Thursday, August 18, 2022

America the Depraved

By Larry Johnson

The Gateway Pundit, August 17, 2022: After 8 years of arming and training Ukraine’s army and air force, spending billions of tax payer dollars, the United States no longer has a viable strategy to defeat the Russian forces and compel Vladimir Putin to accept a humiliating defeat. Yes, the U.S. and NATO are pouring a large amount of HIMARS, Army Tactical Missile Systems (aks ATACMS), tanks, vehicles and aircraft into the fight, but this is only prolonging the inevitable surrender of Ukraine. Worse, it is poisoning any chance of restoring normal relations with Russia.

Readers younger than fifty have little or no memory of the Cold War. During the 45 year period after World War II (1945-1990), the United States and the Soviet Union fought each other in proxy wars–Vietnam, Angola, Nicaragua and Afghanistan were major battlegrounds. Yet, despite the fighting and spying by each side in their respective efforts to subvert the other, the United States and the Soviet Union kept diplomatic channels open and succeeded in reaching critical nuclear weapons disarmament treaties. Both sides realized that a nuclear war would be a nightmare neither was likely to survive.

When the Soviet Union collapsed, the United States took a victory lap. But instead of promoting policies to help restore the Russian economy, western entrepreneurs, with the willing help of Russian oligarchs, succumbed to greed and tried to loot Russia of its critical oil, gas and mineral deposits. A number of American capitalists and politicians made money off of that. Russia was still a nuclear power, but western leaders calculated they could bully Moscow without fear of retribution.

Throughout the period from 1990 to February 24, 2022, there were still people in the Russian political leadership who believed that negotiations with the United States and Europe was a viable option. That is no longer the case. Whether the United States and Europe want to believe it, the Russian leaders and people now believe that the west poses an existential threat to them and they will do what is necessary to defend themselves and survive.

I am old enough to remember a time when the freedom of the press and freedom of speech set the United States apart as a special place. American culture and economic prowess was something that many in Russia and the rest of the world envied. But that was then.

When foreigners now consider the state of America they see something radically different. Freedom of the press and freedom of speech are now under regular, sustained attack directed at Christians and conservatives. I remember when the Soviets labeled dissidents as terrorists. Now, America’s own Department of Justice is doing the same to parents opposed to critical race theory and outraged over their daughters being asked to shower with males who claim they are female. Many U.S. citizens who entered the Capitol on January 6th at the invitation of U.S. Capitol Police, were arrested and incarcerated without charges being brought. A clear violation of the 6th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution:
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.
Many of those arrested are being held without access to legal counsel for more than a year. That is not speedy. But the Biden Administration justifies this because it labels these citizens as “terrorists” and “insurrectionists.” In the aftermath of 9-11, the American public has been anesthetized to ignore the Constitution in order to punish terrorists.

American culture is now awash with filth. Child pornography, pedophilia and transgenderism is being touted as normal. Anyone who dares challenge these things as abnormal are tagged as racists and hatemongers. Comedians like Dave Chappelle are attacked physically and verbally for daring to ridicule a testosterone laden man who insists he is a woman that can get pregnant and have a menstrual cycle. Most people in the world, not just Russians, see this and can only conclude that the United States is in the grip of mass psychosis.

In the aftermath of the horrors of World War II, the United States eschewed exterminating its enemies–Germany and Japan–and helped rebuild those societies. Let me posit a hypothetical. Let’s suppose that Ukraine, through some miracle, defeats Russia and retakes all of the territory in Ukraine. Do you think that the Biden Administration or the people of the United States would be willing to treat a defeated Russia as it did Japan? I do not think so.

And that is the point. The Russians do not think so either. The previous perception of America as a potentially benevolent partner is dead. Kaput. When Russia secures its victory in Ukraine–regardless of how much time and bloodshed is required to achieve that end–it will be committed to building global relations that exclude the United States. The era of the United States as the supreme military and economic power in the world is over.

I am an American patriot. I love this country and what it is supposed to stand for. But the actions of the Biden Administration are weakening dramatically the U.S. economy and military. The weapon systems that are flooding into Ukraine are being destroyed by Russia or sold on the black market by Ukrainian profiteers. I fear that when the war in Ukraine is settled that the United States will have burnt all bridges that could have led to a reconciliation with Russia. I hope I am wrong.

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The vast majority of Americans trust no one now, and largely for very good reason. Americans have been openly betrayed by politicians in all political parties, every news outlet, the social media CEOs, church leaders, “patriot” group leaders, Hollywood, and due to COVID, even their friends and family, all of it one great big “cancel culture” designed to divide and conquer the USA. If you don’t buy into their blatant lies, or participate in their mass divisions, you’re a conspiracy theorist or domestic terrorist, maybe both.

9 comments:

  1. "I fear that when the war in Ukraine is settled that the United States will have burnt all bridges that could have led to a reconciliation with Russia. I hope I am wrong."

    No, Larry, you're not wrong. There's no doubt in my mind you are entirely correct.

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  2. America, like Britain, has burnt through its moral capital derived from Europe's Christian heritage. Now anything goes. Hence a repeat of the decay and corruption with which all great empires of the past ended.

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    1. Which is not to deny that there are good American Christians, and adherents of other religions. Trump tapped into the support of these people and rewarded many of them by protecting their opportunity for employment by stemming the flow of cheap, illegal, immigrant labor. But for America's money and power obsessed elite, Machiavelli is their guide.

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  3. There's no doubt American society is morally bankrupt and virtue or decency have little or nothing to do with the conduct of our public life.

    I'm also aware of how desperate capital has become in its search for good investment opportunities and yield. I do fear capital facing down this type of crisis by wantonly destroying both "fixed" and "variable" capital. (Bricks and mortar AND human life.)

    All either side in Ukraine has to do is let loose-- and in less than forty-eight hours, no more Ukraine. This can be accomplished without dipping into nuclear arsenals. These HIMARS, as just one example, are awesomely powerful.

    Recently a broker suggested to me I consider bitcoin...Precisely as a way to keep yield up. He immediately lost credibility with me. (He was making this recommendation at bitcoin's highwater mark, too.) There were a lot of people snookered that way though. Look at this:

    https://www.google.com/search?q=bitcoin+price+chart&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS947US947&oq=&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8



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    1. The rot set in with Nixon in '71, when he ended dollar convertibility to gold. Since then the dollar has decreased in purchasing power by more than 90%.

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  4. The height of Bitcoin was around 67,000, in November 2021. Today it is at approximately 21,000. It appears to be stabilizing above 20,000, but I predict long-term it is headed for zero. Bitcoin was to some degree a confidence game, (along with people rushing in so as not to miss out), but confidence won't survive a collapse of such magnitude.

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    1. The Russian central bank allows the use of cryptocurrency for cross border transactions. This is one way of avoiding use of the US$. So maybe the US Government has been trashing Crypto currency to resist replacement of the dollar. This year's decline in the gold price may also reflect US Gov't action. Both Russian and Chinese central banks have invested heavily in gold. By shorting the market or selling off part of America's supposed ten thousand ton horde or gold, both Russia and China can be made to pay a price for their independence.

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  5. Part 1 of 2 ---

    RE "mass psychosis"...

    The official framing of the mass formation (or mass psychosis) "phenomenon" is misleading and wrong in terms what the whole true reality is. The false hope-addicted psychologists and their acolytes want you to believe this is "just some temporary occasional" madness by the masses when it is but a spike of a CHRONIC madness going on for aeons with "civilized" people --- read “The 2 Married Pink Elephants In The Historical Room –The Holocaustal Covid-19 Coronavirus Madness: A Sociological Perspective & Historical Assessment Of The Covid “Phenomenon”” .... https://www.rolf-hefti.com/covid-19-coronavirus.html

    One of these mainstream psychologists who have been spreading this whitewashed reality, Dr. Desmet, also fails to see that the PLANNED Covid Psyop is a TOTALLY deliberate ploy because he doesn't think (after more than 1 year, even 2 years, into this total PLANNED scam!) it's ALL intentionally sinister as he stated in a prior podcast (this makes him witting or unwitting controlled opposition).

    In the May of 2022 podcast with James Corbett he stated that "some people tend to overestimate the degree of planning and intentions" (behind the COUNTLESS, VERIFIABLE, FULLY INTENTIONAL, FULLY PLANNED atrocities by the ruling tribe of psychopaths over the last century alone) and see all of it as being planned which Desmet called "an extreme position" ... Sound logical thinking is "extreme" and therefore false and sick in his demented delusional view!!!

    In his overpriced misleading whitewashing old material regurgitated book the psychology of totalitarianism he too states that "There are countless ... examples that seem to point in the direction of a plan being implemented, such as the fact that the definition of 'pandemic' was adjusted shortly before the coronavirus crisis; that the definition of 'herd immunity' was changed during the crisis, implying that only vaccines can achieve it ... [he continuous with several other obvious facts of an ENTIRELY PLANNED event, especially discerned through the totality of all these facts]." "SEEM to point in the direction of a plan"??? No! They most evidently, clearly, and irrefutably DO demonstrate and prove it IS a COMPLETELY AND FULLY DELIBERATE PlanDemic! A big scam. An Entirely Planned Holocaust against the non-ruling herd of people (see cited link above). A coherent 12-year old kid can figure that out.

    It clearly shows Desmet's own complete lunacy. But because almost everyone in the culture is a member of mass formation (madness), including the "woke" people of the alternative media domain, hardly anyone recognizes Desmet's lunacy. Not surprising that he has even become some type of popular "guru" among the adherents of the alternative media landscape and his whitewashed fake narrative strongly resonates with both mainstream people and alternative mainstream folks.

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  6. Part 2 of 2 ---

    With his false use of language Desmet obscures or hides the true reality instead of directly and uncompromising exposing it -- aiding the obfuscation of the vital reality of what the ruling authorities really are. He does the same thing when he speaks of ‘the elite’ (as he does in a number of podcasts) when, in reality, they are THE SCUM OF HUMANS because they are REALITY-VERIFIED PSYCHOPATHS (see referenced source above). Yet in the Corbett podcast he "teaches" us that we, the masses, need to start thinking differently. Right... how about YOU start with sane instead of insane thinking/talking/"teaching"/etc, Dr. Desmet?

    How do self-styled "truth-tellers" wake up the masses to the so-called truth when they THEMSELVES use lies with their deceitful fake language???
    No one is "teaching" or "waking up" the ignorant masses to the CORE truths with lies, with the official "language of lies" (see cited source above).

    This all means Desmet is ALSO a member of the masses of lunatics, an ACTIVE CARD-CARRYING MEMBER of mass formation!!! When, if at all, will he wake up from his state of mass psychosis, his "invisible" stupidity? When, if at all, will he face the TRUE and FULL reality instead of hiding behind fantasies such as his whitewashed "reality" of human civilization?

    It shows we live in a global mental asylum with criminal and/or delusional mainstream psychologists, scientists, and docs as the guards, "teachers" and "therapists" ... The blind/criminal/mad leading the blind/criminal/mad; the blind/criminal/mad adhere to the blind/criminal/mad = the human madhouse.

    Worst of all, perhaps, the mass formation/mass psychosis notion frames the problem as the public being a mere unaccountable non-culpable victim in this phenomenon (the gist of the circular argument is: the masses should change their thinking but they got brainwashed so they're victims). Nothing could be further from the truth (see referenced source above).

    Desmet is right in that truth-activists must fight against mass formation psychosis (human madness). That also means exposing HIS deeply destructive mad part of it. This comment serves, in part, that objective.

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