I watched all the horrible news Tucker reported with a sigh of relief knowing I can trust the source. Refreshing to say the least! Beyond glad he's back:)
Yes, there is that story. Sam would you mind posting the source of that story?
I see stuff on MSM all the time that isn’t accurate but does support a narrative.
I think it important we don’t swallow everything we are told by MSM. At least that is my takeaway after Covid.
For me, Tucker undercut his piece today by telling me to assume Ukraine blew up Nordstream. Usually I’m nodding my head in agreement w/ him. That statement he made though, made me pause
I haven't listened to Tucker's piece but article referencing it were that he was talking about a dam. The piece that appeared today was in the New York Post and referenced an article in the Washington Post using info from an intelligence report posted by the dumb-ass Air Guard intelligence specialist. You mentioned Seymour Hersh's piece, which I read. However, it must be remembered that Hersh has some up with pretty outlandish claims in recent years which may or may not be true.
Yes, the thrust of Tucker piece was the dam blow up. He linked it to Nordstream to bolster his connection and I thought that was incorrect and lazy. I guess I’m expecting more from him now that he is untethered from Fox. Guess we need to wait and see where he moors next…
If they did, they had to use our equipment and probably manpower. That pipeline attack was not the Boris and Natasha type of operation Ukraine might be able to pull off without help. It would be just like the criminals running our government to blame it on Ukraine in exchange for allowing them to use our support to attack Russia. Whatever the truth, we are heading for war with Russia and Ukraine is being leveled and depopulated in the process.
I didn’t believe anything they said yesterday. I am convinced I should not believe what they are saying today. They are like a weathercock constantly rotating under the wind from the WH.
In science, engineering, and geopolitics, we often do not get direct evidence of anything. The systems are set up to avoid the proverbial “smoking gun” at all costs.
Yes, the preponderance of evidence shows that it was Ukraine behind the terrorist act of blowing up the Nordstream pipeline; but ultimately, it was us, the USA that gave the order and made the act possible.
...or is anyone still believing that Hunter Biden’s laptop was never verified and part of a Russian disinformation campaign??
If the US gave the order, it would be an act of war and Russia would be justified to launch missiles at any target in the United States it should so choose. I doubt the US actually gave any order, they don't work that way. What probably happened is that the US didn't tell them not to do it. It's called Plausible Deniability and is a byword in government, especially when related to clandestine military matters.
I agree with most of what you said here except I believe the USA did give the order. We also facilitated the terrorist act with training, equipment and most likely, personnel ...as Ukraine lacks the capability to hit an undersea pipeline at that depth and that accurately without our systems and other deep sea marine navigation and targeting systems.
Probably akin to leaving a loaded gun and instructions on a table in a room full of terrorists and walking out of the room.
Eric, you're speculating about Ukraine's capabilities. The articles claim Ukrainian special ops people planned to rent a boat then dive down and set charges, which is not exactly complicated. Diving only goes back to the early Twentieth Century using helmets. Also, Ukraine was a major contributor to the Soviet military and when the USSR fell apart, they took equipment and knowledge with them. The United States is hardly the only country with special ops personnel. North Vietnam's special ops capabilities possibly exceeded ours. North Vietnamese special ops people scaled a large karst tower in Laos and took out a radar site. US and civilian contractors thought it was impregnable. Special ops "sappers" swam across a lagoon to hit the Air Force base at Cam Rhan Bay, then on another occasion they blew up the ammunition dump. Ukraine no doubt has the capability, and they had the impetus to sabotage it. Yes, the US has been pontificating about the pipeline going back to Trump but pontificating and doing something are not the same. The US does want to sell gas in Europe but there are no Transatlantic pipelines and gas has to be transported across the Pond by ship. There is gas an oil in the North Sea but the largest reserves in the world are - guess where. That's right, Russia.
I don't know - Seymour Hersh laid out a pretty convincing case for the US/Ukraine doing the deed. And with fanatics like Nuland, Sullivan and Biden's other handlers, I'd bet my life they were involved.
The Seymour Hersh piece had just one anonymous source, but notwithstanding the lack of hard evidence, at least it's credible to believe that US did it. It's much harder to believe that the Ukrainians had the means to do it undetected by the entire world.
Carlson, on the other hand, tells us that it's "obvious" to your "average yak herder" ...after railing about tautological arguments. In his media kingdom, facts aren't exactly coin of the realm.
I’m not sure it’s irrelevant. If the USA did the Nordstream deed it’s an act of war. I’m thinking of our history, (littered?) with these kind of events, and bloodshed flowing thereafter. Two that spring to mind are sinking of the USS Maine (Havana Harbor 1898, Spanish-American war resulting) and the Gulf of Tonkin Incident/Resolution (1964, paving way for US regular troop deployment to Vietnam)
I meant that whether one trusts that Tucker is telling the truth or not is irrelevant.
So if Russia nukes the USA because from their perspective, we are at war with them and we are much bigger and more formidable an enemy; therefore, asymetric warfare tactics must be used to stop us from destroying their country…would you be surprised?? Would they have a point? Or did Ukraine not just attack Moscow with American drones and did not a high ranking government official in the USA just say on television that killing Russians was “the best money we ever spent.” ???
Or would we say, like we always do, “that it was a dastardly evil unprovoked attack, and they must be annihilated!”
Respectfully, both sides are corrupt governments and we don't know half of what is really going on other than our corrupt UniParty is sending billions of your tax dollars to fund both the destruction and rebuilding of Ukraine.
Anyone seen a cellphone video of anything Ukraine lately? Didn't think so. Corrupt. All of it(not the people at the ground level).
Why not? I have thought this was true when it happened. It is totally obvious. Perhaps Biden bribed Zelensky to do it so that the US had “plausible deniability “. Zelenski is the most corrupt politician in Europe. You are paying for his Dacha now.
Hey Tom, read at least Jordan’s substack post today for why not. Then read Seymour’s for why likely the USA did it (Nordstream, not the dam).
Tucker in that video said we should assume Ukraine did it. Why? Perhaps because it ‘links’ to the dam. I lean right but I also have a critical thinking cap on and call bull on that. We should not assume Ukraine did it in face of reality evidence
Nope. Russia clearly wouldn’t do it. It would cut off their money supply.
The communists ruling the USA Today might wish to do it, to kill millions of Americans with starvation and death for “climate change.” The near future possibility of an “American Holomodor “ a real one.
But… always follow Occam’s Razor 🪒, the easiest explanation is usually the correct one. So, can you imagine Biden giving Zelensky $100 billion US dollars and then peeling off a few million for Zelensky and Hunter Biden? And maybe also the Light in the Loafers “single Senator” from South Carolina? No children?
Too late. The cat is out of the bag. Russia didn’t think it was a good idea to blow up their own pipeline-money source. Guess it wasn’t in the Law of War manual.
I heard it differently. I think he is referring to the dam when he makes that comment. But I admit that discussing the pipeline in the same breath is problematic, confusing and poorly written.
The complexity of the pipeline job was off the chart, as Sy Hersh laid out. IMO there is no way that happens without the US knowledge and involvement. That area was awash in US naval vessels at the time. At best the US let it happen. At worst (and I think most likely) is that the US ran the operation all the while having Ukraine as the available scapegoat if need be.
SpandX, go to 1:10 in Tucker video drop today and you will hear Tucker state we should assume Ukraine was behind the Nordstream blow up (linking it to assertion that dam was also blown by Ukraine)
I’m against this war. But no reason to state bullshit like this to buttress the position. I like Tucker, but I’m also not his sheep
My point is that it is not one or the other. It’s both. Ukraine with the US did it. After all, US provided weaponry is what is killing Russians, right? What’s the difference? Was Zalinski the one who pushed the red button to detonate the C4 that the US attached to the pipeline? That’s my point. A conventional proxy war to hopefully avoid a nuclear war. Corruption is the reason and it points back to Biden.
You make a fair point. My initial thinking is that our government makes a big show/public production of sending guns/butter to Ukraine. But on the natural gas pipeline blow up, the same government doesn’t take the same responsibility. Why is that? I think it’s because it would be ‘too direct’ US intervention and international condemnation would result. And if international heat rose too much, USA would be viewed as the ‘bad guy’ and then the war would be seen as unjust and growing calls for it to cease. Stopping war = stopping neocon and Military Industrial Complex.
So, that is the difference in my current thinking.
I’d suggest this proxy war should end or risk of tactical nukes grows. The dam bust today under proxy war, may be putting a nuclear power plant under stress in the medium to long term if they can’t keep the reactors cool (those reactors historically used that man made lake water for cooling, but that H2O now gone…
This might be something to divert our eyes from other things. There are a host of reasons why this alien craft story is garbage, including the fact that whistleblower has never laid eyes on said craft, and all his sources are anonymous
“His assertion concerning the existence of a terrestrial arms race occurring sub-rosa over the past eighty years focused on reverse engineering technologies of unknown origin is fundamentally correct, as is the indisputable realization that at least some of these technologies of unknown origin derive from non-human intelligence," Karl Nell, a retired Army Colonel who worked with Grusch on the UAP Task Force, told The Debrief.
“ Per protocol, Grusch notified the Department of Defense of the information he intended to disclose to The Debrief, and the Pentagon cleared those intended on-the-record-statements for open publication in April – just days before Grusch left the government.”
“ David Charles Grusch, a 36-year-old decorated former combat officer in Afghanistan, served the National Reconnaissance Office, acting as their representative to Congress’ Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force from 2019-2021. At the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, he also served from late 2021 to July 2022 as co-lead of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) analysis and its representative to the task force, which was recently renamed the All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office.”
When I last checked at around 10:30 pm, he had almost 30,000,000 views. I'll bet there's a bunch of executives over at Fox that suddenly had the trots and were running like mad for the toilets...
Tucker did not mention that Ukrainians are dying, only Russians. I am not a fan of Ukraine, being a child of Holocaust survivors and having lost tens of relatives in Ukraine during WWII, most likely at the hands of Ukrainian police. But I am tired of everyone seeing this conflict in black and white. Yesterday Ukrainians were heroes, and everyone was waiving blue/yellow flags. Today they are all of a sudden corrupt and wear nazi insignia. Oh, and surprise - they blew up Nord Stream. Things are complex. History is complicated. One thing is clear: it is Putin who is now bombing innocent people, which btw includes Jewish people residing in Ukraine. I saw pics of destroyed Mariupol synagogue and Jewish cemetery. Maybe some of the Ukrainians are still antisemitic. Many are probably corrupt. But we clearly see who is behaving like a nazi and who is the aggressor, don't we? It is frustrating that the people cannot raise above the propaganda and look facts in the face. A little study of history also won't hurt. Simplifying the situation and painting one side as villains and another as saints, whatever we feel today, may lead to a dangerous outcome.
You make good points about how it’s a complicated matter and we should be open to understanding Ukraine’s plight but you then don’t make any arguments about what reasonable concerns Russia has. For example, among other things they probably are concerned about Ukraine deploying more missiles that can hit Moscow in a few minutes, a new NATO enemy on their border, a US proxy war (which it has become thanks to neocons), a history of Nazi aggressions against from Ukraine, a penis piano playing comedian Ukraine president (look it up if you haven’t seen it). Russia has a lot of reasonable arguments for war with Ukraine and as a US military veteran, I am sick and tired of people who never served in the military lobbying for more endless wars for us to send our young men to get killed and our tax billions to be wasted on a corrupt Ukraine.
Libertarian, I would not take Putin’s concerns at having NATO at their borders at its face value. After the WWII, USSR occupied and kept half of Europe under its boot using the same pretext - to protect their borders. If they have a chance, they will return to the same world order with Eastern Europe under their control or possibly more than just Eastern Europe.
I am very much against any wars and value human life more than anything else. Therefore, I do not quite understand when you say “Russia has a lot of reasonable arguments for war with Ukraine”. What reasonable arguments can a country have to cross a border of a sovereign neighbor and to bomb their cities until they are turned into ruins and people are killed or maimed? I have no illusions about Ukraine. But there are nazis, granted small groups of them, in many countries, many countries have antisemitism, and so many countries around the world are corrupt, possibly including ours. Should we start bombing them indiscriminately?
How much the US should get involved in this conflict is a difficult question. All I can say is that as a native Russian speaker, I am able to watch and read Russian news and propaganda, and what I see and hear is terrifying in their expansionist ambitions and their hatred not just for Ukraine but for the rest of the world. We should be careful and not underestimate these intentions. We should not ignore them but by no means should we provoke them.
I am disgusted by the unbalanced impulsive politics of the WH regarding our involvement, especially secrecy and lies they subject the American people to.
There is really no simple answer. We do need experienced and smart politicians and diplomats at the helm in these dangerous times. Alas, we have none.
Crimea is a Russian province and always will be. Why not cede Crimea? Europeans already fought war over that in the very first modern war. The Crimean War. Russia demands a port for its navy. Ukraine wishes for a port to ship wheat out. Simple solution, right in front of everyone’s faces in there somewhere. Except for the extreme corruption of Zelenski. He is rolling in the money now. So is Hunter Biden. Can we please now, just stop the stupid now?
And Jordan’s Schachtal Dossier, just posts on his substack today, just how improbable it would be for Ukraine to pull of Nordstream (they would have to travel over 10K mikes by sea undetected to do it, check out the map!):
Ukraine very well have blew up the dam today, w/ impact to Crimea. But Ukraine ALSO blowing up Nordstream. I don’t buy that, at all, and Tucker shouldn’t take MSM word for it that Ukraine did that and parrot it. On that point I think Tucker has it incorrect.
Yeah I don’t know why Tucker said that “it’s now known that Ukraine blew up Nordstream.” It’s been well documented that Biden & co. ordered its destruction. Tucker lost some credibility with that take IMO.
Give it up Matt. Ukraine is not now,,nor has it ever been in our entire history over the last 400 years, been one jot nor tittle or our business. Ukraine is their own thing. Absolutely none of our business. Angela Merkel started this “war of the solar panels” with her corrupt and stupid stance on fake global warming hysteria. Someone shove an M4 in her arms and force her to fight the Bear 🐻 in Russia.
This is precisely why no woman should ever lead a nation nor control their their military. Ever at all. They will always cave in to the strong man, who will rape her. And then you and your wife and your children. No woman is qualified to lead any army on earth.
“This is precisely why no woman should ever lead a nation nor control their their military.” I think Tulsi could do a fine job of leading the nation and the military. She’d be infinitely better at it than the democrats or many of the worthless republicans like Linsey Graham who has this macho attitude that Putin is a punk and he ain’t gonna back down from a punk coward like that. Putin is far from a punk coward though. He was a KGB officer who’s spent years running an extremely dangerous country that has always lived under dictatorship. I think he’s intelligent, committed to Russia and has an excellent understanding of human nature.
I agree with everything you say here. The media have been trying to portray Putin as deteriorating, mentally or something. They should talk! Putin had Trump eating out of his hand. I think Trump's gullibility is a flaw in his personality anyway, but Putin played him very successfully.
I wanted to stay out of it also. Pretty much every foreign war we have stuck our noses into, we have lost. Obviously, the plight of the Ukrainian people has been horrible to witness, and it is a strain to turn away from them. But the way the leftists here have wanted to escalate this war is appalling! I suspect that some of that is due to the fact that they are too young to remember Viet Nam and all the wars thereafter.
Nonsense. God Almighty gave all women a great huge lump of compassion. They can never kill the bad guys. Men were designed to do that and it comes naturally to them to enter warfare. Ever watch little boys? The first thing they do is make their fingers up into guns and get to it.
I am pleased as punch that men and women are different. Vive la difference ❤️
We both need each other intensely to survive and thrive and love other folks.
It's true that women don't tend to kill people they don't know. Some of them kill their own kids, and I am not referring to abortions. There is evidence, however, that most humans have serious inhibitions about killing people, including in battle. There is a book by Dave Grossman, "On Killing," that goes deeply into this subject. According to Grossman, the DOD worked very intensely on training strategies that would overcome the inhibition against killing, and they mastered it during the Vietnam War. I think he said they used game-like electronic simulations, but I don't remember that part very well.
I recall army boot camp late 1990 and the bayonet course dummies all had Middle East rags (gutra’s) on their heads. That was to dehumize our future enemy we were to face, in the Gulf. That course for men and women recruits both. The DOD knows what’s up
I dropped out of high school in Chicago when I was 16, joined the Marines when I was 17, turned 18 in boot camp in San Diego, and in 1969 when I was 19, got orders for the ground forces of the 3rd Marine Division in Vietnam. On the way there we stopped in Okinawa for refueling. They happened to need replacements so they took my whole company off the plane changed our orders and made that our home base. From there we were sent to various other places like the Philippines and Japan for training but not Vietnam. Fate was kind to me. Many who went never came back and many who came back were too injured to ever again have a normal life.
We never had any kind of training to overcome resistance to killing though. They used to tell us we shouldn’t be willing to die for our country. We should make the other guy die for his country. In WW11 German and Japanese soldiers took great delight in killing. Simone Weil went to Spain in the thirties to fight for the left and was appalled by how much they enjoyed the killing. Simone Weil is one of my favorite mystics. I learned a lot from her about the nature of reality.
“Freedom and God are objects of faith, not of knowledge; in other words, freedom and God are infinite abysses whose bottoms cannot be sounded by knowledge.”
Thank-you for your service, Seva. 4 of my brothers and I also served active duty military. Every week I visit my brother who was wounded in Vietnam. I find your comments insightful and am impressed with how well read you are. Please do keep commenting because I think many of us learn from you.
Thank you for your interesting post, Seva, and for your service! I doubt that you got much appreciation for it at the time.
My college BF dropped out of school in October, 1967, was drafted the next month on 1A-O status, and served as a hospital medic at Bien Hoa. He did receive basic weapons training but was not armed during his tour of duty.
I wish I still had my copy of Grossman's book but I gave it away. I remember that Grossman said that the U.S. has data going back to the Civil War that documents this inhibition around killing enemy combatants. He said that something like 25% of the soldiers failed to fire their weapons even when fired upon during some combat situations. During the Vietnam War, he said, the inhibition was mostly eliminated.
The other source of information I have on this subject comes from a psychologist named John Briere, who is an internationally prominent trauma expert. He is from my and your generation. He said he worked on a project for the DOD in which Special Forces soldiers were put through desensitization training that involved intensive exposure to images of mortal injuries that were taken from actual wartime photos and films. Briere said this process was effective in reducing soldiers' reluctance to take actions that could or did result in similarly gory and deadly outcomes.
As you no doubt know, the question comes up after every mass murder by a disturbed young man or teenager as to whether his involvement in violent video games played a role in a similar kind of desensitization. This is another one of those questions that has become politicized for various reasons, and there never seems to be a clear answer to it. There also has been speculation about the contribution of video game practice to accuracy with real firearms. After the Springfield, Oregon shooting in 1998 by Kip Kinkel, law enforcement drew attention to this kid's high level of accuracy, and it was reported that he had acquired it through practice with video games.
Tom, I think you are misinterpreting me. I’m totally against the war in Ukraine and I think the USA brought in on/provoked Russia by supporting pro west Ukraine coup in 2014 and then pushing NATO right up to Russia border. I think it’s long term instability for the world to also have Finland (formerly neutral) now a NATO state.
I’m commenting on who blew up Nordstream, and I think evidence points to USA. Tucker in his piece said I should assume it’s Ukraine. Maybe I’m splitting hairs.
Me too. I think it is insane to give one nickel or one round of ammunition to Ukraine.
What about the dozens of biological weapons labs in Ukraine that the US government uses to invent new ways to exterminate their own American population?
And today, this very day, photos are being released showing the Nazi symbols on Ukrainian uniforms. The Nazi Azov Brigades. Hello Jewish folks…. Does this mean anything to you at all that your taxpayer dollars are being used to outfit real live Nazis with armaments and ammunition?
Well… bust my britches..even a stupid hillbilly could get that.
I’ve never seen anyone else express that belief about women and leadership, likely because it isn’t safe to do it. I didn’t call it a sentiment because I don’t think it qualifies as one. You could be wrong. In my experience, some women never cave no matter the cost or even if proven wrong. They can be at least as vicious as any man I’ve ever met. Killing? Hah. Men certainly don’t have the edge there. That said I feel the same way, but it isn’t an issue of mental or emotional weakness. It’s an issue of stability, the typifying inability to compromise and the accompanying lack of ability to control emotion. If it disagrees, kill it.
The democrats are fighting a two front war: Internally they’re turning America’s War Machine on Trump and supporters. Externally on Putin and Russia. They want Putin dead, the Russian people ground into the dirt and their LGBTQIA+ Pride flag of their Woke faith to fly over the ruins of the Kremlin. Last year there was a video on RT (Russia Today) of Putin condemning Western Wokeness which he called “a crime against humanity,” said that Russia spent many years consumed by such madness and basically said “Been there. Done that. No thanks.” Why is Putin so intensely hated by our ruling class? For the same reason Trump is. He doesn’t belong to their anti-white, anti-Christian, globalist, Woke white leftist WEF that wants global dominance.
I wish I still had it. It was superb, extremely damning. I am quite certain the Woke democrats hated him more than ever after he so publicly insulted their Woke faith and in particular condemned the LGBTQIA+ ideology promoted to school children. It was on YouTube though and they canceled RT after Putin invaded which deleted all their videos which was a shame because it was a really good site. The closest I could find to it was this Sky News Australia video where they showed a clip from it. You can even see from this short segment though how truthful and damning it was.
“Putin is right in claiming the West is destroying itself through Woke politics.” (8 min)
Some months ago, I saw a short video of Putin stating his perspective on the woke crap, and I told some of my friends how impressed I was by Putin's insight into the woke as well as his own sense of stable conservative values. I think it was in the World Spectator, or the UnHerd. If I find it, I'll post it.
Here’s a couple of excellent videos well worth watching about Ukraine. A horrible war which has destroyed Ukraine, done great damage to America and the West, destabilized the whole world and was totally unnecessary. Just caused by our deranged, globalist, Woke, white leftist ruling class. Such truly evil pigs they are.
Ukraine Damaged Kakhovha Dam In Previous Attack; Why NATO Membership Should Be Off The Table. (9 min)
Thank you. My friend was raised in the Jehovah’s Witnesses and had rose to the rank of an elder before walking away. He’s shared insight how similar the whole cancel culture and Covid culture is to religions and the JW’s. You can look up videos on YT yourself via a search for “ex JW’s”.
I had tried to find Putin’s speech condemning Western Woke ideology from 2021 which had been on RT (Russia Today, canceled after the Ukraine invasion) on Google and couldn’t find much. Yesterday I decided to try the new “Bing: Chat with AI & GPT-4” from the App Store. I put in a search for “Putin speech condemning western woke ideology” and came up a link with the text of the speech. Here’s an excerpt from the bing page. Well worth reading.
The Russian leader reserved particular disdain for the sexualisation of children and the presence of radical gender theory in Western education. “There are some monstrous things when from a very young age, you teach to children that the boy can easily become a girl and you impose on them this selection.” He continued: “You push the parents aside and make the child take these decisions that can destroy their lives. And if we call the spade a spade, this is nigh to crime against humanity, and all of that under the banner of progress…”
“Vladimir Putin addresses the decline of western civilization in anti-woke speech.”
Putin highlighted similarities between woke progressives to the Soviet revolutionaries who took over Russia in a speech translated by the Kremlin. Oct 22, 2021
Tucker reports and you/we can decide whether it’s accurate or not. Nothing is blocked and Tucker is not being paid by corporate media. Isn’t that the point.
Scripture talks about the 'powers and authorities’, which are demonic, outside of God’s Kingdom. So, if there are things visiting us, which I highly doubt, they are not for our good. Personally, I think it is pure propaganda… ‘bright and shiny distraction’ from what the UN and the WHO intend for us.
Putin clearly and intelligently explains why he promotes Christianity in Russia. In 2020 he asked the Financial Times’s Lionel Barber: “Have we forgotten that all of us live in world based on Biblical values? Even atheists and everyone else live in this world. We do not have to think about this every day, attend church and pray, thereby showing that we are devout Christians or Muslims or Jews. However, deep inside, there must be some fundamental human rules and moral values. In this sense, traditional values are more stable and more important for millions of people than this liberal idea, which, in my opinion, is really ceasing to exist.”
“Putin has rejected the cultural and irreligious shifts in Western political practice—as have Xi and Jarosław Kaczyński, the chairman of the ruling Law and Justice Party in Poland, who espouses a highly conservative version of Catholicism. Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, meanwhile, has argued that Christian Democracy itself should become illiberal, specifically by protecting Europe from mass Muslim immigration. The European elite, he says, promotes multiculturalism and an era in which nations simply disappear.”
The Russians suffered under the atheist communists for a very long time. They had been a religious country previously. When the U.S.S.R. finally fell, the news media here showed the people walking in huge processions in the streets, behind Orthodox priests carrying crosses.
So good go have Tucker again speaking some truths and doing exactly what journalists are supposed to do in the world! Wish he would post his messages on other social media channels (ie Truth social) so I don’t have to sign up for Twitter again. Left years ago when I saw they were censoring people...jury is still out on Musk. Rock on Tucker and everyone share his messages so his reach is farther and and wider that ever on Fox.
I support Donald Trump for president. I did want to know if you were right, and found that Griffin donated $5 million to the DeSantis campaign, second to Robert Bigelow who donated twice that.
Even so, neither donor can be considered “primary” since there are so many other big-dollar contributors to his effort.
Should Ron DeSantis manage to secure the nomination, I suspect Griffin will be sorely disappointed in the outcome. DeSantis is to the political right of Donald Trump.
I’d suggest that it is possible that neither of them will be the nominee, as Tim Scott may prove to be a formidable candidate.
At this point it wouldn't surprise me if the republican party rigged the primaries against Trump as they hate him for doing what they actually campaigned on and then didn't do for 35 years.
I like DeSantis for what he has done in Florida, but his globalist donors make me more nervous than anything. The other thing about him that makes me nervous is he has absolutely no private sector experience, Trump and Ramaswamy do.
Trump is too old and too hated by too many to govern but could anyone actually govern a country that has already ceased to exist as a country internally? I greatly admire Vivek but the democrats will just say he’s the brown face of white supremacy and can’t be trusted. This is an impossible situation. The philosopher Kant said “Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.” That sure is the truth. I believe the only thing that can save humanity from self destruction is AI. We sure can’t save ourselves. Hope springs eternal.
Perhaps you are right... I have countless democrat friends, mostly women, who now heartily support Trump as they remember how good of a job he did compared to today.
It wouldn’t surprise me either. The DNC isn’t alone in its underhanded dealings, they just have a lot more experience.
The private sector busily buys our representation in the halls of Congress, daily. One thing that sets DeSantis apart, is his military experience. If DJT hadn’t been Commander in Chief already I’d say he has none. Ramaswamy, everything but: “He also spent his time playing the piano for Alzheimer's patients.”
Not arguing with you, brother just expressing my thoughts... DeSantis was a Navy JAG lawyer without any command experience. One thing I always long for guys like Trump is they use economic leverage to tame the world's jackals rather than sending our guys downrange for 20 year wars we don't win. Trump came in and UNLEASHED American fossil fuel development and kept the price of oil low which shut down Iran and Russia as oil is their only economy. We were energy independent for the first time in my 54 years and the world was stable... At least everywhere but D.C. :-D
Within five minutes, Carlson told us that "fair" people will think that Ukraine "probably" blew up the dam. No facts or evidence, of course. Evidence is for suckers.
Take away what's non factual from Tucker's discourse, and what's left boils down to nearly nothing. A reformed leftist might find it "hard hitting" or somehow compelling. An unreformed nonleftist sighs grimly, knowing a non sequitur when he sees one, and also knowing that Carlson's old network, whose former top talent has changed showcases, deserves its ill repute.
Ok….. Russia, Russia, Russia was a total fabrication of the Clinton campaign , complete with Arkancide. So was Hunter Biden’s laptop computer from hell.
As Ricky Ricardo used to say…. “You got some splainin to do”….
Are UFOs real? If so, what can we do about it? The laws of physics (AKA "The Science") tell us that any ETs zipping around in our atmosphere have taken hundreds, if not thousands, of years to arrive here. What are their orders? The people who drafted them are long dead, or something. Maybe they lost an election. However old the universe is, projects that take thousands of years to accomplish aren't likely to be priorities for even super-advanced societies. Like most science-fiction, the point of the whole thing is usually to hold Homo sapiens up as a sorry specimen of life. For people who have a problem with the world as it is, the arrival of space-aliens is the solution to the problem of human imperfections. Doork pulls out a ray gun and -- "Zzzzzz" -- everybody's perfect, if sorta zombie-like. Trouble can arise when these perfectionists get together, because they all have their own ideas about what, exactly, are mankind's major flaws. This is why utopias never work out, although Leftists can try to completely re-engineer people totally. This is why only Leftists create totalitarian regimes -- they need to rebuild people from the ground up,. attending to even the most minor glitches in thought and behavior. Right-wing dictatorships accept humans as they are and are satisfied with controlling behaviors that might threaten their rule. Hence the old aphorism: the Left politicizes everything (totalitarian); the Right wing abolishes politics (authoritarian).
When I was in college (50 years ago) the distinctions between totalitarian and authoritarian regimes was a primary subject of study. Now, such differences are ignored, and every dictator is totalitarian.
This wipes away the fact that Leftist/totalitarian regimes are much more intolerable than Rightist/authoritarian ones. Makes perfect sense, if you're a Leftist.
Because his Wikipedia entry credits him with originating the expression "My word is my bond", first uttered when he driving his 18-wheeler route to confront Corn Pop about driving drunk and killing Biden's wife, and adding that his son who died in Afghanistan....
"Space," [the Hitchhiker's Guide] says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.
And…. And every individual quark in the universe, and the orbit it travels in, is under the sovereignty of God Almighty. Absolutely everything and everywhere.
A few years ago I read that “astronomers now believe there are 2 trillion galaxies in the universe, up to 20 times more than previously believed.” But perhaps this vastness is only possible because it really doesn’t exist at all in the usual sense of things being “solid” and “real” and is really only a dream being created in this moment by the mind of God. I’m not saying this is the absolute truth of our existence. It just seems to be a fascinating blend of religion and science which could be true or at least as far as we can go to find truth.
“Deep down inside of everything around us we found a universe completely unlike our own. To paraphrase one of the founders of quantum mechanics, everything we call real is made up of things that in themselves cannot be regarded as real.” ( Start to 1 min point in video )
“The Secrets of Quantum Physics ( Full Astrophysics Documentary )
I am currently watching a movie on Amazon Prime…. “The Passage “. From 1979. It is prophetic for 2023 today. When will the Gestapo and SS Deathheads come for us? Who knows? I am old, I wear my trousers rolled
This movie review of “All That Breathes” is about two brothers in Delhi trying to help the birds there survive in the poisonous air. Beautiful film. “We must listen before it’s too late.” I used to work with two Indian Muslims from Gujarat in Chicago. They hated Hindus. Our fallen world is full of evil but we also have many beautiful things so it’s not all bad.
Even if it wasn't the Russians who did it, that it was the nefarious Ukrainians who were responsible, I'm not sure that that even begins to compensate for the fact that Russia has apparently done close to ONE TRILLION dollars worth of bombing damage to the Ukraine.
Maybe a case, at least, of tit for tat, of chickens coming home to roost.
WOW, Tucker is unique in his ability to speak his mind and stand against the "powers that be". Thank God for him, and for you too Sasha. The part about American Ignorance is especially compelling.
No fan here of Biden, certainly not of Hersh and not even of Carlson (the crowd gasps). But I am a fan of the United States. The best I can hope for, if we did it, is plausible deniability and it is there. Hersh guesses too much, and if he’s correct then his expose is traitorous. If he’s incorrect he’s worse, concerned only for his personal notoriety. That makes Carlson dead right. We should assume Ukraine destroyed Nordstream, with by far the most to gain and already at war with Russia.
So did Giuseppe "Joe The Boss" Masseria do this or Salvatore Maranzano? If yyou prefer something a bit more up to date was it Vincent the chin Gigante, or John johnny boy Gotti?
Point being what this is, is 2 rival corrupt gangs fighting each other.
I saw a video of Vivek Ramaswamy recently at a Townhall meeting where he was asked what he would do on his first day as president. He said he would issue an Executive Order banning race based affirmative action. That’s exactly the opposite of what Biden did on his first day in office which was to issue an Executive Order to replace meritocracy wherever it can be found with Equity aka Equal Outcomes.
We’re in a reality war of the Woke vs the nonWoke. Compare a nonWoke public intellectual like Vivek Ramaswamy to a Woke public intellectual like Ibram X. Kendi and the difference is like the difference between day and night or sanity vs insanity yet our ruling class, their media and their many useful idiot followers in the general public prefer Kendi! Watch what Saagar has to say about our ruling class war on merit for the sake of Equity. This is just not working at all.
“Exposed: Med Schools Drop Merit For Racial Admissions.” (6 min)
Did you watch what Saagar had to say about dumbing down medical schools in order to get more black doctors? Have you listened to what Vivek says about how replacing meritocracy with Equity in order to achieve racial equality with blacks will destroy America as a country? I’m retired but worked for many years with mostly immigrants from all over the world in Chicago. Vietnam, Mexico, Assyrians from Iraq, Jews from the Soviet Union, Indian Muslims from Gujarat and many other places. Excellent people with traditional values. I have infinitely more in common with them than with hate whitey Woke white leftists like you. All of these people though are appalled by black behavior and very much feel it’s blacks, not whites, who very much need to change. Never will you read about that in your hate whitey Woke media. No society so devoid of trust and so full of hate can survive as a nation. The obvious reason why America is so rapidly unraveling externally is because it no longer exists as a country internally. Does the world know this? Sure they do. They see it all happening online just as easily as we do. No doubt the disastrous failure of the American experiment has already drastically altered the course of world history. Certainly a very unfortunate development for us all.
“Our condition is forever precarious; even basic human decency can shatter and vanish in an instant.”
“Maoism had unique traits but Leys nonetheless always saw it as a member of what he called the “great totalitarian family”—ideologies produced by patterns of thought found across human societies, from tiny shipwrecked pre-Enlightenment microcosms to vast 20th century nations.”
“History does not repeat itself, but ideas do.”
“Analyst of Totalitarianism-Reading Simon Leys Today.”
Sailed past her like water off a duck’s back as always with these people. She seems to have no idea who Vivek and Saagar are but considers the racist fool Kendi someone who “writes at a high intellectual level.” Truly bizarre. Glenn Loury sums up Kendi quite well. Birtha probably also considers Robin DiAngelo an intellectual. We truly do exist in entirely different realities yet people like this rule us. This is an impossible situation. A totally unworkable society. And Putin and many others are quite aware that our ruling class is insane.
I watched all the horrible news Tucker reported with a sigh of relief knowing I can trust the source. Refreshing to say the least! Beyond glad he's back:)
I don’t trust Tucker on his assertion that we should assume Ukraine blew up Nordstream. The evidence says otherwise
There is an article out today that Ukraine was behind it.
Yes, there is that story. Sam would you mind posting the source of that story?
I see stuff on MSM all the time that isn’t accurate but does support a narrative.
I think it important we don’t swallow everything we are told by MSM. At least that is my takeaway after Covid.
For me, Tucker undercut his piece today by telling me to assume Ukraine blew up Nordstream. Usually I’m nodding my head in agreement w/ him. That statement he made though, made me pause
I haven't listened to Tucker's piece but article referencing it were that he was talking about a dam. The piece that appeared today was in the New York Post and referenced an article in the Washington Post using info from an intelligence report posted by the dumb-ass Air Guard intelligence specialist. You mentioned Seymour Hersh's piece, which I read. However, it must be remembered that Hersh has some up with pretty outlandish claims in recent years which may or may not be true.
Yes, the thrust of Tucker piece was the dam blow up. He linked it to Nordstream to bolster his connection and I thought that was incorrect and lazy. I guess I’m expecting more from him now that he is untethered from Fox. Guess we need to wait and see where he moors next…
I don't think it's crazy at all to think they did it. They are attacking Moscow already, they're clearly willing to do just about anything.
If they did, they had to use our equipment and probably manpower. That pipeline attack was not the Boris and Natasha type of operation Ukraine might be able to pull off without help. It would be just like the criminals running our government to blame it on Ukraine in exchange for allowing them to use our support to attack Russia. Whatever the truth, we are heading for war with Russia and Ukraine is being leveled and depopulated in the process.
I don't think enough is known about the pipeline to pass judgement. Information is classified for a reason.
I didn’t believe anything they said yesterday. I am convinced I should not believe what they are saying today. They are like a weathercock constantly rotating under the wind from the WH.
What a fun analogy LOL.
In science, engineering, and geopolitics, we often do not get direct evidence of anything. The systems are set up to avoid the proverbial “smoking gun” at all costs.
Yes, the preponderance of evidence shows that it was Ukraine behind the terrorist act of blowing up the Nordstream pipeline; but ultimately, it was us, the USA that gave the order and made the act possible.
...or is anyone still believing that Hunter Biden’s laptop was never verified and part of a Russian disinformation campaign??
If the US gave the order, it would be an act of war and Russia would be justified to launch missiles at any target in the United States it should so choose. I doubt the US actually gave any order, they don't work that way. What probably happened is that the US didn't tell them not to do it. It's called Plausible Deniability and is a byword in government, especially when related to clandestine military matters.
I agree with most of what you said here except I believe the USA did give the order. We also facilitated the terrorist act with training, equipment and most likely, personnel ...as Ukraine lacks the capability to hit an undersea pipeline at that depth and that accurately without our systems and other deep sea marine navigation and targeting systems.
Probably akin to leaving a loaded gun and instructions on a table in a room full of terrorists and walking out of the room.
Eric, you're speculating about Ukraine's capabilities. The articles claim Ukrainian special ops people planned to rent a boat then dive down and set charges, which is not exactly complicated. Diving only goes back to the early Twentieth Century using helmets. Also, Ukraine was a major contributor to the Soviet military and when the USSR fell apart, they took equipment and knowledge with them. The United States is hardly the only country with special ops personnel. North Vietnam's special ops capabilities possibly exceeded ours. North Vietnamese special ops people scaled a large karst tower in Laos and took out a radar site. US and civilian contractors thought it was impregnable. Special ops "sappers" swam across a lagoon to hit the Air Force base at Cam Rhan Bay, then on another occasion they blew up the ammunition dump. Ukraine no doubt has the capability, and they had the impetus to sabotage it. Yes, the US has been pontificating about the pipeline going back to Trump but pontificating and doing something are not the same. The US does want to sell gas in Europe but there are no Transatlantic pipelines and gas has to be transported across the Pond by ship. There is gas an oil in the North Sea but the largest reserves in the world are - guess where. That's right, Russia.
Everything I’ve read from actual investigative journalist indicates we blew it up. So does my understanding of Scuba.
NCmom, trust your instincts and all available evidence.
NCmom, how technical is a dive to approximately 300 feet? Honest question from someone that wants to know. Thanks.
I don't know - Seymour Hersh laid out a pretty convincing case for the US/Ukraine doing the deed. And with fanatics like Nuland, Sullivan and Biden's other handlers, I'd bet my life they were involved.
The Seymour Hersh piece had just one anonymous source, but notwithstanding the lack of hard evidence, at least it's credible to believe that US did it. It's much harder to believe that the Ukrainians had the means to do it undetected by the entire world.
Carlson, on the other hand, tells us that it's "obvious" to your "average yak herder" ...after railing about tautological arguments. In his media kingdom, facts aren't exactly coin of the realm.
Actually ALL the evidence points to Ukraine and the USA behind this terrorist act.
But that is irrelevant. You are allowed to distrust Tucker and he is now allowed to say it with impunity. That is how it is supposed to be.
I’m not sure it’s irrelevant. If the USA did the Nordstream deed it’s an act of war. I’m thinking of our history, (littered?) with these kind of events, and bloodshed flowing thereafter. Two that spring to mind are sinking of the USS Maine (Havana Harbor 1898, Spanish-American war resulting) and the Gulf of Tonkin Incident/Resolution (1964, paving way for US regular troop deployment to Vietnam)
Yes…eyes wide open I see!
I meant that whether one trusts that Tucker is telling the truth or not is irrelevant.
So if Russia nukes the USA because from their perspective, we are at war with them and we are much bigger and more formidable an enemy; therefore, asymetric warfare tactics must be used to stop us from destroying their country…would you be surprised?? Would they have a point? Or did Ukraine not just attack Moscow with American drones and did not a high ranking government official in the USA just say on television that killing Russians was “the best money we ever spent.” ???
Or would we say, like we always do, “that it was a dastardly evil unprovoked attack, and they must be annihilated!”
Joe Biden blew up the pipeline according to Seymore Hersh. And no other accounts fit together as completely
Respectfully, both sides are corrupt governments and we don't know half of what is really going on other than our corrupt UniParty is sending billions of your tax dollars to fund both the destruction and rebuilding of Ukraine.
Anyone seen a cellphone video of anything Ukraine lately? Didn't think so. Corrupt. All of it(not the people at the ground level).
Why not? I have thought this was true when it happened. It is totally obvious. Perhaps Biden bribed Zelensky to do it so that the US had “plausible deniability “. Zelenski is the most corrupt politician in Europe. You are paying for his Dacha now.
Hey Tom, read at least Jordan’s substack post today for why not. Then read Seymour’s for why likely the USA did it (Nordstream, not the dam).
Tucker in that video said we should assume Ukraine did it. Why? Perhaps because it ‘links’ to the dam. I lean right but I also have a critical thinking cap on and call bull on that. We should not assume Ukraine did it in face of reality evidence
Nope. Russia clearly wouldn’t do it. It would cut off their money supply.
The communists ruling the USA Today might wish to do it, to kill millions of Americans with starvation and death for “climate change.” The near future possibility of an “American Holomodor “ a real one.
But… always follow Occam’s Razor 🪒, the easiest explanation is usually the correct one. So, can you imagine Biden giving Zelensky $100 billion US dollars and then peeling off a few million for Zelensky and Hunter Biden? And maybe also the Light in the Loafers “single Senator” from South Carolina? No children?
We report, you decide.
Ok, give me the url. Thank you. Jordan who?
Here it is Tom
https://open.substack.com/pub/dossier/p/mission-impossible-ukrainian-navy?r=1dig2i&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Tom, you can also listen to Biden forecast in his own words, before it occurred:
https://youtube.com/shorts/FVbEoZXhCrM?feature=share
Too late. The cat is out of the bag. Russia didn’t think it was a good idea to blow up their own pipeline-money source. Guess it wasn’t in the Law of War manual.
I heard it differently. I think he is referring to the dam when he makes that comment. But I admit that discussing the pipeline in the same breath is problematic, confusing and poorly written.
The complexity of the pipeline job was off the chart, as Sy Hersh laid out. IMO there is no way that happens without the US knowledge and involvement. That area was awash in US naval vessels at the time. At best the US let it happen. At worst (and I think most likely) is that the US ran the operation all the while having Ukraine as the available scapegoat if need be.
SpandX, go to 1:10 in Tucker video drop today and you will hear Tucker state we should assume Ukraine was behind the Nordstream blow up (linking it to assertion that dam was also blown by Ukraine)
I’m against this war. But no reason to state bullshit like this to buttress the position. I like Tucker, but I’m also not his sheep
My point is that it is not one or the other. It’s both. Ukraine with the US did it. After all, US provided weaponry is what is killing Russians, right? What’s the difference? Was Zalinski the one who pushed the red button to detonate the C4 that the US attached to the pipeline? That’s my point. A conventional proxy war to hopefully avoid a nuclear war. Corruption is the reason and it points back to Biden.
You make a fair point. My initial thinking is that our government makes a big show/public production of sending guns/butter to Ukraine. But on the natural gas pipeline blow up, the same government doesn’t take the same responsibility. Why is that? I think it’s because it would be ‘too direct’ US intervention and international condemnation would result. And if international heat rose too much, USA would be viewed as the ‘bad guy’ and then the war would be seen as unjust and growing calls for it to cease. Stopping war = stopping neocon and Military Industrial Complex.
So, that is the difference in my current thinking.
I’d suggest this proxy war should end or risk of tactical nukes grows. The dam bust today under proxy war, may be putting a nuclear power plant under stress in the medium to long term if they can’t keep the reactors cool (those reactors historically used that man made lake water for cooling, but that H2O now gone…
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/06/1180581889/the-burst-dam-in-ukraine-is-causing-problems-for-the-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-power-
I like Daniel Davis (former LT. Colonel, US Army) suggestion/argument for an ‘armed neutrality’ to stop the killing, published a few days ago:
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2023/06/nato-membership-for-ukraine-is-a-mistake-armed-neutrality-is-the-answer/
And if someone brings evidence he is wrong he’ll admit it openly as he has shown us over time.
No kidding. News has been incomplete since Tucka has been off the air. It is truly refreshing to see FOX lose 67% of their viewers.
Space aliens 👽. Really? That was click bait.
Yea, turned me off.
Tucker is talking about this story that came out 2 days ago. A whistleblower testified that US intel has craft of non human origin:
https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/
Isn’t it strange that in 2023 this is still news, 76 years after the Roswell incident.
I’m an old man and that’s longer than I’ve been alive.
This might be something to divert our eyes from other things. There are a host of reasons why this alien craft story is garbage, including the fact that whistleblower has never laid eyes on said craft, and all his sources are anonymous
Might be helpful to read the fox story.
“His assertion concerning the existence of a terrestrial arms race occurring sub-rosa over the past eighty years focused on reverse engineering technologies of unknown origin is fundamentally correct, as is the indisputable realization that at least some of these technologies of unknown origin derive from non-human intelligence," Karl Nell, a retired Army Colonel who worked with Grusch on the UAP Task Force, told The Debrief.
“ Per protocol, Grusch notified the Department of Defense of the information he intended to disclose to The Debrief, and the Pentagon cleared those intended on-the-record-statements for open publication in April – just days before Grusch left the government.”
“ David Charles Grusch, a 36-year-old decorated former combat officer in Afghanistan, served the National Reconnaissance Office, acting as their representative to Congress’ Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force from 2019-2021. At the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, he also served from late 2021 to July 2022 as co-lead of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) analysis and its representative to the task force, which was recently renamed the All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/military-whistleblower-public-claims-us-secret-ufo-retrieval-program-terrestrial-arms-race
The Ukrainians didn’t do Nordstream 2-Joe Biden did. See Sy Hersh’s account for the truth.
Yeeee Ha - Tucker's Back! 🇺🇸👍🏼👏🏼
Thx Sasha:)
Thank you very much Sasha for this message ❤️
As Rod Dreyer says in his book “Live Not by Lies”. So did Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Incredible book.
Here he is on Twitter, for those who don't want to feed the YouTube/Google censorship beast with their clicks:
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1666203439146172419
Elon is still questionable, censoring lots of things for no clear reason, but way better than Google.
Of course. Use your brain. When he falls out, then dump it. We can not divine the future.
That would be called sorcery, a big no no for Christians like me.
When I last checked at around 10:30 pm, he had almost 30,000,000 views. I'll bet there's a bunch of executives over at Fox that suddenly had the trots and were running like mad for the toilets...
Tucker did not mention that Ukrainians are dying, only Russians. I am not a fan of Ukraine, being a child of Holocaust survivors and having lost tens of relatives in Ukraine during WWII, most likely at the hands of Ukrainian police. But I am tired of everyone seeing this conflict in black and white. Yesterday Ukrainians were heroes, and everyone was waiving blue/yellow flags. Today they are all of a sudden corrupt and wear nazi insignia. Oh, and surprise - they blew up Nord Stream. Things are complex. History is complicated. One thing is clear: it is Putin who is now bombing innocent people, which btw includes Jewish people residing in Ukraine. I saw pics of destroyed Mariupol synagogue and Jewish cemetery. Maybe some of the Ukrainians are still antisemitic. Many are probably corrupt. But we clearly see who is behaving like a nazi and who is the aggressor, don't we? It is frustrating that the people cannot raise above the propaganda and look facts in the face. A little study of history also won't hurt. Simplifying the situation and painting one side as villains and another as saints, whatever we feel today, may lead to a dangerous outcome.
You make good points about how it’s a complicated matter and we should be open to understanding Ukraine’s plight but you then don’t make any arguments about what reasonable concerns Russia has. For example, among other things they probably are concerned about Ukraine deploying more missiles that can hit Moscow in a few minutes, a new NATO enemy on their border, a US proxy war (which it has become thanks to neocons), a history of Nazi aggressions against from Ukraine, a penis piano playing comedian Ukraine president (look it up if you haven’t seen it). Russia has a lot of reasonable arguments for war with Ukraine and as a US military veteran, I am sick and tired of people who never served in the military lobbying for more endless wars for us to send our young men to get killed and our tax billions to be wasted on a corrupt Ukraine.
Libertarian, I would not take Putin’s concerns at having NATO at their borders at its face value. After the WWII, USSR occupied and kept half of Europe under its boot using the same pretext - to protect their borders. If they have a chance, they will return to the same world order with Eastern Europe under their control or possibly more than just Eastern Europe.
I am very much against any wars and value human life more than anything else. Therefore, I do not quite understand when you say “Russia has a lot of reasonable arguments for war with Ukraine”. What reasonable arguments can a country have to cross a border of a sovereign neighbor and to bomb their cities until they are turned into ruins and people are killed or maimed? I have no illusions about Ukraine. But there are nazis, granted small groups of them, in many countries, many countries have antisemitism, and so many countries around the world are corrupt, possibly including ours. Should we start bombing them indiscriminately?
How much the US should get involved in this conflict is a difficult question. All I can say is that as a native Russian speaker, I am able to watch and read Russian news and propaganda, and what I see and hear is terrifying in their expansionist ambitions and their hatred not just for Ukraine but for the rest of the world. We should be careful and not underestimate these intentions. We should not ignore them but by no means should we provoke them.
I am disgusted by the unbalanced impulsive politics of the WH regarding our involvement, especially secrecy and lies they subject the American people to.
There is really no simple answer. We do need experienced and smart politicians and diplomats at the helm in these dangerous times. Alas, we have none.
Good points and I will look more into the mess that it is. Thank-you.
Two videos about Ukraine I’m sure you’d like.
Ukraine Damaged Kakhovha Dam In Previous Attack; Why NATO Membership Should Be Off The Table. (9 min)
The Hill. Rising. Jun 8, 2023
https://youtu.be/ldS6fIrv4Wk
“John Mearsheimer Talks War In Ukraine and How and How It All Ends.” (32 min)
Kim Iversen. Jun 7, 2023
https://youtu.be/vJD4ub85-so
Crimea is a Russian province and always will be. Why not cede Crimea? Europeans already fought war over that in the very first modern war. The Crimean War. Russia demands a port for its navy. Ukraine wishes for a port to ship wheat out. Simple solution, right in front of everyone’s faces in there somewhere. Except for the extreme corruption of Zelenski. He is rolling in the money now. So is Hunter Biden. Can we please now, just stop the stupid now?
Make a Treaty.
Peace peace, peace…..
I think Tucker is WRONG when he says we should assume Ukraine blew up Nordstream pipeline, like they very likely did for the dam.
Seymour Hersh makes a strong case for why the USA likely did it in Feb ‘22 (and The NY Times would not print this):
https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream
And Jordan’s Schachtal Dossier, just posts on his substack today, just how improbable it would be for Ukraine to pull of Nordstream (they would have to travel over 10K mikes by sea undetected to do it, check out the map!):
https://open.substack.com/pub/dossier/p/mission-impossible-ukrainian-navy?r=1dig2i&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Ukraine very well have blew up the dam today, w/ impact to Crimea. But Ukraine ALSO blowing up Nordstream. I don’t buy that, at all, and Tucker shouldn’t take MSM word for it that Ukraine did that and parrot it. On that point I think Tucker has it incorrect.
“We will bring an end to it. I promise you.”
Joe Biden. Feb 7, 2022
Yup. Tucker undercut himself today by co-mingling today’s dam blow up with Nordstream pipeline blow up
Yeah I don’t know why Tucker said that “it’s now known that Ukraine blew up Nordstream.” It’s been well documented that Biden & co. ordered its destruction. Tucker lost some credibility with that take IMO.
Give it up Matt. Ukraine is not now,,nor has it ever been in our entire history over the last 400 years, been one jot nor tittle or our business. Ukraine is their own thing. Absolutely none of our business. Angela Merkel started this “war of the solar panels” with her corrupt and stupid stance on fake global warming hysteria. Someone shove an M4 in her arms and force her to fight the Bear 🐻 in Russia.
This is precisely why no woman should ever lead a nation nor control their their military. Ever at all. They will always cave in to the strong man, who will rape her. And then you and your wife and your children. No woman is qualified to lead any army on earth.
“This is precisely why no woman should ever lead a nation nor control their their military.” I think Tulsi could do a fine job of leading the nation and the military. She’d be infinitely better at it than the democrats or many of the worthless republicans like Linsey Graham who has this macho attitude that Putin is a punk and he ain’t gonna back down from a punk coward like that. Putin is far from a punk coward though. He was a KGB officer who’s spent years running an extremely dangerous country that has always lived under dictatorship. I think he’s intelligent, committed to Russia and has an excellent understanding of human nature.
I agree with everything you say here. The media have been trying to portray Putin as deteriorating, mentally or something. They should talk! Putin had Trump eating out of his hand. I think Trump's gullibility is a flaw in his personality anyway, but Putin played him very successfully.
But then it was Trump who started to arm Ukraine in 2017. Obama refused to do that and wanted to stay out of that mess. He was right.
Which one do you think is right? Obama?
I wanted to stay out of it also. Pretty much every foreign war we have stuck our noses into, we have lost. Obviously, the plight of the Ukrainian people has been horrible to witness, and it is a strain to turn away from them. But the way the leftists here have wanted to escalate this war is appalling! I suspect that some of that is due to the fact that they are too young to remember Viet Nam and all the wars thereafter.
Obama was right. Obama is evil but was right about that.
Nonsense. God Almighty gave all women a great huge lump of compassion. They can never kill the bad guys. Men were designed to do that and it comes naturally to them to enter warfare. Ever watch little boys? The first thing they do is make their fingers up into guns and get to it.
I am pleased as punch that men and women are different. Vive la difference ❤️
We both need each other intensely to survive and thrive and love other folks.
Tulsi hates war and killing. She’s seen it first hand and hates it.
It's true that women don't tend to kill people they don't know. Some of them kill their own kids, and I am not referring to abortions. There is evidence, however, that most humans have serious inhibitions about killing people, including in battle. There is a book by Dave Grossman, "On Killing," that goes deeply into this subject. According to Grossman, the DOD worked very intensely on training strategies that would overcome the inhibition against killing, and they mastered it during the Vietnam War. I think he said they used game-like electronic simulations, but I don't remember that part very well.
I recall army boot camp late 1990 and the bayonet course dummies all had Middle East rags (gutra’s) on their heads. That was to dehumize our future enemy we were to face, in the Gulf. That course for men and women recruits both. The DOD knows what’s up
I dropped out of high school in Chicago when I was 16, joined the Marines when I was 17, turned 18 in boot camp in San Diego, and in 1969 when I was 19, got orders for the ground forces of the 3rd Marine Division in Vietnam. On the way there we stopped in Okinawa for refueling. They happened to need replacements so they took my whole company off the plane changed our orders and made that our home base. From there we were sent to various other places like the Philippines and Japan for training but not Vietnam. Fate was kind to me. Many who went never came back and many who came back were too injured to ever again have a normal life.
We never had any kind of training to overcome resistance to killing though. They used to tell us we shouldn’t be willing to die for our country. We should make the other guy die for his country. In WW11 German and Japanese soldiers took great delight in killing. Simone Weil went to Spain in the thirties to fight for the left and was appalled by how much they enjoyed the killing. Simone Weil is one of my favorite mystics. I learned a lot from her about the nature of reality.
“Freedom and God are objects of faith, not of knowledge; in other words, freedom and God are infinite abysses whose bottoms cannot be sounded by knowledge.”
Simone Weil. 1909-1943
Thank-you for your service, Seva. 4 of my brothers and I also served active duty military. Every week I visit my brother who was wounded in Vietnam. I find your comments insightful and am impressed with how well read you are. Please do keep commenting because I think many of us learn from you.
Thank you for your interesting post, Seva, and for your service! I doubt that you got much appreciation for it at the time.
My college BF dropped out of school in October, 1967, was drafted the next month on 1A-O status, and served as a hospital medic at Bien Hoa. He did receive basic weapons training but was not armed during his tour of duty.
I wish I still had my copy of Grossman's book but I gave it away. I remember that Grossman said that the U.S. has data going back to the Civil War that documents this inhibition around killing enemy combatants. He said that something like 25% of the soldiers failed to fire their weapons even when fired upon during some combat situations. During the Vietnam War, he said, the inhibition was mostly eliminated.
The other source of information I have on this subject comes from a psychologist named John Briere, who is an internationally prominent trauma expert. He is from my and your generation. He said he worked on a project for the DOD in which Special Forces soldiers were put through desensitization training that involved intensive exposure to images of mortal injuries that were taken from actual wartime photos and films. Briere said this process was effective in reducing soldiers' reluctance to take actions that could or did result in similarly gory and deadly outcomes.
As you no doubt know, the question comes up after every mass murder by a disturbed young man or teenager as to whether his involvement in violent video games played a role in a similar kind of desensitization. This is another one of those questions that has become politicized for various reasons, and there never seems to be a clear answer to it. There also has been speculation about the contribution of video game practice to accuracy with real firearms. After the Springfield, Oregon shooting in 1998 by Kip Kinkel, law enforcement drew attention to this kid's high level of accuracy, and it was reported that he had acquired it through practice with video games.
Tom, I think you are misinterpreting me. I’m totally against the war in Ukraine and I think the USA brought in on/provoked Russia by supporting pro west Ukraine coup in 2014 and then pushing NATO right up to Russia border. I think it’s long term instability for the world to also have Finland (formerly neutral) now a NATO state.
I’m commenting on who blew up Nordstream, and I think evidence points to USA. Tucker in his piece said I should assume it’s Ukraine. Maybe I’m splitting hairs.
Me too. I think it is insane to give one nickel or one round of ammunition to Ukraine.
What about the dozens of biological weapons labs in Ukraine that the US government uses to invent new ways to exterminate their own American population?
And today, this very day, photos are being released showing the Nazi symbols on Ukrainian uniforms. The Nazi Azov Brigades. Hello Jewish folks…. Does this mean anything to you at all that your taxpayer dollars are being used to outfit real live Nazis with armaments and ammunition?
Well… bust my britches..even a stupid hillbilly could get that.
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I’ve never seen anyone else express that belief about women and leadership, likely because it isn’t safe to do it. I didn’t call it a sentiment because I don’t think it qualifies as one. You could be wrong. In my experience, some women never cave no matter the cost or even if proven wrong. They can be at least as vicious as any man I’ve ever met. Killing? Hah. Men certainly don’t have the edge there. That said I feel the same way, but it isn’t an issue of mental or emotional weakness. It’s an issue of stability, the typifying inability to compromise and the accompanying lack of ability to control emotion. If it disagrees, kill it.
Lindsay Grahamnesty: "Best money we ever spent." Pathetic. Nikki Haley. Embarrassing.
The democrats are fighting a two front war: Internally they’re turning America’s War Machine on Trump and supporters. Externally on Putin and Russia. They want Putin dead, the Russian people ground into the dirt and their LGBTQIA+ Pride flag of their Woke faith to fly over the ruins of the Kremlin. Last year there was a video on RT (Russia Today) of Putin condemning Western Wokeness which he called “a crime against humanity,” said that Russia spent many years consumed by such madness and basically said “Been there. Done that. No thanks.” Why is Putin so intensely hated by our ruling class? For the same reason Trump is. He doesn’t belong to their anti-white, anti-Christian, globalist, Woke white leftist WEF that wants global dominance.
Can you share the link to the Russia Today video?
I wish I still had it. It was superb, extremely damning. I am quite certain the Woke democrats hated him more than ever after he so publicly insulted their Woke faith and in particular condemned the LGBTQIA+ ideology promoted to school children. It was on YouTube though and they canceled RT after Putin invaded which deleted all their videos which was a shame because it was a really good site. The closest I could find to it was this Sky News Australia video where they showed a clip from it. You can even see from this short segment though how truthful and damning it was.
“Putin is right in claiming the West is destroying itself through Woke politics.” (8 min)
Sky News Australia. Nov 2, 2021
https://youtu.be/nRFkbZE7OjQ
Some months ago, I saw a short video of Putin stating his perspective on the woke crap, and I told some of my friends how impressed I was by Putin's insight into the woke as well as his own sense of stable conservative values. I think it was in the World Spectator, or the UnHerd. If I find it, I'll post it.
I like watching Professor Michael Rossi’s (of Rutgers) raw footage of Russia. I’m come to the same conclusion as you. https://youtube.com/@MichaelRossiPoliSci
Here’s a couple of excellent videos well worth watching about Ukraine. A horrible war which has destroyed Ukraine, done great damage to America and the West, destabilized the whole world and was totally unnecessary. Just caused by our deranged, globalist, Woke, white leftist ruling class. Such truly evil pigs they are.
Ukraine Damaged Kakhovha Dam In Previous Attack; Why NATO Membership Should Be Off The Table. (9 min)
The Hill. Rising. Jun 8, 2023
https://youtu.be/ldS6fIrv4Wk
“John Mearsheimer Talks War In Ukraine and How and How It All Ends.” (32 min)
Kim Iversen. Jun 7, 2023
https://youtu.be/vJD4ub85-so
Thank you. My friend was raised in the Jehovah’s Witnesses and had rose to the rank of an elder before walking away. He’s shared insight how similar the whole cancel culture and Covid culture is to religions and the JW’s. You can look up videos on YT yourself via a search for “ex JW’s”.
I had tried to find Putin’s speech condemning Western Woke ideology from 2021 which had been on RT (Russia Today, canceled after the Ukraine invasion) on Google and couldn’t find much. Yesterday I decided to try the new “Bing: Chat with AI & GPT-4” from the App Store. I put in a search for “Putin speech condemning western woke ideology” and came up a link with the text of the speech. Here’s an excerpt from the bing page. Well worth reading.
The Russian leader reserved particular disdain for the sexualisation of children and the presence of radical gender theory in Western education. “There are some monstrous things when from a very young age, you teach to children that the boy can easily become a girl and you impose on them this selection.” He continued: “You push the parents aside and make the child take these decisions that can destroy their lives. And if we call the spade a spade, this is nigh to crime against humanity, and all of that under the banner of progress…”
“Vladimir Putin addresses the decline of western civilization in anti-woke speech.”
Putin highlighted similarities between woke progressives to the Soviet revolutionaries who took over Russia in a speech translated by the Kremlin. Oct 22, 2021
https://www.rebelnews.com/vladimir_putin_addresses_the_decline_of_western_civilization_in_anti_woke_speech
Tucker reports and you/we can decide whether it’s accurate or not. Nothing is blocked and Tucker is not being paid by corporate media. Isn’t that the point.
He says Ukraine blew up the Nordstream pipeline but it was documented by Seymour Hersh that it was Biden who coordinated its destruction...
"How did I get so rich? Shut up and talk about race. Go hate each other!"
Exactly !!!!
Scripture talks about the 'powers and authorities’, which are demonic, outside of God’s Kingdom. So, if there are things visiting us, which I highly doubt, they are not for our good. Personally, I think it is pure propaganda… ‘bright and shiny distraction’ from what the UN and the WHO intend for us.
Putin clearly and intelligently explains why he promotes Christianity in Russia. In 2020 he asked the Financial Times’s Lionel Barber: “Have we forgotten that all of us live in world based on Biblical values? Even atheists and everyone else live in this world. We do not have to think about this every day, attend church and pray, thereby showing that we are devout Christians or Muslims or Jews. However, deep inside, there must be some fundamental human rules and moral values. In this sense, traditional values are more stable and more important for millions of people than this liberal idea, which, in my opinion, is really ceasing to exist.”
“Putin has rejected the cultural and irreligious shifts in Western political practice—as have Xi and Jarosław Kaczyński, the chairman of the ruling Law and Justice Party in Poland, who espouses a highly conservative version of Catholicism. Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, meanwhile, has argued that Christian Democracy itself should become illiberal, specifically by protecting Europe from mass Muslim immigration. The European elite, he says, promotes multiculturalism and an era in which nations simply disappear.”
“The Russia Report”
https://quillette.com/2020/08/12/the-russia-report/
The Russians suffered under the atheist communists for a very long time. They had been a religious country previously. When the U.S.S.R. finally fell, the news media here showed the people walking in huge processions in the streets, behind Orthodox priests carrying crosses.
Russia at least has a historical Christian model to look at. Xi does not.
Guess I need to join twitter! Go Tucker!!
So good go have Tucker again speaking some truths and doing exactly what journalists are supposed to do in the world! Wish he would post his messages on other social media channels (ie Truth social) so I don’t have to sign up for Twitter again. Left years ago when I saw they were censoring people...jury is still out on Musk. Rock on Tucker and everyone share his messages so his reach is farther and and wider that ever on Fox.
Always be aware here that Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch are now partners in backing Mr. DeSantis...
Nothing good can come from that as Ken Griffin of Citadel is the primary funding source for DeSantis. Globalists defined.
I support Donald Trump for president. I did want to know if you were right, and found that Griffin donated $5 million to the DeSantis campaign, second to Robert Bigelow who donated twice that.
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/575979-these-seven-donors-each-gave-ron-desantis-re-election-campaign-more-than-1m/
Even so, neither donor can be considered “primary” since there are so many other big-dollar contributors to his effort.
Should Ron DeSantis manage to secure the nomination, I suspect Griffin will be sorely disappointed in the outcome. DeSantis is to the political right of Donald Trump.
I’d suggest that it is possible that neither of them will be the nominee, as Tim Scott may prove to be a formidable candidate.
At this point it wouldn't surprise me if the republican party rigged the primaries against Trump as they hate him for doing what they actually campaigned on and then didn't do for 35 years.
I like DeSantis for what he has done in Florida, but his globalist donors make me more nervous than anything. The other thing about him that makes me nervous is he has absolutely no private sector experience, Trump and Ramaswamy do.
Trump is too old and too hated by too many to govern but could anyone actually govern a country that has already ceased to exist as a country internally? I greatly admire Vivek but the democrats will just say he’s the brown face of white supremacy and can’t be trusted. This is an impossible situation. The philosopher Kant said “Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.” That sure is the truth. I believe the only thing that can save humanity from self destruction is AI. We sure can’t save ourselves. Hope springs eternal.
Perhaps you are right... I have countless democrat friends, mostly women, who now heartily support Trump as they remember how good of a job he did compared to today.
It wouldn’t surprise me either. The DNC isn’t alone in its underhanded dealings, they just have a lot more experience.
The private sector busily buys our representation in the halls of Congress, daily. One thing that sets DeSantis apart, is his military experience. If DJT hadn’t been Commander in Chief already I’d say he has none. Ramaswamy, everything but: “He also spent his time playing the piano for Alzheimer's patients.”
From an article in Business Insider.
Not arguing with you, brother just expressing my thoughts... DeSantis was a Navy JAG lawyer without any command experience. One thing I always long for guys like Trump is they use economic leverage to tame the world's jackals rather than sending our guys downrange for 20 year wars we don't win. Trump came in and UNLEASHED American fossil fuel development and kept the price of oil low which shut down Iran and Russia as oil is their only economy. We were energy independent for the first time in my 54 years and the world was stable... At least everywhere but D.C. :-D
To understand the deep corruption that is Ukraine and the Deep State… https://twitter.com/thethe1776/status/1628611852606529539?s=61&t=zLNY92SN0IWG_9-Z84dQrg
Within five minutes, Carlson told us that "fair" people will think that Ukraine "probably" blew up the dam. No facts or evidence, of course. Evidence is for suckers.
Take away what's non factual from Tucker's discourse, and what's left boils down to nearly nothing. A reformed leftist might find it "hard hitting" or somehow compelling. An unreformed nonleftist sighs grimly, knowing a non sequitur when he sees one, and also knowing that Carlson's old network, whose former top talent has changed showcases, deserves its ill repute.
It was a 10 minute video. He didn't talk about all the evidence on who blew up Nordstream in his 10 minute video? Wow, that's really egregious!
This from the people who spent 6 YEARS spewing Russia collusion nonsense.
Ok….. Russia, Russia, Russia was a total fabrication of the Clinton campaign , complete with Arkancide. So was Hunter Biden’s laptop computer from hell.
As Ricky Ricardo used to say…. “You got some splainin to do”….
Are UFOs real? If so, what can we do about it? The laws of physics (AKA "The Science") tell us that any ETs zipping around in our atmosphere have taken hundreds, if not thousands, of years to arrive here. What are their orders? The people who drafted them are long dead, or something. Maybe they lost an election. However old the universe is, projects that take thousands of years to accomplish aren't likely to be priorities for even super-advanced societies. Like most science-fiction, the point of the whole thing is usually to hold Homo sapiens up as a sorry specimen of life. For people who have a problem with the world as it is, the arrival of space-aliens is the solution to the problem of human imperfections. Doork pulls out a ray gun and -- "Zzzzzz" -- everybody's perfect, if sorta zombie-like. Trouble can arise when these perfectionists get together, because they all have their own ideas about what, exactly, are mankind's major flaws. This is why utopias never work out, although Leftists can try to completely re-engineer people totally. This is why only Leftists create totalitarian regimes -- they need to rebuild people from the ground up,. attending to even the most minor glitches in thought and behavior. Right-wing dictatorships accept humans as they are and are satisfied with controlling behaviors that might threaten their rule. Hence the old aphorism: the Left politicizes everything (totalitarian); the Right wing abolishes politics (authoritarian).
When I was in college (50 years ago) the distinctions between totalitarian and authoritarian regimes was a primary subject of study. Now, such differences are ignored, and every dictator is totalitarian.
This wipes away the fact that Leftist/totalitarian regimes are much more intolerable than Rightist/authoritarian ones. Makes perfect sense, if you're a Leftist.
Here's an American military man who knows what's going on in Ukraine and isn't afraid to speak about it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4LqXQc_3ic
I say the evil doer is.....the US Govt Swamp Dwellers.
Good luck and God bless you and yours, Sir!
Sy Hersch, famous flake:
https://www.commentary.org/articles/james-kirchick/the-deceits-of-seymour-hersh/
“We will bring an end to it. I promise you.”
Joe Biden. Feb 7, 2022
Ah. Well, if Joe Biden said it, then....
Because his Wikipedia entry credits him with originating the expression "My word is my bond", first uttered when he driving his 18-wheeler route to confront Corn Pop about driving drunk and killing Biden's wife, and adding that his son who died in Afghanistan....
Was Victoria Nuland also lying about it?
“Victoria Nuland, explosion of Nord Stream 2 was the work of the Biden administration.” (4 min)
Tulsi Gabbard on the Biden administration. Feb 1, 2023
https://youtu.be/L9Z6xcN5ZoY
How are papa and son Murdoch? Has anyone checked on them?
6:54 Does ANYONE have a Clue about what it takes for a planet to have/support Higher Life?
Probability Estimate for Attaining the Necessary Characteristics for a Life Support Body
https://reasons.org/explore/publications/articles/probability-for-life-on-earth
1 in 10 to the 282nd power..Against.
To quote Alex C. Kramer / Joan Whitney "Ain't nobody Here But Us Chickens"
This is well worth watching. Eric Weinstein is very intelligent and always worth listening to.
“The Physics of UFOs: Eric Weinstein + Hal Puthoff.” (58 min)
Jesse Michels. Feb 11, 2022
https://youtu.be/iQOibpIDx-4
Thanks.
Setting that aside. the galaxy is BIG.
"Space," [the Hitchhiker's Guide] says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.
And…. And every individual quark in the universe, and the orbit it travels in, is under the sovereignty of God Almighty. Absolutely everything and everywhere.
Because the Bible tells me so ... 🙄
A few years ago I read that “astronomers now believe there are 2 trillion galaxies in the universe, up to 20 times more than previously believed.” But perhaps this vastness is only possible because it really doesn’t exist at all in the usual sense of things being “solid” and “real” and is really only a dream being created in this moment by the mind of God. I’m not saying this is the absolute truth of our existence. It just seems to be a fascinating blend of religion and science which could be true or at least as far as we can go to find truth.
“Deep down inside of everything around us we found a universe completely unlike our own. To paraphrase one of the founders of quantum mechanics, everything we call real is made up of things that in themselves cannot be regarded as real.” ( Start to 1 min point in video )
“The Secrets of Quantum Physics ( Full Astrophysics Documentary )
https://youtu.be/ISdBAf-ysI
And we created more US debt than there are galaxies. Go figure. :D
I am currently watching a movie on Amazon Prime…. “The Passage “. From 1979. It is prophetic for 2023 today. When will the Gestapo and SS Deathheads come for us? Who knows? I am old, I wear my trousers rolled
This movie review of “All That Breathes” is about two brothers in Delhi trying to help the birds there survive in the poisonous air. Beautiful film. “We must listen before it’s too late.” I used to work with two Indian Muslims from Gujarat in Chicago. They hated Hindus. Our fallen world is full of evil but we also have many beautiful things so it’s not all bad.
All That Breathes | Movie Review. (4 min)
Anupama Chopra. May 23, 2022
https://youtu.be/Rf5N1qRHQwY
All that Breathes is perhaps the best documentary film I have seen in the past decade, a precious and pointed experience
Even if it wasn't the Russians who did it, that it was the nefarious Ukrainians who were responsible, I'm not sure that that even begins to compensate for the fact that Russia has apparently done close to ONE TRILLION dollars worth of bombing damage to the Ukraine.
Maybe a case, at least, of tit for tat, of chickens coming home to roost.
Ukraine already lost this war. The US media needs to perpetuate the lies so that donors keep giving them cash money.
Whether they've lost it or will lose it is somewhat beside my point about the devastation and financial ruin that Russia has caused in Ukraine:
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-invasion-ukraine-caused-over-97-bln-damages-report-2022-09-09/
https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2023/03/23/updated-ukraine-recovery-and-reconstruction-needs-assessment
$350 billion 9 months ago, $400 billion according to latest estimates.
Should come out of Putin's hide ...
No, Angela Merkel’s hide. She started this Stupid “war of the solar panels”.
🙄 Exactly who is it that has invaded whom? Which country is it that has caused hundreds of billions of dollars of damage to which other country? 🙄
Nazi Azov Brigade has been shelling Russians in Crimea since 2014.
Shortly after Russia invaded the Crimea? 🤔🙄
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Russian_Federation
Nikki just lost my vote.
Thnak you for posting, for those of us who will never subscribe to Twitter..
WOW, Tucker is unique in his ability to speak his mind and stand against the "powers that be". Thank God for him, and for you too Sasha. The part about American Ignorance is especially compelling.
Loved it, can't wait for more. Bookmarked his page so I can watch on laptop.
No fan here of Biden, certainly not of Hersh and not even of Carlson (the crowd gasps). But I am a fan of the United States. The best I can hope for, if we did it, is plausible deniability and it is there. Hersh guesses too much, and if he’s correct then his expose is traitorous. If he’s incorrect he’s worse, concerned only for his personal notoriety. That makes Carlson dead right. We should assume Ukraine destroyed Nordstream, with by far the most to gain and already at war with Russia.
So did Giuseppe "Joe The Boss" Masseria do this or Salvatore Maranzano? If yyou prefer something a bit more up to date was it Vincent the chin Gigante, or John johnny boy Gotti?
Point being what this is, is 2 rival corrupt gangs fighting each other.
Nope. Uncle Remus did it. He used Brer Rabbit to do the dirty deed.
Thank you. Looking forward to reading it.
I saw a video of Vivek Ramaswamy recently at a Townhall meeting where he was asked what he would do on his first day as president. He said he would issue an Executive Order banning race based affirmative action. That’s exactly the opposite of what Biden did on his first day in office which was to issue an Executive Order to replace meritocracy wherever it can be found with Equity aka Equal Outcomes.
We’re in a reality war of the Woke vs the nonWoke. Compare a nonWoke public intellectual like Vivek Ramaswamy to a Woke public intellectual like Ibram X. Kendi and the difference is like the difference between day and night or sanity vs insanity yet our ruling class, their media and their many useful idiot followers in the general public prefer Kendi! Watch what Saagar has to say about our ruling class war on merit for the sake of Equity. This is just not working at all.
“Exposed: Med Schools Drop Merit For Racial Admissions.” (6 min)
Breaking Points. Saagar Enjeti. Jan 30, 2023
https://youtu.be/xpH6jTMApW4
Did you watch what Saagar had to say about dumbing down medical schools in order to get more black doctors? Have you listened to what Vivek says about how replacing meritocracy with Equity in order to achieve racial equality with blacks will destroy America as a country? I’m retired but worked for many years with mostly immigrants from all over the world in Chicago. Vietnam, Mexico, Assyrians from Iraq, Jews from the Soviet Union, Indian Muslims from Gujarat and many other places. Excellent people with traditional values. I have infinitely more in common with them than with hate whitey Woke white leftists like you. All of these people though are appalled by black behavior and very much feel it’s blacks, not whites, who very much need to change. Never will you read about that in your hate whitey Woke media. No society so devoid of trust and so full of hate can survive as a nation. The obvious reason why America is so rapidly unraveling externally is because it no longer exists as a country internally. Does the world know this? Sure they do. They see it all happening online just as easily as we do. No doubt the disastrous failure of the American experiment has already drastically altered the course of world history. Certainly a very unfortunate development for us all.
“Our condition is forever precarious; even basic human decency can shatter and vanish in an instant.”
“Maoism had unique traits but Leys nonetheless always saw it as a member of what he called the “great totalitarian family”—ideologies produced by patterns of thought found across human societies, from tiny shipwrecked pre-Enlightenment microcosms to vast 20th century nations.”
“History does not repeat itself, but ideas do.”
“Analyst of Totalitarianism-Reading Simon Leys Today.”
https://quillette.com/2020/09/28/analyst-of-totalitarianism-reading-simon-leys-today/
Excellent articulation and insight, Seva. Well done and thank-you.
Sailed past her like water off a duck’s back as always with these people. She seems to have no idea who Vivek and Saagar are but considers the racist fool Kendi someone who “writes at a high intellectual level.” Truly bizarre. Glenn Loury sums up Kendi quite well. Birtha probably also considers Robin DiAngelo an intellectual. We truly do exist in entirely different realities yet people like this rule us. This is an impossible situation. A totally unworkable society. And Putin and many others are quite aware that our ruling class is insane.
“Glenn Loury Destroys Ibram X. Kendi.” (2 min)
Southern Comfort Productions. Nov 15, 2022
https://youtu.be/8qpt6GbPNdc