26 months later, how's the effort to remove Putin working out?

Submitted by fire with fire on Sun, 05/19/2024 - 9:54am

Submitted by fire with fire on Wed, 03/16/2022 - 1:28pm

Nobody on Earth is as stupid as the Empire pretends to be.

Of course these "sanctions" will do nothing but send the fucked global economy into the status of Even More Fucked.

Tens of trillions of dollars worth of "money" have been pumped into the global economy since 2019 by the central banks of the world. This slush has filled the gap of diminished demand stemming from the lockdowns and consequent realignment of retail sales away from mom and pop stores to corporate sellers.

In my own not so typical pattern of daily life of regular business travel, my gross expenditures diminished by about six thousand dollars a month. The planes were always full and the hotels wre jammed. Virtually everybody I know saw their entertainment and travel expenditures all but disappear for most of the last two years.

This massive hole in aggregate demand would "normally" cause a "recession" and it will eventually do so once the Central Bank money spigot is turned off. In the mean time, all those trillions of dollars of fiat money will continue to sit in the stock and retail estate "markets" inflating the balance sheets of all the investors in the world.

That dam could break at any moment -- that is why they call it a crash.
Now with these utterly irrational "sanctions" starting to cause specific energy and food inflation spikes. coupled with the increased demand that will come with the end of Pandemic House Arresst, Push will say hello to Shove. Two independent crises will combine Weimar level inflation with 1930's level economic contraction. The "stagflation" that elected Ronald Reagan in 1980 will return with an order of magnitude more intensity.

All over the internet, I see disgusted voices talking about how stupid the Biden Government is. That assumes, of course, that they really are oblivious to the threat of nuclear war or the idiotic economics of these Sanctions.

https://caucus99percent.com/comment/564190#comment-564190

This was an excellent thread at the time.

Us random nobodies on the internet could see how absurd this "strategy" was. Why couldn't our highly educated elites get it?

Of course they know how destructive this crap was and continues to be.

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Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 05/19/2024 - 10:26am
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What the people think is not important to them. They act for the donor class. We are indeed an oligarchy...and I've only recently awoke to the fact it is a Zionist oligarchy.

Then of course there's blackmail a la Epstein ops. The carrot and the stick. And you better not step out of line! Look at what they're doing to the students.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” Upton Sinclair

I targeted the sanctions in my piece today. We're shooting ourselves in the foot.

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Submitted by on the cusp on Sun, 05/19/2024 - 1:25pm

as the Ukie war, as the attempt to separate China and Russia diplomatically, as the economic sanctions on any country we don't like, as the Gaza war, as Bidenomics, as...I could go on.

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Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Sun, 05/19/2024 - 2:12pm
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....Dmitry Orlov wrote last week on the same theme:

Since the very beginning of the Special Military Operation to Demilitarize and Denazify the Ukraine (SMODDU), Western propaganda was at full blast promoting the thesis about the complete inevitability of a revolution in Russia and the overthrow of the dread dictator Putin. This outcome was presented as intuitively obvious: the poor, desperate Russians, as soon as they are deprived of access to McDonald's, Netflix and video games, will rise up and overthrow Putin.

When that didn't happen, Western propaganda prophesied the inevitable collapse of the Russian army following the Russian retreat from Kiev, then Kharkov, then Kherson. Brave disciples of genocidal Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera, having received all manner of Western weapons, were about to begin taking one Russian city after another as they are being abandoned by the retreating Russians. And then the Russians will overthrow Putin.

When that didn't happen, the next wholesome trope, entirely independently advanced by the proudly independent Western media, was that the Ukrainian counteroffensive, launched in the summer of 2023, would decide the outcome of the war. Ukrainian tank columns, equipped with the best (or at least the most expensive) tanks in the world, would break through to Crimea... and then the Russians will finally overthrow Putin.

All this spring, the Western media propaganda machine, the power of which Goebbels himself would envy, has been furiously pumping out a primitive idea: unless Congress urgently votes lots of money to give to the US military-industrial complex, then the Bandera sect will be defeated... by the end of 2024. And... the Russians will finally overthrow Putin?

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Wait...

Looks like Western propagandists have lost the plot. Perhaps they were duly impressed by Putin receiving 87,28% of the vote with a record 77,49% turnout. But they shouldn't have: the idiots who have been accepting the "Russians will overthrow Putin" trope up until that point wouldn't have noticed anything amiss no matter what preceded the inevitable "...and then the Russians will overthrow Putin" coda.

But now the main refrain of the entire Ukraine propaganda campaign has disappeared! Something must have curled up and died inside the Western propaganda machine! The propagandists need to think faster, harder and deeper about what to say next.

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I have a suggestion for what Western media hacks could write if they ever, even for just a single, crazy, shining moment, decided to write something true: “A million people have died for absolutely nothing just because the US government had decided to support Ukrainian Nazis.”

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Excerpt from: "...and then the Russians will overthrow Putin! at Club Orlov

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Submitted by QMS on Sun, 05/19/2024 - 3:37pm
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@Pluto's Republic
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Is on the spooks table
#1 knowing he is fighting the global monster
#2 already planned a back-up plan in place
#3 set up to be a worse nightmare for the ptb
consequences ..
the man is smart enough to cover the bases

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Submitted by Crazytimes on Tue, 05/21/2024 - 9:38pm

@QMS I’m to the point I can’t be sure he’s not in on the whole thing. I think the tentacles of power in this world reach way further than the USA.

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Submitted by fire with fire on Tue, 05/21/2024 - 10:29pm

@Crazytimes @Crazytimes
I am not convinced that Putin is not in on the Big Scam we are experiencing. It seems to me most likely that he is a major player in the ongoing global clusterfuck.

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Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Wed, 05/22/2024 - 2:02am
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