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World War I (18__ – 1918).  World War II (19__ – 1945).  Planetary Implosion l (Festering For Decades / 2022 – ____) Oh, And Happy Armistice Day! (November 6, 2023)

Posted in War, World War E, World War III on November 6, 2023 by e-commentary.org

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K          “No one gets it.   How do I get folks to get it.”

J          “You don’t.  No one wants to get it.”

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K          “This is the real thing.  Everything before August 6, 1945 was pre-nuclear.  Everything since is post-nuclear.”

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K          “Someone once observed:  ‘All wars are bankers’ wars’.  That is true.  The Banker Boys are the real force driving the United States foreign policy.  The BRICS+ team is the first serious threat to their veiled but complete control of the United States and most of the world.  The BRICS+ team could co-exist with the Bankers; the Bankers will not tolerate the existence of a viable and thriving BRICS+.  However, the BRICS+ will not be deterred.  If the BRICS+ capitulate now, they are done and done forever.  They know that.  The Banker Boys know that.  The Banker Boys are still driving toward a nuclear show down if necessary to maintain their dominance.”

J          “One group is going to win big.  One group is going to lose big.”         

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J          “The big players are a big problem, yet the little players are also a big problem.  So many non-state actors in a world awash in weapons could trigger a black swan event that kills the white dove.”

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K        “No one can back down in the Middle East.  If Israel quits or is defeated, it is over for them.  If the Palestinians quit or are defeated, they will never regain their homeland.  It truly is life or death.  This may be the big showdown.”

J          “They have killed and are killing and will continue to kill.  If there is one Israeli standing, he or she will kill a Palestinian.  If there is one Palestinian standing, he or she will kill an Israeli.  It is a way of life. Yet it is no way to live.”

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K          “Yellen says the United States can afford to fight two wars.  The United States cannot afford to fight one war.  We shall see soon.  Very soon.” 

J          “No one in power is admitting that ramping up another War will ramp up hyper-inflation to a level that will provoke a public outcry.  Or worse.”

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K          “The grand irony in the War on Terror is that the United States is the single largest sponsor of terror in the world and in the history of the world.”

J          “I cannot disagree.”

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J          “I’ll say it again.  So many non-state actors in a world awash in weapons could trigger a black swan event that kills the white dove.”

K          “We are deep into what will be known later in the vernacular rather uncreatively as World War III for want of a more insightful description.  But only a few dozen folks recognize that reality and the scope of the expanding skirmish.”

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[See the e-commentary at The Cuban Missile Crisis And The Monroe Doctrine Today (February 28, 2022), Joint Base State-War (JBS-W) (April 25, 2022), 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), Existential Threat + Existential Threat = World War.  Are We Mired In World War E[conomic] / World War III? (November 21, 2022) and World War E / World War III Is 1 [9?] Year[s] Old This Week.  Oh, And Happy Presidents’ Day! (February 20, 2023).]

Bumper stickers of the week:

When your very existence is at stake, it becomes existential.

Defund The Department Of State [War]

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.”

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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.”   

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[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  ???

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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.” 

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

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

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

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

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[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

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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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[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

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.”

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[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 __________

Existential Threat + Existential Threat = World War.  Are We Mired In World War E[conomic] / World War III? (November 21, 2022)

Posted in World War E, World War III on November 21, 2022 by e-commentary.org

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K          “No question.”

J          “That is the answer.”

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K          “The U.S. seeks to depose Putin and to dismember Russia and to disembowel the Russians.  That is an existential threat to Russia.  That firms one’s resolve.”

J          “Russia is threatening U.S. hegemony over the world for the last 78 years.  That is an existential threat to the U.S.  That firms one’s resolve.”

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K          “The BRICS+ [Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and others] are seeking to create a freer international economic architecture and a reserve currency based on commodities and possibly precious metals that will undermine and circumvent the PetroDollar and thus the primacy of the U.S.”

J          “The U.S. has been dominant since World War II and is unwilling to relinquish that position.  Using Ukraine and even Europe as expendable pawns in the great scheme is not pretty but may be necessary.”

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K          “Existential Threat + Existential Threat = World War.  We are in World War E[conomic] / World War III.  It can only get more kinetic.”

J          “It can only get really really really horrible.”

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[See “Let’s Be Clear: If WW3 Happens It Will Be The Result Of Choices Made By The US Empire” at www.caitlinjohnstone.com dated November 7, 2022 by Caitlin Johnstone, the recipient of the Fourth Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2019 (April 15, 2019) and some reservations about the deposing of the dollar in Not Every Robin = Spring and Not Every Story About Moving Away from the Dollar Is Well Founded” at www.nakedcapitalism.com dated November 18, 2022 by Yves Smith, the recipient of the Seventh Annual Pushitzer Prize In Commentary For 2022 (May 9, 2022).]

[See the e-commentary at Hiroshima And Nagasaki At 75 (August 10, 2020), The Cuban Missile Crisis And The Monroe Doctrine Today (February 28, 2022) and Cuba – October, 1962 (October 22, 2012).]

Bumper stickers of the week:

“This Ukraine crisis that we’re in right now, this is just the warmup.”  Navy Admiral Charles Richard

Existential Threat + Existential Threat = World War

World War E Becomes World War III:  The West Versus The Rest:  Uni-Polar Versus Multi-Polar (March 28, 2022)

Posted in Bideni, World War E on March 28, 2022 by e-commentary.org

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K          “Biden’s profoundly unscripted and unguarded statement candidly represents American policy and effectively declared World War III.  That will have consequences.  Put me down as saying it is a bad idea.”

J          “Russia undertook an unprovoked attack on a sovereign nation.  Period.  That will have consequences.”

K          “Because the U.S. threatened its existence, Russia promulgated some very reasonable goals that translate into in a very Western alliterative ‘six-word memoir’ – ‘No NATO, No nukes, No Nazis’.  With no other diplomatic option or outlet, Russia undertook a special military operation with defined and disclosed objectives.  Documents evince that the Ukrainian Azov Boys intended to launch a blitzkrieg in March on the Donbass region bordering on and sympathetic to Russia.  The justification was and is well founded under international law.”

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K          “The President, his Department of State, the Congress and the MSM by their words and actions have declared kinetic war on and with Russia.  The Pentagon may be the only institution that understands the consequences of war and is counseling caution.  The lads and lasses who may do the fighting realize that a no-fly zone will not fly.”   

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K          “Joe ‘Own Goal’ Biden is violating the first precept one must follow when stuck in a hole.  Quit digging.”

J          “He’s not helping.”

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K          “His recent statements that seek regime change in Russia are improper, inflammatory, inappropriate and outside the bounds even for the United States that knows no bounds.  The principle of self-determination has been a bedrock of international law and norms for some time.”

J          “He’s not helping.  The strategy may be to have him make outlandish comments to rattle the world and then task a staffer to walk back the comments.  The strategy is admittedly sketchy.”

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K          “America has a ‘Department of Offense’ on each side of the Potomac River.  Every time the Metro conductor announces: ‘Next stop . . . Foggy Bottom’, I may be the only one who smiles and realizes that it is the metonym to describe the Department of Offense built literally on a swamp in the D. of C.  America needs to build a cabinet-level ‘Department of Diplomacy’ and critically needs to establish an ‘Office of the Legal Advisor’ and hire the very few Americans who are ‘agreement-capable’ to bring America into the rules-based international community.” 

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[See “Pentagon Drops Truth Bombs to Stave Off War With Russia” in “Consortium News” dated March 23, 2022 by Joe Lauria in “Consortium News” and “Biden Confirms Why the US Needed This War” dated March 27, 2022 by Joe Lauria in “Consortium News”.]

Bumper stickers of the week:

“For God’s sake, this man [Putin] cannot remain in power.”  JB

“What a stupid son of a bitch [referring to a rare honest journalist, not to V.].”  JB

Launch, I meant lunch.  What’s on the menu today? 

Will Clio reference March 27 as the pivotal date that will live in infamy?

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

As of this week, the nation-states in yellow have sanctioned Russia.  The nation-states in gray have not.  Nearly the entire Global South has not sanctioned Russia and is not likely to join the sanctions.  The majority of the Indo-Pacific nations are included in this group.  One eighth of the world by population is with the U.S.; seven eighths of the world is with Russia.