Comments by "Gary VAQ" (@stlouisix1) on "Zelensky Baltics Avoids Kiev, Ukr Splits On Draft; Putin: Rus Booms, Biggest Europe; ICJ Israel Case" video.
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[Without Russia's reliable energy supplies and moderate raw material and fuel prices, the EPU would have perished long ago, deeply in debt. Germany would not have achieved an economic miracle without Russia. But saying that doesn't help much, even though the Russian leader is absolutely right. The EU must sense and feel what it no longer has in Russia. And she will feel it bitterly if she doesn't change course. I'm sure! It will go under, along with NATO and the USA: I'm pretty sure of that too. The EU is an internally divided group of disunited EU member states, where the transatlantic doctrine obviously prevails; anyone who gives in shows weakness. So they have to rule with relentless severity against their own people - I mean the EU rulers - until the sanctions that they impose on their people, as counter-sanctions that the self-important EU rulers want to sell to their people as necessary austerity measures, drive them into their own hands Accompany downfall! That punishment is a consequence and the seeds of warmongering that bear fruit under the roofs of the warmongers. Anyone who promotes, finances and provokes wars and at the same time describes them as incredibly lucrative and incites people against one another will ruin themselves and their country and go down in shame!]
Russia has shown true resilience by not bowing to foreign pressure, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday. He stated that Russia is a “self-sufficient country,” whose economy is growing despite the sanctions, while EU member states are living through “difficult times.” - RT
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Many years ago, a newspaper headline asked the question: “What’s the difference between a politician and a psychopath?”
The answer, then and now, remains the same: None.
There is no difference between psychopaths and politicians.
Nor is there much of a difference between the havoc wreaked on innocent lives by uncaring, unfeeling, selfish, irresponsible, parasitic criminals and elected officials who lie to their constituents, trade political favors for campaign contributions, turn a blind eye to the wishes of the electorate, cheat taxpayers out of hard-earned dollars, favor the corporate elite, entrench the military industrial complex, and spare little thought for the impact their thoughtless actions and hastily passed legislation might have on defenseless citizens.
In other words, electing a psychopath to public office is tantamount to national hara-kiri, the ritualized act of self-annihilation, self-destruction and suicide. It signals the demise of democratic government and lays the groundwork for a totalitarian regime that is legalistic, militaristic, inflexible, intolerant and inhuman.
Incredibly, despite clear evidence of the damage that has already been inflicted on our nation and its citizens by a psychopathic government, voters continue to elect psychopaths to positions of power and influence.
The willingness to prioritize power above all else, including the welfare of their fellow human beings, ruthlessness, callousness and an utter lack of conscience are among the defining traits of the sociopath.
When our own government no longer sees us as human beings with dignity and worth but as things to be manipulated, maneuvered, mined for data, manhandled by police, conned into believing it has our best interests at heart, mistreated, jailed if we dare step out of line, and then punished unjustly without remorse—all the while refusing to own up to its failings—we are no longer operating under a constitutional republic.
Instead, what we are experiencing is a pathocracy: tyranny at the hands of a psychopathic government, which “operates against the interests of its own people except for favoring certain groups.”
The goal of the modern corporate state is obvious: to promote, cultivate, and embed a sense of shared identification among its citizens. To this end, “we the people” have become “we the police state.”
We are fast becoming slaves in thrall to a faceless, nameless, bureaucratic totalitarian government machine that relentlessly erodes our freedoms through countless laws, statutes, and prohibitions.
The Founders understood that our freedoms do not flow from the government. They were not given to us only to be taken away by the will of the State. They are inherently ours. In the same way, the government’s appointed purpose is not to threaten or undermine our freedoms, but to safeguard them.
Until we can get back to this way of thinking, until we can remind our fellow Americans what it really means to be free, and until we can stand firm in the face of threats to our freedoms, we will continue to be treated like slaves in thrall to a bureaucratic police state run by political psychopaths. - LewRockwell
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Update on growing US-Chinese tensions, particularly over Taiwan’s status…
- Taiwan elections on January 13, 2024 see a pragmatic KMT vs. a US-backed DPP facing off and determining whether US efforts to move Taiwan into the middle of a US-China war will succeed;
- Taiwan is recognized by the UN, US, UK, EU and most other nations on Earth as part of China under “One China” policies, recognizing the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in Beijing as the sole legitimate government of all of China;
- Despite recognizing a One China policy, the West regularly encourages Taiwan separatism, arming the Taiwan administration, and undermining Chinese sovereignty and territorial integrity in violation of international law;
- The Western media regularly and deliberately deceives the global public with their reporting, omitting the truth regarding Taiwan’s true status, instead depicting Taiwan as a “country” China is “bullying” with the West rushing to its “defense;”
- Taiwan’s DPP claims the people on Taiwan must decide the island province’s future with the rest of China, however much of Taiwan’s “democratic” system is directed and determined by Washington for Washington’s interests, at the expense of Taiwan; - The New Atlas
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