How can the US be a peace mediator when we give weapons to Ukraine and building IDF bases, for “free” (to them)?
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Yesterday Was Not A Good Day For Trump’s Base of Supporters
Posted by M. C. on July 10, 2025
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‘Are You Comfortable with Ukraine Becoming the Next Israel?’-Kyle Anzalone
Posted by M. C. on April 29, 2025
It’s great that Sen. Lee compared Kiev and Tel Aviv. After all, both are welfare queens with unstable borders, and both have major problems with their respective ethno-nationalists.
Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah had a very interesting post on X recently.
The lawmaker, who is opposed to sending more aid to Ukraine, asked whether Americans wanted the country to become “the next Israel,” noting that Kiev expects the United States to provide “long-term” (read “indefinite”) security assistance.
The statement is so interesting because it is an acknowledgement that Tel Aviv is heavily dependent on Washington – first and foremost for weapons and military aid, but also diplomatic cover for its violent, decades-long military occupation of Palestinian lands and property.
For years, top lawmakers have repeated a version of Joe Biden’s “If Israel did not exist, the US would have to invent it” line, suggesting Israel is crucial to US security, with some American lawmakers even asserting that Israel’s defense is more important than protecting the “homeland.”
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The Marine Corps Informs Senate That Ukraine War Is Impacting Readiness
Posted by M. C. on March 14, 2025
The US is struggling to supply a provincial kleptocracy.
I can’t wait to do battle against China and Russia simultaneously!
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/marine-corps-informs-senate-ukraine-war-impacting-readiness
by Tyler Durden
The United States Marine Corps has warned that the constant support it has provided to Ukraine’s military over the last three years of war has significantly drained its own supplies and could impact war readiness. This was the testimony of the second highest-ranked Marine, Gen. Christopher Mahoney (assistant commandant of the Marines), to a Senate subcommittee on Wednesday.
“The Marine Corps has provided over $2 billion [replacement cost about $5 billion] in equipment and munitions to the Armed Forces of Ukraine via PDA presidential drawdown authority],” Mahoney said in his opening statement.
“Replacement and reimbursement for these inventory losses are needed to rebuild the depth of magazine needed to gain and maintain lost proficiency,” the General added.
He emphasized that “significant challenges” remain the meet production demands needed to replenish Marine Corps arms and equipment handed over to Ukraine:
“Though some funds have been reimbursed through PDA replenishment funds, the defense industrial base (DIB) faces significant challenges in meeting production demands for replenishment.”
Mahoney continued, “New procurement lead times delay replenishment, as existing programmed deliveries take priority. To mitigate impacts, the Marine Corps has adjusted training allocations and inventory management.”
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Pulling the Money Chain: The NGO Network in Ukraine and the Global War on Terror
Posted by M. C. on February 12, 2025
by Matt Wolfson
Razom also has government and university contacts. Samantha Power, the outgoing director of USAID, the government agency responsible for foreign aid, has been a featured speaker at Razom-hosted events, and so has the U.S. State Department’s Special Representative for Ukraine’s Economic Recovery, Penny Pritzker. Columbia University, which has received extensive donations from Soros as well as tax exemptions from Washington, hosts regular pro-Ukrainian events at its Harriman Institute, where Chomiak serves on the board.
Detritus from Joe Biden’s administration doesn’t just amount to the obvious—inflation and deficit spending, regulations and wars. There’s also been a more subtle shift off of these failures, affecting who has power in our country and how they’ll use it in the future.
Nowhere is the shift less noticed or more definite than in the world of humanitarianism, which has been enriched these past three years by the previous administration’s proxy wars. Since 2022—when the Biden White House responded to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by neither escalating nor defusing but prolonging—a network of humanitarian non-profits has grown up around the conflict. This network has fed off the deaths of Ukrainians and the piling on of debt for future Americans through its operators’ deep contacts with the United States government and its outgrowths.
This network is worth investigating on its own. But with the advent of the second Trump Administration which is looking to wind down the war, its players appear to be pivoting from Ukraine to the Middle East: from ginning up funds for an endless proxy war to ginning them up for a repeat of the Global War on Terror.
The most obvious entry point into this network is Ukraine NGO Coordination Network (UNCN), which has a small staff but a wide reach: forty-two organizations are members. Many of them are some version of globalist: “Cross Border Civilians,” “Aviation without Borders,” “Global Outreach Doctors,” “Medical Teams Worldwide.” And many of these have the institutional links one might expect. Cross Border Civilians recruits from the World Economic Forum while Global Outreach Doctors traffics in Black Lives Matter. But even UNCN non-profits with close connections to Ukraine are much more tied into Washington DC-backed institutions than they first appear.
Listed first of all these organizations is Razom, a Ukrainian-American non-profit active since 2014. Its president, Dora Chomiak, is a Princeton and Columbia graduate who served in the 1990s as a Director of Regional Media Programs for George Soros’ newly-founded Open Society Institute. Under Chomiak’s leadership, Razom has a spot at the World Economic Forum, a regular Soros haunt. It also has a strong presence at Bard College, a major accepter of Ukrainian refugees which recently received a $500 million endowment pledge from Soros, whose second wife directs the Bard Graduate Center.
Razom also has government and university contacts. Samantha Power, the outgoing director of USAID, the government agency responsible for foreign aid, has been a featured speaker at Razom-hosted events, and so has the U.S. State Department’s Special Representative for Ukraine’s Economic Recovery, Penny Pritzker. Columbia University, which has received extensive donations from Soros as well as tax exemptions from Washington, hosts regular pro-Ukrainian events at its Harriman Institute, where Chomiak serves on the board.
Another prominent member of UNCN’s network is Help Ukraine, founded by Brian Mefford, who also founded Wooden Horse Strategies, which by its own description is “a Kyiv-based consulting firm focusing on USAID and EU project development and evaluation, risk analysis, due diligence, political strategy and strategic communications” that “provides clients with both Ukraine and regional insight that achieves results for their projects, businesses and policy objectives.” In 2023, Wooden Horse Strategies was listed by Russian officials as under contract with Ukraine’s Science and Technology Center to help carry out “the United States’ military biological programs in Ukraine.”
This claim isn’t verifiable, but it is verifiable that Ukraine’s Science and Technology Center contracted with Wooden Horse Strategies to combat “disinformation” about the Ukrainian war effort.
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Did Trump Just Drop Some Hints About His Peace Plan?
Posted by M. C. on January 24, 2025
As for the compromises that might be requested of Russia, these could include freezing the Line of Contact while being asked to accept only the partial demilitarization of Ukraine and practically no denazification.
A What plan?
denazification – That would suggest that, yes Virginia, there really are (US taxpayer supported) nazis running things in Ukraine.
https://korybko.substack.com/p/did-trump-just-drop-some-hints-about
Trump’s known for his capriciousness, however, so it might be that he either didn’t mean to hint at anything at all in his latest remarks about Russia or he might unexpectedly change his mind about the compromises that he considers to be acceptable for each party during his upcoming call with Putin.
Trump said a few words about Russia shortly after his reinauguration while signing Executive Orders in the Oval Office. They’re important to interpret since they might hint at his peace plan, which he’s yet to officially reveal, but reports have circulated claiming that he’ll “escalate to de-escalate” through more sanctions against Russia and armed aid to Ukraine if Putin rejects whatever deal he offers. He’ll likewise allegedly cut Ukraine off if Zelensky rejects the same deal. Here’s what he said on Monday afternoon:
“Zelenskyy told me he wants to make a deal, I don’t know if Putin does … He might not. I think he should make a deal. I think he’s destroying Russia by not making a deal. I think, Russia is kinda in big trouble. You take a look at their economy, you take a look at their inflation in Russia. I got along with [Putin] great, I would hope he wants to make a deal.
He’s grinding it out. Most people thought it would last about one week and now you’re into three years. It is not making him look good. We have numbers that almost a million Russian soldiers have been killed. About 700,000 Ukrainian soldiers are killed. Russia’s bigger, they have more soldiers to lose but that’s no way to run a country.”
Starting from the beginning, his claim that Zelensky “wants to make a deal” coupled with his uncertainty about Putin’s willingness might be meant to portray the latter as an obstacle to peace, thus possibly setting the stage for the previously mentioned punitive measures. As for his opinion that Putin is “destroying Russia”, that’s hyperbole but frames his counterpart as the weaker of the two, especially when contrasted with Trump’s declaration earlier that day about the start of an American Golden Age.
He then elaborated by pointing to Russia’s inflation rate,
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A million have died in Ukraine & Senator Lindsey Graham points out that it’s about money…
Posted by M. C. on December 4, 2024
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The Insanity of Neocons
Posted by M. C. on December 3, 2024
The insane people who rule in Washington DC are enemies of the entire world, including of the American people, and CAN be dealt with BY the American people.
https://ericzuesse.substack.com/p/the-insanity-of-neocons
Stephen Bryen, who’s now retired from a stellar career at the very highest levels both in the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex and in the Executive and also the Legislative branches of the U.S. Government, and whose predictions about the war in Ukraine war thus far have consistently turned out to be true, is, for whatever reason, nonetheless a neocon (advocate for increasing yet further the U.S. empire) in the case of China; and, so, while he’s realistic about the need for the U.S. Government to withdraw from Ukraine, he is nonetheless a normal neocon in regards to China.
On November 29th, he headlined “China Alarmed As US Marine Prepare HIMARS and ATACMS for Yonaguni”, and argued that it’s a good move by Biden now, that he’ll be placing in Japan U.S. missiles that can hit Taiwan for the purpose of “stopping a Taiwan invasion,” by which stupid phrase he intends to mean that we’ll be stopping “an invasion of Taiwan,” by — you guess whom, which is, of course, according to the neocons’ plan, to be done by — China, as soon as Taiwan will announce that it is NOT a part of China, and for which purpose the U.S. Government has been arming Taiwan so that Taiwan can then (with American weapons and maybe direct Military involvement) resist the invasion by China that will be China’s inevitable response to this U.S.-planned breakaway from China by Taiwan. And THAT will then give the U.S. Government the ‘right’ to invade and conquer China — which is the real objective of all of this scheming and war-planning by Breyen and ogther neocons.
So, I posted a reader-comment to that article:
Here is why your article is shocking:
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Sullivan Touts ‘Massive Surge’ In Arms To Ukraine With 50 Days Left In Biden’s Term
Posted by M. C. on December 3, 2024
by Tyler Durden
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan took to the Sunday news shows where he boasted that the White House is surging as many weapons as possible to Ukraine in the final days of the Biden administration.
He explained to ABC News that with just 50 days left in Biden’s term, the White House is busy trying to “get Ukraine all the tools we possibly can to strengthen their position on the battlefield.”
“President Biden directed me to oversee a massive surge in the military equipment that we are delivering to Ukraine so that we have spent every dollar that Congress has appropriated to us by the time that President Biden leaves office,” he said.
Biden and his top officials have long pledged to support Ukraine with arms and funding “for as long as it takes” to defeat Russia.
But Sullivan and other defense officials have of late begun to acknowledge the inevitability of the Zelensky government having to enter negotiations with Moscow. For the time being, Sullivan said Washington aims to “give Ukraine as many tools as possible so that they could go into that negotiation and feel they could achieve the outcome that they would like to see.”
Still, Sullivan sought to reiterate in the ABC appearance that the “key thing” behind potential negotiations to end the war is that Ukraine’s destiny should “not be imposed by outside powers, including the United States.”
Concerning a recent NY Times report that suggested some US officials want to see nuclear weapons given to Ukraine, Sullivan dismissed this as a possibility:
Still, Sullivan debunked a report suggesting that the administration is open to returning nuclear weapons to Ukraine.
“That is not under consideration. No. What we are doing is surging various conventional capacities to Ukraine so that they can effectively defend themselves and take the fight to the Russians, not nuclear capability,” he told Karl.
As for dealing with the incoming Trump administration, Sullivan confirmed there is contact on handing “off the baton” – though Trump has vowed to immediately negotiate an end to the war.
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The revassalization of Europe: The real U.S. war aims in Ukraine
Posted by M. C. on November 5, 2024
Europe is being weakened by this war, even if its elites have enriched themselves through various non-productive schemes.
The empire builders never sleep
The United States, in its grand geopolitical maneuvering regarding Ukraine, must have been fully cognizant of the improbability of dismantling Russia’s military strength or eroding its political coherence through conventional warfare or economic sanctions. Such a feat would seem at first to be an exercise in folly, and based on the miscalculations of Western leaders, particularly those surrounding the power vectors of Washington DC, Wall Street, and the City of London. Russia, with its immense territorial expanse, historical resilience, and strategic depth, is so highly unlikely to be brought to heel in such fashion, as evidenced by the results of the conflict, that it raises far more profound questions than one of mere folly. There are few accidents in politics, and by extension, geopolitics.
This nigh impossible task today, however, is in large part publicly justified by a false allusion to past precedent. As a consequence largely of the toll on Russia which was World War I, the Russian Revolution was the product of the intersection of social fatigue and geopolitical intrigue. But the inability of the Russian state at the time to offer much in the way of a viable alternative was the result, from the perspective of today, looking backwards, of the relative economic underdevelopment of the global East and global South.
In other words, the rise of India and China today, as well as Latin America and South-East Asia, and their high significance on the global chessboard, are chiefly among the reasons that Russia cannot be ‘isolated’. Such is the nature of multipolarity. The world of technologically and economically advanced civilizations is much larger today than it was over a century ago.
But since these facts were already the known-knowns in terms of global and situational awareness on the part of the U.S., it raises the question of its true plans and intentions.
Based on a broad and extensive view of the situation, it is clear that the goals of the U.S. were several-fold.
- To revassalize the West European economy;
- To destroy Ukraine so that its eventual reunion with Russia would be costly in multiple ways;
- X factors and the known-unknowns, and the unknown-unknowns could potentially lead to the destabilization of Russia, but this would be a bonus or ‘pleasant surprise’ falling outside of strict contingency planning
This paper will focus on the revassalization aspect, and the last point, 3., requires no further explanation. Point 2., will require its own paper, as a series with this one. But briefly on that question, it will be critical to understand that Russia’s gravitational pull – the combination of its cultural affinity and its economic growth and stabilization trajectory inversely away from the late 20th century collapse period – was naturally leading towards the re-integration of Ukraine with Russia. This means that the U.S. did not view it as likely that they would thwart Russia-Ukraine reintegration, but rather they could manipulate Russia’s red-lines in light of the military aggression of the post-Maidan Kiev Junta, to actually have Russia ‘reset’ much of Ukraine’s infrastructure through the SMO. This makes the cost of reintegration considerably higher than it would have been if not for Western interference.
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The U.S. Military Should Not Fight For Ukraine, or For Israel
Posted by M. C. on October 12, 2024
Iran is an advanced populous country, their military does not work out of caves with cell phones and VCRs.
We are still fighting the latter and not winning.
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