Saturday Mostly Geopolitical Roundup

It bears repeating: This Ukraine thing—meaning, the US war against Russia—has been a long time in the making, in the planning. Martin Armstrong sets it out succinctly:

The Ukraine War has been in the Planning Stage since 2013

From the beginning, the United States provided $5 billion to fund the Ukrainian Revolution in 2014. The US-installed interim government launched the civil war against the Donbas on US instructions. Then in 2014, Obama signed a bill authorizing lethal aid to be provided to Kiev. Then in 2015, NATO Commander General Philip Breedlove favors military aid to Ukraine. The US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, John Kerry, and General Martin Dempsey of the Joint Chiefs agreed.

The West has been planning war against Russia using Ukraine as cannon fodder from the very start. The Neocons are a third party unto themselves. There are both Republicans and Democrats in their ranks. These people want war. They do not know how to exist without an enemy. Communism fell, but that did not matter. It was briefly replaced with the War on Terror. When they hung Saddam Hussein, they looked around and said – Ok who is next? Ah! Russia and then China!

If you follow the link there are brief video clips of Nuland confirming that $5 billion for regime change in Ukraine and of Lindsey! saying he likes the dynamics as they are now: We provide some help, and the Ukrainians fight “to the last man”. That’s what passes for statesmanship in the US.

Tucker only goes back to 2016, but he ties it all together with the link to domestic politics and the Russia Hoax:

Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson

The war in Ukraine began a year ago today, on February 24, 2022, when the Russian military rolled across the eastern border of the country. But in many ways, the Russian invasion of Ukraine was the endpoint of a much longer story.

And the thing to keep in mind is that senior GOP officials like Bluto Barr and Turtle McConnell were working overtime to give the American what they thought we deserved, good and hard: Zhou. If that required Bluto covering up Hunter’s dirty deeds in Ukraine, China, and who knows where else, so be it. And there were plenty more of the same or similar ilk. Never forget that.

I was listening to Doug Macgregor the other day. He repeated that, yes, Pompeo and Mattis were working every day to undermine Trump and to stoke conflict with Russia and China. Where has that brilliant strategery landed us? Here’s a half hour video of the two Alexes at The Duran discussing the pivotal moment at which China and Russia aligned to challenge the collective west—and what it means. That’s what our genius Neocons have brought America to:

It’s all a good listen, but here are Mercouris’ concluding reflections:

I think this is a pivotal moment. This is something that people haven't fully grasped, but it was remarkable how Wang Yi dominated the Munich Security Conference--basically by just being there. People weren't interested in what Kamala Harris had to say--everybody wanted to know what Wang Yi had to say! Everybody was lining up to speak to him and, at the same time, utterly spooked by whatever he said. And, you know, he said very little. And when he did speak he spoke in very, very polite ways. But, nonetheless, they were scared and nervous--they'd never been more nervous.

It is a pivotal moment. It's one that's crystalizing the change that's happening. And it is accelerating. If you're an American and you want to understand why it's happening so fast, look no further than the White House, the person who's there in the Oval Office, and the team around him--this terrible gaggle of ideologues and Neocons who have captured control of the foreign policy of America.

For what is, in some ways, a lighthearted yet still serious look at the America we live in, try this (actually, rather brief excerpts of the whole). The author is writing, at the start, about the spectacle America has made of itself with the balloon hysteria:

Is The Deep State Getting Desperate?

“American officials do not know what the objects were, much less their purpose or who sent them,” The New York Times reported, poaching a line from every horror movie of the 1950s.

When do the giant ants show up on Fremont Street in Las Vegas?

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It seems that all the usual tropes the Deep State employs to intimidate its opponents — Putin sympathizer, white supremacy, right-wing extremism, racism, misogyny, transphobia, blah blah — have lost their power to scare the non-insane.

We say that in Warsaw, where Zhou simply mindlessly kept repeating: Putin, Putin, Putin. Putin this, Putin that. Our children probably are afraid he’s lurking in their closets at night, or under their beds.

Fewer Americans are believing the official BS about keeping America “safe” from “misinformation.” It’s perfectly obvious now that “misinformation” is a synonym for “the truth.”

So, what have they got left? A UFO invasion? Is that what it’s come to? I guess so.

If Russia was impressed by the successful balloon op, it didn’t offer any comment. Russia was busy neutralizing America’s pet proxy palooka, sad-sack Ukraine.

These poor folks were sent into the ring to soften-up Russia for a revolution aimed at overthrowing the wicked Vlad Putin — at least according to our real Secretary of State (and Ukraine war show-runner), Victoria Nuland, in remarks this week to the Carnegie Endowment, a DC think tank.

And, yes, it’s so apparent that Nuland is running the show and that Blinken is simply following orders.

In effect, America put a bomb on Russia’s front porch and now Russia has to carefully defuse the darn thing. The prank itself was just the last in a long line of foolish American military escapades that have ended in humiliation for us, most recently the Afghan fiasco.

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In the meantime, America is rapidly disintegrating on the home front. Is it attempted suicide or murder? It’s a little hard to tell. Things are blowing up from sea to shining sea — food processing facilities, giant chicken barns, regional electric grids, oil refineries.

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One has to wonder whether an army of saboteurs is on the loose across the land. Considering the border with Mexico is wide open, why wouldn’t America’s adversaries send whole wrecking crews over here to mess with our infrastructure?

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Of all the reasons to be unnerved by “Joe Biden’s” open border policy, this one is the least discussed, even in the alt-media. But it seems like a no-brainer for nefarious interests who might want to bamboozle and disable us.

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The sad truth of this moment in history is that the USA has too much going sideways with our own business at home now to be dabbling in any foreign misadventures — and we couldn’t have picked a worse place than Ukraine to do it.

The sheer logistics are implausible. The geography is lethally unfavorable. The place has been inarguably within Russia’s sphere of influence for centuries and Russia has every intention of pacifying the joint at all costs.

Peace talks are apparently out of the question for our leaders. Something’s got to give, and that something is probably Western Civ’s financial system. It’s primed to blow anyway, and when it does, we’ll have other things to think about.

Forces are aligning now to shake this creaking system down to its foundation. The moment of criticality will most likely come when the financial markets crater and the US dollar gets broken by international ridicule to a near-worthless token of decrepitude. The public can apparently take an awful lot of gaslighting, double-dealing, and derogation.

But that all changes when you can’t buy food anymore.

We discussed the other day the rumblings coming from down Transnistria way, where Russian peacekeepers are guarding Europe’s largest arms stash and where Moldova—another US/WEF puppet state—is calling for “demilitarization” of Transnistria. Russia has responded:

Russia warns West over threatening its troops in breakaway Moldovan region
Reuters ^ | February 24, 2023 | Caleb Davis, Alexander Tanas and Dan Peleschuk

Russia told the West on Friday that it would view as an attack on itself any actions that threatened Russian peacekeepers in Moldova's breakaway Transdniestria region, one day after Moscow accused Ukraine of planning an invasion.

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"We warn the United States, NATO member states and their Ukrainian wards against taking yet another reckless step," Russia's foreign ministry.

"Any action that threatens their security will be considered under international law as an attack on the Russian Federation."

But speaking of regime change and all that jazz, and winding up closer to home, Don Surber posted the following informative graphic, under the heading:

The National Divorce has begun