The time in which we live is very frustrating. I hear long-time favorite talk-show hosts spouting pro-war propaganda, and I think some of them have lost their minds. Worse, they’re so out of touch that I don’t know how they can be reached or how they can be made to understand. In terms of argumentation, we’re at an impasse, but I’m not given to easy surrender. It seems that they’re confused about the real nature of the enemy confronting us, so much so, that the critical, imperative nature of what I wish to convey to them and to you no longer permits the time-honored process of argumentation and debate; point and counterpoint. We simply no longer have the time for such niceties. We’re hurtling toward a kinetic World War in which the use of nuclear weapons is being discussed in ways that suggests the proponents of war actually think it’s feasible and even desirable. No. They tell us to recall Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Pope John Paul II, and a litany of Cold-War era leaders who managed to guide us, just barely, away from the gaping abyss. It’s as though they somehow believe that the leaders we now have are in any way comparable to those of my youth who managed to extract us from the most dangerous period in history(excepting the present.) I don’t know any other way to say this. I hope somebody will tap Mark Levin on the shoulder and whisper in his ear, explaining gently that there’s no way to defeat any foreign enemy while our own republic has been overthrown: The enemy is here.
Mark Levin is a reasonable guy, and he’s a smart fellow, and while I love his passion in some instances, this is certainly a time in which cooler heads ought to prevail. Levin actually compared Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Winston Churchill. I cannot, in any conceivable way, stretch the whole of my knowledge of history of the Second World War or the more recent history of the grubby comic of Kiev in order to construct any valid parallel between the two. It is not that Churchill was without his flaws, nor that Zelenskyy might not have some virtue tucked out of sight somewhere, but that there is no way in which one could possibly be mistaken for the other. None. As fatally-flawed as this comparison may seem, it’s hardly the worst among Levin’s highly emotional rantings on Ukraine.
Levin is correct inasmuch as he notes that Putin is a villain, but he also overstates the case. He refers to him as a murderer, but I’d be tempted to ask Levin: What of Obama? Obama ordered the drone-strike of countless people, including women, children, and other innocent civilians. Even in our wretched evacuation of Kabul, Afghanistan, Biden didn’t miss the opportunity to conduct a drone strike against an innocent man and his family, as a scapegoat for the bombing that claimed the lives of our servicemembers at the airport. Is Levin ready to put Biden on trial? No? Why not? Are American leaders the only ones permitted to have innocent blood on their hands in the service of the reputation and interests of those leaders? This is hardly a defense of Putin, but I mention it to illustrate a larger point, and it’s one that Levin seems stubbornly committed to ignoring: We’re not necessarily the good guys in this instance, not because of our people or because of our soldiers, but because our government is no longer ours.
Levin seems to be oblivious to the crimes committed by the Ukraine government against its own people in the Eastern provinces over the last decade. He also seems unaware that it was our government, under Obama, that saw to the overthrow of a legitimately elected leader, President Viktor Yanukovych. By legitimate, I mean at least as legitimate as Biden. The “color revolution” executed by our government in Ukraine in 2014 with Victoria Nuland at the helm should cause any thoughtful person to pause. Was the previous leader a Russian puppet? Perhaps, but certainly no more than his successor was a Western puppet.
The greatest error by Levin finally seemed to cross his mind at the end of his opening hour of pro-war propaganda on Tuesday: He noted that he doesn’t trust ‘these guys” (meaning the whole Biden administration) and that this is part of the problem. I don’t think Levin yet realizes how true that is. It’s more than a part of the problem, however. It is the whole irreparable heart of the issue. You see, it is impossible to consider what the actions of the United States have been, or ought to be, in light of its current leadership. To pretend for one moment that Rishi Sunak is in any way comparable to Margaret Thatcher is terrible judgment enough, without going a step farther, and to imagine the current communist pope, Francis, is in any way on-par with John Paul II is equally abominable, but to imagine that Joe Biden in any sense compares favorably with Ronald Reagan should be a black spot on Levin’s soul for which he’s never forgiven. It’s not simply wrong, but instead, it’s catastrophically foolish and farcical. It’s the kind of desperately dishonest sort of thing often said by people who know they’ve lost an argument.
Biden not only fails to be Reagan, he fails even to be Carter. Whatever I think of Carter, I don’t believe the man had been a traitor to his country. As I asked of Levin on Twitter, naturally unanswered, if we admit that everything the Biden administration is doing domestically is driven by a political agenda that seems intent on destroying the country, our country, why on Earth would we imagine that their international aims would hold any other objective? Levin even mentioned at one point that foreign policy is non-political, “like Justice is supposed to be.” That should have been the moment that it dawned on Levin. That should have been the switch that turned on the lightbulb that would have stopped him in his rhetorical tracks.
Dear Mr. Levin: Our justice system is entirely politicized, and in fact could be said to be a racketeering operation every bit as detestable as the sorts of criminals it had been their mission to pursue, prosecute, and punish. What in the Hell do you think makes the State Department any different in any way? They’re part of the racket too. They’re part of the same sick political agenda. Our diplomatic corps are staffed with the same sort of impeccably corrupt criminals that run everything else in this fatally corrupt, criminal operation known as the United States federal government.
Levin is perfectly capable of seeing and lamenting the catastrophic nature of our current administrative state. He knows that on the domestic front, it’s all crap, crime, and corruption all of the time. All of it. He looks at what is being done to the American people, and he can clearly identify the fact that it’s a purposeful, intentionally wanton destruction of the greatest nation that’s ever been, and that it’s as though the government is carrying out a war on its own people at home. He sees it. He knows it. He understands it. He reports on it to his listeners and viewers daily.
Somehow, he is unable to fathom that this same institution might likewise be acting against the interest of the American people on the international front. Why? Does he think Mitch McConnell is motivated by concern for the people of Ukraine? For the people of America? Does he think Chuck Schumer is any less demonic in his intentions in foreign policy than in the domestic sphere? What sort of sophistry must one accept to draw such an absurd conclusion?
At the same time, Levin detests the argument made by some that we have no business securing Ukraine when we haven’t secured our own borders. He says it’s got nothing to do with it. Doesn’t it? Our Southern border is now being flooded with Chinese nationals. What does Levin think their purpose is? The whole point is to flood us with prospective saboteurs. While Levin rightly notes the real danger of China to the future of the United States, he seems not to notice that Joe Biden is fatally compromised in both Ukraine and China. China is only too happy to see so much of our own war materials and equipment sent to Ukraine to be used up killing Russians. We’re having a shortage of 155mm artillery shells, the same kind fired by the howitzers I worked on in Europe in the 1980s. It’s our most important land-based field artillery type, having a huge investment in both towed and self-propelled pieces to fire these rounds. I thought about this as I learned the explosion and fire at the Schumann & Co’s foundry in Bedford Ohio on Monday, a company that deals with brass, among other things, which is a critical component in the manufacture of these shells. I have no idea if Schumann has any part in the manufacturing of such components, and it’s probably coincidental, but I’d just read an article about the artillery round shortages, and it struck me as odd. Are any of the myriad of derailments, industrial fires and explosions, along with other oddities like the many fires at food processors and poultry farms part of a war of infiltration and sabotage? Don’t tell me the border has nothing to do with it. It’s the first line of our national defense.
This must then be our inescapable conclusion, and it’s one Levin seems not quite willing to accept: Our chief enemy is here. Our chief enemy, the only one that can truly destroy our formerly beautiful constitutional republic, is the enemy within. I am willing to say it, while others cannot muster the voice for it: Our own government has united with other elements as a joint enemy against the people of the United States, the true irony of which is that the American people are being leveraged and taxed to pay for their own destruction. When we send $200 billion to the defense of Ukraine, after you consider how much is siphoned off for purely corrupt purposes, surely less than half makes it to Ukraine, and some of that makes its way back in the form of donations to all the DC dirtbags who voted for the funds to go to Ukraine.
Levin offers that $200 billion is a cheap price to pay for the destruction of the Russian Army. This is pure neocon claptrap. What threat does the Russian Army pose to the people of the United States? Are we expecting them to pour across our borders? No. What we expect are the bombers, ICBMs, and hypersonic missiles. Our $200 billion has done nothing to reduce the threat posed by that set of Russian weapons systems. Instead, the ongoing destruction of the Russian Army merely increases the likelihood that such weapons will be employed against us if Putin becomes desperate, and/or the Russian people become vengeful at the loss of their men to American artillery shells.
Meanwhile, the enemy most lethal to the American people rampages in Washington DC. It cracks the whips against the backs of the very people it wishes most to destroy: Us. While Mark Levin advocates continuing funding of the war in Ukraine, and resorts to cheap scare-tactics about an eventual draft, the truth he and some others seem to avoid is that we are now being ruled by an occupying government that bears no allegiance to the American people, or to the constitution for which it provides conveniently sporadic lip-service. We find ourselves in the unenviable position of the defenders of the gate of Gondor in the Lord of the Rings. We are confronted by obvious enemies before us, but the minds of our leadership are long overthrown, like Denethor, Steward of Gondor. We are unfit to make war with anybody while our nation is governed by enemies. We don’t need to seek out enemies in Russia or Ukraine, or much of anywhere else. They’re here, right here, in the USA. DC is overrun by them, and they’re running the show.
I listen to some mainstream media because one ought to know what the talking-points and narrative of the day will be that one must confront and break through to see the truth. Now that it’s clear that there are only a handful of shows anywhere that will tell you anything like the truth, it’s time we start cleaning this mess up to the degree we are able. The reports I am seeing and hearing in mainstream media suggest that “Putin is desperate,” and he’s “increasingly isolated” or “becoming unhinged.” If you’re seeing these same reports, let me suggest to you that you carefully pay attention to the motives behind those telling you these things. Of course, none of us are on the ground in Ukraine, so it’s hard to know with any precision what is true, but the thing you can assume is that the first reports of any event are going to be mostly false. There is propaganda from both sides of the war, but Western media has decided to go “all in” on whatever propaganda the Ukrainian side prefers. Putin is a monster, they tell you, and I have no doubt that from certain perspectives, he is. On the other hand, you should know that there are plenty of monsters to go around in Ukraine, and many of them are not Russian. Some of the worst monsters in the situation in Ukraine are people like Victoria Nuland, and the people she represents. If you were thinking that as a Deputy Secretary of State, she represents the people of the United States, you’re tragically mistaken. She represents the real enemy of the American people. Ukraine is not what you’re being told, and no amount of lipstick applied to this pig of a situation can possibly conceal the truth.
The other problem in Ukraine is that most Americans don’t know the first thing about that corrupt buffer-state in Eastern Europe. Many don’t know anything about its history, or how it came to the situation in which it now finds itself. Portrayed in the West as purely the victim of Russian aggression, Americans are expected to believe the bilge the media spews, without ever noticing that the country of Ukraine has extensive problems that pre-date, and indeed have contributed to, the invasion you’re now witnessing. I can’t possibly recount here all the history of Ukraine, and particularly the history that plays a thorough role in what you’re now witnessing. What I can tell you is that some people have tried to document some of it, including sometimes mad-cap film-maker Oliver Stone. While I don’t agree with many of the conclusions he seems to reach, he does a fair job explaining the side of this argument you haven’t heard, and that makes this documentary worth watching. Made in 2016, long before the current crisis, Ukraine On Fire documents much of the history of the Ukrainian problem, told from a point of view that seems somewhat sympathetic to the Russian position. Still, even with the bias, it’s interesting that so few Americans know anything of the opposing arguments, but have heard the Western position twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week, since the beginning of this crisis:
As I said, I can’t endorse everything that Stone presents, at least in the manner he presents it, but there are some very important takeaways that Americans must recognize as true upon deeper reflection upon their own experiences. For instance, in the Summer of 2020, you witnessed the beginning of a color revolution in America, and had Trump been re-elected, you would have experienced its full fury. Notice that groups like BLM and Antifa, responsible for nearly all of the mayhem that rocked the United States in the run-up to the Presidential election, employed tactics like those of the revolutionaries in Ukraine in 2013-14. In point of fact, the same people funded it, pushed it, assisted, aided, and abetted it. Had Donald Trump been re-elected rather than having been cheated out of a second term, the same basic approach was going to be used to depose him as had been used to remove Yanukovych in the so-called “Revolution of Dignity.” People who watched the entire affair in the wake of George Floyd’s death will see the similarities. Understand that the same group of people who caused the Ukrainian President to flee to safety in Russia in 2014 were intent upon doing the same to Trump in 2020 or 2021, had he been re-elected.
Once you realize that similar tactics were employed, right down to the martyrs who were mere useful idiots of the protests, you realize that there were more similarities than you’d otherwise dare to suspect. The corporate media represents a particular view, and where there is insufficient corporate media, it was created in real time to support the revolutionaries. We saw some of this here, with a proliferation of Youtube Channels the purpose of which seemed to have been to assist the coordination of BLM and Antifa anarchists. Big Tech is neck deep in all of this. They repeatedly tell you they’re ‘defending Democracy’ while they simultaneously do everything they can to undermine it. What else could be the meaning of Mark Zuckerberg spending hundreds of millions of dollars in 2020 to influence the outcome of the election, or now, to assist Ukraine by permitting for the calls for violence and incitement against Russians on the Meta/Facebook platform? Do you realize yet how you’re being set up, again? Zuckerberg’s organization helped spread the word and assisted the Coup-plotters in Ukraine in 2014, and they did the same with BLM/Antifa in 2020 here in the US. George Soros spent millions in Ukraine, as he’s spending millions more now, but the way he spends it is most important: He uses seed money directly in the target country, while bribing politicians with indirect support, in order to get them to spend billions on his pet projects in the US and abroad.
When you listen to Foxnews and the panel tells Newt Gingrich essentially to shut up about George Soros, you know the fix is in. Here’s a reminder of how that went down:
This is the sort of stifling that has happened with contrary information about SARs-CoV2, the COVID vaccines, Hunter Biden’s laptop(s,) and now Ukraine. The information you’re being permitted to see and hear is only approved information in most cases. People are now talking about how Putin is isolating his people from information, but that’s a two-way street. Western governments are likewise isolating their own populations from information. Why do you really think Trump was kicked-off Twitter and Facebook and Instagram? Why do you think Parler was submarined by the Big Tech oligarchs who control Apple, Google and Amazon Web Services? All of it is about limiting the information to which you have access. Dan Bongino likes to play the Soviet National Anthem when talking about the Big Tech oligarchs for this very reason. He’s lived it. Indeed, the Stone documentary above was kicked off Youtube to prevent you from seeing it. This is a clear indicator of how dangerous these people think certain information is to their plans.
Do you really believe George Soros only seeks to influence elections in the US? He uses his money to help foment “color revolutions” around the globe, and one of the ways in which he uses these revolutions is to profit from them. Soros made the bulk of his wealth wrecking currencies. At this moment, Soros is in the process of an all-out attack on Russia’s Ruble, and he has the complicity of the United States and most of the EU in so doing. Recently, Soros published an op-ed that called for regime-change in both Russia and China. He remains entirely dishonest and misleading. Here’s one example:
“In July 2021, Putin published a long essay arguing that Russians and Ukrainians are really one people, and that the Ukrainians have been misled by neo-Nazi agitators. The first part of his argument is not without some historical justification, given that Kyiv was the original seat of the Russian Orthodox Church. But in the second part, it was Putin who was misled. He ought to have known better. Many Ukrainians fought valiantly during the Euromaidan protests in 2014.“(empahasis mine.)
The statement “Many Ukrainians fought valiantly during the Euromaidan protests in 2014” makes it seem as though Soros is an outsider simply observing these events, but the truth you already know from the Stone documentary above, from other articles previously published on this site, and from other sources: George Soros was up to his neck in the 2014 protests that ultimately became a coup d’etat in Ukraine. This is not open to debate. That this was manned by people flying the neo-Nazi symbols of WWII collaborators of Western Ukraine is not a mistake. Even now, the so-called Azov battalion are augmenting Ukrainian forces. Their roots lie in the deep history of Ukraine along with the color revolution that Soros spawned in 2014. Color revolutions are what Soros does, and it’s part of his mechanism for generating new wealth. With the influence he now owns in the US, he basically now considers the US mostly a matter of “Mission Accomplished.”
He goes on a bit before concluding, but I’d like to you to consider the sort of bilge Soros here asks you to swallow:
“Meanwhile, Xi seems to have realized that Putin has gone rogue. On March 8, one day after Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi had insisted that the friendship between China and Russia remained “rock solid,” Xi called French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to say that he supported their peacemaking efforts. He wanted maximum restraint in the war in order to avert a humanitarian crisis.”(emphasis mine.)
Who here believes, having learned about the plight of the Uyghurs in China could become convinced that Xi is even remotely concerned with averting any humanitarian crisis anywhere on Earth?
He concludes with this gem, and there’s a tell in here if you pay close attention to what this madman actually believes:
“It is far from certain that Putin will accede to Xi’s wishes. We can only hope that Putin and Xi will be removed from power before they can destroy our civilization.”(emphasis mine.)
A casual reader might be led by this statement to believe with the use of “our civilization” that Soros is talking about the traditional Western civilization you and I consider “ours.” Nothing could be further from the truth. Soros didn’t write this as an opinion piece to be consumed by you and I. Instead, this is an order sent out publicly to his minions around the globe, and his message is clear: Take out Putin and Xi because “our civilization” is endangered, but by “ours,” he does not mean yours and mine. He’s talking about the vast criminal enterprise he and his coterie of corrupt globalist politicians have put in place to dominate the world. He’s saying it in the open, even though he’s using veiled language. More, in the beginning of the article, he confesses having set up another of his NGOs in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and in each of the former Soviet states, including Ukraine.
What has happened these last twenty or so years is that Soros has been booted-out of most of these countries, because Putin quickly realized that Soros was slowly but surely intent on driving color revolutions in each and every one of these former Soviet republics, including eventually Russia. This has been the base of operations for vast global political corruption, not merely in the former Soviet republics in question, but reaching their tentacles across the globe, including particularly Europe and the United States, but also in Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, and South America. Soros’ network of organized gangsters is global. While Vladimir Putin remains a dangerous murderer, it makes a great deal of sense to understand a bit of where his mind is. You’re not being told this, because on balance, most Americans would firmly plant their feet onto the solid ground of “not my monkey, not my circus,” refusing to play along with the latest of Soros’ global power plays. At worst, you might even call for the United States to abandon that sphere forever, and there’s simply too much cash to be had there. How do you think Mitt Romney and Joe Biden and a whole laundry-list of other American and Western politicians are so deeply entrenched in the goings-on in Ukraine, of all places? While certainly not on “our side,” meaning yours or mine, Putin is more like the enemy of my enemy, not with respect to the people of Ukraine, but of their actual attackers over the last two decades who have used them as guinea pigs for the biological and pharmaceutical research that’s been conducted with the willing “consent” of these desperately poor people.
This brings us to the next problem Mr. Soros now faces. His color revolutions in and around Russia have been stymied, at least for the moment, but he’s got another problem, and it’s a difficult one. Putin may hold some information on Biden and his son, along with the activities of other Western politicians likewise involved. This is a serious threat to “[their] civilization” because Biden is currently refraining from undercutting Putin in any serious way. I believe they have an operation in motion to get to Putin, and the future duration of Biden’s presidency is entirely wrapped-up in the success or failure of their ability to “go get him.” If it fails, and Putin remains, Biden may be forced to choose between “[their] civilization” and his own son. This is why the Western Information Cartel has made Russian contributions to world news increasingly opaque. There are certain stories they cannot afford to have exposed. Hunter Biden is now a liability, as may be Joe Biden himself. Soros may have to play that card, and pull the plug on Biden. That may not, however, be enough. They need to free-up NATO to go kinetic against Russia. The “Neocons” and others screaming for war on the approximate, putative political right in the United States are pushing hard against Biden. These people are compromised too, most of them, and they’re in bed with Soros one way or the other. Don’t delude yourself on this: The United States Senate is ultimately controlled almost entirely by sell-outs to the United States. Lindsey Graham and Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio are far from alone among those who will happily do the bidding of their masters.
If we get to the next round of this rolling catastrophe, Taiwan will present very similar themes all ’round. Hunter and Joe are every bit as compromised by Xi’s CCP, perhaps even more than they are by Putin. Many Western politicians fear this most of all. Xi is only now coming to understand that Soros and his crowd have been using the last thirty years to infiltrate his country too, and indeed, much of the Pacific rim. This is why Soros’ op-ed piece, linked above, contains a warning as much or even more to Xi than to Putin. He desperately needs Xi not to back Putin on anything here, but the fact that Xi has sent mixed messages on the matter have left Soros quite angry. Xi has figured out that Soros would happily foment color revolutions in Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as in mainland China. Xi very much fancies himself the next Mao, or the next Deng, but more probably, bigger and better than either. Xi exudes confidence and not a little arrogance. Soros is here warning Xi that he’s now on the list too.
I’d ask readers to consider some important questions worth pondering. Let us begin with the information war, and the way in which the Western Information Cartel is conducting it, not on behalf of Ukraine, but on behalf of “[their] civilization.” Consider what you have been told, all simultaneously:
Putin is on the run, or getting desperate, or his forces are failing(or some version of this narrative)
Ukrainians are heroically fighting-back, preventing Putin from capturing territory
Putin is destroying Ukraine, flattening it everywhere, without regard to civilians
Putin doesn’t have the ability to reliably project force over the battle space
Putin conducted a strike on a training base in far Western Ukraine
Some of these are assessments, by “analysts.” Others are from commentators. Still others are provided as facts. Some of these may be true, but they cannot all be true simultaneously. Remember these other things told you by the same Western Information Cartel:
Trump colluded with Russians to hack Hillary’s email and otherwise get dirt on her and also secure their help in rigging the 2016 election
Trump said there were good people on both sides(implying he was simply talking about the protesters and counter-protesters – and all counter-protesters were white supremacists)
SARS-CoV2 is a lethal virus that arose naturally in bats and jumped to humans in a wet-market in Wuhan
Hydroxychloroquine is a dangerous drug that can cause significant heart problems and doesn’t work against COVID
COVID-19 Vaccines are perfectly safe and effective
The 2020 Presidential Election(and indeed all elections that November) were the safest, most secure in history
Oil price increases and spiking inflation are mostly due to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine
Do you begin to see a pattern?
Ghost of Kiev
Snake Island
Zelenskiy’s “ammo, not a ride” quote that wasn’t
There are many more, and you must begin to ask yourself to what degree and how frequently you’re being played by mainstream media. The Western Information Cartel is staffed by people largely sympathetic first and foremost to George Soros and his coterie of corrupt globalist cannibals, who fancy themselves compassionate while they simultaneously feast on average people anywhere the hunger strikes them. These people are gangsters, and their small errand-boys in the media simply follow orders. This is how they can in one moment tell you that Putin has carried out a devastating strike in far Western Ukraine, but in the next, provide analysis claiming that Putin is incapable of projecting power on the battlefield. The two notions are entirely incongruous.
Consider too this recent controversy in which Mitt Romney, one of Soros’ boys, accused former Hawaii Representative Tulsi Gabbard of treason for daring to question the narrative about bio-labs in Ukraine. Romney came unglued. All Gabbard did was to ask some pointed questions based on the information publicly available. Romney’s reaction was clearly one of a man worried about some darker truth being unearthed. Here’s TheHill‘s take on the controversy:
After seeing Romney’s reaction, it’s clear that he’s worried about something not obvious to the rest of us. His reaction was very defensive, and his former aid’s involvement in Ukraine may be the key. Whatever is motivating Romney’s attack on Gabbard, it’s clear that he seems quite perturbed. Pierre Delecto isn’t happy with Tulsi.
After a little inspection, you start to realize that somebody’s applying lipstick with a trowel to the pig that is the situation in Ukraine. Either Ukraine is doing much more poorly than we’re being told, or Putin truly is a lunatic. Since I’ve seen plenty of evidence to disbelieve the second, and no evidence at all to dissuade me of the first, I’ve begun to believe the Western Information Cartel is simply telling us a gargantuan lie. Why? To what end? Surely, if this is so, it cannot change the ultimate outcome. If Ukraine is actually in a much worse military state than the media now suggests, what would be their object? It’s a stall-for-time tactic. One thing for which they’re clearly stalling is the finalization of a nuclear deal with Iran being negotiated by Russia. I’m still not certain as to why the nuclear deal is so deadly-important to the Biden gang, and presumably also the Soros club. The more immediate idea is to prevent Ukrainians from understanding how bad their situation really is across the entire battlefield, and to try to buoy their morale so as to extend their will to resist. The idea is likely to give time for an anti-Putin operation to succeed. At this point, it may be the only way the money-laundry and corruption-den that has been Ukraine these last twenty years may be salvaged by Soros and his gang, and they’ve invested a lot of money there, and with it, a ton of yours via the State Department, the Department of Defense, and countless other US agencies and departments. That’s right. You’re paying for this however it shakes out.
Biolabs abroad operate under less oversight and regulation, often in secret
There’s a good deal of misinformation and pure propaganda flying around in mainstream and social media. In the mainstream media, the propaganda is mostly an effort to minimize and dismiss the Ukraine biolabs, while in social media, there’s been a bit of Russian propaganda injected into this story. On balance, however, it’s clear there’s a serious problem. When Victoria Nuland said in her testimony that they hoped to secure the biological agents and materials in Ukraine before Russia could get their hands on them, this seemed to conflict with the narrative that the materials were all former Soviet biological warfare materials that were being disposed or otherwise made inert under a US initiative. The problem with that is: If they are all former Soviet materials, then why would Russia be trying to get their hands on things they likely already have, and if the US involvement was limited to upgrading the labs in order to help dispose of these materials, why have they taken over seventeen years to do so, and why is this destruction not yet complete? The other problem is that they continue to stress the difference between a “biolab” and a “bioweapons lab” as if this is some insurmountable gulf. It isn’t, and in truth, the only difference between the two is a simple matter of intentions: What is your operational purpose for this sort of research and experimentation? The answer is that in truth, despite the dishonest narrative in media, the two are veritably interchangeable. There is no effective difference in the physical equipment or the way such materials are handled. Now come the Russians to the UN Security Council demanding answers. The real scandal where Americans should be concerned lies in the fact that we’re funding these labs in secret, with little oversight or regulation, and we’re doing this overseas often because it would be illegal to carry out this research in the United States, or because regulatory costs would make it impossible.
One of the things I’ve long advocated is that the US need pass a law that applies to all agencies, departments, and contractors, as well as politicians and executive officers of the United States government: We must forbid our government from farming-out work, experimentation, and other dangerous and immoral things to organizations operating on foreign soil in order to avoid US law. We’ve seen this with experimentation with animals that would be too cruel to pass muster under US law farmed out to overseas labs. There have been many cases of US intelligence agencies using “black sites” overseas to carry out “enhanced interrogations”(torture.) As it now turns out, the US DoD along with other agencies of the US federal government may be using foreign sites to avoid oversight as they carry out experimentation in these “biolabs” abroad that would never be permitted on US soil. There is a reason Fauci sent the money to EcoHealth Alliance that in turn gave funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and it was all about getting around US laws or executive orders against US “gain of function” research.
This is why I was surprised to learn of the existence of labs in Ukraine, or in the US involvement in them. We need real accountability. For all we know, the COVID outbreak that began in 2019 was the result of a release of a virus, whether accidentally or not, from a lab conducting research abroad that the US taxpayer had funded. Who’s the war criminal now? We must prohibit these sorts of activities to our government, and we must prohibit our government from using agents, organizations, facilities and unaffiliated individuals from carrying out these sorts of activities abroad with US funding. Otherwise, at some future date, we’re going to find that the American people are on the hook for war crimes too ghastly to imagine. What is made plain by all of this is that the US Government has been engaged in many things abroad that US law would otherwise forbid or strongly regulate on US soil. It’s a way for them to traffic in illegal research while maintaining at least a modicum of official, lawful deniability. This is little different from how the government uses large corporations to carry out censorship on their behalf, leaving the blame with the corporations who are free to act as they please, but who are effectively carrying out the will of people in government. This speaks to the incredible growth and reach of government, and the complete lack of accountability there’s been for decades. Even if we were to imagine that the intentions behind the biolabs in Ukraine were perfectly good, that still ignores the other problem: Does it take two decades or more to dispose of biological materials? We must get control of this government and punish those responsible.
Why does Levin sound like the establishment on Ukraine?
I really didn’t see this coming. I was on my way home from another day of work on Wednesday as Levin’s show began. As he began talking about the events in Ukraine, it came to that moment when he said that he’d be having Lindsey Graham on in his third hour to discuss the Senator’s notion that Putin needs to be taken out, an idea with which Levin heartily agrees. As I listened to him go on about his disdain for “nationalist-populists” and so on, before too much time had passed, a thought formed in my mind that I simply couldn’t escape. At first, I thought, and may even have said aloud in answer to the radio: “Mark, you sound just like the establishment against which you always rail.” A commercial came on as I pondered that thought a little longer, and then it struck me. It’s not that Mark Levin merely sounds like the establishment. He is the establishment, or at least its errand-boy, perhaps unwittingly.
Do I think Mark Levin is deep within the DC establishment? No. On the other hand, he’s in their circle, perhaps loosely, and he’s put himself in a position through which they will attempt to exploit him, and thereby, his audience. When he speaks, millions listen attentively. They listen because he offers a view from inside politics, as a former chief of staff to an Attorney General of the United States. Though his connections into the mechanisms of state are dated and most will have long since retired, that doesn’t mean the existing establishment hasn’t cultivated a connection to him through which they hope to propagandized and manipulate his audience.
Do you need proof? Every time the Republican establishment needs something from him, he gives it, with few exceptions. They know there will be some times and some areas of policy on which he will be unapproachable, but they know when election time rolls around, for the most part, they can count on him to carry their water. He helped give us a whole string of Senators under the vague umbrella of the Tea Party movement, but most of them went on to betray us in varying degrees. In 2020, he brought his audience Lindsey freaking Graham. He pushed Lindsey for re-election. He should have given him a strong kick in the ass and run him off. Instead, Levin played the good soldier and brought Graham on his show, and while you could almost hear part of Levin holding his nose, he did it nevertheless. In 2016, when Ted Cruz needed a “constitutional expert” to vouch for his eligibility to run for President, he went immediately to Levin. In what I regard to be the biggest single betrayal of his audience in the whole of his career on the radio, he cobbled together some nonsensical explanation that “Natural Born Citizen” was “just a citizen.” It was embarrassingly infantile and nonsensical, and it took a long time for me to get over it. I had been researching the issue(and continued to for some time before publishing my article) when Levin made this pronouncement, and knew him to be full of piss and wind on the issue that day.
I knew then that Levin would bend things to support his own agenda, and that while it wasn’t perfectly aligned with the establishment, it was nevertheless amenable to them in some instances. What happens to Levin seems to be that he’s so invested in winning that he’ll make friends with alleged enemies if he thinks it will help him advance his cause, but the problem with this approach is that often, it’s self-defeating, not only to Levin, but also to his audience. As another example, he’s friends with Senator Mike Lee, (R-UT,) a guy who makes many good arguments, but unfortunately also is the Senator from Google. He’s thoroughly compromised by the funds and lobbying that rolls in the door from that company. Levin won’t tell you about that. He’s protective of Lee on that issue. It’s as though it doesn’t exist.
Another good example is House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, (R-CA,) another establishment stooge and first-rate swampster. Levin brought this stooge to you in 2020 also, just as he did Speaker Paul Ryan(R-WI) in previous election years. On Wednesday evening, Levin bashed McCarthy, after mentioning he was seemingly interested in coming on the show an longer. Of course not, Mark, he got what he needed from you in 2020, pre-election. Check back in with him this coming Fall! Ryan is the definition of a swampster, a Republican who’s married into a thoroughgoing Democrat family(and his sister-in-law is the Biden SCOTUS-pick, Ketanji Brown Jackson,) and who spent as little time in Wisconsin as was humanly possible. In that respect, Ryan was a good deal like another swampster Levin brought you on his show when she was seeking election to the house: Elizabeth “Liz” Cheney(R-WY) spends even less time in Wyoming than Ryan spent in Wisconsin. Do you see how the Republican establishment exploits him? How is this possible for an alleged Tea Party guy, a constitutionalist?
I don’t believe Mark Levin is a part of the DC UniParty, but his orbit crosses theirs, whether he’ll admit it or not. He makes mention from time to time on-air about how they reach out to him, and want to come on the show, but most of the time, if an election is tight, and he thinks he can help a little, he’ll bring them on. It’s what it is. Is he an evil guy? No. Absolutely not. The problem is that when you get into bed with these people, it’s hard to get away. I also wouldn’t say he provides strictly establishmentarian propaganda. He does provide much very good content, but I’m afraid that very often, too many of the wrong people have his ear. He gets “insider” information from some people who are truly swampy. How do I know? I hear it on air. I can tell what sorts of people within the bureaucracy or in the Congress have his ear. For Pete’s sake, he brought John Bolton(!) to Donald Trump. He admitted on-air that Bolton had lobbied him strongly to get in on the NSA job with Trump. Bolton was a catastrophe who spent his whole time in that job undermining Trump’s foreign policy agenda. Levin admits it now, belatedly. If I were Trump, I’d never listen seriously to another recommendation from Levin on personnel. Ever. Thinking about it, maybe neither should you.
Now Levin is taking information from the same crowd with respect to Ukraine. He can see the Democrats are a catastrophe, but he can’t see that the information he’s being passed comes from the same sort of corrupt sources that brought Trump a recommendation of John Bolton via Mark Levin. He remarked the other day that some fan had asked him in public whether he believed anything about it, because the media is so corrupt. Levin explained to his audience that he’d told the man that the whole of the International Press isn’t corrupt too. You see, he doesn’t see it. The politicization of media hasn’t stopped at the water’s edge, any more than politics itself has stopped there. Levin seems to be having a weird kind of “bromance” with Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, but the problem is that much of that upon which Levin bases his admiration for Zelenskiy has been debunked. It turns out that Zelenskiy may be just as corrupt as his predecessor, if not quite as wealthy. He’s tied-in with Ihor Kolomoisky, another corrupt Ukrainian oligarch. Somehow, these facts escape Levin, or he’s not mentioning them because of his admiration for the Ukrainian president. Either way, it’s a dangerous lack of perspective.
Levin has always had his strawmen and his foils. Lately, he’s been concentrating on the “nationalist-populists,” decrying them as Putinophiles, or something in that vein. I actually hate when he does this. Name names, for Heaven’s sake! In the case of “nationalist-populist,” I’m pretty certain he means Steve Bannon of WarRoom fame. There seems to be real heartburn there, and Bannon, for his part, doesn’t help when he tosses out phrases like “Neocon” because it seems to trigger Levin’s antisemitism alarms. Levin needs to get a grip. Virtually nobody who uses the term “Neocon” means anything to do with Jews, and most of them won’t even know the relationship between “Neocons” and Jews in the purely historical sense. It’s much like “establishment” in the sense that you might not be able to name an actual “neocon,” but you can identify their policies in action and advocacy when you see them, and while the original description “neocon” may have applied specifically to a particular group of Jews, it’s been clear for some time that their basic set of military and foreign policy issues have been adopted by a wider group of interventionist Republicans, many of whom are clearly not Jews.
It’s maddening. Levin is so close to the truth about Ukraine, but he’s being strung-along by his emotions, his admiration for Zelenskiy, and his cold-war-hardened hatred for all things Russia, particularly Putin. When you add to it what’s being pumped-out in the mainstream narratives, even by Republicans, especially swampsters, he just can’t shake it loose. I’m afraid that until Levin overcomes these demons, he’s simply incapable of bringing you full and sensible information on Ukraine, and that’s simply the most disappointing development in media in a long, long while.
At the end of his show, in the last hour, Levin had Graham on his show to talk about taking out Putin. If you listen, you can hear Lindsey Graham ingratiate himself to Levin with the slobbering remarks near the end of his appearance. One could almost hear Levin’s heart melt. I could vomit.
Here’s the full podcast(The Graham interview begins at the 1:28:55 mark):
Oh, and Mark? Ronald Reagan never once called for taking-out Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko or Gorbachev. He knew that the last thing a nuclear-armed country run by a totalitarian government needs is any sort of instability of that sort. Do you think the people who would take out Putin would be any more stable or less dangerous to the United States? No. Reagan knew better than nonsensical ideas like that. You should be ashamed of yourself for associating such a foolish idea with the temperament and wisdom of Ronald Reagan.
Rumors have been circulated widely around the Internet since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine that one of Vladimir Putin’s purposes wat the destruction and removal of alleged bioweapons laboratories across Ukraine. I had initially dismissed this as part of a Russian disinformation campaign being carried out and employed against those predisposed to distrust Washington DC’s motives. Kyle Becker of beckernews.com ran a story on Monday highlighting what are now claims made by the Russian government that they are uncovering precisely such facilities. As Becker’s article points out, the Department of Defense admits being engaged with laboratories in Ukraine that handle some very dangerous infectious diseases, including Anthrax, to name one most people will recognize. Some of these sites are published on a map on the US Embassy’s website in Ukraine, seeming to confirm US knowledge of the existence of BioLabs. The Defense Department says its engagement there is part of their Bioweapons Threat Reduction Program, and under that program, they’ve provided assistance in upgrading the labs, allegedly for safety reasons. Becker notes that Foreign Minister Lavrov’s accusations may indeed be part of a propaganda campaign, but the question remains as to the degree of US involvement and the nature of the ongoing research in these facilities. It’s clear that Russia intends to play the “WMD” card, but what remains in question is whether these labs actually serve a demilitarized, peaceful purpose, and if Russia is simply seizing upon these labs as justification for their actions in Ukraine.
As Becker observes somewhat wryly, however, “Bioweapons threat reduction” was the same excuse at the heart of our involvement in the Chinese Wuhan Institute of Virology, and we all have some idea of how that turned out. Whether there is any actual fire in this case remains unclear, but there certainly is at least some smoke. I understand the concept of threat reduction, but I also know the DoD has been known to employ some smokescreens in such matters. It would be truly ironic and damaging if it turned out that these labs had handled materials and conducted research that could be fit within the general sphere of bioweapons research. It’s at this point that I would remind readers about the interactions between Rosemont Seneca and EcoHealth Alliance. Could the US be involved in something unseemly in this field in Ukraine? At this point, I don’t believe we have enough evidence to say with certainty, but as a friend is often heard to remind me about such things, “if there is any doubt, there is no doubt.” It’s a sentiment born more of a general experience with government and politics that takes a pessimistic view of those endeavors and the people engaged in them, but it’s often not far off the mark. In any event, this is an example of why the American people are right to doubt everything they’re being told, whether parties to the war in Ukraine, or by their own government and media.
Zelenskiy visits rebellion’s front lines in 2019…(AFP)
The propaganda coming from our mainstream media is worse than one might ordinarily imagine. Yes, we should expect propaganda to come out of both Russia and Ukraine in the middle of war, but we’re smart to give it time to soak before we accept it at face value. Now it’s been revealed that Volodymyr Zelenskiy never actually said that quote that has been widely attributed to him. The original source for the quote “The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride,” turns out to have been an anonymous “senior American intelligence officer.” The Washington Post noticed this very thin sourcing, but Summit News did a little more digging. This is what they found.
We’re surrounded by media liars, and people feeding the liars in media. They all have an agenda that isn’t the truth, or your best interests. We need to be very discerning, and our default setting must be one of intense skepticism. As I reported earlier, allegedly conservative FoxNews and Newsmax have been caught carrying the DC Mafia’s water, so the number of “trusted” sources of information has rapidly dwindled. Folks, we need to become the news. Our own discernment is all that remains to protect us from disinformation, misinformation, fake news, and flat-out lies. As I explained last week, just as politics no longer ends at the water’s edge, neither do the lies.
How did Putin bring Iran into the Middle of Ukraine?
Given what we’ve learned in the last week(here, here, and here,) it’s time to stop and take stock of the situation. I confess that there are missing data-points, and information I do not now possess, so that in large measure, we are left to fill in the blanks with speculative “best guesses.” I’m generally uncomfortable with wild-ass guessing, but I think we can speculate a bit without resorting to madness. First, let us summarize the things we know, and have known for a time, and also consider events we’ve all witnessed. There’s one overriding question, like the missing piece of a jigsaw puzzle, that prevents full understanding of what we’re seeing play out in the events of today. It is the question that has been dominating my thoughts since learning of the fact that the Biden Administration has engaged the Russians to negotiate with the Iranians for a new deal on behalf of the United States. By this mechanism, Putin has managed to bring Iran into the middle of Ukraine. What gives him the power to do that?
Let us consider what we know the DC Mafia has done:
They overthrew Gaddafi in Libya. They abandoned our people on the ground in Benghazi.
They funded and equipped a violent coup d’etat in 2014 in Ukraine.
They used Ukraine as their money-laundry, or at least one of them.
They permitted Russia to take Crimea without any significant opposition.
They created the first JCPoA in 2015, implementing it in 2016, including the infamous pallets of cash and billions more electronically to Iran.
They concocted a Russia narrative in order to try to defeat, and then undermine Trump in 2016 and onward.
They used their concocted narrative to confound Trump with a phony investigation(Mueller probe.)
They impeached Trump in 2019 with another concocted narrative, this time using Ukraine.
They used COVID to wreck the economy in 2020, an election year.
They used riots in 2020 to create further anti-Trump chaos.
They rigged the kidnapping plot of Governor Whitmer in 2020.
They used lawfare to rig the elections in key states, and may have used electronic means as well.
They stole the election using massive fraud.
They set-up the “insurrection” using stooges and Antifa fake patriots at the Capitol.
They used this as the pretense to impeach Trump again.
They created their fraudulent Jan6th ‘unselect’ Committee to create more investigatory buzz.
They rigged the census results to steal at least one seat from Texas, and perhaps one from Florida.
They gave us a disastrous withdrawal in Afghanistan. Looks like a bungle but was intentional.
They entered into new negotiations with Iran, using Russia as their agents, and bringing Russia in on the overall deal.
They shared information with China that they told Ukraine they could enter NATO, knowing the Chinese would share with Russia.
These are just the things that come quickly to mind, and that I can tick off, from the top of my head. There are many more pieces one can wedge into this list. What strikes me about it all is the question: Why? Why are they so desperate to make a new deal with Iran? They were so intent on pushing the original deal through that they ignored the constitution, pretended it wasn’t a treaty, and Bob Corker crafted a bill they could shove through the Senate. It never went through the required constitutional process for a treaty. The whole thing was a cooked-up con-job, and it had far more than just Democrats backing it. This was the whole miserable swamp’s doing. They definitely intend to push it through again, and they’re going to do it before this coming election lest they lose the ability. They’ll stop at nothing, and this is the question we must answer.
Why are they so intent on getting a new Iran deal through? What did the first deal get them for our billions of dollars, including the pallets of cash? From where I sit, it looks like they’re paying Iran for something. What does Iran have that they want?
Now add a new data-point somebody just threw over the transom:
Isn’t that special? Just as I suggested previously, they don’t care how Zelenskiy goes, so long as he goes. They even want to make sure that if he goes, they can place their own puppet in charge of Ukraine, or Ukraine’s recognized government in exile, or whatever form of nonsense they’re going to create to justify their next actions. Now they’re making plans for his successor. As TheLastRefuge mentioned on twitter Sunday, it might just as well be COLONEL(damnit!) Alexander Vindman. Interestingly, although he’s been portrayed as clean and pure, it turns out Zelenskiy may just be another stooge for oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, with whom he’s had extensive business relations. Of course, the Biden administration slapped sanctions on Kolomoisky in early 2021, mostly because they want control of Zelenskiy, and going after the oligarch may be the way to do it. They figure if they can dirty up Kolomoisky and perhaps control some of his assets, they can put the squeeze on Zelenskiy.
These people are all gangsters, which brings us back to the central question I need somebody to answer. Why is the Biden administration so desperate for a deal with the Iranians? What’s the driving motive? There’s no reason on Earth this gang of control freaks would ever turn over negotiations to Russia unless they were really deep into something, and the way they’re pushing dollars around, it’s pretty clear they’re willing to pay lots of our hard-earned money for whatever it is that they want from Iran. I think if we can figure out what it is, we’re on our way to unmasking real treason. It’s just a sense I have that nobody does all of the above for trivial or ordinary reasons. Something is afoot with Iran. Putin holds enormous power over these people because of Iran, and they’re now becoming so desperate, they’re openly talking about regime change in Russia, and assassinating Putin. It seems as though he really has them by the…well, you know.
Editor’s Note:If any of you have a theory, please post it in the Disqus comments. I’d dearly love to read your ideas. What power does Iran give Putin in his dealings with the DC Mafia?
Editor’s Note #2: This morning, some time within 30 or so minutes of this post going up, somebody managed to penetrate security on this site and blank out a critical file. That left visitors able to get to the home page, but unable to follow any links on the site, or follow links from elsewhere that led directly to this or other posts. The hosting company is investigating, and it’s been repaired, and further locked-down. It seems there’s something here that somebody doesn’t want you to see, and according to the hosting service, it’s very, very strange the way this went down.
It shouldn’t be possible, but there it is. The Biden Administration is now gaslighting us all. They’re captured by Putin. They may not be able to ban Russian oil even if they wanted to. The Biden administration is now so desperate for a “New and Improved”(for Russia) Iran Deal, that they may have actually given away the ability to sanction Russian oil. We’re being defrauded, and betrayed, by the DC Mafia. Again. While I was on twitter, and updating my earlier article on this story with a link to an article about the analysis of Victoria Coates, she responded directly to @ginthegin‘s reply to me on Twitter. I was astonished. This is an unbelievable scandal. The Iran Deal(JCPoA) looks like pure extortion and treason, and now Putin is using it to stop American intervention as he captures Ukraine. Here’s the thread:
Are they being deluded? Or do they know they’re being played? Are they now so desperate for a new Iran Deal that they’ll give up everything Putin demands? What’s behind this? What ugly stick do the Iranians wield?
As Andy reports, this morning the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov revealed the next phase of the Russian exploitation of the Vienna process to inoculate themselves from the economic consequences of Ukraine:
"We want an answer − a very clear answer − we need a guarantee that these sanctions will not in any way touch the regime of trade-economic and investment relations which is laid down in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action."
So they sold us out in the Iran deal, and Ukraine is the cost. That they’re willing to do this really magnifies the question: Why are they so desperate for the new Iran Deal? What are they hiding from the American people and the world?
Looks like the Russian end game is to insist that Ukraine-related sanctions contradict the economic cooperation promised in the new JCPOA, thus forcing the Biden administration to choose between sealing the Iranian nuclear deal or retaliating against Vladimir Putin for Ukraine.
So they can have their sanctions against Russia over Ukraine, or they can have their Iran Deal, but not both. At this point, they’re clearly choosing the Iran Deal, so I repeat my question: What are they so desperate to hide from the American people and the world? What is it that Iran is giving them that they’d give up their money-laundry in the Ukraine?
This is no idle threat, and may well be a master stroke on the part of the Russians as the sanctions relief promised in the new JCPOA is critical to any Iranian participation in the deal–without it they will immediately walk away.
Yes, I can see the Russians have them by the proverbial short-hairs.
The new deal has to include the energy, financial and transportation sector sanctions relief for Iran included in the original. And judging from Lavrov’s comments, it may be worded more broadly than the original to establish economic cooperation between all the participants.
In order to get Russia to facilitate this new Iran Deal, they had to let the Russians into the deal as one of the parties to the deal. Now there’s an “honest broker” for you.
This raises the possibility that the terms to which the administration has already agreed may prohibit them from taking measures such as banning Russian oil from the United States and explain the broad exemptions for the Russian energy sector in the Ukraine sanctions.
Yes, this makes sense in every way. It explains why we aren’t pushing the Europeans on the energy aspects of this crisis. It explains why our own sanctions have excluded energy and why the remainder of our sanctions seem tepid, ineffective, and completely unserious.
The Biden team has allowed the Russians to take on an indispensable role in the Vienna process, by, for example, agreeing to a negotiating framework in which the Iranians refuse to meet directly with the Americans, forcing us to rely on the Russians as interlocutors.
This simply means they’re so desperate for a new Iran Deal, they’ll do anything. They’ll give up anything. They’ll surrender the people of the Ukraine to the Russian monster. What are they hiding from the American people and the world with this new Iran Deal?
The Russians thus have a kill switch over the negotiations. Lavrov put his finger on it this morning, and if he flips it in coming days President Biden will have to decide what his ultimate priority is: the new JCPOA or the fate of the Ukrainian people?
Game over. The Ukrainian people are screwed, and so are we. We have monsters running our government. There’s simply no more debate about this. All that remains is to discover the motive: Why are they so desperate for a new Iran Deal? What’s in it for them? What does Iran hold over these people? These traitors? I thanked Mrs. Coates for her response.
As of the time of this post, Mrs. Coates hasn’t answered. To me, this is the biggest question in this entire scandal. Why? Why would the DC Mafia be so desperate for a new Iran Deal that they’d be willing to do all of this? They’re willing to throw Ukraine under the bus. They’re willing to forego serious, effective sanctions against the Russians. They’re willing to make the American energy industry suffer, and the American people with it. In an ELECTION year, no less. What is it that they want so badly from the Iranians? What stick does Iran wield and hold over their heads? What is it? They sent pallets of cash last time. They gave up on many large economic sanctions last time they made a deal with Iran. What is it at the bottom of this cesspool? What are they hiding? You can expect that if Coates provides an answer, you will read of it here.
Levin lays out the initial case on March 5th 2017 for Spygate
Only one day after I reflected on Mark Levin’s amazing ability to sift through piles of mainstream media reports to assemble the hidden truth, he very nearly did it again on Friday evening’s broadcast. He still hasn’t clarified for his audience that the claims of cluster-bombs and thermobaric bombs are unverified, unconfirmed reports, much to my chagrin, but in discussing the goings-on in Washington DC he swerved ever so close to the truth, again. I keep hoping he’ll step back from the Ukraine story just a little farther, just enough to clear his senses and conquer his emotions. If he does, he’s a man with the resources and skills to finally sort out the truth of this mess. At this point, Levin should begin asking himself that question that any good lawyer must do when trying to formulate a theory of a case: What’s the motive driving the behavior of the Biden administration in Ukraine? I believe Levin is so close to the truth that if he sets aside his emotions about Ukraine for a few moments, and sinks his teeth into all of this, it’s game over. He’ll sniff it out, and he’ll realize that what’s happening in Ukraine isn’t purely about Ukraine or Putin at all. That’s the side-show. That’s the pay-off. That’s the clean-up on aisle twelve. He came very near to the central issue, and I hope he soon realizes it. I believe he could very well blow the lid off of Washington DC for a generation or more. Today, at the last possible moment before the “Eureka!” that should have come, he swerved off down another emotionally-driven side issue. He’s so maddeningly close that I almost wish he’d happen by this website. It’s time for Mark Levin to return to his lists of facts and his prosecutorial style.
As a reminder, if you haven’t see it before, or simply need the refresher, this is what it’s like when Levin gets on one of his epic tears, here laying out the case that the Obama administration spied on Trump from Fox and Friends on March 5th, 2017, five years ago today:
The questions you must ask require that you first recognize that the Ukraine catastrophe is not an isolated event, separate and apart from all other events. I urge Mark Levin and anybody else digging into this to consider that we see all the same players involved in all of these matters, from Ukraine during the Obama administration, to the Russia Hoax of the Trump campaign, to SpyGate that extended into the Trump administration, the “Mueller Probe,” the first impeachment, the January 6th event, the second impeachment, and the election theft of 2020. What’s conspicuous by its absence from this list, that we ought not to omit? Once we add it to the list, the smoke begins to clear, and it all begins to make more sense: The Iran Nuclear Deal. Remember that the Iran Nuclear Deal was only made possible by a sell-out Republican Senator from Tennessee, Bob Corker(RINO,) who concocted a bill that allowed the Senate to bypass the treaty clause of the constitution, ignoring the necessity for a two-thirds vote for its ratification. Combine it all with the situation in Ukraine, and the behaviors of the Biden administration, and it all makes so much more sense.
I won’t tell you that I have all the details, but instead, I’m going to paint a broad-strokes picture. It would take somebody like a Levin to assemble a clearer picture, and indeed, today, Mark Levin provided another piece of the puzzle. He is so, so very close, and I believe if he returns to his dispassionate review of facts, and digs into this a bit harder, he’s going to put it together. I can almost hear the beginnings of the percolating of connections as he covers some of the facts. What Levin revealed is that the Biden administration is permitting the Russians to negotiate with Iran on behalf of the United States for the new nuclear deal. Remember the pallets of cash? There’s going to be much more. Much, much more. Biden has made concessions to the Russians, which is why this administration won’t do anything about Ukraine. It’s part of the deal. This is the part Mark Levin isn’t quite guessing yet, at least not clearly. Levin made mention of Ted Cruz’s National Security advisor, Victoria Coates. I hope he posts a link to the paper or article from which he’s drawing this information. (Update: One of my sharpest followers on Twitter found the story here. Thanks @ginthegin! If you don’t already, give her a follow!)
There is more that stinks in Ukraine than just the money-laundering of the Obama-Clinton-Biden gang. I told you nearly one week ago that based on reports of Biden providing security intelligence to the Russians via China, that I believed this was being done purposefully because Putin is going to carry out the cleanup in Ukraine, in exchange for the ability to have his way with that beleaguered, historically corrupt former Soviet satellite. This is the reason for the ineffective and purposefully ineffectual sanctions against Russia. In the end, I expect the Russians to control at least the Eastern half of Ukraine, if not the whole. This is being done with a wink and nod from the Biden administration. Why?
What would make people of this supposed stature so desperate that they would give up their money-laundry in Ukraine? What would make people like this yield and let the RUSSIANS(!!!!!!) carry out negotiations on behalf of the United States with Iran? What would make them do so? Talk about “COLLUSION!”
This is speculation, but Russia would be free to discuss anything they liked with the Iranians, even things quite damaging to the Americans involved, without any worry that it would ever be disclosed. There’s no FOIA to worry about in Russia. There’s nothing they couldn’t hide within these negotiations. As long as the final product is something they can shove through the Congress in the next few months, the sausage-making aspects of the agreement will remain forever opaque. The American people will never know, but Putin will have a permanent lever to use against these people. That lever will be whatever the Iranians already have, or at least knowledge of it. I don’t know what the Iranians have on the American Political Mafia, but it’s big. One rumor several years ago, a rumor I could not confirm, was that they had Osama bin Laden. Alive. It sounds just as fantastic now as it did then, but there was always something about the story that rang true. Of course, an extraordinary story of that sort would require equally extraordinary evidence, so I won’t posit this as the actual dirt, but if you use it as a proxy for the kind of dirt they must have, it would require something of that magnitude to explain the behavior we’ve witnessed.
The problem is that Putin was always going to demand “cash on the barrel-head” from these people. There will be no IOUs with Putin from this gang of American political mobsters. He needed payment up front, which meant: No sanctions of lasting consequence; any sanctions must be a functional fan-dances, but also, no interference in or substantial aid(particularly lethal) to Ukraine. Putin is going to clean up the evidence for these “DeepState” players, but the price is that he gets Ukraine, and who knows what else, ultimately. They pretend Putin’s insane. That’s misdirection and misinformation: He’s as coldly calculating as he’s ever been. He’s still a murderer, but right now, he’s their contract-killer.
Why? Why would they give up all of this? In part, the answer lies in the clean-up Putin is doing, but the greater will be in the clean-up he’s doing for them on the new Iran Deal he’s negotiating on their behalf. Levin has the first part of this figured out. He sees that the reason the Biden administration is doing nothing effective with respect to punishing Putin is because they’re in league with Putin. He may not be a team-mate, precisely, but he’s a contractor. He’s a hired hit-man. He’s behaving as their agent. If he disappears or outright kills Zelenskiy, so much the better. Despite what you may have heard, Zelenskiy is no angel either. He just has better press than his predecessor, and slightly less corruption. Rather than seeking to protect Zelenskiy, the American mobsters may very well want him taken out.
Why? I think they’re desperate to make the new deal with Iran. I think the reason Obama and Kerry and others spent so much time trying to talk to the Iranians during Trump’s presidency was to say “look, we’ll fix this, don’t burn us, we’ll fix it and we’ll get you greater concessions and even more cash. Just stick with us until we ditch Trump.” Remember Obama’s world-wide private shuttle-diplomacy during Trump’s presidency? Obama and his crew are being blackmailed by the Iranians. For what? They used Ukraine as a cut-out and as a money laundry. We’ve all assumed it was for mere greed on their parts, but was it something more? Who else was in on the grift? The reason they had to bring Putin in was because the Iranians no longer trust the Obama-Clinton-Biden gangsters. If you can imagine it, the Iranians consider Putin to be an “honest broker,” or at least a devil they’ll trust. He stands to gain mightily in all of this, as he’ll undoubtedly make sure Russia provides them the nuclear expertise to finally build their own nuclear-tipped ICBMs.
This is why they had to dispense with Trump. It has to be. Their actions were so outrageous, they pulled every string, they called in every marker, they sacrificed sleepers, and they made their play to steal the election with no regard to how obvious it would be. They pulled in every RINO, every DeepStaters, they used their corrupt federal judges, they played all their crooked friends at DOJ, including Bill Barr. They worked every line. Had they gotten Garland onto the Supreme Court, they’d have had this crook in the most important court. That doesn’t mean they didn’t sneak one in anyway.
You wonder why Amy Coney Barrett and Bret Kavanaugh now look to have been dud picks? Can you see it? Washington DC is full of people, everywhere, and in every guise, who are on the hook with this crowd. They played every angle. If they’re ever discovered and proven guilty, they’re on the hook for more than election fraud. This is treason, pure and simple. This is their gang making war against the United States and her people.
What is it that the Iranians have on these people? That’s what really lies at the bottom of this cesspool. If Mark Levin figures out that piece of it, and if he can substantially tie it back to the rest of these pieces, he’ll blow the lid off of it all like he did five years ago this week, when he put together the Spygate story, at least the basic guts of it. I fear for Mark. These people are ruthless. They’ve killed other prominent people to hide their crimes. If he uncovers too much, will he end up like Antonin Scalia? (Dead in bed with a pillow over his face? No autopsy, assumptions about his heart conditions and age, a quick cremation, and a family that looks as though they’ve been told: “Hey, everybody can be gotten-to?”)
I know this must all sound a little bit crazy, but I want you, my reader, to think carefully about what you’ve seen over the last dozen years. Why did Lindsey Graham do a two-year stint as chairman of a committee, shifting from another when he did? Mitch McConnell didn’t make that play accidentally. He put Graham there to guide through nominees for a particular purpose. It’s all very peculiar once you think about it. Lindsey Graham’s tough-talk about Putin is a smokescreen. The last thing he wants is Putin dead. That was a message to Putin. It was a signal, but not the sort you’d think based on its content. There’s a reason Kamala is being sent to Europe again, and it has nothing to do with peace. It has everything to do with avoiding the ever-listening ears of the NSA. Who better than the 3rd Term of the Obama Administration to understand the capabilities of our surveillance? It has to do with the fact that you never say over any electronic communications platform that which you do not want overheard, intercepted, or copied by anyone.
The freedom of the Ukrainian people is being sacrificed on the altar of the American political mafia that is the DC UniParty. Putin is not a mad-man. He’s a hired gun who will be paid handsomely for his efforts. Crimea was the first installment. At least the Eastern half of the Ukraine will be the second installment. Ask yourself what Rosemont Seneca was really all about. Why did it have dealings with EcoHealth Alliance? Ask yourself who really got paid after Rosatom secured the Uranium. It’s the same crowd. They’re in on all of it. “I’ll have more flexibility after this election.” You’re witnessing treason.
If somebody ever puts the full story together, we’re going to discover that these people are willing to see all of us reduced to glowing, irradiated ash, hopefully before they resort to that action.
As one positive note, it’s clear that Levin has finally realized that Bill Barr isn’t a good guy. Score that as a win. One of Levin’s biggest weaknesses is that he’s too easily played by the personal congeniality of these monsters, and they exploit it, and him, repeatedly. Their real aim is ever to exploit his audience. Dearest Mark needs to view them all as ruthless killers, smile at them, make nice, and assume they’re preparing to stick a shiv between his ribs, striking them first instead. (Figuratively speaking, of course.) We need Levin at the top of his analytical game, more now than ever. Maybe this time, it will fall to somebody else to figure it all out. There are amazingly enterprising researchers and investigators still around. The excellent reporter Julie Kelly comes to mind. She’s a pitbull when she sinks her teeth into a story. Let’s hope one of them picks up the mantle if Levin fails to spot it this time. I’m still hoping Mark will put it together. He’s a sharp guy, and I think he’s really close now. It’s too simple and it would be foolishly naïve to think it’s only about the left’s normal agenda of destroying America. It’s bigger than that, and it’s more brutally criminal than that. These people are personally invested in seeing this through in a way that suggests they’re covering-up something much more diabolical than the usual political subterfuge. There’s a reason Obama isn’t enjoying retirement, and it isn’t because he dreams of spending his days wrecking America from his basement in Martha’s Vineyard. His third term is about the survival of the American political mafia, or the “Deep State,” if you prefer. They’re all in now. Everything is on the line. Everything.
Update:At the time I wrote this post, Levin’s show of Friday, March 4th, 2022 was not yet available on his audio rewind page. It is now. Listen here.
Editor’s Note: For those who think the notion that Vladimir Putin could be “in on it” with these people is a ludicrous proposition, I’d remind you: Nothing in geopolitics is ever as it seems. Remember when Putin was loved in Hollywood? No? Remember this, from the era of Hillary’s infamous reset button:
We’ve been watching this war in Ukraine for more than one week, and one of the things that’s become apparent is that there’s a clear divide among conservatives about the war. The divide is more thorough in the media sphere, but it’s real, and neither side should discount it. On the one hand, you have the segment that I’ll call the pro-interventionists, and even there, it’s not a uniform body of opinion. On the other hand, you have the anti-interventionists, and again, they’re not perfectly uniform in their view. The primary cause of all of this division and confused positions arises out of one specific, underlying cause. The first group is generally prone to accept the media reports at face value, while the second group is not. This is the result of years of unreliable, unverified, unproven and false reports in the mainstream media, that has shown itself to be perfectly incapable of reporting straight news in the domestic arena. This is dangerous to our movement, but more importantly to our republic. As we’ve seen quite clearly in the last six years, the shaping of the media narrative in the media is designed to exact a specific outcome that favors the DC UniParty. It’s that simple. The establishment in Washington DC directs the narrative, and the media shamelessly follows along, in order to further their shared interests. Conservatives must learn, for once and for all, that the DC establishment’s narrative and media domination does not end at the water’s edge. Swamp gas has gone global.
When you consider the media conglomerates that dominate media, what you find is that most are associated quite closely in one way or another. This set of relationships extends far beyond American shores, as outfits like Paramount Global(Parent of CBS News, Viacom, and others) and NewsCorp(sister company of Fox Corporation and parent of Sky News and others) will quite nicely demonstrate. NBCUniversal is a similar conglomerate, ultimately the parent of NBCNews, MSNBC, CNBC, and Telemundo among many others. ABC News is part of another conglomerate owned by Disney, and naturally, CNN is owned by ATT. The number of print and and broadcast assets under the umbrellas of the media empires constitutes much of the media you consume. Spend five minutes chasing links from one to another on even and admittedly left-wing reference like Wikipedia, and you will quickly see the ties from one outlet to another. Add to this the endless cross-pollination as so-called ‘journalists’ move back and forth within the span of the larger umbrella, and you begin to see the trouble. Then consider how frequently members come from or move to politics and familial relations to politicians, and you see how corrupt this has all become. By design, they’re all tied-in to the DC UniParty, that spreads it tentacles around the Western world. Europe, the Americas, and Australia are all places in which these conglomerates compete and largely dominate for the news space. This is what the media branch of our ruling mafia looks like.
What this means is that in many ways, if you’re searching for news and information, you’re unlikely to avoid the narratives being propagated throughout the DC UniParty’s sphere and reach. In fact, if you search on any of the search engines on any big story, you’re unlikely to get results in the first three or four pages of results that aren’t shaped by or directly disseminated from beneath this umbrella. You really must go a long way outside of these to find sites and sources that do not rely entirely or almost entirely on the information, misinformation, and disinformation being spewed by these conglomerates. It’s difficult for non-connected outlets to get noticed, particularly with outfits like Google and Bing acting as gatekeepers that will steer you back beneath the safe confines of the umbrella.
No narrative demonstrates this more thoroughly than the current DC UniParty’s narrative on Ukraine. This narrative is almost impossible to escape, and as we’ve seen recently, even conservatives easily become ensnared by the tentacles reaching ever outward from the simmering pit of their swamp. It’s not that they shape the news, so much as that in many cases, they’re fabricating it from whole cloth. On Thursday night, they rushed to the news-desks and printing presses and websites with the narrative that the Ukrainian nuclear power plant at Zaporizhzhia, which caught on fire early Friday morning, had rising radiation levels. Within hours, this was all shown to be false, inasmuch as the actual fire was in an administrative building, and radiation levels from the plant were never affected. This is the second time during the course of this war that this narrative has been spread, last week seeing a similar story focused on the plant at Chernobyl.
As I’ve been covering during the last several days, the reporting we’re seeing is almost entirely propaganda, but not from the Russians or Ukrainians as would be expected. Instead, most all the propaganda we’re now seeing is emanating from Western media, including particularly the swamp-gassers in DC and New York. The problem for conservatives rests with the segment of conservatives who still trust anything in media at this point. The same media that provided all of the false narratives over the last seven years with respect to Trump, Russia, impeachments, Jan 6th, COVID, and all the other nonsense we’ve been force-fed all emanates from the same fetid, stinking, stagnant pool.
I wish there were a way to show conservatives who are still being misled that the false narratives don’t stop at the water’s edge. There is no clean and pure media anywhere in the West, if it’s tied to this same crowd of spinmeisters. Conservatives who understand this are refusing to go along, as they should. Stories have now come out that Zelenskiy may in fact be as corrupt as the guy he replaced, and he’s got offshore accounts and interests as far away as Belize. This is a fact the swamp-gassers will never tell you, because it doesn’t fit with their narrative. The larger problem, however, is getting these conservatives still slurping-up the media narrative to understand they’re being fooled again, and by the same crowd. Once you see it, there’s no going back, and it’s important for Americans to see it. What I’ve heard so far of Bongino’s radio show on Friday suggests that he’s begun to see it more clearly. Having investigated the SpyGate scandal, and indeed having written books about it, Bongino has caught scent of the swamp in all of this, and it’s important that others do too.
The difficult chore of maintaining credibility in the era of FakeNews
It started in a big way last week. Dan Bongino violated his own self-imposed “72 hour rule” with the story of the Snake Island story from Ukraine. Before the weekend was over, he’d discovered that he’d been misled like so many others, promptly informing his listeners of that fact on Monday. Dan’s “72 hour rule” is that when some new story of bomb-shell proportions comes along, he tends to hold onto them in order to verify the stories multiple ways before repeating them to his audience. Many others have seemingly been duped, repeatedly, and it’s a real problem, because while they may not be the ones originating the story, they’re the ones repeating it to their audiences. From the point of view of their audiences then, for all intents and purposes, they are originating the stories. On Tuesday, as is my habit while driving home, and as soon as I walk in the door, I tuned into Mark Levin’s show. Levin, long my runaway favorite among talk-show hosts, began in on a story in which he described the workings and effects of thermobaric bombs. He explained that Russia was using them. He also explained that Russia was using cluster-bombs against civilian areas, despite the bombs having been banned for use against civilians. Within less than twenty hours, these reports had been smashed when Bongino said on air on Wednesday that these reports hadn’t panned-out. A little digging revealed that this had been a completely unconfirmed report, and initially, there was a video discounted as fake by the gentleman in charge of the political subdivision in which it had allegedly occurred. The claims about cluster bombs are likewise unconfirmed, except that in Eastern Ukraine, there’s some evidence the Ukrainian forces have used them. At this moment, there is still no firm evidence that either side has used them, but even as of this moment, you can surf over to Levin’s site for his Tuesday Recap page and find the unverified claims about their use by Russia, along with the false claim that these weapons are altogether forbidden. He also claimed during his on-air description that the thermobaric bombs constitute a chemical weapon, which they most certainly are not. All of this made it plain to me in a very painful way that my favorite among talk-show hosts, Mark Levin, a guy I have enjoyed more even than Rush over the years, had now joined the legion of outlets I generally consider #FakeNews. It’s both shocking and saddening to me. We have so few media outlets we can take at face value. Whether by negligence or intent or because they’ve simply been fooled by others, it’s clear now that just when we need them most, most all media, even supposed “conservative” media, lie to us in varying degrees. Though I neither feel it should be my place, nor do I feel I have the heart to do the matter full justice, I must now take on “the Great One,” for the sake of my own integrity.
This is and has been the greatest disappointment of the last several years, and it began during the era of Trump, not because of anything Trump did, but because since the rise of Trump, any pretense at objectivity has been ditched in mainstream media, from CNN to MSNBC to Reuters to FoxNews. Media outlets have become so uniformly unreliable in so many ways for people like talk-show hosts, who must rely upon valid and factual news stories to fuel the discussions they will spawn with their audiences. The underlying information is so frequently inaccurate that talk-show hosts are finding it difficult to stay ahead of the fake news injected at light-speed into the conversation. Don’t misunderstand me to have said that I believe Mark Levin or Dan Bongino are liars, but that they now serve as a conduit through which lies are smuggled to their predominantly conservative audiences. I don’t believe this is their intention, but I suspect that applies to many other talkers. It’s that they’ve come to rely on sources that are corrupt or corruptible. It’s happened to me a time or two over the last eleven years here on this blog, usually in very small ways I’ve rushed to correct. The problem is that at the speed with which information now propagates upon its release in modern media, a lie can do real damage to our world, in ways that could be measured in millions of lives.
When the pandemic coverage had begun in 2020, I’d already suspected Fauci of giving us all a load of internally inconsistent nonsense. From a logical point of view, many of his pronouncements didn’t make sense. His answers were either unnecessarily evasive or expressed with unjustifiable certitude. Some of it was simply nonsensical. Mark Levin was among the first people in conservative media who featured Fauci as a guest, on his show on Foxnews. Fauci used Levin’s credibility with his conservative audience to ensnare them with his now largely-debunked and almost completely refuted narratives. I dare Mark Levin to now go back and re-watch the garbage he permitted Fauci to spew under the banner of “Life, Liberty and Levin,” and tell me that somehow, he feels unashamed for having failed his audience. He should feel pain if he now re-watches that episode, particularly considering that people made life-and-death-level decisions based on Fauci’s pronouncements early on. Mark Levin is a trusted source among conservatives like me. You can do the math. The fact that Fauci was saying these things on Levin’s show made them seem more reliable. Silly, gullible me. While I still didn’t trust Fauci, I did trust Mark Levin, and Fauci had now been given Levin’s virtual imprimatur. Fool me once…
Less than one year later, on January 6th, 2021, I listened as Mark Levin came on the radio and raged against the rioters at the Capitol on that day. He railed against the people at the Capitol, as if they were the terrorists my gut said they hadn’t really been, at least most of them. I listened, and I began to get that sickly feeling of disappointment. Was Levin falling for another false story? Since then, Levin has clearly realized, due to in-depth reporting by people like Julie Kelly, that he wasn’t getting the full story then, either. This entire episode had been frustrating to me because I actually know a man who observed some of what went on at the Capitol that day, during the event, from outside the Capitol, where he could see much of what was going on. While he never went into or anywhere near the scrum going on outside, he was in a position to see that there were numerous and obvious provocateurs. He told me that at one point, it became clear to him that at least some of the Capitol Police appeared to be acting in collusion with some of the provocateurs. Many innocent dupes followed the provocateurs into the Capitol, and my friend could see this happening. Some of the dupes were even drawn into a melee with police by the provocateurs, which happens quite easily in a crowd this size. As these events were happening, I was in my office listening to accounts of it, live on the radio, wondering immediately if this was another DC-UniParty setup. Why wasn’t that Levin’s first instinct? He has enough experience to have spotted it. I live half a continent away, but I can smell DC BS from the other side of the planet these days. This event had that stench from the beginning. Despite our shared experience of the last several years, for more than a few radio hosts, it wasn’t so obvious for some reason, but should have been. Instead, we got the usual “we condemn all violence” business, in a fashion no different than Chris Wallace repeatedly demanding that Trump denounce white supremacists on the debate stage, starting from the ridiculous premise that Trump were some sort of racist who now needed to renounce such associations. Conservatives must lose their fear of these smear-jobs, because it cripples them, not only politically but also intellectually, which is the intent of the smear-artists. For all appearances to the world, Levin and many other hosts were pushing the mainstream media, DC UniParty narrative, again.
Levin is a passionate advocate for positions in the information sphere, as am I, which is undoubtedly a large measure of what draws me to his broadcasts daily. I don’t make decisions about issues or candidates on the basis of emotion, but instead take a firm and careful accounting of them. Once I’ve done so, I then apply my passion to the conclusions I’ve drawn in explaining an issue or advocating a particular stance. The problem that arises for people like Mark Levin, Dan Bongino, or anybody else in the broadcast space is that things move incredibly fast. Information blasts in and out, and it is updated and superseded by better, more accurate information, but also sometimes more bogus, inflated, and hyped information. It happens constantly. In this environment, one is going to make judgments about the newsworthiness of a story in an accelerated frame of reference, and it will necessarily lead to a much higher rate of error than it will, for instance, on a lowly blog published in the backwaters of the Internet. Some of the posts here are composed, fact-checked, and pushed out in thirty minutes or less, but those are rare. In the main, the postings on this site will have taken hours to compose, sometimes days, or longer, and I’ve been known to table a story indefinitely if I think my information isn’t solid enough. If you were to have access to what’s here, you would see that I have almost half as many posts in “draft” status as the almost fourteen-hundred posts that have been published over the span of years. Those drafts are posts you cannot see, and many of them you will likely never see, but this is the process. If a story just doesn’t stand up as I think it should, it’s never published. That’s born of the luxury of knowing I’ll almost never be “first” with a story, and that all I can offer is a unique perspective, or new details you hadn’t been presented before, and because the speed at which I present information is far less important to my audience than the idea that I get it right.
Levin sometimes has excellent instincts. In March of 2017, based on a smattering of seemingly unrelated stories across several media outlets including McClatchy and the New York Times, Levin’s good instinct for political chicanery by Democrats led him to piece together the story we’ve all come to know is SpyGate, which actually encompasses a whole universe of sub-scandals, from spying on the Trump campaign and presidency, to the use of that information to concoct two fake impeachment narratives. The chicanery also revealed what should be the biggest scandal of all: The corruption of the FISA system by actors within the Justice Department and the FBI, along with others both directing and participating in these activities in the administration, and on the FISA court. What Levin’s instinct (and experience within the DOJ)provided him was the starting point for unveiling what should be known as the greatest scandal in American history, but for the fact that the corrupt and corruptible media will never willingly report on it. Claims that Levin is incapable of stellar research and investigation are to be ignored. It’s clear he has the experience and clear-eyed thinking to analyze such things. Why does it seem, of late, that he’s not nearly so clear-eyed in his appraisals? We can always forgive errors born of honest intent, but the problem is that media will attack even for those sorts of instances.
Levin bitterly complained after a small error in his most recent book, runaway New York Times best-seller American Marxism, was made out to be a mortal sin by a few among the chattering class in the leftist mainstream media. In general, his books are extremely informative and well-written. They’re amazingly well-researched and thoroughly documented. Few authors go to the lengths to provide the citations that Levin routinely does within the pages of his books. The problem is that when those critics reviewing your books are doing so with a political bias and intent, what you get instead of honest critiques are partisan hit-jobs. Levin made the error of writing “Franklin School” instead of “Frankfurt School,” as if that’s not an easy mistake to make and and a more difficult error to spot in editing. From the point of view of the full-tilt leftist media, this was the worst scandal in literary history, and they used it to libel him mercilessly. There’s a vast difference between an innocent error and the intentional falsehoods leftists publications gin through their presses and websites daily.
One of the problems is that in broadcasting, information moves extremely rapidly, and if you let yourself become emotionally invested in your conclusions about a given story too quickly, you’re going to get burned, quickly losing the trust of your audience, particularly if you don’t forthrightly confront the story’s inaccuracies or plain falsehoods promptly, as Bongino did on Monday and again Wednesday. In the case of Mark Levin, I’ve come to a crossroad due to this trouble. As a matter of loyalty for all his years of hard work, honest advocacy, and excellent programming, I am easily persuaded to give him another chance. And another. And probably several more. The crisis I’m beginning to experience is that this has become something of a trend, but more importantly, he surely became aware between his broadcasts of Tuesday and Wednesday that the use of thermobaric or cluster bombs (by either party) in the war in Ukraine are unconfirmed. I listened intently to the whole of his Wednesday broadcast, as I do most days, waiting for him to step right into the matter and clear it up. He never did.
Another sin of Levin’s is made up of his best intentions to advance conservatism. On many more than one occasion, due to his desire to defeat the left, he’s let alleged conservatives on the air, generally Republicans seeking election/re-election, who come on to use his platform in a political season, often seeking his endorsement or even just the legitimacy among conservatives lent to them by appearing on his airwaves. Lindsey Graham? Kevin McCarthy? There are more. Too many, really. I remember yelling at my radio, riding down the road “Mark, why do you bring these RINOs on your program? They’re going to screw you and betray us as soon as they’re re-elected.” Well? Have they? Yes, sadly they have. Levin himself was gently commenting on this recently. He knows. What he may not realize is how thoroughly it harms his credibility.
Since the beginning of the Russian attack on Ukraine, Levin has begun to bang the pots and pans indicating he’s very much in favor of some kind of intervention, or at least assistance to the beleaguered people of Ukraine. It’s leading him to accept too quickly the dis/misinformation he’s getting from some source(s), perhaps at Foxnews, or perhaps elsewhere. This has begun to seriously impact his credibility. On Wednesday evening, my worst fears in this vein were realized when he began gushing over Never-Trumper FoxNews Pentagon Correspondent, Jennifer Griffin, who’s a known leftist, clearly committed to corrupting news over at FoxNews. She’s one of the demons involved in the fake, ridiculous story about Trump at Normandy back in 2018, in which he allegedly called service-members who died there “suckers.” At the time of the story, Griffin said she was “unable to confirm the more salacious details,” implying she had confirmed the less salacious details, which naturally, she hadn’t. The whole story was later debunked, but as usual, the debunking never received coverage to scale of its the story’s original propagation. If this is one of Levin’s routine sources on national security matters, then nothing he says on the subject is even remotely reliable any longer. I get it: He’s not a reporter, but he still has some obligation to the facts, and he needs to be more discerning in selecting his sources. Neither Griffin nor Baier, both to whom Levin seems to have some unusual attachment, are what I would consider reliable or even particularly passable sources. Before going on an anger-fueled rant about how he’d happily provide his own weapons to the people of Ukraine, perhaps it would be a good idea to verify the reports of cluster-bombs and thermobaric bombs allegedly employed by the Russians. When it turns out, less than one day later, that the stories were either false or at least unverified, what then can he say to pull back on the bombast? It’s too late. Elvis has left the building. The best he can do is to retract the story later, but how does he then retract the bombast? He almost certainly won’t. He’s likely to leave that part stand, despite being at least partially motivated by the false stories. This is the danger of the passion when driven by unchecked or unverified information. As of now, he’s still letting the thermobaric and cluster bomb stories stand. I suppose he hopes we won’t notice, or that the unverified stories will become verified, or even mooted by future verified use.
Bongino was more measured Wednesday, having mostly abandoned the narrative that Putin had become unhinged and “irrational,” instead pulling it back to “unpredictable.” The interesting part about that is that in times past, Bongino had criticized Biden for destroying any “strategic ambiguity,” while praising Trump for having maintained it. “Strategic ambiguity” consists, in part, of unpredictability. On Monday and Tuesday, he had relentlessly pounded on the idea that Putin was perhaps irrational or even insane. It doesn’t help that this has been the mainstream media and UniParty narrative. Here is Hillary Clinton from Tuesday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe show:
Notice that Clinton questions Putin’s state of mind too. It’s foolish to assume your enemy is a crackpot because he’s become less predictable. In time of War, I would in many respects seek to make myself as unpredictable as possible to adversaries and enemies. It would be my intention to keep them guessing, and I’d want them to worry mightily about my willingness to ratchet-up the intensity or scope of the war. Bongino likes to talk about how President Trump had maintained a cloak of “strategic ambiguity” around his foreign policy intentions. Why would Putin behave differently? In contrast, Clinton famously had her reset button with the Russians while serving as Secretary of State, a job she was woefully ill-equipped to perform. Fortunately for her, it did give her access to bilk much of the globe with her Clinton Foundation. It was strictly a cash-and-carry operation, and there was no “strategic ambiguity” in it. Her mission was to cart away cash, and Russia fully understood it.
The other thing clear in the video is that the DC UniParty establishment is trying to capture the mantle of Ronald Reagan, as they continue their anti-Trump narrative. People like Levin and Bongino need to think very carefully about who’s providing the information they now rely upon to make pronouncements about Ukraine. If I could ask either man a question, I think I might pose it this way:
Consider the following list of names: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, Mitt Romney, Adam Schiff, Susan Rice, Eric Swalwell, Adam Kinzinger, Liz Cheney, Fiona Hill, “Colonel” Vindman, Victoria Nuland, Ron Klain, and Jake Sullivan.
Now consider the events in Ukraine since roughly 2004. Then consider the activities of that list of people(and other cohorts) over the intervening period. Then, consider the following facts: In 2014, with funding and assistance from the US State Department, US DOD, and various US intelligence agencies, there was a coup d’etat in Ukraine. Essentially, the US fomented and funded regime-change in Ukraine. Ever since, the narrative in DC by the establishment, particularly the Democrats, has been “Russia, Russia, Russia.” Even Mitt Romney talked about Russia in his debate appearance, but Obama immediately deflected the question by mocking Romney. Had Romney inadvertently let a cat escape the proverbial bag?
Now ask: How many of the people listed above were involved in the RussiaHoax/SpyGate, the First Impeachment of Trump, the Second Impeachment of Trump, and how many had a hand in the January sixth story, events, and subsequent narrative? How many are now pushing the official DC UniParty’s Ukraine narrative, in concert with corrupt and corruptible media?
The media lies endlessly to us, and those lies don’t stop with events beyond the water’s edge. Meanwhile, I have to hear Levin questioning the patriotism of Americans who are questioning the official DC narrative, or suggesting they’re Russophiles or similar garbage. That’s what I expect from Hillary Clinton, so that when I hear it coming from the radio in Mark Levin’s voice, I must ask him: “What in the Hell are you thinking?” Why would Mark Levin now take up the “Russia, Russia, Russia” allegations of Hillary Clinton only to aim them against members of his own audience? On the basis of information from which sources? Jennifer-freaking-Griffin???
These two men have repeatedly demonstrated their capacity for intense investigations and research, but they’ve been steered in the Ukraine story largely by emotion, driven by many false stories, false narratives, and imagery that’s been created but unsubstantiated in far too many cases. In media generally, we’ve been shown a story about Miss Ukraine, bearing arms and ready to fight, but the rifle she’s pictured with is an airsoft rifle, (airsoft being a sport she enjoys.) We’ve been told about the “Ghost of Kiev,” by such low-lifes as Adam Kinzinger, that has turned out to be an utter hoax. The Snake Island story turned out to be propaganda in the larger dimension: It appears that rather than having been killed after telling their Russian attackers to “Go F’ themselves,” they laid down their arms in surrender, and are now all safe, albeit disarmed and removed from the battlefield. We’ve had a member of the Ukrainian Parliament tell the world that she’s fighting “not only for Ukraine, but for the New World Order.” We’ve had every manner of false story propagating, not merely from the combatants, but particularly from the Western media. The number of fabricated, concocted stories coming out of the war zone are far too numerous to list here. Even the imagery is frequently suspect, as reported elsewhere on this site.
That Levin and Bongino walked into some of these stories is no surprise. I too was sucked into one of them early on. The Snake Island story recalled the bravado and courage of the Alamo, until it didn’t. What’s been surprising and disappointing is how thoroughly Levin has been entirely swamped by some of it. Bongino corrected the record, in his defense and to his credit. So far, Levin has not, and he’s not backed-off his bombastic declarations about his willingness to ship arms to a country that has been a playground for the DC UniParty’s money-launderers. The alleged brave acts(it’s not that I doubt the bravery of Ukrainians, but only the veracity of this narrative) are being pushed in media with a reckless disregard for fact-checking and verification, which is the definition of war-time propaganda. The “fog of war” only clears if we work to make that hapen. It’s important for talkers to right their ships when they get a story wrong. Sometimes, it’s understandable and forgivable if the host makes amends by leading with the truth or a correction at the next available opportunity, as Bongino has done this week. We need solid information, and while I still want the passion both men bring to their respective endeavors in media, I have to insist that they improve their information-vetting, by reconsidering the sources they now employ. Clearly, some of those sources are of dubious veracity. I enjoy the presentations of each man, both interesting and entertaining, as well as bracing and motivating, but I need the foundation to be solid. Everybody makes mistakes, me included, but there are innocent errors and errors of incomplete information, but there are also errors born of haste, undue passion, lack of due diligence and malice. I expect the former to happen from time to time, and they are entirely generally to be forgiven upon forthright correction. The other sort, when they become habitual, threaten to turn an outlet or a show into nothing better than another mainstream media outlet: Corrupt or corruptible. This also applies to many others in the conservative space. In a moment of excess passion, it could easily happen to me. We must fight against this kind pollution of facts driven by our own intemperance, but we must also hold outlets and hosts accountable. I need Levin to correct the record, telling his audience that reports of thermobaric bombs or cluster bombsintentionally targeting civilians are unconfirmed, unverified reports at this time. In fact, their use at all remains unverified. These weapons are indeed nasty, but the US has employed cluster-bombs too. Ask the Iraqis. Ask the Afghans. What makes their use illegal, like so many weapons of war, is their use in the intentionaltargeting of civilians. Under various international treaties and conventions, doing so constitutes a war crime. It’s important for Levin to fix this at the next opportunity, and as ever, at least for the moment, I’ll be listening this evening to see if he will.
Ukraine: Caught in the crossfire between empires of lies
I grew up in a large family. All but one of us children were boys. Like boys often do, brotherly taunts and squabbles could at time give way to furious fights. While not unusual, the odd thing about families is that there’s a kind of cohesiveness that generally holds them together when the threats come from outside. Though at “war” with one another as we at times seemed to be, it was nevertheless true that against outsiders, we quickly rejoined ranks to thwart the interlopers. Right or wrong, after all, these were my brothers, and our fraternal bonds were far stronger. Ever did we automatically take one another’s side over outsiders, often without thought and consideration, but by mere reflex of habitual fraternal loyalty. This was our brotherly version of “politics end at the water’s edge.” The problem with this, occasionally, is that at times, it led us to support brothers who may have acted badly outside our borders. The baseline assumption was ever that our brothers were right, and this was sometimes a mistaken conclusion. When these things happen on the scale of a family, they can be forgiven as acts of fraternal loyalty. When they happen on the scale of nations and continents, and indeed the globe, we have a deeper responsibility to examine the actions and intentions of our own brethren. The folly in failing to do so could be catastrophic. We Americans have been coming to grasp that our government is thoroughly corrupted, and that it bears no resemblance to the ideals it renders as a mask. “Truth, Justice and the American way” have been replaced with “Justice and Truth are what we tell you, and that is the American way.” Is Putin’s allegation true in any measure? He says the West, starting with the United States, has become an “Empire of Lies.”
Self-appointed President-for-Life Vladimir Putin is a professional liar. To be in the intelligence operation of the former Soviet KGB is to act as the bodyguard of a colossal set of lies. Make no mistake about it: Putin is not a trustworthy man, and all of his words are laced with falsehoods, half-truths and distortions, all aimed at disarming his audience to make them easier to overwhelm. His work truly is the province of pure information warfare, but like all such warfare, it relies on kernels and nuggets of truth. If he were to suggest that Zelenskiy is the agent of aliens, or that Joe Biden is a failed alien-human hybrid, we’d be right to discount everything he says. What makes some of his propaganda somewhat successful, I’m afraid, is that he attacks at our points of true weakness: He attacks our Western governments’ most fundamental lies. This does not mean that we should take anything he says at face value, but in examining his words, we should be careful to heed the dangerous truths he’ll happily employ to sow chaos and dissention among us. It is those small but glaringly significant truths we must hasten to address, not in answer to the Russian dictator, but in honest and truthful appraisal of our own condition and situation.
Where the Western foreign policy and intelligence establishment is concerned, we have been an “Empire of Lies” for many years. One can go back much further in our history than the post-World War II environment to find lies, but they became systematized and ingrained beginning roughly during the Second World War. This is when the first widespread programs of war propaganda were employed by the United States, not merely against its enemies, but particularly against its own citizens. Remember “Rosie the Riveter?” She was a fictional character used to implore more women to join the war’s industrial workforce. Whether it was good or bad; right or wrong, it was war propaganda deployed against the American people. Many countries produced this sort of propaganda. In some instances, such propaganda was disguised as “news.” Soviet Russia was a gargantuan producer of war propaganda. At some points in the war, propaganda and the ferocity of the fighting it inspired was their most important weapon.
Nowadays, propaganda is generally more nuanced, though outlets like PBS and NPR do their best to engage in full-time propagandization. One way or another, it’s in everything you will see or hear from those outlets. It’s in their news, but also in their programming for children. It’s in everything. Of course, the private-sector media is little different. They tend to be somewhat less obvious, most of the time, but their messaging is polluted with propaganda of some sort virtually every minute of every day, in this case on behalf of paying customers, some governmental, but also some in the private sector. This is how you get to the spectacle of CNN, with a huge proportion of its current sponsorship being the large pharmaceutical companies, like Pfizer.
Over the last several years, any person who pays even passing attention to the so-called “news” cannot help but notice the frequency with which stories are later shown to have been mistaken, wrong, or entirely fabricated. Lately, it seems everything we hear in so-called mainstream media is a lie. It’s gotten so bad that many people now assume that to get to the truth of a story, all they need do is simply turn on MSNBC and believe the exact opposite of whatever its anchors spew, and they’re not far off. “Reverse-viewing” our mainstream media is not a bad tactic, and more people are now employing it.
What astonishes me most, however, is how many of my fellow Americans simply forget from time-to-time what it is that they’re listening to, or who actually crafted the messages they’re hearing. A good example at this moment in history is the War in Ukraine. How much of the “news” we’re receiving is real? How much of it is fabrication? Somehow, some people who are ordinarily, rightfully skeptical of our media seem to adopt the notion of fraternal suspension of doubt when we get to the water’s edge.
I will not here allege that Vladimir Putin is a “good guy.” I don’t believe that for a moment, but my own biases about the dictator aside, I must ask, if I’m to be honest: How do I know anything at all about Putin? How have my impressions about him been formed, and is it unusual that they’re almost uniformly bad? Remember in 2016 when Trump made mention that Putin was a strong leader for his country? What Trump was stating quite factually, in the way he does, is that Putin, whatever else you might say about him, is a strong leader for his country. Whatever else I might say of Putin, this seems to be true. Do you remember what happened next, after Trump had made this pronouncement? Yes, the whole world of American politicians, Republican and Democrat alike, shouted him down with a cacophonous, screeching rebuke. The media mocked him, the late-night “comics” lambasted him, and he was roundly presented either as a rube or as a stooge. Why? Even if he had been wrong, surely potential voters would recognize this and turn away. You see, the problem was that he challenged a long-nurtured, well-constructed, widely-disseminated narrative about Vladimir Putin. That was Trump’s central offense at that moment.
It’s not that I think Putin’s right to invade Ukraine — quite the contrary — but there are some truths we must examine in our own back yard even as we confront him. The so-called DeepState, spread across countries and continents, really is that Empire of Lies about which Putin speaks. They lie to us systematically, and they defraud us consistently. They use the intelligence assets for which we pay against us, and even against our President. To call the DeepState a “cabal” is to understate its reach and influence by many orders of magnitude. Pointing out this particular Empire of Lies does not, however, make Putin our friend. What it should cause instead is that we seek to remove and demolish the DeepState before it can cause us a catastrophe. It won’t make the problem with Putin disappear, but it might prevent the next one.
Put it another way: How many of the people now sternly denouncing Putin either have some interests of their own in Ukraine, or have clear associations with this “Empire of Lies?” Notice that even now, as the West announces more sanctions against Russia, including banning Russian banks from the SWIFT payments system, what they struggle to de-emphasize is the single word: “some.” One must read beyond the headlines in this era of entirely propagandized media narratives. The headline blares:
What they omit from the headline is a single, but important word: “Some.” This is done to conceal from you the whole truth, by telling you a lie by omission. Many people read only headlines. Often, truths like this will be buried deep in a story, or even in a linked sub-stories. This way, they can later have claimed to tell you the truth while trying to engineer some cheap mis/disinformation. Clearly, Western “mainstream media” is a fully functional organ of the “Empire of Lies.” When you dig around in this story, and chase the story across many platforms, “some” gives way to “select.” Then “select” gives way to “key.” In the end, you realize that this is a mostly symbolic ban to the degree it’s a ban at all.
This is a story of intense importance, not because Putin’s a trustworthy source, but because we already know that our own “mainstream” sources are completely unreliable. I’m not making a case on Putin’s behalf. That’s in no way related to my point. Putin is merely picking at a scab barely covering a deep wound of which we are already domestically aware. That he opportunistically pecks at our wounds does not mean we should ignore them. What I intend to provoke here is the idea that Americans should begin to doubt everything, to avoid making the error of alleged fraternal trust in our media and governments, not because we should trust Putin, but because we too easily trust our own government and media, often at our own peril. Look how frequently and easily they’ve blatantly lied to us in recent years. Why would this story be any different? I’ve been scanning a variety of foreign news outlets, particularly European, and they seem, as ever, to be singing from the same basic hymnal as our own. Take away the foreign accents and cultural differences, and the stories could have been produced just as easily by CNN or MSNBC. Sky News, Deutsche Welle, Al Jazeera, and many others are examples. Sometimes, your own “brother” is lying to you, and you’d do well to see it. At this scale, the stakes are simply too great, and we cannot permit alleged familial bonds to blind us to the monsters operating happily within our own Western and American families. While we’re quite right to doubt most anything that issues forth from Putin’s lips, we should exercise no less caution in evaluating the pronouncements of our own government and media. They lie to us daily. For the average citizen, this begins to take on all the appearances of a war among rival gangs of villains, with ordinary people, as ever, caught squarely in the middle.
It’s a story that could have been pulled from the pages of a Tom Clancy novel, except this isn’t fiction. As I suspected, the messaging of the Biden administration over the last several months has seemed at times either to goad or provoke a hostile reaction from Russia’s President-for-Life, Vladimir Putin. It was no secret that Putin had designs on much of Eastern Europe, and to the degree he’s been able, he has managed to infiltrate the countries in the region, setting up puppets or regimes very friendly to his purposes. When President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was elected, Putin was very unhappy, because it appeared Zelenskiy might be an actual, genuine reformer. Worst of all, Putin didn’t have his claws in him, as has been his common practice. At the time, Donald Trump was president, and Putin knew he couldn’t risk an invasion. Trump had reportedly made the matter plain for the dictator, telling him those golden domes of the Kremlin would be demolished if Putin were to invade Ukraine. This was not a man with whom Putin could trifle or hope to control, and despite the idiotic and false narratives being pushed in the US media, he knew he was stalemated for the moment. Instead, he plotted for better times and opportunities. He needed Zelenskiy gone, but he wasn’t alone in that desire.
One-fifth of the way around the world, another cabal was plotting Zelenskiy’s demise, but to them, the new President of Ukraine posed a threat of a different sort. They’d been using Ukraine as their private piggy-bank, and money-laundering center. The sons of top politicians had been employed in fields for which they had no experience, and no expertise. Among them was Hunter Biden, a corrupt, drug-addicted sex-fiend, who seems to have had a fetish for prostitutes while in a crack-addicted stupor. This has ever been the best kind of set-up for the extortionists in the Russian orbit, and they could add a carrot or two to the stick they would eventually wield. Hunter was hired by the firm Burisma, at an astounding rate of $83,333 dollars per month. Best of all, it was a no-show job for which Biden would do exactly zero actual work. Sons of Pelosi, Romney, and the step-son of Kerry would all dip into the water of Ukraine business ventures, and it was a wonderful way for the oligarchs involved to purchase favor with these American politicians. The Clintons had done fabulously well with the oligarchs of Ukraine, their foundation having received more than ten million dollars during the period between 1999-2014, all from particularly well-off citizens of, and NGOs operating within that beleaguered, corrupted nation-state.
Under Zelenskiy, some of this had begun to surface, but once Trump had been cheated of another term, Zelenskiy saw the writing on the wall and realized there’d be no further action on the matter. The American gangsters were back in control, and no good for his country would come of pursuing the matter further. Of course, none of this eliminated the stick that Putin held, because one way to get a seat at Putin’s table is to have powerful chips one can lie down; influence with Western politicians, whether in the form of favors owed, or extortionists’ leverage, serve as one possible price of admission to his inner circle of friendly oligarchs.
Everybody knew Putin’s aims with respect to Ukraine. Why then, as Sundance over at TheConservativeTreehouse reported Saturday, did the Biden administration shove the notion of Ukraine’s entry into NATO into Putin’s face via intel provided to the Chinese? This would predictably enrage the former KGB spymaster, and defender of the USSR. Putin has long been understood to resent the era that began with Perestroika begun under Mikhail Gorbachev, and he was thoroughly disgusted with Boris Yeltsin, who he threatened and forced from office. In Putin’s view, the assembly of so many new NATO members made up of former Soviet satellites was more than an annoyance. It was a downright threat to his vision of returning Russia to the “glory days” of the Soviet Union. Yes, in this way, Putin is truly a dangerous madman, thoroughly committed to the rebirth of the Soviet leviathan that had dominated all of his youth. The notion that Ukraine would be permitted to seek protection under the umbrella of NATO was a slap to his face that he would never permit. More, the operatives in the Biden administration would know that by sharing this with the Chinese, it would get back to Putin almost instantly, because the Chinese are very keen on seeing America, particularly, distracted by events in Europe as they prepare to take Taiwan. They would know Putin’s likely reaction to such information. The outcome of a Russian invasion was effectively engineered within our own government, and implanted via Beijing.
Soon after this revelation from the Biden administration via his allies in Beijing in early December, Putin had made his decision: He would move to invade Ukraine and mask his aggression under the thin veil of a “military exercise.” All of the rest has been pure stage-show garbage. The diplomacy was never genuine, and indeed, neither was it genuinely helpful on the American side. Biden stood before the presidential lectern, adorned with the trappings of his office, and effectively prodded Putin to invade. He erased any notion of strategic ambiguity, letting Putin know the coast was clear, continually telling Putin via press conferences, our strategic position and intent, while also letting Putin what we knew or didn’t. Biden (or the people controlling him) knew that there was no way Putin would tolerate even the discussion of Ukraine’s entry into NATO, and that among the ends Putin would pursue would be regime change in Kiev.
In point of fact, Biden openly attempted regime change in Ukraine too, though he took another approach: He offered safe transport and asylum to President Zelenskiy early Saturday morning. Had Zelenskiy accepted that offer, he would be effectively deposed, while Biden would look the compassionate hero, but Biden would have what he really needed most: An effective end to any threat posed by further disclosures or investigations from Ukraine about he or his son, or any of his friends in Washington DC.
The invasion is quite real, and the threat to Ukraine’s future is undeniable, but what lies behind these events is being concealed from your eyes by Western media. Joe Biden should be impeached, because he is factually responsible for the precipitation of these events. It is his administration that engineered this, but it tells me something more. In order to provoke Russia to attack its neighbor, and to effectively sign Zelenskiy’s death warrant, the people within the Biden administration are clearly desirous of hiding more than Hunter Biden’s porn-stash. These are the kinds of actions undertaken by a mafia-boss hiding extensive, organization-threatening crimes and prosecutions. There must be much more in Ukraine than we now know. Surely, there is extensive evidentiary linkage to Western politicians, in DC and elsewhere. Time will tell, but at this hour, what is certain is that Biden’s administration had every intention of seeing this invasion happen. It was their goal all along. Now we know how they actually engineered it. Many thanks to TheConservativeTreehouse for all of the in-depth digging.
For those who doubt any of this, I’d ask you to consider the laundry list of people who’ve been on the war-path. They’re all the same people who were engaged in the Trump-Russia collusion hoax. Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, Adam Kinzinger, Lindsey Graham, Liz Cheney, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Barack Obama, and of course Biden himself, along with various flunkies throughout the government. Do you really wonder that this same collection of people, all deeply involved in the ridiculous leftist conspiracy theory and in SpyGate have all been deeply involved and increasingly loudly supportive of Ukraine, while simultaneously seeming to throw Zelenskiy under Putin’s bus? Some will call this mere guilt-by-association, but I would say that ignoring it is beyond naïveté. None of this is accidental, in the same way that the Biden’s convenient and timely disclosures to the Chinese were accidental. This is the American mafia. As Rush often said, “Don’t doubt me.”
As Western leaders posture in endless pouty, moralistic denunciations of Vladimir Putin and the Russians, I think it’s past time to look this dragon in the teeth, but also assess the countless Western Weasels who will do nothing substantial. Germany is perhaps the most useless of all the European NATO members, now strangled by their dependence on Russian gas and oil, particularly the former, and has said they will not go along with sanctions targeting SWIFT. You see, the Russians expect payment for their fossil fuels, and SWIFT is how those payments are made. The same is true of the US, the most useless in NATO overall, which is still buying a lot of Russian oil daily. When SWIFT sanctions were used on the implacable Iranians, they immediately returned to negotiations. What Western nations are doing now is a fan-dance of epic proportions. They’re virtue-signaling while doing absolutely nothing of consequence. Their “rules-based international order” is a hoax, and it’s in shambles.
One former Polish Former Minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, said plainly in an interview with Deutsche Welle that the Western nations have disgraced themselves by their unwillingness to take even these purely financial measures against the Putin regime. All of it was perfectly summed up in one of Sikorski’s retweets of Ukraine’s foreign minister:
To some European leaders who are still hesitant: each year at commemorative events you say ‘Never again’. The time to prove it is now. Russia is waging a horrific war of aggression in Europe. Here is your ‘never again’ test: BAN RUSSIA FROM SWIFT and kick it out of everywhere.
Therein lies the unvarnished truth, and it goes for all the fake, pontificating morons in power on both sides of the Atlantic, who like to regard themselves as experts in foreign affairs and diplomacy: They like to posture as the guarantors of freedom and human rights, and as guardians of the memories of past atrocities, but when it came time for them to actually do what all their posturing promised would be their stance, they defaulted to what would cause them the least immediate economic pain.
I understand the tendency of politicians to do what is expedient with respect to those who elected them, such that imposing sanctions that wind up costing your own populace economic pain may not be popular, but Kuleba is correct: These are cowards of the worst sort. It’s easier to try to fake their alleged virtue by pretending to do something.
At the same time, if you look at the situation in the United States, the Biden administration has been entirely unwilling to place sanctions against Russian energy. The reason is simple: We consume an incredible amount of Russian oil each day. Given that Biden’s administration is only too happy to effectively place sanctions on the American oil industry, it seems preposterous on its face. If Biden’s administration were even mildly serious, they’d dump the stoppage of the Keystone Pipeline, they’d get rid of their various bans on fracking, they’d permit the restarting of exploration on public lands, and they’d generally get out of the way of American oil production, such that in short order, we’d need no Russian oil. This would in turn cripple Putin, drop prices for American consumers, and American companies rather than the Oligarchs in Russia would profit. Hundreds of thousands of good-paying American jobs would spring into existence, and we would quickly eliminate our reliance on foreign oil, which would crush Russia.
When you consider the idiocy of the policy, and realize how these simple steps are fundamentally all that is required to cripple Putin, one wonders why they’ve not been(and will not be) undertaken. The answer remains the same as ever: This is how they’re paying Putin for getting rid of that pesky Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskiy. All of these left-wingers now controlling the Western governments, from Germany to Italy to France to Canada to the US, each and every one, has been involved in one way or another in profiting from the long-run corruption that had been the hallmark of Ukraine governments until Zelenskiy arrived.
If a few Ukrainians die, and Putin gets some spoils, it’s a small cost to pay in exchange for ridding themselves of dangerous reformer President Zelenskiy. Some will suggest that the motive is something simpler and more political, for instance that the Biden administration is now captive to the hard-left de-growth movement in the United States, and while there’s an element of truth to that, we know they’re perfectly willing to throw their hard-left under the bus for the sake of electoral salvation, knowing their hard-left really has no place else to turn with their vote. It’s much the same game as RINOs like McConnell and Cornyn and Graham use on their own conservative voters: If they can stave off primary challengers, in the general election, it’s not as though a conservative voter in Texas is going to opt for the latest Democrat lunatic to run for the Senate. They’re stuck, as ever, between the lesser of two evils, and this is how these monsters always manage to retain power. It’s the strategy Abbott is trying to use to stave off a strong challenge by Allen West. He needs desperately to avoid a run-off, because if it becomes a two-man race, there’s a good chance Abbott will be beaten. His approach is to win by foreclosing on conservative challengers in the primary next week. (I suspect it’s also the reason FoxNews pre-empted Mark Levin’s Sunday show this week, which was to feature West among the guests. Paul Ryan, now on the board of FoxNews, absolutely detests Allen West.)
In any event, that’s the nature of the Washington game with captives bases. They know their most hard-core voters will default back to them in every election. This is why I do not believe this idea explains the failure of the Biden administration to do that which would clearly punish Putin most effectively, while earning him general good will with voters in an election year. No, there is something much deeper here, and I think the nexus between Hunter, Burisma, Ukraine and Vlad the Invader, along with similar associations with Clinton, Schiff, Pelosi, Romney, Kerry, and several others does a much better job of explaining the situation. The only motivator greater than pure greed for money and power is the absolute necessity to avoid any legal liability, particularly of a criminally corrupt sort. Seeing Zelenskiy silenced is a convenient outcome, the people of Ukraine be damned.
NATO has become largely a virtue-signaling organization, from recruiting to their world-facing side. Here’s a video of their most recent fan-dance:
If this doesn’t convince you that they’re not serious about defending the West, I don’t know what will. This whole exercise in Ukraine is pointless, because they don’t mean to do anything effective. More, most of them will be happier when Zelenskiy is gone. Welcome to the greatest show on Earth.
An explosion in Tweets today cropped-up, all utilizing the same text. It’s obviously another BOT disinformation campaign, and it’s in support of Biden. If you log into Twitter, and search Twitter for the text “We stand with Biden. If WE have to get drafted for war WE will do it.” (You can click the link to see the search results.) You can see the tweet from @LibsOfTikTok to get an idea.
This is how the left fights its information wars. Be advised that you should take extreme care before believing anything in this environment of rampant dis/misinformation. The media is entirely unreliable, and the the establishment social media is completely corrupted.
