Strange reality that under Putin, Russia is becoming everything loyal and patriotic Americans hoped the United States was, but in that, they were horribly mistaken, at least in the opinion of the billions of victims of American self-perceived exceptionalism all over the world. The United States could sure use a leader like Putin but the Deep State will assure that never happens.
Yes. When I ran for mayor of SF killafornia against Gavin. 2007, I lost my business and went to jail, to solitary. Thank you ScKamala.
No. No honest leaders allowed, only scamming Gavin, Mr care not cash, turned a multi hundred billion surplus of my state, killafornia, into a multi hundred of billions tax shortfall deficit.
But he did give us high speed rail, from nowhere to nowhere, In the central valley where you must have a car by law, because this is scAmerica, dammit
Oh noooo, I'm so sorry for your mistreatment. I'm in the stew of similar State-supplied punishment for being innocent, so I sure do relate. I lived in CA from '92 to '15, and went from that tyranny to the one here in WA.
Maybe your time will come again, this time with the wind at your back... Good luck!
I too was forced to flee Del Rio, Texas and return to where I grew up, WA, to get medical care. It used to be beautiful here. The trees are gone, the air is polluted and they made the Governor officially a tyrant in the future by being able to declare anything a health emergency. So if your dog sneezes, full lockdown and internment camps. Sickening. I never liked the people here when I was a kid, and I still can't stand them. Texas and inside of Mexico are courteous and filled with wonderful people. I can't wait to escape from here, which I believe will happen shortly when I get a big check I'm waiting for.
They seem exactly like his own words. Scott is a great writer, eloquent. Writing is easier than speaking...one is alone with time and one's own thought. Sometimes, for someone who is extremely well practiced in writing, as he is, words just flow together perfectly.
It happens, but still seems a marvel.
Your notion that he needs someone else's thought to mold his ideas, or words to inform his writing, is nonsense. Even though he may consider another's views, it is quite obvious that he has "a mind of his own".
Easy. I read his articles, so I know his style. I just thought this particular one superb. Succinct, perfect.
As to differences in writing and speaking...ah! Personal experience. I find it much easier to write than to speak, and my own ways of expressing myself depend on that.
The modes are very different, for me. I can appreciate a considerable difference in speaking versus writing styles.
Scott is a hero, but not "my hero" in the way you intend that. I don't hang on his every word. I even feel somewhat alarmed when he gets very emotional and rants at times (and other times, I love it).
Example of not agreeing with Scott: he said, in a rant, that it was ok for protesters to break windows, in re of student protesters taking over a campus building, and a criticism leveled against them for protesting genocide, perhaps inappropriately. And a window isn't a human body. BUT, I don't agree.
I don't know whether he meant it, upon consideration, but I disagree. Speech is speech. Violence and vandalism are what they are. There is no reason to give the authorities a real cause for arrests, that diminishes impact of truthful speech.
He did, if I recall correctly, compare that to Irish protesters disabling mechanisms at a factory, I think, that made weapons for Israel that would be used against Palestinians. That sort of civil disobedience, I would approve, despite the illegality.
I don't think mindless vandalism like breaking windows compares. The one action has a relevancy, a purpose, the damage is done to implements of genocide. It slows it down, at least, and makes a clear physical call to stop it. The other is just a tantrum, IMO.
I also cannot comprehend how an intelligent man can misunderstand 9-11 as thoroughly as does Scott.
The only phrase needed to prompt doing the research should be, "...free fall speed".
Grade school students, back in my day, learned the equation for acceleration of gravity. This blind spot on his part disturbs me.
And yet, I have a relative, a PhD electrical engineer, who gets similarly emotional, puts up a wall, clings to the official narrative. I know he had to take basic physics in college...so?
Emotions truly can blind people, and Scott is emotional. 9-11 comes too close to home? As it does for my relative.
I do not discount the very powerful hypnotic influence of the media images and repetition of the official narrative. So, I let it pass. I don't beat my head on a brick wall, after stating my own conclusions.
I played around with hypnosis and induction techniques when young, and read up about mechanisms of induction of suggestible states. I mean 'hypnosis', when I say it. Trauma-induced suggestibility is common, and routinely used by the deep state, through the media.
Scott does his best to be pristinely objective. He may not always succeed. But he does very often.
His more emotional here and now statements, whether rant or expressions of sincere sentiment and feeling, do not, IMO detract. These round out his humanity.
His arrow is aimed at the target, as best as he can. That is what I expect of a hero.
He deals with life's issues, working consistently at a task that is almost as thankless as doing the dishes.
"Waging peace"...the rewards for us all could be great.
But how often, in the face of determined war mongering and official baseness or incompetence, must it also feel personally frustrating? Possibly hopeless?
He has the guts to carry on, to do all he can. He wants to motivate others to join in the effort, so we get those marine "pep talks".
I can respect that.
I think I know what I am seeing in him. It is great personal courage and a desire to serve his nation and humanity.
I think you disagree with my assessment. Ok.
I am using all my faculties to discern. You seem to be confined to a narrow set of criteria, based on assumptions that 'this' is like 'that' (Crooke is a wonder, but he is different from Ritter, and there is no reason to think the same natural operating system is in both).
Logic is good if, only if, your premises are sound.
I recommend looking at it with your mind, as you do, but also feeling into it with a greater awareness based in intuitive sensing. I expect you won't like that.
But remember what is said of the human mind in the I Ching...it is "an unworthy officer".
The mind should be a tool of the human spirit, not the commander. It cannot discern fundamentals. It can only build a logical structure based on whatever you choose as a basis. Choose wisely.
Scott is either a good man OR an opportunistic jerk. Evaluate with all your senses.
I have.
I am definitely not rich. I contribute an annual pittance to his Substack. I wish it were more, but I am also "frugal". (My neighbor advised that term over "cheap".) If I thought he were less than genuine, even that would end in a heartbeat.
The only "hero" in my life, in your sense, has been Bruce Lee, who I fell in love with as 'Kato', when I was a little girl.
the “calcified, authoritarian political system” is in the west with politicians beholden to corporations - typically military, banking and the energy complex corporations.... that is the system we have in the west now with politicians who are paid for and bought out by the lobbyists... and of course lobbying, much like bribery - is legal in the west.... bribery isn't but lobbying is... not sure if anyone can tell me what the difference is...
Your insight is amazing, Scott Ritter and so eloquently captured the reality of Russia today. I recently wrote in a letter to "LORD" David Cameron, castigating him for his utterly stupid invitation to Ukrainians to use British missiles to attack Moscow:
"Despite our mainstream media demonisation and ridicule here in the West, Putin enjoys far greater respect and public support in Russia, and indeed in the wider world, than any Western leader of any Western country. This is because Russians remember the Boris Yeltsin era, after the West abandoned (“sucker”) Gorbachev and set about raping the Russian economy. They recognised that Putin redeemed Russia from this disaster. In the international forum Putin has spoken rationally with sincerity and integrity and is widely regarded as a true statesman; a difficult challenge for most Western leaders who are deeply committed to policies at variance with the wishes and interests of most of their populations."
"Faced with what Russians generally, not only the 'megalomaniac' Putin, perceives as a very real and imminent threat from the West, Russia has now amassed an army of over one million patriotic and committed soldiers, supported by a strong industrial base that is technologically advanced. Russia has also consolidated alliances with China, where Western credibility is severely damaged, and other countries of the BRICS alliance. These developments commit us to a world in conflict that will consume vast resources in militarism and destruction rather than a world of cooperation and mutual development. Of course, from a personal perspective, I feel compelled to ask if it will be your sons you will commit to these conflicts or mine?".
The points you make about Russians recognising "an existential struggle for survival with the collective West" enabling Putin to "[tap] into a pool of patriotism the likes of which has not been seen since the Second World War" is not confined to the older generation of Russians who lived through the dark days of Boris Yeltsin, there is a great zeal of patriotism and appreciation of Pitin among Russia's youth, as we can see in a way we would NEVER see in ANY western nation today as exampled here:
The disingenuous types like Appelbaum scoff dismissively at Putin's "88% of the vote with a 77% turnout among eligible voters." but in fact it's a reality that monumentally mocks the unpopularity of EVERY Western "leader". For that we must express some appreciation of HAMAS. I FULLY SUPPORT HAMAS. I CELEBRATE THEIR HEROISM IN RISKING THEIR LIVES AGAINST ENORMOUS ODDS,
IN EXERCISING THEIR LEGAL RIGHT TO RESIST ILLEGAL OCCUPATION. In doing so they have stunningly exposed for all the world to see, the callous, psychopathic club of degenerates that pass for Western "leadership" for what they are.
They are now facing something like Macbeth's last hours where they must soon resort to authoritarianism and they are "so far stepped in blood that it is as well to wade on as to turn back". There will soon be economic collapse, military failure and political implosion of the west and a new Multi-Lateral world order is all we can hope for.
You're not an irritating factor, glad you are interested - and interesting.
In act 3 scene 4 of Macbeth, Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth that he intends to go to the witches to discover more of what they can tell him. He apparently anticipates that he will need to engage in more bloodshed in order to secure his position. He tells her:
"For mine own good
All causes shall give way. I am in blood
Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o’er."
(Quoted from my own copy). Some people replace Stepped with Steeped, the latter implying "deeply" in blood rather than the image of wading half way across a swamp.
Shakespeare is a good tool for conjuring images and this one pretty much captures the situations of Netanyahu, his government, of Israel generally (there is currently a national psychosis) and the Zionist project itself - which has revealed itself evil and in smilar character and mind to Macbeth.
I understand your concern, but these matters are extremely complex.
There is the case that Hamas strategically agreed knowing that the Israeli government would refuse and the event simply serves to expose the reality.
Either way, Hamas has achieved their goal: what you call "ZioNazistan" is now known globally with the opprobrium that it has so long deserved and the world can see that the Zionist project is one of land theft and ethnic cleansing by expulsion or genocide. The racist apartheid state of Israel has been paraded on the world stage uttering its most disgusting, hateful lies, shrieking and snarling like a wild animal in all of it's vindictive, sadistic cruelty there for all the world to see. I'm not sure that there is anything more for Hamas to do, their work is done and for many of them, perhaps most of them, it has cost their lives.
I say again:
I FULLY SUPPORT HAMAS
I CELEBRATE THEIR HEROISM IN RISKING THEIR LIVES AGAINST ENORMOUS ODDS,
IN EXERCISING THEIR LEGAL RIGHT TO RESIST ILLEGAL OCCUPATION.
I HOPE THAT PALESTINE WILL BE FREE FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA
It is not Hamas that is a terrorist organisation, it is Israel and Western countries such as the US and UK in addition to their Western media who are deeply complicit in their obvious and odious genocide in Gaza, just as they have been throughout the 57 years of occupation of Palestine.
I HOPE FOR A RUSSIAN VICTORY AGAINST THE OTHER NAZIS IN UKRAINE
I HOPE FOR THE COLLAPSE OF THE RACIST, APARTHEID GOVERNMENT OF ISRAEL AND OF THEIR ZIONIST PROJECT IN PALESTINE.
I HOPE FOR THE DEMISE AND HASTY END OF THE ALMOST CENTURY LONG ORDEAL OF THE PSYCHOTIC AMERICAN EMPIRE.
I CONDEMN THE BBC LICENSE FEE AS A SUBSCRIPTION TO TERRORISM
I have been attacked by marchers in London Pro-Palestine demonstrations for my support for HAMAS. Without the courageous action of Hamas the world would still be oblivious and there would be nothing to march upon. These kind of people look for some peccadillo as cause to criticise Hamas, yet they have no balls themselves to do more than wave a flag and follow anonymously in a crowd. They are the lowest of the low. I suggest you not follow their guiding light, it leads to the alter of Israeli, Zionist intriguers and liars.
I am not educated very highly in the inner workings of Israel/Palestine and all the political things, just someone who sees the Palestinians as victims of the Zionist agenda... and I DO understand the difference between Zionism and Judaism. I have heard some people saying that Hamas is actually owned by ISRAEL, not Palestine... Is that just propaganda? I do strongly believe that the terrorism is stemming out of the Western Nasties US/UK coalition of Globalist Pathologically Demented Warmongers... To be nice about it.
Whwat do you think about the idea that Hamas is actually born of, and funded by, the Israeli Govt/Western Alliance of Genocidal Psychopaths?
In the days of Yasir Arafat, who was the very popular leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation(PLO) the Zionists were troubled by the fact that Arafat was so effective in terms of uniting Palestinians, getting their message out to the world and administering the organisation. However, there were divisions among Palestinians about many things including their goals and methods. Hamas emerged as competing faction against Fatah led by Arafat and some Zionist leaders saw a benefit in supporting them as a way to undermine Arafat. Hamas seeks the erasure of the Israeli state whereas Fatah and Arafat sought an accommodation with Israel (two states based on pre-1967 borders). Zionists don't want an accommodation, they want a Greater Israel with all of the Palestinians gone. Confident of US backing Israel can present Hamas as an existential threat to Israel, play the victim and tell the world that "Israel is fighting for its survival", so for anyone who understands the game the ruse is obvious but before October 7th most of the world was ignorant or indifferent - not now. Some say of October 7th that Israel "Let it happen" so they could use the event as a pretext to completely remove Palestinians from Gaza and move in Israeli settlers. None of these people would say of 9/11 that the US "Let it happen", but personally, I neither know nor care, I'd just like to see some balls in the UN, the ICJ and the ICC and for Netanyahu and his government of Psychopaths in court on charges of Genocide.
Don't misunderstand me, the Zionist project is quite simple and straightforward - they want to take the land of the Palestinians and drive them out. They've been doing that for 70 years. However, the Palestinian struggle against this has been difficult and complex. Ask yourself why all of the Arab nations - Saudi, UAE, Jordan, Egypt are not uniting to defeat Israel. Why is Fatah leadership (Mahmoud Abbas) so compliant with Israel? The Arab Oil producers could shut down the Israeli and US economies in a week if they stopped producing Oil. Israel has many tentacles there is a lot of money involved and there is universal treachery.
It is widely accepted now, in my small circles, that the Fascist State of Israel ignores all laws and treaties just like our vassal, bought, political class. That they will reject any plan that does not include completing the genocide for the expansion of the fake state to the Turkish border north and the Arabian Sea east and everything south. The lure of the "good life" for monsters.
Bunch of delusional fucknuts set loose upon God's green earth to immiserate all. Thanks Lords of England. We are being replaced by those willing to stay in the mud smiling from the roadside as our "betters" pass.
This Peace proposal accepted by Hamas was a 'nothingburger' they knew Israel would not accept it. Especially because it would mean releasing 1000's of Palestinian prisoners who have had NO trial!
It's come to the point where I know that, when an American invokes the name Alexie Navalny much as he might refer to St. Francis of Assisi, I'm talking to a brainwashed fellow citizen. Aside from naming Putin himself, most Americans can't reference one modern Russian; many would struggle even to come up with names from the past like Tolstoy, Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, or even Solzhenitsyn. But Navalny? You bet. Hey, Americans watch television and our rulers have taught them through the boob tube the name Navalny. They don't know anything real about the man, but they've been instructed to repeat endlessly that Navalny was a hero and, as such, that he was murdered by the ruthless tyrant Putin who feared him. (And you wonder why I've taken to strong drink lately?!?!)
Scott, I think you're right. Thanks for coming out and saying this.
I believed that line about Putin too until I started reading Karl Sanchez's site where he translates Putin's speeches, and then realized how wrongly Putin has been portrayed.
A work acquaintance married a Russian woman sometime in the 2010's.
Her observation was everything was better in Russia under Putin: crime, the economy was not being pillaged by the US experts' chosen sent to ruin the privatization of the Russian economy post USSR!
Appelbaum and ilk are same as experts that ruined the US for covid!
Very glad you mentioned Sachs. I would love to hear Scott's take on the old vs. new Jeffrey Sachs. I know he was one of the Chicago Boys responsible for the damage to Russia, but in more recent years Sachs has consistently rebuked establishment deception, malfeasance and immorality (regarding Covid, Ukraine, Nord Stream, and now Gaza and the demonstrations) in bold statements that make any informed citizen want to stand up and cheer.
Sachs, Mearsheimer, Caitlan Johnstone, et al - all controlled opposition, don't waste your time. The one denominator they all share in common is they spent their careers working for the government! Notice how they never make any actual predictions and yet supposedly, these are all the experts? Designed specifically to quell the dissenters by providing them with venues to gather and vent their anger. Six months of chronic rehashing!
Maybe they were duped. It does seem that at least Sachs is now on the right road... I don't know, but people do have to shed illusions... Look what "Covid" has caused! LOTS of scales falling from eyes in the past four years, mine included... With SO. MUCH. BS. being served up, for SO. DAMN. LONG., it's no wonder it takes time to get people shook out of their "stupor." I don't know, just sayin this in case I might be right.
Hey Jen - Happy Mothers Day! What struck me as odd with her is every single post was nothing but constant griping about the situation in Gaza. Please, DO NOT get me wrong - there is not a second of the day where I do not think about this ongoing massacre. And right now, few things make more more irate than the fact every single world leader stated, invading Rafah would be the red line and yet not a damn thing has happened since they did! I find myself thinking am I living in an alternate world - or did everyone NOT say - Israel would pay a steep price if they invaded Rafah? WTF is going on Jen? Did the definition of invade change?
What tipped Caitlan's and so many others hands is that not one of them has ever written about the possible and the innumerable probabilities - what the future holds. There are so many varying scenarios and yet NOT ONE of these "experts" is discussing any of them?
Pull back for a minute and let that sink in. If you listen to Jeffrey Sachs he uses the most juvenile diction to talk about what's going on as does Mearsheimer. They keep saying things like these people are so stupid - they're so crazy and insane. Talking about our government of course but is that really the very best verbiage they can conjure up? That's when I realized it's all appeasement and quelling the dissidents. Even the generals are not saying anything - Macgregor et al. Scott Ritter concerns me as well as he is clearly NOT writing his own Substack, the writing doesn't even come close to the way he speaks.
I have said this before - how is it humanly possible that we now live in a world where everyone has serious and massive issues of control - telling us HOW and what to think. Their way and their opinion is the ONLY one - (think the massive controversy and divide with the vaccines) and yet not a peep from any of these "experts" regarding the plethora of varying possibilities. That when I realized all these venues and many Substacks are controlled and paid opposition.
We spend our time reading everything to stay informed and yet I found myself learning absolutely nothing new after spending all this time reading these Substacks. Before I even came to this conclusion - I stopped reading Caitlan because all she ever did was vent. And the more she did the more comment section exploded. It's almost as though they've become virtual pens. I don't know about you Jen - but I personally want answers. I want to read and learn every single possible outcome to both wars. I want to know where this is headed. I am so sick and tired of the constant rehashing and threats. Take a step back and observe this from someone in Gaza. That's when you also realize it's all just total bullshit. At least Jonathan Cooke recently wrote a piece regarding what he foresaw happening next. Even if he's 100% wrong it doesn't matter - it gives you the opportunity to think about what he is saying rather than this constant rehashing. Substack readers are well informed, we don't need chronic recapping. I also like Pepe Escobar because he too speculates.
David Warsh who used to be economics editor/reporter for Boston Globe and lately writes a subscriber e-mail, wrote extensively about the bad/poor service the US economic team did to Russia in the 1990's.
As I remember it, Slick Willie sent his entire election team to Russia to get Yeltsin elected since the Russian people didn't want Yeltsin. It isn't the only time that the US has backed a US stooge over the people's choice. I would also object that American politicians are just systems guys – i.e. apparatchiks only capable of doing the same thing over and over and not leaders capable of formulating intelligent responses to changing situations.
Oh but it does Nazi's Clearly the British Royal crown and Prescott Bush, several other brand names which is our today's central banking system. The holocaust was funded by "old money". Reminds me of War is a Racket by Major General Smedley D Butler (1938) Speaking of brand names boycott.thewitness.news
A-Z companies supporting our never ending wars of terror.
Thanks Scott, you confirmed what I thought in general terms but had no proof of. Has Putin dealt effectively with the Zionist faction? I would think his pro Iran stance would argue yes.
IMO the West is marching us to war that it cannot win. But it would certainly help with their depopulation program.
I live in the US. I don't WANT to be marching toward a damn war, winnable or not, but I agree this one is absolutely STUPID. Designed to destroy the US, in my opinion, deliberately.
The Russian economy grew 5.83 times from $870.6 billion in 1999 to $5.08 trillion in 2022, overtaking the German economy.
Budget revenues increased 48.7 times from 2006 (1.213 trillion) to 2023 (59.073 trillion).
Gold and foreign exchange reserves increased 48.6 times from January 2000 ($12.3 billion) to April 2024 ($598.3 billion).
Salaries increased from 1,523 rubles in 1999 to 65,338 rubles in 2022. Taking into account the increase in prices, salaries increased by 5.15 times. In dollar terms, the growth was 15.4 times.
Pensions increased from 521.5 rubles in 1999 to 19322.2 rubles in 2023. Taking into account the price increase – 4.45 times. In dollar terms, the growth was 13.3 times.
Per capita GDP (in terms of purchasing power) increased 5.85 times from 5,914 thousand. $ in 1999 to 34,637 thousand . $ in 2022
The number of beggars in Russia has decreased from 42 million in 1999 to 13.5 million in 2023. The number of orphaned children in Russia has decreased by two and a half times (from 123,204 to 47,242).
Meat consumption in Russia increased from 45 kg of meat per capita in 2000 to 83 kg in 2024.
The number of own passenger cars per 1,000 people increased from 130.5 in 2000 to 326.9 in 2022.
The increase in average life expectancy from 65.3 years to 73.7 years. Mortality decreased from 15.3 per thousand people to 12.5.
A sharp drop in murders and attempted murders (from 31800 to 8584).
When Putin came to power, Chechnya was not listed as part of the Russian Federation, Tatarstan no longer paid taxes and introduced its own laws, Ural francs were printed in the Urals, groups were already operating in Siberia that were preparing the separation of Siberia and the Far East. He not only preserved the integrity of the country, but also increased its territory.
He returned Crimea and Donbass.
The rupture of the enslaving "Yeltsin" agreements with the United States on the division of products and the return of almost all mineral deposits (260 deposits out of 262) under Russian jurisdiction.
The oligarchs' estrangement from power. They lost the power they had under Yeltsin and began to respect the laws. Khodorkovsky was jailed, Berezovsky and Gusinsky went on the run.
Signing of a number of important anti-corruption laws, including Law No. 93 of the Federal Law on Public Procurement.
Victory in the second Chechen war, victory in Syria.
Creation of the SCO and the CSTO.
Tremendous success in agriculture. From a hungry country with a dead agricultural sector, Russia has become a global exporter and producer of poultry, pork, milk, wheat, oats, rye. In 2017, agricultural production amounted to more than 100% of the 1991 level. The harvest of pancake crops has increased 8 times. Russia has become the number one exporter of feed yeast. In eighth place for soybean harvesting. From 2000 to 2014, poultry meat production increased from 767 thousand tons in 2000 to 4.060 million tons in 2014, pork - from 1.578 million tons to 2.981 million tons. The share of imported meat in the Russian market has decreased from 80% to 8%.
Industry. The growth of industrial production more than doubled from 2000 to 2013. The industrial production index increased from 56% to 96.6% compared to the figures of 91. And this is not in synergy with other republics, but in an essentially independent RSFSR.
Since 2003, the volume of cars produced has doubled. The luxury car project "Cortege" (Aurus) has been created. In the civil aviation industry, there are a series of Sukhoi Superjet, MS-21 and Il-114 aircraft.
Legal proceedings, both military and civil, the construction of nuclear icebreakers.
Rosatom has become a world leader in nuclear energy, defeating its main competitor Westinghouse Electric.
The volume of production in the manufacturing industry increased from 92 billion in 2000 to 540 billion.$ in 2015.
Army. Previously ridiculous, practically absent, unable to cope even with terrorists in Chechnya, the Russian army is now one of the three strongest armies in the world (second place in the Global Firepower rating). There are new tanks, bombers, fighters, new missiles, supersonic, hypersonic weapons, anti-missile defense systems, new assault and sniper rifles, laser systems, etc.
The Russian arms market became the second largest in the world after the United States in 2014 (27% of the total global arms market).
"The number of beggars in Russia has decreased from 42 million in 1999 to 13.5 million in 2023."
I find that 13.5 million figure very surprising. I visited Russia for two and a half weeks in 2017, visiting Moscow, St Pete and a couple of much smaller cities. I only remember seeing one. He appeared to be a well-presented veteran who had lost most of one leg, and had what appeared to be an approved pitch on the steps of a church.
I'd suspect their definition of beggar is more strict than ours, so even this veteran would qualify. 42M in 1999 sounds about right tho, as when I was a student in 1993 in Moscow (where things are better than in the countryside), I saw dozens of pensioners outside Metro stations selling family heirlooms, food, socks, anything they could get their hands on. We used to leave notes for each other on 100 ruble notes, as they were essentially scrap paper, at a time when the avg pension was ~500 rubles/mo according to friends.
I 'met' Putin in the last days of the Soviet Union when it had called an International Peace conference and on my way to the conference from Australia called into Beijing to assure the Chinese that some of us were troubled by the fact that they had not been invited tot the conference .That was more than enough to arouse suspicions in Moscow that I was at the met and greet preconference I was met and greeted not by the conference organisers a(though I had no way of knowing this ) by a colonel in the secret service Putin. He chatted amicably for what some of the other conference attendees though to be a weird long time . Finally he obviously concluded that I was merely a 'shit stirrer' and moved on. Only many years later did I discover that this meet and greet person was Putin,
How fantastic to have met him and to have had a lengthy "chat." When time permits would love to hear your impressions of him at that time now so long ago.
The same Anne Applebaum who wrote “Georgia’s Experiment in Human Sacrifice” (The Atlantic) about how the state’s COVID lockdowns were insufficient and would doom hundreds of thousands to death!?
Missing in this appreciated piece are the motives of the US which are expressed by the assigned talking heads. In fact, Russia has been the boogeyman always pulled out of the US hat to give Americans something/someone to fear, mocked, and be used to prop up the corporatist State that is the US. This has been true since the Russian Revolution of 1917 which promoted Communism/Socialism. This is the core issue that the US fights. Remember that every mass social movement in this country has always been Socialist. The Movement for Change of the 1930's was Socialist/Communist with labor in the lead. It was brutally attacked and while this assault diminished when FDR dragged the country into WWII, it reared its head full on with McCarthyism after the Koran War when labor was in a powerful position due to the rapidly expanding industries here with its need for labor and educated people to plan and run the system. Today we are still assaulted with this fear and, in fact, it has become a rallying cry of the MAGA Right criticizing anyone or any idea that supports social support for the people. This misunderstanding of Russia is no accident!
I like what you write Scott, but is it the truth??? When we know, it will probably be too late, or is it too late already? Putin continues to draw my respect for being righteous for humanity. I do not feel that way about america
Although everything else is right-on here, as usual when it comes to Christianity, they like us have been decieved because it's Israels' religion, not anyone elses' since its about Israel not America, not Russia, not Germany, etc!
It's about the 'Chosen' with all others their 'dumb animals', that are obviously so, since it states that over and over again, yet still the fools think otherwise -- because of 'Jesus' (like as if)!
'1st the 'Jews' (that aren't even) then the greek' (?) -- are their slaves, not 'saved' from pretend 'sins'! Just so they can commit crimes murdering people ('cleansing the world of sin' in 'holy wars' like WWII was about), or in other ways, but all in Yehweys' wars (being a God of), and split the "sick money" between themselves, the elites involved (Vladimir Putin)!
Exactly like what is happening in Ukraine!
It's anchient mythology from multiple sources taken by those claiming to be Jews, for world domination! Not 'the truth'!
I fear for the future of Russia, and the rest of the world with them in the hands of our sworn enemy!
President Washington did the same thing to American after our enlightened deists freed us from their clutches, of high taxes and foriegn entanglements.
Now America is entirely mired in wars and high taxes and under AIPACs' control!
It just took a long time to be steamrolled to this point, now things move a lot faster too!
Dude, you're apparently listening to US Propaganda. Putin is NOT the problem, the US/UK is the problem. I'm not a Bible thumper in any way, but I do think the Bible was co-opted by the Romans, and guess who is STILL running the world? Uh huh. The ROMANS, although they're not actually Italians, they're just the same bunch that were storming around with their mighty army CALLING THEMSELVES the "Romans" since they settled in VENICE and ROME long long ago... The little cabal of filthy, filthy, rich psychopathic elitist eugenicists who call themselves the "Black Nobility." They're anything but "noble." They're hideous, actually. These people are a small cabal of murdering horrors who own 90% or more of the wealth of the ENTIRE PLANET. It's they who are causing virtually ALL the trouble in the world.
You act as if you didn't read my post! I said the only issue I had with President Putin is his support of dangerous 'holy' shit under a God of war of Israel, Yehwey btw!
That doesn't mean DC and NATO are not equally guilty of the same thing, but in fact, they are worse, starting with President Washington as I said, Putin is acting like!
Yes they including the CIA that were initially brought in unser Operation Paperclip have started this war, nazifyied Ukraine and for the purpose of getting his own people killed -- Zelenskys' Ukraines!
A Jews and member of the Khazarian mafia that Putin himself is playing footseys with, doing his part in that!
The problem is tbat Christian leaders will send their people as sheep to slaughter, which is why Washington said we must have freedom of speech to prevent exactly that.
Peter and Paul did the same thing, proudly -- in sacrificing themselves too to Nero!
Christianity is the problem as it serves Israel at their own expense -- 'carrying their crosses'!
I think the Bible needs to be banned.#banthebible n
And Adricans are Israels' allies invading white nations, with slavery a trojan horse! #WhiteGenocide
Russia may be likewise invaded by them, or have to fight them after US/UK are turned brown, in the future.
But here it is not Putin and Zelensky, but the murderer groups of Hamas and their leaders, as well as the murderer military of Israel, which is under the command of the completely unscrupulous mass murderer Netanyahu, who is striving for genocide in a manner criminal to humanity, and this again – how could it be otherwise – under the protection of hegemonistic America.
But here the world is closing its eyes and blocking its conscience, just as it is doing in Ukraine, on the one hand because one side or the other is sided with and cherished and no neutrality is cultivated – and especially because America is behind all injustice with armed force, but also with its secret services, which are not afraid to insidiously murder those who dare to speak the truth openly.
Therefore, the fear of this is so rampant in many human beings around the world that many turn tail like dogs, cower, remain silent and do not dare to tell the truth, but instead deny themselves and hypocritically pretend to be America-friendly.
Contact Report 886
Date of contact: Wednesday, 1st May 2024
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Strange reality that under Putin, Russia is becoming everything loyal and patriotic Americans hoped the United States was, but in that, they were horribly mistaken, at least in the opinion of the billions of victims of American self-perceived exceptionalism all over the world. The United States could sure use a leader like Putin but the Deep State will assure that never happens.
Yes. When I ran for mayor of SF killafornia against Gavin. 2007, I lost my business and went to jail, to solitary. Thank you ScKamala.
No. No honest leaders allowed, only scamming Gavin, Mr care not cash, turned a multi hundred billion surplus of my state, killafornia, into a multi hundred of billions tax shortfall deficit.
But he did give us high speed rail, from nowhere to nowhere, In the central valley where you must have a car by law, because this is scAmerica, dammit
Oh noooo, I'm so sorry for your mistreatment. I'm in the stew of similar State-supplied punishment for being innocent, so I sure do relate. I lived in CA from '92 to '15, and went from that tyranny to the one here in WA.
Maybe your time will come again, this time with the wind at your back... Good luck!
If you want to see real tyranny come a little further north to kanada
I'm aware, sadly, that you're right. I have a bunch of pals "up there."
HOLD FAST. xo xo
I too was forced to flee Del Rio, Texas and return to where I grew up, WA, to get medical care. It used to be beautiful here. The trees are gone, the air is polluted and they made the Governor officially a tyrant in the future by being able to declare anything a health emergency. So if your dog sneezes, full lockdown and internment camps. Sickening. I never liked the people here when I was a kid, and I still can't stand them. Texas and inside of Mexico are courteous and filled with wonderful people. I can't wait to escape from here, which I believe will happen shortly when I get a big check I'm waiting for.
"The United States could sure use a leader like Putin but the Deep State will assure that never happens."
I usually reply to comments like this with the following question: How on God's green earth would that benefit Israel?
Maybe the Deep State will wither up like the weed that it is, and we'll have progress.
Scott, this is your very best. Thank you. What ease of delivery of these important facts and sentiments!
They seem exactly like his own words. Scott is a great writer, eloquent. Writing is easier than speaking...one is alone with time and one's own thought. Sometimes, for someone who is extremely well practiced in writing, as he is, words just flow together perfectly.
It happens, but still seems a marvel.
Your notion that he needs someone else's thought to mold his ideas, or words to inform his writing, is nonsense. Even though he may consider another's views, it is quite obvious that he has "a mind of his own".
Easy. I read his articles, so I know his style. I just thought this particular one superb. Succinct, perfect.
As to differences in writing and speaking...ah! Personal experience. I find it much easier to write than to speak, and my own ways of expressing myself depend on that.
The modes are very different, for me. I can appreciate a considerable difference in speaking versus writing styles.
Scott is a hero, but not "my hero" in the way you intend that. I don't hang on his every word. I even feel somewhat alarmed when he gets very emotional and rants at times (and other times, I love it).
Example of not agreeing with Scott: he said, in a rant, that it was ok for protesters to break windows, in re of student protesters taking over a campus building, and a criticism leveled against them for protesting genocide, perhaps inappropriately. And a window isn't a human body. BUT, I don't agree.
I don't know whether he meant it, upon consideration, but I disagree. Speech is speech. Violence and vandalism are what they are. There is no reason to give the authorities a real cause for arrests, that diminishes impact of truthful speech.
He did, if I recall correctly, compare that to Irish protesters disabling mechanisms at a factory, I think, that made weapons for Israel that would be used against Palestinians. That sort of civil disobedience, I would approve, despite the illegality.
I don't think mindless vandalism like breaking windows compares. The one action has a relevancy, a purpose, the damage is done to implements of genocide. It slows it down, at least, and makes a clear physical call to stop it. The other is just a tantrum, IMO.
I also cannot comprehend how an intelligent man can misunderstand 9-11 as thoroughly as does Scott.
The only phrase needed to prompt doing the research should be, "...free fall speed".
Grade school students, back in my day, learned the equation for acceleration of gravity. This blind spot on his part disturbs me.
And yet, I have a relative, a PhD electrical engineer, who gets similarly emotional, puts up a wall, clings to the official narrative. I know he had to take basic physics in college...so?
Emotions truly can blind people, and Scott is emotional. 9-11 comes too close to home? As it does for my relative.
I do not discount the very powerful hypnotic influence of the media images and repetition of the official narrative. So, I let it pass. I don't beat my head on a brick wall, after stating my own conclusions.
I played around with hypnosis and induction techniques when young, and read up about mechanisms of induction of suggestible states. I mean 'hypnosis', when I say it. Trauma-induced suggestibility is common, and routinely used by the deep state, through the media.
Scott does his best to be pristinely objective. He may not always succeed. But he does very often.
His more emotional here and now statements, whether rant or expressions of sincere sentiment and feeling, do not, IMO detract. These round out his humanity.
His arrow is aimed at the target, as best as he can. That is what I expect of a hero.
He deals with life's issues, working consistently at a task that is almost as thankless as doing the dishes.
"Waging peace"...the rewards for us all could be great.
But how often, in the face of determined war mongering and official baseness or incompetence, must it also feel personally frustrating? Possibly hopeless?
He has the guts to carry on, to do all he can. He wants to motivate others to join in the effort, so we get those marine "pep talks".
I can respect that.
I think I know what I am seeing in him. It is great personal courage and a desire to serve his nation and humanity.
I think you disagree with my assessment. Ok.
I am using all my faculties to discern. You seem to be confined to a narrow set of criteria, based on assumptions that 'this' is like 'that' (Crooke is a wonder, but he is different from Ritter, and there is no reason to think the same natural operating system is in both).
Logic is good if, only if, your premises are sound.
I recommend looking at it with your mind, as you do, but also feeling into it with a greater awareness based in intuitive sensing. I expect you won't like that.
But remember what is said of the human mind in the I Ching...it is "an unworthy officer".
The mind should be a tool of the human spirit, not the commander. It cannot discern fundamentals. It can only build a logical structure based on whatever you choose as a basis. Choose wisely.
Scott is either a good man OR an opportunistic jerk. Evaluate with all your senses.
I have.
I am definitely not rich. I contribute an annual pittance to his Substack. I wish it were more, but I am also "frugal". (My neighbor advised that term over "cheap".) If I thought he were less than genuine, even that would end in a heartbeat.
The only "hero" in my life, in your sense, has been Bruce Lee, who I fell in love with as 'Kato', when I was a little girl.
the “calcified, authoritarian political system” is in the west with politicians beholden to corporations - typically military, banking and the energy complex corporations.... that is the system we have in the west now with politicians who are paid for and bought out by the lobbyists... and of course lobbying, much like bribery - is legal in the west.... bribery isn't but lobbying is... not sure if anyone can tell me what the difference is...
Your insight is amazing, Scott Ritter and so eloquently captured the reality of Russia today. I recently wrote in a letter to "LORD" David Cameron, castigating him for his utterly stupid invitation to Ukrainians to use British missiles to attack Moscow:
"Despite our mainstream media demonisation and ridicule here in the West, Putin enjoys far greater respect and public support in Russia, and indeed in the wider world, than any Western leader of any Western country. This is because Russians remember the Boris Yeltsin era, after the West abandoned (“sucker”) Gorbachev and set about raping the Russian economy. They recognised that Putin redeemed Russia from this disaster. In the international forum Putin has spoken rationally with sincerity and integrity and is widely regarded as a true statesman; a difficult challenge for most Western leaders who are deeply committed to policies at variance with the wishes and interests of most of their populations."
"Faced with what Russians generally, not only the 'megalomaniac' Putin, perceives as a very real and imminent threat from the West, Russia has now amassed an army of over one million patriotic and committed soldiers, supported by a strong industrial base that is technologically advanced. Russia has also consolidated alliances with China, where Western credibility is severely damaged, and other countries of the BRICS alliance. These developments commit us to a world in conflict that will consume vast resources in militarism and destruction rather than a world of cooperation and mutual development. Of course, from a personal perspective, I feel compelled to ask if it will be your sons you will commit to these conflicts or mine?".
The points you make about Russians recognising "an existential struggle for survival with the collective West" enabling Putin to "[tap] into a pool of patriotism the likes of which has not been seen since the Second World War" is not confined to the older generation of Russians who lived through the dark days of Boris Yeltsin, there is a great zeal of patriotism and appreciation of Pitin among Russia's youth, as we can see in a way we would NEVER see in ANY western nation today as exampled here:
https://youtube.com/shorts/uNbBytk3DU4?si=LkrowoIrDPmkTa5_
The disingenuous types like Appelbaum scoff dismissively at Putin's "88% of the vote with a 77% turnout among eligible voters." but in fact it's a reality that monumentally mocks the unpopularity of EVERY Western "leader". For that we must express some appreciation of HAMAS. I FULLY SUPPORT HAMAS. I CELEBRATE THEIR HEROISM IN RISKING THEIR LIVES AGAINST ENORMOUS ODDS,
IN EXERCISING THEIR LEGAL RIGHT TO RESIST ILLEGAL OCCUPATION. In doing so they have stunningly exposed for all the world to see, the callous, psychopathic club of degenerates that pass for Western "leadership" for what they are.
They are now facing something like Macbeth's last hours where they must soon resort to authoritarianism and they are "so far stepped in blood that it is as well to wade on as to turn back". There will soon be economic collapse, military failure and political implosion of the west and a new Multi-Lateral world order is all we can hope for.
Thank you Scott Ritter!!!
Well said ☺ thank you. I wish I read your comment before I commented.
You rock. The fight for freedom is in all our hearts. 😉
Hear hear!
That Shakespeare reminds me of something I write at school:
We should have died hereafter. There would have been relief from the absurd.
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
Crept in this petty pace
From “O” to “A”
To the last syllable of misquoted rhyme.
And all our yesterday’s benighted fools the way
To dusty desks…
I think your bit was supposed to read:
I am in blood so far stepped in
That should I wade no more
Returning were as tedious as go o’er.
I came to praise Shakespeare, not to bury him.
There can be no doubt that Israel is so far stepped in blood there is no going back.
The dunces in the inane castle lack the milk of human kindness and the march of global opinion will soon burn'em in the wood.
I believe the term is "steeped." Like tea steeps... Sorry if I'm an irritating factor!
I do agree with what you're saying.
You're not an irritating factor, glad you are interested - and interesting.
In act 3 scene 4 of Macbeth, Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth that he intends to go to the witches to discover more of what they can tell him. He apparently anticipates that he will need to engage in more bloodshed in order to secure his position. He tells her:
"For mine own good
All causes shall give way. I am in blood
Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o’er."
(Quoted from my own copy). Some people replace Stepped with Steeped, the latter implying "deeply" in blood rather than the image of wading half way across a swamp.
Shakespeare is a good tool for conjuring images and this one pretty much captures the situations of Netanyahu, his government, of Israel generally (there is currently a national psychosis) and the Zionist project itself - which has revealed itself evil and in smilar character and mind to Macbeth.
I understand your concern, but these matters are extremely complex.
There is the case that Hamas strategically agreed knowing that the Israeli government would refuse and the event simply serves to expose the reality.
Either way, Hamas has achieved their goal: what you call "ZioNazistan" is now known globally with the opprobrium that it has so long deserved and the world can see that the Zionist project is one of land theft and ethnic cleansing by expulsion or genocide. The racist apartheid state of Israel has been paraded on the world stage uttering its most disgusting, hateful lies, shrieking and snarling like a wild animal in all of it's vindictive, sadistic cruelty there for all the world to see. I'm not sure that there is anything more for Hamas to do, their work is done and for many of them, perhaps most of them, it has cost their lives.
I say again:
I FULLY SUPPORT HAMAS
I CELEBRATE THEIR HEROISM IN RISKING THEIR LIVES AGAINST ENORMOUS ODDS,
IN EXERCISING THEIR LEGAL RIGHT TO RESIST ILLEGAL OCCUPATION.
I HOPE THAT PALESTINE WILL BE FREE FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA
It is not Hamas that is a terrorist organisation, it is Israel and Western countries such as the US and UK in addition to their Western media who are deeply complicit in their obvious and odious genocide in Gaza, just as they have been throughout the 57 years of occupation of Palestine.
I HOPE FOR A RUSSIAN VICTORY AGAINST THE OTHER NAZIS IN UKRAINE
I HOPE FOR THE COLLAPSE OF THE RACIST, APARTHEID GOVERNMENT OF ISRAEL AND OF THEIR ZIONIST PROJECT IN PALESTINE.
I HOPE FOR THE DEMISE AND HASTY END OF THE ALMOST CENTURY LONG ORDEAL OF THE PSYCHOTIC AMERICAN EMPIRE.
I CONDEMN THE BBC LICENSE FEE AS A SUBSCRIPTION TO TERRORISM
I have been attacked by marchers in London Pro-Palestine demonstrations for my support for HAMAS. Without the courageous action of Hamas the world would still be oblivious and there would be nothing to march upon. These kind of people look for some peccadillo as cause to criticise Hamas, yet they have no balls themselves to do more than wave a flag and follow anonymously in a crowd. They are the lowest of the low. I suggest you not follow their guiding light, it leads to the alter of Israeli, Zionist intriguers and liars.
I 100% agree with you that Hamas accepted the new treaty because Israel would turn it down. They don't even care about their own hostages.
A nation of BUTCHERS
I am not educated very highly in the inner workings of Israel/Palestine and all the political things, just someone who sees the Palestinians as victims of the Zionist agenda... and I DO understand the difference between Zionism and Judaism. I have heard some people saying that Hamas is actually owned by ISRAEL, not Palestine... Is that just propaganda? I do strongly believe that the terrorism is stemming out of the Western Nasties US/UK coalition of Globalist Pathologically Demented Warmongers... To be nice about it.
Whwat do you think about the idea that Hamas is actually born of, and funded by, the Israeli Govt/Western Alliance of Genocidal Psychopaths?
In the days of Yasir Arafat, who was the very popular leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation(PLO) the Zionists were troubled by the fact that Arafat was so effective in terms of uniting Palestinians, getting their message out to the world and administering the organisation. However, there were divisions among Palestinians about many things including their goals and methods. Hamas emerged as competing faction against Fatah led by Arafat and some Zionist leaders saw a benefit in supporting them as a way to undermine Arafat. Hamas seeks the erasure of the Israeli state whereas Fatah and Arafat sought an accommodation with Israel (two states based on pre-1967 borders). Zionists don't want an accommodation, they want a Greater Israel with all of the Palestinians gone. Confident of US backing Israel can present Hamas as an existential threat to Israel, play the victim and tell the world that "Israel is fighting for its survival", so for anyone who understands the game the ruse is obvious but before October 7th most of the world was ignorant or indifferent - not now. Some say of October 7th that Israel "Let it happen" so they could use the event as a pretext to completely remove Palestinians from Gaza and move in Israeli settlers. None of these people would say of 9/11 that the US "Let it happen", but personally, I neither know nor care, I'd just like to see some balls in the UN, the ICJ and the ICC and for Netanyahu and his government of Psychopaths in court on charges of Genocide.
Don't misunderstand me, the Zionist project is quite simple and straightforward - they want to take the land of the Palestinians and drive them out. They've been doing that for 70 years. However, the Palestinian struggle against this has been difficult and complex. Ask yourself why all of the Arab nations - Saudi, UAE, Jordan, Egypt are not uniting to defeat Israel. Why is Fatah leadership (Mahmoud Abbas) so compliant with Israel? The Arab Oil producers could shut down the Israeli and US economies in a week if they stopped producing Oil. Israel has many tentacles there is a lot of money involved and there is universal treachery.
It is widely accepted now, in my small circles, that the Fascist State of Israel ignores all laws and treaties just like our vassal, bought, political class. That they will reject any plan that does not include completing the genocide for the expansion of the fake state to the Turkish border north and the Arabian Sea east and everything south. The lure of the "good life" for monsters.
Bunch of delusional fucknuts set loose upon God's green earth to immiserate all. Thanks Lords of England. We are being replaced by those willing to stay in the mud smiling from the roadside as our "betters" pass.
Just like old times
😉 Thanks Che
This Peace proposal accepted by Hamas was a 'nothingburger' they knew Israel would not accept it. Especially because it would mean releasing 1000's of Palestinian prisoners who have had NO trial!
Sometimes Ernesto you don't see the big picture!
It's come to the point where I know that, when an American invokes the name Alexie Navalny much as he might refer to St. Francis of Assisi, I'm talking to a brainwashed fellow citizen. Aside from naming Putin himself, most Americans can't reference one modern Russian; many would struggle even to come up with names from the past like Tolstoy, Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, or even Solzhenitsyn. But Navalny? You bet. Hey, Americans watch television and our rulers have taught them through the boob tube the name Navalny. They don't know anything real about the man, but they've been instructed to repeat endlessly that Navalny was a hero and, as such, that he was murdered by the ruthless tyrant Putin who feared him. (And you wonder why I've taken to strong drink lately?!?!)
Beautifully expressed!
Scott, I think you're right. Thanks for coming out and saying this.
I believed that line about Putin too until I started reading Karl Sanchez's site where he translates Putin's speeches, and then realized how wrongly Putin has been portrayed.
Here's a link to his site: https://karlof1.substack.com/
A work acquaintance married a Russian woman sometime in the 2010's.
Her observation was everything was better in Russia under Putin: crime, the economy was not being pillaged by the US experts' chosen sent to ruin the privatization of the Russian economy post USSR!
Appelbaum and ilk are same as experts that ruined the US for covid!
Yeah, at least Jeffrey Sachs as having been one of the major ones is now doing a sustained mea culpa. I can't think of any others at the moment.
Very glad you mentioned Sachs. I would love to hear Scott's take on the old vs. new Jeffrey Sachs. I know he was one of the Chicago Boys responsible for the damage to Russia, but in more recent years Sachs has consistently rebuked establishment deception, malfeasance and immorality (regarding Covid, Ukraine, Nord Stream, and now Gaza and the demonstrations) in bold statements that make any informed citizen want to stand up and cheer.
Tell us your thoughts, Scott!
I too would like to hear Scott’s thoughts on the “old” and “new” professor Sachs - perhaps I will “ask the inspector “
Sachs, Mearsheimer, Caitlan Johnstone, et al - all controlled opposition, don't waste your time. The one denominator they all share in common is they spent their careers working for the government! Notice how they never make any actual predictions and yet supposedly, these are all the experts? Designed specifically to quell the dissenters by providing them with venues to gather and vent their anger. Six months of chronic rehashing!
Maybe they were duped. It does seem that at least Sachs is now on the right road... I don't know, but people do have to shed illusions... Look what "Covid" has caused! LOTS of scales falling from eyes in the past four years, mine included... With SO. MUCH. BS. being served up, for SO. DAMN. LONG., it's no wonder it takes time to get people shook out of their "stupor." I don't know, just sayin this in case I might be right.
Sachs, Mearsheimer, Caitlan Johnstone, et al - all controlled opposition, don't waste your time.
BJ. I have known you from your comments on Caitlins substack.
Who is controlling Caitlin?
I would like an answer?
Hey Jen - Happy Mothers Day! What struck me as odd with her is every single post was nothing but constant griping about the situation in Gaza. Please, DO NOT get me wrong - there is not a second of the day where I do not think about this ongoing massacre. And right now, few things make more more irate than the fact every single world leader stated, invading Rafah would be the red line and yet not a damn thing has happened since they did! I find myself thinking am I living in an alternate world - or did everyone NOT say - Israel would pay a steep price if they invaded Rafah? WTF is going on Jen? Did the definition of invade change?
What tipped Caitlan's and so many others hands is that not one of them has ever written about the possible and the innumerable probabilities - what the future holds. There are so many varying scenarios and yet NOT ONE of these "experts" is discussing any of them?
Pull back for a minute and let that sink in. If you listen to Jeffrey Sachs he uses the most juvenile diction to talk about what's going on as does Mearsheimer. They keep saying things like these people are so stupid - they're so crazy and insane. Talking about our government of course but is that really the very best verbiage they can conjure up? That's when I realized it's all appeasement and quelling the dissidents. Even the generals are not saying anything - Macgregor et al. Scott Ritter concerns me as well as he is clearly NOT writing his own Substack, the writing doesn't even come close to the way he speaks.
I have said this before - how is it humanly possible that we now live in a world where everyone has serious and massive issues of control - telling us HOW and what to think. Their way and their opinion is the ONLY one - (think the massive controversy and divide with the vaccines) and yet not a peep from any of these "experts" regarding the plethora of varying possibilities. That when I realized all these venues and many Substacks are controlled and paid opposition.
We spend our time reading everything to stay informed and yet I found myself learning absolutely nothing new after spending all this time reading these Substacks. Before I even came to this conclusion - I stopped reading Caitlan because all she ever did was vent. And the more she did the more comment section exploded. It's almost as though they've become virtual pens. I don't know about you Jen - but I personally want answers. I want to read and learn every single possible outcome to both wars. I want to know where this is headed. I am so sick and tired of the constant rehashing and threats. Take a step back and observe this from someone in Gaza. That's when you also realize it's all just total bullshit. At least Jonathan Cooke recently wrote a piece regarding what he foresaw happening next. Even if he's 100% wrong it doesn't matter - it gives you the opportunity to think about what he is saying rather than this constant rehashing. Substack readers are well informed, we don't need chronic recapping. I also like Pepe Escobar because he too speculates.
Be well and be safe my friend!
Wow silly me I follow Caitlan. Have you ever viewed
JFK to 911 Everything is a Rich Man's Trick by Francis Richard Connolly? An American Idiot asking.
Keep following Caitlin. These 2 people I have known for a long time in comments. Both of them are 'jew' haters I now presume!
Caitlin has always made the distinction between Zionists and Jews. IF she had not I would not still be there.
David Warsh who used to be economics editor/reporter for Boston Globe and lately writes a subscriber e-mail, wrote extensively about the bad/poor service the US economic team did to Russia in the 1990's.
I still cannot trust him as everyone else does. I'm quite open to being wrong but...
As I remember it, Slick Willie sent his entire election team to Russia to get Yeltsin elected since the Russian people didn't want Yeltsin. It isn't the only time that the US has backed a US stooge over the people's choice. I would also object that American politicians are just systems guys – i.e. apparatchiks only capable of doing the same thing over and over and not leaders capable of formulating intelligent responses to changing situations.
American politicians work solely for their Owners, no freelancing allowed with any ideals or principles they might have left.
Ever watch the documentary
JFK to 911 Everything is a Rich Man's Trick by Francis Richard Connolly?
Oh but it does Nazi's Clearly the British Royal crown and Prescott Bush, several other brand names which is our today's central banking system. The holocaust was funded by "old money". Reminds me of War is a Racket by Major General Smedley D Butler (1938) Speaking of brand names boycott.thewitness.news
A-Z companies supporting our never ending wars of terror.
Thanks Scott, you confirmed what I thought in general terms but had no proof of. Has Putin dealt effectively with the Zionist faction? I would think his pro Iran stance would argue yes.
IMO the West is marching us to war that it cannot win. But it would certainly help with their depopulation program.
I live in the US. I don't WANT to be marching toward a damn war, winnable or not, but I agree this one is absolutely STUPID. Designed to destroy the US, in my opinion, deliberately.
Found these stats on YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj7-nFLVnOk, feel free to fact check. Curious how Applebaum never back up their claims with statistics.
The Russian economy grew 5.83 times from $870.6 billion in 1999 to $5.08 trillion in 2022, overtaking the German economy.
Budget revenues increased 48.7 times from 2006 (1.213 trillion) to 2023 (59.073 trillion).
Gold and foreign exchange reserves increased 48.6 times from January 2000 ($12.3 billion) to April 2024 ($598.3 billion).
Salaries increased from 1,523 rubles in 1999 to 65,338 rubles in 2022. Taking into account the increase in prices, salaries increased by 5.15 times. In dollar terms, the growth was 15.4 times.
Pensions increased from 521.5 rubles in 1999 to 19322.2 rubles in 2023. Taking into account the price increase – 4.45 times. In dollar terms, the growth was 13.3 times.
Per capita GDP (in terms of purchasing power) increased 5.85 times from 5,914 thousand. $ in 1999 to 34,637 thousand . $ in 2022
The number of beggars in Russia has decreased from 42 million in 1999 to 13.5 million in 2023. The number of orphaned children in Russia has decreased by two and a half times (from 123,204 to 47,242).
Meat consumption in Russia increased from 45 kg of meat per capita in 2000 to 83 kg in 2024.
The number of own passenger cars per 1,000 people increased from 130.5 in 2000 to 326.9 in 2022.
The increase in average life expectancy from 65.3 years to 73.7 years. Mortality decreased from 15.3 per thousand people to 12.5.
A sharp drop in murders and attempted murders (from 31800 to 8584).
When Putin came to power, Chechnya was not listed as part of the Russian Federation, Tatarstan no longer paid taxes and introduced its own laws, Ural francs were printed in the Urals, groups were already operating in Siberia that were preparing the separation of Siberia and the Far East. He not only preserved the integrity of the country, but also increased its territory.
He returned Crimea and Donbass.
The rupture of the enslaving "Yeltsin" agreements with the United States on the division of products and the return of almost all mineral deposits (260 deposits out of 262) under Russian jurisdiction.
The oligarchs' estrangement from power. They lost the power they had under Yeltsin and began to respect the laws. Khodorkovsky was jailed, Berezovsky and Gusinsky went on the run.
Signing of a number of important anti-corruption laws, including Law No. 93 of the Federal Law on Public Procurement.
Victory in the second Chechen war, victory in Syria.
Creation of the SCO and the CSTO.
Tremendous success in agriculture. From a hungry country with a dead agricultural sector, Russia has become a global exporter and producer of poultry, pork, milk, wheat, oats, rye. In 2017, agricultural production amounted to more than 100% of the 1991 level. The harvest of pancake crops has increased 8 times. Russia has become the number one exporter of feed yeast. In eighth place for soybean harvesting. From 2000 to 2014, poultry meat production increased from 767 thousand tons in 2000 to 4.060 million tons in 2014, pork - from 1.578 million tons to 2.981 million tons. The share of imported meat in the Russian market has decreased from 80% to 8%.
Industry. The growth of industrial production more than doubled from 2000 to 2013. The industrial production index increased from 56% to 96.6% compared to the figures of 91. And this is not in synergy with other republics, but in an essentially independent RSFSR.
Since 2003, the volume of cars produced has doubled. The luxury car project "Cortege" (Aurus) has been created. In the civil aviation industry, there are a series of Sukhoi Superjet, MS-21 and Il-114 aircraft.
Legal proceedings, both military and civil, the construction of nuclear icebreakers.
Rosatom has become a world leader in nuclear energy, defeating its main competitor Westinghouse Electric.
The volume of production in the manufacturing industry increased from 92 billion in 2000 to 540 billion.$ in 2015.
Army. Previously ridiculous, practically absent, unable to cope even with terrorists in Chechnya, the Russian army is now one of the three strongest armies in the world (second place in the Global Firepower rating). There are new tanks, bombers, fighters, new missiles, supersonic, hypersonic weapons, anti-missile defense systems, new assault and sniper rifles, laser systems, etc.
The Russian arms market became the second largest in the world after the United States in 2014 (27% of the total global arms market).
"The number of beggars in Russia has decreased from 42 million in 1999 to 13.5 million in 2023."
I find that 13.5 million figure very surprising. I visited Russia for two and a half weeks in 2017, visiting Moscow, St Pete and a couple of much smaller cities. I only remember seeing one. He appeared to be a well-presented veteran who had lost most of one leg, and had what appeared to be an approved pitch on the steps of a church.
I'd suspect their definition of beggar is more strict than ours, so even this veteran would qualify. 42M in 1999 sounds about right tho, as when I was a student in 1993 in Moscow (where things are better than in the countryside), I saw dozens of pensioners outside Metro stations selling family heirlooms, food, socks, anything they could get their hands on. We used to leave notes for each other on 100 ruble notes, as they were essentially scrap paper, at a time when the avg pension was ~500 rubles/mo according to friends.
I 'met' Putin in the last days of the Soviet Union when it had called an International Peace conference and on my way to the conference from Australia called into Beijing to assure the Chinese that some of us were troubled by the fact that they had not been invited tot the conference .That was more than enough to arouse suspicions in Moscow that I was at the met and greet preconference I was met and greeted not by the conference organisers a(though I had no way of knowing this ) by a colonel in the secret service Putin. He chatted amicably for what some of the other conference attendees though to be a weird long time . Finally he obviously concluded that I was merely a 'shit stirrer' and moved on. Only many years later did I discover that this meet and greet person was Putin,
Serious question, so was he right about you? Were you just a shit-stirrer, just there to stir-up up shit among the attending countries?
Probably - he can't string a grammatical sentence together nor one in which his odd frustration at status denied does not shine through.
LOL, we all know the answer, don't we? Anybody from the Collective West/paper tiger Nato, ROFL.
Then you would know he speaks perfect English (as well as many other languages)
How fantastic to have met him and to have had a lengthy "chat." When time permits would love to hear your impressions of him at that time now so long ago.
The same Anne Applebaum who wrote “Georgia’s Experiment in Human Sacrifice” (The Atlantic) about how the state’s COVID lockdowns were insufficient and would doom hundreds of thousands to death!?
Missing in this appreciated piece are the motives of the US which are expressed by the assigned talking heads. In fact, Russia has been the boogeyman always pulled out of the US hat to give Americans something/someone to fear, mocked, and be used to prop up the corporatist State that is the US. This has been true since the Russian Revolution of 1917 which promoted Communism/Socialism. This is the core issue that the US fights. Remember that every mass social movement in this country has always been Socialist. The Movement for Change of the 1930's was Socialist/Communist with labor in the lead. It was brutally attacked and while this assault diminished when FDR dragged the country into WWII, it reared its head full on with McCarthyism after the Koran War when labor was in a powerful position due to the rapidly expanding industries here with its need for labor and educated people to plan and run the system. Today we are still assaulted with this fear and, in fact, it has become a rallying cry of the MAGA Right criticizing anyone or any idea that supports social support for the people. This misunderstanding of Russia is no accident!
I like what you write Scott, but is it the truth??? When we know, it will probably be too late, or is it too late already? Putin continues to draw my respect for being righteous for humanity. I do not feel that way about america
We ain't dead yet!
And America is not embodied by the puppet idiotic psychopaths in the US Govt.
It's WE the Peeps! We may be dumbed-down, sickened, pesticided, drugged, and impoverished, but we can get better. Cheers.
GOOD LUCK TO YOU, YOU HOLD MY FUTURE IN YOUR HANDS
We all hold our futures in our hands, but it's bigger than that. We have the Creator on OUR SIDE. xo Be good, be brave, be strong. xo xo
Although everything else is right-on here, as usual when it comes to Christianity, they like us have been decieved because it's Israels' religion, not anyone elses' since its about Israel not America, not Russia, not Germany, etc!
It's about the 'Chosen' with all others their 'dumb animals', that are obviously so, since it states that over and over again, yet still the fools think otherwise -- because of 'Jesus' (like as if)!
'1st the 'Jews' (that aren't even) then the greek' (?) -- are their slaves, not 'saved' from pretend 'sins'! Just so they can commit crimes murdering people ('cleansing the world of sin' in 'holy wars' like WWII was about), or in other ways, but all in Yehweys' wars (being a God of), and split the "sick money" between themselves, the elites involved (Vladimir Putin)!
Exactly like what is happening in Ukraine!
It's anchient mythology from multiple sources taken by those claiming to be Jews, for world domination! Not 'the truth'!
I fear for the future of Russia, and the rest of the world with them in the hands of our sworn enemy!
President Washington did the same thing to American after our enlightened deists freed us from their clutches, of high taxes and foriegn entanglements.
Now America is entirely mired in wars and high taxes and under AIPACs' control!
It just took a long time to be steamrolled to this point, now things move a lot faster too!
Thanks!
Thank you.
Dude, you're apparently listening to US Propaganda. Putin is NOT the problem, the US/UK is the problem. I'm not a Bible thumper in any way, but I do think the Bible was co-opted by the Romans, and guess who is STILL running the world? Uh huh. The ROMANS, although they're not actually Italians, they're just the same bunch that were storming around with their mighty army CALLING THEMSELVES the "Romans" since they settled in VENICE and ROME long long ago... The little cabal of filthy, filthy, rich psychopathic elitist eugenicists who call themselves the "Black Nobility." They're anything but "noble." They're hideous, actually. These people are a small cabal of murdering horrors who own 90% or more of the wealth of the ENTIRE PLANET. It's they who are causing virtually ALL the trouble in the world.
You act as if you didn't read my post! I said the only issue I had with President Putin is his support of dangerous 'holy' shit under a God of war of Israel, Yehwey btw!
That doesn't mean DC and NATO are not equally guilty of the same thing, but in fact, they are worse, starting with President Washington as I said, Putin is acting like!
Yes they including the CIA that were initially brought in unser Operation Paperclip have started this war, nazifyied Ukraine and for the purpose of getting his own people killed -- Zelenskys' Ukraines!
A Jews and member of the Khazarian mafia that Putin himself is playing footseys with, doing his part in that!
The problem is tbat Christian leaders will send their people as sheep to slaughter, which is why Washington said we must have freedom of speech to prevent exactly that.
Peter and Paul did the same thing, proudly -- in sacrificing themselves too to Nero!
Christianity is the problem as it serves Israel at their own expense -- 'carrying their crosses'!
I think the Bible needs to be banned.#banthebible n
And Adricans are Israels' allies invading white nations, with slavery a trojan horse! #WhiteGenocide
Russia may be likewise invaded by them, or have to fight them after US/UK are turned brown, in the future.
Thank you.
Interesting
Billy Meier:
But here it is not Putin and Zelensky, but the murderer groups of Hamas and their leaders, as well as the murderer military of Israel, which is under the command of the completely unscrupulous mass murderer Netanyahu, who is striving for genocide in a manner criminal to humanity, and this again – how could it be otherwise – under the protection of hegemonistic America.
But here the world is closing its eyes and blocking its conscience, just as it is doing in Ukraine, on the one hand because one side or the other is sided with and cherished and no neutrality is cultivated – and especially because America is behind all injustice with armed force, but also with its secret services, which are not afraid to insidiously murder those who dare to speak the truth openly.
Therefore, the fear of this is so rampant in many human beings around the world that many turn tail like dogs, cower, remain silent and do not dare to tell the truth, but instead deny themselves and hypocritically pretend to be America-friendly.
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