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Guest Post by Jim Kunstler

We are at a strange pass in The Saga of Covid. It seems the spikey virus wants to leave center stage… is weary of all the attention… wants to fade into the eternal parade of microorganisms that cozily coexist within the human life-stream — like Tony Fauci’s HIV, a fellow traveler in the old-time throng of human viruses, now semi-retired, and yet still every bit as mysterious in the actual mechanism of AIDS as it was when Dr. Fauci pinned his NIAID distinguished service medal on its elusive bosom, so to speak (but you’d have to read Bobby Kennedy’s book on Fauci to get the drift of that).

Omicron is sweeping the country, as love once did in George Gershwin’s day. (We are a different country now, as anyone tuned into the Turner Classics Movie channel can discover.) Omicron: the 36-hour head cold that Covid-19 has been demoted to. Omicron: a mere wise-cracking gecko compared to the roaring dragon that was Covid-19 in the winter of 2020. Omicron: kind of an embarrassment to “vaccine” tyrants who still seek to jab every arm on earth, and at ever-shortening intervals — like a med school version of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, only with syringes running amok instead of brooms.

The Party-of-Chaos (the one headed by the ectoplasmic “Joe Biden”) does not want to let go of Covid-19, its Swiss army knife of destruction. With Covid-19, you can push people around and mess with their lives every which way, shut down their businesses, lock them in their homes, screw them out of their livelihoods, delete their reputations, board-up their social venues, cancel their careers, revoke their licenses, drag them into court, fine them into penury, cram them into prison camps, and much more.

If Covid-19 actually does make that move to exit the scene, the Party-of-Chaos will have to find a new focus for its anxiety-driven lunacy. And if the front page of The New York Times is the party’s id, a signifier of intent, then the focus will shift to fomenting war with Russia. Notice today’s lead headline, top left above the fold (as we used to say when the darn thing was printed on paper).

“…in a bid to avert war in Ukraine…” the headline declares. Dunno about you, but to me that suggests the USA sees war as a possibility, something we’ve already gamed into our plans, like it would be something we could… handle. Forgive the rather glum reality-test, but war with Russia over Ukraine is for sure something that the USA probably can’t handle. The most likely outcome would be a king-hell embarrassment on the battlefield, not just because we would be fighting on Russia’s door-sill where sheer logistics favor our adversary (with ready re-supply and all), but because our pussified military — with gal bomber pilots in pregnancy flight-suits and other novelties of “diversity & inclusion” — will result in the most ignominious ass-kicking in our history… following a 50-year string of prior embarrassments. The second most likely outcome of this face-off with Russia would be that old familiar nuclear World War Three, with everything from Bangor to Pacific Heights turned into one big smoldering ashtray.

Underlying this lunacy is The USA’s perverse wish to enlist Ukraine in NATO — Ukraine, that mighty economic powerhouse (not). What Ukraine is… is a super-sized version of Detroit, a hollowed-out shell of place whose mojo left on the 9:10 train to Palookaville decades ago, and has been on international life-support since the DC Deep State ran its 2014 “color revolution” in the Maidan Square. The Russians object to American huggermugger in Ukraine because following the implosion of the Soviet Union, we promised the Russians no expansion of NATO in the direction of their border. Yes, we did. We said that.

Well, sure, you may be thinking, countries make all kinds of insincere cockamamie agreements all the time, in the darkness of bad faith, and so what? This is geopolitical hardball. Grow up! We want Ukraine on our side now and Russia can just go pound sand…. Okay, forgive me… that may be what Secretary of State Tony Blinken and his genius deputies in Foggy Bottom are thinking… not you. But is it really a good idea? Ukraine, when not actually a part of greater Russia, has been in its acknowledged sphere-of-influence since before George Washington even thought about chopping down any cherry trees. Russia, which has been invaded and torched by European invaders twice in modern history (Napoleon, 1812; Hitler, 1941), does not want NATO lodging missiles, troops, and Gawd-knows-what-all else right on its border.

And, by the way, Does the USA need another faraway failed state to support? We can’t even take care of the junkies, psychotics, and misbegotten lining the sidewalks of a dozen American cities, and now we propose to adopt the poorest country in that remote corner of the world? While beating down our own once-productive people, inflating away our savings, taking away our natural liberties to work, move about in a free society, and the right to decide what pharmaceuticals we can decline to put in our bodies?

Which brings us back to the virus. In The Saga of Covid there is a monster under the bed. The ballyhooed and mandated vaxxes apparently have the ability to kill and maim people who have taken them long after Covid-19 exits stage-left. We don’t really know how this works out, but we have plenty of clues: kids dropping dead of heart attacks, pro athletes, ditto, the VAERS numbers reporting over 21,000 vaccine-implicated deaths (out of a grossly under-reported actual figure) plus over a million adverse reaction reports (ditto under-reported). The time may not be far off when we make the ghastly discovery that the “vaccines” actually killed more Americans than the virus did.

Meanwhile, a report out of Indianapolis-based the OneAmerica Life Insurance company, a $100-billion outfit, announced last week that all-causes deaths in working age Americans between 18 and 64 were up 40 percent in the third quarter of 2021 and keeping the same pace in the fourth quarter. The number was described as “huge, huge… greater than a three-sigma event… unheard of,” according to company CEO Scott Davison, who added that even those figures are probably under-reported. What’s killing these people? Could it be Dr. Fauci’s prescription for vaxxing up everyone in the land? I guess, sooner or later, we’re going to find out.

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25 Comments
B_MC
B_MC
January 10, 2022 10:54 am

Speaking of the Ukraine…I wonder what this means

The head of the UK’s armed forces has warned that Russian submarine activity is threatening underwater cables that are crucial to communication systems around the world….

Oops….

Radakin said he had briefed ministers on Britain’s “military choices” if Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine, but did not reveal any further information.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jan/08/uk-military-chief-warns-of-russian-threat-to-vital-undersea-cables

m
m
  B_MC
January 10, 2022 12:12 pm

It means “accuse the opponent of what you’ve been doing yourself for years”,
if not outright “nice underwater cable / gas pipeline you have there, would be a shame if something happened to it…”

Anonymous
Anonymous
  B_MC
January 10, 2022 2:15 pm

Britain’s choice will be to do whatever “Joe Biden” tells it to do.

credit
credit
  Anonymous
January 10, 2022 3:03 pm

it will come out of his mouth, but somebody else will write it down for him.

Brian Reilly
Brian Reilly
January 10, 2022 11:11 am

lies, lies, motherfucking lies. They all lie. They lie to move you one way or another. All the politicians (no exceptions) lie, everyone in the media lies (no exceptions) and the corruptocapitalists lie. There are about 6 people in tis world that anyone can trust. Choose wisely

Oldtoad of Green Acres
Oldtoad of Green Acres
January 10, 2022 11:22 am

Excess deaths? First I heard of it.
War in Europe? Where is that?
The vaccine, giving it to kids is the most evil thing yet, but I bet it gets worse.

Thunder
Thunder
  Oldtoad of Green Acres
January 11, 2022 5:10 am

Try Pregnant Women, just to be sure. They want to “protect the Mother” and the Child can make no objection. Hung drawn and quartered is to short for these Semi Humans
They are truly recommending that!

gatsby1219
gatsby1219
January 10, 2022 11:44 am

Stop calling it a “Virus”, it’s a man made Bio-weapon, paid for by Fauci and DOD.

Thunder
Thunder
  gatsby1219
January 11, 2022 5:11 am

And it is NOT a Vaccine, never was.

Warren
Warren
January 10, 2022 12:34 pm

I predict that in 2020 “The Big Guy” is going to get us in a war in Ukraine, a war the woke military will lose.
Billions maybe a tillion or so military dollars will be wasted, the neo cons will get their war, the military industrial complex will profit immensely, minus the Big Guy’s 10% of course.
Body bags will come back by the thousands, hypersonic missiles will slam into and litter the Black Sea with a fleet of US Navy Vessels.
A shit show be a coming.

All will be blamed on the unmanned and Trim supporters.

But hey no mean tweets, so it’s going to be al good.

Capn Mike
Capn Mike
  Warren
January 10, 2022 8:48 pm

2020? Musta missed it.

Balbinus
Balbinus
  Warren
January 10, 2022 9:45 pm

Nope! It will be blamed on the unvaxxed!

Trapped in Portlandia
Trapped in Portlandia
January 10, 2022 1:08 pm

You gotta love TPTB. They always revert to the old war scenario to keep the public’s glance away from the shaft being run up their asses. Unfortunately the neocons are drunk on their own kool-aid if they think our military is even in the same league with Russia.

If we start a war with Russia, only two outcomes are possible:

1) The planet becomes an ashtray or
2) The USA becomes the new Zimbabwe with a collapsed currency and poverty throughout the nation.

daddy Joe
daddy Joe
  Trapped in Portlandia
January 10, 2022 1:31 pm

BOHICA!!!!

Balbinus
Balbinus
  daddy Joe
January 10, 2022 9:49 pm

Had to look that one up. Sounds right on to me!

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Trapped in Portlandia
January 10, 2022 2:20 pm

The FUSA could kick Russia’s butt… in Cuba or South Florida. Probably.

In the Ukraine, however, American boots-on-the-ground will NOT* happen; the FUSA’s rulers may be both arrogant and stupid, but they’re not stupid enough to go toe-to-toe with the Russkies on the Russkies’ own doorstep.

*NATO advisors/mercs excepted

brian
brian
  Trapped in Portlandia
January 10, 2022 2:22 pm

Actually the russians are smarter than the US guberment is by a LONG shot. The won’t turn the planet into an ashtray. They are not suicidal.

They will turn the US into another Zim for sure. In fact china and russia have been talking and collaborating on efforts to remove the US dollar as the global trading currency. If the US is bankrupt then china and russia will simply walk in pretty much unopposed and have any and all resources they want… Kill the people without destroying the land.

Balbinus
Balbinus
  brian
January 10, 2022 9:53 pm

How about the neutron bomb, the real estate salesman’s dream. We have properties for immediate occupancy. It will never be cheaper than right now.

Balbinus
Balbinus
  Trapped in Portlandia
January 10, 2022 9:47 pm

I always wanted to be a quadrillonaire. Inflato buck me away!

lamont cranston
lamont cranston
January 10, 2022 1:26 pm

Re TCM: Who the hell gives the “Star Ratings” there? My God, “Mildred Pierce” (on yesterday) was 4 out of 5. Guess taking home Oscars® for Best Picture & Best Actress just don’t cut it with Karen & Kwanzaa Millenial.

Who is this “Tony Blinken” guy? I thought Captain Peter Peachfuzz is Secy. of State, right? Oh, sorry, he’s the Prez. Bullwinkle The Moose is the SOS.

Oh, had a “36 hr. head cold”. 100-101º for 24 hrs. Dropped to a weak low 99º fever overnight. Did not lose appetite. Just took a little out of me. I’m 68 and take zinc/D/C/et al daily.

So it’s a nothing burger. Tylenol® Cold & Flu syrup struck it ded.

Anonymous
Anonymous
January 10, 2022 1:27 pm

A word to the non-wise: You dems have politicized everything, so this is YOUR war. Rots a ruck. Just don’t disgrace my flag by draping it over your fallen commie comrades. P.S. lots of your foot soldiers in the media are out of work and are now available.

daddy Joe
daddy Joe
January 10, 2022 1:29 pm

Thank you again Jim, my thoughts exactly, but you just tie it up so well. I hope to live a while longer to allow my expression of ideas to improve as they need to. Fifty hour work week hasn’t allowed much in that department. I barely have time to read TBP much less comment as I’d like. But don’t worry; it looks like SCOTUS just solved that. Career ending vaccine mandates coming soon! Bubble collapse or war to follow. Everyone buckle up!

Anonymous
Anonymous
January 10, 2022 2:13 pm

Relax guys! Any US-Russia “war over Ukraine” will be a limited affair, with lots of huffing and puffing, no formal declaration of anything, and maybe 20 thousand or so dead, all Slavs. And supply-chain issues… lots of supply-chain issues.

The important thing remains: in Europe, America remains In, and the Russians remain Out.

Long live Our State Department, and those who serve in her! You think all that foreign travel, and attending those Embassy Receptions, is a walk in the park?

lamont cranston
lamont cranston
  Anonymous
January 10, 2022 7:43 pm

Well, looks like 3,000 crack Roosski troops handled the whole “K-Stan” problem PDQ. They’ll hang around to assist the stragglers from the NED, MI6 & CIA operatons inn planning their extended, 10-year Ski Vacations in Beautiful Siberia!!!

Here we have the same reasoning of JFK’s “Brain Trust” as to regarding Vietnam strategy. How’d that work out, Robert Strange McNamara?

As Al Einstein sed, “Stupidity is repeating the same mistake over and over again”.

falconflight
falconflight
January 10, 2022 10:51 pm

I was just listening to Dr. PC Roberts being interviewed by Alex Jones. He actually predicted that the Russians are going to attack American forces in Ukraine, and possibly Poland. Meanwhile back in the swirling shitstorm called Amerika…