There's no diplomats in Europe. Only mats, the kinda you wipe your feet on before entering a room.
Jokes aside, several years ago a couple of European governments attempted to get out of the NATO shadow and conduct actual diplomacy - namely the early Tsipras government in Greece and Conte's 5 Star Movement in Italy - and they both ended up being neutralized and removed by a combination of financial pressure from the ECB and political backstabbing (wasn't a coincidence that, right after PM Conte signed an agreement for heavy Chinese investments in Italy, the main coalition partner PD - the Democratic Party, since its beginning loyal and obedient to whatever Washington wishes - resigned and caused the government to fall... and ECB thug Draghi to be put in charge bypassing elections, in an embarrassing whirlwind of lovelorn fawning by every. single. news. outlet. in italy).
I am an American and as much as I acknowledge that DC is a 1 party city, I am also human so I gave myself a 5% chance that Trump might have learned a lesson and would immediately cut off all aid to Ukraine and remove all US assets including CIA from Ukraine. That 5% began shrinking with each cabinet appointment and it ended up at zero as he began playing this stupid game with idiotic posts on social media. I love the Europeans who love to blame the average American BUT considering all the politicians they repeatedly reelect all line up to do exactly as they are told by the same US Govt. it always gives me a good chuckle
If he's in the dark? This fellow has no critical thinking skills, and his racism and psychosis of whiteness virus drilled deep into his DNA allow for the clown, and Chancey Gardner in Being There is one million times more capable of being any POTUS.
You don't see the ugly side of Trump being a Jew, a new Jew, a Nazi Jew, Roy Cohen and Jared Kushner and Adlesons and Adolph Bibi, and now the young Jew, Stephen Miller, this fellow Golden Shower Don is running on empty brain cells, but he ALWAYS has been an empty creep, with NPD to the 10th power ruling his scalp reformation and liposuction and boy-man with Hitler's speeches bundled up in his night stand.
But what does Russia win? Millions lost to the SMO? Putin? We can be against the NATO expansion and the NaziAzovZioLensky, and pre=Penis Piano Man's reign, for sure, but Putin has been checkmated, that is, the endless military industrial complex there and in the EU and UK and U$A and Israel, well well, aren't we all paying for that.
Global South? Oh, the empires, the old ones, the freaks -- French, Italians, Queendomers, Krauts, shit dawg, they are the little play things of the Jews in the Century of the Jews.
A bloody B-unreality show, and that's entertainment with the room temperature Rapist in Chief Trump. What a man, what a man.
American Arrogance & Ignorance of all things In the foreign policy arena is absolutely staggering. Trump is the God of Ignorance. He's above God when it comes to the arrogance stakes. He opens his mouth & what he states bares no resemblance to reality or facts. If hes trying to be clever, he's failed miserably. The thing is Trump will dissappear into the sunset soon enough. Only to be replaced by another idiot, who's only expertise is talking shit also. It's got to the stage that Western politicians are constantly having press conferences. No one knows who they're talking to. As the citizens in their countries aren't interested in hearing their bullshit anymore. They must be trying to convince themselves. As no one else is convinced about anything they do or say.
Let’s follow your logic. You are head of the U.S. and you realize the war is lost. What do you do? Do you meet Russia’s demands and stop the war? You will be blamed for losing the war and you will be be up having to support it forever. How about you talk a big game but basically wash your hands? Russians will be happy to support Ukraine since they consider Ukrainians brothers and have the experience to do it. If you need something from Ukraine such as minerals or such, you talk to the new owner and work out a deal.
From Trump's point of view, best scenario would be to keep kicking the can down the road so the next POTUS will have to deal with this particular can of worms and take the blame. That's, by the way, what happened in Afghanistan: everyone kept postponing the issue, Trump included, until it exploded in Biden's face.
He can't get a ceasefire, for different reasons neither the Ukrainians nor the Russians want it; he can't stop Russia from advancing; the only thing he can do is try to keep it going long enough in order to escape the blame and not have it turn into his own Kabul rout.
Writing this the morning of May 31, after trying & failing to watch another full Duran video.
It was funny and sad to see Alex getting frustrated with Putin & Russia for being so diplomatic with America.
Not frustrated with the lying emotional manchild Trump, but with Putin, the steady & strategic leader.
All Duran, Alexander, Glenn D & most of Judge's guests do is go around & around in circles.
Hardly anyone worth listening to anymore.
If 1 or more of them would return to honest, unbiased analysis that acknowledges Trump is a disaster, they would stand out from the crowd and earn greater respect.
To be clear- I am not lamenting Trump being a disaster.
The sooner America, UK & EU face the financial system crash that is a direct result of their unfettered deficit spending and borrowing, the sooner the rest of the world can have peace, stability and an extended period of economic growth & quality of life improvement.
Who is Trump? Just forget about him. It matters not what he says or does. Arms sales are doing just fine, so as long as there is fighting it benefits arms manufacturers, in the USA, Europe and Russia. Conquering the entire Ukraine should take at least another decade and there isn't much to do about it since it makes good money.
Pity about the death and destruction though.
Russia can't stop since they aren't being listened to regarding their security issues, Ukraine with Zelensky at the helm refuses peace, Europe refuses peace, and the US MIC is just selling arms to yet another neverending losing war, as they always do - do you really think they care about the end result?
There won't be unnecessary escalation, since there isn't enough energy (oil/diesel/coal etc.) for a massive WW3 scenario.
It will be like Syria, with added benefit that it's closer to Europe which is good for politicians since their work becomes easier when the fear factor increases. The work of rallying the people to dump even more money into the laps of the MIC...
Oh well, only another 3.5 years of Trump this, Trump that, Trump NO!, Trump WTF?, Trump NO!, Trump, Trump. Who cares what he does. Has any recent US president ever made any difference to US foreign policy? The answer is NO.
I like that US Civil War analogy you mentioned. The North's goals did indeed change as it grew stronger. Some of those strengths came from technological innovations like the ironclad.
After the North was mass-producing the things, and especially after some of them became oceangoing, the British and French Empires were no longer posed any threat of intervention on behalf of the Confederacy, and it became clear the Union would win a prolonged war, the goal shifted from simply restoring the Union with slavery intact to a crusade to abolish slavery altogether.
The Russians have improved both their drone and missile technology and adapted their battlefield tactics to be consistently effective in winning a war of attrition in Ukraine. They know Western technology cannot give Ukraine a tactical or strategic edge. They know they will win.
Now the question is, just how much do the Russians want to win? The Union settled for leaving a segregationist system in place in the South. What will the Russians settle for in any future Ukrainian state?
Thing is.....so many of us get wrapped up in the world we "want" verses the world we actually have. The belief in Trump falls directly into this. And he actively participated in that illusion. He knew immigration and Ukraine were sore points for people so he jumped on them. And I'm coming around to understand that he basically had no intention of actually doing anything about either.
People will protest at what I say but I'm not listening much to what DJT says anymore but watching what he's doing, I'm treating him like a woman....but really, its a good policy in general. And what he is doing DOES NOT match what he said he would. Its just what it is. And like you say, the Russians can see this, so do the Chinese.
I've stopped talking about this conflict with people because I am so far outside the bubble that 99% of people are in regarding this. You just accept that they "see not what you do" and live with it. Talk about the weather instead.
My last message to you about the Greek Catholic Church in Canada is a case-in-point. The Edmonton Eparchy (of what is today known as the Ukrainian Catholic Church) has a section on St. Nicholas, the church that my great grandfathers helped build....not in 1926 as I thought but the foundation was laid down in 1904, a year after my grandfather was born and 5 years after my relatives arrived in Halifax. The Website says that the builders of the church came from Ukraine. How could they? Ukraine did not exist. My great auntie has a copy of Michael Serink's passport, its Austrian so if his passport was Austrian, how could he be from Ukraine? I was temped to email the Eparchy and then talked myself out of it. They, like many, many people, are invested in an alternate reality and pushing against that is counter productive, there is no point.
It is what is is. As Putin said once in Russian, "eta fact", translation, "its a fact".
Conclusion, Trump talked the talked but has no intention of walking the walk.
Thank you for the article. I appreciate your willingness to point out the apocalyptic embicility (my phrase, not yours) of most of the 'dissident' community. (I pray I never hear 3D or 4D chess and Trump in the same sentence again.) While I am committed to listening to opinions I disagree with, it is becoming increasingly difficult to read their analyses without pretreatment with ondansetron (Zofran). I try not to be cynical (and it is very difficult for me) but I am beginning to wonder if it is an honest mistake---a type of mass formation psychosis applied to a small sub-group of moderately above average IQ people---or just a slightly more sophisticated grifting to keep up the YT and substack subscriptions.
Europeans could try Diplomacy instead of their Russiaphobic warmongering.
There's no diplomats in Europe. Only mats, the kinda you wipe your feet on before entering a room.
Jokes aside, several years ago a couple of European governments attempted to get out of the NATO shadow and conduct actual diplomacy - namely the early Tsipras government in Greece and Conte's 5 Star Movement in Italy - and they both ended up being neutralized and removed by a combination of financial pressure from the ECB and political backstabbing (wasn't a coincidence that, right after PM Conte signed an agreement for heavy Chinese investments in Italy, the main coalition partner PD - the Democratic Party, since its beginning loyal and obedient to whatever Washington wishes - resigned and caused the government to fall... and ECB thug Draghi to be put in charge bypassing elections, in an embarrassing whirlwind of lovelorn fawning by every. single. news. outlet. in italy).
Yes I remember. Italian politics has always been like a constant shifting giant snake. Ruthless. Nevertheless I love Italy.
I completely agree...
And I have been saying this for a long time... "Trump has a pea-sized brain filled with stupid..."
Even Jeffrey Sachs is hoping that Trump is a poker-player instead of the man who can barely reach the level of checkers...
"Google says American is still #1."
#1 in what? Stupidity? That is self evident to anyone but "muricans".
I am an American and as much as I acknowledge that DC is a 1 party city, I am also human so I gave myself a 5% chance that Trump might have learned a lesson and would immediately cut off all aid to Ukraine and remove all US assets including CIA from Ukraine. That 5% began shrinking with each cabinet appointment and it ended up at zero as he began playing this stupid game with idiotic posts on social media. I love the Europeans who love to blame the average American BUT considering all the politicians they repeatedly reelect all line up to do exactly as they are told by the same US Govt. it always gives me a good chuckle
If he's in the dark? This fellow has no critical thinking skills, and his racism and psychosis of whiteness virus drilled deep into his DNA allow for the clown, and Chancey Gardner in Being There is one million times more capable of being any POTUS.
You don't see the ugly side of Trump being a Jew, a new Jew, a Nazi Jew, Roy Cohen and Jared Kushner and Adlesons and Adolph Bibi, and now the young Jew, Stephen Miller, this fellow Golden Shower Don is running on empty brain cells, but he ALWAYS has been an empty creep, with NPD to the 10th power ruling his scalp reformation and liposuction and boy-man with Hitler's speeches bundled up in his night stand.
But what does Russia win? Millions lost to the SMO? Putin? We can be against the NATO expansion and the NaziAzovZioLensky, and pre=Penis Piano Man's reign, for sure, but Putin has been checkmated, that is, the endless military industrial complex there and in the EU and UK and U$A and Israel, well well, aren't we all paying for that.
Global South? Oh, the empires, the old ones, the freaks -- French, Italians, Queendomers, Krauts, shit dawg, they are the little play things of the Jews in the Century of the Jews.
A bloody B-unreality show, and that's entertainment with the room temperature Rapist in Chief Trump. What a man, what a man.
Putin's love of Zionism?
Shit Dawg.
https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/the-gong-show-jerry-springer-maury
No one should fail to notice his primary defense of the US: it’s being victimized.
Sound familiar?
American Arrogance & Ignorance of all things In the foreign policy arena is absolutely staggering. Trump is the God of Ignorance. He's above God when it comes to the arrogance stakes. He opens his mouth & what he states bares no resemblance to reality or facts. If hes trying to be clever, he's failed miserably. The thing is Trump will dissappear into the sunset soon enough. Only to be replaced by another idiot, who's only expertise is talking shit also. It's got to the stage that Western politicians are constantly having press conferences. No one knows who they're talking to. As the citizens in their countries aren't interested in hearing their bullshit anymore. They must be trying to convince themselves. As no one else is convinced about anything they do or say.
Trumps only guiding principle is this: What do the world's wealthiest (mostly fascist) Jews want concerning Ukraine and Russia?
Let’s follow your logic. You are head of the U.S. and you realize the war is lost. What do you do? Do you meet Russia’s demands and stop the war? You will be blamed for losing the war and you will be be up having to support it forever. How about you talk a big game but basically wash your hands? Russians will be happy to support Ukraine since they consider Ukrainians brothers and have the experience to do it. If you need something from Ukraine such as minerals or such, you talk to the new owner and work out a deal.
From Trump's point of view, best scenario would be to keep kicking the can down the road so the next POTUS will have to deal with this particular can of worms and take the blame. That's, by the way, what happened in Afghanistan: everyone kept postponing the issue, Trump included, until it exploded in Biden's face.
He can't get a ceasefire, for different reasons neither the Ukrainians nor the Russians want it; he can't stop Russia from advancing; the only thing he can do is try to keep it going long enough in order to escape the blame and not have it turn into his own Kabul rout.
Trump cornered himself for two reasons:
He ignorant about the world
He is surrounded by people with particular interests that are not of a Nation service interest.
He is being keep in a bubble of narrative that he does not control but controls him.
Brian Berletic was right he was just a show off. He has transformed Biden was on himself and now will be responsible for the outcome.
Writing this the morning of May 31, after trying & failing to watch another full Duran video.
It was funny and sad to see Alex getting frustrated with Putin & Russia for being so diplomatic with America.
Not frustrated with the lying emotional manchild Trump, but with Putin, the steady & strategic leader.
All Duran, Alexander, Glenn D & most of Judge's guests do is go around & around in circles.
Hardly anyone worth listening to anymore.
If 1 or more of them would return to honest, unbiased analysis that acknowledges Trump is a disaster, they would stand out from the crowd and earn greater respect.
To be clear- I am not lamenting Trump being a disaster.
The sooner America, UK & EU face the financial system crash that is a direct result of their unfettered deficit spending and borrowing, the sooner the rest of the world can have peace, stability and an extended period of economic growth & quality of life improvement.
Who is Trump? Just forget about him. It matters not what he says or does. Arms sales are doing just fine, so as long as there is fighting it benefits arms manufacturers, in the USA, Europe and Russia. Conquering the entire Ukraine should take at least another decade and there isn't much to do about it since it makes good money.
Pity about the death and destruction though.
Russia can't stop since they aren't being listened to regarding their security issues, Ukraine with Zelensky at the helm refuses peace, Europe refuses peace, and the US MIC is just selling arms to yet another neverending losing war, as they always do - do you really think they care about the end result?
There won't be unnecessary escalation, since there isn't enough energy (oil/diesel/coal etc.) for a massive WW3 scenario.
It will be like Syria, with added benefit that it's closer to Europe which is good for politicians since their work becomes easier when the fear factor increases. The work of rallying the people to dump even more money into the laps of the MIC...
Oh well, only another 3.5 years of Trump this, Trump that, Trump NO!, Trump WTF?, Trump NO!, Trump, Trump. Who cares what he does. Has any recent US president ever made any difference to US foreign policy? The answer is NO.
I like that US Civil War analogy you mentioned. The North's goals did indeed change as it grew stronger. Some of those strengths came from technological innovations like the ironclad.
After the North was mass-producing the things, and especially after some of them became oceangoing, the British and French Empires were no longer posed any threat of intervention on behalf of the Confederacy, and it became clear the Union would win a prolonged war, the goal shifted from simply restoring the Union with slavery intact to a crusade to abolish slavery altogether.
The Russians have improved both their drone and missile technology and adapted their battlefield tactics to be consistently effective in winning a war of attrition in Ukraine. They know Western technology cannot give Ukraine a tactical or strategic edge. They know they will win.
Now the question is, just how much do the Russians want to win? The Union settled for leaving a segregationist system in place in the South. What will the Russians settle for in any future Ukrainian state?
Thing is.....so many of us get wrapped up in the world we "want" verses the world we actually have. The belief in Trump falls directly into this. And he actively participated in that illusion. He knew immigration and Ukraine were sore points for people so he jumped on them. And I'm coming around to understand that he basically had no intention of actually doing anything about either.
People will protest at what I say but I'm not listening much to what DJT says anymore but watching what he's doing, I'm treating him like a woman....but really, its a good policy in general. And what he is doing DOES NOT match what he said he would. Its just what it is. And like you say, the Russians can see this, so do the Chinese.
I've stopped talking about this conflict with people because I am so far outside the bubble that 99% of people are in regarding this. You just accept that they "see not what you do" and live with it. Talk about the weather instead.
My last message to you about the Greek Catholic Church in Canada is a case-in-point. The Edmonton Eparchy (of what is today known as the Ukrainian Catholic Church) has a section on St. Nicholas, the church that my great grandfathers helped build....not in 1926 as I thought but the foundation was laid down in 1904, a year after my grandfather was born and 5 years after my relatives arrived in Halifax. The Website says that the builders of the church came from Ukraine. How could they? Ukraine did not exist. My great auntie has a copy of Michael Serink's passport, its Austrian so if his passport was Austrian, how could he be from Ukraine? I was temped to email the Eparchy and then talked myself out of it. They, like many, many people, are invested in an alternate reality and pushing against that is counter productive, there is no point.
It is what is is. As Putin said once in Russian, "eta fact", translation, "its a fact".
Conclusion, Trump talked the talked but has no intention of walking the walk.
It is what it is.
John
At the beginning of the 20th century what is today Western Ukrainian used to be part of Osterreich
Correct. My relatives were ruthenians from the province of Galicia in Austria.
The terms "Ukraine and Ukrainian" weren't even in common usage until Andri Melnyk established OUN in 1920.
Thank you for the article. I appreciate your willingness to point out the apocalyptic embicility (my phrase, not yours) of most of the 'dissident' community. (I pray I never hear 3D or 4D chess and Trump in the same sentence again.) While I am committed to listening to opinions I disagree with, it is becoming increasingly difficult to read their analyses without pretreatment with ondansetron (Zofran). I try not to be cynical (and it is very difficult for me) but I am beginning to wonder if it is an honest mistake---a type of mass formation psychosis applied to a small sub-group of moderately above average IQ people---or just a slightly more sophisticated grifting to keep up the YT and substack subscriptions.