Listen to a reading of this article: It's really too bad that anyone who thinks it might be a good idea to stop exponentially escalating this proxy war is an evil Nazi Putin propagandist, because things are getting very very dangerous. Normal person:
I got some news (second hand) from an acquaintance in Kiev. A lot of Ukrainian people want out of this war at any price, but saying so is a good way to end up in one of the SBU's torture chambers.
A lot of hysterical propaganda of fighting to the end, but everyone is sick of it, just as they are sick of the politicians who cower in their bunkers (V.A. Zelenskii, I am looking at you!) while foaming at the mouth for more war.
Humanity watches in horror, as the orange mushroom clouds billow into the sky, blinding everyone. Suddenly it's intermission. Time to get some popcorn and soda pop. What a great movie! I wonder who will survive? -- This is modern reality. Totally disconnected. Totally decontextualized from the real world.
Yeah I got a “dopey” empire apologist friend. He just spends his life swimming in and soaking up western propaganda and culture to the point now where the substructure of his brain is a coke commercial. He was telling me how my point of view is Russian propaganda and so I was like “well other than RT I don’t know any Russian news outlets. Maybe you could name a few of these purveyors of Russian propaganda so I can duly avoid them.” Of course he couldn’t think of any. I suggested that him calling something Russian propaganda was merely a talking point of the msm he was parroting. It’s all lost on him. It’s simply Putin = bad. Biden = good. Duh.
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.
Someone who responded to commentary on another site said he has a female friend who was born in Ukraine, and left as a child. She now lives in the US. She claims to be a hard core liberal, even woke. She voted for Hilary and cried when she lost, and thought America's future would be bright with a Biden win. He said she highly favors a direct confrontation with Russia. Well, her presidential choices say she's no liberal, worse yet, she's nuts. Even as a child I thought adults were crazy because of their one sided view of things, America good, Russia bad. Not me, so if we did go to war both sides would be guilty and that's when I lost my fear because if adults were that crazy I didn't want to be here anymore. Now of course I want to stay and people who think like his woke friend just piss me off.
The link above describes how a German journalist Alina Lipp, has had her bank account frozen and I believe her parents accounts have also been stopped. She now faces criminal charges following her on the ground reporting of Ukrainian atrocities in the Donbas region.
The extent of MSM collusion with western governments in the cover up of the recent history leading to this conflict and the determination of governments that the truth will not emerge is truly off the charts.
European politicians cannot all be stupid, cowards or ideologues, so why are they not speaking out about the sheer madness of it all?
THIS: "Focusing one's criticisms on the most dangerous impulses of the most powerful and destructive power structure on earth is the normal thing to do. It's not strange and suspicious when you do it, it's strange and suspicious that everyone else does not."
I just don't get it that people can't see how manipulated they are by the military industrial complex to think war is inevitable and even favorable to life on earth. I just can't understand why more people aren't suspicious as hell about what their corporate owned-and-operated politicians are up to continually giving the okay to send billions of dollars worth of arms to a corrupt regime whose puppet leader openly encourages nuclear first strikes. I guess my brain hasn't evolved enough to put up with the lethal bullsh*t these warmongers keep dishing out, huh? #NoWar
"In one of the countless billions of galaxies in the universe lies a medium-sized star, and one of its satellites, a green and insignificant planet, is now dead". - ending Beneath the Planet of the Apes
So I'm normal then? I'm normal!!! Hallelujah!! Thank you! It's not me - it's this world that has gone nuts! Hoping there will be another sunrise tomorrow morning. Cuz that's about all I got left now: a dime in my pocket and hope.
Trump yesterday came out strongly against nuclear war, and in favor of negotiations. I hope that makes people happy, and not upset, even if they hate Trump.
Dear Caitlin, first txs a lot for your illuminating articles and for your style of writing that I personally love! Second, I did translate some of those in italian on my Sub propagator.substack.com (that is iin italian btw XD)
Finally, the sense of your article is much more appreciable after I translated and published yesterday the integral Putin speech for the accession of the east ukrainian Republics to Russia Federation. That speech is impressive, rarely I heard or red something like that by a President.
So, my conclusion is that if any will use nuclear arms, will be USA first, they already did for no need in 1945 in Japan and by now are the only one that used it, so they might redo... Maybe installing a couple of nuclear headed missiles in the garden of that cocaine puppet clown that is Zelensky and his nazi friends. So US can always say: "we didn't, Zelensky did"
Because Putin has already turned the page of that "special mission" in Ukraine, he has his head on something more interesting and big.
I intentionally wandered into the lions den, the comments section of MSNBC, I do this occasionally to test the waters of the empire media and its bot armies, trolls and actual followers. The outlook in MSNBC land is that I am a crazy Putin apologist, a Russian bot pointing out that Russia using a biological weapon or a nuclear weapon in Ukraine is insane. They are all convinced of the propaganda, that Putin is a mad man that has become desperate and is lashing out in an emotional revenge outburst.
From my studies of Putins speeches, the words of Lavrov, the official pronouncements of the Russian MOD: I find them to be very logical, restrained, unemotional and certainly not acting desperately. All the desperation oozes from Zelensky and western media, jumping on the smallest bit of news to yet again declare Ukrainian victories that are as illusory as smoke. All the territory taken in recent weeks by the offensives has been lost and the Ukrainian troops making those advances have also been lost.
The non stop missile campaign has the stated goal of destroying all military and political targets inside Ukraine. Russia has accepted the idea that there is no negotiating with the Nazi regime in Kiev and has decided to destroy it instead of try to negotiate.
Never thought I'd be nostalgic for the second half of the Bush years--not because I like Bush or miss him, to be clear, but because back then you could be anti-war and practically nobody would attack you for it. As opposed to now.
I got some news (second hand) from an acquaintance in Kiev. A lot of Ukrainian people want out of this war at any price, but saying so is a good way to end up in one of the SBU's torture chambers.
A lot of hysterical propaganda of fighting to the end, but everyone is sick of it, just as they are sick of the politicians who cower in their bunkers (V.A. Zelenskii, I am looking at you!) while foaming at the mouth for more war.
The same people who hid indoors and masked/jabbed to protect themselves from a cold are now pushing for nuclear war.
Always be skeptical of anything that government and media are trying in tandem to sell you, even to the point of throttling dissenting narratives.
Why doesn't it sell itself?
Humanity watches in horror, as the orange mushroom clouds billow into the sky, blinding everyone. Suddenly it's intermission. Time to get some popcorn and soda pop. What a great movie! I wonder who will survive? -- This is modern reality. Totally disconnected. Totally decontextualized from the real world.
Yeah I got a “dopey” empire apologist friend. He just spends his life swimming in and soaking up western propaganda and culture to the point now where the substructure of his brain is a coke commercial. He was telling me how my point of view is Russian propaganda and so I was like “well other than RT I don’t know any Russian news outlets. Maybe you could name a few of these purveyors of Russian propaganda so I can duly avoid them.” Of course he couldn’t think of any. I suggested that him calling something Russian propaganda was merely a talking point of the msm he was parroting. It’s all lost on him. It’s simply Putin = bad. Biden = good. Duh.
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.
Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You
Someone who responded to commentary on another site said he has a female friend who was born in Ukraine, and left as a child. She now lives in the US. She claims to be a hard core liberal, even woke. She voted for Hilary and cried when she lost, and thought America's future would be bright with a Biden win. He said she highly favors a direct confrontation with Russia. Well, her presidential choices say she's no liberal, worse yet, she's nuts. Even as a child I thought adults were crazy because of their one sided view of things, America good, Russia bad. Not me, so if we did go to war both sides would be guilty and that's when I lost my fear because if adults were that crazy I didn't want to be here anymore. Now of course I want to stay and people who think like his woke friend just piss me off.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/
german-journalist-faces-three-years-prison-over-reporting-donbass-region
The link above describes how a German journalist Alina Lipp, has had her bank account frozen and I believe her parents accounts have also been stopped. She now faces criminal charges following her on the ground reporting of Ukrainian atrocities in the Donbas region.
The extent of MSM collusion with western governments in the cover up of the recent history leading to this conflict and the determination of governments that the truth will not emerge is truly off the charts.
European politicians cannot all be stupid, cowards or ideologues, so why are they not speaking out about the sheer madness of it all?
THIS: "Focusing one's criticisms on the most dangerous impulses of the most powerful and destructive power structure on earth is the normal thing to do. It's not strange and suspicious when you do it, it's strange and suspicious that everyone else does not."
I just don't get it that people can't see how manipulated they are by the military industrial complex to think war is inevitable and even favorable to life on earth. I just can't understand why more people aren't suspicious as hell about what their corporate owned-and-operated politicians are up to continually giving the okay to send billions of dollars worth of arms to a corrupt regime whose puppet leader openly encourages nuclear first strikes. I guess my brain hasn't evolved enough to put up with the lethal bullsh*t these warmongers keep dishing out, huh? #NoWar
"In one of the countless billions of galaxies in the universe lies a medium-sized star, and one of its satellites, a green and insignificant planet, is now dead". - ending Beneath the Planet of the Apes
So I'm normal then? I'm normal!!! Hallelujah!! Thank you! It's not me - it's this world that has gone nuts! Hoping there will be another sunrise tomorrow morning. Cuz that's about all I got left now: a dime in my pocket and hope.
Trump yesterday came out strongly against nuclear war, and in favor of negotiations. I hope that makes people happy, and not upset, even if they hate Trump.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/10/09/trump_demand_immediate_negotiation_of_a_peaceful_end_to_the_war_in_ukraine.html
I am not trying to win you over to Trump. Just take good statements where you can get them.
Just a reminder of the preparations: https://rumble.com/vwnkvz-flash-back-mccain-and-graham-in-the-ukraine..html
Lindsay Graham to Ukrainian soldiers: "Your fight is our fight"
Dear Caitlin, first txs a lot for your illuminating articles and for your style of writing that I personally love! Second, I did translate some of those in italian on my Sub propagator.substack.com (that is iin italian btw XD)
Finally, the sense of your article is much more appreciable after I translated and published yesterday the integral Putin speech for the accession of the east ukrainian Republics to Russia Federation. That speech is impressive, rarely I heard or red something like that by a President.
So, my conclusion is that if any will use nuclear arms, will be USA first, they already did for no need in 1945 in Japan and by now are the only one that used it, so they might redo... Maybe installing a couple of nuclear headed missiles in the garden of that cocaine puppet clown that is Zelensky and his nazi friends. So US can always say: "we didn't, Zelensky did"
Because Putin has already turned the page of that "special mission" in Ukraine, he has his head on something more interesting and big.
I intentionally wandered into the lions den, the comments section of MSNBC, I do this occasionally to test the waters of the empire media and its bot armies, trolls and actual followers. The outlook in MSNBC land is that I am a crazy Putin apologist, a Russian bot pointing out that Russia using a biological weapon or a nuclear weapon in Ukraine is insane. They are all convinced of the propaganda, that Putin is a mad man that has become desperate and is lashing out in an emotional revenge outburst.
From my studies of Putins speeches, the words of Lavrov, the official pronouncements of the Russian MOD: I find them to be very logical, restrained, unemotional and certainly not acting desperately. All the desperation oozes from Zelensky and western media, jumping on the smallest bit of news to yet again declare Ukrainian victories that are as illusory as smoke. All the territory taken in recent weeks by the offensives has been lost and the Ukrainian troops making those advances have also been lost.
The non stop missile campaign has the stated goal of destroying all military and political targets inside Ukraine. Russia has accepted the idea that there is no negotiating with the Nazi regime in Kiev and has decided to destroy it instead of try to negotiate.
Never thought I'd be nostalgic for the second half of the Bush years--not because I like Bush or miss him, to be clear, but because back then you could be anti-war and practically nobody would attack you for it. As opposed to now.