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Ha - Never ever was a rational question . . .

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- Based on local knowledge if you are in Eastern Europe . . .

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Great article ! Both clarity and confirmation.

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Chris Hedges seems to have adopted some of your terminology Les. ‘ The Proxy War’. Or is this a known use of it?

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Thanks Here is Mencken again : "Man's natural instinct ,in fact,is never toward what is sound and true; it is toward what is specious and false.Let any great nations of modern times be confronted by two conflicting proposition,the one grounded upon the utmost probability and reasonableness and the other upon the most glaring error, and it will almost invariably embrace the latter. Its so in politics, its so in religion,is simply a concerted effort to deny the most obvious realities."

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A very impressive article !

Thought provoking…

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I expect Taiwan will be ok. Raytheon just figured out what I anticipated a year ago. Will China really sell USUK the rare earth minerals necessary to make the advanced weapons needed to attack China?

The CEO of Raytheon announced just yesterday that it will take years (read forever) to replace the weapons being used to kill Slavs today.

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I lost my intrest when you called Ceausescu fascist and spelled his name wrong. How can I trust the whole rest of your "knowledge"? Pfff!

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So, what to make of Wagner leader and his accusations Russian military kept them short of ammo, fired on them and killed many men and is now advancing to Moscow after entering Rostov? Also, Russia also adopting CBDCs and digital IDs and health passports and going along with ESGs? Is this proxy war just to accelerate NWO and part of depop programme?

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Okay, you are a cynic. So am I. I always learn from your posts. Thank you

It is hard since most people see how the Elites plunder their local community, but do not see the bigger pattern. So in Canada, people in Alberta rail on about the Laurentian Elites, but completely miss when the same elites plunder in Haiti or Peru. Even worse, they are eager to sell oil to Europe to replace the Russian Oil and thus supporting internationally the very people they complain about when they plunder at the local level.

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This blog entry should have been split up in to several different posts, in a series. But really good stuff!

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that photo has nothing to do with Ukraine or geopolitical balls... it's from India. Sepoy Mutiny 1847.

What trash floats here! Also the name is Julian Assange and not Jualian

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"Mr. Talbott, implying a global federalism, wrote that such a Federalist Structure " . . . is largely an American invention . . .". Indeed. As for the "retaining many others for themselves" angle, it was also helpfully explained that "The International Monetary Fund can virtually dictate fiscal policies, even including how much tax a government should levy on its citizens. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade regulates how much duty a nation can charge on imports". A very clear example of that which is hidden, yet pervasive. It could have been added that these are artifacts of Washington's control and global power projection and not the only ones. Control over a state's tax and tariffs is at variance with any significant sovereign state control over its own interests. Since then and not mentioned in Mr. Talbot's essay was the means to monitor a state's international transactions via SWIFT and the control over a state's military affairs, the case now with the preparation for War With China 2025-7 and the armaments buildup of US vassal states within the US Indo-Pacific Command, to be paid for by US vassal states to US armaments manufacturers and possibly fought as US proxy armies."

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I believe the essay is a good summary of Ukrainian modern history, but I'd appreciate links to the material cited in the text.

If the author's sentences were shorter his essay would be easier to absorb. Here's an example:

"Of the Australian Mainstream Media in their ever sensitive, reflexive and sycophantic goosestepping to Washington's Foreign Policy whims, now characterized by a Kabuki Theatre of fast duct tape repair work to possibly staged military leaks, against the backdrop of the Russian Armed Forces most decisive maneuvers in The Ukraine Proxy War to head West and wipe out all those Kyiv Government sixteen year old conscripts-at-gunpoint teenage soldiers which the always obvious and obviously ignored, ostensibly double dealing President Zelenskyy and his senior officers, the embodiment of Ukrainian carpetbaggers now sternly chastised for skimming off hundreds of millions of American dollars, selling off foreign furnished arms and allegedly placing much money in British island tax havens, the ultimate Greta Thunberg moment - "How dare you!", they - Kyiv, have been rounding up Ukrainian males to send East to the Russian Line of Contact as they run out of Ukrainian hot bodies, they - the Australian Mainstream Media, say just about nothing of it while the Washingtonian Carpetbaggers scramble for that less than more widely broadcast Nomenclature of the Moment phrase, An Off-Ramp, to make some clean face saving creditable exit from their Empire of Lies lies to the Main Game - China."

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This "PIECE" (the insult is on me - for lack of a better word I am ready to take the blame) is what one - WITH BRAINS - would call journalism. Even though not agreeing with every point of view expressed. But then again no-one - without BRAINS - would read it as it does NOT go off as entertainment. No brains no gains ...

THANK YOU!

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