But the power of media brainwashing, already a wonder to behold in the ongoing Convid fraud, is next level. In the sauna today, I talked to a retired Swedish professor of theology and an American ex-pat who emigrated to Sweden 25 years ago. I said that the destruction of the Nordstream pipelines was obviously an American operation, even if they got the Poles or Brits or other lapdog to pull the actual trigger. Both denied it vehemently and said that Putin did it! I almost fell off the sauna bench.
I also wonder how vulnerable TurkStream would be to "sabotage," and what kinds of behind-closed-doors conversations are happening about this between the Americans and the Turks.
Thing is, for how much longer does Turkey need NATO?
The US needs Turkey for military strategic reasons, but the US is in danger of overextending so much it will not even be able to contract without collapsing.
There is a much deeper game going on. If without Europe the US would be just a regional power, how come the Empire is doing everything to destroy the standard of living of Europeans, when we know this will alienate the European people from the Empire. There is more to this than it meets the eye. We make a mistake when we assume the Empire is US Empire. It isn’t! This is a direct descendent of British Empire, and the US (nation state) has been captured just as Europe has. We know Europe’s people will suffer, but the destruction of productive capacity will also hurt European capital. How come we do not see this Capital talking? Perhaps European Capital has become Imperial Capital, just like American Capital. The interest of Capital has diverged from the interest of the people. But even this does not fully explain the destruction of productive capacity of Europe. Either Capital Owners are no longer important or they have been convinced all of this is for their benefit. Contradictions are enormous. Whatever we are experiencing, it is highly unlikely that anything that we see can explain this. I believe that real explanations remain hidden from us, and that is why the ultimate motive are difficult to ascertain. What we know is that Europe is being sacrificed and her people will suffer immensely.
We'll need to think about transnational capital, too, I'd agree. I do think this is an intra-elite conflict about who gets to dictate stuff in the next era…
I don't think countries matter any more. The globalists/WEF/international un-elected cronies don't care about national borders; they care about outcomes of actions and where resources reside. The only way to deduce what is planned is to look beyond borders.
Of course. They have detached from countries but we still live in countries. But if it is up to them, not for long. They have a vision and strategy to achieve that vision. They are executing their plans and we don’t know they are waging a war on us.
Nice hypothesis, but there is also the other one, also tracked, of US helicopters that started the timers flying in the area not long before explosions. The 6th US Fleet left 2 days before the area, she carry helicopters and fighters. In June they did an exercise (ha, ha, ha... it reminds me Gates 201...) in the Baltic Sea near the Streams... It had to do with unmanned sub vehicles that tested how to "remove" explosive form deep sea.
But your opening vignette is exactly like it is, lovely!
Let's hope that Europeans wake up and as in the old good days, ask to drop Nato first, then EuroReich. I mean we in Italy we were doing good business during Cold War with Russians and their allies. How do they say? Business is business, so why now it means something else?
Eurasia looks way more interesting now, then the old, bad looking, not sexy US/Nato bitch.
I went trough the article on the next financial crisis, the obvious one, why be surprised? If you have been giving free money to financial criminals, how they thought would end?
But the best I red about this story and about the history, was Biden as a gangster: He looks like a mafia boss, speaks like a mafia boos, act like a gangsters boss!
Like that italian Judge said to the other fellows, during his last speech: Resit! Resit! Resist!
You mean the gangster wars piece by Caitlin Johnston, right? It's quite apt, yes, and the economic crash--well, we've been talking a lot about this over the past half-year, so, it's not exactly a 'surprise', ain't it? (Just for the 'professionals', of course, these things remain 'mysterious'…)
As to Eurasia--well: it's the future: there is production and consumption, as opposed to the US, which is merely interested in tribute.
Small correction: North Macedonia and Montenegro are former Yugoslav republics, and they were never part of the Soviet block (at least not after 1948, when Tito broke with Stalin). You basic point is well taken, though. Prevent your "allies" from negotiating with Russia by destroying the thing that could be negotiated about, and wind up destroying your own military alliance in the process. Second-order consequences and all that. Fitting.
We're still going to be very, very cold this winter...
A bit of pushback about Bulgaria: the general public is primarily Russophile. Most folks there are wanting out of NATO and EU and are not interested in supporting Ukraine’s membership in NATO. The government is going through elections and depending on who wins, they will either back the public or go against them but I wouldn’t say every soviet bloc state is anti-Putin.
The resigning swedish governement still refuses to comply with Turkey's demands, meaning Turkey keeps vetoing swedish and finnish membership.
With my Kremlology-hat on, I'd say this is deliberately done by the mrs Anderssons' resigning cabinet, as the NATO-issue splits the Unons and her party right down the middle and the last thing they need is an internal row about betraying the Palme-line about international alliances - up until election the threat of handing a victory to the opposition quieted the internal critics but now that they've lost anyway (not that they are willing to concede, they are actively sabotaging as much as they can) the table is set for one almighty fight, not the least due to Andersson not delivering a victory and her not belonging to the islamic/id-pol phalanx of the party.
So despite Turkey asking for actual known and convicted felons and terrorists, they still refuse to extradite them. Even if many of them have committed crimes here in Sweden, and that their refugee-status which gave them citizenship is nullified due to them being proven terrorists - Andersson and her party and their loose coalition of fellow travellers simply cannot be seen to acquiesce, for internal reasons. About 65% of african and mid-eastern migrants vote Socialist Democrat. A potential 1 000 000 votes next election is in the pot - none of them likely to continue their support for the SAP if it becomes common practice to hand over criminals and terrorists back to their home nations.
Which brings us to Nordstream. Swedish naval units were in the blast area shortly before the charges went off. What they did, why they were there, and so on is classified (which is natural during heightened alert). But we do have very accomplished anti-submarine techniques and units, and we also have divers trained to swim up to ships and apply explosives onto the hull. The swedish military wants us to join NATO openly, now that the cloak and dagger shenanigans from the 1950s to present day are no longer needed, excepting internal politicking. It is possible, though impossible to gauge how plausible, that the US handed the job over to the swedish navy, with the blessings of the SAP (Sozialistische Arbeiter Partei), mrs Andersson's party.
Sweden as such gains nothing. Those parts of swedish power players (minnows on the international stage, but they think they are sharks - our elites still think as if we were a power) that are desperate to lock us into the US hegemony could very well do this together with or acting as agent of US forces (and I doubt there's unilateral agreement within the US leadership on the NS sabotage - I think one group managed to get the orders through to the right receiver, to establish a fait accompli).
But the power of media brainwashing, already a wonder to behold in the ongoing Convid fraud, is next level. In the sauna today, I talked to a retired Swedish professor of theology and an American ex-pat who emigrated to Sweden 25 years ago. I said that the destruction of the Nordstream pipelines was obviously an American operation, even if they got the Poles or Brits or other lapdog to pull the actual trigger. Both denied it vehemently and said that Putin did it! I almost fell off the sauna bench.
Ha, same here in Norway--virtually all my interlocutors are like that.
It's awkward for Swedes. They just joined NATO (is it official yet?). And now this happens. Cognitive dissonance is a powerful thing...
Turkey is using their veto, so no, we aren't in for really real yet.
This is despite the socialist party promising Erdogan a $300 000 000 bribe, officially a swedish investment in a turkish railroad project.
I also wonder how vulnerable TurkStream would be to "sabotage," and what kinds of behind-closed-doors conversations are happening about this between the Americans and the Turks.
Thing is, for how much longer does Turkey need NATO?
The US needs Turkey for military strategic reasons, but the US is in danger of overextending so much it will not even be able to contract without collapsing.
Oh, really? I thought Turkey withdrew its veto, but I guess I was misinformed.
And they might want to withdraw the bribe offer. Now that the attractiveness of NATO membership is rapidly going south...
Nope, last time I checked, Türkiye is still blocking it…
There is a much deeper game going on. If without Europe the US would be just a regional power, how come the Empire is doing everything to destroy the standard of living of Europeans, when we know this will alienate the European people from the Empire. There is more to this than it meets the eye. We make a mistake when we assume the Empire is US Empire. It isn’t! This is a direct descendent of British Empire, and the US (nation state) has been captured just as Europe has. We know Europe’s people will suffer, but the destruction of productive capacity will also hurt European capital. How come we do not see this Capital talking? Perhaps European Capital has become Imperial Capital, just like American Capital. The interest of Capital has diverged from the interest of the people. But even this does not fully explain the destruction of productive capacity of Europe. Either Capital Owners are no longer important or they have been convinced all of this is for their benefit. Contradictions are enormous. Whatever we are experiencing, it is highly unlikely that anything that we see can explain this. I believe that real explanations remain hidden from us, and that is why the ultimate motive are difficult to ascertain. What we know is that Europe is being sacrificed and her people will suffer immensely.
I agree, there's (much) more than meets the eye.
We'll need to think about transnational capital, too, I'd agree. I do think this is an intra-elite conflict about who gets to dictate stuff in the next era…
I don't think countries matter any more. The globalists/WEF/international un-elected cronies don't care about national borders; they care about outcomes of actions and where resources reside. The only way to deduce what is planned is to look beyond borders.
Of course. They have detached from countries but we still live in countries. But if it is up to them, not for long. They have a vision and strategy to achieve that vision. They are executing their plans and we don’t know they are waging a war on us.
Nice hypothesis, but there is also the other one, also tracked, of US helicopters that started the timers flying in the area not long before explosions. The 6th US Fleet left 2 days before the area, she carry helicopters and fighters. In June they did an exercise (ha, ha, ha... it reminds me Gates 201...) in the Baltic Sea near the Streams... It had to do with unmanned sub vehicles that tested how to "remove" explosive form deep sea.
But your opening vignette is exactly like it is, lovely!
Let's hope that Europeans wake up and as in the old good days, ask to drop Nato first, then EuroReich. I mean we in Italy we were doing good business during Cold War with Russians and their allies. How do they say? Business is business, so why now it means something else?
Eurasia looks way more interesting now, then the old, bad looking, not sexy US/Nato bitch.
I went trough the article on the next financial crisis, the obvious one, why be surprised? If you have been giving free money to financial criminals, how they thought would end?
But the best I red about this story and about the history, was Biden as a gangster: He looks like a mafia boss, speaks like a mafia boos, act like a gangsters boss!
Like that italian Judge said to the other fellows, during his last speech: Resit! Resit! Resist!
You mean the gangster wars piece by Caitlin Johnston, right? It's quite apt, yes, and the economic crash--well, we've been talking a lot about this over the past half-year, so, it's not exactly a 'surprise', ain't it? (Just for the 'professionals', of course, these things remain 'mysterious'…)
As to Eurasia--well: it's the future: there is production and consumption, as opposed to the US, which is merely interested in tribute.
nope, is another Johnstone... Diane. I thought was Caitlin but she's 78 and live in Paris
Fair enough, thanks for the clarification!
Small correction: North Macedonia and Montenegro are former Yugoslav republics, and they were never part of the Soviet block (at least not after 1948, when Tito broke with Stalin). You basic point is well taken, though. Prevent your "allies" from negotiating with Russia by destroying the thing that could be negotiated about, and wind up destroying your own military alliance in the process. Second-order consequences and all that. Fitting.
We're still going to be very, very cold this winter...
Thanks for pointing this out--it's true, and will edit the above piece accordingly.
The attack on the Northstream pipelines - vital European energy infrastructure - has shook me to my core.
There have been many shocking moments along the way to this moment and juncture, but IMHO we have now crossed a rubikon.
Attacks on civil liberties during pandemic incensed me.
States pushing unsafe vaccines depressed me.
Hanging Greece out to dry in Euro Crisis dismayed me.
Bailing out the private banks in financial crisis incensed me.
Lies about WMDs broke whatever little faith remained in the so-called international order.
But the news that NATO state-supported actors have conducted a terrorist attack in Europe - tantamount to warfare - astounds me.
I doubt that NATO doesn't know who did it. The Baltic is among the most-surveilled places, hence it's obvious that everybody knows.
Yet, nothing from Berlin (yet)…
A bit of pushback about Bulgaria: the general public is primarily Russophile. Most folks there are wanting out of NATO and EU and are not interested in supporting Ukraine’s membership in NATO. The government is going through elections and depending on who wins, they will either back the public or go against them but I wouldn’t say every soviet bloc state is anti-Putin.
The resigning swedish governement still refuses to comply with Turkey's demands, meaning Turkey keeps vetoing swedish and finnish membership.
With my Kremlology-hat on, I'd say this is deliberately done by the mrs Anderssons' resigning cabinet, as the NATO-issue splits the Unons and her party right down the middle and the last thing they need is an internal row about betraying the Palme-line about international alliances - up until election the threat of handing a victory to the opposition quieted the internal critics but now that they've lost anyway (not that they are willing to concede, they are actively sabotaging as much as they can) the table is set for one almighty fight, not the least due to Andersson not delivering a victory and her not belonging to the islamic/id-pol phalanx of the party.
So despite Turkey asking for actual known and convicted felons and terrorists, they still refuse to extradite them. Even if many of them have committed crimes here in Sweden, and that their refugee-status which gave them citizenship is nullified due to them being proven terrorists - Andersson and her party and their loose coalition of fellow travellers simply cannot be seen to acquiesce, for internal reasons. About 65% of african and mid-eastern migrants vote Socialist Democrat. A potential 1 000 000 votes next election is in the pot - none of them likely to continue their support for the SAP if it becomes common practice to hand over criminals and terrorists back to their home nations.
Which brings us to Nordstream. Swedish naval units were in the blast area shortly before the charges went off. What they did, why they were there, and so on is classified (which is natural during heightened alert). But we do have very accomplished anti-submarine techniques and units, and we also have divers trained to swim up to ships and apply explosives onto the hull. The swedish military wants us to join NATO openly, now that the cloak and dagger shenanigans from the 1950s to present day are no longer needed, excepting internal politicking. It is possible, though impossible to gauge how plausible, that the US handed the job over to the swedish navy, with the blessings of the SAP (Sozialistische Arbeiter Partei), mrs Andersson's party.
What would Sweden have to gain by blowing up Nordstream? It seems needlessly risky.
Sweden as such gains nothing. Those parts of swedish power players (minnows on the international stage, but they think they are sharks - our elites still think as if we were a power) that are desperate to lock us into the US hegemony could very well do this together with or acting as agent of US forces (and I doubt there's unilateral agreement within the US leadership on the NS sabotage - I think one group managed to get the orders through to the right receiver, to establish a fait accompli).