In the recent post Jeffrey Sachs Crash Course, a clip with Doug Macgregor and Judge Napolitano was included. Here it is again. You want to start at the time mark t=961. Please note very carefully what Doug says.
Did you catch what he said at the very end of that section? Here it is again.
'This is the first president that I'm aware of who has deliberately provoked a nuclear power like Russia.'
Think about that, OK?
Day of Infamy
The United States suffered an attack in the 1940s, a day Franklin Delano Roosevelt called a ‘day of infamy’.
And of course the US suffered another attack some 60 years later.
But, for the most part, people in the US have been insulated (protected) from the evil of war. Living in the Americas, they’ve had oceans on both sides.
Those days may be gone forever.
That insulation the US for so long enjoyed also means that people in the US don’t really care much about what happens in Europe or the Far East.
Europe has been a great place for summer backpackers on trains. Europe is the ‘old world’. Europe has cobblestone sidewalks and streets - a great place to take photos you can show everyone back home.
(Just hope it doesn’t rain on your fav destination when you arrive - you’ll only be there a few hours before your train continues onward.)
The Gift
But with all the panic in the news of late, one item slipped by almost undetected. Judge Napolitano brought it up with Doug Macgregor.
Vladimir Putin gifted the DPRK leader Kim Jong Un with some ICBMs which conceivably are (most likely are) hypersonic.
Did you hear what Doug said about that?
He said it’s possible Vladimir Putin did that to scare the US and, whatever the actual intention, it would - it scares people.
Of course it does.
Save for isolated incidents in history, the people of the US have not felt threatened on a daily basis by a hostile foreign power. They haven’t had to - they’ve had the oceans insulating them.
They haven’t had to rely on the goodwill of other peoples to feel safe.
This is no longer the case.
People in the US have always been able to see a bit of warfare (between adverts) and then turn it off when they don’t want it anymore, so it magically goes away. They’ve been able to sleep securely - sleep feeling secure.
How secure do you feel right now, knowing the DPRK's Kim can wake up at any time and decide he wants to blow you to smithereens? The rest of us, in Scandinavia, or Europe, or 'Down Under', may fare better - but for how long?
Doug says it's 'not very likely' the DPRK will try something like that. Cold comfort?
Remember when 'Rocket Man' was regarded as deranged and dangerous? Remember when he boasted of his nuclear arsenal with Trump, only to be told by Trump that Trump had bigger missiles? Remember how they then met at the DMZ between South Korea and the DPRK? (That's called 'diplomacy'.)
(Trump’s been formally nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize on more than one occasion for things like that. Don't underestimate diplomacy.)
But what else did Doug say about the current situation? He said:
'This is the first president that I'm aware of who has deliberately provoked a nuclear power like Russia.'
Operative word: ‘deliberately’ - deliberately provoking a country with a superior military might, with ICBMs that completely defeat NORAD, that US systems can’t touch. Obviously we can trust Putin, but can we trust Kim?
Do you feel you can trust Kim? Do you?
Almost everyone is panicking because they want a change in DC. Not just in the US - almost everyone everywhere. Because they understand instinctively - implicitly, intuitively - how dangerous the current situation really is.
The governments of the US have been moving inexorably towards a direct confrontation with Russia since 1945 - warmongers like McCain, Lieberman, and Gates have been begging for it. Biden is also an infamous warmonger.
Then you have Sullivan, Blinken, and last but not least in any way, Nuland. And so many others, to be fair. The neocons, as Glenn Greenwald calls them. A cult of madness, if you will, with a single-point agenda: war. Always war.
And they don't shy away from nuclear war - on the contrary, they think they'll survive. (At least they will - you might not fare as well.)
This is what Tulsi and Rogan were harping on about.
Biden had no alternative after completely botching the withdrawal in Kabul, something handed to him by his predecessor. An insistence that the military be evacuated before the civilians? Overriding the joint chiefs who of course had to object? There was no alternative. 2024 was shot. A war was needed to rally the woke for the reelection campaign. There surely can have been other reasons, but 2024 was right up there.
The same thing with the Nord Streams.
What you have in the US is a reckless illegitimate regime, no real leader, operating out of a tiny Disney-like model of the Oval Office, a CiC who hates people and having to deal with them, using lawfare to eliminate the political opposition, up to his eyeballs in corruption... A very agitated and desperate dude.
Ambulatory alcoholics: do you have any idea how many are roaming around the swamp right now? Do you have any clue how many nuclear catastrophes we've barely avoided? Did you know that the launch codes for all the ICBMs in the silos were set to '00000000' and then not changed? Toys like that should not exist. And they certainly should not fall into the hands of people like the neocons currently in charge in Washington DC.
November 2024 is too far off. Kash Patel has a plan for draining the swamp, but that’s for January 2025. We don’t have the time. Trump promised he’d end the Ukraine war the day he wins. We need to give him the chance.
Things won't go as he thinks, but at least he’ll listen - he’d never wave it all away in dismissal and instead look for a way to get off the stage.
But we the people of this blue dot need to act now, make noise now.
This is something more and more people world over are starting to realise.