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Martin Armstrong Warns The West "Sanctioning Russia Is A Big Mistake"
Judging from the plunge in stocks and the Ruble and along with proclamations that Russia is "isolated" (when it is clearly not), The West's sanctions appear to be achieving their goals (propaganda-wise). However, Martin Armstrong warns "politicians just keep making the same mistakes over and over again," as he explains, to the people of Russia, "sanctions only make Putin stronger for they allow him to point to the West as the evil empire."
Via Armstrong Economics,
Politicians just keep making the same mistake over and over again.
They perpetually turn to sanctions bankrupting private business with no respect whatsoever as the USA is wiping out farmers in Europe.
But worst of all, there is not a single incident where sanctions have EVER worked even once. They often remain in place beyond a decade even as in Iran, but there is no change in politics.
Sanctions only make Putin stronger for they allow him to point to the West as the evil empire that covertly toppled the Soviet Union with a CIA plot.
The most popular T-Shirt in Russia says: "This particular tree [which is also the name of a weapon] is not afraid of sanctions."
The one in the middle says: "Sanctions? Don’t make our Iskanders laugh" (Iskander SS-26 Stone is the missile system shown).
The Mickey Mouse Club would be nice if there were really qualified people instead of questionable lawyers.
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stupid is as stupid does
those ladies on tshirt seems scary .... common armstrong get smt to talk about ...
i like it when he predicts one week as a turning point ... phhh nothing happens ... then he goes on smt else, like his computer model did not predict anything at all ... classic
but again, i am sure he will be right on a couple of things ... the broken clock comes to mind ...
Western sanctions against Russia are a huge political gift to Putin, giving him the justification to crack down on dissidents in Russia. Fifth and sixth columnists, atlanticists etc cannot stand in opposition to a nationalist Russian leader who enjoys 85% support. Anyone who is supporting the western propaganda line is now immediately denounced as traitors, funded by foreign NGO's attempting regime change etc. Even legitimate dissidents cannot prevail in the present Russian political climate.
MIC.... see ya real soon.....
pure propaganda bullshit, no one can use nuclear weapons...
Best way to talk to people is beat 'em senseless.
- New Progressive Idiom
Now this is real news from armstrong ... it looks like the rats are abonding ship - whatever the excuse de jour is ... the fact is rats are leaving ....
UBS Preparing to Delist StockWhere can I buy one of those T-Shirts ?
The USSR failed because of central planning.
Von MIses predicted long before that it would inevitably collapse and the West just needed to sit back and wait.
where can i get one of those???
and im not talking about the t-shirts....
signed...a non drinker...
I can tell you
contact me if you need advises
Better than those new American "I (heart) Zionism" tee's given out for free.
G8 hates Russians for their freedums and tee-shirts
Last time I checked, USA was also central planned economy. What else would you call the federal Reserve and Central bank? Free market economy?
Exactly... it's why we're getting ass-raped into hell
GUM in Moscow
eBay Seller denupo1981 located moscow
there is links posted by another member in this thread
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Until someone does. Then everyone who can, will. Unfortunately, there are many currently in power who actually believe that a nuclear war is survivable. It is not.
Completely wrong..It`s in Russia`s military doctrine to quickly use tactical nucs in a large scale conventional war. Limited use doesn`t mean full scale nuc war. But there is always the chance that that is what will result.
"no one can use nuclear weapons..."
Listen, you tool ! Ever heard of Hiroshima ? Or Nagasaki ? Do you know WHO did what, over there ?
He is well justified ousting the 5th column there IMO.
I agree. Putin should burn out the NGO's ratnests, sending the lot to perdition. Having said this, I am surprised that the CIA thought sanctions would weaken Putin, instead of giving him political cover to purge enemies.
Their desperate to try to stop the BRICS`s alternative fininuial system. Isolating Russia from the other BRIC`s would do this but hasn`t happened yet.
Yez Paul Craig Roberts has been on this theme for some time - Putin must use this opportunity to clear out the US sponsored NGO's while it is easy
Dissidents? I thought they were there when there was the USSR.
Nowadaws they are simply externally funded NGO's or agents of foreign influence. Or oligarchs who would sell to the highest bidder without guilty conscience.
Putin's attempt at kicking our NGOs is a smart move.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/21/us-russia-putin-ngos-idUSBRE86...
I bow to the queen (or is it king?) vote-getter of the Okhrana.
Regardless, I am certain that the only Latina you might love would be Raul Castro in drag.
Speaking of those impish Castro bros, the name of Fidel seems to have vanished from the nightly commentary on RHC (that's Radio Havana Cuba, for non-Okhrana readers) whereas it was once omnipresent up to about a week ago. It's all about President Raul Castro now, so I would anticipate hearing news about the death or additional incapacitation (I mean, apart from being a communist dinosaur) of Fidel very shortly.
Hugo Chavez, in his current "do I smell sulphur" accomodations, might be about to have a dinner guest in his quarters.
But getting back to Bad Vlad and his 85% approval rating for a moment...
The fact that he murders any dissident journalists and confiscates their media platforms means that it is somewhat of a surprise that he is only up to 85%, considering how he totally owns the information-generation-mechanisms of the country as well as all the polling organizations.
Hell, if I was in Moscow and a pollster came up to me and asked if I thought he was doing a good job, I'd make it a point of fervently agreeing with the minion. Unless I was in the process of stepping aboard a flight out of the country. Even then, I might think that discretion was the better part of valor.
Even if I did tell the truth, however, I'm sure my answer would still be translated so it comes out on the pro-Putin side of the ledger. It's important to keep in mind that someone whose life and livelihood depend on amusing their master's every whim is not going to be a real truth-to-power sort of guy or girl.
Even if they are, their bosses are not crazy.
And, in closing, I always find it amusing to see people rant and rave about lying western politicians, media, and institutions and then pretend that Vladimir Putin is some sort of Slavic Saint Paddy.
Puitn is the exact same sort of lying, thieving, conniving, murdering rat as are his enemies and I dare you to admit to this obvious truism flat out without qualification or attempt at obfuscation, but you never will since you work for him.
What is scary about?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrxjYfl05ek
Nothing, unless you are a clueless US millenial with an iGadget addiction...
Ukraine: Protesters take down Lenin statue in Kharkov, carve “Glory to Ukraine” on side (VIDEO)
http://wtfrly.com/2014/09/29/protesters-take-down-lenin-statue-kharkhov-...
Protesters in western media are more likely Right Sector Neo Nazis. I think they are scared of losing Kharkov also in the coming shuffle.
They are rightfully scared that Karkov will leave since the Ukrainians have done a magnificent job of destroying their economy, legal and political systems. Once the Ukraine is completely ruined, Karkov will go and there will be nothing that Piggyschenko can do to stop them. He could not win against the Novorossiyans, and does not have the money to rebuild a ruined military. Besides, Oligarchs would rather steal and run, than work and rebuilt.
"Oligarchs would rather steal and run, than work and rebuilt."
That is the central tragedy of Ukraine. The oligarchs plundered Ukraine, moved the money outside the country, refused to invest it back into the Ukraine economy and are now simply playing one side against another for the next multi billion bailout, which they will steal as soon as it arrives.
I feel sorry for all Ukranians, both Russian and Ukrainian speakers. But until they off the oligarchs nothing will change. The oligarcks are the problem, not Russia or the EU. Of course the U.S. is abetting the destruction of yet another country in hopes that its U.S. olgarchs can replace the native ones.
To all Ukrainians I would say the uniform of the day is HOA!
Oh, the irony. It was actually Lenin who created Ukraine.
http://www.img-share.eu/f/images/28/DarwinTcFUpog.jpg
No irony, since the pravy sector is controlled by the CIA, and the average american knows shit about history, including their own.
Yes but just think of the Community Organizing possiblities.
Not a mistake if you make your profits in the Military industrial Complex.
Listen NY1.
I'm sure Russia couldn't give a shit. Putin knows that USSA is going to be toast in "T" minus 3 years so who wants US Do-lars?
What what?
Point to the West - is this the same West that invades and bombs and topples governments at will, Mr. Armstrong?
Did the oligarchs who raped Russia under Yeltsin originate from "the East" or were they thieves with deep Western ties, and did Putin make life better or worse for the average Russian after taking the reigns from the incompetent drunkard Yeltsin?
The West has been playing offense for decades. Anyone suggesting otherwise is either ignorant or a shill.
Century's, with the odd decade when its not.
The Great Game continues, with the western players changing ,but always vs. Russia.
It amuses me (yet makes me want to cry) that the western media tries to portrait Putin as someone who destroys the russian democracy, taken in consideration that the 1996 russian presidential election was such a fraud that it should rather be characterized as one big mockery of all democratic processes.
15 Years of Putin Rule
http://ozziesaffa.blogspot.com/2014/06/15-years-of-putin-rule-in-one-infograph.html
beat that
Russia has 13% Flat Tax only
Západní lži a klam - Ukrajina nikdy nep?ichází v EU -http://www.expresszeitung.ch/redaktion/geopolitik/ukraine/westlicher-lug...
Harvard Boys Do Ruska -http://www.thenation.com/article/harvard-boys-do-russia#Yes...
The Harvard Boys do Russia http://www.thenation.com/article/harvard-boys-do-russia#
Russia's Flat Tax Miracle http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2003/03/russias-flat-tax-miracle
Russia, China, Brazil, Iran, Syria, Argentina and whoever we else wants to join, should just pretend the entire Zio-Euro club does not exist... and move on.
The new cool-kids club does not need 7th grade girls telling them how to run the world.
Just ignore the brats... and be happy.
The fact that you regard those nations as the cool kids tells us a lot about your place in the junior high school pecking order.
But let's take your suggestion at face value for a moment...
These are all countries who make their living selling stuff to the allegedly evil "Zio-Euro club". How are they going to survive if they stop selling to the United States and Europe? You think Syria, Iran, and Argentina can replace the demand side equation emanating from the US/EU?
Here's a tip for you from someone who runs their own business: You can't pay the bills without customers.
putin fears only 1 thing: getting voted out of office. that happens, and his old KGB buddies turn on him because the world court would then be allowed to even think of hitting him with war crimes and THAT cannot happen in russia. if obama really wanted to do this its simple in concept, impossible in theory:
1. have the fed raise rates 300-400 basis points overnight (i wish it would because it would destroy the hyperinflation the fed & CNBC lie about regarding energy, food, education, healthcare, etc.) the ruble would implode (so would other EM currencies), dollar rips, russian markets tank. this in conjunction with economic sanctions would bring the russian economy to its knees. this will obviously never happen because the elite in washington have an addiction to debt which has in-turn become a national security issue that nobody seems to care about.
2. approve keystone, drill-baby-drill, frack-U: only way to get AND KEEP the europeans on-board is by making sure they don't have the threat of being frozen to death hanging over them. dems wont allow that so-long as a democratic doner has a $100 million donation vig hanging over their heads and will DK it should they allow it to pass.
3. economic sanctions on anything else they export ie. lumber, vodka, etc. don't allow their economy to breathe and anyone who does business with them gets the same treatment.
take-out their banking & energy sectors and the people would have no choice but to turn on him because then it hits them directly in their pockets. all this other stuff we have been doing up until this point is nothing more than trimming around the edges of the problem and simply attempting to make the optics appear as tho we are trying to do something about it.
while we're at it, maybe we can do the same to mexico until they give us back our fuggin marine.
Experts consider it a joke that the US could fill any holes in Europes need for energy. Try again.
Obola is an expert at filling holes...FORWARD!
Aliki --
This is quite possibly the most inane thing I've ever read.
Exactly what horrible deeds have Russia done to warrant your rant other than show the world your u.s.s.a is a bully? List them out, please.
Aliki, if the USSA raised interest rates 3-400 basis points, the economy would implode under the debt load. As for economic sanctions, trade between the USSA and Russia is minimal, and can be easily substituted by the Russki's. Y
a Russian citizens "share" of Russia's national debt is something like $1,4000....Here, it's something like $45,000
I've paid in close to 1/2 Million. Can I have a rebate?
Don't know about the veracity of your claims, but one should keep in mind the difference between Russian and US personal income.
Also, one should recognize that the US will effectively default in one way or another and thus get to keep all the nice stuff we bought with all the money we borrowed from people stupid enough to trust Barack Obama with their life savings.
Some things do work out in the end.
Your analysis isn't correct.
If the ruble implodes, then Russian exports will also become cheaper and foreign imports will become more expensive.
For example, if a bottle of vodka costs $20 now, then it'll be cheaper to produce it and the same bottle will cost $5 for foreigners. That's a wonderful price advantage over competitors.
Coca Cola can now sell 20 bottles for one bottle of vodka, then it'll be able to sell only 5.
Your forgetting one thing. Russia manufactures nothing. To do anything, they need western machines to harvest trees, make canned soup, or to fashion the wood stocks on their guns, etc. They are a 1950's economy. I've been there. It's comical. Nothing there is modern and works well in regards to making things and having a vibrant economy. They can't even be independant if they wanted.
At this particular moment, I would say that Russia manufactures more than America does...
Yah, Russia manufactures nothing eh......tell that to the American space program....who exactly is putting satilites in space these days?
You have been programed.....you statement is comical to say the least.
useless talkings
Russia is the second largest arms exporter. Planes, helicopters, submarines, missiles...
Russia neglected manufacturing due to cheap Western imports. It even bought a French military ship.
Not anymore. It seems that Obama works for the Russian industrial complex.
If "Russian manifactures nothing" why is then inform us USA buying Russian made engines for their planes?
Meme are useful but not the fake ones.
It's true what somebody said yesterday on ZH: Nowadays truth is what you believe, reality is what you ignore.
If Russia continues to sign oil and gas deals in Ruble and disconnect the prices of these resources from the Dollar then an imploding Ruble would make gas and oil really cheap. Why would Europe them buy then from ME or America?
This is a game that runs long. Russian economy is hurting because of the sanctions but German manufacturing is also down. America needs to keep dollar king. Who has the longest breath? To me it seems that Russians know how to endure while it remains to be seen if people in the West can cope with live without designer coffees not mention real essentials in life. The only way the West can toughen up its people is to force them I'm afraid.
Yes, I'm sure that Bad Vlad really wants to sell his oil for EVEN LESS THAN HE'S GETTING FOR IT NOW. That should definitely keep the lights burning on Lubianka Street.
Personal message from the Office of the Kremlin: Uh, Comrade, could you please defect and go advise the Americans.
What war crimes should Putin be charged with exactly? Your comment is ridiculous.
This is kind of an interesting post. Given Putin's ability to contort the term limits contained in the Russian constitution into anything that will keep him in power, I'm not real sure he's worried about re-election.
On the other hand, given that so much US QE money went into the carry trade, raising US interest rates would call to mind Ross Perot's "giant, sucking sound" but only in reverse-- so it's no surprise to see how virulently the Okhrana and all the other non-US entities react against this exceedingly fatal proposal by down-voting you. Congratulations, you've scared the shit out of them.
Also agree that increased US energy independence is another nail in the coffin of those tyrannical petro-kleptocracies (yes, Russia, I mean you too) who have been keeping the proles down thanks to the flood tide of Uncle Sam's flithy lucre rolling in. Now that it is no longer rolling in, at least not at the same level as before, global instability is greatly heightened. Especially in all of the most despotic places on the planet. So, good for us.
The US is the largest market in the world. Anybody who thinks they can replace our business with crumbs from Third World shitholes is deluding themselves, or more properly trying to delude us.
Both the West and BRICS are wrong. We're fucked..
Yes, after building Dollar Inc. over several hundred years, they are gonna just throw it away, the same people that spent 45 years getting back into the US after Andy Jackson threw them out and a whole host of other uglies past and present.
http://fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/theater/ss-26.htm
Range less than 500 kilometres
Time to get scared New York, when you see one in Jersey.
There's a submarine for that!
I'd like to see closer views of those t-shirts. With those girls wearing them. Wet.
Good ol' rocket launcher... hehehe
"The most popular T-Shirt in Russia says: "This particular tree [which is also the name of a weapon] is not afraid of sanctions."...
To Jew-boy Central in Tel Aviv, Britain and America.
Go ahead and keep doing what you've been doing which you realize in the end will never get you what you want most and is only destroying your own economies in the process.
Russia will never hand you over what is rightfully theirs!
So get that image of those SS-26s and SS-18s firmly planted in the back of those pea sized fucking brains of yours when you give the "go ahead" for the biggest one you will ever own.
Cause Mr. Putin and Country will gladly oblige!!!
P.S.
I want that t-shirt. Let me know where I can find one!
I'm going to Almaty soon, maybe I can swing by Moscow and snag one.
The shirt that is".......
I love it when I get "down arrowed".
To all the trolls in the Federal Government that work for Israel...
Take a picture of yourself and send it to this guy. Then open a web sight "Tony Weiner sending you.com" for ex-politicians in the U.S., Israel and U.K. that get off on taking pictures of themselves.
Not only are you Ashkenazis fucking psychopaths you're fucking perverts as well.
More of Everything!!!
I down vote you because you think you see the big picture, but you have no clue what is really going on in our world today.
I down vote you because you think you see the big picture, but you have no clue what is really going on in our world today.
Is that you Brooks?...
No worries brotha.
The way to your heart is through your "purse strings" and printing more of something to finance it doesn't seem to be helping you... But go ahead and indulge us some more anyway with your fantasy. It's fun to watch!
The best is yet to come!
so tell us what your 'big picture' is.
SoCN lays his 'big picture' out for all to see on a daily basis.
Anybody who get up-arrowed this much on a Russian thread is obviously Okhrana being congratulated by all of the other Okhrana agents busy typing out their bizarre "Putin is my Fuhrer" scribbles. Or else a nazi. Maybe both.
And what's so bad about more of everything? You think the West rose out of the mud by sitting on the side of the river watching prayer wheels turn? Our current problem is that we are making less and less, not more and more. You think the system is going to crash and what are you doing about it?
If you're smart, you're piling up more of everything against the time when there will be nothing left to obtain. Do nazi mothers read their children the fable of the Ant and the Grasshopper. Just wondering, not accusing your X-donor of anything specific.
GUM in Moscow
Where is this evidence of E.U. farmers being "wiped out"?
I suspect he was referring to this, or along these lines.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29294096
Farmers will always, eat. Russian farmers adapted long ago, perhaps the farmers in the E.U. just need to follow their lead.
The reset I see occuring is one of skilled labor finally being compensated justly. The useless paper-pushers can go fuck themselves, they will get hungry soon enough. Long sharecropping in my book...
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"Peak Financialization".......
Farmers will always eat. Not when Ukraine got collectivized in the 1930s. And where are all these Russian farmers, by the way? There's a reason why the country imports food from the EU and it's not because Siberians like a little Gruyere with their vodka.
And you do realize that a sharecropper is just one step above a serf? Someone who does all the work and turns over half the profit to the guy who owns the land?
Do a web search with this text:
russian sanctions destroy eu farmers
Might be all propaganda, but lots of related "evidence" will be the result.
And since when does any government care about any of it's subjects? If farmers suffer for a few years, they think, "So be it." Everyone has to give their pound of flesh for the cause.
would those be the same "experts" who thought we could never become energy independent?
Who's Martin Armstrong? Seriously, is this the astronaut?
I don't have a clue who he is since he got out of the hole. Makes me doubt everything I ever gave him credit for.
For instance, if he really believes the sanctions are "a big mistake" he's a fucking fool for not understanding the dynamics and who they ultimately serve. Otherwise, he's a fully compromised water-boy for the elite, providing their evil with the cover of political stupidity. Horse-race analysis of a facade is but distracting sophistry.
Either way, he is not our friend.
I didn't know who he is either so I googled and I see he is a crook.
A convicted liar and thief.
They're Making Up Stuff by Justin Raimondo
Keep an eye on Syria. I think that is where the next flash-point may reside. The U.S. is 'tickling' the edges right now - probing. While Assad may stay or leave, that Huge Russian Naval/submarine dock & repair shop, ain't goin' nowhere anytime soon. It would be curious to see if anyone has a line on recent 'shipments' to Syria - by land or sea, from Russia...
This was on the propaganda media's FoxNews (NeoConNews) about Syria.
In propaganda watching circles, this is called a "pivot."
Keeping in mind the other shit that has been told/sold to the the American sheeple, read this from FoxNews:
A top White House national security adviser said Sunday that the United States has strong support from Syrian residents in its effort to destroy Islamic State positions in their country, downplaying protests and arguing that Syrian President Bashar Assad is a common enemy.??"We've seen strong expressions of support from the Syrian opposition for the effort that we're making,” Deputy National Security Adviser Tony Blinken told “Fox News Sunday.” ??"The moderate opposition is the common denominator to being able to be a counterweight on the ground to (Islamic State) and then over time also being a counterweight to Assad," he continued. "If you're going to change the dynamics in Syria, if you're going to get to a political transition that moves Assad out, you have to have a strong moderate opposition.We are doing both."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/09/28/top-wh-security-adviser-says-...
Okay, translation:
Despite not asking Assad for permission, they somehow KNOW that the Syrian people want the DC US to bomb their country on their behalf. He then says those people in support are really the "Syrian Opposition," not the Syrian people. Now the "Syrian Opposition" is really a construct of the CIA, Israel, and their allies.
He goes on to spew that the "moderate opposition" (I would assume the same above "Syrian Opposition") will one day serve as a future "counterweight" against Assad and eventually assist in getting "Assad out."
Basically he is laying the ground, or mind, work for military moves against Assad. Soon we will hear that Assad is "hampering our actions against ISIS" in Syria, blah, lying blah.?
An American, born at night, just not last night, and not a US subject.?
7.5% inflation in Russia.
Your move, "chessmaster" Pootin.
"7.5% inflation in Russia"
Yeah but what's it in the US? HUH? Like 8-10%? Really. Not the goverment and FED bullshit numbers but the real deal? So they are better then us in that respect I would imagine.
I think US is worse.
Potatoe for sure
cos Russia grow own...no inflation then..
Russians don't spend money they don't have normally
Make do with what we have
very different than USA
Dmitry Orlov explains this well...read his books and cluborlov.blogspot
The 'move' is being saved for the appropriate moment. Notice that Putin's moves have been mainly in response to U.S. actions. Oh, and by the way, what is our non-hedonically/geometrically-weighted/adjusted, etc., CPI here in the U.S. again...?
About 10% by Shadowstats.
Funny how oil below $105 /$110 will trash out the Russian budget. Why they couldn't even buy fuel of their military jets a few years ago.
Thats a cash flow game that Russia will win ,because unlike the US they are not already bankrupt.
It worked back in the 1980's when the roles were reversed.
Not going to work this time, if thats whats going down.
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/russia/food-inflation
9% food before sanctions
Club Rules: "No independent non-Rothschild financial systems allowed. Please see the maitre d' for a SWIFT jacket and Petrodollar tie."
An American, not US subject.
"Save a human life, guillotine a bankster."
Dat you, Christina Kirschner? Seeing that "kchrisc" is an anagram for "ckirsch". ;-)
p.s. I also observe that people in other North, Central and South America countries are... "Americans". They may not be US Citizens (USCs) or US Subjects (USSs), but they are Americans. Hence, even the Argie President Christina Kirschner is "An American", but not a US Subject. Just observing. :-)
Unfortunately Americans north of the border only identify with "American," "US" and "Colonialist."
"US" is the nationality of the occupiers and oppressors of the American people, and "Colonialist" is archaic.
Therefore we Americans north of the Rio commonly identify with "American" within our own country.
The other Americans, citizens of the American hemisphere, are just as welcome to use the term as anyone else for their identity--no one said they couldn't.
As such, the identity of "American"north of the Rio does not preclude or prevent other Americans from identifying with being Americans. My Mexican friends certainly identify with being Mexican as much as I identify with being American, but they also identify with being a citizen of the American hemisphere, which I am as well. "It's all cool."
I am not against another term for an American north of the Rio, but that has to happen organically, and cannot be forced upon people.
An American, and an American, not US subject.
I don't know about Armstrong... Listened to an interview with Greg Hunter in which he said the u.s economy is doing well and holding up the rest of the economies. If true then the rest of the worlds economies must really suck. He doesn't like gold or silver at all and suggested the dollar was the best place to be saying where would you put your savings, Rubles, Yuan, or Dollars.The dollar is gaining strength, on that he seems right.
I try to be fair in evaluating the guy but he seems a bit wishy washy sometimes.
As I stated above, since he's gotten out of solitary, I don't find his opinions coherent anymore.
He still holds out that the "boys" will let him back in. They won't.
G8 has always been G7+1.
Only now the "+1" is the Exceptional Puppet-master who pulls the strings of the G7. Even the strings of "We're #1".
The power`s that be are trying to econimically isolate Russia before the BRIC`s can get their alternative financial system off the ground. The NWO`s key to power is control over the world`s financial system not military. Military is secondary. If the BRICS`s system gets off the ground it could be lights out for the NWO.
My guess is that the BRICS are just the next chapter of the NWO saga. What's occurring now is the setup for Western failure.
ventnor - no problem. im not advocating doing any of it. im just saying if you want to do something, set a clear objective that has a chance to succeed. thats just my opinion and it could very well be dead-wrong as ive been wrong on things in the past. any russian person ive spoken to on the matter seems to say the same thing; putin is not going to stop until he's pieced the soviet union back together. too be quite frank, i could care less if he does. id rather we just focus on ourselves over here because we have our own problems in the U.S. worst thing than not doing anything IMO is employing a strategy that doesn't have a chance for success which i personally believe we are in the process of. just to me seems like a strategy-less strategy which is all ive seen from day 1 out of this administration. JMO.
The "russian people" you're referring to seem suspect. Are these your neighbors or some guy you talk to down at the corner bar? Sorry, I'm just trying to figure out what a sheep is doing here.
Martin Armstrong is a NWO hack who got kicked out of the club. He has a good knowledge of economic history, but he's not relevant when it comes to politics.
Here's how it really works, oh Martin "Precious metals are not manipulated" Armstrong:
Putin doesn't really control anything. He's like an angry girlfriend extracting gifts from a boyfriend who pissed her off. There are maybe 250 to 300 Russian oligarchs who control Russia, who live far above the realm of the powers that be, who care not about nationalism and country, and when those sanctions start hurting their profits, they will motivate Putin to change his course.
He's about as much in charge as Obama is. Duh? Get it?
Now if you say that's crap, you only have to look at Iran and the sudden change of relations that happened there to think that the religious "Goombas" control Iran. That's a front. The revolutionary guard and the elite wealthy pull the strings.
Iran has it's elite power brokers at the top, no different then the US or Britain.
Having been thrust out of the club by "the boys", Martin is trying to re-establish himself on this side of the camp to fill up his coffers.
I personally have corresponded with them man. He's clueless on so many things.
Hammer stoutly and pray devoutly.
another expert of nothing concerning Russia
Why would Putin change course because of sanctions? Saddam and Assad both tried cooperating, it only made things worse for them. The sanctions are permanent, like with Iran, purely economic warfare with no intention of actually changing Russia's behavior, Putin presumably knows this.
latina - agreed. thats why my pre-requisite is zero debt in this country. again, pipe dream as it'll never happen given both sides in the U.S. addiction to debt.
Where can I get one of those T-shirts? Does anyone have a link for me? Thanks.
EDIT: Nevermind, found one on ebay
Tell the link...so others can find it
Several inquiries
Here you go
http://www.ebay.com/itm/T-shirt-Russian-weapon-not-afraid-the-sanctions-...
There's also this one
http://www.ebay.com/itm/T-shirt-Sanctions-Do-not-tell-my-Iskanders-NATO-...
But 34$ sure is a little overpriced imo
good...I let friend know...
someone got busy to sell those eBay finally real deal
that is shipping also..but is still big $
Hawawian shirt Crimea is my favorite..got one Moscow
End result? Sanctions increase support for Putin and the country galvanizes behind him.
ok since obama only acts WITH CONSENSUS from behind... when europa drops the sanctions rather than freeze their balls off... will he follow from behind..?? even though he has no balls...???
"Sanctions only make Putin stronger for they allow him to point to the West as the evil empire that covertly toppled the Soviet Union with a CIA plot."
Zerohedge goes open on being Putin regime propoganda asset.
Anyonw who lived in Soviet Union knows how corrupt, broken, immoral, criminal, opresing regime it was.
Watch this to leaern what was Soviet Union:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVZjyyAE-78
And millions of Balts went into streets and joind hand for hundres of killometers to show world that we want freedom from Soviet occupation regime - it was no CIA plot - we wanted our freedom and we went on streets to demand it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKtdBAJGK9I
We where sick of ruskie occupation. You don't know how it was to live under it - you don't want to expierience it.
It was something that all Balts dreamd though all 50 years of occupation... FREEDOM! And than nation rise up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPRARV21s7o
And now we are free:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PDSSoqaCp0
Save your anger for the Bolshevik/Soviet
you don't seem to know who they were...or are today
damn sure not ethnic Russians
Soviet was never a Russian construct
From 1917 Russians were never in control
Stalin was not a Russian. He was a Georgian criminal.
even Krushchev and Breznev were Ukraine nationals.
You're so butthurt...while dumb to know who your masters are...
ZH writes in a manner that it would be like a pity that Soviet regime collapsed.
That exposes ZH true owners.
BTW - majority of ruskies wants USSR back - thats a fact:
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2009/1223/Why-nearly-60-percent-of...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azah8haasKI
Could you imagine a Nazi march with Nazi symbols & Hitler picture like in that video?
So, if I understand you correctly, the Russians are a bunch of big, dumb, vodka-soaked brutes who are content to be ruled by people they regard as their inferiors.
My regards to Russian-born Vladimir Lenin, by the way.
Lenin was tatar jew mongrel
Exactly...
America at its Worst is Better than Soviet Russia ever was at its Best.....
Nobody ever Dies trying to leave America...
Quite the Contrary, many have Died and continue to trying to get in.....
That's the "Proof of the Pudding".....
And for those who wish to leave to Mother Russia and other parts, don't let the door hit you in ass.....
Watch this to leaern what was Soviet Union:
Here ya go V_lv
Watch this to learn who financed the Soviet machine and then turned around and used the same psychological control techniques perfected 90 years earlier by people like this to turn it loose on a mind numbingly stupid population of sheep in this Country!
The same ones that funded Stalin and Hitler at the same time and then set them in opposition to one another that ended up killing 60 million!
Yeah??!!! You guessed it right! It was these guys!!!!
Only this time around it will more than likely get all of us killed. And if you manage to survive you will probably wish you hadn't!
I'm guessing that this is another thinly-veiled "shriek like a girl" thing about International Zionism, or ZOG, or ZIO, or whatever the secret nazi code word of the moment is.
I mean, really, is nothing in your own life your own fault? Heck, no, it's all the fault of those evil jews who tricked you out of whatever it is that you don't have now.
I mean, really, is nothing in your own life your own fault?
t I "up arrowed you".
On this one you're actually right. And we will all collectively reap the benefits of our actions when we go down together under an American flag! Or is it an "umbrella"?...
Can't have one without the other!
But you missed the point. The ZH nazi stooges don't want you to be free. They want you to be part of Mother Russia and hate jews and Americans and, well, anything that stands in the way of Bad Vlad. Just like them.
No doubt you could think of a better punishment for them than to make them live under the system they adore, but you'd need to think really hard.
And if the evil empire of the CIA toppled the Soviet Union, I say hurrah for them. It's about time they did something right.
Reality is a tough storm for viedoklaizi_dirsa. This guy comments a windbag of imaginary fabled past and leads into distorted present.
A pure one pony trick act.
Still, he relishes swimming often into this non sense so it must yield him comforts and satisfactions primitively.
Are these the Russian women that we receive emails about?
Russian woman are the most fertile; 3 to 4 inches of topsoil.
And dumb as a box of rocks - look at their T-shirts... horrible English! I can't even read them!
Russian woman are gorgous because they don't spend all day on the sofa stuffing their faces with Mac Donalds.
Martin Armstrong's belief is that Putin's cutting off food imports, quickly raising prices, will make Putin stronger?
And he must also believe that just ignoring the Russian invasion and annexation of the country next door is just something to ignore.
Chamberlain is his ideal man.
Hey Augustus Trollious, which invasion are you refering to? If Russia had invaded Uk it would be a pile of ash and rubble right now. Instead the east Uk is a pile of rubble. Annexation? It was a democratic vote you moron. Oh, but that democracy was without your consent. FU.
Augustus, 'Russian invasion and annexation of the country next door' , ummm, your not talking about the Ukraine are you, that country the US just threw out the democratically elected Government and put in place its own right wing Russian hating government in its place are you?
The only invasion I am seeing from Russia is an invasion of humanitarian relief, that is if you discount the wild accusations from the Ukraine dictators of, Russia using Nuclear weapons in the Ukraine and of Ukrainian forces destroying Russian invading forces that nobody can ever find..
Sanctions against Russia are the right thing to do. They will get results.
People should do their homework when talking about the Russian Rocket Engine meme.
http://www.spacenews.com/article/launch-report/41047questions-about-rd-1...
http://www.spacefoundation.org/sites/default/files/downloads/Space%20Fou...
These RD-180 rocket engines can be built in the United States, if RD AMROSS wants to build them there.
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/archive/2014/July/pages/Costs,Ben...
How will sanctions get results? Everyone knows by now there's no way out of U.S. sanctions short of regime change. Russia may as well double down at this point, the U.S. will wage economic war against them no matter what.
...regime change...
That is the ticket.
When you have nothing more to lose, you just go for it, cause as much destruction to your enemies as possible..
Not if they're looking for trouble
I see Bombs Away Benny is playing his old broken record again
Just what I posted last week. They got the green light to escalate things and they're moving quickly towards Iran. Barry & Benny opposite sides of the same coin
https://news.yahoo.com/israel-pm-warns-nuclear-armed-iran-gravest-threat...
I often think half of zerohedge's commenters are cranks from kitco.
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