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Not strange, they are being paid to push an agenda. 4th estate is dead. They might as well call themselves real estate, cause you have to buy them and then they write what you want. So, obviously the "4th" estate is just doing the biding of the war machine that is paying them to get public opinion behind escalating the war. They have a lot of crimes to cover up related to COVID and nothing like a global hot war to cover their tracks.

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Yup..."just doing the biding of the war machine...":

one reporter: "this growing bipartisan call to shift a little bit"

another reporter: "Has the administration's thinking shifted at all?"

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Noice line!

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Mar 18, 2022·edited Mar 18, 2022

Fascinating. The second woman next to the masked one really put on a show. She didn’t sound like a journalist either. She sounded like a provocateur. And did anyone else notice all the blue and yellow in the room?!

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I think Vlad has got himself in the WEF bad books by calling BS on the WEF grand vision.

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I have wondered about that. Unlike the US, there are still a few nations out there that appear to prefer their own national sovereignty over the WEF's global governance model.

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Oh don't worry, the West has a plan for them... destabilization, intervention, regime change... ya know, the typical strategy for those leaders who don't want to play by the West's rules.

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I think the US *citizens* prefer their own national sovereignty (I rather think of it as ‘prefer not to be micromanaged by a faceless global elite’ — at least if we’re going to be ruled with an iron fist by evil bastards, they may as well be *our* evil bastards).

But there’s a confusion of terminology: the so-called US government, illegitimate as it is, has by definition diverged from the will of the people. So when we say “US”, are we talking about the citizens or the illegitimate government (or the foreign occupiers, uh, “immigrants”)?

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Good point of clarification! The majority of "We the People" want nothing to do with the globalist goals of the majority of our elected/unelected bureaucrats.

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Almost an iron rule: people who have never experienced war, up close, have no concept of the horror. Is it any surprise that soft, well-connected, insulated dimwits, hypnotized or co-opted by "them" would call for more war?

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Aren't these the same people insisting Ukraine's winning and Putin's army is running out of bullets?

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And simultaneously insisting we must give Ukraine all kinds of arms, because they're

...so dominant???

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Mar 19, 2022·edited Mar 19, 2022

Right? Because one day the West is "winning." The next day, Putin is "unstoppable" and "taking over the world." SO much nonsense.

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Journos seem to seriously think real war is like Call of Duty. Logistics don't matter, bases and equipment just respawn.

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Not journalists. Journos. Paid crisis actors.

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I’d like to put those “journalists” in the war zone. Do they really believe that WWW III , a nuclear war is a good idea because it might increase their clicks and ratings before the earth catches fire?

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Today's mainstream "journalists" are no more than stenographers, just following the orders of their corporate masters. So far removed from the true, critical-thinking, investigative journalists of yesteryear. Thank GOODNESS those still exist in independent media, or else we'd never know the truth!

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And remember who will be leading us into this war.....

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Now that we have a fully integrated co-ed army, I would suggest that we strap parachutes on these armchair soldiers, give them an assault rifle, and drop them over Kiev. If we cannot drop them over Kiev directly due to the control of the air space by Russia, maybe we could catapult them in from Poland like the cows in a Monty Python film.

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It is only "strange" when we consider that these Whorespondents are not journalists at all. Just lying puppets on a stage of dangerous deceptions. Lying is their "profession"

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It's absolutely nauseating. These people aren't journalists but campaigners and opinion leaders. Maybe they should be posted to Ukraine?

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This IS one of strangest damn things I have seen, as well. The last 2 weeks, I've gotten over the think thank wannabee tough guys who have demanded we start blowing things up and unleashing a firestorm. But those guys are boring, and it's always "Hurrrrr, if we are big tough guys like Tony Soprano, Putin will respect that and would back down if we send 1 dozen cruise missiles to Belarus. Because he'll know the next ones will be in Russia".

That girlie with the dye job and her masked buddy- They are hitting their lines and getting dramatic like its 1990s and they're holding Big Tobacco CEOs to the fire. "Does a drone in Poland count"? I'm about to start using very mean epithets. That clip is somehow way stranger than a dumb macho fantasy like George Bush having someone fly him onto an aircraft carrier.

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What is truly weird- Psaki is somehow, somehow the adult in the room that day. When blondie asks her, "Is Zelensky wasting his time asking for a no fly zone and for all these weapons?" She is making a massive professional fuckup. And Psaki gives her a pass.

The actual answer would be, and this is what "the Biden admin" feels after that question-

"Yes, Zelensky is wasting his time requesting and publicly campaigning for a No Fly Zone- and moreover he is in the wrong to emotionally blackmail President Biden's valued collegeaues in the Congress in that way". Psaki cannot say this out loud, it would not be prudent- so she has to let the girl grandstand and get her moment on film.

Damn strange, I was not expecting to write that about her, after the last post. And it is bizarre to see childish looking "reporters" somehow unironically give Buck Turgidson impressions on the national stage. We are adjacent to "Is the White House unwilling to get its hair a little muffed, is that why they are letting people die?" I get why Americans did not care about a proxy war grand royale in Syria, where 100,000+ people happened to die. But this is truly dangerous. If something goes wrong, and the Russian military is backed into a corner- they will not give up. There is a book named The Second Nuclear Age by Paul Bracken which explains several disturbingly plausible scenarios where nuclear weapons are "not unthinkable". We're 30% into one of those case studies. Haha!

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I finally remembered that Russia changed its Nuclear First Strike Policy in May of 2020.

Russia Adopts Nuclear First Strike Policy

https://geopolitics.news/euroasia/russia-adopts-nuclear-first-strike-policy/

(Here's a most important paragraph)

"Russia will be ready to use nuclear weapons in the event of the use of weapons of mass destruction against it or its allies, as well as in the case of non-nuclear aggression against the Russian Federation, which would threaten the existence of the Russian state and the possibility of a retaliatory nuclear strike."

And on June 2, 2020:

Putin endorses rule allowing him to carry out a 'first strike' using atomic weapons in response to non-nuclear attack on Russia

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8381333/Putin-endorses-rule-allowing-carry-strike.html

"President Vladimir Putin has endorsed Russia's nuclear deterrent policy which allows him to use atomic weapons in response to a conventional strike targeting the nation's critical government and military infrastructure.

By including a non-nuclear attack as a possible trigger for Russian nuclear retaliation, the document appears to send a warning signal to the US."

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Pretty sure "targeting the nation's critical government and military infrastructure" only applies to attacks on Russian soil, not in other countries.

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Mar 19, 2022·edited Mar 19, 2022

I probably shouldn't have bothered with the dailymail article and suggested you read the entire geopolitics.news article (see link above) which appears to contain a translation of the full text of Russia's Nuclear First Strike Policy, which is much more expansive, including when Russia's allies are attacked.

With regard to Ukraine, suppose, for example, NATO/U.S. decide to try to set up a no-fly zone in Ukraine. Russia now recognizes the Donbas separate from western Ukraine. To set up such a no-fly zone over Ukraine, including Donbas, NATO/U.S. would have to first destroy all ground defenses, such as S-300, S-400, and possibly S-500 systems, some of which are undoubtedly on Donbas and on Russian soil and, perhaps, some on Belarus soil. At that point, WWIII would have been initiated and Russia might well decide to send a few nukes into the continental U.S.

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Mar 18, 2022·edited Mar 18, 2022

Here's something I sent to The Saker in response to his question to his readers regarding exactly "how" a nuclear war can be avoided:

I think someone, who has the time, should dig up the following and get it out in print again:

I recall Putin stating, several years ago, something to the effect that, if the very existence of Russia was threatened, Russia would not only react against the aggressor, wherever that aggression occurred, but Russia would attack the aggressor on its home soil. I believe also intertwined in this statement was that, even if it was conventional weaponry (rather that nuclear) which was used to threaten Russia's very existence, Russia wouldn't rule out sending nuclear strikes to the aggressor's home soil. - This statement was said to be a seismic shift from Russia's/Putin's previous (nuclear weapon first strike) policy.

Plus, I believe I recall reading, within the past week, that Putin stated, in response to whether Russia would consider using nuclear weapons, that there would be no reason (or some better word) for a world without Russia (so, yes, if Russia's existence was threatened, Putin wouldn't hesitate to use nuclear weapons).

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Here's one article I pulled up just now that echos this view:

Chilling old Vladimir Putin comment has many worried the Russian leader could press nuclear button

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/world-news/chilling-old-vladimir-putin-comment-26353999

But in a resurfaced comment from a 2018 documentary, Putin's intentions and mindset have been made very clear.

The Russian head of state said: "if someone decides to annihilate Russia, we have the legal right to respond. Yes, it will be a catastrophe for humanity and for the world. But I'm a citizen of Russia and its head of state. Why do we need a world without Russia in it?"

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I think this may be why we're currently seeing articles such as: White House ‘not interested’ in World War III at https://www.rt.com/news/552106-white-house-rejects-ukraine-no-fly-zone/ , where Biden is allegedly not interested in setting up a no-fly zone over Ukraine, which would entail shooting down Russian planes and possibly starting WWIII.

(End of my response to The Saker)

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when are they going to update the name Journalist to Propagandist or my preferred name, Enemy of the people?

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As The Expose asked yesterday :will the real president of the US please stand up? Surely it is not Biden, who is dealing the rules. Gates paid the press to hide the truth about the jabs. Is he behind this too? Or is it some other ultra rich who is evading taxes so poor people have to pay them? Why not use the money from these sickeningly wealthy? And why don't they take care of the people under their nose?

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Orders come via Israel to their Shabbos goy in the White House.

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Those are MOCKINGBIRDS from the White House Pressitutes Corps.. Notice that Ryan Grim didn't have any substance in his questions, either. He could be asking something like - "The Russians have been clear on what they're asking for - Recognition of the Crimean Referendum, which transferred Crimea to Russia, Recognition of the Donbas Republics as autonomous under a Federal system, and restoration of a Neutral and Constitutional Government in a De-Militarized and De-Nazified Ukraine...will the US allow Zelensky to meet the Russian demands...or does Joe Biden want more dead Ukrainians, to help his sagging poll numbers?" Instead it's another Grim-Job, where he asks a mealy-mouthed question, and Psaki responds with meaningless platitudes.

Ryan Grim is doing better than the Global Thermonuclear extinction caucus... But not by much. It's an exceedingly low bar to set.

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Things Are Not What They Seem

Political Theatre: According to John Helmer Report Based on Polish Sources “The Zelensky Summit Meeting in Kiev” Took Place in Poland

https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/political-theatre-according-to-john

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Yes. I read, a week or more ago, that Zelensky had left Kiev and was holed up in Poland.

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It's called Manufacturing Consent. Noam Chomsky wrote a great book about it, published in 1988 (updated in 2002). Should be required reading in high school!

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Same here. And yes, he’s been a huge disappointment as of late.

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