Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
“Let’s not expect from our media the truth about the Ukrainian turpitude and exactions,” says Colonel Jacques Gillemain. https://www.globalresearch.ca/lieutenant-colonel-jacques-guillemain-ukrainian-soldiers-entrenched-cities/5781231
The New York Times has abandoned the neoconservative demand for victory over Russia:
“A decisive military victory for Ukraine over Russia, in which Ukraine regains all the territory Russia has seized since 2014, is not a realistic goal. … Russia remains too strong…”
“… Mr. Biden should also make clear to President Volodymyr Zelensky and his people that there is a limit to how far the United States and NATO will go to confront Russia, and limits to the arms, money and political support they can muster. It is imperative that the Ukrainian government’s decisions be based on a realistic assessment of its means and how much more destruction Ukraine can sustain.”
John V. Walsh comments:
“As Volodymyr Zelensky reads those words, he must surely begin to sweat. The voice of his masters is telling him that he and Ukraine will have to make some sacrifices for the US to save face. As he contemplates his options, his thoughts must surely run back to February, 2014, and the U.S. backed Maidan coup that culminated in the hasty exit of President Yanukovych from his office, his country and almost from this earth.”
“In the eyes of the Times editorial writers, the war has become a U.S. proxy war against Russia using Ukrainians as cannon fodder – and it is careening out of control.”
The Powers that rule us have changed the narrative. The NYT gives us the new one:
“Recent bellicose statements from Washington — President Biden’s assertion that Mr. Putin ‘cannot remain in power,’ Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s comment that Russia must be ‘weakened’ and the pledge by the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, that the United States would support Ukraine ‘until victory is won’ — may be rousing proclamations of support, but they do not bring negotiations any closer.”
The powers that rule us have used the New York Times to open a front against the neoconservatives who control US foreign policy. We will see if the neoconservative warmongers can be brought to heel before they unleash Armageddon.
As I reported would be the case, Russia’s difficulty in Ukraine is the consequence of the announced limited operation, which gave the otherwise ineffectual Ukrainian military and Neo-Nazi thugs the opportunity to protect themselves by ensconcing themselves among civilians. The urban warfare, given Putin’s restrictions on the use of heavy weapons against civilian populations, resulted in a go-slow war that gave the West every opportunity to demonize Russia and to get directly involved in the conflict by supplying the Ukrainians with weapons, diplomatic support, and vast sums of money–essentially bribes to keep fighting. The Western involvement opened the possibility of a much wider war.
The powers that rule us have recognized that Washington is unprepared and unfit for a wider war and have ordered the NYT to bring the situation under control.
The source of conflict in the world is not found in Russia, China, and Iran. The source of conflict is, as I have reported for years, the neoconservative ideology of Washington’s hegemony over the world. The doctrine, as penned by the neoconservatives themselves, states:
“Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union. This is a dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power.”
Putin told the neoconservatives in 2007 at the Munich Security Conference that he accepted no such limits on Russian sovereignty. China and Iran have also rejected Washington’s hegemony. It is the neoconservatives’ unwillingness to accept a multi-polar world that is the cause of conflict. If the neoconservatives are not dethroned, they will bring about nuclear Armageddon.
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Paaallleeeaaassee. The NYT and all the rest of the media are owned by TPTB. You really think they need a media outlet to reign in the Neocons? TPTB can reign them in or obliterate them at any time without the media. TPTB want the resources that Russia has, it’s as simple as that. All wars are bankers wars.
Obviously they do need the NYT or they wouldn’t use it, for respectability and cover…Same thing was done with respect to Vietnam…
Obviously TPTB are not as united and homogenous as you would believe.
Hell, even a slightly aligned group such as the TBP can’t agree most of the time.
Now add money and power to the mix and see how much consensus develops.
Evil young men dont want to be told by evil old men that they can’t have their way.
Being on a fixed Social Security income I cannot donate to all who find themselves being crowded out by the antics and bad policies of the Biden Administration. We wish you the best, but please understand that food is more important for us at this time than the news.
Look I don’t like the neoconservative a-holes, but it seems to me that the overuse of the word is being deployed to deflect blame for the really shitty decisions being made by the far left lunatics. They will agree, it’s the neocons fault. It’s not the word itself, it’s the excepted connotation of the word. Tell me by name which neocon is to blame for the far left Biden administrations decisions? I’m sure Biden will agree with you. Instead of “neocon” maybe they should use the term the “far left” that covers both democrats and republicans.
Victoria Nuland, to start.
They have become the “Warmonger” branch of the Uniparty, plain and simple.
The Uniparty is expectable to me. I’m just suggesting looking up how the MSM and the left propaganda machine define a “neocon”. It kind of excludes the dumbocrats.
neocon:
A neocon is someone who agrees politically with conservative ideas including free market capitalism. Moderate conservatives tend to clash with neocons on issues of foreign policy.
Does that sound like Joe Biden?
You assume the far left and neo-cons are something besides the same thing.
Label different factions of the evil how you will but they all want the same thing, power and control over the rest of us.
Obviously Lez Cheni and Cuck Soomer are the same thing with different labels.
No, I don’t presume that. Perception in the infowar is everything. How the uninformed perceive things is everything in the battle. Not calling out the left directly gives them cover and I won’t let that stand. Words are tools and the left are master craftsmen at it.
Russia is proving that perception of the battlefield doesn’t matter.
You can’t make someone believe something they flat out refuse to. Why would you when only 1-2% get involved anyway.
Wasting time with labels, especially here.
Also, the media, part of the problem, isn’t going to oblige you when communicating to the uniformed or willfully blind.
I know the geeks like to think the “infowar” is everything. Only cause they haven’t had a gun shoved in their face or felt what overpressure feels like…. yet. But when a magician levitates, it’s not real. He can’t fly out and change the course of a battle like superman.
Most people run from the sound of guns, the few that don’t, get acquainted with reality very quickly. The ones that stay, don’t care about anyone’s opinion.
These “cyber warriors” are in for a treat when there is no more electricity, let alone “cyber”.
Even normal NATO tactical units have an E-glow about them that draws ugly things that go boom. Amplify that by a cyber units mission requirements and you end up wanting to treat them like the new guy in your unit who just got married and had a newborn. Fucking mortar magnets.
I suppose your right.
I have heard the sound of misplaced rounds.
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Having been a FNG replacing a KIA and not understanding at the time why almost no one said a civil word to me until I proved myself (that didn’t take long). I think we both have a unique perspectives from different generations of the same human hell.
Then having spared many FNG’s from that too common mistreatment (once they started reporting to me) then surviving long enough to see that process unfold with a steady parade of ‘replacements’ that eventually included all of my original first M-60 gun team ending up with all FNG’s but me…I take the measure of many I will soon oppose in life and death violence…even at my advanced age…and laugh out loud at them…while oiling my mags…and spit polishing my Dum Dums.
Like the Ace trumps the King
so the Hexagram trumps the Pentagram.
Alex of The Duran team has some really good analysis fed by the other folks on the team.
Including, below, Jacob’s brilliant assessment of the impact had by 40 billion in aid our Corruptocritters sent Ukraine in order to get their cut. It is so embarrassing to our military leaders, that they have abandoned the entire effort to Poland in order to blame them for losing to Russia, which is weeks away.
It is what USA does. Blame game and duck and cover.
Apparently, Odysee isn’t compatible so I’ve added spaces after / so you will need to delete the spaces to access the url.
https:/ /odysee.com/ @theduran:e/ what%E2%80%99s-up-with-the-howitzers-by-jacob:6
We are seeing the idiocy of leaders fighting the last war(s), which were in Iraq and Afghanistan (two fronts? Hahahaha!) and in case you haven’t noticed? Both ended badly.
This one will, as well.
It is sad, but until Final Judgment arrives in the form of fire or ice, either will suffice, it is time to decide where and upon what you will stand. I’m standing here on the principle that Live Free or Die is what God intends for me to do.
If you don’t listen to Alex Christoforou’s update, you are missing some of the best analysis available in my opinion.
That’s a great movie/cartoon!
Cued to his summary if you’ve just a few minutes.
and, if not? Enjoy Clown World in one screenshot!
Titles this long naturally scare most people away, but the word “insouciance” doesn’t appear even once and the entire article is fewer than a thousand words, I think.
If you truly do not have time to read the entire title much less the essay? Here’s the main point I took away:
Well, instructing the NYT print this perspective is a lot easier than Klaus and friends having to call all the little schmucks one by one.
Within 6 weeks -the Ukrainians will have completely destroyed the Russian invasion force. At that time the Ukies will surrender.
I believe in what that PIG said. Allow Russia to have some breathing space and concede some land and save Russia’s face might be bitter for all of US.
They are not “Neocons”, they are “Jews”.
Same goes for Globalists, One-Worlders,
Internationalists, Banksters, etc.
It is not just the neocons. They could not do it alone because their number is too few. It is also the dems and their leftist toadies in Canada and throughout the American alliance system. They will fail because within the working and middle class right and left wing elements in those groups are aligning to defeat the goals of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Empire
Perhaps the realisation is beginning to dawn that propaganda and deception are no match for high explosives and reality.
And in the bigger picture…a U.S. good man/woman with a great gun(s) who will not back down, submit, or surrender his family’s future, etc. etc. etc. is willing to do three things:
1. Counter attack
2. Kill
3. Die
And that these hundreds of thousands could become millions?