowing that he can’t make the supply and that they won’t have to pay.
It seems to me that Trump is acting like one hell of a good Russian Agent as just about every one of his actions seems directed towards accelerating the decline of the USA in all respects – I’m not complaining! – and his latest trade war actions and talk about taking over the Federal Reserve (a private business controlled by the major bankers) could be the last step to undermining confidence in the $ prior to a financial meltdown. I have thought for sometime that it is imperative that the financial crisis is triggered before the US is ready for war. If Saker is correct and the neocons are poised to take full control of the USA then that trigger event needs to happen very soon.
China has the necessary financial power to trigger it and both China and Russia are ready for it to happen. The question is when? October seems popular among the pundits.
Remember that Trump is threatening to sanction the EU (especially Germany) with ten’s of billions of dollars with tariffs. Why wouldn’t the EU buy his gas instead of losing billions in tariffs for nothing. Seems like a no brainer for me.
Anyway, Junker has made a fool himself by going to Trump and made that deal (promises) in the name of all EU countries, after he just a few weeks ago stated the exactly opposite, promising US the same amount of measures. Well, maybe he was thinking twice on the price of Bourbon…but letting the joke aside, his visit to Trump came just in handy for Trump, isn’t it interesting ? like a sudden willingness of support after the meeting at Helsinki. Man, the positioning is getting faster, wanted Junker to get a hint from Trump about the discussions held at Helsinki or tried to read his mind ? or the EU higher echelon has realized the dangers for EU if things get out of control in Washington in wake of the growing hysteria ?
With all due respect, El Trumpo isn’t necessarily spouting tripe here. He still does have a few European populations who are all but elated to help ”Make America great again” at their own expense. It’s more like he is telling some true Polish jokes — and rightly so!
Superb, Saker!
A further question to ponder is: will the global economy go into shock before, or after, the regime change? Arguments can be made for either case, and there are too many variables to allow an accurate prediction, yet one wonders.
I can’t see how the U.S will continue to be a nation comprising 50 states once we get the the big market crescendo. The global financial crisis was the warm up, the main act has been put off for 10 years now.
When it arrives, there are going to be alot of pissed of Joe Six-packs looking for blood.
Who will they blame, obviously Trump( if he is still there) and hopefully the Clinton Cartel.
The place is going to be a hell hole.
After that the place will break into bits. I can’t see any other outcome, it sounds bad because it can’t end any other way, besides a nuclear war.
Unless these neoconservatives get mopped up real soon, this is the sort of collapse coming to the U.S.
When you are a country in 21 trillion dollars in debt, your screwed.
The number one threat Trump faces now is assassination. The calls for this are now more and more open. The cover of the New Yorker magazine shows a dead Trump. And the editorial ends by asking, who will have the courage to come forward and stop Trump? The CIA is even now undoubtedly grooming their “lone assassin” to do the job. DJT will probably soon join JFK, RFK, MLK and many others, as a victim of the Deep State’s hit list.
The funny part is that this is exactly the line that the Obama camp used.
Leftists who were upset that Obama had turned out to be a banker-president were told that “oh, he has to do that. Otherwise they’ll kill him.”
Yes, and we were also told that the Republicans were implacably arrayed against him as the first black president, obstacles were placed in his way that prevented him from delivering on his hope and change promises, jah dah jah dah.
Meanwhile he took preemptive action to save the banks before anyone even had a chance to place any putative obstacles in his way.
He presented a corporate-tuned medical care plan.
And, it is slowly coming out, he conspired against candidate, president-elect, and President Trump.
Etc.
Katherine
Recall how Russian intel saved Pres. Erdogan from the US backed military coup.
I doubt Pres. Putin would waste the opportunity to make an alliance with POTUS.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Necessity has given you know who an opponent now superior in most important respects from military to diplomatic to geographic to legal and moral viewpoint. Perhaps even economic in the not so distant future.
No doubt the Russians can influence some outcomes from afar.
Perhaps they can physically protect Pres. Trump from within?
Why would Russia protect Trump? Let them bark at each others (liberals, neocons, deplorables, etc).
The more they focus on internal fighting the better for the rest of the world. As a matter of fact, if Russia should do anything, it should support all side simultaneously. That might speed up the collapse of the rotten empire.
You might have said the same thing about Pres. Erdogan. Why save him?
What if Pres. Trump gets the JFK treatment?
You have either civil war or a resumption of the march of empire.
America needs a patriotic leader with the military behind him if tragedy in the goy world is to be avoided.
I think it’s just possible that’s what she’s got now.
War is fought to control the price and supply of energy for the Rockefeller tribe.
Wars are fought on credit for the Rothschild tribe.
These are the keys to changing the world for good.
You know who is the master of capitalising on chaos so this should be avoided.
Russia and China are working towards these ends I believe.
With the Donald and the US generals on side they [we] would surely win.
Significance of Trump not being treated the same as Erdo is simple: because Erdo has historical influence in number of Caucasian Ex-Republics. Why? Because of their Mongol-Tatar-Turkmen heritage, as they were related to the original Turks since the XIII Century. This is what Saker excellently called sometime ago: The Russia’s Soft Underbelly.
I remember Bush’s presidency, when Democrats were somewhat conscious of the neocons and rightfully despised them. Now both parties are competing with each other to demonstrate who can better suck up to these psychopaths. It’s disconcerting to see how many people have shed the common sense they possessed ten years ago out of partisan hatred.
The Democrat opposition to the neocons during the Dubya/Cheney years was revealed shortly thereafter to be fake. What looked like a collection of independent protest movements turned out to be Democrat controlled.
We saw that after the American voters removed the Republican majoirity from Congress in 2006, the Democrats gladly took over and accepted the wars. It became the Democratic leadership in Congress that was shepparding through the war funding (which was off-budget at that time) as well as large defense bills to fund the Pentagon. There were still anti-war protests, as they were useful in taking the Presidency from the Republicans, but strangely they avoided most confrontations with the congressional Democrats who were now gladly funding and supporting the wars.
Obama ran his campaign giving the impression of being anti-war, especially while defeating Hillary in the Democrat primaries. But his campaign against Mad Bomber McCain in 2008 only really said that he’d be better at managing the wars and empire than the incompetent Dubya and the Republicans. And of course, the anti-war street protests and resistence dropped off markedly as soon as Obama took power. That was when it became obvious that the seemingly independent anti-war groups had all really been Democrat controlled and financed and thus the protests got turned off at the spigot so as to avoid protesting against a Democrat president.
“so as to avoid protesting against a Democrat president.
I think, so as to avoid demonstrating against a black president.
Katherine
I think to prevent any damage to the profits of the MIIC.
Don’t fall for the fake political divide.
and the rank n’ file bureaucrats and operative need to have a conceptual framework to keep themselves from facing the fact they are factorums from America’s most wasteful industry.
Yes, Russia can defend itself, but can it defend Syria (new terror bombings) or Iran (Trump obvious meant nuke em) or the Eastern Ukraine (continued terror attacks and torture)?
How much power military officials have to negotiate in military-to-military contacts is strongly dependent on the type of government that society has. For instance, after a military coup where the military has seized power, then in that government the military are the correct people to be negotiating with. Any military officers in those negotiations are either the decision makers or have been appointed as the representatives to decision makers. Either way, in such a government, the military would be the correct group to be negotiating with.
Often, after a military coup, there is a fake civilian government put into place. Ie, the colonels still hold the real power, but for both internal and external political relations they have put into place a puppet government that appears to be civilian. In such a case, negotiating with the civilian government can be a waste of time. It depends on how much authority the mllitary power holders behind the scenes has delegated to the civilian government. In such a scenario, it would still be the military behind the scenes that one would need to speak with if one wanted to have a face-to-face meeting with the real decision maker.
Of course, if one wants to negotiate with a real democracy where the military is kept small and weak and fully under civilian control, in that case talks with the military would be useless on the level of grand strategic decision making.
Excellent but bone shilling piece, txs ! Curious to see how this would metastase into a regime change though. Would only be for the worst I think.
Just like maidan and most coups, the most motivated (read the vilains) almost always win, just imagine Pence or Killary taking over Trumpushka with that kind of excuse to take over and justify their policy. Dayum that would be nasty!!!
I think Trump almost no more (or very little) than Obama has very little means of resisting his handlers.
On many aspects Obama was sort backtracking or going slow-mo on many of his orders (not all, and definitely not on Ukraine) but think about it in the ‘what would the Blues brothers do or say’ mode, taking for instance their intent to bomb Syria in summer 2013, a couple of months before the Maidan. Just imagine if Killary (or Pence) was in his shoes, do you think she would have backtracked? Or accepted the Iran deal or even Minsk I & II?
Well, one asset Trump has that Obama didn’t is precisely a wife who speaks Russian. I expect Melania lets him know when his handlers have mistranslated/misrepresented something important. And, the Donald has been heard to complain about not being given accurate information. So, there’s that.
I absolutely HATE a lot of the things Trump says and does, but I also see him performing heroic work in terms of … well, maybe not resisting his handlers, but at least confounding and confusing them. Far from characterizing him as “weak,” I’d say the man’s got balls the size of Texas. Who else would risk taking a run at Brennan-&-Co in broad daylight!?
The game is still at an early stage of play. The fat lady hasn’t even arrived at the theatre. The swamp-draining crew has yet to be selected (they’re still auditioning.) The swamp itself is protected by an extensive underground tunnel system dotted with well-equipped weapons caches — it’s a system which has been carved out inside the political, academic, and news institutions worldwide over a span of 70 years. You don’t locate and detonate, or smoke the operatives out of those tunnels in a nonce with the wave of a magic wand. If it’s going to happen at all, it will be a yuuuuge battle conducted over the span of many years. But, every campaign has to start somewhere, and start this one has. Which is why the halls and corridors of the political, academic, and news institutions worldwide are now echoing with cries of “Traitor!” and other crazy bedlam noises. See, Putin has a proven track record of being able to successfully wage exactly this kind of war…so, naturally, he and Trump must at all costs be prevented from being able to compare notes.
Meanwhile, polls have been showing support for Trump gradually solidifying inside the US, particularly taking a positive jump every time he makes a peace overture somewhere (even when it’s a lame one). And, his base have let the Dark State know that if their guy Trump gets JFKed, all Hell will break loose in the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave. So, there’s also that.
It’s going to take time, but there is a discernible movement afoot in which support is eroding from the left-right axis and coalescing along the establishment v. populist pole. That is: people across the political spectrum are rejecting those old dividing lines to negotiate a different political understanding and a new consensus. We are definitely living in interesting times.
Indeed! So, let us hope (and even pray) that the US will be able to regime change itself peacefully and democratically. Wouldn’t THAT be something!?
Loved your comment, thanks a lot! You made some valid points there.
Plus I actually chuckled when I read the expression “JFKed” :)
Re “JFK’d”—me, too (laughed, that is)!
indded it would be great :)
Nice comment
“Putin has a proven track record of being able to successfully wage exactly this kind of war…so, naturally, he and Trump must at all costs be prevented from being able to compare notes.”
That’s a very interesting thought!
“one asset Trump has that Obama didn’t is precisely a wife who speaks Russian. I expect Melania lets him know when his handlers have mistranslated/misrepresented something important.”
I doubt very much that Melania would speak Russian, least of all so well that she could point out mistakes in translation. Her native language is Slovenian, a slavic language, yes, but with little similarity to Russian. She claims to speak French, Italian and obviously English.
Excellent comment, and also Katherine’s many on the 2000 election debacle – many voters then were stunned by that Supreme Court decision – it was very like the Kennedy assassination for me – only this time my faith in that previously revered body was permanently assassinated. And I’m sure it was so for many others.
“Some type of political regime change…” Yes, indeed we hope so, as did many who bit their tongues, crossed their fingers, and did the unthinkable. They crossed over and voted for Trump because Hillary could not be. I wasn’t one of them, but I do say to those that did, bravo!
I agree with you, I think he displays extraordinary courage and resilience in the face of a unified, 24/7 MSM/Dem/IC assault. Many a person would have folded sometime ago but he keeps on keeping on. And I am very curious to see those 40,000 sealed incitements served. I keep recalling Montgomery giving all those servers/files to Nunes….I wish Trump all the success in the world and if a red wave does happen I think we may find him to be a man of his word.
i agree, and have made the same conclusion my self. my only fear is that the neocon US actually will start a nuclear war, the low iq puppets “running” that country literally believes that they have a superior army and weapons. And i do not believe anybody that can stop the “neocon/zionist” in the US without a civil war breaks out, that will be followed by war(s) and/or civil unrest in Europe i fear.
The fourth turning is upon us, like it or not. All we can do is our best to survive and make sure that the parasitic scum pay for their crimes and try to build up our countries again. If the empire dont decide to commit suicide by nuclear war that is.
We live in interesting times.
It never seems to occur to anyone that dumping US treasury bonds might just simply be a wise financial move.
If interest rates are rising, the old low-interest bonds lose value. Which would you rather have…. a thousand dollar bond that pays 5% a year, or a thousand dollar bond that pays 2% a year? The Fed is raising interest rates, thus if someone holds on to those old low interest bonds they become less valuable compared to new higher interest bonds.
Everyone wants to read geo-political grand strategy into everything. But sometimes selling a bond is just selling a bond because one knows that they can sell it for more today than they likely can get tomorrow.
Exactly right. Russia sold USD denominated bonds for U.S. Dollars cash. This event had no significant impact on either the bond or FX markets.
There was no news about the use of that cash. So, the Russians did not do anything ground breaking such as buying bonds backed by unstable currencies (e.g. Euro, Yuan/RMB, or Iranian Rial).
“delegitimizes the electoral process which brought him to power and, of course, it also excoriates the “deplorables” who dared vote for him: the majority of the American people.”
Technically, this should say “majority of the American people outside of California, New York and Massachusettes” who voted for Trump.
Hillary did win the overall popular vote in the last election. At least according to the computers. However, way back when at the time the Constitution was being written, the delegates from the smaller states were afraid that the larger states would dominate. Thus, they put in the electoral college to even things up a bit between the small states and the large states.
In the last election, Hillary won the “large” states and did so by such a wide margin that the overall popular vote went to Hillary. But, Trump did win the majority outside of the three states mentioned above and thus Trump won the electoral college which is what counts in determining a President thanks to those small state delegates at the Constitutional convention who did not want New York dictating to the country who should rule.
Politics.
What appears fascinating from those quotes is that the leading Democrats are in 100% “play to their base” mode. We know from polling data that the majority of the voters do not believe the Russiagate story, and that a majority of the voters believe better relations with Russia are good for the US. No surprise since this issue was fully in play during the 2016 election, and Trump beat Hillary.
However, the whole “Russiagate” and “Trump is a Traitor” line does play well with the MSNBC watching Democrat base. They eat that stuff up.
Which leads to the question of why are the Democrats playing to their base? Typically, that does not always lead to election victories. Its good for getting 35-40% of the vote, but to get that 50%+1 majority to win the election, a campaign needs to go beyond that.
Several possibllities come to mind.
1) This is just an early-in-the-campaign strategy to rally the base before the serious campaigning begins.
2) The Democrats are deeply concerned about the loyalty of their base and are fighting to get it into line.
As to the second notion, we know the Democrats were evenly split between the Wall-Street, Neocon, Hillary wing and the opposition Bernie Sanders wing in 2016. The Democrats have done nothing to heal this split. The obvious tactic would have been to bring in the Bernie wing of the party and use that enthusiasm to power an opposition campaign. The corrupt top Democrats have done just the opposite, making sure that Bernie supporters are powerless in the party with all the top offices going to the same crowd that rigged the 2016 nomination for Hillary. The Democrats are running a lot of ex-CIA and ex-military candidates this time around. The one noticeable exception to that was when the Bernie wing of the party beat a pro-deep state candidate in a NYC primary to likely win that seat in Congress. But that’s about the only victory I can think of for the resistence within the Democrats.
The whole Russiagate thing appears to be a way to try to paper this over. They’ve got Bernie personally involved. Which is no surprise since he was never a real challenger to Hillary in the last campaign. The obvious intent is to try to get the Bernie voters who oppose the banks to come back into the fold with the ‘Hate Trump’ message.
The flood of Russiagate and Trump is a Traitor messages coming from leading Democrats is likely a sign of weakness in that they don’t have their own party fully under control and hope to advance that cause by this “2 week hate” that the Saker so accurately describes.
In contrast, the obvious course for the Democrats was to try to re-unite the two divided wings of their party after the last election. This would be done by bringing some Bernie supporters into high-level Democratic party positions and by adopting some of Bernie’s positions as those of the party.
For instance, instead of Russia-gate, there are some obvious alternatives for Democratic campaigning.
— Trump’s cabinet of billionaires makes a wonderful symbol of attack.
— Trump’s tax-cut for the rich makes a wonderful line of attack.
— Trump’s attacks on Trump for attacking health care without the ‘great’ replacement that he promised in the campaign.
— Attacks on the growing police-state power under Trump. Especially dangerous when combined with Trump’s cabinet of billionaires.
The Democrats lost the last election because some key mid-western states the Democrats expect to win instead voted for Trump. It was a revolt of the workingclass voters in those states that sunk Hillary. They’d seen the Democrats abandon their old union causes for alliances with big business and trade deals that sent factories and jobs overseas. The obvious target for the Democrats would be to get these voters back.
The campaign messages given as examples above would be a strategy for doing just that. Telling working class voters who were sick of watching Democrats send their jobs overseas and who thus voted for Trump that the only reason they did that was because they were duped into becoming useful idiots for evil Russia and thus now even more deplorable than before is losing message.
It is amazing how many people actually believe that Bernie Saunders is some kind of decent guy posing an “alternative” to the other 2 contenders when his sole purpose was to round up “dissenters” and funnel them into the Hillary camp.
As Alexander Azadgan points out –
1. He voted in favor of use of force (euphemism for bombing) 12 sovereign nations that never represented a threat to the U.S.:
1) Afghanistan.
2) Lebanon.
3) Libya.
4) Palestine.
5) Somalia
6) Syria.
7) Yemen.
8) Yugoslavia
9) Haiti
10) Liberia
11) Zaire (Congo)
12) Sudan
2. He has accepted campaign money from Defense contractor Raytheon, a defense contractor, he continues his undying support of the $1.5 trillion F-35 industry and said that predator drones “have done some very good things”. Sanders has always voted in favor of awarding more corporate welfare for the military industrial complex – and even if he says he’s against a particular war he ends up voting in favor of funding it.
3. He routinely backs appropriations for imperial wars, the corporate scam of Obamacare, wholesale surveillance and bloated defense budgets. He loves to bluster about corporate welfare and big banks but he voted for funding the Commodity Futures “Modernization” Act which deregulated commercial banks and created an “unregulated market in derivatives and swaps” which was the major contributor to the 2007 economic crisis.
4. Regardless of calling himself an “independent”, Sanders is a member of the Democratic caucus and votes 98% of the time with the Democrats and votes in the exact same way as war criminal Hillary Clinton 93% of the time. Sanders campaigned for Bill Clinton in the 1992 presidential race and again in 1996—after Clinton had rammed through the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), vastly expanded the system of mass incarceration and destroyed welfare.
5. The sheepdog is a card the Democratic Party plays when there’s no White House Democrat running for re-election. The sheepdog is a presidential candidate running ostensibly to the left of the establishment Democrat to whom the billionaires will award the nomination. Sheepdogs are herders,…. charged with herding activists and voters back into the Democratic fold who might otherwise drift leftward and outside of the Democratic Party, either staying home. In 2004 he called on Ralph Nader to abandon his presidential campaign.
The Democratic Party has played this “sheep dog” card at least 7-8 times in the past utilizing collaborators such as Eugene McCarthy in 1968, Jesse Jackson in 1984 and 1988, Jerry Brown in 1992, Al Sharpton in 2000, Howard Dean in 2004, Dennis Kucinich in 2008 and in 2016 was Bernie Sanders’ turn.
6. Regardless of calling himself a “socialist” he labeled the late Hugo Chávez, architect of the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela responsible for lifting millions of lives out of poverty “a dead communist dictator.” Then he saddled up for a photo op with Evo Morales at the Vatican and also voted to extradite former Black Panther member, Assata Shakur.
7. He refers to ISIS’ godfather and warmonger extraordinaire John McCain as “my friend and a very, very decent person.”
8. He routinely parrots the DNC lines: “the Russians hacked our elections” despite there is no evidence of such hacking, but lowered his head and tucked tail when the DNC actually rigged the primary elections against him, proving he is more loyal to the Democratic (war) Party than to the millions of people who supported him and donated to his fraudulent campaign.
9. He expressed staunch support for the aid of violently right-wing separatist forces such as the self-styled Kosovo Liberation Army, whose members were trained as Mujahideen, during Clinton’s 100-day bombing of Yugoslavia and Kosovo in 1999. He has an extensive record of supporting jihadist proxies for the overthrow of sovereign governments in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria.
10. He supported Bill Clinton’s sanctions against Iraq, sanctions that prohibited medicines for infants and children…more than 500,000 innocents killed for no other reason than that they were Iraqi.
11. He said yes in a voice vote to the Clinton-era crime Bill, the Violent Crime Control & Law Enforcement Act of 1994, which expanded the death penalty to cover 60 offenses. So he is obviously pro-death penalty.
12. In the 2016 elections, he betrayed millions of people that believed in him when after making the central point of his campaign the fight against Wall Street he instructed his followers to vote for Wall Street’s candidate, war criminal/corporate criminal Hillary Clinton.
https://imperianews.com/usa-news-analysis/liberalisms-hypocrisy-a-case-study-of-the-american-senator-bernie-sanders-and-the-ones-to-follow/
Thank you for a terrific summation of Bernie, I wasn’t aware of much of this and was already soured on him because of his throwing his supporters under the bus for the Clintons and his oddly timed purchase of a lake house:)
I agree, but may I propose an item 3, they need the Russiagate story to provide justification for them to continue to attack/oppose/assail Trump if a blue wave doesn’t happen in November.
The neoconservatives need to have Trump cornered and weak. Thus it is easier to force him to initiate war actions against Iran. The aim of the attacks on Trump is to eliminate his last resistances to start a war against Iran. They are confident that Putin’s continuing demonization and isolation will prevent him from intervening in favor of Tehran. If Trump refuses to initiate war actions against Iran, then the strategy for his replacement with Pence will take full steam.
It is a little difficult for me to see the reason why Trump risked to face a “crazy” and very dangerous reaction from the deep state , just to meet Putin and achieve nothing ( or nothing important) .
If his position is so weak to oblige him to backtrack his own words, why to risk to put himself in such a situation by meeting Putin and knowing that whatever he says on the matter will be fought back ?
In these latest months in Europe we are witnessing a fight between the sovereignists and the globalists . In Italy the new government (sovereignist) is supported by the Trump administration quite openly and for the moment they are having some positive results.
In the next months there will be very important decisions to be taken in Europe, we shall see if they shall be able to reform themselves or face a possible beginning of a breaking up process.
As I said the Trump administration is (for the moment) supporting the Italian government and it looks to me that this support is part of a broader agenda.
“It is a little difficult for me to see the reason why Trump risked to face a “crazy” and very dangerous reaction from the deep state , just to meet Putin and achieve nothing ( or nothing important) .
If his position is so weak to oblige him to backtrack his own words, why to risk to put himself in such a situation by meeting Putin and knowing that whatever he says on the matter will be fought back ?”
Accordign to the analyst who spoke at length on Vesti/Vecher, the reason Trump met with Putin was to stand on a podium with him and say: “I am not an agent of Vladimir Putin.”
Katherine
The point I wanted to underline is that the Trump administration is helping a sovereignists governments ( i.e. Italy) and is following a severeignist agenda .
This could also have been part of the discussions with Putin who does not seem being a globalist .
As long as the bridge of the ship of state “America” is controlled by NeoCons, it does not matter who is captain of the ship, nor what the crew thinks of him. The ship will hold its course toward world domination.
Under these circumstances, Russia must subordinate itself as the junior partner in in this Chinese-Russian relationship, just as the British had to accept their subordination in 1940. But Russia should look for opportunities to create a multi-polar world (which means more that “two”), and thereby -over time- assure its true independence and sovereignty.
A tri-polar world will not be a stable one. There will inevitably be diplomatic and economic efforts for two poles to become allies against the other. So, there must be at least 4 centers of power if the world’s affairs are to become stable.
At present, there is no fourth power which could evolve into the fourth pole. But there are two candidates that Russia should nurture in the hopes that one or both may evolve into centers of power, independent in their economic and foreign policies from the current three: Europe and the Islamic nations.
Granted, there is a lot of work to be done in both areas; and the United States is hell-bent to ensure that both remain dependent upon the financial system that runs all money through channels controlled by the United States.
But it is becoming more apparent to Europeans that -economically, at least- the NeoCons don’t have the interests of Europe at the heart of their globalist ambitions (“F the EU”). The populist movements across Europe and the social upheaval going on in reaction to immigration are challenging the establishment. The more that Europeans revile Trump, the better it is for Russia.
With the split growing between the US and Turkey over the NeoCons ambitions in the Middle East, there are now 4 major actors in the Islamic World (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Iran being the others). While the Shia-Sunni split is very real and tragically destructive, each of these rivals are open to cooperation with Russia, both in economic and diplomatic terms.
Trump is right to explore opportunities to pull Russia away from its dependence on China. Russia should reciprocate by doing the same in Europe and the Middle East. If both America and Russia are successful, the World will become a more stable (and hopefully more peaceful) place.
Somehow, I don’t think Trump or the USA will succeed in pulling Russia away from China.
Four power centers:
Russia-China
USA
Europe
Islamic states (lets hope that Palestine is eventually part of that, and Israel is adsorbed into Greater Syria!)
Katherine
Excellent editorial on the current situation in Washington. I agree with just about all of Saker’s synopsis and I also agree with his almost aghast vision of what’s going on in USA.
I’ve been on this rock for a long time and I’ve never seen the likes of the tragicomic circus flushing itself from the bowels of the neocons in a continuous putrid stream. President Trump is being attacked continuously from both sides of the isle and from every spectrum of the ‘media’, both domestic and foreign. This begs the question of does he have any allies, and from the looks of things the answer is no, he is alone in his fight against the coup d’etat in progress against him.
The thousand pound gorilla in the room is The Military. What will they do as the situation gets worse and worse? Fortunately there is no tradition of the US Military getting involved in civilian government matters, the one glaring exception to this fact was the little chat had with Senator Kennedy back in President Reagan’s time when things were getting out of hand. Since then, the US Armed Forces have stood by through good and bad political and economic times. However, this blatant coup against a newly elected President of The United States Of America is a first, and it’s possible one ‘first’ may lead to another ‘first’. In my opinion any action from the armed forces will depend on how the coup develops and if the armed forces, not the politically appointed Senior Command but the line troops, the company grade and lower field grade officers, feel USA is threatened to the point of internal catastrophic events happening to the The United States Of America from which there is no viable recovery possible.
I know of no senior officer, or upper mid level officer, who is charismatic enough to put a stop to this madness in Washington, but that means nothing, I never hobnobbed with any officers about company grade and the last nobhobbing was before I moved. I did have converse with some NCO’s I’ve met over the years after I moved, but toward the end of the final term of Obama, they quietly ceased commo. I understand why and I did not push the issue, and we never discussed politics or any aspects of US Military actions or operations at any rate.
Where does this lead? I personally don’t know if the military will stop this coup. Only time will tell, but the military is the only entity that can stop this looming catastrophe, it has gone way beyond any civilian control.
Auslander
Author
Never The Last One https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZGCY8KK A deep look in to Russia, her culture and her Armed Forces, in essence a look at the emergence of Russian Federation.
Sevastopol, The Third Defense. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079KRPLS4 Book 1, A Premonition, The Move South. Set against a backdrop of real events and real places, the reader is left to filter fact from fiction.
“President Trump is being attacked continuously from both sides of the isle and from every spectrum of the ‘media’, both domestic and foreign. This begs the question of does he have any allies, and from the looks of things the answer is no, he is alone in his fight against the coup d’etat in progress against him.”
I’ve little time for Trumpantics, but the so called ‘representatives’ of the People (almost universally and globally) are little more than empty suits whose arms raise only on the insertion of suitable coins into their respective ass-end slots. And those said ‘coins’ come most readily and easily from the criminal circuits. Should we blame the best marionettes money can buy; or the money buying them?
“Should we blame the best marionettes money can buy; or the money buying them?”
Yes.
Auslander
“the military will stop this coup”
the idea is for the military to do the coup and
“clean house” removing the neocons/zionazis,
to put USA on a more sane path.
The problem with any coup or counter coup is, where does one stop? Coup, counter coup, counter counter coup, counter counter counter coup….it can be endless and sooner or later they will run out of lamp posts…and ‘ordinary citizens’ will be out of food, water, petrol, heat in winter, etc.
The real question in my mind is where are the supposed ‘checks and balances’ installed in the law of the land, you know, little things like a treasonous pair of government agents openly communicating about ‘stopping’ the elected President with some kind of ‘insurance policy’ and nobody, superiors or underlings, saying a word. Apparently the gentleman of the pair alluded to some kind of action to prevent President Trump from actually serving. I’ll have to examine the terms ‘treason’ and ‘sedition’, it’s possible that pair are the tip of the iceberg in some kind of conspiracy to foment a coup against the President and are guilty by their own words of both Treason and Sedition. Hanging offenses? Could be.
Auslander
“little things like a treasonous pair of government agents openly communicating about ‘stopping’ the elected President with some kind of ‘insurance policy’ and nobody, superiors or underlings, saying a word.”
And, the recent spewings f “traitor,” “treason,” etc.
Isn’t this open incitement to rebellion?
LIke, anyone who utters such sentiments should be, quite simply, detained as a threat to the state and the head of state? I just don’t get how the likes of Pelosi and the media pundits can engage in this demagoguery at will and nothing happens.
I can’t imagine such a thing in any “normal” country. Obviously, the USA is no longer a “normal” country.
Katherine
Wow, an excellent and insightful article. I agree that the sense, here in the US, that the train is coming off the tracks grows every day, as the MSM prepares people for a Pence presidency. I would expect a Mao-style “Cultural Revolution” to be launched by HRC and the Ziocons, but I’m not sure Generation Soy can deliver any such operation.
Be interested to now how the Saker crew looks at the recent claims of US espionage having snagged the plans for one of the new weapons systems. Something sounds “off” about the stories.
Yes, the DNC has hooked up with the Necons in order to eviscerate Trump because they are delirious about the Clinton loss. It is obvious they will destroy the country in order to achieve their agenda.
What is interesting to see is what happens if the DNC wins back Congress. Then what? How do you repair the social fabric? Will they try to impeach Trump? How exactly will they govern?
It does appear to be an exercise in lunacy!
From coup-cuckoolandia: The serfs are tight lipped with rage and the elites remain care-less and clue-less as the week slouches to a dread “blood” lunar eclipse ( Aquarius) conjunct a very irritable retrograde, out-of-bounds retrograde Mars ( war, conflict) on the jettison point of World Karma ( bye-bye old cr-p)
Yesterday Mercury turned retrograde at about 23 degrees Leo opposite the Aquarian Moon ( people) of the USA. ( redo, set things right, review) Whoever starts a war or impeachment during this time, will have their plans foiled spectacularly.
The President ( Father figure, leader) was just called a traitor by a slime-ball lying deep state operative.. well check this out–Trace Adkins: Fighting Words
https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-rotz-001&hsimp=yhs-001&hspart=rotz&p=song%3A+trace+Adkins+Fighting+Words#id=1&vid=0ce4cf8f5f55546c44b1d0a2b3db57d9&action=click
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/traceadkins/fightinwords.html
[spoken]
Excuse me
First amendment?
Son, the first amendment protects you from the government
Not from me
You can say whatever you want to out there
You come within reach of me
I’ll exercise my right to give you a good ol’ country ass whoopin’
Is what I’ll do for you
By God
We are blessed with two righteous men: Tucker Carlson and Rand Paul
President Vladimir Putin (lead image, left) has announced a new policy of withdrawal from eastern Ukraine under cover of a referendum to confirm the sovereignty of Kiev.
No, hold it. Putin has announced an old policy in a new way in the English-language press.
No, no – an old policy, already rejected in private by the US Government and the Kiev regime, was announced by Putin to President Donald Trump in Helsinki on July 16. That was in case Trump hadn’t been told or hadn’t thought of it. It was also for Putin and the Russian military command, the Stavka, to demonstrate to each other that the US will agree to no Russian withdrawal agreement until Crimea is recovered.
http://johnhelmer.net/the-helsinki-referendum-for-donbass-putin-opts-for-no-win-no-lose-us-rejects-swap-of-donbass-for-crimea/
Haha, I just love that wild, angry ”piece of opinion” put forward by Nancy Pelosi:
Most of all, it’s always pleasurable to note that Crimea hasn’t been forgotten or forgiven. It has them screaming forever in 100% real pain. All the money spent on the Ukro garbage and its glorious Maidan only to find out that the key objective of the entire operation — evicting the Russians and their Black Sea fleet from Crimea, swiftly replacing everything by a gargantuan NATO compound — got trashed almost instantly.
Moreover, I sincerely agree that Vladimir Putin should stay clear of the US in general and the ’Elites’ there in particular. The screams and noises about Trump are really about Putin; the latter would most likely be assassinated at the very first opportunity. Trump faces absolutely nothing of the sort.
Lastly, the braindead slander about Russia’s alleged meddling with the Pindo elections begs the question as to why there are no territorial issues on the horizon — noises about Alaska and/or Russian intrigues staged in Texas and the US Southwest would seem fairly appropriate priorities for a government determined to put an end to Pindoland.
“Most of all, it’s always pleasurable to note that Crimea hasn’t been forgotten or forgiven. It has them screaming forever in 100% real pain. All the money spent on the Ukro garbage and its glorious Maidan only to find out that the key objective of the entire operation — evicting the Russians and their Black Sea fleet from Crimea, swiftly replacing everything by a gargantuan NATO compound — got trashed almost instantly.”
Oh heck yeah! NATO had their HQ site chosen, large compound right on Simonka at the ring, the area to the west down to the Sea and the best beach in Sevastopol was to be bulldozed and made in to Little Suburbia America, two schools were chosen and several flats buildings were already marked for BOQ. It gives us immense pleasure that the old harpy Pelosi broke a hemorrhoid in rage in her sweet little speech.
Auslander
Author
An Incident On Simonka https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01ERKH3IU Part of a review: “In Soviet times listeners of the news became very adept at reading between the lines and sifting out the hidden nuggets of truth. The same craft is required in reading Auslander’s short story.”
As a real Krymchanka, I can certainly agree with that…
Good to hear that, Mountain Cat. I presume you are on the south end of the island?
Auslander
” It is therefore only logical to conclude that the massive systemic crises in which the Neocons and their crazy policies have plunged the USA are to the advantage of Russia. ”
This viewpoint was expressed and expounded upon by a Russian analyst who spoke at length on the Vesti Soloviev/Vecher show. It was linked to a story somewhere—maybe at the Unz Review. I can’t find it now. I tried.
Sorry, but perhaps the Saker or other Russian speakers follow that show. It is very interesting, showing the (seems to me) clear understanding in Russia of the huge constraints on Trump, the danger he is in, the parlous condition of the US polity—and the fact that, actually, all of this ends up probably being good for Russia . . .
Katherine
Re: “but my feeling is that we might soon have a “President Pence” in the Oval Office.”
Yes, exactly. How perfect. The Anglo-Zionist Empire finally becomes what it has always aimed at: “Christianity” in the service of Israel. 666 is around the corner.
Another good analysis by the Saker. Just started reading The Russia Hoax The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump by Gregg Jarrett. It is amazing how trump is served badly by his own appointees, Pompeo and Sessions, who ignore the law and constitution and serve the NWO oligarchs. I do believe they are afraid a real investigation of Comey, Muellar, Brennan would reveal too many NWO secrets. Add to that many in the media and Dem party are afraid that some of their past homophobic remarks will come out, they take the LGBT position that Russia is the focus of evil. It really is the NWO vs Trump, yet he dumps on potential allies and tries to appease his enemies.
Du you EVER think about that Trump is in fact a very good Actor? That he do and talk like the neocons want on the outside but known very well, that this will not work this way and he will reach the opposite? And that these opposite EXACTLY is what he really wants? I talk to aprox 20 to 30 US Cititzens since the election and many Trump supporters. And all Trumpists tells me that he does exactly what he is supposed to do? He is the wrench in the neocon gearbox. and he does it wonderful.
The weird thing about Trump is that, compared to any individual member of the US foreign policy establishment, he is probably stupider, more ignorant, more corrupt, more narcissistic and may even manage to be more selfish and self-centred. But his ignorance and self-regard have allowed him to retain individual thinking–he does not subscribe to the Washington zeitgeist in his thinking, because he’s sure he’s right and anyway he’s not paying attention.
The ironic result is that he’s often functionally far less crazy than the US foreign policy establishment, because he only has his individual reserves of nuttiness to draw on whereas they’ve been nurturing psycho groupthink for decades of concerted effort–the US foreign policy establishment can be far crazier and more dysfunctional than any individual, no matter how much of a dork he might be. They’re more predictable, mind you–you can always tell what a member of the US foreign policy establishment (like, say, Hillary Clinton) will think about a foreign policy issue without bothering to ask.
Yes, I like this description.
He is too clueless to “know” what he is supposed to be doing.
He just does what he wants.
It is a shame that he doesn’t have better grasp of the powers of hte executive,
and that his son-in-law is Jared Kushner.
Katherine
The last American election was for me as simple as ABC….. Anybody But Clinton.
Hillary and this bunch of Democrats scare me. They scare me more than Trump, which is accomplishing something.
Hillary is the one who was willing to push the world closer to nuclear war by blaming Russia for the DNC leaks that almost certainly came from a pro-Bernie staffer at the DNC who was appalled at how Clinton was corrupting the nomination process. Hillary and the Democrats have shown that they are willing to destroy America by their actions since the election. Hillary and the Democrats have been so obsessed with their hatred of losing to Trump that they are willing to bring down the whole country in their rage.
As a supporter of the Green Party, I’ve been told over the decades that I must vote for the Lessor Evil in elections. For the first time, it was clear that Hillary was the Greater Evil. Usually the Democrats could at least claim to be a lessor evil than Dick Cheney, so that was the argument they used to get votes. But this time, it was clear that Hillary was the greater evil. Her corruption and her obsession with grabbing power for herself were truly dangerous to the country. For much of the campaign, I was going to vote for Dr. Stein of the Green Party, as even if the Republican won that was still a victory of the Lessor evil. But then,at the end, the race was obviously moving towards Trump, and I live in a battleground state and I felt that the most important outcome was to make sure that Hillary lost and was kept out of the White House. So I voted for Trump.
Trump sucks, but I’m still very happy that Hillary is not in the White House. If she’d followed through with her campaign promises, we’d be in a war in Syria as she was promising an immediate no-fly zone over Syria. In the rigged and restricted, two-party version of democracy in America, you only get to choose between Coke and Pepsi. And if a whole batch of one type goes bad, you’ve got to pick the other.
“Trump sucks, but I’m still very happy that Hillary is not in the White House. ”
Trump’s being in the white House has led to a tidal wave of vomit from the powers that be that has in itself been extremely instructive. Even though Trump hasn’t “drained the swamp,” some of the grizzly gory creatures living under stones have felt so confident that they can do away with Trump that they have come out into the open with their crazed . . . . crazed craziness!
I just hope the American public is watching the show carefully—as are, I believe, observers in the rest of the world, and are gasping, hands to throats, “My God . . . what a country, what a mess!” This likely would not have occurred with Hillary “Adult in the room” at the helm in DC. “Business as usual” would hve kept a lot of nasty people and personalities and realities veiled. Certain things have been made crystal clear by reactions to the doings and utterances of our Idiot Savant in the WH (the topic of the Saker’s analysis). It is of course a shame that the country has to be wrecked in the process—I mean, EPA dismantled, workers get shafted, SCOTUS goes hard right, Zionists get Jerusalem, Palestinians get killed, etc. etc.
Katherine
There was no real election in the US. Trump “won” because the oligarchs who own the world placed him in power. The so called infighting is either a conflict between factions of the ruling class or is merely theater to distract you while the ruling class screws you further. My bet is that it is the latter because even if there are factions in the ruling class, their differences are not great.. The so called in fighting is merely a psyop. Either way you lose.
You are totally incorrect. The 2016 election was a classic among all Presidential elections.
The race between Hillary and Donald was fought between a giant organization equipped with $2 billion dollars, and the tiny Trump group that fit on his airplane. He never had more than ten people running the campaign he directed. But he had the grassroots rebellion of MAGA which ultimately won the Electoral College race with daring and an unreal energetic old man never quitting.
It was pure and simple. He has the message for the people who were mocked by Hillary, demonized by the MSM and forgotten by the powers in DC.
Trump is a great Leader, not much as human being other than he loves his family and has always had a heart for hard working men and women. He had the right issues, the right slogan, and a vision that his voters wanted to hear over and over.
If you didn’t follow it closely, you got the MSM version or some revision from a distance.
He was f*cking brilliant as a campaigner. And he spent very little money. He actually helped the RNC raise hundreds of millions for the House and Senate and state organizations. He took very little money other than what came in huge in small donations from millions of voters who loved his moxie and NY style.
“The race between Hillary and Donald was fought between a giant organization equipped with $2 billion dollars, and the tiny Trump group that fit on his airplane.”
Poor old Donald.
Here’s one source of funding https://www.jpost.com/US-Elections/Last-minute-Adelson-flushes-Trump-campaign-with-cash-471380
“WASHINGTON – Without much time to spare, casino magnate and Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson donated to Donald Trump’s campaign for president in a big way on Monday, after having pledged last spring to fund the unconventional candidate’s path to victory.
Coinciding with a visit by Trump to Las Vegas, Adelson – who has long prioritized issues concerning Israel in his political calculations – donated $25 million to his campaign, Fox News reported, describing the billionaire as “going all in on the Republican nominee” just one week before Election Day.
Citing “sources familiar with the donation,” the Fox report also claims Adelson is considering an additional $25m. gift before the week is over. He hopes that Trump’s chances to reach 270 electoral college votes have been revived after FBI director James Comey announced on Friday that the bureau would be searching through new emails, possibly tied to a closed investigation into former secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
Trump has a narrow path to victory, and has had difficulty attracting Republican mega-donors up until this point in the campaign.
Adelson’s money will be going to a super PAC called Future 45, which has in recent weeks run anti-Clinton ads comparing Clinton to former president Richard Nixon.
In May, Adelson reportedly promised to spend up to $100m. to elect Trump, topping the $93m. he spent in the 2012 cycle to elect former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, according to The New York Times. Prior to his gift on Monday, Adelson had only given $10m. toward Trump’s efforts. “
This is what happened at the inauguration https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/01/trump-donors-1-year-later/
“Chief among the top donors was Sheldon Adelson, a GOP megadonor and CEO of the largest casino company in the United States, Las Vegas Sands Corp. He doled out $5 million for Trump’s inauguration fund.
The donation was not only Trump’s largest inaugural contribution, but the largest individual donation made to any presidential inaugural committee. He and his wife, Miriam Adelson, also donated nearly $83 million to Republicans in the 2016 election.
In the past year Adelson has pressed Trump to follow through on his campaign pledge to relocate the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, a move Trump announced in December”
“But besides the fact that talking is by definition good what else did the summit achieve?”
The actual, honest and unemotional answer is: We don’t know.
That was a brilliant article. It hammers home the state of current policies.
The US is in the wilderness, torn apart from inside strife and “Russiagate” idiocies. Good. They should just carry on on this track a few years more before they are torn apart. And then this world may have just a little peace.
Russia will find its place in the sun, I am more circumspect about the Chinese, they are difficult to decipher, but we will just have to see.
Meanwhile Mike Pompous statements on Crimea are outright silly, who cares what the US deems appropriate ?
The US is fast growing into a has been, and all of their own making. Sun Szu remarked ” When an enemy is undoing himself, do not interfere” and that is what is happening.
Please buy and read, pass on, “The Rise of the Fourth Reich” by Jim Marrs. Then buy, read “Global War On Liberty” by Jean-Claude Paye Please reread this one, I have three times.
You are quite right about the war being waged on Russia,
The reason why the meeting could never achieve anything is because whereas Pres Putin is clearly “in charge” of Russia, Donald Trump represents nobody and nothing except himself and has a shadow government that undermines everything he does.
And as if that isn’t bad enough Trump is politically incoherent, inconsistent, contradictory and I must say, when you see a “world leader” typing messages in capital letters there has to be a question mark about his intelligence level and mental competency.
Does he not even have the insight to realise how pathetic typing in capitals looks?
However for those wondering just what the US level of aggression means for Russia day-to-day I came across this by Israel Shamir –
“American pressure on Russia is very real and very painful.
American officials try to wreck every international deal Russia attempts to clinch. It is not only, or even mainly about weapons. If a country A wants to sell Russians, say, bananas, the US ambassador will come to A’s king, or his minister, and will expressly forbid him to sell bananas to godless Russians. Otherwise, do not expect the US aid, or do not count on US favours in your disputes with your neighbours, or the US won’t buy your production, or US banks will take another long and jaundiced view at your financial transactions. You witnessed the scene, when the crazed Nikki Haley, the US Ambassador to the UN, threatened sovereign nations with severe punishment for voting against the US desires, so you have an idea of American delicacy and caution while pushing their will through.
Russians are in a very uncomfortable seat.
All their neighbours are subject to American pressure to annoy Russia, be it Georgia (once they even attacked Russia militarily being led by American and Israeli advisers) or the Ukraine (Americans arranged a coup d’état and installed extremely hostile to Russia government in Kiev). American military bases surround Russia and NATO troops drew closer and closer to its centres. American military budget of 600 billion dollars dwarfs the Russian one, while the armaments’ race can undermine Russian finances. ”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49924.htm
The country is under siege. Iran too. Very important therefore that the multi-polar countries unite to help each other.
My personal hope would be that behind the scenes Russia and allies have plans to take down the aggressor otherwise with it’s double down and double down again policy this will never end until one of them is knocked out.
The Trump phenomena reminds me of a joke…
An 1800s prospector in Africa finds a massive, perfect diamond. He packs it up and embarks for Antwerp to have it appraised and cut, but while fabulous sums are quoted no shop in Antwerp is willing to risk cutting it. He travels across Europe, but cutter after cutter refuses the job until our oh-so-close-to-fabulous-wealth prospector is close to his wits end. He has heard in his travels that there may be a cutter that could do his find justice in St. Petersburg. A long way, but with his funds and hopes running so low he doesn’t know how he’ll get back, he makes his way to St. Petersburg and locates the shop just before closing. The proprietor looks over his precious with a squinted, surgeon’s eye, turning it this way and that but says nothing. “Hmm…” Then finally “You want this cut you say?” “Yes, can you do it?!?!” “Of course”. “Thank God!”
The proprietor shouts “Dmitry”, as a disturbingly young, but bright-eyed apprentice comes running. “Cut this up will you. First cut it here, then here. And be quick about it, or my missus will kill us both” tossing the precious to him like the apple he tossed him at lunch time.
The prospector goes slack-jawed. Collecting himself, he stammers “WTF?! I can’t believe it. The best diamond cutters in Belgium, Frankfurt, and half of Europe refuse to touch it and you toss it to a kid? Have you any idea of the risks???”
“Of course” comes the deadpan reply. “I know them well, but Dmitri doesn’t. The stone can be cut where I marked it. But he will cut with the confidence of inexperience, where my hand would tremble”.
Whoever it is that placed Trump in the role of Empire-wrecker had learned the old diamond cutter’s lesson well. Trump is cutting that Empire down to size, and may even manage, willy-nilly, to save at least some of the Nation as well, while an experienced political hand would bog down in the swamp and lose both Empire and Nation thereby. Quite possibly, in a conflagration.
That much has been obvious to me since the July 2015 debate. What isn’t obvious is who put him there.
Erebus, I love your comment. Just wonderful.
You might be right, but Trump doesn’t own this “massive, perfect diamond”. The Federal Reserve Does.
Of course. He doesn’t own the diamond but he’s the one who’s gonna have to cut it. The question remains who is going to be telling him where to cut.
Indeed, Erebus, well done!
É uma análise sutil, em que o autor une todos os pontos dos conjuntos que analisa em verdadeira relação biunívoca. Sóbrio, isento. É sábia a distinção que faz entre o Império Anglo-sionista e os Estados Unidos como país para realçar o choque de interesses entre o mundo e o Império Anglo-sionista, e entre esse e o povo dos Estados Unidos.
Como é bom lermos artigos dessa natureza.
Muito obrigado.
It is a subtle analysis, in which the author unites all the points of the sets that he analyzes in a true biunivocal relation. Sober, exempt. It is wise to distinguish between the Anglo-Zionist Empire and the United States as a country to highlight the clash of interests between the world and the Anglo-Zionist Empire, and between this and the people of the United States.
How good it is to read such articles.
Thank you very much.
The problems outlined here and taking place in the now usually have there roots buried deep in the past. It seems the pet project of the western apex elites, that of the illegal establishment of Israel is the root cause of everyone taking sides. As there is no longer any ideological battle of isms the cause must be looked for elsewhere. Does the old money of the west that hides in directing the enclaves of the CFR and the Trilateral, with there big meetings at Davos and Bilderburg, are all on side with this current state of affairs as they try to usher in their technocratic one world order? They seem to have most other nations including Russia and China signing on so what gives? I can only guess that the current state of affairs is at once a cover and a driver of agenda that will eventually spell out the further centralization of the world’s wealth and power under a tighter control mechanism run by the same old crowd but with perhaps a few new faces sitting at the big table from continental Asia and that this is the bone of contention we are seeing being played out. The isms of the past do not matter much now and the ‘Rights of Man’ are to be erased. Indeed capitalism itself with its price discovery – demand and supply is to be phased out and replaced with a reconfigured and revitalized Technocracy
Saker, you potentially miss one point. Trump might geniunly tries to undermine deep state. With unreliable CIA.. meeting Putin under closed door would be best way to coordinate action. This assumption would be corroborated by neocon histeria. And by Putin declaration after meeting that Hilarious received 400 illegal million for presidential race from russian company.
Mod-to note: The $400 M has been officially corrected to $400,000 (still a substantial sum).
“The real culprits are the Clinton gang and the Democratic Party which, by their completely irresponsible behavior, …”
“Therefore, not only does the AngloZionist Empire represent an existential threat to Russia, Russia also represents an existential threat to the Empire. …”
As an Englishman said a century ago, ‘Power corrupts, and the absolute power corrupts absolutely’.
It is the mistrust and fear of other humans that drives to the insatiability of greed for power and silver, like the fears do. Once someone oversteps the blood-crime line while coming to or staying in power, he has overstepped a line of no return. He can never step down, and he has just became a black hole for more power.
Neocons & Co. have got a long tail of such crimes, according to the national and international law.
I read this in Reader View mode and you offer Larchmonter 445’s white paper, yet add no link on This page for it-what gives?
Or should I have mentioned it?
Remember, the empire does what Israel commands it to do. It has been given it’s marching orders to destroy Iran. Only that is on the table and that is what this summit is about. Russia has the only military capable of inflicting mass casualties on Americans. Therefore Trump wants to get some idea of what Russia will do if/when the US attacks Iran.
That’s why the whole Korea thing blew over. Israel doesn’t approve of the empire wasting precious weapons on Koreans when there are Iranians to kill for Israel.
Also, Trump seeks to fully sanction Iran’s petroleum industry which will result in a significant worldwide spike in oils and gas prices. He may be asking for Putin to actually increase – not decrease – Russia’s output to help mitigate that. After Iran is destroyed the empire will in turn go after the Russian petro industry the same way. But for now, it needs Russian oil and gas on the world market.
Well written (the trend of continually improving style is robust); thank you so much; very enjoyable to read, despite the dark subject matter.
“… the “KGB” … …having a hand in the election of the US President. ” in 2016!
Kinda reminds me a lot of, “it is difficult to have a dialogue with people who confuse Austria and Australia“.
It so strange reading of the MSM, from the perspective of the oases of our community of beached submarines, all around the planet. I just haven’t had the time for indulgence of listening to it, lately; so perhaps I am less desensitized to it than the average, even here. When the facts of what they have been up to is laid out, in the pattern they form… it is stark!
To clarify further, ‘holy shit!’
The community has discussed this phenomena using constructs from the discipline of psychology, and this is a convenient way to describe it.
One must conclude, as scientifically as one would wish, it does not require categorization beyond the broadest encompassing descriptor, don’t we refer to that as “insane”?
Does it really matter whether it be ‘neurotic‘ and/or ‘psychotic‘, or where it might fit in on a spectrum (of one form or another)?
While it is difficult to tell… really, about Donald J. a. it seems so unlikely that he could be as bad as he is portrayed, in the overcooked narrative of the MSM, b. even if he was that extremely low probability of being just as bad as he is portrayed, he still wouldn’t be as bad, maladaptive, anti-social, manipulative…. you know as the monster the mainstream media has become/controlled by.
The reference to the events, as they have been transmitted to us, to be precise, of the 1930s, is a very, very thought provoking comparison. One must at least consider a minimal triangulation on reliability and validity by applying the above paragraph to the narrative transmitted t ous of the 1930s.
It’s fascinating…
“… what kind of policy would meet with the approval of the US deep state?”
Pure rhetoric.
While I disdain at the rampant overuse of the word…
One seems that there is absolutely nothing Trump could have done to get any lessening of the onslaught of this hatred campaign, at least, and let’s be fully honest about it, the latest battle, albeit with a new intensity and yet perhaps even dirtier tactics, in the ongoing war, that was launched against him, some time ago.
“… almost nobody dares to denounce that hysterical lynch mob for what it is. ”
“… The brewing constitutional crisis: the Neocons vs the “deplorables” ”
I think people are becoming desensitized to the crack-like effects of the mainstream media/propaganda and perception management programs. I think many are buying less and less of it, and the trend is accelerated by these wildly hysterical … outbursts/seizures. Regardless of what these perception management campaigns otherwise do, topically, overall the effect of further degrading the credibility of the mainstream media, and all agencies of society, to a lesser degree, is consistent!
When people have nothing to believe in, they start to believe… anything they want to at that particular moment in time, and the overall control of the … controllers, will be broken, one way or another.
Societal degeneration, if not near complete disintegration would, at extremely high probability, under the circumstances, follow, probably not far down the road.
On the topic of “everybody else”, I think you may have left out one group, and you’ll know what I write here is relevant and true, so I’d like to hear back from you, Saker, on this, if you get the chance and inclination at the same time:
The class who don’t really believe in anything, and just don’t care.
The “neocons” (I’m really still not sure I know what that word means) are a small minority, and I reckon, must be small than “everybody else” even minus the “just don’t care” group. In that position, their strategy is to get the “everybody else who cares” smaller, and most likely into the “just don’t care” group.
What the “caring everybody else” group really needs to focus on is getting more people to care.
Unfortunately, the neocons and neo-liberalists, have been bombarding everybody with their competing (but ultimately form a herding predatory group with common interests), so it’s tricky and difficult.
Yet… even in the “just don’t care” group, there is a growing dissonance, a delta between what they are told, over, and over, and over again, and what they are perceiving with their own, personal senses. Even in the fully wired-in, and raised that way demographic(s) (I believe this is pretty well plural now), there is yet a growing dissonance.
A shrewd discriminator of facts, in a readily absorbable presentation could unleash and focus this energy. Of course, stealth and extremely rapid progress, after… emergence to the radar screens of the deep state would be necessary. One would have to move fast, and take them off-guard, effectively beating them to the public, circumventing the systems to prevent an actual popular figure, sincerely representing the 99%, from getting anywhere close to power. And even upon climbing that mountain, we can see how an individual can be completely undermined in the office…
Yet as you seemingly correctly (as I wrote before, are actual facts are severely constrained) posit, Trump is weak, could a strong personality/personhood resist the machine?!
If so, just how strong? Are we talking, LeBron James strong? (about as strong as anybody really gets), or are we at Captain America level, if not Thor?
Could it be resisted?
Anyways, the more people who come to both waking-consciousness and sub-conscious alignment on more facts (as opposed to narratives/’alternative facts’), the more likely the person(s) who could do something may be brought into play.
On the other side, I disagree with analyses suggesting that the deep state/neocons/faction’ want to put Trump out of office.
No, that doesn’t make sense.
They want him in power, manipulated by them, doing what they want, and… getting to take all the blame for it, after the fact!
He is there dream boy/patsy!
Look at what he has actually accomplished! (for the bad guys)
Astonishing!
People miss it out for all on the continual onslaught of, as you wrote it, hatred.
He has actually done a lot of bad things, but not the stuff that is part of the MSM narrative.
No, this bad stuff gets the minimal MSM exposure… for some reason.
“…the Neocons and their crazy policies have plunged the USA are to the advantage of Russia.”
I would like to add here that, our retrospect is 20:20.
This might not have, likely probably more likely would not have, turned out, as is our current situation.
I’m not talking about the empire, the rot in America has been festering for many decades, and is not curable by not disruptive interventions. I am referring, of course, to the remote probability of the occurrence of Putin.
Combine the probability of his path to the position with his comparative … perhaps benevolence is too loaded a word, perhaps pragmatic is a better descriptor… that makes a remote probability.
But it happened!
And it can happen within the empire.
“the Clinton gang’s actions can result in a real catastrophe for the USA”
This is a cult of destruction. One can use it as significant factor in an algorithm to predict the future activities of the directors of the empire.
They were always in it for destruction of one form or another, by one means or another.
With such a policy, very reliably forecasting an accelerated weakening…
,,,pragmatic.
Thanks for the lovely, stimulating read.
Encouraging all of the still caring, to fight!
It is winnable.
Neocons and Clinton gang? You forgot never-Trumpers.
A very fine and exacting analysis with which I agree, but feel it is years too late. The fuel for the blaze of burning hate filling the US in it’s entirely was laid down long ago.
The building of the criminal structure of the US CIA by those two brothers Dulles, ensured today would emerge. For instance. Before that the two world wars promised today as well.
During the first one some American mused that the Europeans ‘know not how to fight a world war, we must show them!’ After WW11 that is exactly what the Americans have been doing. American corporations, looking to promised vast riches globally achieved, decided to use Nazi-ism and Hitler to lock in that future world domination starting by hitching a ride on the European nihilism express. Hitler hysteria lost to, of all surprises, Russia. The US was so shocked they planned to immediately bomb Russia into submission. To whom?
Cooler heads prevailed and the plan changed to copy many parts of Hitlers structures, but needed to change the means of world submission to nihilistic hegemony once that hegemony was established. Once established hegemony began to unravel, so more wars were added, more US military arms than the globe had ever seen.
Today the US corruption revealed by US supported 9/11 is today slowly being downplayed by the Clinton criminal mania never being stopped for the extreme danger it is to American survival. I deeply am sure if the Clinton cabal is not stopped dead by legal, transparent means, including death penalties for treason, America has no chance to be able to survive itself. All laws, since the presidency of G.W.Bush1, are being mooted, changed to criminal war laws. The CIA first destroyed all law in the US, now European laws are being extracted as you saw P.M.Theresa May do it, using the Skripal ‘poisoning’ or as Manuel Barosso did it as head of the EU Commission..
Praising electronic brain chips inserted into newborn skulls across the world (Replacing Holocaust genocidal prisons.)
In trying to post my thoughts on this, something happened, Have to write it again..To wit, I agree with this fine powerful analysis but see it as too late as I’ve been watching the fuel for this exterminating hate blaze being laid since a child. Does anyone know of the plan to remove the US aged from passing on their own lives to those who needed to know them? CIA does.
The Dulles Brothers after WW11 setting up the US criminal CIA certainly are the reason for today. The Dick Cheney cabal that set up permission for 9/11 be allowed to happen was a direct extension of CIA criminal power.
That cabal carefully not yet exposed though known. The Saker is correct, should the Clintons never be prosecuted, jailed and perhaps given the death penalties for high treason, all political power forcibly removed, the US has no chance of ever surviving itself.
Problem is the US CIA first removed and subverted all US laws. Bush 1 made sure the instruction of how to change all laws was known and followed by his CIA. 9/11 “War on Terror’ no country, the removal of the US Constitution (Habeas Corpus), replaced by criminal “Patriot Act” etc was made permanent under perhaps Bush 11, perhaps Obama. Bush1 destroyed the US media using the criminal war on Iraq. Army imbedded journalists could be easily shot, and were. This is difficult to rewrite, sorry.
Read “Global War On Liberty” by Jean-Claude Paye on law and how Europe country by country is removing laws, replacing them with US Exceptionalist laws.Examples: Theresa May’s P.M. farce of law ordering Russia to admit poisoning father and daughter Skripal, Manuel Barosso, EU Commission head,praising interactive brain chips inserted into soft infant’s skulls across the globe to control them as adults. Or, make sure they lack all control?
Then read “Rise of the Fourth Reich” by Jim Maars.
Thanks to the Saker for his post, at last it begins the truths we need to survive ourselves. Thankyou again, stay safe!
My thinking is perhaps unusual, and my comments are generally not well received here. Nevertheless, I like Saker and I think he’s written a very good article, So I’m inspired to say exactly what I think, which often evokes ridicule and hostility on this and other Russia-friendly websites (even though I run such a website myself with the tagline “End US Foreign Intervention”).
I think Putin and Trump both have IQ’s at the 160+ level. Therefore, they are talking on a much higher plane than most people realize. They were probably not just ironing out superficial tactics regarding Ukraine, Syria, China, or sanctions on Russia, although these may have been discussed. I believe more importantly in that 2 hour meeting they were discussing how to thwart the global deep state, an enemy they share, which transcends national boundaries, and which represents a threat to their countries and their citizens, as well as to the national order worldwide. Putin has had more experience. Trump is sharp and bold, but still a novice. Putin was also a novice at first, yet he more or less prevailed and got Russia somewhat under control. I therefore think Trump went to Putin at least partly for advice on how to stop this insidious global enemy of progress, decency, and national sovereignty called the deep state or global elite, and that Putin wanted to talk to Trump because they are fighting the same enemy, which is the enemy of all of us. Trump is so far in over his head, he is floundering, blundering, making mistakes and grasping for power. All leaders in such predicaments need counsel.
Trump and Putin are not of course colluding over US-Russian affairs. Hah! That is a joke. They both know the US and Russia are not intrinsic enemies, that the enemy is the deep state, and that the deep state is using its own media to divide and conquer, promoting anti-Russian hysterics, trying to convince Americans and Russians that we are enemies. NOT. (Please don’t crucify me folks. I want the best for the US, Russia, Donbass and Syria.)