The trouble with Russia - it's the same set of structures as the old USSR. Appearances changed, but the substance is the same, they didn't have the revolution needed to get rid of the Soviet ideology.
For me (and possibly for many others), I think you're misinterpreting what you think is support for Putin. Tucker and MacGregor, who have pointed out that the American people have been lied to repeatedly, and who are grateful to get the truth. Tucker has said he doesn't want his children to grow up in a nation that has been selling lies to the country. He's been fawning a lot about Moscow, but his interview with Chris Cuomo (who challenges Tucker on this) reveals that Tucker yearns for a more simple and innocent time where cleanliness and safety of cities, the culture and architecture aren't seen as opporessive as we've seemed to be heading in the US.
Nobody is under the illusion that Putin is a saint, what with all the obvious banana peels that have been carelessly discarded near open windows on upper floors and roofs of tall buildings, and the coincidental falls from those same open windows and roofs by opponents of Putin, each plunging to their deaths. Purely coincidental, comrade.
We simply want our presence in this proxy war to end, as well as our continuing funding of a corrupt regime with our tax dollars that are being used to funnel back to politicians in the form of kickbacks and lobbying dollars from military contractors, whose major shareholders include the globalist firms .
We're tired of endless wars, spineless politicians and our tax dollars to pay for the deaths of so many.
Do enough research on them and you’ll realize what I said.
Macgregor has been wrong all along. Said the Russians would defeat Ukraine in a matter of days, weeks. 700-some days later the battle continues.
Morris refers to and interviews the pedophile Scott Ritter (former UN weapons inspector) as some sort of expert all the time. Carlson looked like a bewildered high school history student in his “interview” while sitting listening to Putin’s twisted version of Russian history and Kremlin propaganda talking points. The political Right is being infiltrated by the Russians via the same old tool…propaganda…and it is using the conservative media to do it today.
The trouble is, is that the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 was negotiated and still exists and is in force, where Ukraine was conned out of its nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees from Russia, the UK, and the US. If Ukraine had retained those weapons, Putin would never have dared to invade, and Ukraine, as the place where the rockets and engines for Russia’s Strategic Rocket Forces were designed and manufactured, definitely had the capability to modernize them. Although neither US nor UK has boots on the ground - as could reasonably be expected for a guarantee of border integrity - they've been doing something - selling, not donating, arms and materiel. This isn't a proxy war, this is the US acting kindasorta to back up a 30 year old treaty obligation.
The US refuses to put “boots on the ground” and planes in the air, and whatever else it takes to put the guarantee in force, and if Trump gets elected, may welsh on every guarantee and treaty it has made in the past 70 years, leaving American credibility in negotiations at close to zero - with the same effect on American power in world affairs. And the primary beneficiaries of that are the Russians and the Chinese Communist Party - and that’s something for Americans to think, and think hard, about.
The upshot is, is that in both the short and long run, the US needs to do what it can to ensure that Russia is defeated. It can hand back Ukraine’s nuclear weapons and walk away, it can put US troops on the ground, or it can send weaponry and materiel sufficient for Ukraine to defeat the Russians - because that’s what the US promised to do in 1994. And from here on out, unless the US is willing to back up its “full faith and credit” with meaningful and effective action, it can sink into the shadows of history, no one will be so foolish again to risk their safety and security on the word of the US government. And that will have consequences for America and its people, and none of them good.
If we're going to keep printing and spending money and trying to keep inflation high enough to attract investors that we'll end up paying more towards, just to keep a war going, we're going to end up like Russia did in the late 80's. Broke, and unable to keep our own country safe.
They're baiting us to keep spending ourselves into oblivion, and we keep taking the bait.
First of all, we've got treaty obligations to defend their territory - including Crimea. Obama abjectly failed in that in 2014 and just allowed the Russians to march in and take over - and the CIA/DIA aren't dumb, they knew what was going on. And in 2022 there was no surprise, either. Maybe Grandpa Joe was surprised, but not the IC, in fact we and a few others warned Zelenskyy a month in advance. And we kind of have been fulfilling our obligation in a half-assed way, not by sending billions of dollars in money to Ukraine so they could go to an arms merchant and buy stuff, but by sending them 30- and 40-year-old weapons and materiel, which would have been headed for the scrapyard otherwise, and valuing the stuff at its acquisition prices from long ago. It just so happens that the Ukrainians were able to put the stuff to very good use. If we were to stop screwing around and really live up to our treaty obligations, the Russian Army would last about as long as the Italian Army under similar circumstances.
If you want to address the debt problem, get rid of the DEI deadwood every place it exists, and put them to work doing manual labor, that's all they're fit for...
Btw, much of this article was written by a geopolitical analyst, a man who is quite expert on the Communist movement over the past 40 years, Jeff Nyquist.
But he is not credited as the author here on this article. Why is that? Is this common on this Substack to throw up articles written by others and never cite or acknowledge their work? Or is it purposely anonymous?
I set excerpts of articles - the originals are much longer - off in quotes - and provide links to the original work. I set my own comments off in italics. The reason I used the amounts I used is that the works are important and should be read. In my experience, few people follow links, and I'd rather give the original language than do a paraphrase. Putting excerpts in italics - especially long excerpts - makes them less readable, and what I want is for people to read the research which has been done. I have set the excerpts off in block quotes, their work obviously isn't mine, and I don't take credit for the work of others. If you can suggest a better, more effective way to do this, I'm all ears.
Also, come to think of it, I could have written this myself - I've been looking at the post-Soviet situation for over 30 years, starting with knowing Russians who came over to the US in 1990 and were part of the Cincinnati punk rock scene. I've got samizdat from back in the 1980s, too... and got on Tom Snyder's radio show in the early 1990s when he was putting out a bunch of really ignorant happy talk about the "change" in Russia - he had a Russian guest on - and one of my comments was that the Russian nomenklatura had stayed solidly in place - and his guest agreed with me, that the appearances had changed, but not the underlying structure - unlike the situation in the Eastern Bloc countries where they'd had real change. And Tom was clueless about the term "nomenklatura" and when his guest said that I was entirely right, and then told him what "nomenklatura" meant, Snyder went into a towering rage, went to a "commercial break", cussed me out on the phone, said I'd be blacklisted for as long as he could manage, and hung up. I shot his little piece of propaganda down in flames on nationally-syndicated live radio, and there wasn't shit that Snyder could do about it. So Mr Nyquist's piece saved me a lot of typing - I'm lazy like that - and said the things that needed to be said. People here are kept clueless by media...
Part of it may be that the Russians are the only ones (on the planet) standing up to President Biden and the current White House. The proverbial "enemy of my enemy". Equally disturbing is how many American Conservatives still see Donald Trump as their savior.
For me (and possibly for many others), I think you're misinterpreting what you think is support for Putin. Tucker and MacGregor, who have pointed out that the American people have been lied to repeatedly, and who are grateful to get the truth. Tucker has said he doesn't want his children to grow up in a nation that has been selling lies to the country. He's been fawning a lot about Moscow, but his interview with Chris Cuomo (who challenges Tucker on this) reveals that Tucker yearns for a more simple and innocent time where cleanliness and safety of cities, the culture and architecture aren't seen as opporessive as we've seemed to be heading in the US.
Nobody is under the illusion that Putin is a saint, what with all the obvious banana peels that have been carelessly discarded near open windows on upper floors and roofs of tall buildings, and the coincidental falls from those same open windows and roofs by opponents of Putin, each plunging to their deaths. Purely coincidental, comrade.
We simply want our presence in this proxy war to end, as well as our continuing funding of a corrupt regime with our tax dollars that are being used to funnel back to politicians in the form of kickbacks and lobbying dollars from military contractors, whose major shareholders include the globalist firms .
We're tired of endless wars, spineless politicians and our tax dollars to pay for the deaths of so many.
Carlson and Macgregor are Russian shills. As is another Faux News personality Clayton Morris.
And you wouldn't be an alphabet soup salesman would you?
Do enough research on them and you’ll realize what I said.
Macgregor has been wrong all along. Said the Russians would defeat Ukraine in a matter of days, weeks. 700-some days later the battle continues.
Morris refers to and interviews the pedophile Scott Ritter (former UN weapons inspector) as some sort of expert all the time. Carlson looked like a bewildered high school history student in his “interview” while sitting listening to Putin’s twisted version of Russian history and Kremlin propaganda talking points. The political Right is being infiltrated by the Russians via the same old tool…propaganda…and it is using the conservative media to do it today.
The trouble is, is that the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 was negotiated and still exists and is in force, where Ukraine was conned out of its nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees from Russia, the UK, and the US. If Ukraine had retained those weapons, Putin would never have dared to invade, and Ukraine, as the place where the rockets and engines for Russia’s Strategic Rocket Forces were designed and manufactured, definitely had the capability to modernize them. Although neither US nor UK has boots on the ground - as could reasonably be expected for a guarantee of border integrity - they've been doing something - selling, not donating, arms and materiel. This isn't a proxy war, this is the US acting kindasorta to back up a 30 year old treaty obligation.
The US refuses to put “boots on the ground” and planes in the air, and whatever else it takes to put the guarantee in force, and if Trump gets elected, may welsh on every guarantee and treaty it has made in the past 70 years, leaving American credibility in negotiations at close to zero - with the same effect on American power in world affairs. And the primary beneficiaries of that are the Russians and the Chinese Communist Party - and that’s something for Americans to think, and think hard, about.
The upshot is, is that in both the short and long run, the US needs to do what it can to ensure that Russia is defeated. It can hand back Ukraine’s nuclear weapons and walk away, it can put US troops on the ground, or it can send weaponry and materiel sufficient for Ukraine to defeat the Russians - because that’s what the US promised to do in 1994. And from here on out, unless the US is willing to back up its “full faith and credit” with meaningful and effective action, it can sink into the shadows of history, no one will be so foolish again to risk their safety and security on the word of the US government. And that will have consequences for America and its people, and none of them good.
If we're going to keep printing and spending money and trying to keep inflation high enough to attract investors that we'll end up paying more towards, just to keep a war going, we're going to end up like Russia did in the late 80's. Broke, and unable to keep our own country safe.
They're baiting us to keep spending ourselves into oblivion, and we keep taking the bait.
First of all, we've got treaty obligations to defend their territory - including Crimea. Obama abjectly failed in that in 2014 and just allowed the Russians to march in and take over - and the CIA/DIA aren't dumb, they knew what was going on. And in 2022 there was no surprise, either. Maybe Grandpa Joe was surprised, but not the IC, in fact we and a few others warned Zelenskyy a month in advance. And we kind of have been fulfilling our obligation in a half-assed way, not by sending billions of dollars in money to Ukraine so they could go to an arms merchant and buy stuff, but by sending them 30- and 40-year-old weapons and materiel, which would have been headed for the scrapyard otherwise, and valuing the stuff at its acquisition prices from long ago. It just so happens that the Ukrainians were able to put the stuff to very good use. If we were to stop screwing around and really live up to our treaty obligations, the Russian Army would last about as long as the Italian Army under similar circumstances.
If you want to address the debt problem, get rid of the DEI deadwood every place it exists, and put them to work doing manual labor, that's all they're fit for...
Btw, much of this article was written by a geopolitical analyst, a man who is quite expert on the Communist movement over the past 40 years, Jeff Nyquist.
But he is not credited as the author here on this article. Why is that? Is this common on this Substack to throw up articles written by others and never cite or acknowledge their work? Or is it purposely anonymous?
I set excerpts of articles - the originals are much longer - off in quotes - and provide links to the original work. I set my own comments off in italics. The reason I used the amounts I used is that the works are important and should be read. In my experience, few people follow links, and I'd rather give the original language than do a paraphrase. Putting excerpts in italics - especially long excerpts - makes them less readable, and what I want is for people to read the research which has been done. I have set the excerpts off in block quotes, their work obviously isn't mine, and I don't take credit for the work of others. If you can suggest a better, more effective way to do this, I'm all ears.
Also, come to think of it, I could have written this myself - I've been looking at the post-Soviet situation for over 30 years, starting with knowing Russians who came over to the US in 1990 and were part of the Cincinnati punk rock scene. I've got samizdat from back in the 1980s, too... and got on Tom Snyder's radio show in the early 1990s when he was putting out a bunch of really ignorant happy talk about the "change" in Russia - he had a Russian guest on - and one of my comments was that the Russian nomenklatura had stayed solidly in place - and his guest agreed with me, that the appearances had changed, but not the underlying structure - unlike the situation in the Eastern Bloc countries where they'd had real change. And Tom was clueless about the term "nomenklatura" and when his guest said that I was entirely right, and then told him what "nomenklatura" meant, Snyder went into a towering rage, went to a "commercial break", cussed me out on the phone, said I'd be blacklisted for as long as he could manage, and hung up. I shot his little piece of propaganda down in flames on nationally-syndicated live radio, and there wasn't shit that Snyder could do about it. So Mr Nyquist's piece saved me a lot of typing - I'm lazy like that - and said the things that needed to be said. People here are kept clueless by media...
Part of it may be that the Russians are the only ones (on the planet) standing up to President Biden and the current White House. The proverbial "enemy of my enemy". Equally disturbing is how many American Conservatives still see Donald Trump as their savior.