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I think that you are wrong abou the Neocons in office in America.
AL ! Jair Bolsonaro in US Hospital Eat to much Neocon Fried Chicken !
” BRAZIL ”
Franky
9 hours ago
Hi Boys ! A January 6 in Brazil ?
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irishtony
9 hours ago
Hi Franky . It would appear that Brazlian’s act with more Passion , than Americans.
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Franky
9 hours ago
Agree irishtony ! Mybe the know ! A little Neocon action ?
I would assume so, Tony
” AL ”
Go back & read yesterdays comment section.
irishtony
Jan 08, 2023 08:17 PM
FWIW… IMO……………… AL IS NO CLOSET NEOCON , how can you people even think that…. NUTS.
Thanks, Tony
Tony,
FWIW, I considered Big Al, most of the time, a NEOLIB.
Of course, I guess it depends on where you stand………
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I stand a little to the right of Genghis Khan,
famous for beating London’s claim to the first postal service by a mere 450 years or so.
I haven’t heard that one in a long time. I am not sure that I am a neolib.
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I agree it is not at this rime.
Yeh, I agree.
Joe Biden out on his bike again , with one of his bodyguards … turn the sound on.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Wallstreetsilver/comments/107fbst/slv_investors_be_like/
That’s funny
BREAKING : New Omicron Variant.
Thanks I noticed that earlier.
The question of Russia agreeing to preserve the borders of Ukraine was valid, if and ONLY IF it was not made under duress.
Let us examine the problem…….
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IF RUSSIA DOES NOT AGREE…….Look at their situation:
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Russia, holding the largest nuclear stockpile, would have as a proximate neighbor, a relatively unstable, undemocratic country with the world’s third biggest stockpile.
IF RUSSIA AGREES. nuclear weapons are moved out of Ukraine.
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Given that last sentences, as leader of Russia, would you consider youself to be under duress to agree or not agree?
(If my memory serves, The Minsk Agreement was NOT JUST between Russia and Ukraine, but also included the EU .)
No, it was simply bertween Russia and Ukraine
Hi AL …. CFS is correct . Re Minsk.
Minsk was under duress, Obama/Biden left Ukraine hanging, accepted Crimea and would not pressure Putin in any way, allowed them to push insurgencies into eastern Ukraine until the MH 370 shoot-down. Then the EU stepped in, and pulled a 1937 Chamberlin move.
The Budapest Agreement was a massive offering of US Cooperative Threat Reduction $$$$ (CTR, or Nunn-Lugar funds) in the billions, and billions in German Duetsch-marks to resettle soviet western group of forces. It was a super deal for Yeltsin, and ensured he didn’t have a nuclear neighbor – I don’t see that as duress, I see that as a Moscow win and a short-sighted bribery typical of the Clinton foreign policy era.
Thanks Jim. Further research on my part indicated that the EU did play a role.
NAZIS IN UKRAINE:
Historically…….. Back in WWII
The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and its armed force, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Ukrainska povstanska armiia—UPA) participated in Hitler’s genocidal rampage: “OUN militias were key actors in the anti-Jewish violence of summer 1941; OUN recruited for and infiltrated police formations that provided indispensable manpower for the Germans’ mobile killing units; and in 1943, thousands of these policemen deserted from German service to join the OUN-led nationalist insurgency, during which UPA killed Jews who had managed to survive the major liquidations of 1942.” According to Ian Sayer and Douglas Botting, “the OUN played a significant part in the extermination of the Jews and other ‘undesirables,’ often performing the dirty work of the German Einsatzkommando extermination squads (eg the killing of children), and continuing after the war under American sponsorship.”
By 1952, John Loftus estimates that there were “hundreds if not thousands of important Nazi collaborators from Byelorussia, the Ukraine, the Baltic states, and the Balkans” who had been brought to the United States (and many more had been operationalized around the world).
The US Counter Intelligence Core ran operation Anyface to protect the fascist leader of the OUN–the renowned Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera–from being brought to justice by the Soviets.
Mykola Lebed, was “the highest ranking Ukrainian Nazi to ever enter the United States.” CIA covert operations chief Frank Wisner admitted in 1951 there were “at least twenty former or active members of the SB of OUN/Bandera in the United States.”
The US intelligence services worked closely with several organizations of former Nazi collaborators like these in order to run extensive sabotage, terror and assassination campaigns against the USSR. In 1951, Wisner estimated that “over 35,000 members of the Russian secret police (MVD-MKGB) have been killed by OUN-UPA since the end of the last war.”
NATO was deeply involved in this anti-communist war, as demonstrated perhaps most clearly by “Operation Gladio”. Overseen by the CIA and MI6, NATO established a large secret army of trained militants, many of whom were well established Nazis and fascists. According to the official Italian Senate investigation into Gladio: “It emerges without the shadow of a doubt that elements of the CIA started in the second half of the 1960s a massive operation in order to counter by the use of all means the spreading of groups and movements of the left on a European level.” This included targeted killings and false flag terrorist attacks that were blamed on communists in order to terrify the civilian population into supporting right-wing governments and anti-communist raids.
News of Operation Gladio was totally suppressed in the U.S. at the time.
[COMMENT relevent to JFK Assassination:
The Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO from 1963 to 1969 was Lyman Lemnitzer, who had given the green light to Operation Northwoods in 1962. This operation, which was never implemented because President John F. Kennedy refused to sign off on it, consisted of planning false flag terrorist attacks against U.S. citizens that would be blamed on Cuba in order to justify a military invasion of the island. ]
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Lemnitzer’s tenure overlapped with Adolf Heusinger’s, one of the many high-ranking Nazi and fascist officials who had been integrated into U.S. military and intelligence networks. Heusinger served as Hitler’s Chief of the General Staff of the Army and later became Chairman of the NATO Military Committee (1961-1964). NATO did not content itself, then, with having Nazis do some of its dirty work by recruiting them into its secret armies to run heinous anti-communist terrorist campaigns. It also integrated them directly into its leadership, thereby sending a clear message to the world regarding its political orientation.
Dissident Ukrainians were also recruited by the U.S. because of their Russian speaking capability.
Do I (CFS) have numbers? Redactions are more common than words in official documents!
In the ensuing years, prior to the Soviet Union break-up, the United States continued to work with Ukrainian Nazis/fascists in their endless destabilization campaigns against the USSR. According to CIA specialist Douglas Valentine, “the CIA has been developing fascist assets in the Ukraine for 70 years.”
Sorry, Jim, BUT……
The Maidan coup in late 2013-2014, which was openly supported (financed) by the United States and Europe, relied on far-right shock troops such as the fascist organization Right Sector and the ultra-nationalist Svoboda Party to overthrow the elected government of Viktor Yanukovych. Three members of Svoboda were installed as members of the first post-coup government, and the co-founder of Svoboda, Andriy Paruby, was parliamentary speaker for five years. Jim, you’ll have to ask Victoria Nuland the exact cost to the U.S. of the Maidan Coup, since numbers between $3 Billion and $5 Billion are occasionally quoted.
Svoboda has since attempted to mollify its Nazi image, but it maintains its substance as an ultra-nationalist, anti-communist party that openly praises Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera, the politician and theorist of the militant wing of the fascist OUN. Whether by now the name Nazi is still appropriate, I don’t know. HHow to judge?
Portrait of Stepan Bandera outside the headquarters of the Maidan protests, 2014. Wikimedia Commons
The Azov Battalion was formed in May 2014 out of the ultra-nationalist Patriot of Ukraine (founded in 2005) and the Social National Assembly or SNA (founded in 2008) that is “known to have carried out attacks on minority groups.”
The Azov Battalion, Right Sector and other fascist militias played a key role in consolidating power for the post-coup government in numerous ways: running intimidation campaigns against uncooperative politicians, setting up indoctrination camps for children and youth, and exerting pressure on the government to revise the education curriculum, ban the Russian language, and rewrite official state history.
This post-coup period of street violence and intimidation culminated in what some have called the worst Nazi atrocity since WWII, when some 42 persons perished in an inferno set by fascists in the Odessa trade union building.
This U.S.-backed regime change operation is what prompted the outbreak of a “civil war” in the Donbas region of Eastern Ukraine. Jim would say insurrection, not civil war. When pro-Russian separatists declared their independence from the fascist Ukrainian puppet government, it was unable to contain them.
The Azov Battalion and other fascist militias were then unleashed, leading to the death of some 14,000 people (just before the 2022 invasion, Putin recognized the independence of the two regions of the Donbas).
Azov received backing from Ukraine’s interior minister, Arsen Avakov, as well as U.S. arms and training.
Due to its purported effectiveness in fighting Russian separatists, the battalion was integrated into the Ukrainian National Guard in 2014, formally becoming part of the state.
In 2015, the CIA, according to five former intelligence and national security officials, set up “a secret intensive training program in the U.S. for elite Ukrainian special operations forces and other intelligence personnel.
The same year, the U.S. Congress passed a spending bill that featured “hundreds of millions of dollars worth of economic and military support for Ukraine, one that was expressly modified to allow that support to flow to the country’s resident neo-Nazi militia, the Azov Regiment.
ALSO NOTE: Emblem of the Azov Battalion, which includes the neo-Nazi Wolfsangel and Black Sun symbols
Since there has been some debate regarding just how Nazi the Azov or other ultra-nationalist militias are, it is worth noting that the U.S. House of Representatives acknowledged in 2015 that Azov is “neo-Nazi.” Although the battalion has sometimes denied that it adheres to Nazi ideology as a whole, “Nazi symbols such as the swastika and SS regalia are rife on the uniforms and bodies of Azov members.” Their uniforms carry the neo-Nazi Wolfsangel symbol, which looks like a black swastika on a yellow background. Andriy Diachenko, the spokesperson for the regiment in 2015, claimed that “10% to 20% of the group’s members are Nazis.” It appears that he made this statement in order to downplay fears of Nazification. However, even if the numbers are that low, it necessarily follows that all of the other members of the Azov Battalion are Nazi collaborators.
Regardless of whether or not Azov or similar battalions accept 100% of Nazi ideology, it is essential to recognize that their overall orientation is clearly fascist: they receive funding from reactionary elements of the capitalist ruling class to run violent para-state militias — which in some cases have been integrated into the state — that are ultra-nationalist, racist, pro-capitalist, and anti-communist.
Andriy Biletsky is well positioned to understand their orientation because he served as the leader of the Patriot of Ukraine and the SNA, as well as the Azov Battalion, before serving as a member of the Ukrainian Parliament from 2014-2019. In an interview, he explained his position as follows: “The historic mission of our nation in this critical moment is to lead the White Races of the world in a final crusade for their survival. A crusade against the Semite-led Untermenschen [inferior races, according to the standard Nazi terminology].”
To be continued……
The entire America First Movement in the US prior to Dec 1941 was anti-war, pro-Nazi, with Charles Lindbergh as is figure head propagandist. Europe had major Nazi supporters – oh, by the way, Joseph Stalin was pro- Hitler and partnered with him to divide Poland until he was shocked by Operation Barbarosa. The French Vichi gov was pro-Nazi, Italy was pro-Nazi, Fascist Spain was Pro-Nazi, most of South America was pro-Nazi, Yugoslavian nationalists, Austria, Albania, Greek, Turkey, Japan, and even many British citizens were pro-Nazi (until Hitler started bombing London.)
The Azov Battalion consists of what, less than 1000 fighters, who are nationalists fighting a Russian supported insurgency in the east?
Are you kidding me CFS, this is justification for invading a country of 43,000,000? I thought you were a thinker.
Almost all Ukrainian parliament members, elected by the way, are pro EU and NATO. EU is not the route to fascism – it’s the route to socialism and globalism, but not fascism.
The Nazi argument is a Putin propaganda effort to rekindle the Great War spirit, but this time the Russians are the aggressors, and the lies are costing Putin dearly.
The selective information on Ukrainians (who were starved by the millions by Stalin and hated Communism and joined Germans to fight Stalin) and calling them Nazi’s, is a fool’s errand. History goes much deeper my friend, and hind-sight is always 20-20.
Jim, I have a problem with the word “Nazi”
I know it derives from National Socialist”
To most Americans Socialist is almost the same as Communist.
That virtually implies that a Nazi cannot be an anti-communist.
The problem thus arises because of Stalin’s slaughter of millions of Ukrainians, they hate communists.
i.e. most Ukranians are anti-communists…….so how can they be Nazis?
I actually prefer the label “fascist” or neo-fascist.
Makes sense to me CFS
Thanks for your well written research, CFS. I enjoyed reading the article because my knowledge of Ukraine and Russia was greatly enhanced.
I will bring my comments up to date (current time) tomorrow.
I wwrote about half of what I intended.
Unfortunately I cannot give absolute numbers, as requested……or even if the term “Nazi” has much meaning at this point in time.
SCOTUS has a problem in handling the Brunson case.
If SCOTUS (the Judiciary), Congress, and POTUS are CO-EQUAL (and Constitutionally they are)
Wherein comes the right of SCOTUS to dismiss most of Congress or the President ?
SCOTUS is the ultimate determinant of laws passed by Congress.
I don’t see any question of “law interpretation” within the Brunson case.
I do see illegal acts. I have been repeatedly stating the election was stolen.
But our Constitution is silent about which body has jurisdiction over election stealing.
One would guess “police” in the first instance, but since the DNC and the President colluded in the theft, we have a problem. Pretendent Biden is not going to call in the Attorney General to investigate.
Even if he were to be called in, the AG would not indict.
Without a criminal indictment, the courts are not obligated legally to be involved.
NOTA BENE: Every Court so far has NOT judged any legality or not of the Presidential election of 2020; they have just passed the buck. AND SCOTUS did likewise.
Based on what CFS commented, I would guess that the number of Nazis in Ukraine is minimal.
Read this article to learn more about Nazis’ in Ukraine. https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-neo-nazis-fighting-ukraine/31871760.html
This is a subject that we all have to learn more about!
You folks should know I’m almost blind.
I lost left-half sight in both eyes due to a brain tumor some years ago.
I see by scanning my eyes across, not by looking directly at something.
My eye muscles tire quickly, alas.
SO sorry, but glad you can still read and contribute. You are a valuable asset and insightful man.
Even if we don’t always agree, I very much appreciate your thoughts.
God bless and keep the faith!
I have had the privledge of coummunicating with you, since the turn of this century. Your commentary on all topics is without parrallel. I would consider it an honor to have a conversation with you on any topic
20 plus minutes…the elites in imf are pushing for war……https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_v5fkb4J9o
the ukraine thing has been nurtured nicely to meet that goal
I heard to little nothing about the Ukraine situation. Give me a clue where it is.
I meant to say “little to nothing” Sorry for the typo.
Meanwhile will Russia (I don’t think so) or China defend Saudi Atabia from Iran ?
(Did you know after Ghenghis Kahn had his way with Iran (Persia),
it took 450 years before the population was back up to what it had been before Kahn’s conquering.)
So far today , We are having a very good debate on this forum , lots of great points been put out. No real arguments , see what we can achive when we act as adults.
Amen Tony!! That has always been my plan for this forum.
Well the SCOTUS……..Bogus SCOTUS…………
Really sad, …..
5-4 Vote…….
Are you talking about the voting machines?
No I am talking about BRUNSON case……….
Sorry Jerry that is exactly what I meant!
The SCOTUS……….. must have a lot of idiots on the court……
of course they do……. When you have one that can not describe a WOMAN…. lol…
American System ………. is full of disappointments,……
The Brunson case is just one in a long list, of failures of the JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, and Court to
do their jobs properly ………
Just sad…….
LAUGH OF THE DAY:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vGOd1ir7zc
There is some question about legalities of international law during the break-up of the USSR.
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With Soviet republics declaring independence one after another in the late 1980s – early 1990s, Gorbachev, being the president of the USSR (de-facto heading the federal power) struggled to keep the country united. Most of the heads of the republics within the Soviet Union, however, were unwilling to obey him – especially the leader who was heading the RSFSR (a Republic within the USSR, much like Ukraine or Georgia at the time). This meant Gorbachev faced fierce competition even in Moscow. His rival there was a popular Russian leader named Boris Yeltsin, the Drunk.
(RSFSR = Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic)
Yeltsin was elected the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR in May, 1990 (despite Gorbachev opposing his candidacy) and turned this mainly bureaucratic post into a very important one: on June 12, 1990, the Congress of People’s Deputies of the RSFSR adopted a declaration of sovereignty. It wasn’t leaving the USSR yet, but the declaration created a strange situation: now there were two leaders in Moscow, one for the USSR (Gorbachev) and one for the RSFSR (Yeltsin).
Jim. Some dates, Please Note:
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Boris Yeltsin. President of Russian Federation 7/10/91 -12/31/91
Ukraine declares independence. 8/24/91.
December 8, 1991, Yeltsin met the presidents of Ukraine and Belarus (who had also declared independence by that point) to sign the Belavezha Accords, recognizing inter alia Ukraine independence.
It is not clear to me, if this was actually Gorbachev’s prerogative, not Yeltsin’s.
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Vladimir Putin. President of Russia 5/7/00 – 5/7/08 (Term limited out)
(Later term limits were abolished,)
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I was in Kiev in 1999 when Putin was first appointed PM, in a power play as the drunk Yeltsin failed, and the second Chechen war began, following the questionable apartment bombings.
I was in Rep of Georgia from Jan 2000 to Aug 2001 when Putin became President, Russia crushed Chechens into oblivion, and was strangling Shevardnadze and the Georgian people thru assassinations, cutting off power, water, leaving nuclear waste in border guard facilities, while holding half of the territory in Javakheti, Adjara, Ossetia, and Abkhazia with military bases and proxy armies.
Putin became PM, in 2008 in a brilliant political move, Medvedev, his henchman became president for 4 years until Putin took over the job again and turned it into Tsar – Putin has never left power since 1991.
Medvedev was PM from 2012 to 2020, now is the head of National Security.
Russia is a corrupt authoritarian state, run by former KGB and communists who grabbed all they could and are trying to keep their wealth and keep the minions happy. Exactly the crap so many complain about on this site about the corruption in the US.
International law is only international agreement. All law must be enforceable, by agreement. If a more powerful party doesn’t accept international law, it is unenforceable. There is no “Empire” to uphold international law, yet. I pray and will fight to ensure there never is, or it will be run by tyrants.
I certainly agree with your last paragraph…..The League of Nations and the UN have been failures, even though the UN keeps trying to be the global control.
The EU has been a failure, although it too wishes to militarize.
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I remember the problems in Georgia and I’m pretty sure there were CIA operatives involved stirring things up.
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My belief is Russia has never had any tradition of anything close to democracy; never had a people density sufficient to establish rule by the people.
It has gone from Monarchy to Communist dictatorship to oligarchy………always one person or a small group in power, with the savagery necessary to retain power once in control.
https://beckernews.com/house-bill-48487/
Good start !
Too many revenuers !
And another one bites the dust……
https://www.mediaite.com/news/trump-announces-diamond-of-diamond-and-silk-has-died-her-big-and-precious-heart-just-plain-gave-out/
SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE ?
I do declare I see an impeachable offense here.
Why is covid not recognized as a potential heart-killer ?
True signs of dementia:
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/bidens-war-on-cooks-president-moves-to-ban-gas-stoves/
(I, at least, want my bugs cooked)
A spokesperson for biden said he would veto any bill containg a cut in IRS funding.
McCarthy’s office in formed the Pretendent to expect to get used to seeing those two pages attached to every bill, in future.
(Are they ignoring the Senate ?)
Stale-mate ?
David Dubyne knows his material, but he is not the world’s greatest presenter of very important material.
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This video, however, contains necessary knowledge for the future, for those with a life expectancy greater than a few years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abpTP-B8yU0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCPsLGDRJyQ
The Pretendent visits the border.
(Did you notice the mention that Catherine the Great ruled Crimea ?)
MS. Klausi Schwabme…looking out for all of us through implimentation of the loving globalist doctrine…..he believes in his own B.S.?…lmao
deep state……nurturing the civil war to kinetic levels…coming to your neighborhood soon!
https://thenewamerican.com/does-deep-state-want-civil-war-in-us-sure-seems-like-it/
however, the most jabbed group happens to be among the liberal progressive maniacs…right…..now what?….a civil war of attrition sourced on one side from a fragile weakened opponent?…..you decide….Martin Armstrong Whopper/Socrates says world war by 2025 and this could ignite this fractured american culture…glta
https://thenewamerican.com/does-deep-state-want-civil-war-in-us-sure-seems-like-it/
oops above…long term effects of jabbing, below …personal,economic, militarily, socially…numbers factual….glta
CFS, see my above comment on Putin’s timeline. I think you will find it interesting, even if you disagree.
I lived through the rise of Putin.
Well boys, I told you so.
Hero Customer Who Shot Armed Robber At Houston Taco Joint Ordered To Face Grand Jury By Soros-Funded DA
This is what your rulers want – a large and permanent criminal class preying on innocent victims. Try to make sure you won’ be one of the victims. Although, if you try to defend yourself or others that evil POS Soros will make sure you are prosecuted.
The thug he shot was a career criminal who should have been locked up in prison,
That’s because the Soros DA and the criminal are on the same team. And this thug had assaulted someone and that resulted in the victim’s death. The Soros DA should be tried for murder and hung if convicted. But she is just part of the Soros Army. Soros, too, needs to be tried and hung if convicted.
Agree totally with your analysis Ed….chaos/clockwork orange/the purge/hospital visit…lmao…humor w truth wrapped in…glta
Here’s Soro’s buddy…just another foot soldier in Soro’s Army that is at war with us…
“Eric was an evil criminal that took joy in harassing and robbing innocent families. The individual at the taqueria is a true hero!” Sean Waraich, the victim’s other son, added. “He did the right thing in stopping the robber and in protecting the community from a dangerous perpetrator.”
Boys ! Tanks to Ukraine Next Western Troops ! And the western nations population will Eat it agine !
Ukraine collapse and Brazilian revolt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga6lBSheq10
Yes ! cfs2000 the Duran Boys are on top off dear Game !
Former Pricedent of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro amidete Hospital ! The Neocons have loste all War’s to billed the New World Order ! The western Army’s and population is only the Brainwashed Sheeple whit good payed Jobs ! So the New World Order Corporations take OVER !!!! Christianity mast be Detroit is part of immigration and Umilatian the White Man ! Look up Jesuit Comminist philosophy doctrin ! It’s only the START Know ! Putin is part of it Him is know destroying the Cristian orthodox White Man in the Ukraine WAR ! The Neocons are know in control of the Congress !