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US National Insecurity: The Art Of Blaming Russia (For Everything)
Submitted by Daniel Spaulding via 21stCenturyWine.com,
In American politics the nation of Russia, especially as personified in its leader Vladimir Putin, becomes all things to all men.
To American leftists, Russia is a neo-fascist, violently nationalist country that ruthlessly suppressed minority groups, especially homosexuals. To the American Right, Putin is the second coming of Stalin who is working to subvert good old-fashioned American values around the world.
In line with the latter narrative, a certain Christian Gomez recently published an article on The New American website, the flagship of the John Birch Society, supposedly revealing that the Russian government is the real power behind the ISIS terrorist group, as well as being behind the recent terrorist attacks in Paris. The source of this “revelation” is a single, alleged and unidentified ‘defector’ from the FSB, Russia’s security service, who spilled these supposed secrets on Ukrainian television, a mouthpiece for the Washington-backed Kiev coup-junta that never misses an opportunity to slander all things Russian.
Such charges are absurd on their face; there is absolutely no evidence to hint, much less demonstrate, that Russian intelligence had any involvement in the formation of ISIS. Why Russia would want to support a terrorist entity that seeks to destabilize and overthrow its close and reliable ally, Bashar Assad of Syria, is never explained or analyzed by either the faux defector or his American champions at the John Birch Society.
Indeed, even mainstream Western media sources no longer make serious attempts to hide the fact that America’s regional allies, and not Russia, are to be identified as the sources of ISIS development and support. Countries like Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and even Israel have all played a significant role in funding, arming, and enabling ISIS, Jahbat al-Nusra, and other similar jihadist factions in Iraq and Syria.
Turkey has an awfully peculiar way of “fighting” ISIS (Image: RT)
America itself is certainly in a far better position to be plastered with the charge of supporting ISIS. According to Washington’s own Defense Intelligence Agency, the American government knew from the beginning of its support for the “Arab Spring” in Syria that the violent insurgency against Bashar Assad was composed primarily of unsavory, vicious Islamist factions, including the Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Qaeda sympathizers, and even predicted these factions, if empowered, would seek to create a Salafist “principality.”
Meanwhile, Russian president Vladimir Putin has been stalwart in his support for Bashar Assad, recently going as far to providing air cover to the Syrian military as it seeks to reclaim the country from ISIS and other terrorist brigades. An undertaking that has earned Putin even more irrational hatred from the Western media and political establishment, which cheers on jihadists as they pillage and plunder their way through Syria.
So where did this preposterous charge against Russia originate? The faux defector that would smear Russia with responsibility for ISIS is obviously a pawn of Langley’s Ukrainian satraps, but his absurd conspiracy theory still finds fans in the West, especially among so-called American conservatives and ‘patriots’, since it fits in with a much older narrative, one stretching back to the Cold War.
During the height of the Cold War, figures like W. Cleon Skousen, a former FBI agent and an associate of the John Birch Society, and the opportunistic Soviet KGB defector Anatoly Golitsyn propagated the narrative that the Soviet Union was not merely a geopolitical rival of the United States, but was fantastically successful in its quest to undermine American democracy and replace it with a communist society. Golitsyn and Cleon Skousen’s nephew, Joel Skousen, have gone as far as to claim the collapse of the Soviet Union was a clever ruse designed to lull America and the West into a false sense of security so that the “communist agenda” might continue, with no one the wiser.
Coincidentally, this non-falsifiable conspiracy theory plays well to more fringe elements of the American “patriot” movement and many Christian dispensationalists, who see Russia as the Biblical ‘Gog and Magog’ set to devour their idol, the State of Israel. It also provides a convenient scapegoat for American conservatives who are unable or unwilling to see the real culprits behind the social chaos in their country – and that their country is the prime source of both geopolitical and cultural subversion abroad.
Communist influence on American society and culture during the era of the Cold War shouldn’t be wholly discounted. In fact, the neo-Marxist Frankfurt School certainly left its mark, though often exaggerated, on the deconstruction of traditional institutions in the West. But often overlooked by anti-communist conspiracy theorists is the reality that cultural Bolsheviks like Herbert Marcuse and Theodor Adorno didn’t receive their marching orders from Moscow, a power which they disdained, but rather were assets of Western elites and their intelligence apparatus, particularly the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the CIA. Nor did Bolshevism in the first part of the 20th century spawn indigenously from Russian soil, like Athena from the head of Zeus. Rather, the dictatorship of the proletariat was helped along in its ascendancy by oligarchs in New York and London.
PROPAGANDA’S ROLE REVERSAL: “It’s only feigned reverence, obviously Neo-Soviet propaganda.”
Furthermore, its impossible to find any evidence that Russia exerts any significant social, economic, or political influence on America, or is working toward turning America into the “socialist workers’ paradise”. On the contrary, whatever minor outreach that Russians have extended to America has actually been toward Christian conservatives wishing to preserve the traditional family and other social values.
While neoconservatives and their useful idiots among the American “patriots” cynically dismiss President Putin as a Soviet retrograde and Tom Clancy villain, the Kremlin implements communist policies neither at home, nor abroad. On the other hand, Russian Orthodoxy has returned slowly but surely as a central part of Russian life, and Russian patriotism has no need for Marxist rhetoric about workers’ revolutions or the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Instead of tired, CIA-fueled Cold War narratives and covers for liberal imperialism, perhaps sincere conservatives and ‘patriots’ in America should look to the Soviet dissident, Russian patriot, and devout Christian, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a man far wiser than any ‘FSB defector’. Solzhenitsyn saw a positive, stabilizing role in Putin’s leadership as Russian culture and identity revived, and it was Solzhenitsyn who also saw that the “Euro-Atlantic alliance” was the engine of the “decline of Christian civilization.” Meanwhile, the West sinks further into its simulacrum Babylon, and its spiritually blind “defenders” will blame anyone but themselves.
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It was a shinning beacon of liberty only in our minds.
We deceived ourselves with the help of predictive programming.
three simple letters, Rand.
Leadership.
My elders were forced to believe in the leader called "Führer". He led them off the cliff.
Where I come from, leader means something like betrayer. The people were sold off their land by their "leaders" who benefitted enormously.
Leader is not a good word. Leaders are for the most part, lying manipulative pieces of shit who're purely out for their own personal gratification. And that's all we should ever expect from them, and treat them appropriately.
+1,000...I sit here, read that and thought "exactly"....
...and how fucking sad is that.....
Yeah, well, all your broken beliefs and expectations...
the empathy will come,
but you are repeating your mistake, as you find new affection towards so-called Russia.
What are these "countries" that you speak of anyway,
when you are clearly intelligent enough to not play the "country" game
when a citizenry has nothing to do with a corrupt leadership.
Yer all over the place.
What in your thinking, given time and time to replicate,
would preclude what has happened and where we find ourselves, I wonder?
Join the club, I grew up in West Berlin and was deceived who the good guys were. It can be quite unsettling, ike suddenly realising, Father Christmas is just the guy from next door in a red suit.
New mantra: It ain't necessarily so.
My sentiment exactly. 1957 in my case.
(My first ever post.)
I gotta work on a name and avatar...if time doesn't run out first.
I was born in 1946 and innocently believed the crap narratives pumped into our brains until around 1992 when I started to realize the US was not what it said it was.
Real life is wierder than fiction. I also now admire Russia and despise the US.
The most beautiful part of a womans body is her BRAIN.
vagina's are over-rated. Most girls don't sqeeze tight enough!
Sucking boobies?
It's about LOVE, and connecting. [ ideas aren't always solutions]
Merry Christmas, "Let Them Eat Rand."
I'm analog!
It's not the body or brain.
It is the soul and spirit (which are different) of a person that is important
Sex is overrated, your soulmate can be anybody.
Usually the soulmate relationship is not or ends up not sexual.
I get people who ask me if this or that one is their soulmate.
I tell them the truth, the soulmate is the one who shows up for you.
They show up to help you move forward, even if it is painful.
We can move forward, backward or sideways, that is up to us.
Our soulmate presents the opportunity to move forward, if we have the
consciousness and will to do so. And simultaneously we offer them the same
opportunity.
It is a very intricate tapestry, we are connected and interwoven in our desire to return
home to our creator.
I'd like to see/ hear some female comments?
Crickets?i
Girls are just girls... Three Peckered, billy goats...
you just got one, I am female.
but I am not average, I am very unique. I haven't ever met anyone like myself.
Nope.
It's a shame, that an WOMAN has to desguise herself as an man.
You deserve better, "or" you like venison?
uh..how did I disguise myself as a man?
Chris is a female name.
My full name is Christine.
My short name is Chris, don't you know women named Chris?
Not much wisdom there. Even a simpleton can figure that, eh YC?
I knew you were Chris Everett Lloyd!
Anyway, hedge needs more female voices.
Yens cool. Prolly hitting the sauce for CHRIStmas but may you all speak freely.
Merry Christmas to all Hedgers....even the dipshit GhostofRonnyJamesDio dufus.
Wasn't that Chrissy Evert?
Anyway Dakota's definitely a man's name.
Dakota is the name of a state.
duh
It's a man state though, correct?
Ok Chris i kinda know that. Practice what you preach.
If liberal feminism it to be believed then sex is an act of violence.
I will not take it that far, but there is a violent "cave-person" aspect to it.
Yes, if done properly
Well said....Christine...and Merry Christmas to you
Merry Christmas!
"Merry Christmas, "Let Them Eat Rand.""
Merry Christmas, Yen Cross. As for the rest of your post, I'm trying to catch up in the drinking department!
Merry Christmas Yen and Rand....cheers to ya!
Thanks Jim. Rand see's " Northern Lights"... Jealous
Merry Christmas folks
the best education is a real debate
You may need some help if an article about Russia and Mr. Putin makes you write this response.
Thats gay.
Fuck jesus.
Ayn Rand was a jewish meth head with VD and plagerized all her work.
And a womans ass is her most precious asset, after her voice.
I suggest you try "the stranger".
Sit on your left hand, or right depending on preference, until it falls asleep and then Masturbate that very tiny penis of yours until the quarter ounce of future, yet never To fruition, rag waste of sperm is ejaculated. That's all of the pussy you will ever get with that mentality and as a man with a wonderful wife and two daughters, go fuck yourself you disrespectful asshole who will eventually die alone.
Merry Christmas C O C K S U C K E R.
Stick around, you may learn something.
Ass is correct. Where else could you park your bike with the current crime rate?
Depends.
Some years ago, I was at a party and was introduced to Dr. Wang, a dentist. Her teeth were lovely, and I realized that all dentists I had known had perfect teeth, no doubt form fit and function perfect.
I immediately understood that my next gf should be a gynecologist.
It looks like Hollywood has already started with the predictive programming to blame Russia for everything bad that could happen in the US. You've gotta have a boogeyman to keep the false right left paradigm going so the masses will beg for more enslavement disguised as safety. Clearly ISIS and the false war on terrorism isn't quite enough. So it is good to have a primary and a backup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1SmJUBT5q0
the Jews want Russia back.
All of Russia or just what they had before, the Pale of Settlements?
People talk about the "Greater Israel"
but they want the whole world.
They have a good portion of it now.
They want all of Russia.
All of Europe.
All of Africa.
All of Asia.
All of the Americas.
Because they are the children of satan.
Nah, they just want to buy companies, invest, and make money.
hey uhland look there is rainbow colored moose flying over river
The primary marker you use to determine if a group of people are children of satan who have been fooled into thinking they have been favoured by God is their belief that they are superior to other children of God, (because of whatever, genes, color, race, religion, divine favour). It is satans greatest con to set Gods children agaist each other, amongst other groups, it is prevalent in Zionists, Nazis and skinheads. It gives its believers the "right" to abuse or butcher others because they are fundamentaly viewed as sub human. One day each of us will have to answer to the Father.
At the rate the internet wakes up sheeple they might not even keep Itsahell.
"To American leftists, Russia is a neo-fascist, violently nationalist country that ruthlessly suppressed minority groups, especially homosexuals. To the American Right, Putin is the second coming of Stalin" - This is one of the rarest occasions when both the left and the right are 100% correct!
Fact: Russia is a dying nation. Ethnic russians are dying out and are being replaced by much faster procreating muslims.
Fact: The russian economy is collapsing so fast that it makes 2008 USA recession mild by comparison
Fact: Most russians lost 50% of the purchasing power, and depending on oil prices will lose much more
Fact: Europe is buying much less russian natural gas than was projected. Ukraine stopped buying Russian gas completely. State revenues are dwindling.
Fact: Now Russia has to provide energy (free of charge) to the unprofitable Soviet industrial relics in the occupied Eastern Ukraine and in the Crimea - even less money left to pay pensions and soldiers' salaries
Fact: China is dicatating Russia what prices it will pay for oil and gas. Absent European demand, Russia has no choice but to accept Chiense prices
Fact: There's estimated between 2 and 5 million Chinese living illegally in Russia. (Where's "Russian Trump?" Putin is afraid to raise the issue!) THere can be 2 solutions: Russian Far East will be sold to China just as Alaska was sold to the USA (and Putin will forever be remebered as the biggest villain and traitor in Russin history) or there will be Sino-Russian war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Soviet_border_conflict
http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=82969&page=1
http://atimes.com/2015/06/russians-wary-of-land-deals-with-china/
Fact: 3 days ago Putin commented that if the current firepower isn't enough to break ISIS down, Russia "has more." What else could he be expected to say? Obviously he could not say anything else, becasue that would be an acknowledgement of total military impotency. But why was the question asked in the first palce, and why did Putin dignified it with an answer? Well, that's because the war with ISIS isn't going as well as Putin wanted.
Conclusion: Russia loses people, money, industrial capacity, and soon will lose its own land. Posing shirtless on a horse or petting tranquilized tiger ain't gonna fix any of these issues.
Fact: you are yet another fuckin troll.
They bring up anything under the sun except for the real reason. Khodorkovsky was prevented from handing over Russia's oil and gas monopoly to .... I think it was Exxon mobil. It is unforgivable not to sell out to American interests and let them create a monopoly in another country.
Some other privatisations were not followed through and that's another cardinal sin. Wall Street counted on these profits so now comes the revenge for Enron and Bankers Trust money that had been allocated for Russian firms but was lost.
My toast burnt this morning and I just know it was Putin.
Your template does not survive the collision with reality.
I'll chime in.
The GDP growth is consistently negative.
The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Russia contracted 4.10 percent year-on-year in the third quarter of 2015, following 4.6 percent drop in the previous period and below market expectations.
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/russia/gdp-growth-annual
Russia has the highest heroin usage in the world, second only to Afghanistan who happens to be the lead producer or opiates, controlling 93% of the world' market.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_prevalence_of_opiates...
Salaries shrinking regularly, despite inflation.
Amid soaring inflation, the average monthly salary across Russia shrank to 31,200 rubles ($500) in January, Gazeta.ru reported Tuesday citing the Economic Development Ministry.
Inflation is over 15%
Consumer prices in Russia increased by 15.6 percent year-on-year in October of 2015, down from a 15.7 percent growth in the previous month.
It was the second straight month the inflation decelerated, as cost of food, transportation and housing rose at a slower pace while clothing and footwear prices went up.
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/russia/inflation-cpi
Almost 1 million Russians officially living with HIV
“It has not justified itself,” Pokrovsky said, noting that the official number of Russians with HIV has grown to some 930,000 people from around 500,000 in 2010.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/15/russian-hiv-aids-epidemic-w...
"In 2012, the rate of teenage suicides in Russia was three times higher than the world average."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Russia
Russia has second worst suicide rate in the world
http://sputniknews.com/russia/20061123/55932140.html
You guys must be paid by the hour to post such lengthy garbage.
Problem for all of us is that it isn't garbage, Russia has a deep hole to climb out of.
And the outside world isn't helping much, doing a lot to hinder them.
Our rate of growth has been consistently negative also, but our gov statistics bureau is better than Russia's.
There heroin comes from Afghanistan, of course, the CIA's heroin, I always thought that Russia was a justification for leaving the poppies grow, they don't care about Afghan farmers, the normal excuse.
Indeed, terms of trade changed with the commodities prices. I don't see how to blame Russia for that.
HIV is a result of the drugs, and Russia can't do the obvious thing and legalize them, same reason as the US : our mafias won't let us.
Suicide, etc. are not something our govs can control, as the VA tells us all the time about our own rates for vets, older farmers, ...
The war on Russia is very largely, albeit not solely, a Jewish war.
jewish 'elites' qua such... ((Not 'Zionist.' zionist pertains to israel and the nationalist statism of jews. Actions by international orgwnized Jewry in Russia and Ukraine are *not* 'Zionist.' ))
Evidence?
*Abundant.* but no amount of evidence will ever convince peole who refuse, apriori, to even consider that such evidence could possible exist.
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v14/v14n1p-4_Weber.html
http://www.softpanorama.org/Skeptics/Pseudoscience/harvard_mafia.shtml
http://globalfire.tv/nj/05en/politics/putin_jews.htm
http://youtu.be/Q2Cl8lSv9Is
http://youtu.be/yTT9TOZ3ihY
The first paragraph brings up bipolar ideals that are only taken in by people who are involved vehemently in the nonsense that the two parties vomit upon the dumbed down populace.
#1 Russia is: " a violently nationalist country that ruthlessly suppressed minority groups, especially homosexuals."
Well so did we here in the US for a long while. But the tide turned. I wonder why? But could we substitute blacks, Hispanics etc... and yet not be in the same group? So where does this take us? Did you ever ask yourself that?
Then the opposite pole point: "Putin is the second coming of Stalin who is working to subvert good old-fashioned American values around the world." Really?? Stalin???? Yes he's been pushing. And the good old USA has been standing on the sidelines???? Without it's own Stalinistic type ideals?
Now Putin and Russia are being played yet again as a bad guy. I'm holding my bets. Why? I'm not sure who the real bad guys are! And you should think alot and very hard about this. Because we haven't yet to legislate "STUPID". But I feel it's coming! Good Luck To All.
The Old Man
The USSA/NATO propaganda machine is pushing garbage, perhaps intentionally so...
it would be an even greater worry if they pushed something unintentionally.
Here's a better article, Merry Fuckin Christmas!
Putin's destruction of US proxy armies in Syria sends Kerry scampering to the United Nations Mike WhitneyCounterpunch
Wed, 23 Dec 2015 19:03 UTC
Imagine if the American people elected a president who was much worse than George W. Bush or Barack Obama. A real tyrant. Would that be sufficient justification for someone like Vladimir Putin to arm and train Mexican and Canadian mercenaries to invade America, kill US civilians, destroy cities and critical infrastructure, seize vital oil refineries and pipeline corridors, behead government officials and prisoners they'd captured, declare their own independent state, and do everything in their power to overthrow the elected-government in Washington?
Of course not. The question is ridiculous. It wouldn't matter if the US president was a tyrant or not, that doesn't justify an invasion by armed proxies from another country. And yet, this is precisely the policy that US Secretary of State John Kerry defended at the United Nations on Friday. Behind all the political blabber about a "roadmap to peace", Kerry was tacitly defending a policy which has led to the deaths of 250,000 Syrians and the destruction of the country.
And, keep in mind, Kerry didn't drag his case before the UN Security Council because he's serious about a negotiated settlement or peace. That's baloney. What Kerry wants is a resolution that will protect the groups of US-backed jihadis on the ground from the Russian-led offensive. That's what's really going on. The Obama administration sees the handwriting on the wall. They know that Russia is going to win the war, so they've settled on a plan for protecting their agents in the field. That's why the emphasis is on a ceasefire; it's because Kerry wants a "Timeout" so his Sunni militants can either regroup or retreat. Just take a look at this short excerpt from the UN's summary of last Friday's confab and you'll see Kerry's really up-to:
(The Security Council) acknowledged the close linkage between a ceasefire and a parallel political process, with the former to come into effect as soon as the sides have begun initial steps towards a political transition under UN auspices....
The resolution asked Mr. Ban through the offices of his Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura to determine the modalities of a ceasefire and plan to support its implementation, while urging Member States, in particular members of the ISSG, to accelerate all efforts to achieve a ceasefire, including through pressing all relevant parties to adhere to one.
Emphasizing the need for a ceasefire monitoring and verification mechanism, the Council asked Mr. Ban to report back to it on options with a month, and called on Member States to provide "expertise and in-kind contributions" to support such a mechanism..."
("In first political resolution on war-torn Syria, Security Council gives UN major role in seeking peace", UN News Centre)
See what I mean: Ceasefire, ceasefire, ceasefire. It's all about a ceasefire. Kerry wants a ceasefire. Obama wants a ceasefire. A big part of the ruling US establishment want a ceasefire. No, not the neocons, not the liberal interventionists, and not the diehard hawks like Ash Carter at the Pentagon, but a good portion of the ruling elites who've been following events on the ground and who know how this thing is going to end. The smart money has already moved on to Plan B, which is why they're now focused on cutting their losses and saving as many of "their guys" as possible. Naturally, the people who funded, armed, trained and deployed these various Sunni fighters feel responsible for their safety, so they're going to do whatever they can to get them out. That's where Kerry comes in. Kerry's job was to fly to Moscow, tell Putin that Obama had changed his mind about regime change, and get the Kremlin to back Kerry's UN resolution. The primary objective of this farce is to garner international support for designating terrorist groups as "moderates" and to move in the direction of UN-mandated ceasefire that will stop the Russian-led offensive in its tracks.
But isn't that what everyone wants, an end to the hostilities?
Not exactly. A war against terrorists is different than a war between nation-states or a civil war. A group like Jabhat al-Nusra, for example, can't be treated the same way as armed members of the political opposition. These are religious fanatics determined to use any means possible to achieve their goal of a fascist Islamic Caliphate. Reasoned discourse doesn't work with people like this, they have to be killed or captured. And this is exactly what the Russian-led coalition is doing, they're progressively mopping up the terrorist threat in Syria at great risk to themselves and their fellow-collation members Iran, Hezbollah, and the Syrian Arab Army. Kerry's job is to throw a wrench in the anti-terror campaign to impede the coalition's progress. And he's willing to lie to do it. Case in point: Here's a quote from Kerry in Moscow just last Tuesday:
"As I emphasized today, the United States and our partners are not seeking so-called "regime change," as it is known in Syria.
Later in the day, Kerry underscored the administration's dramatic about-face saying: "We are not trying to do a regime change. We are not engaged in a color revolution. We're not engaged in trying to interfere in another country ... We're trying to make peace."
Okay, so the US has given up on regime change?
Not at all. Kerry was just lying through his teeth as usual. Here's what he said less than 24 hours later:
('US not after regime change in Syria, but Assad must go' - Kerry to Russian TV", RT)
Comment: What Kerry is essentially saying above is that with Assad in power, the war in Syria will always exist because the US is actively engaged in using terrorists to overthrow Assad. So he's right, the war in Syria will never end as long as Assad is in power because the US will never stop trying to overthrow him. It's not because the terrorists hate Assad because he's evil. He's not, he's just a pain in the Empire's backside so they bring in their trained terrorists to get rid of their Assad problem.Got that? So the US doesn't support regime change, but Assad's still got to go.
How's that for hypocrisy? The truth is the Obama administration is just as committed to toppling Assad as ever. Kerry was just misleading Putin to get his approval for his ridiculous resolution at the UN. As a result, Assad's name was never mentioned in the resolution which, Kerry seems to think, is a big victory for the US. But it's not a victory, in fact, all of Russia's demands were met in full through the passing of UN Resolution 2254 (three resolutions were passed on Friday) which reiterates all Putin's demands dating back to the Geneva Communique' of 2012. Assad was never mentioned in 2254 either, because naming the president wasn't necessary to establish the conditions for 1 - a transitional government, 2 - outlining the terms for a new constitution and a non-Islamist Syrian state, and 3—free and fair elections to ensure the Syrian people control their own future. In 2012, the US rejected these three provisions saying that the would not agree unless Assad was excluded from participating in the transitional government. Now the US has reversed its position on Assad which means that 100 percent of Moscow's demands have been met. UN Resolution 2254 is complete capitulation on the part of the US. It is a humiliating diplomatic defeat which no one in the media is even willing to acknowledge.
So what did Kerry gain by all his globe-trekking and backroom maneuvering?
Nothing. In fact, he gave away the farm by making a number of concessions to gain Russia's support.
What "concessions" are we talking about?
Here's a short list: Kerry met with Putin in Moscow on December 15. On December 16, the IMF ruled in favor of Russia in its $3 billion claim against Ukraine. Here's the story:
"In the case of the Eurobond, the Russian authorities have represented that this claim is official. The information available regarding the history of the claim supports this representation," the IMF said in a statement." ("IMF recognizes Ukraine's contested $3bn debt to Russia as sovereign ", RT)
How many strings do you think Washington had to pull to seal that deal?
Also on December 16, the US announced that it would remove its F-15 fighters stationed in Turkey immediately. Here's the story:
The redeployment of the fighters came amid a flurry of diplomatic and military-to-military activity in the region and with Russia ...
A day before the planes left, Secretary of State John Kerry was in Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of United Nations Security Council meetings in New York Friday on Syria and U.S. efforts to ease out President Bashar al-Assad.
("US Air Force Begins Withdrawing F-15 Fighter Jets From Turkey", Military.com)
Another coincidence?
Not likely.
Then there's this: On December 17, Obama allowed a Russian-backed resolution to pass the UNSC unanimously that that will help uncover secret financing for ISIS and "strengthen legal measures against those doing business with terrorist groups." According to RT:
The document, which is based on UN Charter Article VII and takes effect immediately, calls for members to "move vigorously and decisively to cut the flow of funds" to IS."
UN Security Council unanimously adopts resolution targeting ISIS finances
Is that what Obama really wants, to expose the revenue streams for these extremist organizations that are clearly getting support from Washington's main allies in the Gulf?
Probably not, but Kerry caved-in anyway hoping that his support would help him to nab the elusive ceasefire.
Finally, on December 18, Obama told Turkish President Erdogan that he wanted him to remove his troops and tanks from Iraq. Here's the story:
He also "reinforced the need for Turkey to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Iraq," the White House said.
A 300-strong contingent of Turkish forces backed by 20 to 25 tanks was stationed on the outskirts of the city of Mosul, the capital of Iraq's Nineveh Province, on December 4." ("Obama to Erdogan: Withdraw Turkish troops from Iraq", Press TV)
(Turkey has since promised to remove more troops following Obama's call.)
In other words, the Turkish occupation began on December 4, but Obama never responded until two days after Kerry talked with Putin in Moscow. Another coincidence?
Maybe or maybe not. In any event the US had to do some serious horse-trading to persuade Putin to take Kerry's issue to the Security Council. (By the way, Obama knew beforehand that Turkey planned to invade Iraq, in fact, "an important Turkish official confirmed this claim by saying "all relevant countries" were informed about the deployment of the troops. See here for details.
Like we said earlier: Kerry gave away the farm to slam a deal that isn't going to have the slightest impact on the outcome of the war. And that's what's so tragic about all this diplomatic tap-dancing, is that it doesn't really change anything. Syria's future is going to be decided on the battlefield, not at the United Nations and not at the bargaining table. Washington decided that long ago when it elected to use force of arms to try to achieve its geopolitical ambitions. Now an organized opposition has emerged that is openly challenging US-backed proxies leaving Washington with just two options, fight or retreat.
It had to come to this, didn't it? After all, if you push people hard enough, eventually they push back.
Why the Long Face Kerry Kohn? You Filthy Bastard!
ZATO requested on behalf of DAESH a safe corridor from a Syrian conflict area and it was UnFuckingBelievingly granted by Assad ( obviously after consultation with Putin ).
Obviously i'm not the ' Christian Charitable Fella ' or Statesman that Putin is. No i would have played ZATO at it's own Dirty Fucking Game; Granted the Request and then MOWN THESE FILTHY ZATO/WAHHABI MURDERING SCUM DOWN USING EXCESSIVE FORCE . . . . AND SOME.
Anger aplenty! Did the folks who were displaced or murdered in that particular city/area have their fucking say on the Matter?
It's not Bravado i promise you when i say if i received the order to Stand Down i would round up my own Private Posse and cut them off at the Pass.
NO PRISONERS
and the conversation sounds like it went something like this:
putin: this is what i want.
kerry: ok, ok. please leave us alone for awhile in our safespace.
The war will never end until Syria accepts a zio central bank. Same thing with Iran. When will Putin get rid of the Russian central bank?
I ordered a Russian bride and got a plastic love doll from China. They should at least share the blame.
Merry Christmas President Putin. Merry Christmas Edward Snowden, we hope you can come home someday. I'm learning the Russian language as a small step towards peace.
C Praznikom. :)???????????? ???????!!
I cried rainbow unicorn tears
I got out my visa card and typed it into a wb site, i'll pay for it later
I saw an add on teevee that apparently those poor folks in isitreal are hungry, and being a good christian I should send them money.
Want a chuckle?:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-media-has-don-quixote-syndrome-...
Bloody Putin for the west, Our champion for 2015 Vladimir Putin thanks for the ride,it would have been much worse than these ...
Have a nice Xmas!
Criminal putin regime support Assad criminal regime and Assad buys and that way supports ISIS that causes refugee crisis in EU. That's it! That's the axis of evil - putin, assad, ISIS.
More about that here: https://stopputinregime.wordpress.com/
Sprat go swim in your fantasies about "criminal Putin regime", if you like - only do not complain about scary, if your nonsense that you post here, once again diverge with reality.
Article (Daniel Spaulding):
“Coincidentally, this non-falsifiable conspiracy theory plays well to more fringe elements of the American “patriot” movement and many Christian dispensationalists, who see Russia as the Biblical ‘Gog and Magog’ [...]”
My comments:
Christian evangelicals, the largest Christian group in the US, are dispensationalists. It seems as if this theology was launched by John Nelson Darby in the 19th century and became the dominant protestant theology in the US through the Scofield Bible in the 20th century. In Sweden, this theology has to a large extent replaced traditional (conservative) Lutheran faith. Most remaining Lutheran priests who don´t embrace novelties like gay marriage support a theology which is dispensationalist or very similar to dispensationalism.
To me, it is hard to classify dispensationalism as Christianity. Dispensationalists have never really explained why it was justified to kick out Christians of Jewish descent out of Israel 1947-48 and confiscate their property and let converts to Judaism have their property. Dispensationalists claim that it was justified to do so because those who took over Palestinian Christian property were of Jewish descent. But they seem to shun the fact that Palestinian Christians are also of Jewish descent, and probably to a far more significant degree than European Jews, who seem to be only about 50 % Jewish according to DNA studies. And since European Jews on the average are less Middle Eastern looking than Palestinian Christians it should not have been too difficult to understand that European Jews were partially descended from converts. Also remember that Jesus Christ himself in the gospel texts mentions the fact that there are overseas converts to Judaism (he also says says that these converts are even worse than the Pharisees).
If Jewish blood would determine the right to Israel and private property located in this country it seems as if Palestinian Christians would be more entitled to Israel than European Jews. Dispensationalists seem to take for granted that people who call themselves Jews have more Jewish blood floating through their veins than those who call themselves Christians. Otherwise, their theology doesn´t hold water.
Furthermore, it just shouldn´t make sense from a Christian point of view to kick the descendants of the first Christians of Jewish origin, who probably were distant relatives to the disciples and Jesus Christ himself, out of their property and give this property to people who don´t believe in Jesus Christ and may not even have a trace of Jewish blood floating through their veins. It also seems as if dispensationalist preachers never discuss this problem (I can understand why). And people don´t ask themselves whether this makes sense because people generally don´t think for themselves. The general public don´t set their own agenda. Somebody else must put the problem of the Christian Palestinians firmly on their agenda.
My impression is that there has been a significant non-Christian element which has contributed to the success of the dispensationalist theology, and to similar versions of Christianity. American TV networks seem to have contributed to the success of this theology. It also seems as if Scofield got some non-Christian assistance.
It also seems as if dispensationalism and the neo-conservative ideology blend almost perfectly. Is that a coincidence? I think that anyone who wishes to reduce the influence of the neo-conservative ideology in the US also should try to shrink the influence of dispensationalism in the US. The evangelical Christians constitute a large voting bloc in American politics.
For Russia, which according to dispensationalists constitutes “Gog and Magog”, it should be considered as a national security interest to reduce the number of dispensationalists all round the world. The Russians would invest in their future safety if they would create a free, english speaking cable TV channel for non-dispensationalist preachers or a TV-network that would support non-dispensationalist preachers. Another alternative would be to give financial support, one way or the other, to protestant churches which are not dispensationalist so that they can capture “market share” at the expense of so-called evangelical Christians.
Merry Christmas for those who celebrate, and a pleasant and relaxing day off for those who do not.
Fuck all this merry christmas shit. This is fight club not fagbook!
Putin at a Judo convention (in English BTW). Listen to his values; Balance, tradition, respect for your teachers, respect for law.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyqAFO7RJeg
https://consortiumnews.com/2015/02/13/the-putin-did-it-conspiracy-theory/
https://consortiumnews.com/2015/09/13/whos-to-blame-for-syria-mess-putin/
https://consortiumnews.com/2015/07/30/why-russia-shut-down-ned-fronts/
I only read the nyt and watch cnn to know which lies the Anglo-Zionist elite want the masses to believe as they cheerlead for endless war.
Blaming Putin for everything is Gobbelsistic Propaganda come to Washington.
The nazis blamed the Jews for everything.
Oh, wait. This is Zero Hedge. I better delete this.
OMG dog u r clever.
Thanks, God, You are as smart as they say You are
More like the jews blame ze Nazies for everything.
http://youtu.be/9gXVa3yogLk
OMG I had no idea.
If I had seen your link 60 years ago, I wouldn'ta got a tattoo of Joe McCarthy on my forehead. I coulda got a sweet and sunny swastika instead.
What do you do when you wake up to see that your country is no more than a gigantic and spreading cancer, parasiting on killing millions around the world, destroying livelihoods of tens of millions, bringing misery and destruction to the entire world every single second, every time, all the time.
A country that is run by a race group representing less than 3% of its own population (and representing less than 0.5% of the world population) bringing constant misery and making the life hell on earth for the rest of the planet and the planet itself?
What do you do in a country with some of the most liberal gun laws?....
You get yourself another popcorn, watch another sitcom, get obsenely obese, so that if and when you leave the country everyone can say where you are from without even looking into your passport;
You blame your current head of state for everything wrong, but keep claiming your food vouchers (covered in blood and sweat of enslaved workers in countries not so far away);
You keep playing the very stockmarket with the very currency you know is a WMD to the rest of the humanity....and so on...
This cancer is in a such advanced stages that there are now only two options:
1. It kills every single cell and the body of the planet and races it is parasiting on
2. It gets a thermonuclear option - s.c. chemotherapy; with very low probability of a total cure
"To American leftists, Russia is a neo-fascist, violently nationalist country that ruthlessly suppressed minority groups, especially homosexuals."
To the real European Left as manifested by the likes of UK's Corbyn and Germany's Sarah Wagenknecht, slavishly following the US/NATO bs, particularly demonisation of Russia, is the problem.
http://www.mintpressnews.com/jeremy-corbyn-slams-uk-leadership-for-const...
Even MPs from the UK Conservative Party recognize the self-destructive nature of sanctions against Russia.
https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF...
I think Putin stole my remote also; I cant find it anywhere.
I think Russia is responsible for the narrower rolls of toilet paper.
I slipped and fell Thursday and I blamed Putin immediately. Fucker is tilting the earth
more like clenched buttocks in USA needs narrower sheets
Russia. All that stands between the zionists and complete world domination. Roast em all Vlad.
Merry Christmas.
Pootin is for Pootin like Trump is for Trump.
This John Birch Society.
The UK needs to petition parliament to deny entry in to the UK for bullshit crimes (we got an anti hate laws now) of all associates and members as hate preachers seeing as it was so easy to raise a petition to try and block Trump from entering the UK.
The principle argument for the last century has been CENTRAL PLANNING IS BAD, OH SO BAD, CAN'T ALLOW THAT HERE, ETC. ETC. all bollocks really because ...
The west being controlled by the central bankers has more central planning now than any communist society and as for freedom you can't even scratch your ass without somebody spying on you and as for information being stored if the likes of what the NSA is keeping on innocent people the Stasi and current KGB can only dream of all that information.
It really is bollocks condemning Russia for its governing ideology over the pseudo Democratic shit the west is now living under.
I work with a lot of un-political Russians. Mi-8 Helicopter pilots
10 years ago, they always said they wanted to visit America.
Now, they joke around and say, "How's Obama?" And laugh. They could give a fuck less to visit Amerka anymore.
This is our American image, at it's fundamental level.
Expat anyone?
I'm retiring in the Dominican. I'd rather be a gringo. LOL
I have met many Russians who have moved here and the newer ones stories are no different than the older ones stories about USSR.
Russia today is a multifcult male suicide epidemic nutritionally backward shit hole ruled by oil baron thugs. Putin has a billion dollar bugout plantation if things go south for him. Go figure.
You go retire and live on benefits in DR you spinless retard.
Foreigners love america(n's money) and the women are cheap.
makes no sense but thanks for taking your time on Christmas
....and the women are cheap. Yup.
damned sight better dressed than American women !
Putin on the Ritz
(Sorry, couldn't resist)
'PUTIN ON THE RITZ' Sparrow Hill Mockba
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNXd3wX_USc
Both
so-called "American leftists" and "American rightists"
basically agree on the expansionist and militaristic foreign policy of the empire,
and both share similar conceited and arrogant beliefs,
so there is little real difference to be found between the two.
A better contrast would be between the sane and the delusional.
The hubris is embedded even in the very language used.
"American"(?) ... as though no other nations or peoples exist on the continents, north or south, other than the USA.
Well, I would not want to live in Mexico or Canada, since the US is in many ways geographically better, as well as the women.
Sorry.
There's less chance of God taking me with a tornado living in Canada
Who needs to live in Mexico or Canada when you can order in and Mexico and Canada come to you ?
special template that you can use to make your own pro-Kremlin op-ed piece. Simply fill the gaps with timely details where necessary
The Western media lies about _____________
Recently the Western media has been crowing hysterically about something Putin or Russia did. Of course they would say that- the Western media always lies about Putin and Russia. Obviously their whole “story” is nothing but information warfare and totally untrue.
We know their claims are untrue because they are contradicted by official statements from the Russian government, which denies them completely. Also, here are some opinions from people we labeled as “political analysts” and other Russian state-owned media which also contradict the claims made by whatever we are arbitrarily dubbing “the Western media.”
Of course if their claims were true, they would still be justified because the US did something like this one time, and that was bad. Putin’s actions are no different than that example, except that it is morally right when Russia does it whereas the US was still morally wrong for doing the same thing.
Also I have to wonder why the Western media even covered this, while not covering this long list of other things that don’t involve Russia. Could it be they have a deliberate agenda to accuse Russia of things she did not do, or if she did them, things that were totally justified?
Here I’m going to pick out the most ridiculous Western commentator I can find, and then I’m going to take his most inflammatory, idiotic comment about Russia or Putin. I’m going to easily debunk this low-hanging fruit, then I’m going to insinuate that his or her opinion represents the entire Western media consensus as a whole, even though a casual Google search would reveal plenty of differing opinions among what I arbitrarily label the Western or mainstream media.
Here’s an example of an article I found in the same “Western media” which supports my point of view. I’m going to focus on this and use this to vindicate my claims, totally oblivious to the fact that if my “information war” claims were true, this kind of diversity of opinion shouldn’t exist in the Western media. I’m also going to ignore the obvious fact that I’m more than happy to cite Western media and believe it so long as it appears to be supporting my point of view.
Now here’s where I explain the reasons why the Western media is constantly lying about Russia. Of course I’ll attribute it to the information war, which certainly exists as dozens of countries and their public and private media are directly manipulated against Russia by the United States. But that’s not the only factor.
The truth is that many Western journalists don’t know much about this subject, unlike me. In order to show my expertise, here are some random historical facts or some things I got verbatim from some Russian “geopolitical analyst,” which incidentally show no special insight into the topic in question, nor do they suggest that I have any more background in the subject than the Western journalists I’m attacking.
Now I’m going to go off on a tangent about some pet cause of mine, and in the process I’m going to praise Putin for his wise leadership compared to my own leaders, whom I can’t stand. I’m going to advance a false dichotomy whereby I label anyone who doesn’t agree with me and my slavish devotion to Putin as a “neocon” or “warmongerer.”
Lastly, here’s an oblivious paragraph where I again decry the mass of organizations I’ve arbitrarily lumped together as the Western media, and then hilariously lecture them on the importance of ethics and independence in journalism. I will bristle at the idea that someone might label me a paid Putin propagandist, simply because I’m paid by the Russian government and I constantly write fawning praise of Vladimir Putin while always taking the Kremlin’s side in any foreign policy dispute.
You, sir, are an idiot.
To compose such a long tedious comment without touching on the point of propaganda is an insult to the grammar school you briefly attended.
Propaganda is not so much the lies found in the highfalutin journals like the NYT, WaPo, and WSJ who are shrewd enough not to go on record with demonstrable deceit. Propaganda in the Media is the complete avoidance and lack of publication of certain subjects.
The withholding by Kiev of the ATC tapes of the communication with MH17 is a perfect example of that.
Then there is the avoidance of any discussion of the referendum that was held in Crimea before the Duma voted to annex it.
Pompous editors at the Times, Post and Journal were told by the Sate Department that the referendum in Crimea was taken under he gun and was therefore not valid.
This info comes from a country who held a plebiscite in Hawaii in 1959 to determine the future of those islands. There were tens of thousands of US military personnel stationed there at the time, which did not invalidate the results of that vote. No only that that but those servicemen were permitted to vote in that referendum.
But the real kick in the pants to native Hawaiians was the fact that they could only vote for statehood or remaining a territory.
They could not vote on independence, on returning to what thay had before the US invaded and deposed their monarch.
So, my little moronic friend, please don't lecture us on propaganda. We were born in this country and are aware of the exceptional propaganda we have witnessed all our lives.
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Zinu newsoutlet message the comment did not compose. Simple copypastry as instructed latest update State Department manual.
The man-love for Putin by ZH boarders on homo-erotic. It's like the founder was Russian or something.
I don't think it borders on homo-erotic, I think it's full on homo hunger by bitchez who are saddened by the impotence of their own catcher-in-chief. For all the claims of loving Liberty many often appear to expect some Tyrant (beit Trump, Paul, Putin, Obozo or whohaveyou) to descend from heaven, assume corporeal office and to magically deliver an immediate solution to save civilization from humanity. I think many of them are merely a different flavor Free Shit Army beta males.
Rights come with Responsibilities. Civilization cannot be saved until the citizenry fulfills its responsibilities.
(BTW - I think Tyler #1 is a citizen of a country that is member of both NATO and the EU.)
5 years 27 weeks
share with us how you hijack ZH accounts, must be easy enough to do as we have so many ancient trolls these days
... let's see, at work on Christmas.. guessing you don't celebrate the holiday
He is a talmudic jew. Maybe he celebrates chanuka
Obama is the one into man love married to a tranny and Reggie's cock socket
You dont have to be gay to admire Putin's fighting back against Liberal Fascism
Your fear of homo-eroticism suggests you have been looking in the mirror
Gentlemen this is the WAR ROOM you can't FIGHT in here!!
Alexander Lvovich Parvus, born Israel Lazarevich Gelfand, was a Marxist theoretician, revolutionary, and a controversial activist in the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
http://incogman.net/2012/06/alexander-parvus-trotskys-mentor-from-hell/
There was none communism in those so called communist countries, similar as there is no democracy in Amerika.
Stalin's New Economic Policy
In the Soviet Union, Josef Stalin's planned economy had followed the New Economic Policy (NEP) of 1921-28. NEP was in essence a mixed market economy; the main part of the market was in state possession (banks, industries, foreign trade, etc), while the peripheral part was owned by collective or private entrepreneurs. NEP, while successful, did not give the Soviet economy sufficient growth in the capital-goods sectors (ie coal, steel and electricity, transportation, heavy industry, etc), nor did it provide adequate food for the urban population even as the middle peasantry managed to feed itself. To overcome such structural obstacles and to combat general economic backwardness inherited from centuries of Czarist rule, Stalin introduced central planning as a strategy of national survival.
Starting from 1928, the Soviet economy was put under a system of planning whereby all modes of production were socialized and foreign trade was de-emphasized in favor of an autarkic system of domestic demand and supply. The irony was that Soviet central planning adopted much of its effective techniques from successful US experience. It was a system of planning focused solely on unit end-results while externalizing social costs. The key distinction was that the Soviets rejected and bypassed the corporate structure and replaced shareholders with state ownership. Stalin brought about "revolution from above". Its main features were: strengthening of political dictatorship in the name of the proletariat (equivalent to enhancing management authority in the US in the name of shareholders), collectivizing kulak peasants (equivalent to agri-business development in the US), emergency measure authority (equivalent to government bailouts and regulations in the US), introduction of a five-year plan structure (adopted from US corporate strategic planning) and rapid expansion of urban labor force (equivalent to urbanization in the US), and tight state control over agriculture (equivalent to farm subsidy programs in the US), heavy industry (equivalent to defense contracts in the US) and finance (equivalent to central banking in the US). Between 1934 and 1936 the Soviet economy achieved a spectacular economic growth rate that continued despite political purges of Trotskyites between 1936 and 1938. Economic growth was unfortunately interrupted by war in 1941. German invasion of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was not independent of apprehension of continued Soviet economic success.
Propaganda works. It worked in the USSR, in Nazi Germany, in imperial Japan and in the capitalist US, each to instill in the general public an acceptance of its system as being the suitable one if not the best, despite visible shortcomings. It helped achieve optimal effectiveness and stability in the overall economy in all these countries.
http://henryckliu.com/public_html/page105.html
NEP was LENIN's policy not Stalins and drafted by Bukharin whom Stalin executed
From time to time it becomes necessary or convenient for a politician to align with the truth or what the majority believe to be the truth. Putin is so far proving to be a master where in the west the arrogance is so unabated they think we should be happy they even took the time to come up with a lie to feed us.
USA blames russia for everything and Zh blames the USA for everything if the first is stupid, guess what? so is the second and so it blaming the jooooooossss for everything and .....
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A recent poll across Russia found that most Russians cosnider themselves to be free. They are free to leave Russia at any time. They can seek a job wherever they like. TV and Radio have numberous channels that attack the elected Russian govenment. Western channels are aired on cable TV. You can join a NAzi party, a communist party or a liberal anti government party. These parties protest in the open, and run candidates for parliament and local elections. Regional governments are elected in their regions. In Ukraine, the president appoints reginal governors.
Religion is open. Jews, Muslims, Christians all have houses of worship. Fringe religions are mostly tolerated. But Scientology was kicked out, for crimes against it's members and against Russian financial laws. People own guns, real guns in Russia.
So tell me, what does it take to be free? Are Americans free? Try that out, go to the street and exercise freedom. The State has all the power here in the USA. As far as I can tell, absolute powers are not far off.
Russia is a normal country even if the US wants it to follow a script made in Hollywood now that Germans have retired and horrible Redcoats don't look convincing
I will take the natural beauty and uncertainty of Russia over the strip mall, HOA rules and regulations, and the police state of Ameria/Canada everyday. Soon in the US the Federal Government will be telling you how much toilet paper to wipe your ass.
Very few people realize there has been a polar magnetic shift in geopolitics today. We are in bizzaro world in North America and Europe - where bad is good and good is bad. Russia has become the last place to remain free - and if you disagree you should visit and look around - especially some of you trolls. Sounds like you could do with non GMO food and a bit of reality.