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Grasshopper Kaplan's avatar

The Alexander mercouris today seemed to suggest otherwise about the attacks against the strategic nuclear deterrent planes, if I understood him right, given his stated logic that they were indeed being used for conventional rather than nuclear bombing, but i take the first view being presented by Dima, that of a maasssive loss of if there was any trust of trumples , but then I think he and I am pretty sure vile Lindsey Graham knew exactly what was coming, scum they are, he and his sock puppet Sydney Blumenthal

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John Day MD's avatar

It seems like there was good operational-secrecy, so some people might have known that "something was coming", but no details at all.

Whatever the strategic bombers were being used for, certainly the war in Ukraine, they have to remain parked in their places in the open to comply with the START-II treaty, and those photos of them on the Ukrainian table were most likely American in origin.

The Blob may be setting out to prove that there is no more hope in negotiating with Trump, than there was in negotiating with Obama.

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Grasshopper Kaplan's avatar

Maybe Russia can provide vanity ego oil portraits of all the US scumbag senators to get them to think kindly of Russia, for Lindsey Graham they can paint a pig, for Sydney Blumenthal an possum

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John Day MD's avatar

I think a lot of elected representatives have long since made little deals with the devil, then bigger deals, and are beholden to that prince of lies.

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les online's avatar

According to HHS "all new vaccines will undergo safety testing

in placebo controlled trials prior to licensure'...

Can the apparent lack of vociferous outcries by the vaxx makers

to this new requirement suggest they're not worried because

'technically' the mRNA jabs are not vaccines, that all their new

products will be mRNA based ?

"mRNA Therapeutics", instead of mRNA vaccines, has started to

be gain currency; a re-branding that allows vaxx makers to side-

step the HHS' new requirement ?

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John Day MD's avatar

Words can be anything; just keep the money coming...

;-(

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Tessa Lena's avatar

Thank you, Brother John!

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Tris's avatar

Clearly, it shows one thing to me : neither Putin nor Trump are in full control of their respective administrations.

And this more than worrying 😟

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John Day MD's avatar

Be always at peace with Death...

;-/

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les online's avatar

90,000 tons of arms etc delivered to The Only Democracy

In The ME in nearly 600 days !!

Either the Palestinian resistance fighters are bloody hard to

kill, or The Only Democracy In The ME is stockpiling ready

to send Iran back to The Stone Age... And quite a few 2000

lb bunker busters help make-up the 90,000 tons...

If the 90,000 tons is only for eradicating Gazan resistance

fighters how many tons per individual fighter is that ?

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John Day MD's avatar

I hope that their genocide is less than successful.

The crisis is current. Will anybody stop this genocide?

;-(

I'm praying and blogging.

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les online's avatar

Seems the Ukrainian State's (adopted) motto is

"By deception thou shalt wage war."

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John Day MD's avatar

That rings a bell...

;-/

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Jan Barendrecht's avatar

I never doubted that the NATO operation in the Ukraine has full US support. NATO has been present for decades in that country:

https://www.nato.int/structur/nmlo/links/yavoriv-training-centre.pdf

A military site (in Russian) just posted this:

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Ukraine has received an official invitation to the NATO summit, which will be held on June 24–25, 2025 in The Hague. This was stated by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky during an online meeting with journalists organized via Zoom. The statement by the head of state was an important signal in the context of ongoing discussions about Ukraine’s role in the Euro-Atlantic security system and its prospects in NATO, especially against the backdrop of a difficult international situation.

https://avia.pro/news/ukraina-poluchila-priglashenie-na-sammit-nato-v-gaage

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The so called "peace talks" are no more than a smokescreen designed for MSM to blame Russia for the intended failure.

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John Day MD's avatar

A military training center in the geographic center of Europe, how interesting...

Lviv, the "new Jerusalem"? Is it on 7 hills? YES! BINGO!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_claimed_to_be_built_on_seven_hills

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John Day MD's avatar

The Y-chromosome and mitochondrial-DNA analysis is much appreciated.

The Khazar-Rothschild piece is very light on facts (inherent in this topic, but I've seen better) and very swoopy with literary flourishes.

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Jan Barendrecht's avatar

The issue MSM is forbidden to publish is that the vast majority of Semites in Israel isn't the Jews but the Palestinians.

The article on the Khazarian mafia is just a summary, without any references.

The full article on Khazarian history (including barbaric paganism, reminding why even the German Nazis were abhorred by Ukraine's Bandera Nazis) is this:

https://www.academia.edu/44128777/THE_CONVERSION_OF_THE_KHAZARS_TO_JUDAISM

It confirms that Judaism was accepted "in name only".

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John Day MD's avatar

I read all 39 pages intently. Judaism was variously accepted, I would say, and the accounts vary a lot. Every religious conversion of a nation involves blending and negotiations of religions. History keeps adjusting narratives, also.

Clear answers are not evident, but the Khazars killed a lot of folks to accompany a dead ruler before their initial conversion. Human-sacrifice is a mark of national characteristics.

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Jan Barendrecht's avatar

Khazarians / Ashkenazis still are killing a lot of people. Religious conversion can be a principal issue like in India from Hindu to Muslim, to escape from the curse of the caste system by the "untouchables", or utilitarian, for political reasons like enjoying the benefits of self-proclaimed "God's chosen people" who because of that can do as they please (above law and order).

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pyrrhus's avatar

Since the delivery of nukes by bombers is obsolete, I don't think Russia was injured by damaging 2% of it's bomber fleet...But it does give the war party something to prod Putin with, and probably collapses the negotiations...Just as well, IMO, since they weren't going anywhere with the coke head Dwarf running things...

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John Day MD's avatar

The nukes in the bombers are mounted on long range hypersonic missiles now.

Neither side (whatever the "sides are") is yet forced to capitulate.

;-(

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Stegiel's avatar

Clearly Die Wende is upon us. From a mocking point of view I ask how aside from propaganda can it be different? No one really wants the "Assets" hard to get so an open military smash and grab requires time. Putin for example by dilly dallying to please the West did not achieve Appeasement. Indeed, he enabled NATO to strike from within the country. Only a cynic like me would wonder at the remarkable ability of the Kremlin to be aligned with the West on everything but the Ukraine. And even here, with a Rabbi present in Istanbul truly a perfect setting as compared to Paris and haggling over table, Russia willing for an amicable divorce to benefit both of them but the Ukraine wants all assets and instead of Moscow, Kiev to be the head honcho. No doubt Putin weeps on the phone to Trump who speaks no Russian.

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John Day MD's avatar

There are a whole lot of details not available to us...

I do put a lot of stock in the assertions (Krainer & Luongo) that European old-money needs WW-3 to remain in power, due to lots of gambles going bad, but not yet "realized" on balance sheets.

We are kind of trying to figure out the big picture from obscure vantages within the mess.

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Stegiel's avatar

Yeah well I am much more of a cynic. Gazpromistan can be carved up. In fact since I have wit a droll short story based on Thurber’s story of Grant Meeting Lee is in my notes to work on. In my opinion agent Putin’s mistake was playing ball with the Atlanticists to include pretending to be Chamberlin. He needed to think about Saddam. Of course he is KGB and this power network chose him to be CEO of the resources to exploit. Up until 2013 the business seemed to be ok.

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John Day MD's avatar

Putin is very good at understanding all points of view, and choosing a path which doesn't usually put anybody in a do-or-die position, which is an admirable capability.

Nothing's perfect, though. The decline is underway.

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Stegiel's avatar

Well maybe not. The Ukraine debacle may indeed alter historians opinion. Letting the Ukraine shell the Donbas as a concession and staying more or less above the fray until too late was a mistake. However from the Kremlin I do see the arrogance and contempt towards the breakaway provinces. They were not subordinated to Moscow. Independent Russians who wanted freedom. Clearly not wanted. Mistake. Putin is trapped. If the thunder don't get him the lightning will. NATO does not care. They will push and push and push. IF Russia fights back they will justify war.

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John Day MD's avatar

Russia was not ready in 2014, and that has been said, maybe not by Putin in those words.

"The decline is underway", obliquely refers to the long decline of modern industrial economy...

Grateful Dead reference appreciated.

If, Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,

...

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,

And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

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Stegiel's avatar

Ah Kipling. My mother, oddly, not my father found much in Kipling. This piece she posted on our refrigerator for me. Strange how much I enjoy the past world 1957-1977, as if that 20 years of my life river was the most important because it overlapped the nation’s golden years and my own.

I go back and forth, maybe depending on the writer I encounter and think regarding the work about our decline. Winners and losers. In the end the existing stupid economic system lives only to die in each generation. I tried to go beyond it in mine. At today 68 and dead broke I still do. It profits none to forget the soul. We are taught to trim our sails but are not told how to sail in open seas. In fact we expect no sea seen, only our little civilized Fjord.

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