The gravity of the situation you describe cannot be overstated. If the roles were reversed, there is no question that any U.S. president would defend their nation with every tool available, including the threat or use of nuclear weapons. The principle of self-defense is universal, and it's unrealistic to expect Russia—or any nation—to respond differently when faced with existential threats.
Putin’s declaration, while alarming, underscores the escalating risks of brinkmanship and the dire need for cooler heads to prevail. Diplomatic failures and reckless posturing by leaders like Secretary Blinken are not just theoretical missteps; they edge humanity closer to the brink of catastrophe. This is not a chessboard—these are real lives, real nations, and a shared planet at stake.
The call for "adults in the room" has never been more urgent. True leadership demands de-escalation, robust diplomacy, and a recognition that the path to peace requires mutual respect, not provocation. Nuclear rhetoric and aggressive posturing are not strategies; they are invitations to disaster. It is time for global leaders to rise above short-term geopolitical games and work toward solutions that preserve peace and humanity.
The same people who started it are now, and always have been, willing to flip the game board to ensure annihilation if they can't get their perverse, insane 'way'.
Thank you, WalterK, for your input. It's a stark reminder that history often plays a pivotal role in understanding present conflicts. The events of 2014, including the U.S.'s involvement in Ukraine, undeniably set the stage for much of the tension we see today. Recognizing these origins doesn’t absolve anyone of their actions but adds essential context to an already complex geopolitical crisis.
Your point about those willing to "flip the game board" is chillingly accurate. It reflects the recklessness of some actors who prioritize dominance and ideology over human survival. The dangerous illusion of 'winning at any cost' in a nuclear age is not just irresponsible—it’s suicidal for all of humanity.
Now more than ever, the focus must shift from blame to accountability and meaningful dialogue. If the architects of conflict refuse to step back from their brinkmanship, it falls to others—those with moral clarity and a true sense of responsibility—to step forward and lead us back from the edge. Let’s hope that wisdom and humility can still prevail before it’s too late. Thank you for contributing to this vital conversation.
I agree with you that the focus must shift from blame to accountability and meaningful dialogue But let us not forget that Kamala Harris while supposed to explain the foreign policy of the USA at the Munich Security Conference a few days before Russia sent troops into Ukraine congratulated Zelensky in his desire to join NATO!! That is called throwing oil on the fire and is clearly the proof that America never wanted to avoid this war and was ready to sacrifice Ukraine youth and infrastructures!
Plus apparently, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe were observers in Ukraine the week before the pretended unprovoked Russian invasion and guess what? Between February 15th and 22nd they counted more than 4000 bombs sent by Kiev on the Donbas and Luhansk region!!
We have been lied all along and Western journalist I've just relayed the press releases of NATO since the beginning of the conflict!
Makes me feel sick to hear them say that Ukraine is defending freedom and democracy!
And it seems like Biden-Blinken-Harris-Obama-Pelosi want to do everything for Trump to be unable to negotiate peace. They are even bring the world to the edge of total destruction!
Thank you for your thoughtful response, which raises critical points that deserve serious consideration. The Munich Security Conference moment you highlight does seem provocative, especially given the heightened tensions at that time. Encouraging NATO aspirations in such a volatile context could indeed be seen as inflammatory, further exacerbating an already fragile situation.
The OSCE reports you reference add another layer to this discussion, revealing actions on the ground that challenge the dominant narrative of an “unprovoked” invasion. If we are to move toward accountability and truth, these details must be openly examined. The failure of Western journalism to question official narratives has left many feeling betrayed and uninformed, as it reinforces one-sided perspectives while ignoring the broader complexities of the conflict.
Your concerns about the Biden administration’s approach to this war are valid. There seems to be a lack of focus on de-escalation or pursuing meaningful peace talks. This unrelenting trajectory toward confrontation risks catastrophic outcomes, and the absence of diplomacy at this stage is deeply troubling.
Ultimately, as you point out, the sacrifice of Ukrainian lives and infrastructure, coupled with the global destabilization this conflict has caused, cannot be justified by empty rhetoric about defending “freedom and democracy.” A renewed push for dialogue, respect for all parties involved, and the pursuit of peace must become the priority before irreparable damage is done. Thank you for adding your voice to this urgent conversation.
IMO, the West STILL expects to blackmail Putin into rolling over for them. And the US, except for the laundered money involved, has no skin in the game. Plus it looks like Biden is getting revenge all around - making sure a sure loss like Kamala is the nominee, , and now, IMO again, trying to hang Russian response on Trump. And making sure, as much as possible, that there is no peace that can be attributed to Trump.. With Blinken and Sullivan (and Nuland) cheering him on. Trying to roll over Putin BECAUSE he is the only adult in the room.
Exactly! The West keeps playing the same tired game of blackmail and expecting Putin to fold, but he’s proven time and again he won’t play by their script. Meanwhile, the U.S. acts like it has nothing to lose—except, of course, the billions flowing through Ukraine.
Biden’s moves do reek of revenge politics, setting up Kamala for failure and trying to pin any Russian response on Trump. It’s all about controlling the narrative, not finding solutions. And with Blinken, Sullivan, and Nuland egging him on, peace isn’t even on the table—especially if it might make Trump look good. Funny how the “adult in the room” is the one they’re so desperate to undermine.
Well lets say instead of one or two errant weather balloons the Russian radar lights up with 200 miscellaneous targets. Is this the big one? Did they get a contaminated load of crack and finally step off the edge. What would John McCain do? Ok after getting a fresh Depends.
Thank you for your very interesting comment and the validation of my concerns. I have been thinking lately that sending the world into World War III might be motivated by something other than making sure that Donald Trump does not make peace!
And all this comes when we learn that all the governments and health authorities of the world have lied and forced people to take a vaccine that has caused an explosion of all cause mortality, dramatically reduced birth rates and triggered a cancer epidemic never seen before.
They'd rather bet on war and destruction than being judged and sentenced to prison, loosing all their wealth and power which they so deserve to!
And wait until people find out that extreme weather events that happened in the last few years were not natural but generated by climate engineering!
It feels like the elites know that their end is close. I feel like Truth and Justice have never been so close from prevailing when I hear RFK Jr plan to attack Big Ag and Big Pharma for poisoning us. Coming to think of it, any government that does not care for the health of its youth does not deserve to be in power.
Even Donald Trump's victory speech had more common sense and humanity than any of Obama's speeches! He truly addresses the concerns of the American people. (I just don't understand his position and RFK's position on Israel but I hope it is just strategic...).
But obviously if you are struck with Trump derangements syndrome you cannot acknowledge that he is far from being a dictator or a fascist!
Let us hope that he and his administration prove us right in believing in this incredible revolution about to take place if another great war does not sabotage it.
True. The trigger that went over Putin's red line was back in 2021 when Biden pushed for Ukraine to join NATO after Putin said that would be a casus belli. I firmly believe that the war was instigated by the WEF/UN as a means of implementing their real agenda using Biden etc as their puppet and he remains their puppet.
A padded cell that seems to get bigger. Known as the Cookie Monster, after handing out cookies in Maidan Square in order to persuade Ukrainians to sacrifice themselves and their country for neocons like herself, she's certainly a very stupid monster.
All of this is true. But when you scan out and look at everything that is going on, down to terraforming our earth with daily Geo engineering in many, many places, to make it less hospitable for human life, do you really think this is a human intelligence doing all of this. Of course not! Humans are defective in many ways, but surely not this stupid.
This is less than HALF of the truth - but it is a VISIBLE part of the truth - as most of American politics is kept a SECRET from "We The People", ever since the American SECRET "Service" CIA killed American President John F. Kennedy in 1963, because President John F. Kennedy explained in the Waldorf-Astoria in 1961, that SECRECY & DEMOCRACY would exclude each other as real DEMOCRACY depended on "We The People" being fully & truthfully informed.
But the CIA decided otherwise - and gave birth to the American "DEEP STATE" - that Donald Trump calls the "SWAMP".
This US DEEP STATE has managed for 61 years now - to conceal & protect the American SECRET Killers of the most popular US-President ever - effectively destroying the American democracy & turning the United States of America into a criminal SECRET DICTATORSHIP ever since . . .
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HERE you have the MOST fundamental AMERICAN DECISION FOR THIS UKRAINE WAR - taken by President Bill Clinton in the year 2008 - when criminal US President Bill Clinton decided against common sense & strategic Intelligence to IGNORE all Russian WARNINGS & RD LINES and accept Ukraine into NATO!
Yes, president Eisenhower warned us many years ago about the Military Indusrrial Complex (The Deep State, The Swamp). President JFK warned us of secrecy in government. This has all come together at a favor pitch. Let's hope and pray that Trump finds the will and morality to stop this maniacal machine from our destruction. He seemingly has the support of country behind him. I believe that the present administration has finally shown its true colors by stopping at nothing in its bed relationship with the war mongers and the globalists who control them. God bless all of us as we approach the brink of disaster.
I'd go back to 1945 when US and UK Zionazi elites began hoovering up their fellow German nazis (Op Paperclip) in their bid to crush the USSR and anything "communist."
YES - the more you go back, the clearer the truth becomes - but being a German myself, I fear that many Americans might feel offended, being taught history by a German . . .
But you are right - the REAL criminals from Nazi-Germany were SECRETLY & ILLEGALLY brought to America - in that Operation Paperclip. And one wonders why ZIONISTS are trying to beat their former NAZI-enemy's in cruelty . . . ?
I completely agree—diplomacy should be seen as a strength, not a weakness. Vilifying leaders for engaging with adversaries only perpetuates conflict and stifles progress.
Scott Ritter and Tucker Carlson are right to emphasize the importance of dialogue, respect, and understanding, even with perceived threats. Diplomacy isn’t capitulation; it’s a pathway to de-escalation and sustainable solutions.
Let’s hope future administrations prioritize engagement over antagonism, recognizing diplomacy as the powerful tool it truly is.
Trump has already spoken with Putin and I'm sure he will again. I just hope OBiden doesn't initiate this before they leave office and be able to blame it all on Trump.
It warms my heart to see all these informed comments on a site focused on health.
My go to source for foreign policy information. is Moon of Alabama. Bernard, b for short, is a German who runs the site. Often he will write a piece and then open up for comments. And somedays he just posts open links for Ukraine, Gaza or others as appropriate.
Currently only Ukraine faces existential threat. Does this applies to Ukraine as well?
The principle of self-defense is universal, and it's unrealistic to expect Russia—or any nation—to respond differently when faced with existential threats.
Nobody says they have no right to self-defense. The question is to what extent should Western powers get involved in a local conflict? And why did they create the incident in the first place?
Fact: The Ukraine got played. Suckered. Punked. And they are realizing it now. As Neocon, Lindsey "Chicken Hawk" Graham, stated succinctly (and gave away the whole game):
"We are going to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian".
What kind of mandate did the US give Biden on Nov. 5, 2024? Yeah sure we ran you bums out of office and your last official act is to launch WW3 into the nuclear phase.
Many times in my life the news cycle just stops for me. An example. When OJ rode around in the Bronco threatening to kill himself. Yup, never watched all the circus after that, irrelevant. Guilt free, you stroll up the court house steps with a lawyer.
Well with Ukraine the show stopper was Azov battalion and friends, idolizing Stephan Bandera. Huh? Full stop. We are fully committed to supporting a group of Nazi's who want to attack and destroy Russia.
Hasn't that already been tried? 1st time we ostensibly fought against Nazism, but now we are on their side?
Now all these intelligence experts think Tulsi Gabbard is unqualified to continue supporting Nazis! Well I say Hallelujah! Praise the Lord and don't pass the ammunition. An intelligence head who doesn't cozy up to despots, how refreshing. Unique!
She has not been through the initiation into the let's make money maiming and killing innocent civilians club. Awesome, maybe she won't be a murderous thug. Great.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think most Ukrainians are Nazis. Just the ones in charge. Then there are the compliant brain washed majority, like in many countries. My simple observation for them, your smart phone is not helping you make good decisions.
I was young, but lived through the Cuban missile crisis. The US AND NATO have progressively encircled Russian by making ex - Soviet countries into NATO. Countries in violation of of the 1992 agreement. And as Merkel said the Minsk agreement was simply to buy time to weaponise Ukraine. I understand how Putin must feel.
I was around, and I remember being told that Russia backed down. NOPE. The US took out the nukes that they has installed in Turkey, that's why Russia took their nukes out of Cuba. Russia let JFK take the win, that's all. That bit was never taught in school.
Missile Defense Project, "SM-78 Jupiter," Missile Threat, Center for Strategic and International Studies, December 20, 2016, last modified April 23, 2024, https://missilethreat.csis.org/missile/jupiter/.
I was alive, at school, and I remember the newspaper headlines. Believe it or not, there are still many of us around, and certainly many who were born around 1962. I know Fauci and others have tried to not have us around, but here we are.
Thank you for bringing up these important points, which underscore the complexity of the situation and highlight historical precedents that cannot be ignored.
The Minsk Agreements were indeed intended as a pathway to peace, yet their implementation was fraught with violations and unmet commitments from multiple sides. Ukraine's declared neutrality and the original understanding that NATO expansion would not encroach on Russia's borders were cornerstones of regional stability. However, NATO's actions and the U.S.'s involvement have been perceived by Russia as direct threats to its security, much like the Soviet Union's intent to place missiles in Cuba was seen as a threat to U.S. security in 1962.
In both cases, the perceived encroachment triggered a defensive posture. The U.S.'s actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis were framed as self-defense, and it is logical to ask why Russia’s actions should not be viewed through a similar lens. Self-defense is indeed a universal principle, and the consistency of its application is critical to understanding the motives of all parties involved.
That said, the assertion that "only Ukraine faces an existential threat" dismisses the reality of geopolitical tensions and the perception of threat from all sides. Ukraine undeniably faces profound challenges to its sovereignty and existence, but so does Russia, in its view, from NATO’s eastward expansion and Western military support for Ukraine. This dynamic highlights that existential threats are not always symmetrical or universally acknowledged—they are shaped by context, history, and national interests.
As for Putin’s rhetoric, it’s important to distinguish between posturing and genuine threats. While skepticism is healthy, dismissing his statements entirely risks underestimating the seriousness of the situation. Nuclear rhetoric, regardless of intent, escalates the stakes for everyone involved.
Your response calls for reflection on consistency in principles and accountability for actions, which are crucial for fostering dialogue and de-escalation. If the goal is peace and security for all nations, these historical parallels and double standards must be addressed in good faith, with empathy for the fears and realities faced by all parties.
It was self-defense for Russia. The US had put nukes in Turkey first. And Italy, too, I think. It seems that the US is the bad guy more often than not, IMO.
Reverse the situation. Russia starts giving Mexico weapons to strike into America after they removed the pro American president and installed one friendly to Russia. What do you think the American government would do?
Because that’s the situation Russia is facing. Obama removed the Ukraine president in 2014, installed a pro American one and then NATO has spent the last 8 years arming and training Ukraine troops.
Russia invaded the Donbas in February 2022 because Ukraine was amassing a large force to invade. Ukraine had been murdering 14,000 people there just because they rejected the coup government.
I wish people would invest in learning history. Instead of parroting what they have been told.
You’re absolutely right—reversing the situation puts things into perspective. If Russia armed Mexico after toppling a pro-U.S. leader, the American response would likely be swift and uncompromising. That’s the reality Russia perceives on its borders.
The 2014 coup and subsequent arming of Ukraine by NATO set the stage for this conflict. The tragic loss of 14,000 lives in the Donbas is a stark reminder of the human cost of ignoring these tensions. Russia’s invasion in 2022 didn’t happen in a vacuum—it was shaped by years of escalation and unresolved grievances.
Understanding history is crucial. Blindly parroting narratives without context only perpetuates the cycle of misunderstanding and conflict. Thank you for reminding us of the importance of looking deeper.
You’ve nailed it—Kant’s insight from 1784 remains painfully relevant. The scarcity of true adults in the room is rooted in our reluctance to think critically and take responsibility. Varoufakis’ Adults in the Room exposes this dynamic in modern politics, but the problem goes deeper, as Kant suggests: laziness and the comfort of delegation keep people in a state of immaturity, leaving room for manipulation.
It’s time to reclaim maturity—not just as individuals, but collectively. We must demand accountability, question authority, and resist the ease of letting others do the thinking for us. Kant’s challenge is as urgent now as it was then.
It's well past due for people to realize that adults have been scarce to absent since about forever.
Not only did the former Greek finance minister, Varoufakis, write a fine book bemoaning and illustrating that, "Adults in the Room," but check out the following quote and note the date.:
"Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a proportion of men, long after nature has released them from alien guidance (natura-liter maiorennes), nonetheless gladly remain in lifelong immaturity, and why it is so easy for others to establish themselves as their guardians.
"It is so easy to be immature. If I have a book to serve as my understanding, a pastor to serve as my conscience, a physician to determine my diet for me, and so on, I need not exert myself at all. I need not think, if only I can pay: others will readily undertake the irksome work for me.
It appears that the Biden admin wants the Trump admin. to inherit a chaotic mess in every way; economic, massive debt, new wars, unemployment, crime, and poverty that has exacerbated.
My disrespect grows by the day for the Biden admin and anyone who thinks this is the way forward.
Furious DEI losers who will burn the house down if they can't have it.
This is all due to NATO hanging on long past its expiration date when the Soviet Union collapsed and the Warsaw Pact dissolved. Lying US officials promised not to expand NATO and yet here we are on the brink of nuclear war. I was in high school during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, and this is the exact same scenario from the Russians point of view.
The insane cabal in DC / NATO is pushing the world toward total extinction via nuclear holocaust. HOW can these monsters be allowed to continue this diabolical level of brinkmanship? The DC regime in power now is truly the worst instance of criminal madness since Caligula.
Super unlikely as he has allowed this slow escalation to continue well past the point of a legitimate nuclear response if he intended to use it. The war is over. They are now posturing for the peace talks that will happen when Trump cuts off all funding. Zelensky is trying to get to save himself and Putin is defining the terms. In 6 months this thing will be over and the eastern Provinces will all be Russian territory and they will remain armed as in the Cold War. NATO will no longer be able to just do whatever it wants without a response. Those days are over.
Revenge Against: MAH(G)A, a healthy We The People, censorship, sovereignty, a free "accredited" education, ending child trafficking, and a free market economy. These beyond psychologically deranged, stupid, evil people--with their luxurious bunkers in place--putting the button next to Biden's shaking fingers, take themselves off the hook, unless some miracle happens and God steps in! PRAY!
According to today's Epoch Times, "President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use American long-range missiles to strike deeper inside Russia, lifting a critical hold on the conflict that President Vladimir Putin has said would amount to the West entering the war. https://lists.theepochtimes.com/links/r3NDTS86G4/Jlid8tcrj/60AnxMxKy/fPFsI3ME4I
I will go one further and provide for you a link to the best writer on Substack regarding the Ukraine conflict… if you want the truth read and follow this author… Simplicius The Thinker or Dial into Danny Davis Ret Army Cavalry Battle of Easting Lt Col or The Duran, Alexander Mercouris and Alexander Christoforou You Tube Channels always with excellent guests including John Mearshimer Chicago Prof Emiritus and Columbias Jeffrey Sachs another Prof Emiritus, both tenured, highly respected Americans then there is SmoothieX12, Glenn Greenwald,
The link follows,invest the time, read, educate learn, become better informed… stop being propagandised… get both sides, then discern and decide… be a critical thinker
Bombs-away Blinken needs his head examined. Hopefully President Trump can get a message to Zelenskyy that if he sends (or allows) any missiles into Russia he’s gonna be shit out of luck come 2025 with zero support.
The globalists, having thrown the dice and fomented conflict against Russia, believing they would win the conflict, Balkanise the Russian Federation a la Yugoslavia and plunder its USD$70 Trillion of natural resources has gone one step to far, little wonder when you consider everything for them is on the line in this Ukrainian gambit… the Western fiat financial system is on the verge of collapse, led by the U.S $236Trillion in debt not to count the USD$Quadrillion in derivatives needing unwound… throw in every other G7 warmongering nation, all over 100% of GDP in debt save Germany with a regulated 70% debt GDP ratio, recently increased from the previously statutory limit of 60% and the position is dire, they know it, their Billionaire collaborators know it, the entire Western U.S led, Bretton Woods fiat monetary system on the verge of collapse, shown up finally for the Ponzi scheme it has always been, accelerated as it was post the Nixon 1971 de pegging the USD from the gold standard, the only handbrake that controlled over zealous government spending… ever since it’s been a case of print and spend baby, print… the USD worth 100 cents on the dollar before the gold standard was dropped now worth a paltry 1.933 cents per dollar, hence why housing has ratcheted up in value, why everything is more expensive than once was, value destroyed by this confidence trick, a monetary system built upon smoke and mirrors and a good dose of instilling and maintaining in the public, absolute confidence in the currencies…
Using Ukraine to provoke and goad the reaction from Russia resulting in the SMO the last throw of the dice, aligning with every other conflict around the globe the last 60 years, it’s all about has been every single war, regime change, political assassination about getting hold of natural resources to plunder weaker nations of their assets, every time the call for war, the boogie man is rolled out, look deeper and especially what resources the target of the vitriol sits upon, then you’ll have your answer as to real cause.
In this case heavily indebted the only lifeline is accessing and controlling this vast natural wealth, hence why the obvious diplomatic route typically anticipated by reasonable peace loving peoples is always spurned.
Palestine sits upon the Levant oil and condensate field just off of the Gazan coast, worth huge monies, that’s the real reason for Israel’s destruction of Gaza, nothing to do with Oct 7, Israel already pre Oct 7 signing deals with Western oil majors to develop the field, only problem being Palestine under international law owned those resources, wow real problem, how to deal with it, ignore credible intelligence advising of a pending attack, why, because if you let it happen it provides legitimacy for the illegitimate act of plunder, now Iran, they are the third fourth largest oil and gas reserves holder in the World, look back at the history of the country and others usurped by the democracy seeking West … I dare you… educate yourself, follow this outstanding Michael Chossudovsky report that tells you all … America's "Humanitarian Wars" against Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Palestine A History of Anglo-American Colonialism (1909-2024)
Not all is you have been fed, we ought realise that by now, COVID a big awakening, I used that time to look into all of the geopolitical zero sum lies and propaganda we have been fed, if they were evil enough to do so with our health son such an unprecedented scale, what else have they been doin, it’s sickening, evil,the scab once ripped off showing the putrid puss infused reality that is the Geo
Politics winner take all zero sum game, now they dare to risk it all having laid down such a vast investment in that failed Nazi shit hole Ukraine, with nuclear war, personally all that stands between our true freedom and the globalist winner take all tyranny is Russia, I pray Putin, the smartest statesmen on the planet throws a nuke down to let these ass holes know they cannot cross this, the only red line Russia has imposed since the conflict started, every other so called red line a Western Media NATO construct…. used ad nauseum to justify their escalations of this conflict, read and understand the reality of this conflict, it will sober you…
These people are mad, insane, need held and called to account, they have no regard for you, me your loved ones, your communities nope, none, it’s all wealth and opportunity to them, the consequences be damned… time to gen up people, get to u Derst and the real why and that it’s only Russia and BRICS, multipolarity that can save us… once again as with the last time fascism raided its ugly moniker, it was Russia that saved the world, a history denied them, no longer, not for those who now fully have become aware and understand, each time before War, the vitriol ramped up, Russia, China, Iran, meanwhile they, NATO have been found wanting in Ukraine, over 1million dead including Western NATO troops and high ranking officers, amazing how after missile strikes news reports of Colonels and Generals appear in Western Media of untimely death, helicopter, plane, car crashes etc… Russia has beaten, is smashing them, losing 100,000 dead to the NATO Ukraine 1 million add the the near additional 3 million seriously wounded 38% of which are amputees and Ukraine and western armies have been literally demilitarised yet, still the billionaires, Blackrock etc push escalation absolute madness, a psychopathy Russia will face and act upon…. pray they succeed… Kia Kaha from New Zealand
Too bad for Godzone that most Kiwis are clueless little Hobbiton hobbits who have no idea what's going on in the wider world. It's infuriating that Kiwis believe what their globalist media tells them to believe.
How about if Trump just starts turning democrat politicians, starting with hillary clinton and BHO to putin to do with as he sees fit. This is a play to burn down the world instead of relinquishing power. It wasn't that long ago I heard a talking head from the MSM say, "Nuclear war would be good for the Earth as it would bring about an end to man made global warming". I knew then they would rather send us all into the dark night than to step out of power.
It could be but Trump isn't going to bite because he he just says openly what he is going to do, and leaves the "how' part for when he has the power. I think you mean communists and they are more evil than that.
The gravity of the situation you describe cannot be overstated. If the roles were reversed, there is no question that any U.S. president would defend their nation with every tool available, including the threat or use of nuclear weapons. The principle of self-defense is universal, and it's unrealistic to expect Russia—or any nation—to respond differently when faced with existential threats.
Putin’s declaration, while alarming, underscores the escalating risks of brinkmanship and the dire need for cooler heads to prevail. Diplomatic failures and reckless posturing by leaders like Secretary Blinken are not just theoretical missteps; they edge humanity closer to the brink of catastrophe. This is not a chessboard—these are real lives, real nations, and a shared planet at stake.
The call for "adults in the room" has never been more urgent. True leadership demands de-escalation, robust diplomacy, and a recognition that the path to peace requires mutual respect, not provocation. Nuclear rhetoric and aggressive posturing are not strategies; they are invitations to disaster. It is time for global leaders to rise above short-term geopolitical games and work toward solutions that preserve peace and humanity.
The United States started this war in 2014.
The same people who started it are now, and always have been, willing to flip the game board to ensure annihilation if they can't get their perverse, insane 'way'.
Thank you, WalterK, for your input. It's a stark reminder that history often plays a pivotal role in understanding present conflicts. The events of 2014, including the U.S.'s involvement in Ukraine, undeniably set the stage for much of the tension we see today. Recognizing these origins doesn’t absolve anyone of their actions but adds essential context to an already complex geopolitical crisis.
Your point about those willing to "flip the game board" is chillingly accurate. It reflects the recklessness of some actors who prioritize dominance and ideology over human survival. The dangerous illusion of 'winning at any cost' in a nuclear age is not just irresponsible—it’s suicidal for all of humanity.
Now more than ever, the focus must shift from blame to accountability and meaningful dialogue. If the architects of conflict refuse to step back from their brinkmanship, it falls to others—those with moral clarity and a true sense of responsibility—to step forward and lead us back from the edge. Let’s hope that wisdom and humility can still prevail before it’s too late. Thank you for contributing to this vital conversation.
I agree with you that the focus must shift from blame to accountability and meaningful dialogue But let us not forget that Kamala Harris while supposed to explain the foreign policy of the USA at the Munich Security Conference a few days before Russia sent troops into Ukraine congratulated Zelensky in his desire to join NATO!! That is called throwing oil on the fire and is clearly the proof that America never wanted to avoid this war and was ready to sacrifice Ukraine youth and infrastructures!
Plus apparently, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe were observers in Ukraine the week before the pretended unprovoked Russian invasion and guess what? Between February 15th and 22nd they counted more than 4000 bombs sent by Kiev on the Donbas and Luhansk region!!
https://www.osce.org/files/2022-02-22%20Daily%20Report_ENG.pdf?itok=63057
We have been lied all along and Western journalist I've just relayed the press releases of NATO since the beginning of the conflict!
Makes me feel sick to hear them say that Ukraine is defending freedom and democracy!
And it seems like Biden-Blinken-Harris-Obama-Pelosi want to do everything for Trump to be unable to negotiate peace. They are even bring the world to the edge of total destruction!
Thank you for your thoughtful response, which raises critical points that deserve serious consideration. The Munich Security Conference moment you highlight does seem provocative, especially given the heightened tensions at that time. Encouraging NATO aspirations in such a volatile context could indeed be seen as inflammatory, further exacerbating an already fragile situation.
The OSCE reports you reference add another layer to this discussion, revealing actions on the ground that challenge the dominant narrative of an “unprovoked” invasion. If we are to move toward accountability and truth, these details must be openly examined. The failure of Western journalism to question official narratives has left many feeling betrayed and uninformed, as it reinforces one-sided perspectives while ignoring the broader complexities of the conflict.
Your concerns about the Biden administration’s approach to this war are valid. There seems to be a lack of focus on de-escalation or pursuing meaningful peace talks. This unrelenting trajectory toward confrontation risks catastrophic outcomes, and the absence of diplomacy at this stage is deeply troubling.
Ultimately, as you point out, the sacrifice of Ukrainian lives and infrastructure, coupled with the global destabilization this conflict has caused, cannot be justified by empty rhetoric about defending “freedom and democracy.” A renewed push for dialogue, respect for all parties involved, and the pursuit of peace must become the priority before irreparable damage is done. Thank you for adding your voice to this urgent conversation.
IMO, the West STILL expects to blackmail Putin into rolling over for them. And the US, except for the laundered money involved, has no skin in the game. Plus it looks like Biden is getting revenge all around - making sure a sure loss like Kamala is the nominee, , and now, IMO again, trying to hang Russian response on Trump. And making sure, as much as possible, that there is no peace that can be attributed to Trump.. With Blinken and Sullivan (and Nuland) cheering him on. Trying to roll over Putin BECAUSE he is the only adult in the room.
Exactly! The West keeps playing the same tired game of blackmail and expecting Putin to fold, but he’s proven time and again he won’t play by their script. Meanwhile, the U.S. acts like it has nothing to lose—except, of course, the billions flowing through Ukraine.
Biden’s moves do reek of revenge politics, setting up Kamala for failure and trying to pin any Russian response on Trump. It’s all about controlling the narrative, not finding solutions. And with Blinken, Sullivan, and Nuland egging him on, peace isn’t even on the table—especially if it might make Trump look good. Funny how the “adult in the room” is the one they’re so desperate to undermine.
Well lets say instead of one or two errant weather balloons the Russian radar lights up with 200 miscellaneous targets. Is this the big one? Did they get a contaminated load of crack and finally step off the edge. What would John McCain do? Ok after getting a fresh Depends.
Thank you for your very interesting comment and the validation of my concerns. I have been thinking lately that sending the world into World War III might be motivated by something other than making sure that Donald Trump does not make peace!
And all this comes when we learn that all the governments and health authorities of the world have lied and forced people to take a vaccine that has caused an explosion of all cause mortality, dramatically reduced birth rates and triggered a cancer epidemic never seen before.
They'd rather bet on war and destruction than being judged and sentenced to prison, loosing all their wealth and power which they so deserve to!
And wait until people find out that extreme weather events that happened in the last few years were not natural but generated by climate engineering!
It feels like the elites know that their end is close. I feel like Truth and Justice have never been so close from prevailing when I hear RFK Jr plan to attack Big Ag and Big Pharma for poisoning us. Coming to think of it, any government that does not care for the health of its youth does not deserve to be in power.
Even Donald Trump's victory speech had more common sense and humanity than any of Obama's speeches! He truly addresses the concerns of the American people. (I just don't understand his position and RFK's position on Israel but I hope it is just strategic...).
But obviously if you are struck with Trump derangements syndrome you cannot acknowledge that he is far from being a dictator or a fascist!
Let us hope that he and his administration prove us right in believing in this incredible revolution about to take place if another great war does not sabotage it.
True. The trigger that went over Putin's red line was back in 2021 when Biden pushed for Ukraine to join NATO after Putin said that would be a casus belli. I firmly believe that the war was instigated by the WEF/UN as a means of implementing their real agenda using Biden etc as their puppet and he remains their puppet.
(https://www.state.gov/u-s-ukraine-charter-on-strategic-partnership/
Victoria Nuland! She's always around causing mayhem when she should be in a padded cell.
Her face is a padded cell
A padded cell that seems to get bigger. Known as the Cookie Monster, after handing out cookies in Maidan Square in order to persuade Ukrainians to sacrifice themselves and their country for neocons like herself, she's certainly a very stupid monster.
All of this is true. But when you scan out and look at everything that is going on, down to terraforming our earth with daily Geo engineering in many, many places, to make it less hospitable for human life, do you really think this is a human intelligence doing all of this. Of course not! Humans are defective in many ways, but surely not this stupid.
Thank You!
Extremely well written.
wkenn writes:
"The United States started this war in 2014."
This is less than HALF of the truth - but it is a VISIBLE part of the truth - as most of American politics is kept a SECRET from "We The People", ever since the American SECRET "Service" CIA killed American President John F. Kennedy in 1963, because President John F. Kennedy explained in the Waldorf-Astoria in 1961, that SECRECY & DEMOCRACY would exclude each other as real DEMOCRACY depended on "We The People" being fully & truthfully informed.
But the CIA decided otherwise - and gave birth to the American "DEEP STATE" - that Donald Trump calls the "SWAMP".
This US DEEP STATE has managed for 61 years now - to conceal & protect the American SECRET Killers of the most popular US-President ever - effectively destroying the American democracy & turning the United States of America into a criminal SECRET DICTATORSHIP ever since . . .
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HERE you have the MOST fundamental AMERICAN DECISION FOR THIS UKRAINE WAR - taken by President Bill Clinton in the year 2008 - when criminal US President Bill Clinton decided against common sense & strategic Intelligence to IGNORE all Russian WARNINGS & RD LINES and accept Ukraine into NATO!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emD1cN2xEz4
Title:
"The most important video on Ukraine | Prof. John Mearsheimer"
Yes, president Eisenhower warned us many years ago about the Military Indusrrial Complex (The Deep State, The Swamp). President JFK warned us of secrecy in government. This has all come together at a favor pitch. Let's hope and pray that Trump finds the will and morality to stop this maniacal machine from our destruction. He seemingly has the support of country behind him. I believe that the present administration has finally shown its true colors by stopping at nothing in its bed relationship with the war mongers and the globalists who control them. God bless all of us as we approach the brink of disaster.
I'd go back to 1945 when US and UK Zionazi elites began hoovering up their fellow German nazis (Op Paperclip) in their bid to crush the USSR and anything "communist."
YES - the more you go back, the clearer the truth becomes - but being a German myself, I fear that many Americans might feel offended, being taught history by a German . . .
But you are right - the REAL criminals from Nazi-Germany were SECRETLY & ILLEGALLY brought to America - in that Operation Paperclip. And one wonders why ZIONISTS are trying to beat their former NAZI-enemy's in cruelty . . . ?
Real Christians do NOT lie & do NOT kill.
Flip the game board? Sounds like you've been listening to Tom Luongo.
Tom writes some good material.
I haven't done any manner of deep dive into what he has been publishing for probably a couple of years, likely more.
I think readers should give him a serious look.
Being a gamer himself, "flip the game board" is a favorite expression of Luongo's when talking about geopolitics.
He likes his 'games', apparently a form of relaxation, possibly a short pause. I figure cigars rank up there as well.
However, unless he's channeling, flipping game boards (I sometime use tossing the table) is neither his nor my exclusive creation.
Thank you for commenting, brought a NICE BIG SMILE to this rather dreadful topic. :-)
Exactly!
Perhaps the real question is whether the bunkers of the globalists will withstand the forces of nuclear expositions, and we can be pretty sure they are expected to. https://www.vice.com/en/article/billionaires-are-building-luxury-bunkers-to-escape-doomsday/
Yes. Diplomacy. I would love to see Diplomacy become a performing art in
the next administration.
Vilifying a person for talking to our government's enemies has
got to stop. Name calling and distrust of a politician who considers the path of
diplomacy has become a typical tactic to destroy their careers.
I'm hoping this Uniparty will expose how dangerous that way of thinking
is. Scott Ritter and Tucker Carlson have shown how important it is to meet,
talk, show respect with those who are treated as perceived threats to the US.
I completely agree—diplomacy should be seen as a strength, not a weakness. Vilifying leaders for engaging with adversaries only perpetuates conflict and stifles progress.
Scott Ritter and Tucker Carlson are right to emphasize the importance of dialogue, respect, and understanding, even with perceived threats. Diplomacy isn’t capitulation; it’s a pathway to de-escalation and sustainable solutions.
Let’s hope future administrations prioritize engagement over antagonism, recognizing diplomacy as the powerful tool it truly is.
Trump has already spoken with Putin and I'm sure he will again. I just hope OBiden doesn't initiate this before they leave office and be able to blame it all on Trump.
It warms my heart to see all these informed comments on a site focused on health.
My go to source for foreign policy information. is Moon of Alabama. Bernard, b for short, is a German who runs the site. Often he will write a piece and then open up for comments. And somedays he just posts open links for Ukraine, Gaza or others as appropriate.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
Currently only Ukraine faces existential threat. Does this applies to Ukraine as well?
The principle of self-defense is universal, and it's unrealistic to expect Russia—or any nation—to respond differently when faced with existential threats.
Putin is BS-ing as usual
Nobody says they have no right to self-defense. The question is to what extent should Western powers get involved in a local conflict? And why did they create the incident in the first place?
Fact: The Ukraine got played. Suckered. Punked. And they are realizing it now. As Neocon, Lindsey "Chicken Hawk" Graham, stated succinctly (and gave away the whole game):
"We are going to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian".
What kind of mandate did the US give Biden on Nov. 5, 2024? Yeah sure we ran you bums out of office and your last official act is to launch WW3 into the nuclear phase.
Many times in my life the news cycle just stops for me. An example. When OJ rode around in the Bronco threatening to kill himself. Yup, never watched all the circus after that, irrelevant. Guilt free, you stroll up the court house steps with a lawyer.
Well with Ukraine the show stopper was Azov battalion and friends, idolizing Stephan Bandera. Huh? Full stop. We are fully committed to supporting a group of Nazi's who want to attack and destroy Russia.
Hasn't that already been tried? 1st time we ostensibly fought against Nazism, but now we are on their side?
Now all these intelligence experts think Tulsi Gabbard is unqualified to continue supporting Nazis! Well I say Hallelujah! Praise the Lord and don't pass the ammunition. An intelligence head who doesn't cozy up to despots, how refreshing. Unique!
She has not been through the initiation into the let's make money maiming and killing innocent civilians club. Awesome, maybe she won't be a murderous thug. Great.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think most Ukrainians are Nazis. Just the ones in charge. Then there are the compliant brain washed majority, like in many countries. My simple observation for them, your smart phone is not helping you make good decisions.
Don't get me wrong,
I don't think most Russians are Nazis. Just the ones in Kremlin.
Unoriginal and stupid, what makes you cool? Oh right, no empathy either.
Who did all those Russians die killing in WW2? No doubt your ancestors.
Don't get me wrong,
I don't think most Russians are Nazis. Just the ones in Kremlin.
I would be greatly surprised if you were alive, much less lived through, the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
I was young, but lived through the Cuban missile crisis. The US AND NATO have progressively encircled Russian by making ex - Soviet countries into NATO. Countries in violation of of the 1992 agreement. And as Merkel said the Minsk agreement was simply to buy time to weaponise Ukraine. I understand how Putin must feel.
It was a scary time.
The rumors of the Soviet naval ships not turning around was frightening.
It was all consuming, there was no escape from it. It was everywhere, anc certainly had people's attention.
I was around, and I remember being told that Russia backed down. NOPE. The US took out the nukes that they has installed in Turkey, that's why Russia took their nukes out of Cuba. Russia let JFK take the win, that's all. That bit was never taught in school.
Yes, Jupiter missles, removed 6 months later.
Missile Defense Project, "SM-78 Jupiter," Missile Threat, Center for Strategic and International Studies, December 20, 2016, last modified April 23, 2024, https://missilethreat.csis.org/missile/jupiter/.
I was alive, at school, and I remember the newspaper headlines. Believe it or not, there are still many of us around, and certainly many who were born around 1962. I know Fauci and others have tried to not have us around, but here we are.
And none of the headlines mentioned the US nukes in Turkey. I was around, too!
Thank you for bringing up these important points, which underscore the complexity of the situation and highlight historical precedents that cannot be ignored.
The Minsk Agreements were indeed intended as a pathway to peace, yet their implementation was fraught with violations and unmet commitments from multiple sides. Ukraine's declared neutrality and the original understanding that NATO expansion would not encroach on Russia's borders were cornerstones of regional stability. However, NATO's actions and the U.S.'s involvement have been perceived by Russia as direct threats to its security, much like the Soviet Union's intent to place missiles in Cuba was seen as a threat to U.S. security in 1962.
In both cases, the perceived encroachment triggered a defensive posture. The U.S.'s actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis were framed as self-defense, and it is logical to ask why Russia’s actions should not be viewed through a similar lens. Self-defense is indeed a universal principle, and the consistency of its application is critical to understanding the motives of all parties involved.
That said, the assertion that "only Ukraine faces an existential threat" dismisses the reality of geopolitical tensions and the perception of threat from all sides. Ukraine undeniably faces profound challenges to its sovereignty and existence, but so does Russia, in its view, from NATO’s eastward expansion and Western military support for Ukraine. This dynamic highlights that existential threats are not always symmetrical or universally acknowledged—they are shaped by context, history, and national interests.
As for Putin’s rhetoric, it’s important to distinguish between posturing and genuine threats. While skepticism is healthy, dismissing his statements entirely risks underestimating the seriousness of the situation. Nuclear rhetoric, regardless of intent, escalates the stakes for everyone involved.
Your response calls for reflection on consistency in principles and accountability for actions, which are crucial for fostering dialogue and de-escalation. If the goal is peace and security for all nations, these historical parallels and double standards must be addressed in good faith, with empathy for the fears and realities faced by all parties.
It was self-defense for Russia. The US had put nukes in Turkey first. And Italy, too, I think. It seems that the US is the bad guy more often than not, IMO.
The missles in Italy were part of the deal.
Capable of reaching Moscow.
Reverse the situation. Russia starts giving Mexico weapons to strike into America after they removed the pro American president and installed one friendly to Russia. What do you think the American government would do?
Because that’s the situation Russia is facing. Obama removed the Ukraine president in 2014, installed a pro American one and then NATO has spent the last 8 years arming and training Ukraine troops.
Russia invaded the Donbas in February 2022 because Ukraine was amassing a large force to invade. Ukraine had been murdering 14,000 people there just because they rejected the coup government.
I wish people would invest in learning history. Instead of parroting what they have been told.
You’re absolutely right—reversing the situation puts things into perspective. If Russia armed Mexico after toppling a pro-U.S. leader, the American response would likely be swift and uncompromising. That’s the reality Russia perceives on its borders.
The 2014 coup and subsequent arming of Ukraine by NATO set the stage for this conflict. The tragic loss of 14,000 lives in the Donbas is a stark reminder of the human cost of ignoring these tensions. Russia’s invasion in 2022 didn’t happen in a vacuum—it was shaped by years of escalation and unresolved grievances.
Understanding history is crucial. Blindly parroting narratives without context only perpetuates the cycle of misunderstanding and conflict. Thank you for reminding us of the importance of looking deeper.
This might interest you. Joe Lauria goes into detail on the history of what America has done to get Russia to invade Ukraine.
It should be shared with those who think that Putin just woke up one day and decided to invade Ukraine for no reason.
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/27/can-russia-escape-the-us-trap/
He also links to how western media used to write about the neo nazis before they were told to stop talking about them.
I’m certain that if the situation was reversed America wouldn’t have waited 8 years to respond to Russia.
You’ve nailed it—Kant’s insight from 1784 remains painfully relevant. The scarcity of true adults in the room is rooted in our reluctance to think critically and take responsibility. Varoufakis’ Adults in the Room exposes this dynamic in modern politics, but the problem goes deeper, as Kant suggests: laziness and the comfort of delegation keep people in a state of immaturity, leaving room for manipulation.
It’s time to reclaim maturity—not just as individuals, but collectively. We must demand accountability, question authority, and resist the ease of letting others do the thinking for us. Kant’s challenge is as urgent now as it was then.
It's well past due for people to realize that adults have been scarce to absent since about forever.
Not only did the former Greek finance minister, Varoufakis, write a fine book bemoaning and illustrating that, "Adults in the Room," but check out the following quote and note the date.:
"Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a proportion of men, long after nature has released them from alien guidance (natura-liter maiorennes), nonetheless gladly remain in lifelong immaturity, and why it is so easy for others to establish themselves as their guardians.
"It is so easy to be immature. If I have a book to serve as my understanding, a pastor to serve as my conscience, a physician to determine my diet for me, and so on, I need not exert myself at all. I need not think, if only I can pay: others will readily undertake the irksome work for me.
- Immanuel Kant, What Is Enlightenment? (1784)
What-is-Enlightenment.pdf (saylor.org)
https://resources.saylor.org/wwwresources/archived/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/What-is-Enlightenment.pdf
Trump is not in power--yet.
It appears that the Biden admin wants the Trump admin. to inherit a chaotic mess in every way; economic, massive debt, new wars, unemployment, crime, and poverty that has exacerbated.
My disrespect grows by the day for the Biden admin and anyone who thinks this is the way forward.
Furious DEI losers who will burn the house down if they can't have it.
Agree Mary Lou L
As Elon Musk has now changed DEI to DIE!
This is all due to NATO hanging on long past its expiration date when the Soviet Union collapsed and the Warsaw Pact dissolved. Lying US officials promised not to expand NATO and yet here we are on the brink of nuclear war. I was in high school during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, and this is the exact same scenario from the Russians point of view.
This dammm American govt needs to go back to playing with rubber duckies
They need to be sent straight through the gates of hell.
The insane cabal in DC / NATO is pushing the world toward total extinction via nuclear holocaust. HOW can these monsters be allowed to continue this diabolical level of brinkmanship? The DC regime in power now is truly the worst instance of criminal madness since Caligula.
DC/NATO and the UN!
It is not Trump we need; we need regime change in Washington DC...
Super unlikely as he has allowed this slow escalation to continue well past the point of a legitimate nuclear response if he intended to use it. The war is over. They are now posturing for the peace talks that will happen when Trump cuts off all funding. Zelensky is trying to get to save himself and Putin is defining the terms. In 6 months this thing will be over and the eastern Provinces will all be Russian territory and they will remain armed as in the Cold War. NATO will no longer be able to just do whatever it wants without a response. Those days are over.
Revenge Against: MAH(G)A, a healthy We The People, censorship, sovereignty, a free "accredited" education, ending child trafficking, and a free market economy. These beyond psychologically deranged, stupid, evil people--with their luxurious bunkers in place--putting the button next to Biden's shaking fingers, take themselves off the hook, unless some miracle happens and God steps in! PRAY!
I wish Trump could be inaugurated before Christmas. It's crazy to let the current administration continue for another two months.
According to today's Epoch Times, "President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use American long-range missiles to strike deeper inside Russia, lifting a critical hold on the conflict that President Vladimir Putin has said would amount to the West entering the war. https://lists.theepochtimes.com/links/r3NDTS86G4/Jlid8tcrj/60AnxMxKy/fPFsI3ME4I
"Russia cut off gas supply to Austria on Saturday." https://lists.theepochtimes.com/links/r3NDTS86G4/Jlid8tcrj/60AnxMxKy/v60ayow2Bi
It looks like the left is insane enough to start WWIII, and they may have just started it, but let's hope not.
Trump needs a lot of support to investigate all of the traitors who constantly undermine the best interests of peace, health and prosperity in the US.
I will go one further and provide for you a link to the best writer on Substack regarding the Ukraine conflict… if you want the truth read and follow this author… Simplicius The Thinker or Dial into Danny Davis Ret Army Cavalry Battle of Easting Lt Col or The Duran, Alexander Mercouris and Alexander Christoforou You Tube Channels always with excellent guests including John Mearshimer Chicago Prof Emiritus and Columbias Jeffrey Sachs another Prof Emiritus, both tenured, highly respected Americans then there is SmoothieX12, Glenn Greenwald,
The link follows,invest the time, read, educate learn, become better informed… stop being propagandised… get both sides, then discern and decide… be a critical thinker
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/operation-dark-winter-resumes-as?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1351274&post_id=151786656&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=1iecun&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Much Aroha to you all…
Kia Kaha from New Zealand
Bombs-away Blinken needs his head examined. Hopefully President Trump can get a message to Zelenskyy that if he sends (or allows) any missiles into Russia he’s gonna be shit out of luck come 2025 with zero support.
The globalists, having thrown the dice and fomented conflict against Russia, believing they would win the conflict, Balkanise the Russian Federation a la Yugoslavia and plunder its USD$70 Trillion of natural resources has gone one step to far, little wonder when you consider everything for them is on the line in this Ukrainian gambit… the Western fiat financial system is on the verge of collapse, led by the U.S $236Trillion in debt not to count the USD$Quadrillion in derivatives needing unwound… throw in every other G7 warmongering nation, all over 100% of GDP in debt save Germany with a regulated 70% debt GDP ratio, recently increased from the previously statutory limit of 60% and the position is dire, they know it, their Billionaire collaborators know it, the entire Western U.S led, Bretton Woods fiat monetary system on the verge of collapse, shown up finally for the Ponzi scheme it has always been, accelerated as it was post the Nixon 1971 de pegging the USD from the gold standard, the only handbrake that controlled over zealous government spending… ever since it’s been a case of print and spend baby, print… the USD worth 100 cents on the dollar before the gold standard was dropped now worth a paltry 1.933 cents per dollar, hence why housing has ratcheted up in value, why everything is more expensive than once was, value destroyed by this confidence trick, a monetary system built upon smoke and mirrors and a good dose of instilling and maintaining in the public, absolute confidence in the currencies…
Using Ukraine to provoke and goad the reaction from Russia resulting in the SMO the last throw of the dice, aligning with every other conflict around the globe the last 60 years, it’s all about has been every single war, regime change, political assassination about getting hold of natural resources to plunder weaker nations of their assets, every time the call for war, the boogie man is rolled out, look deeper and especially what resources the target of the vitriol sits upon, then you’ll have your answer as to real cause.
In this case heavily indebted the only lifeline is accessing and controlling this vast natural wealth, hence why the obvious diplomatic route typically anticipated by reasonable peace loving peoples is always spurned.
Palestine sits upon the Levant oil and condensate field just off of the Gazan coast, worth huge monies, that’s the real reason for Israel’s destruction of Gaza, nothing to do with Oct 7, Israel already pre Oct 7 signing deals with Western oil majors to develop the field, only problem being Palestine under international law owned those resources, wow real problem, how to deal with it, ignore credible intelligence advising of a pending attack, why, because if you let it happen it provides legitimacy for the illegitimate act of plunder, now Iran, they are the third fourth largest oil and gas reserves holder in the World, look back at the history of the country and others usurped by the democracy seeking West … I dare you… educate yourself, follow this outstanding Michael Chossudovsky report that tells you all … America's "Humanitarian Wars" against Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Palestine A History of Anglo-American Colonialism (1909-2024)
https://michelchossudovsky.substack.com/p/americas-humanitarian-wars-against?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1910355&post_id=150811911&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2qsvac&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Not all is you have been fed, we ought realise that by now, COVID a big awakening, I used that time to look into all of the geopolitical zero sum lies and propaganda we have been fed, if they were evil enough to do so with our health son such an unprecedented scale, what else have they been doin, it’s sickening, evil,the scab once ripped off showing the putrid puss infused reality that is the Geo
Politics winner take all zero sum game, now they dare to risk it all having laid down such a vast investment in that failed Nazi shit hole Ukraine, with nuclear war, personally all that stands between our true freedom and the globalist winner take all tyranny is Russia, I pray Putin, the smartest statesmen on the planet throws a nuke down to let these ass holes know they cannot cross this, the only red line Russia has imposed since the conflict started, every other so called red line a Western Media NATO construct…. used ad nauseum to justify their escalations of this conflict, read and understand the reality of this conflict, it will sober you…
These people are mad, insane, need held and called to account, they have no regard for you, me your loved ones, your communities nope, none, it’s all wealth and opportunity to them, the consequences be damned… time to gen up people, get to u Derst and the real why and that it’s only Russia and BRICS, multipolarity that can save us… once again as with the last time fascism raided its ugly moniker, it was Russia that saved the world, a history denied them, no longer, not for those who now fully have become aware and understand, each time before War, the vitriol ramped up, Russia, China, Iran, meanwhile they, NATO have been found wanting in Ukraine, over 1million dead including Western NATO troops and high ranking officers, amazing how after missile strikes news reports of Colonels and Generals appear in Western Media of untimely death, helicopter, plane, car crashes etc… Russia has beaten, is smashing them, losing 100,000 dead to the NATO Ukraine 1 million add the the near additional 3 million seriously wounded 38% of which are amputees and Ukraine and western armies have been literally demilitarised yet, still the billionaires, Blackrock etc push escalation absolute madness, a psychopathy Russia will face and act upon…. pray they succeed… Kia Kaha from New Zealand
Too bad for Godzone that most Kiwis are clueless little Hobbiton hobbits who have no idea what's going on in the wider world. It's infuriating that Kiwis believe what their globalist media tells them to believe.
How about if Trump just starts turning democrat politicians, starting with hillary clinton and BHO to putin to do with as he sees fit. This is a play to burn down the world instead of relinquishing power. It wasn't that long ago I heard a talking head from the MSM say, "Nuclear war would be good for the Earth as it would bring about an end to man made global warming". I knew then they would rather send us all into the dark night than to step out of power.
Is this perhaps a ploy to get Trump to open some kind of back channel to Moscow, thereby violating the Logan Act? Are the Dems that evil?
It could be but Trump isn't going to bite because he he just says openly what he is going to do, and leaves the "how' part for when he has the power. I think you mean communists and they are more evil than that.