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Lubica's avatar

Thank you, Glenn. A very informative conversation. Speaking of the latest ‘peace through war’ initiative, Australia is going to join the coalition of the willing (you would think that they come up with less problematic ‘name’). I wonder if this was a Freudian slip by the Australian PM: “"We must ensure Russia's illegal and immoral actions are ***not rewarded through any peace process***," Mr Albanese added.”

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ScuzzaMan's avatar

The pursuit of power is nothing if not opportunist, and the would-be world rulers are nothing if not pursuers of power.

I knew a guy during the early years of the occupation of Afghanistan who worked for the UN and was adamant that the US there and in Iraq had an absolute Responsibility To Protect ("R2P") which obliged them to stay there almost indefinitely.

The facts - for example that the "terrorists" killed by the US, the people they were allegedly protecting the civilians from, were about 99.8% civilians, and that the US' justification for killing them was to retroactively call everyone they killed a terrorist (yes, they actually said those words; "everyone we kill is a terrorist") - didn't matter to him at all. R2P reigned supreme and all other considerations were null and void.

Of course it was all nonsense, cynical lies concocted for the purpose of blunting domestic opposition to another hideously expensive (to the taxpayers) and obscenely brutal (for the people being liberated and protected) and monstrously profitable (for the military industrial complex) war.

Remember this, is nothing else: Truth Is The First Casualty Of War.

The first thing they do when they want to go to war is tell us lies about what they're planning, why, how, who, for how long, etc.

ALL their wars are fake cynical money laundering murderous scams. Everything they say about them is a lie.

Learn.

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J. S. Gaynor's avatar

Great guest Glenn. I expatriated to Europe from the US five years ago (to an arguably benign Portugal). I've since watched in horror as the West worked its dark magic on this continent once again, watched refuges arrive from Ukraine with their sometimes troubling ideas, watched leaders here perform shamefully posing as an ally of Kiev as the slaughter continued and while they -perhaps ironically- celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their liberation from oppressive government. Your narrative challenging insights are much appreciated.

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Eric Fuleftists's avatar

Do you really think the Eurocrats are filled with rabid hatred for Russia? No, Russia is only an arbitrary predesignated enemy. If Russia didn't exist, any other questionable country would do just as well. The Eurocrats have to keep provoking Russia to attack Ukraine, because that can be used as a threat against Europe, which is what the Eurocrats actually hate. The pseudomoral memes that Eurocrats continually trot out (autocratic Putin, democracy, baby killers (!)) are just cover stories to justify the whole agenda.

The truth is that the Russian boogeyman is an excuse to threaten and destroy European nations, which are the secret hate of every EU tyrant, all of whom are wokusts and/or globalists. The war provides a convenient means of indirectly attacking European countries, which includes crushing taxation, destroying industries and jobs, enormous debt, censorship, cutting off energy supplies, reducing the standard of living, and crime in the streets by hostile immigrants. This secret war by Eurocrats represents the Nihilistic Impulse, an inner quirk that consumes every woke leftist marinated in postmodernism and globalism. It's one of their common tactics, which they apply everywhere for every issue. But conservatives and the midwit masses have been oblivious to it for just about forever. When you're able to recognize this pattern, you can't unsee it ever again.

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The Elder of Vicksburg's avatar

Great show, Glen. Neoconservatism is damn near the most evil and inhuman ideology ever - but, alas, a perfect match with the US’s grandiose, nay, pathologically narcissistic view of itself. the neocon thing has impoverished the country morally, spiritually and financially and yet it still holds swap in the corridors of power.

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Per Dørup's avatar

Starmer: " Ukraine' s future security must be guaranteed". But not Russia' s...

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Rita's avatar

Oh, I get it. So when you are poor and disaffected by the greed and militarism of the rich to the degree that you fight back, you are called a terrorist, a deplorable, or a fascist. But when you are rich and powerful and face resistance to your greed and militarism you are called either a neoconservatist or a neoliberalist. Talk about your narratives...

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