Step 1: They’re obviously lying!

Step 2: Always were.

Nobody who watched Putin’s speech could say he was either irrational or illogical. My hatred for the media is total.

Since Biden took office:
-Assad has secured almost all of Syria (other than Rojava)
-Afghanistan fell to the Taliban
-Ukraine is quickly being swallowed up by Russia

I cannot imagine how alienated the veterans are right now. So many men died for nothing. So many trillions wasted.

This regime has been a disaster for status quo Forever War Neocons. My fear is that there will be a plethora of Zio Chicken Hawks that run for president in two years. However, the opposite could very well happen. The peacenik Democrats could blame Red State America for pushing us into retarded wars we did not have a stake in and could not win. The State Department is losing IQ points as we speak. The safest bet is that American foreign policy will become even more incompetent, toothless, and incestuously political post-Ukraine.

"This is the end of illusions. This fantasy world we've been living in since the end of the Cold War that everything is the End of History ... we're going to move forwards and ever upwards to the globalist uplands ... as of today, I cannot imagine that even the most Klaus-Schwab-addicted globalist imagines that that is the future we face." - Alexander Mercouris, The Duran

I won't post a picture of someone pointing a gun at themselves but this is what sanctions on Russia ultimately do.

⚔️ A brief comment on the Russian invasion of Ukraine

1. The last 24h have brought about a surprising turn of events. I expected Russia to take the disputed territories in the east, but I didn't expect a full-scale invasion like we've seen today. In fact, very few people seem to have expected an invasion on this level.

2. For a good summary of the conflict in general, check out this post by The Golden One. He mostly gets it right.

3. From the start in 2014, I have made a point of NOT taking sides in this conflict, because I have seen too many people in the West, who don't speak either Russian or Ukrainian and who have no real knowledge about the countries involved, make arrogant and embarrassing statements about the issue. And the conflict is far from clear cut from the point of view of our political interests. But when I see a large-scale invasion like this, my sympathies are naturally with the Ukrainian people rather than with any of the geopolitical players, because none of the geopolitical players are "our guys".

4. Overall, the Right in the West fails primarily because it lacks seriousness. Too often, it consists of kids (even old kids) making reckless and goofy comments and coming up with novel "takes". The comments on Russia in general, and the Russia-Ukraine conflict in particular, only prove this point.

5. People who get their political analysis from memes can never be taken seriously. And "based Putin" is just a meme. Just like "God Emperor Trump" was a meme. People who fail to understand that are political idiots.

6. Reckless comments about serious topics, an online culture of lazy nihilism, and bravely-anonymously taking sides at zero cost to yourself, in a conflict that you know nothing about, is all very LAST MAN. It's the effeminate behaviour of the modern man who only sees conflict in video games.

You should hold yourself to higher standards — otherwise you don't deserve to be taken seriously by either friend or enemy.

Starting in 1898, the Hamilton/Lincoln "American System" expanded beyond the borders of these United States.

This is a quick summary of 124 years of imperial growth since then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yUPGHf9U_8

John J. Mearsheimer on Ukraine, recorded 6 years ago:

"The West is leading Ukraine down the primrose path & the end result is Ukraine is going to get wrecked.”

Realist scholars like Mearsheimer and George Kennan warned for years that the US was backing Russia into a corner with NATO expansion and show that today's war was predictable and avoidable.

US policy in Ukraine was not in the interest of the Ukrainian, Russian or American people and instead pursued in the interests of the fanatical globalist ruling elite who have captured the West. It is tragic to see another war on European soil, and no one will suffer more than the Ukrainian and Russian people, but primary blame rests in Washington.

Academic Agent always tells us to go to the original source. Well, Vladimir Putin is not difficult to understand (in translation). In fact you might find it surprising to hear a politician that explains his thinking so clearly.

Thanks to Skeptical Waves, here is his speech from earlier this week translated into English.

https://youtu.be/Ts4oytcG-80

“Of course there is going to be a bad reaction from Russia, and then [the NATO expanders] will say that we always told you that is how the Russians are — but this is just wrong.”

George Kennan, 1998!!

See more in this great roundup from @caitoz:

https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/experts-warned-for-years-that-nato

“Today we face an avoidable crisis that was predictable, actually predicted, willfully precipitated, but easily resolved by the application of common sense.”

11 days ago from the last US ambassador to the USSR Jack Matlock.

“So, if experts have been warning for many years that NATO expansion would provoke an attack, and the guy launching the attack is explicitly citing NATO expansion as a driving motive for his actions, it seems like maybe it's sorta kinda got something to do with NATO expansion.”

– Caitlin Johnstone

https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/experts-warned-for-years-that-nato

Cued to the time spot, The Distributist makes a point about being in winter. (I didn't catch this live so I'm just now catching up) And he makes the point about winter. How winter was previously always talked about like a presidency or a specific time period that will soon pass. He's right to say that there will be many more moments like this, and probably that it will be worse than before. I think if there was something that the event showed, which I'll expand on, was the convergence that we all had on what was coming. Whether it was ways to strategize and work effectively, or the seriousness of what it means to be a dissident. To be a winter animal is be built for the winter, and knowing that at least for us, this winter might last a lot longer than we initially expected.

https://youtu.be/T1yGFzIitNs?t=3917

A little taste of the context that MSM is stripping out. (Which they always do.)

"If you have never expressed concern over Kiev government shelling civilians in Donetsk and Lugansk regions for 8 years straight, please refrain from virtue signaling about what's happening in Ukraine at the moment." Denis Churilov

Photoshop for your nation!

The pro war propaganda on the American/Ukraine side is pretty fucking crazy right now

I wondered what other news would be slipping through under cover of the Russia/Ukraine conflict

https://t.me/disclosetv/7101

Sam Hyde can’t keep getting away with killing this guy.

I am assembling a timestamped progression of outright fakery regarding the war in the Ukraine. If you have any fake news (ghost of kiev) and debunking info, please post it in this thread. DO NOT just spam random stuff in this thread without explanation. If you want to contribute, please post the content, a brief title to explain what it is, and a timestamp. Thanks.