You're 100% right, ppnewbie. Russia holds all the cards here. Russia is winning on the battlefield. The longer the conflict goes on, the more people die on both sides, but more on the Ukrainian side, and the more land that Russia wins. The most humane thing to do is to end this war as soon as possib...

Hegseth says that Ukraine won't join NATO. Too bad Blinken couldn't have said the same thing 4 years ago. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian men would still be alive. Oh, but we degraded Russia's fighting ability. Best money we ever spent, says the warmonger senator Lindsey Graham, as he acknowledge...

Zelensky certainly talks a good game. I believe he was an actor before becoming a politician. Actors have been known to be good at a certain activity known as acting, which basically is paid dissimulation. No wonder they make good politicians. I believe Fridman filmed a follow-up video where he basi...

Well said, ppnewbie. We pushed Ukraine into this war so they could be our blunt proxy weapon to hopefully degrade Russia, rather than encouraging a diplomatic dialogue to address Russia's legitimate security concerns at their western border. The US would certainly have security concerns if a foreign...

My admittedly unsophisticated understanding of Greenspan's bolded sentence above is that "in the absence of the US dollar being on the gold standard, there is no way to protect your savings inside the US government's financial system from confiscation through inflation." Of course, we can ...

Do they forecast bad things for paper gold ETFs like IAU?

I'm not very sophisticated in this stuff, but I understand the gist of what you are saying. My question is: if this is bad news for paper gold, why aren't we seeing it reflected in a sell off of paper gold and a higher premium on safer, similar products like PHYS? If unsophisticated people like me a...

It really looks like the paper gold market is breaking down and true price discovery for physical gold is just beginning. Reminder of recent history and big picture view of the physical gold and silver market right now: https://www.sprottmoney.com/blog/on-tariffs-gold-prices More analysis: https://...

Be sure to catch Lex's latest interview with John Mearsheimer to finally hear some common sense talk about Ukraine. All it took was 400,000 dead Ukrainians and another 400,000 permanently maimed Ukrainians before it became acceptable to talk some common sense on the matter. Oh well, life is cheap in...

ppnewbie, You are absolutely right in your opinion. Don't worry about arguing with these guys. They are nice guys, but they don't do any serious research or thinking on these matters. They think everything is black and white. The US and the West are great and never do anything wrong and have every r...

Mountaineer, Thanks, I will listen to the podcast. Do you think, based on what you heard, the historian host would have any revisions (small or large) to suggest for my little parable? He might question the ‘foe for hundreds of years’ in this part: “ Their worst enemy, Gang Jim, is a smaller group ...

Mountaineer,

Thanks, I will listen to the podcast. Do you think, based on what you heard, the historian host would have any revisions (small or large) to suggest for my little parable?

Picture this: the year is 1900, and we are in a large city on the east coast of America. The city has many gangs that fight each other brutally for various reasons. For over 150 years, Gang Alan has controlled a neighborhood of about 10 blocks by 10 blocks, so 100 square blocks, in the center of the...

Agreed on all points. The only ones though who can force a change in Russian government are the Russian people themselves. If the USA acts like jerks to them, they won't want to follow us. If we mind our own business and model a thriving, prosperous nation, they may decide that a real democracy look...

I question all of it, because I've seen too many examples of misuse. Trump and Covid blew the lid off media malfeasance.

Well, exactly. I never claimed they were anything but conjectures. Contrast that with what you get from the news media these days where they claim to know 5 minutes after Prighozin's plane blew up that Putin is the only possible person who could have been behind it. Does anybody actually believe ANY...

Thank you, Vinny. That's actually an interesting objection you bring up. I'd say there wasn't a whole lot more of value that the US could take over after it took Texas to California from Mexico. Of course, then there was Hawaii, and I believe we had a large influence in the Phillipines and Puerto Ri...

To properly discuss the idea of avoiding appeasement as it relates to the Ukraine war from an American perspective, we first need to rightly understand the idea of American exceptionalism, which if understood incorrectly can easily lead to hubris and narcissism and thus to folly. It should be uncont...

Let’s use some common sense to think about who may have killed Prighozin? Many people haven’t given it any thought, assuming that Putin is the only viable candidate. This is incurious, and the case is not nearly as clear-cut as we’ve been told, which I will explain below, showing some simple reasons...

Below is the transcript of a recent interview by a journalist in a western Ukrainian village: Interviewer: how do you feel about your son dying to defend Ukraine from attack? Mother: I am sad. I wish he were still alive. Interviewer: did you know that your son would still be alive if Ukraine had sim...

There is breathless reporting today on a missile strike that (very sadly) killed many people in a village in Ukraine. The reporting says it was very likely the Russians who launched the missile. Let's use some critical thinking skills (i.e., common sense): 1. The village is in eastern Ukraine (i.e.,...

This is such an important article. She talks about how military intelligence gives its customer what it wants to hear, just like any business will do. This gets to the very heart of where our foreign policy disasters start. The author is a retired USAF lieutenant colonel -- not exactly someone who i...

Caitlin has another great article about the use of propaganda to make money for people for whom human life is cheap: [url]https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2023/10/01/the-mad-propaganda-push-to-normalize-war-profiteering-in-ukraine/ [/url] (Trigger warning: she sounds 100% certain of her opinion. If t...

I’m an American, mid-50s in age, who used to be strongly patriotic, but now thinks that God loves all His children equally. America and Americans have done a lot of very good things in this world and some very bad things. The same is true of other countries. Nobody has a monopoly on good or evil. As...

The article linked below is a quick read. Caitlin, as his her wont, hit this one over the fence, out of the ballpark, across the river, and into the next county:

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2023/10 ... o-believe/