Posted on 10/05/2025 8:57:32 AM PDT by delta7
Trump is clearly listening to the NEOCONS, and he may believe their BS that Russia’s economy is collapsing, so Russia can be defeated in three days, as Kinzinger was claiming. Mark Rubio is a Neocon. I believe Trump hired him as a compromise to the Neocons. But he is taking us into World War III in slow motion.
Trump is listening to the wrong people, and he had better look unbiased at why Putin is being put into a precarious position. He has insulted the dignity of Russia and reduced it to a meaningless 4th-world country. If Putin is replaced one way or in November, sorry, Europe will not recover. Germany fought against Russia in both World War I and World War II and lost both conflicts. A third time will NOT be the charm.
The Wall Street Journal and other outlets reported that President Trump signed off on providing U.S. intelligence agencies to supply targeting data to Ukraine for strikes on Russian energy infrastructure (oil refineries, pipelines, power plants). This suggests that now the US will select the target for Ukraine to attack. That is waging DIRECT WAR against Russia. They certainly can provide missiles to Venezuela and provide them targets for Washington, D.C., and put one right up Trump’s ass. I guess that would not be declaring war either.
However, it is not clear that “providing targeting” means full battlefield coordination, command & control, or direction of operations — most media accounts frame it as sharing intelligence, not taking over targeting decisions.
According to multiple sources, Trump authorized the sharing of targeting intelligence with Zelensky/Ukraine for strikes on specific energy infrastructure. This is the NECON argument: stop the energy sales of Russia, the country will collapse, and they can walk in and carve up Russia like a piece of pie. SO let’s see, Putin could strike and take our Wall Street, the US cannot borrow any more money, the economy would collapse since it is dependent on debt, and he could do the same to the USA.
NOBODY seems ever to consider that whatever they do to Russia, they could do the same to the USA and Europe. I am concerned that Putin has been restrained. He cannot agree to peace KNOWING that these Neocons want the destruction of Russia and will NEVER accept them into the world economy. They have already divided the world economy between SWIFT and BRICS, and this division is expected to remain unchanged until after 2032. NEOCONS are braindead assholes who NEVER think one step ahead and only act emotionally to what is in front of their nose with myopic vision.
The NY Post pushed an opinion advocating sending Tomahawk missiles to wipe out Russia. They said:
“Trump should now follow through by supplying Ukraine with long-range missiles to do the job — and ratcheting up the economic pressure on Russia.”
Again, this attitude assumes that Russia is incapable of launching any retaliation against the United States. Putin might as well just launch everything because there is NO POINT to any peace agreement, for Trump is a fool if he really believes this is just about Ukraine. This is about the destruction of Russia, and if he does not get rid of these advisers who have him isolated, we are sleepwalking into the end of Western Civilization.
There is NO WAY China will allow Russia to fall. These Neocons pushed Russia and China together. They will stand together with North Korea and Iran. These NEOCONS are really stupid. They will never be able to defend Europe, the Middle East, Taiwan, and Korea/Japan all simultaneously.
Venezuela’s International Support Cuba has been a longstanding ally of Venezuela. Recently, Cuban diplomats in Angola reaffirmed their support for Venezuela against perceived U.S. aggressions. Russia has continued to support the Maduro government, sending troops to Venezuela in March 2019 and helping the government evade sanctions on the oil industry. China has continued to back the Maduro government, offering to help rebuild the national power grid. Iran has also expressed support for Venezuela, especially in the context of U.S. sanctions and military threats. The two countries have engaged in economic and diplomatic cooperation over the years. Both could also provide long-range missiles to Venezuela, just as Zelensky is demanding, so he can level the Kremlin. Russia could do that with Venezuela and target Washington, DC. Trump obviously never heard = what goes around, comes around.
Turkey has maintained a neutral stance but has occasionally criticized U.S. sanctions and expressed support for Venezuela’s sovereignty. Syria has been a vocal supporter of Venezuela, condemning U.S. actions and emphasizing the importance of respecting Venezuela’s sovereignty. Colombia has shown solidarity with Venezuela, especially in the context of U.S. sanctions and military threats. The country’s foreign minister recently renounced her U.S. visa in protest of U.S. actions against Venezuela.
Brazil has refrained from taking sides in the U.S.–Venezuela conflict. While President Lula has expressed concern over the U.S. naval presence in the Caribbean, describing it as a source of regional tension, he has not indicated any intention to intervene militarily on Venezuela’s behalf. However,
Left-leaning / socialist governments (currently or recently): Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador (varies over time), and sometimes Argentina and Chile, depending on elections. This is why Trump is supporting Argentina. If they flipped back to the LEFT mainly because of Trump’s war against Venezuela, then we can see turmoil in South America. Focusing strictly on war between South American states, the last significant one was the Colombia–Peru War of 1932–1933, which involved a territorial dispute over the Amazonian town of Leticia. It was resolved through mediation by the League of Nations.
Since then, South America has experienced chiefly internal conflicts (civil wars, insurgencies, and guerrilla movements) rather than interstate wars. Border disputes existed (like between Ecuador and Peru in 1995), but these were short-lived skirmishes rather than prolonged wars. However, Trump’s war with Venezuela runs the risk that, as the economy turns down, we can see a rise in anti-Americanism, and this will impact not just militarily, but also economically, with outstanding debt issues. Specifically, U.S. dollar-denominated debt accounts for approximately 92.6% of South America’s total public debt.
In August 1982, Mexico announced that it could no longer service its debt. This is often considered the official start of the Latin American debt crisis.
Other major South American countries quickly followed this:
Argentina (1982) Brazil (1983) Chile (1983) Venezuela (1983) Peru (1984) Bolivia (1984) Uruguay (1983)
This is the unspoken risk with a conflict with Venezuela, which does have the #1 largest oil reserve of any country on the planet.
These Neocons are BRAINDEAD, for they never consider not just the next step, like taking out Saddam, with no comprehension of what comes next. Still, they fail to feel that they are pushing Putin like he is meaningless, and what if he steps aside in November and hands it to their Neocons, for Russia is NOT going down without a fight. Putin has warned that they have bombs that will get these Neocons in their bunkers.
Demand Elections in Ukraine Cut Off All Contact With Ukraine. They are a Patsy for NATO
Fire away!
WWIII is over. We lost and America was invaded and taken over without anybody firing a shot. The foreign bastards are running this country now. Check Congress. Very few Americans.
An odd construction. Bang is bang. When bang comes to anyone, it's bang. Not in slow motion.
“He has insulted the dignity of Russia...”
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It’s part of the negotiations. Russia doesn’t want to settle, Trump needs some additional bargaining power.
How badly is the left hoping that Hamas refuses to hand over the hostages?
I somehow got on a mailing list for this guy. Every single one of them is along these same lines-WWIII, the economy will collapse, the environment can’t survive...And what does he suggest? I’ll help you with financial security...He reminds me of that Dr that essentially says, anything you eat will kill you.
Nonetheless, he got burned by war pigs like John Bolton and Mike Pompeo in his first term. If he enacts advice of neocons this term, it is absolutely his fault.
Trump absolutely campaigned against getting us entangled in foreign wars that have nothing to do with our national security like the one in Ukraine.
Turning into Donald W. Trump would disaster for his Presidency and turn the base against him.
That can't be said enough times.
The war neocons and the EU dream of with Russia would lead to WW III.
Satellite images are showing China building landing craft like crazy. I don’t know if it will lead to a world war, but war is coming by way of Taiwan.
“Fire away!”
Armstrong is a “wave the bloody shirt” shyster who should be ignored.
“Again, this attitude assumes that Russia is incapable of launching any retaliation against the United States. Putin might as well just launch everything because there is NO POINT to any peace agreement”……
Putin might? No he wont. He loves power and isnt is any danger of losing it right now.
Criminal conviction
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Hidden rare coins cache
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Best post of the week, IMHO...
"Running" ==> Over-running...
“The foreign bastards are running this country now.”
Trump and his cabinet are NOT foreign dastardly.
“Check Congress. Very few Americans.”
Another stupid, anti-American comment.
If that were true China would be sending Chinese troops to Russia and not sacrificial lambs like North Koreans...they could care less about Russia...if Russia falls who do you think is going to flood Siberia? Nigerians?
The word NEOCON is the new version of calling America “KKK”
Anyone listening to this convicted kook Armstrong is a neoleftist idiot.
Support President Trump.
Hey, everybody’s got to make a living right? No judgments … but, readers and buyers beware: the truth is not in him.
However … for those who study human nature, the darkness all around us and within us, its methods and its madness? This guy’s a hoot!
His spiel is so predictably outrageous that you just have to laugh.
“Russia is NOT going down without a fight”
Every war game run by the US, or Russia, has shown that direct military engagement between the two results in nuclear war.
NEITHER side will be defeated in the field without using their nukes. Any field.
Anyone who says otherwise is trying to deceive. I have no idea why they would want to do so.
No mention how many other nations are trying to goad the US into a hot war. Most of the provocation is happening at sea, and the US Navy is acquitting itself marvelously.
And how no mention of it is heard on the MSM.
Oddly enough, a lot of info is getting out via YouTube.
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