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Putin Explicitly Confirmed What Was Already Self-Evident About Russia’s Nuclear Doctrine
Andrew Korybko
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Russia is worried that the influence of hawkish forces inside the US’ “deep state” might be growing and could ultimately lead to a large-scale conventional strike against it, including by proxy through Ukraine, which Russia hopes to deter by reminding them that this would result in World War III.
The hullabaloo over Russia’s updated nuclear doctrine is misplaced since all that Putin did was explicitly confirm what was already self-evident to all serious observers. Nobody should have ever thought that Russia wouldn’t consider a nuclear response to any overwhelming non-nuclear strike against it or its mutual defense ally Belarus, nor that it would overlook those who partook in such a provocation by proxy. Here’s exactly what Putin told the Security Councilduring their latest meeting on Wednesday:
We will consider such a possibility once we receive reliable information about a massive launch of air and space attack weapons and their crossing our state border. I mean strategic and tactical aircraft, cruise missiles, UAVs, hypersonic and other aircraft.
We reserve the right to use nuclear weapons in the event of aggression against Russia and Belarus as a member of the Union State. All these issues have been agreed upon with the Belarusian side and the President of Belarus. Including the case when the enemy, using conventional weapons, creates a critical threat to our sovereignty.”
The Hijacking and Commercializing of Dissent Creating a Facade of Support While Maintaining the Status Quo
by Tracy Turner
The boundaries between public dissent and government-corporate complicity have blurred in today's "information age" (our information vacuum). Tech Titans, politicians, and Media Moguls repeatedly claim to champion free speech and democracy. However, circumspection reveals a disturbing trend of co-optation and commercialization. These "patriots" for "our republic" mostly co-opt within systems that promote control and surveillance. Their mantra seems to be, "We are Champions for Change; we Covertly Support and Worsen the Odious Status Quo."
The Movers and Shakers: Modern-Day Champions of Dissent?
Elon Musk
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, presents himself as the defender of free speech, particularly after acquiring Twitter (X). His vocal opposition to censorship has created quite a buzz, but his actions suggest dissent lite. Musk promotes sensationalism over dissenting dialogue by reinstating controversial accounts while selectively banning others. His decision to reinstate accounts associated with hate speech and conspiracy theories has brought concerns about his impact on the public narrative. Critics argue that his view of free speech focuses more on profit than prophets. (Tufekci, 2022).
Satanist Bankers Seek to Enslave Humanity
by Henry Makow, PhD
(l. Klaws Swab's WEF is a front for the Rothschild central banking cartel)
The "State" is a front for the Masonic Jewish central bankers who own its "debt."
Illuminati insider Chaim Rakovsky told his NKVD interrogator that the bankers created the Communist state as a "machine of total power" unprecedented in history.
THIS IS THE KEY QUOTE:
In the past, due to many factors, "there was always room for individual freedom. Do you understand that those who already partially rule over nations and worldly governments have pretensions to absolute domination? Understand that this is the only thing that they have not yet reached..."The aim of Freemasonry is the triumph of Communism."
Our corrupt ancestors gave our national credit cards to people who wish to enslave us and destroy our way of life. Cabalist (satanist, Masonic) Jewish central bankers create the medium of exchange (money, credit) in the form of a debt to themselves, something our governments could easily do, debt-and-interest-free. Communism is the extension of Cabalist control over government credit to satanic control of every aspect of our lives -- power, property, thought, behavior, movement, and expression. They used this limitless supply of our money to buy our corporations, politicians, doctors, mass media, cops, teachers, etc. in order to steal our birthright and that of our children.
Israel, the American Neoconservatives, and Satan Are Winning by Default
Ask yourselves how aggressive Western “leaders”
managed to create this situation of death for humanity.
by Paul Craig Roberts
When Israel committed its forces to Gaza, it was a perfect time for Hezbollah to attack and overrun Israel. But Hezbollah sat on its butt and pissed away its strategic advantage. Now after numerous Israeli strikes and communication device explosions, Hezbollah has lost most of its leadership. In Israel’s latest air strike on Beirut, Lebanon, Ibrahim Aqil, the leader of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan unit was killed. Competent leaders are very rare, and it seems Israel has defanged Hezbollah by eliminating its competent leaders.
Iran also sat on its butt and did nothing but display to Israel Iran’s capability of overcoming the Iron Dome air defense system. By doing so without knocking out Israel, Iran warned Israel of Israel’s vulnerability and pissed away its strategic advantage.
Putin by denying Iran the Russian S-400 air defense system, has permitted Israel to continue to assassinate from the air Hezbollah’s leaders in Iran. Putin’s failure to protect an ally has strengthened the US/Israeli position in the Middle East and weakened Russia’s.
Syria also continues to suffer Israeli/US air attacks, which destroy Iranian leaders, because Putin refuses to allow Syria to have Russian air defense systems. In effect, Putin is protecting Israeli and US attacks on Syrian territory instead of protecting Russia’s Syrian ally.
Zelensky the proxy stooge comes to America with singular mission: Draw U.S. more directly into his protracted war with nuclear-armed Russia
by Leo Hohmann
Zelensky the dictator wants you to think he represents freedom and democracy. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky began his visit to the United States in Pennsylvania with a stop Sunday at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant, where he thanked American workers producing the 155mm artillery shells Ukraine uses to kill Russians in a nasty border war with its fellow slavic neighbor to the east.
I wonder how those American workers feel making weapons for the leader of perhaps the most corrupt country in the world, Ukraine, which is being used by a corrupt Washington Unitparty to poke the Russian bear in the eyeball. Maybe they’re not aware of the geopolitical ramifications of their work. I doubt many are or they would be looking for other, less provocative jobs.
But Zelensky is a master at spinning lies and clever propaganda, playing Westerners who fall easy prey because of their lack of knowledge about the history of the Ukraine-Russia dispute. Even the BBC, in a March 2022 article, acknowledged Zelensky’s speeches are appear crafted to “shame” Western parliaments into giving him more money and weapons.
America The Unready
Paul Craig Roberts
Andrei Martyanov, an emigre from Russia, writes books about military strategy and America’s lack of one. He does his best to make us aware that if we are to find ourselves at war with Russia, we need better strategic thinking than we have. His latest book, America’s Final War, published by Clarity Press, tells us that the West is unprepared for the conflict the West is fomenting with Russia.
Martyanov is contemptuous of American military thinking and the American echo chamber that passes for thought. Consequently, the establishment will ignore him and continue on its mistaken path.
Martyanov uses Washington’s response to Russia’s Special Military Operation in Donbas to illustrate his point. Much of the book is his defense of his view of the conflict. Martyanov was the leading dissident to the view of Western pundits that Russia would be defeated and Ukraine would be victorious.
The West’s propagandistic response to the conflict contributed to the West’s misunderstanding. Believing its own misrepresentation of the conflict, the West continued to convince itself that just a little more Western intervention would turn the tide. Add this weapons system. Then this one. Then F-15s, and at the present time the Western idiots are deciding whether the US and NATO will launch long-range missiles into Russia from Ukraine.
Everything You Need to Know about the Conflict in Ukraine
by Paul Craig Roberts
The Soviet Union collapsed when Soviet President Gorbachev was placed under house arrest by hardline elements in the Politburo who were alarmed by the rapidity with which Gorbachev was establishing friendly and open relations with the West.
For the hardline American neoconservatives, the Soviet Collapse removed the constraint on American unilateralism. The neoconservatives quickly seized the initiative and with the Wolfowitz Doctrine declared US hegemony and stated that the principal goal of US foreign policy was to prevent the rise of any power that could serve as a constraint on Washington’s hegemony. This policy resulted in the hopes of Reagan and Gorbachev and the trust Gorbachev had placed in Washington being frustrated. Washington’s pledge not to move NATO one inch to the East was disavowed, and more hostile steps followed.
By 2007 it was clear to Russia’s President Putin that the promise of a multi-polar world was being over-ridden by a policy of Washington’s hegemony. At the Munich Security Conference, Putin threw down the gauntlet and said that Russia did not accept Washington’s rules based uni-polar world. At that moment the US/NATO went to war against Russia.
The first attack on Russia was a year later in 2008 when Washington sent a US supplied and trained Georgian army into disputed South Ossetia, resulting in the deaths of Russian peace-keepers and many civilians. Putin, caught off guard, returned from the Beijing Olympics, and the Russian army quickly defeated the US trained Georgian forces. Putin is often accused of intending to rebuild the Soviet Empire, but he had in his hands Georgia, historically a part of the Soviet Union and previously of Russia. Instead of reincorporating Georgia back into Russia, he turned them loose to be again subjected to Washington’s plots against Russia.
Please Stop Saying That Every War Is Not a War But Something Bad
There are not genocides that are not also wars.
David Swanson, World BEYOND War
Yes, I’m going to say this again. I’ve heard not the slightest hint of a refutation or objection to it, and yet so many, many people ignore it.
For the love of all that is decent, immediately stop the self-defeating idiocy of calling every goddamned war “not a war.”
Please. With all due respect.
“It’s not a war. It’s terrorism.” “It’s not a war. It’s genocide.” “It’s not a war. It’s an occupation.” “It’s not a war. It’s ethnic cleansing.”
This refrain is growing.
It’s used for pretty much every war. It’s used by people who want warmakers prosecuted for the crime of waging war or for “war crimes,” or who want compliance with the “rules of war” or “laws of war.”
It’s used by people who have no conscious intention of pushing the myth that there has ever existed a good and respectable war that didn’t terrorize anyone or slaughter countless innocent people.
Imagine if we were trying to abolish prisons, and upon visiting each prison we declared “That’s not a prison. That’s human cages!”
Mockingbird 2.0: Intelligence Agencies Modern Manipulation of Feminism
by Tracy Turner
The indoctrination contrived in Tinseltown reflects the U.S. Government and Israel's 'moralities' and financial interests, which often prioritize national security and geopolitical dominance.
The real, bona fide Feminist Movement is broad, diverse, and global. It stands as a testament to the resilience of women and their allies in the face of manipulation. The U.S. Government's self-serving version of feminism is not.
The interweaving of intelligence agencies, cultural movements, and social dynamics is profound and intense, power dynamics that defines contemporary communication. This article seeks illumination of the odious and insidious roles played by the CIA, NSA, FBI, and foreign agencies such as Mossad in shaping Global Feminist narratives. Intertwined in vine-fashion with feminist agendas, mainly through New York and Hollywood platforms, Grass-Roots, Astroturf and Acronym-Soup Agencies like DHS, Border Security, etc., plug sweaty, brainy beauties rife with testosterone. Understanding these power dynamics is crucial in navigating the narratives that influence public perception and the methods through which power operates globally. It urges us to be vigilant and critical of the narratives we encounter, ensuring we are informed and aware.
Intelligence Agencies: The Architects of Media Influence
The CIA has long recognized the power of media as a tool for psychological operations and narrative control. A notable example is Operation Mockingbird, a meticulously planned initiative that sought to infiltrate significant media outlets with CIA jargon to ensure that agency narratives favorable to U.S. interests were spread domestically and abroad. Journalists were recruited as reporters and agents of influence, shaping public opinion to align with U.S. geopolitical goals. This manipulation of media narratives, executed strategically, has significant implications for how issues like feminism and social justice are portrayed, particularly when aligned with broader political agendas.
What is Power in Global Politics and International Relations?
Power in politics
regarding global politics and international relations, power is “the
ability to convince another state to do what it would not normally do”.¹³
by Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic
Power is the ability to make people, states, movements, organizations, or things do what they would not otherwise have done. It is a matter of fact that politics is seen to be about might rather than right.
It can be said that, in essence, politics is power or, in other words, the ability of some international actor to get the desired results of his/her political behavior by using whatever instruments (legal or not, moral or not, etc.). In the very broadest sense of its meaning, power can be understood as the ability to influence the results of certain political/historical events, from the point of view to have or control power to do something in the arena of world politics and international relations.
The notion of power in world politics is usually attached to the nation-state and, therefore, power as an ability is prescribed to the country to direct its affairs but without the interference of other states or other international actors. As a consequence of such an understanding of the term, power in politics is, basically, a very close term if not even a synonym to autonomy or independence.
Nevertheless, in academic literature, power in international politics is mostly understood as a relationship as the real ability to influence the behavior of other actors (states, organizations, movements, parties, persons, etc.) in a manner, not of their choosing. That is the reason why the term power over others is becoming more and more used as a proper one. In other words, power in politics can be understood as a phenomenon that is exercised when one actor gets another actor to do something that, in fact, the latter would not otherwise have done. However, from a very practical point of view, distinctions exist between potential and actual power, relational and structural power, and finally between hard and soft power.¹ Power is for sure a property of a structure which means that it is an ability to control the political moves and shape how things of the others are going to be arranged influenced by key factors through which one actor may influence another one or several of them at the same time (for instance, the relations between the USA and the rest of the member states of NATO).
