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Mar 3 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
Russia gets control of Kyiv with this war, while the US gets international consensus for unprecedented economic warfare and support for NATO, plus giving Moscow another Afghanistan.
NATO powers 100% provoked this war. Looks like a classic sacrifice a pawn to get the queen move.
With checkmate being retaining the unipolar world order. China is a rising economic superpower while Russia is the #2 military power, so if you can take out Russia by starvation sanctions, fomenting unrest, overextension and eventual balkanization, you break China's right arm.
Leaving China essentially defenseless on the world stage for whatever long-term cold war strangulation you've got planned for it. People who think the rise of a multipolar world is a sure thing are counting their chickens before they're hatched, IMO.
Short thread on the overextension part of the equation:
Americans were already propagandized into hating Russia with hysterical fervor with five years of conspiracy theories and unfounded claims about Kremlin collusion, bounties in Afghanistan, etc. This could all easily have been planned out in advance.
Russiagate after all began with unevidenced claims from the US intelligence cartel and resulted in putting political pressure on Trump to ramp up major cold war escalations against Moscow. And now we're here, with western liberals braying for Putin's head.
caityjohnstone.medium.com/25-times-trump…
And of course conservatives already on board for any amount of hawkishness because that's just what they do, so no need to worry about them as much.
It would after all have taken an awful lot of narrative management to pace liberals to this point from where they were at just a few years ago:
That the empire would have been planning to crush Russia is not some outlandish conspiracy theory. We know for a fact that DC swamp monsters have wanted to wipe the Russian Federation off the map since the fall of the Soviet Union.
The CIA has openly had a hard-on for this agenda for ages.
independent.co.uk/news/world/eur… Image
The architects of empire determined after the fall of the USSR that the US must prevent the rise of another rival superpower at all cost. All the western conflicts you've been seeing have been the manifestations of this policy crashing into China's rise.
archive.ph/wlBz5 Image
The same neocon ghouls who engineered the Iraq invasion were building the case for this agenda of ensuring unipolar hegemony at all cost well in advance of that.
web.archive.org/web/2013072411… Image
These same PNAC ghouls are being consulted as experts on Russia's invasion of Ukraine by the MSM today. ImageImageImageImage
Michael Parenti saw all this coming ages ago.
thirdworldtraveler.com/Parenti/Superp… Image
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Mar 5
Expect an even greater wave of demands for NATO intervention in Ukraine as all the propaganda about the brave sexy comedian kicking Putin's ass crumbles before the eyes of western shitlibs everywhere and reality comes crashing in.
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Mar 4
Whenever I talk about the frightening escalation in censorship and propaganda we're seeing in the west I get people telling me that Russia is censoring and propagandizing even worse. Like "We're a bit better than Russia!" is a sane response to this assault on truth and freedom.
If you feel the need to restrict and manipulate people's speech, even if what they're saying is true, then your actions aren't based on truth. They're based on something else, like geostrategic conquest.
Everything the empire says it opposes Russia for is a lie. Everything the empire criticizes Russia for are things the empire itself does. Everything we're told is on the line in this standoff—freedom, democracy, truth, justice—are things the empire has been actively stomping out.
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Mar 4
"Relax, no one's starting a nuclear war" is a belief that depends on trusting the same forces which just destroyed Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and Yemen while pushing us toward climate collapse to carefully navigate cold war brinkmanship escalations without setting one off.
I don't think it's likely that anyone *intends* to start a nuclear war. But that's not the most likely way one starts:
It's so airheaded, and stifles opposition to these reckless escalations. We came within a hair's breadth of total annihilation during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Look up Vasili Arkhipov, the Soviet submariner who single-handedly saved the world.
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Mar 3
Again: it's never been about countering Russian propaganda or fighting Covid misinformation or any of the other excuses they've been churning out. It's because the democratization of information poses a direct threat to ruling power structures, and they need to get control of it.
The "liberal democracies" of the western empire found a loophole in their own freedom of expression laws (the same laws they claim make them superior to overtly authoritarian regimes) in that they can outsource their censorship to government-tied monopolistic megacorporations.
This allows the oligarchic empire to control the dominant narratives about what's going on, thereby controlling how people think, act, and vote. Whoever controls the narrative controls the world. The powerful understand this. The people, for the most part, do not.
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Mar 3
This is insane. Camp is literally just an anti-war, anti-capitalism comedian who was denied a platform by all western media so went to the outlet that would give him a platform. This new escalation in censorship is getting very scary. Dissent is actively being stomped out.
Camp did a great Redacted Tonight monologue in 2017 mocking the idea that there's something scandalous about an American criticizing American malfeasance on RT because no western MSM will let you. But if you're in the EU or UK you won't be able to see it.
This was the one and only time Camp has ever been allowed on western mainstream media, and it went exactly how you'd hope it would. Hasn't been allowed back since.
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Mar 2
"The costs to Putin if he 'loses' Ukraine to the West are going to be steep... There are real ultra-nationalist forces that would come down on him like a ton of bricks if the historic land of the Cossacks was 'lost' to the anti-Russian EU and their American allies."
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"Indeed, two of the most visible anti-Putin 'dissidents' – Alexei Navalny and Eduard Limonov (of the fascistic National Bolshevik Party) – are rabid nationalists who make Putin look like the kind of liberal who listens to NPR and strongly favors Birkenstocks."
2014. Damn. Raimondo was having constant Twitter shit fits about my anti-Trump stuff at the end of his life, but shit he'd be good to have around now. Him, Stephen Cohen, Bob Parry. A lot of great voices missing on this front.
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