I’ve just listened to Doug Macgregor’s interview today with Glenn Diesen: America's New Long War. This, of course, is the title of Mac’s “article” on his X site. I had toyed with the idea of pasting the whole thing in the other day, but events—plus his long discussion on the same topic—have decided me. I’ll go ahead with that. I suspect that Mac would want as much attention to this as possible. As I mentioned earlier, I have in the past repeatedly focused on the geopolitical importance of Azerbaijan in the South Caucasus and in the area of Pan-Turkism. In the video Mac emphasizes that Russia and Iran provide mutual lifelines to each other in resisting the Anglo-Zionist Empire—and a hostile Azerbaijan athwart those lifelines is therefore an existential threat to both.
I think something I overlooked and something Doctorow overlooks
Is that I was always thinking this is Trumps only years ( no 3rd term ) and I was perhaps biased in thinking he could throw off the Yoke of Adelson and other billionaire backers; he is in office, he can do what he wants, he does not need them for another election
But I was failing to consider his sons and son-in-law, and all that they are up to - and that therefore not only might Trump not desire to throw off the yoke, his family thrives with it on
I do state as before Trump is the result of chaos, destabilization, in the US and this is one of those arenas; Biden son did so much and not only did no one reign him in there was not a whisper of impropriety from any democrats, whether Burisma or paintings all an effort to get money with 10 % for the big guy
and now that is coming back to haunt us all - the Democrats did not say one peep when we all knew with Biden son Hunter and family was up to - and now they made that bed that the Trump family appears to be jumping into with joy.
Iran and the U.S. have been in conflict since 1979. With flare ups such as the embassy hostages, Beirut marine barracks bombing, Reagan’s Persian gulf attacks, Iraq ied (explosive penetrators), assassination of Solemani, cyber attacks on centrifuges, death to America chants, sanctions, etc.
This current hot phase was Israeli led. Trump declared victory and per him has eliminated the casus belli of U.S. intervention. Israel is looking for a rematch and wants regime change.
Something to watch, is Chinese transportation infrastructure in the stans, along with trade. It’s increasing fast. China sees this as an untapped market with an advantage for them in transportation and manufacturing cost.
For those--like me--who don't follow Armenia very closely, this article is an eye opener. Why is it that wherever Anglo-Zionists vie for control the church is attacked?
Why the next revolution in this country might start in a cathedral
Armenia’s ancient church finds itself at the center of a political storm as the government cracks down on dissent within its ranks
Thanks for expanding historical understanding, Richard C Cook
regarding your comment, above: I traveled to Iran after meeting several Iranians who had a more serene outlook on life than I'd observed in my deeply Catholic experience. On the flight home, with beautiful terrain of Europe below, I summed it up thus: Iranians are NOT Abrahamic -- not in their essence.
Poking that further, I hold the belief (stubbornly, maybe wrongly!) that Zoroaster is at the core of Iranian worldview.
Abrahamic creeds hold that MAN is a sinner and can be saved (achieve 'salvation') only through --i.e. the sacrifice of a messiah -- Christ on the Cross.
Whereas Zoroaster taught that there is both good and evil in the WORLD, and that a man's life-task is to seek out the good and avoid the evil: Good Thoughts Good Words Good Deeds. In my interpretation, 'salvation' means disciplining the mind/spirit to live a good life.
I recently heard Bart Ehrman teach that the notion of the necessity of sacrificial salvation & a messiah was a distinctly Jewish/Hebrew concept that Paul had to impose on Christianity in. order to make sense of the death of Christ. It was absent from Greek and Roman--"pagan"-- worldviews.
Not trying to proselytize, just attempting to convey, from my very amateur observation, that- and how- it may be that Iranians think differently from the way American Westerners might think.
It's interesting that this very region, northern Iran and Azeri territories, was the site of the very first (outside of Banderite leave-behinds in the Ukrainian SSR and their equivalents elsewhere behind the Iron Curtain) instance of immediate-post-WWII Cold War adventurism/****ery by the OSS>CIA. While we've flipped sides on the proxies, the ultimate target has always been the same: those pesky Russians, whether as godless communists or, currently, as Orthodox traditionalists. Looks like we've come full circle this time, perhaps, without learning a thing.
Somebody intelligent (I forget who) said there are three main requirements to win a modern war of attrition.
Industrial output.
International support.
Morale of the citizenry.
We gave away our manufacturing base. We can't make enough munitions to last a couple weeks. Only a few yapping chihuahuas in NATO still give us lip service. We've screwed just about everybody in the last forty years. We have no real allies left.
Putin is said to have an approval rating in the eighties. Nobody in the U.S. has anything like that including Santa Claus. Millions of illegals here are just sucking on the teat, while despising the nation that feeds them. Really bad time to be pushing people around. The damage done to our military and infrastructure would be years from being fixed if everything was going well.
Re: Putin approval rating, per Levada Poll he does indeed have a steady approval rating in mid 80s. Levada is run by a group whose editorial view is similar to that of NY Times, Wash. Post, etc. Meaning, they're stunned that Putin continues to have support, have no idea how he does it. NY Times has written favorably about Levada's independence, it's in no way an in-house poll. Shows ratings 1999 to present....https://www.levada.ru/en/ratings/
far be it from me to ever cast aspersions on the honor of the US Military, but an observer could be forgiven for concluding that kurilla is guilty of a bit of treason.
This is genuinely an unprecedented state of affairs. the most powerful country on earth, the exceptional nation, is the rent boy of psychopathic killers who hold it in complete contempt and will discard it like a used condom once they have finished the plunder. The pathetic groveling worship of israel and the prioritizing of their “feelings” is absolutely despicable and obscene.
The collapse of this wretched “nation” and the destruction of americanism can’t come soon enough.
An important aspect of the pause in the war on Iran is that it provides Iran with an opportunity to tighten up internal security. They're now acting to expel foreign nationals (probably mostly Afghans).
Maybe Iran and Russia need to stop fighting by the Queensberry Rules and get nasty - or "real nasty" as Clint said in one of his Westerns. Putin acted decisively in Crimea in 2014 and in Georgia in 2008. He needs to nip this Azerbaijan thing in the bud. And Iran better get serious about making the tightest deal possible with Russia and China.
The Orthodox Church is the battle ground of US foreign policy to subvert traditionalist/nationalist currents that undermine US foreign policy.
One has to wonder how much betrayal the Armenian people can endure and how far state authoritarianism can go before a backlash.
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Interesting interpretation of Trumps portrayal of the attack on Iran
..................It does not have to be real, it does not have to be truthful
----------It just has to last for two weeks - and provide a boost - until the Budget is passed ----
Cued in Diesen w/Nicolai Petro: The Trump Doctrine
https://youtu.be/zVCzGtcx1kM?t=900
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I was listening to Mac - and I it made me think
I think something I overlooked and something Doctorow overlooks
Is that I was always thinking this is Trumps only years ( no 3rd term ) and I was perhaps biased in thinking he could throw off the Yoke of Adelson and other billionaire backers; he is in office, he can do what he wants, he does not need them for another election
But I was failing to consider his sons and son-in-law, and all that they are up to - and that therefore not only might Trump not desire to throw off the yoke, his family thrives with it on
I do state as before Trump is the result of chaos, destabilization, in the US and this is one of those arenas; Biden son did so much and not only did no one reign him in there was not a whisper of impropriety from any democrats, whether Burisma or paintings all an effort to get money with 10 % for the big guy
and now that is coming back to haunt us all - the Democrats did not say one peep when we all knew with Biden son Hunter and family was up to - and now they made that bed that the Trump family appears to be jumping into with joy.
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Iran and the U.S. have been in conflict since 1979. With flare ups such as the embassy hostages, Beirut marine barracks bombing, Reagan’s Persian gulf attacks, Iraq ied (explosive penetrators), assassination of Solemani, cyber attacks on centrifuges, death to America chants, sanctions, etc.
This current hot phase was Israeli led. Trump declared victory and per him has eliminated the casus belli of U.S. intervention. Israel is looking for a rematch and wants regime change.
Something to watch, is Chinese transportation infrastructure in the stans, along with trade. It’s increasing fast. China sees this as an untapped market with an advantage for them in transportation and manufacturing cost.
Kevork Almassian @KevorkAlmassian
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Allow me to explain: Pashinyan surrendered Artsakh to form an anti-Russian alliance with Turkey, Azerbaijan and the EU.
For those--like me--who don't follow Armenia very closely, this article is an eye opener. Why is it that wherever Anglo-Zionists vie for control the church is attacked?
Why the next revolution in this country might start in a cathedral
Armenia’s ancient church finds itself at the center of a political storm as the government cracks down on dissent within its ranks
https://www.rt.com/russia/620753-armenia-church-government-standoff/
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner....And there shall be wars and rumors of wars ...
Re-reading your
The Dark Forces in Control of the Anglo-American-Zionist Empire Are the Source of the World Crisis
https://www.globalresearch.ca/anglo-american-zionist-empire-source-world-crisis/5877240
Thanks for expanding historical understanding, Richard C Cook
regarding your comment, above: I traveled to Iran after meeting several Iranians who had a more serene outlook on life than I'd observed in my deeply Catholic experience. On the flight home, with beautiful terrain of Europe below, I summed it up thus: Iranians are NOT Abrahamic -- not in their essence.
Poking that further, I hold the belief (stubbornly, maybe wrongly!) that Zoroaster is at the core of Iranian worldview.
Abrahamic creeds hold that MAN is a sinner and can be saved (achieve 'salvation') only through --i.e. the sacrifice of a messiah -- Christ on the Cross.
Whereas Zoroaster taught that there is both good and evil in the WORLD, and that a man's life-task is to seek out the good and avoid the evil: Good Thoughts Good Words Good Deeds. In my interpretation, 'salvation' means disciplining the mind/spirit to live a good life.
I recently heard Bart Ehrman teach that the notion of the necessity of sacrificial salvation & a messiah was a distinctly Jewish/Hebrew concept that Paul had to impose on Christianity in. order to make sense of the death of Christ. It was absent from Greek and Roman--"pagan"-- worldviews.
Not trying to proselytize, just attempting to convey, from my very amateur observation, that- and how- it may be that Iranians think differently from the way American Westerners might think.
It's interesting that this very region, northern Iran and Azeri territories, was the site of the very first (outside of Banderite leave-behinds in the Ukrainian SSR and their equivalents elsewhere behind the Iron Curtain) instance of immediate-post-WWII Cold War adventurism/****ery by the OSS>CIA. While we've flipped sides on the proxies, the ultimate target has always been the same: those pesky Russians, whether as godless communists or, currently, as Orthodox traditionalists. Looks like we've come full circle this time, perhaps, without learning a thing.
The Brits have been active in the Caucasus from way back--Anglo-Persian Oil Company. Oil companies by their nature are geopolitical players.
Aka The Great Game.
The British-Iranian War of 1856-1857
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfb_psMjxDs
what a meddlesome lot
Somebody intelligent (I forget who) said there are three main requirements to win a modern war of attrition.
Industrial output.
International support.
Morale of the citizenry.
We gave away our manufacturing base. We can't make enough munitions to last a couple weeks. Only a few yapping chihuahuas in NATO still give us lip service. We've screwed just about everybody in the last forty years. We have no real allies left.
Putin is said to have an approval rating in the eighties. Nobody in the U.S. has anything like that including Santa Claus. Millions of illegals here are just sucking on the teat, while despising the nation that feeds them. Really bad time to be pushing people around. The damage done to our military and infrastructure would be years from being fixed if everything was going well.
It isn't.
Re: Putin approval rating, per Levada Poll he does indeed have a steady approval rating in mid 80s. Levada is run by a group whose editorial view is similar to that of NY Times, Wash. Post, etc. Meaning, they're stunned that Putin continues to have support, have no idea how he does it. NY Times has written favorably about Levada's independence, it's in no way an in-house poll. Shows ratings 1999 to present....https://www.levada.ru/en/ratings/
far be it from me to ever cast aspersions on the honor of the US Military, but an observer could be forgiven for concluding that kurilla is guilty of a bit of treason.
This is genuinely an unprecedented state of affairs. the most powerful country on earth, the exceptional nation, is the rent boy of psychopathic killers who hold it in complete contempt and will discard it like a used condom once they have finished the plunder. The pathetic groveling worship of israel and the prioritizing of their “feelings” is absolutely despicable and obscene.
The collapse of this wretched “nation” and the destruction of americanism can’t come soon enough.
An important aspect of the pause in the war on Iran is that it provides Iran with an opportunity to tighten up internal security. They're now acting to expel foreign nationals (probably mostly Afghans).
Maybe Iran and Russia need to stop fighting by the Queensberry Rules and get nasty - or "real nasty" as Clint said in one of his Westerns. Putin acted decisively in Crimea in 2014 and in Georgia in 2008. He needs to nip this Azerbaijan thing in the bud. And Iran better get serious about making the tightest deal possible with Russia and China.
Dumbass free zone.