Tuesday, January 31, 2023

US/EU Make Open Move To Use Russian Nationalities To Destroy Russia And Loot Its Wealth

Emboldened by the reluctance of Russia to confront the instigator of the Ukrainian conflict directly, smug with the success of the plan to keep the misery and dying “Over There” in Ukraine, and driven mad with lust and greed over the resources of Russia, the US is upping the ante, openly announcing their plans to destroy, divide and loot Russia.

How, you may ask? They have come up with a plan - Identity Politics. Use that uniquely bizarre scam they have introduced in the last 20 years. It is our way. Today in Brussels, at the headquarters of the EU, there will be a conference with some members of republics and territories in the Russian Federation, in which the imperial countries will use the "oppressed" people of Russia to make a land grab for the oil and gas, titanium, uranium, and other valuable resources, to be used for the good of Europe, under pliable leaders willing to sell out their people for money. You know, the US model used all around the world.

Using indigenous compradors to betray their people in return for trinkets. That is the modus operandi of US imperialism. Use local thugs to keep the resources flowing.

But the boldness of announcing your plans to use divide-and-conquer identity politics to destroy Russia? Holding a conference in Brussels while a war rages? The bold declaration that Russia has no right to live on the resources that the US wants? Bold move, going after Russia states like that. (And by "bold" I mean "batshit crazy".)

Can you imagine Russia trying to strip away Texas and North Dakota by appealing to token proxies there?

Unbelievable. And yet….

”It is naive to think that the Russian Federation can remain within the same constitutional and territorial framework. Taking into account the national and ethnic map of the territories of the Russian Federation, we should discuss the prospects for the creation of free and independent states in the post-Russian space, as well as the prospects for their stability and prosperity. The international community has a duty to support the rights of the indigenous peoples who, as a result of Russian conquest and colonisation, now exist within the borders of the Russian Federation.”

Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Media Hysteria About Tanks

Back in 2020 the media and squawking heads went nuts over the "we need ventilators" narrative.

That was all they could talk about incessantly. They hounded Trump for being the president of Not Enough Ventilators and lauded Cuomo for supposedly coming up with ventilators in New York.

Meanwhile, on March 31st, before this propaganda circus started, I had watched a video of a doctor in New York who headed a covid unit and he was speaking out about his puzzlement that ventilators weren't working on the very weird lung disease that covid caused. It wasn't like the usual pneumonia that he was used to seeing and the ventilators seemed like they were worthless if not damaging.

Plus, as a nurse I knew that just wheeling a ventilator onto a floor didn't solve anything. You have to have oxygen hookups and electricity and a doctor to intubate and order the settings and a RT to manage the machine and a nurse to manage the patient. You have to have drugs for sedation and monitors to make sure the patient remains stable.

WTF was this "all we need are ventilators" bs?

(Followed later, of course, by test and trace "With enough PCR tests we will save the country") bs.

It reminded me of the Reagan years when they told us "With enough shovels" (to dig holes to hide in) we could survive nuclear war.

Anyway, we have a rerun here. Now it's "We need tanks! With enough tanks the Ukies can overrun Crimea" propaganda.

Well, I don't know anything about tanks, but Brian Berletic does and he has explained that you have to have a tank crew with the tanks. The crew has to be trained over some months and they need to know how to work with each other, and there has to be a maintenance crew that knows how to fix the tanks and they need fuel. And also just having tanks doesn't mean anything without backup.

So this is ventilators redux, except for instead of excoriating Trump they are excoriating Germany. It's a full 24/7 Minutes of Hate directed at not the usual suspect.

And what is the US going to do if Germany doesn't supply the tanks? Blow up the pipelines again?

I think it would be hilarious if Germany quit NATO. I know it won't happen but it would be epic to see.

How much abuse are they supposed to take?