Billy Bob and the panel discuss the profound changes and shifts taking place in the collective West’s culture as a result of structural and historical changes the capitalist elites cannot control and in fact often aggravate.
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ERIC ZUESSE—The chief source of gas to all EU countries was the by-far cheapest, which was Russian-supplied pipelined natural gas, which became increasingly barred by the EU countries throughout 2022, and was replaced mainly by U.S.-supplied fracked canned and cross-Atlantic-shipped liquefied natural gas (LNG), at prices many times higher than what EU countries had been paying for Russian pipelined natural gas. This recent history is ‘justified’ by statements that are false and that hide the key truths, so as to fool voters to fear Russia instead of America.
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KIT KLARENBERG—After 18 months of devastating proxy warfare, the scale of the depletion of the Ukrainian military is so extensive that even mainstream sources have been forced to concede the cruel reality. On August 1, The Wall Street Journal reported that “between 20,000 and 50,000 Ukrainians” have “lost one or more limbs since the start of the war.” What’s more, the outlet notes, “the actual figure could be higher” because “it takes time to register patients after they undergo the procedure.”
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BIG SERGE—It’s crucial to understand that the Russian toolbox is fundamentally different than it was during the battle for Kherson last year, due to the rapidly expanding production of a variety of Russian standoff weapons – most notably the Lancet and the UMPK glide modifications for gravity bombs. The Lancet in particular has been a star performer – there are claims that the trusty little loitering munition is responsible for nearly half of Russia’s artillery kills – and has filled a crucial capability gap that troubled the Russian army episodically throughout the first year of the war.
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PATRICE GREANVILLE—As expected, given their obsessive hatred of Putin, the US media and their global accomplices are already blaming the Russian leader for Prigozhin’s demise. This is premature gloating, to say the least, as explained below. And false marketing. They are giving us disinformation instead of legitimate journalism, which is the norm these days, as journalism or semblance thereof is rarely practiced in the West except when it relates to completely inane and non-political matters, such as sports commentary (way way too much of it), the weather, or the decadent and idiotic lives of obscenely rich celebrities.
