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The “New York Department Of Defense Times” Proclaims:  “War On!”  Oh, And Happy Second [Tenth] Anniversary! (February 26, 2024)

Posted in Russia, Ukraine, War on February 26, 2024 by e-commentary.org

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J          “I’ll concede that if ‘The New York Times’ says it, the Department of Defense wants us to know it.  What is it they want us to know?  Why do they want us to know it?” 

. . .

K          “The beginning of World War III is now rewound nunc pro tunc to ten years ago.”

. . .

K          “My take a day later?  The article is another desperate plea and ploy for more and more and more and more funding for the War.  This is also the first step in the ‘in for a penny, in for a pound’ argument.  The U.S., the argument goes, has always been there in Ukraine and thus should continue to be there until the end.  This is the sotto voce declaration of war by the U.S. two years after the start of the Special Military Operation.”  

. . .

J          “Russia is still a threat.  However, I do not believe the A Team is in charge of the USA Team.  Things are getting out of control.  Where are the adults in the situation room?”

. . . 

K          “I am concerned that events are getting out of control of even the most powerful individuals and governments who delude themselves into believing they are in control.”

J          “Some powerless folks are concerned that things are way out of control.  Listen to folks on the street.”

. . .

K          “Both Russia and the USA face existential threats. Neither will yield without going nuclear.”

J          “Neither will yield without going nuclear.”

. . .

[See “The Spy War:  How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin” by Adam Entous and Michael Schwirtz in The New York Times dated February 25, 2024.]

[See the e-commentary from two years ago at The Cuban Missile Crisis And The Monroe Doctrine Today (February 28, 2022), N. Propaganda R. Transcribed:  “Get Vaccinated.  Attack Russia.”  Oh, And Happy Presidents’ Day! (February 21, 2022) and the prescription in Washington Wants War In The Worst Way:  Dust Off The IOSAT Or Return To The Status Quo Ante Bellum? (January 24, 2022).  See also the existential threat to the world discussed at Existential Threat + Existential Threat = World War.  Are We Mired In World War E[conomic] / World War III? (November 21, 2022).]

Bumper stickers of the week:

War on!

I can see what is coming; I can do nothing about it.

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United States v. Russia:  Turning Up The Thermostat (June 5, 2023)

Posted in Russia, War on June 5, 2023 by e-commentary.org

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K          “Heating up.”

J          “Heating up.”

. . .

J          “Not good.”

K          “Not good.”

. . .

Bumper sticker of the week:

When will they ever learn

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Russia Is PLANet B!  We Are Saved! (March 27, 2023)

Posted in China, Petrodollar, Russia, War, World War E, World War III on March 27, 2023 by e-commentary.org

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K          “Russia is PLANet B!  At every environmental rally, someone sports a sign proclaiming:  ‘There is no PLANet B’ for us (the US?) to exploit.  The letters ‘PLAN’ and ‘B” are in capitals and usually in a contrasting color.  But there is a ‘PLANet B’!  It is Russia.  The West is not attacking Russia because Russia is a threat, the West is attacking Russia to purloin its resources.  The current Western aggression lead by the Big Uncle is another chapter in the history of colonial oppression of the world by the West.  It is so obvious when it is obvious.”

. . .

J          “In a moment of unguarded weakness, I admit that the West would like to dismember and distribute Russian resources that was started when Yeltsin was in office. The U.S. must counter China’s control of world resources. It is not always pretty.”   

. . .

[See “In Moscow, Xi and Putin bury Pax Americana” by Pepe Escobar, the recipient of the Sixth Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2021 (June 7, 2021), dated March 22, 2023 in “thecradle.co”.  “The ‘Junior Partner’ Meme Gives No Insight To Real Changes” in the “moonofalabama.org” dated March 23, 2023 develops the U.S. fixation with dismissing Russia at every opportunity as an equal in any relationship and reveals the united propaganda campaign of the MSM.]

[See the e-commentary at World War E Breeds Bretton Woods III;  BW II And The PetroDollar Will RIP? (March 14, 2022),  World War E Becomes World War III:  The West Versus The Rest:  Uni-Polar Versus Multi-Polar (March 28, 2022) and The War Between The Nation-States:  Architectonic And Tectonic Shifts In The World:  Getting Our Bearings In The Emerging World Order: Land And People And Resources Versus Fiat And Finance And Firearms (August 15, 2022).]

Bumper stickers of the week:

There is no PLANet B!

There is no PLANet B Russia!

Save the Planet!  It’s the only one with beer!

“West” / “North”:  $98.1 Trillion in resources  ???

“East” / “South”:  $211.7 Trillion in resources  ???

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The Two Great Geopolitical Elections:  China in 2014-15; Russia in 2022-23 (March 20, 2023)

Posted in China, Multipolar World, Russia on March 20, 2023 by e-commentary.org

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K          “China in 2014 – 15.  Russia in 2022 – 23.”

J          “China won resoundingly.  Russia is losing convincingly.”

K          “China won resoundingly.  Russia is winning convincingly.  The U.S. lost astoundingly.  0 – 2 on the international stage.  Sad.  It did not have to be this way.”

. . .

K          “Not a person I have talked with over the last five years is even vaguely aware that in 2014 – 2015 the Chinese held a world-wide election to determine which countries sought to align with China via the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and which countries sought instead to align with the United States.”

J          “China won resoundingly.  Few realize it.  I get it.  We are in trouble.”

. . .

K          “World War E / World War III is forcing a world-wide ‘Oxford Union Debate’ with most the nations of the world surreptitiously slipping out through the ‘East’ (BRICS+ and OPEC+ and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation) door and repudiating the West.”

J          “Russia is losing.  The West is winning.  Look at the vote of the United Nations General Assembly a few weeks ago.”

K          “That’s the point.  On the record, the nations must capitulate and kowtow to the Evil Hegemon.  But look at their actions.  They are quietly realigning.  Actions, as they say, speak louder than words.  The payback fueled by simmering resentment in the next fifty years will be Hell.”   

. . .

[See “5 Reasons Why Much of the Global South Isn’t Automatically Supporting the West in Ukraine” by Krishen Mehta in “Globetrotter” dated February 24, 2023, “Global South resists pressure to side with West against Russia” by Vijay Prashad produced by “Globetrotter” dated February 25, 2023 and printed in “Asia Times”.]

[See the e-commentary at AIIB: China: 1; U.S.A. 0? (April 6, 2015), World War E Breeds Bretton Woods III;  BW II And The PetroDollar Will RIP? (March 14, 2022),  World War E Becomes World War III:  The West Versus The Rest:  Uni-Polar Versus Multi-Polar (March 28, 2022) and The War Between The Nation-States:  Architectonic And Tectonic Shifts In The World:  Getting Our Bearings In The Emerging World Order: Land And People And Resources Versus Fiat And Finance And Firearms (August 15, 2022).]

Bumper stickers of the week:

Dragon < Eagle > Bruin; Dragon + Bruin > Eagle; Eagle + Bruin > Dragon

War:  The only thing NOT made in China (Or is it?)

March 19 – 20, 2003 – U.S. attacks Iraq

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2024 Pulitzer In “Breaking News Reporting” And “Investigative Reporting News”:  Jeff Gerth And The Columbia Journalism Review / Kyle Pope (March 13, 2023)

Posted in Journalism, Press/Media, Pulitzer, Russia on March 13, 2023 by e-commentary.org

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K          “One can hope.  He is in the Club, but he has challenged the Narrative with Facts.  He is risking his position yet may now be old enough not to care.  The two Awards should also be awarded jointly to the ‘Columbia Journalism Review’ that showed remarkable courage and integrity.  And with a nod to Kyle Pope.”

L          “Never happen.”

K          “Of course not.”

. . .

K          “They should revoke the Pulitzers awarded for the sham and the fraud in 2018.”

L          “Never happen.”

K          “Of course not.”

. . .

K          “The individuals who were wrongly awarded the Pulitzers in 2018 should muster the dignity and integrity to return the awards.”

L          “Never happen.”

K          “Of course not.”

. . .

K          “And apologize.”

L          “Never happen.”

K          “Of course not.  That would contravene the American Way.”

. . .

[See “The Press versus the President” in four parts:  Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 of Jeff Gerth’s magnum opus in the “Columbia Journalism Review” dated January 30, 2023; see “The Press Reckoning on Russiagate” by Patrick Lawrence in “Consortium News” dated February 7, 2023; “Columbia Journalism Review Russiagate Post-Mortem Is a Good Start” by Mark Hemingway in “RealClearPolitics” dated February 6, 2023 and “Take a Bow, Columbia Journalism Review” by Matt Taibbi in “Racket News” dated February 8, 2023.]

[See the e-commentary at Russian Interference; Russian Collusion.   Epilogue (March 25, 2019) and Russian Interference; Russian Collusion (February 26, 2018).  Joe’s Award should have been bestowed for the ideas and insights in these two pieces.]

Bumper stickers of the week:

Russia exists to teach Americans hate and to hate.  If Russia did not exist, America would have to create it.

“knowingly, knowingly, knowingly lying, omitting, disinforming, fabricating, and covering up”

“For deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest that dramatically furthered the nation’s understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections to the Trump campaign, the President-elect’s transition team and his eventual administration. (The New York Times entry, submitted in this category, was moved into contention by the Board and then jointly awarded the Prize.)”  Pulitzer Announcement in 2018.

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Spoiler Alert:  Yup, Uncle Sam Did It . . . Or At Least Approved It (March 6, 2023)

Posted in Russia, Terrorism, Ukraine on March 6, 2023 by e-commentary.org

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K          “There is something to the story.  There seems to be something more to the story.  I am not completely persuaded and once again reserve judgment.  I suspect the Brits and others were involved.  The only certainty is that nothing was done without the planning and the approval and the participation of Uncle Sam.  And once again the disturbing and unrelenting nightmare continues with any and all debate viciously and almost violently suppressed.”

J          “That is the way it is and the way it should be.”

. . .

K          “The United States clearly violated Article 5 of the NATO Charter when it aided and abetted a terrorist attack on Germany’s infrastructure . . . so all the other members of NATO must come to the defense of the Germans.  All for one; one for all.”

J          “A treaty is followed when it is convenient and disregarded when it is inconvenient.  That is known as the ‘rules-based international order’ and is one of America’s great contributions to humanity.  In this situation, the NATO Charter is inconvenient.  Ergo . . .”

. . .

K          “No one in the know is surprised that the United States brazenly destroyed the link between Germany and Russia with its ‘Pearl Harbor’ attack on the infrastructure of sovereign countries.  Few in America have ever heard of Halford Mackinder who correctly observed almost ten dozen years ago that a united Eurasia will rule the world.  Germany was maintaining cordial commercial relationships with Russia which threatened American hegemony.”

. . .

K          “The Swedes and the Norwegians and possibly the Danes seem to be accessories to the crime.  Yet they still seem like good people.” 

J          “They are.”

K          “Makes one wonder if there is some spare Brittingham Scholar with a modicum of courage who might step up and demur.”

. . .

[See “How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline” by Seymour Hersh in ‘www.seymourhersh.substack.com’ dated February 8, 2023 and “Sy Hersh & The Way We Live Now” by Craig Murray in “Consortium News” dated February 10, 2023.]

[See the e-commentary at The U.S. Declares War On Germany, Europe, Russia And The Free World . . . Bank Of England Flops Then Flips . . . And The Supreme Beings Saunter Into Town (October 3, 2022) and What Is With Our Friend Sweden And Our Friends The Swedes?  The Swedish Central Bankers Reward One Of Their Criminal Home Boys:  Bernanke.  The “Real” Nobel For Peace (War?) Rewards Hypocrisy And Dishonesty.  The Nord Stream Pipeline Terrorism Investigation Is Dodgy. (October 24, 2022).]

Bumper stickers of the week:

February 7, 2022:

Biden:  “If Russia invades – that means tanks or troops crossing the border of Ukraine again – then there will be – there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2.  We will bring an end to it.”

Andrea Shalal:  “But how will you – how will you do that exactly, since the project and control of the project is within Germany’s control?”

Biden:  “We will – I promise you, we will be able to do it.” 

January 26, 2023:

“Senator Cruz, like you, I am, and I think the administration is, very gratified to know that Nord Stream 2 is now, as you like to say, a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea.”  Victoria “Fuck the EU” Nuland. 

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” Maya Angelou

“The diplomats want war and the warriors want peace.”  Elon Musk

Is the Europe Effete as decadent and corrupt as the American Effete?

Remember the Nord Stream!

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World War E / World War III Is 1 [9?] Year[s] Old This Week.  Oh, And Happy Presidents’ Day! (February 20, 2023)

Posted in China, Dollar - World's Reserve Currency, Petrodollar, Russia, Ukraine, War, World War E, World War III, World's Reserve Currency on February 20, 2023 by e-commentary.org

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J          “Putin is desperate.”

K          “Biden is desperate.  The speakers yesterday proclaimed a word that has almost been expunged from the American lexicon – peace.  And look at his latest desperate theatrical antic.  The puppet flies to meet the marionette.”

. . .

K          “Russia is subtly and methodically winning the ‘economic war’ and is slowly and patiently winning the ‘kinetic war’ and ceaselessly and unrelentingly losing the ‘propaganda war’ . . . at this time.  The unprovoked Western sanctions are destructive and counterproductive.  The truth is emerging.  The West is very, very slowly unraveling.”

J          “The West will prevail.”

. . .

K          “One of the tectonic shifts on the journey from illusionment to disillusionment was the gradual realization that the United States of America since 1945 was not the world’s policeman as I was directed in grammar school . . . it is the world’s bully.  After that realization was confirmed by a thousand historical footnotes, nothing is or can ever be the same.”

J          “Policemen need to be bullies at times.”

. . .

K          “The bourse is the battlefield; the battlefield is the bourse.  The PetroDollar is supported by violence; the violence is funded by the PetroDollar.  The de-dollarization efforts may not dethrone the PetroDollar, but little by little they are moving the PetroDollar to a highchair at a table with other currencies.”

J          “Some two-party commercial transactions are being undertaken without the PetroDollar.  However, the PetroDollar still has a long shelf life and a long half-life.  For better and for worse.” 

. . .   

K          “Biden will instigate a false flag event to go nuclear.”

J          “Putin will instigate a false flag event to go nuclear.”

. . .

K          “Biden’s war is not going to end well.”

J          “Putin’s war is not going to end well.”

. . .

[See the e-commentary at Portentous Developments In 2022? (January 23, 2023), Washington Wants War In The Worst Way:  Dust Off The IOSAT Or Return To The Status Quo Ante Bellum? (January 24, 2022), N. Propaganda R. Transcribed:  “Get Vaccinated.  Attack Russia.”  Oh, And Happy Presidents’ Day! (February 21, 2022), The Cuban Missile Crisis And The Monroe Doctrine Today (February 28, 2022), Sanctions, Supply Chains And World War E (March 7, 2022), World War E Breeds Bretton Woods III;  BW II And The PetroDollar Will RIP? (March 14, 2022) (“The ‘PetroDollar’ has had as much influence on civilization as the implementation of the wheel, the creation of the printing press and the discovery of electricity.  Yet, the ‘PetroDollar’ and BW II are dying a slow but accelerating death.  In a stupendous irony, U.S. stupidly killed BW II which had served it so well and has now spawned an uncertain BW III.”), The War Between The Nation-States:  Architectonic And Tectonic Shifts In The World:  Getting Our Bearings In The Emerging World Order: Land And People And Resources Versus Fiat And Finance And Firearms (August 15, 2022), The U.S. Declares War On Germany, Europe, Russia And The Free World . . . Bank Of England Flops Then Flips . . . And The Supreme Beings Saunter Into Town (October 3, 2022), What Is With Our Friend Sweden And Our Friends The Swedes?  The Swedish Central Bankers Reward One Of Their Criminal Home Boys:  Bernanke.  The “Real” Nobel For Peace (War?) Rewards Hypocrisy And Dishonesty.  The Nord Stream Pipeline Terrorism Investigation Is Dodgy. (October 24, 2022), Existential Threat + Existential Threat = World War.  Are We Mired In World War E[conomic] / World War III? (November 21, 2022), The China-Russia Affair: Advancing The Petro-Yuan; Dictating The Future (March 26, 2018), World’s Reserve Currency War I = Cold War 2.0 = WW III (?) (September 8, 2014), AIIB: China: 1; U.S.A. 0? (April 6, 2015), The Mandibles, FRNs, SDRs, IMF, G20, WTD! (September 5, 2016), USA + FRN/PD — > IMF + SDR — > NDB + UMU? The “Universal Monetary Unit” . . . Coming To a Planet Near You (January 2, 2017), One World Currency? (January 8, 2018), and two prescient pieces on NATO at NATO: Nations Aggressively Taking Over (March 31, 2014) (“If Bush can invade Iraq without any good reason, can Putin invade Ukraine without any good reason?”) and NATOExit? NATOExeunt? (July 4, 2016).]

It is going nuclear.

Bumper stickers of the week:

“The other thing I will say is that the war didn’t start in February last year.  The war started in 2014.  And since 2014, NATO Allies have provided support to Ukraine, with training, with equipment, so the Ukrainian Armed Forces were much stronger in 2022, than they were in 2020, and 2014.  And of course, that made a huge difference when President Putin decided to attack Ukraine.”  NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg

“They’ve lost strategically, they’ve lost operationally and, I repeat, they’ve lost tactically.  . . .  What they’ve tried to do, they’ve failed at.  The strategic reframing of their objectives, of their illegal invasion, have all failed, every single one of them.”  Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark A. Milley

Desperate people do desperate things

“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”  Voltaire

Dragon < Eagle > Bruin; Dragon + Bruin > Eagle; Eagle + Bruin > Dragon

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Counting Battered Bodies Badly.  Oh, And Happy Valentine’s Day! (February 13, 2023)

Posted in Newspapers, Propoganda, Russia, Ukraine, World War E, World War III on February 13, 2023 by e-commentary.org

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K          “The ‘New York Times’ asserts that 200,000 Russian troops have been killed and wounded.  The editors hope and wish and dream that 200,000 of their fellow human beings have been killed and wounded.  I researched the available sources and am really troubled by the number.  Perhaps about 30,000 – 40,000 Russian troops have been killed and wounded.  The unfounded NYT’s allegation is part of the ‘Retreating to Moscow’ Narrative and not the ‘Advancing to Paris’ Narrative.  Tomorrow, they will advance the ‘Advancing to Paris’ Narrative.”

J          “The West will prevail.  The ‘New York Times’ and the ‘Washington Post’ are two of the pillars of the government information machine.  They are doing their job and their part.  So there you have it.”

. . .

K          “And the NYT said that the sabotage of the Nord Stream Pipeline was a ‘mystery’ when it is clear to all right thinking folks who choreographed the terrorist attack.  Do these people have no dignity or integrity?”

J          “The West will prevail.  The ‘New York Times’ and the ‘Washington Post’ are two of the pillars of the government information machine.  They are doing their job and their part.  So there you have it.”

. . .

K          “The NYT markets itself as the first draft of history.  I doubt future historians will be taught and more importantly doubt that they will be rewarded for doubting everything written in and by the NYT.  Every statement must be consumed cum grano salis.”

J          “The West will prevail.  The ‘New York Times’ and the ‘Washington Post’ are two of the pillars of the government information machine.  They are doing their job and their part.  So there you have it.  End of discussion.”

. . . 

[See the e-commentary analyzing the two strains of the propaganda campaign in Russia:  Advancing To Paris; Retreating To Moscow (December 5, 2022) and the consequences of the United States aiding and abetting the terrorist destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines at The U.S. Declares War On Germany, Europe, Russia And The Free World . . . Bank Of England Flops Then Flips . . . And The Supreme Beings Saunter Into Town (October 3, 2022).]

Bumper stickers of the week:

“Washington – The number of Russian troops killed and wounded in Ukraine is approaching 200,000, a stark symbol of just how badly President Vladimir V. Putin’s invasion has gone, according to American and other Western officials.”  ‘The New York Times’, February 2, 2023.

“Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie.  I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed.  I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as the heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that had never happened.  I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various ‘party lines’.”  George Orwell, “Looking Back on the Spanish War”, Chapter 4 (1943).

Rage Against The War Machine Rally – February 19 at 12:30 p.m. at the Lincoln Memorial  

Occupy Peace

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Portentous Developments In 2022? (January 23, 2023)

Posted in Gold, Gold Standard, Petrodollar, Russia, SWIFT on January 23, 2023 by e-commentary.org

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J          “The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February. Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations does not suffice for me.”

K          “The United States weaponization of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) system followed by the U.S. confiscation of Russian reserves in March.  The world knows beyond a reasonable doubt that the U.S. cannot be trusted.  Without elemental trust, there is nothing.  The overriding strategic concern of every nation on Earth at this time is to firewall itself from the U.S. without the U.S. perceiving the action.”

. . .

[Scrutinize, analyze and synthesize “Contrarian Thoughts on the Petro-Yuan and Gold-Backed Currencies” by Charles Hugh Smith in “Of Two Minds” dated January 19, 2023 and “Global South: Gold-backed currencies to replace the US dollar” by Pepe Escobar, the recipient of the Sixth Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2021 (June 7, 2021), in “The Cradle” dated January 19, 2023.]

[See the e-commentary at The Cuban Missile Crisis And The Monroe Doctrine Today (February 28, 2022), Sanctions, Supply Chains And World War E (March 7, 2022) and World War E Breeds Bretton Woods III;  BW II And The PetroDollar Will RIP? (March 14, 2022).]

Bumper stickers of the week:

“To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.”  Henry Kissinger

When all this social distance stuff is over, I still want people to stay away from me.

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Russia:  Advancing To Paris; Retreating To Moscow (December 5, 2022)

Posted in NATO, Propoganda, Russia, World War E, World War III on December 5, 2022 by e-commentary.org

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K          “The propaganda machine occasionally spews what appears to be inconsistent messages.  According to one propagandist, the Russians are advancing to Paris.  According to another propagandist, the Russians are retreating to Moscow.  Perhaps a little inconsistent, someone might observe.”

J          “They are consistent.  The first message is designed to inculcate fear.  The second message is designed to instill hope.  They are all plays on emotion.  They are all part of the plan.”

K          “And nothing is designed to inspire thought and reflection.”

J          “By design, that is not the way it works.”

. . .

[See the e-commentary at NATO: Nations Aggressively Taking Over (March 31, 2014) (“If Bush can invade Iraq without any good reason, can Putin invade Ukraine without any good reason?”) and NATOExit? NATOExeunt? (July 4, 2016).]

Bumper sticker of the week:

Slava __________

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