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Marilyn F's avatar

Didn’t it all begin with Victoria Nuland & Barack Obama in 2014? No doubt Bush & Cheney were in on it before that. Then they “elected” a dummy to continue it until the end of time.

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Conservative Contrarian's avatar

Don't forget McCain & Graham, another bad joke duo.

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P.S.'s avatar

Romney as well..Bunch of warmongers.

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Indie's avatar

OF COURSE he did. He was listening to Blinken & Sullivan.

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Conservative Contrarian's avatar

Lewis & Martin, Abbott & Costello, Mutt & Jeff and the list of comedic duos is long; Blinken & Sullivan are a short-list of bad jokes, a very bloody joke!

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Rfhirsch's avatar

Correction: He was listening to Jill. He couldn't understand what people like B S were saying.

(I had to do it!)

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Heyjude's avatar

You answered all the questions Joe!

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P.S.'s avatar

They just wanted our money, not advice. Should have never kept poking the Bear. Putin behaved the way Kennedy did back when Russia wanted to put a base in Cuba. All those deaths for absolutely NOTHING.

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Boris's avatar

"Poking" meaning not sufficiently acknowledging Russia's God-given right to rape and plunder any land it can get its grubby little paws on?

There's not even particularly subtle difference between US foreign policy having been traditionally idiotic, and Ukraine being completely in the right in this particular situation.

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P.S.'s avatar

I don't know that Ukraine was right. They were trying to provoke Putin by putting a base there. Not much different than the Russians back in the 60s. Kennedy had us preparing for nuclear war. Half the Ukrainians were Russian Ukrainians. Zelenskyy killed them. I see him & Putin as one & the same.

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Boris's avatar

Ummm, yeah, they were also breeding the mosquitoes that only bite Russians. And crucifying little boys.

Just because Biden was senile and "his" administration was lying does not mean that the BS that Russia spreads is any better. It's actually even worse as it is written by people with fetal alcohol poisoning for people with fetal alcohol poisoning.

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P.S.'s avatar

True. I don't really care what either of them do. I care more about Politicians outright stealing our money & my own country falling. Russia nor Ukraine has caused that.

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Boris's avatar

That's true, but that's on us (or whoever's an American voter here). That's quite orthogonal to who is in the right in this conflict.

To anyone who can read Russian and cares to see what is being written (not by some marginal elements) it's pretty clear who's who.

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W. A. Samuel's avatar

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Pamela Hagen's avatar

Matt, could you try a new narrator please.

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Jeanette Cyr's avatar

Matt, Thank you for your concise rundown. This is the first time anyone has helped us see the bigger picture of these conflicts. Your Abbott & Costello reference was perfection because of rigid, yet insincere, posturing on so many fronts. You have helped lift some of the fog of deception & as of this moment I don’t think any of them are even good enough to be characterized in individual terms—they were & they are still simply acting a role. I’m sorry they were taught to be that way for, by choice, they have resigned themselves to now being just flotsam in a torrent of lies that are finally washing out to sea.

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A.'s avatar

Just posted this morning on Francisco Gil-White's Substack: Management of Reality

"Large numbers of dead Jews—as on 7 October 2023—are the Western canary in the coal mine. They announce a Totalitarian Catastrophe FOR NON-JEWS. Those who can interpret this signal understand that Western Civilization now hangs in the balance."

I spent much of the day yesterday on Racket News discussing totalitarianism and similar issues. Anthropologist Francisco Gil-White now adds the same.

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Jazzme's avatar

Biden and his regime is history Taibbi please move onto the contemporary Trumpster fascist regime. As you saw in today's demonstrations through out the USA large nbers of people were out on the street expressing distain with the Trumpster take over of:

our democratic system, our rule of law,

our civil rights,

our liberties

and using unlawful means to erasure people of conscience into concentration camps in El Salvador. Focus on that please not brain dead Biden and his nefarious criminal acts.

*please*

We must as Americans Refuse Fascism... Oppose Oppression.

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Bob's avatar

The best analysis I've seen on this, Great work

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Cathy B's avatar

Love the audio!

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SMS's avatar

A couple statements elevate conjecture to fact. Here are alternate possibilities: 1) It's quite likely that the original goal of the Kursk incursion was to seize control of the Kursk nuclear power plant. 2) The North Korean troops story has never been substantiated in any meaningful way, and appeared at a time when it was necessary to distract from the dismal failure in Kursk.

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