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How To Start A War, And Lose An Empire
Submitted by Dmitry Orlov via Club Orlov blog,
A year and a half I wrote an essay on how the US chooses to view Russia, titled The Image of the Enemy. I was living in Russia at the time, and, after observing the American anti-Russian rhetoric and the Russian reaction to it, I made some observations that seemed important at the time. It turns out that I managed to spot an important trend, but given the quick pace of developments since then, these observations are now woefully out of date, and so here is an update.
At that time the stakes weren't very high yet. There was much noise around a fellow named Magnitsky, a corporate lawyer-crook who got caught and died in pretrial custody. He had been holding items for some bigger Western crooks, who were, of course, never apprehended. The Americans chose to treat this as a human rights violation and responded with the so-called “Magnitsky Act” which sanctioned certain Russian individuals who were labeled as human rights violators. Russian legislators responded with the “Dima Yakovlev Bill,” named after a Russian orphan adopted by Americans who killed him by leaving him in a locked car for nine hours. This bill banned American orphan-killing fiends from adopting any more Russian orphans. It all amounted to a silly bit of melodrama.
But what a difference a year and a half has made! Ukraine, which was at that time collapsing at about the same steady pace as it had been ever since its independence two decades ago, is now truly a defunct state, with its economy in free-fall, one region gone and two more in open rebellion, much of the country terrorized by oligarch-funded death squads, and some American-anointed puppets nominally in charge but quaking in their boots about what's coming next. Syria and Iraq, which were then at a low simmer, have since erupted into full-blown war, with large parts of both now under the control of the Islamic Caliphate, which was formed with help from the US, was armed with US-made weapons via the Iraqis. Post-Qaddafi Libya seems to be working on establishing an Islamic Caliphate of its own. Against this backdrop of profound foreign US foreign policy failure, the US recently saw it fit to accuse Russia of having troops “on NATO's doorstep,” as if this had nothing to do with the fact that NATO has expanded east, all the way to Russia's borders. Unsurprisingly, US–Russia relations have now reached a point where the Russians saw it fit to issue a stern warning: further Western attempts at blackmailing them may result in a nuclear confrontation.
The American behavior throughout this succession of defeats has been remarkably consistent, with the constant element being their flat refusal to deal with reality in any way, shape or form. Just as before, in Syria the Americans are ever looking for moderate, pro-Western Islamists, who want to do what the Americans want (topple the government of Bashar al Assad) but will stop short of going on to destroy all the infidel invaders they can get their hands on. The fact that such moderate, pro-Western Islamists do not seem to exist does not affect American strategy in the region in any way.
Similarly, in Ukraine, the fact that the heavy American investment in “freedom and democracy,” or “open society,” or what have you, has produced a government dominated by fascists and a civil war is, according to the Americans, just some Russian propaganda. Parading under the banner of Hitler's Ukrainian SS division and anointing Nazi collaborators as national heroes is just not convincing enough for them. What do these Nazis have to do to prove that they are Nazis, build some ovens and roast some Jews? Just massacring people by setting fire to a building, as they did in Odessa, or shooting unarmed civilians in the back and tossing them into mass graves, as they did in Donetsk, doesn't seem to work. The fact that many people have refused to be ruled by Nazi thugs and have successfully resisted them has caused the Americans to label them as “pro-Russian separatists.” This, in turn, was used to blame the troubles in Ukraine on Russia, and to impose sanctions on Russia. The sanctions would be reviewed if Russia were to withdraw its troops from Ukraine. Trouble is, there are no Russian troops in Ukraine.
Note that this sort of behavior is nothing new. The Americans invaded Afghanistan because the Taleban would not relinquish Osama Bin Laden (who was a CIA operative) unless Americans produced evidence implicating him in 9/11—which did not exist. Americans invaded Iraq because Saddam Hussein would not relinquish his weapons of mass destruction—which did not exist. They invaded Libya because Muammar Qaddafi would not relinquish official positions—which he did not hold. They were ready to invade Syria because Bashar al Assad had used chemical weapons against his own people—which he did not do. And now they imposed sanctions on Russia because Russia had destabilized and invaded Ukraine—which it did not do either. (The US did that.)
The sanctions against Russia have an additional sort of unreality to them, because they “boomerang” and hurt the West while giving the Russian government the impetus to do what it wanted to do all along. The sanctions infringed on the rights of a number of Russian businessmen and officials, who promptly yanked their money out of Western banks, pulled their children out of Western schools and universities, and did everything else they could to demonstrate that they are good patriotic Russians, not American lackeys. The sanctions affected a number of Russian energy companies, cutting them off from Western sources of technology and financing, but this will primarily hurt the earnings of Western energy companies while helping their Chinese competitors. There were even some threats to cut Russia off from the SWIFT system, which would have made it quite difficult to transfer funds between Russia and the West, but what these threats did instead was to give Russia the impetus to introduce its own RUSSWIFT system, which will include even Iran, neutralizing future American efforts at imposing financial restrictions.
The sanctions were meant to cause economic damage, but Western efforts at inflicting short-term economic damage on Russia are failing. Coupled with a significant drop in the price of oil, all of this was supposed to hurt Russia fiscally, but since the sanctions caused the Ruble to drop in tandem, the net result on Russia's state finances is a wash. Oil prices are lower, but then, thanks in part to the sanctions, so is the Ruble, and since oil revenues are still largely in dollars, this means that Russia's tax receipts are at roughly the same level at before. And since Russian oil companies earn dollars abroad but spend rubles domestically, their production budgets remain unaffected.
The Russians also responded by imposing some counter-sanctions, and to take some quick steps to neutralize the effect of the sanctions on them. Russia banned the import of produce from the European Union—to the horror of farmers there. Especially hurt were those EU members who are especially anti-Russian: the Baltic states, which swiftly lost a large fraction of their GDP, along with Poland. An exception is being made for Serbia, which refused to join in the sanctions. Here, the message is simple: friendships that have lasted many centuries matter; what the Americans want is not what the Americans get; and the EU is a mere piece of paper. Thus, the counter-sanctions are driving wedges between the US and the EU, and, within the EU, between Eastern Europe (which the sanctions are hurting the most) and Western Europe, and, most importantly, they drive home the simple message that the US is not Europe's friend.
There is something else going on that is going to become more significant in the long run: Russia has taken the hint and is turning away from the West and toward the East. It is parlaying its open defiance of American attempts at world domination into trade relationships throughout the world, much of which is sick and tired of paying tribute to Washington. Russia is playing a key role in putting together an international banking system that circumvents the US dollar and the US Federal Reserve. In these efforts, over half the world's territory and population is squarely on Russia's side and cheering loudly. Thus, the effort to isolate Russia has produced the opposite of the intended result: it is isolating the West from the rest of the world instead.
In other ways, the sanctions are actually being helpful. The import ban on foodstuffs from EU is a positive boon to domestic agriculture while driving home a politically important point: don't take food from the hands of those who bite you. Russia is already one of the world's largest grain exporters, and there is no reason why it can't become entirely self-sufficient in food. The impetus to rearm in the face of NATO encroachment on Russian borders (there are now US troops stationed in Estonia, just a short drive from Russia's second-largest city, St. Petersburg) is providing some needed stimulus for industrial redevelopment. This round of military spending is being planned a bit more intelligently than in the Soviet days, with eventual civilian conversion being part of the plan from the very outset. Thus, along with the world's best jet fighters, Russia is likely to start building civilian aircraft for export and competing with Airbus and Boeing.
But this is only the beginning. The Russians seem to have finally realized to what extent the playing field has been slanted against them. They have been forced to play by Washington's rules in two key ways: by bending to Washington's will in order to keep their credit ratings high with the three key Western credit rating agencies, in order to secure access to Western credit; and by playing by the Western rule-book when issuing credit of their own, thus keeping domestic interest rates artificially high. The result was that US companies were able to finance their operations more cheaply, artificially making them more competitive. But now, as Russia works quickly to get out from under the US dollar, shifting trade to bilateral currency arrangements (backed by some amount of gold should trade imbalances develop) it is also looking for ways to turn the printing press to its advantage. To date, the dictat handed down from Washington has been: “We can print money all we like, but you can't, or we will destroy you.” But this threat is ringing increasingly hollow, and Russia will no longer be using its dollar revenues to buy up US debt. One proposal currently on the table is to make it impossible to pay for Russian oil exports with anything other than rubles, by establishing two oil brokerages, one in St. Petersburg, the other, seven time zones away, in Vladivostok. Foreign oil buyers would then have to earn their petro-rubles the honest way—through bilateral trade—or, if they can't make enough stuff that the Russians want to import, they could pay for oil with gold (while supplies last). Or the Russians could simply print rubles, and, to make sure such printing does not cause domestic inflation, they could export some inflation by playing with the oil spigot and the oil export tariffs. And if the likes of George Soros decides to attack the ruble in an effort to devalue it, Russia could defend its currency simply by printing fewer rubles for a while—no need to stockpile dollar reserves.
So far, this all seems like typical economic warfare: the Americans want to get everything they want by printing money while bombing into submission or sanctioning anyone who disobeys them, while the rest of the world attempts to resist them. But early in 2014 the situation changed. There was a US-instigated coup in Kiev, and instead of rolling over and playing dead like they were supposed to, the Russians mounted a fast and brilliantly successful campaign to regain Crimea, then successfully checkmated the junta in Kiev, preventing it from consolidating control over the remaining former Ukrainian territory by letting volunteers, weapons, equipment and humanitarian aid enter—and hundreds of thousands of refugees exit—through the strictly notional Russian-Ukrainian border, all the while avoiding direct military confrontation with NATO. Seeing all of this happening on the nightly news has awakened the Russian population from its political slumber, making it sit up and pay attention, and sending Putin's approval rating through the roof.
The “optics” of all this, as they like to say at the White House, are rather ominous. We are coming up on the 70th anniversary of victory in World War II—a momentous occasion for Russians, who pride themselves on defeating Hitler almost single-handedly. At the same time, the US (Russia's self-appointed arch-enemy) has taken this opportunity to reawaken and feed the monster of Nazism right on Russia's border (inside Russia's borders, some Russians/Ukrainians would say). This, in turn, makes the Russians remember Russia's unique historical mission is among the nations of the world: it is to thwart all other nations' attempts at world domination, be it Napoleonic France or Hitleresque Germany or Obamaniac America. Every century or so some nation forgets its history lessons and attacks Russia. The result is always the same: lots of corpse-studded snowdrifts, and then Russian cavalry galloping into Paris, or Russian tanks rolling into Berlin. Who knows how it will end this time around? Perhaps it will involve polite, well-armed men in green uniforms without insignia patrolling the streets of Brussels and Washington, DC. Only time will tell.
You'd think that Obama has already overplayed his hand, and should behave accordingly. His popularity at home is roughly the inverse of Putin's, which is to say, Obama is still more popular than Ebola, but not by much. He can't get anything at all done, no matter how pointless or futile, and his efforts to date, at home and abroad, have been pretty much a disaster. So what does this social worker turned national mascot decide to do? Well, the way the Russians see it, he has decided to declare war on Russia! In case you missed it, look up his speech before the UN General Assembly. It's up on the White House web site. He placed Russia directly between Ebola and ISIS among the three topmost threats facing the world. Through Russian eyes his speech reads as a declaration of war.
It's a new, mixed-mode sort of war. It's not a total war to the death, although the US is being rather incautious by the old Cold War standards in avoiding a nuclear confrontation. It's an information war—based on lies and unjust vilification; it's a financial and economic war—using sanctions; it's a political war—featuring violent overthrow of elected governments and support for hostile regimes on Russia's borders; and it's a military war—using ineffectual but nevertheless insulting moves such as stationing a handful of US troops in Estonia. And the goals of this war are clear: it is to undermine Russia economically, destroy it politically, dismember it geographically, and turn it into a pliant vassal state that furnishes natural resources to the West practically free of charge (with a few hand-outs to a handful of Russian oligarchs and criminal thugs who play ball). But it doesn't look like any of that is going to happen because, you see, a lot of Russians actually get all that, and will choose leaders who will not win any popularity contests in the West but who will lead them to victory.
Given the realization that the US and Russia are, like it or not, in a state of war, no matter how opaque or muddled, people in Russia are trying to understand why this is and what it means. Obviously, the US has seen Russia as the enemy since about the time of the Revolution of 1917, if not earlier. For example, it is known that after the end of World War II America's military planners were thinking of launching a nuclear strike against the USSR, and the only thing that held them back was the fact that they didn't have enough bombs, meaning that Russia would have taken over all of Europe before the effects of the nuclear strikes could have deterred them from doing so (Russia had no nuclear weapons at the time, but lots of conventional forces right in the heart of Europe).
But why has war been declared now, and why was it declared by this social worker turned national misleader? Some keen observers mentioned his slogan “the audacity of hope,” and ventured to guess that this sort of “audaciousness” (which in Russian sounds a lot like “folly”) might be a key part of his character which makes him want to be the leader of the universe, like Napoleon or Hitler. Others looked up the campaign gibberish from his first presidential election (which got silly young Americans so fired up) and discovered that he had nice things to say about various cold warriors. Do you think Obama might perhaps be a scholar of history and a shrewd geopolitician in his own right? (That question usually gets a laugh, because most people know that he is just a chucklehead and repeats whatever his advisers tell him to say.) Hugo Chavez once called him “a hostage in the White House,” and he wasn't too far off. So, why are his advisers so eager to go to war with Russia, right now, this year?
Is it because the US is collapsing more rapidly than most people can imagine? This line of reasoning goes like this: the American scheme of world domination through military aggression and unlimited money-printing is failing before our eyes. The public has no interest in any more “boots on the ground,” bombing campaigns do nothing to reign in militants that Americans themselves helped organize and equip, dollar hegemony is slipping away with each passing day, and the Federal Reserve is fresh out of magic bullets and faces a choice between crashing the stock market and crashing the bond market. In order to stop, or at least forestall this downward slide into financial/economic/political oblivion, the US must move quickly to undermine every competing economy in the world through whatever means it has left at its disposal, be it a bombing campaign, a revolution or a pandemic (although this last one can be a bit hard to keep under control). Russia is an obvious target, because it is the only country in the world that has had the gumption to actually show international leadership in confronting the US and wrestling it down; therefore, Russia must be punished first, to keep the others in line.
I don't disagree with this line of reasoning, but I do want to add something to it.
First, the American offensive against Russia, along with most of the rest of the world, is about things Americans like to call “facts on the ground,” and these take time to create. The world wasn't made in a day, and it can't be destroyed in a day (unless you use nuclear weapons, but then there is no winning strategy for anyone, the US included). But the entire financial house of cards can be destroyed rather quickly, and here Russia can achieve a lot while risking little. Financially, Russia's position is so solid that even the three Western credit ratings agencies don't have the gall to downgrade Russia's rating, sanctions notwithstanding. This is a country that is aggressively paying down its foreign debt, is running a record-high budget surplus, has a positive balance of payments, is piling up physical gold reserves, and not a month goes by that it doesn't sign a major international trade deal (that circumvents the US dollar). In comparison, the US is a dead man walking: unless it can continue rolling over trillions of dollars in short-term debt every month at record-low interest rates, it won't be able to pay the interest on its debt or its bills. Good-bye, welfare state, hello riots. Good-bye military contractors and federal law enforcement, hello mayhem and open borders. Now, changing “facts on the ground” requires physical actions, whereas causing a financial stampede to the exits just requires somebody to yell “Boo!” loudly and frighteningly enough.
Second, it must be understood that at this point the American ruling elite is almost entirely senile. The older ones seem actually senile in the medical sense. Take Leon Panetta, the former Defense Secretary: he's been out flogging his new book, and he is still blaming Syria's Bashar al Assad for gassing his own people! By now everybody else knows that that was a false flag attack, carried out by some clueless Syrian rebels with Saudi help, to be used as an excuse for the US to bomb Syria—you know, the old “weapons of mass destruction” nonsense again. (By the way, this kind of mindless, repetitive insistence on a fake rationale seems like a sure sign of senility.) That plan didn't work because Putin and Lavrov intervened and quickly convinced Assad to give up his useless chemical weapons stockpile. The Americans were livid. So, everybody knows this story—except Panetta. You see, once an American official starts lying, he just doesn't know how to stop. The story always starts with a lie, and, as facts emerge that contradict the initial story, they are simply ignored.
So much for the senile old guard, but what about their replacements? Well, the poster boy for the young ones is Hunter Biden, the VP's son, who went on a hookers-and-blow tour of Ukraine last summer and inadvertently landed a seat on the board of directors of Ukraine's largest natural gas company (which doesn't have much gas left). He just got outed for being a coke fiend. In addition to the many pre-anointed ones, like the VP's son, there are also many barns full of eagerly bleating Ivy League graduates who have been groomed for jobs in high places. These are Prof. Deresiewicz's “Excellent Sheep.”
There just isn't much that such people, young or old, can be made to respond to. International embarrassment, military defeat, humanitarian catastrophe—all these things just bounce off them and stick to you for bringing them up and being overly negative about their rose-colored view of themselves. The only hit they can actually feel is a hit to the pocketbook.
Which brings us all the way back to my first point: “Boo!”
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The empire was lost in 1913.
Or is that when it started?
Chosenites are out of their minds... What three thousand years of inbreeding does to a people...
all is going according to THEIR plans..
straight up..
Ok, not sure I agree with many of the items in the article.
I will make this short. USD is basically the dog with the least fleas. If we all decide to hit the reset button on currencies and it all goes to zero and we start over US still has many advantages (food, water, land, tech....etc)
Most of the problems we face here are because of redistributionist rubbish designed to get the votes for "benefits."
As far as Russia goes, push comes to shove they are sucking hind tit with the oil price low and kinda have a limited ability to wage combat short of a nuclear war.
I know its ZH so the sky must be falling, but I dont think we need to publish any more articles from Chicken Little
“the US has seen Russia as the enemy since about the time of the Revolution of 1917”
Dmitry.. Trotsky lived in New York for a few years before being bankrolled by J P Morgan, Jacob Schiff and other New York bankers then sent to Czarist Russia to overthrow and rape Russia. The bankers made a lot of money pillaging Russia during the Red Terror.
Blame the bankers, and today you can include the large corporations.
The politicians and staff are merely their bought and paid for minions.
"We must turn Russia into a desert populated by white negroes upon whom we shall impose a tyranny such as the most terrible Eastern despots never dreamt of. The only difference is that this will be a left-wing tyranny, not a right-wing tyranny. It will be a red tyranny and not a white one. We mean the word ‘red’ literally, because we shall shed such floods of blood as will make all the human losses suffered in the capitalist wars pale by comparison. The biggest bankers across the ocean will work in the closest possible contact with us. If we win the revolution, we shall establish the power of Zionism upon the wreckage of the revolution’s funeral, and we shall became a power before which the whole world will sink to its knees. We shall show what real power is. By means of terror and bloodbaths, we shall reduce the Russian intelligentsia to a state of complete stupefaction and idiocy and to an animal existence."
— Trotsky, quote from the ‘Memoirs of Aron Simanovich’, quoted in The Nature of Zionism by Vladimir Stepin, Moscow, 1993, and translated from Russian into English by Clive Lindhurst.
The USSA will only stop their wars of aggression when the Fed Reserve system is finally discredited, and the USSA loses SOLE reserve currency status. Despite the aftermath for the USSA, I'll bet that the average American will benefit, cheering on the collapse since it will be their corrupt leaders and elites who will take it in the shorts.
You could have one in your family. You could know one. You could be one.
They are the worst bunch because they are the true believers, the Kool-Aid drinkers. The ones who are "too smart" for those silly conspiracy theories. If it isn't recorded in a mainstream peer reviewed journal then it's obviously drivel and is to be ignored.
I am Chumbawamba.
The USSA is the worlds mouth, eating everything and shitting on the rest of the world. It won't last.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/10/21/353515467/israeli-homes-de...
This is how an empire is lost, dollar fading fast and YUAN rising.
": the Americans want to get everything they want by printing money while bombing into submission or sanctioning anyone who disobeys them, while the rest of the world attempts to resist them. "
We the people of the USA don't have a say in this madness!!!!!!!
It's the owners of the western central fucking banks doing this!
Know your enemy War 101
And what happens when we stop eating everything. i.e. importing from the rest of the world? Who goes down the drain?
To quote from Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade: "You'll take your beating and like it."
But no, you are correct in one thing, it won't last. It is already ending as America becomes energy indpendent and the giant sucking sound of US dollars not going to places that have grown accustomed to them brings rampant instability, chaos and war to the planet. Fracking is reducing the iron fist of the established world order to ruble, er, rubble. Same diff.
Let me guess...a TV in every room in your house?
Lovely article there, Dmitri ol chap. *LOVED* the history lessons wherein Noble Mats Russia not only beats them Nazis single-handed, but even goes so far as to save Europe from destruction every hunnert years or so!! Wow!!!
Quick questions #1: noticed there was no mention of that great big heavily guarded & fortified wall that used to be in Berlin. Who built that wall, Dmitri? What was its purpose? Why is it again that - in spite of Russia saving repeatedly Europe and all - why is it that no one on Earth hates Russians more than Finns do? And Czechs? And Hungarians? etc?
Quick questions #2: When did ZH make it official and come out in the open as FSB Hedge? Must have missed that memo....the real question is was that the plan all along?
Once again I can't figure out the truth:
I have been drinking but have an Idea.
What it Huns, Jews, and Arabs at a rate of 10% marry Blond European Women. Europe Absorbed many people in the last 2000 years of recorded history. Maybe 1-10% of invaders take Blond or Caucasian Women as Wives... Sort of like Arab guys take blond women as part of the harem.
Knights Templar settle in France or around Europe, but came from largely Viking stock... Viking Mercenaries looking for gold, king-ships, and favor from the powerful Catholic Church.
Who is to say that the very conversant, very linguistic, very talented Jews in Judea... joined with Knights Templar, and with Huns in Eastern Europe... and created a powerful Network... one to emulate the Phoenicians. Who were powerful and influential Traders?
Jews came to be a Clerical Class in Egypt, Italy, and all over Europe including Germany... you have to figure this is a conservative list... Jews also were valuable to Spain and there was a Diaspora from Spain. Jews knew how to learn, how to study, how to adapt to languages, and how to record history, views, kings statements, and laws. And the Jews moved into Europe and did a great job at holding documents and history.
But this might have been the biggest Complaint... that Jews were both profiting from Banking, Lending, Jewelry, and from positions of influence in Government.
So... why would the USA not be populated by many Foreigners who marry blond women and make babies.
Again: Generalizations hurt us all. We can't decry certain people based on Race, Creed, Color, Nationality, or Sex.
1. Collect underpants.
2. ???
3. Profit!
I am Chumbawamba.
The Nuremberg trials did not try the German people. In the end, it swung their worst problems from a rope. Let's not allow it to go that far. We have our own rope.
"The Nuremberg trials did not try the German people."
The allied powers skipped the trial of the common people and went straight to collective punishment (i.e., a "holocaust" of industrial scale murder, rape and torture).
One of the most horrifying books you will ever read:
Hellstorm: The Death of Nazi Germany, 1944 - 1947
http://www.amazon.com/Hellstorm-Death-Nazi-Germany-1944-1947/dp/097138522X
God help your women and children if you ever lose a war against the international banking mafia. Whither Weimar Amerika?
The best endorsement of the book is the couple of 1-star "reviews" by hasbarats reverting to type who obviously did not read the book.
Like there is any difference WHATSOEVER between the Fed and any other Central Bank, including the morons running the one in Moscow. Fiat money is fiat money. Ours is just better than yours. Replacing it with some other fiat currency isn't going to change anything.
I am not personally in favor of a collapse anywhere since it will bring an untold amount of misery to people worldwide-- although I think it will happen. Since I can't do much to avert the coming storm, I have been busy working on the lifeboat of freedom and hope to remain at liberty to help rebuild and guide the lost sheep back to reason rather than let the torches and pitchfork demagogues whip them into a brainless mob that will end up stamping out the last embers of human freedom in their lust for misplaced vengeance.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
I want no boss of any sort over me, and I want to be lord over no other man. Many others are simply hoping for a twist of fate that catapults them into a nice easy government job in the new order. Because they like giving orders to others even if they don't appreciate being ordered around themselves.
" guide the lost sheep back to reason"
I was wondering that exact thing the other day. When did the age of reason end? Must've been sometime in the 20th century. Early 20th?
There will be lots of pain involved immediately following collapse. However, end of Empire spells revival of Constitutional Republic. During collapse, it's all about going back to origins and if anything, the initial idea is what made America great in the first place.
So if I understand you correctly, Vladimir Putin is himself a white negro of complete stupefaction and idiocy laboring unwittingly in the cause of Zionism. Or is he a hidden Jew ruling over a land of moronic white negroes? And why should this be a role model for the USA?
Vladomir broke free of chains you laid on him.
+++ thanks for posting
Read Solzhenitsyn for a balanced account of the Jewishness of Bolshevism and for the consequent horrors visited on Christian Russians. But this supposed quote from Trotsky just does not add up. Take a phrase from it and put it in double-quotes in a google search, and you can easily find out why.
Every tyranny in history has been a left wing tyranny, regardless of what you read in the so-called history books. Nazi Germany being the most obvious.
Excellent quote of Trotsky and his tribal intentions,
more on the subject:
http://henrymakow.com/what_is_communism.html
Look at the bottom for Trotsky quote and mexican painter painting of Trotsky with Nelson Rockefeller together with Karl Marx and all other "tribesmen":
Painting is priceless it commemorates roots of who did all "Revolutions".
An ice ax to the head was too good for him.
Terrorist Jews
There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution, by these international and for the most part atheistical Jews, it is certainly a very great one; it probably outweighs all others. With the notable exception of Lenin, the majority of the leading figures are Jews. Moreover, the principal inspiration and driving power comes from the Jewish leaders. Thus Tchitcherin, a pure Russian, is eclipsed by his nominal subordinate Litvinoff, and the influence of Russians like Bukharin or Lunacharski cannot be compared with the power of Trotsky, or of Zinovieff, the Dictator of the Red Citadel (Petrograd) or of Krassin or Radek -- all Jews. In the Soviet institutions the predominance of Jews is even more astonishing. And the prominent, if not indeed the principal, part in the system of terrorism applied by the Extraordinary Commissions for Combating Counter-Revolution has been taken by Jews, and in some notable cases by Jewesses. The same evil prominence was obtained by Jews in the brief period of terror during which Bela Kun ruled in Hungary. The same phenomenon has been presented in Germany (especially in Bavaria), so far as this madness has been allowed to prey upon the temporary prostration of the German people. Although in all these countries there are many non-Jews every whit as bad as the worst of the Jewish revolutionaries, the part played by the latter in proportion to their numbers in the population is astonishing.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Full article - amazing read. http://www.fpp.co.uk/bookchapters/WSC/WSCwrote1920.html
To cite the Bavarian Kurt Eisner as a terrorist is quite a reach and the Communists in Berlin led by Karl Liebknect and the Red Rose (Rosa Luxemburg) were stamped out by the Social Democrats.
At the time in question, Churchill (the son of a duke) was seriously incensed by the regicidal Bolsheviks and had a bit of a bee in his bonnet on the subject.
Pretty much by definition, the intelligentsia is going to comprise people with a university education. Since Jews were forbidden by the Church to own real property such as land, they lived in cities and put their wealth into education. This is why the tradition of the Jewish doctor and lawyer spread so widely. The Church also decreed that it was a sin for a Christian to loan money, although it was okay to borrow it. Which means that there needed to be some sort of non-Christian group to borrow from. Hmmm, I wonder who that could beand how there got to be so many Jewish families in the banking business. Not a satanic conspiracy but a simple workaround that evaded the idiotic government bureaucracy of the Middle Ages.
You're very slick
The initial plan of the revolution maybe was to install a puppet red tyrannical regime in russia but with Stalins takeover and assassination of Trotsky the soviet union became an independent entity not under the rule of the bankers hence the cold war happened.there was also an active campaign of anti-zionism and skepticism towards jews in the soviet union. We in russia know about the role of the jews in the revolution. just sayin
The initial plan of the revolution maybe was to install a puppet red tyrannical regime in russia but with Stalins takeover and assassination of Trotsky the soviet union became an independent entity not under the rule of the bankers hence the cold war happened.there was also an active campaign of anti-zionism and skepticism towards jews in the soviet union. We in russia know about the role of the jews in the revolution. just sayin
"As far as Russia goes, push comes to shove they are sucking hind tit with the oil price low and kinda have a limited ability to wage combat short of a nuclear war."
Go back and reread the article. Even with low oil prices, Russia has a positive balance of trade and a budget surplus. And I wouldn't bet too much on the alleged superiority of American weapons, either. They are just more expensive, not necessarily better.
After 2 major wars, 1 revolution, 1 cold war, the horrors of the 1990's Russia has endured through far worse circumstances, and the average Russian is still a survivalist at heart. They can take short term pain, unlike the Eurowimps or USSA Walmart crowd.
That might be an impressive list assuming that your average Russian is 117 years old, but they aren't.
Let's look at that group of triumphs...
World War I -- which Russia lost despite being on the winning side. Oh, and don't forget the Russo-Japanese War of 1905. Which they also lost.
The February Revolution-- which Russia lost by falling into the grip of Vladimir Lenin who engineered the...
October (actually November by the modern calendar) Revolution-- which Russia lost by being enslaved to the Communist madness.
World War II-- which Russia lost since Hitler was destroyed but Russia was devastated and left in the iron grip of the equally evil Joseph Stalin.
The Cold War-- which Russia lost.
The collapse of the Empire of Evil-- Okay, they finally won one, thanks to Ronnie. Yay for Russia but I don't hear you cheering.
Then came President Putin who turned himself into Prime Minister Putin and then back into President Putin in a laughably transparent effort to evade the flimsy safeguards of the Russian Constitution in the matter of term limits. Needless to say, Russia lost and I do hear you cheering.
And I see that your accusation against America is that they are turning into the USSA-- or a somewhat bastardized version of the Empire of Evil formerly known as the CCCP-- so I don't quite understand why you hate them so much when you obviously admire the legacy rump state that is all that's left of it.
But fear not, all wheels are standing still at thy mighty sinews' will. My regards to cross dressing Fidel, whom you also admire.
ouch, thanks for your insight. amazing how two different people can watch the same event and see differnt events...
I betchya that many American weapons are like many German weapons were in WWII. When operating within parameters, they'll kick total ass, but the complexity of the weapons and the maintenance requirements will mean that we won't be able to field enough of them to deal with a country as big as Russia and we'd wind up with some serious logistics problems.
Are you talking about before or after Russian bilateral currency exchange agreements? Russia is self-sufficient for the most part, and where it isn't it has its energy resources to make up for it.
When this comes down, Americans will be too busy keeping their families fed and safe from thugs roaming the street en masse than to join up with any further US crusades. They'll have to get their mercenaries from elsewhere, and then the same will be patrolling the streets of the US, keeping the plantation running for the oligarchs.
Fuck your poorly informed claptrap.
I am Chumbawamba.
That's old-school-Chumbawamba style.
You are looking at things as though the dollar will last, it won't and then it is a matter of 'producers' and 'consumers'. When one must give to get, what can the US get? It is a strongly net consuming country. Only the dollar which it must now print or borrow allows it to continue to breathe.
Russia, China, Brasil all produce. They can be trading partners. The USA has (net) nothing to trade.
Take off the dollar glasses and world begins to look like a different world.
Once Russia puts an alternative to the SWIFT system in place, it will be sucking a lot of tits. Nice perky ones that all of us red blooded males would like to be sucking on. It will have the option of saying "Ya know, those sanctions are a real pain in the ass, but they only apply to dollar transactions. If you want to pay for oil and gas in dollars, fine, but there will be a 30% surcharge added. If you want to make a deal in another currency, that surcharge will be waived."
I just don't get why people don't understand how oil and other energy supplies being priced in dollars makes oil the keystone commodity in dollar hegemony. Oil supplies are not elastic enough for the rest of the world to just shut Russia out without severe repercussions.
and that my friend is the crux of the world aggresion in a nut shell. oil, naty, and pipelines.
A stampede of cows has a plan, RUN. Same with the NWO the market must go up. They have as much thought as the cows.
You back to that nazi thing again there, fememorde? With an all new set of secret terminology for the eyes of the "elect", I see.
Man they rly work you up to get their money worth i see. Posting on only chosenite-related comments is the give away m8, now go back for moar training, you need it.
The gummint needs more power to fix the damage it caused with the power it already got.
end of an empire?
or the beginning of a new one...
;)
arguably.
This article will probably find a lot of receptive readers here...
For me, seems fake, and programmed. But enjoyed reading it and will research more.
Your comment just smells. If you don't like the OP, why not share your insight? ... if you have any? Otherwise your just zanother one of zose zionist boot licking oligarch lovers. Get back to you manager and tell him you need a new plan. You expose yourself with your critical opinion, based on nothing ... or at least based on nothing you can share, such as
nope, not that it matter, not a person of the jewish religion or the zionist political movement. I have always bad mouthed Putin lovers here. I have also said that while growing up under a Russian occupation, I am both more sensitive and more knowledgeable than some who haven't.
I have said the author is skilled, especially if he is who I think he is, and has posted before or I have seen his videos before. But he is a politician and therefore a liar. Sorry my opinions did not come quick enough for your liking. I have other things to do.
Just FYI racingBottom, 99% of the chosen on ZH deny their choseness to disguise their lack of any broad support. You're fooling no one but yourself and the author is a politican why? What office does he hold or has held? Before the Zionist war against Russia got hot, he was well known for writing about sailing. See Club Orlov. No go back to crying about your lost and crumbling Zino-sphere.
Sorry, but the American people were "sold" in 1913.
I have, and the rest should, refute the bill-of-sale.
An American, not US or Rothschild subject.
I'd like to be able to declare constructive fraud and get rid of my SSN but be able to keep my job. I cannot see a way.
How would you refute the bill of sale?
my neighbor's half-sister makes $71 hourly on the laptop . She has been fired from work for 9 months but last month her paycheck was $17975 just working on the laptop for a few hours. look at this site... www.job-reports.com
No, the empire wasn't lost in 1913. 1913 is what the empire was free to do after it defeated the only opponent that could deny it the right to seize any power it wished. The empire was lost for good on April 12,1861. In all actuality, that date marks the death of the American Republic and the birth of the American empire, and since empires always expand until their mounting internal inefficiencies overwhelm their economic capacity to maintain an aggressive military, that date also marks the start of the death watch for said empire.
The 14th amendment was the new Constitution for the American Empire, and replaced a system of diffused power, a system that honored the principle of subsidiarity by forbidding the central government to have any say in most of the functioning aspects of society, with a system in which all people were direct citizens of the central government and in whose lives the central government was free to intervene in any way or measure it desired.
1913 represents a triple conjunction. The 16th amendment provided for a growth spurt via the installation of a direct pipeline from the wealth of the people to the coffers of government through direct taxation. The 17th amendment represented the elimination of an electric fence whose posts were rotten at their base and whose electricity was no longer flowing and thus no longer presented any obstacle for a central government eager to escape its confinement. And of course, the establishment of the Federal Reserve turned the money and wealth of the people into a trust fund that it could access any time the central government outgrew its cash flow limitations.
We are ruled by a zombie bureaucracy that is unaware that it is already dead.
Gwiss, great post. Thanks.
Click-bait rating: D-
No pics, too many words.
Well... No...
It wasn't written for illiterates who have trouble with reading and comprehension.
There is the Lame Steam Media for them.
Longer articles are there for people with a functioning frontal cortex.
Do people still say Lame Steam Media?
Or is it Lame Stream Media. I was always confused about that.
what a surprise more pro Russia anti west propaganda from zeroheadge.
We're not anti West... We're anti West being destroyed by Chosenites.
I agree, Russia should withdrawal from Iraq, Afghanistan, quit droning Yemen, Somalia, etc. and abolish their "kill-list." Then they should quit supporting the fascist regime in Kiev and stop bombing Syria.
And how dare they use "printed" fiat to rob the rest of the world of their labor and product.
An look what they did to Kelly Thomas: http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/kelly-thomas-beating-fullerton-pol...
/s
An American, not US subject.
A comment from a seriously stupid poster whose mind is filled with unthought thoughts.
The US is the apex predator and therefore the apex evil.
I don't see the US as the apex predator. That implies some sort of evolutionary superiority gained through adaptation and skill. The US is merely the dumb kid on the playground who happens to be the biggest at this particular point in history. It's all about luck and projecting an image of strength that really isn't there.
It works until it doesn't, and I don't think it'll work much longer.
(The evil part, however, is without question, in my opinion.)
"mind filled with unthought"
was a good enough description
Touche.
“Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation / culture to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.”
And even sadder is the deluded one who takes as his role model the carefully manicured paradigm held up by some distant despot.
In uncertain times such as these, choose your ground and make your stand.
http://youtu.be/Z_s-Qk07KxA?list=RDZ_s-Qk07KxA
What a surprise someone who beleves the propaganda spewed by American politicians and the mainstream media
What a surprise someone does not sense the real genuine McCoy of a revolution boiling up inside the heartland of America and assumes that all of America is the same imaginary place "as seen on TV".
You think those oligarchs you prattle about are afraid of you? Or are they afraid of us?
We'll knock them over and then we'll get the guys in back of them...
http://youtu.be/veYIbxaU0A8
Are you pretending to be Aaron Russo?
fascism never works.
Fascism has worked since the beginning of time. It is the only government we have ever known. It is likely the only government we will ever know.
I'm glad Orlov contributes to ZH.
I find that my favourite authors that get republished on Zero Hedge also overlap to get republished on the DoomsteadDiner.
I admire your energy but have not a clue what the fuck you are attempting to convey........
You gotta read between the lines.
Boo
I don't think Obama is more popular than Ebola.
It's the movie the stand. And he's the golfing dude
+1 for the Randall Flagg reference. I truly laughed out loud
Ebola is certainly less of a threat.
Ebola is popular with some people - those who think the world has too many humans. Of course, most of those are Obama supporters too.
Like Barry's latest appointee--the Ebola czar
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e94_1413939344
Well, at least he's chosen and has the necessary dual citizenship.
Don't both make you throw up?
;-)
williambanzai7; LOL they must be head to head.
If you were born five decades ago you should be able to replay the systemic enslaving of the "free" American people.
It started with the big corporations and retailers movig in to the small cities promising thousends of jobs then came credit cards at 24% interest, 30 year mortgages, mobile phone contacts, internet home bundles and of course the 8 year auto loans.
Sound familiar? Then youre a slave!
The idea is not to be aware of your enslavement
Guilty pleasure reading about what a Russian thinks of the West, then finding myself wholeheartedly in agreement with him. Boo!
yea, he's got some points, but the diff between him and me is that he takes barely concealed glee in whats happening to the US, while i am saddened.
darkest before the dawn i guess.
at least he needs to realize the citizens are not the govt here any more. may not be many of us yet, but all it takes is a phase change after which writing the US off permanently is gonna look very flat footed. there's something growing here that might just be a suprise to the established order.
the notion of liberty cannot be killed.
I am fully gladdened by the fall of any and all governments.
power abhors a vacuum - if we can't agree on the rule of law to our mutual advantage, we will surely have something less.
given any thought to how you plan to proceed after the fall?
Exactly as I do now, I will take each person at his word, negotiate one on one in good faith with my fellow humans and carry a Glock on my hip or an AK cross my chest.
"one on one"
I think you'll find the bad guys will come in groups so if you're not in a crew with like-minded people then you'll be food.
+1
same as it ever was
Brother, I'm often mistaken for a yank, but I'm just a guy living in one of America's colonies - the UK. So you'll have to forgive me for not joining you in your mourning of the US.
The notion of liberty. I hear that a lot from Americans and I think it is important to know what they mean by it. It seems to me, far too many think that liberty entails hatred and murder to make it flourish. Too few know it to be about love. Love of personal freedom, love of peace, love of your neighbours and love of justice that enshrines fairness and value. That's my notion of liberty, similar to Dr.Paul's notions. Something that probably has not been seen in the US since Davy Crockett was a lawmaker there.
well said - except we're all colonies of the city of london at this point.
i'm raising a family, and for their sake at least, hatred cannot be my guiding principle. i am far from alone in this.
J.R.R. Tolkien said: “I do not love the bright sword for it's sharpness, nor the arrow for it's swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend”There was a time when the US was seen perhaps as a modern and particular embodiment of the notions Tolkien and Mencken expressed- but not the only one of course.
“I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented,” he wrote, “at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air—that progress made under the shadow of the policeman’s club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave.” Mencken added: “In any dispute between a citizen and the government, it is my instinct to side with the citizen . . . I am against all efforts to make men virtuous by law.”
I come from a family of warriors, and honestly i'm not fit to tie their shoes, but they fought ww2, for better or worse, and the notions of freedom and liberty are what moved them. i take this as my example, to the best of my ability, and again, i'm not alone.
sorry for quote jamming, but this all needs to be clear. glad to see you're still here, BTW
I find it is interesting to speculate what may happen in Canada, while the US went through some such financial collapsing:
"... the US is a dead man walking: unless it can continue rolling over trillions of dollars in short-term debt every month at record-low interest rates, it won't be able to pay the interest on its debt or its bills. Good-bye welfare state, hello riots. Good-bye military contractors and federal law enforcement, hello mayhem and open borders. Now, changing “facts on the ground” requires physical actions, whereas causing a financial stampede to the exits just requires somebody to yell “Boo!” loudly and frighteningly enough. ..."
OF COURSE, THAT COULD START NUCLEAR WEAPON WAR, THAT WENT OUT OF CONTROL! Most authors tend to treat that as something to be mentioned as an aside, but then dismissed as too totally insane to be seriously considered. However, my basic view is that the ruling classes ARE that criminally insane!
"darkest before the dawn i guess"...
sorry its only 10:30pm the night before, "midnight is when the day begins" (kudos Bono) but its at its coldest upon the dawn...
In other words we have a dark cold night and road ahead, prepare the best you can
The most brilliant expression of rational, consise, legitimate and well informed analyis of this, our current state of affairs, that I've had the priveledge to read for quite sometime.
Revolutionary.
An external perspective is a well established procedure used by US Company HR departments to give employees a view of themselves that they might not otherwise see, with the intent of providing a tool for self improvement.
Should work for countries too ....
those senile diaper wearing assholes never die.
I do believe Dimitry Orlov has lost his mind. "A government dominated by fascists" (in Ukraine); if you can't recognize a genuine popular revolution, you have no business being a pundit.
And by the way, that is "just some Russian propaganda." Sad, really sad.
If it was so popular it wouldn't have needed direct support and funding from the EU and US. It wouldn't have happened otherwise.
Vicky Nudleman-kagan-nuland is on video making a presentation claiming thdy sank $5B into overthrowing Ukaine's elected government. What would happen if Russia announced it was spending billions to launch a coup in Mexico? Chosenites look more inszne every day.
Genuine popular revolution is what occurred in Crimea and the Eastern provinces.
The lobotomy stitches hardly show, Vern.
Funny how the genuine popular revolution in Crimea and the Donets Basin required the presence of thousands of Russian "volunteers" who took vacation time away from the Russian Army to go help the Sudetendeutsch, er, um, the East Ukrainians.
Sure the previous leader of Ukraine was an arsehole and many supported his overthrow but it is very clear this revolution was funded by the USA, Nuland bragged about it, and there is a strong Nazi element in the new government who are guilty of crimes against hiumanity and warcrimes. The latest is the use of cluster bombs against civillians. The unrest in Ukraine could have taken an entirely more peaceful course if it wasn't for US support of these nazis. Ukraine is unfortunate in being on the border between Russia and Nato countries> If the USA had respected agreements with Russia not to move Nato eastwards this unfortunate tradgedy would have been avoided. No doubt there would have been Ukrainians resentful at not being part of the wonderful EU but you cannot satisfy everyone.
And the "wonderful EU" is about to go tits up.
It does seem tactically stupid, but we all have to admit that we don't know what they (the US) know. We don't know the leverage, or the blackmail, what they say they'll do, what they can do, etc. Maybe there is a grander strategy. Or maybe we're fucked no matter what we do. In any case, I think we can all agree that what they do is immoral.
The moment you think, "They (TPTB) must have a grand plan that is unknowable and privy to the complexities of high strategies", you are giving them the servile respect they do not deserve. They are not superior to you in any way or form.
Forgive me, but I thought much the same as you when I was younger and I saw what seemed to me tactically stupid acts by my "superiors in government". I excused their actions with, "They must know something I don't" and such. Years later, I learned that they really are fucking stupid, arrogant, deluded, selfish evil bastards who'd watch a child get her skin ripped off her body for a couple of points on the dollar.
The "Grand plan" is simple - You've got one lot of senile MIC warmongers with glories of the past in their rheumy eyes running with PNAC. Most of them seem also to be zionist/christian AIPAC cock sucking fatalists waiting for the rapture, so they really don't mind killing themselves and everyone on the planet. Then you've got another lot in finance trying to get away with the theft of the century, debasing the currency way beyond any point of recovery and transferring trillions of soon-to-be toilet paper into useful properties at home and abroad. The rest of the opportunists are whores for the Al Sauds and AIPAC who have their own little plans, hate-fests and problems going in their regions, doing what they do because nobody ever had the balls to stop them with the US firmly fudge packed behind them.
The one common thread is the future of the reserve currency and how they can position themselves to ensure their survival beyond its collapse. Some are desperate to delay the inevitable, others need to divert blame away from themselves, and the rest are positioned to take advantage in their own sick ways, including the very real possibility of a super-fascist state, for which the foundations are well laid. Hence I reckon the schizophrenic policies on everything from Defence spending to Ebola.
Meh. What the fuck do I know? Nothing really.
Amen, Brother. +1000
Ditto YF.
But if we're quick to judge all these addled old geezers suffering from vain glory...
Then why are so many young impressionable corrupt and mentally ill sociopaths in the U.S. following them into Hell?!!!
Just thinkin out loud!
Man has been scared of both chaos and the "inexplicable" at least since troglodyte Homo erectus was worried about things going bump in the night. So we invent mythologies which more easily convey the fears, and advocate "isms" which will ward off the evil.
Implementation of conspiracy requires foot soldiers. Implementation of some of the current mythologies would require significant quantities of abnormally high functioning foot soldiers.
Tell me where I can find these amazing people. I could, and would gladly, outbid Uncle Sam for their services. From my vantage point, when I find someone with an IQ two standard deviations above mean who is willing is work... I still often feel like I'm sifting through through the dregs of humanity.
Start assassinating the Global banking thieves, the war will end tomorrow. So will Wall Street corporate P/E pushing 118 rubbish.
from your lips to God's ear.
Great article.
Greater Israel via the CIA and their stooge in the Oval Office, Obama, will use and wring out every drop of wealth and blood they can before dropping the desiccated corpse into the swamp of history and moving on to their next tool and victim, Europe.
An American, not US subject.
"Guillotines, and Liberty Poles, are the first signs of the American Restoration."
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
The next target after the fall of the USA will be Europe and Australia . Already a lot of Israeli are asking visa to expatriate to Germany and other EU countries .
Those israeli know that their land is doomed becuuse is dependent on USA large subsidies and so they seek a place for refuge so they can start their usual infiltration of the system of government and corrupt or buy anybody who is not already on the paybook . EU governments shoudl think twice before accepting
joos in Europe .
You should think about Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin.
It was him, who started cleaning SU from bolshevic trotskyite scum. Most of them ran to Germany, Switzerland and later to USA
His methods were cruel but there was not other way possible in total infitration on all levels.
That is why he is so hated by Trotskys grandchildren. They hate him more than Hitler, because he started to uprooting them out. His job is not finished yet. But this is big lesson for USA near future.
My guess is that the same will be necessary in US.
Look just how Trotsky died
Of course Russia chooses to cancel government bond issues, because they will need to yield 10% plus in an open market.
On the other hand, I would wager that at least 95 out of 100 Americans have no idea that the current Ukranian government was installed in a coup, and a Western backed coup at that. Our media is not very honest or particularly informative.
The saddest element of all of this, in my eyes, is that the current US government is so completely dishonest and discredited in so many areas, that this article's combination of fact, exaggeration, wishful thinking, and false bluster actually resonates a bit with me, especially in the areas in which it is critical of the US. What a sad, sad state of affairs.
It was kinda like this in the late seventies too. We had a day count for hostages on the nightly news, our Preezy was weak and the Russians were flexing nuts on us.
Some washed up actor won the 1980 election and then it was all Miami Vice, Bill Gates and coke parties.
Its pretty amazing that the 80s came out of the 70s.
Lets do that shit again, it was fun. I like it when the US is winning.
I am afraid, that US public had enough time to wake up. Unfotrunatelly they did not. That time is gone now.
World cannot wait for americans anymore, it is too late now. American public did show that they do not have any real power. More than that, they are not interested. Fat, selfish, greedy and lazy. No conscience.
The change will be done from outside, i am very afraid.
Fool me once shame on me , whats that? err fool me twice, mm , wont be fooled again.
SENILE?? That's the way banksters like 'em and/or just plain crooked.
The first thing I ever read by Dmitry Orlov was "Closing the Collapse Gap", on the oildrum at the time. It made a profound impression on me and I pimp it to this day:
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2006-12-04/closing-collapse-gap-ussr-w...
Meanwhile, re: this page:
<<This is a country that is aggressively paying down its foreign debt, is running a record-high budget surplus, has a positive balance of payments, is piling up physical gold reserves, and not a month goes by that it doesn't sign a major international trade deal (that circumvents the US dollar). In comparison, the US is a dead man walking: unless it can continue rolling over trillions of dollars in short-term debt every month at record-low interest rates, it won't be able to pay the interest on its debt or its bills. Good-bye, welfare state, hello riots. Good-bye military contractors and federal law enforcement, hello mayhem and open borders. Now, changing “facts on the ground” requires physical actions, whereas causing a financial stampede to the exits just requires somebody to yell “Boo!” loudly and frighteningly enough.>>
Mr. Putin has my respect, though not trust. (Stupid to trust any politician.) I can understand why so many in Russia support him, considering what he has done for their country over a few decades.
The world is at a crossroads, similar to that of WW2. The alliances are forming either side, and the agendas are becoming clear. Regardless of other politics, US `national security` is becoming a threat to peaceful, freedom-loving people everywhere (including within its own borders). Principled people must soon decide -- not who -- but WHAT it is they are supporting.
Boo! indeed.
If I could reach any Russian person, a sort of "man on the street," I would say something on this order:
"Dude I have nothing but respect for you. My country has been taken over by psycho warmongers. I wish I could stop them but I can't. The best we can all do is tell people about what we know: civil disobedience works. We need to stop following orders from psychopaths."
"The American behavior throughout this succession of defeats has been remarkably consistent, with the constant element being their flat refusal to deal with reality in any way, shape or form."
If they dealt with reality they would have to shut down all the foreign bases, shutter the M.I.C., and tell the banksters to go to hell; therefore, the insanity will continue with rapacious galloping greed.
Dmitry nailed it. 50+ years of being American, as a kid I lived the G.I. Joe fantasy, then as a youth I was an Eagle Scout about 'being American' until I learned about Vietnam and later Central American death squads. I got older, the years went by and I realized that the American dream is nothing more than a dream, a propaganada, I woke up, the dream is over, BOO!
I took LSD as an Eagle Scout and woke up on Q99X2.
+1
hehehe
Russia's population is only 150 million, with a medium-sized economy. Not capable of past glory, but has the upper hand in world opinion which may help.
The populations are simply bored .
See http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2008/05/myths-memes-and-boredom.html
This is an explosive situation :
https://www.academia.edu/8771991/Optimized_Censorship_Propaganda_for_the...
If done improperly , leads to
https://www.academia.edu/8633301/Prodigies_Update_II
Where many decide to get smarter .
This forces a typical Darwinnian race .
Luckily for the small ones , Stupid People can make Smart Decisions .
This did in the Matriarchs (see http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2012/11/origins-of-peace-and-war-ii.html )
and the same will happen now .
The warning is quite clear : Either all will make it , or none will .
Self-styled Herrenvolk are free to vacate the planet .
Those articles are some of the strangest I've yet encountered. They reminded me of a Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap label. No disrespect intended. But....damn.
I'm very much a patriot. However, I find myself in agreement with many of the author's points. The US leadership has been pulling shit on the world stage since Woodrow Wilson. We've not fought a righteous war since WW2 IMHO, and it saddens me to think that my time in service was perhaps not in the true spirit of protecting and upholding the Constitution. My friends died in different conflicts for what purpose? These were better men than any central banker scum. Better than any TBTF banker scum. Better than the corrupt politicians that do the will of the highest bidder (foreign or domestic). And certainly better than the unthinking, parasitic masses that live off the government largess. We need a very hard reset. It's overdue.
Jethro, I totally agree with both you and Orlov. If you had added a little humor to your comment, it would have been difficult to tell you two apart.
good article by Orlov. Read his books.
Head over to Amazon for reviews. He was back and forth all the while the old Soviet Union was collapsing. I think he wisely cleared outta NorCal and is living in Costa Rica now...
Dear Mr. Putin, if you get pissed one day and decide to bomb the USA, you really only need to take out DC. Most of the rest of us won't mind. Please do it on a day with wind coming from the West. No point in screwing up the rest of the countryside. The Eastern mountains are lovely in the Fall. Come visit some day after the dollar fails if you don't bomb. Prices will be better then and you'll find mountain 'shine can compete with your best vodka.
all the best
Average Americans (both the kind that understand what's happening and the rest who just are too busy to pay attention to our national 'leaders'.
I suggested an emp over Washington DC earlier in another article here on ZH. I even thought about crowdsourcing to get the project underway. Why destroy the architecture?
Vlad, you also need to hit the Rothschild Regime, everywhere they are entrenched. The Fed is a good start, then the BIS, ECB, and BoE, GSachs, JPM. That's a good start.
Vlad helps those who help themselves as in NovoRussia.
"you really only need to take out DC"
Wall St. imo. Washington is their puppet and without the Wall St. campaign contributions Washington wouldn't be so corrupted.
One of the best postings on ZH ever. But still, do not underestimate a dying Eagle.
General Patton wanted to keep going and take out Russia. Eisonhower did not, then Patton had a fatal car accident. The USA would have wiped out Russia at that time if not for Ike.
Russia would have lost to the germans except the hid behind the women and children in Leningrad. I guess Hitler was to soft and would not kill all the women in children.
You clearly need to do an exhaustive review of the battle of Stalingrad.
But for simplicity... "Haha.. you fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is: Never get involved in a land war in Asia."
Our final score:
Gipper: 1
Empire of Evil: 0
Thank you and good night, ladies and gentlemen.
Gipper is dead, America is FUBAR, and the "Empire of Evil" is kicking Obozo's ass as we speak almost on a daily basis. Other than that, you're right...