ERIC ZUESSE—The world that Truman started on that day in 1945 has shaped the world that we all live in today. Truman’s decisions shaped it by enormously increasing wars and deaths and war-dismemberments and destructions and refugees, and especially by creating (and most especially by the continued cooperation of all U.S. Presidents since the time of GHW Bush who secretly decided to continue the Cold War on the U.S. side) the danger that we all now face, of a nuclear Armageddon.
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CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—In fact, it is fair to say that there has never in history been a time when the need to forcefully oppose the warmongering of our own western governments was more urgent. The attacks on Vietnam and Iraq were horrific atrocities which unleashed unfathomable suffering upon our world, but they did not pose any major existential threat to the world as a whole. The wars in Vietnam and Iraq killed millions; we’re talking about a conflict that can kill billions.
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SCOTT RITTER—While the U.S. and Russia had previously committed to a follow-on treaty to replace New START, the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine poses a nearly insurmountable obstacle for anyone seeking to have such a treaty document ready for signature and ratification by the time New START expires.
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PRES. PUTIN—The Western elite makes no secret of their goal, which is, I quote, “Russia’s strategic defeat.” What does this mean to us? This means they plan to finish us once and for all. In other words, they plan to grow a local conflict into a global confrontation. This is how we understand it and we will respond accordingly, because this represents an existential threat to our country.
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Garland Nixon dissects the big lie at the center of the “Rules Based Order” marketing jingle being pushed by the Anglo empire, to show that it’s just a modernised version of brutal feudalism. The “”rules-based order” is just a new iteration of the old monarchical pecking order, with the “nobles” at the top of the power pyramid (the US/UK these days), lording over the “commoners” (France, Germany, etc.) and “peasants”—the Global South, led by the great Eurasian powers, Russia and China. As in old feudalism, the Anglo-American mafia thinks that it can do as it pleases with the world—their fief—while the rest of the crowd has no real rights. “If you submit, you prosper,” they promise. “If you do not, you die.” But times are-a-changing, and their exploitative way of life is over.
