In my reading travels, I also found that Netanyahu was still in the US today, Wednesday July 9. He had a 'back-slapping' visit with Hegseth at the Pentagon. Net said he had been to the Pentagon 40-50 times.
Re: The Trump-Putin "bullshit" and "bomb the shit out of" kerfuffle: I realize that Trump was saying these things for domestic consumption and that he always self-aggrandizes when making such statements, for political purposes. But doesn't he realize "furners" see this stuff, too, and may not be able to understand his purposes or what he projects as his vision of himself?
What bothers me even more is that for years we have had to witness the Democrats accusing their opponents of exactly what THEY were doing as a deflection (Look, Squirrel!) tactic. It is dispiriting to see Trump use the same tactic. Especially when any foreign government you pick can say even worse about him: “He treats us horribly and anything he says turns out to be meaningless.”
Trump complains: "“We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth,” Mr. Trump told "reporters during a cabinet meeting. “He’s very nice to us all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.”"...If Trump wanted to "make a deal" with Mr. Putin, he'd meet with him face to face. Trump's "relationship" with Mr. Putin is almost entirely via telephone.
As Colonel Wilkerson has said, his statement makes more sense if you substitute the word "Trump" for "Putin". I could imagine Medvedev saying that to his boss.
Wow, great introduction/overview to the Azerbaijani relationships with Turkey and Israel. Extremely important. "Israeli officials now eye Azerbaijan as a prime candidate for an expanded US-led normalization project – “Abraham Accords 2.0.”
On July 6, BRICS member states signed the Joint Declaration of the 17th BRICS Summit, “Strengthening Global South Cooperation for More Inclusive and Sustainable Governance”, in Rio de Janeiro.
AFTER READING THE DECLARATION ABOVE I HAD A QUESTION. DOES THE UNITED NATIONS HAVE ANY POWER? CAN IT STOP A WAR?
Can the Security Council stop a war?
Well, first let us review its mission.
The functions and powers of the Security Council are set out in the UN Charter, the Organization's founding document. It was signed on 26 June 1945, in San Francisco, at the conclusion of the United Nations Conference on International Organizations and came into force on 24 October 1945.
The Security Council, made up of 15 members – five permanent seats belong to China, France, Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States, with 10 non-permanent seats that rotate by election among other UN member countries – is the body that was granted the primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security. It takes the lead in determining the existence of a threat to the peace, breach of the peace or an act of aggression.
What you might not know is that before 1965, the Security Council was composed of 11 members, six of which were non-permanent. The expansion to 15 members occurred after the amendment of Article 23(1) of the Charter through the adoption of a UN General Assembly resolution (A/RES/1991(XVIII)).
Although there are still some 60 UN Member States that have never sat on the Security Council, all members of the UN, however, agree under Article 25 of the Charter, to accept and carry out decisions adopted by the Council. In other words, actions taken by the Council are binding on all UN member countries.
When dealing with crises, the Council, guided by the UN Charter, the Security Council can take several steps.
Acting under Chapter VI of the Charter, the Council can call upon parties to a dispute to settle it by peaceful means and recommend methods of adjustment or terms of settlement. It can also recommend the referral of disputes to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which is widely known as the ‘World Court’ and is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, seated at The Hague in the Netherlands.
In some cases, the Security Council may act under Chapter VII of the Charter and resort to imposing sanctions or can even authorize, as a last resort, when peaceful means of settling a dispute are exhausted, the use of force, by Member States, coalitions of Member States or UN-authorized peace operations to maintain or restore international peace and security.
Importantly, the action required to carry out the decisions of the Security Council for the maintenance of international peace and security shall be taken by all the Members of the United Nations or by some of them, as the Security Council may determine pursuant to Chapter VII.
The first time the Council authorized the use of force was in 1950 under what was referred to as a military enforcement action, to secure the withdrawal of North Korean forces from the Republic of Korea.
an the General Assembly step in when the Security Council is unable to take a decision on stopping a war?
According to the General Assembly’s 1950 resolution 377A (V), widely known as ‘Uniting for Peace’, if the Security Council is unable to act because of the lack of unanimity among its five veto-wielding permanent members, the Assembly has the power to make recommendations to the wider UN membership for collective measures to maintain or restore international peace and security.
SO …WHO IS DONALD TRUMP, Benjamin NetanyahuM PUTIN, ETC. THEY JUST TAKE DIRECTION FROM THOSE IN POWER.
Trump could have come into office, cut off Ukraine, and blamed the loss on Biden, and it would have been believable. Now Trump is supplying Ukraine with weapons in the hopes for a better deal. Medvedev responded (https://sonar21.com/trumps-schizophrenia-cannot-hide-the-us-lack-of-strategic-depth/) in his no nonsense fashion that nothing has changed for Russia despite Trump’s “seesaw” behavior.
When the Russians are in Kiev and Ukraine is relegated to a tiny rump state, if even that, Trump will own the big, fat loss. Bluster doesn’t work with the Russians.
Well said. Trump’s huffing and puffing, flip-flopping and trash talk only makes him look weak (and I’m starting to wonder if even fit for office) and confirms the Russians in their ultimate and original objective: to settle militarily what might have been settled eons ago through diplomacy, had the A/Z Empire had any ears to hear. Much to our dismay, this simple fact is beyond Trump - either that or as Mark as discussed at length here, he has been coralled into a foreign policy not of his own making, and not in the interest of America and is morally repugnant. I’m sure the depraved Dems are readying their artillery for the next impeachment.
We Westerners gather here daily to analyze the latest data & critique the tactics of those who pretend to lead the country. To calculate the trajectory - the arc of our decent. We update our previous calculations as to how long we can count on the degree of comfort that we’ve become accustomed to. Yes, we solemnly agree, the world has become a horror. But we can afford to be somewhat removed from that horror - somewhat dispassionate. Perhaps even hardened against allowing ourselves to feel the outrage that we fund but don’t try to stop. But what’s the toll on us when we stop feeling? When we emotionally “circle the wagons” and block the feelings that make us human beings? Beings that can still look in the mirror without averting their gaze.
This is a recent incident in the life of a doctor in Gaza:
@ezzingaza (7/8/25):
In this shattered land, where the earth groans and the sky bleeds fire, I sit in a room no wider than a prison cell. Around me, the wind carries the faint echoes of promises made in distant capitals of zones, of maps, of safety. That accursed word: safety, spoken by men whose hands have never touched dust, never felt blood, never heard a mother weep not for her child’s death, but for the death still to come.
And today, once again, they debated. Who shall have Gaza? Who shall split it, dissect it, tame it like a beast? In Doha, they sip coffee over blueprints of ruin. They speak of balance, as if they are weighing corpses on a scale.
But today, she came.
A woman, thin as a question, hollow-eyed, draped in gray. She was thirty-four, seven months heavy with her first child, a child she had not merely wished for, but prayed for. For nine long years. Years of sterile silence, of hope stretched thin and close to madness. And now, finally, life stirred within her.
Her hands trembled as she gave me her blood report. Hemoglobin: 7.1. The number stared back at me like a sentence of slow dying.
They had told her at the hospital that she needed blood urgently. But blood was no longer for the weak. It was for the wounded, the shot, the crushed, the burned. She was too whole to be saved.
She sat across from me. Her voice, I will never forget it. It did not wail. It pleaded. But it was the kind of plea that had already passed beyond hope.
“Help me save my baby,” she said. “I have waited nine years for this child. Even if it costs me my life, I just want to hold him once in my arms.”
I am a physician. But what was I in that moment except a fraud?
I offered her iron pills, Tri-B injections, and a lie. That perhaps they would help. Perhaps.
But we both knew.
Her diet was lentils. Bread. Nothing more. Her blood was fading. And the child inside her, that sacred spark, floated in the shadow of death.
Out there, in the world of men, they argue over ceasefires. They measure borders with rulers. They draw corridors as if they were bridges to salvation.
But here, in this suffocating room, there was only one truth:
A mother. An unborn life. And the silent scream of a world that no longer cares.
I no longer speak of politics. I no longer believe in diplomacy. I reject your conferences, your declarations, your architects of ash.
This is not a conflict. This is not a negotiation.
This is a crucifixion.
Where the unborn are nailed to the silence of the world.
Where mothers bleed quietly beneath the roar of jet engines.
Where even hope is rationed.
Let history record this not as strategy.
Not as policy.
But as genocide, waged not only against the living, but against the very possibility of life itself.
That is classic, only the Big bouffant from the big Apple could do that. He doesn't know so can't be or feel gauche. He got to be President God help us if there is one?
G'day Mark, this is a growing question re this increasing deluge of missiles shaheds etc that there is never a BDA done. Three years and none divulged, obviously the hohols like the Zionazis stay stumm but why not the general staff to help morale in Russia weather the constant destruction in Russia alongside the daily deaths from the hohols drones etc. We hear of the mercenaries killed and the standout attacks but the regular attacks seem blase, are they hitting there target or in the paddock for fear of hurting civilians in this not a war afraid of damaging business relations of the oligarchs with the West.
If they are all striking accurately why is anything still functioning?
As to "unraveling" glue, I think that's probably best explained by what seems to be our entire foreign-policy establishment's current mantra, "if you sniff enough of it, ANYTHING is possible..." ;-)
I've learned my lesson about joking around with '90s-band names. Was in Barcelona right after college, when my buddy strikes up a conversation with two musician types about Chicago stuff they had in common. Guys mention the name of their band, prompting me to think, 'what in the garage-hell is this?', but we decided anyway to stop by what was supposedly a release party for their debut album. The Smashing Pumpkins, "Gish." We were wildly underdressed for the red carpet. ;-)
There's another story out there that ZH has also picked up on, that Iran is taking delivery of advanced Chinese updates of the S-300, but others dispute it.
Saw that. It's becoming increasingly clear that, via various new and enhanced sources of support, Iran will be an even-harder target in the mere fortnight or so since the Big Beautiful Bombing.
Thanks for posting this link. This is an important article as the “cooperation” between Israeli & India is virtually invisible to 98% of Westerners. Iran found Indian fingerprints all over the Israeli terrorist campaign in Tehran. Is this *only* because of their rivalry with Pakistan (ie: “An Enemy of my Enemy is...) or is their continuing collusion with the Kings of Genocide more involved than that?
Another point that’s very difficult for most of us to see is not so much the fact that the weapon systems used by the “Axis of Resistance” simply work better and are much more effective than comparable Western system but rather WHY they’re better. Because the answer is *not* technological but cultural. For example the Russian government’s goal when it contracts military equipment is to literally get the most “bang for the buck” because it *knows* that it’s very survival as a people depends on it’s ability to defend itself. The American goal is when it contracts for mil equipment is only to enrich those who control the system. The fact that the gear doesn’t actually work is of no consequence because over the last few generations the US has evolved from using military might to using bullshit on a global scale.
We don’t have an official Hasbara department but the entire governmental structure - 10’s of 1000’s of full-time employees - has been reconfigured to achieve the aims of the “Deep State” by what, in the quaint old days of 100 years ago, used to be called Public Relations but is now more accurately described as Mind & Behavior Control. The few of you who have closely followed the Anglo-Zionist proxy war in Ukraine will get this. Virtually *every* significant “Ukrainian” campaign has been designed for it’s “optics”. Attacks that have no military value whatsoever but are intended to *create the impression* that Russia is losing or inept or corrupt or whatever other nonsense they can dream up.
Lastly I would suggest that the last 4 paragraphs of the article are perhaps the most important. (In spite of the fact that Mr Arrogance (Tom Luongo) believes this it’s still true...) no one has yet driven a stake through the still quivering black heart of the original Anglo Empire. The fact that the Jewish Nationalists *appear* to have full control of England it’s only true because it suits the oligarchs that still pull all the strings.
About: "Trump is Pouring Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Military Aid Into Building IDF Airbases and Facilities in Israel"
I found this story about how the projected over $1 billion US dollars that will be spent:
https://headlineusa.com/u-s-to-spend-1-5-billion-building-new-air-bases-and-facilities-for-the-israeli-military/
In my reading travels, I also found that Netanyahu was still in the US today, Wednesday July 9. He had a 'back-slapping' visit with Hegseth at the Pentagon. Net said he had been to the Pentagon 40-50 times.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/411407
Re: The Trump-Putin "bullshit" and "bomb the shit out of" kerfuffle: I realize that Trump was saying these things for domestic consumption and that he always self-aggrandizes when making such statements, for political purposes. But doesn't he realize "furners" see this stuff, too, and may not be able to understand his purposes or what he projects as his vision of himself?
What bothers me even more is that for years we have had to witness the Democrats accusing their opponents of exactly what THEY were doing as a deflection (Look, Squirrel!) tactic. It is dispiriting to see Trump use the same tactic. Especially when any foreign government you pick can say even worse about him: “He treats us horribly and anything he says turns out to be meaningless.”
Trump's statement about Putin's "Bullshit" was projection that any Dem would have been proud of.
Trump complains: "“We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth,” Mr. Trump told "reporters during a cabinet meeting. “He’s very nice to us all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.”"...If Trump wanted to "make a deal" with Mr. Putin, he'd meet with him face to face. Trump's "relationship" with Mr. Putin is almost entirely via telephone.
As Colonel Wilkerson has said, his statement makes more sense if you substitute the word "Trump" for "Putin". I could imagine Medvedev saying that to his boss.
Secretary Marco Rubio
@SecRubio
Today I am imposing sanctions on UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for her illegitimate and shameful efforts to prompt
@IntlCrimCourt
action against U.S. and Israeli officials, companies, and executives.
https://x.com/SecRubio/status/1942998936874054046
In my humble opinion the US will take whatever actions they deem
necessary to enlarge Israel and make Israel a base in the mid east
this is done for the specific purpose to control the area including oil production
and flow to China, to have proxies in the area that will constantly antagonize
China Russia and Iran, with the goal to delay or destroy the China Brick Road
the China Belt and Road Project
The Israelis are fools, such as the Ukrainians are fools,
The US put into power those that would do the US bidding
and it matters not how many people are killed in doing so.
.
intended as a reply to Annie Johnson
however when I signed in it out it here
Peshmerga and Turkey provide odd bedfellows, Turkey’s ‘security blanket in Northern Iraq’ and claims on Erbil and Mosul would make Iran uneasy.
https://thecradle.co/articles/axis-of-encirclement-azerbaijan-israel-and-turkiye-close-in-on-iran
Wow, great introduction/overview to the Azerbaijani relationships with Turkey and Israel. Extremely important. "Israeli officials now eye Azerbaijan as a prime candidate for an expanded US-led normalization project – “Abraham Accords 2.0.”
Thanks!
87, LEGALLY BLIND THUS CAPS
On July 6, BRICS member states signed the Joint Declaration of the 17th BRICS Summit, “Strengthening Global South Cooperation for More Inclusive and Sustainable Governance”, in Rio de Janeiro.
AFTER READING THE DECLARATION ABOVE I HAD A QUESTION. DOES THE UNITED NATIONS HAVE ANY POWER? CAN IT STOP A WAR?
Can the Security Council stop a war?
Well, first let us review its mission.
The functions and powers of the Security Council are set out in the UN Charter, the Organization's founding document. It was signed on 26 June 1945, in San Francisco, at the conclusion of the United Nations Conference on International Organizations and came into force on 24 October 1945.
The Security Council, made up of 15 members – five permanent seats belong to China, France, Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States, with 10 non-permanent seats that rotate by election among other UN member countries – is the body that was granted the primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security. It takes the lead in determining the existence of a threat to the peace, breach of the peace or an act of aggression.
What you might not know is that before 1965, the Security Council was composed of 11 members, six of which were non-permanent. The expansion to 15 members occurred after the amendment of Article 23(1) of the Charter through the adoption of a UN General Assembly resolution (A/RES/1991(XVIII)).
Although there are still some 60 UN Member States that have never sat on the Security Council, all members of the UN, however, agree under Article 25 of the Charter, to accept and carry out decisions adopted by the Council. In other words, actions taken by the Council are binding on all UN member countries.
When dealing with crises, the Council, guided by the UN Charter, the Security Council can take several steps.
Acting under Chapter VI of the Charter, the Council can call upon parties to a dispute to settle it by peaceful means and recommend methods of adjustment or terms of settlement. It can also recommend the referral of disputes to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which is widely known as the ‘World Court’ and is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, seated at The Hague in the Netherlands.
In some cases, the Security Council may act under Chapter VII of the Charter and resort to imposing sanctions or can even authorize, as a last resort, when peaceful means of settling a dispute are exhausted, the use of force, by Member States, coalitions of Member States or UN-authorized peace operations to maintain or restore international peace and security.
Importantly, the action required to carry out the decisions of the Security Council for the maintenance of international peace and security shall be taken by all the Members of the United Nations or by some of them, as the Security Council may determine pursuant to Chapter VII.
The first time the Council authorized the use of force was in 1950 under what was referred to as a military enforcement action, to secure the withdrawal of North Korean forces from the Republic of Korea.
an the General Assembly step in when the Security Council is unable to take a decision on stopping a war?
According to the General Assembly’s 1950 resolution 377A (V), widely known as ‘Uniting for Peace’, if the Security Council is unable to act because of the lack of unanimity among its five veto-wielding permanent members, the Assembly has the power to make recommendations to the wider UN membership for collective measures to maintain or restore international peace and security.
SO …WHO IS DONALD TRUMP, Benjamin NetanyahuM PUTIN, ETC. THEY JUST TAKE DIRECTION FROM THOSE IN POWER.
END OF PAGE
Trump could have come into office, cut off Ukraine, and blamed the loss on Biden, and it would have been believable. Now Trump is supplying Ukraine with weapons in the hopes for a better deal. Medvedev responded (https://sonar21.com/trumps-schizophrenia-cannot-hide-the-us-lack-of-strategic-depth/) in his no nonsense fashion that nothing has changed for Russia despite Trump’s “seesaw” behavior.
When the Russians are in Kiev and Ukraine is relegated to a tiny rump state, if even that, Trump will own the big, fat loss. Bluster doesn’t work with the Russians.
Well said. Trump’s huffing and puffing, flip-flopping and trash talk only makes him look weak (and I’m starting to wonder if even fit for office) and confirms the Russians in their ultimate and original objective: to settle militarily what might have been settled eons ago through diplomacy, had the A/Z Empire had any ears to hear. Much to our dismay, this simple fact is beyond Trump - either that or as Mark as discussed at length here, he has been coralled into a foreign policy not of his own making, and not in the interest of America and is morally repugnant. I’m sure the depraved Dems are readying their artillery for the next impeachment.
It isn’t fit for office. Say what you mean and mean what you say. Or shut up.
We Westerners gather here daily to analyze the latest data & critique the tactics of those who pretend to lead the country. To calculate the trajectory - the arc of our decent. We update our previous calculations as to how long we can count on the degree of comfort that we’ve become accustomed to. Yes, we solemnly agree, the world has become a horror. But we can afford to be somewhat removed from that horror - somewhat dispassionate. Perhaps even hardened against allowing ourselves to feel the outrage that we fund but don’t try to stop. But what’s the toll on us when we stop feeling? When we emotionally “circle the wagons” and block the feelings that make us human beings? Beings that can still look in the mirror without averting their gaze.
This is a recent incident in the life of a doctor in Gaza:
@ezzingaza (7/8/25):
In this shattered land, where the earth groans and the sky bleeds fire, I sit in a room no wider than a prison cell. Around me, the wind carries the faint echoes of promises made in distant capitals of zones, of maps, of safety. That accursed word: safety, spoken by men whose hands have never touched dust, never felt blood, never heard a mother weep not for her child’s death, but for the death still to come.
And today, once again, they debated. Who shall have Gaza? Who shall split it, dissect it, tame it like a beast? In Doha, they sip coffee over blueprints of ruin. They speak of balance, as if they are weighing corpses on a scale.
But today, she came.
A woman, thin as a question, hollow-eyed, draped in gray. She was thirty-four, seven months heavy with her first child, a child she had not merely wished for, but prayed for. For nine long years. Years of sterile silence, of hope stretched thin and close to madness. And now, finally, life stirred within her.
Her hands trembled as she gave me her blood report. Hemoglobin: 7.1. The number stared back at me like a sentence of slow dying.
They had told her at the hospital that she needed blood urgently. But blood was no longer for the weak. It was for the wounded, the shot, the crushed, the burned. She was too whole to be saved.
She sat across from me. Her voice, I will never forget it. It did not wail. It pleaded. But it was the kind of plea that had already passed beyond hope.
“Help me save my baby,” she said. “I have waited nine years for this child. Even if it costs me my life, I just want to hold him once in my arms.”
I am a physician. But what was I in that moment except a fraud?
I offered her iron pills, Tri-B injections, and a lie. That perhaps they would help. Perhaps.
But we both knew.
Her diet was lentils. Bread. Nothing more. Her blood was fading. And the child inside her, that sacred spark, floated in the shadow of death.
Out there, in the world of men, they argue over ceasefires. They measure borders with rulers. They draw corridors as if they were bridges to salvation.
But here, in this suffocating room, there was only one truth:
A mother. An unborn life. And the silent scream of a world that no longer cares.
I no longer speak of politics. I no longer believe in diplomacy. I reject your conferences, your declarations, your architects of ash.
This is not a conflict. This is not a negotiation.
This is a crucifixion.
Where the unborn are nailed to the silence of the world.
Where mothers bleed quietly beneath the roar of jet engines.
Where even hope is rationed.
Let history record this not as strategy.
Not as policy.
But as genocide, waged not only against the living, but against the very possibility of life itself.
DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics
5m
Trump to Liberian President: “You speak English very well. Where did you learn it?”
Hmmm. In Liberia?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberia
Official languages: English
Doh!
Do your homework, DJT, or at least have a staff that is helpful to you.
That is classic, only the Big bouffant from the big Apple could do that. He doesn't know so can't be or feel gauche. He got to be President God help us if there is one?
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-sends-message-us-record-700-drones-missiles-ukraine-overnight
G'day Mark, this is a growing question re this increasing deluge of missiles shaheds etc that there is never a BDA done. Three years and none divulged, obviously the hohols like the Zionazis stay stumm but why not the general staff to help morale in Russia weather the constant destruction in Russia alongside the daily deaths from the hohols drones etc. We hear of the mercenaries killed and the standout attacks but the regular attacks seem blase, are they hitting there target or in the paddock for fear of hurting civilians in this not a war afraid of damaging business relations of the oligarchs with the West.
If they are all striking accurately why is anything still functioning?
Excellent piece, thank you.
As to "unraveling" glue, I think that's probably best explained by what seems to be our entire foreign-policy establishment's current mantra, "if you sniff enough of it, ANYTHING is possible..." ;-)
"Unravelling glue". Sounds like a 90s grunge band.
I've learned my lesson about joking around with '90s-band names. Was in Barcelona right after college, when my buddy strikes up a conversation with two musician types about Chicago stuff they had in common. Guys mention the name of their band, prompting me to think, 'what in the garage-hell is this?', but we decided anyway to stop by what was supposedly a release party for their debut album. The Smashing Pumpkins, "Gish." We were wildly underdressed for the red carpet. ;-)
…including “plausible lunacy!” What a concept!
That's a band I'd like to hear! Rock not rap? Not only do I have JFS I also have BFS.
That's a step down from "plausible deniability"
Yes, maybe even several!
And the last level, to which we are rapidly descending, is "undeniable insanity".
LOL!
There's another story out there that ZH has also picked up on, that Iran is taking delivery of advanced Chinese updates of the S-300, but others dispute it.
Saw that. It's becoming increasingly clear that, via various new and enhanced sources of support, Iran will be an even-harder target in the mere fortnight or so since the Big Beautiful Bombing.
They've woken up and smelt the coffee.
And this means that any attempt to simply repeat the sneak attack will be disastrous.
Thanks for posting this link. This is an important article as the “cooperation” between Israeli & India is virtually invisible to 98% of Westerners. Iran found Indian fingerprints all over the Israeli terrorist campaign in Tehran. Is this *only* because of their rivalry with Pakistan (ie: “An Enemy of my Enemy is...) or is their continuing collusion with the Kings of Genocide more involved than that?
Another point that’s very difficult for most of us to see is not so much the fact that the weapon systems used by the “Axis of Resistance” simply work better and are much more effective than comparable Western system but rather WHY they’re better. Because the answer is *not* technological but cultural. For example the Russian government’s goal when it contracts military equipment is to literally get the most “bang for the buck” because it *knows* that it’s very survival as a people depends on it’s ability to defend itself. The American goal is when it contracts for mil equipment is only to enrich those who control the system. The fact that the gear doesn’t actually work is of no consequence because over the last few generations the US has evolved from using military might to using bullshit on a global scale.
We don’t have an official Hasbara department but the entire governmental structure - 10’s of 1000’s of full-time employees - has been reconfigured to achieve the aims of the “Deep State” by what, in the quaint old days of 100 years ago, used to be called Public Relations but is now more accurately described as Mind & Behavior Control. The few of you who have closely followed the Anglo-Zionist proxy war in Ukraine will get this. Virtually *every* significant “Ukrainian” campaign has been designed for it’s “optics”. Attacks that have no military value whatsoever but are intended to *create the impression* that Russia is losing or inept or corrupt or whatever other nonsense they can dream up.
Lastly I would suggest that the last 4 paragraphs of the article are perhaps the most important. (In spite of the fact that Mr Arrogance (Tom Luongo) believes this it’s still true...) no one has yet driven a stake through the still quivering black heart of the original Anglo Empire. The fact that the Jewish Nationalists *appear* to have full control of England it’s only true because it suits the oligarchs that still pull all the strings.