Michael Smith: When Democrats Say "White," They Mean "Western"

 Exerpt from Michael Smith at Unlicensed Punditry post "When Democrats Say "White,"they mean "Western"

It is pretty damn racist to assume skin color equates to a certain political affinity.

Biden claimed, "If you don't vote for me, you ain't black."

You just have to understand that when Democrats say "white", they mean "Western", as in Western civilization and Western culture.

They hate Western civilization because it is not culture, race or status dependent. When anyone and everyone can participate and succeed, it makes generation of class conflict far more difficult.

This is why they continue to try to destroy it.

That's why the obsessive focus on race, on something we are powerless to change, is visually obvious and easy to use to separate people.

I get that white, Christian men of European descent are out of favor these days - along with Western civilization - but the combination of those things ended slavery, invented the automobile (credited to Karl Benz in 1885) and in less than a century took mankind from riding horses to walking on the moon. Mankind went from candles to total electrification in even less time.

This is a culture that invented individual freedoms, constrained government and capitalism - all leading to the greatest state of independence and economic success ever experienced by more people around the world than ever before.

Could have Africans, Asians, Indians, Native Americans or any other race or ethnicity done this?

Sure.

But they didn't.  The Left is at war with our civilization and culture.

Washington DC Has Been Evil for a Very Long Time

 

This is somewhat outdated -- from 2010

Told You: BLM Was Always Going to be a Criminal Race Hustle

 

You. Are. All. Suckers. https://t.co/52aY17G3oi

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) May 17, 2022

Now Back to Our Usual Black Hate Crimes and Black Urban Terrorism

The Biden Administration finally found a White Supremacist kid who horrifically killed 10 people in Buffalo, New York. It took many years of intense searching, but the "O'biden administration" has finally found a White Supremacist!! The Left is probably celebrating beneath their mask of fake "outrage."

It is bad and of course everyone in the world condemns it. 

So, now it's back to our usual diet of Black urban terrorism and criminality-- the same people that reliably give the Democrats a huge edge in the national elections.   Is it any wonder that Democratic party is the party of lawlessness and chaos??

From Andy Ngo:

"Breaking: Wanted gunman arrested in Dallas over Asian hate crime shooting

Dallas Police arrested a black male suspect who is accused of being the gunman in a shocking suspected hate-crime shooting on an Asian hair salon that injured three Korean women on May 11, 2022. The FBI has opened a hate crime investigation into the spontaneous attack.

Jeremy Theron Smith, 36, has been charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. According to the arrest narrative, Smith's girlfriend told police he "has had near panic attacks when he is around anyone of Asian descent" due to bad experiences with Asian people. Much of the reporting about the gunman in the days after the shooter omitted descriptions of the gunman."

 

The US is in the middle of vast urban crime wave caused by scumbag urban dwellers encouraged to act out by reduced bail initiatives, lenient sentencing, defunded police departments---all by Leftist Democrats.    

Here's a summary of 2021 mass shooters showing only people that were actually convicted of their crimes.   Notice anything about the shooters?? 

William Lind: Playing with Nuclear War

Exercpt From William Lind of The Traditional Right blog:

The Blob, the Washington foreign policy establishment, is playing with nuclear war.  So what if Russia goes nuclear in Ukraine?  We will just pile on even more sanctions, make Russia more of an outcast, and tell her she must grovel in the dirt to be readmitted to the concert of powers.  Some are going further: the lead op ed in the April 28 Wall Street Journal, by former deputy undersecretary of the Navy Seth Cropsey, was titled, “The U.S. Should Show It Can Win a Nuclear War.”

No, it can’t.  A single nuclear weapon detonated on one American city would do this country more damage than it has suffered in all its wars to date.  No foreign policy goal can justify such a price.  No threat to our “credibility,” no diplomatic humiliation, no “abandonment of our allies” can outweigh the consequences of a single American city getting nuked.  Not only would we suffer tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of Americans killed by the blast, and far more doomed to radiation sickness, we would have a collapsed financial system and economy, a completely discredited government and quite possibly a revolution or devolution as people withdrew their allegiance to a state that had brought catastrophe upon them.

What is the danger of this happening?  Unfortunately, it’s fairly high.  The course of events leading to it is already taking place in Ukraine.  Russia and her armed forces have been humiliated by the failure of their initial campaign in Ukraine.  They have regrouped and are trying again, with more limited goals.  As of writing this (May 1), the outcome of the second Russian offensive is unclear, but it seems to be making slow progress at best.  If it fails, the initiative is likely to pass to Ukraine as the shift will be a natural event after a defense succeeds.  But in part, it will also be because of U.S. and NATO support for Ukraine.  At some point, the shift may permit Ukraine to go on the offensive.

What does Russia do then?  What does President Putin do to save his neck?  Near the top of the list will be escalating by using tactical nuclear weapons.  Where does the escalation stop?

A wise U.S. and NATO foreign policy establishment would now be building a golden bridge over which Russia can retreat rather than going nuclear.  Asking itself the question, “What would Bismark do?”, it would call a conference in, say, Vienna.  A deal could look something like this:

• Ukraine sells the portions of Luhansk and Donetsk that had already declared their independence to Russia, along with a narrow land corridor connecting them to Crimea (which remains Russian).  The price is high enough to make a substantial contribution to re-building Ukraine.
• Ukraine agrees not to join NATO unless Russia also joins.  That would leave open the door to the alliance Christendom needs, one running from the U.S. Pacific coast to the Russian Pacific coast, oriented south.
• Russia agrees to Ukraine joining the EU.
• Russia cedes East Prussia (the “Kaliningrad Oblast”) to Ukraine, giving Ukraine a Baltic as well as a Black Sea outlet for her grain exports.  Russia also funds building a new, high capacity railway, not running through Belarus, connecting Ukraine with the East Prussian port of Konigsberg.

What does Ukraine think of all this?  It doesn’t matter.  In true Bismarkian style, the great powers make the deal and inform the smaller powers what they are going to do.  Otherwise, no deal is possible in cases such as this.

Where is the $50+Billion "Aid For Ukraine" Actually Going?

From "The Dossier" by Jordan Schachtel

The United States has now delegated some $56 billion in new money to debase the currency “for Ukraine,” but hardly any of it is actually going to the Ukrainian people.

Due to President Trump, the D.C. war machine spent 2016 to 2020 starving for a monetary replenishment. And now that they have their man in the White House, along with easy consensus in the legislature, it’s time to cash in.

Wherever your opinion resides on this proxy war/inter-slavic spat 5,000 miles away on the Russia-Ukraine border region, reality cannot be denied.

The $56 billion and counting in “aid for Ukraine” that’s passing through the American legislature primarily serves the purpose of greasing the skids of the D.C. Beltway ruling class. And you’re paying for it.

If you think the people of Ukraine are going to see one dime of this money, think again. Not even the “humanitarian aid” portions of the assistance will reach the Ukrainian people, as it will be absorbed by a variety of DC lawyers, lobbyists, NGOs, and other well connected middle men. See: Afghanistan.

Defiant US Senator Rand Paul stymies effort to pass $56 billion Ukraine aid bill. The stalemate delayed passage of the measure into next week.

If they gave the bill a more accurate title, it would be called the “Money For Raytheon And Friends” bill, as the majority of the funds from the latest $40 billion behemoth will be used to supply weapons purchase orders, and resupply weapons that were already sent to Ukraine, which arrived with a seeming back room deal to add to the deep pockets of the weapons manufacturers back home.

Those who have become consumed by corporate press and government war propaganda are being used as useful marks for this agenda.

This is only the beginning of the money printing “for Ukraine.” Uniparty legislators agree that they will need to print much more money “for Ukraine” in the coming months, if not sooner.

Sadly, the people of Ukraine will probably not see one penny of the $56+ billion (and counting) delegated "for Ukraine,” and it’s all by design. This latest replenishment bill much more resembles money laundering via the narrative of America’s undeclared war against Russia. Money is being printed and distributed to a small group of wealthy regime insiders on the backs of the American taxpayer.

17,000 Medical Professionals Demand A Return to Scientific Integrity

A Joint Statement, representing 17,000 Physicians and Medical Scientists to End the National Emergency, Restore Scientific Integrity, and Address Crimes Against Humanity  

17,000 physicians and medical scientists declare that the state of medical emergency must be lifted, scientific integrity restored, and crimes against humanity addressed.

We, the physicians and medical scientists of the world, united through our loyalty to the Hippocratic Oath, recognize that the disastrous COVID-19 public health policies imposed on doctors and our patients are the culmination of a corrupt medical alliance of pharmaceutical, insurance, and healthcare institutions, along with the financial trusts which control them. They have infiltrated our medical system at every level, and are protected and supported by a parallel alliance of big tech, media, academics and government agencies who profited from this orchestrated catastrophe.

This corrupt alliance has compromised the integrity of our most prestigious medical societies to which we belong, generating an illusion of scientific consensus by substituting truth with propaganda. This alliance continues to advance unscientific claims by censoring data, and intimidating and firing doctors and scientists for simply publishing actual clinical results or treating their patients with proven, life-saving medicine. These catastrophic decisions came at the expense of the innocent, who are forced to suffer health damage and death caused by intentionally withholding critical and time-sensitive treatments, or as a result of coerced genetic therapy injections, which are neither safe nor effective.

The medical community has denied patients the fundamental human right to provide true informed consent for the experimental COVID-19 injections. Our patients are also blocked from obtaining the information necessary to understand risks and benefits of vaccines, and their alternatives, due to widespread censorship and propaganda spread by governments, public health officials and media. Patients continue to be subjected to forced lock-downs which harm their health, careers and children’s education, and damage social and family bonds critical to civil society. This is not a coincidence. In the book entitled “COVID-19: The Great Reset”, leadership of this alliance has clearly stated their intention is to leverage COVID-19 as an “opportunity” to reset our entire global society, culture, political structures, and economy.

Our 17,000 Global COVID Summit physicians and medical scientists represent a much larger, enlightened global medical community who refuse to be compromised, and are united and willing to risk the wrath of the corrupt medical alliance to defend the health of their patients.

The mission of the Global COVID Summit is to end this orchestrated crisis, which has been illegitimately imposed on the world, and to formally declare that the actions of this corrupt alliance constitute nothing less than crimes against humanity.

We must restore the people’s trust in medicine, which begins with free and open dialogue between physicians and medical scientists. We must restore medical rights and patient autonomy. This includes the foundational principle of the sacred doctor-patient relationship. The social need for this is decades overdue, and therefore, we the physicians of the world are compelled to take action.

After two years of scientific research, millions of patients treated, hundreds of clinical trials performed and scientific data shared, we have demonstrated and documented our success in understanding and combating COVID-19. In considering the risks versus benefits of major policy decisions, our Global COVID Summit of 17,000 physicians and medical scientists from all over the world have reached consensus on the following foundational principles:

1. We declare and the data confirm that the COVID-19 experimental genetic therapy injections must end.
2. We declare doctors should not be blocked from providing life-saving medical treatment.
3. We declare the state of national emergency, which facilitates corruption and extends the pandemic, should be immediately terminated.
4. We declare medical privacy should never again be violated, and all travel and social restrictions must cease.
5. We declare masks are not and have never been effective protection against an airborne respiratory virus in the community setting.
6. We declare funding and research must be established for vaccination damage, death and suffering.
7. We declare no opportunity should be denied, including education, career, military service or medical treatment, over unwillingness to take an injection.
8. We declare that first amendment violations and medical censorship by government, technology and media companies should cease, and the Bill of Rights be upheld.
9. We declare that Pfizer, Moderna, BioNTech, Janssen, Astra Zeneca, and their enablers, withheld and willfully omitted safety and effectiveness information from patients and physicians, and should be immediately indicted for fraud.
10. We declare government and medical agencies must be held accountable.

 

Shyt-for-Brains Lightfoot Calls for Insurrection

From ZeroHedge:  

Hysterical Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has issued a "call to arms" in response to a leaked ruling from the Supreme Court which would overturn Roe v. Wade [Doug here: actually to let each state to decide], implying that the USSC would come for 'LGBTQ+' rights next. [Doug here: She is so stupid that she doesn't even understand the minimal impact of the ruling. Roe vs.Wade was a terrible law with no Constitutional basis. The USSC is just fixing a clear mistake.]

Dipshit "Beetlejuice" Lightfoot

[Doug here: Blacks in politics are the most brain-dead, lowest IQ people in the world. That's not hyperbole. That's the reason that virtually ALL OF AFRICA is in an impoverished, uncultured, lawless, shit state. Oh, and add "major US cities "governed" by Blacks" to that list. ]

"You’d think she’d be more concerned with her crime riddled city but here she is gaslighting & inciting," wrote conservative pundit Rita Panahi, while pundit Matt Walsh wrote "Not satisfied with the murders just in her own city, Mayor Lightfoot calls for more violence across the country." (h/t Fox News)

"So - citizens arming up to protect themselves against gun-toting thugs in murderous Chicago: Bad.

LGBTQ+ citizens arming themselves against the Supreme Court in an actual insurrection: Good

"If this isn’t a call to insurrection, what is?" tweeted Texas Scorecard publisher Michael Quinn Sullivan."

If this isn’t a call to insurrection, what is? https://t.co/vxTPymZUTr

— Michael Quinn Sullivan 🇺🇸 (@MQSullivan) May 10, 2022

A Timely Repost from 2014: Nice-Sounding Leftism Leads to a Police State

[Presented in it's unedited entirety from 2014]

Inside every Leftist lurks a totalitarian. Some examples:

Elizabeth Warren recently tweeted angrily that every Republican in the House voted against a bill demanding equal pay for equal work for women:

It sounds so good, right?  Who would be against equal pay for equal work?  Well, according to Elizabeth Warren, it's evil Republicans who are "waging a war on women" according to the Democrats popular talking point. First and most importantly, there is no "pay gap" for women. It's explained by choices -- not discrimation.

But who is going to enforce a law like this?  Who's going to determine whether two jobs are identical in scope?  Who's going to weigh differences in seniority, education levels, hours worked, job risk or levels of experience?  Most the so-called gap is a myth to begin with.

Equal Pay Police

Democrat's answer to these questions is that Federal bureaucrats (with zero business experience) would "police" the millions of businesses in America to make these determinations.  First, the cost of such a program will be huge. Second, trusting any Federal employee to supplant the judgment of business owners is absurd.  It should be plainly clear by now how poorly the government "does" anything and everything.  Can you imagine the stifling effect of this on business and jobs?  Such an "equal pay" bureaucracy would bring far worse consequences than supposedly unequal pay.  The cure is worse than the disease (and there IS no actual disease)!  Liberalism proves itself consistently immune to facts, logic and history.

The million dollar question is whether Elizabeth Warren actually believes such a law is in the best interest of the country, or whether she's just trying to smear Republicans.  If she really believes it, then she and most other Democrats are intellectually deficient.  If she's complicit in political smearing, then shame on the Democrats. Either way, it's not good.

Carbon Police

Everyone knows that the Democrats are emotional and especially hysterical when it comes to global warming. Despite relatively mild effects of warming, Democrats would love to pass a Cap and Trade carbon regulation scheme even though such a scheme wouldn't solve a thing except raise huge tax revenue and expand the Federal bureaucracy. Cap and trade would allow the continued rise of CO2 in the atmosphere at current rates.  It would really be a "cap and tax" scheme and would do nothing to help the climate.

Liberals pretend to be unaware that you'd have to absolutely reduce CO2 emissions by over 50% just to halt the rise of CO2 in the atmosphere. The cost to do so would bankrupt us, so it's not going to happen. And other big emitting countries like China will never commit economic suicide like the Democrats would like to do. And it'll have to be nuclear energy that will have to carry the lion's share of power generation in this country if we are to have a low-carbon future.  But wait, Democrats are against that too!

Can you imagine "carbon police" going around to 10,000's of businesses in various local communities checking for carbon emissions?  It would take another huge and expensive Federal bureaucracy.  And it would be a radical intrusion of the Federal government into local matters. It would be totally unconstitutional.   But Democrats like to ignore our Constitution.  They don't seem to understand that we had a revolution long ago to overturn capricious authority.

Already the EPA, incorrectly given too much power by the courts to regulate CO2, is over-regulating and harming the economy on a false premise: that CO2 at 400 parts per million concentration is "harmful or threatening to human health."  US courts can not be trusted to reign-in ever-expanding and unconstitutional Federal power into state and local issues even under false pretenses.

Hate Speech Police

51% of Democrats in a recent poll are in favor criminalizing "hate speech".  Democrats would like that, but what happens when the opposition party returns to power and use the same law to go after the Democratic minority??    If such a law were passed, you would have to add "hate-speech police" to our growing list of Federal bureaucrats running riot over our individual freedoms.  Who's going to decide what constitutes hate speech?  Are we going to put "haters" in jail?  Is calling Obama a jerk hate speech?  But Republicans won't do that. They'll repeal any such measure because they at least understand our Constitution and the importance of guaranteed freedoms.

Death Panels

One of reported architects of the ObamaCare disaster, Ezekiel Emanuel (Rahm Emanuel's brother), recently wrote an article in The Atlantic professing his desire to die at 75 years old.  He's not a bad guy, but Democrats like him are preparing the public for their inevitable "death panel" decisions that will limit Federal expenditures for elderly patients due to "budget concerns."  But this is precisely what happens when the Federal government intrudes in the healthcare industry.  Remember, death panels are now a reality and have Democrat's fingerprints all over it.   ObamaCare and government control of the insurance market is a royal road to the intrusion of unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats into the most important aspects of our lives.

Can't you see where Leftism and Democrats are headed?   Leftism sounds so good, but the results are disastrous and even Orwellian. 

Destroy the Washington DC Blob: Repeal 1913 Income Tax and Fed Reserve Acts

For the sake of our country and the World, Washington DC must die. We are long past my exhortation that Trump must brutally purge the seditious, treasonous, slanderous Left in our country before the end of his administration. It was really the only opportunity to put an end to the Left's sedition, lies and national destruction.  I said the following in August 2020:

The degree of corruption in Washington, on a scale of 1 to 10, is a 12. Nothing is working properly in Washington or the Fed. government. We can't even trust the Judicial system as so many appointees are Obama- or Hillary-loving political hacks. We don't have ANYTHING functioning in Washington. The vast majority of the "deep-state" in Washington (mostly Democrats) is committed to the treasonous removal and reversing the Constitutional election of Trump and preventing his re-election.

You have to understand that a subversive war is already underway RIGHT NOW in this country by the most devious, unsavory and power-mad people in the world. The fight is already on.

[there is a] need for a full-on Leftist purge by President Trump using the Emergency Powers Act to round-up and prosecute the large numbers of traitorous and seditious persons in the Federal Government. I propose that Trump... bring in the military, military police and prosecutors to arrest all of the actors in the Russia Hoax scandal for starters. They are all traitors. Jail them all. People like Hillary, Obama, Comey, Rosenstein, Mueller, Podesta, Rice, Brennan, Clapper, Strock, Page, Schiff and many others should be arrested for Treason or Sedition and/or other applicable crimes and sent to military trials.

With the Emergency declaration, military police could seize control of the DOJ, CIA and FBI by locking down these entities, lock down the computers and servers, gather all significant information that they've been hiding, begin to interview and look to prosecute all of the traitors in these departments involved in betrayals. Everything would be locked down for investigation and for evidence.

There should have already been a torrent of indictments after so many years of investigation by the DOJ and CIA after the disastrous Jeff Sessions. The DOJ doesn't even "work"anymore. Nothing works in Washington except the money printers. Personally, I think the whole Federal colossus should be burnt to the ground to start over with a government based in St. Louis, MO for example.

The military should also be supervising this next election since it will likely be the most fraudulent election in American history. There should probably be military observers at every polling station. Trump should demand today that an auditable paper trail be generated for every vote cast in every precinct so that election results in any district CAN BE AUDITED and validated. Put the Dems on notice NOW. If the election must be delayed for this plan to be implemented, then so be it.

Yes, I understand why it wasn't done. Maybe it was just a nice dream, but my predictions look fairly prescient now. After getting away with the outrageous election steal in 2020, the Biden Bolsheviks are destroying everthing in this country. That's what illegitimate Bolsheviks do. They are now leading the US and the West into a potential nuclear war with Russia. 

 

Washington DC Must Be Destroyed or De-Constructed Before They Destroy Us

With those words, I am now a domestic terrorist or insurrectionist and I should expect to get this blog cancelled. I might now find myself on a no-fly list or some agents knock on my door.  It could happen, but I am ready to "bug out" and I don't necessarily have to fly ( I have my Residence Permit for Mexico already stamped in my passport).   But the only way to tame the Federal Beast is to defund it and return power to The States and to the people.  Here's how:

Method 1:  Repeal 1913 Income Tax and Federal Reserve Acts

Repeal the Income Tax Act of 1913 (See my post "1913 Income Tax Starts at 1%" from 2013):  The Income Tax started in 1913 with nearly everyone not paying anything except for the very, very wealthy. The top rate was 7% for those making $13 million (in today's dollars).  The 1% bracket applied to incomes up to $500,000 (in today's dollars).  The Standard deduction was $75,000 in today's money.  Sounds sensible.

 

But just four years later the top tax rate was 77% and funded and enabled our participation in World War I.  The top tax rate basically remained at 70% until the JFK Jr administration and then much lower under Ronald Reagan.

AND... Repeal the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.  The Federal Reserve is neither Federal or a Reserve bank.  It was a private bank that served the government and politicians. It still does!  It was a disaster from the very beginning.  

 

The Federal Reserve was created to maintain "price stability" and "economic growth."  What a joke! Prices went up 110% from 1913 to 1921 alone!  It funded the United State's first World War. You can correctly say that the Federal Reserve is responsible for our bloated and war-loving government. It is and always was an evil force. Now the US government is evil.

Method 2:  Secession

States and groups of States must seceed from the Union and cancel the Federal Income tax collection and the transfer of income tax money to Washington. Once one state like Texas seceeds, many others would likely join in short order. Starving the Federal Government of tax money from even a state like Texas would cause the US government bond market to crash.  Remember, Texas is 1/10th of the US in population.  When Arkansas and Oklahoma joins Texas and do the same thing, then it's game over for the Federal Bureaucracy.  Entire regions could seceed and join forces. 

The seceeded entities could make a deal with the Federal Government to continue to send FICA deducted monies to Washington to fund retirees.  But even this would expose the completely phony meme of the "Social Security lockbox."  Social security COULD NOT AND WOULD NOT BE PAID once the US goverment had dramatically reduced revenues. THERE IS NO LOCKBOX OF "FUNDS." It's pay-as-you-go arrangement. There is no money in an account with your name on it.

Method 3: Nuclear Annihilation

 

This method is to let our current crop of Bosheviks, the most arrogant AND ignorant people in the entire world, to CONTINUE to foment war with Russia to the extent that Russia must destroy the West (the EU and/or the USA) with nuclear weapons  See my posts PCR: US Neoconservatives Are Setting Up the World for Nuclear War and The West AGAIN Ignoring Russia's Warning After Warning.  

You choose.

PCR: US Neoconservatives Are Setting Up the World for Nuclear War

From Paul Craig Roberts at PaulCraigRoberts.org:

Oliver Stone on Facebook writes that rabid anti-Russian propaganda has set the stage for a false flag low-yield nuclear explosion in Ukraine that the world has been trained to interpret as Russia’s doing.  The success of Washington’s perception war and saturation of the CNN/Fox airwaves with condemnation of Russia could lead to hopes that a false flag nuclear event would bring down Putin’s government.  A new Yeltsin installed would return Russia to Washington’s control and leave China, alone, as the next target.  Such an event is not a fantasy.  It is an expression of Stone’s understanding of the neoconservatives commitment to Washington’s hegemony.  Biden officials have made it clear that they are at war with Russia, using Ukraine as a proxy, with the goal of exhausting Russia into weakness and disposing of Putin.  

A false flag event is not the only avenue to nuclear war.  The expansion of NATO to Finland and Sweden is another.  Washington is not only pressuring the governments to apply for NATO membership but also is bribing Swedish and Finnish government officials to do so.  

Think about this expansion of NATO for a minute.  One reason for Russia’s intervention in Ukraine is the stark refusal of Washington and NATO to take Russia’s security concerns seriously.  Ukraine’s membership in NATO is totally unacceptable to Russia, so why was it pushed?  With Western intervention in Ukraine threatening to spin the conflict out of control, why pour gasoline on the fire by bringing Sweden and Finland into NATO?  Currently Scandinavia and the Baltics are nuclear free.  Finland’s entry into NATO would bring more NATO to Russia’s border, a development that the Kremlin has declared as unacceptable. By piling on more provocations, Washington and NATO are intentionally widening a conflict that was deliberately provoked.

Clearly, it is irresponsible for Finland and Sweden to further destabilize the situation by joining NATO.  Dmitry Medvedev has made it clear that NATO membership would mean the end of the nuclear-free Baltic.  More NATO on Russia’s border creates an imbalance that Russia would have to correct with deployment of hypersonic nuclear missiles.  How can it be possible for the governments of Finland and Sweden to regard NATO membership as an increase in security when the result is to have their countries targeted with nuclear weapons? Finland and Sweden are in no danger of being attacked by Russia unless they join NATO.  No one in their right mind would see NATO membership for Finland and Sweden as anything but a reckless act of destabilization.  Like Switzerland, Finland and Sweden have benefitted from their neutrality.  It is nonsensical for them to turn themselves into nuclear targets.

Everyone needs to understand that the neoconservatives’ ideology of hegemony is an expansionist ideology like  original 20th century International Communism.  It is the American Empire that is expanding toward Russia, not Russia expanding into the West.  It is truly amazing how opposite from the truth the anti-Russian propaganda is.  Sooner or later the Kremlin will comprehend that Russia’s enemies are the American neoconservatives and that the pressure point on the neoconservatives is Israel.

As my audience knows, I have been concerned for years that Russia’s low-key response to provocations brings about more and more dangerous provocations that eventually will bring Armageddon upon us.  I saw recently that the Chinese government thinks similarly when a Chinese spokesman said that China can accept no provocation from Washington as the result would be more and worse provocations.

The Kremlin’s policy of relying on reason, negotiations, and good will has not been reciprocated by the West.  The Kremlin’s limited military operation in Ukraine was not of sufficient ferocity to convince the West to abandon its policy of provocation.  It seems Washington will continue its provocations until the fatal line is crossed.

The West AGAIN Ignoring Russia's Warning After Warning

Authored by Ted Galen Carpenter via AntiWar.com,

In one of the great foreign policy blunders of modern times, U.S. and European leaders repeatedly disregarded Vladimir Putin’s warnings that Russia would never tolerate Ukraine becoming a NATO military asset. Because of resistance from the French and German governments (which had as much to do with Ukraine’s chronic corruption as with concerns about Russia’s reaction), the Alliance delayed offering Kyiv a Membership Action Plan – an essential step toward membership. Nevertheless, at the 2008 summit in Bucharest, NATO’s existing members ostentatiously insisted that "someday" Ukraine would join the Alliance, and they repeated that pledge on numerous occasions thereafter.

Worse, Western officials typically insisted that Russia would have nothing to say about the matter. Jens Stoltenberg, NATO’s Secretary General, was especially blunt and arrogant on that score. He summarily rejected Moscow’s demands in late 2021 that NATO provide binding security guarantees to Russia, including a commitment that Ukraine would never be offered membership, and that NATO military forces would not be deployed in that country.

Stoltenberg’s response could not have been more uncompromising. "NATO has an open-door policy. This is enshrined in NATO’s founding treaty … The message today to Russia is that it is for Ukraine as a sovereign nation to decide its own path. And for the 30 NATO allies to decide when Ukraine is ready to become a member."

Western officials implicitly assumed that Russia could be intimidated and eventually compelled to accept Ukraine as part of NATO. They dismissed the Kremlin’s increasingly pointed warnings that efforts to make Kyiv an Alliance asset would cross a red line that violated Russia’s security. Their assumption that Moscow would tamely accept a NATO presence inside Russia’s core security zone proved to be spectacularly wrong, and Ukraine is now paying a very high price in treasure and blood for their miscalculation.

One might hope that NATO leaders would have learned an important lesson from such a costly mistake. However, they are stubbornly ignoring a new set of ominous warnings from Moscow, and this time, the price of such tone-deaf arrogance could be utterly catastrophic. Indeed, it is creating the risk of a nuclear clash between Russia and the United States. In his first speech announcing the "special military operation" in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin warned all outside parties (clearly meaning NATO members) not to interfere. "Anyone who tries to interfere with us . . . must know that Russia’s response will be immediate and will lead you to such consequences as you have never before experienced in your history." [Emphasis added]

Yet the Biden administration and other NATO governments boast about how much the Alliance is supporting Ukraine’s military resistance to Russia’s invasion. The centerpiece of the effort to this point has been a surge of weapons shipments to Ukraine, including a focus on heavier and more powerful systems. US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin vows that the United States will "move Heaven and Earth" to keep arming Ukraine. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman gushes that the United States has again become the "arsenal of democracy," as it had been in World War II

The policy constitutes an extremely risky venture that could make the United States a belligerent in a perilous war. Moscow has declared on multiple occasions that convoys carrying weapons from NATO countries into Ukraine are legitimate targets of war. Putin could easily interpret the U.S.-orchestrated cascade of NATO weaponry to support Ukraine’s military resistance as unacceptable interference. The same is true of another Biden administration measure – sharing intelligence data with Kyiv, even providing Ukrainian forces with real-time targeting information. In one case, that intelligence sharing apparently enabled Ukraine to shoot down a Russian plane with several hundred troops aboard.

As they did during the prewar period, NATO countries are ignoring the warnings coming out of Moscow. Adopting a defiant stance, they instead are boosting their military aid and creating a full-fledged proxy war against Russia. The Kremlin’s warnings are becoming more strident. Putin himself recently admonished NATO members not to test Russia’s patience by continuing to escalate their support for Ukraine. Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-in chief of both RT and Sputnik and a close associate of the Russian president, stated that Russia might have little choice except to use nuclear weapons if Western policy continues on its current course.

Once again, though, hawks in the foreign policy blob are supremely confident that continued US and NATO belligerence will deter the Kremlin. Michael McFaul, a former US ambassador to Russia, contends blithely that warnings from Putin about using nuclear weapons in response to mounting Western military assistance to Kyiv should be ignored. "The threat of escalation is cheap talk," McFaul states confidently. "Putin is bluffing."

In an April 27 Wall Street Journal op-ed, former deputy undersecretary of the Navy Seth Cropsey even emphasized that the United States must be prepared to demonstrate that it would "win" a nuclear war against Russia. Other hawks pressure the Biden administration not to give in to Russia’s "nuclear blackmail." They seem serenely oblivious to the probable consequences if they are wrong. Two analysts even scorned the administration for being excessively fearful of a direct "skirmish" with Russia, as though a clash with a major nuclear power would be the equivalent of a dust-up on a middle school playground. Unfortunately, the policies that Washington is pursuing by pouring arms into Ukraine and creating a proxy war against Russia suggest that administration policymakers may be nearly as clueless as the ultra-hawks outside government to the dangers.

Western officials and members of the foreign policy establishments in the United States and Europe speak openly of helping Ukraine win its war and inflict a humiliating defeat on Russia. What such individuals do not seem to comprehend is that Ukraine is a vital Russian security interest, and the Kremlin will do whatever is necessary – probably even the use of tactical nuclear weapons – to prevent a defeat. The failure to understand just how important Ukraine is to Russia caused Western leaders to disregard Moscow’s warnings over more than a decade against making Kyiv a military ally. For the same reason, they seem to be making an even more dangerous blunder by ignoring Putin’s latest warning about making Ukraine a pawn in a NATO proxy war against Russia. It is imperative to take the new warnings very seriously and back away from a looming war with potentially horrific consequences.