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The atmosphere here is dark. There's a current in the air the same as in 2016 - the mood of the country was for Brexit. It was unspoken for the most part (Brits don't talk very openly about deep issues) but you could literally feel it in the air around you. I've got the same feeling now.
"Do not underestimate the significance of Serbia for everything that has followed. Serbia established the American Empire’s Rules-Based Order as putatively world dominant. It was a warning shot across the bow of crippled post-Soviet Russia, and one that Putin fully understood. In that sense it was a full dress rehearsal."
Interesting comment and it ties into a conversation I had back in late summer 2008 with my wife's cousin from Greece as our election season was in full steam. Her cousin was part of the Greek Diplomatic corp. and was a former ambassador to the Ukraine for the Greek government. He also did three stints here in North America, as Greece's ambassador to Canada, the ICAO in Montreal and a final posting in L.A. before he retired. At the time of our discussion the incursion into Georgia was taking place and I asked him if this would have any impact on our election. He said not likely and confided to me that it was his opinion Russia was furious with the Clinton administration for having bombed the Serbs on behalf of Islam during the Balkans war. He felt the Democrats were the stumbling block to more cordial relations between USA and Russia. As Serbia is a Slavic country and considered to be a Russian ally, as such they were convinced they needed to act in their own interests in the region. In another telling comment he suggested our bureaucrats/ambassador corp were the laughing stock in the world. Being mostly partisans appointed and with little diplomatic training were not respected and he suggested they created many more problems than they ever solved and everything was done for self-interest. Very interesting guy with great stories to tell.
Jeremy Hunt, the new 'de facto Prime Minister', is a 'Zero-COVID' loon who lobbied for children to be taken from their parents and put in quarantine camps.
As Nigel Farage noted, Hunt is the face of a globalist coup...
I don't want to lower the tone of your wonderful blog, Mark, but "Hunt" is a great word for those who like Cockney rhyming slang. And also very appropriate.
Lol! There's a fantastic montage floating round of all the times news reporters have accidentally called him Jeremy 'C**t - it happened again just the other day!
His wife is Chinese and has a gig on Chinese state television. His sister lives in Bejing and last year he recounted how on her return there during lockdown she was escorted to her apartment and sealed into it - the dreamlike look on his face as he told the story was chilling. Also he's brought in a Blackrock exec as one of his advisors at the treasury. He is hated by literally everyone and he is supporting Rishi Sinak for PM. The coup will be complete if he gets in.
I love the headline, "UK doubles number of surveillance aircraft over Black Sea". WOW!! Then you learn its from one to two aircraft. Gotta love the media.
I was a police officer in London. We have hundreds of Statutory Acts covering many hundreds of criminal offences that they could use for any type of protest. The new bill is draconian/tyrannical (it provides a power to electronically tag peaceful protesters) and completely unnecesssry. All Govt has to do for disruptive protests is add an 'aggravatihg factor'to an offence. E.g: currently we have eco zealots continuously gluing themselves to roads causing mayhem - so the offence of Obstructing the Highway applies which is a Summary offence so essentially lower tier courts and lesser sentences. An aggravating factor could be added to increase the severity of the offence and therefore the sentencing. But, you see, Govt has been planning this bill since the Lockdown protests scuppered their authority so what we have are police standing idly by and doing very very little while the gen pop become more outraged at police lack of power to do anything. It follows that Govt will likely get the bill through because the impression the public has is more powers are needed when the opposite is true. It's a disgrace.
I'm sure that the Ancien Regime in France had similar laws banning revolutions. Didn't help them. When people are that pissed off, no stupid law is going to get in their way.
No constitution, no bill of rights. People in the UK are not citizens in the sense that we are--they're subjects of the crown. That's what the Left is trying to establish here--minus the crown.
"The West hadn't updated its playbook from 2014, so didn't realize that Russia had changed and prepared."
IMHO, that is a critical point: is there now a theme of failed intel?
How could this level of abject failure happen given '5 Eyes' global surveillance and the massive reach of intelligence agencies in the west? Yet its happened more than in 2014.
Is it a flat failure of intelligence information? Or hubris, or both, enabled by a 'free press' that is the great enabler of this massive echochamber?
Or is it simply that we have incompetent career bureaucrats in critical positions who just suck at their jobs?
Probably a mix of all of it...
Flawed intel that lead to Iraq, 2 decades of lies with Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, etc.
That we 'didn't see this coming' with Russia raises so many questions...and at the same time connects a number of dots from the past 25 years.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/10/a_letter_from_england_about_liz_trusss_downfall.html
WEF runs the country now.
The atmosphere here is dark. There's a current in the air the same as in 2016 - the mood of the country was for Brexit. It was unspoken for the most part (Brits don't talk very openly about deep issues) but you could literally feel it in the air around you. I've got the same feeling now.
"Do not underestimate the significance of Serbia for everything that has followed. Serbia established the American Empire’s Rules-Based Order as putatively world dominant. It was a warning shot across the bow of crippled post-Soviet Russia, and one that Putin fully understood. In that sense it was a full dress rehearsal."
Interesting comment and it ties into a conversation I had back in late summer 2008 with my wife's cousin from Greece as our election season was in full steam. Her cousin was part of the Greek Diplomatic corp. and was a former ambassador to the Ukraine for the Greek government. He also did three stints here in North America, as Greece's ambassador to Canada, the ICAO in Montreal and a final posting in L.A. before he retired. At the time of our discussion the incursion into Georgia was taking place and I asked him if this would have any impact on our election. He said not likely and confided to me that it was his opinion Russia was furious with the Clinton administration for having bombed the Serbs on behalf of Islam during the Balkans war. He felt the Democrats were the stumbling block to more cordial relations between USA and Russia. As Serbia is a Slavic country and considered to be a Russian ally, as such they were convinced they needed to act in their own interests in the region. In another telling comment he suggested our bureaucrats/ambassador corp were the laughing stock in the world. Being mostly partisans appointed and with little diplomatic training were not respected and he suggested they created many more problems than they ever solved and everything was done for self-interest. Very interesting guy with great stories to tell.
He was absolutely right.
Jeremy Hunt, the new 'de facto Prime Minister', is a 'Zero-COVID' loon who lobbied for children to be taken from their parents and put in quarantine camps.
As Nigel Farage noted, Hunt is the face of a globalist coup...
"This is a coup, the Conservative Party is dead."
I don't want to lower the tone of your wonderful blog, Mark, but "Hunt" is a great word for those who like Cockney rhyming slang. And also very appropriate.
Lol! There's a fantastic montage floating round of all the times news reporters have accidentally called him Jeremy 'C**t - it happened again just the other day!
His wife is Chinese and has a gig on Chinese state television. His sister lives in Bejing and last year he recounted how on her return there during lockdown she was escorted to her apartment and sealed into it - the dreamlike look on his face as he told the story was chilling. Also he's brought in a Blackrock exec as one of his advisors at the treasury. He is hated by literally everyone and he is supporting Rishi Sinak for PM. The coup will be complete if he gets in.
If this is accurate:
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/uk-doubles-number-of-surveillance-aircraft-over-black-sea/
The Uk surveillance flight route goes over Ukraine.
Be a shame if it was shot down over Ukraine.
I wonder where the fighter escort is flying out of.
I love the headline, "UK doubles number of surveillance aircraft over Black Sea". WOW!! Then you learn its from one to two aircraft. Gotta love the media.
I was a police officer in London. We have hundreds of Statutory Acts covering many hundreds of criminal offences that they could use for any type of protest. The new bill is draconian/tyrannical (it provides a power to electronically tag peaceful protesters) and completely unnecesssry. All Govt has to do for disruptive protests is add an 'aggravatihg factor'to an offence. E.g: currently we have eco zealots continuously gluing themselves to roads causing mayhem - so the offence of Obstructing the Highway applies which is a Summary offence so essentially lower tier courts and lesser sentences. An aggravating factor could be added to increase the severity of the offence and therefore the sentencing. But, you see, Govt has been planning this bill since the Lockdown protests scuppered their authority so what we have are police standing idly by and doing very very little while the gen pop become more outraged at police lack of power to do anything. It follows that Govt will likely get the bill through because the impression the public has is more powers are needed when the opposite is true. It's a disgrace.
I'm sure that the Ancien Regime in France had similar laws banning revolutions. Didn't help them. When people are that pissed off, no stupid law is going to get in their way.
No constitution, no bill of rights. People in the UK are not citizens in the sense that we are--they're subjects of the crown. That's what the Left is trying to establish here--minus the crown.
Not my king. We have the Magna Carta at least.
"The West hadn't updated its playbook from 2014, so didn't realize that Russia had changed and prepared."
IMHO, that is a critical point: is there now a theme of failed intel?
How could this level of abject failure happen given '5 Eyes' global surveillance and the massive reach of intelligence agencies in the west? Yet its happened more than in 2014.
Is it a flat failure of intelligence information? Or hubris, or both, enabled by a 'free press' that is the great enabler of this massive echochamber?
Or is it simply that we have incompetent career bureaucrats in critical positions who just suck at their jobs?
Probably a mix of all of it...
Flawed intel that lead to Iraq, 2 decades of lies with Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, etc.
That we 'didn't see this coming' with Russia raises so many questions...and at the same time connects a number of dots from the past 25 years.
Triumph of ideology over professionalism?
Maybe delusion over sanity.
Nice summary.