After a few rather disappointing days, Trump today seem to rebound. He had a press conference which I would qualify as very successful. The best thing about this was that Trump FINALLY directly attacked the media, especially CNN. Hopefully, this will be just the first step in an always possible counter-offensive. Tomorrow he will be in Melbourne, FL, just south of were I live. I will be watching that with interest.
Here is his press conference:
Actions will ultimately speak louder than words. The rest is just theater. Trump betrayed a close and loyal ally a few days ago who did nothing really wrong. He just spoke to Russian ambassador.
Will the incursions into the Donbass cease by Ukro-nazis?
Will US run IMF stop funding Ukraine?
Will unjustified sanctions be lifted on Russian economy?
Will relations be allowed to ‘normalize’?
Will plans to destabilize Iran be put on hold?
Trump may even wish to do all these things but he is only one 70 year old man who only has at best 8 years to achieve his goals. Then what? Back to deep state control.
Trump made a big mistake to link his success with stock market. With 70 T in debt and 110 T in unfunded liabilities, USSA is a train in search of a wreck. Also more than 100m adults not working and living off the productive class.
Well it looks like the draining has begun:
http://russia-insider.com/en/great-draining-begins-trump-purges-state-departments-7th-floor-shadow-government/ri18969
“Tillerson just fired most of the State Department’s 7th floor, which is known in Washington as the “Shadow Government…….”
(I think their childish ploy of hotels not being booked for Tillerson at the Bonn G20 summit did not go down well).
Your comment is a good example of the kind of “projection” of own own wishes onto Trump that is going on. Trump was not elected to do any of the things on your list. Thats what “we” want him to do. None of those things with the exception of the last two is essential to world peace and progress or even to rebuilding the US economy or reigning in the AngloZionist Empire. As for the last two the prospects for them are very good. Trump has disavowed wars and destabilizations and he is determined to have good relations with Russia. Thats clearly the case. The man has been in office a month. These things will take a few years to achieve.
As to Flynn, there was no betrayal! he was let go for “lying” to his bosses. In the business world, this is always a firing offence. Trump is from the business world. Flynn lied, Flynn got fired. Thats not betrayal.
“Would like to work with Russia”…if Russia gives Crimea to the Ukraine Jew Oligarch gangsters in Ukraine…
Lavrov-Tillerson meeting…Tillerson:’Give us Crimea!!!”…
The problem with media ia ownership and agenda:
http://www.simpletoremember.com/articles/a/jews-in-the-media-hollywood/
http://www.globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-zionist-plan-for-the-middle-east/5324815
We can’t fix America until America’s interests supercede those of Israel. Multi-trillion-dollar wars for Israel must end, but Trump is wrongfully intent of destroying Iran, like Iraq, Libya and Syria were destroyed for this Israeli strategy:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-zionist-plan-for-the-middle-east/5324815
Unfortunately, I don’t find Trump’s depiction of Iran as the “greatest sponsor of world terrorism”. What about the West’s creation, funding, training and spreading ISIS, al Nusra, etc.? What about Israel’s secretive Nuclear program. I am giving up on Trump “seeing” the truth about Iran/Israel.
It appears that Putin agrees with Saker’s analysis, where he says that the battle in Washington is over, and there won’t be a detente between the two countries.
Putin Orders Russian Media To “Cut Back” On Positive Trump Coverage
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-16/putin-orders-russian-media-cut-back-positive-trump-coverage
probably fake news coming from Bloomberg…
Zero Hedge do have some good financial articles if you like graphs but are very xenophobic especially towards Russia and China, never a good word to say about them and everything they do is “a threat”.
I doubt Mr Putin has either the time, the inclination or even the ability to determine the tone of newspaper writing in Russia’s extremely diverse press.
Anyway,the people don’t need Mr Putin to tell them what to think about the USA and it’s plans for Russia.
They have a graphic sense of what the US is about in next door Ukraine.
The US regime and it’s gang are loathed across the planet – not because of what Vladimir Putin says but because of the way they behave and the terrible malevolence exhibited in just about everything it does..
This is something Zero Hedge would never want to think about – that the US is run by Satanists.
One would never say, for example, that Argentina or China or Pakistan or Iran or whomever act “malevolently” towards other nations and peoples.
Yet this sheer wickedness of intent is blindingly obvious in every single foreign policy action the US undertakes.
As one of theZero Hedge commentors on this article – it contains not one attribution – not one.
Does Putin directy determine the editorial policy,of RT and sputnik – nyet.
@Mala
You should read back into Zerohedge. You’ll find that coverage of Russia is about 90% positive starting around the time Russia stifled Obama and Kerry from steamrolling into Syria around August 2013
So, “The Clown” strikes back, and the roller coaster keep rolling.
I tend to mostly agree with Alexander Mercouris in his analysis of this press conference.
http://theduran.com/breaking-two-important-comments-donald-trumps-press-conference/
Worth reading anyway.
Take Care
Kent
Great job, AM!!
Thanks, Kent, for the heads-up.
Katherine
^ I second Katherine here :)
Good ol’ Alexander Mercouris bringing back some sanity into this sea of mass-hysteria [from all sides, btw] going-on out there at the moment.
-TL2Q
PS: Also; top marks to AM [and the Duran] for putting his thoughts out there so quick – I’ve said in the not so distant past, that the ‘alt-media’ were utterly useless at Breaking News, and/or keeping-up to speed when things move too fast.
Maybe that trend is finally changing! And not a second too soon, may I add (?)
On the other hand… how much you wanna bet, the 24/7, round the clock Fake-News-Media is not gonna like this new development; that their arch-rivals are – finally – stepping up to the plate.
Times are changing, indeed.
You are so right. The immediacy of small sites/blogs like The Duran is refreshing.
I actually watched the whole video, usually I am unable to listen to politicians. I think Trump is talking tough on Russia but he has no choice or he will be called a traitor. Meanwhile the real traitors are busy pulling the strings from inside the deep state. So, it is hard to tell what Trump actually thinks because he is telling us in the conference how much pressure he is under…
Thierry Meyssan had nothing but good things to say about Trump and his effort to reign in the deep state. It will be a tough battle. The system is very sick. Good luck to you mister president.
Trump returned to his mantra that it would be a good thing to have a friendly relationship with Russia.
He has two foreign policy action items.
Good relationship with Russia.
Defeat ISIS everywhere.
These two are related. The US would take five years to defeat ISIS without Russia if it threw 100,000 men into it. Trump would never okay more than 10,000. He’s hoping to add but a few thousand men for Iraq and Syria. All talk of new coalition is actually, at best, a new face on an old coalition. It never worked before.
Secondary goals are to keep nukes away from Iran and to get nukes away from North Korea. But they are obviously of highest priority.
And his overriding economic plans require new trade deals with scores of nations. He needs very little war and chaos to achieve his goals.
So, he needs Russia. To abandon that opportunity seems to be to take a very dubious path ahead.
Trump will not give up the goal to deal with Putin.
He can’t relieve sanctions, and won’t give up the public line about “invading” or “annexing”.
But he can pull NATO back from the present basing.
And he has to work out where missile defenses will go in East Europe or West Europe.
Basically, Ukraine will remain as is. And when the “bill” comes to Trump’s desk, that’s when things will change. He won’t spend billions to keep a proxy war going.
Syria is the real danger. Mattis and the commanders and JCS don’t want the RF to be the winner of Syria. Trump may have to let them push around things in Syria. This is a great danger. It converges with the original plan to overthrow Assad.
I look to that theater of conflict to be the great danger. Weakening Russia there, in Syria, weakens Iran, forces Turkey into a pitched battle with Kurds (US will be for Kurdistan if they can force it).
Russia’s task is to dissuade the threat of US military in Syria.
Tillerson is putting some interest into the Astana talks. We’ll see if this helps or hinders the political resolution in Syria.
Meanwhile, the war against ISIS will continue to be on Russia’s schedule until Trump decides if Mattis’s plan makes sense.
It will be where everything converges, not Ukraine.
I see it as a great, great danger to all Russia has accomplished.
It will be a surprise military plan. Trump won’t make it public. So, one day, suddenly, the US military and its new military alliance will strike.
The talks between Russian Chief of the General Staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov and US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford Thursday in the capital of Azerbaijan, Baku, are crucial. We may get a sense of how the militaries will be interact or not from the outcome.
I don’t expect much from Tillerson-Lavrov talks today in Bonn.
Diplomacy takes time. It has great significance. So, it will have to wait for direct Putin-Trump talks.
The test will be on the ground and in the air in Syria.
Larchmonter445, it’s great to read all your insightful comments again! I appreciate your perspective. I do wonder if, for the first time, Trump is being more deeply exposed to the soft power game run by Russia, the Europeans, China and more? So much of his attention has been on militaristic, hard power concerns. When he reminded us how nice it would be if we all got along, and how skilled he is in negotiating, I thought that’s where he is headed. It made me smile, actually because his enthusiasm seems so genuine. “He’s jealous,” I thought, because they get to wheel ‘n’ deal while he has to achieve full spectrum dominance. :-) What do you think?
You have hit on something important.
Trump has to play with the tools of the Hegemon and the American industrial complex, especially the financial and investment industry. That’s the hardware aspect.
The software aspect is what he wants to reform. That’s the covert ops and regime controls—all the agencies working against him.
His own gifts and talents are minimal in the scheme of things.
But his will to win, to succeed is very real. Don’t underestimate that component.
He will expend his entire being to achieve his goals.
He has to win the internal struggles and we shall see most of his effort come from DOJ/AG Sessions.
He lost Flynn and it looks like the IC will not get reformed. He has to break Pompeo or he won’t get control of things. I’m looking to see how he handles Pompeo.
Firings will happen once he gets his tax bills passed. He can’t stir up too much dust without his economic programs under his full control. 150-200 days in will be when he can shed people who are not doing what he needs done.
He is President, the most powerful man in the world and the most impotent President due to the Deep State and Obama IEDs planted throughout the massive bureaucracy. He has to deal with the givens and realities. He will acquire more powers over time. But it is a battlefield with constant incoming and many snares and minefields to traverse.
We are in very unique times.
ISIS cannot be defeated without the help of Iran and Hezbollah, so Trump is pumping out hot air, not to mention that there is zero recognition of the Saudi and the US support and training of ISIS. Iran as enemy is sheer kowtowing to the Israelis. It’s still the Anglo-Zionist empire.
Uh oh.
The USA may be set to escalate its support of moderate terrorists in Syria with the deployment of American conventional troops.
US Combat Troops to Syria?
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2017/02/us-combat-troops-to-syria.html
Talk is cheap, especially from policitians and billionaires. Watch what they do, not what they say. There are too many seers trying to decipher cheap talk…
Let’s see if within next 30 days Trumps actually does something positive e.g. remove some of the sanctions or if he goes backwards and escalates any his shitty Iran/China rhetoric into actions.
“Let’s see if within next 30 days Trumps actually does something positive e.g. remove some of the sanctions or if he goes backwards and escalates any his shitty Iran/China rhetoric into actions.”
I think it is clear that he will not. He is a tool. Anyone who thinks otherwise is delusional. It’s going to be imperial business as usual. Too bad, so sad. There was a chance, an opening, but oh well…
He will not and he is a tool. Not even a smart one:
First F-35A Fighters to Deploy to Pacific, General Says
https://www.defensetech.org/2017/02/16/first-f-35a-fighters-deploy-pacific-general-says/?mobile=1
Lets face it – Putin didn’t have to fight this type of war. Just about every message that I get on FB is so hysterically anti-Trump that it all feels like the whole world has gone totally mad and just mentioning his name sends people into some fits of agony.
Whatever his faults might be – he is all we have. If the demons manage take him down, the world as we know it can disappear very quickly. I have kids and this prospect frightens me a great deal…
Oh yes, he did. I’m not an expert on Russia during the Yeltsin years, but my impression is of a general decay helped along by oligarchical mafia-like dominance and cultural decay. A stagnation of the ethical concerns of the government towards the welfare of the people. A very similar condition to that which the US has had to endure. And certainly the press as propaganda for a state of which most Russians felt ashamed had simply built on what had come before – it was a state of stagnation and rampant crime.
Putin had a lot to face, would have said the same thing that Trump said in his press conference. “I inherited a mess.”
illusions die hard-when will you understand that Trump is toxic-Putin should turn away from him
and the West and strengthen his position in East Ukraine
All Trump deal is for Ru to abandon its aliies Iran & China for some nebulous deal-Trump is like Mussolini-please take a breather and break this addiction
The CIA had over $40 BILLION in intelligence gathering before 911 occurred. What exactly have they been good for, besides regime changes (81), assassinations (50), the drug trade and probably human trafficking, etc. I wonder why Netanyahu rushed over to the US at the precise time that Flynn was being taken out, most likely for wanting to restructure the CIA and pare it back. Did he “persuade” Trump to let him go? Who does the CIA really answer to?
Learning about Mackinder and Heartland Theory makes a lot of sense when you see the geopolitical strategies taking place today. OBOR (One Belt One Road), the Eurasia Project between Russia and China, is what the neocons are so obsessed about.
“What has happened in Crimea is a response to the format that made Ukrainian democracy collapse. And there is only one reason for this: the anti-Russian policy of the US and some European countries. They seek to encircle Russia in order to weaken and eventually destroy it… There is a certain transnational elite that has been cherishing this dream for 300 years.”
~ Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, 19 March 2014
I hadn’t known about that heartland theory. (looked it up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geographical_Pivot_of_History )
I guess it should be updated now, with the US more the heartland in some ways, but it looks like the same old (1904) basic imperialist stuff, with whoever is attacking being at the center of the universe — and rather flat Earth at that.
I love how trump needles media about their lies, but I’m not impressed with his words about anything else, especially about his foreign policy which is nothing but a repeat of the zionazi/nazi toss we’ve heard from pindo quislings for decades now. War propaganda peppered with the usual “peaceful intentions” duplicity. I’m convinced now that trump’s purpose is to grease the way for the pence regime.
We are all well aware how trump talked of bettering relations with Russia while the pence regime had the orcs attack Novorussia and demanded Russia surrender Crimea. But what about
North Korea. Compare what trump says with what in reality the North Koreans have faced from “sweet, innocent, peace and freedom loving pindoland.
North Korean Paranoia is Well-Founded
http://journal-neo.org/2017/02/15/north-korean-paranoia-is-well-founded/
“What if, then, North Korea’s allegedly irrational paranoia was well-founded?
As former North Korean leader Kim Jong-il’s health deteriorated, the United States and its regional allies began planning quite openly for an opportunity to overturn the North Korean state. US-based think tank, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), would publish a 2009, 60-page report titled, “Preparing for Sudden Change in North Korea,” in which scenarios for the full-scale invasion, occupation and subjugation of North Korea were laid out.
For North Korea and its ties with Beijing, it is only a matter of time before a certain threshold is reached where US invasion and occupation is all but impossible. After this threshold is reached, it is likely that pan-Asian geopolitics will displace the US almost entirely, if not entirely from Asia-Pacific.
By all accounts, including the US itself (including within the 2009 CFR report), North Korea does not possess the means to overrun South Korean forces or menace its neighbors in Asia-Pacific significantly. Doing so would be greatly destabilizing to its closest allies in Beijing and detrimental to North Korea’s own self-preservation.
The launching of missiles and the testing of nuclear weapons are not the the actions of a deranged leadership seeking global conflict, but a very rational strategy of deterrence designed to time-out the clock as the sun sets on US Asian-Pacific hegemony.”
And from 2009:
North Korea: “Sanity” at the Brink
http://www.michaelparenti.org/NorthKorea.html
“From its lonely and precarious perch the North cannot help feeling vulnerable. Consider the intimidating military threat it faces. The DPRK’s outdated and ill-equipped army is no match for the conventional forces of the United States, South Korea, and Japan. The United States maintains a large attack base in South Korea. As Paul Sack reminds us in a recent correspondence to the New York Times, at least once a year the US military conducts joint exercises with South Korean forces, practicing a land invasion of the DPRK. The US Air Force maintains a “nuclear umbrella” over South Korea with nuclear arsenals in Okinawa, Guam, and Hawaii. Japan not only says it can produce nuclear bombs within a year, it seems increasingly willing to do so. And the newly installed leadership in South Korea is showing itself to be anything but friendly toward Pyongyang.
After years of encirclement and repeated rebuffs from Washington, years of threat, isolation, and demonization, the Pyongyang leaders are convinced that the best way to resist superpower attack and domination is by developing a nuclear arsenal. It does not really sound so crazy. As already mentioned, the United States does not invade countries that are armed with long-range nuclear missiles (at least not thus far).
Having been pushed to the brink for so long, the North Koreans are now taking a gamble, upping the ante, pursuing an arguably “sane” deterrence policy in the otherwise insane world configured by an overweening and voracious empire.”
The pence regime repeats the same war facilitating propaganda about North Korea as the previous pindo regimes. The zpc/nwo is using a conflict with North Korea as a way to attack China and Russia in the east, similar to using the Ukraine and their recently occupied eastern Europe to facilitate aggression against Russia from the west. The pence regime is 100% on board this.
I am not giving up on Trump. He is under serious and severe attack – that is not the time or the reason to give up on him
That security guy – Flynn was disliked INTENSELY by many of the intelligence community that is now on ‘our side’.
Personally I like Trump – I would like him if I met him and I can see why his family adores him.
I still wish him all the best. He even told Israel to shuv it as far as the new settlements are concerned.
I agree with Ann. It is best to wait and see. I think he’s a good man. He tries to be honest, do not accept lies and he is not manipulative. That he could be suffer from narcissism, I do not believe.
This was a very good press conference. Those who opposed him got so they kept silent. He answered questions on the situation in the excluded inner cities and takes the issues seriously. As questions about the shared US and working class situation.
I have followed the US and its POTUS since the Vietnam War in the ’70s. Of course, Donald Trump and all former presidents are war presidents, that is almost genetic. Given the United States caused by genocide and enrichment of a little self-proclaimed white elite, so the Americans have a long way to go. Although Trump represents another elite than the neocons, he balances on a knife edge.
He is said to have been previously frozen out of the New York society. There must be a good thing to have been. It honors him.
The picture of Trump as racist and anti-feminist seem incorrect. It’s MSM who conjured up the image. We get to follow Trump and his press conferences and not judge him so hard to early.
Either way, Donald Trump is DIFFERENT and I like him for who he is. The policies he represents, I very much do not like, but that´s life. Better than Kill–y anyhow. Myself I am north European with some dramatic southern European roots.
… In the meantime… the ukrainian zionazis keep shooting and killing… and Russia does not respond – I assume not to upset the international balance (to be concise).
Historically any appeasement of the Talmudic empire has resulted in the death of the appeasers and/or the destruction of their countries.
Here is a video of Anna Tuv whom the Donbass-Italian Friendship Association of Torino (Italy) flew to Italy to have her speak and to donate to her a new prosthesis for the arm she lost during a Ukronazi bombing, in which she also lost her husband, three sons and her house.
She speaks in Russian and a translator converts into Italian in chunks.
http://www.opinione-pubblica.com/guerra-del-donbass-torino-commovente-serata-anna-tuv/
I hope the Saker is right in his assessment(s) and/or “Trumpian” hopes – and that we are not dealing with a well staged pantomime.
For what is worth, Kagan (Cohen), of “New Pearl Harbor” memory is still at the “Brooking Institute” and his wife Victoria Nuland (Nudelman) of “f–k the Europeans” memory is still Assistant Secretary of State, being a career ambassador, “the highest diplomatic rank in the United States Foreign Service” as per WKP.
Plus there is Frederick Kagan (Cohen), Talmudist think-tanker of the American Enterprise Institute and his wife Kinberly Kagan, founder and president of the Institute for the study of war, etc. etc.
wikipedia show Victoria Nuland as having been in office only through Jan 25, 2017.
Metamars. Thank you – my inadvertent “fake news” – I relied on Wikipedia only. And, in whatever small way, it’s good news. Nevretheless, the “religious-sectarian” bias of the Trump administration is evident from the list in this blog,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8Rrma28Uf8 – the list starts at 9’ 25”.
The thing about cancer cells is they are not alien. They are the body but beyond normal safe homeostatic self-governance control. Trump has an approximate 50% voter mandate (and who knows how much of the non-voter cohort) to institute real change. Unfortunately, the missing element here is “real” — they (and especially the educated elites) haven’t tasted anything ‘real’ in a long while. It will take some time to adjust. Trump is only just starting to get the main pieces into position — slowed down by the usual suspects.
However, the very process he follows (basic will-based approach) works by virtue of stressing the system to identify its constituent elements. Remember his 1st stop CIA speech to the chosen 400 and a promise for a bigger room without pillars? Long-time back, eh? A recent article said Trump was a systems thinker. I think they may be correct — or at least advised by such and following similar lines. In that case, the cancer cells (from his point of view) in the governance body corporate will be identified in due course through a natural process that will be hard and slow at the start but, once rolling, will be largely self generating.
“The Taming of the Shrew” until she becomes a compliant and obedient bride (wikipedia) may well describe part of the script. It certainly is humour for many outside the US and looking in. Whether Trump’s shrew bride is the drug-soaked psychotic USA public slip-sliding away off its self-conceited ‘Mt Exceptionalism’, or whether it is the witches coven cult of ‘vagina hats’ dancing around Hillary R. Clinton in her recent humiliating public defeat: this reality TV series is going to be highly rated.
Personally, I think this recent Flynn-in-da-bin sketch is only the entree. All stops are out by the Obama/Clinton fraternity to stop the inevitable coming focus on the Clinton non-election debacle. Trump hinted at it in the recent presser – core values: “Why didn’t Clinton step away from the question cheating?”
And by way of extension, referring to many other such episodes such as cheating on Bernie Sanders’ run? However, the real juice new will be state secrets on home database servers AND (more importantly) national security risks from Clinton et al. AND, more so, the various neutered federal agencies that ignored the illegal situation under Obama’s watch. This why all the howling: they have given Trump the keys to Pandora’s box and, it seems, he’s going to open it. He’s not ‘attacking’ Clinton: he’s attacking subversion in sate departments.
Starting with ‘Flynngate’ — and walking backwards down the nexus of internal agency and fake news media labyrinths — our modern day Perseus has all the US networking forensics at his disposal to slay the Medusa and cut off the many snake heads freezing the bureaucratic status quo.
It does not take much imagination to see this rolling into a full blown investigation into regulator paralysis – e.g. United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Cunningly, it will not be framed as a political attack on a losing opposition candidate (remember “the Clinton’s are ‘nice’ people”) — it will be framed as a clean out of the corrupted public service, which, alas, may just unfortunately sweep up some Hillary dust into the pan.
Ms ‘Hillary of Troy’ Clinton may well be safe for a few more months behind the fake news media Walls of Troy — but with Trump’s successes the spotlight will turn on the core issue of ‘deceit’ within the North American psyche. Deceit may be for the ‘Russians’ and the poodles of the empire, but not for the US President! Padded cells recommended as these exceptionalist snowflake inmates enter an exorcist gestalt therapy session — and it will be televised!
After 8 years of an empty suit sleeze lawyer in the chair, the poor snowflakes can’t cope with a real ‘one of the owners’ boss-man in charge. As the ‘great satan’ is drained from the DC swamps, the help won’t come from Trump and control central — it will come from friends, family and neighbours standing up to tame the crisis in their little loved ones.
“You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.”
Like it or not, Trump took both pills and so has busted the bullsh_t meta-media-narrative.
He’s too big and ‘out there’ for their cartoon-world caper-papers.
I’m impatient — can’t wait for the main course where H. R. Clinton’s head is served on a silver plate to the beast that created her. And, systems thinking wise, it is that impending cybernetic closed-loop ouroboros that is — a snake on its own tail — paradoxically liberating the very high energy required to short circuit the current cancer machine at work in the DC matrix.
As the Chinese would say: a big win-win grin.
Had to cut the video when he talked about new sanctions on Iran to prevent terrorism. Until he recognises that Saudi Arabia and US are the major sponsors of terrorism in the world today, nothing will change.
I take it Trump always been a US nationalist rather than a globalist, but the drawback of US nationalism is looking at Iran as the sponsor or main sponsor of terrorism. US nationalist can’t seem to get over getting kicked out of Iran, and their elite “warriors” made to look like drunken bar-room brawlers at the US embassy siege.
Equating Iran with ISIS rather than the house of Saud….. not much can change
I read twice this article:
http://katehon.com/article/surrender-and-will-continue-be
and I still can’t make up my mind as to its credibility or even verifiability.
It says that on March 25 , 2016 Kerry, that is USA, formally signed in Crimea surrender document !
Anyone knows a bit more about this? It puts Trump (s)election in a completely different light.
Regards, Spiral
Just wishful thinking on our part,I’m afraid.
It’s just a piece of apparent paper contract signing. It’s future value is worth as much as the US paper dollar over next 20-30 years I.e. ZERO. Power only comes from the barrel of a gun. And Russia has to have a strong hand to play. A piece of paper is only valuable if it is enforceable.
“The world is not only stranger than we imagine;
it is stranger than we can imagine.”
Charles Fort (attr.)
I bet, this is real.
Catmotya and the “Yalta 2” story is what resonated mostly with me.
I dont know, just my best bet.
I almost found myself feeling sorry for Grandpa Trump. He came across as meek and frustrated, lacking the elegance with rhetoric to even get his points across, becoming muddled.
The ‘attack’ on the MSM seemed half baked, poorly constructed and whilst a change from the status quo, it does not symbolise a new dawn.
Nothing has changed in regards to the policy and agenda of the anglo zionist power structure. Other than they have increased their control over the white house. And are probably enjoying the punch and judy show a little more than for many moons.
We remain adding guns aimed at russia from sea and land. We remain building up to the same kind of provocation with China, we have rekindled the old Zionist KILL THEM ALL routine towards Iran.
Greater Israel project continues unchecked…
I do agree. Down on bottom line is that he’s fanatic supporter of Israel’s aggression. In this sector he is actually much worse than Obama and likely little bit worse than even Clinton. Only the Russia sector there is just little bit light but not much. On the other hand China and Iran sector look bad indeed.
So the thing China, Russia, Iran and perhaps Pakistan should do is to secure that instability inside USA will not only be strong but much worse. Because after all this is the business to collapse American Empire to give America back to its real owners – American people. Empire should be gang raped.
I agree that this was a positive conference on the whole–esp. the parts that tell the media that they’re dishonest. But not sood when it comes to foreign relations.There is an inability to mention exactly where the US has been the prime mover in the world’s disorder. For Trump it is as though the US is all ok, it’s the others who are bad. Domestically, no mention of how it’s the US intelligence community that is behind the drug problem in the US. He wants no lobbying for a foreign government? Does this mean a ban on the various Israel first lobbies that infest the country and that buy the Congress? I very much doubt it. Of course, his evaluation of Iran is absurd, all the more in that there’s not a word about the Saudis and Qatar, not to mention the US involvement in supporting terrorism–ISIS. At any rate, we know that in large measure US foreign policy, esp. in the Middle East is really governed by Israel, and hence by the US-Israel-Saudi unity.
A great plus, of course was Trump’s re-affirmation of wanting to get along with Russia and in fact with everyone. The idiot press is hysterical about the spy ship, but of course no mention of NATO’s presence on all Russia’s borders; imagine missles pointing to the US on the Canadian and Mexican borders. On the other hand, he was great in telling the press that he wasn’t going to reveal military secrets and plans. I thought he handled himself quite well, although I wish he were more articulate.
No hope there at all. Don’t be naive and don’t make mistakes. Trump was only talking to his fans. In reality he is deep in pocket of Washington War Party.
Trump has already accomplished a great deal, both tangible and attitudinal, in his first few weeks, despite relentless establishment hostility, opposition and lies.
The Trump 2/16/17 press conference was a brilliant performance, really an unprecedented event, And there just has been nothing like Trump’s ongoing forthright ‘outing’ of a utterly corrupt and dishonest and incompetent mass media.
Meanwhile, the number of ‘deplorables’ grows, the support for Trump in the US, and the beneficial influence of Trump on populist and nationalistic politics around the planet, continues to grow. People want their countries back.
Trump is struggling against what Paul Craig Roberts has described as an utterly corrupt establishment. That establishment is very much still in play, It is willing to do any evil, destroy countries, destroy children, anything. Thrown into the mix, the public is waking up to a growing flood of revelations about a pattern of heinous establishment crimes against kids.
That part of the opposition to Trump that could be described as ‘commoner’ is made up of brainwashed people, who swallow the media narratives, or people trapped in extreme identity politics, along with paid hostile flunkies, and people who nitpick, finding among Trump’s various questionable or mistaken or foolish utterances enough to jettison his entire project, which is essentially trying to fix one helluva mess.
One key to fixing the mess is the reassertion of sensible political control of the rules pertaining to the economy: re-establishing effective sovereignty if you like. But this is a very difficult project, given the degree of transnational economic infrastructure that has been assembled.
This will take time to play out, but it can only be actually achieved if the empire project is curtailed on behalf of indigenous projects. So, if it is the case that Trump is sincere in his desire to ‘fix’ America, many of his policies will have to involve a significant process of swords into ploughshares, and bi-lateral win-win arrangements.
I find it utterly appalling that the mighty USA, ‘leader of the free technological cyber world,’ cannot even manage to mike the questioners at a Presidential press conference.
Neither do they show the faces of the questioners which would allow us at least to do some lip-reading. Russia is way ahead of them in facilitating freedom of information and public involvement in Putin’s brilliant press conferences.
This bodes ill for the outcome of a WW3 against Russia.
But I have to commend Donald Trump for administering an impressive and fearless thrashing to the CIANN fake news cult.
I noted that the ‘failing’ NYT managed to dirty up the transcripts to make The President’s speech sound bad. It does not sound bad at all. In fact, he is refreshing after eight years of the glib, slow-motion lies of Barack Obama. And the less said about Bush, the better.
“…I noted that the ‘failing’ NYT managed to dirty up the transcripts to make The President’s speech sound bad.”
So did CNN. (Heh) How dare the President actually SAY things?
This fight between Trump and Deep Shit is quite interesting. Both sides are Zionists and still fight for they ways. The corruption of morals and destruction of traditional fabric of society is going unabated.
Russia became the tug of war between those two Zionist camps. From Trump’s strong stand yesterday against zio- media it looks as the confrontation will escalate and if the Deep Shit will try to take him down, JFK style, finally the conservative masses will take to defend him and that be the final solution for either part.
The positive points for me are Trump’s hability to work in an hostile envirronement and his courage to box the media. I like also the fact that he is really doing something to fix the mess in the US.
Where I am getting worry it is this intent to start another race in building new weapons. I think that it is a very bad idea.
Concerning the foreign Policy Trump seems to have it all wrong. Relative to Iran, he is lying like his predecessor have lied about Irak, Syria and Libya. Hearing him on this subject, I thought I was hearing
Netanyhau. Overall I do not think that he will make the world safer
Good to see that the Сокол has calmed down…
See…the Drumpfstick is still alive and kicking…wasting no time in slapping down the media hyenas…
I’m sure he intends to likewise whack down the troublesome moles popping up from their subterranean tunnels…although this will probably prove a more vexing enterprise…
We have no way of knowing how big this underground labyrinth really is…in 1901 Texas scientists were astounded to discover a prairie dog “town” that covered 25,000 square miles [roughly 160 miles by 160 miles] and home to 400 million individuals…
But some good information is out there… including a seminal work from a Colonel Fletcher Prouty back in the early 1970s…which quickly disappeared from sight and was thought to be suppressed…now back in print…btw thanks to Pogo on the other thread for pointing to this The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World…
Here Prouty gives an idea of the size of this mole metropolis and how it works…and more important who they work for…surprise surprise…the same globalist neo-Khagans that we are up against today…only they are much more powerful now…if nothing else at least read some of the customer reviews on Amazon…
Also on the other thread…Larchmonter made the good point that saving the US starts with ending the Global Hegemon losing game…
I’m sure Drumpf…and the deplorables here…aren’t the only ones to reach this conclusion…he would never have got where he is in the first place without important people who have concluded that the neo-Khagans have outlived their usefulness…
While two thirds of Navy jets are grounded for lack of repairs…billions are disappearing down the rabbit hole on nonexistent soldiers in Afghanistan…
Others have mentioned the idea of “breathing room” which is what both the US and Russia pragmatically need…both need to regroup and get their strength back…
Look folks…the two big dogs are always going to be rivals…whether it was Ceasar vs Hannibal…the Greeks vs Persia…or Hitler vs Stalin… Geopolitics does not work on the “Friendship” system…
But right now the US is broken…too many fat cats are skimming too much cream for too long…and now the people are hurtin’ big time…won’t be long before pitchfork time…
At the same time America’s European culture is being devoured from within…by uncontrolled mass migration and multiculturalism…this is great for the neo-Khazars who have set up a Ponzi Scheme economy that needs ever more people…doesn’t matter where they come from…in order to make the gravy for the Goldman Saxes of the world…
And that is also the reason for the never-ending foreign interventions…which likewise keep the gravy train going…here are the words from the horse’s mouth…
Robert Kagan, in WaPo…The Problem with Powell
And this was back in 2000…!
Interesting to note that even then we had a resistance axis…in the shape of Powell…who at least had the decency to admit his part in lying the American people into a disastrous war that only benefited the neo-Khazars of the world…
Clearly this has to stop if America is going to stop its slide into Third-World failed state…I’m sure Powell wasn’t alone then…and I’m sure Drumpf isn’t alone today…
A good eight years of breathing room is what we desperately need…the globalist one world order as described by Colonel Prouty has set in deep roots now…but I think the neo-Khagans have overplayed their hand and outstayed their welcome…
The eruptions we are seeing now from Soros and the Secret Team which serves his ilk…is only to be expected…but I have no doubt that they will be beaten down…
It’s time folks…Enough is Enough…
As for Drumpf’s talk about “taken” Crimea…don’t sweat it folks…
Even if it becomes a sticking point between the two big dogs…which I seriously doubt…I think Drumpf is quickly learning chess Judo and the art of the feint…as in Trompe-l’œil…
In any case I doubt Victor Victor Papa is losing any sleep over it…
Back in the sixth century…writes Roman historian Menander Protector…a certain Slav chieftain named Daurentius [Добрета]…received an embassy from the Avar Khagan Bayan I who had learned of the Slavic barbarian’s great loot amassed from plundering the Byzantines…and demanding he pay tribute…
The reply came thus…“Others do not conquer our land, we conquer theirs – so it shall always be for us…“…the Avar envoys were mounted on poles…
And where are the Avar Khagans now…Ahh the tectonic plates…
Rabbits, moles, prairie dogs, cats, dogs, horses and chicken parts (“Drumpfstick”) – I no longer need to overpay at the zoo. Great post. My favorite pun is “trompe l’oeil”.
John Podesta criticises Trump’s attacks on media and hurls the fake news meme in an oped in the Washington Post. Rudy Panko at Russia Insider has not been afraid to hurl the pizzagate meme at Podesta. The evidence for this conspiracy – if readers still haven’t looked for fear or disbelief- is sadly overwhelming. Pizzagate is where 9/11 Truth was in the early 2000s – many just refusing to look at the evidence because it is so horrible to consider it creates cognitive dissonance.
Russia Insider: http://russia-insider.com/en/pizzagate-freak-john-podesta-lectures-trump-about-undermining-reality/ri18964?utm_source=Russia+Insider+Daily+Headlines&utm_campaign=a67362c20e-Russia_Insider_Daily_Headlines11_21_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c626db089c-a67362c20e-227205693&ct=t(Russia_Insider_Daily_Headlines11_21_2014)&mc_cid=a67362c20e&mc_eid=1e9827bbf7
A recent summary video of the evidence: https://archive.org/details/PizzagateAndBeyondTheBigPicturesmall
I get it it’s just a talk, but it’s a good talk. Impressive even. If what happens is a war between Trump and the Press, he’s crushing them. He’s also great at dispelling the illusion of Trump = Hitler and making the crazies look crazy.
It’s just the talk, but in politic, especially in a war for Trump to get the country support, talk==action.
I didn’t see trump’s press conference – but I read a full report. I thought President Trump was still in fine form – and in some ways even better (don’t lie – or you get fired).. but here is another interpretation of what is going on in the USA
No one writes like this except Gearóid Ó Colmáin
http://www.gearoidocolmain.org/trump-killing-israel-kindness/
Tony
This is a war. Trump took a hit with Flynn but I believe he is in it for the long haul. All the doom and gloom after Flynn left is completely unwarranted. Most important is to assess Trump himself; where does he stand on the issues? Its clear that Trump himself is the driving force for rapproachment with Russia. He is the driving force for his own agenda not his advisers. And he is still there.
Trump at War with Media Scoundrels
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2017/02/trump-at-war-with-media-scoundrels.html?m=1
“He’s right calling them “the most dishonest human beings on earth.” Well, almost.
The same goes for most US and other Western politicians. They lie and deceive. They betray their constituents.
They serve privileged interests exclusively at the expense of ordinary people. They support endless wars of aggression responsible for millions of casualties.
Trump campaigned as anti-establishment. So far, he looks like all the rest, differing largely in style, on display during his February 16 press conference.
“I’m keeping my promises to the American people,” he said. What’s initiated and proposed so far largely helps monied interests. He’s done more to fill the swamp than drain it, though in fairness he’s only been in office 30 days.
Times editors claimed Trump’s “creating a mess of his own.” Most examples cited are fake news – like “cozying up to Moscow” and blaming him for congressional failure to approve his officials expeditiously.
Justifiable criticism of Trump’s policies is warranted. The Times is part of a media campaign to delegitimize and undermine him – perhaps ahead of an effort to remove him from office or force his resignation.
This is what US-style democracy looks like – a deplorable perversion of the real thing.”
Lendman remains objective.
vot tak,
The weaponization of media against the people is obvious to those like Stephen Lendman who has the objectivity of decades in observation of what they do. The only defense we have, and the only way to shut down the lying major media is to turn off the TV, cancel the subscriptions, avoid their websites, turn our backs on them, walk away and don’t look back. The journalists who do want to support the truth need to be supported instead. Do I think this is going to happen? Realistically, no. They will have an audience, no matter what I say. So, we can rest assured that the droning of their talking heads on their bloated salaries will continue into the foreseeable future. Thank you for your contributions and insight to Vineyard of the Saker.
@ dg-moderator:
“The only defense we have, and the only way to shut down the lying major media is to turn off the TV, cancel the subscriptions, avoid their websites, turn our backs on them, walk away and don’t look back [..]”
Oh, I disagree! (Gee, here we go, I’m going against an in-house mod…*face-palm*)
Unless I read ^that wrongly, and all you’re advocating for is for peeps to boycott the MSM – in which case I wholeheartedly agree, it seems you’re asking for people to trash tools [namely; a TV set (or maybe a radio?) for example] that happen to be very useful tools to have in this fight.
In my experience, I’ve learned early-on [in my case: all the way back to 2002] that knowing what the MSM is bullhorning to the masses, however nauseating and time-consuming their nonsense maybe, it’s something, like, a homework that must be done if you’re supposed to present an informed counter-argument against their BS narrative.
Or in other words; rather than ignore them [MSM] completely, we do need to know what the enemy is up to in order to better design our counter-strikes.
That’s why I’ll say; don’t throw away your television – We just need to remember to use that tool [emphasis on the word ‘tool’ *wink-wink*] wisely. That’s all ;-)
–
[*] Throw Away Your Television – RHCP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLkD7V07f_E
-TL2Q
I haven’t had TV for over 15 years, and haven’t paid them a dime, but I know what they are doing from posts and links, with some video clips, on the net. It’s mostly of the nature of ‘That dog and the fat lady just walked by and the dog pooped on the sidewalk again’. It’s been pretty consistent soap opera all through with just some plot and characters changed.
If it gets to the point where there is nobody watching and posting the outrageous stuff on the net, then I expect it won’t matter what they say — maybe the MSM will be gone entirely by then. In the meantime ‘don’t feed the trolls’ seems to be good policy for the MSM as well. Starve them.
@ blue:
“It’s been pretty consistent soap opera all through with just some plot and characters changed [..]”
LoL! Please don’t get me wrong, I too despise the brand of ‘entertainment’ television broadcasts these days. I’m just keeping the dumb-box, mainly for news [mostly fake-news as we all know, but as I said; we need to know what the enemy is up to… ], interesting documentaries, stuff like that…
Other than that, you’re not missing much, blue, no. As I’m sure you already know :)
-TL2Q
dg-m
“The only defense we have, and the only way to shut down the lying major media is to turn off the TV, cancel the subscriptions, avoid their websites, turn our backs on them, walk away and don’t look back. The journalists who do want to support the truth need to be supported instead.”
Agree entirely.
And thanks.
I just read
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/02/extreme-inequality-causes-economic-collapse.html
Why Extreme Inequality Causes Economic Collapse
Posted on February 18, 2017 by Yves Smith
[…]
Neoliberal economics set up a parallel situation by allowing the wealthy to use their money to extract ever more money from the overall economy. The uber-wealthy grow wealthier by:
Paying for policy favors – big corporate bailouts and subsidies; lobbying; etc.
Removing constraints on dangerous behavior – removing environmental protections; not prosecuting financial fraud offenders; ending Glass-Steagall, etc.
Increasing the public’s vulnerability – increasing monopolistic power by diminishing antitrust regulations; limiting the public’s ability to sue big corporations; limiting Medicare’s ability to negotiate for lower pharmaceutical rates; limiting bankruptcy for student loans, etc.
Increasing their own intake – rising CEO salaries and escalating Wall Street gambling; and limiting their own outflows – externalizing costs, cutting worker wages and lowering their own taxes.
All of these processes help the already rich concentrate more, and circulate less. In flow terms, therefore, gross inequality indicates a system that has: 1) too much concentration and too little circulation; and 2) an imbalance of wealth and power that is likely to create ever more extraction, concentration, unaccountability, and abuse. This process accelerates until the underlying human network becomes exhausted and/or the ongoing necrosis reaches a point of collapse. When this point is reached, the society will have three choices: learn, regress, or collapse.
[…]
The article goes through this, and there are links to follow, but this is very much what Trump is doing, so I expect even if avoids war against Russia the US will continue the path to collapse. Even if he is sincere and competent as a politician his politics is disastrous and will not result in the great stuff he says he intends. The best case I’m expecting is for the US to collapse without destroying the whole world in the process.
Trump in Melbourne (with opening acts)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkSajyh2_40
Reduction of State Dpt. financing might put a stop to Ukronazi ambitions.