WILLIAM ASTORE—Quite honestly, the who, the how, and the why depress me. The “who” is simple enough: the military-industrial-congressional complex, which finds genocidal nuclear weapons to be profitable, even laudable. Leading the charge of the latest death brigade is my old service, the Air Force. Its leaders want new ICBMs, several hundred of them in fact, with a potential price tag of $264 billion, to replace the Minutemen that still sit on alert, waiting to inaugurate death on an unimaginable scale, not to speak of a global nuclear winter, if they’re ever launched en masse. Not content with such new missiles, the Air Force also desires new strategic bombers, B-21 Raiders to be precise (the “21” for our century, the “Raider” in honor of General Jimmy Doolittle’s morale-boosting World War II attack on Tokyo a few months after Pearl Harbor). The potential price tag: somewhere to the north of $200 billion through the year 2050.
US GOVERNMENT CRIMES
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Russia is being damaged as I type this because of millions upon millions of Russians having a severe sudden hernia attack due to a burst of Homeric laughter after Mr. Blinken in his remarks “addressed” Russians with a BS of unimaginable proportions.
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JACOB HORNBERGER—I must admit that I couldn’t help but smile when I read that Putin was threatening to send Russian troops to Cuba and Venezuela in response to U.S. attempts to absorb Ukraine into NATO, which would enable the Pentagon and the CIA to send U.S. troops, missiles, and tanks to Russia’s border. When I read Putin’s statement, I knew immediately what the U.S. response would be … and that it would not be a principled one. Not surprisingly, U.S. officials didn’t like Putin’s idea at all
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Alex Mercouris: Lacking Military Options US Considers Disastrous Plan to Sponsor Partisan War in Ukraine
9 minutes readThis idea appeared in the Ukrainian Newspapers over a week ago, and how they were going to start training citizens to fight a Partisan War against Russia. This idea is a nonstarter considering over half the population there speaks Russian and has ties with Russia. And over a million of them actually have jobs and relatives in Russian. If the Ukrainian army is incapable of winning a war against Russia, I don’t think the population has much of a chance. And if the Americans bring in their beheading terrorists, I don’t think that will go over well with the Ukrainian population either. Or the other Baltic countries for that matter. And certainly, Germany and France would have nothing to do with that kind of scheme.
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Pepe Escobar and The Grayzone: Kazakhstan coup fails, US-Russia talks go nowhere. Is war on horizon?
5 minutes readMax Blumenthal and geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar discuss the violent coup attempt in Kazakhstan, and its crucial importance as an ally of Russia and the center of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Pepe addresses US and Turkish meddling, and why this massive and misunderstood country is suddenly at the heart of the new cold war. They also talk about the failure of the US-Russia talks in Geneva and if war could be on the horizon.