Perspectives: Foreign And Domestic

A collection of tweets—because there’s so much going on today. It’s all connected.

Nice perspective from Kim Dotcom. My guess is that Russian strategists didn’t need to read that Rand report to get to this point. Putin is a martial artist, he gets this balance stuff. Our problem is coming up with ideas but not connecting them to our reality:

Kim Dotcom @KimDotcom

Putin runs a low cost war, mass producing artillery ammo and attack drones while keeping the Ukraine power grid down with occasional missile attacks. Biden bleeds billions into an increasingly unpopular proxy war. Putin turned RAND’s ‘Unbalancing Russia’ playbook against the US.

Why this video of Assad? Because he’s calling for a permanent Russian presence in Syria—that’s huge for the US navy, and you can read why here: Assad's Visit To Moscow... There’s a nice map to go with the text:

COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality

ASSAD: "I believe that World War III is underway, but different in form... wars are going in the direction of proxy wars. Zelensky now wages war on behalf of the West with his army of Nazis. Same thing, terrorists armies acting on behalf of the West, as in Syria and elsewhere."

Assad does a good job articulating the conceptual connection between US support for terrorist armies in Syria and the criminal war against Russia, sacrificing the Ukrainian nation for our ends. Michael Vlahos sees that, too:

Michael Vlahos

@Michalis_Vlahos

Dénouement beckons: This is the unraveling tragedy of the Ukraine. Cunningly manufactured by the United States, cruelly exploited to the very destruction of a helpless people, ruthlessly driving them into the pitiable purgatory that is the summit of America's boundless Love: Hail Caesar and the God Augustus!

The Kiev regime is as unsympathetic a victim as you’re likely to encounter, but the fact remains that the US Neocons—a criminal cabal—set them up for war. A negotiated end was always available, still is, but the US has scotched every initiative. In our own interests, not in the interests of Ukraine, which is doing the dying, with half its population already having fled.

Will Schryver @imetatronink

@Michalis_Vlahos I have two responses to what I considered your most meaningful query in this episode: HOW did the US/NATO so radically miscalculate what would turn out to be the parameters of this war? 1/2

Well, yeah. These things happen to people who construct their own fantasy reality and act based on that fantasy—in the services of an evil ideology of supremacy.

Two nice bits of perspective from Tucker Carlson, describing the reality that we inhabit:

Magdi Shalash @magdishalash

Wow! Tucker really opens up here and describes his own awakening and how he regrets being part of the apparatus ie the media which is used by a “small group of people who actually rule the world”

Magdi Shalash @magdishalash

How much does Rubio get paid to spout this nonsense? I mean, who would make a fool of themselves in public like this if they weren’t getting paid handsomely to do so?

Judge Napolitano @Judgenap

Scott Ritter rips into Marco Rubio & Lindsey Graham on responding to Russia's attack on U.S. drone @RealScottRitter #DroneAttack #drones #Russia #RussianUkrainianWar see full vid: youtube.com/watch?v=-K6zKk…

Do you get the idea that the Russians weren’t impressed by our practice nuclear attack on St. Petersburg? I think the message for the Kinzhal strikes, the drone takedown, and now this is: No more pattycake.

Victor vicktop55 @vicktop55

1/2 Russia demonstrates its capabilities off the coast of the United States. Nuclear submarines of the Russian Navy will conduct test salvo firing of ballistic missiles, - Commander-in-Chief of the Navy.

Victor vicktop55 @vicktop55

2/2 The tests will take place in the neutral waters of the Pacific Ocean, relatively close to the coast of the United States. The missiles will be equipped with imitation nuclear warheads.

t.meVictor vicktop55Russia demonstrates its capabilities off the coast of the United States. Nuclear submarines of the Russian Navy will conduct test salvo firing of ballistic missiles, - Commander-in-Chief of the Navy. The tests will take place in the neutral waters of the Pacific Ocean, relatively close to the co…

When do we start the big national debate on having another World War? Oh, wait—what was that that Tucker said?