A Pox On Both Your Houses

Close to 100 years ago, Major General Smedley Butler observed "“WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.”

The US overthrew the elected government of Ukraine in 2014, put in a handpicked government, and commenced to making war on the rebels in eastern Ukraine, killing 14,000 of them before Russia stepped in to stop the slaughter in 2022.

Then it was the US and the UK who told Zelensky to tear up the peace deal and carry on the war, ramping up the killings.

And now Trump and the rest are demanding "gratitude"??? What incredible gall!

IMO, Americans should show Ukraine some gratitude, for waging this proxy war against Russia for Blackrock and Bayer/Monsanto. Instead, they openly brag about what a great deal they are getting, trading Ukrainian lives for US money and outdated weapons. (Cue: Lindsey Graham, Nikki Haley, Mitt Romney, etc.)

I am on Team Donbass, but if I were Ukrainian, faced with the loss of 800,000 men, sold for US dollars which went mostly to the US war machine and Ukrainian grifters, and the US not only never expressed gratitude, but suddenly announced that the country's entire wealth had to be given to the US in payment for what was originally given freely......I'd be angry also. Zelensky offered to trade Ukrainian minerals so that the US would keep the war going, but Trump said "No, we're done with the war. But we'll go ahead and take your minerals, and while we're at it, we're going to take your infrastructure also, including fees from your Odessa port." Total mafia shakedown vs total war monger. And people are taking sides here?

Sure, Zelensky was part of the scam from the time he was told to tear up the peace deal in April 2022, but for Trump to demand payment for a deal that was never contracted as a loan.....I see why he's mad. This is retroactive contract making, which is part of the rules-based order the US favors, not contract or international law. The US makes the rules, then bullies other countries to comply.

I notice that neither America nor the UK nor France expressed appreciation for the dead Ukie soldiers, who obviously died for the west, since Ukrainians themselves voted for peace in Donbass back in 2019. Zelensky ran on a Peace With Donbass platform and won by over 80%, even though the people of the Donbass were not allowed to vote. (In that shining example of democracy the west holds up.)

I see ingratitude, all right. But I see it on the part of the west. They get the profits, the Ukrainians lose the lives.

How To Make Germany Angry

The EU has passed strict censorship laws. They have threatened to ban X unless it complies.

Romania overthrew their election results, because the peasants voted for the Wrong Candidate.

In the UK, people have been arrested for misgendering men, or for opposing murdering little girls.

Germany has prosecuted CJ Hopkins for posting views they disapproved of, and is considering banning a popular political party, to make sure that the peasants can't vote for the Wrong Candidate.

That's what makes this statement about JD Vance's speech in Munich, where he pointed out that the real threat to democracy in Europe comes from the elite, not from Russia or China, so deliciously ironic.

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius: “If I understood him correctly, he is comparing parts of Europe with authoritarian regimes. This is not acceptable." >P>Whaddaya gonna do about it, Germany? Ban the vice president of the US? Arrest him?

Don't do it or we'll blow up another pipeline. You certainly don't complain about that, do you?

Blow up a pipeline......crickets.

Give a pro-democracy speech......unacceptable.

Killing Witnesses

"Ukraine" blew up a dormitory where Ukie forces were holding civilians prisoner, in the Russian town of Sudzha, killing an unknown number of people there.

This came as revelations of Ukie atrocities against Russian civilians in the Kursk region are coming out. The citizens of Sudzha could no doubt add to the testimonies that Russian lawyers are collecting about war crimes.

This is not the first time that the Kiev regime has blown up witnesses to atrocities. Recall that in 2022, as Russia was liberating Mariupol, they were holding Azov prisoners and "Ukraine" blew up the building, killing scores of them.

The Azov battalion had been stationed in Mariupol since Donbass citizens first rose up against the US-backed coup in 2014, and they had committed many atrocities against the citizens there. They could have testified about what they did and who they did it for.

But the US, whose deep state runs the place like the mafia dons they collaborate with, knows all about the importance of killing witnesses. Dead men tell no tales and all that. (Yes, I know that is a pirate saying, but that also applies to the thieves and looters who run this country).

I put "Ukraine" in quotes because the Russians say that they used HIMARS weapons to massacre the civilians, and we all know that the HIMARS are targeted and operated by US soldiers.

Auschwitz Anniverary Refuses to Invite Actual Liberators

January 27th was the 80th anniversary of the Soviet liberation of Auschwitz.

Poland hosted the party, as they hosted the death camps.

Germany was invited, as the originator of the camps.

Zelensky was invited, as the living representative of the nazi-collaborators, Bandera's OUN. Poland now ignores how many ethnic Poles were slaughtered by the Banderists.

The US was invited, so they could pretend that they liberated the camp.

Russia was not invited.

But of course it wasn't. It would be too embarrassing for the neo-nazis in charge in Europe to invite the country that stomped them out last time, and is determined to stomp them out again.

Killing To Create Jobs. It's Important!

The military-industrial complex has now insinuated itself so thoroughly into the fabric of US society that it is routinely justified by the fact that millions of Americans are employed making WMD.

"Sure, your job is to help the Empire kill for power and wealth, but when the Death Merchants profit, you get paid", they say, without a hint of ethics or morality.

Today my computer pushed a ProPublica article on me trashing Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and RFK, Jr., for planning to change the focus of the NIH from vaccines to improving the general health of Americans.

ProPublica is riled up about this. Bioweapons research creates jobs!

How dare our public health officials switch to actually improving the health of the population!

I find this amazing. Pushing the production of weapons that kill humans by exploding them, or hurling projectiles into their innards, is one thing. We have been listening to justifications to that for decades.

But pushing the production of weapons that kill by disease? These are the same liberal types who scream about the "million dead Americans" from the last bioweapon release.

But now it's OK, because "jobs, jobs, jobs"?

"Grants from NIAID flow to nearly every state and more than half of the congressional districts across the country, supporting thousands of jobs nationwide.......

Research suggests that every dollar spent by NIH generates from $2.50 to $8 in economic activity."

Well, OK then.

And then they let slip a glitch in the matrix:

"The NIH pays for most of the basic research globally into new drugs. The private sector relies on this public funding; researchers at Bentley University found that NIH money was behind every new pharmaceutical approved from 2010 through 2019."

Wait! That's not the usual mantra. We are normally told that the reason for the exorbitant profits of pharma is the necessity for them to do research and development, which is expensive.

But faced with the cut-off of the money, they admit that it is pubic money that funds research and development, which is then handed over to private corporations so that they may profit from the high prices they charge. And that also creates jobs!

"When private companies turn that research into blockbuster drugs, the public benefits from new treatments, as well as jobs and economic growth."

Unfriggingbelievable that they could push this with a straight face.