Posted on 07/13/2024 6:47:02 AM PDT by MtnClimber
“If the entire political and media elite can manufacture the lie for 4+ years that candidate now-President Biden isn’t cognitively impaired, what else might they have lied about and are lying about now?” — Stephen Miller.
You can’t deny that “Joe Biden” did his goodest last night facing down a half-dozen pre-selected reporters representing blob-adjacent news orgs such as Reuters and NPR at the post-NATO meetup damage-control event billed as a “news conference.” Only a week after he declared himself to be the “first black woman vice-president,” he pivoted to correct the record, telling the DC press corps that he’d “picked Vice-president Trump to be vice-president. . .” and everyone in the room saw that they were back in that mortifying scene in The Caine Mutiny when the confused and incompetent Captain Queeg reaches for the ball bearings in his pocket.
At the end of the harrowing hour, he minced his way offstage, leaving his Party of Chaos evermore sore perplexed as to how they might lever this burnt-out old hack out of the nomination they foolishly secured for him months ago. It ain’t gonna be easy, as “JB” repeatedly insisted he had no intention of stepping aside, despite the forces mustering against him in Congress, the media, and Hollywood. Even CNN is turning on him. Meanwhile, the #VeepTrump clip went viral on social media. So much for damage control.
You understand, don’t you, what a fiasco the 75th Anniversary DC NATO meetup itself was? Everyone in the room, including the key prime ministers and presidents, could sense how flimsy the alliance now appears, as led by our maundering near-zombie president. Like “Joe Biden,” NATO’s raison d’être has been exposed as badly out-of-date and dangerously unhinged. Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg kicked things off declaring that “Ukraine is on an ‘irreversible’ path to NATO.” This controverts what everybody in NATO knows is Mr. Putin’s clearest red line, and is therefore either a jape or a bit of recklessly provocative idiocy.
The truth of the matter is this: following its transition out of the failed Soviet experiment thirty years ago, Russia was never a threat to its European neighbors. All the talk of Vladimir Putin seeking to reassemble the old USSR empire was knowingly false, as is the chatter now about Russia looking to invade Europe. What Russia actually sought was to be regarded, once again, as a normal European nation able to conduct normal business with the rest of Europe. The USA wouldn’t allow it.
Exactly why remains partially mysterious. Surely, post-1991, it was in the interest of US military contractors to maintain their Cold War revenue streams. To do that, a foreign hobgoblin had to be invoked — and perhaps China was not the best candidate, since it had begun manufacturing everything on sale in the Walmart — so Russia, with practically no export economy, was cast in that role. And the politicians, too, surely liked creaming off their share of that military-industrial revenue stream, so they went along policy-wise, with figures like John McCain and Lindsay Graham leading the charge. But the US intel blob and State Department had darker motives, driven by an animus that has slowly revealed itself to be insane — just as the Democratic Party has turned obviously insane, adopting a playbook that could have been written by Franz Kafka.
Being likewise insane, the intel blob and the neocons at State harbored an unappeasable hatred toward Russia that, since the Soviet collapse, allowed no accommodation and gelled into a naked avarice for seizing the resources of Russia with a long-term plan to subvert the Russian state, break it up the way they broke up Serbia in the 1990s, and direct a corporate looting operation of Russia’s oil and mineral riches. Ukraine was the doorway they had to go through to get that done.
And so, the blob and State neocons overthrew democratically-elected Viktor Yanukovych in 2014, and installed Poroshenko followed by Zelensky. Veep “Joe Biden” was given the Ukraine “portfolio,” making him a sort of viceroy, and he took full advantage, plopping his son Hunter on the board of Burisma, the huge Ukrainian natgas company that American oil and gas companies drooled over. Hunter managed to milk the Ukrainian government for tribute to the Biden Family bank accounts far above the roughly million-dollar-a-year salary he grifted from his no-show job on the Burisma board. (Hunter also apparently dabbled in a set of bioweapons labs set up in Ukraine by the CIA.) Thus, along with the sheer insanity of the CIA and State Department, the Biden family had a deep and criminal involvement in Ukraine that had to be concealed.....
Were Bill and Hillary more crooked than the Bidens? That is hard to decide.
zeepers ain't gonna like that. /s
Remember the Clint Eastwood quote?
“President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.”
The hoax continues because we damn well know he is calling the shots behind the scenes and now he wants a 4th term using brainless Kamala as his puppet.
I don’t think it’s Obama, but Obama’s handlers. 0 was as much a meat puppets as POTATUS.
People do not understand Russia unless they spend time on Youtube, oddly.
On youtube you can see videos from inside Russia. The channels pre 2022 are generally propaganda-free. Even those after 2022 will provide some information by looking in the background at things not being discussed in the video.
Bottom line: Russia is vast, and having that much surface area means they have more places to find civilization’s lifeblood — oil. And gas.
Are they a gas station pretending to be a country? A time will come, soon, when countries will long for the days when they could find a gas station.
The world consumed 100.2 million barrels of oil per day last year. The US with all its EV hype increased oil consumption last year by 0.6% to 19.5 million barrels/day. China . . . with its EV hype, increased oil consumption last year by 10%(!!) to 16.6 million barrels per day.
Oil is everything. Not FREEDOM. Not DEMOCRACY. Not PEACE.
Oil. Oil is life. Oil fuels the tractors that plant 8 billion people’s food and fuels the diesel trucks that carry that food to grocery store shelves.
There is no way around this. It is reality and it is not politics. Geology doesn’t care about politics.
I read the whole thing.
Most excellent analysis. Clear & concise.
(I hope his taxes are in order)
Kunstler is throwing truth bombs.
Kunstler is spot-on.
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