Russian Invasion YESTERDAY! - How Did It Go?
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On the contrary. Moscow, along with Beijing-Tehran and possibly Berlin, wish to create a Eurasian powerhouse. This is against Washington's interests.
Biden and the $1T a year warmaking machine of NATO lust for war. It's irrefutable.
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — When all else fails, when you are clueless about how to halt a 7.5% inflation rate, when your Build Back Better bill is gutted, when you renege on your promise to raise the minimum wage or forgive student debt, when you can’t halt the Republican suppression of voting rights, when you have no idea how to handle the pandemic which has claimed 900,000 lives – 16% of the world’s total deaths although we are less than 5% of the world’s population – when the stock market fluctuates on wild rollercoaster rides of highs and lows, when what little help the government offered to the labor force — half of whom, 80 million, experienced a period of unemployment last year — sees the termination of the extended unemployment benefits, rental assistance, forbearance for student loans, emergency checks, the moratorium on evictions and expansion of the child tax credits, when you watch passively as the ecocide gathers momentum, then you must make the public afraid of enemies, foreign and domestic. You must manufacture an existential threat. Terrorists at home. Russians and Chinese abroad. Expand state power in the name of national security. Beat the drums of war. War is the antidote to divert public attention from government corruption and incompetence. No one plays the game better than the Democratic Party. The Democrats, as journalist and co-founder of Black Agenda Report Glen Ford said, are not the lesser evil, they are the more effective evil.
The US, burdened by de facto tax boycotts by the rich and corporations, is sinking in debt, the highest in our history. The US government budget deficit was $2.77 trillion for the 2021 budget year that ended Sept. 30, the second highest annual deficit on record. It was exceeded only by the $3.13 trillion deficit for 2020. Total US national total debt is over $30 trillion. Household debt grew by $1 trillion last year. The total debt balance in our government Ponzi scheme is now $1.4 trillion higher than it was at the end of 2019. Our wars are waged on borrowed money. The Watson Institute at Brown University estimates that interest payments on the military debt could be over $6.5 trillion by the 2050s. None of this debt is sustainable.
At the same time, the US is facing the ascendency of China, whose economy is projected to overtake the US economy by the end of the decade. Washington’s slew of desperate financial tricks – flooding the global market with new dollars and lowering interest rates to near zero – staved off major depressions after the 2000 dot.com crash, 9/11 and the 2008 global financial meltdown. The cheap interest rates led corporations and banks to borrow massively from the Federal Reserve, often to paper over shortfalls and bad investments. The result is that US businesses are deeper in debt than at any time in US history. Added to this morass is rising inflation, caused by businesses that have increased prices in a desperate effort to make up for lost revenue from supply chain shortages and rising shipping costs, the economic downturn and the slight wage increases triggered by the pandemic. This inflation has forced the Fed to curtail the growth of the money supply and raise interest rates, which then pushes corporations to further raise prices. The desperate measures to stave off an economic crisis are self-defeating. The bag of tricks is empty. Massive defaults on mortgages, student loans, credit cards, household debt, car debt and other loans in the United States is probably inevitable. With no short-term mechanisms left to paper over the disaster, it will usher in a prolonged depression.
An economic crisis means a political crisis. And a political crisis is traditionally solved by war against enemies inside and outside the nation. The Democrats are as guilty of this as the Republicans. Wars can get started by Democrats, such as Harry S. Truman in Korea or John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson in Vietnam, and perpetuated by Republicans. Or they can get started by Republicans, such as George W. Bush, and perpetuated by Democrats such as Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Bill Clinton, without declaring war, imposed punishing sanctions on Iraq and authorized the Navy and the Air Force to carry out tens of thousands of sorties against the country, dropping thousands of bombs and launching hundreds of missiles. The war industry, with its $768 billion military budget, along with the expansion of Homeland Security, the FBI, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the National Security Agency, is a bipartisan project. The handful of national political leaders, such as Henry Wallace in 1948 and George McGovern in 1972, who dared to challenge the war machine were ruthlessly hounded into political oblivion by the leaders of both parties.
balance:
Chris Hedges: Democrats, the More Effective Evil
The US is a de facto one-party state where the ideology of national security is sacrosanct, unsustainable debt props up the empire and the primary business is war.
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Not at all, simply point out what a whiny little bitch you are.
Carry on.
MintPress News is a left-leaning American online news website founded and edited by Mnar Adley which was launched in January 2012 and employs many Russia Today affiliates. It covers political, economic, foreign affairs and environmental issues. Wikipedia
Interesting some people get so much of their information from Putin's proxies.
Interesting some people get so much of their information from Putin's proxies.
On top of that, Saakashvili received a fellowship with the US State Dept. The godfather of his child was Yuschenko of Ukraine. His wife was also a US State Dept employee. He's a US puppet.
Now do the author, because you didn't debate his writing.
Harvard, New York Times, Pulitzer. Disgraceful with zero breeding. I wonder why corporate news won't hire him. Probably because he's honest and won't spout what he's told to write.
Christopher Lynn Hedges (born September 18, 1956) is an American journalist, Presbyterian minister, author and television host. His views on political violence and his censure of American liberalism feature prominently in his work and activism.
After an early career as a war correspondent in Central America, Hedges began working for The New York Times in 1990.[1] During his fifteen year tenure, Hedges reported from more than fifty countries and served as the Times Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief during the wars in the former Yugoslavia.
In 2001, Hedges contributed to The New York Times staff entry that received the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for the paper's coverage of global terrorism. He also received the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism in 2002.[2] Hedges left the Times in 2005 after an internal dispute over his public opposition to the Iraq War.
Hedges has reported for The Christian Science Monitor, NPR, and Dallas Morning News. He produced a weekly column for Truthdig for 14 years until the outlet's unexpected hiatus in 2020. Hedges' books include War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction; American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America (2007); Death of the Liberal Class (2010); and Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (2012), written with cartoonist Joe Sacco.
Hedges has taught at Columbia University, New York University, the University of Toronto and Princeton University.[1][3][4][5] He has taught college credit writing courses in New Jersey prisons as part of the B.A. program offered by Rutgers University.[6]
You rooting for the US in all of this? Since you are a full blooded American citizen?
Did NATO violate the agreement not to move 1 inch to the east of Germany or not?
Have they encircled Russia or not? Do you not understand what indivisibility of security means?
Instead of spending $1T a year on defense and killing people all over the globe, wouldn't you prefer to have that money spent at home building infrastructure, hospitals, schools and the bridge that collapsed in Pittsburgh last month that Biden was supposed to cross?
So, you are happy with the job Biden is doing (pushing Moscow into Beijing's warm embrace)?
Are you happy with China having brought 20 of 33 Latin American countries into the Belt and Road Initiative as our Crash Test Dummy of a president sleeps at Shady Rest Home?
Rob Lee@RALee85·14hIf Russia intended to do a deep ground invasion, it would need to use multiple armies organized into echelons with likely 2-3 axes of advance. If units based in some of these areas reinforce another grouping, it isn't a good sign, including for units leaving Crimea or Belarus.
The wave of newly-found self-consciousness that followed political changes in Georgia since the end of 2003 clashed with another wave of assertiveness emanating from the Russian Federation, which tried to establish a privileged zone of interest in its “near abroad”, where developments and events thought to be detrimental to Russia´s interests were not easily accepted.
Seems like the Russians should have never been there in the first place....
ELINT News@ELINTNews·23hIf you don’t have it, columns of T-90’s and T-80’s unloaded in Tamarovka, Belgorod, 27km from Ukraine, yesterday and today it seems and are driving away from the train station
Video of T-90’s uploaded 1 hour ago was taken from 50°40'22"N 36°14'15"E
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I realize we have to be careful of these twitter sources.
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I realize we have to be careful of these twitter sources.
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What does rooting for the US mean? Does rooting for the US mean we want a war with Russia over the Ukraine? Does rooting for the US mean we need Russia to be our enemy? Does rooting for the US mean we blindly accept whatever our politicians tell us?
LOL. Rooting for Russia and against the US on a Iowa Hawkeye Off-Topic message board. Look at yourself man.
Rob Lee@RALee85·14hIf Russia intended to do a deep ground invasion, it would need to use multiple armies organized into echelons with likely 2-3 axes of advance. If units based in some of these areas reinforce another grouping, it isn't a good sign, including for units leaving Crimea or Belarus.
Meaning Russia backs down and everyone avoids a war. Isn't this the best option for everyone?
Pelosi, on ABC, gave the WHOLE game away:
"If we were not threatening the sanctions and the rest, it would guarantee that Putin would invade."
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"If Russia doesn’t invade, it’s not that he never intended to. It’s just that the sanctions worked.”
"If we were not threatening the sanctions and the rest, it would guarantee that Putin would invade."
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"If Russia doesn’t invade, it’s not that he never intended to. It’s just that the sanctions worked.”
I'm laughing at you. Were the questions too hard? So, you resort to deflection to save ugly face.
You are hoping the US loses in all of this. I find you disgusting.
Or NATO could get off Russia's doorstep, quit destabilizing Ukraine and all of Europe and march back to the '97 borders as agreed. Ukraine could actually implement the Minsk Accords. The US won't lean on them to abide by a UN document. Why?
Loses? I wish Americans to live in peace. You want them to die for Ukraine? Fugging Ukraine? You're a fugging chickenhawk and there isn't a more repulsive prick walking the earth than you. Stick that in your frigging pipe and smoke it!
Ukraine was stable
The people there wanted democracy, not to be another oligarch puppet regime.
And you still avoided the questions. You're a child who can't get enough of war.
They were stable UNTIL the US overthrew the democratically elected government. You oppose insurrectionists here, but, love them over there, especially when they're neo-Nazis. Today, they are anything BUT a democracy. Zelensky placed under house arrest his biggest opponent. He shut down the 4 largest news organizations that were critical of him. He was about to arrest Poroshenko until the fascist from Trudeau's government, Freeland, intervened. She's the one who froze bank accounts of her people. Spare me your version of democracy.
Putin is learning life after Trump isn't as easy.
NATO is united and the reason is Biden and Merkel.
NATO is united and the reason is Biden and Merkel.
When that dude resurfaced as the appointed governor of Odessa Oblast, I thought it was a glitch in the Matrix.
I'm thinking, "Are the neocons just running out of characters and they're reduced to recycling leaders in other countries now?"
Umm, Merkel retired last year.
But they have the policy they had under her still:
The German government led by Angela Merkel used the NATO consensus mechanism to block arms supplies to Ukraine as Bild reported.
Since May 2021, Germany has used its veto on the council of NATO support and supply agency and has also persuaded the Netherlands to take its side in this matter. Berlin allegedly did not want to appear as the only opponent of Ukraine's armament through the alliance.
Therefore, the dispatch to Ukraine within NATO of 90 large-caliber Barrett M82 sniper rifles from the USA and 20 EDM4S-UA anti-drone systems from Lithuania was canceled due to the position of the two countries. This is despite the fact that Ukraine, through the NATO Support and Supply Agency (NSPA), has already transferred money for both weapons systems in early 2021.
"Each decision to provide lethal support to Ukraine through the NSPA depends on the consensus of allies in individual cases. Two votes against put the case down. Although some systems were not lethal weapons,” a NATO spokesperson said.
When Merkel visited Kyiv in August 2021, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked her to lift the blockade on arms supplies. The Chancellor did not accommodate him, stressing that it was "out of the question."
Scholz is closely following all of Merkel's policies since Merkel has only been gone since December?, so the stance of Germany hasn't changed. Germany is, arguably, the most influential Western Europe member of NATO.
But you already knew that.
Point remains... Putin has a headwind with the current leadership of the West.
