Posted on 03/07/2022 6:13:08 PM PST by Scarlett156
RON PAUL ASKS: IS PUTIN THE NEW CORONAVIRUS? Posted by John Titor | Mar 7, 2022 |
President Biden’s “maskless” State of the Union signifies the near-end of the COVID tyranny we have lived under for the past two years. Fortunately for Congress, the President, and the Federal Reserve, the Ukraine-Russia conflict is replacing COVID as a ready-made excuse for their failures and a justification for expanding their power.
Even before politicians began declaring the end of the pandemic, polls showed that rising prices were the people’s top concern – particularly the increase in gas prices. Since Russia is one of the world’s leading energy producers, sanctions imposed on Russia, as well as Germany’s decision (made under pressure from the US) to shut down the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, provide a convenient excuse for rising gas prices. This is the case even though the US, citing the “instability” in world energy markets created by the Russian-Ukraine conflict, has yet to officially ban imports of Russian oil.
The Federal Reserve has been planning several interest rate increases this year, even though some fear that rate increases could decrease growth and increase unemployment. The Russian crisis allows the Fed to either postpone rate increases or blame Russia for any unemployment that accompanies the rate increases. Either way, the Fed can use the crisis to deflect attention away from its responsibility for our economic problems. As of now, it appears the Fed will go through with at least a modest rate increase this month, but because of the Ukraine crisis, the increase will be smaller than previously expected.
The Ukraine crisis also provides an excuse for Congress to do what Congress does best: increase federal spending. President Biden has requested Congress provide an additional $10 billion in emergency military aid to Ukraine. Congress will likely quickly approve the President’s request. This will not likely be the last time Congress rushes billions of “emergency” money to Ukraine.
It is also certain that lobbyists for the military-industrial-complex are already “explaining” to a very receptive Capitol Hill audience why the Ukraine crisis justifies increasing the military budget to “counter the threats” from Russia, China, and whoever else can serve as a convenient bogeyman. It is unlikely there will be much resistance in Congress to a further increase, even though the US already spends more than the combined defense budgets of the next nine biggest spending countries.
Over the past two years, many leading Internet companies did the government’s bidding by “de-platforming” anyone who expressed skepticism of vaccines or promoted alternative treatments — even when they presented evidence to support their claims. These companies are once again helping the government by de-platforming those who question, or are suspected of questioning, the official narrative regarding Ukraine. Yet these companies’ concerns with “fake news” have not led them to stop people from sharing widely debunked stories supporting the US-backed Ukrainian government.
The lockdown and mandates did more harm than the coronavirus itself. They were based on lies promoted by the government and its allies in the “private” sector. Yet too many Americans refuse to even question the US government’s claims regarding the Ukraine crisis or question whether Russia is really responsible for our economic problems as opposed to a spendthrift Congress, successive spendthrift Presidents, and an out-of-control Federal Reserve. The only way to stop authoritarians from using crises like these to grow their power is to make enough people understand a simple truth: authoritarian politicians will always lie to the people to protect and increase their own power.
Republished from RonPaulInstitute.org with permission
Be critical of others' efforts to make you take sides.
The idea I think is for Putin/Ukraine to make us forget what these assholes did to us with covid. These are the jackasses who put up a fence around the capital to keep us out.
If you don’t jump aboard the bandwagon for Russia,Russia, Russia part 2 you’re a Putinista....../s
Code Pink Ron Paul said it was propaganda to suggest that the forces gathering on Ukraine’s border were an invasion force.
Notice how they have taken fauci off the camera focus.
Its not coincidental.
Ron Paul’s children weren’t skimming from Ukraine or other kleptocracies
His spouse did not earn $100s of millions front-running regulations he was proposing.
Ron Paul opposed what turned out to be every deep-state foreign policy failure of the last 30 years.
He tried to keep Americans free from the clutches of the vast Fed.gov nanny state.
The man should be listened to only because he is so clean compared to nearly ever other American Politician of the last 30 years.
You know what would be really entertaining? A debate between Ron Paul and Joe Biden.
2 hours. No moderator. A disembodied voice reads a question and both men’s mics are turned on. After 10 minutes, the mics are turned off and another question is read, and the mics come on again, and so on.
I’d watch that. It would be hysterical. Celebrity Deathmatch with words as weapons.
I wanted to diss this but then I thought that might actually be quite entertaining.
Someone who has appeared on RT as much as him certainly has no business complaining about propaganda.
He made “federal reserve” a well-known term. (I wanted to say “household word” but sadly it isn’t.)
People who argue with you by saying, “Oh, you must like ______, then!” need to re-do kindergarten. (I’m agreeing with you.)
Biden would be destroyed.
The hysteria around here has been something to behold.
“The hysteria around here has been something to behold.”
It’s grown from hysteria about this or that into hysteria about evvvvverything.
If this was an old movie there would be a lot of *SLAP!*...”Thanks, I needed that...”
In fact I’m glad I’m only reading a text version of it and not beholding it.
“The idea I think is for Putin/Ukraine to make us forget what these assholes did to us with covid. These are the jackasses who put up a fence around the capital to keep us out.”
They can try it, but its a foreign war without the United States military suffering casualties.
My prediction is economic pain will get the attention of voters more than the Russia/Ukraine War will hold their attention span.
I’m done with Ukraine and Russia, I want domestic issues to return to the forefront.
Yes.
Exactly.
Putin killed the Covid just like the Covid killed the Flu.
Killer Bees will be back soon.
Unfortunately, "there's a sucker born every minute" - and most of them are swallowing the current Democrat/corporate/media narrative "hook, line, and sinker"...
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