From Christopher Monckton
[AmericanThinker] The retreat of the United States and her allies before the Chinese-backed Taliban in Afghanistan and the failure of the West’s feeble attempts at diplomacy in the face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine share a sinister aetiology that has attracted remarkably little attention. A relentless, targeted campaign of desinformatsiya — systematic reputational destruction or "unpersoning" by Communist front groups posing as environmental campaign entities but in reality fostered, funded and too often founded by Moscow and Beijing — has all but silenced thousands of skeptical climate researchers who had formerly been able to debate the climate question in the sunlight of the agora, and has deterred tens of thousands more who would have spoken out in their support but dare not do so.
Goebbels had developed unpersoning as an art-form in the decades before the Nazis took power in Germany. Anyone who had proven successful in denouncing Corporal Hitler was compelled to endure repeated reputational assaults, until very nearly all who valued their reputations fell silent, allowing Hitler to assume power in 1933. In 1945, when the Allies hung back from Berlin to allow Marshal Zhukov the honour of taking the capital of the Reich in recognition of his gallant defence of Stalingrad, it was the then MGB that we permitted to march into the Mitte district, the seat of government at the heart of Berlin. In Mauerstrasse, they captured the Reichspropagandaamt, then the largest office building in Europe.
Goebbels, having swallowed his own propaganda about the Tausendjahriges Reich, had ordered his officials not to destroy the Propaganda Ministry’s records. The Royal Air Force had bombed one wing of the giant office block, but nearly all of the records were intact. They fell into the hands of the MGB. Within a month, the MGB — later the KGB — had come to understand the efficacy of unpersoning. At once, they founded the Desinformatsiya directorate. Its chief task was to unperson everyone, anywhere in the world, who had publicly opposed Soviet Communism. RTWT. A billion dollars a day....
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From then on, the Desinformatsiya directorate, joined by its Chinese equivalent, doubled down on unpersoning anyone, anywhere in the West, who had proven successful in publicly opposing the Party Line on global warming. The unelected Kommissars of the European tyranny-by-clerk, easy prey for Communist infiltrators, saw to it that coal-fired power stations with decades of useful life in them were torn down and replaced with combined-cycle turbines powered by Siberian gas, whose unit carbon dioxide emissions per megawatt-hour generated are half those of coal but whose unit cost is twice that of coal.
As competition from coal inexorably diminished, the price of Siberian gas sold to Europe no less inexorably rose. The law of supply and demand is an iron law. It is not up for repeal. Even before the Chinese-virus pandemic, Europe was paying Putin four times the world price for its gas. Now it pays more like eight times the world price; and, on a day in December 2021 when Europe was under a blocking high and the wind did not blow, it rose to 200 times the world price. Putin, on the pretext of addressing an unspecified technical fault in the pipelines but in reality to serve notice on Europe that it was now utterly dependent upon him and him alone to keep the lights on as he prepared to invade Ukraine, had turned the gas off for a few hours. The price had duly and very profitably surged.
Putin has not only succeeded in crippling the Western economies with the global-warming nonsense: he now profiteers directly from our scientifically-illiterate politicians’ economically and strategically half-witted decision to interfere in the energy market by force and remove coal from the energy mix, reducing competition, hiking power prices and rendering Europe and – to a striking degree – the United States dependent upon a hostile foreign power for the preponderance of its energy supply, the lifeblood of its industries. Aluminum smelting, steelmaking, heavy manufacturing and many other energy-intensive enterprises have been driven out to Russia, India and China, which have all repudiated attempts by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to shutter their economies as the West has so eagerly done under the Paris climate accords.
Putin has made a fortune from Siberian gas overpriced as a direct and ineluctable consequence of the Western classe politique’s abject, poltroonish fear of being unpersoned. He has spent it wisely, steadily rebuilding the motherland’s armed forces. He now has five times as many men under arms per head of population, and ten times as many in all, as the United Kingdom, which – under successive, ever-dimmer “Conservative” administrations that ought to have known better – has cut its own armed forces to almost nothing. Putin has 1.4 million men under arms. Only a fifth of them are deployed at the Ukrainian front. He has 15,000 tanks. Britain, laughably, has only 200.
China, like Russia, now profiteers directly by the West’s craven failure to act upon the ancient Roman saw Si vis pacem, para bellum – if you want peace, be ready for war. As invisibly as the Tsar of Some of the Russias and his KGB cronies have rebuilt the Soviet armed forces on the vast profits from Europe’s overpayments for Siberian gas, Xi Jinping, emperor of the Middle Kingdom, has built up Beijing’s armed forces to make them the largest and best-equipped on the planet. He is doing so out of the rapidly growing profits from the sale of lithium carbonate extracted from the vast mines of occupied Tibet by usefully inexpensive slave labor.
[ZERO] One of the oddest commentaries about the Russian invasion of Ukraine is the boilerplate reaction that "borders can’t change in modern Europe" or "this does not happen in the 21st century."
But why in the world should the 21st century be exempt from the pathologies of the past 20 centuries? Are we smarter than the Romans? More innovative than Florentines? Do we have more savvy leaders than Lincoln or Churchill? Are they more mellifluous than Demosthenes? Does anyone now remember that some 130,000 were slaughtered just 30 years ago in the former Yugoslavia, as NATO planes bombed Belgrade and nuclear America and Russia almost squared off?
Has globalization, the "rules-based order," the Davos reset elite, the "international community" so improved the very way humans think that they have rendered obsolete the now ossified ancient idea of deterrence? Will the Kardashians and Beyoncé tweet our pathway to global peace?
How about transnational NGOs? NATO? WHO? The UN? Are all their recent records of service proof of our more exalted modern morality? Will some new engineered Wuhan virus alter human nature, end its innate ancient pathologies, and so eliminate war as we knew it? Are we not the League of Nations because Putin is now chair of the Security Council?
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The world is playing with fire. The end result is uncertain. Like the Cuban missile crisis except the Ukraine fiasco is already hot.
I'd hate to be Biden's speech writer and try to make the State of the Union look good tonight. What kind of crock of shit is he going to try to dish up?
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I'll read the text tomorrow; but I expect the usual word salad of delusions and outright fabrications.
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03/01/2022 12:28 Comments ||
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I'd hate to be Biden's speech writer and try to make the State of the Union look good tonight.
More likely it's a committee and I can just picture them in a conference room all with their laptops and sweating it out. I bet they're still working on it right now. I wouldn't want to be there. But that's why they get paid the big bucks.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
03/01/2022 13:14 Comments ||
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The WH Doctor must be going crazy trying to balance the dosage of the puppet's meds to keep him awake, semi-coherent. I look for a "Bless those little Ukrainian girls who I'm sure smell delightful. Mmmmmmm" moment.
Posted by: Frank G ||
03/01/2022 13:33 Comments ||
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The nihilist Biden decision voluntarily to cancel new pipelines, federal leases, ANWAR, and leverage loss of bank financing for fracking, and to give up well over 2 million barrels of daily production will be seen not just as an economic disaster. It was a strategic catastrophe.
Way, way back in the 1960's I understood that oil is dirty, polluting and bad. But I also understood that if the Soviets had it, we had to have it too. If I could understand that, even as a kid way back then, why can't Joe Biden understand it now?
Oh, I know. It isn't Biden. It's Obama or Soros or the Squad. Whatever. Why don't they understand that with all the threats we face in this world we need energy to successfully confront them? The only conclusion I can reach is that they really are trying to destroy America.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
03/01/2022 14:15 Comments ||
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The only conclusion I can reach is that they really are trying to destroy America.
Watch what the hands are doing, ignore what the Big Mouths are saying.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 ||
03/01/2022 15:27 Comments ||
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For your amusement, dear Reader. You may enjoy it more if you drop down to the bottom of the post to learn who the The Saker is.
[thesaker.is] My dear TV western armchair generals,
Clearly not addressed to me — I’m not even a private.
I get it, I promise. I really do!
Your entire life you have been trained to see a successful military operations like so:
Victory US style!
Begin by bombing the shit of the "hadjis" or "sand n***ers" with bombs and missiles, then flatten their town à la Fallujah, then move in with heavy armor and shoot everything which still moves or breathes. Actually, running armor into a city is what the Russians are doing now. As I recall, the Battle of Fallujah began when Iraqi militia murdered a number of US contractors. US forces had little choice than to clear the town out.
Then distribute chewing-gums to a few kids while on video.
Then take the city center, drop a statue in front your embedded presstitutes, and then declare victory.
Then, after declaring victory, stay another 20 years or so (Blinken was clearly projecting!), ruin it completely, then leave it again and declare another brilliant victory.
And don’t forget to declare urbi at orbi
...urbi et orbi, for those who take their Latin straight, meaning to the city (Rome) and the world. One of the big Catholic prayers...
that you reserve the "right" to bomb the shit out of them anytime you deem it is needed. And fuck their sovereignty or anybody else’s while we are at it! You seem to have the ideation of US air operations as a pilot jumping into a fully loaded out aircraft and bombing the first target they see. That is how the US liberal sees them.
In fact, US air operations are carefully based on intelligence gathered and plans laid, including the target and the ordnance to be used. It is a long and complicated process before the pilot even finishes his cup of coffee before getting in the aircraft for his sortie.
I suspect that the Russian air force is much the same.
US tactical airstrike pilots now are required to fill out a form before any ordnance is released, and to request clearance for the bombing run.
You simplifying it the way you have simply shows your deep. deep ignorance of military and their operations.
Lastly, once home, don’t forget to "thank" your "veterans" for their "service".
I get it.
Now YOU try, please!!
Now, in spite of this conditioning, please at least try to understand the following points:
First, the Russians do not see Ukrainian as Hadjis but as their own brothers.
The Holodomor suggests a Cain and Abel kind of relationship. So does Putin’s suggestion about using nukes.
Second many/most LDNR soliders have relatives in the Nazi occupied Ukraine.
And in Russia, no doubt. Ditto for Ukrainians. Probably quite a few have a Jewish ancestor or several somewhere in their family tree, however unnoticed.
Third, yes, Russia can turn any Ukrainian city into Fallujah, but who do you think will then have to pay for its reconstruction?
You’re brothers, right? So taking care of them after you break their things comes with the territory... or something like that.
Fourth, please understand that the double goals of 1) denazification and 2) disarmament implies that any person which is not a Nazi or is not armed and hostile is not, repeat, NOT the target of the Russian armed forces.
That Jewish guy who is president is a Nazi? Wow. His colleagues who like the Jewish guy and voted for him — also Nazis? The original Nazis would have been appalled.
Fifth, the Ukie military was 80% defeated on Day 1.
Uh huh.
Get that? It was gone as a coherent fighting force. THAT is why they are blowing up bridges, distributing weapons and releasing convicted criminals. NOT because they are winning! I mean — how stupid are you if you believe that? Ukie stupid?
Seriously?
Right now you are the object of probably the biggest PSYOP operation in history.
The biggest? That can’t possibly be right in this time of Covid. Anybody here at Rantburg know anything about PSYOPs who could explain it to me?
If you realize that and treat these PSYOPs as you should, that is as "informational warfare from the bad guys" you will be able to tell your kind and grandkids "I never believed that crap". Good for you!
But if you don’t, well then, just don’t tell too much about you in 2022 to your kind and grandkids, save yourself the ridicule and embarrassment...
That’s it. My very last attempt to wake you up. From now on, I will pretend like you don’t exist and instantly ban any comments parroting kind of self-evident nonsense.
Promise?
Now I will quietly leave your room, switch off the lights, and let you watch your TVs.
Andrei
PS: I know the blogs load slow. We made hardware changes and we might have to do more. But that costs (lots) of money and time. We are doing our best with our means, but with both UncleShmuel and Soros out there to "get us" to the tune of billions of dollars spent, they are definitely winning and holding the upper hand in this informational war. Wanna help? SPREAD THE INFO as much as you can and SEND MORE MONEY for our IT. That is what "Biden" and Soros have that we don’t: many people and many dollars. That’s just a fact.
About The Saker: A Network of the Kremlin’s Obedient Followers
The Saker of the Vineyard is a blog by a retired Swiss Red Cross officer, residing in Florida
...deep in the comfortable belly of the beast...
and defending Russia against an enigmatic Empire.
The Saker has become a franchise for an international network of pro-Kremlin outlets, with branches in German, Italy, Latin America, and Russia. A Saker is a sort of falcon, falco cherrug, endemic to the steppes of Eurasia. The name of the blog is an anagram of the blogger’s name.
#4
well, they are making cocktails for their Russian Brothers™
Posted by: Frank G ||
03/01/2022 8:00 Comments ||
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Fourth, please understand that the double goals of 1) denazification and 2) disarmament implies that any person which is not a Nazi...
And deciding who qualifies as a "Nazi" will be... Russian thugs!
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
03/01/2022 8:12 Comments ||
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That is how the US liberal sees them.
Because this mouth-breather suckle from the same Soviet teat as the average US leftist.
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
03/01/2022 8:13 Comments ||
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35,000+ views for that post alone in his site. If you want to know what the Democrats think you look at Daily Kos. If you want to see what the Russians are saying to one another his site is a place to start. Living in an echo chamber leads to miscalculation
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Begin by bombing the shit of the "hadjis" or "sand n***ers" with bombs and missiles, then flatten their town à la Fallujah, then move in with heavy armor and shoot everything which still moves or breathes.
Saker seems to forget the precision guided shock and awe in which we destroyed Saddam's command and control facilities, his communications and his logistics thereby rendering his military useless and unable to offer any organized resistance. In only a couple of days our tanks rolled into Baghdad unopposed. Contrast that with Putin's clumsy and heavy handed stumbling. The Ukrainian resistance is still well organized and a serious threat to the invaders. Russian tanks remain stalled outside of Kiev.
IIRC, the battle at Falluha was against a disorganized bunch of jihadis who were hopped up and drugs and died like dogs.
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I always thought the Russian propaganda was a bit more subtle... This guy is a Karen of an extreme extent. I'm glad to hear the Kremlin loving left is still into the name calling and Nazi seems to be the name of the day. If it was not so over the top I would have been angry. But this is just comical...
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03/01/2022 16:52 Comments ||
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They seemed to have slowed down. Perhaps troll-checks aren't on time or clearing?
Posted by: Frank G ||
03/01/2022 17:52 Comments ||
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Frank, I think I read sometime today that Russia has some 600 billion dollars's worth of various foreign currencies in its reserves. So I don't think there's going to be a "they'll run out of money!" solution to either the war problem or the troll problem.
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Russian propoganda, well soviet propoganda, was really good. It gave us the anti-nuke movement that left so many buying Russian and Arab oil. it gave us the environmental movement that had us cripple our own oil production. It gave us the seeds of race divisions when they couldn't exploit class divisions in most of the west.
#18
Russian (and Chinese) propaganda is so good that the people who have been destroying the industrial base here for the last thirty years and empowering Putin think they've been doing a Good Thing.
We're in a situation where, if this were WW2, we'd be paying for Mussolini's _and_ Hitler's militaries and begging Hitler to keep Mussolini in check. this is a nightmare to me.
Note the NATO flag. These guys are on our side. They aren't even neo-Nazis. They're actual Nazis.
No, dear heart, they’re still not actual Nazis. They’re white supremacists trying to shock the normies by playing dress-up — most of them will outgrow their vicious nonsense when they settle down and have families to support. There have been no actual Nazis (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) since the remnants of Hitler’s empire fled in disarray after Germany surrendered. A few went into service with Arab Socialist dictators, and there were a few small irredentist communities deep in various South American jungles, but even they gave up hope of reestablishing the Third German Reich. The real Nazis would have recoiled in disgust from Slavs using their name.
"Ukrainian military formation in the German armed forces during the Second World War. The division was organized as part of a program of creating foreign (eg, Estonian, Latvian) formations of the Waffen SS to fight on the Soviet front."
The Ukrainian Nazis that we are fighting supporting today are their direct descendants.
I'm more than a little surprised that people on this site aren't aware of the Ukrainian Nazis and the Maidan coup in 2014, when a neutral Ukraine government was overthrown and replaced with a Nazi-friendly one. And ashamed at the Nazi denialism despite copious evidence in photo, video and the Nazis' and Ukrainian government's own words. The rest of the world was loud with outrage that a supposedly democratic government would allow and encourage such vile and odious people in its ranks. It wasn't a secret.
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I'm more than a little surprised that people on this site aren't aware of the Ukrainian Nazis and the Maidan coup in 2014, when a neutral Ukraine government was overthrown and replaced with a Nazi-friendly one.
It is routinely overlooked in this and many, many other forums.
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Bzzt wrong. May I introduce you to the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician).
The Nazis were perfectly happy to make use of volunteer Untermenschen in the short term, especially to hunt sown their own people or be ground up as cannon fodder on the Eastern Front. They had no objection to using the man who now calls himself George Soros, too. But their Thousand Year Reich was a proof-of-concept program for breeding purebred Aryans, so even their pet Slavs were slated to be culled.
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How Sõrōs' ANTAC used Ukraine to target Trump, later replaced judges and officials in UKR with handpicked flunkies for the globalists in the name of weeding out corruption.
Open Society backed the Euromaidan to lock in their choice of 'leader'. And they will keep him motivated as he leads innocent people into slaughter.
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No, dear heart, they’re still not actual Nazis. They’re white supremacists trying to shock the normies by playing dress-up — most of them will outgrow their vicious nonsense when they settle down and have families to support. There have been no actual Nazis (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) since the remnants of Hitler’s empire fled in disarray after Germany surrendered. A few went into service with Arab Socialist dictators, and there were a few small irredentist communities deep in various South American jungles, but even they gave up hope of reestablishing the Third German Reich. The real Nazis would have recoiled in disgust from Slavs using their name.
Ma'am,
Absolutely perfectly and concisely put. My compliments.
I'd like to add one thing if I might - if any of the liberals who scream 'Nazi' at the slightest provocation, or for that matter the pathetic children who call themselves that were to EVER meet a real-live, honest-to-Adolf 1930s Stormtrooper or 1943-era Einsatzgruppen team leader they'd soil themselves and run away in stark, screaming terror.
They have no idea what these men and women were really like, and their playacting just makes it that much easier for the real thing to hide itself while it waits for another shot at Der Tag.
Mike
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What is with this bizarre Nazi denialism? They are posing with the swastika and the NATO flags simultaneously. How much clearer can it get? These vile people are part of the official Ukraine armed forces. We should be fighting them, not giving them arms.
#12
They're play Nazis. Never will be the real thing. Nifty outfits and flags. Their appeal is tribal. It's like our violent motor cycle gangs in America or a cartel in Mexico. You want to conflate something that was a large political movement in the 20s-40s with a bunch of wannabes.
#14
BTW, the word 'Nazi' is used in America like the other old 'N' word, a pejorative not associated with any specific political or institutional organization. It long ago lost its association with its origin. That was helped by decades of academia that spent its time trying desperately to separate the 'Socialist' portion of the movement from it originators.
#15
Any Ukrainian affinity for Naziism came from them believing they were being liberated from the genocide of the Russian rulers of the Soviet Union. Most Ukrainians realized the Nazis were just as bad and fought them, too.
The ones waving that flag today do so SPECIFICALLY to annoy the Russians.
Reportedly some of the Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine sporting Soviet flags -- and that regime murdered more of its own people than the Nazis did.
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Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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But then again given the history of the USSR Pravda media machine and fake/twisted news.
Who is to say 100% this Nazi photo wasn't generated by Pravda?
or that these 15 are nothing more than the 15 seen?
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Can't speak to the link above because I got a 404 and the image was busted but...
I think I saw a picture long ago of a US Tank in Vietnam that had a Nazi flag. The assumption at the time was that they were being ironic or trying to terrify the enemy, not that they believed in National Socialism or White Supremecy.
#20
..although the usual race mongers here try to portray the flying of the stars and bars as racist white supremacist act more than anything it a middle raise finger at the establishment.
#21
What I know is that the same people who have been wrong and lying about it for the last two years were auto on-board and virtue signalling getting actively involved only after the invasion, and if I noticed them being wrong, and lying, I was a flat earth Science! denier, where now, even people who saw through the protocols of Covid, are wanting me on-board and if I'm not 110% in I'm a Russian agent History! denier. All I know is they have been nipping at each other since Obama pretended it away, and I'm glad I read Michener's book Poland.
So I'm going back to my shade tree, and hoping the war propaganda hook isn't so set that polls and focus group rating tempt the politicians into a stupid decision for twitter likes and budget increases, or air cover for Turdo-style authoritarianism. And watching the neo-cons line up and lecture about invasions being bad puts the taste of a cup holder penny in my mouth especially after the flag-officers on high sent a specific general to Kabul for photo ops and lies in the most well documented botched withdrawal in history.
#22
I think it is stupid to fingerpoint about ideology previous to last Tuesday. Nobody expected Putin to generally attack because it wasn't rational and it wasn't well planned out. He did a terrible job presenting his side, even though he was guaranteed some of the west siding with him. It's a brand new ball game.
If I was Xi, at the right time, I would come in whole heartedly against Putin and his stooges and declare total support for Ukraine.
China joining Europe on this would topple Putin. Then they could support a re-emergence of some form of the Communist Party and could install their own puppets in Moscow.
#23
My understanding is that Ukrainians turned Nazi in WWII because of the things that Joe Stalin did to them in the 1930's. They thought Hitler would treat them better than Stalin. Must be tough if you have to choose between those two. If Stalin hadn't made war on them they probably would have remained loyal to Russia. One thing I cannot see is that rag tag bunch of misfits in the graphic presenting any serious threat to Russia. Let them dress up and run around in the woods once a month and drink vodka afterwards. Then they'll get tired and go home.
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Except that now they're all pissed off again and thinking that Putin is the second coming of Stalin. Bad mistake, Vlad.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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#25
Not surprising. Even the Dutch had a Waffen SS unit, part of the Wiking Division, I think.
#26
The Serious People:
Anyone remotely supporting the War on Terror is a bigot because there was a story that possibly a Koran may of been desecrated, but greasing bullets in pig fat to fight Chechyans is totally cool because they are fighting for the real oppressed, and that is the Ukrainian Transvestite Community.
Remake of Team America is absolute bunkum, except for the cameo of Fauci in the audience for Lease.
Posted by: Mullah Richard ||
03/01/2022 16:00 Comments ||
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More on support for anti-Semitic Ukrainian groups, including C14 and other political parties represented in the government and openly supported and cheered on by US politicians such as John McCain
Ukraine's Far Right Is Growing Increasingly Violent - Why Aren't Local Jews Concerned?
#29
1. It’s Ha’aretz, proudly left over from when Israel was a labour socialist country, now catering to the 5% of the population that hasn’t moved to the right. They probably earn more selling articles to the New York Times and other Progressive news outlets than they do selling subscriptions at home.
2. It’s from 2018. Possibly the Jews somehow knew that in only a year one of their own would be elected president of the Ukraine.
[Townhall] U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) renewed criticism of President Joe Biden Monday evening in a statement calling for the Biden administration to put its oil money where it's anti-Putin mouth is and stop paying Russia for oil supplies to meet Americans' demand.
"The entire world is watching as Vladimir Putin uses energy as a weapon in an attempt to extort and coerce our European allies," Manchin noted. "While Americans decry what is happening in Ukraine, the United States continues to allow the import of more than half a million barrels per day of crude oil and other petroleum products from Russia during this time of war. This makes no sense at all and represents a clear and present danger to our nation's energy security," he added of the Biden administration's policy toward domestic production.
"The United States can and must ramp up domestic energy production and increase access to our abundant resources and technologies to both protect our energy independence and support our allies around the globe," Manchin said, hammering the point home.
Senator Manchin is, as with several other issues on which he's been vocal, right to criticize the Biden administration for its energy policy. The United States absolutely can build and maintain energy independence — we were during the Trump administration. When the U.S. is energy independent, it also helps our allies who come under threat from tyrants around the globe who otherwise have a monopoly on energy for our NATO and other international partners. But by caving to radical climate alarmists and indulging their alternative energy projects, the Biden administration has made the U.S. subject to the whims of tyrants like Putin and put America's allies in danger of the same.
#2
This sort of thing would take some time to unravel. In the meantime, not exactly going to run a modern economy on good wishes and noble aspirations.
#8
"Let's see COVID for what it is: a golden opportunity to seize power.
"Another stick to beat the shit out of you little racist sheep.
"A gold mine for Pfizer."
[Fox] Fox News contributor Sara Carter said it's "absolutely incredible" that President Biden would put Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in charge of responding to threats to the U.S. stemming from the Russia-Ukraine crisis.
Carter, who has extensively reported on the border and immigration, told Fox News Digital at CPAC that Mayorkas is the last person that should be shouldering such a responsibility.
The Department of Homeland Security has been designated the lead federal government agency for coordinating domestic preparedness and response efforts related to Russia’s war on Ukraine, the department announced Thursday.
"I think it's absolutely incredible that Alejandro Mayorkas would be put in charge of looking at the potential threats coming from Ukraine when the Biden administration has completely failed the American people on the national security of the U.S.-Mexico border. It is unacceptable," Carter said.
#1
Based on a relative who is in BP, it's pretty disheartening when they interdict invaders and/or contraband with no support or recourse other than to let it sit or let them go (or get in trouble for some 'infraction').
Result? None of the rank and file officers are really motivated about their job.
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#2
Everything about the Buy Dung? administration is incredible, but it's still happening. So concerned about the territorial integrity of Ukraine while trashing that of the USA.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 ||
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