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It'll be just like Afghanistan. The US role in this whole war has been driven by Foggy Bottom, Pentagon, and Langley bureaucrats, with the elected government more or less allowing them to run on autopilot. But, nonetheless, when the house of cards collapses they'll blame Dementia Joe and avoid any responsibility themselves. There might be some realists left in the National Security Council who will use this opportunity to force Nuland into retirement, maybe Burns or Austin announce long anticipated plans to join the private sector and spend more time with their families, but by and large the people who gave us this fiasco will remain, and like De Toqueville's Bourbons, will have "forgotten nothing, and learned nothing." They'll even have their Bill Kristol's write op-eds blaming Americans for not wanting it badly enough, while they crave revenge against flyover country teenagers who don't want to join the military anymore. But at least those teenagers won't be joining up. That's the real white pill. The next front will be to anticipate a return to Selective Service, and to mobilize boycotts and cancellation campaigns of any prominent citizen who agrees to serve on a local draft board.

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“It has long been apparent that the Kiev regime has no real plan, no firm path to victory, and only a tenuous and unfriendly relationship with reality. Far more terrifying is the thought that the Pentagon is much the same.”

I think this, rather than the publicly (now) acknowledged enfeeblement of Ukr’s military, is where the real criminality lies.

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I have a direct quote from the leaked documents- "Steiner's assault will bring it under control".

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Here's my favorite part..."Mercouris had originally been skeptical about the leaked documents, but he’s a believer now, especially after the latest WaPo article."

Imagine WAPO authenticating these leaks in a matter of a few days. Hunter Biden laptop... 2 years.

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US isn't about "wars," per se, it's about keeping US taxpayers enslaved to the weapons industry so we don't have a chance to get uppity. US loves China, made it what it is today, so the whole "war w. China" is a joke--its biggest R cheerleaders are McCarthy & McCaul. As grinning warmonger Ollie North said in Dec. 2022, US needs to hurry and ship weapons to Taiwan. As to US billions to Ukraine, he said that money never actually went to Ukraine, it went to US defense contractors and from there, turned into jobs for "good, hardworking Americans." Countries give "their blood for our bullets." Our enslavement can't be changed by elections. Only solution is for US to be broken up into, say, 3 parts. Calif & New Mexico may wish to merge w. Mexico.

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Thousands more men and women deliberately murdered on the battlefield to satisfy the egos of nuland, blinken et al. If there ever is any Justice they will tried for crimes against humanity for pursuing this crazy war

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Martin Armstrong said his sources tell him the US military has been told to prepare for war by the end of 2023 so I guess it is a runaway train. The famous Sun Tzu quote comes to mind: “An evil enemy, will burn his own nation to the ground….to rule over the ashes”.

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Michael Tracey

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I’ve seen around 50 leaked documents at this point and none of them contain any platitudes about freedom, democracy, or the rules-based international order. Weird

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So Nuland's War, begun in 2014, is meant to prevent a multipolar world? To "decolonize" Russia in order to "colonize" it -- make it a colony of a unipolar world government? Thus it is one campaign in Davos' War against all?

Rolling along in the background we have the WHO's One World Health pandemic not-a-treaty treaty being hammered out along with amendments to International Health Regulations.

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Larry Johnson & Ray McGovern discussing the Leaks.

https://www.youtube.com/live/DRs8pAWIxjk?feature=share

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