Posted on 05/03/2022 5:44:56 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Are we utterly deranged? Wasn’t a large portion of America inexorably against war just a few years ago? Have we so completely forgotten everything in the past 10 years and the past 100 years that we’re willing to call for “regime change” in one of the largest and most bellicose nations in the world?
And yet a majority of the population is now busting out the Ukrainian flags when Joe Biden says that Russia’s Putin must go. What exactly do we think is going to happen now? Is anyone thinking?
Listen America, let me remind you of a few things: First, you don’t care at all about Ukraine. I’m willing to bet that most Americans couldn’t have picked it out on a blank map of Europe two months ago. I’ll even double the ante and bet that a majority of Americans still couldn’t pick it out on a blank map of Europe. And yet we’re willing to make this a holy casus belli?
Of course, my own instincts put me on the help-Ukraine bandwagon. After all, I have been telling literally anyone who would listen for the last 10 years (all two of them) that we were heading toward war with Russia. But my goal in warning about this was to find a way to avoid the war. If you’re one of those people who has put the Ukrainian flag on your Facebook profile pic (which probably means you also put the “I got vaccinated” frame on your profile pic) let me ask you this: Does it make you suspicious when our government and all of our media, including Fox News, unanimously tell you the same thing? Does it bother you at all when the two least-trusted institutions in the entire nation are reading from the same page,
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Propaganda works.
And there is a MASSIVE propaganda campaign, right here in the US. The CIA is allowed to fund propaganda on US soil now. So is DOD.
Ukraine is also famous for the most contacts with Congress each year. And Congress can be, and is, bribed. Family jobs; family wealth.
Finally, the military contractors and retired generals on their boards (War, Inc) stand to make a fortune. Heck, they already are. Each “Billion for Ukraine” has a big cut to them.
“Who gains?”
Everyone, except us.
Thanks. Have a good day.
“Nock predicted in 1935 that a new world war would start in the summer of 1939, not because Hitler was unstoppable in his evil schemes, but because the powers controlling public opinion and public expenditure in the West would also benefit from a war.”...
“Ask yourself: Would a diversion from poor economic conditions at home be of any help to professional politicians in Washington? How about an excuse for increasing government power? Just consider that the result of every war in modern history—in the winning nation—has been a transfer of social and economic power away from the people and toward the State: Higher taxes, more laws, more control over the daily lives of citizens. More government. That is what war does—when you win. And if you’re going to lose, who cares?
Do I think that our government is really so evil and incompetent that they’d get us into a war just so they remain in power (and increase their power)? Of course I do. They won’t realize the magnitude of the war until it’s too late. As is traditional. ...”
Yup. But the “I support the latest thing!” crowd feelz good about themselves.
“I think that in four years we are going to be in a real war—a world war—against Russia and China. It will have been entirely unnecessary and avoidable, just like the first and second world wars. And it will be much worse than we imagine, because it is going to be fought with worse-than-nuclear weapons. We will face biological weapons, diseases that kill nine out of every 10 people they infect, rather than one in a 100,000. You’ll carry the disease around for two weeks without knowing, and two weeks later you’ll be dead. Two weeks after that, everyone you talked to will be dead. That’s the sort of thing that will happen in the next world war: After we lose our power and our internet and after the food supply-chain has been destroyed—after all that, expect bioweapons of horror-film-level malignancy.
If you don’t want a world war—well, I frankly don’t know if we can still prevent it. But if you’d like to be helpful, I can only suggest the following: Stop waving another nation’s flag on Facebook like a thoughtless idiot.”
And people here, and all around, just brush it off. “Can’t happen! Support Ukraine, you Putinista!” is what we hear.
Oh well. I’m stocking up on durable foods and ammo. Soon, coins and dollar bills.
“For God’s sake people!! When are folks going to finally get it through their thick skulls that WE HAVE NO BUSINESS INTERFERING WITH OTHER PEOPLE’S PROBLEMS!
We just got through pouring thousands of lives and billions of dollars into the interminable gaping holes of Iraq and Afghanistan, while the conservative movement devoured its own as “unpatriotic” those who said this kind of lunacy was stupid and wrong.
And they are just dead set and determined to crank up “Proud to be an American” and march over into Ukraine to prop up a hideeously corrupt cabal of yes men to the worst aspects of the western banking alliance!
Just unfathomable stupidity. How much is enough, people?”
+1000!!!!
Is everyone against this idiocy calling congress every day? I am. Both senators and my rep. Saying, “Stop!!!”
“Just remember that the “Great Reset” needs society to collapse so they can “Build Back Better”. A WWIII would fit their needs.”
Yes. And hyperinflation, food shortages, and our border being over run first? Brilliant! If you want to destroy the US, that is.
So is the number of Putinistas.
“Hmmm...... Name one please”
How about this one?
“Looks like you are a Hitler supporter???” by AZJeep
Putin comparisons to Hitler are nothing but bullshit!
Everything is very reminiscent about the way Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait was handled and reported. All reporting was aimed at getting support for US involvement and intervention.
“One of the most corrupt countries in Europe. I’m convinced that they’re the clearinghouse for a lot of politicians ill-gotten gains.”
Amen. and I’m not shocked anymore that there are gullible freepers still defending that stupid country.
A president who is an ex-comedian, who is not really the president because he ‘won” a Tv contest about being president and whose army is made up on unapologetic Nazis. and a national gas company whose board members included stripper rapist and crackhead Hunter biden.
I suggest you read and listen to Putin’s speeches and interviews since 2007. His grand plan has been to restore Russia to what he considers its “rightful” place in the world order. Bar ceding hegemony over Eastern Europe to Russia war with Russia has been inevitable sine Putin became president for life.
I suggest you read and listen to Putin’s speeches and interviews since 2007. His grand plan has been to restore Russia to what he considers its “rightful” place in the world order. Bar ceding hegemony over Eastern Europe to Russia, war with Russia, in one form another, has been inevitable sine Putin became leader for life.
No, I think the Communists are presently controlling China; COVID is just the excuse for extreme Communist control measures, and Biden and the Democrats are only || far from doing it here.
Remind me who elected us hall monitor of the world?
Who said anything about being hall monitor of the world?
We have been fooled by our mini wars with 3rd world tin pot dictatorships. Wars are things on TV screens—not real—with a few deaths of soldiers. They are like video-games to amuse us. BUT we have not seen real war—that gets really bad, really fast. In these battles thousands die! Like a D-Day every day. Gone will be rights, gone will be freedom—even if we win. This time we may not! Once the war is lost and the treaty signed, the nation will be ripped by Civil War! Who lost the war? Who is to blame? This could go fast! I hope I am wrong.
You may be correct. The CCP is in fact controlling events . However I get the sense that the concept of Shanghai and or Bejing ravaged by Covid as was Wuhan and other cities is to be prevented at all costs.
There was real pandemic earlier and that is unthinkable in the densely populated city of Shanghai
The concept of control by lockdown is in China a false notion. The CCP already has control. Xi is in the process of implementing what he has called China Socialism that has not been precisely defined. That effort is visible by the total destruction of all real estate markets all across the country and the selective take over of all businesses.
Major international businesses have already closed up factories. These are world class companies from Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Tens of thousands of jobs are just gone.
Also, it is not possible to evaluate the gargantuan destruction of massive flooding of the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers. There is no apparent method for governmental flood relief for the immense damage in ‘20 then again but worse in ‘21. I have seen initial reports seeming to indicate the rain and floods have already begun this year.
There are the rampant problems with Tufu Drang. That is the falling apart of buildings sarcastically said to be made of tofu.
There are the youth who are lying flat. That is, they have ceased to work. Somehow they get by by just lying flat . They refuse the 996 work ethic of 9:00 am to 9:00 pm 6 days a week.
There is also a split and dissention within the CCP. I don’t know to what effect but it exists. Xi is in control still however.
The point of all this is that Xi has his hands full domestically and engaging in a war is not prudent at present. Sun Tzu aside, Xi is not pretending to be at ease.
No, Covid is controlling nothing.
The CCP is controlling China and Covid is the excuse for doing it.
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> Fusion weapons use a fission reaction as the trigger to initiate the fusion reaction. These weapons are literally the power of the Sun dropped on a city.
technically our h-bombs are fission-fusion-fission weapons, where the fission-initiated fusion is used to contain a more powerful fission (which can also contain a more powerful fusion, and so on).
future star faring aliens might hear our radio transmissions and venture forth to visit us, only to discover a planet surfaced in eroding green glass with an atmosphere of unbreathable nitrogen oxides and radioactive sea of fizzy dilute nitric acid.
In a few tens of millions of years the anerobic bacteria might rise from the sea bottom and mutate into cyanobacteria and start things all over again with another Great Oxidation.
Most nuclear exchange scenarios I’ve seen stop before 800 events. But conceivably there could be thousands of detonations, resulting in multiple gigatons of energy release.
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