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2022-06-19 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Retired FSB Col.Igor Girkin: Operational situation at the front.

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Posted by badanov 2022-06-19 04:49|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 I just wanted to add this from my contact in Vietnam. He was involved in security during the war with Vietnam.

Posted by Dale 2022-06-19 10:26|| 2022-06-19 10:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Link to 9 April 2022 Jacques Baud article; 'A NATO expert, denounces western coverage of the Ukraine invasion' from SHEERPOST found here.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-06-19 12:22|| 2022-06-19 12:22|| Front Page Top

#3 The new chief of Britain's Army just told us to get ready for World War III.

Stoltenberg says the war will go on for years.

Perhaps they're just posturing while Macron Scholz and Draghi are secretly passing along the capitulation terms to Zelensky... Stoltenberg a week ago said publicly that there has to be a peace settlement with territorial concessions. So maybe this is just more bullshit from a crew that's spread nothing but lies and nonsense for months.

But it's more likely that demented old Biden actually believes this shit and welcomes a world war. Biden and Raytheon-Austin are escalating the war and destroying the world's economy. These people are fucking insane and need to be overthrown.

Prepare to fight and beat Russia in a Third World War, Britain's top general warns: New UK Army commander tells troops to brace for European land war

Posted by Billy Budd 2022-06-19 12:58|| 2022-06-19 12:58|| Front Page Top

#4 They're lying to us. They're not lying when they talk to Zelensky or Putin. A great political scientist who studied elites' lying found that leaders of democracies are far more likely to lie to their own people than to other leaders. This is because their own people trust them, whereas leaders do not trust each other. Thus they can get away with lying. He cites Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson and Donald Rumsfeld as examples.

Here is a review of "Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics"

Summary
In Why Leaders Lie, Mearsheimer provides the first systematic analysis of lying as a tool of statecraft, identifying the varieties, the reasons, and the potential costs and benefits. Drawing on a trove of examples, he argues that leaders often lie for good strategic reasons, so a blanket condemnation is unrealistic and unwise.

Yet there are other kinds of deception besides lying, including concealment and spinning. Perhaps no distinction is more important than that between lying to another state and lying to one’s own people. Mearsheimer was amazed to discover how unusual interstate lying has been; given the atmosphere of distrust among the great powers, he found that outright deceit is difficult to pull off and thus rarely worth the effort.

Leaders more often mislead their own publics, sometimes with damaging consequences. Though the reasons may be noble–Franklin Roosevelt, for example, lied to the American people about German U-boats attacking the destroyer Greer in 1940, to build a case for war against Hitler--they can easily lead to disaster...

Posted by Akira 2022-06-19 13:17|| 2022-06-19 13:17|| Front Page Top

#5 In Joe Bidet's case, it's much less elaborate. He's the sort of incontinent and indiscriminate liar who will lie even when the truth would actually be more to his advantage.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-19 13:29|| 2022-06-19 13:29|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ Very well said. Biden is a pathological, congenital liar whose lies advance no strategic concept at all.

Posted by Billy Budd 2022-06-19 13:46|| 2022-06-19 13:46|| Front Page Top

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