Today at 12 noon EST, I was live on Rumble to discuss the ongoing conflict, its multiple dangers, and what role the U.S. should play, if any, in its outcome.
Good news: Ukraine instituted vaccine passports to enter the capital — and for now Russia’s advance has stalled while every soldier shows their proof of vax.
The establishment political and media chattering class claiming Tucker Carlson is "siding with Putin" for his absolutely rational and justified challenging of the Biden Administration foreign policy is just another in a long list of examples for why the establishment political media chattering class is crap and needs to be flushed.
"...emotions are extremely high; nationalism and tribalism surge; the range of permissible debate radically shrinks; the political and media class unite in lockstep messaging across the political spectrum; and anyone even slightly off-key or questioning of that script is hunted down and held up as a heretic and traitor"
By that standard the U.S. has been at war since Trump descended the escalator announcing his candidacy nearly seven years ago. At war with ourselves of course.
Thank you Glenn for cutting a well deserved vacation short, then working overtime. A treaty with Russia recognizing Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine as buffer states off limits to the EU and NATO, in exchange for simultaneous removal of Russian support for Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Venezuela could have prevented this chaos and helped the foreign policy of the US. If such a treaty meant alienating France, Germany and Italy, for the sake of pulling Russia from China, it would be worth it. Among dealing with those countries, it would allow the US to focus it's energy on protecting Taiwan while potentially pulling Russia away from China.
Instead, the inept imbeciles who failed so badly in Afghanistan sought to, and ultimately were able to force a conflict to try and rehabilitate their image. Now there is the very real threat of a hot war with Russia all as the CCP eyes Taiwan. Nobody wants war outside of the swamp rats, the CCP knows this, Russia knows this, and the completely idiotic foreign establishment risks rivers of blood on it's hands and not one but two Afghanistan-style debacles in both Ukraine and Taiwan because they think of their ego above all else. This is insanity.
Strategic depth has always been Russias only true defense; it killed Napoleon’s army and it killed Hitler’s army. These two army’s were, at the time, the most powerful entities on earth. Yet the expanse of the plains sapped their energy and left them starving and vulnerable. Russia can’t ever afford to let that go. We’ve always known this, but for some reason this admin has seriously considered Ukraine’s determination to join NATO. Ukraine certainly had every right to ask to join. But they don’t have a right to join. And geopolitics, when played by serious leaders (and right now western leadership is anything but serious) know that some countries just aren’t worth conflict - Ukraine remaining “neutral” was the answer. Consider this. If Ukraine is so important to NATO why aren’t Britain and France marching into the conflict? The fact Western Europe isn’t coming to the defense of Ukraine is juxtaposed to the idea Ukraine needs to be NATO.
All we needed to do was to take Russia's border security concerns seriously and deal with them in the context of NATO expansion, which is a problem for Russia. We would do the same thing if China tried to expand its influence in Mexico as NATO threatens in Ukraine. We can still allay Russia's concerns and deescalate this, but will we?
Biden’s own CIA director, career diplomat and Russia hand William Burns, has long argued that NATO expansion, especially with regard to Ukraine, is a provocative miscalculation that will enrage Russia and exacerbate tensions across eastern Europe. In a 2008 memo to Condoleeza Rice, then Bush’s Secretary of State, Burns wrote:
“Ukrainian entry into NATO is the brightest of all redlines for the Russian elite (not just Putin). In more than two and a half years of conversations with key Russian players, from knuckle-draggers in the dark recesses of the Kremlin to Putin’s sharpest liberal critics, I have yet to find anyone who views Ukraine in NATO as anything other than a direct challenge to Russian interests.”
It seems like everyone is picking sides in this affair. It's the peasants of the region should be focused on -- not these two larger imperialist countries, whether the U.S. or Russia.
The truth is soo obvious and soo simple... The original modern sin is -- Russia-gate hoax.
SAME lying team that concocted the Russia-gate hoax and 2014 bloody coup that overthrew democratically elected Ukraine government Jake Sullivan, Hillary strategy advisor had a KEY role in launching Russia-gate hoax – he is now national security advisor to Biden.
SAME people that launched the Russia-gate hoax are now hollering that Russia invasion of Ukraine is "imminent". All to "save democracy" there -- in order to distract from the fact that St. Obama organized in 2014 bloody coup against democratically elected Ukraine government. St. Obama installed Biden and his CIA pal Brennan as de facto governors of Ukraine -- immensely enriching US "elite" and posting and removing government members, judges and heads of industry with billions of corrupting cash -- in "fight against corruption".
US War party’s key exports are – coups, wars and all-encompassing US corruption.
Suppose Russia had staged a coup against the Mexican Government, installed a puppet regime in Mexico City, and then flooded Mexico with Russian military hardware. Would we stand idly by and let Russia turn Mexico into a staging ground to launch an attack on the United States?
NATO isn't the defensive alliance that it's made out to be. NATO waged unprovoked military aggression against Yugoslavia and Libya (with disastrous results) when neither of those countries had attacked, or threatened to attack, any member of NATO.
When the Cold War ended, we told Mikhail Gorbachev that we wouldn't expand NATO one inch to the East. Then we proceeded to expand NATO all the way to Russia's border.
Putin has access to the American media. For the last several years he has watched Democrats, Republican neocons, the State Dept., the US intelligence community, and the news media itself do everything in their power to gin-up anti-Russian hysteria.
Is Russia just supposed to sit there while an openly hostile foreign power takes-over Ukraine and floods it with weapons? Is Putin just supposed to sit back and wait to be attacked?
If the Obama/Biden Administration hadn't overthrown the Ukrainian government back in 2014 none of this would have happened. Joe Biden was in-charge of U.S. policy in Ukraine when he was the Vice President. That's why Hunter Biden got that cushy gig with Burisma.
Now the chickens have come home to roost. If you were in Vladimir Putin's shoes, you wouldn't trust Joe Biden either. You'd be a damned fool if you did.
What is it with these neoliberal warmongers in the dem party? Why do they love war so much, and hate America so much? How many countries did obie invade? 9? Did Russia ever threaten to go to war with us over HIS clone w...er.. drone wars of aggression?
Good news: Ukraine instituted vaccine passports to enter the capital — and for now Russia’s advance has stalled while every soldier shows their proof of vax.
We're a little late - starting now
The establishment political and media chattering class claiming Tucker Carlson is "siding with Putin" for his absolutely rational and justified challenging of the Biden Administration foreign policy is just another in a long list of examples for why the establishment political media chattering class is crap and needs to be flushed.
"...emotions are extremely high; nationalism and tribalism surge; the range of permissible debate radically shrinks; the political and media class unite in lockstep messaging across the political spectrum; and anyone even slightly off-key or questioning of that script is hunted down and held up as a heretic and traitor"
By that standard the U.S. has been at war since Trump descended the escalator announcing his candidacy nearly seven years ago. At war with ourselves of course.
It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.
Robert E. Lee
Thank you Glenn for cutting a well deserved vacation short, then working overtime. A treaty with Russia recognizing Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine as buffer states off limits to the EU and NATO, in exchange for simultaneous removal of Russian support for Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Venezuela could have prevented this chaos and helped the foreign policy of the US. If such a treaty meant alienating France, Germany and Italy, for the sake of pulling Russia from China, it would be worth it. Among dealing with those countries, it would allow the US to focus it's energy on protecting Taiwan while potentially pulling Russia away from China.
Instead, the inept imbeciles who failed so badly in Afghanistan sought to, and ultimately were able to force a conflict to try and rehabilitate their image. Now there is the very real threat of a hot war with Russia all as the CCP eyes Taiwan. Nobody wants war outside of the swamp rats, the CCP knows this, Russia knows this, and the completely idiotic foreign establishment risks rivers of blood on it's hands and not one but two Afghanistan-style debacles in both Ukraine and Taiwan because they think of their ego above all else. This is insanity.
So glad to see you on this file Glenn. Peace now!
Strategic depth has always been Russias only true defense; it killed Napoleon’s army and it killed Hitler’s army. These two army’s were, at the time, the most powerful entities on earth. Yet the expanse of the plains sapped their energy and left them starving and vulnerable. Russia can’t ever afford to let that go. We’ve always known this, but for some reason this admin has seriously considered Ukraine’s determination to join NATO. Ukraine certainly had every right to ask to join. But they don’t have a right to join. And geopolitics, when played by serious leaders (and right now western leadership is anything but serious) know that some countries just aren’t worth conflict - Ukraine remaining “neutral” was the answer. Consider this. If Ukraine is so important to NATO why aren’t Britain and France marching into the conflict? The fact Western Europe isn’t coming to the defense of Ukraine is juxtaposed to the idea Ukraine needs to be NATO.
All we needed to do was to take Russia's border security concerns seriously and deal with them in the context of NATO expansion, which is a problem for Russia. We would do the same thing if China tried to expand its influence in Mexico as NATO threatens in Ukraine. We can still allay Russia's concerns and deescalate this, but will we?
Biden’s own CIA director, career diplomat and Russia hand William Burns, has long argued that NATO expansion, especially with regard to Ukraine, is a provocative miscalculation that will enrage Russia and exacerbate tensions across eastern Europe. In a 2008 memo to Condoleeza Rice, then Bush’s Secretary of State, Burns wrote:
“Ukrainian entry into NATO is the brightest of all redlines for the Russian elite (not just Putin). In more than two and a half years of conversations with key Russian players, from knuckle-draggers in the dark recesses of the Kremlin to Putin’s sharpest liberal critics, I have yet to find anyone who views Ukraine in NATO as anything other than a direct challenge to Russian interests.”
It seems like everyone is picking sides in this affair. It's the peasants of the region should be focused on -- not these two larger imperialist countries, whether the U.S. or Russia.
The truth is soo obvious and soo simple... The original modern sin is -- Russia-gate hoax.
SAME lying team that concocted the Russia-gate hoax and 2014 bloody coup that overthrew democratically elected Ukraine government Jake Sullivan, Hillary strategy advisor had a KEY role in launching Russia-gate hoax – he is now national security advisor to Biden.
SAME people that launched the Russia-gate hoax are now hollering that Russia invasion of Ukraine is "imminent". All to "save democracy" there -- in order to distract from the fact that St. Obama organized in 2014 bloody coup against democratically elected Ukraine government. St. Obama installed Biden and his CIA pal Brennan as de facto governors of Ukraine -- immensely enriching US "elite" and posting and removing government members, judges and heads of industry with billions of corrupting cash -- in "fight against corruption".
US War party’s key exports are – coups, wars and all-encompassing US corruption.
Suppose Russia had staged a coup against the Mexican Government, installed a puppet regime in Mexico City, and then flooded Mexico with Russian military hardware. Would we stand idly by and let Russia turn Mexico into a staging ground to launch an attack on the United States?
NATO isn't the defensive alliance that it's made out to be. NATO waged unprovoked military aggression against Yugoslavia and Libya (with disastrous results) when neither of those countries had attacked, or threatened to attack, any member of NATO.
When the Cold War ended, we told Mikhail Gorbachev that we wouldn't expand NATO one inch to the East. Then we proceeded to expand NATO all the way to Russia's border.
Putin has access to the American media. For the last several years he has watched Democrats, Republican neocons, the State Dept., the US intelligence community, and the news media itself do everything in their power to gin-up anti-Russian hysteria.
Is Russia just supposed to sit there while an openly hostile foreign power takes-over Ukraine and floods it with weapons? Is Putin just supposed to sit back and wait to be attacked?
If the Obama/Biden Administration hadn't overthrown the Ukrainian government back in 2014 none of this would have happened. Joe Biden was in-charge of U.S. policy in Ukraine when he was the Vice President. That's why Hunter Biden got that cushy gig with Burisma.
Now the chickens have come home to roost. If you were in Vladimir Putin's shoes, you wouldn't trust Joe Biden either. You'd be a damned fool if you did.
Two important things to remember about war, any and all war. The first casualty is always truth. The second, Que Bono!
A solution is at hand. Trudeau just announced that he has blocked Putin from accessing all 795 of his bank accounts.
What is it with these neoliberal warmongers in the dem party? Why do they love war so much, and hate America so much? How many countries did obie invade? 9? Did Russia ever threaten to go to war with us over HIS clone w...er.. drone wars of aggression?