Mutiny in Russia, War in Ukraine: A Panel Discussion

In communist regimes crises are usually hidden from the outside world; because of the absence of democratic process and the suppression of internal opposition, popular political, social, and economic discontents accumulate and threaten to develop into serious upheavals of revolts of the entire population against the system as a whole .

Anatoliy Golitsyn

The following podcast is sponsored by the Conservatives 4 Ukraine Facebook site, https://www.facebook.com/groups/747935097007683.

Given the events of a week ago, I reached out to Trevor Loudon and Clare Lopez to do a podcast about the mutiny in Russia and the war in Ukraine.

Discussion with Trevor Loudon and Clare Lopez

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319 responses to “Mutiny in Russia, War in Ukraine: A Panel Discussion”

  1. I think you and Trevor need to team up closer and more often. Someone else initially brought that to my attention.

    What’s crazy is the remark about the Chinese special forces operatives ritually drinking chicken blood.

    There is a copper tubing plant in my general area, which located in a very rural area and built what i call a compound, in which Chinese “workers” reside. A few months ago, i was working on a house and had to drive by this plant and housing compound every day going to and from the job. The “workers” are all fit, military aged men.

    My two helpers rode with me to and from the job every day. The first morning, when we rode by the compound, one of them said that one time he saw a Chinese man out there doing something with a chicken. I asked if he was killing it to eat it. He said, he didnt know just what, but he was “doing something” with it.

    Killing and butchering game and livestock is still a common thing here. Some of us raise and butcher our own poultry and beef. My helper is a huge turkey hunter. I didnt think much of what he said at the time. I figured the Chinese guy was butchering a chicken to eat. But the way he described it, it apparently didnt look right.

    So, damn, i think we’ve got Chinese special forces operatives right here.

    I will bring this to some peoples’ attention.

    1. It is disturbing.

      1. It is. I’ve assumed all along that they are more than mere workers making copper tubing. (I failed to mention this is a Chinese owned plant.) There were two up to date industrial parks in my county in which they could have located, but they chose to buy land and build in the neigbkring county which is the most impoverished and corrupt in the state.

        Makes sense if they are sabatoers needing an out of the way location to operate out of for doing whatever preperatory work, intel gathering, weapons cacheing. Maybe letting more of these guys coming across the border rendezvous with them there.

      2. I had heard about the young Chinese men consuming chicken blood from watching an interview with the journalist Michael Yon recently. It’s not an uncommon occurrence now in Central America, as they pass through there, apparently. According to Yon, they’ll take a chicken, cut its head off, and drink the blood fresh, just like that. Ick.

        1. prayinginok Avatar
          prayinginok

          Major ick! Even the Bible says not to drink the blood of animals. I wonder why they chose chickens?

    2. prayinginok Avatar
      prayinginok

      “So, damn, i think we’ve got Chinese special forces operatives right here.”

      That is scary!

      1. I dont know that the guy did any kind of ritual. That statement jumped out at me in the panel discussion. At any rate, i have always wondered about those men. At first, i thought they were either some kind of CCP agents, or maybe prisoners. That was before my eyes really began opening when i stumbled upon Nyquist’s work and began this ongoing learning experience. Now, i am sure they are some kind of sabatuers or soldiers who came here well in advance. I now have no doubt that the poorest, most backward, corrupt county in the state was chosen for good reason.

        This presents dilemmas. And, yes, you cant help but feel some fear. However, we’ve got to prepare for hard things, hard times. I know most of us have been preparing in different ways, but i mean we must make some fighting preparations in our areas now. These people must be watched closely.

      2. Let’s hope they all defect.

        1. That would be best.

  2. Red Dawn. Looks like it’s going to be more than just a movie. We must all prepare spiritually, and then mentally and physically as best we can. Let Ukraine be an example. It appeared they werent ready and would easily be rolled over if Russia invaded. But when the invasion started, it was Russia who was in for a surprise. We’ve got time to prepare some surprises for these invaders.

  3. Only two-thirds of the way through so far and this has been outstanding. I’m thinking of transcribing parts of it to send to certain friends (who are more likely to read an article than watch a video). Thank you for hosting this, Jeff.

    One thought on how to make sense of Putin taking such a risk (of starting a revolt within the ranks of the Russian military) by having Prigozhin “rebel”— do you think Putin might have told many of his military leaders— who he knew were loyal— beforehand that Prigozhin was launching a fake rebellion, and neglected to pass the message on only to the generals he suspected were likely disloyal, or who were unknowns?

    1. That would be the only safe way to do it. This could explain why there was no large-scale reaction to the mutiny when it was going on.

  4. THE, to me, you and your fellow trolls are in the same category as these Chinese “workers”. Maybe we will meet some day, good Lord willing.

    1. I am deleting all their postings. They have returned in force now, in the wake of the Prigozhin mutiny. I am just deleting.

      1. I have read on Twitter, some of the Ukrainian people who regularly post are having this same problem.

        Our enemies are certainly preparing to do something big now.

        I think the whole limitation of how many Twitter posts you can read every day is primarily to stop the truth from coming out of what is going on in Ukraine.

        We must be praying for our Ukrainian brothers and sisters in arms, and preparing ourselves to fight.

        1. Sad days, but God put us here for these days.

      2. God will show you, Lanyard.

      3. He already limited Ukraine using its full capabilities. But you know this, dont you?

  5. Petunia Meadowbrook Avatar
    Petunia Meadowbrook

    “U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports that the number of apprehensions of Chinese migrants in the first five months of the current federal fiscal year was more than double that during all of the last fiscal year. The 8,000 Chinese migrants apprehended this calendar year are more than quadruple the number apprehended in the comparable period a year ago.”

    “Some migrants are almost certainly members of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Representative Mark Green (R-Tenn.), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said at a press conference on the 14th of this month that a Border Patrol sector chief informed him that some of the Chinese migrants at the southern border have ‘known ties to the PLA.’”

    https://www.wnd.com/2023/07/gordon-chang-chinas-shock-troops-now-inside-u-s/

  6. Petunia Meadowbrook Avatar
    Petunia Meadowbrook

    “This investment by Golden Dragon in Wilcox County will make a real difference in this rural region of Alabama,” Alabama Secretary of Commerce Greg Canfield said. “These jobs bring real opportunity for the people of Wilcox County and the surrounding counties.”

    https://www.madeinalabama.com/2014/05/first-golden-dragon-copper-tube-u-s-factory/

  7. John P Chabot Avatar
    John P Chabot

    Thanks once again, Jeff. Quite valuable as a summary of ways the red tentacles manipulate tools all over the board while so many of us deny the existence of the game or the diabollically-dedicated pponent. And where new pieces are placed or generated as often as removed, and any piece can suddenly be revealed to be of the other color. Hmm, perhaps the game being both Chess and Go (I just realized upon reading my words…)

    1. Yes, there are both the direct and indirect strategies at work.

  8. Jeff, one other follow-up question from the video— given all the events that are “lining up” recently, such as the Russian order to abandon the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant by July 5, the possibility of the NATO summit in Lithuania July 11-12 being targeted, and the fake coup itself as a harbinger of some larger plot, do you think the riots throughout France might also be part of a larger plan by the Russians to distract the government of France, as it’s one of only two countries in Europe that could muster a nuclear retaliation if nuclear weapons were fired from Belarus, or if the ZNPP is targeted?

    1. It is possible that the riots in France are meant to paralyze France in a crisis. Yes.

      1. It’ll be interesting to see what happens in the coming weeks. If another crisis unfolds in either Britain or the US, I’m certainly going to be on the edge of my seat.

  9. prayinginok Avatar
    prayinginok

    That was awesome! Thank you so much, Jeff! Clare is more optimistic than I am. She said maybe we’re a couple of years behind Europe on what they’re seeing with the destabilization. I don’t think so. The “Jungle Tigers” are already here as are many others. I don’t see them waiting a “couple of years” to act. They want the current administration to still be in control when they begin. The clock is ticking in my opinion.

    1. It is not good that they are deploying them now.

      1. Jeff, i have made several comments in support of Ukranians on Twitter, and several comments against Russian trolls. I just saw where i have “failed to send” notifications on all of them.

        Something. Stinks. And bad.

          1. I feel similar to this lady.

          2. https://twitter.com/MargoGontar/status/1675238630875451393?t=XxTupc5t7IfyVkXA6uwwdg&s=19

            The Ukranians sense it.

            I’ve got to go to bed. I’m posting way too much, i know.

        1. The Russians have infiltrated the right. Musk is partial and may not realize who is working for him.

          1. I am thinking he may be all too aware.

      2. Ricardo Galvan Avatar
        Ricardo Galvan

        “Musk may not realize”

        Musk knows full well who he is dealing with as he has been warned many times. Musk removing the “State media” warnings off of Chineses accounts and propping up Russian bot accounts, promoting their work while actively throttling and lying about Pro-Ukrainian sources, is no mistake. It’s policy.

        1. He does not realize who he is dealing with. If he did, he would be frightened. And he is not frightened. He is, like most all business people, naive about communism and about autocratic government.

          1. Jeff, he’s got to realize he is hurting Ukranians by putting these limitations on Twitter. And also, didnt he limit their use of the Starlink satellites, namely being able to see into Russia?

            He can only be wilfully ignorant.

          2. You mean he prefers to think things cannot be as bad as they are?

          3. That is possible, but i would think he has access to too much information to think that. I mean, what all can he look at via his satellites? Surely he can see all the destruction. The only ignorance he can have is willful ignorance, imo.

        2. PS — I have been warning thousands of people for decades. They simply dismiss me as an alarmist. Look at the destruction in Ukraine. This is what these regimes inevitably do.

      3. This morning all I can do on Twitter is receive DM’s and like – some – but not all, Tweets made by others. Last night I had lost all my followers and all that I follow. This morning they’re back, but that’s all that’s back. Twitter is being manipulated by someone. I’m guessing hackers and Twitter just won’t admit it.

        1. Twitter is under attack, as it is one of the easiest platforms to get a message out on. One thing Musk has done that is positive, is allowing free speech. But then, the trolls and hackers — the abusers of free speech — come right in. It’s easy for them, too. This is a problem we have no easy solutions for.

      4. Ricardo Galvan Avatar
        Ricardo Galvan

        Musk bringing “free speech” to Twitter is an illusion. He has admitted to obeying foreign government requests to censor tweets, even going beyond what the old management did. He pumps your speech if you are anti-Ukraine, if you are a criminal fraudster into crypto and other tech scams, but will shadow ban groups like Bellincat who provide important coverage on Russian propaganda and fake news:

        https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/16/twitter-shadowbans-bellingcat-after-musk-attacks-them-then-tries-to-retcon-a-nonsense-explanation/

        Elon even used Russia’s own language in his condemnation of Bellingcat, and within 24 hours, they were shadowbanned.

        There is speculation he has done this even for the CCP, besides just removing their state media labels and removing the algorithm that suppressed their reach (now CCP bots can abuse the algo to pump their messages straight to everyone’s timeline). On several occasions over the past year, bizarre “glitches” have occurred that have had the effect of suppressing harmful information to the CCP and anti-CCP activists. This includes several prominent individuals, such as that young man from Australia, facing soft censorship (warning labels applied to his tweets), or else the ability to translate Chinese via twitter disabled on the same day as the Tiananmen Square massacre, apparently having the result of silencing Chinese speakers speaking out on the massacre.

        Furthermore, Elon deliberately uses the Algo to push his own trash. There was a point earlier this year or late last year where, it was reported, 99% of everyone’s timeline was just Elon Musk tweets lol. Elon had apparently been messing with the algo to give his tweets further reach, but went a little too far. Since that time, virtually anyone Elon retweets or who receives a comment from Elon–pretty much anti-Ukraine, Pro-Russian trolls–will get millions of eyeballs on their material.

        Meanwhile, many anti-CCP and anti-Russian posters report various levels of suppression, whether its search bar bans or shadow bans of various types.

        1. I have not followed Elon Musk closely. What you are saying is that he is effectively an agent of the CCP and Moscow. Am I mistaken in saying he is a Libertarian? The KGB was very interested in Libertarians decades ago, seeing them as a ground for recruitment. Given the coming of the Gorbachev NEP, the logic of using Libertarians makes sense. Illarionov is a Russian libertarian who worked in the Kremlin.

        2. There is no doubt in my mind that the sudden limiting of daily tweets one can view the other day, was purposefully done to hurt Ukrainian users getting information out about what is going on, in light of the fraudulent (imo) mutiny and whatever big thing Russia may be about to do.

  10. This lady is wrong. The cops’ lives were not in danger. And the teenager’s death was not justified. I am aware of the mass immigration and radical leftist agenda in Europe, which includes the funding of rioting and looting. However, don’t say it is justified to shoot a 17 year old in broad daylight because he refused a traffic stop. That is the stuff of Leningrad or Phnom Pehn, not Paris. Remember when we “backed the blue” and they repaid us by enforcing tyranny during COVID? The cops in Paris, or anywhere else, are not our friends. They’ll be the ones throwing you in the gulags, because they were ‘just following orders’. Extrajudicial killings are never justified.

    1. For those of us who have received training in weapons from police officers, a car is a deadly weapon. If someone tries to run you down you can shoot to stop them. I did not see the incident in Paris, so I do not know if the boy tried to drive over the cops. You tell me.

      1. The police officer was stood at the side of the car – near the driver’s window – and fired the bullet as the driver was pulling away. He was driving at a snail’s pace. You may feel it was justified after watching the video though. The impression I get is that it was excessive. The media is reporting that it was a regular traffic stop, which if true, should make us all shudder to think we can be coldly executed for driving away from a traffic cop. Independent media is saying the teenager was a hardened criminal who was on the run after assaulting a women. I expect the truth lies somewhere in between. Here’s the video: https://youtu.be/LxLQkMHIDmg

      2. Petunia Meadowbrook Avatar
        Petunia Meadowbrook

        New York just outlawed pizza ovens. I suspect that “They” don’t want people to have gas stoves or gas cars, because they can be highly explosive. Even wood burning stoves are now banned; due to carbon, ostensibly.

    2. Ricardo Galvan Avatar
      Ricardo Galvan

      All my empathy, in any case, goes out the window when the “saint,” with a criminal record, is used as justification to loot the local mall and attack people in the street.

    3. brcc66 Avatar
      brcc66

      The video footage I watched has two police officers standing at the driver window with one officer who has weapon drawn. The other officer appears to be giving instructions of some sort or having a conversation with the individual in the car. My initial thought is that this teenager did indeed do something to provoke the one officer to draw his weapon. And he was fired upon as he tried to speed away. Why was he stopped initially? Overreaction? Did police fear for their safety? Justified? No one knows at this time. Seems presumptive for Ms Lopez to state it was “justified”.
      Another report I read states this teen was not even old enough to have a valid drivers license and yet was driving this rented car and there were 2 other individuals in the vehicle as well. A teen who had previous traffic violations when he was stopped. A teen who refused to comply with instructions from law enforcement. So, it seems there is a history with law enforcement, hence suspicion via these officers.

      That said, as was discussed with the panel, these countries have all allowed open borders for hoards of Muslims to come in for years. Hijrah.
      Same as has been done (to a smaller degree) by the Bushes and Clinton into our own country since the 80’s. And during the Obama years, it has been 9 major VOLAGS (so called Christian) charitable organizations who make $2000-3000/head to bring these folks here often under cover of darkness, sign them up on every welfare program available here in the US and then “transplant” them in cities or rural communities. It’s a powder keg we will have here someday in addition to Spetsnaz and Chinese Special Forces on our soil. Minneapolis, Minnesota…Noel, Missouri…just to name a few.

    4. ralphee10 Avatar
      ralphee10

      Disrespect for traffic laws, usually doesn’t end well. The car is a deadly weapon, the driver refused and drove off. I’m trying to think about it from both sides, but to me it’s just like if a gun was pointed at the officer and the surrounding civilians. Similar to if a teenager pointed a gun at the officer. this is a difficult dilemma for the officer. However, what would have happened if the driver drove off and killed more people? I think the officer made the right decision, but it’s unfortunate that it was a teenager and that it ended fatally.

      1. Were there cops standing in front of the car? Where the camera does not show?

      2. “What would have happened if the driver drove off….” There’s too many people advocating for pre-crime measures now. Let’s shoot people in the chest before they can commit crimes, right? That is what China and its allies would love to see in the West. Top down, authoritarian control of its people of an extreme nature. We have enough of that already. Anyway, I’m a bit off topic for this blog, as it was mainly about Russia/Ukraine and it’s always great to hear Trevor and JR give us their views on that subject. However, it does look like these riots are spreading with reports that Belgium and Switzerland are experiencing them now.

        https://www.fromrome.info/2023/07/02/france-islamic-insurrection-spreads-to-70-districts-spreads-to-belgium-switzeland/

      3. It really makes no difference as to whst the young man was doing. Any pretext will do for the lawless anarchists/revolutionaries. We know they will just make up a narrative to fit, regardless.

    5. pondering Avatar
      pondering

      I read that the shooter (policeman) has been arrested and is in jail.

      1. LadyfromtheGarage Avatar
        LadyfromtheGarage

        Was the police officer wearing a body camera? Has that footage been released? Maybe that will clarify?

  11. If Russian soldiers did not shoot at Wagner soldiers, it’s because they did not want to. 10ks of thousands of Wagner soldiers died in Bakhmut. Wagner soldiers are seen as heroes, Russian soldiers don’t want to attack them and even if they wanted to, Wagner soldiers are feared.

    1. Yes.

  12. I’m currently listening, a few remarks : Macron said he would not use nuclear weapons if Ukraine was nuked but Macron did not say what he would do if Russia nuked Eastern Europe. Regarding the 6.2 billion dollars it’s mostly a troll, 6.2 billion dollars is the amount of accounting error from the Pentagon : https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-war-weapons-surplus-funding-72eeb6119439146f1939d5b1973a44ef

    1. Yes. I misspoke. You are right. Macron did only say Ukraine. But I think the sum of his many statements since April show that he does not want to defend any East European country from Russian attack. Recently he suggested Europe should be strategically autonomous and should not get pulled into crises “that are not ours.” He was really suggesting a straregic break with America, and the Chinese leaders applauded him for this. Of course, he was talking about Taiwan. Yet he was nonetheless introducing a breach in the idea of collective security. Imagine European collective security without the U.S., which is linked to China, which seeks accomodations with Russia (as it would have to). There could be no place in Macron’s Europe for a country like Ukraine, or even Poland. If France is not part of the West in terms of containing China in the Pacific (an ocean where France has colonies), why would he be serious about opposing Russia in Europe? I do not think he is serious, especially as he talks this way while a war is raging in Ukraine as Russian leaders blame NATO and threaten nuclear escalation. Someone who talks like this cannot possibly have a favorable view of the conservative government in Warsaw. I think his overall position is to appease Russia and China, and break with the U.S. and those countries that see Russia and China as a threat.

      As for the stores alleging Prigozhin was paid that missing $6.2 billion by the CIA, I suspect they are false. At least I hope the CIA is not that dumb, though they have been dumb through much of their history. If Russian troll farms originated these stories, they are significant. It means Russia may paint Wagner as having switched allegiance to Ukraine. This fits Yuri Felshtinsky’s April prediction.

      1. Most people in France are genuinely pro Ukraine. He has no choice but to be pro Ukraine. Regarding Taiwan, China produces the French Navy every year. There is not much that France can do for Taiwan.

        1. France is one of many countries that can contribute to the security of the West. Combined we are stronger than if we broke apart.

        2. So glad that people in France support Ukraine so that Macron must also express support. I defer to Jean Robin on Macron’s pro-Chinese past. A strange sort of politician, and an odd man.

      2. France has been an odd country for quite some time. My father was stationed in Germany when DeGaulle pulled France out of NATO, but he kept his troops there. I don’t see that France has improved on such things since then.

  13. The Contemplative Observer Avatar
    The Contemplative Observer

    It seems to have been a good teaching lesson for Claire Lopez. At the same time, however, for all her wonderful government credentials, there wasn’t much she actually brought to the table except avoiding the “C-word” like the plague (we don’t want to be blamed of McCarthyism, do we?) and talking some vague talk about Putin having “his” globalist dream. There are so many flaws in this woman’s thinking (which can be characterised as the usual case of “systemic arrogance”), it would be hard to decide where to begin. But at least she listened.

    1. It looked like she is not familiar with Golitsyn.

      1. The Contemplative Observer Avatar
        The Contemplative Observer

        But she should know Jeff Nyquist’s work, as she has joined him in some online discussions in the past. Do these people ever READ what he has to say? As, by reading him, she would inevitably have learned of Golitsyn, as well.

        1. You’re right.

          1. It didnt appear she is familiar with Jeff’s work at all did it? The talk about warlords roving the globe, and her no longer using the terms “Right” and “Left” as she doesnt think they are helpful descriptors anymore. I tuned her out after these comments. Also how she wouldnt get into “speculation” on how things seem to be playing out as Feltishinky predicted, and as you said would not use the “C” word. I couldnt take her seriously, and was only interested in Trevor’s and Jeff’s thoughts.

          2. brcc66 Avatar
            brcc66

            Exactly

          3. prayinginok Avatar
            prayinginok

            Yes, her comments at the beginning were weak, but I was glad she talked about the Chinese special forces. Even there she was much more optimistic than I am, but it was a good “roundtable” discussion.

          4. I admit, i am glad she brought up the Chinese special forces too.

        2. She does not agree with Golitsyn’s analysis which led to correct predictions about the communists giving up power. This is the mainstream position. Most experts think I am wrong about Golitsyn’s importance. They see no insights there.

          1. It doesnt look to me like his analysis can be agreed or disagreed with. It is either right or wrong, and has proven to be right in many things. She is just in denial.

          2. I am always puzzled by those who do not give Golitsyn his due. They focus on the 7 percent he got wrong. If I had a penny for every little thing the experts hit wrong….

          3. Many times, i think of the saying: “Amateurs built the ark. Experts built the Titanic.”

          4. Good point.

      2. She has read Golitsyn. I have discussed it with her.

    2. The biggest problem that I have with this stuff is how to share the information in a way that people will listen. I’m starting to think that I can only talk with a select few about this stuff as most people won’t listen or understand. Trying to sound the alarm is the most frustrating part.

      1. The difficulty in understanding arguments about strategy seems difficult for many.

      2. Thomas Avatar
        Thomas

        I agree, this is an issue. I’d like to offer an observation too, which might not be well received here. Part of the problem is (my OPINION) that sometimes Jeff is too arrogant about what “he knows”. I get it, smart people who are well educated in a subject cannot understand why the others are “too dense” to see what they see, or understand what they “know”.

        The natural response is to say, “well, then listen to the expert” (in this case, Jeff). Well, the problem with that is over past several years (decades?), we’ve been presented with “expert” after “expert” who we later find were wrong. And sometimes, not just wrong as incorrect, but wrong as in purposefully misleading – outright liars.

        I find myself agreeing with Jeff more often than not, but I also watch many other “experts” who offer counter opinions that appear to be quite valid. And do so in a less arrogant manner. One in particular is Colonel MacGregor.

        And here is my rub when it comes to me needing to know which one to believe since there is no way I can know as much as either one of them know… Jeff, I don’t know. I only know what I see of him in his interview and here. Jeff is quite intelligent, and I’m sure he is a patriot. But Jeff can be quite arrogant about what he ‘knows’ and will quickly put others down that don’t follow his line of thinking. Colonel MacGregor, although I can’t say I know him today, I did know at one time (I served under him, have met him personally) having served with him during Gulf War I. I know he is a patriot, I know he is extremely intelligent, and I know he dearly loves his country. So when he says things that go against what Jeff says, I get flummoxed. Which one should I believe? The humble man I’ve met, or the (rightfully at times) arrogant man I’ve never met?

        Further, IIRC, Jeff has commented in the past that Colonel MacGregor is wrong and a Tucker stooge and has implied that he is either misguided or a Russian stooge (as is anybody that doesn’t 100% agree with Jeff).

        This is just my observation and is not meant to be disrespectful but honest.

        1. People have called me arrogant before. Maybe there is truth in that. One cannot advance a marginalized and generally despised point of view with timid uncertainty. One either states it fully, the best you can, or not at all. I’m certainly not right all the time, hoping to get the big picture right. There is too much to know and too many pitfalls. Everyone makes mistakes. But Col. MacGregor is humble by comparison? I don’t understand. He failed in all his predictions about the war. He said it was “over” on day ten. He has continued to say Ukraine has lost, and not once has he apologized for being wrong. He has also advanced the Russian propaganda narrative as if Ukrainians do not matter, as if they are corrupt pawns who deserve to be crushed. There is some kind of unstated ideology behind this analysis. I have also spoken to MacGregor, and even had a couple long conversations with him. He has a kind of philosophy which I do not entirely share. He does not share Patton’s negative view of the Russians and positive view of the Ukrainians. Perhaps he does not want to share Patton’s fate. Again, I do not understand his pro-Russian stance, or why he insists on low Russian causality figures and high Ukrainian causalities. Simple military analysis indicates the smaller country would have no forces left if Macgregor’s statements were true. So I find no sense or humility in Col. MacGregor’s positions. He may indeed have been a good commander and honorable leader of troops. But as an analyst and commentator, how are we to take him seriously as the war enters its 17th month? Ukraine obviously did not lose in the first ten days. Where is the humility in maintaining this narrative for almost a year and a half? I may be arrogant for positively stating my views, but I hope to learn more from my mistakes than Col. MacGregor.

          1. Jeff is not arrogant. Arrogant people do not try to help less knowleadgeable people learn as Jeff does. He has answered every honest question ever asked that i have seen, and given the benefit of the doubt to some to whom i would not give the time of day if i were him.

        2. prayinginok Avatar
          prayinginok

          Thomas, the fact that Jeff responds to posters on his blog, and patiently tries to answer all of their questions, tells me he really is trying to help people learn. Arrogant people are not like that. Just my observation. 🙂

      3. Jeff, you’re the opposite of arrogant, but if anyone has earned the right to be arrogant, it’s you! If you told me you possessed a crystal ball, I’d believe you!

        1. No crystal ball. Just watch the Russians, you’ll see things in what they do.

      4. Jeff, you are spot on about MacGregor. I am of the opinion he is of the same ilk as Leningrad Larry Johnson and Scott Ritter. All have been dead wrong, and all three are spewing the same basic line that Putin wants everyone to hear. They think people are gullible and stupid, and, alas, they are right about the MAGA types supporting Putin in the war.

        It is a shame to anyone with normal intelligence that they would swallow their sewage.

        1. It really is incredible what MacGregor has been selling.

      5. There is a difference between confidence in one’s research, and arrogance. I have experience in the former, and the “experts” don’t like it when my research indicates that the “experts” may be wrong. But confidence in one’s research allows that I may be wrong. Arrogance pushes oneself no matter what.

        In Jeff I see confidence in his research, not arrogance.

        Thanks for the thought provoking essays.

      6. MacGregor is not a humble man. No where close to it. I would say the man is as arrogant as they come. He knows he’s been wrong on everything, yet he keeps pushing the same narrative. To put it bluntly, the man is an arrogant liar and nothing more than a propaganda channel.

      7. Thomas, whatever MacGregor once was, he is no longer. The best that can be said for him is that he is little more than a channel for Putin’s agitprop and has been dead wrong for the entire war. From my own observation, if people like Macgregor, Johnson, Ritter, McMaster, and so many more, disagree with Jeff Nyquist, put your money on Jeff Nyquist.

        The people I listed are all arrogance personified. I seriously doubt it is a simple matter of a difference in analytical procedure, or even outlook. It is far, far worse than that. MacGregor, like Ritter and Johnson, have sold their souls. That they are so often wrong, but keep pushing the same nonsense, is not from making innocent mistakes.

    3. @ContemplativeObserver, you said what I was thinking, albeit much more eloquently. I wasn’t sure whether I should comment about it, but I was not impressed with Lopez’s views at all. To not even entertain the possibility that the coup was fake, and explore the implications, seems quite naive. I hope at some point Rebekah Koffler might be interviewed.

      1. The Contemplative Observer Avatar
        The Contemplative Observer

        Total institutional tunnel vision! These types have not even fully digested the grim reality that there was no collapse of communism 30+ years ago. I’m glad, though, that Trevor Loudon simply stuck to his “loud’n clear” message and Jeff Nyquist as moderator politely ignored her poor judgment.

        1. I could see the wheels turning in Trevor’s brain as he took that second swallow of water while she was speaking.

          1. prayinginok Avatar
            prayinginok

            He was swallowing so we couldn’t see his expression. LOL

          2. 🤣🤣

      2. I was thinking the same about her point of view. Koeffler’s book “Putins Playbook” is an interesting read.

  14. As Khrushchev who created the long range strategy that Xi still follows today said, the capitalists including Musk will be buried. “Capitalists” like Musk don’t understand that they are funding regimes that intend to physically eliminate them.

    1. But he’s got to know that he is funding/aiding a regime that is trying to physically eliminate Ukraine. He knows what is being done to Ukraine. He doesnt care. He is scum. He is lower than whale manure.

    2. This is an understanding that our financial elites do not have. This puts us all in serious danger.

    3. LadyfromLibertyGarage Avatar
      LadyfromLibertyGarage

      Yolo, I agree with you. Musk is arrogant and greedy enough to believe he can build a battery plant in China and maintain his autonomy. That’s just the tip of the Tesla iceberg.

      1. Ricardo Galvan Avatar
        Ricardo Galvan

        Elon is a huckster who chases the dollar as his number one priority. He saw in China an easy buck, and because of his completely depraved and immoral nature, had no problem following CCP orders to remove all hindrances and algorithmic throttling of the CCP’s propagandists on Twitter. That is what he meant when he said he was a “free speech absolutist,” just before throttling Pro-Ukrainians, banning his critics, or obeying 97% of all censorship demands from foreign nations.

        1. I have not followed Musk closely. I thought he was originally helping Ukraine. Pressure from China?

      2. Nevin Avatar
        Nevin

        I agree with you Lady From Liberty Garage and Greynight on the motivations for corporate CEOs pushing for trade relations with their gravediggers. Saul Alinksy captures the short sighted greed/profiteering mentality of both a great number of corporate capitalists and the utter cynical ruthlessness of communists when he wrote in Rules for Radicals: “As for businessmen, I could persuade a capitalist on Friday to bankroll a revolution on Saturday that will bring him a profit on Sunday even though he will be executed on Monday.” Alinsky, Saul. Rules for Radicals (Vintage Books, 1972) page 150.

        Dissecting the very real challenges of unchecked capitalism and their capture of the US government is very real and it is an issue that I’ve been hyper-focused on for years. It is a topic that few really want to dive into because it will antagonize much of the so-called “conservatives” (because I challenge their economic dogmas) and much of the far left (because I seek to preserve the US for generations to come and I advocate for the pre-Reagan form of American Capitalism whereas Marxist-Leninists seek to destroy capitalism and enslave our people).

        There are good businessmen that I’ve encountered who are very hip on what the Russians and Chinese are up to. I encountered them back when I was active with a trans-partisan, multi-class based group, the Coalition for a Prosperous America years ago. You have large scale bankers/investors who I respect on various topics such as Roger W. Robinson and Nick Hanauer. There are silent ones out there who generate honest profits who adhere to a patriotism that we can all agree with. However, Musk is not one of those. From the Wall Street Journal recently:

        China’s foreign ministry said Elon Musk told officials in Beijing that he opposes decoupling the world’s two biggest economies, in a meeting held shortly after the Tesla chief executive arrived in the country at a time of heightened geopolitical tensions with the U.S. In a statement released Tuesday evening, Musk was quoted by Chinese officials as having told Foreign Minister Qin Gang that the interests of the two countries were intertwined and inseparable, like “conjoined twins.” The ministry published a photo of Qin and Musk shaking hands.

        From CNBC: In an interview with Automotive News, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk stated “China rocks in my opinion. The energy in China is great. People there–there’s like a lot of smart, hardworking people. And they’re really–they’re not entitled, they’re not complacent, whereas I see in the United States increasingly much more complacency and entitlement especially in places like the Bay Area, and L.A. and New York.”

        It is clear that Musk places profits over loyalty to his adopted country and in the second citation, Musk strongly implies he admires the authoritarian control of the workforce in China. He’s not the first to utter such sentiments and sadly won’t be the last. Some big businessmen see communist and fascist states (as opposed to capitalism as they are) as reincarnations of the Gilded Age in my view where labor is powerless vis a vis management.

        1. Musk has become an important person over the last year plus.

      3. Ricardo Galvan Avatar
        Ricardo Galvan

        Re: Helping Ukraine

        Keep in mind, this is the same Elon Musk who spouted–with absolutely zero way to make good on the check his mouth was writing–that he would build a submarine that would save the kids trapped in that Thai cave.

        When the British diver shot the idea down, saying there wouldn’t be enough room for such a vehicle (indeed, an expert Thai diver had even lost his life in a part of the cave where it’s necessary to strip yourself of your tank to make it through), Elon responded by publicly calling him a pedophile.

        Elon, being the sociopath that he is, with low impulse control and a need to always be the center of attention, just can’t help himself but to stick his nose in anything that’s in the news.

        As far as Ukraine directly: Elon started attacking Ukraine, threatening to shut off all service, backing off from that after getting universally condemned, and doing other things such as Geolocking Starlink to “Ukrainian territory” in the midsts of the Kherson offensive, at about the same time the FAA was about to make its final decision to cut SpaceX from 900 million or so in government subsidies.

        Starlink is built like a Ponzi scheme, requiring an infinite number of new customers just to pay off all the Starlink equipment he makes ($1,200 or so per unit, with customers paying $100 bucks a month), plus the Sats he fires off into low earth orbit ($30-40 million or more, and because of Elon’s poor design, he has admitted that these Sats disable after 3 or 4 years, requiring Elon to replace them all), to keep the original customers happy. Consequently, Elon NEEDS government money to keep the scam going.

        I suspect, besides wanting to get fame and attention, Elon intended to use Ukraine to negotiate the FAA into letting him keep the 900 million. Once the 900 million was stripped from him due to Starlink not meeting the criteria, Elon began promoting Russian propaganda in earnest.

        1. Does anyone care to challenge this view of Musk?

        2. This is what I have read, that he disabled Ukraine from being able to see into Russia via the Starlink satellites.

          1. *That* is aiding and abetting Russia. I won’t say what I think should happen to Musk.

          2. He has too many ways of knowing what is happening to the Ukrainians to be able to plead ignorance.

          3. And too much of an opportunity to aid them.

          4. Disappointing.

    4. Christ will bury them.

  15. brcc66 Avatar
    brcc66

    Great interview and you should do more of these. That said,
    I’ve followed and read a lot of Claire Lopez’ work in the past regarding Islam and have listened to other interviews she has done on this subject of communism (Tommy Carrigan comes to mind). But I’m really disappointed at a lot of what she says early in this interview. Disappointed, but not surprised really (after all she has history as former CIA) and who trusts any of OUR own government ABC agencies these days?
    She basically plays the “diplomatic card” dancing around specific questions by replying with words like “speculation” and “propaganda”.

    Jeff, you posed the point of Yuri Felshtinsky’s predictions (that seem to be happening now) and at about the 12:00 mark she states
    “Well, they are mostly disturbing because they’re a bunch of propaganda. I don’t think the likelihood is high of nuclear weapons being fired out of Belarus toward NATO countries because Belarus won’t exist anymore and then NATO will be on Russia’s border directly.”
    When asked if his predictions, and specifically the date of July 1, are simply a coincidence…
    at about the 13:15 mark she states
    “I mean, who knows really?”
    “Maybe don’t call it propaganda, but certainly speculation.”

    Again, as Joe Citizen, I’m tired of these “think tank” folks always being politically correct with their terminology. (I guess they don’t want to hurt someone’s feelings, but it shows weakness in my own opinion.)
    At the 20:15 mark she explains she avoids using terms like “Right” and “Left” as they are “not useful any more”. And she uses the term “globalists” instead of saying what it really is when referring to…
    Communism. That is the root of front groups like the WEF and all the other communist groups that a Trevor Loudon plainly says every time he says anything here or anywhere.

    These folks do the same damn thing when they refer to “radical Islam”. I’ve argued the point before that it’s Islam plain and simple. These “lone wolf” attacks are not some “radical” simply committing a heinous act. Each and everyone are fundamental followers of exactly what is written for its followers to do in their Quran. More folks should read the Quran to understand what it really is. Same with the subject of Communism.

    Most of the American public believes that the Cold War ended with Ronald Reagan and that Communists simply went away and now we have a new focus, a new enemy in “Globalists” like a Schwab or Gates. All the while ignoring the root cause and plainly saying it.
    Communism

    1. Exactly right.

    2. On the subject of the deceptive term “radical Islam”, i once read a good statement: “A radical Muslim wants to kill you. A regular Muslim wants a radical Muslim to kill you.”

      1. brcc66 Avatar
        brcc66

        Their Quran is very specific regarding a Kafir, unbelievers.

        1. Yes it is. And the later passages are authoritative over earlier passages.

          1. brcc66 Avatar
            brcc66

            I believe it is called the doctrine of abrogation

          2. It is the principle of naskh.

    3. You make some interesting points. The academically accepted ways of talking and discussing tend to avoid thought experiments and the uncovering of subtle truths. Someone might say, for example, that Golitsyn’s predictions regarding the fall of the Soviet Union were a coincidence. This is a denial that he had greater insight into coming events. If dates and predictions are not a coincidence, what then? What could yhese duccessful predictions mean? It argues a coordination and manipulation of events. The person who predicts successfully has a better understanding of something. What I always want is the secret of such understandings. Felshtinsky has something, given his successful prediction about Russian nukes in Belarus. We must sit up and pay attention, then. By examining the Russian pre-war deployment of troops, it was clear to me that certain deployments showed an intention to come behind Kyiv with paratroops and troops from the north in Belarus. When I said this in January 2022, most “expert” observers said Putin is not so stupid as to invade Ukraine. When my prediction proved correct, these same folks said, “You were only right because Putin is a crazy person.” Why did I understand he was capable of this kind of madness while they had no idea? Now they say Putin will not use nukes because he is too rational. What does that mean?I do not understand their thinking. Putin thinks differently. And they have forgotten that Putin is not a normal person once again. When will the lessons of the past be learned. I am waiting.

      1. The Contemplative Observer Avatar
        The Contemplative Observer

        All these incompetents should one day be put on trial: for their stubborn stupidity, carelessness and gross negligence; in other words, for their all-out dereliction of duty!

      2. From Putin’s point of view, it is a rational action to use nuclear weapons!

        1. It could be.

    4. prayinginok Avatar
      prayinginok

      brcc66, Clare (yes, Jeff spelled it correctly, there is no “i” in her name) is not former CIA according to her bio:

      “She completed Marine Corps Officer Candidate School (OCS) in Quantico, Virginia before declining a military commission to join the CIA.”

      https://ccnationalsecurity.org/team/clare-lopez/

      Just wanted to clear that up. 🙂

      1. brcc66 Avatar
        brcc66

        Seriously, this is what it’s come to in the comment section? I’m not trying to be a smart ass here and maybe I did misspell her name. O…K…then….Clare…without an “i”… and then…

        You need to go back and reread her bio and first look at your quote of the last paragraph (last sentence).

        It states that after completing Officer Candidate School she declined a military commission (in the Marine Corps) to join the CIA.

        Now back up to the second paragraph, line 6 and line 7…

        “…she was a career operations officer with the Central Intelligence Agency…”

        I hope I cleared that all up for you.

        1. prayinginok Avatar
          prayinginok

          Sorry brcc66, I wasn’t trying to pick on you in particular about her name. Several people spelled it with an “i” in the comments. I was surprised when Jeff spelled it that way so I checked it out. 🙂 I don’t know if she’ll read this blog or not, but after the interview she might. I just wanted to honor her that way. We’ve picked on her a bit, me included. ha! And you’re correct about the her being a career operations officer with the Central Intelligence Agency. I was looking for info on the “CIA” and missed that. Funny that she spells it out in one place and uses the initials in another. Thanks for pointing it out. 🙂

  16. Wade Queen Avatar
    Wade Queen

    EXCLUSIVE: British ISIS terrorists plan major attack on UK as shocking plot uncovered:

    Iraqi special forces uncovered chilling proposals for the attack just days ago after killing dozens of militants in a desert hideout, reports the Mirror’s Chris Hughes in Baghdad, Iraq:

    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/british-isis-terrorists-plan-major-30345343

    British Islamic State terrorists are planning a murderous attack on a UK public gathering, The Mirror can exclusively reveal.

    The chilling warning about a new ISIS terror atrocity came from Iraq’s most senior counter-terror officer, whose troops uncovered the plot.

    _______________________________________

    British ISIS terrorists ‘planning major attack on UK soil,’ says Iraq’s chief counter terror officer
    29 June 2023, 08:02

    https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/british-isis-terrorists-planning-attack-uk-soil/

    British ISIS terrorists are planning to launch a large-scale attack on UK soil, according to Iraqi intelligence officials.

    1. Oh my goodness! Thank you for posting that news story @WadeQueen! This is so concerning that these networks are able to orchestrate these disparate and seemingly unrelated crises in NATO countries right before whatever they’re plotting. First, riots in France and now, a terror attack in Britain? ISIS, Antifa, BLM, Chinese paramilitary, Spetsnaz & more are all at their fingertips in many if not most of the Western countries. Everyone, please pray that whatever they have planned is foiled!

      1. We have followed policies for decades that make our societies vulnerable to disruption. And then we have untrustworthy politicians managing the process. One has the a sense that we have been maneuvered into this position.

        1. prayinginok Avatar
          prayinginok

          I’ll say it a different way: we have been set up.

          1. Yes.

      2. Yes. Have you read the article, “The Thirty Tyrants” by Lee Smith, published in Tablet Magazine? I can’t remember if I sent it to you. If not, it gives a nice elaboration on your point:

        https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-thirty-tyrants

  17. commit Avatar
    commit

    Trevor Loudon is correct. That woman is clueless, a good example of people living in echo chamber believing what they wish was true.

  18. A pastor friend of mine writes a short devotion every morning after his time in the Word and prayer. He shares it with a group of us. I think the one this morning would ve a great encouragement to all of us, regardless of different religious background:

    David almost perished because he believed, he became convinced of a lie. He was being chased by Saul. King Saul wanted to kill David. Looking at the physical evidence it seemed that Saul was going to kill him. David had lost hope. It caused him to go to the enemy. It caused him to fight for the enemy.

    1 Samuel 27:1 “And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.”

    David should have went to the Promises of God. David should have believed God. I will give it to you, the physical evidence was pretty compelling. However, we can always trust the promises of God. God had already anointed him king. God had already promised to be with him. I understand in this life, you may get overwhelmed by the physical evidence. Just remember, God cannot lie. His promises are true. You can’t always believe what you see. BUT, You can always believe God!

  19. To convince Clare that Golitsyn is right, you can show her the article about Arbatov saying that he wants to remove the image of the enemy. He also says “to have a really good empire, you need a really evil empire” and that “your foreign policy, quite a bit of your economy, even the feeling you have about your country” depends on this image of the enemy. I think that Arbatov is the proof that Golitsyn was right. That being said, it’s hard to say how the strategy evolved. Maybe for exemple, the Soviet Union had to be sacrificed so that China could be built up by the West and become a superpower. Maybe that Putin is the only one in the Russian government aware of the strategy and that when he dies no one will know it anymore (except the Chinese). The final goal of the strategy is sino-Russian world domination. There was a sino-Russian friendship treaty signed in 2001, maybe the CPSU never went underground and that this treaty was signed in order that all future Russian leaders would follow the strategy even without “knowing” it, while Putin would be the last to “know” it. It’s just an idea, anyway I think that ever Putin reveals the deception, ever the strategy will simply be forgotten in Russia. I don’t think that for exemple in 2060 you will have an underground CPSU that still secretely rules Russia while everyone in Russia has forgotten the existence of the Soviet Union. This is just an idea, we can hardly know how the strategy evolved, but we must be open to all ideas.

    1. You should read the treaty, especially Article 8 and Article 9. I think this treaty is extremely important. https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjdt_665385/2649_665393/200107/t20010724_679026.html

      1. And there are secret protocols, negotiated in early 1992, regarding the future of America.

    2. I have had long discussions with Clare about Golitsyn. She has read many interesting books that present other interpretations of recent history. I know many people do not agree with me on this. I try to listen and learn. It would be nice to be decisively proven wrong, then to be done with the subject. But they have not persuaded me yet. One has to keep an open mind.

    3. China has no intention of sharing domination with anyone.

      1. The PRC is simply the Chinese-speaking branch of the communist movement. It is communist, and not really Chinese.

      2. In the early days of communist control of China, a Christian was brought before a judge accused of believing a foreign religion. His answer was to question the judge, hasn’t he swallowed a foreign religion when he accepted communism? After all, isn’t communism a foreign import? Recounted in the book “Jesus Family in Communist China” by Dr. Rees.

  20. There are secret protocols negotiated in 1992 too yes. Maybe the 1992 protocols and the 2001 Sino-Russian friendship treaty were signed in order to continue the strategy even without the Russian leaders knowing it. I think that if the strategists thought that it was too risky to create an underground CPSU Politburo, they might have chosen to sign those treaties so that Russian leader would still follow the strategy. Meanwhile the Chinese would be the only one to know the “whole” truth about the Soviet collapse. I don’t say that that what’s happened, but I think it should be considered. It’s one thing to say to a former KGB officer in 2000 that the Soviet collapse was a deception. It’s another one to say it to someone born in 1990 and who has been elected president of Russia in 2050 at the age of 60. The new CPC leaders can always be revealed the whole truth, but I think that it would be a bigger “shock” to a Russian

  21. prayinginok Avatar
    prayinginok

    30 People Shot, 2 Dead As Block Party In Baltimore Turns Into ‘War Zone’

    Violence is increasing at an exponential rate. 🙁

    1. ralphee10 Avatar
      ralphee10

      It’s a certain party that is soft on crime, if you look at all the major cities with bullet shells on every corner, is that not the result of being soft on crime? Who runs these cities? Gavin Newsom actually blames George Bush, Newsom appears to me to be passively arrogant. I couldn’t believe the way he was talking when interviewed about California.

      As an aside, I don’t think you are arrogant Jeff, and you do great interviews too. You need to be assertive with the facts, but some people will never change their mind or be open minded to new ideas. I’m still trying to convince electrical engineers that wind power will never be profitable, but I get the cold shoulder. Denmark has tried this for 20 years, and they are losing money left and right. I’ve also noticed that even sites like phys.org are left slanted. I’m getting so annoyed by it professionally. It’s a welcome relief that I found your site, never stop writing or getting the word out.

      1. People are often very sensitive when you challenge them with the idea that they’ve been working from the wrong assumption.

        1. I send your essays and interviews to 120 people. I’m sure they dont always read them as everyone is so inundated with information, but several of them are really appreciative.

          Two of the people i recently added to my send list are a plumber friend who is about to retire, and a retired friend who spent several years in the Air Force. The former told me he is passing it on to others, and the latter told me just today that you are really good.

          So, as it seems to me that your vision has been to get your message to everyday Americans, i think you should be encouraged.

          In fact, a younger friend of mine, who is about 25, texted me and told me he had watched this current panel discussion. It is clear to him what you and Trevor are saying. Many people may not want to hear it, but then again quite a few are listening and realizing you are right.

          1. Very kind of you to pass it along. Thank you.

          2. I consider it a duty. Just like you consider it a duty to keep on putting it out there.

          3. brcc66 Avatar
            brcc66

            I send his writings out to several folks in my own circle as well. And agree in that I too consider it a duty to inform others of what’s coming here very soon. Apathy and ignorance abounds in the US. Americans take freedom and liberty for granted. Clueless of what’s coming. I thought the lockdowns and restrictions with Covid mandates and mandatory vaccination would awaken folks but seems it did not….

          4. You’re right. Apathy and ignorance abound. People think life is going to always go on as we have known it, oblivious that there are forces that have been working with infinite patience to infiltrate and subvert all of our institutions over the course of generations, and have been preparing militarily and are even now spread out around our country and being augmented by people coming across the border. It’s so sad to think of the faith, goodness, wisdom, and sacrifice of our Founders and to see how we became unthankful and took our great country for granted, and are now on the verge of possible destruction by nations who would have either revered us or cowered before us in the past.

          5. Our technology and ease of life have weakened us, considerably. We have lost the knowledge of surviving without that technology and convenience. I only hope that, in an emergency, we can recover all that.

          6. We can. We most definitely can. I purposefully do without a lot of things just because I don’t want to get spoiled any worse than I already am. I know quite a few people who are satisfied primarily with necessities.

            Of course, there’s nothing like clean, running water. But I have tucked away in my brain how my grandad and his dad hand dug wells. Here in Southwest Alabama, a/c is very nice. But, I can be satisfied with good shade and a cross breeze.

            I believe it may surprise you the number of people who are well able to make do.

          7. Thank *you*.

          8. brcc66 Avatar
            brcc66

            Yes, Thank YOU for all your hard work in educating so many, Jeff. It does not go unnoticed.

      2. Jeff, I have to disagree with you, it is not our technology that has weakened us, but our immorality. As a country, our people have thrown out the morality that made our country strong. Our country was strong when a man’s word was his bond, and a contract was “signed” by a handshake. Today, even the simple act of buying a computer involves a legal document that I can’t read, but that doesn’t matter because businesses break those contracts anyways. People take on debts that they never really intend to pay back, unless under force. Then the many social ills that we see, such as out of control illegal immigration, are connected with immorality both on business and personal levels. Many more examples can be adduced.

        Technology is a positive, except when it is misused. The misuse is based on morality, or immorality.

        1. I never said our immorality hasn’t weakened us. Many things weaken you. Anything you use as a crutch weakens you.

        2. PS – We have lost a lot of skills our ancestors had.

          1. I recommend people buy the Foxfire books.

      3. Yes, we have lost skills that our ancestors had, but at the same time gained skills that they never dreamed about.

        I don’t view it as a crutch when I write a computer program to do thousands of calculations in seconds for a design that would be impossible to do by hand. Or when I use design software to make a product to be printed on a 3D printer using materials that were not available to my ancestors. Of course we can’t omit the ability to communicate and debate on a blog, as we do here. There are many positive aspects to new technology and reasons that old technologies have been forgotten.

        Technology can be misused by wicked people, the biggest example in the last two years may be the kill shot, misnamed Covid-19 vaccination. Thanks to my training in science at the university, I haven’t taken it. For the same reason I avoid GMO foods. There are more examples where wicked people misuse technology.

        But the biggest thing that has been forgotten is morality, the Bible. It is the actual sitting down and reading it. People who call themselves “born again Christians” are ignorant of what the Bible says, because they have never read it. These in-name-only Christians are no different from the pagans who surround us. They don’t apply Biblical teachings, because they don’t know them. This growing paganism is destroying everything, including science and technology along with society as a whole. As well as wisdom, which is the ability to recognize the truth and learn from it. This is also why so many “conservatives” support Putin in this war.

        1. I have heard it said that every century or so, there is a solar storm large enough to destroy the electronic infrastructure on earth. If this should happen, we would have to know what our forebears knew to survive. And we do not. Our current technology will be useless once this happens. Our skills working with technology will be useless. In a war with EMP weapons, once again, all your programming skills may outdated — an artifact of an unsustainable way of life. This is somethnig we do not want to face. It is entirely possible that this high-tech digital form of society is temporary in the extreme.

  22. Jeff, do you think the Russians might sabotage the ZNPP, attempting to frame the Ukrainian military, and then Prigozhin might fire off nuclear weapons from Belarus in “retaliation” against the Ukrainians & NATO (for allegedly sabotaging the ZNPP)? Is this idea too far-fetched?

    1. I don’t know at this point what is far-fetched after the far-fetched events of last weekend.

  23. commit Avatar
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    Antisemites hate people based on family tree, like Nazis did. There aren’t many actual antisemites nowadays despite the accusation being over used.

    1. Ricardo Galvan Avatar
      Ricardo Galvan

      Other than the 100% anti-semitic Pro-Russian propaganda bots on Twitter, some even with direct references to Hitler in their usernames, and the rest on the Pro-Russian Daily Stormer, Stormfront.org, David Duke and his crew, etc. Not to mention all the Nazis in Russia proper.

      The Neo-Nazi movement is firmly in Russia’s camp.

      1. Yes! Thank you! The neo-Nazis are pro-Putin. I noticed this long ago. It is because the original Nazi diaspora was infiltrated and controlled by Soviet agents in the Nazi Party. Martin Bormann was almost certainly an agent of Stalin.

      2. Ricardo Galvan Avatar
        Ricardo Galvan

        Re: Russian infiltration of the Neo-Nazi movement

        I’ll add their infiltration/influence operations likely continues to this day. Andrew Anglin and Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer, the creators of the Daily Stormer, both live in Russia today after their self-imposed exile from the USA (though Anglin fled due to numerous lawsuits related to harassment campaigns against random Jewish people, so he did not have much of a choice). Auernheimer in fact lives very close to Ukraine, in some dreary Russian city where he reports suffering depression and extreme loneliness. I guess becoming a foreign agent for Russia is not all roses.

        David Duke has been visiting Russia since 1995, meeting and networking with ultra-nationalists and communists, such as Alexander Dugin. He did the same in Italy and Austria.He has called Russia the best hope for white survival, I guess if your idea of survival is beneath the boot of a psychopath.

        I am less familiar with the European Neo-Nazis, but we would probably discover a host of them making similar trips, or perhaps even living in Russia for periods of time before turning to their home countries.

        1. My whole point is that coordination between Moscow and the Nazis continues. The Nazi diaspora, once established as a Russian false flag operation, has served Moscow’s political purposes ever since. Francis Parker Yockey, a leading American Nazi, allegedly worked with the KGB in the 1950s and supported an early form of Dugin’s Eurasianism presented by Russian agents.

  24. Wade Queen Avatar
    Wade Queen

    On the potential British major terror attack warnings; this coming Friday, which is the weekly sabbath day for Muslims, is July 7, will the 18th anniversary of the London subway bombings, that took place during the then G8 Summitt was taking place in Scotland; that was attended by Putin, when Russia still part of those summits.

    I can remember calling Jeff that morning, as he had just awakened to get ready to work in Eureka, to tell him about the attack, as he told me he had not checked the news yet, & as I was getting to ready take my grandmother and myself to see my grandfather at the hospital over in West Virginia. July 2005 was miserable month for me and my grandparents.

    1. According to this, Biden will be in London next week and in Lithuania July 9-13:

      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/07/02/joe-biden-visit-uk-rishi-sunak/

  25. Wade Queen Avatar
    Wade Queen

    Brazil Worries It Has Become a Haven for Russian Spies Infiltrating the West:

    Alleged agents posing as Brazilians have caught the eye of the U.S. and Norway—and could be candidates in any prisoner exchange.

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/brazil-worries-it-has-become-a-haven-for-russian-spies-infiltrating-the-west-525021ba

    1. I doubt Lula worries much about it.

      1. Lol

  26. Jeff, before you asked, what is special about the NATO summit in Lithuania— why would it be targeted. It appears that Biden will be in attendance:

    https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireStory/bidens-upcoming-european-trip-meant-boost-nato-russia-100595514

  27. Pedro Henrique Barreto de Lima Avatar
    Pedro Henrique Barreto de Lima

    The strategy of the communist block can be somewhat foreseen in light of the Third Secret of Fatima. Sister Lucia told a Frere Michel de La Sainte Trinité trusted source that the still-unreleased one-page Third Secret is about Revelation chapters 8 to 13. In 1957 Sister Lucia said to Father Fuentes that a Great Punishment coming from Russia would be clear by 1960. This corresponds to the preparatory phase of the Second Vatican Council, which (according to Olavo de Carvalho’s referred history/ literature on KGB agents operating at the council) was doing what the Kremlin wanted. But it also corresponds to the 1960 Congress of the 81 Communist Parties in Moscow.

    The Congress agreed upon a common strategy centered upon a facade of uncoordinated fronts or areas of exertion parallel to a underlying hidden coordination. This is where the Third Secret clarifies the process. Revelation’s chapter 8 talks about the first four angelic trumpets (according to Sister Lucia’s suggestion trumpets the harmful effect of which begins at the latest in 1960). They hurt each “a third” of some aspect of the world, the hurting of the third part, or the remaining two thirds to the detriment of the third part, suggests duality (a quality which in Pythagoreanism and every other tradition else stands for “gestation”, “something gradual”). So the spiritual degeneration begun or decisively agreed upon/set in motion in 1960 is gradual and subliminal, as opposed to immediate and explicit. But from the next chapter onwards, Revelation 9 to 11 to be more precise, the gradual process is exacerbated and changed. This corresponds to what Hegelians and Marxists call a “qualitative leap”, namely, the quantitative accumulation ends up becoming a qualitative change or a wholesale transformation.

    The Revelation chapter six seals are the things that have to be loosed in order for the apocalyptic process to reach its destination. The first four seals, which correspond to the first four trumpets, as explained by Baptist Pastor Steven Anderson (and for a number of reasons) are evocative and a repetition of the Matthew chapter 24 four evils that will befall mankind when the consummation of the world occurs, the four evils are false prophets/christs, war, famine (primarily a spiritual famine), death (primarily spiritual as well).

    So, the first seal loosed means contextually a period in which antichrists will be able to freely or more freely than ever conquer. This is precisely correspondent to where one is is history right now. The degeneration is so advanced, one is few logical steps away from formerly gradual and subliminal degeneration becoming immediate and explicit. Take the case of the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, activists who put out a creepy song sung by dozens of guys saying “We’re coming for your children!”, a NBC News piece, I think, reported ´[even though it is favourable to the LGBTQ agenda] this motto has been a gay movement commonplace for years now. What has been used in defense of the song is that it is supposedly a satire of the anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric. The song is some of the most disturbing things many people have ever heard, I think. If one buys that this is a mere “prank-like” nonliteral agression, this in and of itself suggests a qualitative leap of a sort; it is not the same as being lead by a very indirect subconscious suggestion not critically examined.

    So the subversion agents, when the gradual process (the “third part” affliction process) gives way to the qualitative leap phase, will essentially be like hungry growling wolves ready to attack a flock in maximum vulnerability/weakness.

    Another sign/example in that regard is a writer named Lauren Cho, who says the Dead Poets Society (1989) is a glamorization of suicide. The movie has clear marks of subliminal satanist symbolism (Malachi Martin explained satanists consider suicide as something with the status of a “sacrament”). Neil Perry, the young student who commits suicide, uses a symbolic crown (resembling a crown of thorns, thus effecting a kind of parody of Christianity) in the suicide scene, a scene displayed as if there was something sacred to it. There are all kinds of insinnuations like that in the movie, some quite surprising. And the movie’s even explicit message is somewhat that of promoting an outlook of a “here and now” to the detriment of the future and of morals; an aestheticism that misunderstands life and its true value; which is precisely the kind of mentality Bezmenov tried to explain the KGB active measures would like to encourage. Another example of mass entertainment which seems design to suggest life may not be worth living is the Mad Men series, which according to the official rating has a depicted suicide attempt at the opening credits.

    Tucker Carlson essentially said, recently, suicide in America is unfortunately [if relatively] running out of control. The Center for Disease Control says it is the number one cause of death in America in recent years. The subject cannot be easily brought up and its problem’s root cause easily arrived at because (as the pick up community understand as a commonplace) because it is the kind of off-putting subject which makes a dialogue lose traction or respectability. So the very seriousness and tragedy of the subversion protects it, and its cultural, gradual, and subliminal carried-out effect has a cummulative nature. The Hegelian-Marxist qualitative leap law would indicate this sort of tragic appeal won’t be gradual or subliminal, but somewhat immediate and explicit. In light of the Third Secret of Fatima, it becomes haunting to remember according to Malachi Martin the Secret is “frightening”, it “hasn’t contributed to the total sum of his happiness”, and it [or words to that effect, said to someone in particular] “is much, much worse than what you imagine”. This would indicate one shouldn’t underestimate the cultural front of the war against communism as not as immediately pressing (at least in a latent sense) as the military front.

    1. The cultural front has been an important one.

      1. Pedro Henrique Barreto de Lima Avatar
        Pedro Henrique Barreto de Lima

        It has been worrying me is the expectation it should become a deluge rather than a front.

  28. Would you advise me to read Christopher Story’s books ? I am interested by his book about European Union. He wrote Perestroika Deception with Golitsyn which means that Golitsyn trusted him, but on the other hand I found a book he wrote on Amazon about “Geomasonic Illuminati” (sic), which leads me to think that he was completely crazy. The crazy book : https://www.amazon.com/New-Underworld-Order-Christopher-Story/dp/1899798056

    1. Chris Story met with some Russians in New York. I told him it was not advisable. A year later he was completely paranoid and writing crazy things, accusing me of being a KGB agent. The book is garbage in my opinion. Horrifying in its misjudgments.

      1. Are you talking about the “European Union collectice” when you talk about garbage ?

        1. Yes.

      2. Deborah Cole Avatar
        Deborah Cole

        I am in the middle of Story’s book on the European Union, and I think it is worth reading. I have found one error of fact, and one that he unfortunately uses to buttress an argument, but the best researchers can make slips.

        Do not miss Jeff’s interview with Jean Robin.

        https://www.patreon.com/posts/interview-de-jr-85324544

  29. Petunia Meadowbrook Avatar
    Petunia Meadowbrook

    Belgium and Switzerland are decimated because of police brutality in France?
    https://www.infowars.com/posts/the-truth-about-france/

  30. Deborah Cole Avatar
    Deborah Cole

    I started a book by Story on Masonic/illuminati theories and dropped it quickly. I have not found his analysis of the role of the EU in bringing about East-West convergence irrational or unhinged. Quite puzzled about Jeff’s judgment about it.

  31. prayinginok Avatar
    prayinginok

    Jeff, curious if you have any thoughts on Seymour Hersh’s take on Prigozhin and the “revolt”?

    https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/prigozhins-folly

    1. Hersh is the same as ever. Only Hersh could describe Blinken as “hawkish.” He is right there with Col. MacGregor, predicting defeat for our Ukrainian friends — in keeping with his Vietnam War defeatism.

      1. prayinginok Avatar
        prayinginok

        I thought his source made some interesting points. I haven’t paid much attention to Col MacGregor before so I looked around. Now he’s saying he doesn’t think we’ll ever get to the 2024 elections. He thinks things are going to implode in Washington before then.

        1. There’s a hidden ideological agenda with MacGregor. It seems clear why Scott Ritter says ridiculously pro-Russian stuff. Why MacGregor does it, may have to do with connections he has to the alt-right in Europe. Seymour Hersh has always helped the communist cause. He was responsible for breaking the story that got James Angleton fired from CIA, and Angleton was the one who believed in Golitsyn at CIA.

      2. commit Avatar
        commit

        Col. MacGregor. is right about Ukraine military getting destroyed though.

        1. He says they’ve lost 400,000 men. If so, why haven’t they collapsed? And why are you for Russia? Please explain.

  32. Jeff, do you think Biden’s presence at the NATO summit in Vilnius would make Prigozhin/Russia less likely to target it, or more likely?

    1. I don’t know. The Russians are up to something, and have some kind of action in mind. They are entirely capable of planting clues for you to find, leading you away from the real surprise. Everything may depend on how well the Ukrainian offensive is going. We do not have a lot of news right now, but the sources I trust are saying the Ukrainians are making progress. We shall see.

      1. Deborah Cole Avatar
        Deborah Cole

        Someone who spent many years in Russia just sent me this:

        “Having people like Prigozhin on the scene makes the West think twice about regime change. This dynamic is not new. In the 90s under Yeltsin, a similar role was played by ultra-nationalust Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who regularly threatened the West with nuclear annihilation. As former Finance Minister Boris Fyodorov once quipped, Zhirinovsky’s the guy we send out when we want IMF money.”

        1. This is an important observation. Zhirinovsky was himself a KGB officer who got kicked out of Turkey. He formed his Russian Liberal Democratic Party under Gorbachev, when the communists had a monopoly of power. His function was pretty obvious.

  33. This article below states that the Russian nuclear weapons transferred to Belarus may be in Osipovichi (Asipovichy):

    “New satellite images show that the construction of a double-fenced security perimeter is underway at a weapons depot near the town of Asipovichy in central Belarus.

    “The US Central Intelligence Agency reported in late-February 2023 that a senior officer from the Russian Ministry of Defense had inspected a facility in the vicinity of Asipovichy (occasionally also spelled Osipovichi) for a potential upgrade to nuclear weapons storage.

    “Asipovichy is the deployment area for the dual-capable Iskander (SS-26) launchers that Russia supplied to Belarus in 2022. Interestingly, the weapons depot featured in this article is roughly only 25 kilometers southeast of a vacant military base that, according to the New York Times, could be used to house relocated Wagner Group fighters in Belarus.”

    https://fas.org/publication/russian-nuclear-weapons-deployment-plans-in-belarus-is-there-visual-confirmation/

    And this second article published yesterday confirms that the Wagner troops are almost certainly in Osipovichi (Asipovichy):

    “Satellite images analyzed by The Associated Press on Saturday showed what appeared to be a newly built military-style camp in Belarus, with statements from a Belarusian guerrilla group and officials suggesting it may be used to house fighters from the Wagner mercenary group.

    “The images provided by Planet Labs PLC suggest that dozens of tents were erected within the past two weeks at a former military base outside Osipovichi, a town 230 kilometers (142 miles) north of the Ukrainian border. A satellite photo taken on Jun. 15 shows no sign of the rows of white and green structures that are clearly visible in a later image, dated Jun. 30.”

    https://apnews.com/article/russia-belarus-wagner-ukraine-mercenary-mercenaries-lukashenko-82d304924c6531b95fba279acd783a84

    So it appears the Wagner troops are definitely being stationed 25 km (15 mi) from the nuclear weapons storage facility. Does anyone else have further information on this? This really is an unbelievable setup. Osipovichi is only 185 miles from Vilnius.

    1. *Edit: meant to write “likely” in the last paragraph, not “definitely.”

  34. LadyfromLibertyGarage Avatar
    LadyfromLibertyGarage

    Thank you, Jeff. I think I speak for many here when I say you have helped your audience immensely through your expansive knowledge to understand our world. You have oriented us to the real enemy, the communist leaders, Putin and Xi. Whether all your arguments are correct, time will tell. I think you are right, but there is no wishy washy with you and I appreciate that. I know where you stand on these issues, and i am standing with you.

    1. Thank you. I began working on these political subjects many years ago, following a kind of common sense. I hoped someone, decades ago, would have explained my errors, since it’s kind of an uncomfortable thing to contradict the assumptions of your countrymen. I thought it might be humiliating, and one of those normal life lessons to find out I was wrong all along; but nobody ever tried to seriously debate me, and the more I discussed it with folks, the more they either shied away or showed how little they’d thought things through. I thought to myself, “If I’m wrong, I still cannot see it.” Unfortunately, events keep lining up with the common sense analysis I started with. And nobody has properly explained why Golitsyn was wrong, or why I’ve been wrong in warning that the Cold War never ended, that China and Russia have been working toward our destruction. Whatever mistakes I’ve made, subsequent facts have continued to support the original analysis. Yet most people disagree, but they can never quite explain why. It really would not be a bad thing to be proven wrong in all this. It would be a relief, and make life easier. But as long as events keep confirming the Golitsyn methodology, I have to keep using it.

      1. brcc66 Avatar
        brcc66

        And what is it with this daily Faux News “conservative” worship of every single thing that Douglas Macgregor the analyst says as truth? From the likes of a Leo Hohman to the average conservative-minded “Joe Citizen” out on social media and Substack…geez…
        And good luck trying to tell anyone that the Cold War never ended…or that communism is the root cause of the globalist push for dominance…

        1. brcc66 Avatar
          brcc66

          I keep posting the piece “Defeatism and Revolutionary Strategy” Sept 8, 2022 any time someone disagrees that Macgregor has been wrong ever since the Russians and Ukraine conflict.

          1. I share “Subversion of the Not So Innocent” frequently.

          2. Yes. That piece illustrates what’s wrong with Macgregor. Good call.

        2. Regarding Macgregor, so many forget all his erroneous predictions and comments. When somebody is so far off, and offers such poor analysis, you have to dismiss him or lose credibility yourself.

      2. Nevin Avatar
        Nevin

        Same here. I first became suspicious of events back in August 1991, when the coup against Gorbachev occurred. I said to myself at time: how can the masterminds of successful coups and invasions in Afghanistan, Czechoslovakia, Nicaragua, etc. fail in 1991? And why didn’t the plotters use brute force to maintain control as their ideological comrades/forefathers did in the early stages of the Russian Revolution, against various rebellions, labor strikes, etc. But I accepted the mainstream opinion because I was a good, young Republican soon to be voter at the time. (The first president I voted for was George H.W. Bush back in November 1992).

        I came across Golitsyn’s books while in college during the 1990s and was both impressed and not fully convinced. I thought he made a powerful, logical case but I needed more corroborating evidence. Note I was also a member of the John Birch Society at the time and they were one of the few anti-communist groups which endorsed Major Golitsyn’s revelations and analyses.

        I then came across Jeff’s articles in Worldnetdaily and Newsmax and found Golitsyn’s case more convincing. But I needed more…and then I dove into the mainstream and obscure press, books and articles by other defectors, veteran reporters, and analysts, and even primary source documents and some academic theses/papers and became red pilled to the notion that Golitsyn was more accurate than not and the Gorbachev strategy was to revivify communism without antagonizing the West and disarming the anti-communists by eliminating the image of the enemy and the notions of a strategic retreat (think the Treaty of Brest Litovsk, of which Gorbachev was inspired in a little known speech back in 1987). To this day, I am still finding all kinds of tidbits from primary source documents and books (e.g. how the Chinese Armed People’s Police trained Polish ZOMO forces back in the early 1980s or how Poland and China exchanged delegations on various issues including riot control. But I thought the USSR and its allies had an irrevocable split with China!?)

        American policy towards aggressive totalitarian states could be best summarized in one recent find. Chinese Embassy (in Bonn, West Germany) official Liu Qiabo also explained to his East German diplomatic counterparts at the East German Permanent Mission to West Germany that “The US, in particular, may use words to call for harsh measures against China, however, its actual deeds are significantly different.” M.E. Sarotte “China’s Fear of Contagion: Tiananmen Square and the Power of the European Example” International Security Volume 37 Number 2 Fall 2012 page 168. This was back in mid-1989.

        Or how about this amazing admission in a conversation between Kim Il-sung and Erich Honecker back on May 31, 1984: “Given the complex world situation, I hope that the Soviet Union and China work things out. I believe that the development of relations with the US is not targeted against the Soviet Union. Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai already told me that when they established relations with the US. They told us every time they met with Japan and the US. The only objective of these relations is to obtain developed technology and credit from Japan and the US. Deng Xiaoping is said to have stated in the US that the arms build-up in the US is good for peace. I don’t know if that’s so. This is the first time I have heard of Deng Xiaoping expressing a sentiment like that.” This shows that relations with China were never about allying with the US. There is a strong implication that the USSR was not the existential enemy faced by China (as commonly believed). It was all about making China an industrial and military superpower. There is a bigger story hear that needs to be told…

        So welcome to my world. Jeff, you are more right than wrong on Russia and China and greater questions as to whether the Cold War really ended or not. There’s too much evidence out there (and more to be uncovered) which begs more questions than conclusive answers which support the mainstream narrative about the Cold War’s ending.

  35. prayinginok Avatar
    prayinginok

    Now Biden is sending Yellen to China. That should go over well. *rolling eyes*

    1. LadyfromLibertyGarage Avatar
      LadyfromLibertyGarage

      They can keep her.

      1. prayinginok Avatar
        prayinginok

        LOL! I agree!

      2. pondering Avatar
        pondering

        …and her proposed 43% tax on UNREALIZED home ownership gains.

        1. Such people are robbers, who use the poverty of some to justify the spoliation of the many.

  36. Many people don’t understand Soviet Union/Russia, that’s why they don’t understand the Soviet collapse. In France, Emmanuel Todd predicted the Soviet collapse by saying it will be because of death rate for children was rising. Some say it’s because of budget deficit or things like that. Some say because of “opportunists” in the party. Human life has no value in Russia, it has a lot of value in the West. That’s what many people don’t understand

    1. This is very true. As Nietzsche said, “The state is the coldest of all cold monsters.”

      1. A quote from Dmitry Savvin from your article about Esoteric Leninism : “the USSR was designed and developed as (1) a resource base for the world revolution and (2) its military mobilization apparatus. And, if we consider its subsequent history on the basis of these goals and objectives, then all the actions of the Soviet authorities in the 1920s-50s, which sometimes seem insane, acquire an exhaustive logical explanation“. Savvin dissociates the resource base (coal, oil, gas, wood) and the military mobilization apparatus (Russians). I think it’s an error, the Russian people were part of the resource base for the world revolution. If the Soviet government had to kill 100 million people for World Revolution, so be it. Stalin shot hundreds of people per year. Soviet Union had 25% GDP budget military (US had 7%), all of that money could not be spent elsewhere of course. Russians were living like animals drinking vodka so that the Government could fund World Revolution. But people in the West think the Soviet Union collapsed because of birth rate or economic problems or oil shortage. It’s really naive..

        1. Yes. You got it.

      2. An acquaintance who had studied Russian many years ago said (in Russian originally) that Russia is a cold mother.

        That’s a vast understatement.

  37. Jeff, are you, Trevor Loudon or anyone else trying to alert NATO officials about what you’ve uncovered? I’ve retweeted Felshtinsky’s original tweet a few times, mentioning @NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, Zelenskyy, the presidents of Lithuania and Poland, and several other NATO officials. I’m wondering if there’s anything else any of us can do to alert those attending the summit in Vilnius to this threat. It’s going to be so awful if something actually does happen. I want to have done everything I could to warn others about this possibility. I’d encourage anyone else reading to do the same.

    1. LadyfromLibertyGarage Avatar
      LadyfromLibertyGarage

      K, you’re absolutely right. If Felshtinsky is correct, and so far, he has been, we all owe it to Western Europe, Ukraine, and the other countries to share this video with anyone we believe can influence events to the good. Remember, Felshtinsky was actually calling for NATO to stop Belarus. But, who would you say we should send it to?

      1. So far my focus has been on trying to get the attention of NATO & some of the governments of Eastern European countries. But I was thinking earlier it even might be wise to send it to certain Neocons, if for no other reason than for there to be a record on Twitter that this was predicted beforehand, by someone who may have had a contact inside the Russian military, so it’s clear that it was decidedly NOT a “rogue actor” situation. I contemplated tagging @POTUS and the Secret Service, then decided against it, because I wasn’t certain how it would be received. If you have thoughts on any of this, let me know. Perhaps email would be more effective.

        1. Some people are so entrenched in their political opinions, it becomes impossible to introduce new thoughts to them.

      2. I listened to the Hoover Institution experts, including former Trump National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster refer to the idea of a false flag nuclear strike from Belarus. He and all the other experts debunked it as “conspiracy theory.” They also debunked the idea that the mutiny was anything but what it appeared to be. As far as NATO, there are well-paid intelligence analysts in all these countries. The facts here cannot have escaped their notice. They will analyze it how they will. More than 22 years ago, the former head of CIA counterintelligence, James Olsen, told me that “Langley sends me your stuff all the time. They say it is brilliant, but they disagree.”

      3. I’ve never had a high opinion of McMaster. he is like so many mainstream types. He’s blind to those things that are inconvenient to the position he wishes to take.

    2. Share it with the Ukranian accounts on Twitter.

      1. I only thought of it because of what you posted. Thank you.

      2. Thank you, yes, I’ve been trying to do that. I wish more of them had the word “Ukraine” in their names! That would make it so* much easier! 😅

        1. I just dm’d it to several accounts, and posted it in replies to a few. The ones I follow have videos and photos from Ukraine.

    3. They are bolstering the ABM defenses for Vilnius. So there is some awareness of danger.

      1. I was just telling someone I hoped they would do this. That is wonderful news!

  38. Deborah Cole Avatar
    Deborah Cole

    Speaking of Zhirinovsky (forgive the length of the text, but it is necessary to set up the Zhirinovsky punch line):

    Case Study 1: The dialectical method used to enter the Council of Europe
    Confirmation of the routine use of the dialectical method, from a prominent Leninist
    implementer of strategy, Vladimir Lukin, formerly Russia’s Ambassador to the United
    States, was published in ‘International Affairs’128. In this extraordinary article, Lukin (and
    the Russian Foreign Ministry) had the arrogance to admit, gratuitously and openly, that the
    special manoeuvres they perpetrated to ‘ease’ Russia’s admission to the Council of Europe
    were all a game129. Furthermore, Mr Lukin knew that in making these cynical admissions,
    no-one in the Western official structures would pay the slightest attention.
    Following his return from Washington, Lukin resurfaced as Chairman of the State
    Duma Committee for Foreign Affairs. Russia had originally sought to join the Council of
    Europe with an application on 7th May 1992 – following which, the Committee of Ministers
    for Foreign Affairs of the Council of Europe nations had responded (on 25th June 1992) with
    a favourable resolution. The matter was then placed on the ‘back burner’ for several years.
    Finally, after Russia’s eventual admission, the rubber-stamp State Duma ‘voted’, Lukin
    wrote, ‘by an overwhelming majority for joining the prestigious European organisation.
    Such were the main stages of this road which proved to be not so easy’. He then explained
    the difficulties Russia’s strategists had had to overcome in order to achieve their objective –
    and the Leninist, dialectical manner in which they had set about doing so.
    The problems were partly of the Russians’ own making. In the first place, Mr Lukin
    explained, ‘the world was still experiencing the shock of the Pervomaiskoe tragedy’ – which
    had culminated in the televised bombardment of the ‘Black and White House’. Secondly,
    ‘on 2nd February 1995, the procedure’ for considering Russia’s application for Council of
    Europe membership ‘was interrupted because of the tragedy in Chechnya’. Thus Russian
    policy had been ‘interrupted’ by two ‘tragedies’ or roadblocks [‘Life’], created by the Leninists
    themselves, which the strategists had been obliged to manoeuvre round. How to proceed,
    given the technical difficulty that ‘by the time the discussion in the Council of Europe’s
    Parliamentary Assembly started, Russia’s chances of being admitted to the Council of
    Europe were 50-50’, because ‘the procedure for admitting a new member is very complicated’, requiring two-thirds of the deputies in attendance? Lukin proceeded to itemise the
    ‘special measures’ taken by the strategists to ‘overcome’ these ‘roadblocks’.
    First, President Yeltsin’s Press Secretary, Sergey Medvedev, announced that ‘the
    deployment of the (Soviet) army in Chechnya had been done legitimately’, adding that any
    ‘refusal to admit Russia to the Council of Europe would essentially mean this organisation’s
    support for Dudayev’ [the Soviet-controlled ‘bete noir’ renegade Chechen warlord of the day].
    ‘Naturally’, Lukin explained, ‘such a statement caused some fuss at Strasbourg’. (Dudayev,
    a ‘former Soviet Air Force General based in Estonia, was then the Chechen leader working
    dialectically with Moscow in part to provide a diversion so that the West in due course
    ‘conceded’ the need for substantial deliveries of military hardware to the colossal new
    military district of Mosdok130, Ingushetia, being constructed under Yeltsin).
    However any anxieties within the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly
    were evidently allayed when, as Lukin explained, the leader of the overt Russian Communists came to the ‘rescue’, playing a dialectical role. For ‘Zyuganov made a responsible speech,
    and showed clearly that the Communist Party of the Russian Federation was indeed backing
    democratic policy and was going to follow the principles of democracy for the future, as well’.
    The Council of Europe was duly ‘satisfied’ with these completely meaningless,
    deceitful and worthless assurances, having no understanding of ‘democratism’, and
    willing to take the ‘democratic credentials’ of the Russian Communists – not even of
    ‘relabelled’ Communists, but of the overt Communists themselves – at face value!
    As Anatoliy Golitsyn noted in January 1988, ‘despite the advent of ‘glasnost’, the
    Soviet credo – ‘whenever required, lie for the Party line’ – remains unchanged’131
    Lukin then says that he himself passed a letter to the Council of Europe by another
    dialectical actor – Sergey Kovalev, who was then playing an assigned dialectical role for the
    KGB strategists as a ‘human rights’ expert, a task subsequently assumed by a Presidential
    Human Rights Commission, chaired by Vladimir Kartashkin. In the letter, Kovalev admitted that ‘Russia certainly cannot yet meet the Council’s democratic standards’, and wasn’t
    it unfortunate indeed that ‘the situation with regard to human rights in this country has
    grown worse than ever for the past year’*? However this meant that ‘to refuse Russia’s
    admission would mean the Council’s keeping away from solving the problems of the
    largest European nation, which would contradict the very causa sui of this organisation’.
    Another flight of fancy.
    Finally, that caricature of a Russian nationalist, the GRU ‘actor’ Vladimir Wolfovich
    Zhirinovskiy, was deployed to make certain that the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary
    Assembly took the desired decision. In the following passage from Lukin’s article, we have
    official confirmation from strategic level, sanctioned by the Russian Foreign Ministry which published it, that everything contained in book’s this analysis concerning the
    mutine use of Leninist dialectical strategic deception operations by the Russians to
    achieve their tactical and strategic objectives, is correct:
    ‘Vladimir Zhirinovskiy also did his work well. He was in good shape and did his
    best to show everybody present [at the Council of Europe, in Strasbourg] what a wild and
    horrible person he is. Russia, he said, is the most democratic state in the world, unlike any
    member of the Council of Europe – for instance, the Germans, who are harming the Turks,
    the Turks who are suppressing the Kurds, and so on. Having succeeded in frightening the
    gentle Europeans [indicating how much the Leninists despise the compliant European
    ‘useful idiots’ – Ed.] he concluded by saying that he personally would be happy if Russia
    were refused admission – as, in that case, he (Zhirinovskiy) would win the Presidential
    elections by a still larger margin’.
    After that, the ‘gentle Europeans’ just had to agree to Russian membership of the
    Council of Europe…

    1. Is that from Chris Story?

      1. Deborah Cole Avatar
        Deborah Cole

        Yes, it is from The European Union Collective, and I just came to this passage today.

        1. There are some gems in Chris Story’s work.

  39. brcc66 Avatar
    brcc66

    Jeff, would you be interested in speaking with or being interviewed with Leo Hohmann? I have followed this guy for years and he’s a great investigative reporter but he’s crossways on this whole Russian Ukraine thing. He has a blog and I’ve attempted numerous times to comment and explain that it isn’t globalists calling the shots….and he blasts me. He praises Macgregor’s analysis constantly. I disagreed. And I mentioned you and he claims he’s familiar with you but in the same breath he says you’re not credible ( which tells me he isn’t familiar at all with your analysis). I’d really love to get you and him together much like you did with the recent interview/debate with the antisemite Patrick Slattery on RBN….

    1. Of course I will talk to him if he is willing.

      1. brcc66 Avatar
        brcc66

        He was excited when I offered to contact you to debate him. I will reach out and contact him now and email you.

        1. great!

          1. brcc66 Avatar
            brcc66

            I just sent him word you would speak with him and am anxiously awaiting his reply.

          2. Very good.

          3. brcc66 Avatar
            brcc66

            I just gave him your email addy. Said to type brcc66 in the subject line. You guys can hopefully work out details from there

          4. brcc66 Avatar
            brcc66

            So here is his reply today…after agreeing to discuss and debate you…

            “I don’t understand why you keep pushing this Jeff Nyquist thing on my site. I’m really not interested in it. That’s a waste of my time splitting hairs over something that really doesn’t matter. We both agree that globalists and communists are bad for America. Let’s just leave it at that. I don’t wish to debate the finer points of such things. I’m not a college professor or some academic in a debating society. My mission is simply to wake people up to the tyranny so they will know what’s coming and not be caught off guard. Do I really need Jeff Nyquist to drill it into my head that the commies are worse than the globalists? Does he need me to tell him the opposite? No. It’s a waste of time. His body of work stands by itself as does mine. I don’t feel the need to defend my work nor should he.”

          5. brcc66 Avatar
            brcc66

            At one time he’s excited at the challenge of debate. Today? When it come to fruition? Not so much. He’s a disappointment personally. Thought he was more than what he is. A pussy.

          6. He is confused.

    2. If he thinks MacGregor is great, then there is more than a minor disagreement between Jeff and Hohmann. That’s the problem, and he knows he will get his ears pinned back.

  40. My sources in Kyiv say they are preparing for the Zaporhizhzhia plant to go down or for a tactical nuke to come from Belarus. They say they are not scared, but just preparing for an accident. Great discussion.

    1. It seems the Ukrainians are the smart ones in Europe who know who they are dealing with. So glad to hear that they are preparing.

    2. prayinginok Avatar
      prayinginok

      Thank you Lauren! There is a new article on ZeroHedge about that very thing:

      “Ukraine ‘Preparing For Nuclear Explosion’ As Russia Reduces Zaporizhzhia Plant Presence”

      https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-preparing-nuclear-explosion-russian-reduces-zaporizhzhia-plant-presence

      1. Zero Hedge is a Russian agitprop channel is not to be trusted.

        Russia has set charges in the ZNPP, and has intermittently shelled the place. It is why Putin has been warned about taking it out as an act of war against the west. Chernobyl contaminated much of Europe with some of the stuff making it as far as Ireland, IIRC. It isn’t something western Europe can afford to take lying down.

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