The US regime, reeling from failure after failure, is considering withdrawing from the INF Treaty that was signed with the Soviet Union in 1987, over 30 years ago.
This agreement limited the manufacture and deployment of nuclear medium-range ballistic missiles, and other such systems.
The INF agreement served as a bedrock of nuclear arms control. It was a benefit to the US especially, since the Soviet Union at the time was ahead in the manufacture of medium-range missiles and their deployment.
Since that time, the US has unilaterally withdrawn from the ABM treaty in order to build the anti-missile shield on Russia’s border, expanded NATO multiple times, and has been stationing troops in E. European countries.
The US has has blamed Russia for ‘violating’ the treaty as an excuse to withdraw from it. But like with other recent anti-Russian accusations, the US has failed to show any specific evidence of these ‘violations.’
But this is a lame excuse, as the US has been building its missile defense system around Russia for years, which can be easily and quickly converted into a nuclear cruise missile launching system. The US has also been planning the development of newer nuclear weapons for some years, even during the Obama regime.
Also, China is not a party to the treaty, and the US wants to force it into a new agreement.
But let there be no doubt. Any US demands for a new INF treaty has nothing to do with nuclear disarmament and peace. It is primarily about two things.
These are:
1. To weaken and disarm adversaries like Russia, China and others. Russia and China have missiles which can neutralize US forces from long distances. China has both medium-range missiles, and missiles capable of taking out ships at 4,000km away or farther. This capability prevents US aircraft carriers from coming close enough to enable airstrikes by fighter jets in the event of a conflict.
2. To scare its client states into spending more money on US-made weaponry in order to shore up the sagging US economy. The US military-industrial complex also stands to make billions off the development and manufacture of new nuclear missiles.
So this is not a sudden reaction by the US driven by concerns about peace and law-breaking.
It is a dishonest and cynical ploy by the US to get others to give up their deterrents, so the US can confront them with very little or no losses.
But it’s not hard to see through this US deceit, and neither Russia and China will budge.
What will end up happening is that the US will leave the INF, Russia will quickly start producing medium-range missiles quicker than the US can, and once again the US will whine about the ‘Russian threat.’
The best thing that can happen now is for US client states to muster enough courage to prohibit any deployment of US nuclear weapons in Europe. They can’t whine and cry about US withdrawing from the treaty and endangering European security, and allow these weapons to be deployed.
This situation will show the world what Europe’s priorities are. Is Europe’s priority peace, or self-destruction?
Neither the US, NATO, or any European country has any means of successfully countering Russian missiles. They all know that this is a fact.
Let the west’s deluded demagogues ponder on that.
Thursday, October 25, 2018
Saturday, October 6, 2018
Supreme Kangaroo Court
The Brett Kavanaugh supreme court nomination, and the scandal around it, have been major news in the US MSM for weeks now.
Charges of an immoral and criminal nature against him, including attempted rape, have seen his nomination process mired in controversy. Although how much this rape accusation is a smokescreen for his disdain for the average Joe in favor of the elites in his judicial decisions, remains a serious question.
Like many of the establishment elites ‘movers and shakers,’ whether they be politicians or CEOs, Kavanaugh comes from the same fetid cesspool of privileged and entitled US political and economic culture, corrupt to the core.
Kavanaugh’s lies, arrogance, and fake show of piety is just part and parcel of the psychopathic personalities currently in charge of the US establishment.
The Supreme Court is supposed to be an honest and impartial arbiter. It is supposed to apply constitutional law to cases, blindly, and guard against abuses of power by the government; at least on paper.
But history and facts show that in reality the Supreme Court has traditionally served the interests of the elites since the beginning of the hapless US experiment.
Here is an excerpt from Howard Zinn's book 'A Peoples' History of the United States' which reflects this centuries-old reality:
However, in 1877, a Supreme Court decision (Munn v. Illinois) approved state laws regulating the prices charged to farmers for the use of grain elevators. The grain elevator company argued it was a person being deprived of property, thus violating the fourteenth Amendment's declaration "nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.'' The Supreme Court disagreed, saying that grain elevators were not simply private property but were invested with "a public interest" and so could he regulated. One year after that decision, the American Bar Association, organized by lawyers accustomed to serving the wealthy, began a national campaign of education to reverse the Court decision. Its presidents said, at different times: "If trusts are a defensive weapon of property interests against the communistic trend, they are desirable," And: "Monopoly is often a necessity and an advantage."
By 1886, they succeeded. State legislatures, under the pressure of aroused farmers, had passed laws to regulate the rates charged farmers by the railroads. The Supreme Court that year (Wabash v. Illinois) said states could not do this, that this was an intrusion on federal power. That year alone, the Court did away with 230 state laws that had been passed to regulate corporations.
By this time the Supreme Court had accepted the argument that corporations were "persons" and their money was property protected by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Supposedly, the Amendment had been passed to protect Negro rights, but of the Fourteenth Amendment cases brought before the Supreme Court between 1890 and 1910, nineteen dealt with the Negro, 288 dealt with corporations.
The justices of the Supreme Court were not simply interpreters of the Constitution. They were men of certain backgrounds, of certain interests. One of them (Justice Samuel Miller) had said in 1875: "It is vain to contend with Judges who have been at the bar the advocates for forty years of railroad companies, and all forms of associated capital. . . ." In 1893, Supreme Court Justice David J. Brewer, addressing the New York State Bar Association, said:
It is the unvarying law that the wealth of the community will be in the hands of the few. . . The great majority of men are unwilling to endure that long self-denial and saving which makes accumulations possible . . . and hence it always has been, and until human nature is remodeled always will he true, that the wealth of a nation is in the hands of a few, while the many subsist upon the proceeds of their daily toil.
This was not just a whim of the 1880s and 1890s-it went back to the Founding Fathers, ho had learned their law in the era of Blackstone's Commentaries, which said: 'So great is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the common good of the whole community." *
Educational institutions today teach this same regressive philosophy, even at the highest levels.
Instead of applying constitutional law to cases, the creatures on the Supreme Court throughout the ages have used legal gimmickry, trickery, and absurd and questionable explanations and excuses to put their stamp of approval on abhorrent and clearly illegal government acts and abuses of power.
Sadly, it has been like that from day one. Did the Supreme Court’s first chief justices bother explaining how slavery existed in a country with the most lofty constitution, which proclaimed that ‘all men were created equal?’ How about the atrocities committed on the Native American Indians? Did any chief justice at the time criticize this as a violation of the Bill of Rights?
Did the supreme court ever do anything of note to curb the power of wealthy elites and their dangerous machinations, like pushing through the Federal Reserve Act, which has undermined the US financial system, and put it into the hands of private interests?
Did the court stop the imperialist wars against Mexico, Spain, and others based of false flags? What about the more recent wars and acts of US military aggression based on lies and fraud?
The US supreme court today is a rubber stamp agency, a notary public for the US establishment’s abuses of authority for its personal self-enrichment, to the detriment of everyone else.
Each judge on that court is a political animal, and an ‘activist’ judge. The ones appointed by democratic presidents serve the political and financial interests of the democratic clique of gangsters who rule over that sad land, and the ones appointed by a Republican president serve the political and financial interests of the republican clique of gangsters.
These judges allow their personal peculiar political ideology, economic and social views to color their decisions. Because they are appointees of presidents, it can be no other way. There is no independent appointment and vetting process for these people, and therefore we should expect them to do only what their political party masters want.
Detractors may point to instances of the supreme court actually approving enlightened decisions, such as the civil rights act, Roe vs. Wade, etc., but these are blips and rain drops, approved only because they did not upset the elites profit-making apple cart too much. Anything that does, is struck down, rolled back, killed, and made illegal.
This same corrupt US legal system’s disregard for its own laws in favor of the US elites’ interests colors the US regime’s disdain for other laws, international and UN included.
This is clearly demonstrated by such true-blue US absurdities as a New York judge applying multi-billion-dollar judgments against Iran-a sovereign nation- under false pretenses, extra-territorial sanctions, the US regime’s open disregard for the ICC when it comes to Palestinians’ legal action against the zionist entity’s human rights abuses, and against the recent UN court’s judgment that certain anti-Iranian sanctions enacted by Trump are illegal because they violate human rights laws.
And let's not forget the poison cherry on top of this corrupt organization's list of misdeeds: the SELECTION of the president in the election of 2000, which brought the degenerate and discredited George W. Bush to power.
The main consideration in all of this government post appointment rigmarole is whether the candidate for the spot-whether it be presidential, congressional, senatorial, gubernatorial, judicial, or in law enforcement-is faithful to the powers-that-be, public and private.
If that candidate shows the willingness to uphold and empower the status quo, then they are appointed. If not, they wouldn’t even be in their current positions in the first place.
Despite his past transgressions, lapses in judgment, and general low-life attitude, Kavanaugh will be appointed because he is an establishment creature. And just like the military, the police, FBI and intelligence services, they are meant to serve the elites’ interests first and foremost; or are willing to do so faithfully once appointed.
The nomination process is all about making sure they do; constitutional or any other law be damned.
* Sources:
'A Peoples' History of the United States' by Howard Zinn, pp.261-262
Charges of an immoral and criminal nature against him, including attempted rape, have seen his nomination process mired in controversy. Although how much this rape accusation is a smokescreen for his disdain for the average Joe in favor of the elites in his judicial decisions, remains a serious question.
Like many of the establishment elites ‘movers and shakers,’ whether they be politicians or CEOs, Kavanaugh comes from the same fetid cesspool of privileged and entitled US political and economic culture, corrupt to the core.
Kavanaugh’s lies, arrogance, and fake show of piety is just part and parcel of the psychopathic personalities currently in charge of the US establishment.
The Supreme Court is supposed to be an honest and impartial arbiter. It is supposed to apply constitutional law to cases, blindly, and guard against abuses of power by the government; at least on paper.
But history and facts show that in reality the Supreme Court has traditionally served the interests of the elites since the beginning of the hapless US experiment.
Here is an excerpt from Howard Zinn's book 'A Peoples' History of the United States' which reflects this centuries-old reality:
However, in 1877, a Supreme Court decision (Munn v. Illinois) approved state laws regulating the prices charged to farmers for the use of grain elevators. The grain elevator company argued it was a person being deprived of property, thus violating the fourteenth Amendment's declaration "nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.'' The Supreme Court disagreed, saying that grain elevators were not simply private property but were invested with "a public interest" and so could he regulated. One year after that decision, the American Bar Association, organized by lawyers accustomed to serving the wealthy, began a national campaign of education to reverse the Court decision. Its presidents said, at different times: "If trusts are a defensive weapon of property interests against the communistic trend, they are desirable," And: "Monopoly is often a necessity and an advantage."
By 1886, they succeeded. State legislatures, under the pressure of aroused farmers, had passed laws to regulate the rates charged farmers by the railroads. The Supreme Court that year (Wabash v. Illinois) said states could not do this, that this was an intrusion on federal power. That year alone, the Court did away with 230 state laws that had been passed to regulate corporations.
By this time the Supreme Court had accepted the argument that corporations were "persons" and their money was property protected by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Supposedly, the Amendment had been passed to protect Negro rights, but of the Fourteenth Amendment cases brought before the Supreme Court between 1890 and 1910, nineteen dealt with the Negro, 288 dealt with corporations.
The justices of the Supreme Court were not simply interpreters of the Constitution. They were men of certain backgrounds, of certain interests. One of them (Justice Samuel Miller) had said in 1875: "It is vain to contend with Judges who have been at the bar the advocates for forty years of railroad companies, and all forms of associated capital. . . ." In 1893, Supreme Court Justice David J. Brewer, addressing the New York State Bar Association, said:
It is the unvarying law that the wealth of the community will be in the hands of the few. . . The great majority of men are unwilling to endure that long self-denial and saving which makes accumulations possible . . . and hence it always has been, and until human nature is remodeled always will he true, that the wealth of a nation is in the hands of a few, while the many subsist upon the proceeds of their daily toil.
This was not just a whim of the 1880s and 1890s-it went back to the Founding Fathers, ho had learned their law in the era of Blackstone's Commentaries, which said: 'So great is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the common good of the whole community." *
Educational institutions today teach this same regressive philosophy, even at the highest levels.
Instead of applying constitutional law to cases, the creatures on the Supreme Court throughout the ages have used legal gimmickry, trickery, and absurd and questionable explanations and excuses to put their stamp of approval on abhorrent and clearly illegal government acts and abuses of power.
Sadly, it has been like that from day one. Did the Supreme Court’s first chief justices bother explaining how slavery existed in a country with the most lofty constitution, which proclaimed that ‘all men were created equal?’ How about the atrocities committed on the Native American Indians? Did any chief justice at the time criticize this as a violation of the Bill of Rights?
Did the supreme court ever do anything of note to curb the power of wealthy elites and their dangerous machinations, like pushing through the Federal Reserve Act, which has undermined the US financial system, and put it into the hands of private interests?
Did the court stop the imperialist wars against Mexico, Spain, and others based of false flags? What about the more recent wars and acts of US military aggression based on lies and fraud?
The US supreme court today is a rubber stamp agency, a notary public for the US establishment’s abuses of authority for its personal self-enrichment, to the detriment of everyone else.
Each judge on that court is a political animal, and an ‘activist’ judge. The ones appointed by democratic presidents serve the political and financial interests of the democratic clique of gangsters who rule over that sad land, and the ones appointed by a Republican president serve the political and financial interests of the republican clique of gangsters.
These judges allow their personal peculiar political ideology, economic and social views to color their decisions. Because they are appointees of presidents, it can be no other way. There is no independent appointment and vetting process for these people, and therefore we should expect them to do only what their political party masters want.
Detractors may point to instances of the supreme court actually approving enlightened decisions, such as the civil rights act, Roe vs. Wade, etc., but these are blips and rain drops, approved only because they did not upset the elites profit-making apple cart too much. Anything that does, is struck down, rolled back, killed, and made illegal.
This same corrupt US legal system’s disregard for its own laws in favor of the US elites’ interests colors the US regime’s disdain for other laws, international and UN included.
This is clearly demonstrated by such true-blue US absurdities as a New York judge applying multi-billion-dollar judgments against Iran-a sovereign nation- under false pretenses, extra-territorial sanctions, the US regime’s open disregard for the ICC when it comes to Palestinians’ legal action against the zionist entity’s human rights abuses, and against the recent UN court’s judgment that certain anti-Iranian sanctions enacted by Trump are illegal because they violate human rights laws.
And let's not forget the poison cherry on top of this corrupt organization's list of misdeeds: the SELECTION of the president in the election of 2000, which brought the degenerate and discredited George W. Bush to power.
The main consideration in all of this government post appointment rigmarole is whether the candidate for the spot-whether it be presidential, congressional, senatorial, gubernatorial, judicial, or in law enforcement-is faithful to the powers-that-be, public and private.
If that candidate shows the willingness to uphold and empower the status quo, then they are appointed. If not, they wouldn’t even be in their current positions in the first place.
Despite his past transgressions, lapses in judgment, and general low-life attitude, Kavanaugh will be appointed because he is an establishment creature. And just like the military, the police, FBI and intelligence services, they are meant to serve the elites’ interests first and foremost; or are willing to do so faithfully once appointed.
The nomination process is all about making sure they do; constitutional or any other law be damned.
* Sources:
'A Peoples' History of the United States' by Howard Zinn, pp.261-262
Saturday, September 15, 2018
17 Years Later...
What a difference 17 years make! Look at what the US regime has degenerated into. 17 years ago, Al Qaeda was enemy#1, along with anyone who aided it.
One of the false charges the US regime of George W. Bush leveled against Saddam Hussein was that he conspired with Al Qaeda and shared responsibility for the 9/11 attacks. This was one of the primary excuses given by the US for attacking and invading Iraq.
Fast-forward to today, and the US is threatening to bomb Syria if it dares to attack Al Qaeda and other terror groups in Idlib.
By its own words and actions, the US and its allies are state-sponsors and practitioners of terrorism.
Let's never forget that the US created Al Qaeda.
Any government that supports these militant Islamist hoodlums in Syria has lost its senses. They are ALL on the wrong side of this conflict.
And then they whine and cry when one of their trained darlings goes on a stabbing spree, or rams a car into pedestrians in some European or N. American city.
This type of contradictory and off-the-wall behavior exposes the entire ‘US war on terror’ as a criminal and bloody farce; a sick joke played upon the world.
It is clear that there was never a ‘war on terror’ to begin with, only a war on the independence of resource-rich countries with governments that did not want to follow the orders and whims of the US regime and its corporate cohorts.
When looking at the about-face by the current US regime, and the previous one with their sponsoring of violent militant Islamist groups in Syria and elsewhere, it is not a surprise why many people suspect that 9/11 was an inside job by the US regime to create the ultimate excuse for regime change and perpetual wars against anyone the US establishment does not like.
Hopefully, with the looming Syrian/Russian operation to liberate Idlib from the last vestiges of western-sponsored terror proxies, Erdogan and the Turkish authorities realize that any and all US attempts at preserving and saving the Idlib nutcases is aimed on a later date at using this force against not only Syria, but also against Turkey, and other nearby countries deemed by the US regime not to be ‘compliant’ with its demands
Except for the zionist shitpit in the middle east, the US regime doesn’t play favorites. One can be a US darling on Monday, and a sworn enemy by Friday afternoon, if they dare to disagree with the US regime in any way.
Erdie has now learned this lesson well after the failed US-engineered coup against him in July of 2016, and it is in his, and all of Turkey's best strategic and security interest to clean out Idlib from the US-sponsored nutcases. If Turkey refuses to do so, it will pay a price, as this western-sponsored Islamist virus will only grow and spread. These dangerous people have a history of biting the hand that feeds them.
Turkey must redeem itself for its past collusion with these groups, and be a part of the solution, not the problem. Its main task at this moment should be to aid Russia and Syria in expelling this western-sponsored Islamist fanatics from Idlib, permanently. If Turkey does not do so, it will live to regret it. It is only a matter of when, not if.
US temper tantrums that an attack on Idlib would be a ‘human rights catastrophe’ is nothing but the same old atrocity propaganda whining. We heard this crap before in Aleppo and Douma.
But when the US chased out ISIS from Raqqa earlier this year by massive and indiscriminate aerial bombing, no one in any western capital batted an eyelash. No MSM outfit bothered to say anything critical about the wide-scale destruction of Raqqa and over a 1,000 dead civilians, whose corpses to this day still rot under the rubble. It was all praised and lauded as a gallant ‘fight against terrorism.’
Unlike Russia and Syria, the US didn’t even bother with humanitarian corridors in Raqqa, or with helping to do anything for the people of that city after it leveled it.
And the results speak for themselves. The residents of the cities liberated by the Syrians and Russians were grateful, and started to rebuild their lives. The same cannot be said for those in Idlib, who are being held hostage by tens of thousands of hardcore Islamists.
The US regime knows full-well that the militants in Idlib are bad news. The US regime officials admitted this on camera. No other than Brett McGurk, the US anti-ISIS envoy had some interesting things to say about Idlib. Just go to you tube and search for the video titled ‘Whoops, US anti-ISIS envoy reveals truth about Idlib,’ if it hasn’t been removed yet.
No matter what crocodile tears and cheap, pathetic, and fake genuflecting about 'human rights' flaky Nikki Haley, Trump or any other member of his criminal coterie engage in on camera, the fact is that these people are lying, and they are totally on the wrong side of the issue, and on the wrong side of history.
None of these deranged misfits seem to give a rat’s ass about Palestinians being killed by the zionists on a daily basis, and about the Yemenis massacred by Saudi Wahhabia.
But Idlib will be liberated. It may be through military action or something else, but it will rejoin Syria once again - terrorist-free.
Someone needs to ask Trump, or any of his regime's officials what they would do, if tens of thousands of anti-government militants took over a US city, and announced that they are now free, and no longer subject to US government authority of any kind.
What would Trump and his demented advisors think and do, if, say, Russia, China, Iran, North Korea along with other countries which are not on good terms with the US started secretly funneling weapons, supplies and covert military and intelligence operatives into the renegade US city to help them fight against the encroachment of the US government forces?
Would the US government have any compunctions, or feel any guilt about attacking the city with whatever force it could to bring it back under US government control?
Would the US regime listen to warnings and cries from Russia and other countries about 'human rights' considerations?
How would the US regime feel when Russians, Iranians and North Koreans sent troops, ships, and planes close to its borders and threaten military action should the US attempt to regain control of the rebellious US city?
It would be quite interesting what Trump and his cohorts would have to say.
But if unhinged Trump, flaky Nikki, and crazy Bolton care so much about those militants’ lives in Idlib, then they should take them all in as refugees into the US.
After all, they’re just brave little freedom fighters who thirst for democracy, right?
One of the false charges the US regime of George W. Bush leveled against Saddam Hussein was that he conspired with Al Qaeda and shared responsibility for the 9/11 attacks. This was one of the primary excuses given by the US for attacking and invading Iraq.
Fast-forward to today, and the US is threatening to bomb Syria if it dares to attack Al Qaeda and other terror groups in Idlib.
By its own words and actions, the US and its allies are state-sponsors and practitioners of terrorism.
Let's never forget that the US created Al Qaeda.
Any government that supports these militant Islamist hoodlums in Syria has lost its senses. They are ALL on the wrong side of this conflict.
And then they whine and cry when one of their trained darlings goes on a stabbing spree, or rams a car into pedestrians in some European or N. American city.
This type of contradictory and off-the-wall behavior exposes the entire ‘US war on terror’ as a criminal and bloody farce; a sick joke played upon the world.
It is clear that there was never a ‘war on terror’ to begin with, only a war on the independence of resource-rich countries with governments that did not want to follow the orders and whims of the US regime and its corporate cohorts.
When looking at the about-face by the current US regime, and the previous one with their sponsoring of violent militant Islamist groups in Syria and elsewhere, it is not a surprise why many people suspect that 9/11 was an inside job by the US regime to create the ultimate excuse for regime change and perpetual wars against anyone the US establishment does not like.
Hopefully, with the looming Syrian/Russian operation to liberate Idlib from the last vestiges of western-sponsored terror proxies, Erdogan and the Turkish authorities realize that any and all US attempts at preserving and saving the Idlib nutcases is aimed on a later date at using this force against not only Syria, but also against Turkey, and other nearby countries deemed by the US regime not to be ‘compliant’ with its demands
Except for the zionist shitpit in the middle east, the US regime doesn’t play favorites. One can be a US darling on Monday, and a sworn enemy by Friday afternoon, if they dare to disagree with the US regime in any way.
Erdie has now learned this lesson well after the failed US-engineered coup against him in July of 2016, and it is in his, and all of Turkey's best strategic and security interest to clean out Idlib from the US-sponsored nutcases. If Turkey refuses to do so, it will pay a price, as this western-sponsored Islamist virus will only grow and spread. These dangerous people have a history of biting the hand that feeds them.
Turkey must redeem itself for its past collusion with these groups, and be a part of the solution, not the problem. Its main task at this moment should be to aid Russia and Syria in expelling this western-sponsored Islamist fanatics from Idlib, permanently. If Turkey does not do so, it will live to regret it. It is only a matter of when, not if.
US temper tantrums that an attack on Idlib would be a ‘human rights catastrophe’ is nothing but the same old atrocity propaganda whining. We heard this crap before in Aleppo and Douma.
But when the US chased out ISIS from Raqqa earlier this year by massive and indiscriminate aerial bombing, no one in any western capital batted an eyelash. No MSM outfit bothered to say anything critical about the wide-scale destruction of Raqqa and over a 1,000 dead civilians, whose corpses to this day still rot under the rubble. It was all praised and lauded as a gallant ‘fight against terrorism.’
Unlike Russia and Syria, the US didn’t even bother with humanitarian corridors in Raqqa, or with helping to do anything for the people of that city after it leveled it.
And the results speak for themselves. The residents of the cities liberated by the Syrians and Russians were grateful, and started to rebuild their lives. The same cannot be said for those in Idlib, who are being held hostage by tens of thousands of hardcore Islamists.
The US regime knows full-well that the militants in Idlib are bad news. The US regime officials admitted this on camera. No other than Brett McGurk, the US anti-ISIS envoy had some interesting things to say about Idlib. Just go to you tube and search for the video titled ‘Whoops, US anti-ISIS envoy reveals truth about Idlib,’ if it hasn’t been removed yet.
No matter what crocodile tears and cheap, pathetic, and fake genuflecting about 'human rights' flaky Nikki Haley, Trump or any other member of his criminal coterie engage in on camera, the fact is that these people are lying, and they are totally on the wrong side of the issue, and on the wrong side of history.
None of these deranged misfits seem to give a rat’s ass about Palestinians being killed by the zionists on a daily basis, and about the Yemenis massacred by Saudi Wahhabia.
But Idlib will be liberated. It may be through military action or something else, but it will rejoin Syria once again - terrorist-free.
Someone needs to ask Trump, or any of his regime's officials what they would do, if tens of thousands of anti-government militants took over a US city, and announced that they are now free, and no longer subject to US government authority of any kind.
What would Trump and his demented advisors think and do, if, say, Russia, China, Iran, North Korea along with other countries which are not on good terms with the US started secretly funneling weapons, supplies and covert military and intelligence operatives into the renegade US city to help them fight against the encroachment of the US government forces?
Would the US government have any compunctions, or feel any guilt about attacking the city with whatever force it could to bring it back under US government control?
Would the US regime listen to warnings and cries from Russia and other countries about 'human rights' considerations?
How would the US regime feel when Russians, Iranians and North Koreans sent troops, ships, and planes close to its borders and threaten military action should the US attempt to regain control of the rebellious US city?
It would be quite interesting what Trump and his cohorts would have to say.
But if unhinged Trump, flaky Nikki, and crazy Bolton care so much about those militants’ lives in Idlib, then they should take them all in as refugees into the US.
After all, they’re just brave little freedom fighters who thirst for democracy, right?
Sunday, August 19, 2018
Tricks and No Treats
The US has tricked the EU. It got it involved in the maidan regime change, ande forced it to enact sanctions on Russia over Ukraine. But lifting them is tied to the implementation of the Minsk agreement by Russia-which isn’t even a party to the agreement, only a sponsor.
At the same time, the US is encouraging the Kiev regime to not implement it, thereby preventing the anti-Russian sanctions from being lifted, thereby causing the EU undue economic problems. Doesn't the EU realize how they're being played by the US?
The Maidan fake revolt was a failed experiment. The US and EU ruined Ukraine. It is now worse than before euro-maidan. Anyone in Ukraine who thinks that their lives will get 'better' under a pro-western regime and diktat, and that their current bad situation is just a temporary 'growing pain,' is a hopelessly deluded moron.
Whatever the outrageous demands and threats the US imposes on the EU, the EU does nothing worthwhile to protect itself.
The sad truth is that the EU is ran by intestinal worms living in the anus of US Empire.
The US also tricked Iran with the JCPOA agreement in 2015. The agreement obligates Iran to put its nuclear power program under stricter International monitoring and places limits on its operations, in return for the lifting of nuclear-related sanctions.
Then Trump withdrew from the JCPOA even though Iran is in full compliance with it, and is threatening the imposition of sanctions unless Iran agrees to the changes US wants.
But the US was never really serious about observing the agreement itself. Even the Obama regime stalled when it came to lifting sanctions and allowing western compabies to do business with Iran.
The JCPOA appears to have been a trick by the US to cajole Iran into signing an agreement limiting its nuclear activities, then promising to lift sanctions while dragging its feet since day one.
Now the US withdraws from the agreement while threatening sanctions on Iran, again. In the end, Iran loses all benefits of the deal while obligated to comply with its terms. It was meant to be this way from the beginning.
Or could it be that the US from day one saw the JCPOA only as a means to eventually gang up on Iran militarily and drag other nations into it by assuming and hoping that Iran would violate the agreement.
This could explain why the US has been reluctant, even under the Obummer regime, to lift all sanctions and pressure on Iran for abiding by the agreement. Then, after a few years or so, the US got report after report from the IAEA stating that Iran is in full compliance with the JCPOA. The US then got tired of the charade, and just walked away, not having gotten the excuse it wanted to go after Iran, with a gang of European fools behind them. It is why the US stalled on lifting sanctions on Iran; it figured this would not happen because Iran would 'break' the agreement.
The same kind of two-faced trickey is currently being employed by the US against North Korea. But this time it is so blatant that there isn’t even an agreement to trick North Korea into signing; not even the classic feel-good false promises by the US regime; just unilateral verbal demands for North Korea to disarm while giving it nothing back in return-until the US is ‘satisfied’ that North Korea has successfully disarmed.
And then what? The US will either come up with more demands, or simply feel it is safe to annihilate North Korea now that all its nukes and ICBMS have been dismantled and no longer pose a threat to a US invasion force
The US is no longer on top, and it ignores this reality. But when it can no longer ignore it, what does it do? It lashes out, violently, blames other for its own crimes and errors, and creates a bigger mess for itself.
Add to this, some ex-communist E. European states are determined to turn back the clock to the post-war period and confront a Soviet Union which no longer exists, but this time from the other side of the ideological veil. It is the west and its new E. European underlings like Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania that need the Soviet Union back, not modern Russia.
This anti-Russian hysteria has reached levels of stupidity yet unseen. It is all so obviously manufactured and fake that you have to wonder about the sanity of the people who come up with this nonsense and those who believe in it. Even though a lot of them do it because they see Russophobia as a way to get rich and famous quickly, there is a line between ambition and stupidity that these idiots crossed more than a year ago.
It seems like the US establishment isn’t serious about any deals and reconciliation with Russia, NK, or anyone else. In the case of NK, Trump’s meeting was just a ploy to stall North Korean missile development, and nothing more.
Trump’s meeting with Putin, and US regime officials’ meetings with their Russian counterparts seem to only be for the the sole purpose of feeling out the Russians about what they think, what is important to them, and what they are interested in.
Then this information is taken back to the US, analyzed, and used to slap more sanctions and restrictions on Russia in areas that will have the most effect.
Neither Putin or any Russian diplomats or government officials should be meeting with US regime representatives as long as this kind of cynical, two-faced behavior goes on.
The US is not Russia’s partner. The US ruling regimes’ main aim is to weaken Russia by any means necessary and bring it down to a subservient level. The US hates to see Russia achieving any kind of success, especially if that success puts it in front of the US in any way.
The US wants a world where it reigns supreme, and where everyone else is a subordinate. Equaling or superseding the US won’t be tolerated by the US ruling regimes.
It does not matter whether the offending country is an ally or enemy, or even if they have no problem with the US whatsoever. Any country seeking to be better than the US at anything, regardless of the motive, is automatically an enemy.
It makes one wonder who really decides policy in the US, Trump or the un-elected spooks in the intelligence agencies.
Trump seems to be saying and wanting one thing, but ends up doing something opposite. Then complains about the results, and punishes the victims. Either Trump is a coward, or he’s just putting on a PR show by meeting Putin and Kim Jong Un. It is highly doubtful whether anything good will come out of these meetings, and things just seem to get worse between the US, Russia, and North Korea after each meeting.
Every time Trump meets Putin, Kim Jong Un, or some other leader of a state the US establishment doesn’t like, sanctions follow and relations get worse; and that’s regardless of whatever happy talk at the meeting.
There are those who say that Trump must be resisted and even impeached. But their suggestion is to ally with the Democratic Party who is making an effort do dump Trump. However, they are doing so in a very dishonest and fake way by accusing Trump of imaginary, and evidence-free collusion with Russia.
So there simply can be no alliance against Trump with people such as the establishment democrats, whose tactics are just as vile as Trump’s reckless actions and policies surely are. Trading in Trumpian horeshit for Democratic dogshit is not a solution, and never will be.
A lot of time is being wasted on this Russiagate nonsense. By now, Trump has commited so many blunders and international crimes-from wars of aggression, violation of other nations sovereignty, and a plethora of human rights abuses that the Democrats should have a field day going after Trump because of these crimes. The Democrats have a quite impressive smorgasbord of Trumpian fuck ups to use to beat him over the head with. But yet, they seem to ignored these and cling to this Russian interference fantasy like flies to shit.
And why is this so? Because underneath it all, the Democrats actually have no problem with Trump’s pro-corporate war and sanctions-mongering against foreign countries using lies, false flags, and false accusations.
It does no good defending Trump. Because whether from sheer egomaniacal arrogance or plain old cowardice, he is enacting dangerous and stupid policies borne out of a sick US exceptionalist ideology.
He seems to be plagued by the age-old US sense of entitlement to whatever he wants, and is not concerned about how much damage is done, and to whom, to achieve it.
The best the world can hope for, at least the part of the world that wants to pursue its own interests and remain sovereign and independent, is that Trump’s deranged foibles will alienate more and more countries away from the US.
This could open the way to distancing themselves from the US and becoming less dependent on it. In the long run, this would do wonders for the safety and security of the world.
At the same time, the US is encouraging the Kiev regime to not implement it, thereby preventing the anti-Russian sanctions from being lifted, thereby causing the EU undue economic problems. Doesn't the EU realize how they're being played by the US?
The Maidan fake revolt was a failed experiment. The US and EU ruined Ukraine. It is now worse than before euro-maidan. Anyone in Ukraine who thinks that their lives will get 'better' under a pro-western regime and diktat, and that their current bad situation is just a temporary 'growing pain,' is a hopelessly deluded moron.
Whatever the outrageous demands and threats the US imposes on the EU, the EU does nothing worthwhile to protect itself.
The sad truth is that the EU is ran by intestinal worms living in the anus of US Empire.
The US also tricked Iran with the JCPOA agreement in 2015. The agreement obligates Iran to put its nuclear power program under stricter International monitoring and places limits on its operations, in return for the lifting of nuclear-related sanctions.
Then Trump withdrew from the JCPOA even though Iran is in full compliance with it, and is threatening the imposition of sanctions unless Iran agrees to the changes US wants.
But the US was never really serious about observing the agreement itself. Even the Obama regime stalled when it came to lifting sanctions and allowing western compabies to do business with Iran.
The JCPOA appears to have been a trick by the US to cajole Iran into signing an agreement limiting its nuclear activities, then promising to lift sanctions while dragging its feet since day one.
Now the US withdraws from the agreement while threatening sanctions on Iran, again. In the end, Iran loses all benefits of the deal while obligated to comply with its terms. It was meant to be this way from the beginning.
Or could it be that the US from day one saw the JCPOA only as a means to eventually gang up on Iran militarily and drag other nations into it by assuming and hoping that Iran would violate the agreement.
This could explain why the US has been reluctant, even under the Obummer regime, to lift all sanctions and pressure on Iran for abiding by the agreement. Then, after a few years or so, the US got report after report from the IAEA stating that Iran is in full compliance with the JCPOA. The US then got tired of the charade, and just walked away, not having gotten the excuse it wanted to go after Iran, with a gang of European fools behind them. It is why the US stalled on lifting sanctions on Iran; it figured this would not happen because Iran would 'break' the agreement.
The same kind of two-faced trickey is currently being employed by the US against North Korea. But this time it is so blatant that there isn’t even an agreement to trick North Korea into signing; not even the classic feel-good false promises by the US regime; just unilateral verbal demands for North Korea to disarm while giving it nothing back in return-until the US is ‘satisfied’ that North Korea has successfully disarmed.
And then what? The US will either come up with more demands, or simply feel it is safe to annihilate North Korea now that all its nukes and ICBMS have been dismantled and no longer pose a threat to a US invasion force
The US is no longer on top, and it ignores this reality. But when it can no longer ignore it, what does it do? It lashes out, violently, blames other for its own crimes and errors, and creates a bigger mess for itself.
Add to this, some ex-communist E. European states are determined to turn back the clock to the post-war period and confront a Soviet Union which no longer exists, but this time from the other side of the ideological veil. It is the west and its new E. European underlings like Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania that need the Soviet Union back, not modern Russia.
This anti-Russian hysteria has reached levels of stupidity yet unseen. It is all so obviously manufactured and fake that you have to wonder about the sanity of the people who come up with this nonsense and those who believe in it. Even though a lot of them do it because they see Russophobia as a way to get rich and famous quickly, there is a line between ambition and stupidity that these idiots crossed more than a year ago.
It seems like the US establishment isn’t serious about any deals and reconciliation with Russia, NK, or anyone else. In the case of NK, Trump’s meeting was just a ploy to stall North Korean missile development, and nothing more.
Trump’s meeting with Putin, and US regime officials’ meetings with their Russian counterparts seem to only be for the the sole purpose of feeling out the Russians about what they think, what is important to them, and what they are interested in.
Then this information is taken back to the US, analyzed, and used to slap more sanctions and restrictions on Russia in areas that will have the most effect.
Neither Putin or any Russian diplomats or government officials should be meeting with US regime representatives as long as this kind of cynical, two-faced behavior goes on.
The US is not Russia’s partner. The US ruling regimes’ main aim is to weaken Russia by any means necessary and bring it down to a subservient level. The US hates to see Russia achieving any kind of success, especially if that success puts it in front of the US in any way.
The US wants a world where it reigns supreme, and where everyone else is a subordinate. Equaling or superseding the US won’t be tolerated by the US ruling regimes.
It does not matter whether the offending country is an ally or enemy, or even if they have no problem with the US whatsoever. Any country seeking to be better than the US at anything, regardless of the motive, is automatically an enemy.
It makes one wonder who really decides policy in the US, Trump or the un-elected spooks in the intelligence agencies.
Trump seems to be saying and wanting one thing, but ends up doing something opposite. Then complains about the results, and punishes the victims. Either Trump is a coward, or he’s just putting on a PR show by meeting Putin and Kim Jong Un. It is highly doubtful whether anything good will come out of these meetings, and things just seem to get worse between the US, Russia, and North Korea after each meeting.
Every time Trump meets Putin, Kim Jong Un, or some other leader of a state the US establishment doesn’t like, sanctions follow and relations get worse; and that’s regardless of whatever happy talk at the meeting.
There are those who say that Trump must be resisted and even impeached. But their suggestion is to ally with the Democratic Party who is making an effort do dump Trump. However, they are doing so in a very dishonest and fake way by accusing Trump of imaginary, and evidence-free collusion with Russia.
So there simply can be no alliance against Trump with people such as the establishment democrats, whose tactics are just as vile as Trump’s reckless actions and policies surely are. Trading in Trumpian horeshit for Democratic dogshit is not a solution, and never will be.
A lot of time is being wasted on this Russiagate nonsense. By now, Trump has commited so many blunders and international crimes-from wars of aggression, violation of other nations sovereignty, and a plethora of human rights abuses that the Democrats should have a field day going after Trump because of these crimes. The Democrats have a quite impressive smorgasbord of Trumpian fuck ups to use to beat him over the head with. But yet, they seem to ignored these and cling to this Russian interference fantasy like flies to shit.
And why is this so? Because underneath it all, the Democrats actually have no problem with Trump’s pro-corporate war and sanctions-mongering against foreign countries using lies, false flags, and false accusations.
It does no good defending Trump. Because whether from sheer egomaniacal arrogance or plain old cowardice, he is enacting dangerous and stupid policies borne out of a sick US exceptionalist ideology.
He seems to be plagued by the age-old US sense of entitlement to whatever he wants, and is not concerned about how much damage is done, and to whom, to achieve it.
The best the world can hope for, at least the part of the world that wants to pursue its own interests and remain sovereign and independent, is that Trump’s deranged foibles will alienate more and more countries away from the US.
This could open the way to distancing themselves from the US and becoming less dependent on it. In the long run, this would do wonders for the safety and security of the world.
Thursday, July 12, 2018
Deranged Messianism
The criminals who run the organized criminal enterprise known as the ‘State of Israel’ have on numerous occasions accused Iran’s conservative religious government of having ‘messianic’ aspirations which include the destruction of Israel and the subjugation to all people of the region and beyond to their religious Islamic diktat.
But a careful look into the inner philosophy and workings of the Jewish state exposes it as a prime purveyor of messianic, dogmatic, dominionist worldview.
From the ‘chosen people’ myth, to the ‘promised land’ fantasy, the Jewish state is built upon religious delusions which have up until now resulted in violence, repression and wholesale murder of Palestinians and people in surrounding countries.
The Jewish Zionist religious view is that all the land from the Nile to the Euphrates belongs to the Jews.
This is not an anti-semitic view. This is fact.
The Zionist entity has tried to subdue nearby countries, and continues to harass and steal their land up to this day in pursuit of the ‘Greater Israel’ delusion.
It is a religious, holy duty for them to gain control of these lands.
But unlike Islamic fundamentalist sects who seek to Islamize the people under their rule, the Jewish fundamentalists do not seek to Judaize the people they rule over. The fundamentalist Jewish zealots want to keep non-Jews around as servants, for they would not be able to live if they had to do everything for themselves.
And not only is this warped 'Greater Israel' view being peddled by Jewish zealots, but it is also being promoted by end-times fundamentalist Christian cults within the US.
The result has been a mad rampage by the US and the zionist entity throughout the Mideast that continues to this day. Millions of Arabs and other non-Jews have been killed and murdered, and countries destroyed because of Jewish messianic delusions.
The Zionists entity even put the map on their coins.
The Jewish Zionists even conspired with Nazi Germany in the 1930s to create their modern-day monstrosity, and celebrated that collaboration with another coin.
So who is the messianic madman? Iran or Israel?
But a careful look into the inner philosophy and workings of the Jewish state exposes it as a prime purveyor of messianic, dogmatic, dominionist worldview.
From the ‘chosen people’ myth, to the ‘promised land’ fantasy, the Jewish state is built upon religious delusions which have up until now resulted in violence, repression and wholesale murder of Palestinians and people in surrounding countries.
The Jewish Zionist religious view is that all the land from the Nile to the Euphrates belongs to the Jews.
This is not an anti-semitic view. This is fact.
The Zionist entity has tried to subdue nearby countries, and continues to harass and steal their land up to this day in pursuit of the ‘Greater Israel’ delusion.
It is a religious, holy duty for them to gain control of these lands.
But unlike Islamic fundamentalist sects who seek to Islamize the people under their rule, the Jewish fundamentalists do not seek to Judaize the people they rule over. The fundamentalist Jewish zealots want to keep non-Jews around as servants, for they would not be able to live if they had to do everything for themselves.
And not only is this warped 'Greater Israel' view being peddled by Jewish zealots, but it is also being promoted by end-times fundamentalist Christian cults within the US.
The result has been a mad rampage by the US and the zionist entity throughout the Mideast that continues to this day. Millions of Arabs and other non-Jews have been killed and murdered, and countries destroyed because of Jewish messianic delusions.
The Zionists entity even put the map on their coins.
The Jewish Zionists even conspired with Nazi Germany in the 1930s to create their modern-day monstrosity, and celebrated that collaboration with another coin.
So who is the messianic madman? Iran or Israel?
Thursday, June 14, 2018
Pimps and Whores
The stale trans-Atlantic relationship is starting to show frays. It seems like Trump’s ‘America First’ policy is really all about ‘America over all.’
Adversaries and client states are being threatened with sanctions, tariffs and trade wars in an effort by the US regime to deal with economic troubles and record foreign trade deficits
European vassal states of the US are getting increasingly more angered by the US impositions of economic and political diktat, and are starting to talk about going on their own.
But doing so is proving difficult, and the EU has very little options to exercise.
But blaming the US for this development 70+ years in the making is not good enough. Western European countries have put themselves in this box by accepting whatever bribes, inducements, orders and demands that the US has thrown their way for decades.
What did these countries think? That the US gave them all this aid and protection out of the kindness of its black, rotten heart?
Absolutely not.
The US saw a golden opportunity to gain control a Europe weakened by the destruction of war to itself. It made promises left and right, and the desperate, tired Europeans bought it.
Did they think that the US military did all the fighting and killing during WW2 for free?
It started with the Marshall Plan, which was an aid program ran by the US after the war. Officially, it was designed to help Europe rebuild and get back on its feet.
But the real intention of the Marshall Plan aid was to subordinate and co-opt Western Europe.
In reality, Europe didn’t even need the Marshall Plan. It would’ve recovered on its own, and was already on its way when the Marshall Plan was announced.
Time went on, and the longer European countries like the UK, Germany and Italy, among others stayed in this US-created political, economic and military box, the less choices and sovereignty they had. They also became joined at the hip to such a degree that any separation will be painful and cause damage.
NATO was the first and most powerful means of exercising control over Europe. It was designed not simply to protect Western Europe from the ‘communist threat,’ it was designed to keep Europe under US military tutelage. This is something that European members of NATO must realize.
What also must be made clear is the type of relationship the US and Europe have had for the last 73 years.
This relationship can best be compared to that between a pimp and his whores.
Just like a pimp, the US protects its whores in return for their loyalty and payments. But it also feels that it can beat up on them, if they get out of line.
Now that the whores are trying to do their own thing, the US pimp is threatening them with an economic and financial slap-down; and the whores are scared.
But this is what one gets by blindly taking the side of someone for years without asking themselves, what’s the catch?
By kow-towing to the US for the past 73 years, Western European countries have gotten themselves into a bad predicament. Driven by US demands, they have already lost over a hundred billion dollars worth of trade with Russia due to the anti-Russian sanctions the US demanded that the EU pass.
Europe is now losing even more after the US regime withdrew from the JCPOA and reimposed sanctions on Iran. It has threatened Europe with economic punishment, if it doesn’t follow suit.
Now the US regime is forcing Europe to buy energy from the US for two-three times the price, or else.
The US is conducting a mafia-style shakedown of Europe, and this would not be possible if European leaders after the war would’ve been more intelligent and courageous, and kept the US at arm’s length.
Now they are trapped in a box of their own making.
The entire NATO trans-Atlantic paradigm has gotten old and stale. It’s ran by a bunch of opportunistic, lazy officials who use this rickety creation to escape accountability and personal responsibility.
For example, Germany has been doing US bidding for decades in return for US military protection. This freed up a lot of money that Germany used for economic development, making it one of the most successful countries in Europe.
Other European governments have been doing the same. But now, the US is no longer willing to cover their defense tab, and in addition is demanding that Europe pay more tribute for US ‘protection’ than Europe is comfortable with.
However, by forcing the European NATO member-states to cough up more money to cover the aging allianece's tab, the US is creating conditions where the European NATO members will want more say, and will want a place in the top leadership.
How will the US respond when this happens? It will most likely be quite bad. De-fanging a psychotic bully used to having their own way is very dangerous.
This growing rift between Europe and the US is a sign that Europe must end the ‘special relationship’ it has had with the US. Europe must finally go its own way.
Continuing to stay in this abusive, dependent relationship has already cost Europe serious losses, and these losses will only mount the longer it stays under the US boot.
Adversaries and client states are being threatened with sanctions, tariffs and trade wars in an effort by the US regime to deal with economic troubles and record foreign trade deficits
European vassal states of the US are getting increasingly more angered by the US impositions of economic and political diktat, and are starting to talk about going on their own.
But doing so is proving difficult, and the EU has very little options to exercise.
But blaming the US for this development 70+ years in the making is not good enough. Western European countries have put themselves in this box by accepting whatever bribes, inducements, orders and demands that the US has thrown their way for decades.
What did these countries think? That the US gave them all this aid and protection out of the kindness of its black, rotten heart?
Absolutely not.
The US saw a golden opportunity to gain control a Europe weakened by the destruction of war to itself. It made promises left and right, and the desperate, tired Europeans bought it.
Did they think that the US military did all the fighting and killing during WW2 for free?
It started with the Marshall Plan, which was an aid program ran by the US after the war. Officially, it was designed to help Europe rebuild and get back on its feet.
But the real intention of the Marshall Plan aid was to subordinate and co-opt Western Europe.
In reality, Europe didn’t even need the Marshall Plan. It would’ve recovered on its own, and was already on its way when the Marshall Plan was announced.
Time went on, and the longer European countries like the UK, Germany and Italy, among others stayed in this US-created political, economic and military box, the less choices and sovereignty they had. They also became joined at the hip to such a degree that any separation will be painful and cause damage.
NATO was the first and most powerful means of exercising control over Europe. It was designed not simply to protect Western Europe from the ‘communist threat,’ it was designed to keep Europe under US military tutelage. This is something that European members of NATO must realize.
What also must be made clear is the type of relationship the US and Europe have had for the last 73 years.
This relationship can best be compared to that between a pimp and his whores.
Just like a pimp, the US protects its whores in return for their loyalty and payments. But it also feels that it can beat up on them, if they get out of line.
Now that the whores are trying to do their own thing, the US pimp is threatening them with an economic and financial slap-down; and the whores are scared.
But this is what one gets by blindly taking the side of someone for years without asking themselves, what’s the catch?
By kow-towing to the US for the past 73 years, Western European countries have gotten themselves into a bad predicament. Driven by US demands, they have already lost over a hundred billion dollars worth of trade with Russia due to the anti-Russian sanctions the US demanded that the EU pass.
Europe is now losing even more after the US regime withdrew from the JCPOA and reimposed sanctions on Iran. It has threatened Europe with economic punishment, if it doesn’t follow suit.
Now the US regime is forcing Europe to buy energy from the US for two-three times the price, or else.
The US is conducting a mafia-style shakedown of Europe, and this would not be possible if European leaders after the war would’ve been more intelligent and courageous, and kept the US at arm’s length.
Now they are trapped in a box of their own making.
The entire NATO trans-Atlantic paradigm has gotten old and stale. It’s ran by a bunch of opportunistic, lazy officials who use this rickety creation to escape accountability and personal responsibility.
For example, Germany has been doing US bidding for decades in return for US military protection. This freed up a lot of money that Germany used for economic development, making it one of the most successful countries in Europe.
Other European governments have been doing the same. But now, the US is no longer willing to cover their defense tab, and in addition is demanding that Europe pay more tribute for US ‘protection’ than Europe is comfortable with.
However, by forcing the European NATO member-states to cough up more money to cover the aging allianece's tab, the US is creating conditions where the European NATO members will want more say, and will want a place in the top leadership.
How will the US respond when this happens? It will most likely be quite bad. De-fanging a psychotic bully used to having their own way is very dangerous.
This growing rift between Europe and the US is a sign that Europe must end the ‘special relationship’ it has had with the US. Europe must finally go its own way.
Continuing to stay in this abusive, dependent relationship has already cost Europe serious losses, and these losses will only mount the longer it stays under the US boot.
Saturday, June 2, 2018
US Diplomatic Pretense
The US regime has been acting in blatantly illegal, dishonest, and undiplomatic ways because the US is losing. The US is no longer getting its way, and cannot do what it wants in the world anymore. So it kicks law, international obligations, and diplomatic civility to the curb in a desperate bid to hold on to its waning power.
All propaganda and rhetoric aside, the US establishment knows that it is in a weakened state. It knows that it cannot afford anymore major, protracted military operations. The US establishment will claim the opposite, but this is just turd-shining and self-aggrandizement to assuage their dumbed-down citizenry and cowardly vassals whose tired, shaky hands are forever outstretched for a few crumbs off of Uncle Scam’s table.
That’s why the US establishment has turned to other means of warfare, mainly sanctions, embargoes, and more recently, withdrawing from international agreements, such as the JCPOA. These are the acts of a loser, not a winner.
It has employed proxies and other dupes to do its dirty work, and has even started provoking unrest and tension between countries for its own interests, like between Iran and Saudi Wahhabia.
If the US establishment cannot get its way, it will try to keep others from getting theirs, even if there is no gain in it at all for the US regime from this grade-school strategy. Unable to stay on top, the US will try to keep everyone else at the bottom as well, whether they be a client state or foe.
The only difference is in the strategy employed. Client states get tariffs and ‘fines,’ while enemies get sanctions and bombs.
That’s why Trump will fail in his endeavor to “Make American Great Again.’ He will fail, because the entire idea is based on faulty and failed ideas and reckless actions. Trump won’t make the lives of the average American materially better. Only the wealthy will benefit.
Trump had a choice: warmongering or economic revival. He chose the former, so whatever he does is not going to work. He will finish his next two years surrounded by messes, old and new ones.
Trump, along with the US establishment, are not serious about any détente and agreement with North Korea. The US up to now has not offered anything substantial to NK in return for denuclearization, and has been doing everything to provoke NK so Trump can have an excuse, even a lame one, not to meet with Kim Jong Un.
The US establishment doesn’t want peace on the Korean peninsula. Too many of the US establishment’s members made their careers and fortunes off of having North Korea as a boogeyman, and they want to keep it that way. So it’s either the status quo or regime change for them.
But the problem is, that Kim Jong Un just won’t play along anymore. Kim seems to be becoming too hard for the US establishment to provoke these days, and he keeps on upsetting the US regime’s attempts to nix the talks by frequent peaceful overtures.
As stated in a previous post, the reason for Kim Jong Un’s political cooling off is not that the US and Trump have scared NK and Kim, or weakened NK with sanctions. If that were true, NK would have already been subdued long ago.
China and Russia may have come to some agreement with NK for economic and/or strategic partnership, should NK get rid of its nukes and sanctions are lifted. The deal is too good for Kim to pass up, so he has relaxed his hand and rhetoric knowing that the reward will be worth it.
There is also a cunning psychological-strategic dimension at work here, which the US most likely is finding hard to grapple with, and one which it can’t do much about in the long-term.
This has to do with indirect, secondary results of NK denuclearization and a peace treaty with NK.
Let’s say that NK agrees to fully and immediately give up its nuclear weapons, agrees to a robust monitoring mechanism, signs a permanent peace treaty with US/SK, and in return doesn’t even demand the withdrawal of US troops and missile systems from SK.
On the outside, this may seem like a foolish give-away by NK. However, in the long-term, this will actually diminish US military necessity and weapons sales to its client states in SK and Japan.
For if NK gets rid of its nukes and signs a peace treaty, sanctions will have to be lifted on NK. Tension and the threat of war will subside. The public in regional US client states will then realize that all these US troops, military exercises, and weapons are no longer necessary. The governments in those client states will also come to the same conclusion, and continuing to treat NK as an imminent military threat, and as an excuse to arm, will become quite awkward and unnecessary.
These countries will then decrease their participation in military exercises, and spending on US weapons systems. This won’t bode well for the US military-industrial complex and the psychopaths within the US establishment whose careers, positions, and paychecks depend on having NK as an overhyped on-going existential threat.
So for this reason, Trump and the US establishment nutcases that control him won’t allow for an agreement.
Sure, the US establishment may get China to take NK’s spot as the prime regional boogeyman so the US can have an excuse to keep its troops there, and its client states subdued and buying weapons, but people would see through the charade. The US would not look good in this case.
But even if the US moved on to China as a boogeyman, it would still to some degree lead to a diminished interest in further militarization by US client states. Antagonizing China, and treating it like NK, would not be worth it for them, or even for the US.
So this is why the only options for the US are to keep things as they are, or pursue regime change in Pyongyang.
The latter is a no-go.
Although, regime change would allow the US to declare a victory, call the shots in the former NK, and still have an excuse to harass China, without any agreement to gum up the works. Trump would look good, and the neo-cons would go into orgasms.
But the US will most likely either create an excuse to nix the talks, blame NK for it, and keep things the way they are, or play along with NK, sign a treaty, wait for NK to disarm, and then attack it; just like the US did with Iraq and Libya.
You don't have to be a political scientist or some expert strategist to see that the US has suspect motives. That's why NK cannot trust the US with any agreement that ends up being signed.
But there is an easy litmus test to gauge true US intentions toward NK, and it involves Russia and China.
What NK should do is announce its intent for a total and immediate de-nuclearization and a permanent peace treaty, in return for security guarantees backed up by Russian and Chinese military force, by treaty.
Then we shall see what the US aims really are by its reaction.
If the US reacts calmly, and accepts it as long as NK gets rid of its nukes, then the US is serious about peace on the Korean peninsula.
But if the US throws a hissy fit, refuses to meet Kim, and starts threatening NK, Russia and China with sanctions and other nonsense, then we will know for sure that the US aim is illegal regime change regardless of what happens.
What would be a good idea for NK to do is to tell the US that in return for full and immediate denuclearization and permanent peace treaty, the US must either withdraw all its troops and THAAD systems from SK, or accept irreversible Russian and Chinese military protection for NK as guarantee of NK’s security. This would nullify any and all future US attempts at regime change, and attempts to wiggle out of an agreement by falsely accusing NK of not complying with it (as the US has done with Syria and Iran).
If the US has no ulterior motives, and is truly interested in peace on the Korean peninsula, then accepting either choice should not be a problem.
But it is doubtful whether the US will accept anything that hinders its continued military presence and occupation of SK and Japan, weapons sales, or opportunity for future regime change in NK.
That’s why an agreement that will be honored by the US is highly unlikely, and any ‘security guarantees’ given by the US to NK that are not backed up by anything other than words and paper are worthless. The US never sings treaties that it can’t go around, or wiggle out of.
If Kim Jong Un agrees to such empty paper promises, then he deserves to be overthrown.
All propaganda and rhetoric aside, the US establishment knows that it is in a weakened state. It knows that it cannot afford anymore major, protracted military operations. The US establishment will claim the opposite, but this is just turd-shining and self-aggrandizement to assuage their dumbed-down citizenry and cowardly vassals whose tired, shaky hands are forever outstretched for a few crumbs off of Uncle Scam’s table.
That’s why the US establishment has turned to other means of warfare, mainly sanctions, embargoes, and more recently, withdrawing from international agreements, such as the JCPOA. These are the acts of a loser, not a winner.
It has employed proxies and other dupes to do its dirty work, and has even started provoking unrest and tension between countries for its own interests, like between Iran and Saudi Wahhabia.
If the US establishment cannot get its way, it will try to keep others from getting theirs, even if there is no gain in it at all for the US regime from this grade-school strategy. Unable to stay on top, the US will try to keep everyone else at the bottom as well, whether they be a client state or foe.
The only difference is in the strategy employed. Client states get tariffs and ‘fines,’ while enemies get sanctions and bombs.
That’s why Trump will fail in his endeavor to “Make American Great Again.’ He will fail, because the entire idea is based on faulty and failed ideas and reckless actions. Trump won’t make the lives of the average American materially better. Only the wealthy will benefit.
Trump had a choice: warmongering or economic revival. He chose the former, so whatever he does is not going to work. He will finish his next two years surrounded by messes, old and new ones.
Trump, along with the US establishment, are not serious about any détente and agreement with North Korea. The US up to now has not offered anything substantial to NK in return for denuclearization, and has been doing everything to provoke NK so Trump can have an excuse, even a lame one, not to meet with Kim Jong Un.
The US establishment doesn’t want peace on the Korean peninsula. Too many of the US establishment’s members made their careers and fortunes off of having North Korea as a boogeyman, and they want to keep it that way. So it’s either the status quo or regime change for them.
But the problem is, that Kim Jong Un just won’t play along anymore. Kim seems to be becoming too hard for the US establishment to provoke these days, and he keeps on upsetting the US regime’s attempts to nix the talks by frequent peaceful overtures.
As stated in a previous post, the reason for Kim Jong Un’s political cooling off is not that the US and Trump have scared NK and Kim, or weakened NK with sanctions. If that were true, NK would have already been subdued long ago.
China and Russia may have come to some agreement with NK for economic and/or strategic partnership, should NK get rid of its nukes and sanctions are lifted. The deal is too good for Kim to pass up, so he has relaxed his hand and rhetoric knowing that the reward will be worth it.
There is also a cunning psychological-strategic dimension at work here, which the US most likely is finding hard to grapple with, and one which it can’t do much about in the long-term.
This has to do with indirect, secondary results of NK denuclearization and a peace treaty with NK.
Let’s say that NK agrees to fully and immediately give up its nuclear weapons, agrees to a robust monitoring mechanism, signs a permanent peace treaty with US/SK, and in return doesn’t even demand the withdrawal of US troops and missile systems from SK.
On the outside, this may seem like a foolish give-away by NK. However, in the long-term, this will actually diminish US military necessity and weapons sales to its client states in SK and Japan.
For if NK gets rid of its nukes and signs a peace treaty, sanctions will have to be lifted on NK. Tension and the threat of war will subside. The public in regional US client states will then realize that all these US troops, military exercises, and weapons are no longer necessary. The governments in those client states will also come to the same conclusion, and continuing to treat NK as an imminent military threat, and as an excuse to arm, will become quite awkward and unnecessary.
These countries will then decrease their participation in military exercises, and spending on US weapons systems. This won’t bode well for the US military-industrial complex and the psychopaths within the US establishment whose careers, positions, and paychecks depend on having NK as an overhyped on-going existential threat.
So for this reason, Trump and the US establishment nutcases that control him won’t allow for an agreement.
Sure, the US establishment may get China to take NK’s spot as the prime regional boogeyman so the US can have an excuse to keep its troops there, and its client states subdued and buying weapons, but people would see through the charade. The US would not look good in this case.
But even if the US moved on to China as a boogeyman, it would still to some degree lead to a diminished interest in further militarization by US client states. Antagonizing China, and treating it like NK, would not be worth it for them, or even for the US.
So this is why the only options for the US are to keep things as they are, or pursue regime change in Pyongyang.
The latter is a no-go.
Although, regime change would allow the US to declare a victory, call the shots in the former NK, and still have an excuse to harass China, without any agreement to gum up the works. Trump would look good, and the neo-cons would go into orgasms.
But the US will most likely either create an excuse to nix the talks, blame NK for it, and keep things the way they are, or play along with NK, sign a treaty, wait for NK to disarm, and then attack it; just like the US did with Iraq and Libya.
You don't have to be a political scientist or some expert strategist to see that the US has suspect motives. That's why NK cannot trust the US with any agreement that ends up being signed.
But there is an easy litmus test to gauge true US intentions toward NK, and it involves Russia and China.
What NK should do is announce its intent for a total and immediate de-nuclearization and a permanent peace treaty, in return for security guarantees backed up by Russian and Chinese military force, by treaty.
Then we shall see what the US aims really are by its reaction.
If the US reacts calmly, and accepts it as long as NK gets rid of its nukes, then the US is serious about peace on the Korean peninsula.
But if the US throws a hissy fit, refuses to meet Kim, and starts threatening NK, Russia and China with sanctions and other nonsense, then we will know for sure that the US aim is illegal regime change regardless of what happens.
What would be a good idea for NK to do is to tell the US that in return for full and immediate denuclearization and permanent peace treaty, the US must either withdraw all its troops and THAAD systems from SK, or accept irreversible Russian and Chinese military protection for NK as guarantee of NK’s security. This would nullify any and all future US attempts at regime change, and attempts to wiggle out of an agreement by falsely accusing NK of not complying with it (as the US has done with Syria and Iran).
If the US has no ulterior motives, and is truly interested in peace on the Korean peninsula, then accepting either choice should not be a problem.
But it is doubtful whether the US will accept anything that hinders its continued military presence and occupation of SK and Japan, weapons sales, or opportunity for future regime change in NK.
That’s why an agreement that will be honored by the US is highly unlikely, and any ‘security guarantees’ given by the US to NK that are not backed up by anything other than words and paper are worthless. The US never sings treaties that it can’t go around, or wiggle out of.
If Kim Jong Un agrees to such empty paper promises, then he deserves to be overthrown.
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