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The culture of social organizations/institutions typically originates at the top, correct? So, what sort of homicidal maniac is sitting at the top of the Russian Federation? Russia is currently sending prison convicts straight to the front lines in Ukraine and threatening to nuke Western countries on their nightly news telecasts. Something is terribly wrong with this picture. It's a fear-based culture of psychopathy. Here are two chilling stories that caught my eye today. Putin allies issue chilling threat to nuke Yellowstone Supervolcano in the US | US | News | Express.co.uk Wagner fighters captured in Ukraine recount path from prison to war - The Washington Post

U.N. countries overwhelmingly vote to tell Russia to leave Ukraine One year into Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine, more than 140 countries in the United Nations voted for a resolution calling on Moscow to end its invasion. https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/ukraine-war-anniversary-united-nations-vote-rcna72098 February 23, 2023

Brevity is the soul of wit... 🤣😂

If America's great Presidents were like Donald Trump (cont.) "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do in this country to acquire a box of my JFK brand cigars, after I impose an embargo on Castro's Cuba."

If America's great Presidents were like Donald Trump... "You Continental soldiers should buy my George Washington brand thermal underwear"

Can't make this stuff up... 🙄 It's like something the Joker would do in a Batman movie, after de-regulating train safety regulations. Trump Uses Ohio Disaster to Advertise Trump Water www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-water-east-palestine_n_63f68415e4b0616708df409a February 22, 2023

Well, I'm relieved to see that our Russian propaganda dupes have finally taken the time to read my fourth re-post in response to their question about putative peace negotiations for Ukraine. Yet, none of our dupes has answered my old question on this thread. Is Putin open to negotiating an end to his invasion of Ukraine?

Chris, I'm triggered by bullsh*t. I often do what I can to clean it up.

Chris, You really don't understand American politics very well. White working class Trump voters are a case study in false consciousness. They have been tricked by Trump's racist dog whistles and flag-waving into voting against their own economic interests. Trump's signature legislative achievement was the massive 2017 GOP tax cut for billionaires and corporations.

Marx called it "false consciousness." The white working class Trump cult voters in the U.S. are a case study.

Kirk, Far from being stale, the conflict between Putin's Russian Federation and the West in Ukraine appears to be the most serious geopolitical crisis of our day. It's like 1939 with nukes. Yet, the critics of the U.S./NATO response to the Ukraine crisis seem strangely silent on the subject of Putinism. It's an odd unipolar, anti-American focus on one side of the conflict-- perhaps owing to the fact that this forum is comprised of experts on the history and crimes of the CIA and the U.S. military industrial complex. But what we need is a more multi-polar focus that includes an understanding of Putinism and the 21st century regression of the Russian Federation from the Yeltsin-era democracy of the 1990s to the Kremlin police state that bombs civilians, relocates civilians to prison camps, and throws dissenters out of windows. I'm hopeful that we can engage in a more multi-polar analysis, on the grounds that John Cotter has repeatedly expressed an interest in "multi-polarity." 🥸

Russ Baker nails it today. This is, precisely, what I have been trying to explain to our one-eyed Putin apologists-- John, Chris, and Paul Rigby. To wit, the crimes of the U.S. military industrial complex don't justify the crimes of Putin's totalitarian police state in Ukraine. Both are deplorable. Western and Russian Imperialism: Our Wrongs Don’t Make Putin Right - WhoWhatWhy

Well said, Pat. I see that I'm not the only lib around here who has been absurdly mischaracterized by our myopic, international man-of-mystery, Chris Barnard. Chris's modus operandi is to accuse Americans who disagree with him of being "paranoid, emotional" dupes. Ironically, Chris's main American fans on the forum are the paranoid, emotional Trumplicon dupes.

Our Putin apologists across the pond-- John, Chris, and Paul-- seem to be strangely allied with right wing Trumplicon MAGAts in the U.S. when it comes to blaming the U.S. for Putin's 20 year-old goal of annexing Ukraine. Both mass delusions are a result of Russian propaganda, which has focused on; 1) dividing U.S. society along racial and cultural fault lines, and 2) isolating the U.K. from the U.S. and EU. Putin's annexation of Ukraine and his propaganda strategies in the U.S. and U.K. are clearly described in Aleksander Dugin's 1997 Putin playbook, The Foundations of Geopolitics.

Not a single comment from our Putin apologists, eh? That's about what I would expect from the guys who have refused to study Catherine Belton's well-researched history of Putin's FSB police state. This is a good example of confirmation bias-- assiduously avoiding any examination of the contrary evidence debunking a paradigm.

Paul, I have long been a critic of Paul Wolfowitz and the Project for a New American Century behind the phony Bush/Cheney/Neocon "War on Terror." PNAC and the "War on Terror" has been a neglected, almost forbidden, topic on this forum in recent years, which I have occasionally raised. However, what you and the other Putin apologists on the forum are missing is any knowledge or insight into the dark history of Putin's neo-Soviet police state. The obvious sins of the PNAC Neocons are no meaningful justification for Putin's bloody, FSB-aligned police state, or his brutal invasion of Ukraine. And thus far, the only response you have had to references about Putin's dark history (e.g., Belton's book, Putin's People) is to post a steaming pile of KGB propaganda by Helmer denying the history of Putin's FSB police state.

Yeah, Kirk, I noticed that Ben and Mathew Koch have been as quiet as mice this week about the truly shocking Fox News Emails relating to the Dominion lawsuit. Rupert Murdoch and his Fox propagandists -- Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, et.al.-- deliberately lied about Trump's "Stop the Steal" scam because they were afraid to offend their delusional Trumplicon fans by telling them the truth about Trump losing the election. And Murdoch was desperately concerned about Republicons regaining control of the Senate in 2020. Just the kind of "journalism" America needs... Fox News has functioned, essentially, as a sleazy Republican Super PAC.

What's truly embarrassing is the poor reading comprehension skills of some participants on this thread. I'll ask again, for the (?) fourth time. Is Putin currently open to negotiating a peaceful end to his brutal invasion and decimation of Ukraine? Yes or no? If so, I'm all for it. Let him have his Russian naval base in Crimea, and full geographic access to it, (which he already had one year ago when he launched this criminal invasion of Ukraine.) Unfortunately, Putin's longstanding goal-- in accordance with Aleksander Dugin's 1997 playbook-- has been the total annexation of Ukraine. That process began in 2014, with his illegal annexation of Crimea. You two gentlemen seem to have difficulty grasping the concept that I want what is best for the Russian and the Ukrainian people. Putin's war and his totalitarian police state ain't it.

Great Moments in U.S. Presidential History JFK in Berlin/1963-- "Ich bin ein Berliner!" Biden in Kyiv/2023-- "Slava Ukraini!" Trump in Helsinki/2018-- "My name is Reek"

John, Have you had your vision checked lately? Your myopia is starting to remind me of Benjamin Cole's. Here's another article for you, among the wide array of references on the subject of "Putin's brain." You're more than a decade behind in understanding the literature on the subject, but with corrected, full-spectrum vision, you might still catch up... 🤓 Putin's Brain: Alexander Dugin and the Philosophy Behind Putin's Invasion of Crimea (foreignaffairs.com)

I answered both of your questions, John. Go back and re-read my answers. Meanwhile, you didn't even listen to my recording of the Smolensk Izhe Keruvimi. https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=14553230 Do you really think a Russophobe could sing that in four-part harmony? In truth, I want nothing but the best for Russia, and for Ukraine. That is why I am so disappointed with Putin. There was a time when I admired the man, prior to 2007. See if you can figure that one out.

John, I understood your "best friends" sarcasm perfectly well. It's an old adage in the U.S. But my response sailed over your head. You still don't seem to understand my history in the Russian Orthodox Church. Here's another one of my favorite Russian Orthodox chants-- the Smolensk Izhe Keruvimi-- which I probably chanted at Russian Orthodox liturgies more than 300 times over the years. It begins as a monophonic Znameny style chant, then morphs into quite harmonious polyphony. https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=14553230 Meanwhile, your question about whether I'm a U.S. intelligence asset is highly amusing to me. I have always been a progressive, liberal Democrat, and I remain convinced that I some how ended up on Bush & Cheney's "No Fly" list after 9/11. (The police pulled me out of a long line of passengers at the Cancun Airport in January of 2002 after scanning my passport-- frightening my wife and daughters.) I think I got flagged by the U.S. security establishment for my involvement in a movement to free Nelson Mandela in college, and/or subscribing to a socialist newspaper.