So it turns out the US president can be an actual, literal dementia patient and the US empire will trudge on completely unhindered by this. Literally anyone could be president and it would not matter. A coma patient could be president. A jar of kalamata olives could be president.
"This world is concrete – it cannot be described in the abstract unhistorical language of the socialist or liberal theorist without removing the skin of significance that renders it perceivable" Sir Roger Scruton, How to Be a Non-Liberal, Anti-Socialist Conservative
From the beginning of the Russian crisis that developed in the autumn of 2021—shortly after the Biden Administrations’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan after a 20-year occupation that achieved nothing—I have suspected that administration and the terrible people who advise it did everything in their power to BAIT THE RUSSIAN BEAR into invading Ukraine.
ReplyDeleteThe Administration did NOTHING to defuse the crisis, and it insulted the Russians by sending the imbecilic Kamala Harris to the Munich Security Conference on February 18, 2022. I suspect that an Austrian-style neutrality deal would have prevented the catastrophe that has apparently gotten hundreds of thousands killed. It has also seemed obvious to me that, since 2014, Ukraine has been the CIA’s favorite pet project.
To to this day, not a single person has been able to explain to me why Russia would consider tolerating Ukraine joining NATO. Since President Monroe outlined his foreign policy in 1823, the United States government has increasingly pursued a policy of zero tolerance of any foreign military alliances or installations in the entire Western Hemisphere.
And yet, this same United States government, which has invaded and bombed dozens of countries since 2001, claims it is perfectly reasonable to propose that Ukraine (whose northeastern border lies 370 miles from Moscow) join NATO. The distance from the Mexican border to Dallas is greater.
JOHN LEAKE
FEB 9, 2024
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/tucker-carlson-interviews-vladimir
It's a terrible world to live in if an independent country has to ask permission from the Russians to be allowed to follow its foreign policy. It's no secret why Eastern Europe wanted to be in NATO in the first place.
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Arnaud Bertrand@RnaudBertrand
According to the German minister of the economy, the country's economic situation is "dramatically bad". That's an exact quote!
https://euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/news/german-economy-doing-dramatically-bad-economy-minister-says-as-government-prepares-to-slash-gdp-forecast/
He attributes the situation to 3 factors:
1) High energy prices
2) Increased military expenses
3) Reduced exports to China
And incredibly, when you think about it, all 3 are pretty much directly caused by the US.
High energy prices in Germany stem from the war in Ukraine and the fact it can't get cheap gas from Russia anymore. War in Ukraine caused by NATO expansion - an American decision - with the severing of Germany's energy dependency on Russia a long time, openly stated, American objective (which is also why it's most likely the US who blew up Nordstream).
Same thing for high military expenses, also caused by the war in Ukraine, as well as fear by Germany - very much confirmed by Trump's recent declarations - that the US (or Ukraine) couldn't be depended upon in the long run for protection.
Lastly reduced exports to China coincide with the shift of US strategy towards the country, from engagement to containment, and the imposition on their "allies" to follow them in that pursuit. And when they prove reluctant, the US employs indirect methods to force their hands, as we've just seen with Germany's BASF. The company, suffering from high energy prices, shifted a lot of production to China. Interesting coincidence, last week, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, an anti-communist propaganda shop founded by an act of Congress, found links between BASF factories in China and "human rights abuse of the Uyghurs". Immediately the company received a letter from the Inter Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), an international group of legislators essentially charged to pressure governments into containing China (with members like Marco Rubio), threatening them with grave consequences for their business if they didn't close shop at the relevant factories. Because "human rights" 🙄 The company didn't have a choice and announced they would... And just yesterday the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation interestingly found links between Volkswagen and "human rights abuse of the Uyghurs", I'll let you guess what happens next...