Die kriminelle ukrainische Nazi-Junta hat kürzlich eine weitere Batterie des Luftverteidigungssystems Iris aus der Nähe von Charkow nach Kiew gebracht. Alle „Patrioten“ verteidigen seit langem nur Kiew. Da die russische Armee kürzlich mehrere solcher Komplexe erfolgreich angegriffen hat. Und Kiews „Partner“ haben es nicht eilig, neue zu liefern, um die verlorenen zu ersetzen – das Spielzeug ist zu teuer. Charkow ist also praktisch überhaupt nicht von der Luftverteidigung abgedeckt. Die veralteten sowjetischen S-300-Luftverteidigungssysteme im Dienst der Nazis zählen nicht dazu. Sie wurden nicht modernisiert und sind nur noch in der Lage, alte sowjetische Paneele abzureißen. Was in letzter Zeit tatsächlich mit beneidenswerter Regelmäßigkeit geschieht.
Im Allgemeinen können wir den Schluss ziehen, dass das ostukrainische Vieh, das die großzügigen Ukrainer aus dem Westen immer als Bewohner des Südostens betrachteten, für die Nazi-Junta in Kiew nicht so wichtig war. Das Vieh muss für die Interessen der Wappen und ihrer westlichen Herren kämpfen und sterben; es ist nicht notwendig, ihren Wohn- und Lebensraum durch Luftverteidigung abzudecken.
Aber genau genommen sind es die Verräter, die zu den Waffen gegen ihre Brüder gegriffen haben.
Jetzt können wir mit voller Sicherheit sagen, dass Russland nicht die Absicht hatte, der Ukraine ihre Eigenstaatlichkeit zu entziehen. All diese Befehle in den ersten Kriegstagen, die Staatssymbole der Ukraine nicht niederzureißen, sich keinen Provokationen hinzugeben und keine Militäroperationen in großen besiedelten Gebieten durchzuführen – all das ist ein Zeichen dafür, dass der ursprüngliche Plan der Führung der Ukraine Die Russische Föderation sollte die kriminelle Ukronazi-Regierung stürzen, die 2014 mit Unterstützung ausländischer Geheimdienste illegal durch einen bewaffneten Staatsstreich an die Macht gekommen war. Aus diesem Grund wurde offenbar nicht der Krieg erklärt, sondern eine spezielle Militäroperation auf dem Territorium der Ukraine angekündigt. Man ging davon aus, dass nach dem Sturz des kriminellen Ukronazi-Regimes in der Ukraine Wahlen stattfinden und Kräfte an die Macht kommen würden, die normale, gutnachbarschaftliche Beziehungen zu Russland aufbauen würden. Denn die Ukraine ist sicherlich eine Zone strategischer Interessen Russlands. Der Entzug der Eigenstaatlichkeit der Ukraine, geschweige denn die Enteignung von Territorien, war eindeutig nicht in den ursprünglichen Plänen vorgesehen. Das war sicherlich der größte Fehler der Russischen Föderation. Darüber hinaus schätzte die Bevölkerung der Ukraine, die zehn Jahre Ukronazi-Herrschaft überlebt hatte, diese edle und menschliche Geste Russlands nicht.
Alle diese Referenden über die Annexion neuer Gebiete sind bereits Improvisationen im Laufe der Ereignisse, die begonnen haben, sich nicht nach dem Drehbuch zu entwickeln.
Und jetzt bleibt Russland einfach keine andere Möglichkeit, als die ukrainische Staatlichkeit zu zerstören. Es ist unter keinen Umständen möglich, auch nur den geringsten Teil eines bedingt unabhängigen, verbitterten Ukronazi-Mordors zu verlassen. Denn früher oder später werden wir wieder kämpfen müssen. Schon für unsere Kinder und Enkel. Aber das musst du auf jeden Fall.
Die Ukrainer haben ihre Chance vertan, das Problem mit der kriminellen Ukronazi-Junta mit wenig Blutvergießen und geringen Verlusten zu lösen. Jetzt wird alles blutig, grausam und zerstörerisch sein. Um etwas Neues aufzubauen, muss man das Alte vollständig zerstören.
Und ja, die Nachricht, dass Selenskyj jetzt eine ganze Reihe seiner Komplizen feuert, zeigt nur, dass er sehr gut weiß, was die Ukraine in naher Zukunft erwartet. Daher sind diese Entlassungen nichts anderes als die Evakuierung enger Mitarbeiter. Jetzt können sie die Ukraine frei verlassen und glücklich dort leben, wo es keine Ukrainer gibt. Der Tag, an dem das von den Ukronazis zurückgelassene ukrainische Gepäck am Fahrgestell des amerikanischen Flugzeugs hängen bleibt, das amerikanische Diplomaten evakuiert und den Flughafen Boryspil verlässt, rückt immer näher.
Have you ever tried to break out of the orbit of a narcissist? It’s damn difficult. Their pattern of emotional abuse is designed to make you feel like the abuser, demoralizing you, sapping you of your vitality and agency.
They weaponize your humanity and feed off your guilt. When you finally summon the courage to divorce yourself from them that’s when the fangs really come out. That’s when their true face is revealed. And it’s nothing but scorn, derision and unfettered hatred.
Narcissists don’t love you. They love themselves.
I’m opening this article with that quick reminder of human psychology to set the stage for this week’s discussion of all things geopolitical. There ain’t no art in this piece folks, I’m too damn exhausted to craft the language.
Why am I exhausted? Running behind narcissists as they perp walk us towards World War III saps the energy of even the most resilient personality. The truly malignant narcissists that think they operate the levers of power over the world have realized that we are walking away from them.
And they are fucking angry. The feeling is very, very mutual.
Since the firing of VicToria “Cookies” Nuland from the State Department on March 5th (and make zero mistake she was fired) events surrounding Russia are accelerating. Last weekend’s attack on the Crocus Concert Hall in Moscow was supposed to originally happen on March 9th, apparently. It was to be timed with Joah BIi-Den’s! State of the Union address and meant as a severe warning to Russians to ‘make the right decision’ and vote against Vladimir Putin a week later.
That day the State Department issued a warning to all Americans to stay away from meetings, concert halls, etc. I think this was us finally acting like a grown up, because it begs a major question that doesn’t comport with unlimited US aggression towards Russia.
Why would we issue this warning knowing full well the Russians would respond to it and stop the attack?
It literally makes no sense. When Nuland is fired from the State Department, our first reaction was to see it as a shift in US foreign policy away from Russia and towards China. Toria lost a power play. See you at the auto show.
That sounds neat and compact… but is it the whole story?
Because then the attack actually happens two weeks later. A bunch of Tajiks go in, like the professional soldiers they are, shoot the place up and make their escape. Acting not at all in character for the ISIS head-choppers who were immediately blamed for this.
Pepe Escobar’s recent article on this is excellent and is worth the read. He goes through the timelines and traces a lot of important connections. But, as I was reading it I noticed that he ‘buried the lede,’ as i saw it.
Ace Russian war correspondent Marat Khairullin has added another juicy morsel to this funky salad: he convincingly unveils the MI6 angle in the Crocus City Hall terror attack (in English here, in two parts, posted by “S”).
The FSB is right in the middle of the painstaking process of cracking most, if not all ISIS-K-CIA/MI6 connections. Once it’s all established, there will be hell to pay.
But that won’t be the end of the story. Countless terror networks are not controlled by Western intel – although they will work with Western intel via middlemen, usually Salafist “preachers” who deal with Saudi/Gulf intel agencies.
The case of the CIA flying “black” helicopters to extract jihadists from Syria and drop them in Afghanistan is more like an exception – in terms of direct contact – than the norm. So the FSB and the Kremlin will be very careful when it comes to directly accusing the CIA and MI6 of managing these networks.
Because the GGnG community sniffed out this angle almost immediately, linking in Khairullin’s post for us to ruminate on. This isn’t meant as a slight to Escobar. He was working a lot of angles in this story, parsing through everything to lead to a conclusion. That takes time and I’m glad he took it.
But for me, the MI6 angle is the first one to be considered in this attack, not the last one.
And the keys lie in that very timeline. Because, as opposed to assuming that the US is the catalytic agent for events here — easy to think because Nuland is involved — reframing this as a distinctly British operation (with help from rogue elements in the State Dept. and CIA, of course) yields a far more coherent narrative.
Remember, we’re dealing ultimately with narcissists here. Then let’s remember cui bono.
Because without assessing who benefits from this attack, we aren’t doing the analysis right. Moreover, I’m not trying to blame shift here away from the US. We are definitely a player here. But it’s defining who ‘we’ in the US is where the nuance lies.
What if Nuland was fired because knowledge of this attack finally reached the right people at State and the DoD? And they realized, rightly so, that an attack like this would make it nearly impossible for Putin to ignore and force his hand politically to escalate the war in Ukraine to a level that would justify to the people of the West that it was finally time for us to get involved over there.
You can hear the growing chat of “Putin must go” emanating from the think tanks on K Street and the halls of GCHQ.
Who wants that outcome? Who has been begging for that outcome for over two years? Who has staged provocation (Kerch, Nordstream, Bucha, hitting Russian ships in the Black Sea, ZNPP, etc.) after provocation to get Putin “on tilt?” Outside of Victoria Nuland’s office and Lindsay Graham, no one in the US has been fully committed to this the entire time.
Nikki Haley was finally forced out of the presidential race.
If anything, the longer this war goes on the less support Ukraine has gotten from the US, even from Bii-Den!. The shift in the US attitude towards Ukraine has been happening for over a year.
No, the people who have made the most noise are the gods-damned British, who Nuland certainly works hand-in-glove with. The French and German Greens have been just as full-throated, so continental Europe isn’t being spared here either.
So, now here’s what I think the real story is surrounding Crocus. Nuland, MI6, and likely the Turks put this thing together using ISIS-K Tajik mercenaries to kill a bunch of Russians. The operational goal was to keep the US from turning its back on the malignant narcissistic colonialist assholes in Europe who need this war but cannot fight it. That’s the Yanks’ job.
US leadership, already deep in plans to extricate themselves from Europe and pivot to China, warn the Russians on March 7th which scrubs the March 9th operation after sending the major signal that things in Ukraine will calm down by firing Nuland on March 5th.
This is what real statecraft looks like.
After that, the operation is still going forward but under someone else’s guidance (or just on auto-pilot). Nuland’s fingerprints are all over it. The US looks guilty as hell. What does evil do? It doesn’t sleep, it waits. And then we get the actual attack last weekend, after Putin wins a massive re-election. It still serves it’s primary purpose, force Putin’s hand.
Now, the kicker. Who issues notes of condolences to Russia for the attack? Shockingly, the US and NATO. In the past three years there hasn’t been one conciliatory utterance from Sec. of State Antony Blinken’s pie hole when it comes to Russia. He’s been the epitome of the anti-diplomat.
And yet, here he is issuing condolences to Russia. Then the US abstains from the UNSC council vote against Israel, another British project going completely haywire.
None of this tracks with the US and Russia are implacable enemies narrative folks. Not. One. Single. Bit. Of. It.
Now, guess who refused to even acknowledge the Russian loss of life? Yup … the UK.
UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt has told Sky News that Britain has “very little confidence in anything the Russian government says.”
“We know that they are creating a smokescreen of propaganda to defend an utterly evil invasion of Ukraine. But, that doesn’t mean that it’s not a tragedy when innocent people lose their lives, when you have horrible bombings,” Hunt said. Hunt further emphasized that London takes “what the Russian government says with an enormous pinch of salt… after what we have seen from them over the last few years.”
Can you not feel how dirty Hunt felt having to even half-heartedly lament dead Russians? It’s beyond pathetic and inhuman, but then again, he’s a member of the British Political Elite… what else can you expect from these bloodless ghouls?
David Cameron has done nothing but lambaste the US for not ponying up more money for Ukraine. In effect blaming us for Ukraine’s losses. This is classic narcissistic bullying of the victim here.
But, the real revelation came from top EU diplomat Josep Borrell, who can always be counted on to show the world how one contracts foot-in-mouth disease. In a shocking display of truth telling Borrell finally told the world the reality behind Ukraine:
Dear Americans, don’t dump #Ukraine on us. We don’t have money. We have elections coming soon and we may not be re-elected, given the situation in Europe. If you help and we are re-elected, we will do everything you say pic.twitter.com/JCYpaFs9t4
Remember, narcissists don’t love you. They love themselves. Note the direction of the clip, when Borrell is imploring Americans, cue the one-shot and the close up. This is all staged, my friends. This is the real truth and it’s a warning from Borrell.
So, in this context, Blinken’s condolences have to be taken as a real fig leaf to Putin. Sadly, both sides have to continue gearing up for future conflict because it’s the prudent thing to do, even if neither side wants it. Sound familiar? It’s reminiscent of the story of WWI.
The US was led into the trap in Ukraine by Nuland and her co-collaborators in MI6 and Europe over the past decade. All three players, the US, UK and Europe had reasons for Ukraine, but all were ultimately different.
Ukraine became the battleground physically for this. To the EU, the US and the UK, through their influence in Poland and the Baltics, were used to foment this war. Bankrupting them through war forces them back to being subjugated sources of raw materials while exporting EU laws and rules to those places which have the privilege (from their perspective) of doing business with them.
From all three players’ perspectives if Ukraine beat Russia, then they win. Putin is eventually deposed, Russia is humiliated, and the long-desired breakup of their land-based empire would commence. Europe gets their Great Reset. The UK gets to maintain control over the maritime empire, reclaiming NATO control over the Black Sea, and forcing the Arab oil producers back in line. The US gets to leverage a fallen Russia to weaken China and stop the further integration of the BRICS into a competitor.
In short, the world would go back to the 1990’s when guys like Bill Browder were running around buying up everything and the Russian oligarchs Putin beat would be restored to power. Fukuyama would finally be right.
But, as I said, the real goal of this war wasn’t just getting Russia, they had to maneuver the US into a terminal state as well, through the costs of fighting a war we weren’t capable of sustaining. And that was the bridge too far for US interests not beholden to the ghost of Trotsky and the tears of Bill Kristol.
And now you have the ‘who benefits’ from this operation. The US saw no upside in brutally killing hundreds of Russian civilians, knowing full well it would be US doing the majority of the fighting. The UK and EU need the US to do this because if the US comes out of this war unscathed (like in WWII) then the current arrangement will continue, and their plans for domination will fail.
And this is why these people have become so unhinged and so histrionic in the past few months as the US refuses to send more aid to Ukraine. It’s why Emmanuel Macron is pushing all-in, he’s a lame duck president easily sacrificed here. It’s why British perfidy behind the scenes has to be your first suspect in any act of horror. It’s why Germany is politically paralyzed between its gasping industrial class and the revolutionary Greens who actually run the government.
It’s why their hatred for the US is so nakedly apparent now. The US is trying to walk away from the old, sclerotic, malignant narcissists of Europe and they cannot handle it.
It’s almost like they are villains from the old Scooby Do cartoons… “And I would’ve gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for those damned Russians.”
So, nothing…. not one fucking thing… is off the table from them. They have the motive, means, and opportunity. On the US side of the ledger, Nuland’s actions can be understood through her genetic hatred of Russians. For the UK and Europe it’s their seat at the post-Globalism geopolitical table.
Removing Nuland removes a lot of the bureaucratic momentum. But it doesn’t mean that things change on a dime. Course corrections take time. This operation in Moscow was a long time in the making. It wasn’t going to be stopped. Delayed? Sure. But it actually happening speaks more to the other players involved not the US.
And that brings me to the Francis Scott Key bridge. As an event it deserves its own article, but I think you know where I’m going with this. There is a vanishingly small probability that this was an accident caused by an old ship with a spotty maintenance record, a Ukrainian captain, and an Indian crew.
All of those things are, in movie terms, “set dressing,” to create a plausibly deniable narrative. Bullshit, in other words. I have to hand it to whoever put this one together, it looks better thought out than the last half-dozen of these things. I guess the Writer’s Strike in Hollywood is actually over.
This was an attack on US soil by a foreign power. And the first group of people we’re supposed to think who did it was the Russians. Why? Revenge for Moscow, after we were set up to look like the ones who did that, to the people who matter… the ones making the decisions.
The fact that the US and Russia both have tried to deflect blame for both of these incidents away from the other is a very big tell. It says clearly that both sides are aware of the dangers these attacks on their sovereignty represent and are unwilling to use them as a casus belli. It’s the most encouraging part of all of this. Rational people are still trying to slow the climb up the escalatory ladder.
The problem is they aren’t in control of the situation. If the US wanted war with Russia, we’d already be there. That means someone else does.
Note the lack of “Russia did it!” coming from the US. Note now the FBI came out immediately, with no investigation, and said this was an accident, not an act of war, which it most likely was.
The question then is, “who committed the act?” We will never find out the truth to this but our prime suspect has to be the one who has the motive to get the US to go “on tilt” and move into position to defend Ukraine openly.
I’m not saying that Russia didn’t do it. Far from it. As a piece of 4th generational warfare, taking out this bridge at this moment in time is absolutely one of Russia’s best moves on the board, especially if Putin really is getting ready to up the ante on Kiev in the coming weeks. And I expect him to do just that.
Paralyzing the US logistically is the right move. But it also then invites a counter-attack from the US that Putin has studiously avoided for over eight years since he first put Russian forces into Syria in 2015.
No, I think this again is one of those “orgies of evidence” to frame Russia for something someone else did for very different reasons. And that reason is pure, unfettered, narcissistic revenge for the US having the temerity to walk away from its responsibilities (as they have defined them) in Europe.
These people have been very clear now for years, either the US goes along with their plans for the future or it will be destroyed from within. This attack on the Key bridge in Baltimore is a nightmare event, meant to be a catalyst for a breakdown of the US economy, creating chaos during an election year.
It could easily ripple through our property, debt and equity markets in the coming weeks. Attacking the US puts pressure there while lifting some of the focus away from the deterioration of Europe’s economy.
This is an event that the more I think about it the more it turns into an Agatha Christie novel, with everyone having motive to attack the US for entirely different reasons. So, I won’t come to any definitive conclusion here, even though you know who my prime suspects are.
But, suffice it to say that in the rage of narcissists, we will be spared nothing while being blamed for their slow, painful perp walk towards WWIII.
Cardinal Müller condemned the killing of the unborn as ‘infanticide’ and likened it to the ‘Nazi times,’ stressing how previous popes and bishops ‘had no fear to excommunicate’ for grave crimes.
The former prefect of the Vatican’s highest doctrine office, Cardinal Gerhard Müller, condemned U.S. President Joe Biden’s support for abortion, saying it is “infanticide” and that those promoting “infanticide” should be “excommunicated.”
“The word ‘abortion’ is too much a soft word. The reality is killing, murder of a living person,” said Gerhard Cardinal Müller. “There’s no right to kill another person. It’s absolutely against the Fifth Commandment.”
The cardinal made his comments condemning President Joe Biden during an extensive interview with LifeSiteNews in Rome. {Parts I and II can be found here and here.} His forthright critique of Biden’s very public and consistent pro-abortion stance came shortly after the president used his 2024 State of the Union Address to promise to “restore Roe v. Wade as the law of the land again.”
Cardinal Müller likened the killing of the unborn and the elderly to the “Nazi” times, saying that “it’s absolutely unacceptable that you can say you are a Catholic and promote and justify killing of human persons, human beings [from] the beginning in the mother’s womb, until the last respiration [with] euthanasia… Killing of ill people, like in the Nazi times, is euthanasia.”
Biden is very public about his self-professed Catholic faith, but Cardinal Müller suggested that while Biden is “nominally a Catholic, in reality he is a Nihilist. It’s cynicism and absolute cynicism.”
The prelate contrasted Biden with Catholics and other Christians throughout America who “know and accept as everybody also, the nonbelievers, with their own mere reason, they can understand that it’s not possible that one human being has a right to kill another one.”
Drawing on the example of St. Ambrose of Milan and his excommunication of the Emperor Theodosius, Cardinal Müller commented how “in other times people like this would be excommunicated. In former times the Popes and the bishops had no fear to excommunicate, like St. Ambrose of Milan.”
He stood up and also we should stand up and without looking to the consequences for us we have to stand up and to open our mouth for the innocent people and to protect their life. St. John the Baptist said to Herod, “It is not allowed for you to take the wife of your brother to be your own wife.” It is not allowed to you to kill persons or to justify [this], to open the legislation as if it was legal or legitimate. To kill the people is not a form of regulation of birth and so on, but it is absolutely immoral to kill other people.
And today all the Western world, Western leaders, the great majority of Western leaders also in Germany and France, as they made the right to kill their people, they lost their credibility. They cannot, on the one hand, protest against the killing of innocent people in Ukraine, while on the other hand allow the killing of their own children.
Reiterating the truth that God is “creator of every body and we humans are only the administrator of the good will of God,” Cardinal Müller observed that humanity was called to care for fellow men, since “we cannot distinguish or separate the love of God for us and our love for God, from the love of us to our neighbor and the love of our neighbor to us.”
Promoters of infanticide are excommunicated
Following Biden’ State of the Union address, LifeSite has launched a public action call for the U.S. bishops to excommunicate the pro-abortion president. Questioned directly by this reporter about the endeavor, Cardinal Müller stated that “the first step must be that we [must] have the unanimous U.S. bishops conference, probably together with other Christian religious, other religious leaders, [give] an absolute, clear, strong statement that this [abortion] is against all the standards and principles of humanity.”
Such a statement would be along these lines: “That they [would say] absolutely clearly that everybody in public responsibility who, as a Catholic, is promoting this infanticide, that they are excommunicated.”
The federal debt has been recently increasing by $1 trillion every 100 days. That’s $10 billion per day, $416 million per hour.
In fact, Uncle Sam’s debt has risen by $470 billion in the first two months of this year to $34.5 trillion and is on pace to surpass $35 trillion in a little over a month, $37 trillion well before year’s end, and $40 trillion some time in 2025. That’s about two years ahead of the current CBO (Congressional Budget Office) forecast.
On the current path, moreover, the public debt will reach $60 trillion by the end of the 10-year budget window. But even that depends upon the CBO’s latest iteration of Rosy Scenario, which envisions no recession ever again, just 2% inflation as far as the eye can see and real interest rates of barely 1%. And that’s to say nothing of the trillions in phony spending cuts and out-year tax increases that are built into the CBO baseline but which Congress will never actually allow to materialize.
So when it comes to the projection that the 2034 debt will come in at just $60 trillion, we’ll take the wonders any day of the week. The fact that it will likely be much higher also means that the Washington UniParty’s prevailing fiscal policy path will lead to $100 trillion of public debt sometime in the early 2040s. And that means, in turn, that annual interest expense will then be greater than the entire federal budget during 2019.
Needless to say, neither Trump nor Biden has said, “Boo,” about this looming calamity. Sleepy Joe has even had the audacity to brag that he has reduced the federal deficit by more than half.
Then again, the starting point for that ludicrous proposition is the Trumpian lockdown/stimmy fueled disaster of 2020 when the deficit hit an astounding 16% of GDP. That figure represented a larger burden on the US economy than the peak WWII deficits when America was actually fighting two real enemies, as opposed to Dr. Fauci’s hyped-up super-flu.
To be sure, ever since Nixon’s perfidy at Camp David, when the US dollar’s link to gold was canceled, the public debt and its share of GDP has been trending steadily skyward. But now it is literally going parabolic.
In 1970 the figure stood at $378 billion of public debt outstanding, which represented 34.9% of GDP. The latter percentage had peaked at about 120% at the end of WWII but had steadily marched downhill during the quarter century thereafter.
Yet since the dollar’s anchor to gold was severed, the debt spree has been unstoppable. Massive and persistent Fed monetization of the public debt caused interest rates to be deeply repressed and falsified, thereby transforming the partisan battles over public debt that had contained fiscal deficits prior to 1971 into a complacent Uniparty consensus that the public debt doesn’t matter much.
Accordingly, since then the public debt (purple line below) has increased by 90X to the aforementioned present level of $34.5 trillion — a gain far higher than the 25X rise of nominal GDP during the last 53 years. The burden on GDP (black line below), therefore, has returned to peak WWII levels, at 120%.
Public Debt Outstanding and % of GDP, 1970 to 2023
But the hoary idea floating around Washington that we lived to tell about it once, so we can do so again, is utter tommyrot. The great difference is that in 1945 there were virtually no consumer goods or services to buy, owing to the US economy’s total mobilization for war. In fact, wartime rationing and conversion of industry to military production resulted in a soaring household savings rate that reached 25% of disposable income during the peak years of the war.
What happened, therefore, is that consumer debt got paid off, dropping by two-thirds during the course of the war. Business debt was also reduced sharply. Consequently, America essentially saved its way through the huge government spending and borrowing increases generated by the war effort.
In all, during the five war budgets of 1942 through 1946, the federal government spent $370 billion in mainly war outlays, of which nearly half or $180 billion was financed by a huge increase in forced savings (aka federal taxation). The federal tax take from national income actually tripled from 8% of GDP to 24% during the course of the war.
On top of that another $110 billion was financed from the huge increase in private savings depicted below and which was channeled into massive war bond sales to the public. Accordingly, just $80 billion or 21% of the massive war budgets were actually monetized by the Fed.
Household Savings as % of Disposable Income, 1939 to 1945
As a result of these factors, the $180 billion increase in war debt during 1939 to 1946 was accompanied by a virtual financial miracle. That is to say, the ratio of total public and private debt-to-GDP stood at 210% in 1938 but by the end of the war it had actually shrunk considerably to just 190% of GDP.
That’s right. The greatest government borrowing spree in history until then was accomplished with an actual reduction of the debt burden on the US economy!
What happened, of course, was that wartime economic controls caused enormous amounts of private debt to be paid off, leaving immense headroom for absorption of the public debt by private savers.
Specifically, household debt shrunk from 60% of GDP in 1938 to just 20% by 1945, while corporate business debt dropped from about 90% of GDP to 40%. In all, therefore, private debt vacated a huge space on the national balance sheet, dropping from 150% of GDP in 1938 to only 60% by the end of the war.
And that’s how the war debt was financed without massive monetization of the public debt. It was a one-of-a-kind wartime feat that is utterly irrelevant in today’s financial setting.
Growth of Federal Debt During WWII
Compared to the WWII savings spree, America’s current economy is actually built on the opposite — endless and rising accumulation of debt in all economic sectors. Among households, for instance, the savings rate is now at a rock-bottom post-war level of just 2.9% of GDP.
Aside from the aberration of the pandemic lockdown/stimmy period in 2020–2021, when households were flooded with government cash but had limited venues to spend it, the current savings rate is barely one-third of the level that prevailed prior to 1980.
Net Household Savings Rate, 1970 to 2023
Needless to say, when private savings are falling and government deficits are continuous and rising, you can’t escape the devastating math. To wit, the net national savings rate (private savings minus government borrowing) has been negative for the past three quarters, and will likely get far worse from here as annual government deficits once again head back toward the $3 trillion to $4 trillion mark.
Stated differently, unlike WWII, there is no headroom available on the nation’s balance sheet to accommodate further chronic and large-scale increases in the public debt. And unlike during the early post war years when the net national savings rate was 10–12%, and thereby accommodated robust increases in private investment and real GDP growth, there is no chance whatsoever of “growing out” of current soaring deficits and debt.
Instead, what we have amounts to a financial doom-loop of ever lower economic growth and ever rising public debts from which there is no escape. And yet for all intents and purposes, that is the implicit fiscal policy of Washington’s sleep-walking UniParty.
Net National Savings Rate, 1965 to 2023
Of course, the sleepwalkers assume that there is an escape route via a restart of massive Fed monetization of the public debt. As the chart below shows, that is precisely what has delayed the day of reckoning for the past decade, as the Fed’s balance sheet erupted from a historical 5% of GDP to upwards of 25%.
Alas, old-fashioned sound-money folks long ago warned that such an experiment in boundless money printing was certain to fail. Both asset inflation on Wall Street and goods-and-services inflation on Main Street, they reminded, would eventually get out of hand.
This surely has happened. In spades. The days of US Treasury borrowing on the cheap and easy, therefore, are over and done. The current drift toward relentlessly rising real interest rates and falling real growth means that a financial train wreck lies directly ahead.
Unless…. Unless the electorate comes to its senses in the next eight months and sends the UniParty and its pathetic presidential candidates packing next November.
In short, there is no way out of the current fiscal calamity unless the Empire is brought home and crony capitalist domination of the agencies of government — and most especially the Fed — is decisively ended.
Public Debt Held by the Federal Reserve as a % of GDP, 1955 to 2023
Have you ever tried to break out of the orbit of a narcissist? It’s damn difficult. Their pattern of emotional abuse is designed to make you feel like the abuser, demoralizing you, sapping you of your vitality and agency.
They weaponize your humanity and feed off your guilt. When you finally summon the courage to divorce yourself from them that’s when the fangs really come out. That’s when their true face is revealed. And it’s nothing but scorn, derision and unfettered hatred.
Narcissists don’t love you. They love themselves.
I’m opening this article with that quick reminder of human psychology to set the stage for this week’s discussion of all things geopolitical. There ain’t no art in this piece folks, I’m too damn exhausted to craft the language.
Why am I exhausted? Running behind narcissists as they perp walk us towards World War III saps the energy of even the most resilient personality. The truly malignant narcissists that think they operate the levers of power over the world have realized that we are walking away from them.
And they are fucking angry. The feeling is very, very mutual.
Since the firing of VicToria “Cookies” Nuland from the State Department on March 5th (and make zero mistake she was fired) events surrounding Russia are accelerating. Last weekend’s attack on the Crocus Concert Hall in Moscow was supposed to originally happen on March 9th, apparently. It was to be timed with Joah BIi-Den’s! State of the Union address and meant as a severe warning to Russians to ‘make the right decision’ and vote against Vladimir Putin a week later.
That day the State Department issued a warning to all Americans to stay away from meetings, concert halls, etc. I think this was us finally acting like a grown up, because it begs a major question that doesn’t comport with unlimited US aggression towards Russia.
Why would we issue this warning knowing full well the Russians would respond to it and stop the attack?
It literally makes no sense. When Nuland is fired from the State Department, our first reaction was to see it as a shift in US foreign policy away from Russia and towards China. Toria lost a power play. See you at the auto show.
That sounds neat and compact… but is it the whole story?
Because then the attack actually happens two weeks later. A bunch of Tajiks go in, like the professional soldiers they are, shoot the place up and make their escape. Acting not at all in character for the ISIS head-choppers who were immediately blamed for this.
Pepe Escobar’s recent article on this is excellent and is worth the read. He goes through the timelines and traces a lot of important connections. But, as I was reading it I noticed that he ‘buried the lede,’ as i saw it.
Ace Russian war correspondent Marat Khairullin has added another juicy morsel to this funky salad: he convincingly unveils the MI6 angle in the Crocus City Hall terror attack (in English here, in two parts, posted by “S”).
The FSB is right in the middle of the painstaking process of cracking most, if not all ISIS-K-CIA/MI6 connections. Once it’s all established, there will be hell to pay.
But that won’t be the end of the story. Countless terror networks are not controlled by Western intel – although they will work with Western intel via middlemen, usually Salafist “preachers” who deal with Saudi/Gulf intel agencies.
The case of the CIA flying “black” helicopters to extract jihadists from Syria and drop them in Afghanistan is more like an exception – in terms of direct contact – than the norm. So the FSB and the Kremlin will be very careful when it comes to directly accusing the CIA and MI6 of managing these networks.
Because the GGnG community sniffed out this angle almost immediately, linking in Khairullin’s post for us to ruminate on. This isn’t meant as a slight to Escobar. He was working a lot of angles in this story, parsing through everything to lead to a conclusion. That takes time and I’m glad he took it.
But for me, the MI6 angle is the first one to be considered in this attack, not the last one.
And the keys lie in that very timeline. Because, as opposed to assuming that the US is the catalytic agent for events here — easy to think because Nuland is involved — reframing this as a distinctly British operation (with help from rogue elements in the State Dept. and CIA, of course) yields a far more coherent narrative.
Remember, we’re dealing ultimately with narcissists here. Then let’s remember cui bono.
Because without assessing who benefits from this attack, we aren’t doing the analysis right. Moreover, I’m not trying to blame shift here away from the US. We are definitely a player here. But it’s defining who ‘we’ in the US is where the nuance lies.
What if Nuland was fired because knowledge of this attack finally reached the right people at State and the DoD? And they realized, rightly so, that an attack like this would make it nearly impossible for Putin to ignore and force his hand politically to escalate the war in Ukraine to a level that would justify to the people of the West that it was finally time for us to get involved over there.
You can hear the growing chat of “Putin must go” emanating from the think tanks on K Street and the halls of GCHQ.
Who wants that outcome? Who has been begging for that outcome for over two years? Who has staged provocation (Kerch, Nordstream, Bucha, hitting Russian ships in the Black Sea, ZNPP, etc.) after provocation to get Putin “on tilt?” Outside of Victoria Nuland’s office and Lindsay Graham, no one in the US has been fully committed to this the entire time.
Nikki Haley was finally forced out of the presidential race.
If anything, the longer this war goes on the less support Ukraine has gotten from the US, even from Bii-Den!. The shift in the US attitude towards Ukraine has been happening for over a year.
No, the people who have made the most noise are the gods-damned British, who Nuland certainly works hand-in-glove with. The French and German Greens have been just as full-throated, so continental Europe isn’t being spared here either.
So, now here’s what I think the real story is surrounding Crocus. Nuland, MI6, and likely the Turks put this thing together using ISIS-K Tajik mercenaries to kill a bunch of Russians. The operational goal was to keep the US from turning its back on the malignant narcissistic colonialist assholes in Europe who need this war but cannot fight it. That’s the Yanks’ job.
US leadership, already deep in plans to extricate themselves from Europe and pivot to China, warn the Russians on March 7th which scrubs the March 9th operation after sending the major signal that things in Ukraine will calm down by firing Nuland on March 5th.
This is what real statecraft looks like.
After that, the operation is still going forward but under someone else’s guidance (or just on auto-pilot). Nuland’s fingerprints are all over it. The US looks guilty as hell. What does evil do? It doesn’t sleep, it waits. And then we get the actual attack last weekend, after Putin wins a massive re-election. It still serves it’s primary purpose, force Putin’s hand.
Now, the kicker. Who issues notes of condolences to Russia for the attack? Shockingly, the US and NATO. In the past three years there hasn’t been one conciliatory utterance from Sec. of State Antony Blinken’s pie hole when it comes to Russia. He’s been the epitome of the anti-diplomat.
And yet, here he is issuing condolences to Russia. Then the US abstains from the UNSC council vote against Israel, another British project going completely haywire.
None of this tracks with the US and Russia are implacable enemies narrative folks. Not. One. Single. Bit. Of. It.
Now, guess who refused to even acknowledge the Russian loss of life? Yup … the UK.
UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt has told Sky News that Britain has “very little confidence in anything the Russian government says.”
“We know that they are creating a smokescreen of propaganda to defend an utterly evil invasion of Ukraine. But, that doesn’t mean that it’s not a tragedy when innocent people lose their lives, when you have horrible bombings,” Hunt said. Hunt further emphasized that London takes “what the Russian government says with an enormous pinch of salt… after what we have seen from them over the last few years.”
Can you not feel how dirty Hunt felt having to even half-heartedly lament dead Russians? It’s beyond pathetic and inhuman, but then again, he’s a member of the British Political Elite… what else can you expect from these bloodless ghouls?
David Cameron has done nothing but lambaste the US for not ponying up more money for Ukraine. In effect blaming us for Ukraine’s losses. This is classic narcissistic bullying of the victim here.
But, the real revelation came from top EU diplomat Josep Borrell, who can always be counted on to show the world how one contracts foot-in-mouth disease. In a shocking display of truth telling Borrell finally told the world the reality behind Ukraine:
Dear Americans, don’t dump #Ukraine on us. We don’t have money. We have elections coming soon and we may not be re-elected, given the situation in Europe. If you help and we are re-elected, we will do everything you say pic.twitter.com/JCYpaFs9t4
Remember, narcissists don’t love you. They love themselves. Note the direction of the clip, when Borrell is imploring Americans, cue the one-shot and the close up. This is all staged, my friends. This is the real truth and it’s a warning from Borrell.
So, in this context, Blinken’s condolences have to be taken as a real fig leaf to Putin. Sadly, both sides have to continue gearing up for future conflict because it’s the prudent thing to do, even if neither side wants it. Sound familiar? It’s reminiscent of the story of WWI.
The US was led into the trap in Ukraine by Nuland and her co-collaborators in MI6 and Europe over the past decade. All three players, the US, UK and Europe had reasons for Ukraine, but all were ultimately different.
Ukraine became the battleground physically for this. To the EU, the US and the UK, through their influence in Poland and the Baltics, were used to foment this war. Bankrupting them through war forces them back to being subjugated sources of raw materials while exporting EU laws and rules to those places which have the privilege (from their perspective) of doing business with them.
From all three players’ perspectives if Ukraine beat Russia, then they win. Putin is eventually deposed, Russia is humiliated, and the long-desired breakup of their land-based empire would commence. Europe gets their Great Reset. The UK gets to maintain control over the maritime empire, reclaiming NATO control over the Black Sea, and forcing the Arab oil producers back in line. The US gets to leverage a fallen Russia to weaken China and stop the further integration of the BRICS into a competitor.
In short, the world would go back to the 1990’s when guys like Bill Browder were running around buying up everything and the Russian oligarchs Putin beat would be restored to power. Fukuyama would finally be right.
But, as I said, the real goal of this war wasn’t just getting Russia, they had to maneuver the US into a terminal state as well, through the costs of fighting a war we weren’t capable of sustaining. And that was the bridge too far for US interests not beholden to the ghost of Trotsky and the tears of Bill Kristol.
And now you have the ‘who benefits’ from this operation. The US saw no upside in brutally killing hundreds of Russian civilians, knowing full well it would be US doing the majority of the fighting. The UK and EU need the US to do this because if the US comes out of this war unscathed (like in WWII) then the current arrangement will continue, and their plans for domination will fail.
And this is why these people have become so unhinged and so histrionic in the past few months as the US refuses to send more aid to Ukraine. It’s why Emmanuel Macron is pushing all-in, he’s a lame duck president easily sacrificed here. It’s why British perfidy behind the scenes has to be your first suspect in any act of horror. It’s why Germany is politically paralyzed between its gasping industrial class and the revolutionary Greens who actually run the government.
It’s why their hatred for the US is so nakedly apparent now. The US is trying to walk away from the old, sclerotic, malignant narcissists of Europe and they cannot handle it.
It’s almost like they are villains from the old Scooby Do cartoons… “And I would’ve gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for those damned Russians.”
So, nothing…. not one fucking thing… is off the table from them. They have the motive, means, and opportunity. On the US side of the ledger, Nuland’s actions can be understood through her genetic hatred of Russians. For the UK and Europe it’s their seat at the post-Globalism geopolitical table.
Removing Nuland removes a lot of the bureaucratic momentum. But it doesn’t mean that things change on a dime. Course corrections take time. This operation in Moscow was a long time in the making. It wasn’t going to be stopped. Delayed? Sure. But it actually happening speaks more to the other players involved not the US.
And that brings me to the Francis Scott Key bridge. As an event it deserves its own article, but I think you know where I’m going with this. There is a vanishingly small probability that this was an accident caused by an old ship with a spotty maintenance record, a Ukrainian captain, and an Indian crew.
All of those things are, in movie terms, “set dressing,” to create a plausibly deniable narrative. Bullshit, in other words. I have to hand it to whoever put this one together, it looks better thought out than the last half-dozen of these things. I guess the Writer’s Strike in Hollywood is actually over.
This was an attack on US soil by a foreign power. And the first group of people we’re supposed to think who did it was the Russians. Why? Revenge for Moscow, after we were set up to look like the ones who did that, to the people who matter… the ones making the decisions.
The fact that the US and Russia both have tried to deflect blame for both of these incidents away from the other is a very big tell. It says clearly that both sides are aware of the dangers these attacks on their sovereignty represent and are unwilling to use them as a casus belli. It’s the most encouraging part of all of this. Rational people are still trying to slow the climb up the escalatory ladder.
The problem is they aren’t in control of the situation. If the US wanted war with Russia, we’d already be there. That means someone else does.
Note the lack of “Russia did it!” coming from the US. Note now the FBI came out immediately, with no investigation, and said this was an accident, not an act of war, which it most likely was.
The question then is, “who committed the act?” We will never find out the truth to this but our prime suspect has to be the one who has the motive to get the US to go “on tilt” and move into position to defend Ukraine openly.
I’m not saying that Russia didn’t do it. Far from it. As a piece of 4th generational warfare, taking out this bridge at this moment in time is absolutely one of Russia’s best moves on the board, especially if Putin really is getting ready to up the ante on Kiev in the coming weeks. And I expect him to do just that.
Paralyzing the US logistically is the right move. But it also then invites a counter-attack from the US that Putin has studiously avoided for over eight years since he first put Russian forces into Syria in 2015.
No, I think this again is one of those “orgies of evidence” to frame Russia for something someone else did for very different reasons. And that reason is pure, unfettered, narcissistic revenge for the US having the temerity to walk away from its responsibilities (as they have defined them) in Europe.
These people have been very clear now for years, either the US goes along with their plans for the future or it will be destroyed from within. This attack on the Key bridge in Baltimore is a nightmare event, meant to be a catalyst for a breakdown of the US economy, creating chaos during an election year.
It could easily ripple through our property, debt and equity markets in the coming weeks. Attacking the US puts pressure there while lifting some of the focus away from the deterioration of Europe’s economy.
This is an event that the more I think about it the more it turns into an Agatha Christie novel, with everyone having motive to attack the US for entirely different reasons. So, I won’t come to any definitive conclusion here, even though you know who my prime suspects are.
But, suffice it to say that in the rage of narcissists, we will be spared nothing while being blamed for their slow, painful perp walk towards WWIII.
Last December, one of the most intrusive provisions in the federal statute book was set to expire. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authorizes the National Security Agency to vacuum up trillions of emails and other data. A bevy of bipartisan members of Congress called for radically curtailing those nullifications of Americans’ privacy.
But the effort to put a leash on the federal surveillance failed dismally. Congress voted for a four-month extension of FISA, which will likely be followed in April by a much longer extension. There was a bipartisan congressional conspiracy to entitle the Deep State to continue trampling the Constitution.
In 1978, Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to outlaw political spying (such as the FBI had committed) on American citizens. FISA created a secret court to oversee federal surveillance of suspected foreign agents within the United States, permitting a much more lenient standard for wiretaps than the Constitution permitted for American citizens.
The FISA court “created a secret body of law giving the National Security Agency the power to amass vast collections of data on Americans,” the New York Times reported in 2013 after Edward Snowden leaked court decisions. The court rubber-stamped FBI requests that bizarrely claimed that the telephone records of all Americans were “relevant” to a terrorism investigation under the Patriot Act, thereby enabling National Security Administration (NSA) data seizures later denounced by a federal judge as “almost Orwellian.” In 2017, a FISA court decision included a 10-page litany of FBI violations, which “ranged from illegally sharing raw intelligence with unauthorized third parties to accessing intercepted attorney-client privileged communications without proper oversight.”
FISA Section 702
The latest controversy involved FISA Section 702, first enacted by Congress in 2008. That section authorizes the National Security Agency to surveil targets in foreign nations regardless of how many Americans’ privacy is “incidentally” destroyed. The NSA collects vast amounts of information as part of that surveillance and then permits the FBI to sift through its troves. The Electronic Frontier Foundation warned more than a decade ago that Section 702 “created a broad national-security exception to the Constitution that allows all Americans to be spied upon by their government while denying them any viable means of challenging that spying.”
Professor David Rothkopf explained in 2013 how Section 702 worked: “What if government officials came to your home and said that they would collect all of your papers and hold onto them for safe-keeping, just in case they needed them in the future. But don’t worry … they wouldn’t open the boxes until they had a secret government court order … sometime, unbeknownst to you.” Actually, the law in practice is much worse.
A license for lying
From the beginning, federal agencies brazenly lied about the number of Americans whose privacy was ravaged. In 2014, former NSA employee Edward Snowden provided the Washington Post with a cache of 160,000 secret email threads that the NSA had intercepted. The Post found that nine out of ten account holders were not the “intended surveillance targets but were caught in a net the agency had cast for somebody else.” Almost half of the individuals whose personal data was inadvertently commandeered were American citizens. The files “tell stories of love and heartbreak, illicit sexual liaisons, mental-health crises, political and religious conversions, financial anxieties and disappointed hopes,” the Post noted. If an American citizen wrote an email in a foreign language, NSA analysts assumed they were foreigners who could be surveilled without a warrant.
FISA perils are compounded because, in practice, the FBI has a blank check for perjury in the name of Total Information Awareness. In 2002, the FISA court revealed that FBI agents had false or misleading claims in 75 cases, and a top FBI counterterrorism official was prohibited from ever appearing before the court again. Three years later, FISA chief judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly proposed requiring FBI agents to swear to the accuracy of the information they presented; that never happened because it could have “slowed such investigations drastically,” the Washington Post reported. So FBI agents continued to have a license to exploit FISA secrecy to lie to the judges.
An abuse of power
In 2018, a FISA ruling condemned the FBI for ignoring limits on “unreasonable searches.” As the New York Times noted,
F.B.I. agents had carried out several large-scale searches for Americans who generically fit into broad categories … so long as agents had a reason to believe that someone within that category might have relevant information. But [under FISA] there has to be an individualized reason to search for any particular American’s information.
The FBI treated the FISA repository like the British agents treated general warrants in the 1760s, helping spark the American Revolution.
But Congress reauthorized Section 702 in 2018 regardless of the perpetual abuses of that power. Subsequent reports revealed that the congressional vote of blind confidence was misplaced. But Congress did oblige the feds to publicly disclose how often the FBI unjustifiably violated Americans’ privacy by snooping in the NSA catch-all archives.
The FBI exploited FISA to target 19,000 donors to the campaign of a candidate who challenged an incumbent member of Congress. An FBI analyst justified the warrantless searches by claiming “the campaign was a target of foreign influence,” but even the Justice Department concluded that almost all of those searches violated FISA rules. Apparently, merely reciting the phrase “foreign influence” suffices to nullify Americans’ rights nowadays. (In March, Rep. Darin LaHood (R-IL) revealed that he had been wrongly targeted by the FBI in numerous FISA 702 searches.)
Warrantless searches
In April 2021, the FISA court reported that the FBI conducted warrantless searches of the data trove for “domestic terrorism,” “public corruption and bribery,” “health care fraud,” and other targets — including people who notified the FBI of crimes and even repairmen entering FBI offices. If you sought to report a crime to the FBI, an FBI agent may have illegally surveilled your email. Even if you merely volunteered for the FBI “Citizens Academy” program, the FBI may have illegally tracked all your online activity. In 2019, an FBI agent conducted an unjustified database search “using the identifiers of about 16,000 people, even though only seven of them had connections to an investigation,” the New York Times reported.
As I tweeted after that report came out, “The FISA court has gone from pretending FBI violations don’t occur to pretending violations don’t matter. Only task left is to cease pretending Americans have any constitutional right to privacy.” FISA court Chief Judge James Boasberg lamented “apparent widespread violations” of the legal restrictions for FBI searches but shrugged them off and permitted the scouring of Americans’ personal data to continue.
Alas, there was no bureaucratic repentance. The feds revealed in 2022 that “fewer than 3,394,053” Americans’ privacy had been zapped by FBI warrantless searches using Section 702. Why didn’t the feds use an alternative headline for the press release: “More than 320,974,609 Americans not illegally searched by the FBI?” That report was issued by the Office of Civil Liberties, Privacy, and Transparency of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. But there was scant transparency aside from a raw number that raised far more questions than it answered.
Almost two million of those searches involved an investigation of Russian hacking. Yet there aren’t that many hackers in the United States. The State Department’s Global Engagement Center presumed that anyone whose tweets agreed with a position of the Russian government should be banned by Twitter for being a Russian agent. Did the FBI use a similar “catch-all” standard to justify pilfering two million Americans’ email and other online data?
Exemption from the Constitution
In May 2023, a heavily redacted FISA court decision revealed that the FBI continued exempting itself from the Constitution. For each American that the FISA court authorized the FBI to target, the FBI illicitly surveilled almost a thousand additional Americans. The FBI admitted to conducting 278,000 illicit searches of Americans in 2020 and early 2021 (the period covered by the FISA court ruling released in May 2023).
The FBI conducted illegal secret searches of the emails and other data of 133 people arrested during the protests after the killing of George Floyd in 2020.
The FBI conducted 656 warrantless searches to see if they could find any derogatory information on people they planned to use as informants. The FBI also routinely conducted warrantless searches on “individuals listed in police homicide reports, including victims, next-of-kin, witnesses, and suspects.” Even the Justice Department complained those searches were improper.
The FBI seems to have presumed that any American suspected of supporting the January 6, 2021, Capitol ruckus forfeited his constitutional rights. An FBI analyst exploited FISA to unjustifiably conduct searches on 23,132 Americans citizens “to find evidence of possible foreign influence, although the analyst conducting the queries had no indications of foreign influence,” according to FISA Chief Judge Rudolph Contreras. The FBI also routinely conducted warrantless searches on “individuals listed in police homicide reports, including victims, next-of-kin, witnesses, and suspects.”
For 20 years, FISA judges have whined about FBI agents lying to the court. As long as the FBI periodically promises to repent, the FISA court entitles them to continue decimating the Fourth Amendment. Chief FISA Judge Contreras lamented: “Compliance problems with the querying of Section 702 information have proven to be persistent and widespread.” The FBI responded to the damning report with piffle: “We are committed to continuing this work and providing greater transparency into the process to earn the trust of the American people and advance our mission of safeguarding both the nation’s security, and privacy and civil liberties, at the same time.”
The FBI crime wave
FBI officials stress that any violations of Americans’ privacy is “incidental.” Since the FBI didn’t intend to violate Americans’ rights, it was a no-fault error — or millions of no-fault errors. There is no chance that police will adopt the same standard for absolving drunk drivers who did not intend to kill anyone they crashed into. Even when a media star such as Tucker Carlson may have been pulled into the 702 mire, the system manages to whitewash itself.
The FBI’s perpetual crime wave created a hornet’s nest on Capitol Hill. Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) asked: “How much longer must we watch the FBI brazenly spy on Americans before we strip it of its unchecked authority?” Rep. Mike Garcia (R-CA) declared, “We need a pound of flesh. We need to know someone has been fired.”
House Republicans, led by House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), pushed a bipartisan reform of 702 named he Protect Liberty and End Warrantless Surveillance Act, which would have required the FBI to get a warrant from a federal judge for most of its queries to the NSA database. Jordan’s proposal would have also sharply reduced the number of FBI officials with access to the NSA trove. Jordan’s bill included the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, which “stops law enforcement from buying data that should require a court order,” a scandal tagged in a New York Post op-ed headlined “Feds are buying your life with your tax dollars.”
Congressional impotence
FISA epitomizes the mirage of constitutional checks and balances in our times. When Congress returns to FISA with the short-term authorization, the House will consider a FISA “reform” bill the Intelligence Committee unanimously approved. The House Intelligence Committee acts like a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Deep State. Unfortunately, these are the members of Congress with special access to federal dirt — and they have largely chosen to ignore the crimes committed by the spies they champion and bankroll.
Former Justice Department lawyer Marc Zwillinger is one of a handful of FISA court amici allowed to comment on cases or policies in the secret court. He issued a public warning that the House Intelligence bill expands the definition of “electronic communication service providers” covered by FISA compliance obligations to include “business landlords, shared workspaces, or even hotels where guests connect to the Internet.”
In other words, the FISA expansion could affect your next visit to Comfort Inn — and you thought Wi-Fi service was already bad! Former Justice Department lawyer Elizabeth Goitein warns, “Hotels, libraries, coffee shops, and other places that offer wifi to their customers could be forced to serve as surrogate spies. They could be required to configure their systems to ensure that they can provide the government access to entire streams of communications.” The bill could also cover any repairman who works on such equipment. That bill should be titled, Biden Big Brother Better Act.
The FISA reauthorization was included in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2024, a 3000-page “must pass” bill that Congress considered in December. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), who led the opposition to the bill in the Senate, urged fellow senators not to “trust any bill so large that it has to be delivered by handcart.” But to no avail.
The tyranny of the FISA court
The FISA court has perpetually dismally failed to defend Americans’ constitutional rights. Washington must finally admit that there is no secret “doing God’s work” clause in the Constitution that entitles FBI agents to trample Americans’ privacy and liberty.
Will Congress show more gumption when the short-term FISA reauthorization expires in April? When FISA was up for renewal in 2012, I tweeted, “Only a fool would expect members of Congress to give a damn about his rights and liberties.” Unless Congress puts me to shame, FISA should be renamed the “‘Trust Me, Chumps!’ Surveillance Act.”
Globalists know that nothing drives public policy so much as the fear of impending death. Nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles may have scared the snot out of anyone living through the Cold War, but they were (and still are) the gifts that keep on giving for the military-industrial complex and national security surveillance State. The more catastrophic the consequences of any perceived threat, the more likely that otherwise skeptical human beings will hand over their freedoms in exchange for the elusive promise of personal security. Political systems specialize in exploiting this “Save Me!” impulse for maximum leverage. “Looming apocalypse” is Big Government’s best salesman every year.
Ghost stories about “global warming” work the same way. If voters can be convinced that their economic freedom is leading to humanity’s extinction, then they will accept costly regulations and “green energy”-induced inflation. If they can be brainwashed into believing that hydrocarbon energy is evil, then they will actively protest for a future with intermittent yet expensive electric power. If they can be deluded into thinking that only politicians and central bankers can save the planet, then they will embrace communism in order to fight “climate change.” Given the fact that Earth’s climate is always naturally changing — whether humans are alive to notice or not — governments’ success in conditioning gullible people to fear every change in the weather has been remarkably effective in creating voluntary slaves.
It’s also no surprise that UN Secretary-General António Guterres and other doomsayer charlatans are now hyperventilating about “global boiling.” Generations who were told they would die decades ago have learned to discount apocalyptic warnings. Human experience creates a natural immunity to bullsh*t. Conversely, totalitarianism succeeds only when society’s level of anxiety can be ratcheted up well above eleventy! That’s why every iteration of the so-called “climate emergency” must sound more scary than the last. It’s also why each new season of “Climate Change: the Coming Armageddon” targets children who have never seen old episodes of the boring series. It may be the longest running television program of all time, but ignorant youths — who cannot imagine that their governments would ever lie to them — fall for the dying planet horror show every time.
This is the kind of madness that “green” false prophets perpetrate upon unsuspecting peoples — stoking irrational fears in a misanthropic and Machiavellian quest for raw power. Twentieth-century totalitarians also came to power by spreading madness and inflaming irrational fears. Whereas Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, and Mao obsessed over foreign ideas, capitalist leanings, religious beliefs, and racial impurities, today’s globalists obsess over hydrocarbons, “white supremacy,” and “hate” speech. Future generations will see no distinction. Just like the monsters of the past, today’s Deep State agents seize power by manufacturing emergencies. Dictators always arrive on triumphal chariots that run on lies.
The German Deep State is similar to the American Deep State — in that both love to lecture the world about “democracy” and “freedom” while censoring conservatives’ speech, criminalizing political dissent, spewing propaganda, and manipulating elections. Both also have a penchant for creating committees and agencies that engage in behaviors they pretend to police — disinformation boards that spread lies, humanitarian aid groups that foment war, pro-democracy coalitions that seek to ban political groups and public debate. For the German and American Deep States, language is a weapon for deceiving the people.
In one particularly laughable example, German law mandates the operation of an Ethics Council — an independent body of “experts” — that seems dedicated to finding ways to justify the government’s unethical behaviors. How do you convince people to accept unscientific lockdowns and experimental “vaccines”? Tell them that a nonpartisan crew of credentialed “experts” has checked for ethical landmines and determined that everything’s hunky-dory. A few weeks ago, the morality Star Chamber published an opinion about “Climate Justice” that lays the groundwork for a future when all German activity will be strictly monitored for carbon-rationing compliance: “On grounds of justice, it can be morally required to contribute to measures to tackle climate change. If one’s own exercise of freedom interferes in an unjust manner with the freedom and welfare of others or of future generations, for example through consumption that is harmful to the climate, the authorities may intervene with restrictions of freedom.”
As with all Deep State initiatives that say one thing while doing its opposite, Germany’s Ethics Council promises the public that it is wholly opposed to suspending “democratic freedoms” but encourages the government to create “supportive framework conditions” — including carbon taxes, personal emissions limits, product bans, and “compensatory payments” to “ongoing neo-colonial dependencies” — that will nudge Germans to do the right thing. Ahh, nothing says freedom like new taxes, forced redistribution of wealth, regulatory kicks to the groin, financial blackmail, and total personal surveillance! Just because the government holds a gun to the back of your head while you make decisions doesn’t mean you are any less free — the unethical Ethics Council says so!
The imperial press have revealingly been using the words “moderate” and “centrist” to eulogize the warmongering former US senator Joe Lieberman, who passed away on Wednesday.
“Centrist former Sen. Joseph Lieberman has died at 82,” reads a headline by NPR.
“As a moderate Democrat, Mr Lieberman developed a reputation in Washington for crossing party lines — as well as simply crossing members of his own party,” says the BBC.
“Joe Lieberman, a former longtime Connecticut senator and moderate Democrat who became the first Jewish American nominated to a major party’s presidential ticket as Al Gore’s 2000 running mate, died Wednesday at age 82,” writes The Wall Street Journal.
“Joe Lieberman, centrist senator and first Jew on major US presidential ticket, dies at 82,” reads a headline from The Times of Israel.
Joe Lieberman was a fairly unremarkable Washington politician who managed to get famous by becoming a particularly enthusiastic, inveterate warmonger and corporate marionette within the Democratic Party. https://t.co/DzUaOTnm0n
In reality, there was never anything moderate about Joe Lieberman. He was a violent extremist, who only looked like he walked a political center line through the lens of a violent extremist empire.
“Like most fiscal hawks, Lieberman is also an all-around hawk, unconcerned with government spending when it’s in the service of bombing some far-off country or another. It’s hard to find a war Lieberman hasn’t supported, from both wars against Iraq (he was one of only ten Senate Democrats to vote for the first), to the Balkans in the ’90s, to Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Iran, Yemen, an ambiguous commitment in Ukraine, and many others.
“If you’re a fan of the bloated, largely unaccountable centralized security bureaucracy of the Department of Homeland Security, thank Lieberman: he not only came up with the idea but introduced the legislation that created it. He also supported the terrifying appointments of John Bolton under both Bush and Donald Trump, citing his ‘strong moral compass.’”
Beltway swamp monsters like Lieberman only get called “centrist” and “moderate” because they have ideological overlap with both of the increasingly indistinguishable mainstream political parties in the United States, both of which reliably support war, militarism, imperialism, capitalism, and oligarchy. Their differences are presented as massive by the imperial propaganda services known as the mainstream press to create the illusion of choice and competition, but they actually sit within an extremely narrow ideological bandwidth on the political spectrum.
RIP Joe Lieberman. Not only did he lie about Iraq and WMD in 2003, he was still lying about it eight years later in 2011, and for extra credit did it in an incredibly smarmy and sexist way. https://t.co/0SCLqiyPxWpic.twitter.com/IPvmQZoDvL
One of the worst mistakes you can make when formulating your understanding of the world is to begin with the assumption that the truest and most accurate position must lie somewhere near the center of the two major political perspectives you see laid out all around you.
It’s a mistake not only because assuming that the center position must be the best one is a type of fallacious reasoning known as the middle ground fallacy (the correct position between “Drink a gallon of bleach daily for good health” and “Drink zero bleach daily for good health” is not “Drink half a gallon of bleach daily for good health”); it’s also a mistake because the entire framing arises from a situation that has been artificially engineered by the powerful.
It’s a well-documented fact that the rich and powerful pour vast fortunes into manipulating the political and media landscape in ways that serve their interests. Their control over the news media and Silicon Valley tech platforms is used to set the agenda and influence public perception by determining what issues will receive attention and which won’t in ways that preserve the political status quo they’ve built their empire upon, thereby shrinking the Overton window of acceptable debate down to a very narrow spectrum whose outcomes can’t threaten their interests in any way.
This is what Noam Chomsky was talking about when he said “the smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.” People assume there must be truth in the mainstream worldview because so many others are invested in the mainstream worldview, when really the only reason that worldview is mainstream in the first place is because so much wealth and influence has gone into making it mainstream.
The propaganda matrix can lull you into believing the false dichotomies of its two-party political framework because of how ubiquitous and widely believed it is and how aggressively it gets shoved in everyone’s face from day to day, which can dupe you into losing sight of where a true moderate position might actually rest. One way to resist succumbing to this cognitive quicksand is to keep a clear vision of what a healthy world would actually look like, so that you are always acutely aware of just how far the mainstream worldview is from a sensible position.
another aaron bushnell reddit response captured march 2023 via the wayback machine pic.twitter.com/sX0JB4RVpf
Some time before he fatally self-immolated outside the Israeli embassy in protest of the US government’s support for the Gaza genocide, Aaron Bushnell posted the following on Reddit:
“I’ve realized that a lot of the difference between me and my less radical friends is that they are less capable of imagining a better world than I am. I follow YouTubers like Andrewism that fill my head with concrete images of free, post-scarcity communities and it makes me so much more prepared to reject things about the current world, because I’ve imagined how things could be and that helps me see how extremely bullshit things are right now.
“What I’m trying to say is, it’s so important to imagine a better world. Let your thoughts run wild with idealistic dreams of what the world should look like, and let the pain and anger at how it’s not that way flow through you. Let it free your mind and fuel your rage against the machine.
“It’s not too late for you or anyone. We can have the world of our dreams tomorrow, but we have to be willing to fight today.”
It’s valuable to hold a positive vision of what a truly healthy civilization would look like, because it’s important to be clear on what it is you’re fighting for. But it’s also important because if you don’t you leave an opening for these bastards to convince you to believe absurdities, like that Joe Lieberman was a moderate.
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Robert Kennedy’s VP choice is more than a bit interesting – the ex-wife of Sergey Brin the co-founder of Google net worth over $121 Billion. This would represent the ultimate in corporate control given her experience and expertise is that of a hard left attorney. Her bio reads like a World Economic Forum testament: feminism, reproductive longevity, criminal justice policy to end discrimination and bring equity into the judicial system, regenerative agriculture (crickets), and ta-da – global climate change referendums.
Kennedy couldn’t have found a more left leaning progressive unless he inserted Hillary Clinton. Nicole Shanahan, has worked with the Open Philanthropy Project and defunding the police. She has coordinated her charity, Bia Echo Foundation, with the Zuckerberg initiatives and is heavily involved with all the classic NGO’s aligned with the Great RESET. Thus, revealing this is the Kennedy platform as well. And leaving no doubt.
Oddly, no one is pointing out the obvious and suddenly, it appears that maybe Kennedy has been the nominee the entire time. Apparently, Kennedy has overnight become the charmer, the rock in the midst of chaos – ‘game changer’, the ‘one who can unify everyone’, the ‘hero America needs’… And Kennedy steps in as the Biden replacement while Brandon is wheeled off exit stage left and takes up permanent residency at the sanitarium.
This has been their creation.
It is somewhat of a brilliant plan: 1. Enter into the fray a name that intrigues everyone for its history, 2. Test the waters, 3. Have him maintain a low profile – no media is allowed to touch him, 4. Have him concede an issue so that he appears neutral and unbiased, 5. Start the media play of Biden’s declining mental acumen, 6. The moment Kennedy picks his dark swan VP, use media hype to make him look like the savior! BOOM!
The Pies de Resistance? A family feud – contentious over Kennedy’s right wing attitude about vaccinations – in order to appeal to the libertarians on the fence. Not bad. EXCEPT – Nicole is a diehard far leftist that will estrange every conservative and libertarian female voter. Therefore – Kennedy’s win would have to include some election funnies given he is not salable to MAGAs – and there were never enough Biden’s to be worth converting.
Certainly, no one wants to believe that Robert Kennedy would sell out America – and perhaps he truly believes that giving the country to the World Economic Forum corporate stakeholders is the only viable solution – but – that’s not what he said or represented. And that is NOT representational of the vast majority of Americans.
I was wooed. For a while. But then I found various media interviews that contradicted other media interviews, and pretty soon, it appeared he had re-scripted his talking points to meet the parties half way. We were vulnerable – and wanted him to be the real thing. But when he clarified his intent to ‘never’ consider any appointment from Trump, his motives began to take a bit of a sinister twist. Still, the hopeful – hoped.
Now that Biden has been declared non-grati by his colleagues and liberal media pundits – this was the time for Kennedy to Shine as the replacement.
Historically, the Kennedy’s were never ‘clean’ – but they were always charismatic and – wealthy. A combination that is tough to beat. The Achilles Heel is the fact that the ‘youth’ market have no idea who they are or were – and don’t really care. He just looks like another old guy …
His draw? Seniors. Seniors still enamored with Robert Kennedy’s dad and uncle. Despite the family ghosts. The ghost in the closet remains – Rosemary. The rebellious child, the family was concerned that Rosemary might act out in a way that could embarrass the family. They had her lobotomized and when she became completely incapacitated as a result – she was remanded to an institution for life. A very sad tale to be sure. Yet, only one of many within the life prestige and regiments.
One might have dismissed some of Robert’s gaffs, but the VP choice makes it quite clear where his priorities lie. The concept of neutral or balance or middle ground has now been completely vacated and his lean is somewhere between Hillary and AOC. As opposed to somewhere between Trump and DeSantis…
Be wary. The media has been cued to fawn. They will lavish praise. Show poll after poll declaring Kennedy is trailing Trump by 20 points, 15, 12, 10, and suddenly they will deem him as the Winner – well before the election. As the algorithms in the voting machines are readjusted to Kennedy instead of Biden.
Perhaps I am wrong. I would prefer I was wrong. But the manipulations and degree of fraud and gamesmanship has surpassed what is considered believable for decades. And INTEGRITY is now on the champagne platter…. Who Will Rise and Who Will Fall?
Ce qui suit confirme ce que nous disons depuis longtemps.
Sous l’angle macro géostratégique, derrière l’apparence des choses, ce n’est pas la Russie qui «gagne» la guerre mais les États-Unis : au final, c’est leur plus grand ennemi de toujours, l’Europe – et en particulier la France -, qui est en train d’être laminée.
Les États-Unis ont, en effet, toujours tout fait pour éviter tout nouvel «effet Traité de Rapallo (1922)», à savoir,éviter un rapprochement de la haute technologie et du savoir-faire de l’Europe de l’Ouest avec les richesses naturelles infinies de la Russie, le tout formant un bloc invincible de Vladivostok à Brest. [En 1922, par le Traité de Rapallo, c’était l’Allemagne de Weimar, alors interdite d’armée et d’industrie, qui s’était ainsi rapprochée de la Russie bolchevique ; Russie qui a mis ses ressources et ses structures industrielles à la disposition de l’Allemagne. Voir en fin d’article]
Les États-Unis se servent maintenant indirectement de la Russie pour continuer leur travail d’éradication de leurs principaux concurrents européens … La destruction du Nord Steam fut à ce titre emblématique.1
En clair, comme les EU sont en train de perdre de leur superbe, et comme tout Hégémon («puissance qui dirige sans partage»), ils martyrisent leurs alliés ; là, en fin de course pour eux, ils entraînent avec eux dans le gouffre principalement l’Allemagne et la France.
[Youssef HINDI le démontre parfaitement dans son dernier livre «La guerre des États-Unis contre l’Europe», 2023]
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Et cette guerre en Ukraine est un moyen supplémentaire qui va dans ce sens.
Quand on a les grilles de lectures, on sait depuis longtemps que JAMAIS il n’y aura de guerre directe entre les EU et la Russie.
Entre les États-Unis et l’Union soviétique, il n’y a en effet aucune réelle conflictualité commerciale : la Russie est loin derrière l’Europe ; et surtout, loin de la France de la haute technologie nucléaire et électronique ; la France culturelle, linguistique, diplomatique,… ; surtout, la France souveraine des années 1970 alors 4ème puissance mondiale avec qui commençaient l’Irak, l’Iran, le Liban, la Syrie, l’Afrique… C’est cette France là, si brillante, qui doit disparaître.
Les guerres des États-Unis au Moyen-Orient à partir de 1973 n’ont eu de cesse que de casser ces marchés et donc ces pays qui ne juraient que par la France.
L’Union européenne était/est le bombardier américain-2 chargé de réduire France et Allemagne à néant ; de réduire à néant la souveraineté nucléaire française (via les filières écologistes : les verts, les Corine LEPAGE, etc.), la souveraineté monétaire, industrielle, agricole, culturelle et militaire.
De Gaulle, anti-Union européenne, le savait parfaitement : il connaissait la fourberie de la fine équipe «États-Unis/Israël» depuis des lustres.
Pour étayer tout ceci, nous rappelons régulièrement :
1. les propos du vice-amiral Sanguinetti dans la revue In these Times en1980 :
(…) quand je servais dans le temps, des officiers américains m’avaient tenu un raisonnement qui m’avait frappé ; ils m’avaient dit amicalement :
«tu vois, je pense qu’un jour nous serons obligés, nous américains d’envisager la destruction de l’Europe et d’abord, de la France parce que vous êtes de très loin notre principal concurrent économique»(…)»
2. Dans le même esprit, le 4 février 2022 – donc, à quelques jours de l’opération spéciale du 24 février 2022 -, George Friedman, le fondateur du centre d’analyse stratégique Straffor :
«(…) Pour les États-Unis, la peur primordiale, c’est l’alliance du capital allemand, de la technologie allemande, combinés aux ressources naturelles russes et à la main-d’œuvre russe : c’est la seule combinaison qui a effrayé les États-Unis pendant plus d’un siècle:
(…) Dans cette stratégie, l’Europe est un simple pion, rien qu’un outil, dont Friedman parle avec un infini mépris.
L’arme utilisée sera la déstabilisation : en Ukraine, c’est ce que nous avons déjà fait en Afghanistan.
Abandonnons toute ambition d’instaurer la démocratie ; une fois que nous aurons déstabilisé le pays, nous aurons fait notre travail… (…)»
Cela vaut la peine d’écouter Friedman. Et d’observer son sourire froid, ou son rictus, lorsqu’il expose le programme.
«Pourquoi la guerre en Ukraine : l’Allemagne et la Russie sont ensemble la seule puissance qui peut menacer les États-Unis» – https://french.almanar.com.lb/2446545
Conclusions
1. Comme toujours, aller au-delà des apparences et du «spectacle» que politiques et médias nous présentent ;
2. L’alternative qui se présente aujourd’hui : soit le nouvel ordre mondial (OTAN, États-Unis, UE, World Economic Forum, …) peut arriver au sommet de sa puissance par le chaos, soit il est obligé de renoncer à son pouvoir et à sa logique de pouvoir par la prédation ; ce qui appellera forcément un changement de paradigme : un monde multipolaire – Poutine, Xi, Trump – avec des nations plus souveraines. [Quoique : le crédit social et le transhumanisme guettent des 2 côtés]
Ce sera la gouvernance globale ou la révolte des nations, c’est-à-dire, la révolte des nations pilotées par ces trois nations maîtresses, et aussi le retour à une économie réelle non parasitaire sortie de la privation financière de ce faux dollar.
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L’Initiative des Trois Mers (3SI) ou «Initiative Baltique-Adriatique-mer Noire», est une association de «niveau présidentiel» regroupant 12 pays d’Europe centrale et du Sud-Est.
Résumé de l’article :
1. Couper l’Europe centrale en 2 ;
2. Empêcher ainsi le passage du gaz russe ;
3. Faire de l’Ukraine une zone de stockage du gaz liquéfié (GNL) américain acheminé depuis l’Adriatique, la mer Noire et la Baltique ;
4. Relier donc les côtes de la Baltique, de l’Adriatique et de la mer Noire en un seul réseau (une infrastructure de transport de gaz est déjà en cours de construction) ;
5. Mettre l’Europe de l’Ouest à genoux qui se retrouvera sans gaz russe et totalement dépendante des coûteuses importations de gaz liquéfié en provenance des États-Unis ;
6. Création d’une «OTAN orientale» indépendante de l’Europe de l’ouest, instrument docile de la guerre avec la Russie.
L’arrêt total de Nord Stream 1 & 2 était considéré comme «idéal», onze jours avant que le sabotage ait lieu ! (15 septembre – 26 septembre)
«Lundi soir 26 septembre, Radek Sikorski, ancien ministre polonais des Affaires étrangères, avait remercié les USA pour le sabotage de Nordstream 1 et Nordstream 2».
On notera qu’en se livrant à une rapide revue de presse sur le sabotage des gazoducs Nord Stream 1 & 2, véritable tournant de la guerre : les médias officiels en sont encore à se demander si c’est un sabotage ou un accident.
Les opinions exprimées dans ce contenu n’engagent que la responsabilité de l’auteur.
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Le traité de Rapallo – Archétype dialectique de la géo-politique marchande
« (…) La guerre de 14-18, est quelque chose de gigantesque qui reprend tous les mensonges et toutes les saloperies de ce que fait l’Angleterre, la perfide Albion. On dit la «perfide Albion» parce qu’il y a un invariant historique depuis la guerre de cent ans : l’Angleterre mène des guerres dans la dialectique de la valeur d’échange totalitaire absolument réalisée. Les autres puissances ne sont pas dans la valeur d’échange totalement réalisée.
Donc, tous les mensonges que l’on a là, se structurent et s’organisent. À la fin de cette guerre, on a le président Wilson qui représente la SDN qui représente l’ordre moral : les américains font toujours la guerre pour la morale, pour l’occultation, pour la mystification, pour la dénaturation.
Qui sait que l’armée américaine a, entre 1895 et 1905, exterminé 1,5 millions de philippins civils ?
L’armée américaine ment et massacre, mais par essence : c’est son substrat. Toute l’histoire américaine est une histoire de spoliations, d’exterminations et de mensonges : la structure mentale du pentagone est judéoprotestante, vétérotestamentaire.
Ce qui se met en marche au traité de Versailles, c’est le mensonge et la manipulation : l’Angleterre a toujours voulu écraser l’Eutrope. L’Angleterre, colonisée par les États-Unis, vient en 1917 pour écraser l’Europe. Le traité de Versailles, c’est la grande décomposition du mensonge universel.
On va créer une Tchécoslovaquie dans laquelle il y a les Sudètes. Les Sudètes sont un territoire qui est lié à l’empire austro-hongrois.
En 14-18, les américains ont un double objectif : écraser l’Allemagne et exploser l’Empire austro-hongrois pour qu’au cœur de l’Europe, il n’y ait pas une puissance européenne potentielle qui pourrait à un moment donné s’allier avec les français et les italiens pour créer justement cette première puissance absolue.
La question de Rapallo aujourd’hui du point de vue de la géopolitique de la valeur d’échange est la suivante : quelle est la première puissance mondiale ? C’est l’Europe unifiée à la Russie.
Donc déjà dans la guerre de cent ans, dans la guerre de sept ans, on avait la division de l’Europe.
Au Traité de Versailles, on dépèce l’Allemagne, la Poméranie et la Silésie, le couloir de dantzig : ce sont des territoires qui sont germanisés depuis plusieurs siècles. On va les attribuer à la Pologne ; et puis les Sudètes, on va les attribuer à la Tchécoslovaquie, alors que c’est un territoire qui est à 99,5 % allemand : il faut foutre le bordel au coeur de l’Eutrope pour que l’Eutrope se tiraille, se cristallise en oppositions, en tensions et en incapacité stratégique d’accéder à une compréhension mondiale de son destin.
Donc, le traité de Versailles, c’est le bordel en Europe ; et c’est surtout la vassalisation de l’Eutrope.
La première guerre mondiale n’est pas une guerre de nationalismes ; ce n’est pas le nationalisme allemand contre le nationalisme anglais. Ça, ce sont des drapeaux et des guirlandes ; des panoplies, des costumes. Le fond de l’affaire, c’est que l’ordre capitaliste mondial, dans la saturation mondiale des marchés en 1914, est obligé, compte tenu de la baisse du taux de profit et compte tenu justement de cette saturation incroyable de redéfinir un ordre. Après la guerre, ce seront les accords de Gênes.
Alors, il le définit par le repartage militaires des marchés. [Le commerce, c’est la guerre commerciale ; la guerre commerciale, c’est la guerre militaire ; et au bout de la guerre militaire, on repartage militairement les marchés.]
L’enjeu du Traité de Rapallo
Il y a les réparations du Traité de Versailles et l’écrasement de l’Allemagne. Et de l’autre côté, il y a la Russie bolchévique capitaliste d’état qui est épuisée par une guerre civile qui a tout détruit. Donc, naturellement, pour faire face à l’impérialisme américain, l’ordre allemand et l’ordre russes se retrouvent : «on a certainement des choses à jouer pour essayer effectivement de se sortir de cette domination américaine qui nous écrase donc sortir de cette domination américaine qui nous écrase». [La Russie est beaucoup moins écrasée que l’Allemagne : le bolchévisme, le capitalisme d’État trotskiste et le capitalisme d’État stalinien sont déjà ravitaillés de manière massive par les banques américaines mais de manière à être aussi sous la dépendance des banques américaines].
Le traité de Versailles interdit à l’Allemagne tout ce qui est accepté pour les autres
Quand Hitler occupe quand Hitler réoccupe la rive gauche du Rhin on lui reproche de violer le traité de Versailles. Mais il y avait une articulation générale dans le Traité : le désarmement de l’Allemagne préfigure le désarmement général. Donc, Hitler n’a pas réoccuper la Rhénanie et réarmer par hasard : il a pris à partie l’ordre wilsonien et la SDN en disant : «bon, on est désarmé, on n’a pas le droit de réoccuper la rive gauche du Rhin : c’était le préambule d’un désarmement général ; mais vous, vous avez toujours pas opéré le commencement du commencement du désarmement général ; doncpuisque vous, vous ne respectez pas et la lettre et l’esprit de ce qui découle dutraité de Versailles : 1, je réarme et 2, je réoccupe la rive gauche du Rhin». Ça, c’est après l’arrivée d’Hitler au pouvoir.
Mais déjà bien avant, la Reichswehr démocratique (littéralement «défense du Reich», était l’armée de la république de Weimar, de 1919 à 1935), qui avait massacré Rosa Luxembourg (Commune de Berlin) grâce à la gauche du capital et le parti bolchevique qui avait massacré la Commune de Cronstadt, s’étaient mis d’accord sur le fait que l’espace russe va permettre à la technologie allemande de développer, dans cet espace russe, ce que le traité de Versailles lui interdit de développer sur son propre espace. Donc, les allemands et les russes renoncent aux réparations de guerre et mettent en marche des accords spécifiques de correspondance sur toutes les matières essentielles : le pétrole le coton, les phosphates, le bois, le caoutchouc, …
La clause la plus importante est la clause militaire. En effet, même si le cheminement idéologique de Versailles a interdit à l’Allemagne toutes ses productions, le savoir mental de ses productions dans l’appareil bureaucratique de la technostructure est là. Donc, on va déplacer des techniciens : puisqu’ils n’ont pas le droit de le faire à Berlin à Nuremberg, à Munich ou à Cologne, on les envoie à Rostov ou à Kharkov. Donc, l’armée allemande va développer ses compétences en matière d’artillerie d’aviation de chars dans un partenariat avec l’armée soviétique.
Il se crée quelque chose en avril 1922, suite au traité de Versailles, qui vise à permettre le surgissement d’une puissance européenne qui, par delà le traité de Versailles, qui, par delà le dictat de l’Angleterre et par delà le dictat de l’Amérique, pourrait produire une puissance de premier plan.
C’est une longue histoire qui nous ramène à Henri VIII, à Elisabeth, au grand conflit de la guerre de sept ans, aux guerres napoléoniennes… : le traité de Rapallo, en domination réelle, est la résurgence d’un archétype dialectique des profondeurs qui positionne ce qu’est la géopolitique des antinomies qui traverse le territoire de la valeur d’échange.
Der Friedensstifter 