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Breakfast With A Lord Of War
Submitted by David Galland of Casey Research
Breakfast with a Lord of War
For reasons that will become apparent as you read the following article, I was quite reluctant to write it.
Yet, in the end, I decided to do so for a couple of reasons.
The first is that it ties into Marin Katusa’s best-selling new book, The Colder War, which I read cover to cover over two days and can recommend warmly and without hesitation. I know that Casey Research has been promoting the book aggressively (in my view, a bit too aggressively), but I exaggerate not at all when I tell you that the book sucked me in from the very beginning and kept me reading right to the end.
The second reason, however, is that I have a story to tell. It’s a true story and one, I believe, which needs to be told. It has to do with a breakfast I had four years ago with a Lord of War.
With that introduction, we begin.
Breakfast with a Lord of War
In late 2010, I was invited to a private breakfast meeting with an individual near the apex of the US military’s strategic planning pyramid. Specifically, the individual we were to breakfast with sits at the side of the long-serving head of the department in the Pentagon responsible for identifying and assessing potential threats to national security and devising long-term strategies to counter those threats.
The ground rules for the discussion—that certain topics were off limits—were set right up front. Yet, as we warmed up to each other over the course of our meal, the conversation went into directions even I couldn’t have anticipated.
In an earlier mention of this meeting in a Casey Daily Dispatch, I steered clear of much of what was discussed because frankly, it made me nervous. With the passage of time and upon reflection that it was up to my breakfast companion, who spends long days cloaked in secrecy, to know what is allowed in daylight, I have decided to share the entire story.
During our discussion, there were four key revelations, each a bit scarier than the last.
Four Key Revelations
Once we had bonded a bit, the military officer, dressed in his civvies for the meeting, began opening up. As I didn’t record the discussion, the dialogue that follows can only be an approximation. That said, I assure you it is accurate in all the important aspects.
“Which country or countries most concern you?” I asked, not sure if I would get an answer. “China?”
“Well, I’m not going to say too much, but it’s not China. Our analysis tells us the country is too fractured to be a threat. Too many different ethnic and religious groups and competing political factions. So no, it’s not China. Russia, on the other hand…” He left it at that, though Russia would come up again in our conversation on several occasions.
As breakfast was served, the conversation meandered here and there before he volunteered, “There are a couple of things I can discuss that we are working on, one of which won’t surprise you, and one that will.”
“The first is precision-guided weaponry.” Simply, the airplane and drone-launched weaponry that is deployed so frequently today, four years after our breakfast conversation, that it now barely rates a back-page mention.
“The second,” he continued,” will surprise you. It’s nuclear armaments.”
“Really? I can’t imagine the US would ever consider using nuclear weapons again. Seriously?”
“Yes, there could be instances when using nukes might be advisable,” he answered. “For example, no one would argue that dropping atomic bombs on Japan had been a bad thing.” (I, for one, could have made that argument, but in the interest of harmony didn’t.)
“Even so, I can’t imagine a scenario that would warrant using nukes,” I persisted. “Are there any other countries doing the same sort of research?”
“Absolutely. For example, the Russians would love to drop a bomb that wiped out the people of Chechnya but left the infrastructure intact.”
“So, neutron bombs?”
“Yeah, stuff like that,” he added before turning back to his coffee.
“Okay, well,” I continued, “you at least have to admit that, unlike last century when hundreds of millions of people died directly or indirectly in world wars, pogroms, and so forth—most related to governments—the human race has evolved to the point where death on that scale is a thing of the past. Right?”
I kid you not in the slightest, but at this question the handsome, friendly countenance I had been sitting across from morphed as if literally a mask had been lifted away and was replaced with the emotionless face of a Lord of War.
“That would be a very poor assumption,” he answered coldly before the mask went back on.
I recall a number of thoughts and emotions coursing through my brain at his reply, most prevalently relief that I had moved with my family to La Estancia de Cafayate in a remote corner of Argentina. We didn’t move there to escape war, but after this conversation, I added that to my short list of reasons why the move had been a good idea.
Recapping the conversation later, my associate and I concurred that Russia was in the crosshairs and that if push came to shove, the US was fully prepared to use the new nuclear weapons being worked on.
Four Years Later
As I write, four years after that conversation, it’s worth revisiting just what has transpired.
First, as mentioned, the use of precision-guided weaponry has now firmly entered the vernacular of US warmaking. Point of fact: there are now more pilots being trained to fly drones than airplanes. And the technology has reached the point where there is literally no corner on earth where a strategic hit couldn’t be made. Even more concerning, the political and legal framework that previously caused hesitation before striking against citizens of other countries (outside of an active war zone) has largely been erased. Today Pakistan, tomorrow the world?
Second, instead of winding back the US nuclear program—a firm plank in President Obama’s campaign platform—the Nobel Prize winner and his team have indeed been ramping up and modernizing the US nuclear arsenal. The following is an excerpt from a September 21, 2014 article in the New York Times, titled “U.S. Ramping Up Major Renewal in Nuclear Arms”…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A sprawling new plant here in a former soybean field makes the mechanical guts of America’s atomic warheads. Bigger than the Pentagon, full of futuristic gear and thousands of workers, the plant, dedicated last month, modernizes the aging weapons that the United States can fire from missiles, bombers and submarines.
It is part of a nationwide wave of atomic revitalization that includes plans for a new generation of weapon carriers. A recent federal study put the collective price tag, over the next three decades, at up to a trillion dollars.
Third, the events unfolding in Ukraine, where the US was caught red-handed engineering the regime change that destabilized the country and forced Russia to act, show a clear intent to set the world against Putin’s Russia and in time, neutralize Russia as a strategic threat.
So the only revelation from my breakfast four years ago remaining to be confirmed is for the next big war to envelope the world.
Per the events in Ukraine, the foundations of that war have likely already been set. Before I get to that, however, a quick but relevant detour is required.
The Nature of Complex Systems
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Last week the semiannual Owner’s & Guests event took place here at La Estancia de Cafayate. As part of the weeklong gathering, a conference was held featuring residents speaking on topics they are experts on.
Among those residents is a nuclear-energy engineer who spoke on the fragility of the US power grid, the most complex energy transmission system in the world.
He went into great detail about the “defense-in-depth” controls, backups, and overrides built into the system to ensure the grid won’t—in fact, can’t—fail. Yet periodically, it still does.
How? First and foremost, the engineer explained, there is a fundamental principle that holds that the more complex a system is, the more likely it is to fail. As a consequence, despite thousands of very bright people armed with massive budgets and a clear mandate to keep the transmission lines humming, there is essentially nothing they can do to actually prevent some unforeseen, and unforeseeable, event from taking the whole complex system down.
Case in point: in 2003 one of the largest power outages in history occurred. 508 large power generators were knocked out, leaving 55 million people in North America without power for upward of 24 hours. The cause? A software defect in an alarm system in an Ohio control center.
I mention this in the context of this article because, as complex as the US power grid is, it is nothing compared to the complexities involved with long-term military strategic planning. This complexity is the result of many factors, including:
- The challenges of identifying potential adversaries and threats many years, even a decade or more, into the future.
- New and evolving technologies. It is a truism that the military is always fighting the last war: by the time the military machine spins up to build and deploy a new technology, it is often already obsolete.
- The entrenched bureaucracies, headed by mere mortals with strong biases. Today’s friend is tomorrow’s enemy and vice versa.
- The unsteady influences of a political class always quick to react with policy shifts to the latest dire news or purported outrage.
- The media, a constant source of hysteria-making headlines masquerading as news. And let’s not overlook the media’s role as active agents of the entrenched bureaucratic interests. In one now largely forgotten case, Operation Mockingbird, the CIA actually infiltrated the major US media outlets, specifically to influence public opinion.
All you need to do to understand the bureaucratic agenda is to take a casual glance at the “news” about current events such as those transpiring in the Ukraine.
- And, most important, human nature. We humans are the ultimate complex system, prone to a literally infinite number of strong opinions, exaggerated fears, mental illnesses, passions, vices, self-destructive tendencies, and stupidity on a biblical scale.
The point is that the average person assumes the powers-that-be actually know what they are doing and would never lead us into disaster, but quoting my breakfast companion, that would be a very poor assumption.
Simply, while mass war on the level of the wholesale slaughter commonplace in the last century is unimaginable to most in the modern context, it is never more than the equivalent of a faulty alarm system away from occurring.
Those history buffs among you will confirm that up until about a week before World War I began, virtually no one in the public, the press, the political class, or even the military had any idea the shooting was about to start. And 99.9% of the people then living had no idea the war was about to begin until after the first shot was fired.
Back to the Present
It is a rare moment in one’s life when the bureaucratic curtain falls away long enough to reveal something approximating The Truth. In my opinion, that’s what I observed over breakfast four years ago. That, right or wrong, the proactive military strategy of the US had been turned toward Russia.
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Knowing that and no more, one can only guess what actual measures have been planned and set into motion to defang the Russian bear.
Based on the evidence, however, the events in Ukraine appear to be a bold chess move on the bigger board… and to be fair, a pretty damn effective move at that. The problem for the US and its allies is that on the other side of the table is one Vladimir Putin, self-made man, black-belt judo master, and former KGB spy master.
And that’s just scratching the surface of this complicated and determined individual. One thing is for sure: if you had to pick your adversary in a global geopolitical contest, you’d probably pick him dead last.
Which brings me to a quick mention of The Colder War, Marin’s book, which was released yesterday.
I mentioned earlier that the book had sucked me in and kept me in pretty much straight through until I finished. One reason is that while you can tell Marin has a great deal of respect for Putin’s capabilities and strategic thinking, he doesn’t shy away from revealing the judo master’s dark side. As you will read (and find quoting to your friends, as I have), it is a very dark side.
But the story is so much bigger than that, and Marin does a very good job of explaining the increasingly hostile competition between the US and Russia and the seismic economic consequences that will affect us all as the “Colder War” heats up.
Before signing off for now, I want to add that it is not Marin’s contention that the Colder War will devolve into an actual shooting war. In my view, however, due to the complexities discussed above, you can’t dismiss a military confrontation, even one involving nukes. Every complex system ultimately fails, and the more the US pushes in on Putin’s Russia, the more likely such a failure is to occur.
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All wars are banksters wars.
I would like to know how the banksters or other PTB imagine they are going to survive a nuclear war. If they do survive, what kind of life will it be to inhabit a devastated world? Of course Hitler imagined he would rule over a 1000 year reich. Hubris is a wonderful thing.
Dumb fuck had to get the obligatory Putin bashing in. Casey Research goes to zero in my book.
Putin is no worse than the psychos running the US and he is not anywhere near establishing a one world government like the US is.
On that alone, he's far better than anyone the US voter-dupes elect.
The people who decide this crap tend to think they can ride the the whirlwind. Read up on Robert McNamara and Vietnam for a textbook example of fucking up by the numbers.
KnuckleDragger-X
I would like to submit the nomination of Paul Bremmer for his brilliant Iraq decision of banning all the Sunnis from military and government positions thus ensuring the Shia and Sunnis would fight each other and the coalition partners.
Wars were there before banksters. Wars are Government. Get it straight. Government allows bankster. Government created banksters. Government subsidizes banksters.
Government is the problem.
Governments are the biggest form of organized crime. Banksters are the currently best organized gangs of criminals that control the governments.
Bloody hell.
This cat manages to pimp out Casey research, a book and The Argentinian senator's real estate development aimed at rich Americans.
What a salesman.
Am eagerly awaiting Pt II where he tells us which international vaults are the best for bullion storage.
If you mention the secret code-word "Simon Black" to the telephone operator, you can get 50% off!
When I called The People's Vault in Kenya and asked them about the discount for vaulting my physical and mentioned Simon's name somebody that had been breathing heavily in the background burst into maniacal laughter.
I guess they think Simon is pretty funny, huh?
They even were ever so helpful, pointing out that it would cost so much to retrieve if I could even find it and ship the gold I lost in the boating accident to Kenya that I'd be best served just to do a free wire transfer to their local bank and that they'd take care of buying and storing the gold for me.
Heck! They even said that they'd send me a warehouse receipt and fax me a quarterly Polaroid Instant photo of the gold!
Simon, you're the best!
(smooch)
Bingo. Note how he plugs his enclave by name.
I guess ZH has to monetize it somehow in order to bring us other bits of fine journalism.
Always the first question to ask on any free content: What are they selling? I've been following doom & gloom stuff since 1980, I remember Casey had his end-of-the-world book out then as well. If he keeps saying the same thing long enough and lives that long, it'll eventually come true. (It was dirt-poor advice at the time, however.)
+100 for your Avatar, btw.
Judo champ chess grandmaster Putin has his hearing protection on upside down. He looks like a dufus.
He is also not wearing any eye protection, which should be mandatory when firing junk Soviet pistols.
Doesn't want to tussle his come over.
Why doesn't he get hair plugs? Then he would look as good as Joe Biden.
http://www.baldingblog.com/photos/090619_plugs2.jpg
Have you ever seen Biden from behind? It's a like a cornicopia with one giant melon in it.
Community organizer, constitutional lawyer and grand poobah O'Bolah rides a pink girls bike with the helmet on backwards, wears mom jeans, throws a ball like a girl and looks like a mans man even without eye lash protection sitting at his never a piece of paper on the empty desk while speaking on the phone with the handset upside down. None of which is mandatory while he's trying to take away your constitutional right to own a firearm
Don't forget his red and blue undies with the big 'S' on the chest.
Are you sure you're always wearing brain protection when you're posting such large caliber bullshit?
Ob1knb
Smart Russians. Who would want to be the one to tell him it is on upside down?
Listen.
JFC what a vapid idiot. These idiots think that they are not being used and have USSA freedom. Journalistic freedoms. lol. Freedom of the press.
If you don't do exactly what he says and wants you will be blacklisted forever. Pawn trying to look critically exposed, respectable, and preferred.
I love how you always start with 'Listen'
It almost suggests you have something to say that is worth listening to.
Unfortunately that's rarely the case.
He's been at it for a minute and it was making me crazy. I've known people who do that literally, verbally, in real life that I always wanted to choke (or at least slap). I never ranted at him though because at least a couple ZHr's have and, I realized, it's brilliant blogger trollery. Very irritating but, it works. (might be MDB or NSA)
I actually think it's the user fonestar posting under a new account, since both his old accounts (f0nestar and gh0atrider) got banned.
Listen.
Can we please stay focused on David Galland of Casey Research. He wants us to know that's he's so very well connected so we should "LISTEN" to him.
LOL - I like it when you're human. Good one.
Listen. Rage against the machine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNzIKoAy2pk
Fuck you I won't do what you tell me.
Listen.
+100 One of my fav.
Fuck you anti-Bangalorians I won't do what you tell me!
I don't believe what the source was saying and I don't think Galland understood that he was being played.
Read.
Listening only works when there is something to hear.
No. David Galland is not well connected and is not contributing anything to a knowledgeable debate. The Lords of War do not wear military uniforms. Those in uniform are merely the hired help. However, since they are so many who protest that we "listen to" or "read" their public displays of ignorance, what he writes may be of value to the ignorati.
Saw Fonestar (Fone Star) commenting on a reloading video on Youtube. He was having issues full-length sizing bottleneck cases. Felt like a small world when I stumbled across his comment. Same avatar he used here. Poor guy has bullets dropping into the cases.
Unfortunately it doesn't fit the bonestar ghoatraper profile. For example, he isn't trying to pimp bitcons.
I could add more but I will curtail my comments for now. bang gets the down votes for a very valid reason and that is all I will say at this point
Putin can't afford electronic hearing protection?
I'm surprised he needs any hearing protection being he's Putin. Still, I think it lends a bit of authenticity to a casual event rather than a contrived photo-op (which it always is).
I challenge Putin and Obama to a contest. Pick your handgun of choice over .40. Tightest group at 25 yards wins. Winner takes all.
If Putin loses he has to do Moochelle.
If Obama loses he has to do a Russian bear.
I would feel sorry for Putin.
America will always be #1
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until we are #2 due to commerce language religion and political differences
#2??
You are obviously an optimist.
i read #2 with a different meaning....
what a bullshit article - shame on you for making the story up to push a book!
Countries around the world know one cardinal rule, the U.S. will f***ing push you around if you don’t have nukes to defend yourself. We will intimidate you, bomb you and invade you at will.
Our arrogant leaders will miscalculate Putin and cause a disaster. It will be a slow escalation and then an accident. A Russian bomber off course, intercepted by NATO F-16’s, no radio contact, a trigger-happy promotion seeking pilot, shoots it down, or there is a mid-air collision, both planes disappear from radar and fall into the sea. Putin demands answers, D.C. replies, “F.U., it’s all your fault!” Putin pushes back with more troops and Ukraine explodes into war. NATO responds, it spreads.
Listen.
How about nothing happens. The world continues a slow decline, it continues for the next 45 years at which point no one particular country is better off than any other. They are all shitholes filled with asshole leaders and FBI/TSA thug scumbags.
You work for 10 hours a day and get 2 potatoes. The sun never shines, too much coal is being burned as fuel.
It all melts into a big pile of suck and you are all stuck in the middle of it reading The Hedge hoping for violent societal implosions caused by Black Swans.
I liked this post. Not the details, but the spirit. Just sayin.
Much more likely scenario through 2050. Long and slow grind for most everyone (80-90% of people globally) in an environment that doesn't provide for the ever-growing global populaton and an economy which does provide the productivity enhancements to offset the aging global population in much of the world. Yeah there are limited and small/moderate conventional flareups and regional pockets of instability but the proliferation of more and more countries with nukes seriously limits opinions. Lots of continued talk about getting rid of nukes but all it ever is talk because who wants to give them up especially the small guys who with it buy some degree of freedom.
Jesus did I just up vote this guy? Tonight I will scrub and scrub some more but still feel like a whore...but it was a good post
i mean, feel free to shoot down a few commercial 777s, but for fucks sake if a military plane should be lost....
This story really could have used some cat pics, naked chicks and an explosion.....
anybody think those 4 warships that accompanied vlad to australia weren't nuclear armed to the teeth? if anything happened to him there it would've ended up one big outback.
Ships do not need nukes, remember the subs?
close range imperative.
tactical/surgical close range imperative.
The subs are a more valuable asset.
They wouldn't be used for anything less than WWIII.
Those Sailors were looking for a warm port and hot beaches to hang out in.
"Those history buffs among you will confirm that up until about a week before World War I began, virtually no one in the public, the press, the political class, or even the military had any idea the shooting was about to start."
Considering that Obama told Putin he would have more positive latitude after the election of 2012, no one would have thought we would be where we are with Russia right now.
The hard part of starting a major war today is that there is only one country still trying to dominate the world via military means. Fortunately, the other major countries still have more rational leaders.
Bingo!
Even most people here haven't quite realized that the US was the aggressor during the Cold War.
War happens when people with way too much power have nothing PRODUCTIVE to do all day and with the MIC having the US in a bear hug, we will be as a snail crawling along the edge of a straight razor until sanity prevails, if ever...
War happens because government exists.
This is your best post, ever.
One reason is that while you can tell Marin has a great deal of respect for Putin’s capabilities and strategic thinking, he doesn’t shy away from revealing the judo master’s dark side. As you will read (and find quoting to your friends, as I have), it is a very dark side.
"A dark side"?
How dark can V. Putin be compared to an adversary that kills it's own while blaming it on innocent victims 10,000 miles away to advance an agenda to steal resources from those other countries which it (very unsuccessfully I might add), doesn't manage to control and in fact creates unlimited chaos for itself in that region 13 years later that includes nearly 2 million killed and 8 to 10 million refugees? Now the subject and premise of this asshole Marin's book and the fine planning that has taken place at the "puzzle palace” since the last visit four years ago? –Mind you we are just talking about Eastern Europe since the Cold War “ended” and the reshaping of the Iron Curtain post 1989 and all of the treaty obligations the U.S. and EU violated creating an ABM defense shield in an interesting attempt to “win a nuclear confrontation” using it’s Western European allies as potential fodder in that exchange! Volunteers?!!!
Deaths of thousands starting with Kosovo… The near nuclear incident in Pristina 1999, the near nuclear incident in South Ossetia 2008… Foreign sponsored terrorism by “you know who” that led to the massacre at Beslan in 2004… The deaths of 17 and wounding of several dozen in Volgograd 2013 and then the overthrow of a government in Ukraine which is estimated to have killed as many as 20,000 and counting….
And I haven't even gotten to the morale of those fine warriors that have been creating that chaos in the Middle East that no longer have the resources to maintain that growing military abroad let alone return to a stable home front that increasingly includes a National Guard presence to bully taxpayers that can no longer afford maintaining those misadventures and abject failures abroad!
Given adversaries like the United States, England, Israel and Saudi Arabia (the usual suspects) I should hope V. Putin has a "very dark side" indeed!
+1
I really really hope Russia cheated like crazy on the nuke treaties.
I would bet good money the US has.
Apparently, patriotism sells more newsletter subscriptions, so while articles by those who sell newsletter subscriptions may complain about individuals or policies in the Empire, they usually also find a way to insert a patriotic badmouthing of someone outside the Empire: e.g. Putin, Hussein, Qaddafi, Chavez, Castro. Such articles can leave an impression that, although those who are running parts of the Empire at the moment are making some foolish mistakes, the Empire itself is not the core problem, and "the other guys" are also bad, if not worse.
Son of Captain Nemo,
Kudos! Bravo! Etc! You nailed it dead center...
The flaw of Putin's enemies is their hubris of believing they're chosen by destiny and/or God.
So, they have Putin. We have Obama. What could go wrong?
Oh yeah, remember that picture of Putin petting his Cheetah ..
At least Putin has a pussy worth rubbing, right?
or
Cheetahs clearly prosper in Russia
or
That is some heavy pettting, isn't it?
or
Putin is not the only one with a pussy with teeth
or
Insert pussy joke with Obama's wife as the loser, here...
Obama is an embarassment. Bush was an embarassment. If we really did elect these clowns (vs. Diebold) we deserve what we get.
Putin is a fuck too. At least he looks like he has a vision and is working his own agenda that he thought of himself. This is not all good, but at least it is not weak and lame. Anyone who wants this kind of power is beyond the ability of most of us to empathize with.
Who writes this stuff? A few years ago I met a man who told me I'd take a dump almost every day, have to buy a new car and bang a supermodel.
The first two have happened, so the third can't be far away.
Dear Warden,
I am having a wonderful time.
I wish you were here to share it with me.
My shanks to you,
43590821
Free Markets, Democracy... reality has never supported such fiction.
David, I can see why you'd keep it to yourself, it's disturbing alright, but been around since Plato wrote about it in his 'The Republic' circa 380 BC.
Looks like it must be the normal order of things after all.
Fact of life is it ain't like we're 'told'.
You mention Operation Mockingbird fro the early 60's, check out German Editor Udo Ulfkotte to get a glimpse of the success of the program's global roll out since then. Seems pretty standard procedure these days.
Wanna know more, try Daniele Ganser's Operation Gladio for an 'official' look behind the scenes, or, Richard Cottrell's 'Nato, Dagger at the heart of Europe'.
But then maybe you read from these people too.
Anyway, teach your children well.
Your country is less yours than you think.
Cheers from a south seas paradise (sadly not beyond meddling)
Well now we know the reason that the Zionists are reorganizing the DC US' strategic nuke command.
Best way to nuke a country and avoid the retaliatory strike? Have another nation launch the strike on your behalf.
"Wag the dog, then let the dog get nuked."
An American, not US subject.
One essential read is Christopher Clarks "The Sleepwalkers"...a book of the beginnings of WW1 and how it started. A war seems to gestate and then bang it is upon us. The instigators of WW1 thought that it would last a few months (Cheney and Bush thought Iraq would be a cake walk) and (that the oil revenue would pay for the war) two very stupid assumptions and or downright lies. The moneychangers are licking their lips...they see more profits coming than they ever dreamed of. If this does happen, and I do believe we are headed for it, we might be the target of many other countries that hate us beyond a doubt and would team up with Russia,China, Iran, the middle east and South America. We might be biting off more than we can chew. Also, we dont have the money and we OWE TRILLIONS. Maybe that is the ruse.
Thank Putin it looks like we get a further lesson in the drama of patriarchy.
The new change is the ever one. Abstracted from all the unessential, it's a man. An paragone of a man if you read the comments about.
A man. A leader. Convincingly in his carriage to meet the wanted. As urgently needed, against the gay flood, against woman lib, against intelligence higher than what a fight can produce, against the decline of menhood
Russia and Putin equals the same. A people, an empire and, he. Forget all the stuff about constitutions, check and balances that threaten to obscure the purity of the subject.
First step to make things easy for those who think the world, not quite unaccurate, as an ever lasting movie in which it goes about the question who beats whom on the head or into his solution for happiness.
Second symplification, the world - shared out finally in two camps for to do so.
Your bed please. It's spring time to sell your bashing power in whatever kind of joke. Embarrassed to judge, tip, remind the fights in the school yard. How they escalated for instance and the most typical concomitants. You will meet them all again.
The patriarchical comfort to live in this world dare I say whatsoever is not at risk.
oh please. Why does ZH post this? Come on, a conversaton 4 years ago that wasnt recorded, and the persons name isnt even mentioned? There's no way to verify that.
Drones have been used for a lot longer than 4 years ago. In light of all the recent scandals with our nuclear weapons i dont see anything shocking that Obama wants to address those issues
Good thing we are spending another $1T over the next 3 decades and keeping the triad of nuclear deterrence and enough megatonnage to destroy the world over 1000x. Maybe add even more weapons grade waste to Hanford and spend another $200 or 300B through 2100 instead of the scheduled $120B we are scheduled to spend over the next 30 years year. What an unbelievable waste of money, talent, and resources.
Casey Research needs to do a lot more Research before they promote themselves as experts on the subject.
OOh Putin's dark side! Thank goodness we are the good guys!
KGB spy master....
I must always laugh, rolling on the floor, when I read such statements.
The author has forgotten about Bush 41-st.
The author has forgotten to write about revolving door in Washington, from Defence contractors to Government,
then to Wall Street and
then to PNAC and the loop is closed.
My comment: stupid moron, taking Judas' obolus from the hands of the Deep State.
Wow, this is really old, emailed from Casey a few weeks ago. Glad to see it finally made it here though.
"Those history buffs among you will confirm that up until about a week before World War I began,"
You didn't know it was coming because you weren't asked, till the Germans had actually won? In 1916, the French anhilated, Russians defeaten, Italy ran off amd Britain a weeks supply of food left and on the verge of copitulating, the Zionists approached London, with a proposition. http://www.iamthewitness.com/audio/Benjamin.H.Freedman/1961.Willard.Hotel.Speech.htm
This is how America, became involved in WW1. Same as now, it's all about money and control, USA are losing the 'Petrodollar', so need to stop BRICS, from taking control. They were denied 'rights' to bomb Syria, who won't play ball and so looked for other means; ISIS.
This band of marauders are doing two jobs, helping get rid of Assad and stopping the Iran-Iraq-Syria pipe-line being completed.
This breakfast table chat by a US citizen sitting in Argentina and promoting (hint, hint) the book that "tells it all", makes me smile.
In essence what this guy says :
1° He met a Pentagon shill who said : Russia is our enemy in the coming decade and it could go nuclear. (What else can a Pentagon shill say! He is paid to imagine these things to keep the "great game" going, ad vitam aeternem. That's what pays his gravy and gives him and his ilk a sense of national importance.)
2° He finds Putin fascinating and totally capable of turning the tables on the USA-- (a country, as we all know, who has managed all on its own to turn the tables on itself and is running helter skelter in the ME to repair the unrepairable, only making it worse ; but that is not the issue here!)
Now, what else did he say that we didn't know already?
ITS ALL EXPLAINED IN THE BOOK!
Oh I see...
I'm so confused: I thought I was to fear Muslims, but this article says I should be afraid of Russians. It shouldn't be this hard to figure out who to hate.
It's all lies . These people can only tell truth in their rear-view mirror .
This simplifies matters .
You are about 3 times richer than you think .
See
https://www.academia.edu/9405720/The_Economics_of_Disrespect_Update_I
or
http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-economics-of-disrespect-update...
lemme guess bagels & lox?
Whispering makes a narrow place narrower.