ERIC ZUESSE—The deluded, stupid, and/or lying, President of the United States, said, of the Ukraine war, on July 13th, that “Putin has already lost the war. … There is no possibility of him winning the war in Ukraine. He’s already lost that war.” As-if wishing it so will make it so. On July 20th, linking to news-articles in the Financial Times and in the Center for New American Security (CNAS), Russia’s RT News headlined “West not prepared for conflict with China”, meaning that “The West” (meaning America’s Government) would lose any war against China unless it becomes a nuclear war (which would destroy both countries if not the entire world).
CAPITALIST SICKNESS
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BRUCE LERRO—In the 1763 snapshot, the core countries are Great Britain and France, with the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal slipping into minor core status. The semi-periphery then consisted of the North Italian city-states and Prussia. Thanks to colonialization by the British, the United States and West Africa were now on the periphery of the world system. Poland and Russia were now in the periphery. China and India were still outside the world system.
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Glenn Responds to MSM Hit Piece Smearing RFK Jr, Jimmy Dore, & Himself | SYSTEM UPDATE
7 minutes readGLENN GREENWALD spotlights the disgustingly dishonest campaign of slanders used by establishment shills to shut down critics of the Ukraine War and similar regime change interventions. The critics question the enormous sums being spent in such adventures while the home front—plagued by numerous man-made social ills— is obviously hurting for lack of a proper governmental response.
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Russia has Demilitarized, Denazified, and Rebuilt Ukraine Before
26 minutes readDEBORAH ARMSTRONG—Germany gave the Soviets an unconditional surrender on May 9th, 1945 (in the West, V-Day is celebrated on May 8th, because of time differences). The war was over and the USSR looked ahead to the immense task of rebuilding. In the region known as the Ukraine, which means “outlying region” or “southern region,” the Soviets rebuilt more than 700 cities and thousands of businesses, factories, hospitals, schools, farms, and everything else destroyed during the war. But like other lands that had been under German occupation, Ukraine still harbored a Nazi threat. At least 30,000 Ukrainians fought in the UPA — the Ukrainian Insurgent Army — which collaborated with the Nazis, and many more were sympathetic to the Ukrainian nationalists, who demanded an “ethnically pure” state.
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ALASTAIR CROOKE—Europe is the party most trapped by ‘delusion’ – starting from the point at which they threw themselves unreservedly into the Biden ‘camp’. The Ukraine narrative broke at Vilnius. But the amour propre of certain EU leaders puts them at war with reality. They want to continue to feed Ukraine into the grinder – to persist in the fantasy of ‘total win’: “There is no other way than a total win – and to get rid of Putin … We have to take all risks for that. No compromise is possible, no compromise”.