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I haven’t written articles for a while, but instead focused on the Debt Rattle news overviews. My focus has always been on conveying information in the best possible way, so you guys can make up your own mind, instead of me doing it for you. And it’s been hard to counter the MSM reporting, which does exactly that -make up people’s minds-, on Ukraine, with better sources. RT has been a great help. The west ban them because “propaganda”, but it’s clear who is really propaganda. They are a solid news operation, and I can look past that supposed propaganda part.
Anyway, it has made me only work harder over the past few months. And I hope I’ve done well. The fall of Artyomovsk seems a good moment to move towards original articles again. Not that I think MSM/NATO or all the “leaders” involved will stop their practices anytime soon. But at least they’ve been clearly beaten, even if you won’t see it reported in the western media. The world has changed, and we must change with it.
Note: If my writing is a bit rusty, please forgive me.
In Bakhmut/Artyomovsk, all of NATO, all 31 member nations, were defeated by a restaurant owner and a bunch of convicts, is how I saw someone describe it. That of course caricatures the situation somewhat (Wagner is well-organized), but it’s not that far off. And that spells a serious problem for NATO. All of those 31 members may have lots of control over their media, but in the end you can’t endlessly deny being defeated.
So what will NATO do now? They will double down, and then again. And at the end of the “doubling down road” lie nuclear weapons. Not Russian nukes, because as my friend Wayne wrote the other day, their high-precision hypersonic missiles make nukes look crude and primitive, Middle Ages territory. But NATO/US never developed such weapons. They spent 10+ times as much money on weapons, still do, and -comparatively – ended up with bows and arrows.
Nuclear bombs are good only to create widespread panic and destruction. But that includes your own destruction, because of Mutually Assured Destruction protocols. Which also go back almost as far as the bow and arrow. If you fire a nuclear missile, one very much like it will land on your head a few minutes later. End of story, end of you.
US/NATO, the “collective west”, the hegemon, has lost. And has missed the moment when that occurred. Because hegemon equals hubris. Look at what they’ve all still been saying, and you notice they can’t see, and can’t acknowledge, that -and how- the world has changed. Not just this weekend, and the 9 months before, in Artyomovsk. It’s the entire story of Ukraine: it illustrates how the West “lost it”.
The US plotted a coup and moved NATO’s borders east, and Russia reacted exactly how they said they would. No nukes, no nazis, no NATO. They got the last two, and know they can expect the first too. But still the west maintains Russia’s special operation was entirely unprovoked. Look, they’re not even listening anymore. They would like to negotiate and end all this, but negotiate about what? Putting AZOV back on the borders of the Donbass, so they can kill more Russians there? Not going to happen.
It’s not only about weaponry, though that plays a major role: the hegemon can no longer make its demands based on military might. It’s been surpassed. Nor can it make demands based on the dollar’s reserve currency status, and it caused that itself. Weaponization of the currency has backfired to the extent that de-dollarization has become a process that can no longer be halted.
The moment that Saudi prince MbS turned his back on “Joe Biden” is a milestone. Because once he did that, it was obvious many would follow. In central Asia, if you are Kazachstan or Uzbekistan, why on earth would you opt to go with G7/US/NATO instead of BRICS? Why go with the power that is waning, and not the one in ascendancy? Russia is your biggest neighbor, strongly connected to China which is building its BRI network in your region, and the nearby Arab states are about to join that network. Why would you link yourself to the G7? When you know all your neighbors do not?
Then there are the voices that say the US will push for a bigger and wider war, perhaps including American troops. First, because NATO is losing, and second, because it could mean American boots on the ground, and presidents don’t lose elections in wartime. I’ve said before, I would expect them to go with Polish troops first, possibly on Polish territory too. But the Polish don’t appear all that eager anymore. And neither would any other European NATO country. German and French and Dutch troops are in no shape for war, and in the US over 70% of potential troops are grossly overweight and/or handicapped in some other way.
Ukraine had perhaps the best boots on the ground force in Europe, financed and trained since 2014 by NATO, and they lost to a caterer and a loose group of hired hands. You’re not going to win that. Your only option is long distance weapons, missiles, planes, you name it. But NATO has no advantage in that over Russia. To put it mildly.
The sole thing that’s in your favor is that Russia doesn’t seek to destroy you. They want to live in peace and trade with you. Same thing for China. NATO equals unipolar. But the world has moved towards multipolar. Ergo, NATO is obsolete. Ukraine will never reconquer its “lost” territories, and Zelensky will move to some property in Italy or Florida, never to be heard from again, unless perhaps in his obituary. The deaths of some 300,000 of his countrymen will be on his conscience.
But also on that of all the “leaders” who have sent their second-hand armory to Kiev. They are just as responsible for all those deaths. The world has changed a lot in the past few years, and ignorance is no excuse if you are a “leader”, or a “Joe Biden”. Not even if you’re “just” a voter or reader. Those deaths will be on your head when you go see St. Peter at the gate.
PS: Don’t be surprised if “Joe Biden” sends US boots on the ground anyway. No hegemon has ever given up power lightly. That part of the road is yours, US and EU voters. You may have to fill up the streets like you’ve never seen. The rest, the majority, of the world will be waiting to see if you do or not. They’re prepared for either of the two options.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This is the dangerous period. As someone has pointed out, in wars most of the casualties are sufferred after the outcome of the war is already obvious but the losing side refuses to admit it and fights with existential fervor.
So it will be here. The US oligarchs and deep state refuse to admit they are fully exposed and have lost, and in getting fully rid of them we will also incur losses. It is why they continue to double down on obvious lunacy; they have no choice.
Catch 22.
Always a choice. It may be unbearable, but there’s always an alternative.
“There’s always another way” – The Key Maker, Matrix: Reloaded
The West refuses to see, as in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king. After it is all said and done there will have to be a new definition of “hubris”.
These creatures have dual citizenship; therefore, in order to get rid of them, we will need to destroy that nusance, Khazarian mafia, ME country as well.
We’re headed into an election cycle…Ukraine is set up as a major distraction issue
“The Chinese are an inscrutable folk. It’s how they best you at cards!” – John Wayne, True Grit
In other words, they lie, cheat and steal like it was fucking free. As “Children of the Dragon” , it is their birth right. Their Nature and their heritage.
To make matters worse, Bill Clinton sold them Super computer technology they never would have come up with on their own, which they promptly used to surpass us economically and militarily. I WONDER WHERE THAT MONEY WENT !
America has been undone by traitors within and the enemies we have created from without.
This is what it looks like when you turn your back on GOD. Be sure to take a good look, because this sort of shit you only get to see once.
“The cord may wind long, but an end will appear.” – Russian proverb
Man is not a learning animal.
You old.
…and if you’re good and lucky, one day you’ll be old too. Dying young is over rated. It’s literally been done to death too.
It often seems that way, but how do explain people like us (TBP patrons)?
A lot of truth in that false light that is the “Great Awakening”
@WarClandestine: As Bakhmut falls and Ukraine’s air defenses are depleted, you’ll notice Zelensky is STILL not in Ukraine. Since May 3rd, he has been in Finland, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, France, Saudi Arabia, and now off to Japan for the G7 Summit He’s hiding.
Yep, he knows that if he goes back to Ukraine he is the walking dead. Just like Zalushny the head of Ukraine’s armed forces..
Kiev is crawling with Russian spies, there will be no place for him to hide.
I suspect he’s not hiding from Russians. He’s more likely than not hiding from his own troops. After all nazis don’t have a really great relationship with jews, especially jews that get them killed en mass
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Pay no attention to Nazi theater. Some of those Azov sporting swastika tattoos were outed Mossad and Israelis.
Who were these “Nazis” ethnically cleansing? Ethnic Russian Christians, that’s who.
I wonder if this may have anything to do with it….
check out how he looks now….
not quite as plump as he was a month ago… didn’t know he was betrayed by Zelensky. It lloks to me like things in Ukraine are going to get interesting.
‘After all, I’m NOT REALLY, I just say I am. OLDEST trick-in-the-book.’
It is all about the Benjamin’s
The great irony is, that if you want to live in a Christian, capitalist democracy, you have to move to Russia. How did that happen?
History shows this has been oft repeated in many places. Disinvite the shit-stirrers and nation wreckers. God bless ’em for keeping people morally competent.
We’ve been slaughtering human beings for multiple decades in the name of democracy. Same as it ever was.
The tracksuit dancing tyrant of the US State Dept of Ukkkraine seems to be everywhere but there.
The ‘war effort’ has been one drawn out media junket to promote the never-ending rounds of financing for the latest
‘disruptive’ technology of Democracy & Freedom Inc.
They claim to be able to save democracy anywhere in the world with a single drop of blood. Don’t let the fact that the board of directors are almost all globocap military industrial power brokers – or the mass graves in their wake, scare you away from this opportunity.
To the knuckle dragging prole observer, the whole charade is more forced an awkward than when studios have to release films that everyone knows are total garbage and yet the gift bags and pressers with prostitutes must flow like its The Godfather. But this is about the elites!
Back in my moneychanger shill daze, the roadshow was a torturous experience for anyone with a soul. It was supposedly a necessary process, like those movie releases, but in fact was a smoke screen, a massive inside baseball joke in which the necessity of the whole fee harvesting and value destruction of the perpetual transaction pipeline was shrouded in the most base appeals to ego and indulgence of self-affirming import.
That the deals were going to get done (or not) by the same small cabal of players had little to do with the show and its spoils. But one of the more valuable outcomes of the process was to sort the massive feeder industry; to produce an environment in which the next generation of dark triad could emerge and cut their teeth. A ritual of psychopathy baptism.
The “war” meanwhile is very real in that it must destroy real people and real assets in order to create the so called value, in this case Democracy and sovereignty. Which are real things too. Otherwise Goldman would not be allowed to sell them to the Public. Its all regulated, after all.
If I had to bet my pets.com stonk options, I reckon that we are watching one of the biggest pump and dump money laundering and asset stripping operations ever. But where I might diverge from smarter guys about the ukie scam is that the whale being rendered is not ukraine, its the FUSA.
“The whale being rendered is not Ukraine, it’s the FUSA.”
Bingo!
But don’t leave out the EU or the Commonwealth nations. “The West”, so called, has been fatted and is ready for the sacrificial altar.
We are in a new cold war, and this time we are losing. The US admits that China will reach military parity with the US in 2025, but that date is based on intelligence from the same agencies that said that Russia would collapse under sanctions and in the first year of the Ukraine war.
The plan was that by now Russia would be defeated, be subjugated to western exploitation, and we would be moving on to undermining China and instigating war between the Chinese people on both sides of the strait. The plan is not only not working, it is becoming an unmitigated disaster. The US and Europe are slipping into economic recession, while their governments lose support of their respective populations. BRICS is gaining support while the US rules based order loses its influence worldwide.
The problem is that the west is led by people without a firm grip on reality. They have lied to their own populations for decades and now they seem to have deluded their selves into believing their own lies. The west is now so corrupt it has lost all credibility both domestically and worldwide. Its policies both domestic and foreign are all Ponzi schemes that have no possibility of being sustained in a world of reality.
The only thing preventing total collapse at present, is the ignorance of the average person in the US and Europe. As clear as the picture is, they still cannot yet see it. They do not want to.
Unfortunately, they really have no choice, because reality does not care if you believe in it or not, it will do what it is going to do. The people in the west will wake up at some point in the future to a world where they are facing economic collapse, in a world that is no longer afraid to express its hate and distain for the people who have exploited and bullied them for several decades. They will have to face the fact that their democracies are a sham and that they are living under the rule of dictators who when they can no longer exploit the rest of the world will turn and declare war on their own people.
The currency going to zero is followed by a cleansing fire.
Right on.
Some interesting analysis here.
An ill wind blows.
Blame MAGA ? Blame Russia ? Who Benefits ?
Matt Bracken
@Matt_Bracken48
A major false flag on the level of OKC is coming, there is zero doubt.
The missing nitrogen fertilizer,
This “Nazi Uhaul White House” dry run.
“Patriot Front” (pure fed gay op)
Senators getting SatFons
Buckle up, the big false flag is going to be blamed on WHITE SUPREMACY.
Will they blame guns and gun owners , their forever goal ?
Pistol brace rule change to make millions into felons after June 1st.
Pennsylvania about to attempt passing Red Flag Law that ignores due process.
Illinois, Vermont , Maine all going against gun rights. ( Soros sponsored ? )
I can’t imagine out NATO “partners” will do much if it comes to a shooting war. It is one thing to fight a war thousands of miles away, another at your doorstep. The Europeans still have a collective memory of what happened to their countries in WW II. A lot of their cities ended up looking like Bahkmut looks today. And how much faith do they have in American military prowess after seeing our humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan? I’m guessing not much.
Not many. Very few left who witnessed WW2. Those who lived through the aftermath and were old enough to remember are around 70+. Those under 40 I have met, have little care or interest in what happened to their parents and grandparents. World War is not something they have ANY real understanding of. War to them is the TV showing some bombs falling on someone far away.
I think the Russians might have done us all a favor with their strike on a “nuke proof ” bunker. It’s one thing to lob a nuke at the enemy in the belief you will survive the retaliation and quite another if you know you will be the first to fry.
Where is the oversight on all the labs in dozens of other countries ?
‘ shut up , on this conservative talk show we only talk about gender studies , race division and Bud Light ‘
click …… next caller
Reminder; if Russia is asking the UN for something, then that should serve as proof positive that Russia is part of this theater, not in oposition to it.
Righty O, farmer. Few can really see that fact. Consider yourself in good company.
it’s a tough pill to swallow, which most certainly won’t.
I read something interesting just yesterday that, I am disappointed to say, I had never realized myself: England and France only declared war on Germany when Poland was attacked in 1939 despite the fact that Russia attacked Poland simultaneously. If England and France were so interested in preserving Polish sovereignty then why did they not declare war on Russia too?
The answer of course is that Russia was then, as is now, a tool in the hands of those entities whom run this madhouse.
Divide and conquer is their most successful trick. People keep falling for it.
Glad to hear that the penny eventually dropped for you… even though it’s something that anyone with even a cursory knowledge of WWII would’ve been aware of.
Nevertheless, better late than never 🙄
“Americans: too docile & dumb; too craven & cowardly; too loud-mouth & lame; too ignorant & ignominious to even THINK about cleaning up their OWN sh!t by removing a handful of f’king neocons”
– Discuss