@Oso
Not sure exactly when it started, maybe right after the Franco-Prussian war in the Paris commune with the lumpenproletariat, but the corporate right and the left have always been allies. They were allies when the Warbergs and Jacob Schiff gave Trotsky money to fund the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, they were allies when the Soviet Union and global imperialist states of the UK, US, and France fought the Germans in the second world war, and they have been working hand in hand since the late 1960’s to undermine families and communities on the left and turn the anxieties and financial stresses into consumerism and financial feudalism on the right. The left invents “human rights” and the right starts wars on the behalf of protecting human rights. Truth is nobody cares about human rights, everybody violates those rights when it is inconvenient.

Posted by: Cthulhu | Apr 24 2022 16:37 utc | 4

Cthulhu@4
Yes, those were the days when the international financiers gave Trotsky, at the time an independent socialist living in exile without any party affiliations in Russia, the money it cost to finance the Bolshevik party. And boy, did they need the bread? There were about 2000 of them, the leader of their Parliamentary Duma faction was a secret policeman and the Central Committee was calling for democracy and capitalism.
Too bad you can supply no details on how Trotsky managed it. But full marks to Warberg and Schiff for calling the winner. I expect they had some side bets with Morgan and Rothschild at very long odds. And came out big winners- despite the destruction of the capital market in Russia, the loss of billions in bonds and the transformation of financial instruments into toilet paper.
But that was nothing compared with WWII when France (surrendered and fascist ruled in May 1940) the UK, which almost went to war as a Finnish ally in 1939, which spent the 1930s rebuffing Soviet calls for collective security and drove Moscow into the Ribbentrop Molotov pact of 1939 and the United States which poured capital into Germany, essentially financing the Nazis, and waited on the sidelines until the UK was almost defeated and Moscow was under siege, were always actually and despite appearances (perfidious Albion) in this really tight alliance with the USSR.
Which has continued after the war-again despite appearances such as the Cold War and decades of Russophobic anti-communist brainwashing- through the sixties etc etc.
But full marks for resisting the temptation to mention the Protocols of the Elders of the Okhrana. And the sealed train too.

Posted by: bevin | Apr 24 2022 17:04 utc | 6

[missed the NOT Ukraine instruction – repost]
Here is an article that beat censorship and flew through the cracks of the Mockingbird Wall in 2014.
Wouldn’t happen today.
It is from Newsweek of all places.
Newsweek is a synonym for Mockingbird Press.
The current (since a 2018 scandal/shakeup) editor-in-chief is Nancy Cooper.
Even a moderate bio about her is curiously missing. Why?
Ukrainian Nationalist Volunteers Committing ‘ISIS-Style’ War Crimes
By Damien Sharkov On 9/10/14 at 12:36 PM EDT
[the author Damien Sharkov seems to be struggling for work these days]
https://www.newsweek.com/evidence-war-crimes-committed-ukrainian-nationalist-volunteers-grows-269604

Posted by: librul | Apr 24 2022 17:50 utc | 8

the west standing up for what was forbidden and fought against in WW2. A rewrite of history steeped in cancel culture.
Caitlin Johnstone asks
How Much Are We Prepared To Sacrifice To Help The US Win A Propaganda War Against Putin?
LINK
On Energy an supply disruptions –
The Coming global Diesel Fuel Disaster when every activity halts.
LINK

Amid the ongoing global inflation crisis, NATO heads of state and mainstream media repeat a mantra that high energy prices are a direct result of Putin’s actions in Ukraine since end of February. The reality is that it is the western sanctions that are responsible. Those sanctions including cutting SWIFT interbank access for key Russian banks and some of the most severe sanctions ever imposed, are hardly having an impact on the military actions in Ukraine.
What many overlook is the fact that they are increasingly impacting the economies of the West, especially the EU and USA. A closer look at the state of the global supply of diesel fuel is alarming. But Western sanctions planners at the US Treasury and the EU know fully well what they are doing. And it bodes ill for the world economy.
While most of us rarely think about diesel fuel as anything other than a pollutant, in fact it is essential to the entire world economy in a way few energy sources are. The director general of Fuels Europe, part of the European Petroleum Refiners Association, stated recently, “… there is a clear link between diesel and GDP, because almost everything that goes into and out of a factory goes using diesel.”[.]
Diesel Moves World Trade
[.]A global shortage in diesel fuel, temporary or longer-term, is therefore a catastrophic event. Goods cannot be moved from container ports to inland destinations. Without diesel fuel trucks cannot deliver food to the supermarket, or anything else for that matter. The entire supply chain is frozen. And there is no possibility to substitute gasoline in a diesel engine without ruining the engine.[..]

Posted by: Likklemore | Apr 24 2022 18:08 utc | 10

Time to review films like “Three Days of the Condor” or “Seven Days in May”

Posted by: Paul Greenwood | Apr 24 2022 18:11 utc | 12

@Posted by: bevin | Apr 24 2022 17:04 utc | 6
The Warburgs were a German Jewish banking family and it was in their German interests to undermine Russia in WW1 (this is WW1 no Nazi anti-Jewish craziness in Germany, many Jews fought in the German army), the same way the German government shipped many of the Bolsheviks secretly into Russia. Straight after WW1 the European powers and the US tried to destroy the Bolsheviks and carried out a Cold War against the USSR until 1933. Many US industrialists did help the USSR in the mid and later 1930s, but that was because they were desperate for any business in the middle of the Great Depression.
In the inter-war years Germany was being built up to destroy the Soviets, but the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact kyboshed that and Germany turned West. Germany had been allowed to take over Austria and Czechoslovakia (the latter had a very large and excellent military industrial complex), and the promises of support from Britain and France only made Poland stupidly obstinate in the face of German diplomatic attempts to solve the Polish corridor issue – forcing Germany to invade. As long as the Germans kept going East the West was happy, they desperately wanted to destroy communism. The UK saw both Germany and the Soviet Union as the threat (hence the attempt to attack the Soviet Union through Finland) until Germany turned West in May 1940. Then, suddenly the Soviets were allies, especially after Stalingrad. This was a natural continuation of the UK “offshore balancing” strategy which was to keep the European Continetal powers at each others throats, changing sides to make sure no individual power got too strong. Once Germany had been exhausted destroying communism probably their plan was then to invade Germany.
The position of many in the US in 1941 was to let the Germans and Soviets fight it out until each one was exhausted, and then take on the winner – as stated by the future President, Truman. The US baited Japan into a war through cutting off its oil supplies, leaving Japan the only options of abject surrender or attack. Once Pearl Harbour had taken place it was Germany that declared war on the US, not the other way round. US aid to the Soviets did not start really rolling until the Soviet defeat of the Germans at Stalingrad in early 1943.
Churchill kept delaying the direct invasion of France because he wanted the Soviet army to be exhausted fighting the Germans, then straight after WW2 he proposed a military attack upon the Soviets. The US also considered a nuclear attack upon the USSR. Thankfully, some more humane heads stopped what would have been a genocide to create the very lebensraum that Hitler planned. It would have been incredibly difficult to sell the US population that the country that had been propagandized as their friends through the war should now be wiped out. The USSR getting the nuclear bomb put paid to that option and it took years of a Red Scare etc. to get the US population to hate “the commies”.
The European / US elites expanded to rule the world from the sixteenth century onwards, and industrialized using the spoils. from their colonies/vassals and the vast lands that they had stolen, and would countenance no challengers. Until now they have been successful in destroying those challengers – such as revolutionary France, Germany (twice) and the Soviet Union. It really is that simple, but now they are faced with Russia+China+Iran with the rest of the world either on the RCI side or not taking sides while the contest is not completely decided.

Posted by: Roger | Apr 24 2022 18:13 utc | 14

I strongly urge you to read the Haaretz article linked @Posted by: librul | Apr 24 2022 17:50 utc | 8
Because of the way the article self-censors you have to read between the lines to realize the “militias” discussed include Azov. Read it.
And not just this:

The oligarch’s opponents have accused him of using violence, intimidation and coercion, similar methods to those he has been accused previously of using in some of his business dealings, especially in the takeovers of companies. These included accusations of sending his own club-wielding security people to occupy factories and mines in Ukraine after company owners tried to block his maneuvers. During a legal dispute in 2006, over control of a mining company (which Kolomoisky and his partners won), a judge in London observed that he had “a reputation of having sought to take control of a company at gunpoint in Ukraine.”
The foundations of Kolomoisky’s business empire were laid in the wild days following the disintegration of the Former Soviet Union, when the soon-to-be oligarchs scrambled to snap up dilapidated state factories and entire industrial, mining and energy sectors at bargain-basement prices. His operations as governor are not just an act of patriotism to preserve Ukrainian independence, says a local economist, speaking anonymously. “It is also about preserving his and his partners’ business interests. If the separatists had taken the region, he would have lost most of his holdings.” In the wake of the revolution and the crisis between Russia and Ukraine, the country is receiving billions in aid from Western powers, with Privat Group expected to be at the center of any financial action.

There is gas/oil in the Donbas.
Kolomoisky funded Zelensky’s presidential race. He funds militias including Azov.
Privat Empire: What Does Oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky Own in Ukraine?
https://en.hromadske.ua/posts/privat-empire-what-does-oligarch-ihor-kolomoisky-own-in-ukraine
Read more than this:

Kolomoisky and Privat Group also suffered significant losses from the annexation of Crimea. Russia “nationalized” 87 entities and the hotel and construction business, as well as a network of gas stations and a petroleum depot suffered. According to the decision of the Hague court, Russia must pay $159 million in compensation to the companies of Privat Group. Although Kolomoisky estimates his losses in Crimea to be at two billion dollars.
However, Kolomoisky has managed to retain a considerable tourist asset – the ski resort Bukovel.

This thug oligarch is crucial to understanding the conflict in Ukraine.

Posted by: librul | Apr 24 2022 18:32 utc | 16

My name is Aleph, and I used to read CounterPunch.
I can admit it out loud, not without embarrassment: Before 2/22 I was one of those poor schmucks who thought it a credible venue of liberated thought. I’m just eternally gullible like that. Like my genetic fate: Every time I open a box of CrackerJacks, I have to check out the “surprise inside” — even though it’s been total garbage for decades…
Rambling to apologize for roaming back to an old standby, where the headline “Is Putin Hitler?” caught my eye. I read this piece of crap so that you don’t have to. To nobody’s surprise, Jeffrey’s bullshitters discover the affirmative they ardently seek:

Like Hitler, he [Putin] believes he is justified in wiping Ukraine from the map, to prove that Russians (in Hitler’s case it was the Germans) are a master race.

Sorry to reprint such foul dreck. Just so you know: the mere fumes around CounterPunch are obnoxious with artificial chemicals, smelling suspiciously like eau de state department.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Apr 24 2022 18:40 utc | 18

Great news! Strategic Culture (SCF) is back!
I think this qualifies as ‘Ukraine-related’ since if there was no war the site wouldn’t be under constant attack by you-know-who.

Posted by: pasha | Apr 24 2022 18:46 utc | 20

@ blues | Apr 24 2022 17:32 utc | 7
hey blues! i don’t disagree with your general view their…. small fish and big fish to fry and we are definitely next!! ps – eleet is elite… not that i am the grammar police – fair from it – cheers…
@ ibrul | Apr 24 2022 17:50 utc | 8
that theory has been suggested for some time.. there is probably some truth to it.. kolomoisky is seriously fucked up! does he have enough power to create ww3? i suppose he can try to profit off it all either way in his ongoing support for azov and the nazis… and yes – just because he is jewish, doesn’t mean fuck all when it comes to supporting nazis if their is some money to be made.. when your religion is money – there are a lot less restrictions then with the old time religions!
@ morongobill | Apr 24 2022 18:01 utc | 9..
pat carrying water for the ukee military intel agency.. i would take everything they say with a huge grain of salt!

Posted by: james | Apr 24 2022 19:03 utc | 22

The Warburgs were a German Jewish banking family
Posted by: Roger | Apr 24 2022 18:13 utc | 14
Well, that statement lays a circuitous route to FDR’s “brain trust”.

Posted by: sln2002 | Apr 24 2022 19:14 utc | 24

With all due respect to Colonel Lang, I think his site has lost all credibility. Something snapped in the man, and he has lost the ability to be dispassionate and rational.
The crazed Zelensky cannot be given any credibility and absent independent confirmation, any tales of great success like the dubious one about Kherson and two more dead generals should be considered fake.

Posted by: Chris | Apr 24 2022 19:20 utc | 26

librul | Apr 24 2022 18:32 utc | 16
There is no government in Ukraine, none at all, just a troupe of vapid media clowns, hustling and whoring for oligarch silver, the whole diseased assemblage simply radiating the fascist imprint of oligarchy and foreign intelligence services.
It is a frightening vision of a future that seems awaits the whole American-dominated sector.

Posted by: anon2020 | Apr 24 2022 19:29 utc | 28

#—Posted by: Cthulhu | Apr 24 2022 16:37 utc | 4
The great G.K.Chesterton coined this un-holy alliance Hudge and Gudge in his “What’s Wrong With the World” (1910).

Posted by: Anne B | Apr 24 2022 19:42 utc | 30

In the previous thread
Aleph_Null | Apr 24 2022 15:31 utc | 77
posted:
“The foremost question for me (and also Andrei(Marynov) at the moment is: What are the odds of this mess going nuclear, possibly sooner than later?… What can we expect from the “fucking stupidest” people on the face of the earth, as they panic in the throes of blatant failure? We can expect unpredictable consequences. Martynov scares the living crap out of me, at the moment.
– I am kind of surprised that the current most urgent threat – the use of nuclear weapons – (or other WM) has not generated any interest here.
– Martynov doesn’t”scare the crap out of me”, reality does. It has been clear (at least to me) that the use of tactical nuclear weapons was in fact seriously being considered by the US and European sarvants from the moment they started circulating that publicly as an expected alleged Russian move.
– I am absolutely certain, based on the history/ pattern of behaviour of the US, UK and European and Asian servants, that they are contemplating either a false flag or a nuclear “incident’ in Russia itself. Why?
– Because the ruling class in the West stops at nothing, as it has been terrorising the world, and its own citizens(think, for example, false pandemic and the imposed injections and tyranny), for a very long time with total impunity. What is it that should stop them now? Some of them may be stupid, but all of them are delusional.That’s the problem.
– Do not forget that the EU officially announced in the name of the West that “Russia must not win in Ukraine”.
– The world is facing a very real, perhaps imminent, danger of use of nuclear weapons (or other WMD, orboth) by those who have alredy used them, not by Russia.
– In my view, there is NOTHING more important than preventing that from happening.
I have no faith, or expectation any more that the European, US, UK or Western citizenry is capable of understanding their own states and the world as it is, or generating any kind of change for the better. Propaganda is not the only reason. Western societies are in that sense – dead. Have been for decades.
– If there are sensible, good people on this planet who are in a poistion to prevent what seems to be coming, I can only hope that they do. If not now, when?

Posted by: JB | Apr 24 2022 19:48 utc | 32

Roger@14
Thank you for your message. Was there anything in it that you supposed was novel? I see that you msade up for the other guy’s failure to mention the Sealed Train.
Do you not realise how insubstantial the evidence that you proffer for Warburg’s possible support of the Bolsheviks is?
And your excuse for the German invasion of Poland is drearily revisionist- the key here was not western support, which not only never arrived but was never likely to either, but Polish fascism’s hatred of the USSR and communism.
Your excuse for US investment in Germany after 1933, is equally lame. By 1942, when Prescott Bush was charged with Trading with the Enemy, the US economy was not short of profitable investments. In fact the Nazis were attractive to investors in part because they promised cheap/slave labour.
I’m with aquadraht- this nazi crap is tiring.

Posted by: bevin | Apr 24 2022 20:09 utc | 34

OUT OUT within 24hrs…Afghan Refugees Kicked Out For Ukrainians 1,772 views Apr 24, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yNa1N3Gz9k

Posted by: JC | Apr 24 2022 20:27 utc | 36

Likklemore, please excuse me! the post was meant for Aleph_Null | Apr 24 2022 18:40 utc | 18

Posted by: donten | Apr 24 2022 20:32 utc | 38

morongobill | Apr 24 2022 18:01 utc | 9
Perhaps because it is the targeting coordinates sent to them by the U.S. More than likely.

Posted by: donten | Apr 24 2022 20:42 utc | 40

Posted by: HerrHesser | Apr 24 2022 20:37 utc | 39
sorry to hear that, another one bites the dust (as far as I know John Deacon hasn’t gone over to the dark side)

Posted by: pretzelattack | Apr 24 2022 21:02 utc | 42

@26 chris
Agree. To see someone flounder and get it so wrong in their twilight years (year?), is the saddest part.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Apr 24 2022 21:04 utc | 44

i guess Pat Lang was controlled opposition, too.
I don’t think that is necessarily the case (being controlled opposition.)
I remember him being able to write about Syria in a critical and unbiased manner. I can only guess that some inner conflict is preventing him from assessing the current situation with reason.
Perhaps it is too much to acknowledge the evils that our own government has committed in Ukraine. Easier to retreat to the comfort of your own fantasies on how the west are the good guys and anything Russian is bad.

Posted by: Chris | Apr 24 2022 21:16 utc | 46

Must-watch interview of Sergey Lavrov by Indian journalist Geeta Mohan.
Posted by: farm ecologist | Apr 24 2022 16:10 utc | 3
Transcript at the Saker.
You can tell Mohan’s not an American “telejournalist” since she lets Lavrov talk and doesn’t try to inject
her “personality” and opinions every second point or so.

Posted by: John Kennard | Apr 24 2022 21:34 utc | 48

Posted by: Chris | Apr 24 2022 21:16 utc | 46
I dunno, I’ve never seen a propaganda campaign like this. they’re pulling out all the stops. I see Lang as kind of a counterpart to Marcy Wheeler, who was also good on Syria, iirc, then went full rabid Russiagater. no matter how cynical I get, it’s never cynical enough.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Apr 24 2022 21:34 utc | 50

#34 bevin
The depression was the reason for the US industries to build up the US not the USSR – they were not investing but being paid for everything by the Soviets.
The US invested in Germany because they supported the Nazis.
Poland was rabidly anti Russian, not just anti communist. But the French and English support made them more resistant to the German diplomatic moves.
We are in general agreement.

Posted by: Roger | Apr 24 2022 21:53 utc | 52

Such are the threats that Anatoli Sharyí receives from Ukrainian fascists in Spain, threatening him and his family, wife and baby, for being a Ukrainian anti-fascist.
A new Gladio or ISIS 2.0 is being primed in our own countries with the full complicity of our governments.
https://twitter.com/ciudadfutura/status/1518231473555390465?cxt=HHwWgoCywebe65EqAAAA

Posted by: Ghost of Mozgovoy | Apr 24 2022 22:00 utc | 54

One thing that we must all be careful about when discussing the history of any war or any diplomatic or social or commercial action, is to avoid assuming there is ever a single, unifying objective. There are groups with opposing objectives in all societies, so saying the US or UK did this or that actually has limited meaning. Moreover people change with circumstances and what say Roosevelt or Churchill planned in January may have changed by June. Opponents may become allies and former allies enemies. That is the nature of real politics and over simplification is dangerous.
This is particularly true of the troubled history leading to WWII. Yes there is little doubt that there was a strong push within the UK and her colonies, to switch the war to fight Russia not Germany. My father certainly believed this fully and until 1941 when the Japanese entered the war, would have no part of it.
There was of course a very strong pro German faction within the British elite society- obviously with the former King as its figure head. However recall that there was a new King. His brother who wanted to fight Germany. Family squabble of a kind. Read the amusing books by the Mitford sisters – a largely NAZI sympathizing aristocratic family, but one that also generated Jessica a devout communist. The story of two rather odd teenage girls, sharing a bedroom with a dividing line- one papered with NAZI symbols, the other papered with the hammer and sickle, can almost be a symbol of the divide within the British ruling class.

Posted by: watcher | Apr 24 2022 22:09 utc | 56

Joe@27…that arsenal on the vid was taken in the LDNR, Russia has no ground forces in Odessa…that’s not saying they don’t blow stuff up in Odessa, just Orcs don’t post pics of it.
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Apr 24 2022 22:14 utc | 58

@ blues | Apr 24 2022 17:32 utc | 7
Blues’ post is one of the most thought-provoking pieces that I have read since a long time. His thesis is that the Ukrainian war was forced upon Russia by the West to acquire full control over the minds of its own citizens. In the midst of the “Hate Russia, hate Putin” mass hysteria, people will be easy to control as they will blame all their woes on Russia. READ Blues’ post, it is a MUST READ

Posted by: visitor | Apr 24 2022 22:26 utc | 60

In response to njet@47,
I think that when one observes human behavior and interaction, there is a variable limit to what actions or behaviors can plausibly be explained by stupidity or incompetence, since in many respects these motives are indistinguishable from intentional malice, especially for an outside observer.
For instance, I’ve seen my fair share of POW interviews from this conflict, even back in 2015, and Ukrainian POW always say the same thing when confronted by relatives of killed civilians or wanton destruction — I didn’t know, I thought we were doing this and that, I only sharpened pencils for the army and never did any shooting and, actually, I’ve always been on your side. In 2015 Ukrainian POW did surprise-emoji face and said “I thought we were killing terrorists (they were all on an anti-terrorist operation) but you guys aren’t terrorists?! What’s up with that?” and, at first glance, you might think you’re dealing with easily manipulated idiots. Idiots to such a degree that they were hoodwinked for months into killing their own countrymen, sometimes unarmed, apolitical, women and children. So stupid that they occasionally were taken prisoner a second and third time, after being released in prisoner swaps. At some point one has to accept the fact that this is malice, misanthropy — maybe these people are stupid too, but they at the very least know what they are doing. The act when they get caught is insincere.
The same is true for global affairs, with the caveat that few global actors, if any, get caught and interrogated. The public sees supposedly qualified officials committing obvious mistakes, one after the other, with little or no consequences to their position or prestige, but with massive repercussions for the nation they represent or the world at large. It’s difficult to accept that these people are supremely incompetent and simultaneously in charge of anything, too stupid to make an informed decision for themselves and yet deciding for millions of people — it strains credulity. It’s more palatable to envision a malicious secret plan and a puppet-master behind the scenes, and structure one’s world view around that, because at least that makes rational sense. Except, there’s no guarantee that the malicious plan and puppet master, if these exist, aren’t stupid and detached from reality to the same degree.

Posted by: Skiffer | Apr 24 2022 22:31 utc | 62

@ blues 7
. .All of this was done primarily to construct a war theater in which the Russians could be accused of perpetrating atrocities and war crimes in order to poison the minds of the U.S and E.U. citizens . .
Randolph Bourne, 1918
War is the health of the State.
It automatically sets in motion throughout society those irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate co-operation with the Government in coercing into obedience the minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense. The machinery of government sets and enforces the drastic penalties, the minorities are either intimidated into silence or brought slowly around by a subtle process of persuasion which may seem to them to really converting them. . .here

Posted by: Don Bacon | Apr 24 2022 22:47 utc | 64

librul@16 Re: Igor Kolomoisky “This thug oligarch is crucial to understanding the conflict in Ukraine.”
Kolomoisky is also crucial to ending the conflict in Ukraine. If Russia takes his base in Dnipro (formerly Dnipropetrovsk), Kolomoisky is finished. The problem with taking Dnipro is that Kolomoisky has almost single-handedly financed The Revival of the Dnipropetrovsk and Dnipro Jewish Community in Ukraine.

The phenomenon of so-called Zhydo-Banderivtsi (Jewish Banderites) was Kolomoyskyy’s mocking and humorous response to Russia’s information warfare of a ‘Nazi-backed putsch’ in Ukraine and fascists running the country. In fact, Kolomoskyy’s team in 2014–2015 included two Jews (himself and Korban) and a Russian (Filatov). Zhydo Banderivtsi, a slogan which became common on t-shirts, reflected the active assistance of Russian-speaking Jews in Dnipropetrovsk oblast in defending Ukrainian statehood. Further, the slogan undermined Russian propaganda and disinformation about anti-Semitism in Ukraine. Russia’s information warfare claimed that Jewish volunteers were ‘particularly brutal and bloodthirsty, they do not take prisoners and shoot everything that moves…

We’ll know when Russian forces are approaching Dnipro when the din of “It’s another shoah!” begins. I honestly can’t fathom how Ukrainian Jews in Dnipro can be so blind to the dangers of supporting Kolomoyskyy’s fascist, ultra-nationalist Nazi militias and the Ukraine SBU Gestapo. Don’t they realize they’re next?

Posted by: PavewayIV | Apr 24 2022 22:48 utc | 66

Some words by the great Stefan Zweig for those always relying in human goodness..or luck…
“Let’s not waste time, because time is not going in our favor, but against it. In an age where nonsense reigns, let us not rely on solid intellect and abandon the vain humanist belief that in a world plagued by weapons and mutual distrust something can be achieved with words.”
It should be a sign of bad augure that it is precisely Macron´s France on the verge of an election which have decided to finish its diplomatic corps…
https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20220419-suppression-of-diplomatic-corps-could-leave-france-without-professional-diplomats
What do you need a diplomat for when you have comediants and “journalists”?
Article by former Spanish Ambassador to Georgia and the Caucasus States..
“We have thrown Russia into the arms of China, something that Kissinger considered “lethal”. And the worst, the discredit of the West, now a Euro-American confederation.”
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FRD4vqpWUAAfv6P?format=jpg&name=medium

Posted by: Ghost of Mozgovoy | Apr 24 2022 22:51 utc | 68

Some words by the great Stefan Zweig for those always relying in human goodness..or luck…
“Let’s not waste time, because time is not going in our favor, but against it. In an age where nonsense reigns, let us not rely on solid intellect and abandon the vain humanist belief that in a world plagued by weapons and mutual distrust something can be achieved with words.”
[snip]
Posted by: Ghost of Mozgovoy | Apr 24 2022 22:51 utc | 67

You can’t say Zweig wasn’t consistent. He committed suicide in 1942 in Brazilian exile.
His Die Welt von Gestern is addictive reading.

Posted by: malenkov | Apr 24 2022 23:07 utc | 70

On the duty of those who have the gift of the word…
“Never has human dignity been so humiliated as it is today, never have peoples been so enslaved and mistreated, never has the image of God, in all its forms, been sullied and tortured with such vileness. But, on the other hand, never, my friends, never before has humanity recognized so clearly how essential freedom is to the soul of human beings, never have so many people hated tyranny and pressure so unanimously, never have so many people yearned for a redemptive message as now , now that he has a gag in his mouth.
Never in our lives have we been faced with something more urgent and crucial. Today it is up to us, to us who have been given the floor, to maintain undisturbed belief in moral power, confidence in the invincibility of the spirit, despite everything and everyone, in the midst of a dazed and half-devastated world. . So, let’s stay together, let’s fulfill this duty in our work, and in our lives, each one with his language, each one for his country.”
“In this dark hour” ,Stefan Zweig, 1941

Posted by: Ghost of Mozgovoy | Apr 24 2022 23:15 utc | 72

Strategic Culture is back. There is a long piece by Declan Hayes which concludes
“…Just as the Red Army chased the Wehrmacht from Moscow to the Reichstag, so also must NATO’s Nazi legions be pushed backwards from Mariupol to their Canadian spawning grounds. The peoples of Europe, from Portugal in its West to Georgia in its East, and from Norway in its North to Greece in its South do not need NATO’s endless wars of aggression and nor do they need the media, arms and Big Pharma companies that feed off their endless slaughter of innocents. The 1914-45 European Civil War is over. It is time for the armies of Canada and the USA to get out, go home and play out their endless, interminable wars on their home turf. Europe has had a gut full of them.”
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/04/24/nato-ukrainian-order-of-battle/
And then there is Finian Cunningham on the Public Health Labs that the Pentagon so kindly provided for Ukrainians. They were preparing to share the fruits of their expensive research with the Russian people too, before Putin so unsportingly intervened.
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/04/24/pentagon-biological-warfare-built-war-crimes-of-fascist-japan-nazi-germany/

Posted by: bevin | Apr 24 2022 23:15 utc | 74

Posted by: JB | Apr 24 2022 19:48 utc | 32
Thank you for your concern over looming nuclear apocalypse — a more imminent threat to me now than at any time in my several decades on this freaking planet. I think if NATO stages a nuclear false flag in Ukraine, Russia might decide the time has come to massively retaliate, directly against Western capitals.
Martynov’s latest rap focuses on the same subject: what are the odds of things going nuclear? The West can only conduct narrative, not modern warfare — so what ensues when their fragile narrative inevitably implodes? Some analysts (not just Martyanov) think the nuclear false flag could be fairly likely, fairly soon, depending on the whims of people like Victoria Nuland — the lunatics running Western policy.
Martyanov presents archetypal DoD lunatic Douglas Feith — the one who cooked up the “weapons of mass destruction” lie about Iraq — as a template of the personality-type charged with making decisions such as this one: whether to go ahead with a nuclear false-flag. It was US General Tommy Franks who offered the opinion that Feith is “the fucking stupidest person on the face of the earth”.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Apr 24 2022 23:28 utc | 76

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Apr 24 2022 23:10 utc | 70
Funny. For some reason I always attributed the cynical quote to MIKE Tomlin (of the Pittsburgh Steelers). 😀 The dude gives some funny post-game pressers.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 24 2022 23:29 utc | 78

Aleph_Null | Apr 24 2022 23:28 utc | 74
Something is being cooked up for sure. From the media..

Ukraine news – live: Top US diplomats arrive in Kyiv to meet Zelensky, official says
It is the highest level visit to Ukraine by an American delegation since the start of Russia’s invasion in February. The adviser, Oleksiy Arestovych, said in an interview on Ukrainian TV late Sunday that the talks are going on “right now.”
Mr Zelensky’s meeting with US secretary of state Antony Blinken and US defence secretary Lloyd Austin came as Ukraine pressed the west for more powerful weapons in its fight against the Russian invasion, which began 60 days ago.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 24 2022 23:36 utc | 80

The Portugese Communists refused to attend Zelensky’s speech to parliament.
“PCP will not participate in…giving a platform to the escalation of the war…Zelensky personifies a xenophobic & belligerent power, surrounded and sustained by forces of a fascist & neo-nazi nature.”
https://twitter.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1517923225010724864

Posted by: Sundial | Apr 24 2022 23:48 utc | 82

And more recent:
The Great Narrative
This Davos nut-job just won’t give up.

Posted by: Mongo | Apr 24 2022 23:54 utc | 84

@Posted by: malenkov | Apr 24 2022 23:07 utc | 69
A curious thing is that the same European elites who now push nationalism in Ukraine to its most anti-human stances, have made use of Stefan Zweig arguments against nationalism when it is to erase any remaining sovereignty left in the European countries which now form the EU, an association whose leaders have had nazi links from its very foundations to this very day, with several grandchildren of nazi officials occupying currenlty decisive positions at EU mayor powers and institutions.
This is how, paradoxically to what the same Western powers pursued in the post-Soviet space, a promotion of the College of Europe, the univesity of the future cadres of the EU and other Western decision centers, carried the name of Stefan Zweig in 1993-1994 course, just after the USSR was disolved on basis of promotion nationalism…

Posted by: Ghost of Mozgovoy | Apr 24 2022 23:59 utc | 86

April 22, 2022 Recap – The Reality In Ukraine a Sitrep of the progress
* The Hostages in the Azovstal complex –
* Gonzalo Lira and the Oppression of Journalists – those detained in Odessa, Gypsies, Ze’s support for Bandera and his war crimes.
Clip of Lavrov’s Interview in India.”Ze says many things; depends on what he drinks or smokes”.
Important Watch: Some images are graphic.
LINK 21st Centurywire

Posted by: Likklemore | Apr 25 2022 0:01 utc | 88

=> james | Apr 24 2022 19:03 utc | 22
Most people spell the term for the dirty top dogs as “elite”, which bears a ring of niceness. I spell it as “eleet”, which just happens to not look so nice. I can be perverse that way.

Posted by: blues | Apr 25 2022 0:17 utc | 90

>>What do you need a diplomat for when you have comediants and “journalists”?
Article by former Spanish Ambassador to Georgia and the Caucasus States..
“We have thrown Russia into the arms of China, something that Kissinger considered “lethal”. And the worst, the discredit of the West, now a Euro-American confederation.”
Posted by: Ghost of Mozgovoy | Apr 24 2022 22:51 utc | 67<< Precisely correct. The West needed statement but what they got was Twitter pearl clutching and clickbait sound bites. In the case of the big fish of the West, Joe Biden, he isn't able to do anything. It's the underlings running that show completely. It's even worse when intrafaction pissing contests are occurring with a weak feeble leader. As I have said before, the world cannot live with Russian natural resources. That ship sailed long ago. In its place is now globalism. The biggest country in the world, by far, is Russia but the amount of people using the resources is proportionally small. The world cannot live without it. You can say "No Russian _____" all you want but all it means is a shuffling of how the world gets their resources of which Russia will remain a big part. Only now China will be an even bigger slice of the Russian shuffle. Stupid beyond words....

Posted by: Corsair66 | Apr 25 2022 0:42 utc | 92

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Apr 24 2022 23:28 utc | 74
Voltaire Network has a piece linking all the major neocons at PNAC and their nazi connections.

In 1992, William Kristol and Robert Kagan (the husband of Victoria Nuland, widely quoted in the previous articles) published an article in Foreign Affairs deploring President Clinton’s timid foreign policy and calling for a renewal of “benevolent global hegemony” [5]. The following year they founded the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) at the American Enterprise Institute. Gary Schmitt, Abram Shulsky and Paul Wolfowitz were members. All of Leo Strauss’s non-Jewish admirers, including the Protestant Francis Fukuyama (the author of The End of History), immediately joined them.
In 1994, now an arms dealer, Richard Perle (a.k.a. “the Prince of Darkness”) became an advisor to the President and ex-Nazi Alija Izetbegović in Bosnia-Herzegovina. It was he who brought Osama Bin Laden and his Arab Legion (the forerunner of Al Qaeda) from Afghanistan to defend the country. Perle was even a member of the Bosnian delegation at the signing of the Dayton Accords in Paris.
In 1996, members of the PNAC (including Richard Perle, Douglas Feith and David Wurmser) wrote a study at the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies (IASPS) for the new Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. This report [6] advocates the elimination of Yasser Arafat…

Posted by: Dadda | Apr 25 2022 1:14 utc | 94

@77
“The adviser, Oleksiy Arestovych, said in an interview on Ukrainian TV late Sunday that the talks are going on ‘right now.’”
Arestovych is one of the most cunning and evil men alive. He’s the grey éminence behind the Ukrainian shit show, and I hope the Russians are keeping a close eye on him, if necessary through a telescopic lens.

Posted by: line islands | Apr 25 2022 1:16 utc | 96

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/04/24/sunday-talks-ukrainian-prime-minister-denys-shmyhal-interview-with-cbs-margaret-brennan-american-taxpayers-need-to-fund-our-pensions-and-salaries/
Title says it all: this one takes a strong stomach to watch (I just read the summary in the link); as the ukie prime minister states, cash important as the american taxpayers have a duty to pay pensions and salaries into the bank accounts of the corrupt govt. As mentioned in the linked article:
Let that point settle in deeply, as we consider how working Americans are being financially destroyed by U.S. monetary/fiscal policy, yet the same U.S. officials wiping out your bank account are funding the bank accounts of people in Ukraine.
In other news, zelenski is demanding $7 bil/monthly to, in essence, keep his mouth shut; guess where that $7 bil would come from.

Posted by: Thomas | Apr 25 2022 1:46 utc | 98

Don Bacon | Apr 24 2022 23:59 utc | 84
Wait and see what develops in the next week or two.
“Two zeroes — “diplomats” — how much harm can they do?”
It is zero’s like these that use strategies like converting Sunni Muslims into Islamic extremists, convert entire countries to nazism and then, false flags to try to discredit the targeted government. How many millions have died because of these type zero’s over the last three decades? Both the victims of the zombies, and the zombies themselves who are victims of brainwashing overseen by these zero’s.
I don’t think they’ve gone to see supposedly zelensky just to sort a few lines of coke with him.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 25 2022 1:57 utc | 100