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Sep 26, 2022Liked by laughlyn (johan eddebo)

This fragment caused me some confusion: "...yet the stranglehold of US propaganda is almost immutable, not least among the working class." Is this referring to the working class in Europe? the US? Asia? I don't know the basis for this claim. In the US, the stranglehold is definitely not "immutable," and is deteriorating daily. The propaganda claims are so ludicrous on all fronts -- Covid, Ukraine, Palestine, the economy, etc. -- that it is hard to find anyone outside the managerial class who accepts any of it. Our overlords have overplayed their hands. They want to characterize (in the US) all opposition as "right wing," but that's not even close to accurate. So now we are moving on to overt repression - police/FBI violence, tighter surveillance, economic warfare. That is unlikely to go well for the overlords.

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And guess who blows up Nord Stream 1 & 2?

Raising the stakes indeed. I argued that Europe's natives were restless, possibly moving towards renegotiating the stance towards the NATO operation and the Ukraine situation, and then this happens.

Our propaganda machine will immediately run with it and blame it on Russia, in spite of them just having to flip a switch and achieve the same result, and in spite of them actually needing European energy markets.

Guess who don't need the Russian Federation's market share?

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Sep 27, 2022Liked by laughlyn (johan eddebo)

So, USA must "break Russia and wrest control" of its energy!~ At least that would be a goal, albeit impossible, for this Administration's proxy dance with disaster and a more persuasive rationale than its stated objective of making Ukraine safe for democracy. If we really need their oil b/c Enviro-Whackos forbid USA to develop its own, wouldn't it be easier to take it from Venezueala and Iran rather than trying to wrest it from Russia, since Venezuela and Iran lack nuclear warheads (althought Biden's trying to fix that), vast natural resorces, the economic capacity to cripple western Europe, the military capacity to prevent US invasion and occupation, and the historically-demonstrated will to sacrifice tens of millions of its citizens in defense of its homeland? And only a fool (lots of those running this proxy war) would think that Russia would lose the Donbas and Crimea, allow USA to nuclear weaponize Ukraine, and take Russia's oil and gas, without Russia using its nuclear arsenal, which thanks to Obama greatly exceeds USA's. And why would China, which needs Russian energy more than USA, watch all that happen without defending Russia and bleeding USA much more than at present?

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Sep 26, 2022Liked by laughlyn (johan eddebo)

"The West literally needs to break Russia and wrest control of the resources under its hegemony."

Well if there's one thing I know about Russians, it's that they're pliable and easily conquered.

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Great essay.

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Sep 26, 2022Liked by laughlyn (johan eddebo)

What do you think of this solution? https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?singlepost=2491667

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Ha ha, what is the difference of this geopolitical considerations from the geopolitical views of the globalists? Is it analysis of the RF aggression in Ukraine without a word about Ukraine as the key player in this situation? Has Ukraine its own goals, his own say or only geopolitical views are taken into account? All boarder states are grouped as a kind of proxies. Is Sweden a proxy of US or RF, as it also has proximity to RF via water? Is Sweden more likely a proxy of US? Arn’t these also globalist views but in an opposite direction, i.e. according to the Hegelian thesis, antithesis and synthesis..

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