[Unherd] For more than a decade, Vladimir Putin has sought to sow division and undermine American democracy. Now that he’s distracted by the conflict unfolding in Ukraine, his successor has stepped into the spotlight: America’s political class.
Once wars united people, but not in modern America. Here, the vast majority of citizens share remarkably similar opinions about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: that it should be condemned outright. Our politicians, however, seem blissfully unaware of this.
In Congress last week, despite strong pro-Kyiv sentiment among the vast majority of Republicans, pro-Trump acolytes constituted the largest faction of those who voted against supplying aid to Ukraine. Yet on this issue, there is little to distinguish them from the Democratic Socialists of America, who have called for America’s exit from the "imperialist" Nato. There are even some on the far-Left who believe the West’s sympathy for Ukrainians reflects our unredeemable racism. Hello, I must be going....
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Who gives a crap what Putin wants or doesn't want? It's all about what's good for the American people.
Absolutely we should exit from NATO. It's a terrible deal for us, providing free money to wealthy countries that can afford to pay but don't. Just because socialists think the same doesn't mean it's a bad idea, socialists like breathing too, you gonna hold your breath just because of that?
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I must disagree with you, Omomolet. Don't think of it so much as keeping Russia out as it is keeping Germany down. You really don't want those people raising another big army.
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How the American Left empowers Putin
Its called professional courtesy, among authoritarians.
[PJMEDIA] When bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... ers are laughing at your city, you know you’ve made a mistake.
I grew up in the Motor City and I have no sympathy for what used to be Seattle. Detroit’s death was drawn out over years and involved a perfect storm of nonsense, including foolish decisions by auto execs, stupid import/export laws, and a corrupt mayor named Coleman A. Young. Detroit languished. Seattle was executed.
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Destroying America is their whole plan, duh. This isn't anything they're ashamed of. This is what the left winning looks like.
Given the disastrous results of Seattle's and other cities under Liberal Socialist Democrat Management/control.
It's amazing they can find enough fools to still vote for them. But I guess since they seem proud they can jimmy up fake election results and steal office(s), waste, or steer $$$ to pockets with impunity. Then well known Mad Mag line comes to mind. "What Me Worry"
#3
Haven’t spent a dime in Seattle in over 2 years, bailed on long-term membership to 5th Avenue musicals. Refuse to go to Mariner ballgames.
When driving south to visit family, use 405 to avoid Seattledump.
Yeah my actions won’t bankrupt anybody but i know i am not alone. The 5th calls monthly begging our return. Thats what answering machines are for.
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notwithstanding all this, the residential Seattle real estate market is still pretty hot with low inventories and escalating prices
commercial and retail real estate may be a different story
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What makes an ant trap or roach motel work is its attractiveness.
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I used to *work* in Downtown Seattle - right around the 3rd and Marion area. I haven't been to the office in 2 years except one day to 'pack up my stuff' so they can clean the office and we go to a hoteling system for back-to-work. Haven't been back yet and don't intend to.
Now I am looking to work semi-remote attached to an office in Austin where I only need to go in a few times a year perhaps. And live in a deep-red area.
All this with my employers blessing. And I'm not the only one.
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As mentioned elsewhere: "Don't expect the Dems to change course. To them, this is what 'winning' looks like."
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Communism brings quite predictable results. Anarchy does as well. Those that pull the strings for the left wish to use Anarchy as the means to introduce communism.
[Aljazeera] The last week has seen a marked change in tactics from the Russian military as the scope of the war in Ukraine has widened.
Advanced weapons, especially man-portable anti-tank and air defence systems, as well as small arms and ammunition, have been pouring into Ukraine.
These have made a significant impact on the battlefield as Russian tanks, armoured vehicles, supply trucks and helicopters have repeatedly been targeted and destroyed.
These attacks have helped slow Russia’s advance as it continues its drive into the country from three directions — from the north towards the capital Kyiv; from the east with a focus on besieging Kharkiv and Mariupol; and from the south, where Russian units, having taken Kherson, have crossed the Dnieper River in two places and are now advancing along both sides of it, as well as pressuring the city of Mykolaiv and the Ukrainian defences near the city of Zaporizhzhia.
Russian units have consolidated their grip on Mariupol, taking surrounding towns and widening the corridor that links Crimea to Donetsk. Only a small strip of coastline, centred around the port city of Odesa, is now under Ukrainian control.
FOREIGN FIGHTERS AND RUSSIAN FLOUNDERING
It is not just weapons that are flooding into Ukraine. Volunteers are streaming into the country by any means they can in order to fight.
More than 60,000 Ukrainians from its diaspora have returned to the country and are now engaged in fighting Russia, according to Ukraine’s defence minister, Oleksii Reznikov.
Foreign fighters are all also making their way, driven by a variety of ideologies and reasons, with Ukraine saying that 20,000 people have applied to join the international legion created in response to the Russian invasion.
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They seem to devolve back to circa 1945. Trying to carry out the largest combat operation since the suppression of the Prague Spring of '68, the Russians failed in their attempt to copy nuances of contemporary Western military tactics.* Instead they have fallen back on using the shear weight of the old Red Army (without the wartime production to fill the losses and resources expended).
* don't worry Russophiles, the Americans are deconstructing any advantage they had attained. Remember when an enemy is destroying itself, don't interfere.
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It's one thing to lose a fight halfway around the world. Something else entirely to be beaten on your own border. We're doing that here, but without the huge mobilization.
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Russia has a total war doctrine. Mobilize the men in a city to fight the Russian military and the Russians will level that city women and children included. This is how they fought in Afghanistan, how they fought in Georgia. Remember they fuel air bombed housing centers in Georgia.
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^ but its OK, they're not Americans doing it. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
[FrontPage] Ukraine’s ambassador to Israel is not happy. Ambassador Korniychuk has demanded that Israel cut off all business dealings with Russia. Meanwhile Ukraine’s business dealings with Iran rose over 30% and reached nearly $2 billion. Iranian exports to Ukraine increased by 40%.
That means Iran is literally financing Islamic terrorism against Israel. And genocide.
Is Ukraine ready to stop all business dealings with Iran in exchange for Israel ending its business dealings with Russia? Don’t be silly. These demands only go one way.
Ukraine's President Zelensky has repeatedly invoked the Holocaust in the influence campaign against the Russian invasion of his country. “What is the point of saying ‘never again’ for 80 years, if the world stays silent when a bomb drops on the same site of Babyn Yar?” he tweeted.
A better question might be why is a country whose people were responsible for much of the killing of Jews at Babi Yar is shamelessly appropriating the Holocaust for its propaganda.
Especially since Ukraine, like Russia, continues to finance the modern genocide of Jews.
During the Holocaust, Ukrainian nationalists participated in large numbers in the massacres of Jews. Including at Babi Yar. Rather than feel any sense of shame for this, Bandera and his thugs, who were responsible for the murder of tens of thousands of Jews, are national heroes and continue to be celebrated in Ukraine. Including by Zelensky.
"Stepan Bandera is a hero for a certain part of Ukrainians, and this is a normal and cool thing. He was one of those who defended the freedom of Ukraine," Zelensky argued a few years ago.
You can wrap your cause in the Holocaust or celebrate Bandera, but you can’t do both.
“Addressing all the Jews of the world: Don’t you see why this is happening? That is why it is very important that millions of Jews around the world do not remain silent right now," Zelensky recently demanded in a speech that was helpfully translated into Hebrew by his office.
What is happening in Ukraine is wrong, but it is not genocide. Unlike Nazi Germany and its Ukranian nationalist allies, the Russians are not marching tens of thousands of Ukrainian men, women, and children, stripping them, shooting them, and throwing them into pits. Nor, like Ukraine’s Iranian trading partners, is Russia plotting to drop nuclear bombs on its cities.
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"Stepan Bandera is a hero for a certain part of Ukrainians, and this is a normal and cool thing. He was one of those who defended the freedom of Ukraine," Zelensky argued a few years ago.
Heh. A master of irony. The Mel Brooks of Kiev. Oh wait... What's a little genocidal killing among friends?
From The Times of Israel:
During World War II, Bandera led the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, whose men killed thousands of Jews and Poles, including women and children, while fighting alongside Nazi Germany against the Red Army and communists.
Bandera’s supporters claim that they sided with the Nazis against the Soviet army in the belief that Adolf Hitler would grant independence to Ukraine.
Expressions of admiration for Bandera and other collaborators have increased in scope and status following the 2014 revolution in Ukraine, which toppled the regime of Viktor Yanukovych amid claims that he is a Russian stooge, and triggered an armed conflict with Russia.
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[REGNUM] After the first and large-scale successes of the Czechoslovaks, the situation on the Eastern Front of the Soviet Republic began to change for the better. The main achievement of the period of retreat, with all its colossal losses, was that the counter-revolution never succeeded in creating a united front from the Sea of Azov to the White Sea, even from Kazan to Arkhangelsk. As early as September 2, 1918, the entire territory of the RSFSR was declared a single military camp. On September 30, the Regulations on the Revolutionary Military Council were issued. The Revolutionary Military Council became the supreme military authority in the RSFSR, having absorbed the powers of the People's Commissariat for Military Affairs, the People's Commissar headed the Revolutionary Military Council, to which the command structure was subordinate - the General Staff, the Main Supply Directorate, the Military Legislative Council, the Higher Military Inspectorate and so on. The Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council was appointed by the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, Commander-in-Chief, who received complete freedom on issues of strategic and operational decisions, was appointed by the Council of People's Commissars. I. I. Vatsetis became the first commander in chief.
“Supported by the entire working population of the country,” the decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee said, “the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army will crush and drive back the imperialist predators who trample the soil of the Soviet Republic.”
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. Mariupol. The assault on the city continues. In a number of areas, ours had an advance, but the enemy is still resisting stubbornly and in an organized manner, realizing that there are no longer any chances for a deblockade, and they will not be particularly taken prisoner.
2. Ugledar. Fighting in the area of Ugledar and in the direction of Marinka-Kurakhovo. The enemy is slowly retreating, but it is too early to say that his resistance is disorganized. The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this direction is trying to gain some time before retreating to the next line of defense.
3. Donetsk. Fighting continued in the area of Avdiivka and Marinka, but there is no serious progress yet. The enemy, as usual, continued to shell the settlements of the DPR.
4. Gorlovka. In the area of Verkhnetoretsky, the DPR troops managed to move forward with the support of artillery and aviation, creating a direct threat to the road leading to Avdeevka, as well as certain prerequisites for advancing to Dzerzhinsk, where the enemy is preparing for a stubborn defense. It is, of course, too early to talk about a breakthrough of the front here.
5. LPR. LPR troops continued fighting in the western part of Popasnaya, and also occupied at least half of Rubizhne. Fighting continued there, as well as on the outskirts of Severodonetsk. Also, the troops of the republic are fixed on the administrative border of the former Kharkiv and Luhansk regions.
6. Kharkov. Fighting continued throughout the night around the city. The city itself, due to the terrorist tactics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, continues to be gradually destroyed.
7. Kyiv. Fighting on the Gostomel-Vyshgorod line and in the Bucha-Irpin area. To the east of the city, the fighting went to the northeast and east of Brovar. Chernihiv and Sumy are still without major changes.
8. Nikolaev. Fighting continued to the north of the city, which is preparing to repel an assault that is still not happening. The RF Armed Forces have so far limited themselves to advancing towards Krivoy Rog and Nikopol, and also occupied the remaining settlements of the Kherson region and declared full control over it.
9. Odessa. The enemy turned on the anti-landing hysteria again, to which were added fears that the RF Armed Forces were preparing a strike on Odessa north of Nikolaev. Therefore, a significant part of the forces remaining here with the Armed Forces of Ukraine sits precisely in the Odessa region, although in theory they could alleviate the situation of the blockaded Nikolaev.
10. Izyum. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are clearly pushing the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of Slavyansk. In view of this, there is an active undermining of bridges to the southeast of Izyum. The Slavyansko-Kramatorsk agglomeration itself is under attack, which portends a rather early start of battles for the city. The situation with the offensive in the Barvenkovo area is not completely clear.
[FOREIGNAFFAIRS] The Russian invasion of Ukraine is the most brazen illegal war waged by one sovereign state against another since World War II. The Kremlin launched the invasion in clear violation of the core obligation in the UN Charter, which prohibits the "use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state." Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... has recently threatened that if Ukrainians continue to resist, they "risk the future of Ukrainian statehood." And there is an avalanche of real-time evidence emerging from Ukraine that the Russian military is committing war crimes throughout the country—including by targeting civilians.
These extraordinary acts of law-breaking have been met with equally extraordinary acts of law enforcement. The most widely discussed response to the blatantly illegal war has been an unprecedented cascade of coordinated sanctions by the United States, Europe, and much of the rest of the world. Those sanctions have been applied specifically and directly in response to Russia’s violation of the UN Charter. As a result, the sanctions send a clear message: the invasion of Ukraine is a threat not just to Ukraine but to the international legal order as well. By joining the sanctions, states around the world are making clear that they, too, reject Russia’s illegal invasion and the violation it represents.
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I've always thought that the function of "international law" is to provide talking points for those opposing the US and Israel.
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It looks like retired Colonel Douglas Macgregor was right a week ago when he told a disbelieving Stuart Varney that Russia would take Ukraine.
Yes, but will it be a Pyrrhic victory?
Macgregor said, "The first five days, Russian forces I think, frankly, were too gentle. They’ve now corrected that. So I would say another 10 days, this should be completely over. But the question is, what is it that Zelensky is going to do? The Russians have made it very clear what they want is a neutral Ukraine. This could’ve ended days ago if he accepted that. And then they can adjust the borders, but the eastern part of Ukraine is firmly in Russian hands, but again, the Russians are not seizing territory. They’re destroying Ukrainian forces. That’s their focus."
His argument was that Zelensky should cut a deal, agree to keep Ukraine neutral in the NATO-Russia standoff and give up some of the Russian-dominated eastern Ukraine. Macgregor did not see Zelensky as a hero.
Macgregor said, "A neutral Ukraine would be good for us as well as for Russia. It would create the buffer that, frankly, both sides want. But he’s, I think, being told to hang on and try to drag this out, which is tragic for the people that have to live through this."
Liz Cheney showed she was the daughter of a man the left called a chickenhawk by denouncing the colonel.
She tweeted, "Douglas Macgregor, nominated by Trump as ambassador to Germany; appointed by Trump as senior advisor to the Secretary of Defense, says Russian forces have been 'too gentle' and 'I don’t see anything heroic' about Zelensky.
"This is the Putin wing of the GOP."
I guess I was in the Gaddafi wing when I opposed Hillary bombing Libya so she could prove her manhood. She valiantly said on TV 5,000 miles away, "We came. We saw. He's dead."
A few days later, so was her ambassador and three good soldiers because of her refusal to send troops to protect them from those seeking vengeance on the USA.
Libya posed no threat to us. Gaddafi gave up his nuclear ambitions. Heck, he was Hugh Hefner living on Viagra, cocaine and young women.
Putin's push into Ukraine was just as wrong. But please, don't put me in the Zelensky wing because his demand to be added to NATO was stupid and put his country at risk.
It is all a mess as wars usually are. No one is a hero. Read the rest at the link
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They’re destroying Ukrainian forces. That’s their focus.
Yeah but the Russians are taking a hell of a mauling doing it. And it has shown how crappy their military stuff is compared to western arms and their international sales will take an even bigger dump.
Russia may force Zelensky out, but they lost big time in the strategic sense.
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Losing a war does not necessarily cost a leader his job so maybe Putin and Zelensky stay. The latter would be ironic since Zelensky marketed himself as a modern Churchill. Sir Winston won his war and lost his job. The Big Z looks to lose his war and keep his job. Face it, that is his real motivation.
The media has been so hawkish that one could believe World War 3 is handing out free donuts and bagels to reporters to ply their support.
Ukraine has been a cash cow for Washington insiders for decades. I am not sure where Ukraine gets the dough to pay off the spawn of politicians such as Biden and Pelosi. Maybe it is kickbacks from U.S. foreign aid.
Meanwhile, the war has shown globalism for what it is: economic suicide.
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You said Nazis, Punky Elmigum9411, so we will disregard everything else you said afterward.
Neener neener my fingers are in my ears I can't hear you!
- (not) civil well-reasoned discourse
#8
Screaming “Nazis” is not reasoned. It’s non-discourse. It’s an attempt at emotional manipulation that fails in this venue. Come up with something worth talking about or take yourself where such nonsense will get traction. Try Reddit or the Kos kiddies. Antifa, maybe.
#9
"Screaming"? You mean, like screaming "Kos! Antifa! Neener!"
How about Dovid Katz from Vilnius, the Jewish scholar who has devoted his life to exposing lies and coverups about Nazis in Lithuania? Is Dovid Katz also Antifa? Getting it wrong on Ukraine
Western media have failed to understand the crucial role of nationalistic xenophobia and anti-Semitism
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A bunch of posers. Dress up and say the magic words and "va la" they're Nazis, not. Just a bunch of thugs. The National Socialists Workers Party was just that, a political movement upon which gravitated their own version of thugs. There is no real political movement here other than hierarchical and tribal behavior.
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There are plenty of reasons to dislike Ukraine, as there are plenty to dislike Russia and America — often enough the exact same reasons. *cough* Hunter Biden *cough* If those are your reasons — great, have at it. But don’t throw around trigger words and expect me to be triggered. My family was hunted by, and fought against, the real Nazis.
The people you’re complaining about? Immature cosplayers who think their white idols in Russia are da bomb. They couldn’t conquer a country, let alone half the world — all they’re good for is acting like the brainless yobs they are. Ditto for the ones in Germany, by the way, and the couple thousand of them here in America.
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You can call folks Nazi's but if they don't round people up into death camps and invade their neighbors they are just another brand of fascists. If a fascist nation attacked another fascist nation I'd favor the invaded while counseling the US stay out of it.
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Here's a Ukrainian Nazi news presenter on Ukraina-24 TV, broadcast internationally, with its own YouTube channel (English subtitles);
"I will allow myself to quote Adolf Eichmann who said that in order to destroy a nation, you must destroy, first of all, children... I adhere to the doctrine of Adolf Eichman..."
[ZERO] Last week we wrote about collateral analysis and how it could facilitate a hand-off from Dollar to Yuan as reserve currency in a Crisis of Commodities. Today we write about how the Russian-Ukraine war factors into that calculus from China’s perspective and their possible decision analysis.
China can and will keep the Russian economy on life support via goods trade. So begins a truthful report by Christopher Granville for TS Lombard describing the increasing influence of China on the outcome of the Russo-Ukraine war raging right now.
The upside of that truth? Russia is less likely to commit (more) desperate acts to survive Western sanctions. The less obvious downside of it? China becomes the king-maker in a conflict between Europe and Russia as preventer of those desperate acts. In being king-maker, and war-preventer, they could become one step closer to reserve currency.
CHINA DECIDES WHO WINS THE WAR Here's an idea. How about you and him go have a nice fight.
At first glance, China’s stated neutral stance may not seem a very powerful position. Politically this is largely correct. Not lending overt weapon-support or mediating on Russia’s behalf hardly seem like power plays on China’s part, right? But economically the picture is much smarter for them to remain neutral. As the report states:
China’s do-nothing approach could prove important in keeping the Russian economy on life support.
And this is the brilliance of China’s strategic neutrality. Their keeping the Russian economy barely alive serves as a backstop preventing escalation into global conflict. The West knows this and must deal with it. Without China’s oil demand, the West’s sanctions are a declaration of World War on Russia.
Conversely, Russia knows that without Chinese demand; Their economy is screwed. Putin would risk civil war. He would then either escalate hostilities or capitulate to Western sanctions.
Enlargement of PPT available by kliking on graphic embedded in article.
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I'm kind of looking firward to Russian soldiers opening their first boxes of export-grade Chinese MRE's. "Bozhe moi! My dog wouldn't eat this!" Although I suppose those young men have suffered enough.
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I'm looking forward to.......'Project Eldest Son' (also known as “Italian Green” or “Pole Bean”), and/or similar projects.......
[The vile Reuters via the slightly less vile US News] - World Bank President David Malpass on Monday warned people and businesses against hoarding food and gasoline despite the surge in prices sparked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and massive sanctions imposed on Moscow.
Malpass told a virtual event hosted by the Washington Post newspaper the sanctions would have a bigger impact on global economic output than the war itself. But he said that based on current assessments, he does not anticipate the crisis ending the global recovery and reducing global GDP.
He said he expected a robust response by producers around the world to increase supplies as needed, and saw no need for people to have extra stockpiles in their kitchens or restaurants.
He said he anticipates big increases in supply of energy outside of Russia and food outside of Russia and Ukraine that will ease the impact of war-driven price spikes and help sustain recovery.
He said that energy supplies may be increased faster than food supplies, given that agricultural adjustments typically take about a year.
[SpectatorWorld] Mitt Romney calls Tulsi Gabbard ‘treasonous’ as war becomes an excuse for the lazy
Senator Mittens is looking for attention again, but really nobody cares.
Last week, former Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard released a video calling for a ceasefire in areas around American-funded biolabs in Ukraine. She also called for the United States to reconsider its support for these facilities, which experiment with pathogens that could be accidentally released in a time of war.
For the crime of preferring that Europeans not die en masse from biological poisons, Gabbard was accused by Senator Mitt Romney of "parroting false Russian propaganda" and spreading "treasonous lies."
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This is the lefts new "rayciss" card. And yes, I consider Romney a part of the left. Just the other day The View host were calling Carlson treasonous.
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Mittens is the one who helped set up the "Give China a trillion dollars a year" thing. That enabled Putin along the way, both in money he gets directly from the West and indirectly from China.
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The rest is paywalled.
Here it is. Including a delicious takedown of David Frum
Yet Romney’s smear was more than just an unseemly hypocrisy. It was a glimpse into the future, an example of how war and propaganda are going to work in our very online and very interconnected world. The formula seems to go something like this: an American voices less than full-throated support for Ukraine — or just endorses a position that happens to dovetail with Russian interests. This is then trumpeted by Russian media (Gabbard’s remarks have been played on Moscow TV). Back in the States, hysterics on Twitter seize on this as ironclad proof of secret allegiance to a hostile power. Free inquiry is chilled accordingly.
If Gabbard is a Russian stooge because Russian media picked up on some of her words, then so am I. Several years ago, I wrote a piece advocating against American involvement in the Syrian Civil War. It was picked up by Sputnik, a Russian online media outlet, which espouses the Russian line in only the finest of broken English. And understandably so: Moscow was then fighting in Syria to prop up the Assad regime. They wanted the West to stay out, which also happened to be my position, albeit for different reasons.
Did this accidental alignment make me guilty of treason? What about my skepticism over expanding NATO or my questioning why American troops are still in Germany? Does my sedition know no bounds?
Somehow, despite my relentless propagandizing, I’ve never seen a single ruble for my troubles (what am I, chopped pelmeni?). One of the best kept secrets in American politics is that the anti-fracking movement is rolling in Russian money, since Moscow wants to eliminate the U.S. as a competitor to its own fossil fuels industry. Yet I don’t see leftists standing underneath wind turbines screaming “TRAITOR!”
The fact of the matter is that Russia opposes American and Western influence in the world, whether military, economic or cultural. If a commentator expresses any skepticism of that influence, Moscow tries to amplify their voice. Yet that also doesn’t by itself invalidate the position. Debating natural gas extraction is not verboten just because Moscow happens to have an opinion on it. Biological pathogens don’t suddenly lose their kick because morons on Twitter are screaming about kompromat, which they still think is where Russians go to do their laundry.
This is what happens in a time of war: inconvenient truths become unutterable; the Overton Window narrows to a pinhole. The climate right now feels as hysterical as it’s been since the 2002 run-up to the invasion of Iraq. That was when dissenters were casually maligned as turncoats, when David Frum was writing his hilariously overwrought essay “Unpatriotic Conservatives,” which all but accused the antiwar right of adoring Saddam Hussein. “They began by hating the neoconservatives,” Frum intoned. “They came to hate their party and this president. They have finished by hating their country.”
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These people calling Carlson and Gabbard treasonous dare not say a single word about China. That's because they are the ones who are stooges of a truly hostile foreign power. Ask Pierre Delecto how much money he has invested in China and what the return on those investments are. Somebody, please, ask him. Then ask him what he's gonna do when China invades Taiwan, or when China invades Siberia.
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By the way, has anybody asked Tony Fauxi what he knows about the Ukrainian biolabs?
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Fauci has stated he doesn't want any investigation of the covid over-reaction. He's afraid we will find out he was in it for the money all along.
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Ukraine is the new BLM
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[Washington Examiner] Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called the Biden administration "the most timid, cowardly and pathetic administration in modern American history" in a Fox News appearance Tuesday. you left out "incompetent"
The former Georgia congressman was commenting specifically on President Joe Biden's performance with regard to the conflict in Ukraine.
During a recent trip to Warsaw, Poland, Vice President Kamala Harris bungled a reporter's question regarding Ukrainian refugees. Instead of answering right away, she laughed the question off to Polish President Andrzej Duda.
"If you watch Kamala Harris in Europe, it was an embarrassment to have that person represent the United States because she's so totally, utterly incompetent," Gingrich said on The Faulkner Focus. "I think the Europeans have taken our measure. I don't think anybody in Europe looks to the United States right now to provide any leadership of any kind."
"We have enormous capability. We have many very competent people. If they were unleashed, we would in fact end up defeating Putin, and he would end up being driven out of power by his own government," Gingrich said. "But instead, we are intimidated by him. We're allowing him to get away with war crimes."
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Pelosi's recent Ukrainian conflict gesturing and geriatric displays were indeed troubling. A basement extended care center should be found for her as well, and soon.
[Surber] In one headline, the Wall Street Journal today explained Biden's abrupt surrender of Afghanistan and $83 billion in military equipment and cash to the Taliban. The headline read, "China Pursues Afghanistan’s Mineral Wealth After U.S. Exit."
They trust the locals to respect the private property of unbelievers, meum et tuum? It will be an interesting experience for all involved, no doubt.
Red China now has access to what the Journal called one of world’s largest untapped reserves of copper.
There are other treasures to be mined, and of course one of the world's most famous supply of poppies used to make heroin.
The story said, "Following the American exit from Afghanistan, China’s move to claim the country’s vast mineral wealth is centered on a mountain south of Kabul.
"The mountain and the barren surrounding valley, in Logar province, a two-hour drive from the capital, contain one of the world’s biggest untapped reserves of copper.
"China is negotiating with Taliban authorities to start mining at the site, called Mes Aynak, according to Chinese and Taliban officials. Beijing is also in talks to begin work on oil-and-gas reserves in the north of the country, Amu Darya. Both projects were on hold for years because of the war, which ended when the Taliban seized power in August.
"Dozens of Chinese mining companies have descended on Kabul in recent weeks seeking contracts for other mines.
"U.S. officials say they are concerned that China will fill the vacuum left by the American withdrawal from Afghanistan. Beijing developed a relationship with the Taliban in recent years and kept its Kabul embassy functioning when Western missions fled the Taliban takeover.
"Iran, another U.S. rival, is in talks to secure a huge iron ore deposit in the west of the country. Tehran, too, has fostered good ties with the Taliban."
The story answered the age-old question: Cui Bono?
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What is this doing here? Building up China hurts Russia. Bring in the Chinks, keep out Ivan. Don't you people understand we need to Sacrifice For Ukraine?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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I grew up in the Motor City and I have no sympathy for what used to be Seattle. Detroit’s death was drawn out over years and involved a perfect storm of nonsense, including foolish decisions by auto execs, stupid import/export laws, and a corrupt mayor named Coleman A. Young. Detroit languished. Seattle was executed.
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