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Jun 3, 2023·edited Jun 3, 2023

"Russia can fight this war until doomsday..."

Saturday morning coffee thoughts...

That's the thing the Neocons have no answer for. There is no conceivable win on the NATO side...if there is somehow a "Spring Offensive' and Ukraine re-takes some territory, what do they expect Russia to do? Leave? No way. They will retreat, regroup and attack. Until doomsday. (Perhaps 'doomsday' is a nuclear resolution.)

Now that Biden and Jake Sullivan and Lloyd Austin and Antony Blinken have laid their cards on the table, I can't see any way Russia stops until Ukraine is no longer a security threat. There may well end up being NATO offensive weapons on the Polish and Romanian and Baltic borders, but there won't be any in Ukraine and it will have cost the West hundreds of billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives to learn this hard lesson. In this sense I think Putin wins. The US will have to think twice (or more) before crossing any more RF redlines in the future. And of course, along the way, the US will have (stupidly) prompted a hard global re-alignment of economic, financial, military, political, trade, resource, and currency interests which will unfold in ways that the US can't possibly control. I can't imagine this is an optimal result.

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We have TOTALLY screwed up the war in Ukraine (if we consider the 'fruits' of the war pertaining to US)

Russia has ALL the advantages, and we are using up military supplies that will UNDOUBTLY be needed for a conflict with China. We are wasting supplies on someting that is not important to the US at ALL!

Our leaders are far more interested in girls, boys and transgender bathrooms than the are in one of the MOST IMPORTANT duties of a nation- protection from invasion. In fact we are ENCOURAGING a economic invasion, as well as ignoring security of the US.

I really wonder how much longer the MSM will be able to hide the truth regarding the war to the US public. If they have the same success as they had with the "vaccine" (it's not a vaccine) then we will hear nothing about our failing war.

Biden seems to want a nuclear conflict, there seems to be NO OTHER reason for the steps he is taking to further the war, NOT DOWNGRADE it.

I'm worried about a false flag event designed to allow the US to GREATLY increase our wartime involvement, like a gambler 'chasing the money' during a losing streak.

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"military supplies that will UNDOUBTLY be needed for a conflict with China."

You think China is going to invade the US?

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I can think of no strategic reason why they would do so.

But socio-economically, they have about 200 million fighting aged men with no family prospects due to the one child policy, so they either need to kill them off or find wives for them.

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Exactly. I have a hard time imagining what the military conflict with China that the Neocons are planning for 2025 will look like...What is China going to do? Land marines at the port of Long Beach? What are we going to do? Land troops at the port of Shanghai?

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Space war with satellites, robotics, and drones?

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I’m sure the stuff dreams are made of as Victoria goes to sleep. Is it me, or do others find her eerily telegraphed tactics for hitting Russia completely demented, weird and psychotic?

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“…this way madness lies…”

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It's not DESIGNED to "turn out well" for our nation, or any OTHER independent nation- they are trying to END nationalism- Xi has said that unrestrained nationalism is their greatest enemy. Of course China uses nationalism as much as possible to fight the west, and particularly the US in the propaganda war, while criticizing us. Just like it's hypocrisy in climate advocacy, it urges OTHER nations to lower their emissions, while not restraining theirs at all, they are continuing to build coal burning electrical generators and pay NO ATTENTION to emissions in their own country. Just as how the Chinese are the MOST RACIST nationality on earth, while criticizing the west, which is FAR LESS discriminatory regarding prejudice.

Our country has made a HISTORICALLY HUGE mistake, in elevating China since the 1970's- first by Richard Nixon and later by industrialists eager to enter the Chinese labor market, using Chinese SLAVE LABOR.

We have funded and improved our GREATEST enemy. China uses our capital markets to increase and improve it's war machine. Biden and obama ensured that China does NOT have to follow every other company on EARTH in revealing financial documents in order to use our capital markets, because China regards it's financials as STATE SECRETS.

But as Tucker recently said, the MSM only talks about UNIMPORTANT subjects- most people do not even KNOW the above stark facts!

Maybe the continuing revelation of how much the Biden crime family has profited financially from China, and the HELP China gave Biden in becoming President, and the efforts Biden is now putting into paying China back for it's LONG help in corrupting the West for the personal financial profit of Biden will help American's realize that the time is VERY LATE for the US- we are being destroyed from within from people PURPORTING to be America's Leaders- but everything they do, and everything they propose, is to the detriment of the US.

These "leaders" of ours are financially CONFLICTED- as China increases it's power, these "leaders" of ours become richer and richer. And the internal division (increased by deliberate setting of one group against another (class, income, sex, sexual preference, politics))is ALSO designed to weaken US.

The crimes are right out in the OPEN.

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Yes. And to put it another way, were 'cheap' $200 flat screen tvs, Air Jordans, and iPhones stocked in Walmarts across the country worth the (probably fatal) hollowing out of America's Main Streets and industrial heartland resulting in third world-esque US cities, unlimited illegal immigration, rampant drug trade and abuse, Endless Wars, corrupt crony capitalism, phony woke distractions and political nihilism?

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Didn't Lenin say something about wealthy oligarchs being willing to offshore rope factories, or something like that?

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Ha! Yes, we have off-shored the rope factories!

And in the meantime we are hanging ourselves without any help from our nominally ideological adversaries: https://archive.is/ZQ143

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Jun 3, 2023·edited Jun 3, 2023

Evidence of ongoing US failures accumulate. https://twitter.com/profplum99/status/1664264292785602568 [edit: click on the chart to enlarge]

How far does the corruption in Fed Gov't reach? This is an update/revised chart from Bureau of Labor Stats of Month over Month changes for Q4 2022. - BLS published stats just updated (Tweet is dated June 1). While shared from a business perspective, (as evidence of recession likely been happening for a while) what I'm noting is the BLS seems complicit in the big-fooling of the few citizens paying attention at all. These revisions aren't slight and are important markers of trends. It seems the goal of perverting public information has no bounds, apparently now including BLS reporting.

I am struck with the thought, how, if even possible, can this country return to that which is trustworthy not only of it's role in world affairs, but even to it's citizens?

Maybe the point is there may not be a path... Hard for me to swallow such a prospect. (Thanks to all for enduring my posts). Best regards Mark and also to your well-informed and thoughtful readership! (WrH)

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The really sad part is 2 fold in my small-mind: That they're produced so readily and 2: so many buy them outright. Best at you RNo! (WrH)

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So all those high level US visits to the region in the last few months were simply a way of asserting our lack of interest in the region? I think not. If that were the case, for starters, we'd be out of Syria, instead of building new installations.

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