Quotations

The number of heinous acts by CIA/FBI is massive. But the two worst scandals involving manipulations of US elections was 2016 (Russiagate hoax) and 2020 (the Hunter laptop was "Russian disinformation" lie). I'm glad more evidence is emerging, but both were obvious at the time. Glenn Greenwald, who is obviously right as I too saw at the time.


Reason Ukraine is so dangerous even when it's settled, is because it's a defeat for the West, and we have been humiliated and lost a major war we were so deeply committed, and this will give people incentive to try to reverse the tide. John Mearsheimer. I am not sure why Russia managing to take 13% of Ukraine after 3 years of hard fighting is a defeat for the West.


The US punished India for trading with Russia, Iran, China, and for its BRICS membership. None of these countries ask India to stop trading with the US. The US ultimatum to India: 'choose us or the world'... Glenn Diesen


In the East, the memory of hardship remains. People know the state doesn’t always show up. Trust is local. Help comes from relatives, neighbours, friends. Responsibility is not abstract—it’s lived. You are expected to care, to intervene, to share, even when it's inconvenient. That instinct survived communism. It did not survive liberalism. One stripped people of power. The other stripped them of duty. In Eastern Europe, the link between freedom and obligation still exists. In the West, it has been replaced by rights with no anchor. Daniel Foubert. This is very true in Romania.


The CIA and MI6 exert their powerful influence in Western media in a number of ways, via political influence and via personal relationships with individual "journalists" and media oligarchs. They also use blackmail, threats, and the outright purchase of influence. Be aware. Chay Bowes, an Irish journalist who lives in Moscow and who, like Max Blumenthal, addressed the U.N. Security Council at Russia's invitation. The first of those two sentences is certainly true.


Liberty is traditional and conservative; it remembers its legends and its heroes. But tyranny is always young and seemingly innocent, and asks us to forget the past.  G.K. Chesterton. Milton Friedman also said that a free society was a traditional society, or something like that.