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Sep 15, 2022Liked by epimetheus

I'm sure RAND knows what they are doing, but it strikes me that if denouncing this as false, RAND's words would ring truer if they had opted for a laconic dispassionate style. (Might well be my personal bias speaking here.) Something bone-dry and sharply cut short like "The report titled NN is not the work of the RAND Corporation. All our reports, analyses and projects are available on our homepage and in our archives."

No debate of any points made, no discussion, nothing to start digging at. It's the same principle as when being questioned by police or prosecutors: offer absolutely no information not explicitly and on the record asked for:

"If the interrogator asks you if you know what time it is, what do you answer?"

"Well, if I know the time I tell him what the watch says?"

"Wrong. The right answer is 'Yes' and nothing more. Never volunteer information."

Otherwise you always wind up in "The Lady does protest too much"-territory.

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I think the RAND report was a draft that never made it, but it is damn on spot as I wrote in my Substacks and The Duran nor RAND found anything wrong in the report that is very well informed.

I will link here tomorrow.

By the way: In what context did Goebbels say that you should always blame the enemy of what you are guilty of? I do not think he was explaining his strategy, but was he the Tucker Carlson pointing out the Democrats and City of London and what they always do?

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What I find quite "bizarre" in the way they debunk this report, is that exactly the same language is used as when debunking B Gates - Covid conspiracy (Bill Gates is surprised at the "bizarre conspiracy theories"...) Sounds like written by the same person. And yes, the war was anything but "unprovoked". Same as the war in Georgia, where McCain seems to have played a role during his election campaign in 2008 and which was likely instigated by him.

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The ridiculous of all, is what the German Foreign Minister said to the Bundestag recently. You can find short video on this interesting article by UK Mail online that I just translated and published, on the norwegian nazi Stoltenberg of Nato delirium, warning for "civil unrest" in Europe and the "tyranny" of Russia that could invade other ex soviet countries or even Eu ones... No comment.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11189015/NATO-chief-warns-civil-unrest-sparked-energy-cuts-price-living-crisis.html

But there's the speech of the German Foreign Minister that shortly is saying they "have done everything possible for peace and diplomacy, but this time the counter part is not Gorbachev but Russian President..."

And she concludes: " THIS IS THE MOMENT WHERE WE STAND TOGETHER" Wooww!!!

Notice anything in that? Did remind you of someone, something? No? I help you out:

Bush Jr in the first speech to the Nation after 9/11...

Same words, same ghost writer, same propaganda strategy, the bad old Goebbels one "Repeat a lye 10, 100, 1000 times, it'll become truth"

It's just the Nazis that come back, the Nazi Revenge 75 years after. You can call them Neocon, Globalist, Wef, Imperialist, deep State and so on, but they all have the same Nazi philosophy, conquer and destroy...

It could be intellectually stimulating to discuss why, how and when, but the problem now, in Europe is to prepare and execute what they are afraid of: a civil unrest or in street vocabulary, a people's insurrection against them all, whatever label they stand with.

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