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Does America Really Think They Can Force Regime Change in Russia?
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during an event to mark the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act in the East Room of the White House in Wash., on April 5, 2022. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
It’s Worse Than a Gaffe If There’s Method to His Madness
Commentary
“At what point does Joe Biden’s verbal incontinence start to become a mortal threat to Americans?” asks Gerard Baker in The Wall Street Journal—a purely rhetorical question meant to be understood as signifying that it is at this point—the point of calling for régime change in Russia, as Biden did last weekend—that he becomes a mortal threat to Americans.
Stephen Green of PJ Media, better known as VodkaPundit, put it more succinctly: “Big Mouth Biden Talks His Way into World War III.”
After noting the advice of Sun Tzu to generals in prospect of victory to “build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across,” Green draws a telling contrast with General Biden’s insistence that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin must step down—and presumably submit himself to be tried for the war crimes our President also claims he is guilty of.
Yeah, that will work.
This would be the same Vladimir Putin whose finger, for so long as he remains in the office he currently holds, is on the button that will, if he chooses, launch thousands of nuclear warheads—not at Ukraine, but at us.
You talk about “war crimes,” quoth Vlad. “I’ll give you war crimes.”
Instead of Sun Tzu’s golden bridge to peace, writes the VodkaPundit, “Biden has backed him into a corner and dared him to lash out. That’s the idiot’s way to start World War III, but from Joe Biden, what else did you expect?”
What indeed! Yet the remarkable thing is that the president’s media supporters as well as his detractors appear to see only what they expect to see in his words, however maladroit. Where the latter see an idiot’s catastrophic blunder, the former see at worst the sign of highly creditable moral feelings and at best a foreign policy genius’s master-stroke.
It was former Secretary of Defense and CIA director Leon Panetta who put the gaffe down to the president’s warm heart, saying “he’s Irish [and] really has a great deal of compassion when he sees that people are suffering. And I think it overwhelmed him in the sense of seeing all of the horrors that were resulting from this war.”
But this was faint praise compared with that of Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post, who wrote that “Biden’s Putin ad lib wasn’t a gaffe. He was right.” Or Alan Katz of Newsweek
“This Is Joe Biden’s Finest Moment”—an opinion apparently shared by David Rothkopf of The Daily Beast, who thought that the speech bore comparison to Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech at Fulton, Missouri, in 1946.
Not surprisingly, Joe himself favors this view over that of the VodkaPundit. “I was expressing the moral outrage that I feel, and I make no apologies for it,” he said. “It’s ridiculous,” he added. “Nobody believes I was talking about taking down Putin. Nobody believes that.”
Oddly enough, this is almost true, since nobody believes anything he says. Except that, in this case, some people do believe him, albeit only with supporting evidence. One such is the historian Niall Ferguson, who writes for Bloomberg and who claims to have heard from “a senior administration official” at a private event that “The only end-game now is the end of Putin [sic] regime.”
The administration’s thinking, according to Ferguson, appears to be that Putin and his “régime” can be brought down by a carefully judged supply of sophisticated weaponry to Ukraine by the United States and Europe—not so much as to provoke a direct Russian retaliation but just enough to keep Russian troops bogged down in an unwinnable “quagmire,” like Afghanistan, perhaps for years.
Presumably, some discontented generals or other Kremlin officials will eventually get tired of living in “a pariah state that will never be welcomed back into the community of nations” and will then “take down” the man who got them into another forever war—which will also, according to Ferguson’s “senior administration official,” put an end to the Sino-Russian alliance.
What’s not to like?
This is also the administration’s thinking in the opinion of Curt Mills of The American Conservative, who writes that “the fascinating thing about this strategy is the way it combines cynicism and optimism. It is, when you come to think of it, archetypal Realpolitik to allow the carnage in Ukraine to continue; to sit back and watch the heroic Ukrainians ‘bleed Russia dry’; to think of the conflict as a mere sub-plot in Cold War II, a struggle in which China is our real opponent.”
What could go wrong?
Leave aside for the moment the appalling cynicism of prolonging Ukraine’s suffering to achieve America’s foreign policy aims. Even Biden’s celebrated Irish compassion for suffering must see that it won’t be only the Russians who are “bled dry.”
Even if it were, even if we could be confident in the administration’s judgment of exactly how much provocation Putin is prepared to endure before he launches his nukes, how can we believe that this strategy has been designed in such complete disregard of the old military maxim that “the enemy gets a vote”?
In other words, Putin may not be content either to stay in this quagmire of America’s devising and be bled dry or quietly to withdraw into his own “pariah state” to await the inevitable coup d’état. He does have other options, and I don’t think we’re going to like any of them.
It begins to look as if, whatever view we take of the sincerity of the Biden “gaffe” itself, it’s still more likely to be what VodkaPundit calls “the idiot’s way to start World War III” than it is to be for the good either of Ukraine or of the United States.
Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
James Bowman is a resident scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. The author of “Honor: A History,” he is a movie critic for The American Spectator and the media critic for The New Criterion.
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
Desinformação e perfídia, é o que temos na comunicação social
Bucha: massacre ou provocação. Onde pára a verdade?
4 DE ABRIL DE 2022
António Guterres já apelou a uma «investigação independente», enquanto a Rússia «rejeita as acusações de massacre de civis» e pretende reunir o Conselho de Segurança da ONU para debater a questão.
Créditos/ telegra.ph
As imagens que proliferam nas televisões e nas redes sociais, a propósito de um alegado massacre de civis na cidade ucraniana de Bucha serviram, antes de qualquer investigação séria, conforme reclama o secretário-geral da ONU, para condenar o Exército russo, que rejeita «julgamentos sumários» e fala de factos que não corroboram a versão dos responsáveis ucranianos.
Conforme escreve Carmo Afonso esta segunda-feira no jornal Público, é difícil distinguir a informação que as máquinas de propaganda põem a circular da que nos «chega através do verdadeiro trabalho jornalístico», mas é um erro pensar-se que «ninguém aceita ser informado pela propaganda de guerra».
A articulista sublinha ainda a ideia de que «algumas pessoas querem precisamente receber informação que corrobore na íntegra a sua interpretação da guerra. Aplaudem quem noticia factos que dêem razão ao que têm vindo a dizer. Têm pouca, ou nenhuma, margem para dar atenção ao que contradiz, ou que julgam contradizer, essa interpretação».
Daí que, independentemente das restrições impostas a informações contrárias ao pensamento único oficial e, não sendo a denúncia da guerra e das suas atrocidades incompatível com a necessidade de procurar conhecer a realidade dos factos, nos debruçámos sobre o artigo publicado pelo major-general Raul Cunha, a propósito das imagens de um vídeo sobre os alegados massacres em Bucha.
No referido artigo, questiona-se, por um lado, o facto de todos os corpos estarem «na mesma rua e só numa área de algumas centenas de metros», enquanto «a maioria das casas está intacta» e sem «marcas de tiros». Por outro, chama-se a atenção para o facto de que «as viaturas só se desviam dos corpos e os militares ucranianos não mostram qualquer emoção, nem sequer se apressam a verificar se há alguém ainda vivo», para além de haver «um momento em que um dos cadáveres move a mão, ouve-se o militar ucraniano a comentar esse facto e ninguém lhe dá importância».
Este militar, que observou noutros teatro de guerra «situações idênticas», refere ainda que as tropas russas terão deixado Bucha «alguns dias antes de serem descobertas as "vítimas da ocupação" sem que as Forças Armadas da Ucrânia tivessem dado «conta disso imediatamente» e, por isso, terem bombardeado com artilharia aquela cidade «durante quase três dias», cujo resultado pode ter sido a morte daqueles civis, «mas nunca naqueles locais e naquele formato». Considera ainda que «os corpos foram levados e dispostos, mas os produtores do "cenário" tiveram preguiça de os colocar em lugares diferentes ou dentro de pátios e assim poderão ser facilmente desmascarados, desde que haja a determinação de fazer os necessários exames com imparcialidade e seriedade».
Não será difícil verificar esta realidade, segundo o major-general Raul Cunha, bastando para tal «providenciar de imediato» a realização de «exames para determinar a hora da morte» das vítimas, para depois «correlacionar esses dados com os do controlo objectivo e real da OTAN por meio de imagens de satélite, os quais indicarão com precisão a data da saída das tropas russas».
Eis mais um contributo para procurar esclarecer a verdade e evitar, como escreve Carmo Afonso, que a uma guerra que já «fez muitas vítimas não se deve permitir que faça mais uma: a verdade».
https://www.abrilabril.pt/internacional/bucha-massacre-ou-provocacao-onde-para-verdade
Desinformação e perfídia, é o que temos na comunicação social
– Bucha, operação de false flag montada pelos serviços secretos ocidentais
Major-General Raúl Cunha
Esta manhã, um amigo publicou um vídeo de Bucha, uma cidade perto de Kiev, com a seguinte
– Bucha, operação de false flag montada pelos serviços secretos ocidentais
Major-General Raúl Cunha
Esta manhã, um amigo publicou um vídeo de Bucha, uma cidade perto de Kiev, com a seguinte
mensagem “assassinatos em massa de civis por russos”. (Ver aqui).
Não lhe perguntei como é que, nesse vídeo, todos os corpos estavam deitados na estrada e à beira da
Não lhe perguntei como é que, nesse vídeo, todos os corpos estavam deitados na estrada e à beira da
estrada, e não em casas ou sob os seus escombros. Bastaria essa simples pergunta para desmascarar
aquela grotesca encenação.
Mas também se pode interrogar mais. Como aconteceu que todos os corpos jaziam na mesma rua e só
Mas também se pode interrogar mais. Como aconteceu que todos os corpos jaziam na mesma rua e só
numa área de algumas centenas de metros?
Foi algum tipo de coluna civil que a artilharia atingiu? Mas, no entanto, no vídeo, a maioria das casas
Foi algum tipo de coluna civil que a artilharia atingiu? Mas, no entanto, no vídeo, a maioria das casas
está intacta. E os corpos estão muito dispersos, como foram atingidos em simultâneo?
Uma coluna de civis foi baleada? Mas as casas não têm nenhumas marcas de tiros. Além disso, alguns cadáveres têm as mãos amarradas nas costas. E qual foi o motivo? Porque os russos são maus e só sabem
Uma coluna de civis foi baleada? Mas as casas não têm nenhumas marcas de tiros. Além disso, alguns cadáveres têm as mãos amarradas nas costas. E qual foi o motivo? Porque os russos são maus e só sabem
é matar? E os vestígios de sangue nas roupas e à volta dos corpos, porque não se vêem?
Se repararmos, no vídeo, as viaturas só se desviam dos corpos e os militares ucranianos não mostram qualquer emoção, nem sequer se apressam a verificar se há alguém ainda vivo, o que indicia que sabem
Se repararmos, no vídeo, as viaturas só se desviam dos corpos e os militares ucranianos não mostram qualquer emoção, nem sequer se apressam a verificar se há alguém ainda vivo, o que indicia que sabem
da farsa.
Vamos ser sérios e ter objectividade. No caso de ser um vídeo original, NÃO haveria um momento em
Vamos ser sérios e ter objectividade. No caso de ser um vídeo original, NÃO haveria um momento em
que um dos cadáveres move a mão, ouve-se o militar ucraniano a comentar esse facto e ninguém lhe dá importância.
Mais ainda, a verdade é que as tropas russas deixaram Bucha como parte de uma manobra de
Mais ainda, a verdade é que as tropas russas deixaram Bucha como parte de uma manobra de
reagrupamento, alguns dias antes de serem descobertas as “vítimas da ocupação”. As Forças Armadas da Ucrânia não se deram conta disso imediatamente e durante quase três dias bombardearam intensamente aquela pequena cidade com artilharia, sob a qual esses civis poderiam ter sido abatidos, mas nunca
naqueles locais e naquele formato.
Quando as forças ucranianas finalmente perceberam que os russos já lá não estavam, como sempre,
Quando as forças ucranianas finalmente perceberam que os russos já lá não estavam, como sempre,
iniciaram uma “caça às bruxas” em busca daqueles que, na sua opinião, tinham colaborado com as
“forças de ocupação”. Na febre da guerra, os extremistas não se preocupam em provar o
colaboracionismo de outrem e aparecem então corpos atirados aos poços com as mãos amarradas.
Só que, (e este pormenor é que evidencia a total falsidade e a perfídia das alegações de ter havido um massacre) o estado desses corpos sugere que eles foram mortos muito recentemente (menos de 24 horas), ou seja, ontem, o mais tardar. Ora, os cadáveres depois de vários dias deitados na rua ficam com um aspecto muito diferente da imagem que é apresentada, (e eu sei porque infelizmente já tive de observar outras situações idênticas) e os russos há mais de três dias que deixaram aquele local. A central de
Só que, (e este pormenor é que evidencia a total falsidade e a perfídia das alegações de ter havido um massacre) o estado desses corpos sugere que eles foram mortos muito recentemente (menos de 24 horas), ou seja, ontem, o mais tardar. Ora, os cadáveres depois de vários dias deitados na rua ficam com um aspecto muito diferente da imagem que é apresentada, (e eu sei porque infelizmente já tive de observar outras situações idênticas) e os russos há mais de três dias que deixaram aquele local. A central de
desinformação (provavelmente a mesma britânica que “fabricava” para os capacetes brancos) não teve
em conta esse pormenor, ou então e como é normal, contou com a ingenuidade e estupidez daqueles que acreditam em tudo o que os media ocidentais vendem.
Estas alegações, através de um vídeo e fotos muito publicitadas nas redes sociais, são mais uma produção vil, pensada para agitar as emoções de pessoas que nunca viram guerra ou cadáveres e, sobretudo, para retirar da atenção do público os mais que evidentes crimes dos extremistas ucranianos que começavam a ser impossíveis de esconder.
Obviamente, os corpos foram levados e dispostos, mas os produtores do “cenário” tiveram preguiça de os colocar em lugares diferentes ou dentro de pátios e assim poderão ser facilmente desmascarados, desde
Estas alegações, através de um vídeo e fotos muito publicitadas nas redes sociais, são mais uma produção vil, pensada para agitar as emoções de pessoas que nunca viram guerra ou cadáveres e, sobretudo, para retirar da atenção do público os mais que evidentes crimes dos extremistas ucranianos que começavam a ser impossíveis de esconder.
Obviamente, os corpos foram levados e dispostos, mas os produtores do “cenário” tiveram preguiça de os colocar em lugares diferentes ou dentro de pátios e assim poderão ser facilmente desmascarados, desde
que haja a determinação de fazer os necessários exames com imparcialidade e seriedade.
Estou quase certo que uma posterior análise ainda vai acabar por revelar que são civis russos acusados de colaboracionismo ou PGs russos vestidos à civil, trazidos das prisões dos extremistas ucranianos, pois
Estou quase certo que uma posterior análise ainda vai acabar por revelar que são civis russos acusados de colaboracionismo ou PGs russos vestidos à civil, trazidos das prisões dos extremistas ucranianos, pois
alguns ainda têm a braçadeira branca indicadora de serem pró-russos.
É claro que estes argumentos dificilmente serão considerados por gente miserável como o presidente da União Europeia, Charles Michel, que logo lançou um hashtag “massacre de Bucha” e anunciou novas
É claro que estes argumentos dificilmente serão considerados por gente miserável como o presidente da União Europeia, Charles Michel, que logo lançou um hashtag “massacre de Bucha” e anunciou novas
sanções contra a Rússia.
Porém, não será difícil verificar o que acima está escrito. Bastará providenciar de imediato para que sejam feitos exames para determinar a hora da morte daqueles desgraçados. E depois correlacionar esses dados
Porém, não será difícil verificar o que acima está escrito. Bastará providenciar de imediato para que sejam feitos exames para determinar a hora da morte daqueles desgraçados. E depois correlacionar esses dados
com os do controlo objectivo e real da OTAN por meio de imagens de satélite, os quais indicarão com precisão a data da saída das tropas russas.
Mas isso só será feito se a Ucrânia e os países ocidentais que a apoiam, procurarem a verdade. E, infelizmente, sabemos bem que, nesta altura, desejam tudo menos isso.
Mas isso só será feito se a Ucrânia e os países ocidentais que a apoiam, procurarem a verdade. E, infelizmente, sabemos bem que, nesta altura, desejam tudo menos isso.
[Dennis Edwards: Ver meu comentários mais abaixo]
https://resistir.info/ucrania/bucha_false_flag.html /Abril/2022
Do mesmo autor: · "Quem brincou à roleta russa com Putin é um dos grandes culpados"
Ver também: · El Reino Unido no aprueba celebrar una reunión del Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU sobre la situación en Bucha, declara la Cancillería rusa
O original encontra-se em estatuadesal.com/2022/04/03/desinformacao-e-perfidia-e-o-que-temos-na-comunicacao-social/
Este artigo encontra-se em resistir.info
https://resistir.info/ucrania/bucha_false_flag.html /Abril/2022
Do mesmo autor: · "Quem brincou à roleta russa com Putin é um dos grandes culpados"
Ver também: · El Reino Unido no aprueba celebrar una reunión del Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU sobre la situación en Bucha, declara la Cancillería rusa
O original encontra-se em estatuadesal.com/2022/04/03/desinformacao-e-perfidia-e-o-que-temos-na-comunicacao-social/
Este artigo encontra-se em resistir.info
Dennis Edwards: O que foi notado pelos russos é que nessas fotos você costuma ver os mortos
amarrados com as mãos por um lenço branco. Os soldados ucranianos usam o lenço azul, enquanto
a Cruz Vermelha usa um lenço amarelo e os russos usam um lenço branco. Os russos afirmam que
estes eram, sem dúvida, simpatizantes russos capturados e mortos quando os ucranianos voltaram
para a cidade. Além disso, eles observam que os corpos teriam sido mais decompostos se tivesse
acontecido enquanto os russos estavam lá. As vítimas pareciam ter sido mortas recentemente. É
difícil para nós saber qual lado está dizendo a verdade. Na guerra, geralmente, o lado que vence
conta sua história. A verdade é a primeira vítima da guerra. Rezemos pela paz e não apoiemos a
guerra. Guerra é inferno. É a desumanidade do homem para com o homem. Que Deus nos ajude.
Que o Príncipe da Paz retorne e pare as guerras. Em nome de Jesus oramos.
Este casal estava tentando escapar. Eles podem ter sido simpatizantes de um lado
e foram baleados e mortos pelo outro lado. Observe a braçadeira amarela nos
trabalhadores da Cruz Vermelha. Tentei baixar fotos com as braçadeiras azuis
encontradas nos soldados ucranianos, mas não consegui. Você pode encontrá-los
no google imagens.
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
Russian Foreign Minister Denies Atrocity Claims
Footage in Ukrainian city of
Bucha 'fake news attack' on Russia, 'provocation': Lavrov
Russian
foreign minister says video with allegedly slain civilians appeared only days
after withdrawal of Russian military
Elena Teslova |04.04.2022
MOSCOW
The footage of dead civilians left behind after the Russian pullout from the
Ukrainian city of Bucha constitutes a “fake news attack,” Moscow argued on
Monday.
The footage of slain civilians was staged, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said
during a meeting with UN Deputy Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs
Martin Griffiths.
"The other day, another fake attack was mounted in the city of Bucha in
the Kyiv region after the Russian military left it in accordance with plans and
achieved agreements.
"Several days later, a staged setting was organized there, which is now
being promoted through all channels and social networks by Ukraine's
representatives and their Western patrons," he said.
The Russian military left the city on March 30, and on March 31 the city's
mayor solemnly announced that everything was all right, said Lavrov. Then
several days later, suddenly a performance was organized on the streets of the
city in order to further anti-Russian goals, he added.
Similar attempts were seen in the coastal city of Mariupol but were quickly
disproved, he argued.
Humanitarian aid
"Of course, today the international community is focused on the situation
in and around Ukraine. We have been in contact with your office for the
coordination of humanitarian affairs for a long time and we see how this
interaction helps solve humanitarian problems faced by people in eastern
Ukraine, first of all, but also in other parts of it," Lavrov told
Griffiths.
Lavrov slammed the politicization of humanitarian issues and stressed that
humanitarian aid must be provided to all people who find themselves in a
difficult situation.
"We do this in the most active way for the Donetsk and Luhansk People's
Republics,” he said, referring to two breakaway enclaves in Donbas, eastern
Ukraine, recognized only by Russia.
He added that Russia also cooperates “with our international partners,
including the UN, as well as with the International Committee of the Red Cross
to organize humanitarian convoys to cities such as Sumy, Kharkiv, and
Mariupol.”
Moscow views the situation in Bucha as a provocation, threatening international
peace and security, and will demand that the UK, which chairs the UN Security
Council, hold an urgent meeting on the issue, Lavrov said.
"The chair country of the Security Council this month – the United Kingdom
– has not yet been able to confirm to us yesterday the possibility of holding
such a meeting, but we will require the chair country to perform its
functions," he vowed.
The Russia-Ukraine war, which started on Feb. 24, has drawn international
outrage, with the EU, US, and Britain, among others, implementing tough
financial sanctions on Moscow.
At least 1,417 civilians have been killed in Ukraine and 2,038 injured,
according to UN estimates, with the true figure feared to be far higher.
More than 4.17 million Ukrainians have fled to other countries, with millions
more internally displaced, according to the UN refugee agency.
Zelensky: Ukraine Unlikely to Take Back Occuppied Territories
Ukainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stands in the town of Bucha, northwest of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, on April 4, 2022. (Ronaldo Schemidt//AFP via Getty Images)
Ukraine Unlikely to Take Back Crimea–Donbass Corridor Through Military Means: Zelenskyy
Ukraine is unlikely to resort to military means to take back Donbass and Crimea in the short term, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday.
“Russia has its own vision of Donbsas, and Ukraine has its own. So I had a simple suggestion. I believe that we will not be able to agree on all points at once. This is impossible, even if we have negotiations,” he said during an interview with Ukrainian media.
Ukrainian armed forces could lose thousands of soldiers if they’re ordered to take back Donbass and Crimea, which he called “temporarily occupied territories.”
It will also endanger the general security of his country as the group who is fighting in Donbass are the elite segment of the Ukrainian militaries.
“Our state needs a strong army. And if we want to lose the most powerful, most experienced people because ‘I want it now,’ we must understand that [Russian armed forces] will return to us, and not in two or three years, but in the same month. All the military know and think about it,” he elaborated. “This is a very serious story.”
Taking back control of the city of Mariupol, which was taken by Russia after the invasion started on Feb. 24, is also very difficult, he said.
Zelenskyy made the remarks as the Russian armed forces withdrew from the outskirts of Kyiv after trying to occupy the Ukrainian capital in month-long battles and shifting to the disputed territories in eastern Ukraine.
Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, and the conflicts in Donbass between the Ukrainian military and Russia-backed separatists escalated into a war the same year.
Both areas have been de facto occupied by Russia or separatists.
The Kremlin said earlier that the Donbass is the main goal of the full-scale invasion ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Zelenskyy acknowledged that the intention of Russia’s military operation is to occupy the corridor connecting Crimea and Donbass, with Mariupol being a key city along the corridor.
“Donbass, and the south of Ukraine, and the corridor to Crimea, and the Kherson region, and the Zaporizhzhia region,” he said. “We basically understand what they are doing.”
Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, which the Kremlin called “a special military operation.”
The United Nations said that as of April 4, 1,430 civilians have been killed and 2,097 injured in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion and over 4.2 million people have fled Ukraine.
Zelenskyy’s statement reaffirmed one of the two major concessions from the former Soviet country after the war started.
Ukrainian negotiators proposed a security guarantee mechanism including multiple nations at the end of March in the draft ceasefire deal. Crimea and Donbass are excluded from the proposal.
In another major concession, Ukraine renounced the pursuit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization membership.
SENIOR WRITER
Allen Zhong is a long-time writer and reporter for The Epoch Times. He joined the Epoch Media Group in 2012. His main focus is on U.S. politics.
Friday, March 18, 2022
Friday, March 11, 2022
Thursday, March 10, 2022
What did the US do to anger the Japanese before Pearl Harbor?
Dennis Edwards
"While the United States hoped embargoes on oil and other key goods would lead Japan to halt its expansionism, the sanctions and other penalties actually convinced Japan to stand its ground, and stirred up the anger of its people against continued Western interference in Asian affairs." Google
The sanctions led to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Are we repeating ourselves in how we are interacting with the Russians? The only problem is that this time the stakes are higher because our missles are more deadlier.
Will Biden get on the phone and sue for peace, like Kennedy did in the Cuban missle crisis? Kennedy agreed to take missles out of Turkey, if Kruschev took the nuclear ones out of Cuba. Of course, Kennedy got a bullet in his head a few years later for his independent peace keeping efforts. The Industrial-Military-Congressional-Complex needs to be fed and war is one of its favorite feeding troughs.
Kennedy tried to keep Israel also from going nuclear and the Israelis didn't like it. Some believe the Israelis became his enemies because of it. With the Israelis, the Mafia, J. Edgar Hoover, Lyndon Johnson, and Kennedy's own secret service men (who weren't fond of his exploits with multiple college girls and other Washington women) as his enemies, JFK was doomed. He was so distracted with his sexual liberties that he didn't see the bullet coming.
Will America have the same fate? God's word says Babylon the Whore will be destroyed in one day by fire? Is America that Babylon?
"And the ten horns which you saw upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. For God has put in their hearts to fulfill his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God be fulfilled. And the woman which you saw is that great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth." Revelation 17:16-18.
Could that prophecy be talking about the present day American Empire?
"Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, (her wars?) and the merchants of the earth are waxed riched through the abundance of her delicacies. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she has filled fill to her double. How she has glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow." Revelation 18:2,3,5-7.
USA continues to believe she sits on the top of the world and is the ruling empire. But there is another empire of the east on the rise. Together with the help of the Russian Bear these allies may think it is time to make their move and try to dislodge the whore from her place of dominance. The whore has made her fortune through war and conquest over the centuries and now fits squarely in the American camp. She sits like a Queen of Heaven thinking she can do as she will and all others must obey her calls. But Russia is challenging America's authority, and Russia has her eastern friends at her back.
"Therefore shall her (Babylon's) plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judges her...And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, thus with violence shall the great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee...for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth." Revelation 18:8.18:23-25.
If God does not protect a country she can easily become prey to her enemies. If a righteous country falls away to unrighteousness God may use another nation to judge her, just as he did to Israel of old for her sins. Even though Israel of old had multiplied her synagogues and had multiplied her battlements, she had lost God's protection through her disobedience to His voice. America may very well be in the same place of disobedience. God may very well be getting ready to judge America through her seemingly weaker Russian enemy. We should be suing for peace, not provoking our enemy to greater war.
In the prophecies of Ezekiel 39 God pronounces His judgment on Magog, an endtime power house which invades Israel. Some scholars believe the prophecies of Ezekiel could be referring to Russia. In any case, Magog falls because God says, "I will send fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles." Ezekiel 39:6. If Magog is Russia with her nations of friends, could those who dwell carelessly in the isles be Great Britain, Australia, and Britain's offspring the USA and Canada?
We are in a fight between the ruling empire of USA and her adversary Russia whose friends are China and India. It seems we will all lose. Babylon the Whore will be destroyed and Magog and those that dwell carelessly in the isles will also be destroyed. The happy ending is that Christ will return and stop the war before men completely destroy the whole world and all mankind. The Bible predicts some 1/3 or more of mankind, if we are understanding correctly the prophecies, will die in that period of Great Tribulation followed by the Wrath of God.
Please pray for peace. Pray that the voice of peace will be heard. Let us put down the drums of war before it is too late. It may be already too late. Pray like eveything depended on prayer and spread the message of peace. God told the Jews to surrender to their enemy, but they would not. They thought God was on their side, but He was not. He had changed sides because of the depth of their sins.
Whose side is God on? Which side has forgotten their maker? Maybe both? Maybe God will use them both to destroy each other and the meek, the poor nations of the world, will inherit the earth. In the meantime many innocent will die. Sue for peace. Seek peace and pursue peace, says God's word. The peacemakers shall be called the children of God! Are you a peacemaker? Then pray!
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
Friday, November 9, 2018
“Let’s Have a War with Russia!” I’d Rather Be Ruled by Autistic Hamsters
The United States seems to be contemplating war with Russia, Iran, China, or all three as Washington pushes NATO ever closer to Russia, leaves the nuclear-missile treaty and tries to destroy both countries and China economically. Why the push for war?
Simple. Asia is awakening. China (from which I have just returned) grows economically at a scorching pace–and all power rests on economic power. China is a large country, America a medium-sized one. America’s roughly two hundred million whites do virtually all of the scientific work on which national power depends. China has a billion increasingly educated Han Chinese, a five-to-one advantage. China’s stated aim is to unite Eurasia among other places in one vast commercial union. Washington’s pugnacity has pushed China, Iran, and Russia together. The chain of nations, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey all totter between looking east and looking west. If Washington doesn’t stop this growth, the American Empire will be marginalized within decades.
What would a war with Russia look like, even assuming that it didn’t go nuclear? A great military thinker–me, actually–once said that military stupidity comes in three levels: normally stupid; really really stupid; and invading Russia. Throughout history it has proved a poor career move.
The US military has not won a war since 1945, with the exception of the First Gulf War, which the LAPD could have won. It lost decisively in Vietnam. It got run out of Lebanon with 241 dead Marines as its only accomplishment. After seventeen years it shows no signs of defeating barely armed Afghan peasants. Iraq has been a complete botch, achieving none of its goals, control of the oil, permanent bases, and a puppet government. Just now the military is losing in Syria.
Nothing short of genius can account for losing so consistently given the enormous resources available to American forces. In light of this very low level of military competence, maybe wars are not our best choice of hobby.
What sort of war is envisaged? The United States cannot fight a sizable land war. Iran can. Russia can. The American military means air power and little else. The Army hasn’t fought a serious war since 1973, the fleet since 1945. In long periods of inaction, things deteriorate because they do not seem important. Crucial supplies cease to exist, spare parts aren’t there, the logistics train quietly becomes inoperable. Money goes instead to pricey weapons of little practical use.
The Army recruits from a soft millennial population. America is no longer a country of tough rural kids. Social engineering has rotted the ranks. Conscription is politically impossible. The Army cannot defeat Afghans even with the advantages of unlimited air power, artillery, gunships, medevac, helicopters, and drones.
A military that never fights a war that it has to win, that never encounters an enemy that can dangerously hit back, inevitably deteriorates.
Militaries come to believe their own propaganda. So, apparently, do the feral mollycoddles in the White House and New York. The American military’s normal procedure is to overestimate American power, underestimate the enemy, and misunderstand the kind of war it is getting into. Should Washington decide on war with Iran, or Russia (unless by a surprise nuclear strike) there will be the usual talk of the most powerful, best trained, best equipped etc., and how the Ivans and towelheads will melt away in days, a cakewalk. Bet me.
Militaries have a very poor record of predicting outcomes of wars. This might provoke thought. The American Civil War was expected to be over in an afternoon; this was wrong by 650,000 dead and four years. When Napoleon invaded Russia, he did not expect Russians to occupy Paris. Germany thought that WWI would be over in weeks; in fact a ghastly war of attrition lasting four years. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, it was not intentionally inviting GIs to the geisha houses of Tokyo. When Germany invaded Poland, occupation of Germany by Russia and America was low on its list of expectations. When France re-invaded Vietnam, it did not foresee Dien Bien Phu and utter defeat. When America invaded Vietnam, it did not expect a decade-long losing war. When Russia invaded Afghanistan it did not expect to lose to Afghans in sandals. When America invaded Afghanistan, having seen what had happened to Russia, it did not expect the same result.
We do not know what a war with Iran, or Russia, or China would look like or what the Iranians might do. An overconfident military and an inexperienced government in Washington will predictably predict a short war and speak of precision weapons and surgical strikes. The Navy will guarantee that it can keep the Straits open, and speak of its advanced technology. The expectation will be that there will be nothing unexpected. The white House will believe that Iran will lie there and be bombed without response. Russia? The nukes will fall on the European countries from which the attack came. Germany might ponder this carefully.
America could of course destroy much of Iran and kill millions of the defenseless. This is what America now calls “war.” It would be amusing to see what would happen if the Air Force had to fight an enemy that could fight back, but this would mean only Russia or, perhaps, to some extent, China. It is a coward’s way of war and, to judge by South Vietnam and Afghanistan, not very effective. Killing lots of people and winning a war are not the same thing.
What if Iran did stop petroleum traffic in the Persian Gulf with, say, missiles mounted on pickup trucks. Is this possible? I don’t know. Neither, I suspect, does the Navy–which will insist that it can handle mere pickup trucks with its superb this and that, its best trained, best equipped, the only hyperpower, and so on. But tankers are not going to run even a small risk of going up in flames.
How long would the Straits have to be closed with the world screaming for oil before Washington, desperate, its vanity bruised, full of huge egos, would have to do something stupid to save face?
Further, American leadership is of dangerously low quality. An essentially absentee Congress, the sordidness and criminality of the Clintons, Trump’s utter crassness and shady past, the submission to Israel, the widespread and never punished corruption. In this sorry brew no one seems interested in the well-being of the county, only unseemly grasping at benefits for the arms industry, big oil, Wall Street, Tel Aviv, and the Empire. Note that wars generate huge profits for the arms makers, and the longer the war can be kept going, neither winning nor losing, the greater the profits. War against Iran would be a magnificent profit center. Since American casualties are extremely low, permanent war has few downsides.
At the top of government we have an unprepossessing bunch that would make Kaiser Wilhelm’s court seem wholesome. Their chief characteristics are pathological aggressiveness and a severe case of Beltway Bubble Syndrome. There is Trump with his weird eruptions. The ever-combative Nikki Haley. Mike Pompeo, threatening Iran, threatening Venezuela, threatening North Korea. John Bolton of the codpiece mustaches, always counseling a war he won’t fight in, a draft dodger with something to prove.
The life of millions depends on this freak show? I need a drink.
Comment by Dennis: Slowly, but surely we move in the direction of Armageddon. Maybe not in our life time, but maybe so. Our rejection of God as nations, and the augment of iniquity in the hands of the American Empire through its wars, both economic and military, besides the spiritual pollution semenated through the media, is causing the world to take note and at the time appointed the prophectic day will come.
