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These words sum it up very well: "US has no real interest in “winning” and never had any… not in any of its past adventures around the world from Vietnam to Iraq to Libya. For the US, endless war is just the preferred path to profit, and profit is the only criterion for judging victory. So logically it matters not to the US where the shells are deployed or whom they kill."

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I worked as a contractor/consultant a very high paying position for the DOD in Afghanistan . We were paid a day rate. My direct supervisor and friend seemed to work almost continuously for 3 years straight. When I asked him why he said “this war will end one day”.

War is money for a select group of people. I was offered the Supervisor position of the task force when my friend moved on to another gig for the DOD connected firm based in Virginia. I had to pass on the position and shortly after resigned. My conscious could not bear “stealing” from the American tax payer any longer.

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And so it falls on the civilians to make their respective military and political leaders understand who is paying the real costs of war. Namely, it is out children. Unless/until we do that we will continue to sent humanity to the edge of the abyss.

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Those leaders fully understand Signme, they just don't give a shit. They just keep spewing the bullshit about "defending our freedom" and our brave and patriotic young people fall for it, get used as cannon fodder in places where our freedom is not threatened, and if they're lucky enough to make it home, find themselves needing Wounded Warriors Foundation and Tunnels To Towers in order to survive.

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"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes." Smedley Butler - 1935. They haven't given a shit for quite a long time.

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True enough but when I say MAKE THEM, I'm not talking about simply informing them. Of course they know what they're doing. I get that. We're WAY beyond that.

I'm talking about MAKING THEM understand if you understand my drift. In a way such that they will absolutely regret destroying the lives of our children. I'm talking about fighting fire with fire in the way that a mama and papa bear defend their young. To the death. No prisoners taken. All out takedown of global leaders by the masses.

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Right on the money.

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Oil is gold. Putin smiles as the sale of oil produces revenue. How about those sanctions, FJB?

I opine Europe has never been able to take care of it's own affairs. Two world wars and now the Ukraine. NATO initiated this debacle and the US taxpayer funded it. The US Senate should be ashamed of itself for wanting to continue the madness with more $. NATO and the EU need to be dissolved.

The US needs to bring its military home from all European bases and concentrate on American border security. South Korea, too.

The world is a troubled place and American political elites have made it so.

The party is over. Turn out the lights. Good night Europe.

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Europe and America are both controlled, manipulated and harvested by Zion. They are not allowed to act in their own best interests. Zion's ideology has nothing to do with what the people of Europe and America want or need. This ideology has also led to a failure of intelligence, a failure to know and understand the enemy, on the part of Zion's military. Dr Horne's words are wise: "We see that this is a major defeat that has been inflicted upon the powers that have been dominating planet Earth for hundreds of years, and now are going to have to get accustomed to a bitter new reality." This is a victory for humanity and a defeat for evil.

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Thank you.

Yes, a victory for humanity and a defeat for evil.

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Who is the supreme allied command Nay-to? Where is its center?

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Lou Cypher. Djehenna.

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Very informative. Thank you, Ms. Farber.

Why do so few Americans see (I think I can guess; they are monumentally misinformed) that the U.S. drew Russia into this war with our policy makers believing it would weaken Russia and Thus China and the BRICS trading bloc. The BRICS pose the first real threat to U.S. hegemony in 75 years -- as distinct from the phony, trumped-up Soviet threat; the Soviets by and large did not want the Cold War -- and the U.S. establishment is envisioning a considerable diminution of their unilateral power as well as a step decline in the value of the dollar.

As is so often the case, when the U.S. establishment is threatened it is the American working-class and the global south (what used to be called the "third world") who will be made to suffer.

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Thomas, I want to clarify this was written by "Manorborn," not by me. He's waaaaay more knowledgable than I am or could be. Manorborn is a pen name...

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You are STILL believing in good faith from our present leaders. If Trump gets back in, and it's definitely "iffy", we can investigate everything implicated in the past 3+ years, including how much money have the Biden's received, and what important things were purchased with these millions of dollars. Of course we can't trust the CIA and FBI, because they are also implicated in the wholesale sale of everything valuable in exchange for cash. Maybe the DEA or US Marshalls can step up at least temporarily to guard the US. DEA is supposed to be among the least corruptable, at least that's the rumor

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Quagmires are where the money’s at...

;)

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Just like healthcare that just treats the symptoms of disease rather than the disease itself. There’s very little money to be made in actual cures but billions to be made is symptom management.

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Great analogy.

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The MICIMATT complex makes massive profits by providing munitions and equipment regardless of who, if anyone, wins any military engagement.

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Patrick Lancaster is a hero.

He speaks for the dead.

Words that are an indictment to every EU politician who supported this war.

If the Europeans were not utterly corrupt, they would have blocked the war. They would have given no support to this new madness of the Americans.

It's shameful.

The EU has to go.

And I think Germany should be split in at least 20 different sovereign nations. No one likes Unified Germany. They are a danger to everyone. To hell with German politicians.

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Like Japan, Europe has been a militarily-occupied vassal of the USA since 1945. Such are the spoils of war. Europe is not in a position to act in its own best interests.

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Europe does not exist. The European Nations should emancipate focus on themselves. Globalization is only Communism by another name. It's suicidal.

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US has been waging war on Europe since WW2. Europe is a vassal, a market, a dumping ground. US doesn't understand Europe yet dominates it. don't blame Europe for US misdeeds.

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Brilliant. War is also a weapons-testing ground to develop new products. I suspect that might be true for all military machines, including Russia's.

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fyi: Rheinwiesenlager, t'is the way 'they' do control, t'is not about winning per se, as in the old fashioned way, t'is about destruction and building back better and clearing out the old structures, history, to make way for the new modern(a) way of those who say that they know the ray, the ray of how to control the day, cheers, kind regards! Frank Furedi : First world war, still no end in sight. James Bacques : Other losses, Gerd Schulze-Rhonhof : The war that had many fathers, World Revolution by Nesta Helen Webster, all books by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, his quotes are great to boot!

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Excellent article but what was the incident at the Canadian parliament that is referenced?

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Trudeau introduced a Ukrainian soldier, and the entire house - both sides, all parties - stood and cheered, but this soldier, now in his 90’s, had fought with Germany against Russia, our WW2 ally. Total ignorance about basic history.

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putin gets his ukrainian breadbasket just like stalin did. the DNC get their money laundering op. win-win situation for everybody but russians and ukrainians

if putin really wanted to "win" this he wouldh't have jabbed his armed forces

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He misses it. The mediocrity has nothing to do with the ‘military’. It has everything to do with western will. It no longer exists. The difference between east and west, Russia and the west, and frankly everybody and the west is a sense of will derived from national identity. What is the western identity now? The EU? NATO? G7? The United Nations rules based order? You pick the international waste of time and there you find the west, pretending to be in charge of the ‘world’ while parading around rainbow flags. Russia and nations of the East and South do not see the works that way. They have a real national identity, and they are much stronger for it. Forget about the military part, it is the politics that are corrupt in the west. Everybody pretends now, and everybody knows everybody pretends.

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Have you read "The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations: Shaping The Moral, Spiritual, Cultural, And Political. And Economic Decline Of The United States Of America," by John Coleman?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7863459-the-tavistock-institute-of-human-relations

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If they weren't trying to 'win' by defeating Russian military force, then we can't judge their competence by their failure to defeat Russian military force nor can we say whether their policy goals were out of alignment with their battefield strategy.

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This is genuinely shocking: these are more NATO war crimes.

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The Russians also "know the enemy (global finance needs Russia as collateral) and know themselves", which Sun Tzu states as the necessary conditions to prevail in conflicts.

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"The mediocrity of our journalists and politicians has long been known. Now we’ve discovered the mediocrity of our military." And now I have an explanation for why I've long ignored the media's gushing over Ukraine. I was justified.

Incompetent and arrogant - the US and likely the UK and NATO. Our incompetence provides little concern to Russia.

Thanks Celia!

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