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:
"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.
"The West wanted this war because it needs a cover story to hide its insolvency." For certain. If we can add to this that the West also needed to segue out of its covid policy disaster, we have a pretty good jump on understanding two of the main parts of what's been going on the last many months.
Yes. The admission that the Ukrainians have lost 80% of their "best"--presumably trained and experienced--troops is an admission that collapse is near.
Yes. Donbas was historically Russian--geographically and linguistically. The fact that Russia allowed it to remain--with all its resources and industry--with Ukraine after the breakup of the USSR is an indication of how dedicated Russia was to rebuilding the social order throughout the former USSR.
"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.
I might be paranoid Mark, but your first post today, https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/abortion-mrna-two-sides-of-the-same went in my junk e-mail folder, never happened before, live.com/MS doesn't always play nice.
Switch to a different email provider..
"The West wanted this war because it needs a cover story to hide its insolvency." For certain. If we can add to this that the West also needed to segue out of its covid policy disaster, we have a pretty good jump on understanding two of the main parts of what's been going on the last many months.
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Yes. The admission that the Ukrainians have lost 80% of their "best"--presumably trained and experienced--troops is an admission that collapse is near.
And hasn't Ukraine also lost ~80% of its industrial capacity (Donbass, etc.)?
Yes. Donbas was historically Russian--geographically and linguistically. The fact that Russia allowed it to remain--with all its resources and industry--with Ukraine after the breakup of the USSR is an indication of how dedicated Russia was to rebuilding the social order throughout the former USSR.
Correct. We (US) are dependent on raw materials from China and Russia for military weapons / ammo.
There is the entire support / logistics issue for these supposedly game changers.