@Posted by: Ed | Apr 22 2023 23:20 utc | 87

Most objective observers in the DP know that Biden is a looser in 2024 (unless Trump runs). Kamala Harris is not a contender either. God help us, but the Hillary may well think she has a chance. I doubt it, but she has proven to be one of the most vicious pigs in the Democratic Party pigsty.

The US capitalist elite are more than ready to throw a selected few of their own (or their gofers) under the bus to protect the whole. I can see deals being done with either Kennedy Jr. or Trump to dump the neocons, Fauci (“he lied to us” they will scream) and the Biden family (Joe will suddenly be old and senile and its disgusting to attack an old senile guy, the Reagan gambit after Contragate threatened him). Hunter has lots of nefarious goings on with the Chinese that can be propagandistically exploited and Ukraine will be made to disappear – just like Afghanistan, The hard headed ones will tell the sacrificed to play along and they will be ok in the end, or else bad things will happen to them and their families. Just like Martha Stewart took that insider trading fall to avert attention from the really big dot com era crimes, served some months in a “prison” and is now back in the mainstream and a billionaire to boot.
Tulsi Gabbard would make a great VP to help the elite maneuver and fool the people once again that real change is coming.
Some quiet deal will be done with the Russians, and the US elite will target their shared enemy- the Chinese Party-state.

Posted by: Roger | Apr 23 2023 0:36 utc | 103

Posted by: Ciaran | Apr 22 2023 22:03 utc | 72
In addition to bevin’s response, I offer the following reading material.
https://thesaker.is/nations-built-on-lies-how-the-us-became-rich/
Another thing that constantly gets neglected is precisely *whom* “America” was ever great *for* and at what point in its history. Until the 1960s most Black folk would probably say not much was great, unless of course you’re one of those people who thinks that they should be thankful for slavery because…Africa. But then you’d be ignoring the reasons that Africa is what it is. Namely, the continued externalization of the negative effects of Western greed, avarice and disdain for the natural environment.
But leaving that aside, Native Americans, Japanese, Mexicans and poor working class Whites, especially those who made the often fatal mistake of trying to unionize, would all probably also agree that the USA was never really that great at all.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 23 2023 0:40 utc | 105

@Posted by: bevin | Apr 23 2023 0:35 utc | 102
A little known fact is that at the end of WW1 the US confiscated 10,000s of German patents, allowing US industry to grow its own massive chemical industries such as Du Pont (which was predominantly a manufacturer of gunpowder until the 1920s), and many other advanced industries. After WW2 they just stole the scientists.

Posted by: Roger | Apr 23 2023 0:45 utc | 107

“Make America Great Again” was first coined by Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBfzwycHOcY

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 23 2023 0:59 utc | 109

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 23 2023 0:44 utc | 106

But leaving that aside, Native Americans, Japanese, Mexicans and poor working class Whites, especially those who made the often fatal mistake of trying to unionize, would all probably also agree that the USA was never really that great at all.

I have a mongrel USA pedigree which I won’t go into. I think people in the US get along pretty well. Internal subversion is an excellent tool to break apart a society. You left out a bunch of other race / ethnicities in the list of USA humans who perhaps have gotten the short end of the slender reed the USA offers the lumpen proles.
The “man” has always been not with “us” in the USA. I know you get that. At least there is a chance here to better oneself, provided one is willing to do a trailerload of work! It worked for my mongrel family, to a certain extent.
Thank you for the additional information!

Posted by: lex talionis | Apr 23 2023 1:18 utc | 111

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 23 2023 0:40 utc | 105
So what was Central and Southern Africa’s excuse before the evil white people came?

Posted by: Milites | Apr 23 2023 1:24 utc | 113

So what was Central and Southern Africa’s excuse before the evil white people came?
Posted by: Milites | Apr 23 2023 1:24 utc | 113″
The White man was already keeping them down remotely using psychic powers.

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | Apr 23 2023 1:49 utc | 115

Longhorn | Apr 22 2023 22:54 utc | 81
“Biden is far-left and far-left people would have voted for him.”

Posted by: Doug Hillman | Apr 23 2023 1:52 utc | 117

So much willful ignorance has shown up, LOL.
Posted by: Milites | Apr 23 2023 1:24 utc | 113
Oh, gee, I dunno. Let’s consult the texts or find the transcripts of the oral history given by actual Africans, shall we? In the absence of that, I’d simply ask you how what any other societies around the world were doing in 1442 AD, which is when the first Europeans made it to Sub-Saharan Africa.
Or the other way to answer it is that the history in the time since has rendered what happened before almost completely irrelevant.
Posted by: Milites | Apr 23 2023 1:43 utc | 114
LOL have you checked in with Vietnam lately? China?
But let’s focus on the “failing” ones…
How about Cuba, which has existed with a Red White and Blue (TM) boot on their commie necks since the 1950s?
Or what about socialist Venezuela which has dealt with roughly the same for 20+ years now?
Gee, it’s almost as if the United States isn’t capable of leaving them commies alone to either succeed or fail on their own, isn’t it?
Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | Apr 23 2023 1:49 utc | 115
As noted, Euro-trash got to Africa a helluva long time ago. What has transpired in the roughly 600 years since then is what counts, not whatever the various tribes were doing before “we” arrived and started writing our own version of their history for them.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 23 2023 1:58 utc | 119

” As noted, Euro-trash got to Africa a helluva long time ago. What has transpired in the roughly 600 years since then is what counts, not whatever the various tribes were doing before “we” arrived and started writing our own version of their history for them.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 23 2023 1:58 utc | 119 ”
At what stage of civilizational development would Sub-Saharan Africans be at right now if they never had any contact with Europeans ? Do tell.

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | Apr 23 2023 2:04 utc | 121

” So you’re asking me to provide “psychic” services free of charge?
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 23 2023 2:05 utc | 122 ”
No, I’m asking you to use your logical reasoning skills. Or is that too much to ask ?

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | Apr 23 2023 2:10 utc | 123

it looks to me like they’re trying to tell biden he’s not running in 2024 and if he wants to keep his family out of jail he should take the hint

Posted by: ontoiran | Apr 23 2023 2:21 utc | 125

At this point in history, being accused of Anti-Khazarian views is a badge of honor. Why are you so concerned about it ?
Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | Apr 23 2023 1:15 utc | 110
you seem to have made habit of turning you cheap self inside out and indulging in anti Jewish drivel, being an East European, make you legitimately vile to commit defecation to the screen with such excrement, it is always racist diatribes about Iranian, Indians , Africans etc.
Suggesting that Germans should forget about HOLOHOX. It wasn’t first time that Germans were committing mass murder on industrial scale, in 1904 German state committed Genocide in Namibia and proudly document it.
The word KHAZAR is a misnomer, and has nothing to do with Jews, Judaism and Zionism,
Khazar is a Persian word that means Caspian, this is the word , type it in Google Translator and see what you get, this word came to use by the Arabs , and after the capture of the Library at Cordoba Spain, it spread to Europe. Khazar refers to Caspian, and any one that lived around that see was referred to as Khazar by Invading Arab armies. Khazar is interchangeable with Khwarazm, where Algorithm comes from.
Caspian خزر
More recent Name: دریای خزر
Caspian Sea بحر خزر(Old Name)

Posted by: Grishka | Apr 23 2023 2:29 utc | 127

“At what stage of civilizational development would Sub-Saharan Africans be at right now if they never had any contact with Europeans ? Do tell.”
A very silly question-Africans, living above, below and throughout the Sahara have been in contact with europeans for millennia.
What you, as an ignorant racist, are suggesting is that somehow Africans were lucky when Euopean slave traders discovered that, for a wide variety of reasons, not only was the continent a fertile source of slaves for sale but that (see contacts over millennia above) unlike the population of America they were immune to diseases carried by europeans-diseases which had led, together with appalling behaviour by colonists, to the shrinking of the population to the point that labour for plantations and mines was in short supply. They were also immune to diseases like yellow fever which were endemic in C18th America.
It is hard to see any benefits to Africa from the post Colombian contact with Europeans, although generally all sides benefit from cultural exchanges, but it is easy to see what both Europe and America gained from massive (we can leave it to the Reparations commissions to quantify) infusions of African labour.
The sugar and cotton industries were entirely reliant on African slaves. The rice industry in the US was notoriously established by Africans imported for their expertise. Neither Glasgow, Liverpool, Bristol or Manchester would have grown as they did without cotton and sugar. The shipbuilding industries of the UK, the Netherlands and the northeastern states all depended upon plantation produced commodities, including also tobacco and indigo for the triangular trade and the transatlantic connections, both of which were grounded in the slave trade, which also gave a boost to the trade in Bengal cottons and calicos from Coromandel. As to the European arms trade, guns were the essential currency in the slave trade- as well as the magical means of lowering the costs of wquisition.
Perhaps we should be wondering what would have happened to the USA if it had not been built up economically and culturally by sub Saharan Africans.

Posted by: bevin | Apr 23 2023 2:45 utc | 129

Heck, even RFK, Junior, is in favor of the war mongers, the very people that killed his father and his uncle.
Posted by: kupkee | Apr 22 2023 17:07 utc | 8
I have no idea where you got that absurd notion from, kupkee, but from everything I’ve read to date about RFKjr, it sounds like utter bullshit.
Care to substantiate that claim with a link??

Posted by: JMF | Apr 23 2023 2:55 utc | 131

” The word KHAZAR is a misnomer, and has nothing to do with Jews, Judaism and Zionism,
Khazar is a Persian word that means Caspian, this is the word , type it in Google Translator and see what you get, this word came to use by the Arabs , and after the capture of the Library at Cordoba Spain, it spread to Europe. Khazar refers to Caspian, and any one that lived around that see was referred to as Khazar by Invading Arab armies. Khazar is interchangeable with Khwarazm, where Algorithm comes from.
Posted by: Grishka | Apr 23 2023 2:29 utc | 127 ”
First: I’ve never said anything about Iranians, you’re just projecting. In fact, non – Arabized Iranians are kin.
” I am Darius the great king, king of kings, king of countries containing all kinds of men, king in this great earth far and wide, son of Hystaspes, an Achæmenid, a Persian, son of a Persian, an Aryan, having Aryan lineage. ”
Second: ” It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. ”
– Khazaria: A Forgotten Jewish Empire –
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/khazaria-forgotten-jewish-empire

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | Apr 23 2023 3:05 utc | 133

It’s very hard to define a Communist, because when a nation that practices Communism and calls itself Communist fails, all the Communists claim it wasn’t really Communist after all.
Posted by: Milites | Apr 23 2023 1:43 utc | 114
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Do us all a favor and don’t define them at all. Concentrate on those capitalist fuckers the Dem’s and Repugs who are waging a war against the people of Russia. That should be enough to keep you busy.

Posted by: Ed | Apr 23 2023 3:15 utc | 135

Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 23 2023 0:59 utc | 109
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Reagan certainly fulfilled his “Mourning in America” slogan.

Posted by: Doug Hillman | Apr 23 2023 3:29 utc | 137

JMF | Apr 23 2023 2:55 utc | 131
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Some days ago, karlof1 posted rather disappointing excerpts from JFK, Jr’s campaign policy statements.
Here’s part of JFK, Jr.’s policy statement on Ukraine. Disappointing. (Emphasis added)
https://www.kennedy24.com/peace
“In Ukraine, the most important priority is to end the suffering of the Ukrainian people, victims of a brutal Russian invasion, and also victims of American geopolitical machinations going back at least to 2014. We must first get clear: Is our mission to help the brave Ukrainians defend their sovereignty? Or is it to use Ukraine as a pawn to weaken Russia? Robert F. Kennedy will choose the first. He will find a diplomatic solution that brings peace to Ukraine and brings our resources back where they belong. We will offer to withdraw our troops and nuclear-capable missiles from Russia’s borders. Russia will withdraw its troops from Ukraine and guarantee its freedom and independence. UN peacekeepers will guarantee peace to the Russian-speaking eastern regions. We will put an end to this war. We will put an end to the suffering of the Ukranian people. That will be the start of a broader program of demilitarization of all countries.”
WRT Ukraine, JFK, Jr. to inhabit an alternate reality, a bit reminiscent of Sanders and the hopey-changey snake-oil peddler. Disappointing.

Posted by: Doug Hillman | Apr 23 2023 3:52 utc | 139

Matt calls this the ‘Sovietization’ of Amerika a metaphor that I’m not particularly comfortable with as Soviet bureaucrats used to claim with some justification that their efforts to control information was in the people’s interest. Anyway arguing over history rarely does anything more than cement the debaters to their particular position but Morell’s corruption is too recent to be considered history given that Biden is hoping to run again.

There is no justification for any government to conceal information from the public that is of public interest, whether or not it is ‘for the good of the people’. Other than that, the commenter is spot on.

Posted by: Monos | Apr 23 2023 4:26 utc | 141

The USA will not disband, in fact it will probably expand. Think about it. Canada and Austrailia each have less than 100 battle tanks and 200 pieces of artillery. They cannot defend themselves their defense capabilities are absurd.
Chinese actions will be the catalyst for a new American Union between USA and Canada, as Nato was for Russia and Belarus.
Security will be the driver. The Chinese police stations in the USA and Chinese Security forces now in Canada under an agreement Truedo signed in late 2020 allowing Chinese to use their own security personnel to protect THEIR Canadian investments, will be reason.
The New American Union makes sense at many levels. It provides an excuse to limit Chinese imports and develop USA manufacturing of higher cost replacements. But perhaps more importantly, the combined USA and Canadian energy, materials, and agricultural base will permit them to retain the dollar’s supremacy. It wouldn’t be the petrodollar, it will be the Resources-dollar instead. Just what Putin and companions want. The big benefit is that US and Canada have this large resource base under their direct control. Now they can play the markets like a new Western version of OPEC, (of course, with the help of a few greedy accomplices along the way).
Security will an excuse to stop and clean up the migrant mess. Labor strikes and shortages will be used as reason for nonhuman labor exploitation in all sectors. Debs certainly will most certainly be conceptually dead after that proceeds.
Green technology will fade like the wind. Anthroprogenic global warming was primarily a market strategy that now will not be needed. It will be readily shown that the sun, the earth’s geophysics, and the longterm cyclic effective of the four largest planets on the variation of the solar systems center of gravity explains all historical and current temperature variations. Also, projected orbital analysis of the effect of the four largest planets has should that warming trends will not only stop but demonstrably reverse by 2025. Then continue to deepen (get colder) until 2040-2050. So what’s the point about grenhouse gas and carbon reductions.
Total employment (voluntary or involuntary) will be the norm, no free riders. Better than taxation and socialist programs to solve the debt issue.
The big unknown will be how transhumanism will evolve. The Transgender psychosis and DEI paranoia will go the way of Green tech. They are a distraction from the real issues that will shape transhumanism.
Austrailia? New Ziwiland? Their best bet is to form an new Commonwealth with India. They are dysfunctional modern states that can’t defend themselves. They and India have a resource and market match, and a colonial culture match that would facilitate such a Union. Some may argue that they already part of the brittish commonwealth but being part of the old one versus being the New Asian Commonwealth is a quite different matter.
My point here is to present an alternative perspective that shows there are many ways the hand we see before us can be played. I don’t think anyone is going to fold their hand and leave the table in the near future.

Posted by: Jerr | Apr 23 2023 4:44 utc | 143

When did Americans get politically lazy ?
The system was corrupted long ago
Once TV replaced radio critical thinking declined as TV is more passive
Breaking concentrations of corporate power and wealth and political incumbency is vital

Posted by: Paul Greenwood | Apr 23 2023 5:01 utc | 145

He apparently found photos of Biden having sex with underage girls, some of them very underage, and that is one reason, maybe the main reason, he turned the laptop over to the police.
Posted by: Refinnejenna | Apr 22 2023 20:50 utc | 58
Not according to Isaac.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/hunter-biden-laptop-investigation.html

Posted by: Drinky Crow | Apr 23 2023 5:15 utc | 147

The snippets are from congressional record.
No. Those excerpts are copied straight from the House Judiciary Committee’s letter to Blinken. That letter is published here. There is no other Committee reference to M. Morrell’s “transcribed interview”, interrogatory, or deposition administered by members of either full committee or subcommittee meeting. That’s not to say, it didn’t occur; minority party members are flaunting a different excerpt to discredit Jordan. Immediately, I surmise that neither party submitted a transcript to the Congressional Record; Morrell’s testimony was very likely given in a closed hearing.
If the Judiciary Committee transcript (“transcribed interview”) were public record, Taibbi could have simply cut a link to it, but then no one would need to subcribe to his monetized social media “outlet”, now would they?
This is the Congresional Record. The Library of Congress is the only publisher of House and Senate floor proceedings since, like, 1781. (Avoid govinfo.gov; this is a commercial operator which duplicates in whole or in part feed from …the Library of Congress.) LOC transcripts post 24-48 hours after close of business. Here is a digital image of the printed issue of one day of debate, February 5, 1941, for example. It’s quite informative.
Congressional committee documents are a little more difficult to locate—but not more so than nailing Hansard pages to members of parliament. Here is the Clerk’s index of the 118th session of House Judiciary Committee meetings to date. There are only twenty (20) concluded and scheduled. Select one to see lists of documents submitted by committee members. I didn’t find this “transcribed interview.” Can you?
No need to wonder why I question the intelligence of yer boy Matt after Musk handed him exclusive access to Twitter Files® which he then farmed out. Easily answered: My low opinion of US American “free press” matches my low opinion of US American “democratic processes” infested with constituents who agitate for TRANSPARENCY and ACCOUNTABILITY that they’d rather not examine. I expect nothing more.

Posted by: sln2002 | Apr 23 2023 5:31 utc | 149

Posted by: lex talionis | Apr 23 2023 2:40 utc | 128
haha! Same to you. And I’m all about those 13 songs you wanted to post. Have at it.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 23 2023 5:36 utc | 151

Posted by: bevin | Apr 23 2023 2:45 utc | 129
That’s exactly why this kind of person, and Ron DeSantis, don’t want actual history to be taught. It’s simply too distressing for poor innocent white kids (in college).

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 23 2023 5:42 utc | 153

Posted by: ZimZum | Apr 23 2023 3:27 utc | 136
Yay! I am not alone! Спасибо! (do I get extra points for kinda reading Cyrillic here?… no sure…)
Everyone here may not agree, but we will agree not to agree at the bar.
MoA needs a song along the lines of Kurt Wiell
I will contact james and any other múusicos here to compose a song for b.
We need a propper song for evertime we log on. Think of the Doors, only better.
Cummon, lads.
We’re MoA!
Not ZH Trash.
so boring
I feel I got a rash.
Is it Pregozhin I’m feelin’
Or just hunter while he’s wheelin’?
Fuk humainty, it’s just insanity
filled with vanity and ludicrous inanity.
fuck humaity.
Heil MoA
everyone sucks.
They din’t get paid today.

Posted by: lex talionis | Apr 23 2023 6:03 utc | 155

Posted by: Refinnejenna | Apr 23 2023 6:24 utc | 155
pop pop culture.
Rhosedians Never Die
I will stop here before I get banned.

Posted by: lex talionis | Apr 23 2023 6:32 utc | 157

Posted by: Refinnejenna | Apr 23 2023 5:59 utc | 153
LMAO love it.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 23 2023 6:36 utc | 159

Ooo ! that reminds anyone here know of a cheap secound hand lap top for sale ? Never owned one in my life, so it would be good to practice on. Might improve my spelling even the trolls get offended by it. Ha ha.
I’ll take a look on eBay for a laptop, Washington may have one.
Thanks for wealding the scalpel b,
I’m all for free speech, but if facists step on to the platform then I will exercise my right to free speech in taking them down or using them for my anti facist agenda.
Biden and trump are both as bad as one another in their own way.
Devide and rule tactics while the elite laugh at us for another 4 year. Come on guys were smarter than that here arent we ?
Bob Marley- natural mystic-long dub version

Posted by: Mark2 | Apr 23 2023 6:39 utc | 161

For those who have not yet read it : https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/imo/media/doc/HSGAC_Finance_Report_FINAL.pdf

Posted by: DOTEY Germaine | Apr 23 2023 7:26 utc | 163

It’s strange. The Sakers’ blog closes. On the other hand, sites like sonar21 – written by a retired CIA – stay. To me, sonar21’s Larry Johnson is an American patriot, and I respect that.
But when reading his site, I get the feeling someone is trying to butter me up first, only to later sneak in an opinion he wants to plant in your mind. An example was equating Evan Gershkovich with Julian Assange. Makes me wonder whether Larry Johnson is really retired.

Posted by: Passerby | Apr 23 2023 7:40 utc | 165

Posted by: bevin | Apr 23 2023 2:45 utc | 129
You also have the Turkish Abductions (Iceland, 1627), the sack of Baltimore (Ireland, 1631), etc.

Posted by: Passerby | Apr 23 2023 7:47 utc | 167

A couple of videos of the “successful” SpaceX launch of “Starship”
Launch seen from a distance
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1649097087248891904
– It takes ~10 seconds from ignition to lift-off, quite a long time. During that time it digs a crater under the launch pad, it was later shown.
– After lift-off, the rocket starts immediately to lean *significantly* to one side, long before clearing the tower. As luck would have it it did lean away from the tower.
– From about 15 seconds, a massive rain of concrete debris can be observed splashing down into the ocean and fields nearby.
– At 35 seconds, a massive explosion. Probably one or more engines exploding.
– The rocket limps on for a couple of more minutes before tumbling and exploding
Van being instantly converted to a pick up truck by concrete debris
https://twitter.com/IJokes2020/status/1649050335376478210
This was no successful test, despite it being insisted over and over. It was also insisted after the rocket destruction that the “launch pad is intact” which is clearly the opposite of the truth, there is major damage due to no flame deflector. My guess is a complete rebuild of the launch facility will be required.

Closer to ground zero, the 33 engines of the rocket’s main booster left a literal crater in the concrete at Starship’s launch pad. Debris large enough to crush a car(opens in new tab) was sent flying in every direction, and while the tower was left standing, the launch complex is in need of some major clean up efforts.
https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-launch-debris-terrifying

The idea that “Starship” will be cheap and reusable is, shall we say, “optimistic”.

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 23 2023 8:19 utc | 169

[ChatGPT wrote this for me I kid you not]: Using the voice and intellect of Richard Posner, I would write something like this:
The US interest in incorporating Ukraine eventually into NATO is not primarily motivated by a concern for Ukraine’s security or democracy, but rather by a strategic calculation to weaken Russia’s influence and power in Europe and beyond. The US views Russia as a potential rival and threat to its global leadership and interests, especially in the areas of energy, trade, and military affairs. By expanding NATO to include Ukraine, the US hopes to achieve several objectives: first, to deny Russia access to the Black Sea and its warm-water ports; second, to isolate Russia from its historical and cultural ties with Eastern Europe; third, to encircle Russia with hostile or unfriendly states; and fourth, to undermine Russia’s credibility and legitimacy as a regional and global actor.
From an economic perspective, these objectives are rational and efficient for the US, as they would reduce the costs and risks of confronting Russia directly, while increasing the benefits and opportunities of cooperating with other European allies. However, from a legal perspective, these objectives are questionable and problematic, as they violate the principles of sovereignty, territorial integrity, and self-determination that underpin the international order. Moreover, from a pragmatic perspective, these objectives are dangerous and counterproductive, as they provoke Russia to respond with aggression and escalation, creating a spiral of conflict that could lead to a nuclear war.
Therefore, a more sensible and realistic approach for the US would be to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and neutrality, while engaging with Russia diplomatically and economically to find a peaceful solution to the crisis. Such an approach would recognize that Ukraine is not a vital interest for the US, but rather a buffer state between two major powers that have legitimate interests and concerns in the region. Such an approach would also acknowledge that Russia is not an irrational or evil adversary, but rather a rational and pragmatic actor that seeks to protect its security and influence in its near abroad. Such an approach would also avoid the moral hazard of encouraging Ukraine to rely on external support rather than internal reform to address its political and economic challenges.
In this context, a human might say that this is an example of how Richard Posner would write an analysis of the true reasons for the US’s interest in incorporating Ukraine eventually into NATO. However, this is not an endorsement or agreement with his views or arguments. This is merely an attempt to imitate his style and logic based on his writings and opinions on various topics1234567

Posted by: Ludovic | Apr 23 2023 8:23 utc | 171

It being a dampish spring Sunday where I currently am and having finished reading the comments here – I note there has been some attempt to scratch some old supremacist scabs ; to push some buttons and destroy the unanimity of the barflies in acknowledging the truths popping out like worms from a can… such as the obvious story of the laptop of a unfortunate son and likely victims of a degenerate Nazgûl father and many such families that lord it over us plebs.
So be seated for a brief sermon on –
AFRICA.
Why is the African continent the most important geopolitical issue of the rest of this century?
BECAUSE :
1. it has the most resources and diversity of flora and fauna of any continent;
2. by the middle of the next century it will have the largest human population of any continent ever;
3. It has the most diverse humans (and dna) , with thousands of languages;
4. Peak Humanity will be African ~ 4 billion – just as first humanity was African.
That is science. Long proved now by our western scientists, if anyone doubts it.
The future scientists will be African , they will ultimately be the agents of whether humanity continues to exist this or any other planet in 10 thousand years .
I dare say more has been forgotten of African history and civilisations than exists now in the rest of the world.
Now put that in your Sunday morning pipes and smoke it.
Go in peace folks and look at the loonnnnnng view not the navel gazing of a few hundred years and the creation of fake ‘peoples’ with newly minted Eurocentric fairytale ‘Distories’ and false gods.
Amen
🍺 on me for these who needs one after digesting my words 😊
I don’t know where I posted my post so am redoing it here where I intended, sorry.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Apr 23 2023 8:49 utc | 173

Who does the CIA work for?
Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 22 2023 22:08 utc | 73
That’s easy. It is a Mutual Benefit Society like the Mafia.
If you watch Whitney Webb who seems to be doing some incredibly diligent research – I think she is on https://unlimitedhangout.com
She points out that since OSS worked with Meyer Lansky over the Sicily Landings in 1943 there has been a fusion and commonality of interest between Organised Crime Groups (OCG) and CIA.
Thus it is fair to say NO one person is in control but mutual interests for a Cabal

Posted by: Paul Greenwood | Apr 23 2023 9:33 utc | 175

@bevin and others
Do not mix up the fact that Europe and, now especially, the U.S. do not live up to their purpoted standards, with the fact that most of the modern and contemporary world, from a cultural, philosophical, technical and scientifical point of view, was shaped by European peoples. Failing to see this will be the damnation of whoever try to overcome the actual situation, as it was the damnation of the Islamic civilization, that was ultimately unable to sustain progress and innovation after the conquest of much of the Eastern Roman Empire (and the complete Persian Empire) and a brief cultural expansion.
As for Africa, it was a disaster before Europeans got there, it was a disaster after that, and, since it is now a demographic bomb waiting to explode that none seems to be able to defuse, will be a disaster of untold proportion in the near future. The only salvation for Africa can come from the Chinese, but only if the Chinese can persuade them to employ some one-child policy. As a consequence, Africa is going to be a land of sorrow like nobody has ever seen in recent times.

Posted by: SG | Apr 23 2023 10:19 utc | 177

Posted by: Paul Greenwood | Apr 23 2023 9:33 utc | 174
You do realise that ALL intelligence services, including those of the police, have always had very close links with organised crime. As one senior officer said, ‘ after all, they’re the ones who really know what’s going on’. This closeness has often caused conflicts of interest that are exploited by the criminals, and, in dictatorships ruthlessly as control mechanisms. A feature which is increasingly become more common here, alas.

Posted by: Milites | Apr 23 2023 10:42 utc | 179

I see both SG and Milites above are choosing to double down – whilst ignoring my post earlier.
Lads or ladies or whatever you choose to be , I invite you to dance, my card is clear.
I’ve marked you two down for a turn! Anyone else?
To go with the round I already offered I’ll lay on the Al-Gebra, some Arabic Numerals and Ebony and Ivory instrument band playing some rhythms & blues – let’s rock and roll!
All you need is to make sure you put on your clever clogs – to stop your toes getting squashed – and let’s 🕺

Posted by: DunGroanin | Apr 23 2023 10:58 utc | 181

The question for me is the one the two Alex’s at the Duran discussed and that is, surely there must be a reckoning now for all this corruption within the Biden Administration and USA politics generally. This is very serious stuff getting 50 Intelligence officials to sign a letter they know to be absolutely a lie; it’s called fraudulent I think. Those 50 Officials should be charged something like Election Interference or some such. Blinken should be sacked from office as should Nuland and Joe Biden should be Charged with Election interference.
Vis-a-vis Hunter Biden, his business partner is currently being charged and processed through the Legal system on exactly the same issues that pertain to Hunter Biden. HB should have the legal book thrown at him and, if there are pictures of him having sex with underage children then he needs to be immediately arrested.
This is all a Ponzi scheme of Corruption, damned lies and serious deceit. Ponzi schemes, it is known, inevitably always collapse.

Posted by: Jo Dominich | Apr 23 2023 11:38 utc | 183

“The claim that the West has made China (and Russia) rich is absolute nonsense. The West must face the fact that something is seriously wrong with its model. The fact that French president Emmanuel Macron cannot say that the EU should not get involved in a conflict with China, does not bode well.”
That is the gist of my op-ed “Making China rich, the hobbyhorse of Belgian professor Jonathan Holslag”:
https://geopolitiekincontext.wordpress.com/2023/04/23/china-rijk-maken-het-stokpaardje-van-jonathan-holslag/
The op-ed is part of a series of two, the first being a review of the 6th edition of the Dutch translation his book World Politics Since 1989 (Polity Press, Cambridge): “Jonathan Holslag’s ‘From wall to wall’: lots of diagnosis, little therapy”. My key message is: “The sixth, expanded edition of ‘From wall to wall’ is interesting in terms of historiography. However, the reader who expects a series of recommendations in addition to the diagnosis to achieve a better integrated world, will be disappointed”, see
https://geopolitiekincontext.wordpress.com/2023/04/23/jonathan-holslags-van-muur-tot-muur-veel-diagnose-weinig-therapie/

Posted by: Paul-Robert | Apr 23 2023 11:54 utc | 185

@ jayc | Apr 23 2023 4:37 utc | 142
You see nuance in RFK Jr’s statement on the Ukraine. I see two RFK Jrs and one of them is lying.

Posted by: malenkov | Apr 23 2023 12:14 utc | 187

Posted by: Milites | Apr 23 2023 1:24 utc | 113
It’s as good as the Native Americans before the Europeans came (I’ve heard that some people confuse being born in America with being indigenous or native, and all I can say is “well racist”) and as good, or at least not as bad as being destroyed by man-made AIDS.

Posted by: Colin | Apr 23 2023 13:17 utc | 189

Posted by: Paul Greenwood | Apr 23 2023 9:33 utc | 174
The combination of organized crime and the state apparatus is the norm, not the exception.

Posted by: Colin | Apr 23 2023 13:20 utc | 191

Milites@177
You refer to “the Islamic refusal to admit that many of its advances…”
What do you mean by this?
Islam is a religion with hundreds of millions of members.
Who is the spokesman that you are in contact with?
Muslims are just as likely to understand the history of culture and scholarship, science and technology as any other religious group.
One generalisation that it is safe to make is that islamophobes deal not in real history but in faded and tired stereotypes. Amongst whom is the “Islamic Ambassador to Vienna.”
The 2015 book “How the West Came to Rule” by Kerem Nisancioglu and Alexander Anievas is an excellent introduction to these subjects.

Posted by: bevin | Apr 23 2023 13:30 utc | 193

I see no functional difference between the policies of both, and don’t think a re-election of Trump will change anything.
Trump Biden are the same policies in a same package with a different gift ribbon…
Posted by: w | Apr 23 2023 13:33 utc | 194
A different set of grifters, and that’s about it.

Posted by: Bemildred | Apr 23 2023 13:49 utc | 195

@ Posted by: Milites | Apr 23 2023 12:01 utc | 186
A zero was indeed added to the Arabic system from India.
As the words – thug, alarm, jungle and bungalow – amongst many others were added to the English language from there.
However both these parts of the world have ancient architecture, calendars and culture well before most northern and Western European had written language!
The Roman system of arithmetic is still a mystery to many with its letters!
I have re-read the comment as you suggest and perhaps i impugn you with greater racism than you wrote. It was beginning to get on my nerves with some posts recently.
I have said enough across two threads today an afternoon of peaceful lunching and conversation is on the menu. Along with b’s links in the week in review.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Apr 23 2023 14:20 utc | 197

@ 198 passerby…. there is that too.. maybe a few other options as well… but i go with the idea he is just wrong and leave it at that..

Posted by: james | Apr 23 2023 17:23 utc | 199