It’s impossible to do justice to the full hour long interview of Tom Luongo, embedded below. Luongo covers a huge amount of ground, starting with Russia - Ukraine, and he does so in exceptionally articulate fashion. But he then goes on to the topics that are impacting us in our daily lives in ways that we experience first hand. To give you a feel, here’s a video clip that comes in about the middle of the interview. This outtake features Luongo talking about his idea that the Fed is seeking to retake control over the dollar:
Now, here I’ve cued toward the end of the interview, where Luongo summarizes his views on the Big Picture of the war in Ukraine. Essentially, he’s saying: The West wanted this war, and Putin chose the time. The West wanted this war because it needs a cover story to hide its insolvency. The big question then becomes: Will the people who created this war and wanted this war escalate when they see they’re losing?
Now here’s the full interview. The intro in Spanish lasts for just over two minutes:
"The West wanted this war, and Putin chose the time."
Preposterous. The West can hardly have "wanted" something that they neither expected nor prepared for. I don't normally post a comment like this, since I've learned that questioning someone's Ukraine narrative can be like insulting their mother. That said, it was always my impression that "The West" (By which I guess means the Brandon regime) wrote a blank check that they never thought they'd have to cash. A lot of what they did in the runup to the war was positioning themselves for the coming debate on who lost Ukraine, which they expected would fall quickly. After it did, they's ship some Stingers and whatnot to the Ukraine Cong, who would run around blowing stuff up and yelling "Wolverines!"
So they pledged to support any burden, bear any foe, and oppose any friend in the name of freedom for the Ukrainians and their bribe money. They would fight them on the landing grounds, and in the streets, and on Twitter, and they would never surrender. The last thing they expected was to have to make good on any of this, and then the Russian war plan miscarried. The last thing they ever expected was a real war, and now here we are.
None of this is meant as defense of the inexcusable, these people bloody well should have known the risks they were taking, but they were determined to have their way. Much of what they did simply defies rational analysis. They aren't strategists or statesmen, they're sorcerer's apprentices.
Fantastic interview! It is amazing that one can learn so much more from each succeeding Luongo interview. The man is a font of knowledge. From this interview, I learned about (among many things) the importance of Russian control of the Black Sea and the Danube river delta economically; the importance of the U.S. Fed trying to wrest control of the U.S. Dollar from Europe (for example, SOFR vs. LIBOR and the position of the U.S. commercial banks vis a vis the Fed, the Biden admin, and Davos; the Russians' view of digital currency; the relative importance of Oligarchs vs. national culture and history; the failure of and apparent position of Davos; and on and on. Thanks very much Mark for posting this.