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2022-03-27 Home Front: Politix
Frmr. State Dept. Analyst: Regime Change Biden Goes Nuts
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Posted by Heriberto Clunk3995 2022-03-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 This man is a menace. He is not of sound mind. His sick obsession is threatening the peace and prosperity of the planet and he is leading his nation off a cliff.

Remove Joe Biden from power. Before he destroys us all.
Posted by Blackbeard Guelph3428 2022-03-27 00:28||   2022-03-27 00:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Just when you thought that Washington couldn’t possibly concoct a worse foreign policy, President Joe Biden rose to the challenge—abetted by the Beltway uniparty. Democrats and Republicans alike seem to share the goal of putting America last.

He's to be pitied. His brain is decrepit. He does not understand that the art of negotiation requires carrots and sticks: Richard Nixon understood this well. For poor braindead Joe Biden there is no stick and no carrot, only words. So many words: "Killer!" "War criminal!" "Bad person!"
Posted by Squinty Schwarzeneggar3170 2022-03-27 00:38||   2022-03-27 00:38|| Front Page Top

#3 J.D. Vance, on Twitter:

"Joe Biden went to Europe and advocated for a nuclear power's regime change, and then 10 minutes later his own White House had to contradict him. Seems like a big deal."

For sure. How much longer will they allow this cretin to utter such dangerous nonsense? Gag him and lock him in the attic before he does any more damage
Posted by Vespasian Omereque5237 2022-03-27 00:52||   2022-03-27 00:52|| Front Page Top

#4 AP reports (via Twitter) that "After President Joe Biden declared that Russian President Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in power," a White House official asserted that the U.S. leader was "not discussing Putin’s power in Russia or regime change."

What kind of government operates like this? The head of state calls for regime change, and then his subordinates loudly and publicly contradict him. This is truly dangerous. The US needs to climb down and stop making these foolish and irresponsible pronouncements.
Posted by Wheretle Black7254 2022-03-27 01:04||   2022-03-27 01:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Joseph Marionette Biden. He just says stuff. He doesn't have any real power. None of them do. The last guy thought he had power and you know where it got him. So they put a tool in office who needs notes and is led by the elbow to his meets.

When commissariats cut out the electorates and assume control of all decisions, the face of the party does not matter. Removing him requires them to find another flexible geriatric first. The disorganised nature of the Washington DC power structure was the problem. It was too representative. The Democrats have now solved it.
Posted by Kain 2022-03-27 01:13||   2022-03-27 01:13|| Front Page Top

#6 This is the third time in the last few days that the American president made a reckless, outrageously provocative policy statement which his top aides were forced to walk back. He said he'd put US troops in combat in Ukraine -- triggering WW III. He said he'd use chemical weapons. He's pledged to overthrow Putin as if he were CornPop.

And every time, his advisers jumped in and said that this degenerate somehow meant the OPPOSITE of what he plainly said
Posted by Jolung Hupomolet4403 2022-03-27 01:32||   2022-03-27 01:32|| Front Page Top

#7 That's what I'm trying to tell you. He didn't mean to. They are trying to keep him on script but he is of the old order and forgets he is not in charge sometimes. Or, they never told him. Which is more funny in a way.
Posted by Kain 2022-03-27 01:37||   2022-03-27 01:37|| Front Page Top

#8 All excellent comments and all are accurate. Biden, Graham, the late McShame, and others in Washington are simply parroting the Deep State (DS) "regime change" process they've come to know and love. They are not in charge of anything, they are simply handmaidens of the DS.

They're the crooked cops, pretending to protect us from the evil doer's while pocketing graft and kickbacks for themselves.

By the way, they treat enemies of the DS, both foreign and domestic in the same manner. The 2020 presidential election is a good example of their regime change handiwork.


Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-27 01:43||   2022-03-27 01:43|| Front Page Top

#9 Gag him and lock him in the attic before he does any more damage

Nope. Gotta think things through:
1) Jo-jo back in the basement
2) Kama-Kama-Kameleon back under Willie Brown's desk
3) Skeletor back in her crypt with some Absolute to keep her quiet.
Posted by Mercutio 2022-03-27 08:44||   2022-03-27 08:44|| Front Page Top

#10 This Christian Whiton substack writer is brilliant. His diagnosis of Washington's insane obsession with regime change is very accurate:

"Biden and his enablers in both parties are being driven by the discredited fantasy that they can install neoliberalism and wokeness abroad, and that American power and money are limitless. Catastrophic failures in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria apparently haven’t given pause to the woke crusaders.

In fact, Ukraine has developed into something of their last stand. Quintessential globalist Anne Applebaum put it plainly in an article in The Atlantic: “Ukraine Must Win.” No amount of killing and destruction around the world will deter her quest:
“That goal [in Ukraine] should not be a truce, or a muddle, or a decision to maintain some kind of Ukrainian resistance over the next decade…”

Only elusive victory will do, damn the cost of people, money, or risk to America. Prolonging the war and subjecting Americans to the risk of a nuclear exchange with Russia for someone else’s dispute is worth not having to admit one’s world view is wrong.

If the globalists can snatch victory from the jaws of defeat in their outpost of empire in Ukraine, which they tried to tilt westward through a successful coup in 2014, then the hundreds of thousands of corpses from their failed interventions and nation-building experiments won’t look so bad, or so they reason.
Posted by Squinty Schwarzeneggar3170 2022-03-27 08:55||   2022-03-27 08:55|| Front Page Top

#11 That pretty well sums it up. Explains why Biden is doing everything wrong, in ways that are contrary to American interests. He's deliberately prolonging the war when it's in our interest to end it. He's punishing the entire world with self-destructive sanctions that are just screwing over Americans and taking the US economy. He's causing powerful nations all over the world to dump dollars, find ways to trade with Russia, and making them determined to bring an end to the dollar's reserve currency status.

Only some bizarre quasi-religious higher goal could possibly justify such an extreme spectacle of self-destruction. Washington's obsession with "regime change" for Unwoke Leaders We Don't Like explains this well.
Posted by Angaising Lumumba2597 2022-03-27 09:09||   2022-03-27 09:09|| Front Page Top

#12 #10 Biden and his enablers in both parties are being driven by the discredited fantasy that they can install neoliberalism Catastrophic failures in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria apparently haven’t given pause to the woke crusaders.
Exactly. Crusaders of both parties. Neocons and neoliberals trying to make the world over and trashing everything they touch

Quintessential globalist Anne Applebaum
Neocon bitch. Deranged Russophobe constantly shilling for her husband's Poland

Prolonging the war and subjecting Americans to the risk of a nuclear exchange with Russia for someone else’s dispute is worth not having to admit one’s world view is wrong.
So much damage results from people in power refusing to admit when they screw up. The Iraq war and the covid debacle also come to mind.
Posted by Vespasian Omereque5237 2022-03-27 09:51||   2022-03-27 09:51|| Front Page Top

#13 Pay no attention to that man behind the podium.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-03-27 10:00||   2022-03-27 10:00|| Front Page Top

#14 I continue to disagree as to his state of decrepitude. He has been a semi coherent blowhard his entire career in public life, this is not new.

That and even glancing knowledge of the man and his criminal spawn would suggest that the family motto is 'Do you know who I am'. You think the boys are full of interesting hi-jinks, have a look at the niece, there's a heartwarming tale.

This nitwit's first impulse has ALWAYS been to bully. Remember some of his lusty interactions with voters on the campaign trail.

So now you have Putin in office until 2035, minimally, and however you might refer to this malignant imbecile calling him 'dictator', butcher', oh, and let's not forget 'war criminal'.

Good thing the adults are back and brought all their 'Smart Diplomacy' with them.
Posted by Cesare 2022-03-27 12:31||   2022-03-27 12:31|| Front Page Top

#15 #14 This nitwit's first impulse has ALWAYS been to bully.
Yes. Like all bullies, a shit talking coward

So now you have Putin in office until 2035, minimally, and however you might refer to this malignant imbecile calling him 'dictator', butcher', oh, and let's not forget 'war criminal'.
Mao Tsetung was the biggest butcher in history. Didn't stop Nixon and Kissinger from smiling and toasting him and singing his praises when it came time to seal a deal that would advance US interests.

Good thing the adults are back and brought all their 'Smart Diplomacy' with them.
These fuckwits are retarded children with no emotional control. Greta Thunberg is a sage by comparison
Posted by Lonzo Wittlesbach1269 2022-03-27 15:13||   2022-03-27 15:13|| Front Page Top

#16 
Posted by Woodrow 2022-03-27 17:07||   2022-03-27 17:07|| Front Page Top

#17 #14 I continue to disagree as to his state of decrepitude.

Get out much?
Posted by Woodrow 2022-03-27 17:09||   2022-03-27 17:09|| Front Page Top

#18 Woodrow my passport is well marked. I repeat, I am not speaking to any loss of faculties, I only maintain they weren't there in the first place.
Posted by Cesare 2022-03-27 18:07||   2022-03-27 18:07|| Front Page Top

#19 This idiot has been talking nonsense for at least 13 years. He was the point man for Obama on Ukraine and he fucked it up back when the whole mess started, with the US coup in 2014. Biden's been saying stupid shit and off ever sense. Remember "limited incursion"?
Posted by Albemarle Thrusoth4588 2022-03-27 18:26||   2022-03-27 18:26|| Front Page Top

#20  Niall Ferguson got it right. The Biden approach is a mixture of rank cynicism -- stoke the war, kill thousands -- and stupid wishful thinking about Russians miraculously rising up to overthrow Putin and replace him with a transgendered postmodern pro-American liberal. Ferguson on Twitter:

"People didn't pay enough attention to the evidence I presented last week about the cynical/optimistic plan to let the war keep going until there's regime change in Russia. So they were surprised by Biden's "gaffe."
Posted by Flasing Snease2462 2022-03-27 19:52||   2022-03-27 19:52|| Front Page Top

#21 "People didn't pay enough attention to the evidence I presented..."

The Trolls Lament - I had hyperlinks and everything, man!
Posted by SteveS 2022-03-27 20:00||   2022-03-27 20:00|| Front Page Top

#22 Yes, the problem goes way beyond Biden the marionette. The policy of trying to prolong the war is stupid and self-destructive. There is absolutely no chance that Putin will be overthrown. The sanctions are punishing us. These people are retarded. We will pay dearly for many years to come for their breathtaking incompetence m
Posted by Squinty Schwarzeneggar3170 2022-03-27 20:01||   2022-03-27 20:01|| Front Page Top

#23 Hey SteveS: you REDACTED, that quote belongs to Niall Ferguson. He's not a "troll"
Posted by Flasing Snease2462 2022-03-27 20:04||   2022-03-27 20:04|| Front Page Top

#24 /\ Hey Flasing. Enuf of that.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-27 20:23||   2022-03-27 20:23|| Front Page Top

#25 Sounds better than saying Putin is a genius and savvy, as others have.
Posted by Clyde Untervehr8732 2022-03-27 20:49||   2022-03-27 20:49|| Front Page Top

#26 President Putin and the White House team fronted by President Biden both fully expected Ukraine to collapse within a few days. So did the cognoscenti running most of Europe.

So they were all comfortable talking tough on the assumption that they were not going to have to back it up.

Now they’re all in the distinctly uncomfortable and exposed position resulting from the fact that the Ukrainians are much tougher than predicted. Despite the deep corruption of Ukrainian politics and general society typical of former Soviet and Third World countries — including Mother Russia herself — the Ukrainians have thoroughly bloodied the Russian nose, and shown they’ll probably be ungovernable if the Russians don’t give up their quixotic quest to reestablish the Russian empire.

Whether or not Vladimir Putin is overthrown over this, President Biden will not be — that’s not how Americans do things. Hopefully the Republicans will take control of both Houses of Congress following the election in November, and continue the trend of adding more legislative seats and executive positions across the country at the state and local level. As an aside, note that Putin is now age 70, so his odds are poor of still running things in 2035.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-27 21:08||   2022-03-27 21:08|| Front Page Top

#27 Putin terms out in 2024
Posted by badanov 2022-03-27 21:13||   2022-03-27 21:13|| Front Page Top

#28 if the Russians don’t give up their quixotic quest to reestablish the Russian empire.

This is the flimsiest of all the straw man arguments put forth by the West's clueless analysts. There's no evidence whatsoever that this was ever Putin's goal. He stated clearly he wanted to destroy Ukraine's usefulness to NATO -- first, to "demilitarize ", Ukraine that is to render it neutral, and bomb the hell out of it ("wreck Ukraine" as John Mearsheimer says) so that it's now a basket case broken nation a la Palestine.

Second, to destroy the hold of the Ukrainian paramilitaries and shock troops on the Russian-speaking Donbas region. That's what Putin means by "de-Nazify": destroy the paramilitaries ie Azov, Praviy Sektor and the other neo-Nazi or far right military groups that have terrorized the Donbas for eight years.

Putin has achieved both of these goals. The Ukrainians have conceded in western interviews that Putin has won the south and completed his "land bridge" across Azov all the way to Crimea.

Putin never set out to "conquer" Ukraine or "restore the Soviet Union." These myths are just another example of how badly the US has fucked up its handling of this matter.
Posted by Gomez the Rasher of Bacon3319 2022-03-27 21:30||   2022-03-27 21:30|| Front Page Top

#29 Deleted your comments as requested, DooDahMan.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-27 21:31||   2022-03-27 21:31|| Front Page Top

#30 No one who's been paying attention to this savage civil war during the last eight years could have underestimated the ruthlessness and savagery of Ukraine's far right paramilitaries. They have been killing and torturing Russians for eight years: over 10,000 butchered at their hands.

It's only ignorant and self-absorbed Americans who have failed to see that this is essentially a civil war that was triggered by the Obama administration's cynical coup plotters, Pyatt and Nuland née Nudelman. Like all civil wars it was always going to be ferociously fought tooth and nail, with horrific civilian deaths, on both sides. The "restore the USSR" narrative is embarrassingly stupid bullshit
Posted by Gomez the Rasher of Bacon3319 2022-03-27 21:39||   2022-03-27 21:39|| Front Page Top

#31 * yawns *
Posted by Matt 2022-03-27 21:52||   2022-03-27 21:52|| Front Page Top

#32 The "restore the USSR" narrative is embarrassingly stupid bullshit

Putin did want to establish/expand what he called a Union State comparable to what is the Russian Federation now.

You can read it here
Posted by badanov 2022-03-27 22:13||   2022-03-27 22:13|| Front Page Top

#33 Russian empire is not exactly the same as USSR. While covering the same physical territory, one was a totalitarian Socialist mess, while the other will be a perfect Volksheimat with Valodya as the Great Man perfect leader, protector of civilized Christendom from the Muslim horde.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-27 22:35||   2022-03-27 22:35|| Front Page Top

#34 #32 The "restore the USSR" narrative is embarrassingly stupid bullshit

"Putin did want to establish/expand what he called a Union State comparable to what is the Russian Federation now. You can read it here"

I've read that before, thanks. It's totally consistent with my point. You actually misinterpreted it.

The subject of that extremely literate and well-informed discussion is not the territories that correspond the the former Soviet Union. He is focused on "the southwestern lands of the Russian Empire" only, ie what are traditionally known as "Little Russia" and "Novorossiya, Crimea."

In other words, that document understand less my point exactly. He was NOT interested in "restoring the USSR." He was totally focused on defining the relationship to Russian history of those particular "southwestern lands."

And note the specific emphasis on Crimea and Novorossiya. Crimea was restored in full to Russian control in 2014, and Novorossiya has now been restored to Russian control control the last month's campaign.

Thanks for proving my point.
Posted by Gomez the Rasher of Bacon3319 2022-03-27 22:52||   2022-03-27 22:52|| Front Page Top

#35 Thanks for proving my point.

My comment was an aside.

And you're welcome.
Posted by badanov 2022-03-27 22:59||   2022-03-27 22:59|| Front Page Top

#36 You really should read it more carefully. It's exceptionally balanced, moderate and well-argued. Here are three paragraphs that show how utterly misguided and destructive America's meddling in Ukraine in the Obama-Nudelman era was:

"Ukraine and Russia have been developing as a single economic system for decades, centuries. The depth of cooperation that we had 30 years ago could be the envy of the EU countries today. We are natural, mutually complementary economic partners.

"Such a close relationship is capable of enhancing competitive advantages and increasing the potential of both countries. And it was significant in Ukraine, it included a powerful infrastructure, a gas transportation system, advanced shipbuilding, aircraft construction, rocketry, instrument making, scientific, design, and engineering schools of the world level.

"Having received such a legacy, the leaders of Ukraine, declaring their independence, promised that the Ukrainian economy would become one of the leading, and the standard of living of people one of the highest in Europe.

He then describes the complete devastation Nd degradation of Ukraine during the period of gross corruption, plundering and manipulation by Ukrainian 'oligarchs,' their puppets like Zelensky, and American neocon conspirators and carpetbaggers:

"Today, industrial high-tech giants, which were once proud of both Ukraine and the whole country, lie on their [backs]. Over the past 10 years, the output of mechanical engineering products has fallen by 42 percent.

"The scale of de-industrialization and, in general, the degradation of the economy can be seen in such an indicator as the generation of electricity, which has almost halved in Ukraine over 30 years. And finally, according to the IMF, in 2019, even before the coronavirus epidemic, the level of per capita GDP in Ukraine was less than 4 thousand dollars. This is below the Republic of Albania, the Republic of Moldova and the unrecognized Kosovo. Ukraine is now the poorest country in Europe.."

Posted by Gomez the Rasher of Bacon3319 2022-03-27 23:01||   2022-03-27 23:01|| Front Page Top

#37 #35 Thanks for proving my point.
My comment was an aside. And you're welcome.

My mistake! Sorry. Please revise my last comment to "You EVERYONE should read it more carefully..."

Thank you again (sincerely!). That's an exceptional document. A pity that the West's leaders aren't even half as literate and well-versed in history as the author of this document.
Posted by Gomez the Rasher of Bacon3319 2022-03-27 23:05||   2022-03-27 23:05|| Front Page Top

#38 It's exceptionally balanced, moderate and well-argued. Here are three paragraphs that show how utterly misguided and destructive America's meddling in Ukraine in the Obama-Nudelman era was:

I agree with the first sentence.

So, let me simplify it, so my feeble mind can comprehend:

Barky and his Barkettes fomented a coup in Ukraine in 2014. Russia moved to preserve his Black Sea Naval base in Crimea by taking over Crimea, and as a prelude to this war, sent FSB operatives and others to stir up a separate coup, and a subsequent civil war.

The missive, the link of which I posted, was Russia's cause of war.
Posted by badanov 2022-03-27 23:08||   2022-03-27 23:08|| Front Page Top

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