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Putin’s recent speech should be watched in full. That sort of breaks the whole caricature the propagandists try to uphold.

They depend on making sure people only rely on sound bites, never actually taking the time to think or listen to things in their entirety.

It’s a good time to break the habit.

https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/putins-historic-speech-must-be-experienced

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I wrote my senator and said you don't get my vote until you promote detente. It may not do any good, but I have to try to get the word out that we need de-escalation.

What else can we do to get the word out?

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I teach a Cold War class and Caitlin is 100% correct. JFK provoked the Cuban Missile Crisis, and then changed his mind. As a side note, it is interesting to realize that every American History textbook I've looked at tends to overlook that JFK first placed missiles in Cuba. They act the like Soviets just put missiles in Cuba all on their own.

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Is there a good explanation why Putin did not invade when his alleged puppet orange man was president, but did after senile man took office?

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Oct 6, 2022·edited Oct 6, 2022

I realize Caitlin dislikes and does not trust Tucker Carlson, but on Oct. 5, 2022, he went full throttle blaming Biden for blowing up the pipeline, and putting us at risk of nuclear annihilation. It was as if Caitlin wrote the script for him.

Accept allies to avoid the apocalypse. I'm fairly right wing, but I read, appreciate, and admire Caitlin, even when I disagree on other topics. What we have in common is a love of humanity, and a desire to report how we see life in as honest of a way as possible.

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President Kennedy had to use real back channels. He had to keep his dialogue with Kruschev away from his own people, including the stupid and malevolently cunning -- all sorts of things in his case -- Alan Dulles. So he was being very slick. Kruschev’s son said that his father had only good things to say about Kennedy before he died. Alas, Kruschev didn’t last very long either in his capacity. This is how it was then.

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So wait, SALT, the Open Skies Treaty, the ABM Treaty, the hotline,, all were examples of "try it and die"? Really?

Anyway, should this twerp get the nuclear war he so self-evidently craves, I ask that he not go to a bomb shelter, as doing so would deny a place to someone who was less reckless with others' lives.

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Antony Blinken, our "Secretary of State," comes from the bowels of Raytheon, one of our major weapons manufacturers. Toxic manure if ever there was any. Pax vobiscum...

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Good lord, I've heard of internet tough guys but I've never seen anyone post something like Thomas did. "Yeah, look at me, I'm such a badass because I WANT to risk nuclear war, not like all you weak little punks who are scared of it."

Guarantee that if the nukes do start flying, he'll be pissing himself.

Also, "try and die"? Launching nukes isn't something you try to do and fail at, unless you forget and/or misplace the codes I guess. If Vladimir Putin at some point decides that Russia has nothing to lose and decides to order the launch, it's not like fucking Seal Team Six is gonna heroically rappel through a broken skylight and subdue him before he can give that order. It's either going to happen or it isn't, and if it does there is NOTHING that can be done to stop it. All anyone will be able to do is retaliate after the fact, after THEY have nothing to lose as well. That should go without saying, but *apparently* some people don't understand it, despite their memories of Cold War 1. I don't think I'd even hit puberty by the time the Berlin Wall fell, but even at that young age I understood that there would be no surviving a nuclear war.

Everyone who was alive back then should know better. Everyone who doesn't are the kind of people who are contenders for Darwin Awards.

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Oct 5, 2022·edited Oct 5, 2022

It is really difficult to believe that troglodytes like Theiner exist in our world today, but then I hear the psychopaths in DC, London, and Brussels and realize that he is not alone. Of course, I notice that he is located in that center of "truth, liberty, and the pursuit of righteousness" for all people - Kiev. OML.

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What idiot twitterer Theiner is saying - but doesn't know it is,, "try it and we will all die": and this he seems prepared to accept. The Donbas is Russia, under international law, and as certainly as Kosovo, which wasn't even permitted the grace of a referendum. An anomaly illustrative of Western double-speak, ad hoc medicinal, rule of law: mix and use as convenient.

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US 'removed' Jupiters in Turkey and Italy but replaced it with Polaris (submarine launched) It was the Russian's that backed down...Kennedy's 'Camelot' was ready to nuke us all..(N.B. The US is the only country that has proved to be psychopathic enough to use them).

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The level of deranged incompetence in the empire's foreign policy apparatus is staggering beyond belief. How on earth did these miscreants ascend to positions of power when they seem to have no earthly idea what they're doing? Or, they DO know what they're doing, and couldn't care less about starring a nuclear war. What they don't realize is that their D.C. enclave will be the first to be obliterated if/when the war they so desperately seem to want is started. And all this for nothing more than ensuring the Russian people are not allowed to remain outside the empire's blob, and their resources are made available for the empire's psychopathic oligarchs. And, FWIW, never discount the role of the City of London in all this, the second place perpetrators of destruction behind the U.S. empire of destruction.

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I agree completely with your analysis and description. Both sides were able to compromise to ultimately end the Cold War peacefully. It’s harder to compromise when there are three parties involved and the most powerful one is profiting from a continuation of the war.

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Clear description of detente and its valuable meaning for those too young to know. Especially about the removal of missiles by JFK to achieve it in the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The lunatics who are running America into the ground couldn’t care less as witnessed by Tucker Carlson in his take on the Sabotage of the Nordstream 2 pipeline by these crazies .

No detente at all is happening as the lunatic elite boast in a bluff to use nuclear weapons if their dementia isn’t given satisfaction. As Nukand said F#*.EU.

Their bluff is about ready to be called by Russia .

The USA dropping the Bomb on Japan was an inspiring moment for very sick minds in power, a lethal curse.

It’s beyond the ability of the current Wests leadership to do anything but have us die.

It’s up to humanity on the street and with elections for the courageous ones to speak the truth like Marjorie Green for any detente to happen.

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This is once again the words of truth and wisdom but I fear these people are so brainwashed they will just follow this filth over the edge! Every word I hear is Putin's war and the madman wants to nuke us! When I say Biden's war is pushing for nuclear destruction I am immediately attacked! I hate to say it and I know it is purely political but the only ones saying anything against this are the fucking Republicans!

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