“The Global Power of idiots does not simply embody the abuse and exploitation of one people by another. This is pure nihilistic violence, the victims of which are everyone: both those who carry it out, and those who submit to it. Narcissistic planetary idiots stand closer to Nothingness not when they lose something or are subjected to violence but rather when they exist in comfort, security, and under the illusion of complete subjective freedom.”
-Aleksandr Dugin [MH, p. 164]
Old Marxist-Leninists and new style Russian propagandists agree that Americans are awful. Aleksandr Dugin, who poses as a highbrow intellectual might as well be channeling the curmudgeonly H.L. Mencken who said the dominanat American class was the “booboisie.” Striking a more academic pose, Dugin quotes Martin Heidegger and Nietzsche to demonstrate the idiocy and the nihilism of Americans. The American globalist liberal, says Dugin, accepts and recognizes “the normativity of the ‘American way of life,’” and is “a patented idiot from the philosophical and etymological point of view, a documented idiot, an idiot parading his foolishness above his head like a banner.”
Of course, Dugin’s vituperation has largely been focussed on liberal useful idiots, while he makes cooing sounds in the ears of susceptible right-wingers. Only, Dugin is careful to explain that Marxism is not stupid at all. Dugin says, “things are more complex with Marxism” because — unlike liberalism — “Marxism possesses serious philosophical energy drawn from classical German philosophy (Hegelianism) and focused on the problem of alienation. It was this particular aspect of Marxism, according to Heidegger, that made it so attractive and successful.”
Because we Americans are “stupid,” Dugin has to explain the simplist things simply, as he does with Tucker Carlson….
As Dugin explains to Tucker, it seems that liberalism is a kind of original sin that has supposedly mutated into something toxic. It is not that socialists and other nihilistic cults have hijacked classical liberalism. No. Dugin suggests the ideal of political freedom was doomed to follow a destructive path from the beginning. Dugin never mentions the ancient theory of checks and balances in terms of forestalling social and political corruption. Such ideas, for safeguarding society and individuals, is not part of his political lexicon. Dugin diplomatically guides Carlson to reject the West’s ancient political traditions tracing back to Greece and Rome (which emphasized liberty). Here Dugin indirectly explains why government controls, and the Russian Federation Empire, are superior to liberalism. The argument is that one must ultimately choose between ordered collectivism and degenerate individualism.
It looks like Tucker Carlson largely accepted Dugin’s debunking of freedom. The look on Carlson’s face shows him to be a lamb before the intellectual slaughter. And a tasty lamb, indeed, who somehow leads other lambs. This strange ideological amalgam of right and left, which is here on display, must prove to be an explosive mixture in the professional hands of Professor Dugin. In fact, it is one of his specialties. Whereas, with Dr. Hannibal Lecter we had The Silence of the Lambs, Dr. Aleksandr Dugin gives us The Exploding of the Lambs.
Given the critical nature of Moscow’s information operations, and the scare tactics used to frighten Americans into thinking we have pushed Putin too far, we yet can see the emergence of a new narrative; that is, Putin the peacemaker, with Trump getting the lion’s share of the credit.
However superior the Russians and Chinese are in strategic nuclear weapons, the disparity will be greater in three years time. Why not acquire that advantage? What China and Russia need is to fix their economic mess, and negotiations might do the trick. China needs to learn the secrets of precision manufacturing. Russia needs time to calm the situation in Europe, and to open Germany’s energy markets once more. Peace is therefore on the table. Only everyone must believe we are on the verge of world war. This is how Russia extracts the most advantageous terms.
In setting up his related intellectual swindle, which supports Moscow’s strategy, Dugin makes many good points about the West’s nihilism. But the East is even more nihilistic and lacks the freedom to wriggle free. Dugin himself is arguably a nihilist, evading true self-knowledge by projecting his negativity onto the West. It is easy to make excuses and blame the “idiots” in America. He forgets to acknowledge, of course, that those “idiots” have a decisive advantage. They are not forced, with a gun at their heads, to go against their conscience.
I could be wrong, but it looks like Russia is preparing a big diplomatic move. Meanwhile, the Putin-loving MAGA faction, who listen to Dugin and others of that kind, are like lambs. They think the threat of war is coming out of the “warmongers” in Washington. They are primed to give Putin what he wants.
What do you suppose Putin is ready to promise them?
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Jeff, as always, your analysis produces a sense of wrath that Americans have become so uneducated about America’s ethical values versus the destructiveness and cleverness of her enemies. I blame the traitors in the US educational system, who could have, for the last 100 years, thoroughly educated Americans on every pertinent issue; every ethic; every truth and lie; and every strategy to maintain and multiply freedom across the world.
Instead, too many Americans are as dumb as a box of rocks that taken together will sink our country to an ignominious and watery doom.
I am worried that we are too dumbed down to see our way out of this.
Well, it’s going to be an either / or scenario. I think Trump needs to initiate an educational program on a national and international scale to correct the situation. Sort of like Radio Free America. There’s too much evil information being spread about by the Left to ignore it any longer. We HAVE to counter it. Trump has the power to do it—quickly. I wish I could meet him and ask him to do this. Somebody?
Well BOTH sides are dumbed down. For they walk in darkness and great darkness the people. The clashing of the kingdoms will produce no winners. Communism and Capitalism will both fail. They plot and plan and “imagine a vain thing”. They conspire against one another and their biggest Enemy, the One God has chosen and anointed to rule the world – Christ.
It’s all in Psalm 2. “God sits in the heavens and laughs and calls these fools who live and act like there is no God, no devils, no Bible, no King NOW on the throne of this world, to “kiss the Son lest they perish in the way”. Before they can push the red buttons to unleash Satan II, the Creator of this world will step in “lest no flesh be saved”, according to the rightful Ruler in Matthew 24:21,22.
Sadly, like in Noah and Lot’s day, and even when Jesus walked the earth, everyone who rejects the Light is walking in darkness and are all dumbed down.
Jesus said this while on earth, “I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and learned and have revealed them to children. Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight. All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.” – Matthew 11
In Psalm 2 God reveals that when Jesus asks for the nations as His inheritance all of this political saber-rattling will come to an end.
“See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. 29 For our God is a consuming fire.”
Ah, the clashing of kingdoms and the dumbed down masses. But in the end, there is only one kingdom that will be left standing. Now is the time to enter it and learn the geopolitics of God so we can walk in the light. Revelation 16:14 “For they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. “Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches.”
An apt quote from Gen. Robert E. Lee:
My experience of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them or indisposed me to serve them; nor in spite of failures, which I lament, of errors which I now see and acknowledge; or of the present aspect of affairs; do I despair of the future.
The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow, and our desires so impatient; the work of progress is so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope.
Letter to Lieutenant Colonel Charles Marshall (September 1870)
It’s a brilliant insight from Lee, and quite close to his death.
Yes, he had the stroke from which he would not recover on September 28th. I’m not sure when in September he wrote the letter this is contained in.
Interesting essay, Jeff. What I don’t understand is why Putin and Xi would decide to wreck their respective economies four years before they would achieve full strength militarily, while the US is expected to decrease in strength militarily during that same time. Were the past two years of war simply a practice run gone wrong? Was the original plan to continue ramping up wartime production over the next four years while fighting regional wars, but their economies just couldn’t handle it? Why reveal their partnership clear back in 2022, and alert the West to their plans? Did something change? Did they not expect such strong opposition in Ukraine, and now they need a do-over? Did they need Kamala Harris to win to be able to continue their war plans (or did they need the election to be contested)? Alternatively, could this all be a bluff, to make us drop our guards before the inauguration? Or is Putin going to make a peace deal, let everyone go home, and then invade Ukraine more explosively than ever (or Moldova, or Lithuania, or Finland, or Japan)? So many possibilities.
Clearly the whole time they’ve been testing, pushing & prodding to see how we’ll react. Could that really have been the entire purpose of these horrific wars, as Mr Wang from Lude believed?
It looks like things are wrapping up in the Middle East, too, now. My main thought is that something was botched, and they need to make changes before they can try again in four years. And recover their economies, if they can.
If Russia and China really expect that in 4 years the US will be unable to defend itself, it makes sense that they would mobilize to build a war economy now, so that they can be ready to take full advantage when the time comes. As Jeff explained on the radio show, building the necessary military-industrial capacity is a process that takes time, and the side that starts this process sooner has the advantage. Also such a massive shift in production is bound to have all sorts of economic repercussions. Something similar might happen in the West if countries decided to go pedal to the metal in rebuilding their defense industries, but in free economies the markets would adjust much faster and the economic shock would be less. I don’t think Russia and China planned to wreck their economies, it’s a combination of mismanagement and thinking that the West would back down quickly over Ukraine. Our leaky sanctions still hurt them. They might suffer in the short-term as their economies adjust to wartime, but even then, they can always count on the West to bail them out as soon as they crank out the latest ‘peace dividend’ initiative. The trick is continuing the mobilization and transition to a war economy while keeping the West convinced that it is still peacetime. I wonder how Russia and China will manage that trick. Maybe they will start more regional wars through their proxies and use them as training grounds for their troops.
Laura, I agree with you on all of this, but why do you think they’re ending the wars now, if they want to maintain their wartime production capabilities? Will they be able to maintain these capabilities over the next four years without fighting any wars? That’s what I’m confused about. Or, alternatively, if the goal was just to get the production of materiel started up, couldn’t they have done this without a war, like China seems to be?
So then I’m back to square one again… what was the real purpose of the war in Ukraine? That’s how I’m arriving at the conclusion that Russia made too many mistakes, and needs a reset.
I think I listened to the radio show you’re referring to, because I remember him mentioning that, but maybe I need to go back and listen again. (Unless it was what’s linked above, which I haven’t listened to yet.)
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone reading this!
Yes, the Russians do want a reset, and they are not about to demobilize. They need to make more excuses for building themselves up. They also need a quality correction, and time to integrate Chinese production into their needs.
Here is where Trump might trick them, or Trump fails and they win big. It is hard to guess how this might play out. But the minute they see things going bad for them … they can be expected to initiate violent countermeasures or all-out war.
Lauraz1986: the U.S. is already unable to defend itself, if attacked simultaneously by all its stated enemies at the same time. That is especially true if their opening salvo is a “nuclear Pearl Harbor”. Except for one thing—we have an armed citizenry. Or in the words of our Constitution, we have an armed militia. That’s why the left has been bitching and moaning for a citizen disarmament for decades.
Then there’s the question, will the U.S. military continue to decline? If Trump discharges all the trans military and gets rid of the DEI policies, yes our military will take an immediate hit, but at the same time that would remove the main obstacles to recruitment. In four years our military could be fully staffed and ready for war, whereas now we are not. Further, our industry is already starting to produce new weapons, even if only to replace what was used up in Ukraine. Therefore, to wait four years for the U.S. to get weaker is a gamble that could very well boomerang. If I were Xi and Putin, I may not take that gamble.
However, waiting until spring is a gamble that may pay off, hoping that the left in this country may finally succeed in starting a civil war.
@Jeff Nyquist: If you look into Chinese history, it will prove you wrong on the hypothesis of “people don’t like being ruled by psychopaths”. All Chinese rulers were the worst psychopaths who were willing to slaughter any entire clan or nation. They were proud of stacking mountains of corpses. In fact, North Korea is a success story of conditioning the population towards brutal rule. Roman Empire in our sphere is somewhat similar but less brutal than Chinese and other Eastern Empires.
Yes, people can be absolutely loving to be ruled by psychopaths.
Please do me a favor. Find someone who wants to be ruled by a psychopath, then interview him and post the interveiw here. I want to hear all about it.
@Jeff, I believe the interview is already posted above. Tucker Carlson & Alexander Dugin fit the bill, as do all useful idiots.
@Jeff Nyquist: Stockholm syndrome is a real thing.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SocietyOfTheSnow/comments/1er1wh1/the_survivors_and_stockholm_syndrome/?rdt=49282
Honestly, you don’t have to look far. Just interview all Russians here on how they love Putin and want to conquer people.
https://youtu.be/-CYHgPclI-g?si=sT5XL5JPxQnfCvaU
People can love being ruled by psychopath rulers as long as basic necessities are covered.
If they do not know they’re ruled by a psycho it doesn’t count as loving it.
Thank you for your writings Jeff, and for articulating so well in words, what I could only feel about the “right-wing” sentiment for Russia, at this time. Wasn’t it Henry Kissinger who foretold of a time when Americans would be yearning for their own centralized takeover, out of desperation from a series of fabricated crises? (Or something to that effect) I feel that’s whats happening to the majority of our conservative movement; It sees Russia as the rightful force of chastisement.
When I learned that the Russian central banks are controlled by the same interests as the central banks of the west, it all seems to be so very well manufactured. I’m grateful for your blog, as you’re truly a very educated and experienced writer, and your thoughts help me to see a more clear perspective.
Thank you, Tim, for the kind words.
Thank you, Jeff, for this perspective, but I am a bit confused.
In your essay last week, you suggested that Putin was using a “cry wolf” strategy to numb people to his whine so that when he goes kinetic we would be off-guard. To quote this great line of yours, “Why should Putin worry about his credibility when surprise is more important?”
How do you see that idea merging with this idea of Putin hoping to achieve a bigger diplomatic win with Trump? What do you think of Biden approving those weapons being deployed in Russia? Was that terrible timing? I don’t doubt you’re right, but is Putin planning to attack Europ/USA after he makes a diplomatic move? Or, has something changed?
Because of their dialectical thinking, and the anti-Aristotelian mindset of the Russians, they often engage opposite strategies at the same time. They are ready to start a war now, if the right moment comes. And it could come. But they simultaneously take the long view, and look at their diplomatic options. This is what makes their strategies so hard to cope with, and why we must never allow them to get ahead of us economically and militarily at the same time. We have to look at everything they are doing, and try our best to see the telltales that give away their decision.
@LadyfromLibertyGarage I was just reading about how Russia has been making these exact same types of threats for over 30 years, now. Jeff, correct me if I’m wrong, but perhaps they’ll go on making similar threats for the next four years to keep us “numbed” to the idea that they might actually use nuclear weapons at some point. Or perhaps China will take over these threats if Russia makes peace with Ukraine and China quarantines Taiwan.
The first thing Putin did upon becoming President of Russia was change the nuclear doctrine to first use in the event of a perceived threat. This was something unusual for the year 2000, and it was — by common testimony — something Putin insisted on doing personally and immediately upon assuming office. I think this was something agreed on between Putin and the top generals at the time. The Russian nuclear doctrine was fuzzier than it now is. There was a vague aspect to it. Now they have tightened up the language and made it very specific, relating it to the situation at hand.
An interesting dielectic:the threat of war vs the threat of peace (or its catered appearance. Always testing our reactions and abilities to react. And yes, buying time to extend this particular cycle, this particular chapter, in the ever-proceeding effort against the West, each cycle adapting to what was learned from the previous (learned about us and about them). Confident that their control of us will ensure our complete inability not just to keep up/catch up but to ever even recognize the existence of a game/of a threat. Sheep who explode from confusion and ignorance escalating to overload from the effort to squeeze their senses shut so tightly. There are no wolves. There are no wolves.Those aren’t wolves with nuclear teeth! They’re other sheep who have been threatened by our bleating. Like us, they just want room to graze. None seek to dominate. You over there next to that Bush, stop all your bleating.
It is a dialectic. Each strategy, from a different direction, drives the whole.
I’ve been in many discussions lately with MAGA faithful and so called conservative voices within the media and those that write opinion pieces about Ukraine and slant their comments in the direction of being pro-Russia, pro Putin. They all have the same viewpoint and that is Russia good, Ukraine bad. All are pushing a narrative we must be scared that nuclear war is coming and so we (US) must give Putin what he wants at the negotiating table.
I mentioned the recent video of Jeffrey Sachs talking about how the U.S. provoked the invasion of Ukraine on your last blog post. And
these conservative know it alls are pointing to Sachs as some sort of genius. So I try to provide them with the facts that Sachs himself has a history of communist sympathies. He’s closely tied in with the communist led UN and efforts regarding climate change and “sustainability” . But they argue that I don’t know what I’m talking about. No one researches to verify. No one challenges their hero conservative talking heads. They believe everything they’re told via Tucker Carlson, John Leake, Douglas Macgregor, even Intel guys that like a Sam Faddis.
The Communists are brilliant in that they have infiltrated the political Right and these folks seem to be spreading the propaganda to ordinary Americans as facts.
https://youtu.be/qOCBkN-UDd0?si=1jOJsgie2AjAD-ZY
@brccc661 I have a personal experience that verifies your observations. I live in a rural Texas county and belong to a women’s Republican club. My friend last week told me if I am going to follow JR Nyquist then I should look at Jeffrey Sachs.
I had never heard of him so I looked him up. He is a Harvard trained economist who supports globalization and headed a sustainable development program for 20 years at Columbia! Then I watched his interview this week of Leung Chun-Ying, who was the chief executive of Hong Kong from 2012-2017 and is currently Vice Chair of the PRC’s Consultative Conference. Sach’s fawned all over this guy. Yikes!
But this is what I realized and I think this is important for it may explain how these ideas contaminate the Republican party and how to repair it.
Each Republican club (not party) has a board member for Legislative Affairs. Their job is to speak 3 to 5 minutes each club meeting on the happenings locally and nationally and prepare a handout for the members. The friend I mentioned held this post and I am about to hold this position. So here is a way information is disseminated, albeit through the office holder’s point of view. If more anti Communist held these positions than Russian fed MAGAs, the Republican clubs would be better off and that would help the Republican party with more informed members.
@LadyfromLibertyGarage: excellent idea! It would be nice to get an anti-Communist into the next level above that, as well— whoever is in charge of the Legislative Affairs boards across the entire state of Texas— if there is such a position.
Jeffrey Sachs is a Chinese talking doll. Funny that Republicans would accept his talking points. Of course, many corporations are invested in China, and they are stuck. They fear the loss of their investment, which they will lose anywhere because China intends to cheat them. But people are eager to delude themselves.
Good observation and plan.
Trump picked retired Army Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg to serve as his special envoy to Ukraine and Russia. He is critical of Russia, but like Trump, his main objective is to force a peace deal between the two sides at any cost. I wonder how that will play out. Given Russia’s talent for subterfuge and cheating, and Trump’s oft-stated belief that Zelensky’s refusal to deal with Putin is the reason for the war getting out of control, it sounds like Ukraine would be starting any negotiations brokered by Trump at a big disadvantage.
Saying that “Any deal, even the worst deal, would have been better than what we have right now” is not a good starting position, and certainly not the ‘Art of the Deal’. The pro-Russia MAGA propagandists have so completely distorted people’s views on the Ukraine war that almost no one on the right can articulate a coherent thought, much less a vision of how to end the war on advantageous terms. This statement also shows a lack of understanding on Trump’s part. He doesn’t realize how much trouble Europe and the US would be in if all of Ukraine were to fall under Russian control. And moving beyond the present war, I don’t get the sense that Kellogg or Trump understand that Russia is a dangerous enemy that cannot be placated or turned into a friend. Recognizing who America’s enemies are will be the biggest problem during Trump’s second presidency, and without that there can be no coherent strategic vision and speedy rebuilding of the nuclear arsenal.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/nov/27/donald-trump-picks-retired-lt-gen-keith-kellogg-pa/?utm_medium=subscriber&utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_campaign=evening&utm_content=paywall
I don’t believe Putin wants to end the war with Ukraine. As Ryan McBeth recently pointed out. Russia’s unemployment is at about 2.4%. Most Russians are either fighting in the war or making materials and building equipment to support the war. What happens if that all stops?
Mass unemployment and a whole lot of young people who know how to use a gun.
A bad recipe for a dictator.
I think Putin knows that his time is limited in terms of being the visible leader of Russia and possibly his own life. I don’t think Moscow hardliners have been pleased with how things have gone over the course of the war (almost 3 years) as well as the resilience of the Ukrainians.
I don’t know about Russia not wanting to end the war because of economic conditions caused by the war. If the US and Europe promise Russia a return to normal trade relations and the resumption of Russian gas flowing into Europe, that would solve most of Putin’s economic problems. At any rate, agreeing to a “peace” deal does not mean that Russia will end the war. It will likely continue in the form of border skirmishes, and of course infiltration and subversion activities aimed at weakening Ukraine’s government. Putin won’t have to give up too much ground (literally) in return for a massive cash windfall. The oligarchs will be pleased with that.
Laura: The great danger is that Ukraine will feel betrayed and demoralized.
Ending the war does not mean ending the Russian mobilization, or sending Russian soldiers home. Ending the war means a temporary ceasefire where the Russian troops remain on the line, and the Ukrainian troop number decrease. Then, in two or three years, the war can start again. This is what the Ukrainians fear.
This is the problem now unfolding.
Jeff, is the title of the book you mention in the round table conversation
“COMMUNISM: FROM UTOPIA TO DISASTER” ?
(Sorry, hit reply too soon)
Authored by Vladimir Bukovsky
Yes, the book is “Communism: From Utopia to Disaster,” by Vladimir Bukovsky, Introduction by J.R. Nyquist.
I just ordered a copy of this book, look forward to reading it.
Excellent Essay as always, but personally i don’t think that Germany will open up their market to russian oil. The next chancellor will be Merz and in Germany and Austria many many generals warn against Russia and argue we should prepare for war. If we take a look to China it becomes even more interesting. They are kicking off the germans out of the markets, this is very clear if we look at the car industry. German manufacturers were used to realize high profits in China (more than 50% of total) now they are facing massive problems. I think that now they try to collaps our economies on one hand and flooding us with many many immigrants (starting with ucrainians) on the other. It would not surprise me if they plan, in the coming years, to create the conditions for a future invasion.
@Giacomo I am convinced that Germany – as well as other European countries – have realised that they will never again fall into the hands of communism. The de-industrialisation that has existed since the early 1970s, which was initiated by Willi Brandt (Egon Bahr himself was in China to pave the way with Mao), was in the first step ‘only’ the transformation of industrial jobs into service jobs. Brandt’s education policy, which lowered the level of education for the first time (1969) to enable more people to study, even stood for this.
When China realised over the decades that it would never be able to achieve the economic power created by independent science and self-reliance on its own under its own communism, it did not move away from the doctrine of thinking bans, but instead intensified de-industrialisation via Merkel. This can be seen very clearly in the automotive industry. As the Chinese have not even come close to the level of the Germans when it comes to the combustion engine, the e-car was demanded via Merkel, while at the same time the combustion engine was stopped. The communist was enthusiastically involved and used her network to ensure that corresponding laws were passed at EU level. The poodle Macron from France yelped happily and the end of the German automotive industry was sealed.
Interestingly, VW is now pulling out of parts of China …. with its e-fleet. It seems that the car manufacturers see a small glimmer of light on the horizon and are banking on Merz – but I keep hearing that it’s about the future Minister of Economics and Labour, Linnemann – moving away from the communist guidelines.
Interesting what you are writing about Willi Brandt. It’s also interesting that the german car industry was spied on by the Chinese for many years. Many VW Managers are involved in sex scandals there. The reality is that the Chinese do not longer need the Germans. I don’t know wether or not you agree on this Birgit but i think that the next step is to crush the european economies and maybe the crisis of the german car industry cold be the beginning. Many companies are leaving China, not so the Germans or they are simply stupid (probably if we consider how the managers followed the Elektromobilitaet Hype) or blackmailed.
@Giacomo The Chinese need the Germans until all the wealth generated by the Germans is redistributed to the Global East (sold to the Germans as the Global South, as we have just learnt once again at COP 29 in Baku). Sufficiency is the right keyword.
Nobody who thinks clearly doubts that.
Back in 2011, when no one had yet seen the current Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Greens) in political Berlin, he declared in the left-wing newspaper ‘Tageszeitung’ (taz) about the economy of the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein at the time: ‘The state has weaknesses, it is behind in terms of educational qualifications, has too few university graduates and develops too few patents. But the supposed main weakness of not having a large-scale and export industry is actually its strength. We don’t need a large car or petroleum industry here. The potential lies in the life sciences, the bioeconomy, new production chains, an agricultural renaissance and renewables with all their ramifications.’
Habeck has now been Federal Economics Minister for three years and what were just the thoughts of a fantasist in 2011 have in some cases become a bitter reality. Germany is currently one of the few countries in the world struggling with a recession, and jobs are now being cut on a massive scale. At ThyssenKrupp and Volkswagen, tens of thousands are fearing for their jobs, Ford is cutting 4.600 jobs, the automotive supplier ZF 14.000, Bosch 3.800, SAP 2.600, Bayer 3.200, BASF 3.300 and at the chronically unpunctual railway company, around 30.000 jobs are expected to ‘wobble’ in the medium term.
This is the price we pay for an economic and financial policy that, incidentally, often results in the highest taxes, levies and energy prices in the world. According to a calculation by McKinsey management consultants, the energy transition ‘prescribed’ by Habeck alone, with its ‘heating hammer’, ‘insulation mania’, ‘wind turbine madness’ and ‘ban on combustion engines’, will cost us the almost unimaginable sum of 6 trillion euros by 2045. That is almost 75.000 euros per head of the German population.
Most tax and contribution payers only have just under half of their gross salary left net anyway. And they usually have to pay 7 or 19 per cent sales tax on the purchases they make. Not to mention individual levies such as energy tax, mineral oil tax, CO2 tax, electricity tax, coffee tax, sparkling wine tax, insurance tax, motor vehicle tax, property tax and property levies. If all compulsory levies and taxes are added together, this results in a total burden of around 75 per cent. This means that most employees and self-employed people have to work for the state for three quarters of the year. We have almost reached the Soviet Union status of taxes.
But until that time comes, the fairy-tale narrative of the former children’s book author will continue.
Professor Hans Werner Sinn: German energy policy is extremist! https://youtu.be/uU85tY9VQpw?t=397 Moderated excerpts from several of his speeches on Germany’s economic and energy situation.
There is nothing to add to the words of historian Florian Wenninger: ‘Everything I observe in politics is terrifying’. Except: German companies play an important role in this by acting corporatistically, following the planned economy and only having their own welfare in mind. Naturally, they are staying in China or planning to expand their plants there until there is definitely nothing left to capture. With the coming government, which will most likely be black-green, there will be no change in the haemorrhaging of Germany.
What they have done to Germany is what they hope to do to America.
It’s beginning to feel like if Ukraine can hold the line just a little longer, Russia will break. All this Nuke talk seems to be an act of desperation to force peace talks on their terms in order to avoid this breaking. At the same time, it seems almost certain to me that Putin will derail the peace talks by unreasonably demanding to keep all the annexed portions of Ukraine… most of which the Russians don’t even fully control, possibly not even the Donbass. This is great!
It’s clear to me that Russian/Chinese plans collapsed with the failure to defeat Ukraine quickly. We were never supposed to see a prolonged conflict. All the Russian propagandists shouted in unison that Ukraine would cease to exist after a short conflict… but these promises failed because, despite all those fancy military parades, boasting about hypersonic missiles (that get shot down by 20 year old American missiles), and elite airborne troops, in reality they were too corrupt and incompetent to pull off a total victory. Ukraine proved to be more resilient, more cunning, more strategic, and even better at shaping the narrative than the Russians! I think just the other day, Ukrainians had a remote control little tank with a Ukrainian flag greeting Russkies outside their embassy. I’ve seen Ukrainian generals take part in humorous videos making satire or jokes about their Russian enemies. I’ve seen the Ukrainian counterpart to the FSB out-FSBing the FSB! And we’ve seen the Ukrainians sending in agents deep into Russia performing information gathering and sabotage operations on the regular.
It seems to me that if Russia wanted to defeat Ukraine quickly, they would have needed Ukrainians to do it! Russian strategists just aren’t what they used to be. They make grand plans but then send Russian troops in primitive meat waves to die, and in their hubris and stupidity, they actually fell for their own propaganda that it would be a quick victory. The Chinese are no different.
People do not like being ruled by psychopaths, and there is no telling how effectively Russian and Chinese people are paying lipservice to the government while dragging their feet.
I fear that we are too distracted to see the real picture. I am currently seeing things on multi-dimensional levels. The Ukraine War seems to be the real distraction from various ongoing communist advances across the world.
The communists gradually solidify their hold across the Islamic world through using the Palestine crisis to install leftist fanatics or Leninist fascists across all Islamic nations. Indonesia and Malaysia see the rise of anti-American leaders in a snap. Turkey gradually changes sides to join the communists, while Houthi continues to deal massive economic damage through their blockade. The communists in Russia proudly go to Kazakhstan to hint the return of the new USSR with Putin boasting his new weapons. From intel of Lude Wang, Kazakhstan’s previous President was couped by Russia and China because he wasn’t a reliable communist. Kazakhstan was chosen to be the real gift from Russia to China instead of Ukraine. There have been massive Chinese investments in Kazakhstan which is the real heart of BRI programs. I don’t even get started on Pacific islands which we see hidden Chinese advances here.
The most concerning developing is the lack of focus on Africa. The Russian communists have gradually seized control militarily across the continent, while the Chinese have dominated the economic future of the continent. Now, Senegal and Chad are ready to join the Russian communists in Africa.
https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20241129-senegal-s-leader-says-france-should-close-all-army-bases-in-country
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/chad-ends-defence-cooperation-agreement-with-france-2024-11-28/
It is also crazy to see the Aleppo revolution at the same time. This was set up by Turks who distract us from Russian advances in various parts of the world.
I see that UKRAINE is not the real, core goal of the communists in Russia and China. ALWAYS REMEMBER that they are always multi-frontal in warfare.
When the Soviet Union and thus communism publicly collapsed, Fidel Castro and his Cuba had to fight for survival and developed the Sao Paulo Forum with its devastating culture war (based on Gramsci and the Frankfurt School), which brought Marxists to the government benches in South America. While Chavez only conquered Venezuela through electoral fraud and then ultimately led it into the abyss, things were already different in some South American countries, which were literally overrun by the Marxists’ culture war, i.e. people were “turned around”.
Were there similar approaches in Africa? Because a culture war is also underway there (hatred and envy of the global West, coloured people against white people), even if religion has not initially been transformed into faith in the state as the new salvation.
The war skirmishes around the globe are, in my opinion, communist in nature. When the time is ripe, the hammer and sickle will be recognisable to all.
Castro showed many the way. Necessity is the mother on invention after all.
When all communists have nukes, AI powered technology, powerful military, then we should expect all nations in the world will become like North Korea. This is a very grim future for many people to imagine.
@Jeff That is true, Jeff, but to create such a forum that ultimately created all the well-known socialist leaders in South-America is a real blast. The question that remains is: Is there a comparable forum for Africa, since some of the states there also fell into this huge hole when the Soviet Union collapsed and withdrew. Even if it does not apply across the board, Africa is under the red yoke, and now certainly more under China’s yoke, which has bought its way into every state with the Silk Road motif and made itself at home.
It seems that Russia and China have divided Africa into various projects of interest, yes.
@Birgit Naujeck: Yes, this is the major distraction as everyone thinks about Ukraine and Israel. Communists successfully consolidate their hold in Latin America and all of Africa. Almost all vital resources and minerals in Africa! The Chinese and Russian communists now have a permanent supply of resources for their industries in years to come. The West is being isolated and bungled in the endless wars in Middle East and Ukraine. At least, Ukraine seems to be capitulating as I have posted the latest news here. Russia will aggressively push another front in Europe through Moldova or else. With Trump in power, Russia will have few years to rest and consolidate its gains in Africa and Middle East. China will aggressively push for annexation of Taiwan in expansion with a war against Japan and South Korea attritionally.
Everyone will again forget other ongoing communist successes in the least noticeable places in the world.
I wish everyone a “Happy Thanksgiving” and that this beautiful tradition lasts forever. As often as I have been in the USA at this time in the past, I have always been able to enjoy the warm and cordial togetherness.
For us non-US Americans, a memory from Victor Rud from 2016 https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/holodomor-remembrance-day-why-the-past-matters-for-the-future/
Happy Thanksgiving, Birgit! Blessings to you & yours!
Jeff, do you think the communists’ plan might be for the Russians to be at peace when a Republican is in power here in the US, and for the CCP to be at peace when Democrats are in power?
In 2022 we saw Russia invade Ukraine, while Democrats were in power. Biden (reluctantly) sent aid to Ukraine and was put in a position where it was easy for him to ostensibly oppose Russia (even though we know he secretly supported them). The average Democrat voter, though, crystallized the idea in their mind that Russia is “the enemy.”
Now that a Republican has been elected, Russia can wind down the war in Ukraine and make a peace deal, brokered by the Republican president (ending kinetic hostilities— but not unconventional warfare). This would help keep Russia on friendly terms with the Republicans, whom they hope to back in a US civil war.
Then while Trump is in power, China can “behave badly” by invading Taiwan, the Philippines, Japan— whomever they decide to pick on to try to take land/collapse our economy. Trump would oppose this, obviously, and send aid to the country being attacked. And the average Republican voter would crystallize the idea in their mind that China is “the enemy.”
Then, if and when the Democrats come back into power, the Democrat president can broker a peace deal with China. This would help keep China on friendly terms with the Democrats, whom they hope to back in a US civil war.
And they could just continue back and forth this way, transforming their economies during wartime, gaining experience and maintaining everything while they’re at peace— while the other end of the “scissors” is taking its turn at kinetic war. And they can simultaneously orient ordinary Americans toward which side they should take in a civil war.
Perhaps this would explain why China has suddenly gone totally silent, while Russia has begun fighting like crazy for further territory in Ukraine— they’re about to make a switch in who’s engaging in kinetic warfare and who’s engaging in unconventional warfare.
I feel like this is a very rough explanation, but hopefully it’s discernible.
Also, I’m unsure how Iran and North Korea would fit into this theory. Perhaps the plan is for Iran to go kinetic every time Russia does, and North Korea to go kinetic whenever China does?
Oh, I also just realized this might answer my question about how they would maintain wartime production while at peace— they would simply send excess materiel to the other end of the “scissors,” while the other side is engaged in kinetic warfare.
*I should have said, they can continue this way until the US is at a point, and they are at a point, where they’re ready to engage in direct kinetic warfare against the US.
Jeff, this would also go along with your theory that China(/North Korea) and Russia want to alternate back and forth when fighting— in case one of them gets in over their head— so they can help “rescue” one another from defeat. We just saw that precise thing happen— North Korea sent troops to aid Russia, to prevent Putin from having to call up a draft.
Yes. These countries really do support each other.
I also just remembered that North Korea dropped all of those propaganda leaflets on Seoul a few weeks ago— another sign that North Korea might be about to take its “turn” with China, now that Trump is in power.
This is also my trail of thinking. Communists use their agents in the West to bamboozle us all the times. Their real goal is world communism through United Nations. They will use all means to gradually erode the power of national identities and religion to achieve world communism. The USA has been almost in path towards a Trotskyite Socialist Union to enact the dialectical scheme with Soviet multi polarity.
Oh yes, you are describing the game Russia and China have been playing around the globe for decades. In small ways, the experiments have been many. Today is the acid test of their method. The ultimate scissors strategy.
So do you think we’ll see Russia and Iran end hostilities in the next month or two, and China make some sort of moves in the Pacific after Trump is sworn in?
A retreat into less violent actions by Russia and Iran is a strong possibility given what we are seeing. Another possibility is one last attempt to make BRICS an effective counter to the dollar system. IF this works, and they can stabilize the Russian and Chinese economies, they could continue toward war in a more straightfoward manner. There could be a number of plays simultaneously attempted, with shifts taking place midway. The Russians have already said that violent actions are authorized. So why haven’t they attacked yet? It could be they will attack, using the Christmas holidays. However, they are over-egging the omelette. This suggests a switch to diplomacy once Trump gets in. We should watch for further clues.
Diplomacy for Russia, while China attacks Taiwan, the Philippines or Japan? Or diplomacy for both?
If both end up “sitting out” Trump’s presidency, how do you think they’ll be able to keep their wartime manufacturing bases up and running?
It is always the same with the human intellect and mentality – when that is not used to reality and such like people live the life of dreams and worldly desires, human pride and lack of true charity, which they are not able to acquire because God, Who is the true charity, is not helping them to acquire it.
And so when things look bad, such people oftentimes come up with excuses why such things shouldn’t be as bad as they are and thus decouple themselves from the naked reality – and so when it come to diabolically controlled communist criminal Mafia, which Mafia is also poised to take over the world, whatsoever that same criminal mind produces in terms of deception, that is oftentimes resonating with the same western wishful thinking – and so such like developments of mind are then capable to lure themselves into more and more blindness, seeking such like excuses why the communists wouldn’t do this and that, and at the end this kind of exercise of the intellect is producing nothing but laborious useless results which lead only to more and more self-deception at the end.
Unless this godless world changes, God will not lift this habitual blindness from it and then the worldwide population will one day realize that it is too late, the course of action that should have been taken, the opportunity is past and there is no more means to amend what should have been amended – and so the priority of saving one’s soul for all eternity is therefore replaced by worldly excuses, heretical in their nature as always, why that shouldn’t be even contemplated and why such dilemma should be left alone – and then such horrible times come, as the Russian atheistic Cossacks, ruthless and merciless monsters of atheistic communist tyranny, luring the western mind to sleep and at the same time plotting the final stages of its destruction.
One has to finally realize that to sugarcoat the reality of the so deplorable situation helps only the tragic results to be more difficult to endure and there is no escaping them, because God is offended and the godless or heretical world, full of false and deceiving opinions which are of themselves devoid of the simple reality, and the vastly corresponding human pride inflaming such perverted intellect to such misleading ends, the aftermath of the naked reality is then more difficult to accept, not to say nearly impossible to bear.
They are ahead, they are where they wanted to be, they don’t mind to wait, if that will help them to cause more evil, they will continue in it because they are of the devil and they want to destroy all who are not like them and who don’t want to be re-educated to become like them.
The godless slave-masters want the slaves to learn how to behave, and deceived and double-crossed slaves are more susceptible to that kind of giving up state of mind, the intellect is no longer capable to bear the horrible reality and the escape from it, so much sought before, is no longer available, the door is shut, God is silent, the made-up prayers do not work and nothing is easy, nothing works, only conscience, guilty of going back and forth what should have been done and has not been done, to prevent the horrible tragedy, is playing the game of chess with the mind, and there is oftentimes no recovery possible.
ONLY God can help, nobody and nothing else, provided all obstacle to His supernatural help are eliminated, otherwise He will be silent and the punishment which He will inflict upon this wicked world of sin and heresy, world of apostasy and godless rejection of the truth of salvation, such world will learn the hard way the price of unbelief…and the Russian Asiatic ruthless communist tyranny is the tool of this Divine punishment.
This is the reality, nothing less.
And how they communist get to be so evil – it is the devil in them, and they love it. But at the end God will destroy them all, but at the horrible price which none can foresee nor grasp. Not yet anyway.
There were some strange UAP’s two nights ago over DC:
https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/s/YdsxbTXMVB
According to the Reddit thread (and the news) there have been sightings (often drones) over the last few days/weeks in Britain (4 military bases); Scotland; Ireland; Ukraine; New Jersey; Connecticut; North Carolina; Colorado Springs; New Mexico; Idaho and McChord AFB in Tacoma, Washington.
Also, a news story about the DC lights:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14137567/Mysterious-lights-Capitol-Hill-sparks-fears-UFOs-Washington-DC.html
Drones wandering our skies. Think of it.
Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone! Jeff, I wish you happiness on this first Thanksgiving without a parent. I hope that your new home will be blessed with peace and tranquility. Be well. Sending love to everyone.
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Off-topic, but of interest: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/11/28/democrat-pitches-secession-where-ny-3-more-states-would-join-canada-resist-donald-trump/
Dear Jeff, few words about Radoslaw Sikorski you have asked me for. He’s gained recently on relevance as he dreams of becoming Polish President and is fighting for the nomination on behalf of criminal syndicate called “Citizens’ Platform”. Sikorski, his American wife, a former Washington Post journalist, Ann Applebaum and his current boss, Donald Tusk have in the recent past made quite a few disparaging and even remarks towards Trump so it could strain pretty severely American/Polish relations if the quasi Polish moron decides to elect Sikorski as a head of Polish state. There are also coming very sinister signals coming from more insolent members of “Citizens’ Platform” that they are planning to deny the conservative Law and Justice Party right to the presidential office if the conservatives candidate wins the presidential election. To make things worse, Poland is taking from the next year the leadership of the so called “European Community” so with Tusk as the formal “leader” of “European Community” the European political landscape could become dangerously chaotic.
As to Sikorski himself, he is, certainly, not a positive figure even if the beginning of his political career was pretty shiny.
After completing history and journalism at Oxford, Sikorski was active as a free-lance journalist in Afghanistan during the Bolshevik invasion of that country. He collaborated with “Washington Post” and it was there where he’s met a young, impressionable journalist Ann Applebaum whom he managed to charm with his tales about his bravery most of which have been, most probably, lies.
Later, they got married and in 1992 they moved to Pland and in 2003 Ann Applebaum received Polish citizenship.
Originally, Sikorski was regarded as a solid conservative and enjoyed a great respect among the Poles. He has even served as a deputy to the “European Parliament” and later as a foreign minister in the conservative government of Jan Olszewski whom he later betrayed and helped Donald Tusk to unseat Olszewski and take his place as the Polish Prime Minister. For this service, Sikorski received again the position of Foreign Minister.
One of the reasons for which his relations with the Polish conservatives have soured was a strategic lie concocted by Sikorski; To elevate his stand among the Poles, he made a claim that he was a nephew of the Polish WW2 hero, Gen, Wladyslaw Sikorski. Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski was the supreme Commander of all Polish forces stationing in Britain from the end of 1939 till 1943 when he, together with his daughter, died tragically in the air disaster in Gibraltar. There is existing a reasonable suspicion among the Polish historians that Gen. Sikorski was murdered by either the rogue elements within British secret services or even on the order of Churchill himself. Gen. Sikorski who just learned that those were the Soviets who had murdered the Polish officers at Katyn was determined to make this public.
Needless to say how much Gen. Sikorski decision to let the so called “world” and the Poles themselves to know that those were the Soviets guilty of that barbarity would strain the alliance between the Stalinist Soviet Union and the Western allies. It is also very possible that the entire Polish forces would refuse to continue fighting under the British command.
Radoslaw Sikorski was even so full of himself that he was even having the portrait of Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski hanging in his living room.
Obviously, it was quickly discovered that gen. Wladislaw Sikorski hasn’t got any siblings and thus Radoslaw Sikorski became the focus of ridicule within the Polish conservative circles. It was from that moment but also under the influence of his increasingly left leaning wife that Sikorski began moving towards the leftist faction of Polish political landscape and ultimately allied himself with Donald Tusk and his cohort for whom Sikorski’s sleazy character and his lies didn’t and still do not matter.
As Donald Tusk and his criminal mafia are diligently dismantling the legacy of the former leadership of Law and Justice party and thus making Poland increasingly weaker, economically, militarily and politically as well, the possible takeover of the Polis presidency by Sikorski will, certainly, speed up the destruction of Poland as the strongest supporter of Ukraine a last line of defense against the neo-Bolshevik Russia.
This scenario is particularly horrendous considering the situation where the Eastern European countries one after another falling under the influence of Putinist Russia.
Regards – Bogdan
David D., a former intel guy who posts commentary on Twitter, noted the following:
“jd vance just deleted all his anti ukr posts (from reports)
no push back from biden asking for more aid to ukraine (from trump)
trumps pick for ukr/rus envoy pushing for more aid to ukraine.
trump told about the long range strikes .. no pushback
no pushback on the 20 billion (of 50 billion) to ukr from russian money..
more official aids being more and more pro ukr on the news.
i think trump is getting the intel briefings and being told the truth now about ukraine and is pivoting.”
https://x.com/secretsqrl123/status/1862366525639790785
David might be snuffing a whole bag of copium, as the Generation Zoomers say, but I hope he’s right.
I myself had the feeling that Trump deliberately put all the crazies as his first choice so they could get rejected/and or pull out, then he’d be able to appoint more reasonable people. But I might be snorting that copium too.
Hopium
Trump has been deceptive before in his foreign policies. He says such nice things about the leaders of Russia, North Korea, and China. But when did he ever do anything for them? It’s a funny thought.
Let’s pray that’s the game he’s playing!
Trump signed a $50 BILLION (with the B) agriculture deal with the CCP communist criminals, supplying them with food and didn’t stop them from obtaining land in the US, just to name a few items of his help to the worldwide communist cause.
Then he didn’t stop the long-term KGB asset who is still sitting in the WH from doing the damage that has been done, in terms of national security and communist subversion the damage is catastrophic – as for example leaving to the KGB/GRU controlled Taliban the Bahrain AFB, so that the CCP army can control it now, and the 80 plus billion of dollars worth of weaponry, and then Trump only complains about what Biden did, and goes to have a chit-chat with him now in the WH as if they were the greatest friends…and didn’t call him a communist subversive traitor for what Biden has done to the US – ALL what Biden has done is in the name of the Russian and Chinese communist evil cause.
So Trump has accomplished plenty for the communist cause yet people don’t see it, or rather they don’t want to see it because he fixed the economy before he shot it down for the CCP virus fiasco (and kept those CCP friendly assets in their places so that they could continue their evils – Fauci etc., and the “vaccine” advertisement Trump was so vigorous to do while he could have proposed the ivermectin etc. treatment which was much more effective and cheaper – and the military knew about this so he had to know also – and the Hungarian communist asset bio/chem woman that now fled back to Orban from Philadelphia), and on and on and on.
He never said anything substantially about the Chinese and Russian run biological warfare with this CCP virus and he never proposed any serious sanctions against China for that, he only talked about it, but you still have plenty of Chinese products in the stores, so where is the real damage…
And he kept their diplomatic relationships with both communist criminal countries, even now he’s trying to force Ukraine to surrender to Russian KGB demands, including the land grab Putin is so eager to obtain – which makes him equal to Stalin and what he did to Eastern Europe after the Churchill and Roosevelt betrayal at Yalta…Trump is in the same category, as both these 2 communist enablers (and they both paying for it in Hell now).
Do NOT be deceived !!!
It said that he was involved back then in the Jimmy Carter’s campaign, so he was a Democrat before, and that much more involved, and supporting one of the worst and communist friendly idiots in the history of the US, so even if it could be established that he changed his mind and got more wisdom (which conclusion the results named above don’t support), the recent appointments of various unsuitable and communist friendly people into the key national security positions is just the additional proof that Trump is not committed to destroy communism but only accustomed to speak about the evils already accomplished by them, to help demoralize the citizenry – which is the objective of the KGB Kremlin also – and an important military tactic BEFORE the Kremlin run nuclear etc. war begins.
So do NOT say Trump didn’t help them, he DID and BIG time and he still continues to help them now !
@CONCERNED: Trump personally reached out to North Korea to preach his plan of opening up the economy if it emulates another “Sino-Soviet split” against China. Trump really wants to have North Korea getting the same treatment as Nixon in China. He didn’t hide his communist intention of helping North Korea.
Trump had accomplished plenty for the communist cause? You give him too much credit, really.
@Birgit , yes i agree, but do you really think that the Green policy will have a future in Germany? I think that many Germans are starting to see what actually is happening. The coming months will be really hard and it will definitley not surprises me if the Gruene achieve a <10% in the next elections. This will also weeken the position of the Gruene in the next government. I don't know but i think that the next government will correct many mistakes that have been made before. The point is that probably it is too late now….
@Giacomo Within 3 weeks of the FDP being kicked out of government, more than 20,000 new party membership applications have been submitted to the Greens. A small hope may be spreading that these are anti-Gramsci disciples who want to renew the party from within.
Well, Giacomo, the CDU has been preparing for a black-green government for months. If both the FDP and the Bolshevik Wagenknecht alliance fail at the 5 per cent hurdle, the CDU and the Greens could very probably enter into a relaxed alliance for the death knell of Germany – even if the Greens do not even get double-digit votes. In the coming weeks, the CDU is hoping for even more votes from unrelaxed AfD voters, while the already thoroughly corrupt Greens will invest every euro of taxpayers’ money they can get their hands on in a corresponding purchase.
A second option would be black-yellow, but I cannot really see that on the horizon. At the moment, every bucket of manure left in Germany is being poured over the FDP to make them unelectable. It is well known that hatred and envy are the exquisite cuisine of the left.
A new edition of the CDU/SPD grand coalition is out of the question – just as the Merkel/Baumann autobiography is threatening to become a shelf warmer.
CDU and AfD may not even be conceivable – but would be the surprise par excellence.
Politics in Germany has become a mental illness in which color variations keep changing as the madness increases.
Will Germany turn from Green to Yellow, or pass directly to Brown or Red?
Since brown is out of the question due to certain national traits, all color mixtures are Soviet red. I have already dug out my sickle again, but I am still looking for the hammer 🙂
🤨
When the KGB Stasi orchestrated the removal of Helmuth Kohl, which was a top notch KGB communist sabotage operation, to install that Stasi asset Merkel and the damage done by her to Germany, the sickle was already out and the hammer is there now right beside it with that idiot that sits in Berlin now.
Retired Army Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg explains his vision for ending war in Ukraine:
https://www.voanews.com/a/former-trump-nsc-official-explains-his-vision-for-ending-war-in-ukraine-/7712184.html
Kellogg is a good pick who knows that Biden did not strengthen Ukraine, but made many token gestures. This is a strong choice by Trump.
Jeff, do you agree with this statement?
“Putin says Trump might be killed. In Putin’s doublespeak, this can be translated as a threat.”
“‘Trump is not even safe now, but I hope he is a smart and cautious person,’ — Putin”
This is what I was getting at with Medvedev’s statement a couple of weeks ago, as well:
https://x.com/piperk/status/1862239197349699995?s=46
Jeff, at the moment I cannot really categorise the Biden approach to the Ukraine war and I am more worried that the Biden administration is doing everything it can to not only give the Russians the chance to ‘finally’ test their new weapons of war under real war conditions, but also to expand the war beyond the borders of Russia/Ukraine. Both are entirely in Putin’s interests, who may have already received a kick or two in the arse from Xi Jinping in this regard (I am disregarding the current economic problems of the two communist countries in this context, simply because I know that both the economy and the well-being of their compatriots are not particularly highly valued).
At the same time as the Biden administration’s change in strategy, there is a different reading of the Ukraine war in the German mainstream. Suddenly the war-weariness of the Ukrainian population becomes an issue, the army is exhausted and even refugees are said to be on their way back to their now Russian-occupied homeland. In other words, we Germans no longer need to support them with military equipment …
Nothing really fits together any more.
Is Trump and his team already active in the background?
If Russia is planning a larger war it can only be in conjunction with China. In that case it must begin with mass nuclear missile strikes on the USA. This would be too risky at present, and is better attempted in 3-10 years, depending on future circumstances.
Of interest: https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2024/11/29/china-fugitive-communism-among-chinese-biden-sent-home-prisoner-swap/
What sticks out to me in the article are these sentences: “In apparent recognition of the prisoner swap, the Biden administration awarded the genocidal Chinese regime with a downgrade in State Department travel warnings. The State Department now asks Americans to ‘exercise increased caution’ while in China, rather than to ‘reconsider travel’ there entirely.”
Another irresponsible, possibly dangerous move by the Biden administration, IMO.
For those interested in a dive into the dark web of Dugin’s context and intellectual influences, this is a good article, quite a tour de force of clarity given the array of connections philosopher and theologian John Lamont needs to lay out: https://europeanconservative.com/articles/essay/russian-philosopher-aleksandr-dugin-defender-of-traditional-values-or-dangerous-occultist/
Thank you Deborah Cole for the superb John Lamont Expose of Aleksandr Dugin. I wonder if this expose would be sufficient Shock Treatment to bring Glenn Beck and Christian Putin worshipers to their senses.
Cicero, thanks for the acknowledgement. It’s always good to know that one’s recommendations have been useful. As for shock treatment, not sure. I have become aware of how large a role non-rational (irrational?) factors play in adhesion to points of view among us “rational” animals.
I have studied Dugin and am going through his book on Heidegger. There are some striking things if we use Eric Voegelin’s work as a lens for understanding what Dugin is doing.
Chinese container ships source of UK drone swarms?
This was the first I’d heard of this theory. Scroll down a bit for the segment on container ships:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/drone-swarms-are-flying-circles-around-u-s/
* “Anti-communist Conference No. 8”, featuring Jean Robin, Jeff Nyquist, and Dr. Li-Meng Yan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxoZNJKg6jg
* “Friends and Enemies – Moscow Rules”, featuring Alex Benesch and Jeff Nyquist
Bad News. Ukraine starts to contemplate a surrender.
https://www.newsweek.com/zelensky-putin-russia-ukraine-nato-ceasefire-possible-1993589
Ukraine is willing to recognize all Russian annexation gains, while Ukraine will join NATO. Russia won’t accept this but it’s disturbing that Ukraine gradually starts to succumb to Russian narrative. First, Ukraine will think of willingly giving up territories for peace. Later, they will eventually cave into becoming the next Belarus.
You cannot blame people for wanting security.
@Jeff Nyquist: If Ukraine falls, then do you think what is the next country for Russia to conquer?
Either NATO resists at that point or disappears and Europe goes to Russia.
Of interest: https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2024/11/28/chinese-battle-tank-breaks-down-during-air-show-display/
It’s really bad when they break down during a show.
LOL.
Jeff, I often tune in to the You Tuber Konstantin and his channel “Inside Russia”. Recently he stated that it seems Putin will “disappear” again from the public eye and that the Kremlin Press Service has begun removing metadata from all videos and photos featuring Putin. He says they are trying to make it difficult to identify all pre-made videos that are shown to the Russian public.
My question is this. Are these signs that Putin’s days as Russia’s leader are numbered?
I’ve read and heard others who speculate he may be out by Spring/Summer 2025.
It’s more likely that Russia is going to annex Ukraine or control Ukraine. Putin’s last project is Ukraine. It is his retirement plan before Soviet elites are going to replace him with Medvedev or someone worse. Putin never really matters in the communist systems which are ruled by committees and sub-committees. Putin is the perfect showman that Yuri Andropov and Mikhail Gorbachev really concocted.
‘Medvedev or someone worse’–that doesn’t sound good. If these neo-Soviets end up going for, as Jeff says, a ‘peace initiative’ (which is very likely fake), why would they choose a hawk like Medvedev?
Who better to negotiate?
If they are planning a peace initiative, replacing Putin might be an attractive option. Could happen, yes.
I watched a short video (16 minutes) by a personal favorite of mine, Ryan McBeth, who explains NATO briefly and the positive impacts from the Ukraine War.
https://ryanmcbeth.substack.com/p/international-impacts-of-the-ukraine?r=2owyko&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=audio-player
Here’s the YT version, as I originally posted the paid subscriber via Substack.
https://youtu.be/loNQLkeBOpY?si=bngOqSpQ6ENqAs3c
Trump’s Team Discusses Halting All Weapons Shipments to Ukraine If It Refuses to Enter Peace Talks
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/trumps-team-discusses-halting-all-weapons-shipments-ukraine/
So to Trump it is morally acceptable to allow a communist country to invade a free sovereign country (setting aside how much that was ever granted by Moscow and who in fact is in the Ukraine government as far as the KGB assets playing the double game for Moscow), still the country was unjustly invaded by Russian communist forces and that in order to strengthen the worldwide communist cause and to conquer the whole of Europe afterwards, so where is then the true leadership when Trump is helping Moscow this way to continue their worldwide domination strategy ?
It is the exact same betrayal as Churchill and Roosevelt did at Yalta, the same exact betrayal and tremendous help to the Russian communist cause !
An additional RED FLAG in the analysis about Trump.
And the Democrats continue (under orders no doubt) the reverse psychology scheme to create additional credit for Gabbard, so that her communist past is set aside…
This is the same plan that Kellogg gave Trump back in April, I believe:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-reviews-plan-halt-us-military-aid-ukraine-unless-it-negotiates-peace-with-2024-06-25/
And you trust BRICS news and the Gateway Pundit to accurately report what Trump’s “team” is discussing? Those are pro-Russian sources.
They are pro-Trump and so they don’t report it as something wrong, and they are selling the propaganda also by it.
If this is not true they would be corrected by Trump campaign that it is not true and they would take it down. Moreover he spoke about this himself at his rallies, regarding peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, and so there is no mistake that he will go that far and pause the shipment of weapons.
If this is not true why would they publish it about Trump whom they support – the Hoft website ?
Hoft is not a reliable source. I do not know why anyone takes that site seriously.
The steady movement and rhetoric toward betrayal and abandonment of Ukraine is gut-wrenching to see and hear.
I cannot believe what I am reading or listening to when I hear people in influential positions day that Ukraine can’t win, and the West is being threatened with nuclear war, so we must force these hard-headed people to come to terms with Russia before they and we ate destroyed.
What utter nonsense, and -really- cowardice! And arrogance for people to say they are really looking out for the best interests of Ukraine in clamoring for a peace deal.
There cam be no peace with Godless, murdering, raping, pillaging thugs! None.
The people of Ukraine deserve so much better than this.
Elon Musk’s mother is taking enough trips to China to make Tim Walz look like a xenophobe by comparison:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna182118
“Meanwhile, some idiots are still building manned fighter jets like the F-35.”
– Elon Musk, Co-head, Department of Government Efficiency
https://conservativewahoo.substack.com/p/drones-and-idiocy
Elon’s mom is a curiosity.
Someone once said that “AI + Humans” is always greater than AI. Humans and AI have different strengths and weaknesses and for that reason, there will likely always be a place for manned platforms. However, drone warfare is increasing and evolving (and the Russian-Ukraine war is driving a lot of innovation in that area.) For human platforms to survive, the concept of operations will have to evolve quickly and substantially. I suspect in the not too distant future that manned platforms will be highly automated – even more so than today – with the human managing the operations at a high level while the computers are doing the bulk of the work. In addition, each manned platform will likely need an escort of drones to be both survivable and effective.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tulsi-gabbard-russian-connection-dni-trump-syria-b2653673.html
That white streak in Tulsi Gabbard’s hair, always makes me think of a skunk. In other words: She stinks!
Her hair reminds me of Cruella de Vil!
I guess she’s somewhere between Cruella and Pepé Le Pew 😅
LOL
An essential article from the UK Independent – lot of revealing facts that she must be regarded as KGB/GRU asset, too many points of Moscow communist propaganda she is spreading…This article implicates Trump even more, it is this serious.
The level of communist penetration of the US government must be truly extensive !
lol
No comment except that when you deal with committed communist Mafia they have all ends covered, the situation is probably even worse than anybody can imagine and the laughter will be turned into sorrow when the evil results appear…
It’s not light, careless, ignorant laughter. It’s more akin to laughter in the face of the enemy.
Like I used to hear my grandmother say, Sometimes, you have to laugh to keep from crying.
Skunki Gabbard!
I think that’s a keeper!
There was a video of her complaining about the US bio-labs in Ukraine and that they should shot down and that they contain dangerous pathogens etc…implying that the US military was doing biological warfare research…which is exactly what Russians and the rest of the communist bloc are doing. It was a pure Moscow propaganda. Such person must not be allowed anywhere near anything important in the US defense system, yet Trump nominated her as the next DNI. You will see the communist assets inside the Senate when they hold the confirmation hearings for her, of course with the admixture of the reverse psychology again…so it will be a spectacle indeed !
Here it is, it was part of the UK article about her.
https://x.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1502960938147729413?mx=2
This makes sense why Trump would nominate her, because it is truly important for the Russian communist war effort to have their agents inside such important positions of intelligence…and his 1987 Kremlin visit, after he was invited to go there and obtained the USSR visa, that of itself makes even more sense now…they don’t make mistakes, they cover their tracks and then give the dogs a bone or two (the economy boom etc.), but the national defense is still compromised by communist agents serving Moscow instead of the country…communist fanatics, evildoers, traitors.
The worst part is that she will not remove the KGB assets already inside these agencies, and so that’s why she will be there to protect the status quo…and Trump is the one who should know better not to let her anywhere near it.
So then his 1987 Kremlin visit and that lame excuse of trying to build a hotel near the Kremlin are both coming to light even more. And his KGB contacts which were mentioned before.
It is not the “economy angle” but the very survival of the freedom and justice, none of which Trump had so far protected, otherwise the results of his actions wouldn’t be this kind of appointment of pro-Russian and thus these suspected KGB controlled pro-communist assets into such important positions.
It’s not so easy to prove someone is a KGB asset.
K: “So even if she can’t be confirmed, it sounds like she’s likely going to have access to EVERYTHING for a few weeks’ time, before her official confirmation hearings.”
A few weeks might be enough time for Gabbard to establish a backchannel that allows her to access to classified information, even if she is ultimately not confirmed. Could that actually happen?
@LauraZ, it sounds like Trump is basically planning to bypass many or most of the FBI background checks and is using private companies to vet nominees. (Which private companies those are, I’d be interested to know.) Apparently he can order security clearances given to whomever he deems fit. This happened previously with Jared Kuschner. So if he granted Gabbard a security clearance today, she’d begin receiving security briefings immediately.
I read another article, I think on Gateway Pundit, that implied that if this happened, Gabbard would actually begin working as DNI before the Senate confirmation hearings took place. But I haven’t paid enough attention after the past couple of elections (since it’s a new position) to know what the usual protocol is for DNI. Perhaps you know more than I do. Unfortunately I can’t find that article anymore on GP.
However, CNN broke this story originally; here is their article for reference:
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/11/15/politics/security-clearances-fbi-gabbard-gaetz
Of course, skirting the FBI background check is not good news. The checks take a long time as they should. It is one reason an American president should avoid picking foreign born people for important posts.
Hey, folks. If you are like me and are absolutely NOT IN FAVOR of Trump selecting Gabbard as head of our 18 some National Security agencies? Take action. Don’t just spew opinions on a blog or social media. Spend the time to actually write out a letter or email to your 2 US Senators to voice your opposition. I sent President elect Trump an email a week ago and I also sent emails to both my U.S. Senators (Missouri) to say so.
Get active. So many people type comments on a blog and yet never actually contact these elected Congressional critters. Their staff do read all those comments and if enough of us push back? These folks listen.
The potential problem with this approach could be that such people should be aware that ALL communications are recorded and if the communist assets inside collect them they are ready to use such political and anti-communist statements in the future political trials – so the proper determination should be made before such like option is selected, what it will accomplish (probably only polite response and nothing more), and what it will bring the person making such statements in the future.
This is not meant to discourage anyone to stand up for justice and truth, but to be prudent about it before you do, because it may as well be too late to do anything other than just prepare to fight them in the trenches instead…when they come.
Moreover these people are all with Trump and follow whatever he tells them to do, and they don’t do something contrary to that…they can advise him, but that doesn’t mean that it will change anything as if this was the case he wouldn’t be appointing questionable people as Gabbard in the first place.
If the previous stories about Musk didn’t give you a sick feeling, this one might…
“Will Musk’s ‘Algorithm’ reduce military inefficiency—or increase risk?”
“Previous DoD efficiency initiatives have tried, and largely failed, to trim spending. This time will be different, one could argue, because Elon Musk is involved. He has done things in industry, such as revolutionizing space launch and electric vehicles, that many thought were impossible. To achieve these unlikely feats, Musk developed a ruthless approach that he calls “The Algorithm.” As recounted in Walter Isaacson’s biography, the Algorithm consists of five sequential steps: 1) question every requirement; 2) delete any part or process you can; 3) simplify and optimize; 4) accelerate cycle time; 5) automate. As Musk tries his hand at public policy, can this approach work?
…
“The main risk with step two is that the effects of deleting a requirement can be complex, opaque (especially for old requirements), and non-linear. A requirement that seems outdated or wasteful may have enormous consequences under certain circumstances. The practitioners of the Musk Algorithm should understand that some inefficiencies in the military are by design: they are strategic choices that maintain options in unlikely but highly consequential scenarios. Musk admits that he errs on the side of deleting too many requirements, arguing that “if you do not end up adding back at least 10 percent of them, then you didn’t delete enough.” How do you know what needs to be added back when failure is not an option? In the military, every deletion could put lives at risk.”
https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2024/11/will-musks-algorithm-reduce-military-inefficiencyor-increase-risk/401327/
Musk strikes me a a true believer in the power of man and science. His father had a interesting political philosophy, basicly technocracy. I’m not a fan.
What is happening in Syria?
Good question— I read that Assad paid a surprise visit to Putin in Moscow and wasn’t sure what to make of it.
I don’t think it’s possible for a head of state -or anyone else- to make a surprise visit in Moscow. So, this should be looked at as being made to seem like a surprise visit to outside (Western) observers. So then, how would it benefit the Communists for this to appear that way?
Is it a surprise visit, or is it exile?
I’m not sure when the surprise visit K was referring to took place, but from the articles I have read so far, it appears he is currently in Syria.
Scratch that…I’m wrong. I just saw where he and his family are rumored to have fled to Moscow. Maybe it is exile.
I had read in a couple of articles that the current taking of Aleppo and other territory by the rebels was an embarrassment to the Assad regime. I am just now reading one that alludes to him possibly being in Moscow.
Trudeau also made a “surprise” visit to Mara Lago. I think the only people that are ever surprised are the media.
The shills are lining up to pour excuses and lies into Trump’s ears.
Back before closed my Telegram account, I saw posts from time to time about Russian outposts on the Syrian border with Israel. It seems they were referred to at times as “observation” outposts, if memory serves.
This was while the war against Hamas in Gaza was in full swing.
Huh. This popped up in my email earlier today. I hadn’t checked until now.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/syrian-army-confirms-rebels-enter-aleppo-upending-yearslong-civil-war-stalemate/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2024-11-30&utm_medium=email
What a coincidence, as soon as the Israel-Hamas war ends the Syrian Civil War starts up again! The Middle East cauldron keeps on simmering, ready to boil over at any moment. I wonder if Russia is stirring up something in Syria so that they will have another card to play during the Ukraine-Russia negotiations.
Is it possible they can use this to force (or threaten) another mass movement of Muslim “refugees” into Europe in order to achieve something?
I too think this is Russia moving a piece on the chessboard, that has seemed to be out of play for awhile.
The first organizations the Chinese secret police are going to infiltrate will be the anti-CCP organizations and groups. The same is also in America. If you set up an organization to oppose communism, the communists will knock the door down trying to join. Of course, they will pretend to be anti-communists.
The Syrian Civil War has been ongoing. It was deadlocked and now the deadlock appears to be over. Russia has invested a great deal in Assad, and the situation may deteriorate rapidly. What will the Kremlin do? Moscow’s options may be limited.
@GreyKnight @ LauraZ: on X it says that Turkish-backed Islamic Idlib rebels have taken over Aleppo (and much of Syria) and that the Russian army is fleeing. It also says the rebels are tearing down Hezbollah posters and destroying Iranian symbols. However, they’re additionally destroying Christmas trees and persecuting the Christians in Aleppo. Hard to say what exactly is going on.
Perhaps this is a reaction to the peace deal Hezbollah just made with Israel?
I also just read that Russia is now conducting air strikes on the Islamic rebels.
It’s the airstrikes that drove so many “refugees” with jihadists embedded in them into Europe before. Jeff wrote an excellent essay on it.
Something similar could happen again.
That’s kind of where my thoughts were going. I imagine Russia always has plans, people, and narratives prepared for all kinds of potential scenarios. I wonder if this current development in Syria has really caught them off guard.
Based on what you’ve brought out in the past about how they infiltrated and took over many Muslim groups, it wouldn’t surprise me if some of these “rebel” groups are somehow connected to Russia, and can be used for the Communist’s ends.
https://jrnyquist.blog/2021/07/25/russian-strategy-and-europes-refugee-crisis/
Here is an article with a lot more information, if you haven’t already read it:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14143909/syria-dictator-bashar-al-assad-fled-hama-russia.html
It says the current offensive began Wednesday.
These fighters seem to be aligned with Turkey, which would like to become a great power again. Of course, Syria is not a very important country.
This may have been ongoing and we’re only just now hearing about it, since things are finally dying down a bit in Israel. It may have been eclipsed by all the other news coming out of the Middle East.
The article I shared was published by The Times of Israel, and says the “rebels” entered Aleppo early today. It says the front lines have been all but frozen since 2020.
Or, perhaps the Russians are provoking things in Aleppo in preparation for Tulsi Gabbard’s upcoming national platform during the Senate confirmation hearings, so she can talk directly to ordinary Americans about how the evil US government and its CIA-backed ISIS rebels are killing women, children and Christians in Aleppo.
I would not put it past them.
I do not think the Russians wanted to lose their bases in Syria, or their foothold in the Eastern Med. Where are they going to operate from now? It is a minor loss for them on the great chess board, in terms of naval and air cover in the Eastern Med. Of course, their Black Sea fleet is in shambles so it may not matter.
@GreyKnight I saw that, but then I also read that they’ve taken “much of Syria” as well. So I don’t know how long it’s been going on. Perhaps it is recent.
You’re right that fighting has been going on. I missed where it says there have been “weeks of simmering, low-level violence.”
@ GreyKnight Yes, I remember that article— definitely an “aha” moment!
FAI Wire is a solid source I go to to get hints and insights about the complex mideast situation, particularly as it relates to Israel:
https://x.com/FAI_Wire/status/1862537118884798653
https://x.com/FAI_Wire/status/1862889004255023370
https://x.com/FAI_Wire/status/1862888488921972979
Chuck Holton also provides solid reporting. He is CBN’s war correspondent who was a Ranger. What a quagmire of a convoluted mess of groups fighting each other. No wonder we Americans like our conspiracy theories. They are so much simpler and easier to grasp as they can be tied up with a neat bow of understanding, compared to real life – with all its complex, lengthy histories, filled with people who change teams as they go after each other.
https://youtu.be/y_mRpB5TzZs
PS – George Orwell once said that all ideas are guilty until proven innocent. He wrote, “so many people are regularly attempting to foist on us their own false version of how things did or do happen.” Along these same lines, the Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset wrote, “To create a concept is to leave reality behind.” Joseph Epstein explained that the most important truths exist “above the level of ideas,” so that ideas can be used as ideal blinds — or blind alleys — through which deceptive or delusional ideologies may be propagated in unexpected ways. Epstein added, “Ideas, however respendent and grand they may be, are as we know, endlessly subject to revision, if not to utter destruction.”
We are observing, within the MAGA movement, a massive information war which is calculated to hijack or destroy the movement. Imagining possessing the sophistication to lead a patriotic people to commit treason through a series of disinformation campaigns. Is that really possible? I think it is. The people carrying out this treason may be perfectly innocent insofar as they are perfectly stupid. Propaganda is superficially viewed as the use of simplistic slogans or arguments to promote a specific cause. But there is a higher, more sophisticated propaganda which succeeds by its ability to distort events and happenings. That is to say, by a series of distortions to separate people from reality; to make them crazy in a clinical sense, so that their “rational” judgments lead them to absurd conclusions and suicidal actions. Disinformation is warfare, and it is practiced to perfection by one side in the world conflict;
I think it is, too. If they can use TikTok to lead teens into transgenderism and then suicide, they can literally do anything.