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Where Life and Freedom Stand

20. November 2024 - 13:56

Where Life and Freedom Stand

Paul Craig Roberts

I appreciate the confidence that readers show in me by their many emails asking if there really is to be war between the US and Russia and whether it is possible for Trump to achieve anything.  I cannot possibly answer  individually and continue to write and research for this website.  I try to anticipate questions and explain as clearly as I can in my postings.

Whether or not there will be war between the US and Russia depends on whether Washington continues its provocations of Russia. The latest provocation is the sending of missiles into a limited area of Russia.  This is risky and irresponsible, because the Russian government has stated that the missiles can be operated only by US and NATO personnel. Therefore, missile strikes inside Russia place the West at war with Russia.  This is especially serious, because recent changes in Russian war doctrine permit Russia to respond with nuclear weapons to any attack.  The nuclear response can be to the entire West, even if it was a conventional attack on Russia  by a US/NATO ally.

The danger of such a Russian response is mitigated by the fact that Russian President Putin is a humanitarian who does not want his rescue of the Donbas Russians from slaughter by the hostile Ukrainians to result in wider war.  Putin is unlikely to see the missile attack on Russia, which was defeated by Russian air defenses, as an excuse to teach Washington and Europe a lesson. Most certainly, Putin is not looking for an excuse to widen the war.  Widening the war is the purpose of the American Zionist Neoconservatives.  In the interest of not widening the war, Putin is likely to treat the provocation as merely a battlefield operation and not an attack on Russia herself.  The question is:  How much longer can Putin ignore Washington’s escalating attack on Russia?  Another relevant question is:  Will Putin’s ignoring of the latest provocation lead to another and another until the provocation is such that it cannot be ignored?

As readers know, I have emphasized from the beginning of the conflict in 2022 that Putin himself has widened the war by trying to limit it to Donbas, thus permitting the continuation of the regime in Kiev to continue fighting the war. By not promptly knocking out Ukraine, Putin permitted Washington and NATO to get more and more involved.  Every weapon system Washington and Europe said would not be supplied to Zelensky was supplied. The long range missiles that President Biden said would not be permitted to strike inside Russia are now permitted, limited at first but certainly to be expanded.  By the time Trump is in office, the situation can be too poisonous to be resolved.  Who is willing to lose face in an agreement?  The US and NATO or the Kremlin?

My answer to readers’ questions is that we are not yet at war with Russia, but that is the direction in which we are headed.  What is driving us toward war is the neoconservatives’ agenda of US hegemony.

My view might be optimistic.  Strong nationalist forces inside Russia resent the humiliations Putin has  accepted.  They resent the West’s attitude that Russia is dirt under its feet.  Putin has support, but he is limited in the number of  violations of Russian red lines he can ignore.  I suspect that that limit is near at hand.

What can Trump do?  He can call Putin, ask him to hold his response until Trump is in office and can cancel the missile permission. If Trump hasn’t already called Putin, Trump has betrayed his supporters.

To give assurances to Putin is not an easy thing for Trump to do.  The American print and TV media and NPR would present Trump as helping Russia win the war with Ukraine by preventing US missiles fired from Ukraine into Russia. The entire CIA/FBI/Democrat/media “Russiagate” operation could be revived, which, of course, would distract Trump from his agenda.

Trump’s weaker-kneed appointments along with his warmonger appointments might begin criticizing Trump, eroding his support.

After 107 years of Western propaganda against Russia–Lenin, Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev–Americans see Russia as an enemy. Coming to peace with an enemy can easily be portrayed as a sell-out of the nation.

To turn from the question  whether Trump can accomplish peace to the question whether he can accomplish an American restoration:

As I have explained, the United States is the Constitution.  Without the Constitution, the United States does not exist.  A geographical area (apparently without borders) still exists, but without the Constitution it is not America.  It is something else.

For decades the US Constitution has been under fierce attack from liberal-left intellectuals, professors, law schools, political activists, politicians, and some judges.  The US Constitution, once a revered document, has been misrepresented as a white racist entitlement to privilege that prevents Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.  For a couple of decades  law schools have turned out graduates  taught to see the US Constitution as a document that is in the way of progress.  The 14th Amendment prohibits status-based privilege, such as advancement based on race, gender, and sexual preference, that DEI uses to destroy a merit-based system. The alleged privileges that white people are said to have are to be given instead to “people of color.”

Over the course of American history there have been occasions when the  Constitution was breached  in the name of “national security” or some other fake cause. But the attacks were repelled.  Today the US Constitution is so weakly supported that it lacks the support of the US House of Representatives, the US Senate, and the President-elect Donald Trump himself.  The oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution no longer has any meaning.

Trump has often emphasized that America’s internal enemies are more formidable than external ones.  But do we now count Trump among them?  Trump has lent his support to the attack on the US Constitution by House Republicans and Senate Democrats.

The latest attack on America has taken the form of the Antisemitism Awareness Act.  This act which the Republican Speaker of the House got passed several months ago, and which Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer is trying to have passed as part of the defense appreciations bill, violates the First and 14th Amendments to the US Constitution by creating special protections for Jews by giving Jews and Israel immunity from criticism.

Under this act, apparently endorsed by President-elect Trump (see: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/11/18/trump-and-the-constitution/ ) universities that don’t suppress student protests against Israel’s massacre of civilians in Gaza and Lebanon will lose their accreditation and federal financial support.

So, here we have Trump, the President-elect on whom so much hope resides, disavowing the 1st and 14th amendments of the US Constitution.  Trump might as well stand up publicly and tear the once sacred document into shreds.

The First Amendment guarantees free speech, but the Antisemitism Awareness Act cancels that guarantee.

The 14th Amendment requires equality under the law, but the Antisemitism Awareness  Act renounces that by establishing a special class of people consisting  of Jews that it is illegal to criticize.,  The 14th Amendment was passed to end white privilege over blacks. The Antisemitism  Awareness Act establishes Jewish privilege over everyone else.

The Antisemitism Awareness Act replaces equal treatment under the law with status-based privilege. A country cannot be made great again by destroying its founding principles.

 

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House and Senate Republicans Define Israelis as “Protected Persons”

20. November 2024 - 13:55

House and Senate Republicans Define Israelis as “Protected Persons”

Incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on Nov. 17 urged the Senate to impose sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) if it continues to pursue arrest warrants for Israeli officials responsible for war crimes in Gaza.

In June, the House of Representatives passed a bill aimed at imposing sanctions on those involved in the ICC’s efforts “to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute a protected person.” Under this bill, those subject to sanctions would be ineligible to enter or remain in the United States.

 https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/senate-leader-elect-urges-icc-to-drop-israel-arrest-warrants-or-face-sanctions-5761478?utm_source=rtnewsnoe&src_src=rtnewsnoe&utm_campaign=rtbreaking-2024-11-18-1&src_cmp=rtbreaking-2024-11-18-1&utm_medium=email&utm_content=access0&est=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAceE5JjMFys3H%2BbdAvWpUcQzPZ0WlGLZbDFlFfmdQNQ%3D%3D 

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2 Democrats with sense

20. November 2024 - 13:52

Two Democratic congressmen from New York City said their party needs to move away from “identity politics” and focus on helping working-class people achieve financial success. US Representatives Dan Goldman and Ritchie Torres made their comments Monday at a breakfast discussion hosted by the Citizens Budget Commission, a nonpartisan fiscal watchdog. The meeting comes two weeks after Trump won every swing state in the presidential election and gained ground in traditionally blue states and cities, including New York.

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The Western World Has Degenerated Into Idiocy

19. November 2024 - 13:33

The Western World Has Degenerated Into Idiocy

Paul Craig Roberts

The moron, Annalena Baerbock, Germany’s foreign minister, has threatened China for supporting Russia.  

What is it with Western politicians that they think they have authority over the foreign policy of sovereign countries and threaten powerful countries that can blow them off the face of the earth? Why do they so cavalierly stir up powerful enemies that can crush them?

Annalena Baerbock is clearly a stupid person.  The American Biden regime is even more stupid.  The Biden morons have turned a contemptuous eye to Russian military doctrine and the Russian government’s statement that any missiles fired into Russia will be regarded as fired by the US and NATO and will receive a response that includes the possible use of nuclear weapons.  The idiot Biden regime has thumbed its nose at Russia and, thereby, regarding the warning as “Putin’s bluff,” has invited nuclear war.  

It is possible that Putin will accept Russia’s humiliation in order to spare the world, but he must know that sooner or later he must fight or surrender Russia to Washington. 

What is being gained from taking such an irresponsible risk?  It would be one thing if it were only a risk the consequence of which would  be borne only by the Biden morons.  But it is another when the risk is borne by the entire world.  Where is the world’s denunciation of the Biden idiots for exposing the world to nuclear war?  What purpose justifies this extraordinary risk?  Is the entire world as stupid as Biden?

The notion that America whose government is demonstratively insane is a world leader is beyond absurdity.  Such a threat to life as Washington presents cannot be made great. It can only be eliminated.

If you care to understand how utterly stupid tens of millions of Americans are, note that about 45% of Americans who voted in the election voted for Democrats.  When almost half of the American population is totally mindless and supports with its votes military attack on Russia, how can Trump make America great again?  Indeed, how can America even survive?

If you think about it, it would make more sense for Trump to deport the Democrats and take in the Hispanics.  America would be better off.  To be great a country needs smart people, and clearly Hispanics are smarter than Democrats.

We must hope that Trump has risen to the occasion, asked Putin to hold off, and promised to reverse the policy once inaugurated.

To remind you, I warned that we would reach this dangerous point because Putin refused to use sufficient force to end the conflict with Ukraine before Washington could get deeply involved.  Trying to avoid a larger war, Putin produced one.

Acquaint yourself with Russian war doctrine:   https://www.rt.com/russia/607857-putin-updates-nuclear-doctrine/

Note that the US and NATO are already in violation of this new doctrine.

For example, an Aegis Ashore facility, which is almost identical to the anti-ballistic missile Aegis Combat System carried by US naval vessels, just opened in Poland. This is the second such facility on the Russian border (the first is in Romania). Both facilities are armed with the dual-use Mark 41 launch system that can launch both ballistic and Tomahawk cruise missiles, which can be armed with nuclear weapons. The missiles arrive and are loaded into the launchers concealed in large crates that make it impossible for observers to ascertain which type of missile is being used. It is difficult to understand such provocative actions by Washington that clearly threaten the world with nuclear war.
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We have arrived at the point I said we would via the process I said would lead to where we have arrived

19. November 2024 - 13:33

We have arrived at the point I said we would via the process I said would lead to where we have arrived

Paul Craig Roberts

The video is a speech Trump gave a year ago.  In light of Biden giving approval on Sunday to missile attacks on Russia, Trump’s speech is the relevant response today.

The problem I have with Trump’s speech is reconciling it with his Defense, State, and National Security Advisor appointments.  Can Trump get peace out of a war cabinet? Out of an ambassador to Israel who says Israel holds the title to Palestine?

Alex Jones is correct.  We are facing nuclear Armageddon, which I predicted would be the consequence of the ever-widening of Putin’s slow-moving war.

Perhaps Putin will again back down.  But at some point he must defend Russia, or he will be removed for failure to do so.

https://banned.video/watch?id=673b7f0664cb41b4d887e261&utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&_kx=7qCtxm4mE1KxoUz1ss3xAjgpAxmpuSuuXEtQd0Bw8c8-PkV2SVXB-V-SfTFlSUmf.Uh33qt

 

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I received this from an expert on nuclear power and nuclear weapons

19. November 2024 - 13:31

I received this from an expert on nuclear power and nuclear weapons

I think there are two targets in Russia that, if hit by NATO long-range missiles, could trigger a massive response from Russia. Those would be Moscow and the nuclear power plant in Kursk. 

The Storm Shadow and Taurus cruise missiles do not have sufficient range to hit Moscow (the US has an extended-range JASSM missile that could hit targets in Moscow but there is no evidence that they have been transferred to Ukraine).

I think the greatest danger is a concerted attack on the two RMBK Chernobyl-type nuclear reactors at Kursk, which lack the protective concrete and steel dome (the reactor containment vessel that typically has steel-lined concrete walls that are 3 feet thick) that are found on more modern reactors. The spent fuel pools, which are next to the reactors, are equally vulnerable; these pools hold several complete sets of used (“spent”) fuel rods that hold 5 to 10 times more long-lived radiation (in particular, Cesium 137) than the reactor cores.

These reactors and spent fuel pools are in range of the Storm Shadow, Scalp, Taurus, and standard JASSM cruise missiles; they would be destroyed by a direct hit from these missiles, which are armed with 900 to 1000-pound high-explosive warheads.  

The destruction of these reactors and spent fuel pools would release far more radiation than was released by the destruction of the Chernobyl reactor. 

The subject of nuclear reactors and spent fuel pools becoming targets in war has been studiously avoided by MSM and proponents of nuclear power.

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Soros Is a Plague on America

19. November 2024 - 13:29

Soros Is a Plague on America

George Soros’ son celebrates prospects of WW III

https://www.rt.com/russia/607820-soros-son-ukraine-missiles/ 

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Has Biden Just Destroyed the World?

18. November 2024 - 14:22

Has Biden Just Destroyed the World?

Paul Craig Roberts

Among the many slips between cup and lip of which I have warned await Trump and his administration is the long gap between the election of the President and his inauguration in office. As I pointed out, this long time–two and one-half months–gives the current administration the ability to commit the policies of the new president in directions to which he is opposed.  

In former times when American politics were still civilized and respectful, the party in office was careful not to commit the President-elect to courses of action that the people had rejected.  

This political courtesy ceased when the Democrat Party became an ideological party determined to replace a merit-based society, redefined as “racist,” with a DEI privileged-based society based on race and gender in which the important values are Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, all words defined to destroy the power and community of white ethnic heterosexual Americans.  Thus the open borders and announcements from American corporations and the Secretary of Defense that there are too many white employees and military officers and the hiring and promotion of white gentile heterosexual males are on hold.  Yes, all of this happened whether or not you read about in the New York Times or heard about it on CNN and NPR, which, of course, you did not.

During Trump’s first term, the Democrats and the Ruling Deep State Elite were able to use the whore American media to block President Trump’s intention to “normalize relations with Russia.” The Russiagate hoax was created by the CIA, Department of Justice (sic), FBI, Hillary Clinton and the Democrat Party, and fully supported by the whore American media.  The false claim was that Trump and Putin conspired to steal the election from Hillary.  All of the charges led to investigations that plagued Trump’s first term in office and prevented him for normalizing relations as any such diplomacy would have been used by the Democrats, Deep State, and whore American media to portray Trump as a “Russian agent.”

To make it impossible for Trump to enter office with good relations with Russia, in addition to “Russiagate,” as Gilbert Doctorow reminds us, the corrupt Obama regime unlawfully seized Russian consular properties in San Francisco, and I think elsewhere, in order to bring Trump into office with poisoned relations with Moscow.

This time in November, 2024, the totally corrupt Biden Regime, has blocked any peaceful settlement negotiated by Trump of the Russian/Ukrainian conflict by reversing Biden’s decision and giving  go ahead for the US/NATO to launch missiles from Ukrainian territory into Russia. The senile idiot, manipulated by his warmonger advisors,  has possibly started WWIII.

Recently in an interview with Russian  television I expressed my opinion that such a trap was desired by the neoconservatives for Trump, but that I thought the Pentagon would block the approval.  There are so many reports that the Biden regime has given a green light to NATO launching missiles from Ukraine into Russia that the information must be correct.  We hear it from Russian state television “news of the week.”  We hear it from The Washington Post.  We hear it from AP News.  And so on.

Here we have a classic example  of how an outgoing administration can commit an incoming one and thereby forestall its electoral agenda.  It is now happening before our eyes, although the whore American media will do everything possible to hide the truth.

The question is:  What will Putin do now if the red line that Putin says is the fatal one is actually crossed and Western missiles begin hitting targets inside Russia?  Will it prove to be, like all other red lines Putin has declared, not to be real?  

In light of Putin’s non-confrontational  behavior, if the missile attacks begin prior to Trump’s inauguration, possibly Putin will  wait and see what Trump does to reverse the decision before Putin releases death and destruction on the Western World.

The crazed neoconservatives and Deep State have pressured Biden into a decision that places  the entire world in a situation where destruction of all life possibly awaits.

Why did a single American vote for such a cruel, inhuman, morally vacant, anti-American  political Democrat party that is willing to risk life on earth for  Washington’s hegemony and the profits of the military/security complex?

Why did the European Union regret Trump’s election?

Why does the Western media support actions that result in the end of the world?

The final question and the most important one is:  What can President-elect  Trump do about it?

He can, prior to his inauguration, call Putin and tell him to hold off, that once inaugurated as President, he will reverse the policy and permit no missile attacks on Russia.

Will Putin believe that Trump can deliver? Considering the war cabinet Trump has appointed, can Trump make a decision independently of his government?

The situation is complicated by the fact that Trump’s appointees are aligned against Iran and for Israel. Neither Russia nor China can stand aside from an US/Israeli attack on Iran.

Putin probably wonders if “Making America Great Again” also implies military dominance. Trump’s supporters are tired of losing wars. They want to win one. Trump cannot lose the war in Ukraine unless he can present peace as an accomplishment.

Gilbert Doctorow tells us this morning that the situation is not yet as serious as it can become. Based on reports he has seen, the use of the missiles against Russia are limited to a 186 mile range within the Kursk region. Washington’s excuse for green-lighting the missiles is the reported but inaccurate narrative that 12,000 North Korean soldiers have joined the Russian forces confronting Ukraine.

Perhaps Washington is betting that the limits placed for now on the use of the missiles will not trip Putin’s red line, but Putin has to know that the ante will be upped as Washington finds the next excuse. Moreover, the Kursk nuclear power plant is within the permitted range of the missiles.  Would Putin stand aside from a radioactive cloud released over Russian territory?

As for the North Korean troops, Doctorow offers the insight that their presence in Russia is not related to the conflict in Ukraine.  Rather, the North Korean soldiers presence demonstrate that Russia’s sphere of influence has expanded and that Russia’s border with North Korea makes it easy for Russia to enable North Korea to overrun South Korea at any time.  In other words, at some point Putin might join Washington in escalating the conflict into wider war.

Clearly, my warning was correct that Putin’s go-slow war with Ukraine  would widen into a dangerous situation, which it has now done with Washington’s approval of using missiles to strike inside Russian territory.  I wonder if Putin now regrets his limited military operation and his decision not to quickly knock Ukraine out of action before the West could get involved in the war.

 

 

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Trump and the Constitution

18. November 2024 - 14:21

Trump and the Constitution

Will the Constitution Be Voted Down with Trump’s Support Prior to Trump Taking Office?

Paul Craig Roberts

It looks like Philip Giraldi ( https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/israel-wins-the-us-election/ ) and Mike Whitney ( https://www.globalresearch.ca/trump-picks-neocon-warhawks-devoted-israel/5872821 ) are correct.  Israel, not MAGA, won the election.

The current Democrat Majority Leader of the Senate, the current Republican Speaker of the House, the current Republican President-elect all agree that it is more important to protect Israel from criticism  than to protect the First Amendment.  

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer hopes to attach his “Antisemitism Awareness Act” to the National Defense Authorization Act. By avoiding a standalone vote against the First Amendment, Schumer’s maneuver allows senators to vote for national defense rather than for censorship. Schumer self-describes himself not as a guardian of the US Constitution, but as a Guardian of Israel  (see video: https://www.infowars.com/posts/schumer-moves-to-silence-criticism-of-israel-as-hate-speech-with-antisemitism-awareness-act).  For Schumer, shielding Israel from accountability is more important than upholding the Constitution of the United States. 

House Speaker Johnson got the Atisemitism Awareness Act passed months ago on a standalone basis. Obviously, House Republicans agree with Democrats that protecting Israel from accountability is more important than the First Amendment and truth.

Last Friday President-elect Trump said that American universities must “end antisemitic propaganda” or “lose their accreditation and federal taxpayer support” (https://thepostmillennial.com/trump-puts-us-colleges-on-notice-to-end-antisemitic-propaganda-or-lose-their-accreditation-and-federal-taxpayer-support ).  For Trump, protests against the massacre of Palestinians is “antisemitic propaganda.”

The Constitution and the First Amendment have withstood through time many assaults, but no longer has sufficient  commitment from those sworn to uphold it to withstand the Israel Lobby’s  assault.

The legislation does not define antisemitism.  It seems to be anything the Israel Lobby doesn’t like. Criticism of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, for example, would seem to qualify as demonizing Jews as murderers.  Criticism of the Holocaust narrative on a factual basis  would seem to be guilty of stereotyping Jews as liars or as endangering Jews by denying an attempted genocide against them. 

It is unclear what the penalties are.  Campus protests against Israel seem to trigger a cancellation of federal aid to the university for not somehow preventing the students from protesting.

In a way the act is an attack on Christianity. To celebrate Easter could become antisemitism as Christ’s resurrection is from death from cruxifixction demanded by Jews.  This could be considered threatening to Jews by supporting a stereotypical image and by demonizing them as enemies of Christianity.

The question is why is a law that is a direct attack on the US Constitution, that is, a direct attack on the United States, with such a wide range of possible adverse consequences needed?

It is not needed.

White gentile ethnicities, and white gentile civilization are attacked every day in US university classrooms, and no one is calling for protection for gentile Western civilization against free speech.  Iran and Muslims are verbally attacked.  Putin is attacked.  China is attacked.  The rich are attacked.  How is it that Jews are too special to be criticized?

The reason that censorship is about to become law is because Trump, Schumer, Thompson and the members of the House and Senate want and need Jewish campaign contributions.  This is far more important to them than free speech, without which there can be no truth.  

A country in which free speech is impermissible or regulated cannot be made great, not even by Trump.

Think about it:  How is it possible for Trump to put any pressure on Israel to moderate in the interest of peace when pressure on Israel implies criticism?  Any US pressure on Israel would be antisemitic and grounds for a new range of accusations against Trump. 

Think about it:  As the Antisemitism Awareness Act is unconstitutional on its face, why are Republicans and Democrats unified in passing an unconstitutional act?  For the Supreme Court to accept the constitutionality of  this legislation would mean the United States has fallen off the Constitution and most certainly cannot be made great again.

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RINO Republican Pence Uses Abortion Issue to Block RFJ Jr’s Appointment

18. November 2024 - 14:21

RINO Republican Pence Uses Abortion Issue to Block RFJ Jr’s Appointment

Pence, one of Trump’s worst mistakes, speaks for Big Pharma

https://www.infowars.com/posts/pence-urges-republicans-to-block-rfk-jr-s-hhs-appointment 

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Will Washington Succeed in Opening More War Fronts for Russia?

17. November 2024 - 12:36

Will Washington Succeed in Opening More War Fronts for Russia?

Paul Craig Roberts

Western NGOs have sent the Georgian opposition political parties that they finance into the streets to protest the Georgian Dream Party’s sweep of the legislative elections. The Georgian Dream Party favors pragmatic relations with Russia, whereas the collection of small parties financed by the West want to create another Maidan Revolution to open a second front for Washington against Russia. https://www.rt.com/russia/607744-georgia-election-protest/

Russia’s Foreign Minister Lavrov says that there is no reason to doubt that the West is trying to push Georgia into war with Russia.  https://sputnikglobe.com/20241022/no-reason-to-doubt-georgias-words-that-west-pushing-tbilisi-into-war-with-russia—lavrov-1120639965.html

Putin-the-Unready rejects claims that Russia interfered in the Georgian election. Putin still hasn’t learned that the role of good democrat makes no impression on the West. Will Putin’s toleration of hostile actions against Russia lead to the opening of a second front against Russia?

The US Defense Department Inspector General has reported that Congress has appropriated $182 billion for Ukraine since February 2022, $43.84 billion of which went for governance and development. “Governance and development” could mean bribes paid to Ukrainians to support military conflict with Russia.

Ukraine has been fighting Russia with Western weapons and targeting information for close to three years. But Putin doesn’t count this as the West being at war with Russia. Drones hitting deep into Russia also don’t count as the West being at war with Russia. The war doesn’t start until Washington begins firing missiles into Russia. Apparently, some weapons are war weapons and some are not.

Standing aside from Washington’s destabilization and overthrow of the Ukrainian government in 2014 has left Putin with an ever-widening war that will be difficult to end without Putin making concessions. What will these concessions be?  Washington now has a stake in the outcome, and Trump cannot stand an agreement the media can turn into a Trump defeat from giving in to Putin. The media and Democrats will say that it proves Trump was a Putin agent after all.

The tense situation between Russia and the West cannot be resolved until the conflict in Ukraine is resolved. This dilemma and the huge expense in lives and money associated with the three year war could all have been avoided if Putin had not come up with such an impractical course of action as a limited military operation that allowed Kiev to continue the war.  We would have a better situation today if Putin had struck hard enough to bring the conflict to a quick end before the West could get involved with its prestige committed.

Putin’s dilly-dallying has made Russia look weak, and it has given Washington time to stir up new fronts for Russia in Georgia and Abkhazia. There will be a price to be paid for this dilly-dallying.

Meanwhile the US Democrat Party has revived the “Russian agent” hoax. This time the targets are Elon Musk and Tulsi Gabbard.

https://dailycaller.com/2024/11/15/senate-democrats-musks-calls-russia/

https://ericzuesse.substack.com/p/us-media-pile-on-against-tulsi-gabbard

https://www.rt.com/news/607742-gabbard-trump-russian-asset/ 

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Things Have to Change so They Can Remain the Same

17. November 2024 - 12:32

Things Have to Change so They Can Remain the Same

PCR interviewed by Michael Farris on Coffee and a Mike

https://rumble.com/v5pw9cw-coffee-and-a-mike-paul-craig-roberts-things-have-to-change-so-they-can-rema.html 

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The Jewish Lobby Opens the Attack on Matt Gaetz

17. November 2024 - 12:31

The Jewish Lobby Opens the Attack on Matt Gaetz

https://www.rt.com/news/607698-adl-matt-gaetz-antisemitism/ 

Not content to control most of  Trump’s appointments, they want to pick our Attorney  General as well.

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Israel Is Destroying the Western Led World Order–European Union Foreign Minister JosephBorrell

17. November 2024 - 12:31

Israel Is Destroying the Western Led World Order–European Union Foreign Minister JosephBorrell

Israel has suffered no consequences from its Holocaust of the Palestinians

https://www.rt.com/news/607717-israel-destroy-western-world-order/

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Mike Whitney Says Trump’s War Cabinet Are All Neocon Warhawks Ferociously Devoted to Israel 

17. November 2024 - 12:29

Mike Whitney Says Trump’s War Cabinet Are All Neocon Warhawks Ferociously Devoted to Israel 

https://www.globalresearch.ca/trump-picks-neocon-warhawks-devoted-israel/5872821 

Gilbert Doctorow suggests that perhaps they are for show to encourage Iran to de-escalate conflict with Israel.

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