Highly Recommended: Luongo On The New
Geopolitical Gameboard
Posted By: earlybird, 2/26/2022 12:49:00 PM
I really can’t recommend Tom Luongo’s latest analysis highly enough: Putin Ushers in the New Geopolitical Game Board There’s so much involved, but Luongo hits on some of the basic and very important issues, especially how Putin’s strategy is likely to be a global game changer. I’ve already cited other analysts saying this is likely the end of Globalism as Davos knows it. That should be good news for the world and for the US—if we’re smart enough to react accordingly, in line with the reality of human nature. (snip) Luongo explains the “ruled based order” that the US has become used to: We say ‘jump’ and they ask ‘how high’?
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World’s Largest Cargo Plane Destroyed
at Contested Airport Near Kyiv, Ukrainian
Government Says 4 replies
at Contested Airport Near Kyiv, Ukrainian
Government Says 4 replies
The Ukrainian government said Sunday that “the world’s largest aircraft” has been destroyed at a strategically important airport outside Kyiv amid a Russian attack.
“This was the world’s largest aircraft, AN-225 ‘Mriya’ (‘Dream’ in Ukrainian),” Ukraine’s’ Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba wrote (snip). “Russia may have destroyed our ‘Mriya. But they will never be able to destroy our dream of a strong, free and democratic European state. We shall prevail!”(tweet)Celebrated as an engineering marvel, the Antonov An-225 is the only one of its kind. The enormous plane is equipped with three jet engines on each wing, supporting a maximum take-off weight of 600 metric tons,
Russian President Vladimir Putin justifies his war on Ukraine as a peacekeeping mission, a “denazification” of the country.
In his address to the Russian people on Feb. 24, 2022, Putin said the purpose was to “protect people” who had been “subjected to bullying and genocide … for the last eight years. And for this we will strive for the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.”
The victims of the genocide claimed by Putin are Russian speakers; the Nazis he referenced are the elected representatives of the Ukrainian people. While Ukraine’s new language laws have upset some minorities, independent news media have uncovered no evidence of genocide against Russian speakers.
The recent move by the Biden administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) to terminate the China Initiative is a “big mistake,” former President Donald Trump said on Saturday at a press conference prior to his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). (snip)
The DOJ announced on Feb. 23 that it was ending the China Initiative program, which was spearheading an unprecedented crackdown against economic espionage, trade theft, and technology transfer by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) against the United States. The program was launched in 2018 by the Trump administration.
“I’m surprised to see that. I don’t think we should be doing that … I think it’s a big mistake,”
The Russian invasion of Ukraine may already be running out of gas, if the video posted by one citizen is any indication.
The minute-long clip shows a man driving up to a group of soldiers and what appears to be a Russian tank, stopped on a rural road. “Are you guys broken down?” the man asks the soldiers.
“Out of fuel,” one responds.
“Can I tow you back to Russia?” the Ukrainian quipped, generating some laughter.
The conversation continues with the Ukranian man asking the soldiers if they know where they are going. One says, “to Kyiv,” and asks, “What do they say on the news?”
Jen Psaki can’t resign fast enough.
Not that the mainstream media ever really holds her to account for her arrogance, condescension, sarcasm, or out-of-touch responses to the average American’s pain.
Hey, at least she fully channels her boss.
A few fumbles would be understandable; White House press secretary is a notoriously tough job with a high level of burnout.
But Psaki (snip) seems to never have encountered people living paycheck to paycheck, or worried about how they’ll feed, clothe or educate their kids — amid a global pandemic, no less.If anything, her statements seem aimed at one cohort alone: high-earning, highly educated liberals and progressives just like her,
I really can’t recommend Tom Luongo’s latest analysis highly enough:
Putin Ushers in the New Geopolitical Game Board
There’s so much involved, but Luongo hits on some of the basic and very important issues, especially how Putin’s strategy is likely to be a global game changer. I’ve already cited other analysts saying this is likely the end of Globalism as Davos knows it. That should be good news for the world and for the US—if we’re smart enough to react accordingly, in line with the reality of human nature. (snip)
Luongo explains the “ruled based order” that the US has become used to: We say ‘jump’ and they ask ‘how high’?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Feb. 25 drastically changed a key measure that is used by officials across the country to determine whether or not to require mask-wearing.
The federal agency now says nearly three-quarters of Americans don’t need to wear masks because they live in areas with low or medium community risk from COVID-19.
The dramatic switch comes because the CDC switched from only using COVID-19 cases as a factor and are taking into account other metrics, including hospitalizations.
“This updated approach focuses on directing our prevention efforts toward protecting people at high risk for severe ailments and preventing hospitals and healthcare systems from being overwhelmed,”
Sally Kellerman, an actress known for playing U.S. Army Major Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan in director Robert Altman’s 1970 film “M*A*S*H,” died on Thursday. She was 84.
The Oscar and Emmy nominated actor died of heart failure at her home in the Woodlands Hills section of Los Angeles,(snip)
she also guest-starred in a number of TV series, including “Star Trek.” She also made appearances in “The Twilight Zone” and the American anthology series “The Outer Limits.”
One of her last roles was in(snip) “Decker”—where she played a parody of former First Lady Hillary Clinton. The veteran award-winning actress had a career of more than 60 years
DeSantis Promises This Is Where He'll
Send Illegal Immigrants If They Keep Being
Brought to Florida 13 replies
Send Illegal Immigrants If They Keep Being
Brought to Florida 13 replies
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) promised if the Biden administration continues facilitating transporting people who illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border to his state, then he will reroute them to President Joe Biden's home state of Deleware.
Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday, DeSantis noted he banned sanctuary cities in Florida after becoming governor and he is working with the state legislature to obtain funds to send illegal immigrants brought to Florida to be taken to Deleware.
"We are in the process of getting money from the legislature so that if Joe Biden is dumping illegal aliens in Florida, I'm re-routing them to Delaware... we'll do some in D.C.
A New Age of Barbarism
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Political leaders in the US, Canada, Germany, and France – all NATO countries – got back on script yesterday. They could not wait to get to the microphones. They all seemed to have new energy and purpose in life. Politicians are made for this moment! They are vastly more talented at dishing out righteous opprobrium directed at foreign beasts, which make far more compelling enemies, than inveighing against invisible viruses.
As Russian bombs rained down on Ukriane, Western leaders – having spent the better part of two years bullying their citizens and quelling protests – spoke in soaring tones about freedom, democracy, peace, and human rights.
Border Agents Asked to Leave Southern
Border, Go to Poland for ‘Operation
Ukraine Support’ 8 replies
Border, Go to Poland for ‘Operation
Ukraine Support’ 8 replies
The Southern border of the United States is in unimaginable crisis. Border agents set a new record for arrests of people trying to enter the country illegally from Mexico: 1.9 million in 2021. And 402,000 of those were released within the United States, with asylum hearings scheduled, for which some will never show up. Biden has vilified and lied about border officials;(snip)Now Biden’s handlers have come up with a new idea for how border agents can keep occupied: they want to send them to Eastern Europe for “Operation Ukraine Support.”
Putin’s Predictabilities
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For all his caginess, dissimulation, and opportunism, Vladimir Putin is more or less predictable.
Putin’s aims? The Russian president’s two-decade dilemma has been how to reclaim the prestige and power of the former Soviet Union—(snip)
First, Putin moves on neighboring former Soviet republics when the world price of oil is high, and his coffers are full. So he went into Georgia in 2008 and into Eastern Ukraine and Crimea in 2014 (snip)
But when the world is awash in oil, prices dip, and the United States reigns as the largest gas and oil producer, he hesitates. So he remained static between 2017 and 2020.
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“There’s a phenomenal negative psychological impact that Covid has had on the public psyche and so you have an awful lot of people who are not withstanding the fact that things have gotten so much better for them economically that they are thinking,
President Biden said in an interview broadcast on Saturday that he hopes his legacy “is that I restored the soul of this country.”
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“It is important that both the transatlantic alliance (the United States, Canada, the European Union, and the United
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In 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment was amended to add Section 3, also known as the Disqualification Clause.
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Washington—Nearly half of the 500 million free COVID-19 tests the Biden administration recently made available to the public still have not been claimed as virus cases plummet and people feel less urgency to test. Wild demand swings have been a subplot in the pandemic, from vaccines to hand sanitizer, along with tests. On the first day of the White House test giveaway in January, COVIDtests.gov received over 45 million orders. Now officials say fewer than 100,000 orders a day are coming in for the packages of four free rapid tests per household, delivered by the U.S. Postal Service.(Snip)The White House says Americans have placed 68 million orders
Satellite imagery taken today showed a large deployment of Russian ground troops moving in the direction of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv from approximately 40 miles (64 km) away, a private U.S. company said. (snip)
a deployment comprised of hundreds of military vehicles and extending more than 3.25 miles (5 km). (snip) As Russian troops draw closer to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv's mayor is filled with pride over his citizens' spirit but remains anxious about how long they can hold out.
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A race-based training program used by federal agencies claims, among other things, that saying one is “colorblind” to race is itself racist. The training is part of a newly revealed federal diversity program that greatly expands on previously critical race theory trainings within the federal government, the Washington Examiner reported.
Ukraine to Putin: Never Again
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Word from the battlegrounds in Ukraine is scattered and cannot always be confirmed, but some credible accounts give every indication that Putin may have blundered and faces a stronger defense than he (or the Biden administration) imagined possible. The bravery of a former comedian elected the Ukrainian President and a multimillionaire former boxing champion, now the mayor of Kyiv, who refused flight and stayed to defend their homeland at great risk of their lives, is part of the story. But to my mind, the memory of the Holodomor in which Russia’s Stalin starved to death millions of Ukrainians plays an even greater role and explains why so many ordinary citizens
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Wauck does a sort of Cliff Notes on Luongo’s longish, highly thought-provoking article. This one is for the readers/thinkers, not the drivebys.
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