Comments by "Gary VAQ" (@stlouisix1) on "Senate; $61B to Ukraine, damage Trump. Syrsky, elite units to Avdiivka. Orban, Ukraine buffer zone" video.
-
29
-
Reflecting on the history of war, James Madison once remarked, “Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended.”
Fear of foreigners—foreign invaders, armies, and diseases—has always been a handy tool for rulers who aspire to expand their power, wealth, and scope of their activities in the world. When peoples’ minds are gripped by fear, they become credulous, compliant, and willing to support just about any action their rulers wish to undertake.
the American people have been presented with a series of terrifying specters and told that the U.S. government must take extraordinary action to confront these “grave and growing dangers” to quote President George W. Bush’s characterization of Saddam Hussein’s non-existent Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Because this sort of gambit almost always works, it has created a perverse incentive for ambitious and unscrupulous rulers. - Courageous Discourse
27
-
6
-
In December of last year, a construction team made a shocking discovery at the disused ward, finding documents as well as medication and medical equipment related to secretive research conducted while the city was part of Ukraine.
The experiments took place for years in at least eight medical facilities across Mariupol, with leading Western biotech corporations allegedly benefiting from them, according to the documents.
“We’ve found documents that suggested thousands of people have been involved in the experiments, with the trials carried out for major pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Sanofi, GlaxoSmithKline, and others. Blood and other samples were collected and then sent to labs and clinics in Europe and the US for testing. The results of which are unknown,”
The research was not only conducted on adults, but also on children and babies, the documents suggest. As well as being ethically questionable, the experiments on minors likely made the clinical trials illegal, a Russian doctor told RT - RT
2
-
1
-
False assumptions and false history explain how Washington and the NATO it controls got into this mess.
Assumed Russian economic weakness.
Assumed Russian battlefield incompetence.
Assumed NATO superiority.
Bad history.
All wrong.
And so they bet the farm on an innocent “captive nation”, yearning to be a democracy just like us, which was attacked by a clumsy, stupid mass army of imperialist incompetents from a country with a feeble economy and unstable politics. No wonder it all looked so easy.
Russia hasn’t collapsed, run out of weapons, the ruble isn’t rubble and Putin is still there. The Russian economy, says the IMF, grew more than any G7 country last year and its military, says General Cavoli, is stronger and those who were then sure that “Putin is finished”, now tremble for their foundations. And maybe NATO has ruined itself.
Have they learned anything? Let’s ask Victoria Nuland who is just returned to Kiev for the tenth anniversary of gluing the thing together. Nope. Failure.
If you start with imaginary assumptions, you’ll get imaginary results. As they say in German “Putin wurde brutal unterschätzt.” - Sonar21
1
-
1
-
1
-
1