As usual your assessment is clear, and on point. But those who continue to profit from the Ukraine War are not yet feeling any pain. Wall St. continues to go up, there is no popular challenge to the deep state US government which lives in the fantasy of its own power. The Russian people who are dying directly on the battlefield, have less opportunity, even than Americans, to challenge their state power structure on the matter. Ukrainians, of course, have no voice, and matter to no one. Millions have fled.
Many of the key positions which won Trump voters have been repudiated overtly and in response to bribes and flattery, and the inertia in his base, trained in personal loyalty rather than principled governance, are very slow to realize the treason toward them that he is committing.
I don't think Trump, will seriously threaten nuclear war. But neither is he capable of making a courageous, intelligent decision against the interests of the military industrial deep state.
The incremental decay of US global power in inexorable. That will ultimately bring about facts on the ground that are capable of ending some of our deep states most heinous profiteering.
I don't agree with your assessment. Trump's base is VERY much aware of what is going on, however, they also realize (correctly) that the Democrats would have put the country in an even worse situation. For better or worse, Trump does not like war of any kind (I know this for a fact based on personal contact with those in his direct orbit). He sees everything as subject to negotiation (i.e. deals can be had, and better outcomes occur). He is also very much correct to directly engage with Russia, in order to have a better strategy for dealing with China (which has absolutely no moral framework whatsoever). The neocons have largely been kicked out of the GOP establishment, and are now in Democrat establishment ("neoliberals" as it were). They're still the same morally rotten people with the same stupid ideas. What I think Matt and many others miss is the role of the British behind the scenes to establish and prolong many of the problems our world is now facing.
The frustration when commenting on a post on substack is that I frequently get comments that I appreciate and wish there was some way to continue the conversation directly with other person, in this case you. But I've never been able to figure out how to do that. If you know, and are interested, reach out to me!
You can use direct messages. I just sent you one that you can reply to. I'm not sure if you'll see it in your e-mail (depends on your notification settings), but you can go to your profile and look at messages. Also, you can message any particular poster by clicking on their profile and then the "message" link.
The CIA had been screwing around in Ukraine for a decade opening up bases with counts being in the teens. One even built under the Russian border. There were also labs like the one in Wuhan, China. Russia finally said enough which led to the troop build up. If you find reporters that aren’t aligned with the US you can find the truth. There wouldn’t have been a conflict had the EU globalists sent Johnson in when Zelensky and Putin were avoiding conflict before it all started.
As usual your assessment is clear, and on point. But those who continue to profit from the Ukraine War are not yet feeling any pain. Wall St. continues to go up, there is no popular challenge to the deep state US government which lives in the fantasy of its own power. The Russian people who are dying directly on the battlefield, have less opportunity, even than Americans, to challenge their state power structure on the matter. Ukrainians, of course, have no voice, and matter to no one. Millions have fled.
Many of the key positions which won Trump voters have been repudiated overtly and in response to bribes and flattery, and the inertia in his base, trained in personal loyalty rather than principled governance, are very slow to realize the treason toward them that he is committing.
I don't think Trump, will seriously threaten nuclear war. But neither is he capable of making a courageous, intelligent decision against the interests of the military industrial deep state.
The incremental decay of US global power in inexorable. That will ultimately bring about facts on the ground that are capable of ending some of our deep states most heinous profiteering.
I don't agree with your assessment. Trump's base is VERY much aware of what is going on, however, they also realize (correctly) that the Democrats would have put the country in an even worse situation. For better or worse, Trump does not like war of any kind (I know this for a fact based on personal contact with those in his direct orbit). He sees everything as subject to negotiation (i.e. deals can be had, and better outcomes occur). He is also very much correct to directly engage with Russia, in order to have a better strategy for dealing with China (which has absolutely no moral framework whatsoever). The neocons have largely been kicked out of the GOP establishment, and are now in Democrat establishment ("neoliberals" as it were). They're still the same morally rotten people with the same stupid ideas. What I think Matt and many others miss is the role of the British behind the scenes to establish and prolong many of the problems our world is now facing.
The frustration when commenting on a post on substack is that I frequently get comments that I appreciate and wish there was some way to continue the conversation directly with other person, in this case you. But I've never been able to figure out how to do that. If you know, and are interested, reach out to me!
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You can use direct messages. I just sent you one that you can reply to. I'm not sure if you'll see it in your e-mail (depends on your notification settings), but you can go to your profile and look at messages. Also, you can message any particular poster by clicking on their profile and then the "message" link.
The Ukrainians should never have given up their nukes.
That is the unfortunate lesson that is now being shown to all other countries, regardless of rivalries.
The CIA had been screwing around in Ukraine for a decade opening up bases with counts being in the teens. One even built under the Russian border. There were also labs like the one in Wuhan, China. Russia finally said enough which led to the troop build up. If you find reporters that aren’t aligned with the US you can find the truth. There wouldn’t have been a conflict had the EU globalists sent Johnson in when Zelensky and Putin were avoiding conflict before it all started.