the pawn word is fun. We are pawns of nature first. Alas, we as a species, forgot that a long time ago. Way before we were born perhaps. Now we are serving empire, left or right, is the game. Now we serve a destructive empire and the those own it.
Yikes -- Denmark, Sweden, Norway. It will be interesting, David, to see how you manage to entertain people whose governments are willing vassals of the Death Machine, U$A. In a nutshell, we are up against more than social engineering -- MIC is the pharma, chemical, mining, prison, education, law, AR-AI-VR-MR technofascism, medical, ag, real estate, insurance, finance, Wall Street, CRISPR, retail, space, k12, COMPLEX that has done some heavy stuff over the past 80 years to blind and seal the DNA of Americanos, far and wide: And this is a left (fake) and right (democratic party, too) project.
Last November the imperial war machine-funded think tank Center for European Policy Analysis published an article titled “It’s Costing Peanuts for the US to Defeat Russia,” subtitled “The cost-benefit analysis of US support for Ukraine is incontrovertible. It’s producing wins at almost every level.”
“US spending of 5.6% of its defense budget to destroy nearly half of Russia’s conventional military capability seems like an absolutely incredible investment,” gushed the article’s author Timothy Ash. “If we divide out the US defense budget to the threats it faces, Russia would perhaps be of the order of $100bn-150bn in spend-to-threat. So spending just $40bn a year, erodes a threat value of $100–150bn, a two-to-three time return. Actually the return is likely to be multiples of this given that defense spending, and threat are annual recurring events.”
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These are tyrants of another mother, another planet.
And of course the mass media have been all aboard the same messaging. A few weeks ago The Washington Post’s David Ignatius wrote an article explaining why westerners shouldn’t “feel gloomy” about how things are going in Ukraine, writing the following about how much this war is doing to benefit US interests overseas:
“Meanwhile, for the United States and its NATO allies, these 18 months of war have been a strategic windfall, at relatively low cost (other than for the Ukrainians). The West’s most reckless antagonist has been rocked. NATO has grown much stronger with the additions of Sweden and Finland. Germany has weaned itself from dependence on Russian energy and, in many ways, rediscovered its sense of values. NATO squabbles make headlines, but overall, this has been a triumphal summer for the alliance.”
-- Caitlin Johnstone:
A critical thinker can reconcile this contradiction in one of two ways. First, they can believe that the world’s most powerful and destructive government is just a passive, innocent witness to the violence in Ukraine, and is only benefitting immensely from the war as a complete coincidence. Second, they can believe the US intentionally provoked this war with the understanding that it would benefit from it.
From where I’m sitting, it’s not difficult to determine which of these is more likely.
"Yikes -- Denmark, Sweden, Norway. It will be interesting, David, to see how you manage to entertain people whose governments are willing vassals of the Death Machine, U$A." This is a ridiculous statement, in so many ways. Do you think you're the only enlightened person on the planet, Paolo, and everyone else are lemmings? Sounds like it.
the pawn word is fun. We are pawns of nature first. Alas, we as a species, forgot that a long time ago. Way before we were born perhaps. Now we are serving empire, left or right, is the game. Now we serve a destructive empire and the those own it.
Well said, David.
Yikes -- Denmark, Sweden, Norway. It will be interesting, David, to see how you manage to entertain people whose governments are willing vassals of the Death Machine, U$A. In a nutshell, we are up against more than social engineering -- MIC is the pharma, chemical, mining, prison, education, law, AR-AI-VR-MR technofascism, medical, ag, real estate, insurance, finance, Wall Street, CRISPR, retail, space, k12, COMPLEX that has done some heavy stuff over the past 80 years to blind and seal the DNA of Americanos, far and wide: And this is a left (fake) and right (democratic party, too) project.
Last November the imperial war machine-funded think tank Center for European Policy Analysis published an article titled “It’s Costing Peanuts for the US to Defeat Russia,” subtitled “The cost-benefit analysis of US support for Ukraine is incontrovertible. It’s producing wins at almost every level.”
“US spending of 5.6% of its defense budget to destroy nearly half of Russia’s conventional military capability seems like an absolutely incredible investment,” gushed the article’s author Timothy Ash. “If we divide out the US defense budget to the threats it faces, Russia would perhaps be of the order of $100bn-150bn in spend-to-threat. So spending just $40bn a year, erodes a threat value of $100–150bn, a two-to-three time return. Actually the return is likely to be multiples of this given that defense spending, and threat are annual recurring events.”
+--+
These are tyrants of another mother, another planet.
And of course the mass media have been all aboard the same messaging. A few weeks ago The Washington Post’s David Ignatius wrote an article explaining why westerners shouldn’t “feel gloomy” about how things are going in Ukraine, writing the following about how much this war is doing to benefit US interests overseas:
“Meanwhile, for the United States and its NATO allies, these 18 months of war have been a strategic windfall, at relatively low cost (other than for the Ukrainians). The West’s most reckless antagonist has been rocked. NATO has grown much stronger with the additions of Sweden and Finland. Germany has weaned itself from dependence on Russian energy and, in many ways, rediscovered its sense of values. NATO squabbles make headlines, but overall, this has been a triumphal summer for the alliance.”
-- Caitlin Johnstone:
A critical thinker can reconcile this contradiction in one of two ways. First, they can believe that the world’s most powerful and destructive government is just a passive, innocent witness to the violence in Ukraine, and is only benefitting immensely from the war as a complete coincidence. Second, they can believe the US intentionally provoked this war with the understanding that it would benefit from it.
From where I’m sitting, it’s not difficult to determine which of these is more likely.
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Me: https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/ahh-the-oppenheimer-effect-strikes
Bon voyage!
"Yikes -- Denmark, Sweden, Norway. It will be interesting, David, to see how you manage to entertain people whose governments are willing vassals of the Death Machine, U$A." This is a ridiculous statement, in so many ways. Do you think you're the only enlightened person on the planet, Paolo, and everyone else are lemmings? Sounds like it.