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Roy McIntosh's avatar

Bill Blum wrote about the YANKS stirring trouble between UKRAINE and RUSSIA and that was in 2014! I kept part of the message as thought it should not be forgotten or history to be re-written!? An Italian writer also wrote on the subject---both follow!

How many died between 2014 and 2021!?!?--

----------Giulietto Chiesa, an Italian journalist since 2014 too, was talking about West intervention and the coup probably organised by the US. He also added that Ukraine is where War World Three could start (or started).

Bill Blum----So why are you and others like you in mainstream media creating the same mentality that started the First World War (and the Cold War)?…….That is, demonizing Putin and Russia instead of showing the history and motivation of Western invasion and interference in Ukraine. Then ask why NATO even exists in a post Cold War world.------------------Late Bill Blum wrote a book called the ROGUE STATE. He had worked for USA government but left and became a writer etc!?!?

Live and let live is what I go by and if you want to fly a flag or have one posted on social media fair enough. Should it be the UKRAINE FLAG you are signaling that you support NAZI EVIL and all sorts of corruption including sex trafficking etc!?

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John Ost's avatar

Victorias Nuland, and neocon who grandparents were from Odessa, was paid by Obama 5 billion to organize and carry out the coup. Zeusse previously wrote a well documented article about it.

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Roy McIntosh's avatar

Thank you for the information!

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Jason's avatar

All US foreign policy benefits Israel otherwise it would not be allowed to happen.

#AIPAC

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nonwo's avatar

Exactly. The elephant in the room.

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Living Well Locally's avatar

George Washington's vision for foreign affairs was excellent. But today's technology and commerce put different needs into foreign affairs. However, if we are willing to live within our own resources and define greatness in different terms, neutrality seems possible again. Plus, we could heal chronic disease in the process. Shall we give President Trump time to discover this?

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David Chere-Bolelwang's avatar

All empires come and go.. The US and vassals cannot escape this frightening historical reality.. The fact that there are others waiting to step in already, is even more of a sign that the reality is irreversable.. What the US lacks is visionary leadership like the apartheid leaders of the 90s in South Africa who stepped forward and embraced the fact that there was no altrenative but to find an inclusive renewal..

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dmickg's avatar

Not to disagree with your premise John, but we are no longer “distant” from anything.

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Paul's avatar

Remember the USS Liberty

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Roger's avatar

Believing the 19 idiots with boxcutters demolished 3 building with 2 planes is delusional.

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Barbara Charis's avatar

If we had heeded the Constitution, we would not have been in this U.S. Foreign Policy Mess. American taxpayers were not to contribute taxpayer monies to foreign countries or foreign interests or organizations. Taxes were to be used to support a military to protect Americans in America...not support 180 military bases worldwide. Taxes were to be used to support our infrastructure...bridges, dams, roads, etc. The third thing taxes were for; DOMESTIC Concerns...not involvement in foreign affairs. We were not supposed to send aid to foreign countries with kickbacks to the congressperson promoting it. There should be instantaneous removal from Congress for any Congressman who goes against the Constitution.

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Larry Kaifesh's avatar

There is a reason the actions taken domestically and abroad are causing such harm to America and her citizens ... because they are designed to do so deliberately! You can't have a New World Order with a one-world government if there is a strong sovereign America with a Constitution that limits the government in favor of the people.

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Rick Zammuto's avatar

Well said John!

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Realist's avatar

Yes, our country is in a terrible state of affairs.

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Stanley Blake's avatar

Comrade John, How is Poot's summer offensive going, is he taking a lot of ground? lol What do you think of the Flamingo drone? How many refineries have been torched in recent weeks? The folks that follow MSM news about the war in Eastern Europe don't know poop about what is really going on. The Ukrainians are really smooth operators contrary to what you might hear from Mucker and Pepe. Ol Poot in China appeared that everything is going swimmingly in his special military operation even after well over a million casualties. Oh hell they were just minority types they weren't like the white folks from St Pete and Moscow. Poot can promise bonuses to the heathens who reproduce more fodder for the front line. The expendable ones in other words

I'm reading that Poot doesn't have a laptop of his own--he gets he info from the generals and the fsb. Maybe Poot hasn't been told about the one million plus casualties? Any way Comrade, just send your counsel to the state department. They are probably all ears.

Did you know that Russia joined up with Germany to divide and conquer Poland in starting WW2? I don't think that I read that in your commentary.

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Cheryl's avatar

I swear it’s because we are still under the monarchy! We know England is/was. And it is outrageous we spend all this time scheming to be part of the “global system “ ( some might say economy, or world affairs) Washington was correct and is there a way back?

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Tracy's avatar

Unfortunately, although I am in agreement with much of what you write, I have seen you fall into the abyss of anti-Israel/anti-Semitic bias. Tucker Carlson, who I started distrusting in 2016 and continued distrusting for the next several years, has totally shown himself to be an anti-Israel, antisemitic, history revisionist who has very scary morons on his show who say that Winston Churchill was the bad guy, Hitler was misunderstood, and the Nazi death camps were simply prisoner of war camps that ran out of food. You are not on the correct side of this. I would recommend you listening to this particular podcast. https://open.spotify.com/episode/7rJsJqtMijDwUEbExhwlSC?si=xmh9SK6FQ52N2pya2QYsVg&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A5O7ATDlTsKtnCKSUwrCYs4

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Nancy Parsons's avatar

Israel ≠ Judaism; Zionism ≠ Judaism. Genocide and war crimes are what they are regardless of who is committing them.

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nonwo's avatar
9hEdited

You are right. The City of London ie Rothschilds are to blame for all the miseries in the world. They start all wars and keep them going by funding all sides, false flags and finally and most important printing unlimited amounts of money.

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Honeybee's avatar

I don't always agree with Carlson, but he provides, in many cases, eye-opening interviews. I have no idea what his views are on WWII history.

I do know the following. However people who currently support Israel try and finagle the definition of genocide, they fail. Israel has been and is currently committing genocide. The atrocities are astounding and the excuses absolutely flabbergasting. I'm not anti-Semitic nor anti-Jewish. I was brought up directly after WWII, and my parents taught us very early respect for the Jewish religion. I participated with a Jewish family in their celebration of Hanukkah (if I remember correctly) at their invitation when I was 9 or 10. When my boss' wife died from cancer many years ago, I stayed all day and participated in the prayers said for her.

I just don't support genocide and refuse to be blinded by justifications. No justification exists for genocide whether or not against Jews or Palestinians.

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LJ's avatar

As with many substackers, I find Leake to be nuanced and intelligent. I disagree with your view Tracy but You certainly, and I mean this with respect, do have the right to your opinion. On Carlson? Jury still out. But I much prefer a nuanced view than a one sided view. For example: I personally believe Israel as a nation and a people belong to God and are His chosen people. But do I believe Netanyahu and the Israeli government are following Him and doing His will. Unknown. I don’t personally think so but I may be wrong. Even evil Israeli kings in the Scriptures were used by God to work out His desired outcomes. Do I also believe MSM paints Bibi in the absolute most horrrific light, yes, that too. And they flat out lie about things in the Middle East. I have friends that have been there recently (and 2 very good friends were there ON Oct 7, 2023), several of those friends have Israeli friends and all say the MSM reports are either flat out lies or are twisted to serve certain news agenda.

Nuances, thoughtful, not it’s all this way or all that.

To those however who glorify Hitler? No, absolutely not. That I admit to being one sided , I cannot see that maniac and his generals having any good. Let’s just review what Mengele and his other leaders did with Hitler obvious approval. During Covid I saw the pictures for the first time of “patients” being submerged in ice to die horrific deaths during the Nazi “experiments” just to see what extreme low temperatures would do to a human body.

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nonwo's avatar
1hEdited

Those experiments sound like the Israelis in Herzlya.

They do exactly this type of torture as experiments. They pick up innocent Palestinians on the street playing soccer and this is what they do.

Netanyahu is a war criminal and is afraid to go to many nations for fear of being arrested. He has internal problems because he will be jailed along with his wife and son for corruption. But the worst, and you conveniently left this out, is the genocide in Gaza.

He is the most hated man in the world and needs to be executed.

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Rachel's avatar

Foreign policy = Money laundering policy

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LJ's avatar

“external annoyance”. Washington actually said that? That’s funny. I’m picturing several “external annoyances” (Zelenskyy, Macron, Trudeau, Starmer, VonderLeyen, ahhhh the many annoyances).

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