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Cruising Economist's avatar

DC was wholly defeated by a remarkably small number of tribesmen and foreign fighters in Afghanistan armed with little more than small arms yet some people still believe DC attacking a much larger and more sophisticated country was a sound decision? DC is populated with cloistered fools many of which are clearly mentally disturbed (sociopaths, psychopaths, etc.). The diseased imbeciles in DC pose a clear and present danger to the American people, and world.

Perhaps worth noting, I'm an Army vet who served in a combat arms specialty but I don't think any military experience is really needed to understand that DC's behavior is mind numbingly idiotic.

richard noakes's avatar

Afghanistan was interesting. Russia invaded Afghan and then America provided The Taliban with weapons to be used against Russia in Afghanistan, which eventually saw Russia quit their war and move their troops and equipment out - then America jumped in boots and all and replaced Russia, so Russia supplied the Taliban with weapons against America who had now replaced them - and when America could not win the war against Taliban who were on foot or on donkey's - Biden ordered all of the American troops out, leaving behind all of the latest American technology for the Taliban - and all of the filing cabinets full of American servicemen's records and what have you - like duh!! - and now, in all probability, in any future wars and in Iran, Russian, Iran, Chinese knock offs of American weapons left behind in Afghanistan, is what American troops on the ground will have to fight against - like duh again.

John L. Bengfort, M.D.'s avatar

Wars are not started by people who care about plebeians. We just pay for and die in them.

richard noakes's avatar

Russia eventually capitulated and left Afghanistan - I'm hoping that Putin will throw in the towel and leave the Ukraine in just the same way they did Afghanistan, after all, the intended "weekend armed takeover of Ukraine" is now what, 4 years old, with no end in sight?

Cruising Economist's avatar

Russia isn't being attacked by Ukraine, Ukrainians may be pushing some buttons in the process but the weapons and targeting data are all DC, and its cohorts, which Russia knows of course. Ukraine and the Ukrainian people are just being used by DC to try and harm Russia. Russia absolutely cannot tolerate DC attacking their country at their border. I'd be willing to bet Russia will prevail in that conflict, and they are certainly capable, but it looks like they may have to take Kiev in order to extricate the ethnically hateful authoritarians who were installed by DC in 2014, which will take time. Russia is acting methodically, using heavy weapons to do as much of the work as possible...which is smart. Don't dig the hole with hand shovels, while exposing your troops to needless danger, if you can use a bulldozer. The new realities of frontline drone warfare are also slowing progress.

richard noakes's avatar

You remember the r/c aircraft you could buy that were electric powered and made of foam - my guess is that those makers have now switched to Drones, bigger market, much more money to be made, good turnover = unlimited supply - but think of jet ones, awesome.

richard noakes's avatar

Yes, I agree with you, but Russia started their war with Ukraine and Ukraine did not want to be under the Russian umbrella again and fought that from happening.

All minor wars, like Ukraine or Afghanistan, Korea, Vietnam, all have major countries supplying their expertise to the minor country which is now at war with it's enemy and it's just the same with the Ukraine war which Putin simply can't seem to win - Putin is fighting for his survival as their supreme leader like Xi in China and if Trump has his way, him in America and for life.

Cruising Economist's avatar

Russia tried for years to avoid the conflict (look into the Minsk Agreements). But DC was determined to militarize Ukraine and threaten Russia at their border. After DC installed the monsters in Kiev in 2014 Kiev started killing ethnic Russians in Ukraine, beginning with the mob slaughter in Odessa. They then used airstrikes and artillery to terrorize and kill ethnic Russians in the Donbas region, who were in fact Ukrainians, after they rejected Kiev's control following Odessa, naturally enough.

When I said DC is populated with sociopaths and psychopaths I wasn't kidding. Russia rejected their desire to control shortly after the turn of the century so DC, and their European lapdogs, freaked out.

Susie's avatar

Yes, yes, yes. For deeper understanding of this, watch Professor Jeffrey Sach. He's been interviewed many times on various YT channels and he gives the history of the U.S. aggression against Russia going back to the 1990s.

richard noakes's avatar

So who, in America, now controls the sociopaths and psychopaths to whom you refer?

Ryan Heinzman's avatar

DC became a corporation in 1871, immune from all laws and the constitution itself. No wonder we've had world wars and modern wars without congressional approval. And when approval isn't there, destroy the twin towers to make America support murdering millions of innocent people who have nothing to do with the war to begin with. It's a big money machine that JFK fought and was killed over, among other things. Makes me sick to my stomach

J Guti's avatar

The people behind Covid are the same ones behind the depopulation agenda and wars.

Phil Davis's avatar

A famous passage from an 1795 essay titled Political Observations written by James Madison

"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."

Joseph A Gorski's avatar

I agree with you 100%. The whole idea of war (except in true self-defense) goes against every principle of a functioning society. I am not afraid to call myself a pacifist or something very close to a pacifist. The post world war 2 world with the USA as world policeman and reserve currency defender has been a real disaster on so many levels.

Helene Roux Jeandheur's avatar

We have become a war economy. Excellent post Mr. Leake!

Paving the Way's avatar

Yes, that explains most of it. War, healthcare, and useless, redundant shit.

Canute's avatar

You are correct. Our economy (US) is now built upon two foundations - armaments and "healthcare." The problem is that we have just learned that our armaments are a) both, not very good and in short supply, and b) our "healthcare" system has almost nothing to do with human health and has in fact, made us the only western, developed nation to have lowered life expectancy.

JoanBalone's avatar

So well said! Once one takes the time to research our US history and how we become engaged in these worthless, deadly wars, any critical thinker can only come to the conclusion that war is indeed hell and is only justified to enrich the military industrial complex and a global elite who could, pardon the expression, give a rat’s ass about the ‘people’. I am astounded and feel abandoned by Trump’s sudden support of foreign wars. Is he truly a Netanyahu puppet? Or is he part of the old regime enriching himself over all of this? I hate this ‘war’ with Iran and hope Trump can suck it up, admit he’s in over his head, and get out!

Paving the Way's avatar

Yes, is it a terminal condition?

John Stone's avatar

It goes back to the Sermon on the Mount “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they should be called the children of God” (Matthew 5:9) and Erasmus railed against offensive wars in a gigantic treatise https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39487/39487-h/39487-h.htm I think Shakespeare’s Henry V is in the tradition of Erasmus - my essay needs more work if I ever had the peace of mind https://ageofautism.com/covid-and-shakespeare-the-dark-heart-of-the-national-epic/ Of course, vaccine programmes and no doubt much else of modern medicine are an extension of warfare by other means.

Jason's avatar

Anyone who supports these foreign Wars is entirely conditioned and brainwashed by the propaganda, put out by the very group responsible for said foreign wars.

They control our media, banks, search engines, immigration policies, the majority of big Pharma, hold significant this way over our judiciary and also control HollyWood utilizing all of these institutions to influence public opinion.

They bribe and blackmail our politicians, and then there are simply politicians who are afraid to go against them.

Even among those who understand these foreign wars are wrong, there exists a percentage that are simply afraid to speak up because all the propaganda implies that there might be a larger group that has an opposing opinion and they don’t want to go against the grain.

We need to address the root cause which in every and all cases stems from Israel.

Simonde's avatar

A new form of war is required, one where each country's leader fights to the death in hand to hand combat. One death decides the winner and loser.

Alan Horn's avatar

Dear Mr. Leake. This old sailor highly respects your work with Dr. McCullough, especially your work on VACCINES - MYTH, IDEALOGY & REALITY. Therefore, I ask you sir to consider what I know as a military veteran. We are not in a war with Iran. Iran was taken over by evil Islamists and we are ridding Iran of them, not the people of Iran. There is a big, big difference. We are not indiscriminately killing the great Persian people of that country who yearn to be free and independent, just like our Pilgrims, the original founders of our country. I direct your attention to the DOD, now called Dept. of War, THE LAW OF WAR MANUAL, updated July 2023 and to the writings of Derek Johnson, THE MIDNIGHT RIDER RIDES AGAIN, Vol. 1 & 2. We are sir, however, at war with evil forces of the Deep State on a much bigger battlefield, the likes of which are biblical, historical and monumental and 99% of civilians have no clue about this. Ultimiately its GOD vs. satan and we, who are on GOD's side are winning. Be patient, be calm, be educated and pray to HIM daily.

Forest Cat's avatar

The "Deep State" is part of the apparatus that is driving wars of conquest and destruction. War is a business and the Military Industrial Complex profits from wars and rumors of wars. Propaganda the sales pitch used to play on fears, ignorance, and lust for violent solutions.

You conveniently ignore that Trump himself posted “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” Idle threats made by someone claiming that they are doing it for the independence of the people for Iran? Or another useful pawn being manipulated by "deep state" motives.

You fail to mention the historical role that the US has played in Iran. From Operation Ajax in overthrowing the democratically elected government. Assisting in the formation of the brutal SAVAK secret police. Arming Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi's with chemical weapons in the war against Iran. The Iran/Contra scandal for the "deep state" covert operations. The US cannot claim an altruistic motive with Iran and is hypocritical by doing so.

Compound that with other wars to "liberate" the people from their evil overlords. The No Gun Ri massacre in Korea where the US military killed in mass Southern Korean refugees. The Vietnam war and the Mai Lai massacre of torture and rape committed by US soldiers against civilians. Agent Orange and the scorched earth doctrine. Also, the Phoenix program of mass torture and psychological warfare by US military satanist Michael Aquino. The "devil" himself entangled within the US military and it's psychological operations of warfare.

So when you invoke the paradigm of God vs Satan I would suggest that you make the mistake that "God's" war is of death and destruction manufactured by bombs and weapons that kills "children of god" by justifications of men. "God's war" is a spiritual battle that we are all facing daily inside of us. The message sent of Love and Compassion by Jesus towards our fellow man instead of Hatred and Destruction. We choose how we reflect the message by our actions. Do we seek more peaceful solutions or do we continue along this war path that all empires have eventually fallen from in the end (tower of babel, fallen angels, empires of men). The lust for blood is not something to admire but instead a disease inflicted on men who are devoid of soul.

Okie Girl's avatar

I think Mr Leake needs to pay more attention to “Promethean Action.” No one likes wars except the NeoCons. But EVERYONE hates the global structures that have caused war, famine & mayhem since the Balfour Declaration in the Middle East as well as the horrid orchestrated World Wars.

The Iran War was a necessary step in demolishing that global power, now the elite are running for cover & that strait will no longer make them richer & more powerful.

LOOK BEYOND THE HEADLINE NEWS.

https://youtu.be/o8nh2Y6vSKA?is=aaxhEUNXgJgNdzt7

MrBlaat's avatar

99.99% of all US citizens EVER killed by violence are killed by other US citizens or by their own government (take a look at Fauci, who has just killed more US citizens than all foreign & domestic wars combined).

Americans are braindead.

richard noakes's avatar

Re: Because only 0.4% of the American population serves in the active duty military, most Americans perceive themselves to be very far (and safe) from the business of waging war. But that can easily be changed, since the vaccinated ALL now have a genetic transmitter/receiver installed and their own number identity - apparently, switch your mobile to Bluetooth and put it on your arm and a number will appear, the same number on either arm - that is your body's connection to an online computer which controls your mind and your body re:

The US Supreme Court 2013 ruled that only cDNA (Synthetic DNA - ModRNA DNA) is patentable. Isolated, natural DNA (mRNA) is not patentable, but in a nutshell, biotechnology companies can own living things if said things are genetically-modified and not naturally occurring - that means that The Department Of Defense (and others) can literally own a human being if this synthetic code is taken up into your Genome, which a Swedish Company observed to occur within 6 hours from Covid-19 Gene Therapy "vaccines" Injections.

Dr Madej wrote The synthetic mRNA of Pfizer and Moderna, along with the viral vector DNA delivery systems of Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca, change your "genetic code" making you genetically modified, but Moderna Chief Medical Officer Tal Zaks tells you straight up that 1) The shots change your genetic code. 2) The shots do not stop the spread of Covid-19. 3) Tal Zaks says the Moderna shot is "hacking the software of life" and that Carbon Particles and Viral Vectors do the same thing. A vaccinated person is now legally, a "Trans Human".

Obvious Questions:

1) These vaccines are not mRNA and they never were, by US Supreme Court Law 2013 they are ModRNA DNA because they are patented.

2) To make the vaccines, Moderna first had to have the Covid-19 Neucloids virus to create them from, which Moderna did from before 2013.

3) Does a Gene Therapy modified, but previously Human, but now Trans Human, have any Legal Rights, as there does not seem to be any Laws in place relating to them.

4) If mRNA is the key to Heaven and universal to all "natural life forms" on this planet, what door does ModRNA DNA open at death?

5) What Legal Standing Does a genetically modified Trans Human (as above) owned by a biotechnology company or others, have, in a Human Court Of Law .

richard noakes's avatar

The Expose, back in 2019 published that DARPA Scientists in America were bragging on Twitter that they had made the Covid-19 virus with Moderna - which Moderna went on to Patent in 2013

Basically it is irrefutable proof that Moderna, in America, created the Covid-19 virus and here are the Patents for it: ModernaGate: Moderna wins Award for Deadly Covid Vaccine it was able to create prior to 2019 because “Murderna” is responsible for creating the Covid-19 Virus in a BioLab… #CTCCTCGGCGGGCACGTAG By The Exposé on April 30, 2023

https://christine257.substack.com/p/cctcggcgggcacgt

Moderna's Covid-19 virus Inventors: Stephane Bancel, Tirtha Chakraborty, Antonin de Fougerolles, Sayda M. Elbashir, Matthias John, Atanu Roy, Susan Whoriskey, Kristy M. Wood, Paul Hatala, Jason P. Schrum, Kenechi Ejebe, Jeff Lynn Ellsworth, Justin Guild -

Not a Chinese name amongst them.

Learn more about this bombshell SARS-CoV-2 laboratory origin evidence at The Expose.

https://christine257.substack.com/p/moderna-patented-a-19-nucleotide

richard noakes's avatar

In case you missed my point above - Human Drones for use in any war, controlled by Elon Musk's satellites which now cover all of the Earth's surfaces with 5G or 6G and can send signals from space, controlling the Human Drones on the Earth below, if that is their intention - it is interesting that Elon is giving Trump millions of dollars to make sure he gets elected POTUS again after the mid terms, so perhaps after the mid terms with Trump still in, more American bodies will find themselves fighting wars just like those Drones we see and read about too.

If I were vaccinated, I'd make and wear a aluminum foil hat made out of the stuff you wrap chicken's in before baking them in your oven, down past my ears - so if transmissions from space come my way they get deflected off my head and brain and that above transmitter/receiver, too, hopefully.

Sam's avatar

Thus reinforcing the old notion of the tinfoil hatter... I'd be there too

richard noakes's avatar

I have refused to be injected with the ModRNA DNA Gene Therapy Injections so the above does not apply to me or this: MFlusia - Moderna FDA Approves First mRNA Flu Vaccine Despite Safety Concerns

A hugely important broadcast today, as the FDA just approved a new mRNA vaccine targeting the elderly, even without any evidence that it's safe or effective. They admitted it.

The FDA approved Moderna’s mFlusiva for adults ages 50 and older, opening the door for broader use of mRNA technology beyond COVID-19 vaccines. Critics raised concerns about insurance coverage, long-term safety monitoring and whether patients will have access to non-mRNA alternatives. “mRNA gene therapy injections are demonstrably not ready for prime time,” said Mary Holland, CEO of Children’s Health Defense.

by Jill Erzen August 6, 2026

mFLUSIVA - the Moderna mRNA Influenza Vaccine is going to make thousands of people violently ill

Who is going to be most hurt by the recently approved Moderna mRNA flu jab?

Those who took 2 or 3 COVID-19 Vaccines...

Those who took COVID-19 Vaccines and were severely injured have either already "died suddenly" or are currently dealing with "Turbo Cancer" or severe autoimmune disease.

They will not rush to get a new mRNA flu jab.

However, there are millions who took 2 or 3 COVID-19 Vaccines and still "feel fine".

These individuals have suffered mild to moderate immune system damage (subclinical immune damage) but they don't know it.

Their immune system may barely be hanging on, but cannot sustain another mRNA attack, which is precisely what the Moderna mRNA Flu vaccine is.

Moderna's mFLUSIVA mRNA Flu vaccine will do the most damage here, because those who took 2-3 COVID-19 Vaccines are mostly compliant and 90% still "feel fine" even though they have suffered irreversible internal damage in many cases.

If we get a "bad flu season", the unvaccinated will be blamed and the recently mRNA flu vaccinated will fill up the hospitals, ICUs and morgues.

William Makis from Makis Health Aug 9, 2026

(OPINION) On June 18, the FDA's vaccine advisory panel voted 9 to 0 to recommend Moderna's mRNA flu shot for adults ages 50 to 64 and for people 65 and older [1]. Let me be blunt: this is not a vaccine. It is a biological weapon aimed at eliminating the people this government least wants to keep funding, and they want you to call it a flu shot because that makes it sound routine.

Mike Adams 6 Aug 2026

Less Than 1% Absolute Benefit and 6 Times More Severe Reactions

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday approved the first messenger RNA (mRNA)-based seasonal flu vaccine, clearing the way for Moderna’s mFlusiva to be used in adults ages 50 and older, The New York Times reported.

The approval is a major win for Moderna, which sees mFlusiva as the next step in expanding its mRNA platform beyond COVID-19.

The move drew criticism from vaccine safety advocates, who argued that regulators should not expand the use of mRNA technology before addressing concerns raised during the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.

Jon Fleetwood Aug 6 2026

FDA APPROVES MODERNA’S FIRST-EVER mRNA FLU SHOT DESPITE 75.3% ADVERSE REACTION RATE

According to the FDA briefing document, severe systemic reactions were 4× MORE COMMON with the mRNA flu shot than with the traditional flu shot.

Nicolas Hulscher, MPH Aug 6 2026

The Empire Strikes Back

Pharma finished recapturing the Food & Drug Administration as the FDA okayed Moderna's mRNA flu jab, which Moderna's OWN studies show causes 270 severe side effects to stop ONE flu hospitalization

Alex Berenson Aug 6 2026

“If You Take the New Flu Vaccine, You are Reckless, Gullible, Delusional, Mentally-Ill, and as Dumb as Kamala Harris. And You Have a Death Wish.”

OMG. I can’t believe what I’m hearing. The new flu vaccine is out. And it’s based on the deadly failed mRNA Covid vaccine.

And once again Big Pharma and your bribed government is urging every American to take it.

“Trust Us.”

Wayne Allyn Root Aug 6 2026

mRNA Flu Shots Turn Grandma Into a Super Shedder of Engineered Biochemical Weapons

I have an urgent but disturbing message for you today. I've done the research on the persistence of the mRNA protein toxin synthesis in the human body following mRNA injections, and it's bad news.

In some people, the non-human protein toxin fragments can persist up to 700 days (nearly two years). During this time, those people are shedding all over the other people around them, functioning as "super spreaders" who are distributing human-engineered biochemical weapons now being produced by their own body's cells.

Natural News

ALL VACCINES WILL KILL YOU: The Recently FDA Approved mRNA-1010 mFlusiva "Vaccine" Increases Your Chances Of DYING By 30x

2nd Smartest Guy in the World 7 Aug 2026

Still only 0.8% Effective (0.84%) - FDA’s botched review of Moderna’s flu mRNA vaccine

An investigation into clinical trial documents reveals how the FDA used statistical sleight of hand to make a serious safety signal in Moderna’s flu vaccine disappear.

Maryanne Demasi, PhD Aug 10 2026

Me: mRNA Flu Shots Turn Grandma Into a Super Shedder of Engineered Biochemical Weapons = REPLICON VACCINE: Which means that the previous Covid-19 vaccines, which this is, were doing the same above thing, as well - FluMist does the same thing - Do my free salt water cure if you think you have caught something and stay safe that way. Ask me for it.

JoanneS's avatar

John, it could be argued that the war with Iran has been going on for many years, if you consider that their government has long been a worldwide state supporter of terrorism. The western world has been targeted in this cowardly way for decades. The Iranian people have been living under this repressive regime since 1979. I know an Iranian American who still has family in Iran, and they support the US efforts to free them.

earl's avatar

While I'm disappointed that we are in this war, I wanted to take up John's implicit challenge of justifying the war but can't quite come up with one. Your thinking comes close to mine. I think ISRAEL has justification for all the attacks and threats it has received over the years by proxies of Iran. But even with the many Americans dead at the hands of Iran and its' proxies from past wars I'm not sure there is justification for our war on Iran. But, when does the world come to 'enough is enough'? I believe it's factually true that they've been fomenting unrest and waging acts of terrorism for decades, right? It still seems to me that the burden falls on Iran's neighbors and not US World Police.

Allie's avatar

How about propaganda to oppose war? War is, at times, necessary. You can argue whether or not you think the Iran war is necessary, but you should examine the propaganda from all sides. Your friend, John, might think that you have a “mind virus” for not believing that Iran is not serious when it calls for “death to America.”

Danny Huckabee's avatar

Both the Second Israeli War, which is what Trump's assault on Iran is (the First being Bush's attack on Iraq in '03) , and the Russo-Ukrainian War, which we started in 2014 when the CIA instigated a coup de etat of a duly elected government in Kiev and replaced it with Western toddies, are completely unnecessary and do not in any way fill the just war philosophy you mention. No good will come from these new wars and indeed, the Israelis and their neocon allies in D.C. are transmogrifying them into one war.

So, we find ourselves fighting Russia, a Western country who should be allied with us or at least neutral, and who have at least 10k nukes of various types, including hypersonic missiles which are too fast to shoot down, and Iran, a large country with over 90,000,000 people, supported by China, N Korea, and Russia (because of our war mongers), plus has massive amounts of oil and a very strategic and almost impossible geography for attackers. Meantime, China continues to infiltrate and attack us in non-kinetic ways, based on their May 2019 Declaration of a Peoples' War against us, and a Muslim invasion and colonization of the U.S., with only parts of the U.S. seeing these as the metaphysical threat to our survival as a republic that they present.

John is right about these wars. And who decides which wars to fight makes them problematic as they bring their own prejudices and human frailties to the process of picking which war is good, which is bad.