Whirlwind of Wars

Are we on the brink of WWIII or are we already in it? There's a looming war with China. A NATO proxy war with Russia in Ukraine which has the west in a panic. Plus the Gaza genocide which has SW Asia in a swirl of conflict, and the global majority seeing the US as aiding and abetting the criminal conflict. Additionally our own government appears to be targeting its own people with health scams, mass migration, and the kabuki theater of election distraction to make us think we have options. Yeah right. All as the Biden regime conducts lawfare against Trump.
The positive news comes from the BRICS+ and their new world order prospering through cooperation. All this and more below the fold...

US Leaders Pushing for Three-Front War When They Can’t Handle One

“We don't have the means to fight that [one-front] war, let alone, a three-front war. Right now, we're doing very poorly. The United States is doing very poorly just trying to work through a proxy against Russia,” Maloof explained. “If you have a direct confrontational approach to war with Russia, then China and… Iran, there’s no way the United States is going to be able to sustain that.”... “We don’t have the industrial capability right now [to fight a war with China.] We’d have to shift our industries,” explained Maloof. “It would take a considerable amount of time given the sophistication of the weapons we use, as opposed to WWII.”...
On Monday, a bipartisan group of US representatives visited Taiwan against the protests of Beijing, promising Taiwanese lawmakers that the US-supplied weapons would be coming soon and publicly warning China from invading the island.
“In disregard of China’s strong opposition, relevant members of the US Congress still decided to visit Taiwan, which violates the one-China principle, the three China-US joint communiqués, and the US government’s own political commitment to maintaining only unofficial relations with the Taiwan region, and sends a severely wrong signal to ‘Taiwan independence’ separatist forces,” ...
On Wednesday, Yemeni Houthi forces announced that they had brought down a US MQ-9 Reaper reconnaissance and strike drone. The US claimed that the drone was lost due to technical problems but it was the sixth such drone to be lost over Yemen since the Houthi movement began blockading the Red Sea against ships it says are connected to Israel.
Despite a nearly $1 trillion budget, the United States military is unable to secure a major shipping lane from a government they don’t officially recognize in one of the poorest countries in the world, resulting in a 50% reduction of shipping through the Suez Canal compared to last year...
Yet lawmakers in the US are openly brag about the war not only with China but with Russia and Iran as well, all significantly more powerful opponents than the Yemeni Houthis.

I think TPTB are willing to lose. The purpose is profit.

The best explanation I heard this week of all three conflicts comes from Tony Norfield, UK banker.

(65 min)

Another conversation covering a variety of topics...
Jeffrey Sachs: The Untold History of the Cold War, CIA Coups Around the World, and COVID's Origin Tucker's interview with Jeff. (2.5 hours)

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: How Dangerous To Threaten Nukes. (24 min)

Why all the warmongering? Because it is profitable. Much of it is farmed out to private corporations. How the US privatized WAR (10 min)

The ways of war are changing. Artificial intelligence is used to bomb families in Gaza. Flying drones are deployed to track down refugees on the US-Mexico border.
But the biggest change is the one we talk about the least: the privatization of war. From Yemen to Sudan, Syria to Nigeria, tens of thousands of guns for hire now fight on behalf of foreign powers.

Let's start with our least hot war with China on this merry-go-round of US warmongering.

This was an informative back ground into the current US-Taiwan relationship.
Defense Chiefs Talk Taiwan, As U.S. Lawmakers Stoke Tensions with Anti-China Delegation
w/ KJ Noh and Rachel Blevins (20 min)
The Defense chiefs from the U.S. and China came face-to-face for the first time in two years this week, on the sidelines of a summit in Singapore, where U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin complained about Chinese military activities in the South China Sea, and Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun warned the U.S. to stay out of Beijing's internal affairs.
Journalist and Geopolitical Analyst KJ Noh noted that while in-person communication is a step in the right direction, it shouldn't take away from the fact that the U.S. continues to stoke tensions with China, especially in Taiwan, where a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers sent a delegation this week...

the US has ... used the issue of Taiwan in its efforts to see China ‘weakened’. That is why this supplemental appropriation allots $8.1 billion for ‘Indo-Pacific security’, including $3.9 billion in armaments for Taiwan and $3.3 billion for submarine construction in the US. Taiwan is not alone as a potential frontline state in this pressure campaign against China: the newly formed Squad, made up of Australia, Japan, the Philippines, and the US, uses solvable conflicts between the Philippines and China as opportunities to weaponise dangerous manoeuvres with the hope of provoking a reaction from China that would give the US an excuse to attack it.

Our new dossier, The New Cold War is Sending Tremors Through Northeast Asia, published in collaboration with the International Strategy Centre (Seoul, South Korea) and No Cold War, argues that ‘the US-led New Cold War against China is destabilising Northeast Asia along the region’s historic fault lines as part of a broader militarisation campaign that extends from Japan and South Korea, through the Taiwan Strait and the Philippines, all the way to Australia and the Pacific Islands’. The bogeyman for this build-up in what the US calls the ‘Indo-Pacific’ (a term developed to draw India into the alliance to encircle China) is North Korea, whose nuclear and missile programmes are used to justify asymmetrical mobilisation along the Pacific edge of Asia. That South Korea’s military budget in 2023 ($47.9 billion) was more than twice North Korea’s GDP ($20.6 billion) in the same year is just one example that highlights this imbalance. This use of North Korea, the dossier argues, ‘has always been a fig leaf for US containment strategies – first against the Soviet Union and today against China’.

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Pepe discusses the likely evolution of a war with China and reviews the three major fronts facing the west today and the decline of the US empire.

(about 8 min) The entire hour interview is good with Pepe describing his experience and evolution as a journalist.

Let's see, has China surrounded the US with bases?

No, it is the other way around. So who is pushing for war? Duh!

As Taiwan rattles the threat of independence, China conducts military exercises around the island. China military drills: Taiwan mobilises forces as exercise begins (4 min)
Taiwan has mobilised its forces -- after China launched two days of military exercises...
Chinese state Television released this map of drills being held around the island...
They're taking place days after Lai Ching-te was inaugurated as president -- with a promise to maintain Taiwan's sovereignty. China has ramped up drills since his election win in January.
“Taiwan’s Independence Means War” as Xi Jinping’s Military Surrounds Taiwan (10 min)
Lai’s election to office has angered China and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Just after the swearing-in ceremony of the Taiwanese President, Beijing launched large-scale two-day military drills around Taiwan. China send over 40 warships along with 111 aircraft including J-10, J-11, and H-6 long-range bombers to surround Taiwan. Meanwhile, the island responded with its military as F-16 and Mirage-2000 jets monitored Chinese activity. Now, coming in support of Taiwan were Japan and the United States. President Joe Biden even sent a senior lawmaker to Taiwan to reaffirm American support to Taiwan.

Larry Wilkerson on Taiwan in the first few minutes...

Plus, Taiwan, Ukraine, Israel - US failures (25 min)

Let move to the collapsing Ukraine proxy war where the west with increasing frustration wants to escalate by sending in NATO troops, encouraging missile strikes deep into Russia, and trying to provoke Russia to strike a NATO nation.

Pepe Escobar: The West is Hell-Bent on Provoking Russia Into Hot War

The warning by President Putin could not be starker: “In the event of the use of long-range weapons, the Russian Armed Forces will again have to make decisions about expanding the sanitary zone further (…) Do they want global conflict? It seemed they wanted to negotiate [with us], but we don’t see much desire to do this.” ...
It does not get more serious than that. “They”, as Putin alluded to, do seem to want “global conflict”. That’s at the heart of NATO’s new suicidal “ecstasy” strategy.
The escalation “ecstasy” defined by Peskov went out of control since a – secret - new batch of ATACMS was dispatched to Kiev earlier this year, complemented with longer-range ATACMS. Kiev has been using them for serious hits on Russian air bases and key air defense nodes. These ATACMS fire missiles at Mach 3 speed: a serious challenge even for the best Russian air defense systems.
All that seems to point to a crucial decision enveloped in several layers of fog: as the incoming, cosmic NATO humiliation in the black soil of Novorossiya becomes self-evident day after day, the Western elites who really run the show are betting on provoking a full Hot War against Russia.
Richard H. Black, a former US senator from Virginia:
The escalation “ecstasy” defined by Peskov went out of control since a – secret - new batch of ATACMS was dispatched to Kiev earlier this year, complemented with longer-range ATACMS. Kiev has been using them for serious hits on Russian air bases and key air defense nodes. These ATACMS fire missiles at Mach 3 speed: a serious challenge even for the best Russian air defense systems.
All that seems to point to a crucial decision enveloped in several layers of fog: as the incoming, cosmic NATO humiliation in the black soil of Novorossiya becomes self-evident day after day, the Western elites who really run the show are betting on provoking a full Hot War against Russia.
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And still the gaggle of armchair Dr. Strangeloves – lavishly rewarded by the rarified Atlanticist plutocracy holding real power, funds, influence and mass media control - is not listening.

We are a nation of fools ruled by even bigger fools.

No Matter What the U.S. Does to Arm Ukraine, There Is No Path To Victory
23 May 2024 by Larry Johnson

The brink of dissolution: Neurosis in the West as the levee breaks Alastair Crooke

Sergey Lavrov Full Interview: US Missile Threats, Strategic Partnership With China, Ukraine Conflict

The Duran weighs in on the foolishness of the west...
US/NATO escalation to strike Russia (45 min)
ATACMS, F16s, boots on the ground; Russian warnings ignored (40 min)
In the first clip, Alexander comments that "the Neocons create and live in their own narrative."

Is Georgia Ukraine 2.0?
Scott Ritter: Georgian 'Foreign Agents' Law Exposes Western Influence and Protects Sovereignty
Georgia's "foreign agents bill," which designates non-governmental organizations (NGOs) receiving more than 20 percent of their funding from abroad as "pursuing the interests of a foreign power," became law on May 28. The US immediately announced sanctions against Georgian politicians backing the legislation, while the EU threatened to freeze the country’s candidate status.
One might wonder as to why the law, which resembles the US' Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), has been received with such animosity in the West. The crux of the matter is that the legislation is aimed at exposing the West's deep disrespect of Georgia's sovereignty.
"In Georgia today, as we speak, there are 27,000 Western-funded NGOs. What are these non-governmental organizations doing? It's about buying a generation of Georgian citizens, a young generation, a generation that has lost touch with who they are and what they are as Georgians, a generation that is out of touch with the reality of what happened to Georgia in the 1990s,"

The Duran also discussed the situation in Georgia.
Georgia passes foreign agents law. Armenia protests (20 min)

Gaza Genocide Continues despite the proposed three part ceasefire.

Max Blumenthal: How Zionism Hurts the Jews. (23 min)

Max Blumenthal: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, West Bank, Iran, Egypt, Netanyahu, Biden, Trump, China. (52 min)
In this podcast, we hosted Max Blumenthal of the Grayzone to discuss what is going on in Gaza at the moment, especially with the invasion of Rafah and the renewed atrocities in north Gaza. We then discussed how Max sees the role of Egypt and Jordan in this conflict. We also discussed his thoughts on the Palestinian Authority. From there we talk about Iran and the American attitude to spreading the conflict in Palestine to Iran. We also discussed Grayzone's expose of the New York Times Dec 28 coverage on systemic use of sexual violence by Hamas on October 7. Finally, we discussed the US-China relationship and the prospect of peace in the future.

Rather than stop weapons to Israel Biden double-downed on it (13 min)

We know the US has no red lines for Israel, says Lara Elborno. International law imposes many red lines, including genocide, the strictest of red lines

Don't forget about the Houthis. They are able to continue striking ships and US drones.
$180m worth of US military hardware is junk courtesy of the Houthis. (10 min)
...whilst too many eyes were on the results of the hush money trial, Genocide Joe decided to bomb Yemen again all of a sudden, with Rishi Sunak following suit as fast as his little legs could carry him and why? Well handing more arms to Ukraine and allowing Israel to continue to pound Gaza doesn’t seem to be enough war for him, so with the Houthis continuing to make nuisances of themselves for pro Israel forces, not least the US itself, he’s decided to have another go at them as well. Israel is literally bombing tents at this point and not only is that fine and not crossing a red line, as far as Genocide Joe is concerned, but is aiding them once again by attacking one of the nations still determined to hold Israel to account, even if he won’t.
Right, so overnight Yemen has been struck by a joint US and UK force, the first such strike on the Houthis in 3 months, that has, according to the Associated Press killed 16 and wounded some 35 others. 13 different locations, including the Houthi occupied capita of Sanaa and the port of Aden were struck, though of the targets hit, from telecommunications towers to missile launchers, to one the Houthis boats, but the Houthis themselves drew attention to just one of them, in another port city of Hodeida, where a building that housed civilians as well as Hodeida Radio, was hit and they’ve drawn attention to this particular target because they claim all those hit there were civilians and are now promising even more retaliation against US and UK forces for having carried out this attack on them.
Let’s remember that the Houthis are only doing what they are doing because the US and the UK are doing what they are doing to aid and abet the genocide Israel is meting out in Gaza. Yemen are standing by Gaza, standing by the victims, the occupied and so here we have Western forces attacking them again, but it is not coming without cost. You see the Houthis have not only of course been making a nuisance of themselves to pro Israel forces, they’ve been doing so on the cheap and they’ve been getting better and better at it as time is going on, hence this apparent escalation in direct attacks upon them by the US and UK, the most ardent of pro Israel nations right now, both in sore need of a leadership shake up, neither looking particularly likely to do so in any meaningful way sadly.
Just yesterday, for example, a home made missile took down what was their 6th MQ-9 Reaper drone since October 7th, these things worth some $30m each and it does tickle me in a dark sort of way to imagine a couple of Houthis in a shed somewhere risking blowing themselves up to build a missile that was capable of taking one of these stupidly expensive horrible things down and they’ve done it 6 times now, hence there now being some $180m worth of US hardware, now junk, littering the Yemeni landscape.

Hopes for a ceasefire: Biden announces new proposal to end the war (2.7 min)
Israel's opposition is urging the government to accept a new ceasefire proposal for Gaza. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said conditions haven't changed and he won't accept a permanent ceasefire until Hamas is destroyed.

Israeli Statistics Re Palestinian Attacks on Israelis and Foreigners
Larry Johnson's update clearly lays out who has promoted more violence...Israel or Hamas.

The US protests will continue...
‘New Era of Struggle’: Thousands Convene to Strategize Future of Palestine Movement (14 min)

After eight months of Israel's genocide, where does the movement for Palestine go next?
That was precisely the question taken up by the People's Conference for Palestine in Detroit.

The meeting above is organizing this event June 8th in DC

The War on US and Western Citizens

The Plandemic demonstrated clearly the ability of TPTB to control the population.
They Knew What They Were Doing! (25 min)

Jimmy and Micki Willis discuss his documentary series Plandemic, the first two of which are available at the link.

TPTB want us sick. They promote processed addictive foods with toxic ingredients.

The food pyramid is a lie that was concocted by the government to hide the rising cost of food including meat and dairy. The WEF continues to push cereal and plant based nutrition.

My hypothesis is that it is about profitability of big food, big pharma, and the health system.

(1.5 min)

The Lie That Made Food Conglomerates Rich...And Is Slowly Poisoning Us (13 min)

Nestle, Kellogg’s, and other big food conglomerates have been funding a massive misinformation campaign to make you think their foods are healthy.
Their goal is to get you addicted, and make billions in profits. It’s straight from Big Tobacco's playbook — literally.

Then there's the mass migration into the US...paid for by the Citizens.
"What this DHS guy said TERRIFIED me to the core" (15 min)

The US government working hand in hand with Non Government Organizations... or NGO's to bring millions of illegals into the united states. If you don't think this is all planned you need to get your head examined.

She's EXPOSING The Globalist Illegal Immigration Agenda (10 min)
Russell discusses mass illegal immigration with Naomi Wolf.

Today we have the pro-Palestinian protests, in 2021 we had January 6, and 2020 saw the Black Lives Matter protests. I'm looking forward to learning more about the Floyd murder in the film,
The Fall of Minneapolis
I not seen it to recommend it but heard an interview with the two that put it together.
The film is based on Liz Collin’s Amazon bestseller, “They’re Lying: The Media, The Left, and The Death of George Floyd,” which exposes the holes in the prevailing narrative surrounding George Floyd’s death, the trial of Derek Chauvin, and the fallout the city of Minneapolis has suffered ever since.
The documentary features more than a dozen interviews with the people directly involved, including exclusive interviews with former officers Derek Chauvin and Alexander Kueng who spoke to Liz Collin from prison. The families of Chauvin and Kueng also speak out publicly for the first time.
The film also features current and former Minneapolis police officers who tell their harrowing stories from the riots, recount the planned surrender of the Third Precinct, and explain why so many of them left the job.
Sounds interesting anyway, and something always seem odd about the BLM protests to me.

When TPTB kicked Trump off Twitter, I objected saying you will be next. Now I'm saying the same thing about weaponizing the Just Us system and creating a lawfare system. From now till the election plan on hearing Trump, the convicted felon at every opportunity much like the label, Iranian backed Houthis.

Tyranny is upon us: Law and juries are weaponized. PCR

Jury Finds Trump Guilty on All 34 Felony Charges in New York Trial
Keep in mind that these are 34 made-up felonies based on how an expense was recorded by accountants and attorneys. Trump did not record the expense.The expense was recorded according to accounting standards.
Keep in mind that a single accounting reporting charge, a misdemeanor, was magically turned into 34 federal felonies of election violations, if memory serves, the argument being that Trump won the election by misreporting the expense. There are so many civil and criminal show trials going on against Trump that it is hard to keep track of all the absurdities. Keep in mind that it is a case without complainants, without harmed parties.
It is a case brought by a prosecutor who can show no party harmed.

Similar to the case of overvaluing property to get a loan WHICH WAS REPAID!

Robert Barnes explains the case and convection in the first few minutes and goes into detail over the rest of the clip...

Robert Barnes on the Donald Trump Conviction

The Trump Trial Harkens Back to a Dark Period of American Law (Turley)

Even liberal legal analysts and figures have admitted that the case against Trump was unprecedented and would not have been brought against anyone other than Trump. CNN legal analyst Elie Honig recently wrote that there should be concern over a judge being appointed (not randomly selected) who is not just a Biden donor but someone who “has earmarked donations for ‘resisting the Republican Party and Donald Trump’s radical right-wing legacy.’” Adding to these concerns is the movement of the third-highest official in the Biden Justice Department to the staff of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to build the case against Trump. Before joining the case, Matthew Colangelo was also paid by the Democratic National Committee for “political consulting.” So Trump was convicted in a trial with a Biden donor judge, who has a daughter who is a major Democratic operative, a lead prosecutor previously paid as a DNC political consultant and a jury selected in a district that voted roughly 90% against Trump.
The trial itself was a travesty. Even after sitting in the courtroom watching the trial and the verdict, I still have no idea what Trump was convicted of in the case. The charges were built on a dead misdemeanor barred with the passage of the statute of limitations. It was zapped back into life by alleging that the falsification of business records occurred to unlawfully influence the 2016 presidential election. Merchan told the jury members that they did not have to agree on what those unlawful means may have been. Specifically, he allowed them to base their verdict on any one of three vaguely defined crimes of a federal election violation, falsification of business records or taxation violations.

I'm not a Trump fan, but I'm more opposed to weaponizing the legal system than I am opposed to Trump. The propaganda creating Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) has been very effective. Many of my friends are infected and still believe the false Russiagate narrative. Most of them read the WaPo and NYT...not a coincidence.

US President Joe Biden has called on Americans to accept the guilty verdict handed down to his political rival, Donald Trump. Biden argued that his presidential predecessor was “reckless” and “irresponsible” to suggest that the trial was orchestrated by the White House.

Alex opened yesterday with a demonic smile from Biden when asked if he orchestrated the trial and conviction.

The great irony of it all is that it is and will backfire, much like sanctions.
The Democrats just sealed Donald Trump’s victory in November

The Orange Man’s guilty verdict will only make him stronger, and real jail time is unlikely
Members of the Democratic Party continue to fail to understand that the more mud they fling at the former president, the dirtier they look by comparison.
Because the crimes are nonviolent and Trump has no prior convictions, any chance of prison time is a long shot. What could happen instead is that Judge Juan Merchan could sentence him to house arrest – which would undoubtedly make ankle bracelets, much like the famous Trump ‘mug shot,’ the latest fashion accessory – probation or some other lighter form of supervised release.
Another option that would backfire in the Democratic Party’s face is the imposition of community service. While Democrats may relish the idea of Trump being forced to join a prison work gang as punishment, it’s too easy to imagine millions of Trump supporters turning out at some soup kitchen or animal shelter to throw their support behind the most controversial figure in American politics today.

Donald Trump raised $53 Million Dollars in SMALL DOLLAR DONATIONS in 24 Hours!

From the other cheek of the same ass...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is attempting to prevent the release of the audio of the infamous “memory interview” between US President Joe Biden and special counsel Robert Hur, arguing that “deepfakes” may appear as a result. Hur was investigating Biden’s handling of classified documents he obtained as a senator and vice president. While Hur wrote in his report that Biden likely violated the law intentionally, he declined to press charges because he thought Biden would appear to the jury as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” It also noted that Biden had trouble remembering when he was vice president and which year his son Beau died. The DOJ issued a filing on Friday that argued “The passage of time and advancements in audio, artificial intelligence, and ‘deep fake’ technologies only amplify concerns about malicious manipulation of audio files. If the audio recording is released here, it is easy to foresee that it could be improperly altered, and that the altered file could be passed off as an authentic recording and widely distributed.”

So it is go after Trump and run cover for Biden. It is Orwellian alright.

So the war on citizens, you and me, is varied and on multiple levels. It is weird thinking of your own government as being after you, but it is what it is.

The Good News comes from the other side of the world where the effort to create prosperity through cooperation is the goal. Pepe explains...

Putin and Xi's Move to Checkmate NATO | Pepe Escobar

(26 min)

To conclude this long and intense Whirlwind...
We are indeed enmeshed in a whirlwind of war. The US/NATO power block only understands escalation and refuses to back down or compromise. Wars overseas and war at home against their own citizens. Loyal only to personal profit and the WEF agenda. Do any of you see a means of correction? Voting sure won't do it...the system is broken and the Constitution is ignored meaning there are no rules except those TPTB enforce, many created on the spot. As I often say, my only solution is to hide here in the holler. I love the US for its people, natural resources, and beautiful ecosystems, but I am disgusted with the nature of the US government. We are the evil empire, and I feel caught in the filth of our actions.

As always, I look forward to your stories, insights, and thoughts below. Have a great Sunday!