Saturday, December 5, 2020

The Last Word

With each week, Trump gets more and more desperate to convince people that he was cheated out of a 2nd presidential term.

He has been coming up with all sorts of absurd explanations and accusations regarding how votes for him were either faked or thrown out.

How does Trump come up with this nonsense? Does he get up in the morning, and while he’s under the shower washing out his crack he suddenly gets inspired with another looney idea about how he may have been cheated; then goes in front of the TV cameras and shoots off his latest electoral fraud conspiracy wad onto the airwaves worldwide for all the naive morons to swallow?

Trump is demanding recounts while at the same time saying that the votes are fraudulent? So why bother recounting fraudulent votes?

Or he demands that votes be thrown out; then accuses polling stations of throwing out votes.

Or he demands re-counts, but when they don’t gain him anything, he starts saying that the votes were fraudulent. And then, he demands another recount! What is the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results.

Is Trump bi-polar, or something?

He cries fraud in front of the TV and on Twitter, but each and every time a judge demands evidence, the Trump legal team comes up empty.

Trump's mission to find stolen and fraudulent votes has actually resulted in finding extra votes for Biden.

This is something that the author of this blog predicted would happen when this entire bad Trumpian reality TV election fraud show started.

It takes a special level of dumb to spend millions of dollars of one's own cash to do a vote-recount that ends up finding more votes for one's opponent. It takes a Trump level of dumb.

However, even if fraud was committed against Trump, then guess what: Trump was the pilot run four years ago. He set the precedent. Remember, he lost the election of 2016 by 3 million votes. He didn't win the presidency. The electoral college flipped enough state votes toward him. And it worked! It worked like a charm. 

People bought his sham victory, and no one did squat to fight the unfair way he achieved it. So for all you republican and Trump fanboys who are now complaining? Guess what? You were played. You were suckered. You were the unwitting dupes and agents of your own destruction, and of your candidate. 

So cry your crocodile tears of electoral fraud. But remember, you helped make it happen

And one last thing: Because of the crooked and unfair way Trump got elected, we now have a Biden. You Trump disciples gave him to the rest of us on a golden platter by ignoring the fact that Trump was unfairly elected in the first place. And you cheered it on, and still do. Let this gnaw on you for the next 4, or maybe even 8 years.

A lot has been written since November 3rd. But here's the thing: whether it is Biden, Trump, Harris, Clinton or some Skankowitz sitting in the oval office, the US is not going to bounce back to what it was a few decades ago no matter what it does. Those days are over. Period. 

The US regimes can pass their sanctions, falsely accuse others, terrorize, send out ignorant tweets, and act like petulant little spoiled brats. But it's over for them. And the harder they resist, the faster their degeneration will progress. 

The end. Finito. Fin. Sayonara. Bye-bye!

Happy 2021!

Friday, November 20, 2020

Post-Election Autopsy


The side-show known as the US Presidential election of 2020 is over… well, kind of.

Trump has been running around with what’s left of his hair on fire, accusing everyone of fraud and vote-rigging.

He has been demanding vote recounts in states where Biden won by slim margins.

He has also deployed Re-Count Dracula Rudy Giuliani to file lawsuits in every state to dispute the results. So far, they have been dismissed.

But Trump should not accuse anyone of cheating since he won 4 years ago thanks only to the electoral college swinging votes his way, and away from Billary. Trump lost by 3 million popular votes.

He didn't care about re-counting votes and slim margins, and fair elections back then, and neither did his supporters. Now, they have all turned self-righteous. What goes around, comes around. Trump won by fraud, and if he lost by fraud, then so be it. The circle is closed.

It also seems kind of odd that Biden and the Democrats would concoct this elaborate electioneering fraud to win himself the presidency, yet leave the senate and house races alone. The Democrats actually lost a few seats, and gained like one senate seat?

If you’re going to cheat to put yourself in the oval office, then make sure you also hook up your aspiring congressional peeps with some fake votes. Biden needs a friendly support staff in congress, else he can’t really do much as far as passing legislation goes. So either the democrats are terrible election fixers, or they didn't rig anything.

With the recounts and lawsuits not going his way, and the end of his presidency now a foregone conclusion, Trump will now lash out at anyone who he sees as responsible for his loss. He will not accept responsibility for anything, of course. He never does. His last few months will not be pleasant. No telling what he will do.

Trump’s terrible Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, has been running around lately, threatening Iran and China, and slapping more and more sanctions on them. Seems that Trump had some nasty things planned for his next 4 years, but due to his election loss, he will try to squeeze as much of it as possible into his last 2 or so months. It is a dangerous situation right now.

But the elections in the US have never been fair, and the peoples’ right to vote was never really sacred; and much denied. For a long time, many people were barred from voting because they were too poor and didn’t own the minimal amount of land. Senators were not elected by the general public until 1913, and women could not vote until 1920 - exactly 100 years ago. Non-whites were prevented from voting well into the 20th century.

The US public is convinced that their crude and rigged electoral system is the best, and has no equal. They still pretend that there aren’t any problem with it. 244 years of social engineering and brainwashing have done their job.

Donald Trump will remain bitter about his election loss well into the future. Fraud or not, he will never forgive anyone for not being re-elected, and therefore will play spoiler for the next 4 years, sending out insulting, hypocritical tweets left and right, and he will undoubtedly try to stuff one of his spawn into the oval office in 2024. So, expect someone from the Trump clan in the future.

There was no massive fraud. At most, there were election irregularities borne out of human mistakes and technical issues, and lack of organization. This all happens in every election.

And lawsuits and recounts won't save Trump. No one seriously believes in these accusations. So why do some people want Trump for another 4 years so badly?

This desire is understandable from those close to him who were promised substantial favors and such, if he continues on; they definitely have a reason to push, and believe this election fraud nonsense. But the rank-and-file electorate? Why are they so invested in this Trumpian claptrap? Did he, or someone he knows, promise each of them a substantial financial and/or material benefit if they stay loyal to him no matter what? Because what else could it be? Trump's performance has been lackluster, and his foreign policy is in-line with the deep state, if not by words than in actions. And actions speak much louder than words.

Trump's stolen elections conspiracy theory will take on a life of its own among his acolytes, and be perpetuated as gospel truth well into the future; just like the fake Russian collusion accusations have been-even up to today-by those who hate Trump, and the birther conspiracy regarding Obama is. These three lies will always have their faithful adherents, the truth be damned.

Another thing to consider Is that Trump may be deliberately holding out on conceding the election to pressure Biden into accepting Trump's policy decisions. Once Biden does so, Trump will step away. There may be all sorts of bargaining going on behind the scenes. 

We also can't discount the possibility that Trump is just doing this to generate sensationalism and PR in preparation for a life after the presidency. Screaming election fraud could be a way to build a fan base and collect money in furtherance of some goals he may pursue, such as a Trump TV station where he can indulge his nuttiness well beyond office, and build a loyal army of followers who believe all his nonsense. He may also be organizing a political organization that represents his peculiar views. All this would be entirely in-keeping with Donnie's TV persona and love for attention-getting.

But it could all be simply revenge. The democrats came up with the Russiagate hoax to spite Trump 4 years ago, and this year Trump came up with the election fraud hoax to spite the democrats. And it is sad that Trump hasn't learned from his experience and is being just as bad.

Biden's victory may have been required by the nervous establishment in order to diffuse the popular anger that's been brewing for months and years. We saw the same scenario with Obama's victory in 2008. The economic crisis of that year caused a lot of anger and protests, and Obama was the pin that popped the balloon before it got too big.

Also, people have a limited imagination regarding what constitutes election fraud. Election fraud is also committed when candidates brainwash and manipulate the public to vote for them. It is the most subtle type of voter fraud, and the most insidious way of rigging elections. And the Republicans and Democrats both excel at it. This, and preventing 3rd parties from getting on the ballot by filing lawsuits and court-orders against them.

Another delusion that specifically the democrats have talked themselves into, is that the reason why more people aren’t voting them into congress is because the more liberal, progressive democrats among them have supported de-funding the police, and socialist initiatives like government-sponsored healthcare.

The democrats say that this is costing them the votes of independents and more conservative democrats.

But this is a lie. The reason why more people don’t want to vote for democrats isn’t because the democrats push universal health care, and medicare for all plans. The majority of the US population would welcome such things.

What people don’t like about the Democrats is their promotion of, and pushing onto them the aberrant LGBTQ+ ideology, gay marriage, identity politics, gender studies, hypocritical anti-racism efforts, gun control, and other such questionable and deeply divisive issues and ideas that will never be resolved to anyone’s satisfaction, and that are simply used as electioneering hot-buttons by incompetent and lazy politicians to win easy votes from fools. The democratic party excels at this. And this is the real reason why they’re losing votes.

This is fake liberalism on-the-cheap, which champions social wedge issues which won’t be resolved and cannot be, while shunning the real progressive initiatives where money has to be spent, real effort and time expanded, and where they stand to annoy the US corporatocracy and deprive them of any profits in favor of the people.

This also has the added benefit of getting the Democrats out of having to make serious healthcare reforms later.

So supposed support for universal healthcare and defunding the police are just a cover for why the democrats think they’re not getting more votes.

This outs Biden and Harris as fake liberals, who don’t really care about the sexual deviants and other freaks, and just seek to exploit them for their own political ends.

With the waning of US power, more people in the US are becoming disillusioned with the government and the system.

So the establishment puts on a show, with fake political opposition and pushing of controversial subject-matter to generate popular anger and set one group of people against another, and get the heat off of themselves.

Because nothing sets people off, and unites them more than fear, anger, and hate. The US establishment knows this, and will use these emotions to manipulate and control them. They used to stoke these emotions to target outsiders and elections in other countries. But today, they are applying them within the US. Fear, anger, and hate are the only things they have to offer the broken US populace. They have nothing else of value to give them anymore.

The democrats and republican parties and their lackeys are great at pointing out the other side’s lies and dirty deeds.

But they’re both horrible at coming clean about their own shortcomings, and do a good job of hiding foibles for which they both share guilt for.

That’s why there has to be a 3rd force to point out both of their dishonesty, and journalists who won’t be afraid to expose corruption for fear of arrest, or worse.
 

Hopefully, any and all of Biden’s attempted future warmongering and sanctions encounter even greater resistance and failure than Trump’s have. If he tries to play his old boss's regime change games, he will end up a worse failure than Trump has been.

People should not have high expectations out of Biden.

The world needs a reset, this much is certain. The US is incapable of keeping itself together, never mind the rest of the world.

What needs to happen, is that the EU, China, Russia, and even the UK need to get together and come up with a new way forward on an equitable basis, without the involvement of the US. It is high time for this. And they need to do it soon, before the nonsense in the US spills over into other countries.

Regardless of Trump’s election loss tantrums and claims of fraud, none of it matters. The biggest fraud is the US itself. The rest are just symptoms.

Monday, November 2, 2020

Pre-Election Analysis

It is election day in the US, and things are bound to get interesting.

Already, shop and restaurant owners are preparing for any and all mayhem by shuttering and boarding up their places of business.

Police and national guard troops are all in standby mode.

So let’s reflect on this unusual election season, dissect the candidates, and see what we can, or can’t expect from them.

Before going into the details, it must be mentioned that regardless of whichever old fart wins, nothing will change. Both of these guys serve the status quo.

There is very little difference between them, and if Biden wins he will surely continue Trump’s policies for the most part, just like Trump continued Obama’s.

The problem with Biden is that if he gets elected, the EU liberal crowd will once again check their senses at the door, and spread their butt cheeks wide open for the US again, no questions asked. With the reckless Trump, they have been somewhat suspicious and a little more defiant. This is where Trump has a plus.

If Biden wins, and he starts engaging in political witch hunts against Trump and his henchmen and women, and dares to resurrect the Russiagate hoax instead of tackling the pandemic and economic chaos, then he will have a very bad start, a horrible 4 years, and a fall much worse than Trump. He better not fool around with partisan political grudges and other such garbage and do his job, and not play inquisitor. He just can’t afford it.

Regardless of whichever candidate wins, US power and authority will continue to wane. With Trump, the process will be faster. With Biden, it will be a bit slower.

There are undoubtedly intellectually-stunted people out there, mainly in the US, who will wax polemic about why the US will not collapse like other empires because it is somehow different from the others, and that the same rules don’t apply to it.

But this is simply self-delusion, as surely other former empires, now long-gone, also had their professional true believers who wrote gleaming skreeds about how their nations and empires are the greatest in history, different and special, indispensable in some way, and how they will last forever.

This has been said in the past, and will be said in the future - regardless of the country involved.

Much has also been said by pundits about the Democrats making the same mistakes as they did in 2016, that those mistakes got Trump elected, and that this time around the results will be the same.

However, in 2016 Trump was still a political outsider. He didn’t have a history of holding any political office. His ideas and rhetoric were still interesting and fresh enough to appeal to broad segments of the population.

Voters’ curiosity, and Trump’s lack of political baggage is what allowed him to eek out a victory.

But Trump has been in office for 4 years now, and his reckless behavior and bad decisions have left many of the curious voters disillusioned and angry.

So yes, even though the democrats have no new ideas, and cling to the same old shtick, Trump also no longer has the advantages he had 4 years ago. 

But again, George W. Bush won a 2nd term in 2004 after the Iraq war debacle, so we can't underestimate the lack of judgment by the US electorate.

But we do owe Trump a debt of gratitude for revealing the USA's true malignant, spiteful nature. For far too long, previous US regimes have sought to hide and dress-up their crimes and excesses.

And along comes Trump and tears down all the curtains. This is why the Democrats and the liberal establishment hate him so much. He exposed them. Because of Trump, it will now be much harder for any US regime to manipulate and coerce others into going along with its evil policies. Because of Trump, there will be more resistance and distancing.

So if nothing else, thank you Donald Trump for revealing to us the ugly face of the USA. Because of you, less people like and trust your land. And don't worry. Should Biden win, your work will not be lost on anyone. If you win, you will just make things worse.

But people who don’t have a say in this election, or for whatever reason can’t, or won’t vote, don’t emotionally invest yourselves in the outcome. Don’t root for, or prefer either buffoon, because they’re both bad candidates who will not make anything better, except for themselves and their lackeys.

Treat the US Presidential Election of 2020 like the over-hyped, sensationalist side-show that it is.

Have fun!

Sunday, October 11, 2020

The Trump Factor

The level of divisiveness, spite, lack of courtesy and respect within US society has reached pandemic levels (no pun intended).

Trump’s presidency has brought out the worst in people. It has set them against one another to the point that it has become a threat to peoples' life and limb.

While some people out there will blame this effect on anti-Trump democrats, liberals, or some foreign actors, it is mostly the result of Trump and his socio-pathic, narcissistic personality.

Trump’s venality, arrogance, ignorance, tendency for crass self-promotion, outright lying, his schmoozing of regressive right-wing elements in US society who see him as a saviour of some kind, and by him validating their beliefs and actions has created a dangerous situation. He has also provoked those elements who don’t like him, and which have no compunction whatsoever about getting rough and tough. Trump has managed to royally piss off the members of both camps.

How many of these cops and other assorted wacko’s from both sides out there that have been going around and causing harm to others, both verbal and physical, did so because they were encouraged by Trump’s antics? It's certainly a lot.

The atmosphere Trump has created is quite toxic. While the democrats have added fuel to the fire by provoking the emotionally-unstable Trump with the Russiagate conspiracy and other accusations, he’d still have left the same trail of divisiveness and anger even without all that.

It’s just the type of person he is. Trump is a showman who craves attention, and it is in his nature to do and say off-the-wall, controversial things to attract an audience. He needs an audience, and always seeks them out.

Trump, just like with pretty much everything in the US - the economy, democracy, elections, human rights - is all pretend.

Trump acts the part of a president, but doesn’t behave like a real leader.

He steps on, and dismisses anything and anyone who disagrees with him, and who doesn’t do what he tells them.

He punishes all critics with insulting juvenile tweets, and acts like a petulant bully toward them; for example when he denied COVID19 aid to states with democratic governors just because they dared to disagree with him; all the while more people got infected and died. Or when he didn't want to give hurricane recovery aid to Puerto Rico in 2017 because the governor there criticized him.

This is not the behavior of a mature, emotionally stable person.

As for Trump’s religiosity, it certainly doesn’t exist.

This guy has been living a pretty fast and loose life as far as women and relationships are concerned, so morality isn’t really all that important to him.

Trump isn't religious. But the inbred evangelical Christian fundamentalists out there will eat up whatever the Republican party poops out every single time, in every single election. They're programmed to do so, for some odd reason.

As far as Trump contracting coronavirus, it seems too convenient and opportune.

He may be faking it to garner sympathy and votes. And after his horrible 1st debate performance, I wouldn't put it past him.

Trump has also used his supposed coronavirus infection as an excuse to get out of a 2nd presidential debate. Even he knows by now that it would only hurt him as soon as he opens his big mouth.

However, whether he is faking it or not, he is looking like a chump either way since he has been defying lockdowns, quarantines and the wearing of masks. He boasted about his BIG CAMPAIGN RALLIES, as opposed to Joe Biden, who Trump ridiculed as sitting in a basement with no popular support. Now, Trump is paying the price for his recklessness, arrogance and hubris; if he indeed really was infected.

Since his suspiciously quick recovery, he has been passing himself off as a superman hero and a victim-survivor, and thinks this makes him even more great and special.

That’s what it has always been, and is all about for him: Make the Trump Brand Great Again.

Trump’s self-centered behavior is a reflection of a deeper problem.

US power is waning, and the US regimes have begun to display an acute paranoia which makes them well tuned-in to anyone or anything that refuses to do their bidding or shows any disloyalty.

As a result, the Trump regime has now turned to harming and destroying things and people it once tolerated, or didn’t even pay attention to before. Everything bothers them now. And everyone who doesn’t kiss their ass has become a national security treat; from uppity journalists who dare to criticize criminal government dealings, foreign media that dares to have an opinion about anything in the US, to foreign governments and organizations who point out Trump’s blunders. No one is above suspicion.

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Shouting Match--Part 1

The first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden has come and gone.

But it was more of a shouting match than a debate.

If anyone still had any faith in any semblance of decency and civility that remained in the US body politic, then last night’s performance by the two candidates dispelled it.

The pathetic and lying Biden and Trump the clown both talked over each other, interrupted one another, and launched personal attacks at each other the whole time.

It was an ugly and embarrassing spectacle.

Most of what was said by both was based on rumors, out-of-context narratives, and hypocrisy.

Trump was definitely the worse of the two. He made himself look like a petulant juvenile with his constant interjections and interruptions.

Both candidates refused to address their own failures and shady dealings, and take responsibility for their mistakes. They are both convinced that they are right about everything.

Trump, while complaining about the rise in suicides, drug abuse, and divorces due to the COVID19 lockdowns, launched a cheap attack on Biden’s son who had to leave the army because of a drug problem.

Biden still clung to the discredited Russiagate hoax and called Trump ‘Putin’s puppy.’

Trump questioned Biden about the Obama regime's withholding of loans from Ukraine, if it didn’t stop the investigation into Burisma Holdings and Biden's son’s presence on the board of that company; a situation which certainly reeks of nepotism and influence-peddling.

Biden demanded that Trump release his tax returns, which is something Biden already did. Trump obfuscated, as expected.

The finger-pointing went on all evening. Nothing new was offered other than promises that have been offered for decades and never kept.

What was truly missing from the debate was a 3rd party candidate in the center of the stage between these two geriatric gargoyles.

It is so sad that the US, which touts itself as the greatest democracy in the world, has only two parties to choose from. And it has been this way for 177 years. There’s something profoundly wrong with this. There is no such longevity in politics unless it’s forced.

The only winner in last night’s debate was Chris Wallace, the moderator, who probably needed a couple of Advils, or shots of whiskey to get rid of the headache- and heartache-after seeing those two cranks bicker for 90 minutes.

It is true that Trump’s performance as president, and debater, was disastrous.

He has withdrawn from treaties, which has upped tensions and made the world less safe.

His tariffs on China, the EU, and Canada are backfiring after the WTO recently ruled that Trump broke the law and that China, Canada, and the EU now have the right to slap multi-billion-dollar tariffs on the US in response.

His mean-spirited and bullying behavior against the protesters have also made things worse, and at no time did he attempt to calm things down and try to talk to anyone like an adult. He just issued angry and threatening tweets.

For the years he has been in power, Trump has made veiled bigoted references and gestures which emboldened the racist element within US society, giving them an inferred license to do and say things they otherwise would not do, along with a false feeling of immunity from the consequences.

This sense of bravado and culture of impunity engendered by Trump could very well have been the catalyst for what happened to George Floyd. Overzealous cops who sympathize with Trump, and feel encouraged by his antics, no doubt think they have a carte-blanche to indulge their sadistic urges upon whoever they see as bad. They think that Trump has their backs, regardless of what they do.

But is Trump personally coming to these cops rescue after they get themselves in trouble? No.

Trump has a long history of exploiting others, then leaving them in a lurch after something goes wrong. The man is only concerned with his own image and self-preservation. This has been the story of his sordid life so far.

This has all caused chaos in an already unstable and divided country.

The Democrats have exploited the chaos for their own ends, but don’t have any new ideas to deal with it.

Biden’s plans and promises are unoriginal, and just election-year talking points.

He has spent decades screwing the people he supposedly wants to help.

The entire Democratic party staunchly refuses to change. They have railroaded other candidates from their own party, and for decades helped squash the efforts of 3rd party candidates to get on the ballot in states.

The choices in this election are horrible and hopeless. Nothing will get better regardless of which one gets elected.

Trump certainly deserves to lose, but Biden doesn’t deserve to win.

Thursday, September 17, 2020

Open Season

It seems to be open season on Russia lately, with false accusations and verdicts raining down on it.

Faced with their own internal incompetence and failures, the US and EU have no other cards to play.

First and foremost, we have the Navalny poisoning hoax that gets stranger everyday.

The people who concocted this seem to be coming up with new evidence every week, but they also seem to be discounting and ignoring any part of the story which doesn’t fit with their pre-arranged conclusion that the Russian government is responsible.

That Navalny may have health problems that could cause unconsciousness, for which there is actual evidence, is being ignored by the poisoning story pushers.

For instance, Navalny’s handlers are now touting as new evidence a supposed water bottle in Navalny’s hotel room that was deemed to be contaminated with the novichok nerve agent.

This water bottle was collected by one of Navalny’s handlers when he left the hotel.

However, questions arise.

First, Navalny didn’t fall ill until he was on the plane. So if that water bottle was tainted with Novichok, then Navalny would’ve never left that hotel alive, and neither would any of his handlers if they came into contact with him, or the bottle.

Second, how did a water bottle with water still in it, get on the plane? Isn’t there a restriction on bringing liquids on-board? So how did this bottle slip by? And if it was empty, why bring it? Wouldn't this bottle get tossed out at the gate area?

Third, why did this water bottle just become available now? Why wasn’t it submitted for analysis to the hospital after Navalny fell ill and was rushed to the hospital?

Did the bottle still contain water, or was it already empty? If it still had water in it, then taking it along is not suspicious, but if it was, then why keep an empty water bottle? But again, why was no one affected by the alleged poison earlier?

Fourth, why keep other things that would normally be thrown out? Possibly to taint them later on?

And finally, why did Navalny’s handlers recently state that it was thanks to the pilot that Navalny was saved, and downplayed the treatment at the hospital that actually saved his life?

By ignoring the efforts of the Russian doctors and medical staff on the ground, could Navalny’s handlers and their conspirators be trying to invalidate and nullify any and all data from that medical facility, since it contradicts their poisoning lies?

Let’s remember that they wanted Navalny to be immediately transported to Germany. Having him checked into a Russian hospital and his blood samples taken was not what they wanted to happen.

Why the insistence on transporting him to Germany first, which is a long trip? Maybe they knew he wasn’t actually in serious danger, and would be okay during the trip? Maybe they had an antidote for whatever fake drug was administered to him to mimic novichok, and a private flight would’ve been the ideal place to administer it at their convenience without prying eyes, thereby curing him?

After all it doesn’t look legit when a supposed victim of an allegedly government-sanctioned assassination attempt by nerve agent poisoning doesn’t die within minutes, is allowed to get an emergency landing, is rescued at a hospital, is allowed to leave Russia, and recovers. These five things wouldn’t happen if anyone in the Russian government wanted him dead.

Germany officially deemed Navalny to be the victim of novichok nerve agent poisoning, and has demanded that Russia conduct an investigation into what happened to Navalny, or face sanctions.

However, Germany has ignored all evidence Russia submitted, demands that Russia investigate this incident, but refuses to share its evidence with Russia, and wants an international investigation without Russia's participation. Navalny also doesn't want Russia to help in any investigation. What does all this tell us?

This is quite a strange version of western jurisprudence. Germany is being blatantly contradictory and evasive here. Why?

Whoever peddles this wobbly and constantly shifting Navalny poisoning story is either a liar, or is being lied to. And what they are doing is despicable and wrong, and in the end it will backfire badly on them, not on Russia or Vladimir Putin.

As the plot falters and the details – along with new evidence - become more implausible, the conspirators behind this Navaly poisoning farce are doubling-down on their lies with more lies. It's either this, or they have to admit the truth.

But they won't, and can't do the latter. As with the Skripals, the lie has gone too far. What will happen now is that the lie will have to fizzle out over time by inertia and be squelched as new problems arise. No one ever will know who did what at the end, with just an insinuation left hanging that Russia did it, without any credible, verifiable evidence to back it up. But as long as the right amount of sanctions are passed against Russia, the culprits won't care.

What will happen is that Germany, along with the rest of the EU, the US, and the corrupt OPCW are going to initiate an international investigation, but one which will only include those who have bought the Navalny novihok poisoning story, and closed to everyone who questions any part of it.

It is evident that the investigation will be a sham, biased against Russia, and reach an already decided-upon conclusion that serves the political whims of the people who are making up this Navalny farce.

This all seems to fly in the face of Germany’s best interests. The worsening of relations with Russia is not beneficial to it in the long-term. Yet, Merkel seems to be doing a Kabuki dance. What’s going on? Did someone get to her? Does someone have anything on her?

Unfortunately, Germany is still tied to the US too much. The BND (German intel service) is basically a subsidiary of the CIA, and many people in Germany still rely on subservience to the US for their careers, paychecks, and lives.

There is a heated battle going on in Germany between the old cold war-era Russophobes (children and grand-children of bitter ex-Nazis and their sympathizers) and those who want to move on and do business with Russia. It is hard to tell who has the upper hand right now. Time will tell.

It cannot be ruled out that this was some false flag perpetrated by private persons whose motivations are commercial and financial, and who want to target Russia for their own nefarious, self-serving reasons. And they appear to have allies in certain governments who are colluding with them.

What are the motivations of those who put together this poisoning farce?


Nord Stream 2

The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline has been a bone of contention between Germany and the US.

The US regime of Donald Trump, and the previous Obama regime, did not like the fact that this pipeline will deliver more Russian gas to the EU, thereby generating billions in revenue for Russia.

The US has been seeking to politicize the entire project by scaring the participants with notions that the NS2 project will enslave Europe to Russia.

But the US regime’s real desire is to see the EU dump Russian gas supplies for more expensive US LNG.

To that end, the US has enlisted the help of compliant lackeys like Poland, Baltic states, and to some extent Denmark and certain parts of the German establishment to lobby against the pipeline’s construction.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, along with the dimwitted Trump, have been threatening all companies involved with sanctions. They have been doing everything to block this project for some years now.

Pompeo remarked a few months ago that the US will do everything to stop the construction of the NS2 pipeline.

And voila! Navalny suddenly gets poisoned, and immediately there are calls to cancel the NS2 project from the US and its faithful lackeys in the EU.

How convenient!

If this Navalny poisoning farce leads to the cancellation of Nord Stream 2, then Russia should stop piping gas to the rest of Europe through Poland and Ukraine. Enough is enough. If they don't like Russian gas going through pipelines in the EU, then they won't have them. They can connect to South Stream, Turk Stream, or buy Russian LNG (still cheaper than US). Or they can buy expensive LNG from the US and the filthy zionists and watch their economies suffer and become less competitive.

The Germans could simply be bluffing, and just want to rattle Russia to give in politically regarding Belarus; and are using the threat of canceling NS2 to get Russia to abandon Lukashenko and let the EU have its way there. However, Germany won't abandon the project, as it is vital for its economy. Putin should call their bluff.

And why is it that NS2 is bad, yet piping Russian gas through Poland and Ukraine is okay? Why isn’t Trump threatening Poland and Ukraine with sanctions for transporting Russian gas to the EU?

Transit fees, anyone?


COVID19 Vaccine

Russia is the first country to develop and mass-produce an effective COVID19 vaccine.

This is an obvious threat to western pharmaceutical companies profits. Those who have an effective vaccine can hold the rest of the world at their mercy.

Much can be gotten from desperate countries as far as favors go.

By giving the world an inexpensive alternative, Russia has destroyed the future profits of western pharma.

The Navalny poisoning hoax serves as a good tool to scare people away from the Russian Sputnik V vaccine to erode trust in any Russian-made medicines, and suggest that the Sputnik V vaccine could kill you. This would obviously serve the financial interests of US and EU pharmaceutical companies.


Belarus

The recently attempted color revolution in Belarus has failed, due to Russia’s political and diplomatic intervention.

The staunchly and blindly pro-western candidate received only 10% of the vote, yet passed herself off as the winner, according to her own private poll.

The US and their EU myrmidons duly recognized her as the president, a rehash of their flirting with the un-elected western stooge Guiado in Venezuela.

Belarus, with its $150 billion in annual revenue is ripe for the plucking. Its industries are low-hanging fruit for the western vultures, along with the IMF and the World Bank.

Dragging Belarus into the western orbit and the EU and NATO would be a serious strategic threat to Russia, because it would bring US military forces a couple of hundred kilometers from Moscow.

Therefore, Belarus is a prime target for regime change. By preventing this scenario, which was planned ahead of time before the Belarusian elections, and accompanied by false flags and other strange incidents sponsored by western intel and NGO outfits, Russia has seriously upset US and NATO strategic plans of undermining Russia.

The people who created this poisoning farce may also be trying to make Navalny into some sort of a living hero-martyr within Russia, and raise his popularity and electoral chances; in tandem with their bought-and-paid-for Belarusian marionette housewife pretend-president.


China

Russia’s strategic partnership with China is a nightmare for US world hegemony. Ever since Russia and China initiated their strategic and economic cooperation in 2007, the US has been trying to undo this by sanctions and threats.

The Ukrainian Maidan in 2014 was one semi-successful attempt at doing so.

But as China grows stronger and the US weaker, this naturally also strengthens Russia’s stance.

The US has been employing all sorts of dirty tricks and false flags to weaken and isolate Russia in order to pressure it politically to abandon China.

Accusing Russia of having a hand in the shootdown of MH17, Skripal poisoning farce (right before the 2018 World Cup in Russia), colluding with Assad to use chemical weapons in Syria (everytime when Syrians were winning on the ground), paying bounty to the Taliban to kill US soldiers, and now the Navalny poisoning hoax; all these absurdities and lies have been created to bring Russia down diplomatically, politically, and economically.

The aim is to weaken Russia to the point that it will relent, and do what the US and the EU want.

But this will not happen. Russia and China both see through the plot, and won’t allow themselves to be dictated to.

Those days are over.


Dollar

Russia has been moving away from the dollar in trade and financial transactions. Since last year, its share of dollar holdings has fallen significantly.

By dumping the dollar, Russia is basically refusing to recycle US debt, which makes it more difficult for the US to stay afloat, and afford its empire of military bases. China has been doing the same, hence Trump’s sanctions tantrums.

The Navalny poisoning farce has occurred right after, or in the midst of these events mentioned above. The timing is quite convenient, but not for Russia, which has nothing to gain by poisoning a political nobody with 2% public support and strange, xenophobic ideas.

Russia should launch an investigation, and announce that Navalny was most likely poisoned by a British or US agent, or perhaps one of his assistants, and demand that these countries provide answers, or devastating sanctions will follow. If anyone wants proof, Russian government should say it’s classified. Two can play this game.

Apart from the Navalny poisoning farce, the Polish government, led by the pro-US, anti-Russian PiS party, has demanded the arrest of the Russian air traffic controllers at the Smolensk airport, who were on-duty the day that the Polish Tupolev with Polish President Lech Kaczynski and other officials on-board, crashed due to poor visibility in 2010.

The anti-Russian forces for 10 years have been trying to come up with all sorts of convincing absurdities to pin the blame on the Russian side.

They have accused Russia of planting a bomb on-board the plane, of shooting it down, of directing the plane to land on a 2nd runway, even though the airport had only one runway, deliberately creating 1,500km of artificial heavy fog to cause the crash, and of accusing the previous President Donald Tusk of conspiring to murder Lech Kaczynski, who was his political foe.

Now, the Polish regime has accused the Russian air traffic controllers of deliberately directing the plane in such a way to make it crash.

The fact is that the people who are responsible for that plane crashing all died on it that day, and the investigation ended the moment that plane hit the ground.

Evidence from the black boxes shows that the pilot insisted on landing the plane in bad weather, even after Russian air controllers advised him to go to another airport.

But some impatient people on-board may have forced him to make that fatal landing, because they didn’t want to be late for a ceremony at the Katyn memorial.

The Polish side doesn’t want to admit that the actions of the pilot, possibly under pressure from the president, who was a member of the same party which controls Poland today, cause this catastrophe. Doing so would be very embarrassing, politically suicidal, not to mention open up a heap of wrongful death lawsuits.

Better to just blame Russia, without offering any credible evidence.

Another constant thing about these strange events and false accusations against Russia is that they always seem to come at a time when Russia experiences any sort of an economic, political, or diplomatic victory, or any successes.

The social and economic turmoil in the US, and the upcoming presidential election there is also adding fuel to this mayhem, and is causing the failing US establishment to make up fake news and trouble anywhere it is convenient.

In the end, when looking at all these false accusations and farces, it all comes down to who benefits.

And as it has been shown here, it definitely isn’t Russia.

Much about these poisoning hoaxes and other lies just doesn't add up, and there are too many glaring omissions and holes in the official stories pushed by the people who peddle and promote them. The accused never get a chance to defend themselves, and any evidence they provide to do so it ignored. 

These so-called internationally-led investigations, MH17 crash, Skripal, Smolensk, and Navalny, have all been/will be kangaroo courts with pre-determined, political verdicts. There is no justice to be had there for the falsely accused.

Let’s now hear from the venerable Mark Twain, and what he had to say about the crop of bastards that are really responsible for such nonsense:

"“We are of the Anglo-Saxon race, and when the Anglo-Saxon wants a thing he just takes it.”

That utterance was applauded to the echo. There were perhaps seventy-five civilians present and twenty-five military and naval men. It took those people nearly two minutes to work off their stormy admiration of that great sentiment; and meanwhile the inspired prophet who had discharged it–from his liver, or his intestines, or his esophagus, or wherever he had bred it–stood there glowing and beaming and smiling, and issuing rays of happiness from every pore–rays that were so intense that they were visible, and made him look like the old-time picture in the almanac of the man who stands discharging signs of the zodiac in every direction, and so absorbed in happiness, so steeped in happiness, that he smiles and smiles, and has plainly forgotten that he is painfully and dangerously ruptured and exposed amidships, and needs sewing up right away.

The soldier man’s great utterance, interpreted by the expression which he put into it, meant, in plain English–

“The English and the Americans are thieves, highwaymen, pirates, and we are proud to be of the combination.”

Out of all the English and Americans present, there was not one with the grace to get up and say he was ashamed of being an Anglo-Saxon, and also ashamed of being a member of the human race, since the race must abide under the presence upon it of the Anglo-Saxon taint. I could not perform this office."

--Mark Twain

Sunday, September 6, 2020

Poisonous Trumpian Diplomacy

The US has suffered some humiliating diplomatic and political defeats in the past month.

The attempt by Pompeo to trigger UN snap-back sanctions on Iran on September 20th was really a power-play aimed mainly against Russia and China.

US wants to force its own edicts on them. The EU states have also refused to go along with US anti-Iranian temper tantrums.

But it doesn’t really matter what the EU does or doesn’t do.

Let’s not forget that even though the EU says that it is still in the deal, and has refused to toe the US line at the UN, it has up to now succumbed to US pressure and stopped doing business with Iran since 2018. So the EU can afford to snub the US as it has nothing to lose anymore. The EU is having it both ways; staying in the JCPOA while not abiding by it.

The US is doing all this to get the JCPOA annulled.

But there is also another angle to this.

The EU, Russia, China, and many others definitely have Trump fatigue, and want to see him go. So the EU may just resist Pompeo’s demented and illegal dictates, and refuse to succumb to any further sanctions pressure, like it has been doing in order to deny Trump any sort of a diplomatic victory, further embarrass him, and isolate his regime. By doing so, the EU hopes that this will make Trump look weak and erode his chances of winning re-election.

Any US attempts to trigger the snap-back will fail, but will also cause problems for the authority of the UN. The US has no legal right to trigger sanctions since it left the JCPOA in 2018. Yet, if it forces a clearly illegal mandate onto the rest, and succeeds, then what will come next? It may force its own laws and dictates as UN law by citing any absurd reason.

The best option will be for the rest of the UNSC members, as well as Iran, is to stick to their guns and basically ignore US demands as having no legal merit, and call the US bluff.

The US regime is simply trying to intimidate enough people to make an illegal act legal. By ignoring the US, they will call Pompeo’s bluff, and US will be left with a strike three.

Another example of diplomacy-on the-cheap is the recent UAE-zionist deal Trump helped to broker.

This so-called deal is just a pathetic consolation prize over the failed 'Peace Plan' Trump tried to roll out. No one was going to go for it. So Trump has been reduced to squeezing out pointless favors from 2nd rate Gulf state vassals to make himself look good. He hasn't had one single quality foreign policy success yet, and is just trying to make up for it with poor substitutes, like the Kosovo deal.

Trump's presidency has degenerated into running errands for the zionists. This is so incredibly sad.

Along with this, we have the Navalny poisoning, which reeks of fraud, just like the Skripal poisoning in 2018.

By insinuation and innuendo, Russia is being accused of trying to poison Navalny with the novichok nerve agent, again without any credible evidence.

But why would Russia want to do so at this time, against a person who has very little popular support, fail to kill him with a lethal nerve agent, save his life in a hospital, then allow him to be transported to Germany for a diagnosis?

If Russia wanted him dead, there are many more subtle and convincing ways to do it.

And right away, we have the usual suspects demanding the cancellation of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project, as punishment for Russia poisoning a political dissident.

We can see who stands to gain from this so-called poisoning plot, and it isn’t Russia and Putin.

Let’s not forget that before this latest poisoning drama, Mike Pompeo declared that the US will do everything to stop the Nord Stream 2 project.

Some years earlier, Mike Pompeo told an interviewer that at the CIA, he was taught to lie, cheat, and steal.

Whatever happened to Navalny was either caused by him taking something, or by health problems possibly brought on by diabetes, with which he has had issues with in the past.

But nefarious people in the anti-Russian camp are dressing all this up to look like a poisoning for self-serving political purposes.

It took a week and a half for this poisoning diagnosis to be announced by a German hospital, and only after Navalny’s care was suspiciously taken over by the German army and NATO.

Navalny’s condition was not the result of a poisoning. It looks like a setup to punish Russia for its refusal to support UN sanctions on Iran, for being the first to develop and roll out a working COVID19 vaccine, and for preventing another Maidan scenario in Belarus.

This is a pattern that has been evident for years. Whenever Russia achieves a diplomatic, strategic, or economic victory or an accomplishment of any kind, suddenly some bad incident occurs that is blamed on Russia to make it look bad.

We saw that before the World Cup in March 2018 with the Skripal farce, and we are seeing it now with the Navalny farce.

Recently, Belarus signals intelligence intercepted a voice communication between a Polish individual and an English speaker where details of this Navalny poisoning were discussed, and how this is to be used against Russia.

But none of this nonsense will succeed. The lack of proof, and the refusal of the accusers to cooperate, and provide Russia with any evidence to prove their poisoning hypothesis will turn this entire affair into a nothingburger.

This is all clearly a lie being used against Russia by the US and its lackeys for obvious purposes. This can only fool the Russophobe morons, but has no validity behind it.


The US also has a tradition of snuffing out a failing/failed patsy. Having built them up with lots of PR, pomp, and cash to no avail, they become more useful when hurt or killed, if and when they fail to reach their assigned objectives. Their demise is then used as a political cudgel against whatever government or leader the US regime doesn't like in that country.

This is just a warning for all aspiring US wannabe tools: think about what you are doing, or the US may dispose of you, if you're no longer useful to them. They cannot afford to have a disgruntled ex-patsy walking around out there, talking to someone about their experiences. You will end up shot, poisoned, ran over, or turned into a comatose vegetable.

Thursday, August 13, 2020

Maidan Makers Strike Again

The recent presidential elections in Belarus have delivered another term for incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko.

This will be his 6th term since he was first elected in 1994, and accusations of vote-rigging and a supposed crackdown on opposition candidates has generated street protests and violence in Minsk and other cities.

The opposition has cried foul, and announced that Lukashenko cheated, and that their candidate, a housewife named Svetlana Tikhanovskaya won 70% of the vote. Her husband, who was a candidate, is currently in detention for financial crimes.

All this makes Lukashenko look undemocratic and dictatorial.

But where have we seen this before?

For all the paeans about democracy, and concerns about free elections and human rights coming out of Warsaw and other EU state capitals, it is laughable to think that these people care about democracy.

After all, look at Ukraine. The ‘pro-democratic’ opposition turned it into a basket case in every way imaginable. Ukraine today is in worse shape than it was 25 years ago.

Journalists have been killed, minorities treated with disdain, and neo-fascist nationalist fervor has been strong since 2014. Yet, the EU and US grand-poobahs say and do nothing about it. They just feed Ukraine money and weapons.

As for anyone who has to this point been spell-bound by the opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya’s cuddly gestures and playing victim, needs to check her platform.

She wants to take Belarus back to the early 1990s when oligarchs ran the place, and return to the western-imposed, neo-liberal constitution from before 1994.

She also wants to end the Belarus-Russia Union State and other cooperation, and give the country over to the US/EU/NATO gang.

Being an inexperienced shill, she would be a very easy play-thing in the hands of the western powers.

We can see that her bread is being buttered by the same thieves and con-men that put the creatures in Kiev in power.

In the aftermath of the elections, she went to Lithuania, an EU/NATO lackey. This is further proof of who controls her.

Besides, the opposition realistically has about 12% support, so the notion that the opposition candidate got 70% of the vote is questionable, at best.

These protests were standard fare during every presidential election in Belarus since Lukashenko came along.

And the line that Lukashenko has been in office too long and has gone stale are quite disingenuous coming from any politicians and pro-democracy activists in the west, as well as their Belarussian promoters.

Look at Poland. It has had pretty much the same people in government for 20-30 years. They just keep on switching parties and coalitions, and official positions.

Add to that the fact that the recent presidential elections there weren’t entirely on the up-and-up, with complaints about people being unable to vote overseas, other candidates not being given enough campaign time, deliberately being kept out of public television, and some smeared by the ruling PiS party.

The situation is no better in the US where the same faces have been around for decades and just keep on changing job descriptions. Biden, Pelosi, and their republican counterparts keep on popping up here and there. Different titles, but the same old stale agendas and no change worth talking about.

No term limits guarantee that many will die in office.

Both parties in the US are guilty of stonewalling 3rd party candidates and doing everything to keep them from having their say.

The president of Montenegro, a newly-minted NATO lackey, is led by a guy who has been in power for 20 years, but no complaints there from the pro-western crowd.

And what about all the dictators and sheiks in Arab Gulf countries that the US regimes do business with?

What about the zionist state in Palestine? The same guy, Bibi Nothingyahoo, has been prime minister for a total of at least a few decades now. Past officials there have moved from one position to another.

The situation is the same in many other countries.

The west doesn’t like Lukashenko because he refuses to be their puppet, and keeps Belarus on an independent course, refused to sell the country out cheap, and maintained good relations with Russia.

He is responsible for rejuvenating Belarussian society and economy, and today Belarussian education, healthcare, and industry is in good shape.

Belarus puts its Polish and Baltic neighbors to shame in some respects when it comes to economic performance, as Lukashenko did not just mothball and sell off public enterprises to western interests after the fall of the USSR. Belarus today still has something it can call its own, unlike Poland and other EU-member states which were forced to give up, sell off, and close down their industries.

Lukashenko seems not to want his efforts to go to waste, and it is why he’s acting as tough as he is. People need to understand this. Would you want someone else coming in and destroying what you have built over many long years?

Lukashenko may be at times unpleasant and crude, but he’s like that horrid-tasting, but effective medicine one has to take to get well.

Those who are protesting and striking in Belarus are not doing themselves any favors.

They are either naive fools who have bought western propaganda hook, line and sinker, or paid provocateurs sent to destroy the country.

These strikers and protesters are like the Polish KOR (Komitet Obrony Robotnikow) or Committee for the Protection of Workers. It was an opposition outfit sponsored by western powers during Poland’s socialist days. Their job was to induce strikes, gain control of factories in order to sabotage them, ruin Poland’s economy, and cause mass social discontent against the socialist government.

We are seeing similar things in Belarus today.

US and EU want to gain control of Belarus so they can turn it into an EU neo-colony, a NATO base, and another anti-Russian stick, like Poland.

In such a position, the Belarussian people will deeply regret it. Their jobs will evaporate, unemployment will soar, their industries will be sold off or closed down, the country will be saddled with IMF loans, picked clean for pennies, a productive and successful farming sector decimated, prices for everything will go up hundreds of percent while wages stagnate, or are lowered, and taxes raised and new ones created.

The loss of business with Russia will compound these problems many-fold, and all those empty promises of 2,000 Euros per month in salaries will prove to be just an illusion. Others were promised this, and ended up disappointed.

This is the same reality that resulted from the Maidan coup d’etat in Ukraine in 2014.

Belarussians can expect the same thing. They are deluded if they think that the west will solve all their problems and make Belarus into some kind of a paradise.

With all the failures and problems in the EU and US, how can anyone believe in, and trust the empty promises of these two charlatans?

Belarus has no worthwhile, long-term future to look forward to as a US/EU/NATO lackey.

That is why all the Belarussian oppositionists and reformers are not worth a damn. They are sell-outs, and future oligarchs in reformist clothing.

Bear in mind that Belarus is the only country out of the former Soviet states that does not have a firmly-rooted oligarch class. Lukashenko prevented this, and this only helped the country’s development.

Lukashenko certainly can talk to the opposition, but any and all discussions, decisions, and reforms must benefit Belarussians, not some shady foreign interests and institutions.

And anyone who works on-behalf of the US and EU to the detriment of Belarus must be dealt with harshly. There is no room for such traitors and scumbags within Belarus.

There is also an element of danger to all this.

The US, EU, and especially Poland want to see Belarus incorporated into the NATO axis in order to pressure and confront Russia.

Poland specifically is on an anti-Russian, messianic mission to become the dominant power in Eastern Europe. It is a battle that it has fought, and lost to Russia 350 years ago.

This could lead to a future war in Central Europe. A war which Poland and NATO cannot win.

So if countries like Poland, Ukraine, and the Baltic states want to survive in any shape or form, they better  stop meddling in Belarussian internal affairs, and stop stirring up problems and subversion. And they better not assume that because they’re in NATO that they will get through it unscathed.

So Lukashenko could very well be the boulder which prevents all this, so it’s best to leave him be. Better him than war.

Lukashenko has tried to steer an independent course for Belarus, and this has ticked off not only the US/EU gang, but Russia itself. But that is Lukashenko’s and Belarussia’s prerogative, and needs to be respected.

But there will be no Maidans in Belarus. These protests will fizzle out, and Belarus will remain independent. Lukashenko still has a decent amount of support and many Belarussians don’t want to see Belarus become another Ukraine, and a NATO/US lackey.

But if the EU and US provoke Lukashenko with sanctions and other such nonsense, then they will push him toward Russia-which is a better option anyways.

What is clear, is that the longer these so-called democracy protests go on, the more we see the usual suspects and paid promoters come out of the woodwork. They are exposing themselves to the Belarussian security services and police for an easy scoop-up. 

Luakshenko's next order of business after this nonsense should be to alter the political and electoral system so that no paid foreign traitors have a chance of ever being elected, like in Iran. 

There needs to be a vetting process to forbid any undesirable persons running for public office whose loyalties lie elsewhere. Heck, even the US has such a vetting process; and Russia just instituted one. As a matter of fact, all US vassal states have a controlled system to ensure that no one unfriendly to US/EU interests every governs there. So why not in Belarus?

It's quite strange that Lukashenko hasn't done this yet. If he did, it would've headed off a lot of problems for him and the country.

Lukashenko's problem is that he allowed himself to be co-opted and cajoled by the EU and US with favors and other enticements. But this was all done to get him to distance himself from Russia.

What happened was that Lukashenko ended up upsetting a major ally, and put himself at the mercy of western US/EU regime change brigade. Their aim was never to be cooperate with Lukashenko or help Belarus. Their mission was to cause problems between Belarus and Russia, weaken its economy, and create popular discontent. Their mission was always to get rid of Lukashenko and create another US/EU/NATO vassal state.

Now, Lukashenko has woken up and realized that he screwed up. He's trying to backpedal and has asked Putin for help. 

Vladimir Putin isn't too happy with how Lukashenko acted, but will nevertheless help him.

Lukashenko better not allow such serious lapses in judgment as he has had in the past 5 years. He almost caused Belarus to go belly up like Ukraine.

After this nonsense settles down, Lukashenko has some major decisions to make.


Friday, July 24, 2020

Twilight of US Power

Pompeo and other US regime lackeys have been running around lately accusing China and Russia of all sorts of nonsense.

From accusing China of trying to ‘take over the world’ to Russia paying the Taliban to kill US soldiers, it’s been a non-stop bullshit-fest in Washington lately.

The UK has also joined in on the fun by issuing its own fact and evidence-free report about ‘Russian influence’ and meddling in Brexit, and even the Scottish independence referendum in 2014.

But interestingly, since Brexit benefits the UK establishment, Russia was let off-the-hook. However, Russia was said to have interfered in the Scottish referendum, since Scottish independence is not in the UK establishment’s interests.

It’s cherry-picking season in the UK.

Maybe this will be the standard operating procedure for the failing UK regimes from now on: blame all problems, and anything that happens that you don’t like, on Russia.

The UK is actually calling Russia nihilistic and paranoid; that Russia will do anything to anyone for political reasons, and that Russia has a zero-sum foreign policy where anything goes, as long as it benefits Russian interests.

This is a clear case of the UK projecting its own mentality and actions onto Russia.

Because for the last 30 years (at least), it is the US, UK that have been the most principal nihilists of all. These two have trampled over anyone and anything to stay on top. In Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yugoslavia, supporting Islamist fanatics in Syria just to undermine a leader they don’t like regardless of how much death and destruction it sows, killing Iranian scientists, engaging in sabotage, worldwide cyber-spying against both foes and vassals-all this is as nihilistic, paranoid and zero-sum as it gets.

Faced with its own internal troubles caused by Brexit, the coronavirus pandemic, and economic problems, the UK establishment is following the bad example of the US and has turned to scapegoat foreigners for its problems. But this has not worked for the US, and won’t work for the UK.

Brexit may have freed the UK from EU control. Now, the UK needs a YANKEXIT to free it from a much worse dependency.

The US is also broke, and in trouble. Record coronavirus cases and deaths, economic problems, skyrocketing unemployment, social unrest, serious divisions, governmental incompetence. All this is leading its inept regime to desperation and scapegoating. This is the strategy of losers.

The problem the US has, is that the only countries left with anything valuable are too strong to be attacked and robbed. The US cannot do it without suffering serious losses and defeat. This is what frustrates them. This is why Pompey has been running around making up nonsense about China. It is all driven by anger, jealousy, resentment, and frustration at having been bested by others.

If, and when the pandemic ends, the US will never again be like it was. It will be a weaker, and a more weary country. This is a turning point in its history, and it will lose more of its influence and power. The US is having problems financing its empire, and is trying to force others to finance it for them. But this won’t work.
 

The US regimes, past and present, have always tried to get a whole lot of something for nothing. This is their Modus Operandi. But people have had enough of being scammed by the evil US empire.

The stale-old propaganda of a ‘democratic and free US’ has worn thin.

For all the democracy promotion, the fact is that all political systems and governments, whether they are elected, self-appointed, or an oligarchy, have pretty much the same internal decision-making processes. Not even a dictator or strongman can just govern by themselves.

If there was so much of a difference between democracies and dictatorships, then there would be very little or no relations between democracies and authoritarian countries and leaders. Democracies would avoid dictatorships like the plague.

But the US does brisk business with 70% of the world’s dictatorships where there is not even a pretense of democracy. Saudi Arabia, UAE, Israel, are just a few of such countries where democracy, human rights, and the rule of law hardly apply, or not at all.

In the same breath, if all these accusations against Russia and China were true, then the US and its lackeys would immediately cut ties with these countries, recall their ambassadors, and would not talk with anyone in Russia and China. If Huawei was really using its equipment to spy on anyone, that equipment would be tossed out immediately, not in 2027-as is the plan currently.

All this just goes to show that the US and the west don’t like a successful competitor that does anything better, especially a non-western one.

The US regime is now at war with its own people. Federal troops are being rushed to cities to quell protests using violence. This will not end well.

We must look at the recent false accusations, lies and threats against Russia, China, Iran and others by the US regime in this context. It is all a dishonest and feeble attempt to distract the US populace from their real problems, and redirect their ire from the real scumbags who are responsible for their plight, and onto a convenient, foreign ‘other.’

Most people in the US don't really know what's going on. They tell themselves lies to feel better about living in a messed up country that is failing left and right. Instead of blaming other countries for their own incompetence, they should maybe learn about other countries and see what they're doing right and adopt some of their ideas? But no, US citizens rather stick their head in the sand, and pretend they're the best. It's all about pretending in the US.

Because as things stand, all the US regimes accusations of foreign meddling all come down to online English-language news articles published by Russian, Chinese and Iranian media outlets that criticize US policies and actions, and air out the USA’s dirty laundry in public. This undermines US propaganda. And that’s what irks the US so much, not any election interference or spying.

As for all the protests, the population of the US cannot count on the US constitution for legal protection. The rights that it guarantees are open to interpretation by the establishment. Any ‘right’ can be nullified under one pretext or another, no matter how flimsy and contradictory.

That’s how the protesters in the US today are being lumped in with violent mobs and labeled as extremists. Once this is done, all rights disappear.

In 1861, a bunch of US citizens wanted to secede from the union because they felt their property rights were being challenged and threatened. But they quickly found out that the right to secede was only on-paper, and was not allowed.

The twilight of the US is here.

The recent behavior of the US regimes is proof that this is so. Strong, confident nations sure of themselves and their future don't act in such unhinged, dishonest, reckless and self-destructive ways.

Welcome to the end, USA!

Saturday, July 11, 2020

I Hate My Neighbor!

I hate my neighbor. He’s an asshole.

My reasons for hating him are superficial, but who cares, right? They’re my reasons, and I don't care if you agree with them or not!


Well, I’m going to get him back!

I’m going to block his garage so he can’t drive anywhere. I will place rocks, blocks, and razor wire in his driveway to prevent him from leaving.

I will use sabotage to make his life miserable. I will sneak into his yard at night to cut and tear out his TV and electrical wiring and components. I will spill noxious substances on his house and destroy his patio furniture.

I will cut his car tires, stick potatoes up the exhaust, and spray brake fluid all over his cars.

I will find out where he lives and tell his boss a bunch of lies so my neighbor loses his job and livelihood.

I will post nasty, horrible lies about him on facebook, You Tube, and other social media about him.

I will tell everyone that I talk to lies about my neighbor so they hate him.

I also make an anonymous phone call to his bank and tell them that my neighbor is involved in illegal activities so that his accounts get flagged and blocked.

I will also call the police and accuse him of all sorts of stuff to keep him busy. I will also have others call the police to do the same. The more people I have backing up my lies, the more effective  my strategy to mess up the life of my neighbor will be.

I will even vandalize my own home and blame it on him.

I will convince my other neighbors to join in. I will bribe them to do so, and threaten those who are hesitant until they agree to go along with me.

I will turn the entire neighborhood, and town, against my rotten neighbor and make his life miserable.

I will attend town council meetings and post notices all over town to demonize him and the horrible things he is doing to me, and my neighbors.

If he tries to retaliate, or defend himself in any way, I will accuse him of terrorism and attempted murder. I will drag him through the courts and have all other neighbors label him a security threat and a criminal.

I will sue him, and garnish his wages so that he goes broke and can’t take care of himself.

I will keep this up until he does what I want.

If he still refuses, I will start messing with his friends and family members. I will do the same things to them!

 

The above text is a parable about what the US is doing to Iran.

Iran is the neighbor, and US is the I.

Sunday, July 5, 2020

Upside-Down History

Faced with serious failures and embarrassments within their own midst, the US establishment has been busy coming up with new lies and accusations against others to escape culpability and scrutiny.

Recently, it has been turning history upside-down by accusing Russia of paying money to the Taliban to kill US forces. It has also been trying to accuse Russian President Vladimir Putin of ‘rehabilitating’ the image of Joseph Stalin.

It is a pathetic and ignorant attempt to superimpose the image of Stalinist Russia onto Russia today. This is done to paint Russia as evil, and justify acts of sedition, and justify foreign interference and regime change.

The exposure of US failures and its own distasteful past, as well as Russia’s recent constitutional referendum which saw a US-imposed constitution annulled and replaced by an all-Russian version, free of foreign-imposed limitations, certainly could have something to do with these recent false accusations.

Both these absurd claims are done from spite and desperation.

Since May, the US has been racked with protests which have shown the ugly face of US society, and its bloody and abhorrent history.

Numerous monuments to slave traders, imperialists, colonizers and other persons of dubious merit have been toppled. This has exposed those so-called ‘heroes’ for what they really were, and undermined a sacrosanct niche of the US propaganda myth. People all over the world are noticing and asking questions.

Faced with embarrassment, the desperate US establishment is countering with lies and false accusations against others.

The evidence-free accusation that Russia is paying the Taliban to kill US soldiers rings particularly hollow and hypocritical when one takes into account the sordid history of the US in backing the Taliban movement since the late 1970s.


Ronald Reagan meeting with the Afghan Taliban in the White House

It was the US, together with its Pakistani, Saudi, Israeli, and assorted European buddies that supported, armed, trained, encouraged and PAID the Afghan Mujahideen - who later made up the nucleus of the Taliban and Al Qaeda – to kill Soviet troops in the 1980s.

It was the US and its buddies who, after the Soviets withdrew, allowed the Taliban to fester and gain strength.

It was the US who gave billions of dollars in 'aid' to the Pakistani ISI to fight terrorism, but the money ended up supporting the Taliban and pro-Taliban sympathizers in Pakistani intelligence and the military.
 

It was the US that invaded Afghanistan in 2001 and put its troops in harm’s way. 

It is the US that insists on keeping them there, making them a daily target.

No. It wasn’t the Russians who paid the Taliban to kill US troops.

It was the US who paid the Taliban to kill US troops, and still does! And no one deserves this blame more than the US itself!

As for accusing Russia and Putin of rehabilitating Stalin, read this article, especially the last paragraph:

So, what is Russia’s situation today? Well, NATO has expanded its membership to include every former member state of the Warsaw Pact, not to mention former republics of the USSR, promised membership to Ukraine and Georgia, and conducted almost daily military exercises in the Baltic and Black Seas. The United States has walked away from the Anti-Ballistic Missiles, Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces and Open Skies treaties. And there is a constant barrage of anti-Russian propaganda emanating from many Western capitals. With all that in mind, perhaps it isn’t surprising that Russians, while they certainly don’t want Stalin back, look with admiration and respect upon a leader who protected them from foreign aggressors.1

So, yes. Not only is the US ultimately responsible for the Taliban killing US soldiers in Afghanistan, but because of its anti-Russian antics the US is also responsible for any sympathy for Stalin within Russia today.

The US has been turning history, reality and facts upside down for years. It has also been projecting its own sins and crimes onto others.

The US has been the best agent of its own destruction.

But turning history upside-down is not going to exonerate anyone in the US regime, past and present.

The jig is up. The US will now have to answer for its historical faults and lies, and it is being exposed by its own public.

And the more lies it pushes, the more it will be hated.




 

Sources:


1. Russia Today - https://www.rt.com/op-ed/493667-rehabilitating-stalin-msm-russia/

Monday, June 22, 2020

The Room Where Bad Things Happened


Trump's renegade ex-national security advisor John Bolton has caused quite a stir with the publishing of his book 'The Room Where it Happened: A White House Memoir.'

Predictably, Trump has been running around with his hair (or what's left of it) on fire, threatening Bolton with lawsuits and confiscation of all his book royalties.

John Bolton must not be in any way rehabilitated, like has been happening with Dubya since Trump came along. 

John Bolton firmly believes in unchallenged US global hegemony by any means necessary. Wars based on lies, threats, terrorism of any kind, betrayal of vassals and lackeys, massacres of civilians; all are fair game to him, all are valid means to this end.

And then this bloody Neo-con ghoul turns around and whines about China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet and the Uighurs; the latter being a US concern for some reason lately. Maybe the CIA has ran out of Islamist dimwits to recruit since China put them all to meaningful work in factories and schools. Now there’s no one the CIA can use to bomb post offices or maybe a bar in Beijing. Whatever shall we do…

Deluded warmongering ideologues like Bolton can publish all the whiny, hypocritical and self-serving/soothing screeds they want, as long as they realize one important truth: US power is waning. China’s is growing. China has called Trump’s bluffs left and right. They’re not afraid of him or the US military. US dreams of subjugating China ended on the day that China signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Russia. Since then, the US can only huff and puff and bloviate. China has become ‘too big to fail.’ 

 
But to digress for a moment.

NATO officials and ideologues are not scared of Russia per se. They’re also not scared of a Russian invasion because they know that Russia isn’t interested in any wars and invasions. What they’re scared to death of is what will Russia do if it is attacked. How much damage will NATO forces sustain if they attempt a first strike on Russia. This is what keeps NATO strategists and paid Russophobe propagandists at bay.

Trump is threatening to de-couple the US from China and end relations. This is laughable, but it is actually China that has been ‘de-coupling’ from the US for some years now.

And Trump’s reckless and upside-down way of dealing with China’s economic power is not going to win him anything in the long-run.

Because Trump has committed a fundamental mistake: he is trying to punish China for its successes, and hold it accountable for the sins and greed of US corporations who decided to outsource manufacturing jobs to China.

Trump is being a coward by scapegoating China. If he truly wants to do something meaningful to bring US jobs back to the US, he would start cracking down on all those US companies who seek tax havens, and all those who outsource and offshore jobs to foreign countries and slap them with big taxes until they return back to the US, instead of slapping China with tariffs, which doesn’t work anyway.

China is in a much more powerful position than a US corporation. Tariffs and other US blockades can be absorbed by the huge Chinese internal consumer market, and China can just buy what it wants from someone else. US corporations don’t have that luxury, since they’re the sellers and need an outlet for their products. Trump can really make them pay up and do the right thing, if he wanted to.

Let’s remember that Trump after he became president threatened US corporations with taxes and fines, unless they repatriate their offshore assets and factory jobs back to the US. Then he backpedaled and ended up giving them huge tax breaks and tax holidays, which they took and used for stock buy-backs. Jobs didn’t return. Then he decided to blame China for everything.

All this so far has led to a bigger deficit, loss of business due to counter-tariffs by China. This has been compounded by Trump’s inept reaction to the COVID19 pandemic, and now he’s threatening protesters with bullets and bombs.

It is a presidency that is unraveling, and a society that is falling apart due to centuries of lies, hypocrisy, contradictions and theft.

It makes no difference whether Trump is re-elected or not. Neither candidate is worth electing. They are both stale, corrupt, out-of-touch creatures.

And where are the 3rd parties in all of this? The US is going through chaos, and many people are disillusioned with the powers-that-be. This is an opportunity for saner people to seize on this weakness and provide a better alternative to the two-party dictatorship.

These 3rd parties are squandering an opportunity that comes along once in a long while. That we hear nothing from them, or about them shows how sad and  unimaginative US political life has become.


John Bolton's book is simply sour grapes over the fact that the US no longer has the power and means to warmonger as it once did, and that strong nations are challenging US control. Ironically, it's thanks to him and his push for the Iraq war, of which he was one of the main architects, that has led to this state of affairs.

It is quite sick that such a notorious individual is even allowed to publish anything and profit off of it.

In a just world, John Bolton would be hauled off to the Hague for war crimes along with his pals Dubya, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld and other Bush II-era scum.

These facts must not be forgotten. John Bolton is a dangerous person and a criminal. 

Read on. 

But let there be no doubt or confusion!

This spat between Trump and Bolton cannot, and should never be used to  exonerate, rehabilitate, or excuse the crimes and evils of either individual. Neither deserves any sympathy, or a 'second look.'

Both Trump and Bolton are products of a sick US society with its imperial war-driven psychopathic complexes.

They both have tons of gallons of blood on their hands up to now. They are both two sides of the same counterfeit coin, and they are both irredeemable.

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Dissecting Western Democracy

The current turmoil in the US due to its systemic, decades-old failures and disregard for the economic, social, and political concerns and rights of its citizens is an opportunity for reflection on the US, and about democracy itself.

Those who have been paying close attention to what has been going on in the world have undoubtedly seen that the US and its democratic vassals have really not been faithful to the core concepts of a true democratic system.

After all, the US isn’t, and never was supposed to be a democracy. It was designed as a Constitutional Republic.

The founding fathers of the US considered democracy to be ‘mob rule,’ and saw it as dangerous. 


The word democracy does not appear in the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. It only became a commonly used slogan during the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt after 1933 to pep-up the miserable US citizenry who was suffering through a debilitating economic depression.

Let’s remember the mantra of the Founding Father John Adams, that the United States was ‘A nation of laws, not men.’

But the problem with those laws was that they were made by wealthy men to benefit their own class interests, first and foremost.

Until the early 20th century, only wealthy US citizens with a certain amount of land were eligible to vote. This locked out the bottom who didn’t have these resources from participating in elections and political life.

This fact may explain the rapacious US expansionism westward, where land was for the taking, and needed by desperate individuals to have any kind of political say and influence.

What the US did do that was ahead of many other nations, is give people who didn’t have political power the opportunity to gain it by claiming land and becoming eligible to vote, and then being able to influence the system. But this still locked out many people who didn’t get that chance.

Black slaves, women, and immigrants were totally excluded from political life.

In the US, political participation and decision-making was from the very beginning a rich man’s privilege, because the American Revolution was a rich man’s revolution. It was a revolution from the top-down.

Sure, the poor farmer rabble were cajoled into fighting in it, but they were basically mercenaries hired by the landed, wealthy colonial elites like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, and bank-rolled by wealthy artisans like Samuel Adams and other colonial-era entrepreneurs. These realities are ignored and glossed over in US history books.

For well over a century, the administrators of the US, its presidents, congressmen, senators, judges, state governors, military generals and other high level functionaries and state officials were drawn from the upper class of society. So naturally, the best-interests and priorities of the upper classes of US society were reflected in all the policy decisions of the ruling US regimes, to the detriment of all those below them.

That situation did abate to some degree starting in the 20th century until today with the granting of the vote to everyone after a certain age, and with universal suffrage, but it did not disappear. And the effects of the rule of the privileged for over a century have locked in place a lot of the anomalies, contradictions and economic and social injustices that still exist in the US today.

Only enough power was eventually ceded by the elites to placate people so they didn’t gravitate toward communism, which was gaining popularity and sympathy in the early and mid 20th century. But the elites were careful not to give up too much of their power and privilege.

To be fair, there was another famous revolution that was also a revolution from the top-down.

It was the Bolshevik Revolution.

It may seem incredulous to hear this, but once one peels away the emotion, propaganda and lofty slogans, that’s basically what it was.

Don’t think so? Then just carefully examine the individuals who started and led that revolution.
 

It was all started and led by well-educated people from the upper strata of society, who cajoled the poor, illiterate peasants into doing the fighting and bleeding for them; same like in the American revolution.

But the thing about top-down revolutions is that they don’t succeed in the long-run.

A genuine revolution has to be initiated by the people at the bottom who are suffering the most, not by the well-to-do educated gentry and nobility. A real revolution has to be from the bottom-up. It is only then that society can be organized to work effectively for the majority.

In countries where the revolution was initiated from the bottom-up, the forces that led it have stayed in place. Just look at Cuba and Vietnam. Both still have their functioning socialist systems because they were created by popular movements from the bottom of society.

A top-down revolution puts the affluent members of society in power, and they inevitably use the machinery of state to benefit their own whims and interests.

This is the main reason why the USSR felt apart. It was built on shaky foundations by people who were not Russian Czarist imperial society’s main victims.

Like the American revolution, the Bolshevik one did raise up some common people and gave them opportunities they didn’t have before, but in both cases the hard limits imposed by their leaders and founders remained.

The US is also seeing failures within its system because it is a creation of a top-down revolution. 

Yes, the US has had a much longer shelf-life than its Soviet counterpart, but that could be explained by the fact that the American Revolution took place 141 years earlier, and during a simpler time, with much less obstacles around to hamper it. Therefore, it had time to establish itself with very little threat or danger. This has added many years to its longevity.

But the Bolshevik Revolution came late, and took place at a time when modern nation-states were pretty much formed. A much greater population in the world, and technological prowess-especially in the areas of military technology-meant that any potential adversaries would be a challenge.

It was a more complicated and risky time to stage a revolution and expect it to yield immediate, long-term successes.

However, regardless of time and circumstance, the US is also bound to fail just like the Soviet Union because it was created by a top-bottom revolution led by the privileged. The cracks have been forming for a long time, and accelerated significantly in the last 20 years due to economic crises and societal inequalities.

And while we’re on the topic of the Bolshevik Revolution, let’s digress for a moment from the examination of democracy, and talk a bit about the opposition to communism.

The political elites and their cohorts in the business and financial worlds were not against communism per se. Communism was just a cover; a simple, convenient and scary face that represented everything that threatened the elites’ wealth and social status. What they were all really against was any fair and equitable sharing of their immense fortunes with those who toiled in their factories and offices to produce their huge profits.

This is the source and cause of all the anti-communist demagoguery, kookery, and red scares throughout the decades.

Everyone and everything that represented and promoted the cause of economic justice, like workers rights, equal pay, living wage, worker safety and representation, was an enemy that had to be stopped by any means necessary, because it ultimately meant less profits and wealth for the owners.

Everything and everyone that championed such causes was smeared as a ‘communist,’ even if they weren’t. Populists, even certain right-wingers who advocated a more equitable society and higher taxation of wealth were all seen in the same distorted light.

Today, ‘left-wingers’ have replaced ‘communists’ as the threat to the wealthy, politically well-connected elites power and riches. The reasons behind this fear are the same as they were during the days of old, the loss of wealth and power.

Age-old greed is basically what drove the anti-communist shenanigans throughout history.

It had nothing to do with God, religion, democracy, freedom, free elections, or human rights.

The majority of the time, these anti-communist capitalist crusaders were all too willing to trample over these principles throughout the world, without a thought, in order to preserve their shallow material interests.

Real democracy is only beneficial to the bottom 99%. Real democracy means referendums on important issues. It means directly asking the people what they want, without compromised and corrupt congressional middle-men to muddy the waters and high-jacking the legislative process to force upon their constituents the desires of the wealthy special interests.

The rich don’t need real democracy.  Real democracy is a hindrance for them. They don’t care about what the bottom 99% has to say. They just bribe a congress critter to get what they want, thereby by-passing all democratic norms. They don’t want to waste their time with debate and compromise. Time is money, after all. 


The non-wealthy don’t have this option.

And since money talks, the concerns of the bottom 99% go unheard and problems unresolved. Years, or decades may go by before their simplest request is addressed, if it gets addressed at all. And even if it does get addressed, it ends up being some light, milque-toast version of it, and becomes subject to a whole laundry list of caveats, exceptions, state laws, screwy regulations and legal challenges which end up watering it down even further, and in some cases nullify it altogether. That’s how democracy works in reality. That’s how it definitely works in the US.

Democracy in the west is just a metaphor for neo-liberal capitalism, which always puts profit above people. That is the essence of capitalism, and it can be no other way. Capitalism ceases to exist when people are prioritized. That’s why no meaningful change can occur within capitalist societies, until capitalism is discarded in favor of a more civilized economic system, whatever that turns out to be.

The truth is, that the US and the west only like the concept of democracy, because it allows them to easily manipulate and exploit others.

All that has to be done is stick some money into the pockets of the right people, and they will say and do whatever the paymaster commands.

With this money, politicians and public officials can be bribed, organizations created to reflect the interests of their donors, and then all these forces are promoted to the people, and eventually elected.

It amounts to a stealth coup. Instead of guns there is money. Instead of soldiers and police beating people into submission, there are ‘pro-democracy organizations.’

And all foreign meddling and interference is cleverly disguised as 'democracy and civic society promotion.'

The problems with democracy have been further compounded by the fact that the US always seeks to impose its own one-size-fits-all brand of democracy,  which chiefly aims to promote US economic interests and supremacy. But underneath it all, it is just neo-liberal capitalism at work.

This is done without regard to individual countries’ best economic, social, and political self-interests.

Organizations have been created to corral and capture nations into this fake democratic-in-name-only system. Some well-known ones are NAFTA, WTO, EU, and NATO. But there are many others.

There is still a 3rd type of revolution, the revolution-from-outside. This is the worst type of revolution of all, because the interests of its foreign originators are totally alien to the best-interests of the country in which it is being promoted.

Examples are the US and EU-sponsored ‘color revolutions.’ They have occurred in formerly communist Eastern European countries in the 1990s, in Serbia in 2000, in Georgia in 2003, and in Ukraine in 2014. But they were tried in other places and times with mixed results, and sometimes failure.

These revolutions from outside are the most destructive, and they never end well. They arrest any type of normal development, and bring inept extremists to power who rely on outsiders who bankrolled them. These countries are effectively high-jacked by foreign powers and interests.

The ossified and corrupt Ukraine today is the perfect example of a revolution-from-outside.

Today, we have an excellent, real-life and real-time example of how the US and the west abuse democracy for their own aims in Hong Kong.

Since it was handed back to China in 1997, the UK and US have been abusing Hong Kong’s autonomous status to engage in illegal and nefarious acts. They have been encouraging subversion and violence there against Beijing since last year.

They have also been using Hong Kong’s financial system as a washing machine to launder dirty western money from all over the world. This money finances drug dealers, terrorists, armed militias (mercenaries), illicit weapons sales to violent regimes, many spies and saboteurs in different countries, and human trafficking.

This is what China's security law aims to prevent.

As for the special passports and their 'path to citizenship' the UK is threatening for Hong Kong residents, it will hopefully mean a GOOD RIDDANCE to the 5th columnists and criminals that will be subject to arrest and prosecution for their involvement in corrupt and criminal endeavors once the new security law is passed. They will have to pack up and leave Hong Kong and not come back.

That's the MAIN purpose behind the UK’s desperate rush to create these passports-to protect the criminals who work for US and UK interests, not to protect anyone’s 'freedom' and 'human rights.' This is just a convenient, feel-good sounding cover.

And there are some absurd and comedic historical mismatches here, if one cares to notice.


 For example, how are we supposed to reconcile the fact that the US, a country that itself used to be a British colony and which freed itself from the British Empire, is supporting Hong Kong separatists who want to go back to being a British colonial asset?

Another anomaly is the fact that for the 150 years of its rule by the British, Hong Kong had no democracy, no elections, and no right to protest. These things were only given to Hong Kongers right before the British gave Hong Kong back to China.

For a century-and-a-half, no one in Hong Kong and in London gave a damn about democracy and free elections, and autonomy.

If the UK is so concerned about democracy, free elections, the right to protest, and autonomy in Hong Kong, then why didn’t Britain give Hong Kong these rights earlier when it still controlled the place? Why didn’t Britain give Hong Kong the same level of autonomy it has now in, say, 1945, or even earlier? What was the problem? Why wait right until Hong Kong was about to be handed back to China? What was the aim behind this 11th hour democracy delay?


This is a very important question that every British politician needs to answer, honestly!

The protests and riots currently going on in the US stem from a genuine demand for justice for a murder victim killed by police. The protests and riots in Hong Kong stem from an aberrant, hypocritical, and politicized demand of the protesters to prevent an extradition treaty with China which was originally proposed to bring a wanted, self-confessed murderer to justice.

And the British better think again about any passport schemes that grant citizenship rights to the residents of Hong Kong, because how can they be sure that they aren't granting citizenship and easy access to the UK to a Hong Kong resident that is also a Chinese intelligence asset?

It’s sadly funny, to say the least.

And all this really makes one question the true reasons for these US/UK-sponsored riots in Hong Kong.

It all comes down to the simple truth that for all its pompous sloganeering about democracy, freedom, and human rights, the US and the west never really measured up to their own propaganda. They are also not measuring up to the expectations of their people.

The western world has tried quite hard to fool a lot of people for a long time with the most slickest, most clever words and manipulations to make all their intentions seem like the greatest good; even while at the same time they committed some of the most vilest deeds imaginable. And it must be admitted that they’ve done a good job at it.

It is an impressive feat to beat someone violently over and over again while professing their undying love and concern for the victim, and have the victim praise their attacker at the same time!

Touche!

This is, in essence, the story of western hegemony and democracy.


But the secret about democracy that no one dares to utter is that people don’t really need democracy. They just need good, competent leadership. And democracy, as we have seen throughout the world up to now, definitely does not guarantee either.