Sovereignty versus Israel

I have been thinking this morning that sovereignty is the big issue these days - with Brexit, with mass migration, with Ukraine and with Israel. On the one hand you have the left who believe in sovereignty lie Cenk and Ana and Max Blumenthal and on the other hand the other left - the ones who don't like national self-determination such as the Clintons, who dream of world government powered by green energy.

Clint Russell

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The DOJ covered up Epstein for Israel and in the same exact week that they closed the investigation with zero prosecutions the DOD is likely gonna fight a war for Israel in Iran. I'm now a single issue voter and that issue is sovereignty. Until we reclaim it nothing matters.

“When Congressmen hear a command from Israel, they jump. They certainly run this place.” Barry Goldwater in 1988

“When they [members of Congress] hear a command from Israel, they jump. And as a result we’re losing friends.... They certainly run this place.” Barry Goldwater to Pat Buchanan in 1988

Emmanuel Todd: “The war in Ukraine is perceived in the West as a Russian invasion of Ukraine, and of course, I admit that it was the Russian army that entered Ukraine. But the historical reality is that the true cause of the conflict is NATO's expansion into Russia, through Ukraine, and the war waged by the Ukrainians themselves, pushed by the West, against the Russians in Donbas. It is absolutely true that, for the Russians, this war is defensive. For me, it is obvious that the Americans and Europeans are the aggressors, since they have come within a thousand kilometers of Moscow. This is the objective situation. What is fascinating is that these aggressors think they are the ones being attacked and that they are forced to defend themselves. There is an element of madness in our situation in Europe.”

Trump hasn't even bothered to lie about Iran, unlike with Venezuela

 

Ian Proud: "No-one is discussing what will be [Europe's] relationship with Russia" after the war ends

Ian Proud held a senior position at the British Embassy in Moscow. 

He points out in conversation with Glenn Diesen that Europe is in economic decline because it buys expensive American energy instead of cheap Russian fuel and if a revanchist Ukraine intensely hostile to Russia joins the European Union this may have huge consequences and could lead to another war. 

The EU may in any case become Nato lite.

He thinks Putin is right to play hardball. If he does not he will end up after a peace with another cold war.

Epstein was clearly working for Russia

From the indispensable Drop Site News, one of the few trustworthy news sites when it comes to theb Epstein case

NEW: The Israeli Government Installed and Maintained Security System at Epstein Apartment

The Israeli government installed security equipment and controlled access to a Manhattan apartment building managed by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to emails recently released by the Department of Justice. The equipment was installed beginning in early 2016 at 301 E. 66th Street, where former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak stayed for extended periods.

Emails show the security operation at “Ehud’s apartment” remained in place for at least two years, with officials from Israel’s permanent mission to the United Nations corresponding regularly with Epstein’s staff about security arrangements. The unit was owned by a company connected to Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, but was effectively controlled by Jeffrey Epstein. Units in the building were frequently loaned to Epstein’s contacts and used to house underage models. 

Dust unto dust - these last words seem appropriate for Ash Wednesday

When I had just come down from university I collected hundreds and hundreds of famous last words. This was my favourite. 

In the Lutheran Church they have the sacrament of the last rites. As King Frederick William I of Prussia (the "Soldier King") lay dying the clergyman at his bedside said 'Naked came you into this world and naked will you depart hence'. The King opened his eyes, said, 'Not quite naked, for I shall be wearing the uniform of a Field Marshal of the Brandenburg Royal Guard' and then expired.

Ash Wednesday

Evelyn Waugh on Ash Wednesday in New Orleans, written for LIFE magazine: "….There is witchcraft in New Orleans, as there was at the court of Mme. de Montespan. Yet it was there that I saw one of the most moving sights of my tour. Ash Wednesday; warm rain falling in streets unsightly with the draggled survivals of carnival. The Roosevelt Hotel overflowing with crapulous tourists planning their return journeys. How many of them knew anything about Lent? But across the way the Jesuit Church was teeming with life all day long; a continuous, dense crowd of all colors and conditions moving up to the altar rails and returning with their foreheads signed with ash. And the old grim message was being repeated over each penitent: ‘Dust thou art and unto dust thou shalt return.’ One grows parched for that straight style of speech in the desert of modern euphemisms…"

Ronald Blythe on the start of Lent. “What shall my discipline be? Rather than fast I will say Compline before I sleep. Also feed on George Herbert. And recognise that the wilderness is not the wasteland.”

15 inches of snow fell overnight

 

Sean McMeekin's Stalin's War (2021)

Reading military history is the vice of middle aged men and one I try to avoid. Sean McMeekin's Stalin's War which I am reading is political not military history and a very good book indeed.

McMeekin quotes a transcript in the Russian archives from 19 August 1939 that says “'the Vozhd [Stalin] told Molotov that if he cut a deal with England and France ‘Germany will back off and seek a modus vivendi with the Western powers.’ By contrast, if Molotov ‘accept[ed] Germany’s proposal and conclude[d] a nonaggression pact with her,’ Stalin predicted that Germany ‘will certainly attack Poland and the intervention of England and France is then unavoidable.’"

Stalin may have been wrong about that - or right- but he wanted a European war, for Marxist-Leninist reasons.

In early 1940 as a response to Russia's invasion of Finland London considered bombing the oil fields of Baku and making war on the USSR as well as Germany. I used to think the idea of going to war with both countries at the same time absurd but now I see advantages to it.

In the two years following the start of the Second World War in September 1939 Hitler and Stalin had both invaded seven countries. Would you say that a Western victory over one of these countries which allowed the other to seize half of Europe and become the West's great enemy almost immediately was a great victory?

For Great Britain the victory was pyrrhic.

Quotations

Department of State

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The United States and Europe belong to a civilization that stretches over continents, crossed over oceans, and persisted for thousands of years: from Athens to Rome to America.  Western Civilization must embrace its noble legacy if it is to reverse its decline.

“The enemy is not Hamas. Every child, every baby in Gaza is an enemy.” former member of the Knesset Moshe Feiglin said during an interview on Israel’s Channel 14 in May 2025. 

Late last night:

“We will finally, formally, and in practical terms nullify the cursed Oslo Accords and embark on a path toward sovereignty, while encouraging emigration from both Gaza and Judea and Samaria. There is no other long-term solution,” said [Bezalel] Smotrich, speaking at an event organised by his Religious Zionism Party late on Tuesday.

John Mearsheimer: Every country in the world, including the USA, is desperate to avoid war with Iran except Israel and the UAE, but Israel may well be powerful enough to make it happen

John Mearheimer's lastest interview on Judging Freedom is here.

“Even if Trump works out a deal that is satisfactory to him…it’s not going to satisfy to the Israelis. The Israelis have made it very clear that they will attack Iran alone if that is necessary. Of course if they attack Iran, there’s no way we don’t get involved because we will then have to help defend Israel when the Iranians then start launching ballistic missiles at Israel.”

"The Chinese import 1.4 million barrels of oil from Iran a day. Are they just going to sit back and allow the Iranian leadership to be toppled if Netanyahu and Trump attack?

Who was Epstein and what was he doing? Spying for Russia? Eating children and worshipping Baal?

As Mark Twain said truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn't.

I explained here how the Epstein case became a big scandal in 2019 despite the mainstream media. 

In 2019 it was obvious (except to the media) that he had been conducting a blackmail operation and Israel seemed likely to be behind it. But there was no proof of that and so I kept an open mind. 

The media still display an absolute lack of curiosity about an Israeli connection today, instead suggesting that he worked for Russia.

The media are about mind control. 

The battle now is for freedom of information and Musk is the hero - but how long will he withstand pressure from the EU and Israel?

“Free speech is hanging by a thread globally, and that thread is Elon Musk … What's happening on X right now is a change of consciousness and … the establishment is desperate to either shut it down or censor it … It is a central priority for the left.” Professor Michael D. Shellenberger. 

Not just the left. Ursula v d Leyen said 'misinformation' is her first priority, before climate change or Ukraine. Netanyahu says US social and other media are the most important military front.

Poland's Foreign Minister and husband of Ann Applebaum Radosław Sikorski said at the Munich Security Conference that the U.S. should not impose its free speech values on Europeans: "In the U.S., it's almost absolute... whereas in Europe, for good historical reasons... we believe in freedom of speech with responsibility." 

I'd have hoped someone who grew up under Communism would not say that but he is a liberal and therefore is frightened of the people just like Western European politicians except the populists.

Mike Benz

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Across Europe the pattern is clear: pro-EU parties are using mass immigration to steal elections to stop right-wing populist parties from winning, then using mass censorship of immigration policies to criminalize any attempt to stop their op.