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The Artificial Demon
Kunstler.com ^ | 1 Aug, 2025 | James Howard Kunstler

Posted on 08/02/2025 4:49:04 AM PDT by MtnClimber

“With apologies for bluntness, the mainstream press f[--]d around, now the mainstream press is finding out.” —Matt Taibbi.

By now, it must be kind of obvious that Mr. Putin of Russia was staged-up into a demon for the convenience of Hillary Clinton — resulting in a decade of deformed US foreign relations that has dragged us to the edge of a third world war. Nice work, Democratic Party!

I will proffer a harsh truth to you: the best outcome in Ukraine would be for Russia to win the war as expeditiously as possible, neutralize and disarm the place, change-out its illegitimate government, and let it revert to being the frontier backwater it was for eight decades previous, when it was not a problem for the other nations of the region.

Mr. Putin has put up with our country’s psychotic nonsense with remarkable patience. The idea that he seeks to conquer western Europe was a preposterous confection of the neocon crazies in our State Department and Intel “community.”

The long game for the neocon crazies has been to use NATO as the instrument to break up Russia and gain control of its resources. This was after Secretary of State James Baker told Mikhail Gorbachev on February 9, 1990, in discussions over German reunification, that “not an inch of NATO’s present military jurisdiction will spread in an eastern direction.” Starting in 1999 with the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland, sixteen additional nations were induced to join NATO, encroaching on Russia’s borders, with new military bases and missiles. It was a stupid game.

And it failed. Ukraine was the final gambit. The US destabilized it on purpose in 2014, installed a series of governments we could control, made it a ward of US taxpayers, sprinkled it with bio-weapons labs and money laundries, and gave Mr. Zelenskyy the go-ahead to start shelling the Donbas provinces adjacent to Russia. After years of that, Mr. Putin moved to stop it in 2022. The development of drone weapons, along with US-based satellite targeting tech, has prolonged the war. But, of course, the Russians, too, have modernized their own weapons arsenal to match that. The current state of things is a slow Russian grind to defeat a Ukraine that has run out of available fighting men and is apparently short of all weapons besides its drones.

On the campaign trail, Mr. Trump promised to end the Ukraine war in a New York minute. That proved more difficult and complicated than he realized. He said lately in so many words that he has “lost patience” with Mr. Putin for failing to join a ceasefire as a prelude to peace talks. Accordingly, Mr. Trump set a fifty-day deadline and then shortened it to twelve-days, running out on August 8-9 (accounting for time zones). Failure to comply will cause Russia to suffer a new round of sanctions. Mr. Putin has shrugged off that threat, saying that time has proven Russia to be sanction-proofed.

Some kind of game is afoot in all this. Neither Trump nor Putin could possibly want to turn this fiasco in Ukraine into a greater war that will destroy what’s left of Western Civilization. You might find this startling, but for all our efforts to anathemize Russia, it is still a part of Western Civ. After its soviet experiment failed, Russia wanted above all to reintegrate economically with Europe, but the neocons here and the globalists of Europe would not allow that. They became determined instead to wreck Russia — a vicious ethos likely to have emanated from the UK, with its lingering imperial delusions. (For Germany, it has brought only economic suicide.)

You might suspect that Mr. Trump has to pretend to be tough with Russia to counter the still-lingering suspicion — germinated by the Hillary Clinton campaign a decade ago — that he is “Putin’s puppet.” By coincidence, strange or not, that trope is now unraveling with the release of the RussiaGate intel archive that the rogue DOJ and FBI squirreled away since the Trump 1.0 term in office. Mr. Patel found a trove of documentary evidence in a burn-bag in a back room at FBI headquarters. DNI Tulsi Gabbard retrieves more previously-hidden evidence by the day from the vast NSA data base. It ought to be clear now that the initial Hillary Clinton campaign prank metastasized into the worst perversion of abusive government power in our country’s history, and is yet on-going.

The major news organs, who were accomplices in RussiaGate, won’t publish or broadcast any of the recent discoveries about exactly how the hoax evolved into a body of delusion that took over the brains of half of the country and led to a string of additional vicious hoaxes including the Covid-19 operation, the stolen election of 2020, and the J-6 prosecutions. Maybe nothing can be done about the perfidious New York Times or Washington Post because the First Amendment allows lies to be printed within the limits of the libel laws. But the TV networks have additional obligations to the public interest under the broadcast regulations and they can lose their licenses. Perhaps they should and will.

For the moment, realize that we are in the middle of a maelstrom. Arrests and prosecutions are coming, and Mr. Trump’s clock is ticking on the Ukraine war. Upping the ante on the war is the last thing our country needs. The RussiaGate disclosures afford the president an out on his strong-arm tactics with Mr. Putin and his support of the Zelenskyy regime.


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To: MtnClimber

Bumping a great article!


21 posted on 08/03/2025 5:02:40 PM PDT by little jeremiah (SCARE: Social Chaos And Response Emergency)
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To: MtnClimber
I will proffer a harsh truth to you: the best outcome in Ukraine would be for Russia to win the war as expeditiously as possible, neutralize and disarm the place, change-out its illegitimate government, and let it revert to being the frontier backwater it was for eight decades previous, when it was not a problem for the other nations of the region.

Mr. Putin has put up with our country’s psychotic nonsense with remarkable patience. The idea that he seeks to conquer western Europe was a preposterous confection of the neocon crazies in our State Department and Intel “community.”


I am in total agreement. [Applause!]
22 posted on 08/03/2025 5:07:42 PM PDT by .30Carbine
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“Mr. Putin has put up with our country’s psychotic nonsense with remarkable patience. The idea that he seeks to conquer western Europe was a preposterous confection of the neocon crazies in our State Department and Intel “community.””

Actually, not such a preposterous confection. Apparently our State Dept. and Intel folks had read the book by Alexandr Dugin, a so-called philosopher, published in 1997. In it he describes exactly what Russia should do conquer western Europe, and also to control most of the world. By 2014 he was being called “Putin’s Brain.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

The above link summarizes in frightening detail, with over 20 bullet points,exactly what steps need to be taken for Russia to take over Western Europe and control the rest of the world. The bullet point for the Americas is especially chilling, as you can see how Russia is urged to use it’s Special Services to disrupt the US and Canada.

“In the Americas
In the Americas, United States, and Canada:

* Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke “Afro-American racists” to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should “introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics”.[9]
* The Eurasian Project[clarification needed] could be expanded to Central and South America.[9]”

I don’t know how much of the racial strife and public violence we have seen in recent decades was caused by Russian “Special Forces”, but is by no means “psychotic nonsense” for our government agencies to be looking into that possibility.

I don’t know when Putin started listening to Dugin’s advice, but in culling articles from my old newspapers collection from the 2003+ period of the Bush2 Iraq war, I have found several articles about Putin. These indicate that Putin was shifting from his earlier period of seeking potential cooperation with the west. Was this the Republican’s fault, rather than that of Democrats, or did Putin always have big ambitions, only magnified by advice from Alexandr Dugin? I have a collection of old papers from before and after the 9/11 attack. When I cull that material for my research files, I will be watching for the earlier Putin articles that my provide an answer to the question of Putin’s shifting thinking, and Dugin’s potential influence. Since the Putin’s “war” in Ukraine was officially started in Feb. 2022 (actually it began in 2014 with the seizure of Crimea) Dugin has given Putin a number of ideas to be implemented for the betterment of Russia and war success.

They range from reasonable ones like controlling heavy drinking in Russia to the Nazi inspired plan Putin has agreed to implement this September. With this plan a group of women will be chosen to be impregnated by chosen politicians and war heroes to grow children to be owned by the State and used for future warfare. Now that is long range planning, these children won’t even be available for 2 decades, unless the style of African would be dictators is used of deploying child warriors to do their killing. At any rate the Russian State will control the breeding and education of these innocent babies to kill for Putin and Russia. And Putin says he is a Christian???

Another Dugin brainstorm is to remove all foreign words that have been adopted into the Russian language. We would allow some German words, as “you cannot discuss philosophy without the German language”. He certainly has picked up a lot of Nazi philosophy and turned it over to Putin to use for Russia. By all means read the above link, and then hopefully Dugin’s actual book. Imagine what different decisions might have been made if more people in the 1930s had read Hitler’s personal opus “Mein Kampf (My Struggle)”? Would WW2 have been prevented and millions of lives saved? With Putin’s current aggression, we are at a turned point. I pray to God our leaders don’t make a wrong choice.


23 posted on 08/07/2025 5:48:45 AM PDT by gleeaikin (Question Authority: report facts, and post theihr links'.)
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To: .30Carbine; GOPJ; marktwain; popdonnelly; AdmSmith; PIF; BeauBo; USA-FRANCE; lodi90; BroJoeK; ...

“Mr. Putin has put up with our country’s psychotic nonsense with remarkable patience. The idea that he seeks to conquer western Europe was a preposterous confection of the neocon crazies in our State Department and Intel “community.””

Actually, not such a preposterous confection. Apparently our State Dept. and Intel folks had read the book by Alexandr Dugin, a so-called philosopher, published in 1997. In it he describes exactly what Russia should do conquer western Europe, and also to control most of the world. By 2014 he was being called “Putin’s Brain.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

The above link summarizes in frightening detail, with over 20 bullet points,exactly what steps need to be taken for Russia to take over Western Europe and control the rest of the world. The bullet point for the Americas is especially chilling, as you can see how Russia is urged to use it’s Special Services to disrupt the US and Canada.

“In the Americas
In the Americas, United States, and Canada:

* Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke “Afro-American racists” to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should “introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics”.[9]
* The Eurasian Project[clarification needed] could be expanded to Central and South America.[9]”

I don’t know how much of the racial strife and public violence we have seen in recent decades was caused by Russian “Special Forces”, but is by no means “psychotic nonsense” for our government agencies to be looking into that possibility.

I don’t know when Putin started listening to Dugin’s advice, but in culling articles from my old newspapers collection from the 2003+ period of the Bush2 Iraq war, I have found several articles about Putin. These indicate that Putin was shifting from his earlier period of seeking potential cooperation with the west. Was this the Republican’s fault, rather than that of Democrats, or did Putin always have big ambitions, only magnified by advice from Alexandr Dugin? I have a collection of old papers from before and after the 9/11 attack. When I cull that material for my research files, I will be watching for the earlier Putin articles that my provide an answer to the question of Putin’s shifting thinking, and Dugin’s potential influence. Since the Putin’s “war” in Ukraine was officially started in Feb. 2022 (actually it began in 2014 with the seizure of Crimea) Dugin has given Putin a number of ideas to be implemented for the betterment of Russia and war success.

They range from reasonable ones like controlling heavy drinking in Russia to the Nazi inspired plan Putin has agreed to implement this September. With this plan a group of women will be chosen to be impregnated by chosen politicians and war heroes to grow children to be owned by the State and used for future warfare. Now that is long range planning, these children won’t even be available for 2 decades, unless the style of African would be dictators is used of deploying child warriors to do their killing. At any rate the Russian State will control the breeding and education of these innocent babies to kill for Putin and Russia. And Putin says he is a Christian???

Another Dugin brainstorm is to remove all foreign words that have been adopted into the Russian language. We would allow some German words, as “you cannot discuss philosophy without the German language”. He certainly has picked up a lot of Nazi philosophy and turned it over to Putin to use for Russia. By all means read the above link, and then hopefully Dugin’s actual book. Imagine what different decisions might have been made if more people in the 1930s had read Hitler’s personal opus “Mein Kampf (My Struggle)”? Would WW2 have been prevented and millions of lives saved? With Putin’s current aggression, we are at a turned point. I pray to God our leaders don’t make a wrong choice.


24 posted on 08/07/2025 5:49:21 AM PDT by gleeaikin (Question Authority: report facts, and post theihr links'.)
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“Mr. Putin has put up with our country’s psychotic nonsense with remarkable patience. The idea that he seeks to conquer western Europe was a preposterous confection of the neocon crazies in our State Department and Intel “community.””

Actually, not such a preposterous confection. Apparently our State Dept. and Intel folks had read the book by Alexandr Dugin, a so-called philosopher, published in 1997. In it he describes exactly what Russia should do conquer western Europe, and also to control most of the world. By 2014 he was being called “Putin’s Brain.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

The above link summarizes in frightening detail, with over 20 bullet points,exactly what steps need to be taken for Russia to take over Western Europe and control the rest of the world. The bullet point for the Americas is especially chilling, as you can see how Russia is urged to use it’s Special Services to disrupt the US and Canada.

“In the Americas
In the Americas, United States, and Canada:

* Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke “Afro-American racists” to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should “introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics”.[9]
* The Eurasian Project[clarification needed] could be expanded to Central and South America.[9]”

I don’t know how much of the racial strife and public violence we have seen in recent decades was caused by Russian “Special Forces”, but is by no means “psychotic nonsense” for our government agencies to be looking into that possibility.

I don’t know when Putin started listening to Dugin’s advice, but in culling articles from my old newspapers collection from the 2003+ period of the Bush2 Iraq war, I have found several articles about Putin. These indicate that Putin was shifting from his earlier period of seeking potential cooperation with the west. Was this the Republican’s fault, rather than that of Democrats, or did Putin always have big ambitions, only magnified by advice from Alexandr Dugin? I have a collection of old papers from before and after the 9/11 attack. When I cull that material for my research files, I will be watching for the earlier Putin articles that my provide an answer to the question of Putin’s shifting thinking, and Dugin’s potential influence. Since the Putin’s “war” in Ukraine was officially started in Feb. 2022 (actually it began in 2014 with the seizure of Crimea) Dugin has given Putin a number of ideas to be implemented for the betterment of Russia and war success.

They range from reasonable ones like controlling heavy drinking in Russia to the Nazi inspired plan Putin has agreed to implement this September. With this plan a group of women will be chosen to be impregnated by chosen politicians and war heroes to grow children to be owned by the State and used for future warfare. Now that is long range planning, these children won’t even be available for 2 decades, unless the style of African would be dictators is used of deploying child warriors to do their killing. At any rate the Russian State will control the breeding and education of these innocent babies to kill for Putin and Russia. And Putin says he is a Christian???

Another Dugin brainstorm is to remove all foreign words that have been adopted into the Russian language. We would allow some German words, as “you cannot discuss philosophy without the German language”. He certainly has picked up a lot of Nazi philosophy and turned it over to Putin to use for Russia. By all means read the above link, and then hopefully Dugin’s actual book. Imagine what different decisions might have been made if more people in the 1930s had read Hitler’s personal opus “Mein Kampf (My Struggle)”? Would WW2 have been prevented and millions of lives saved? With Putin’s current aggression, we are at a turned point. I pray to God our leaders don’t make a wrong choice.


25 posted on 08/07/2025 5:50:58 AM PDT by gleeaikin (Question Authority: report facts, and post theihr links'.)
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To: .30Carbine

Sorry about the multiple comments, my Chromebook was acting funny and I am going to get rid of it.


26 posted on 08/07/2025 5:53:14 AM PDT by gleeaikin (Question Authority: report facts, and post theihr links'.)
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To: T-Bird45; MtnClimber; popdonnelly; AdmSmith; BeauBo; PIF; BroJoeK; marcusmaximus

I was mistaken in my Comment 23 when I said Putin’s latest acceptance of Alexandr Dugin’s Nazi nonsense was planned to start in Sept. See below from a post today at the FR thread “Attack on Europe”:

“More about the Muscovian Lebensborn:
Кремлевская табакерка
The selection of women who will give birth to special “state” children as part of the “Kukushka” project has begun

We wrote that in August the selection of women who will give birth to special “state” children as part of the “Kukushka” project will begin. According to a source in the Kremlin, who is responsible for demographic issues, the process has begun. “We have begun selecting women who will give birth to the future elite of Russia. At the same time, we are determining the list of participants in the SVO, important politicians who will become the fathers of such children. The first conceptions will be at the end of this year or the beginning of next year,” the channel’s source said.

He noted that in parallel with the selection of future mothers, accompanying measures are being taken to help increase the birth rate in Russia. In particular, the Ministry of Health advised encouraging unplanned and early pregnancy and prepared recommendations against abortions. “As part of the implementation of these measures, we will also identify girls who can become participants in “Kukushka”. At the same time, we will simply increase the birth rate in the country and declare war on abortions,” the source explained.

https://t.me/kremlin_secrets/6014 [Note by me: this is a Russian source, apparently tolerated by Moscow]

earlier https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4219673/posts?page=18468#18468

Yikes, worse and more of it, also part of recommendations, “the Ministry of Health advised encouraging unplanned and early pregnancy”. Does this mean the Russian Ministry of Health actually believes that unplanned pregnancies by young girls is a good way to build a healthy Russian population? Of course if Russia in the future continues the current practice of suicidal “meat wave” attacks in Russian planned wars, health of future Russian boys/men will obviously be of no concern. Will this well-intentioned Russian Ministry of Health also examine the health and fitness of those political sperm donors who are to breed the future “elite” of Russia as well as the selected surrogates?/sarc.

[I repeat my apology for multiply identical comments (24 & 25) caused by my failing Chromebook, which will soon be replaced.]


27 posted on 08/07/2025 8:51:50 AM PDT by gleeaikin (Question Authority: report facts, and post theihr links'.)
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