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Natalya Volkova's avatar

I follow someone that posted your work on his site. Very interesting and thank you very much. Of course I do not agree with a lot Mr Crooke said, although really I am only commenting about how interesting the second part about this ADL Jewish Stasi is. Very unusual subject, after all the consequences for discussing these topics have been allowed to evolved so much that it is generally not found anywhere.

I also looked at the work of Mr Unz, also very interesting. Although he has no references anywhere to Pavel Alexandrovich Krushevan. Initially I commented to my friend Mr Sanchez that it was a pity, but now reflecting on this I am surprised. Possibly he does not know about him. That really would be a pity.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Thanks. I try to be thought provoking. I'd be very surprised if Unz hasn't heard of Krushevan.

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Karl Sanchez's avatar

I thank Alastair Crooke for copying this to his substack so now I'm aware of Mr. Wauck's substack, which I'd place in a similar category as my own. It's quite necessary to know the information provided in this and other materials, but it's not sufficient to just know as action needs to be taken to rectify the many wrongs enumerated. The ADL is clearly a hostile foreign agent and merits expulsion form the USA. But that solves only one problem of a multitude and at the moment it's very doubtful that needed action will be taken.

I commend Mr. Wauck's fine interpretation of Crooke's words. I'm pleased to see that I'm not the only substack writer promoting and enlarging his analysis.

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Karl North's avatar

Making much of the relevance of "findings" and other policy formalities is misleading. Like ADL, the CIA, a broad web of power in Washington, has never needed a finding to do what it wants. And if what it wants is illegal, the CIA goes clandestine, always has. The CIA's support of Ukrainian neo-nazism began at the end of WWII, even before its formal creation. Like ADL, the CIA is an evil parasite on the back of America.

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dpy's avatar

Remeber the 80's TV SciFi series "V"? The ADL reminds me of those nice aliens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_(1983_miniseries)

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Yet Another Tommy's avatar

Why Are They Hiding The World Government?

...and what is the goal with these wars?

https://tomg2021.substack.com/p/why-are-they-hiding-the-world-government

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Telegraph:

Russia has suggested that Donald Trump is suffering from “emotional overload” as it deflected his criticism of its record drone strikes on Ukraine at the weekend.

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D F Barr's avatar

I laughed out loud when I read the full quote about “emotional overload.” It was classic trolling

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ML's avatar

DF, I think it’s also diplomacy, which only the Russians know how to deploy in extreme situations! The French would call it “saving the furniture,” (sauver les meubles), a last act to ward off disaster!

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Macgregor:

i'm sure you're aware that there was an attempt to kill president putin, to assassinate him. the ukrainians sent these drones in an attack mode against a helicopter carrying the russian president to kursk. it failed, fortunately, but how did the ukrainians know that this helicopter was going to leave when it did and was headed to kursk? i think the cia and mi6 provided the ukrainians with that information. this simply reinforces the view that president trump is not in charge.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

RT:

"US President Donald Trump has suggested that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is “playing with fire,” **without elaborating on what exactly he means.**"

Exactly what does that advance?

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Macgregor:

i think we're discovering that the CIA and their friends on the hill and the senate and the house, these people are far more powerful than president trump. and so i think [the Russians have] essentially written off trump as a nice guy--we like him but he can't accomplish anything.

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ML's avatar
May 28Edited

Col Macgregor: “we like him but he can't accomplish anything” and “this simply reinforces the view that president Trump is not in charge.” So Trump is Mr Nice and Zhou was Mr Not There. How convenient for CIA/Mi6 handlers, as Susan says below.

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susan mullen's avatar

Re: CIA: "In 2007, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Jay Rockefeller, remarked, “Don’t you understand the way intelligence works? Do you think that because I’m the chairman of the Intelligence Committee that I just say, ‘I want it, give it to me’? They control it. All of it. All of it. All the time.”"...9/13/2023, Brownstone...https://brownstone.org/articles/injunction-neglects-power-of-intelligence-community/

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Macgregor:

i think this is a very sad development but it also implicates us again. president trump is the leader of nato. if president trump were sincerely interested in building peace in eastern europe, if he was interested, as i thought, in normalizing relations with russia, then he would intervene to stop this. he could simply say "look i don't i don't agree with this." "as the leader of nato i'm saying stop." and if he said that to merz, merz would shut up and stop. but he hasn't done that. he's essentially failed miserably in his leadership of nato as well as in leadership of the united states. he's not even capable of pursuing what's in our own interest anymore. he's incoherent. he contradicts himself. **if you listen to trump now and compare him with trump of just 60 days ago or 90 days ago you're dealing with entirely different people.**

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D F Barr's avatar

The WSJ today has an almost celebratory article on NATO’s expansion into Sweden and Finland on Russia’s doorstep. They write glowingly of America’s Marine Corps deployments and involvement and pretty much admit that NATO and American Empire are synonymous. Don’t know if it’s behind the paywall or what: https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/the-u-s-reinforces-europes-northern-front-fearing-war-with-russia-b499ef50?st=ErKS6j&reflink=article_copyURL_share

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Totally insane. These people live in a bizarre fantasy world.

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TomA's avatar

Don Corleone "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer." Trump's bellicose rhetoric is aimed at keeping the neocons in the Legislature appeased and inert. Very soon he will walk away from the Ukraine conflict and that will be the beginning of the end because the EU cannot keep them afloat without US aid. Russia is all too happy to help Trump make this exit. No hard feelings. Ditto for Iran. Trump will bloviate and insult them, but ultimately concede to the deal that restarts the JCPOA. Everything else is collateral hysteria. Trump knows that he is playing the fool and pissing everyone off, but that is the price of fighting the Deep State. He has to keep them guessing all the time so as to avoid another assassination attempt.

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D F Barr's avatar

He has a limited window to accomplish whatever it is he’s trying to accomplish. The 2026 stolen elections are right around the corner and the January 2027 impeachment fun and games will commence with full on ferocity. 3rd times a charm for that tactic? If nothing else, it will consume all of the bandwidth of the administration.

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susan mullen's avatar

Re: 2026 midterms, in 2018 midterms 38 races had no Republican on the ballot, only 3 races lacked a Democrat. This meant the House would go back to Democrats. Either Trump knew this or should've known....https://ballotpedia.org/U.S._House_elections_without_a_Democratic_or_Republican_candidate,_2018...Until 1994 the House had been controlled by Democrats for 40 straight years. GOP prefers being permanent minority.

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Ray-SoCa's avatar

I hope you are wrong, but I’m very worried you are right:

“ The 2026 stolen elections are right around the corner ”

My guess is Trump is trying to change the script with a massive war chest, continuing pummeling of the democrats and msm, and eo’s on election reform.

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susan mullen's avatar

If Trump feels he can't do the job for fear of assassination, he should resign immediately and allow someone else to do the job.

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Joanne C. Wasserman's avatar

Well, but, any replacement person to be POTUS will be confronted with the exact same problem, i.e. the assassins are inside the US government; and Kash Patel and Dan Bongino know this because they won't release thorough reports of analysis of the two assassination attempts that the public know of---they deep sixed those reports. Epstein files also deep-sixed. I don't think Trump is afraid for himself; I view him as a man who swims with the sharks all around him, being oh-so familiar with shark people from a life in NY real estate politics and corporate deal-making. The persons he chose for cabinet leadership positions are sharks in their own fields of expertise, some of whom are Trump's enemies, but he surely believes that he can work with them to chew up the other enemies, those who want to kill his policies that will bring the "big win" of whatever "big endeavor" (many,juggling in the air) that Trump desires to conquer conclusively. For me, the live/die anxiety comes because Trump is always hedging between COMMITMENT/DISTRACTION.

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susan mullen's avatar

I was responding to TomA's statement: "Trump knows that he is playing the fool and pissing everyone off, but that is the price of fighting the Deep State. He has to keep them guessing all the time so as to avoid another assassination attempt." This is no way to be president of anything much less a country. If as you say any replacements would live under the same circumstances, then it's well past time to breakup the US into about 4 separate countries. This has got to stop.

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Joanne C. Wasserman's avatar

Oh yes, I wholeheartedly agree with your assessment. I jumped the detail of your larger point because of my own frustration with Trump's lack of demonstrative conviction for the good policies that he says that he wants to bring to fruition. With regards to your recommendation that Trump forego the Office if he "feels he can't do the job"---you have opened the dilemma that's come home to roost in all of the nations: rulers' governance of their striving citizenry for goodness sake + prosperity in earned achievements appicable to all citizens within soverign nation states; OR rulers' take all governance by a (many, actually) strong man's will to power through force.

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Tristam's avatar

Alastair Crooke's observations of Russian attitudes in St Petersburg were indeed masterful, as is Crooke's habit.

Brian Berletic offered an analysis of US-Europe relations that differs from Crooke's assessment that "the rampant Euro mongering for continued and even escalated war on Russia, is **driven by hatred for and desperation to defeat Trump.**"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLGcNBBr25I

Berletic assesses that the US strategy, from before Trump, is to use Europe to fight Russia, in the "division of labor, strategic sequencing" process, whereby Europe will, as Merz has intimated, follow US commands to assume the burden of attacking Russia via Ukraine.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

I know Brian has been saying that, but I disagree with him on that point. All indicators are that the US truly believed they'd cruise to a big victory via sanctions. It was only when it was clear that both the kinetic and sanctions wars would be a big defeat that the division of labor concept came into play.

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