In the Suicide Pact video I posted earlier, there appears a small screen labeled "Garbage." I thought that was added by opponents of what Ritter is saying, but it is a reference to his video of a few days ago in which he calls some of our political assumptions garbage.
The God Almighty Dollar is going to rule the planet…..or else! (sound of stamping feet and tantrum crescendos)
Meanwhile the majority of the worlds population considers a multi polar global economy based on a collective of Sovereign Nations, and international transactions in multiple currencies. The EU now faces a bleak winter and deconstruction of their manufacturing base due to lack of energy resources created by sanctions imposed against Russia.
We can only hope (and pray?) that cooler heads prevail and that our addled chief executive’s eructations do not actually reflect our nations intentions. I would welcome an intervention and large dose of well considered diplomacy in place of executive braggadocio and brinksmanship.
Is our entire government as insane and suicidal as Ritter thinks? I sure hope not.
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HEMP attack, by minimizing adversary immediate casualties and maximizing damage to the electronics of adversary military forces and critical infrastructures, seems ideal for a “de- escalatory” strategy. Moreover, since Russian military doctrine categorizes HEMP attack as Information, Electronic or Cyber Warfare, Russia’s already very loose strictures for nuclear employment may not even apply to HEMP. [my bold]
This sounds like a more benign form of warfare than nuking every major city and incinerating all of their inhabitants.
The God Almighty Dollar is going to rule the planet…..or else! (sound of stamping feet and tantrum crescendos)
Meanwhile the majority of the worlds population considers a multi polar global economy based on a collective of Sovereign Nations, and international transactions in multiple currencies. The EU now faces a bleak winter and deconstruction of their manufacturing base due to lack of energy resources created by sanctions imposed against Russia.
We can only hope (and pray?) that cooler heads prevail and that our addled chief executive’s eructations do not actually reflect our nations intentions. I would welcome an intervention and large dose of well considered diplomacy in place of executive braggadocio and brinksmanship.
Is our entire government as insane and suicidal as Ritter thinks? I sure hope not.
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“ …and when we destroy nature, we diminish our capacity to sense the divine,and understand who God is, and what our own potential is and duties are as human beings.- RFK jr. 8/26/2024
HEMP attack, by minimizing adversary immediate casualties and maximizing damage to the electronics of adversary military forces and critical infrastructures, seems ideal for a “de- escalatory” strategy. Moreover, since Russian military doctrine categorizes HEMP attack as Information, Electronic or Cyber Warfare, Russia’s already very loose strictures for nuclear employment may not even apply to HEMP. [my bold]
This sounds like a more benign form of warfare than nuking every major city and incinerating all of their inhabitants.
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on any country it wants to and recently went missing. An EMP would be very bad for people living where it went off. One second after is a story about what life was like when one went off over a town. Apparently Newt Grinwich was trying to bring the threat of one to congress attention but no one was interested in learning about it. Every car made after a certain year stopped working as well as everything made with computer chips. If a few went off over America we’d go back living in the early 1900's. Think about everything made in the last few decades stopping to work and imagine what life would be like.
HEMP attack, by minimizing adversary immediate casualties and maximizing damage to the electronics of adversary military forces and critical infrastructures, seems ideal for a “de- escalatory” strategy. Moreover, since Russian military doctrine categorizes HEMP attack as Information, Electronic or Cyber Warfare, Russia’s already very loose strictures for nuclear employment may not even apply to HEMP. [my bold]
This sounds like a more benign form of warfare than nuking every major city and incinerating all of their inhabitants.
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~Hannah Arendt
If a few went off over America we’d go back living in the early 1900's. Think about everything made in the last few decades stopping to work and imagine what life would be like.
YMMV, and most would experience many unwelcome hardships, but ultimately it could be something that might at least partially restore the reality of our essential connection to the natural world and turn us in a direction of a more sustainable future for the whole planet. Such a shock to our technologically dependent way of life might be something that helps free us from the tyranny of the pernicious illusions being imposed upon us through the flat screen technologies that we now currently cling to as if our very lives and souls depend on them.
Who’s best interests are currently being served if not those of humanity and the larger natural world?
on any country it wants to and recently went missing. An EMP would be very bad for people living where it went off. One second after is a story about what life was like when one went off over a town. Apparently Newt Grinwich was trying to bring the threat of one to congress attention but no one was interested in learning about it. Every car made after a certain year stopped working as well as everything made with computer chips. If a few went off over America we’d go back living in the early 1900's. Think about everything made in the last few decades stopping to work and imagine what life would be like.
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“ …and when we destroy nature, we diminish our capacity to sense the divine,and understand who God is, and what our own potential is and duties are as human beings.- RFK jr. 8/26/2024
it's not our entire government that's suicidal and insane, but it's definitely the part that runs our foreign policy that appears to be.
The God Almighty Dollar is going to rule the planet…..or else! (sound of stamping feet and tantrum crescendos)
Meanwhile the majority of the worlds population considers a multi polar global economy based on a collective of Sovereign Nations, and international transactions in multiple currencies. The EU now faces a bleak winter and deconstruction of their manufacturing base due to lack of energy resources created by sanctions imposed against Russia.
We can only hope (and pray?) that cooler heads prevail and that our addled chief executive’s eructations do not actually reflect our nations intentions. I would welcome an intervention and large dose of well considered diplomacy in place of executive braggadocio and brinksmanship.
Is our entire government as insane and suicidal as Ritter thinks? I sure hope not.
that would preclude a tactical nuclear response by NATO (the US), to a Russian nuclear strike on Ukraine. There is a concept in nuclear war planning, the so called limited nuclear strike option, that is tailored just for this sort of situation. Typically, it was felt that such a coordinated tactical nuclear strike plan, although "limited" in nature would take out the bulk of the opponents forces in a particular theater and forestall a nuclear counterstrike in return from the enemy (usually Russia but now also China), because the next step might likely incur the strategic nuclear response plan, rather than fooling around with tit for tat, isolated nuclear strikes.
that Putin has made the point repeatedly for over a decade that any launch of nuclear weapons against Russia would be met with Russia's total nuclear weapons response and that no one would survive such a war. That is why he has described the threat of putting nuclear weapons in Ukraine as a danger, not only to his country, but to everyone.
Nuclear missiles in Ukraine could reach Russia's defense systems and population centers in 5-7 minutes, he has said, which would not allow enough time to verify whether it was a mistake, a glich, or a nuclear attack. So he has repeated that Russia would respond to any launch with mutually assured destruction.
With all due respect, if what you mean by "a coordinated tactical nuclear strike," is meant to be something like Gen. Mattis informing the Russian military in advance of our strike on Syria that it was only a "show strike," not meant to harm Syria, I don't think the same logic applies. But I don't think that's what you meant. What did you mean?
Clearly, the nuclear weapons industry is fighting for its life in this period in which Russia and China are raising the standards of living of their workforces and in which most nations of the world have voted to outlaw nuclear weapons. So I understand the industry trying to visualize ways of making nuclear weapons "MORE USEABLE," as they have said it. But the rest of the world is in no mood to play such games with their children's future nor the future of life on earth.
that would preclude a tactical nuclear response by NATO (the US), to a Russian nuclear strike on Ukraine. There is a concept in nuclear war planning, the so called limited nuclear strike option, that is tailored just for this sort of situation. Typically, it was felt that such a coordinated tactical nuclear strike plan, although "limited" in nature would take out the bulk of the opponents forces in a particular theater and forestall a nuclear counterstrike in return from the enemy (usually Russia but now also China), because the next step might likely incur the strategic nuclear response plan, rather than fooling around with tit for tat, isolated nuclear strikes.
There is a concept in nuclear war planning, the so called limited nuclear strike option….
Submarine launched hypersonic weapons can now reach DC in under a minute. No human can evaluate the possibility that it might be a “limited” attack and decide and communicate an override order of predetermined launch protocols in that amount of time. The computers controlling the system will “decide” the appropriate response, by default.
The doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction was insane when it was adopted, and remains so to this day. Your ‘limited nuclear strike option’ is a fairy tale, a very dangerous one.
that would preclude a tactical nuclear response by NATO (the US), to a Russian nuclear strike on Ukraine. There is a concept in nuclear war planning, the so called limited nuclear strike option, that is tailored just for this sort of situation. Typically, it was felt that such a coordinated tactical nuclear strike plan, although "limited" in nature would take out the bulk of the opponents forces in a particular theater and forestall a nuclear counterstrike in return from the enemy (usually Russia but now also China), because the next step might likely incur the strategic nuclear response plan, rather than fooling around with tit for tat, isolated nuclear strikes.
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@ovals49
believe it is survivable, I think. but only the maddest politically involved still find some foul play to survive. What do i know? Who wants to live in a mad world with mad leaders? May an implosion is the best we can hope for and ignore explosions. Are you as confused and scared as i am?
What does the croupier say to roulette players: Rien ne va plus.
There is a concept in nuclear war planning, the so called limited nuclear strike option….
Submarine launched hypersonic weapons can now reach DC in under a minute. No human can evaluate the possibility that it might be a “limited” attack and decide and communicate an override order of predetermined launch protocols in that amount of time. The computers controlling the system will “decide” the appropriate response, by default.
The doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction was insane when it was adopted, and remains so to this day. Your ‘limited nuclear strike option’ is a fairy tale, a very dangerous one.
@mimi
seeking out our truth, wherever that may lead. What I ‘want’ is of little import, particularly in regards to the behavior of others. I have little choice about the reality of the world we are living in, or the unavoidable last breath that waits for us all. I acknowledge these constraints.
I can not change the world, except perhaps by changing the way in which I perceive and experience each moment's possibilities, questions, simple pleasures.
Living.
#3.2
believe it is survivable, I think. but only the maddest politically involved still find some foul play to survive. What do i know? Who wants to live in a mad world with mad leaders? May an implosion is the best we can hope for and ignore explosions. Are you as confused and scared as i am?
What does the croupier say to roulette players: Rien ne va plus.
Right. Rien.
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@ovals49
throughout the Cold War ultimately a positive, in that it deterred either nuclear power from launching knowing that both sides would be destroyed in the resulting missile exchange. Sounds mad and Doomsday and therefore forces both sides to think twice about a launching nuclear strike.
There is a concept in nuclear war planning, the so called limited nuclear strike option….
Submarine launched hypersonic weapons can now reach DC in under a minute. No human can evaluate the possibility that it might be a “limited” attack and decide and communicate an override order of predetermined launch protocols in that amount of time. The computers controlling the system will “decide” the appropriate response, by default.
The doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction was insane when it was adopted, and remains so to this day. Your ‘limited nuclear strike option’ is a fairy tale, a very dangerous one.
that such a premise made sense. But we now have leadership that explicitely states they are willing to destroy our country in order to prevail. This has been in our Nuclear Posture for a long time now. Psychopaths have risen to the top of our military leadership, while common sense military have to plead online for us to wake up.
#3.2 throughout the Cold War ultimately a positive, in that it deterred either nuclear power from launching knowing that both sides would be destroyed in the resulting missile exchange. Sounds mad and Doomsday and therefore forces both sides to think twice about a launching nuclear strike.
@wokkamile
in nuclear Armageddon. Ritter mentions one instance in the ‘Garbage’ video above. MAD has only been ‘successful’ to date thanks to multiple examples of dumb luck and near misses. It’s no less insane today than it was in the beginning, and the day it fails is THE END.
#3.2 throughout the Cold War ultimately a positive, in that it deterred either nuclear power from launching knowing that both sides would be destroyed in the resulting missile exchange. Sounds mad and Doomsday and therefore forces both sides to think twice about a launching nuclear strike.
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I hope this is a populist viewpoint. I mean, common sense should be a populist viewpoint. I hope and pray it is a progressive viewpoint also and that the so-called progressive support for nuclear war is fake news.
@Linda Wood
...especially considering (FACT-CHECK ME, PLEASE) 80% of Twitter is "bots".
OTOH, apathy and denialism seems very real - certainly, the disparity between how some members of MY OWN FAMILY have behaved RE a bad flu with a 99+% survival-rate, and how they're now responding to this, is jeopardizing my faith in and esteem for them in a way I NEVER EVER would've imagined before.
I've heard horror-stories about politics causing civil wars in families, but mine NEVER used to be one of them...not before 2017 (also the year we lost our beloved patriarch - coincidence? How could it be?). It's still not so bad by comparison, I guess, but the level of 'allternative facts' is unprecedented (and I think anybody who takes solace in others having it worse must be some kind of cruel sociopath wrapped in a dense layer of cotton - I don't enjoy looking down on others one bit).
I hope this is a populist viewpoint. I mean, common sense should be a populist viewpoint. I hope and pray it is a progressive viewpoint also and that the so-called progressive support for nuclear war is fake news.
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the problem of family differences so well. Your timing is perfect in my case, as just in the last week I had to wonder if I should estrange myself from family I love and respect totally because, if an argument about the Ukraine war starts, it may never end and because hurtful things could be said, by me especially, that I could never take back and that I would regret forever. The disinformation is solid like a rock. I can only envision photos or video of Azov battalion atrocities, and of Biden applauding them, as having a chance of breaking the spell.
#4.1 ...especially considering (FACT-CHECK ME, PLEASE) 80% of Twitter is "bots".
OTOH, apathy and denialism seems very real - certainly, the disparity between how some members of MY OWN FAMILY have behaved RE a bad flu with a 99+% survival-rate, and how they're now responding to this, is jeopardizing my faith in and esteem for them in a way I NEVER EVER would've imagined before.
I've heard horror-stories about politics causing civil wars in families, but mine NEVER used to be one of them...not before 2017 (also the year we lost our beloved patriarch - coincidence? How could it be?). It's still not so bad by comparison, I guess, but the level of 'allternative facts' is unprecedented (and I think anybody who takes solace in others having it worse must be some kind of cruel sociopath wrapped in a dense layer of cotton - I don't enjoy looking down on others one bit).
What does anyone else think? How does this measure up against Ritter's take?
I can only hope he's correct; my parents have booked a trip to NYC very soon, and I'm begging them not to go. The trouble is, this Jordan guy's just using common knowledge and common sense to make a prediction; I've seen that fail before, like when I felt confident the GOP would save Roe V Wade for the same reason Achenar always refused to legally lock it in - or Aaron's Mate's embarrassing-in-hindsight confidence that Russia wouldn't invade!
Ritter, OTOH, is an expert with inside information. One can only hope he's hypersensitized.
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Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
say essentially the same thing, that NATO has rejected the idea of admitting Ukraine as a member or of entering the war formally. But Ritter explains that, meanwhile, NATO is in the war, arming, training, providing intelligence, as is the U.S., and because Russia has accepted the four regions' vote to join the Russian Federation, NATO and the US are attacking Russia.
Snide remarks about how we consider the regions' referenda to be a sham don't cut the fact that Russia accepts them. Ritter is therefore fearful that our political leadership is not intellectually capable of handling the power they control. They're just not up to it. They're drunk on hubris.
Possibly today's news of Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure and leadership sites will shake them into a level of sobriety.
I've been super-upset ever since I saw this.
I've met Scott Ritter; I trust him. I take him seriously.
What does anyone else think? How does this measure up against Ritter's take?
I can only hope he's correct; my parents have booked a trip to NYC very soon, and I'm begging them not to go. The trouble is, this Jordan guy's just using common knowledge and common sense to make a prediction; I've seen that fail before, like when I felt confident the GOP would save Roe V Wade for the same reason Achenar always refused to legally lock it in - or Aaron's Mate's embarrassing-in-hindsight confidence that Russia wouldn't invade!
Ritter, OTOH, is an expert with inside information. One can only hope he's hypersensitized.
Snide remarks about how we consider the regions' referenda to be a sham don't cut the fact that Russia accepts them. Ritter is therefore fearful that our political leadership is not intellectually capable of handling the power they control. They're just not up to it. They're drunk on hubris.
America set the precedent for letting parts of countries do what Crimea and the Donbas has done when they broke up Yugoslavia and they didn’t even make people vote on it. It’s okay for US supported areas to do that, but not for their enemies like Russia and Gaza. No self rule for them even though it’s been authorized by the UN. Maybe accepted is a better word. But it really doesn’t matter what Blinky says because Russia can back up what they are doing. Plus it’s just more of America’s hypocrisy. Both areas had valid election observers watching the voting.
say essentially the same thing, that NATO has rejected the idea of admitting Ukraine as a member or of entering the war formally. But Ritter explains that, meanwhile, NATO is in the war, arming, training, providing intelligence, as is the U.S., and because Russia has accepted the four regions' vote to join the Russian Federation, NATO and the US are attacking Russia.
Snide remarks about how we consider the regions' referenda to be a sham don't cut the fact that Russia accepts them. Ritter is therefore fearful that our political leadership is not intellectually capable of handling the power they control. They're just not up to it. They're drunk on hubris.
Possibly today's news of Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure and leadership sites will shake them into a level of sobriety.
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Ritter spoke four days ago
about reasons to acknowledge the insanity of our policies.
[video:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ansXCLr9Z2s]
In the Suicide Pact video I posted earlier, there appears a small screen labeled "Garbage." I thought that was added by opponents of what Ritter is saying, but it is a reference to his video of a few days ago in which he calls some of our political assumptions garbage.
USA seems to have no Plan B if it’s proxy war in Ukraine fails.
The God Almighty Dollar is going to rule the planet…..or else! (sound of stamping feet and tantrum crescendos)
Meanwhile the majority of the worlds population considers a multi polar global economy based on a collective of Sovereign Nations, and international transactions in multiple currencies. The EU now faces a bleak winter and deconstruction of their manufacturing base due to lack of energy resources created by sanctions imposed against Russia.
We can only hope (and pray?) that cooler heads prevail and that our addled chief executive’s eructations do not actually reflect our nations intentions. I would welcome an intervention and large dose of well considered diplomacy in place of executive braggadocio and brinksmanship.
Is our entire government as insane and suicidal as Ritter thinks? I sure hope not.
“ …and when we destroy nature, we diminish our capacity to sense the divine,and understand who God is, and what our own potential is and duties are as human beings.- RFK jr. 8/26/2024
Something else to consider: EMP & HEMP weapons
Russia has an unknown capability with regard to non-nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) and High altitude Electromagnetic Pulse (HEMP) weapons.
This sounds like a more benign form of warfare than nuking every major city and incinerating all of their inhabitants.
“ …and when we destroy nature, we diminish our capacity to sense the divine,and understand who God is, and what our own potential is and duties are as human beings.- RFK jr. 8/26/2024
I'd rather hemp someone
than nuke them.
Better yet, I'd rather sit down and enjoy a peace pipe.
Travels yet undone.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
Plus Russia has a submarine that can cause a tsunami
on any country it wants to and recently went missing. An EMP would be very bad for people living where it went off. One second after is a story about what life was like when one went off over a town. Apparently Newt Grinwich was trying to bring the threat of one to congress attention but no one was interested in learning about it. Every car made after a certain year stopped working as well as everything made with computer chips. If a few went off over America we’d go back living in the early 1900's. Think about everything made in the last few decades stopping to work and imagine what life would be like.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
Sounds like a step in the right direction!
YMMV, and most would experience many unwelcome hardships, but ultimately it could be something that might at least partially restore the reality of our essential connection to the natural world and turn us in a direction of a more sustainable future for the whole planet. Such a shock to our technologically dependent way of life might be something that helps free us from the tyranny of the pernicious illusions being imposed upon us through the flat screen technologies that we now currently cling to as if our very lives and souls depend on them.
Who’s best interests are currently being served if not those of humanity and the larger natural world?
“ …and when we destroy nature, we diminish our capacity to sense the divine,and understand who God is, and what our own potential is and duties are as human beings.- RFK jr. 8/26/2024
I'm sure
it's not our entire government that's suicidal and insane, but it's definitely the part that runs our foreign policy that appears to be.
I question the "doctrine"
that would preclude a tactical nuclear response by NATO (the US), to a Russian nuclear strike on Ukraine. There is a concept in nuclear war planning, the so called limited nuclear strike option, that is tailored just for this sort of situation. Typically, it was felt that such a coordinated tactical nuclear strike plan, although "limited" in nature would take out the bulk of the opponents forces in a particular theater and forestall a nuclear counterstrike in return from the enemy (usually Russia but now also China), because the next step might likely incur the strategic nuclear response plan, rather than fooling around with tit for tat, isolated nuclear strikes.
語必忠信 行必正直
It's my understanding
that Putin has made the point repeatedly for over a decade that any launch of nuclear weapons against Russia would be met with Russia's total nuclear weapons response and that no one would survive such a war. That is why he has described the threat of putting nuclear weapons in Ukraine as a danger, not only to his country, but to everyone.
Nuclear missiles in Ukraine could reach Russia's defense systems and population centers in 5-7 minutes, he has said, which would not allow enough time to verify whether it was a mistake, a glich, or a nuclear attack. So he has repeated that Russia would respond to any launch with mutually assured destruction.
With all due respect, if what you mean by "a coordinated tactical nuclear strike," is meant to be something like Gen. Mattis informing the Russian military in advance of our strike on Syria that it was only a "show strike," not meant to harm Syria, I don't think the same logic applies. But I don't think that's what you meant. What did you mean?
Clearly, the nuclear weapons industry is fighting for its life in this period in which Russia and China are raising the standards of living of their workforces and in which most nations of the world have voted to outlaw nuclear weapons. So I understand the industry trying to visualize ways of making nuclear weapons "MORE USEABLE," as they have said it. But the rest of the world is in no mood to play such games with their children's future nor the future of life on earth.
Your concept is no match for the tripwire of MAD
Submarine launched hypersonic weapons can now reach DC in under a minute. No human can evaluate the possibility that it might be a “limited” attack and decide and communicate an override order of predetermined launch protocols in that amount of time. The computers controlling the system will “decide” the appropriate response, by default.
The doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction was insane when it was adopted, and remains so to this day. Your ‘limited nuclear strike option’ is a fairy tale, a very dangerous one.
“ …and when we destroy nature, we diminish our capacity to sense the divine,and understand who God is, and what our own potential is and duties are as human beings.- RFK jr. 8/26/2024
One can't be more mad about MAD than to
believe it is survivable, I think. but only the maddest politically involved still find some foul play to survive. What do i know? Who wants to live in a mad world with mad leaders? May an implosion is the best we can hope for and ignore explosions. Are you as confused and scared as i am?
What does the croupier say to roulette players: Rien ne va plus.
Right. Rien.
https://www.euronews.com/live
Perhaps the best we can hope for is for more interest in
seeking out our truth, wherever that may lead. What I ‘want’ is of little import, particularly in regards to the behavior of others. I have little choice about the reality of the world we are living in, or the unavoidable last breath that waits for us all. I acknowledge these constraints.
I can not change the world, except perhaps by changing the way in which I perceive and experience each moment's possibilities, questions, simple pleasures.
Living.
“ …and when we destroy nature, we diminish our capacity to sense the divine,and understand who God is, and what our own potential is and duties are as human beings.- RFK jr. 8/26/2024
But wasn't MAD
throughout the Cold War ultimately a positive, in that it deterred either nuclear power from launching knowing that both sides would be destroyed in the resulting missile exchange. Sounds mad and Doomsday and therefore forces both sides to think twice about a launching nuclear strike.
I agree with you
that such a premise made sense. But we now have leadership that explicitely states they are willing to destroy our country in order to prevail. This has been in our Nuclear Posture for a long time now. Psychopaths have risen to the top of our military leadership, while common sense military have to plead online for us to wake up.
There have been several ‘mistakes’ that nearly resulted
in nuclear Armageddon. Ritter mentions one instance in the ‘Garbage’ video above. MAD has only been ‘successful’ to date thanks to multiple examples of dumb luck and near misses. It’s no less insane today than it was in the beginning, and the day it fails is THE END.
“ …and when we destroy nature, we diminish our capacity to sense the divine,and understand who God is, and what our own potential is and duties are as human beings.- RFK jr. 8/26/2024
Meanwhile, the most prominent voice of sanity....
https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1578952000565571585
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
AMEN!
I hope this is a populist viewpoint. I mean, common sense should be a populist viewpoint. I hope and pray it is a progressive viewpoint also and that the so-called progressive support for nuclear war is fake news.
Support? Could well be...
...especially considering (FACT-CHECK ME, PLEASE) 80% of Twitter is "bots".
OTOH, apathy and denialism seems very real - certainly, the disparity between how some members of MY OWN FAMILY have behaved RE a bad flu with a 99+% survival-rate, and how they're now responding to this, is jeopardizing my faith in and esteem for them in a way I NEVER EVER would've imagined before.
I've heard horror-stories about politics causing civil wars in families, but mine NEVER used to be one of them...not before 2017 (also the year we lost our beloved patriarch - coincidence? How could it be?). It's still not so bad by comparison, I guess, but the level of 'allternative facts' is unprecedented (and I think anybody who takes solace in others having it worse must be some kind of cruel sociopath wrapped in a dense layer of cotton - I don't enjoy looking down on others one bit).
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
You have described
the problem of family differences so well. Your timing is perfect in my case, as just in the last week I had to wonder if I should estrange myself from family I love and respect totally because, if an argument about the Ukraine war starts, it may never end and because hurtful things could be said, by me especially, that I could never take back and that I would regret forever. The disinformation is solid like a rock. I can only envision photos or video of Azov battalion atrocities, and of Biden applauding them, as having a chance of breaking the spell.
somewhat reassuring
I've been super-upset ever since I saw this.
I've met Scott Ritter; I trust him. I take him seriously.
I don't know whoever this person is, but he does speak reason:
https://dossier.substack.com/p/why-zelenskys-world-war-iii-gambit
What does anyone else think? How does this measure up against Ritter's take?
I can only hope he's correct; my parents have booked a trip to NYC very soon, and I'm begging them not to go. The trouble is, this Jordan guy's just using common knowledge and common sense to make a prediction; I've seen that fail before, like when I felt confident the GOP would save Roe V Wade for the same reason Achenar always refused to legally lock it in - or Aaron's Mate's embarrassing-in-hindsight confidence that Russia wouldn't invade!
Ritter, OTOH, is an expert with inside information. One can only hope he's hypersensitized.
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
I've recently seen Ritter
say essentially the same thing, that NATO has rejected the idea of admitting Ukraine as a member or of entering the war formally. But Ritter explains that, meanwhile, NATO is in the war, arming, training, providing intelligence, as is the U.S., and because Russia has accepted the four regions' vote to join the Russian Federation, NATO and the US are attacking Russia.
Snide remarks about how we consider the regions' referenda to be a sham don't cut the fact that Russia accepts them. Ritter is therefore fearful that our political leadership is not intellectually capable of handling the power they control. They're just not up to it. They're drunk on hubris.
Possibly today's news of Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure and leadership sites will shake them into a level of sobriety.
I think Blinken is just making noise
America set the precedent for letting parts of countries do what Crimea and the Donbas has done when they broke up Yugoslavia and they didn’t even make people vote on it. It’s okay for US supported areas to do that, but not for their enemies like Russia and Gaza. No self rule for them even though it’s been
authorizedby the UN. Maybe accepted is a better word. But it really doesn’t matter what Blinky says because Russia can back up what they are doing. Plus it’s just more of America’s hypocrisy. Both areas had valid election observers watching the voting.The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt