"Trouble goes right past the Lord's people and strikes the wicked."--Proverbs 11:8
“Yes, let us pray for the salvation of all of those who live in that totalitarian darkness–pray they will discover the joy of knowing God. But until they do, let us be aware that while they preach the supremacy of the State, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth, they are the focus of evil in the modern world.”--Actual President Reagan on the Obiden Dictatorship, the New Evil Empire
Bang War Drums Loudly, Joe Biden Announces U.S. Sending Tanks to Ukraine as Deeping NATO War Against Russia Continues - The Last Refuge (theconservativetreehouse.com)
The Biden administration is pushing the United States into war against Russia to protect Washington DC’s political and financial interests in Ukraine. None of this is a surprise as both Republican and Democrat politicians in DC continue to use Ukraine as a money laundering operation for key U.S. stakeholders. Today Joe Biden announced he is sending 31 ‘Abram Tanks’ from the U.S. arsenal into Ukraine to further push the United States into direct conflict with Russia. The potential for direct U.S. military engagement in Ukraine is now just a matter of formality, as the Abram’s tanks will be accompanied by military advisors, trainers, and the processes to sustain and maintain them on the battlefield.
What possible motive could Chairman Xi have for ordering Employee Biden to empty our armories into Europe?
It’s Baffling(tm).
Ukraine Russia War Latest w. Col. Doug Macgregor - YouTube--Good interview; even Night Court Nappy is much less annoying than usual.
2023.01.23 About Those F-16’s - YouTube--Gonzalo Lira thinks the F-16s are escalation bait. I think they're face-savers; "Well, we did all we could..."
Who Wants To Blow Up Poland's Largest Oil Terminal? (substack.com):
"Last weekend the Polish Coast Guard rescued three men found drifting in a small boat in the Baltic Sea in the middle of the night. The men could not get the motor started on their boat. They claimed to be diving for amber on the sea floor. While this is something that is actually done in this area, it is not done during hours of darkness. No amber was found on the boat.
What was found was a great deal of expensive diving equipment. This included an underwater scooter used by divers and by special operations forces to cover long distances underwater.
The three men claimed to be Spanish nationals. Only one was carrying identification. All gave phone numbers which subsequently turned out to be inactive. One of the numbers did not even have the correct number of digits. Nonetheless, the Coast Guard released the three men. They have all since vanished.
As of this writing what precisely the three divers were up to remains unclear. We also don’t know who if anyone was behind their actions. Any reasonable analysis of the information available, however, has to suggest strongly that these men were conducting initial casing in advance of a Russian special operations attack on Naftoport or other facilities in the area."
I hate to disagree with Mr. Faddis, a retired CIA officer, but any reasonable analysis would strongly suggest the Obiden Regime and NATO, just like their False Flag Bombing of Germany's gas pipeline from Russia. Which would also explain the release of the three divers.
A Great Boondoggle | The Z Blog (thezman.com):
"Some estimates say that the Ukrainians expend five thousand artillery rounds per day in some areas, while overall the total is twice that number. Reliable reports say the Russians currently outgun the Ukrainians by a factor of ten.
The problem for the West and specifically America is there is nowhere near enough military industrial capacity to meet Ukraine’s demands. The Pentagon is asking for bids to build new capacity, but that will take years. The Ukrainian army will be history long before it happens. Putting that aside, the new capacity is a fraction of what an army would need in a land war. Instead of spending billions on the F-35 program, the Pentagon should have been making artillery shells. Whoops.
It turns out that the logic of the new technological army rested on Francis Fukuyama being right about the end of history. The trillion-dollar whiz-bang army would never have to fight a serious opponent. Russia would be parted out and China would be flying the rainbow flag of diversity. The new technological army just needed to look good in shorts, not actually perform on the field. It also had to make the friends of the imperial government obscenely rich.
Like so much that has happened since the end of the Cold War, the American war machine is something of a scam. It was built on the assumption that the narratives the ruling class was spinning were a reflection of reality. Instead, those narratives simply secured their position atop the new world order. They had little connection with the reality of what was happening in the world. As a result, the imperial war machine is unfit for the task of defending the empire.
The irony here is that it proves Pat Buchanan was right. As he heads into retirement, he is seeing his warnings come true. The great de-industrialization of America has turned the country into a paper tiger. A century ago, America was the arsenal of democracy, but now it is unable to make much of anything. Like so much about the last thirty years, the military industrial complex is just another grift. It is a trillion-dollar boondoggle, a great con on the American people."
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Here is the original Declaration of War:
Rest in the Vine: George F. Kennan and The Limits of Your Fucking Bullshit, Pal
New York Times
May 2, 1998
Foreign Affairs; Now a Word From X
by Thomas L. Friedman
“His voice is a bit frail now, but the mind, even at age 94, is as sharp as ever. So when I reached George Kennan by phone to get his reaction to the Senate’s ratification of NATO expansion it was no surprise to find that the man who was the architect of America’s successful containment of the Soviet Union and one of the great American statesmen of the 20th century was ready with an answer.
”I think it is the beginning of a new cold war,” said Mr. Kennan from his Princeton home. ”I think the Russians will gradually react quite adversely and it will affect their policies. I think it is a tragic mistake. There was no reason for this whatsoever. No one was threatening anybody else. This expansion would make the Founding Fathers of this country turn over in their graves. We have signed up to protect a whole series of countries, even though we have neither the resources nor the intention to do so in any serious way. [NATO expansion] was simply a light-hearted action by a Senate that has no real interest in foreign affairs.”
”What bothers me is how superficial and ill informed the whole Senate debate was,” added Mr. Kennan, who was present at the creation of NATO and whose anonymous 1947 article in the journal Foreign Affairs, signed ”X,” defined America’s cold-war containment policy for 40 years. ”I was particularly bothered by the references to Russia as a country dying to attack Western Europe. Don’t people understand? Our differences in the cold war were with the Soviet Communist regime. And now we are turning our backs on the very people who mounted the greatest bloodless revolution in history to remove that Soviet regime.
”And Russia’s democracy is as far advanced, if not farther, as any of these countries we’ve just signed up to defend from Russia,” said Mr. Kennan, who joined the State Department in 1926 and was U.S. Ambassador to Moscow in 1952. ”It shows so little understanding of Russian history and Soviet history. Of course there is going to be a bad reaction from Russia, and then [the NATO expanders] will say that we always told you that is how the Russians are — but this is just wrong.”
One only wonders what future historians will say. If we are lucky they will say that NATO expansion to Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic simply didn’t matter, because the vacuum it was supposed to fill had already been filled, only the Clinton team couldn’t see it. They will say that the forces of globalization integrating Europe, coupled with the new arms control agreements, proved to be so powerful that Russia, despite NATO expansion, moved ahead with democratization and Westernization, and was gradually drawn into a loosely unified Europe. If we are unlucky they will say, as Mr. Kennan predicts, that NATO expansion set up a situation in which NATO now has to either expand all the way to Russia’s border, triggering a new cold war, or stop expanding after these three new countries and create a new dividing line through Europe.
But there is one thing future historians will surely remark upon, and that is the utter poverty of imagination that characterized U.S. foreign policy in the late 1990’s. They will note that one of the seminal events of this century took place between 1989 and 1992 — the collapse of the Soviet Empire, which had the capability, imperial intentions and ideology to truly threaten the entire free world. Thanks to Western resolve and the courage of Russian democrats, that Soviet Empire collapsed without a shot, spawning a democratic Russia, setting free the former Soviet republics and leading to unprecedented arms control agreements with the U.S.
And what was America’s response? It was to expand the NATO cold-war alliance against Russia and bring it closer to Russia’s borders.
Yes, tell your children, and your children’s children, that you lived in the age of Bill Clinton and William Cohen, the age of Madeleine Albright and Sandy Berger, the age of Trent Lott and Joe Lieberman, and you too were present at the creation of the post-cold-war order, when these foreign policy Titans put their heads together and produced . . . a mouse.
We are in the age of midgets. The only good news is that we got here in one piece because there was another age — one of great statesmen who had both imagination and courage.
As he said goodbye to me on the phone, Mr. Kennan added just one more thing: ”This has been my life, and it pains me to see it so screwed up in the end.””…….
Rest in the Vine: Ukrainian Rhapsody: To the D.C. War-Mongers,
America is the Foreign Country: Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, 1933:
“War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we’ll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.
I wouldn’t go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.There isn’t a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its “finger men” to point out enemies, its “muscle men” to destroy enemies, its “brain men” to plan war preparations, and a “Big Boss” Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.
It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country’s most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.”…….
And this isn’t even Capitalism. It is Globalism, which is the exact opposite of Free Markets and Free Enterprise. Not to mention Patriotism.
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These are your new Nazi BestFriendsForever, citizen! Seig Heil!
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@realDonaldTrump
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FIRST COME THE TANKS, THEN COME THE NUKES. Get this crazy war ended, NOW. So easy to do!
BLINKEN BLINKS--UPDATE:
Dances With Bears » BLINKEN CONCEDES WAR IS LOST – OFFERS KREMLIN UKRAINIAN DEMILITARIZATION; CRIMEA, DONBASS, ZAPOROZHE; AND RESTRICTION OF NEW TANKS TO WESTERN UKRAINE IF THERE IS NO RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE (johnhelmer.net)
"[Washington Post reporter] David Ignatius has been a career-long mouthpiece for the US State Department. He has just been called in by the current Secretary of State Antony Blinken (right) to convey an urgent new message to President Vladimir Putin, the Security Council, and the General Staff in Moscow.
For the first time since the special military operation began last year, the war party in Washington is offering terms of concession to Russia’s security objectives explicitly and directly, without the Ukrainians in the way.
The terms Blinken has told Ignatius to print appeared in the January 25 edition of the Washington Post. The paywall can be avoided by reading on.
The territorial concessions Blinken is tabling include Crimea, the Donbass, and the Zaporozhe, Kherson “land bridge that connects Crimea and Russia”. West of the Dnieper River, north around Kharkov, and south around Odessa and Nikolaev, Blinken has tabled for the first time US acceptance of “a demilitarized status” for the Ukraine. Also, US agreement to restrict the deployment of HIMARS, US and NATO infantry fighting vehicles, and the Abrams and Leopard tanks to a point in western Ukraine from which they can “manoeuvre…as a deterrent against future Russian attacks.”
This is an offer for a tradeoff – partition through a demilitarized zone (DMZ) in the east of the Ukraine in exchange for a halt to the planned Russian offensive destroying the fortifications, rail hubs, troop cantonments, and airfields in the west, between the Polish and Romanian borders, Kiev and Lvov, and an outcome Blinken proposes for both sides to call “a just and durable peace that upholds Ukraine’s territorial integrity”.
Also in the proposed Blinken deal there is the offer of a direct US-Russian agreement on “an eventual postwar military balance”; “no World War III”; and no Ukrainian membership of NATO with “security guarantees similar to NATO’s Article 5.”
Blinken has also told the Washington Post to announce the US will respect “Putin’s tripwire for nuclear escalation”, and accept the Russian “reserve force includ[ing] strategic bombers, certain precision-guided weapons and, of course, tactical and strategic nuclear weapons.”
President Putin has offered a hint of the Russian reply he discussed with the Stavka and the Security Council last week.
Putin told a meeting with university students on Wednesday, hours after Blinken’s publication. “I think that people like you,” the president said, “most clearly and most accurately understand the need for what Russia is now doing to support our citizens in these territories, including Lugansk, Donetsk, the Donbass area as a whole, and Kherson and Zaporozhye. The goal, as I have explained many times, is primarily to protect the people and Russia from the threats that they are trying to create for us in our own historical territories that are adjacent to us. We cannot allow this. So, it is extremely important when young people like you defend the interests of their small and large Motherland with arms in their hands and do so consciously.”
Read on, very carefully, understanding that nothing a US official says, least of all through the mouths of Blinken, Ignatius, and the Washington Post is trusted by the Russians; and understanding that what Putin and the Stavka say they mean by Russia’s “adjacent historical territories” and the “small and large Motherland” has been quite clear.
Follow what Blinken told Ignatius to print, before Putin issued his reply. The propaganda terms have been highlighted in bold to mean the opposite — the public positions from which Blinken is trying to retreat and keep face."
January 25, 2023
Blinken ponders the post-Ukraine-war order
By David Ignatius
“The Biden administration, convinced that Vladimir Putin has failed in his attempt to erase Ukraine, has begun planning for an eventual postwar military balance that will help Kyiv deter any repetition of Russia’s brutal invasion.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken outlined his strategy for the Ukrainian endgame and postwar deterrence during an interview on Monday at the State Department. The conversation offered an unusual exploration of some of the trickiest issues surrounding resolution of a Ukraine conflict that has threatened the global order.
Blinken explicitly commended Germany’s military backing for Ukraine at a time when Berlin is getting hammered by some other NATO allies for not providing Leopard tanks quickly to Kyiv. “Nobody would have predicted the extent of Germany’s military support” when the war began, Blinken said. “This is a sea change we should recognize.”
He also underlined President Biden’s determination to avoid direct military conflict with Russia, even as U.S. weapons help pulverize Putin’s invasion force. “Biden has always been emphatic that one of his requirements in Ukraine is that there be no World War III,” Blinken said.
Russia’s colossal failure to achieve its military goals, Blinken believes, should now spur the United States and its allies to begin thinking about the shape of postwar Ukraine — and how to create a just and durable peace that upholds Ukraine’s territorial integrity and allows it to deter and, if necessary, defend against any future aggression. In other words, Russia should not be able to rest, regroup and reattack.”…….
Sounds like Obiden wants to declare victory and surrender. But it’s the WaPo, who lies even when they tell the truth, so it's hard to say. Blinken is certainly an authority on Surrender.
btw, I don’t think any F-16s are going to Vindmanville. Or any tanks, either. I suspect Acting President Obama just put them on rail cars to parade them around America for propaganda purposes.
Although it could be a headfake, this diplomacy is really good news--if true.
Of course, hundreds of thousands of dead and wounded could have been spared had the American Junta negotiated from the start.
Perhaps their War Fever has broken.
Perhaps the Europeans told them the party's over.
Perhaps they're putting the best face on Ukraine's defeat.
Perhaps they realized they weren't going to overthrow Russia.
Or perhaps it was bad for their Criminal Syndicate operations.
Maybe they got what they wanted as far as spending billions or trillions on BlackRock Reconstruction contracts.
I can't help but wonder if this supposed new posture is linked with the dumping of BidenFuhrer by the Obama Syndicate...
I don't think Soros, Obama and Obama's owners really want to start WW III. They want to harm America and help China. They want to install a Puppet Dictator in Russia like they did in America and Ukraine. They want a World Government. That's why they provoked this Conflict in the first place.
And the Obiden Syndicate is fighting to keep their Criminal Disneyland open.
Ukraine is where they run their Drug Trafficking, Human Trafficking, Child Trafficking, Sex Trafficking, Plutonium Trafficking, Weapons Trafficking, Build their Bi0-Weapon Viruses and Vaxxes, Launder their looted Foreign Aid Money and plot their Color Revolution Coups.
Whatever they spew about Climate, they lust after Russia’s oil. It is sad, however, that Ukrainians have a puppet dictator who sold them out to our criminal Deep State.
They overthrew the American Government–and now they’ve set their sights on Russia. Monsters.
Putin is the only one fighting a proxy war against this monstrous tyranny, a tyranny that just killed millions with their Virus/Vaxx Plandemic and is actively wrecking the world on purpose.
Psalm 94:
19 When my anxious thoughts multiply within me,
Your comforts delight me.
20 Can a throne of destruction be allied with You,
One which frames and devises mischief by decree [under the sacred name of law]?
21 They band themselves together against the life of the righteous
And condemn the innocent to death.
22 But the Lord has become my high tower and defense,
And my God the rock of my refuge.
23 He has turned back their own wickedness upon them
And will destroy them by means of their own evil;
The Lord our God will wipe them out.
Be it unto us according to Your Word, Father. Amen and Amen!
