Not wanting to sound hyperbolic, but I am starting to conclude that the nuclear madmen running the U.S./NATO New Cold War they started decades ago are itching to start a nuclear war with Russia. Their hypocrisy and nihilistic thirst for death and destruction are so extreme that it boggles my mind. They accuse Russia of starting a New Cold War when they did so decades ago and have been pushing the envelope ever since. Now they act shocked that Russia, after many years of patience, has struck back in Ukraine.
In 2017, Oliver Stone released his four part interviews with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Putin Interviews were conducted between 2015, the year after the U.S. engineered the coup d’état in Ukraine installing Nazis to power in that country bordering Russia, and 2017. Stone was of course bashed for daring to respectfully ask questions and receive answers from the Russian leader who the American media has always cast, like all the mythic bogeymen, as the new Hitler intent on conquering the world, when it is the United States, not Russia, that has over 750 military bases throughout the world and has attacked Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria – the list is endless.
In his Putin interviews, Oliver Stone, a man of truth and honor, lets viewers catch a glimpse of the real Vladimir Putin and the matters that concern him as the leader of Russia. In 2018, I wrote of those interviews:
. . . he [Putin] makes factual points that should ring loud and clear to anyone conversant with facts. One: that the U.S. needs an external enemy (“I know that, I feel that.”). Two: the U.S.A. engineered the coup d’état in the Ukraine on Russia’s border. Three: the U.S. has surrounded Russia with US/NATO troops and bases armed with anti-ballistic missiles that can, as Putin rightly says to Stone, be converted in hours to regular offensive nuclear missile aimed at Russia. This is a factual and true statement that should make any fair-minded person stand up in horror. If Russia had such missiles encircling the United States from Cuba, Mexico, and Canada, what American would find it tolerable? What would CNN and The New York Times have to say? Yet these same people readily find it impossible to see the legitimacy in Russia’s position, resorting to name calling and illogical rhetoric. Russia is surrounded with U.S/NATO troops and missiles and yet Russia is the aggressor.
In the years since those interviews, U.S./NATO has consistently tightened the noose around Russia, including fueling the Ukrainian attacks on the Donbass, killing thousands, all the while pleading innocent and expecting no reply. Now the reply has come.
Although I have no inside information, I get the sense that the Western Empire is planning/initiating counter-measures far more extreme than the highly publicized economic sanctions. While it is true, as many commentators such as Ray McGovern and Pepe Escobar have pointed out, that a paradigm shift is underway and the once dominant U.S./NATO bully boys must now contend with the Sino-Russian alliance that has ushered in a dramatic change, nevertheless, as in the past decades, the so-called leaders of the U.S. are a dumb bunch driven by unquenchable demons. As McGovern says:
Yet, there remain unsettling indications coming from Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, Antony Blinken, and Jake Sullivan that senior administration ‘dolts’ (copyright North Korean leader Kim Jong Un) in the Washington Swamp still don’t get it.
I’m afraid they don’t and never will. That is what frightens me. While it seems counterintuitive and totally irrational that these people would be planning to use some type of nuclear weapon in this current situation, I am not so sure. They obviously pushed Russia to have no alternative but to attack Ukraine, and now that they have accomplished that goal, it seems to me that they will up the ante. Diplomacy is not their way; violence is.
Pepe Escobar has just written:
This is what happens when a bunch of ragged hyenas, jackals and tiny rodents poke The Bear: a new geopolitical order is born at breathtaking speed.
From a dramatic meeting of the Russian Security Council to a UN history lesson delivered by Russian President Vladimir Putin and the subsequent birth of the Baby Twins – the People’s Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk – all the way to the breakaway republics’ appeal to Putin to intervene militarily to expel the NATO-backed Ukrainian bombing-and-shelling forces from Donbass, it was a seamless process, executed at warp speed.
The (nuclear) straw that (nearly) broke the Bear’s back – and forced it to pounce – was Comedian/Ukrainian President Volodymy Zelensky, back from the Russophobia-drenched Munich Security Conference where he was hailed like a Messiah, saying that the 1994 Budapest memorandum should be revised and Ukraine should be nuclear-rearmed.
As usual, his analysis is correct, but it may fail to grasp the unspeakable nature of the madness that drives desperadoes. If those running U.S. foreign policy feel that a new geo-political order is being born “at breathtaking speed” as a result of Russia’s move into Ukraine, then they are capable of extreme acts. And they have all the mainstream western media behind them, barking out their non-stop propaganda.
We are inexorably moving toward a global war that will become nuclear if an international movement doesn’t quickly arise to stop it. Most people bemoan the thought of such a war to end all wars, but refuse to analyze the factors leading to it. It seems so unimaginable, but It happens step-by-step, and many steps have already been taken with more coming soon. It’s so obvious that most can’t see it, or don’t want to. The corporate main stream media are clearly part of the continuation of the CIA’s Operation Mockingbird, and those who still rely on them for the truth are beyond reach. We need to use all alternative means to raise the alarm and make sure the ultimate nightmare never occurs.
Perhaps hyperbole is the only way to do so, for it may be closer to the truth than we want to believe.
I hear (and believe) there are forces working for the good of the World, but they are working behind the scenes. THE CABAL OF EVIL controls the puppet strings of our “government”. Since many of the World governments’ “leaders” are very obviously insane/indiots/despots (take you pick) I will play Devil’s Advocate and say this is what the WEF et al have planned all along, so that when all the citizens around the World say “Anything is better than what we have now.” it will be their big opportunity to come to the “rescue” with their One World Government. (Case in point: Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky who before “elected” president was a comedian and actor. How fitting.)
That is why it is so important to take them out first. I sincerely believe that is what is happening. Their time is running out on their timeline. They are being hunted.
The Covid Committee’s Grand Jury case is pretty much putting the CV-19 scam in its coffin. THE CABAL will try anything and probably everything they can to get to their finish line – in the process of doing just that they are making many mistakes. VISIBLE mistakes.
We shall see as only time will tell.
BTW, I have always had a soft spot for Oliver Stone…
I find myself unable to escape the feeling that everything is staged.
Perhaps a coincidence that the Ukraine war is started just as the Covid narrative/”crisis” is being scaled down, but I’ve long felt that global oligarchs everywhere have some common agendas. Chief among them, I would think, is control of citizens.
Besides authoritarian power and control, what other agendas might they have in common? Could population reduction be one. Too many people too few resources . . . for them? I see the west is calling for war crimes (genocide) tribunals for Putin. Putin, I’m sure, blames the U.S. for the same thing. So the oligarchs are calling each genocidal maniacs. Wow.
It feels a bit like the two party system flim flam we have here in the U.S. Playing one against the other, blaming one against the other, neither ever taking responsibility for the problems. Neither ever willing to compromise to find solutions. Literally, every issue of any importance comes down to Republican/conservative versus Democrat/liberal. Keeping our citizens, nearly, equally divided between the two. Keeping everyone in line and loyal to their political identity.
Each party exists to justify the existence of the other.
Maybe some people are right and Putin really is a good dictator. I don’t see it, though.
In any case, Global Pandemic, World War III . . . sure seems to fit with the WEF “Great Reset” flim flam.
Peace.
” Neither ever willing to compromise to find solutions. ”
On further reflection, I realize the two parties do seem to agree, for the most part, on one thing . . . war in the Ukraine. Interesting, no? I wouldn’t call that a solution, though. Two sides of the same coin.
Isn’t it interesting how so many Russia-sympathizers want to blame the West for this nuclear crisis when Putin is the only one pushing launch buttons in the Black Sea, flapping his silo doors, and making outright verbal threats of nuclear attack; but somehow you get the week-kneed defendants of Moscow always trying to say its NATO’s fault or the US fault.
If anything Putin proved NATO needs to have all the missiles it does because notice the only nations around its border Putin hasn’t attacked or in some manner tried to subjugate are the NATO nations. He wouldn’t be in Ukraine now if it was already armed to the teeth with nukes.
After something like seventy years, NATO has never once attacked a nation with nuked and has never fired a single BULLET into Russia, but somehow NATO and the US are to blame for upsetting Putin and trying to start a war, rather than Putin for ACTUALLY starting this war and actually doing all he can to threaten with his nukes.
What an upside down world.
Ridiculous. Who is the one nation who has actually used nuclear bombs against an adversary? Who is the one nation who refuses to agree to a no first strike agreement? Who is the nation that is putting its weapons on the doorstep of the other in Europe but almost went to nuclear war to prevent the Soviets from putting rockets in Cuba?
When the greatest war monger of the past 77 years, with a record of mayhem from Korea and Vietnam to the Middle East, starts to make noises about setting up shop in your nearest neighbor, you pay attention, no?
“What an upside down world.” Says the guy who has obviously been standing on his head for far too long or swinging from self-imposed ankle bracelets that have congealed and clotted your blood supply to the extent your synapses aren’t firing correctly. To say what you did above leads me to believe even fresh air and a realistic (upright) outlook hold no cure for what truly ails you: prejudice formed of ignorance.
What a piece of work you are…
I am very impressed in how Putin talks to his own people in an intelligent and respectful way . He sets out his points and counterpoints without sloganeering. Sometimes it reminds me of how John Kennedy spoke to his Nation. The Washington University Peace Speech comes to mind. So Putin keeps getting elected and the west calls him a dictator. Imagine what the World would be like if there were no term limits and Kennedy was President 12 years or 16 years. But the evil wouldn’t even allow 4.
Putin is calling their bluff. They have their tails between their legs, their brains just next to them and their mouths agape.
Cretinous clowns.
The conflict is not political, economic, or a matter of will, these things are only cloaks. The foundational conflict is between thalassocratic sea-people (essentially pirate empire of the Anglosaxons, or “the west”), and the land peoples of Earth Island whose classical paradigm is tellurocratic.
There is a perfect juxtaposition, cobra and mongoose.
And the conflict resolves precisely the same way, one dies, or they both die. However the target of the Land people, the classical civilizational empires, is not to rule the west, but to liberate it from the cryptonazi gang that controls it. Those demonic psychopaths are trembling in fear.
It’s entirely fanciful to imagine the conflict is not existential and that nuclear explosives won’t be used.
Hello Walter…I don’t have an in-depth understanding of what you just said…, I’m sure I agree with you. I simply cannot grasp after 245 years of this fraud, there are people who grant legitimacy to these drunks, incompetents, bullies, not to mention these deciders wear very ugly clothes. Surely there must be much nicer fabrics to choose from. Red shiny neckties…, good grief! …, there are few uglier things on this planet and I don’t know what they are! What purpose does a necktie serve other than support another ridiculous habit!
Hello everyone, since my last post, I discovered, I took the initiative to look for more visually pleasing men’s neckties.
Well…, beautiful multi-colored, wool neckties are still available. Looking at this kind of necktie for me has the feeling of looking into the forest with the blending of various colors in different proportions. Yes…when I run for the position of ruler of the universe, I shall wear a wool, tweed necktie.
Hello Ed, I truly think the ‘deciders’ are insane enough to push a nuclear war. When a country is bombed to dust, and the bombing continues…, well, I would have to say the deciders elevator does not go to the top floor.
I have been an antiwar activist for 50 years. I blame the dangerous crisis in Ukraine on NATO, Joe Biden, and Boris Johnson. What do they expect when they break their pledge for NATO to not expand eastward? What do they expect from Putin when they place nuclear-ready missiles 5 minutes from Moscow? What do they expect after they surround Russia with military bases? What do they expect after they refuse to negotiate with Putin, deny his request to join NATO, and impose endless sanctions. What does Biden expect after helping literal Nazis overthrow a democratically elected president in Ukraine and then install a rabidly anti-Russian puppet government? What did they expect after Kiev in violation of Minsk 2 shelled and killed innocent ethnic Russians in Donbass for 7 years? What did they expect after Zelensky spoke about getting nuclear weapons? NATO has poked the Russian bear too many times. Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.
Larry Gates you’ve mentioned all the reasons why this is not a mistake. None of this just happens.
It’s anyone’s guess what the endgame really is, because it’s a “secret”. (I do think that Kiev doesn’t just do anything without Washington’s provocation or green light.) Biden is just a puppet like the latest Ukrainian president. They’re disposable as are many of the people (most?) on planet Earth.
MLK, Jr is honored for the least of his positions, and not his most important as he clearly articulated: “The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today, is my own government.” And that was in the late 1960s. The murder count has shot skywards since. Murder can be administered without war, btw. Certainly historically war has been a convenient means of getting rid of large swaths of humanity – get rid of the young and thus their potential for procreation. But there are now many other means.
As far as blame, there’s just far too many reasons to count, but what’s really afoot? What has been shadowed in the great theater of war? So far, I see more “Wag the Dog” here than a real war between nations. Not saying all of it, but if a government and its cohorts can hide all of the adverse events and deaths from an authorized (for emergency use) injection, not to mention fake the numbers regarding a “pandemic”… well you get the “picture” which can be photo-shopped for news at 6.
While the fear of nuclear war (let’s just add it to our phobia of survival at all costs (it’s worked for the “plandemic”) and the recent understanding that Putin has put his nuclear arsenal on high alert, that the USA has been on high alert for as long as I can remember – it’s called a policy of “first strike”. There are subs (Boomers) floating around the globe with “first strike” options at the ready.
It does raise a question given the “fail-safe” condition of US system has been basically an utter mess for years, what exactly the threat of nuclear Armagedón actually is? if under these conditions of human and system malfunctions over the years coupled with a policy of first strike, we’re all still hear?
The main person (satanic) behind all this threat against Putin is that s…..of a b…… Jens Stoltenberg. He should be “guillotinized”.
Good idea but he isn’t much more than a puppet. Go for the real masters too!
Russia has been backed into a corner with US/NATO encirclement, installation of missiles 5 minutes away from Moscow, provocative military engagements etc.
China is in the same situation.
The fascist beast cannot be appeased; only understands brute force.
But everyone, even Americans, knows a nuclear war is not survivable, no winners.
Good points, it’s always been a story about how a very few in number can leverage enough power to control the many. We’ve seen many systems of leverage in the past, many still in place – dictators, kings & queens, the churches, nation states & governments, monetary & corporate systems, education..
The people are starting to get restless, the world’s population currently stands around eight billion & many of the old systems of leverage are breaking down, especially the monetary (Sept ’19 repo event).
We are witnessing a transition into a completely centralized governing body that will use technocracy to dictate the Unidroit based statutory rules down to the subservient nation states, which are just corporations with their populations deceived into believing they have rights, when in fact they only have privileges since they are corporate ‘citizens & persons’ through the unlawful incorporation of their Christian and Family name.
The incorporation of the Christian & Family name is why they have ‘legal’ jurisdiction & such power over the people who falsely think their feet are on the ‘land’.
The Sept ’19 near financial failure forced their hand and they had to rapidly increase the pace of the transition towards Agenda2030. Events such as Cov_19 & Ukraine act as scapegoat & cover, providing a reason for all the money printing that was necessary to buy themselves enough time to get the new technocratic world system into place before hyperinflation causes uncontrollable social unrest.
Thank you Freecus….you said, “it’s always been a story about how a very few in number can leverage enough power to control the many. We’ve seen many systems of leverage in the past, many still in place – dictators, kings & queens, the churches, nation states & governments, monetary & corporate systems, education”…., and as my friend just sent me, “Life is just so much easier when you blindly trust experts and doctors and political officials. Right?”
And so few people examine why they feel as they do, if they can even determine how they feel since most have been simply obedient and numb, disconnected from themselves with zero independent thought. Empty, alone, even while with others!
There is certainly a good deal to ponder regarding where all this might go. I will share just a thought on the odd “timing” of these events, which I must say seems rather fortuitous for Covid-mad leaders, government and institutions across the globe.
We’ve all watched incredulously as Russiagate magically morphed into Trump Derangement Syndrome, which then magically morphed into Covid Derangement Syndrome, and now we seem to have somehow in a heartbeat closed the circle back to “evil bad-bear” Russia (let the ‘derangement’ begin) – and just as the flaming Hindenburg of global Covid propaganda is crashing in such spectacular fashion that a new “diversion” is clearly in order. I suspect I’ll be duly reminded and chastised by MSM talking heads that I’d have to be some sort of heartless cad to insist we might want to look more closely and critically at the massive destruction and death caused by the lockdowns and “vaccines” – when a possible global nuclear war threatens EVEN MORE massive death and destruction.
Our collective “new normal” has clearly become the virtual embodiment of Debord’s – “Society of Spectacle.” It is all clearly “spectacle” 24/7, no thinking allowed. And I really must say that I haven’t the slightest sense of “knowing” where any of this is going – I mean other than clearly into a global techno-feudal totalitarian order IF we somehow avoid an extinction-level global war FIRST.
Meanwhile the war propaganda is replacing the covid propaganda across the MSM.
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words-e05?r=bb6p0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
How strange that I look at this face (in the link) plastered across Western media and all I can see instead is the face of that little Syrian boy so cynically used by our buddies the White Helmets and MSM in order to sell that latest “humanitarian” regime-change war only a few short years ago. The images and the spectacles run together, each new propaganda operation seemingly even more ham-handed than the last – with events quickly rendered unintelligible by the careful “analysis” of MSM pundits. As to where it will all go – I can only speculate – no where good.
We have grown-up into and lived with this hierarchical madness for many centuries. The decisions of a few people effecting millions of people. ( Look at the people dying, this violence, this economic insanity!!! )
The citizens are expected to follow, to obey and so forth. We know these decision makers that we are willing to call our leaders have no integrity, have no understanding of anything, yet year after year, century after century we are left with this condition as if there are no alternatives. The various indoctrination systems ingrains obedience and with little understanding of anything. Perhaps we also read the wrong books during our indoctrination. (while writing this I’m recalling a nun trying to twist my brain into conforming to her wishes while I was very young. her tactics were not successful. She wanted me to join catholic school, why? I was already in a prison…, with friends! )
So, if we have had enough of this chain of command crap, and we certainly should be saturated with frustration by now; what can we think about and talk about? What alternatives are there? We might not know unless we think and talk about alternatives. This is not easy since there is so much gobbledegook that people want to express while finding a common ground to speak meaningfully. Do we attempt to or do we continue marching in place in quick sand as we have been doing for many centuries while knowing people are dying, starving, in emotional anguish every damn day of their lives !
Ed my sense is it won’t be a nuclear (bomb) war. It’s much more likely to be a cyber-attack.
The global economic reset appears to be the driver. I do think the historical moment with Russia/Ukraine – NATO/US is real, but whether it’s a distraction, or perhaps a false flag – talk of Russia (who has played a role in the cyber-attack simulation with WEF and global partners) as casus belli, is hard to discern. But at some point, the switch is going to happen and when it does, I would expect major disruptions, chaos until it settles.
Post-WWII, the Bretton Woods Conference was able to reset the economy, this after the Great Depression and major world war when much of the industrialized world (with the exception of the USA) had been upended with massive material and financial destruction.
It’s hard to believe the system could tolerate too much global instability. This is like changing a tire on a moving vehicle. The US and EU debt is unserviceable, and the economy has been globalized to a large extent.
Yes, what appears to be the plan is to re-invent the entire system, including human transformation as transhumanists. Its evil incarnate; but “we’ve” been lulled into it over the years. This is not a new concept but one that has been gradually on the march for a very long time. That doesn’t mean it can succeed.
A number of sources for my comments, but Whitney Webb wrote this article last year, and it provides details:
“Last year, the World Economic Forum teamed up with the Russian government and global banks to run a high-profile cyberattack simulation that targeted the financial industry, an actual event that would pave the way for a “reset” of the global economy. The simulation, named Cyber Polygon, may have been more than a typical planning exercise and bears similarities to the WEF-sponsored pandemic simulation Event 201 that briefly preceded the COVID-19 crisis.”
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/02/investigative-reports/from-event-201-to-cyber-polygon-the-wefs-simulation-of-a-coming-cyber-pandemic/