Guest Post by Martin Armstrong
I have close personal friends on all sides of this Ukrainian nightmare — Kyiv, Donetsk, and Moscow. The Russian translation for the film on me, “The Forecaster,” was done by a Ukrainian Russian-Speaking person in Donetsk. I have listened to all the sides, and all I can say is that the hatred there is engrained and will not be eliminated any time soon.
Perhaps I am old school like Kissinger. What I can say is I have studied war. In contrast, about 50,000 Americans died in battle in Vietnam, including some of my high school classmates. North Vietnam lost up to 1,489,000, and South Vietnam lost up to 1,119,000. In World War I, the total deaths included 9 to 11 million military personnel, with 6 to 13 million civilians. Some have estimated the total number debt of up to 40 million during World War I. In World War II, it is estimated total of 70-85 million people died.
My point is that war is made by politicians causally because they are never the people who die. The best a soldier can hope for is to come home uninjured and alive, and his home and family are still intact. The Neocons always want war. They exist in all countries. Their purpose in life is to hate their imagined enemy. John McCain hated Russians, period. He hated them before Putin as well and always preached war. He may be dead, but there are plenty of Neocons still cheering World War III, like John Bolton and John Brennan, not to forget Hillary.
For the life of me, war just seems to be inherent in our species. Only the Romans ever discovered how to create peace through free trade. Discussing the war in Kyiv, the response to let the Donbas go, which is occupied by Russians anyway, the response is, “No way, they will then want the rest of the country.” But at the same time, they expect the ethnic Russians in the Donbas and Crimea to return to Russia and leave their homes that have been in their families for centuries.
Meanwhile, in Russia, they realize that this is NOT a war against Ukraine, but against the United States. With the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution, the West installed an interim government that was NOT elected by the people. It was that government that sent the army to attack the Donbas — not any Ukrainian elected government. This is the Neocons still waging war, hiding behind Ukraine.
This is an attempt to explain the Minsk Agreement to Zelinsky. In Washington, NOBODY gives a DAMN about the Ukrainian people. The more that die, the better to justify war with Russia. No matter what I say, write, or even try to talk to people on each side, it is in vain. They will not be satisfied without war.
Denmark and Estonia are rejecting any Russians and canceling their visas. The scary part is that China, North Korea, Iran, and Syria, just to name a few, know that Russia cannot be allowed to fall, for they will be next. There seems to be nobody even contemplating a world if Russia was to be defeated or if the world divides. All of this for a strip of land occupied by Russians for centuries? No. It is about a long-seething hatred that has existed for more than a century, and Ukraine is the excuse. There is no resolution until the death count rises substantially. This will NEVER end; even if Putin withdrew, the West would move in for the kill.
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ha ha ha…Clown World Faggot only sees two genders , when it’s your son’s turn to be cannon fodder.
“The Selective Service System (SSS) site states that almost “all male US citizens and male immigrants, who are 18 through 25, are required to register with Selective Service”.
The site says that all biological males must sign up for the draft, which also applies to “US citizens or immigrants who are born male and have changed their gender to female”.
“Individuals who are born female and have changed their gender to male” don’t have to sign up, the site states.
“The government believes in two genders again when it’s time to send your kids to die so Lockheed doesn’t miss quarterly revenue numbers,” one Twitter user said.
“Parents, we may kill your son and end your bloodline and family name for the sake of defending some irrelevant pile of sand in some godforsaken corner of the globe that holds no worth whatsoever to you or your family,” conservative author Matt Walsh wrote.
“Do you assume we are all biologists? How are we to know what is a ‘son?’ It is 2022. Read a book and cool it with your transphobic tweets,” @ramzpaul added.
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This is why I disagree with those who call the rise of trannyism a “distraction”. From what? Tax rates? Inflation? The Fed balance sheet? Those will pass. Demographics are forever. If they can convince your kids to become homos or sterilize themselves, that’s the end of your line. It’s no coincidence that so many of these freaks are teachers.
“It’s no coincidence that so many of these freaks are teachers.” – This.
Those who can, do.
Those who can’t do, teach.
Those who can’t do, or teach, become journalists.
“Perhaps I am old school like Kissinger.” WTF , does this even mean? Marty wants to become an international war criminal?
I generally like M.A., enjoy reading his stuff, and agree with a lot of it.
I suspect he is not as widely and deeply connected, and respected, as he thinks he is.
But maybe I’m just envious….
Finally, some good news.
LOL.
So Dr., shitting in an overflowing 10 gallon shit bucket with a hundred strangers with flashlights ( so you can see what you are doing) looking on does not bother you? You should be fine.
For some good views of shelter living, watch the movie “Downfall”. At least some of those shelters had power most of the time. Those thoughtful Germans never ran out of heroin either, throughout the war.
PHD = Pretty Ho Degree
This account is hilarious! Gives me hope that not all of humanity is retarded and brain washed.
I didn’t get the Kissinger analogy either. But the rest of the article is spot on. Where are the anti-war left Code Pink etc? Where is the UN pushing for ‘talks’ . Seems escalation is the agenda,more arms to the Ukraine, more insults toward Putin and Russia. Stoke the flames for political points. I’m disgusted by our Politicians Left/Right/ Uniparty.
The west doesn’t hate Russia, they covet it.
Not exactly the West, per se…
Less to do with that and more to do with money and power. Wartime powers expand the government and the power is never relinquished. Many own stock or the companies that supply the US war machine expanding their pocketbooks.
Casually, causally. Tomato, potato.
“For the life of me, war just seems to be inherent in our species. Only the Romans ever discovered how to create peace through free trade.”
Kind of snuck that one in there did ya? That’s a whole book unto itself. Oh, the lessons that could be learned for an imperial super power seeking to rule over man kind…
For Kissinger, human life is disposable as long as the ends justify the means. Losses in human life are nothing more than a calculated liability, a statistical assessment. How do these truths prevail in your well written article. Kissinger is the icon of killing for political gains. He is a snake.
Goy are especially disposable
Someone gets it.
Tony Fauchi to World War Two.
“Hold my beer.”
In the days when Stalin was Commissar of Munitions, a meeting was held of the highest ranking Commissars, and the principal matter for discussion was the famine then prevalent in the Ukraine. One official arose and made a speech about this tragedy — the tragedy of having millions of people dying of hunger. He began to enumerate death figures … Stalin interrupted him to say: “If only one man dies of hunger, that is a tragedy. If millions die, that’s only statistics.”
It’s like the Spanish Civil War lasted all the way until August 31, 1939…….