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| Major "King" Kong from Doctor Strangelove |
ADDITIONALLY, this event comes less than two weeks after a successful Russia-Africa Economic Summit in St. Petersburg, so it will be interesting to see which way the wind is blowing from the Saudi Arabian sea port, this month.
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| 1919 Paris Peace Talks Session |
BUT WAIT! There's another peace initiative was
just put on the table by a senior Russian Foreign Ministry official, Aleksey
Polishchuk, who said in a statement that the tactical nuclear weapons, recently deployed in Belerus by Russia could be removed if
Russia’s security concerns are addressed and the long-standing NATO deployment of similar Armageddon weapons in
Europe are drawn down. He described Russia's decision to station nuclear weapons in Belarus as a necessary measure to
"...buttress the security of both Moscow and Minsk. Polishchuk said that
Russia sent nuclear weapons to Belarus 'in response to years-long destabilizing nuclear policies by NATO and Washington,
as well as the fundamental changes that have recently taken place in key areas
of European security.'”
Russia does not want a war with the West, nor to have never-ending nuclear weapon expansion. It wants its genuine security needs to be understood and respected. This offer by Polishchuk could be a step along the road to real peacemaking. But will the fukheads politicians in the collective West accept Polishchuk’s olive branch? I’m not holding my breath.1
RE: RFK JR. Robert Kennedy
Jr. said recently he will not run
as an Independent if he fails to gain the Democratic nomination for President
in 2024.2 This is unfortunate. He is unlikely to be allowed
to run on the Democratic ticket because of the threat he represents to party
insiders. His foreign policy views, for example, are focused on diplomacy
over militarism. He wants to close most overseas American military bases (there
are 700 plus!) and slash the Pentagon’s defense budget. He wants to take Big
Pharma to task, ending the shady dealings that the sector has with regulatory
bodies like the FDA, CDC, NIAID (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases, Dr. Fauci’s old money tree stomping grounds.) He'd even pardon Julian Assange and Edward Snowden! However, Kennedy could kill
the goose that lays the golden eggs for Democratic party insiders and legislators
with his reform agenda. Party elites and Deep State apparatchiks will fight tooth and nail to stop him.
POLITICALLY, it would make more sense for him to challenge Israel, a policy that would be in keeping with his other, pro-peace policies. Aaron suggests the Democratic
Party’s base of voters are younger now and more inclined to be critical of Israel. You would think Kennedy would be going after their votes. Both journalists agree
that the powerful Israel lobby in the United States has the ear of both
parties (Democrats and Republicans) anyway; they don’t really need Kennedy to keep military aid to Israel flowing, something Kennedy, as president, would no doubt ensure, but, then, so would his rivals on both sides of the aisle. (Does his campaign receive significant funding from the pro-Israel lobby? If so, then it's another misstep on his part.) His pro-Israel stance might garner him campaign donations from rich AIPAC
(American-Israel Public Affairs Committee) members but, in the end, that may prove to be an albatross around his neck. It's a definite fumble on Kennedy's part, IMHO.
RFK JR. calls himself a “traditional,
Kennedy Democrat”, but what he may not entirely see is that the Democratic
Party of today is light years away from the party of his forebears. Party
leadership will screw him out of any
nomination bid like they screwed Bernie Sanders (twice). Still, it’s refreshing
to listen to an adult in the room.
“The feeling of
guilt is useless and can safely be dropped entirely. The only people who might
benefit from feeling some guilt are the sociopaths and psychopaths among us who
never experience it anyway. For those among us with healthy empathy centers,
guilt is unnecessary to motivate good behavior and often becomes a tool that
manipulators use to control us.”
“Antisocial
personality disorder, more commonly known as sociopathy and psychopathy, is one
of the greatest obstacles to human thriving. That there really are creatures
among us who don’t think or feel like the rest of us do and frequently use
their lack of empathy to climb the ladders of wealth and power sounds made up
(and even sounds like the basis of many racist belief systems), but it is a
fact. Not until our species becomes so emotionally intelligent and awake that
sociopaths and psychopaths are unable to thrive in it or go unseen will this
problem disappear.”
“You can
recognize sociopaths, psychopaths, and other narcissists in your life by paying
attention to how much energy they pour into convincing you to believe stories
about others, about themselves, and especially about you. Someone who often
spends energy trying to get you to believe negative things about yourself is
someone you should get out of your life as quickly as possible.” (Catlin Johnstone, “Fifteen
Useful Facts”. July2/23 blog post.)
Cheers, Jake.
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* Russia is not invited, so I
don’t see how this is a serious venue for any peace negotiations, especially if
Ukraine continues to present unrealistic demands and acts the spoiler at the
event.
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Scott Ritter, in an interview on the “Garland
Nixon” podcast, mentions the Polish-Baltics' unofficial talks at the 50:00 minute of the video.
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| "You stole my PRECIOUS!!!" |
ANOTHER interesting, pro-NATO article in a RealClear Defense publication details the installation of the Aegis Ashore land-based anti-missile system in Romania beginning in 2010 (and Poland a few years later.) The article also provides background information on the George Bush administration's decision in 2002 to change its nuclear policy in terms of creating a missile defense system to prevent attacks on European soil. All the while, as the Mk-41 anti-missile systems were first proposed then deployed, Russia argued such a system was “capable of upsetting strategic stability.”
The United States and NATO ignored Russian concerns, finally walking away from the INF treaty entirely in 2019 (Trump). One consequence of the West's bad faith dealing with respect to its nuclear treaties with Russia was Russia's R&D over the years into hyper-sonic missiles that could by-pass any anti-missile array. Another consequence is the deployment of Russian tactical nuclear missiles in Belarus this year.
TENSIONS ratchet up until something gives.3
Broken treaties are difficult to repair. Let's hope the New Start treaty, the final nuclear arms agreement still standing between the US and Russia, survives its pull-by date of 2026. [Because we might ring in 2027 with a bang! Ed.]
2. Nor, Kennedy says, will he run as a
Republican as some wags have suggested.
3. ONE COMMENTATOR mused that anti-Russian and anti-Putin sentiments in the collective West went into high gear after Russia's 2015 intervention in Syria. Syria's president, Bashar Assad, requested Russia's assistance combating radical jihadist militias, including the Islamic State (IS) who threatened the stability of his government. It should be noted that the CIA was funding these radical terrorists and fanatics at the time, who, a short while ago, had been sworn enemies of America. Russia's continued intervention in Syria directly challenges American hegemony in the region, drawing a line in the sand, and signaling the declining power of the American empire for all the world to see. Putin did that and the American Deep State HATES him for it.
AS AN ASIDE, America's animus towards the Russian president may go back even further. Putin came to power in 1999 and has been President or Prime Minister continuously ever since. From the first, he found it logical to think of Russia as a "European" nation; it's history had, until recently, been inextricably linked with the continent. During the 1990s Russia was in a bad way following the collapse of the USSR in 1989. Its economy was in terrible shape and people were suffering. The population noticeably declined as living standards fell. At the time, Putin welcomed and needed foreign investment, from Europe and America, in particular, to restart the economy.
INTO this mix came Western oligarchs and financial institutions who saw a big "For Sale" sign up in Russia. Local oligarchs and their Western counterparts made billions stripping Russia of its wealth. After a few years of this abuse, Putin put a stop to it. He began to rein-in the wealthy elites, jailing some, banishing others. His policies curbed the worst excesses of both foreign and domestic carpetbaggers, and put Russia on the road to recovery and a secure sovereignty. Western oligarchs HATED him for stopping their fun. Too bad. So sad.
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