You know Tenet is where dummies like @puff get their "news"...
Yes…there are a handful of them here on this site…interestingly most of them live outside the USA although they seem to me to be overly exercised about America and it’s politics, and only too ready to believe anything that will damage or paint it In a bad light. They support Trump, Putin and anyone else who is populist, authoritarian and rightwing. It’s very easy for these armchair generals to spout dangerous nonsense from their ivory towers safely tucked out of harms way in Canada and Australia, two countries which have the strongest democracies and are the polar opposites of Putin’s Russia, and Trumpist right-wing authoritarianism.
Isn't it funny how many have such stupid opinions on things they know nothing about?....
None of these authoritietiltarianism.are the boss of me. Don't support any centroism, so don't take onesidedness. Or the total nonsense of us against them all the time. I'd say Ireland administration would think along the lines of how a few us think here. More for individualism and independence.
Is not my fault that China, Russia and BRICS are growing and the west are in the decline. I would listen if anyone that has any reasonable evidence
I’ve blocked at least three of those notorious bozos here so have no idea nor care what garbage they continue to spout. Makes for a tidier feed.
@Scott321 Yes but you miss the pleasure of pissing them off...
Report Puff to the US administration of truth and knowledge. Your slave Masters.
Says another of the idiots who gets his "news" from child molesters and paid Russian assets...
It has all the marking of a sting operation by GW Bush. on Ritter. Bush did a sting on me too., because I refused Bush a war sculpture. Then he canceled my green card and now I'm with the terrorist. Being unvaxxed makes me a terrorist also in Canada. Just not into supporting the ultimate mental illness of mass murderous psychopaths. I don't care what delusional and narcissist BS they come up with
@Castlepaloma You sound like Trump accusing others of your own mental issues and illegal or terrorist activities...
@Lizard_of_Ahaz
There you go again pushing extreme right wing Trump nonsense onto an mini anarchist. My lifetime road record of zero harm or zero kills. Is the total opposite.Compares to the maximize mass murdererers to the likes of Bush, Obama and genocide Joe. Closest to a third world war we have ever been. The most mental I'll terrorist of our times, legal or illegal. They deserve to be locked up in a criminal insane asylum for life and their puppeteers.. Who are the true terrorists.
@Castlepaloma When you support evil like you do you are responsible for the injuries and deaths that evil brings... Therefore when you support the evil terrorist Putin you are responsible by proxy for all the innocent civilians murdered in his name... Like the woman and her three children in this photo...
So NATO are the purest white as snow, good o Boys And the East is totally and ultimately evil. Most of the world population supports BRICS, what about their families that NATO terrorist killed by far greater in numbers. What are they. ... chopped liver?
Any YIn/Yang with that?.
@Castlepaloma The West and NATO represent democracy and free choice by the people. Russia, China and India do not...
@Castlepaloma You want to know exactly where the Problem is? Try Russia and their GRU...
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US world bullying is no longer the only option, BRICS allows other countries their own identity and idealogy.
US has not been a democracy since Abraham Lincoln's assination. It's US Corp under marshal law law which forces a war every year to keep it their status law. A president is not of a country, it of a corporation. Ukraine is only 40% democracy and US pretends they are fighting for democracy which is another false flag. They been dong to one third of the world countries since the second world war.
Are you stupid or just delusional? Or perhaps a bit of both?...
@Castlepaloma This is how people in your "Russian paradise" live...
Here's the thing, actions and results are what matter. What some people say is not even worth listening to - especially when there are fact checking sites. It also helps that I have a fully functioning bullshit-o-meter.
It comes down to how much denigrating goes on verses actual fact and helpful change dialog. The tone of the right wing commentators also has a big effect on me, it is like fingernails on a chalk board. Every one that I have heard has a tone so harsh it puts me right off.
If you dislike @puff, he must be doing something right.
Nope he is just another fool like you who gets his fake news from Russian paid assets...
I blocked puff long ago. Castlepaloma too. Wastes of time. I did something right in blocking them. Great feature that!
All of you conservatives are just plain stupid @Alienbeing if you ever stopped listening to Russian trolls and woke up to what the world really is you might see that by supporting the psychopaths on the Right-wing you are giving the GRU what they want.
@Lizard_of_Ahaz I have never listened to Russian trolls, and since I am very anti Russian in virtually all my posts I wonder why you would make such a dumb statement.
@Alienbeing Because you post shit that is their party line... You are just far too ignorant to see it and that makes you stupid...
@Lizard_of_Ahaz Nah, you are just a moron.
@Alienbeing Russian brain freeze?.... Or just typical conservative inability on your part to see that you are mirroring?...
@Lizard_of_Ahaz Neither, merely another of your absurd observations that make us laugh.
Try watching UN sessions, parliamentary hearings but mostly podcasts. Judging Freedom is very good, Danny Haiphong, Dialogue Works and other European casters. I like analysis from Geoffery Sachs,, Scott Ritter, Col Douglas McGregor, Col Karen Kwiatkowski and a whole host of ex CIA spooks like Larry Johnson. Jimmy Dore for a bit of comic relief (can't stand his side kick) and many more.
I can't stand Ben Shapiro, don't watch Fox except Gutfield but rarely. Don't really watch any that concentrate only on domestic US politics. The old Israel really showed peoples true colours as a lot I would occasionally watch became Zionist shrills.
Collect as much information as you can is the trick and keep the useful information. That is basically the role of intelligence gathering. Then you analyse as a whole and decide for yourself.
Ed forgot the subject. Yes news with a Russian slant but checkable stories/ claims is RT. Bit like the BBC has a UK slant, ABC has an Australian slant etc. Al Jazzera and Indian news not too bad. Israeli papers full of information, a surprisingly free press there in embarrassing their government. Remember, that is the role of media, to hold the powerful to account. Don't really watch anything like the twat you posted.
Scott Ritter is one of the Putin paid trolls on RT and Sputnik.... Thank you for that confession...
He is also a child sex offender... You don't do the slightest checks on who you get your disinformation from do you?...
Look at what dipshit just confessed to @glennlab
Macgregor is a real piece of shit too being a Trump buddy making that no surprise that he would be a RT contributor, racist and proPutin traitor as well...
@Lizard_of_Ahaz Thank you for your expert analysis. I suppose having an ex president who has been proven in court of law to be a lair, sexual preditor,a conman and a Russian asset, does give one the unenviable ability to dispense, assimilate and recognise disinformation. while being unable to recognise myopic disinformation.
@Lizard_of_Ahaz I don't shoot messengers. Scott Ritter has excellent analysis. Yes he was honey trapped by an FBI agent posing as a 15 year old. Not good, he knows it and I am sure is very embarrassed and feels like a dickhead. Sleazy behaviour which should be condemned.
But it was an online honey trap. Do you know his claim to fame? He was the UN weapons inspector during the Iraq WMD debacle, the one who gives the expert testimony to the UN. He was under enormous pressure from the Bush admin, Cheney et al to confirm they had WMD. He chose to report what he saw instead ie no WMD anywhere he looked. This did not make him popular with US authorities, being loyal to his UN role rather than the Bush admin itching for war.
The thing with Scott, he has been convicted of "grooming a minor" or whatever which is about the worse thing you can accuse any man of. But he is still here and the result has been that he no longer gives a fuck whoever he embarrasses now. That conviction unleashed him. Like we used to say in the Army "What are they going to do next? Take away my birthday?"
That man has bigger balls than you or me will ever have when it comes to standing up for what he feels is right.
He is now a journalist who specialises in Russia, where he spent a lot of time destroying their nukes when arms treaties were a thing as a UN inspector. He promotes dialogue and peace. A proud American. I would not question his patriotism to his face. He still has the "I'll rip off your head and shit down your neck" Marine in him.
Yes RT pays him when they publish something he writes. It's called independent journalism. Freedom of the press. You know, America's core values. Other news outlets pay him too.
@puff Scott Ritter is a child molester and a paid Russian asset... He has no balls when it comes to what is right he only sniffs after those paychecks for betraying his own country...
@Lizard_of_Ahaz "Ritter, an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq, had a sexually graphic online chat in 2009 with an undercover police officer posing as a 15-year-old girl named Emily."
The only person he molested was himself. Wanker rather than molester.
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@puff What was that pervert doing trying to stick his dick into an underage girl anyway?... Do you endorse sexual perversion like that?... Ritter is a pervert and a traitor to his country and while Iraq was wrong that doesn't make Ritter a good guy he is a confidant of Putin and receives hie instructions and paycheck from the FSB... Soon he will be back in prison where he belongs which to my mind is good riddance to vile rubbish.
@puff, @vocaloldfart He is also now going back on trial for sedition and treason...
@Lizard_of_Ahaz Totally sleazy. Does not make his analysis any less relevant though.
I see old Bill has been making fine speeches lately. That President who coerced a very young intern to flavour his cigar. Remember him? I'm sure your moralistic self is calling for his incarceration as strongly as you are now with Ritter. When's the release of Epstein Island flight logs coming out? Your outrage would suggest you have your finger on the pulse with that one. Read Biden's daughter's diary yet? There is a lot of sleazy in this world. Wanking on line is one of them, but not the worse by far.
If you wish to dismiss Ritter, your loss as his analysis is good. Plenty of others concur with his analysis, not all of it, but most. So watch them. they can't all be Putin's confidants.
Iraq was wrong? It was a lot more than wrong.
@puff Yes it does when he is being paid by the FSB to say what they want him to say and not stick with facts....
As for Iraq that was a Republican conservative misadventure as was Afghanistan... The real terrorist was stopped by Obama in Pakistan and the terrorists who had been rounded up were released by Trump when he arraigned that clusterfuck of a withdrawal with the terrorists leaving the government there out of the negotiations... But you do love your treasonous little worms don't you?...
FYI first Trump is going back on trial for election interference in Federal court and then he is going back for theft of classified materials, sedition, treason and a host of other charges...
@Lizard_of_Ahaz I'll give it to the Biden admin, they are try Hard's lol. And the real funny thing is, I still predict a Trump victory in November. If fair elections are held which is no given. The same old gripe about not enough poling stations, lines too long, machines playing up, paper ballots go missing etc is all going to be an issue again.
You American's are so in your own little world.
Ritter is very well known in Europe, appearing on many of their podcasts and quoted often. They see election year, political opposition getting arrested/ tried...........again (Because us o/s are not fixated on Trump ie we don't see Trump being arrested, we see the political opponent being arrested). We see well respected American's who question the wisdom of US foreign policy be arrested. Massive censorship.
We see America is going to shite. So well done! We see a banana republic. So keep it up and BRICS will come about much sooner.
FSB may or may not pay journalists, but the CIA sure as shit does. And the Washington Post is their mouthpiece, the ones who first report all the "leaks" which strangely enough, only ever seem to support whatever agenda is in favour by the government.
Ritter will beat all charges. He is a journalist you understand now. The Biden admin now openly arrests journalists as well as political opponents. Another feather for America's cap they can add to enabling Genocide.
@puff Trump is losing badly and several states he had won against Biden have already been abandoned by his campaign which is running out of money and big donors...
He is having the same problem Putin is now that Ukraine is raining fire on them from the new Thermite drones...
@Lizard_of_Ahaz I just has a look and you are full of shit. I see zero news that Ritter has been "He is also now going back on trial for sedition and treason..." Utter bollocks.
Funny how Trump is such a loser that there is a need to ban him from ballot papers in several states, New Hampshire one of them. So cry me a river over electoral interference. Make sure you vote to save your precious democracy. Isn't the best way to defeat Trump is via the ballot box? Is in a free democracy.
@Lizard_of_Ahaz Going to discredit this man too?
@puff he discredits himself belonging to that far right wing group Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity which includes your friend Scott Ritter the child molester... Not to mention his starting a hoax that Michelle Obama had been caught on video using a racial slur... an assertion for which NO EVIDENCE WAS EVER FOUND...
@vocaloldfart Yeah like your Labor party who recently voted down updating your sex offender listing laws?... I wonder was that to keep their own names off it perhaps?...
@Lizard_of_Ahaz Good morning Sunshine. I just had a thought last night.
You always bait me and know I will bite. You understand I read widely and am anti NATO and assign blame for Nord Stream directly on Biden's shoulders. I am anti the Master race carrying out their final solution in Israel/ Palestine. You know me well so you troll the bait knowing I will bite and defend what I say. I take the bait then flick off the hook to be trolled another day.
Are you one of Putin's puppets?
Bloody clever those Russians, knowing if they bait me I will bite whilst pretending to be true blue yanks who despise Trump. By doing this trolling you assist them in countering propaganda.
Thank you for your service
@puff Oh did you hear the latest?... Fucking India has been supplying Russia with sanctioned materials secretly so they now might be facing sanctions as well... As if their economy wasn't bad enough already huh?...
@Lizard_of_Ahaz Didn't know that. I did hear China has sanctioned the US of precious rare earths essential in making modern weaponry though.
Another own goal. That will dissuade other countries from joining BRICS which will enable them to function under US imposed sanctions.
@puff If so China will be sanctioned in turn and end up on the shit end of the stick...
Ahh this must be what you are talking about...
The problem for China being the same as the problem the American south faced during the civil war.... These companies will buy from somewhere else and China will no longer be able to sustain its failing economy on a long term basis...
@Lizard_of_Ahaz I do believe they did it in response to US sanctions and the arming of Taiwan. Sanction away as that hammer diplomatic tool won't be around much longer when the $USD revert to a local currency.
@puff Yet their economy depends on the west in general and the US in particular... Without the revenues from the western world they will collapse.
Russia is well under 3% of their international trade...
@Lizard_of_Ahaz Not for much longer. The world is a changing. What is the West? Western Europe, the UK, the North American continent and a couple of pissant countries like Australia, Japan and New Zealand. So I think China will survive trading with Africa, Asia and South America. Exciting time for them really as many of these countries are under developed with plenty of room for investment. Whereas the "West" are highly developed and are in decline.
India loves BRICS because BRICS is not full of globalist snobs and employs diplomacy. Modi goes on peace missions now to Ukraine and Russia to end that conflict. He gains prestige both at home and internationally, he gains face which is important in Eastern culture. Xi of China also pulled off a major diplomatic coup by overseeing the normalisation of relations between Persia and Arabs, something I have never seen in my lifetime.
You see, the US under Biden does not do international diplomacy and poo poo'ed Trump for trying to end America's longest war with Nth Korea. But internation diplomacy is always needed so a vacuum was created which BRICS has filled. More home goals from the US. I can't see Kamala as an international diplomat so her election will not enhance the US's international influence which is at an all time low due to Israel.
@puff
Sounds like entrapment sting.
@puff China is collapsing and sanctions by them are only showboating, Russia has collapsed as has Turkey, India and nearly all the BRICS countries you yammer about. The only increase in Russia's GDP has been military production but oil revenues are down well over 30%...Mongolia is a impoverished cess pool and dealing with Putin will flush them down the sewage pipes for the next 50 years at least.
@Castlepaloma I've often thought if I get pulled in because I slag off at how Western capitalist culture has entered the end game which is fascism, a marriage of the corporate world and government to the detriment of the people. So if I do get dragged in and they interrogate/ question me, I can point out the very fact I have been dragged in kind of proves my point does it not fascist bully boys?
Fuck 'em. The way it is going, sites like this will be heavily controlled so may as well enjoy it whilst I can.
@Lizard_of_Ahaz "Mongolia is a impoverished cess pool and dealing with Putin will flush them down the sewage pipes for the next 50 years at least."
What's wrong with dealing with Putin? Oh, that's right. They failed to arrest him as ordered by the ICC. So if by that inaction they get flushed away for 50 yrs, how do you think the ICC feels when America also does not arrest a wanted man? In fact, they even let him address the people's house to drum up support to continue his crimes and got a standing ovation for his effort. Does Mongolia also sanction ICC prosecutors and judges like the US does?
@puff No dumbass all Mongolia has to trade is live stock for food.... All Putin has to trade is scrap metal... or slaves from Russia so essentially Mongolia if they do trade with him are looking at bankruptcy.
@Lizard_of_Ahaz That's the attitude that grows BRICS. Lesser nation are currently exploited and viewed as backwards counties by this US rules based order. BRICS however recognises sovereignty and treat countries with respect, aiming to lift all with investment/ trade with no strings attached, unlike the IMF.
Did you watch Larry Johnson? Did you listen? Burns in 2008, the CIA director who was US ambassador to Russia in 2008, predicted Ukraine and the outcome. There is a reason Russia has been methodical and only occupy what Burns predicted.
Russia is far more interested in promoting BRICS than conquering Europe and have no desire to rule Western Ukraine. "Don't listen to what people say, watch what they do". What Russia does was totally predictable and was predicted by Burns way back in 2008, when the idea was floated by NATO to absorb Ukraine. Why I hate NATO ie they are meant to be a defense pact yet they pushed expanding into Ukraine knowing 100% it would cause conflict and heightened tensions. Another cold war which is great for weapon manufacturers, the major economic driver in conflict addicted USA.. "Forever wars" as Julian Assange put it.
@puff
You wanted to know why he wasn't arrested?... Here is your answer ignoramus..
As for your Larry Johnson he is just another lying criminal fuckwad just like his buddy Traitor Trump....
NATO did "try to absorb Ukraine" Ukraine applied for membership to NATO and the EU which sped up Putin's assault on them to overthrow their legitimately elected government which was recognized by the international community. The fact that you support Putin makes you a supporter of international terrorism and war crimes... Putin has a arrest warrant out on him while unfortunately Bibi does NOT...
@Lizard_of_Ahaz Touche, warrant requested but the ICC dragging it's feet. Dare say because of Europe and the EU's and NATO's fragility [newstatesman.com]
Are you familiar with Leahy's Law? Accusation is enough.
The USA does not recognise the ICC's authority anyway and would refuse to arrest Netanyahu even if an arrest warrant was issued. You see, they wish to protect their own forces from being prosecuted for international crimes which is why they don't sign on.
The prosecutor believes he has enough evidence to prosecute the case and win. If he didn't, he would not have requested a warrant for Netanyahu's arrest to answer the allegation he is committing genocide. It will come, the evidence is undeniable. And when he is tried, he will be found guilty. And when found guilty, those who enabled his crime will come under scrutiny. The US enables Netanyahu's crime in two ways;
The crime is a crime against humanity, not just a war crime. So there will be a Nuremburg type trial and the Biden admin, led by Blinken, will have their chance to defend their actions. Good luck with that!
What is Putin charged with? Kidnapping children and whisking them off to Russia. I think he will get off as many/ most parents were all for it, getting children out of the conflict zone. Plus these children are being educated and being looked after quite well, learning music and dance along with academic education. They are not being caged up as has occurred along the US border and Russia knows where they all are as do their parents/ guardians, again unlike the US border. Putin also needs to face the ICC court but I very much doubt he will be convicted in this case. Other war crimes? Probably guilty as shit as are all American presidents.
@puff Putin will suicide or "fall out of a window" before facing the ICC and he would be convicted the evidence against him is far too strong...
As for your contention that Trump will win I leave you with this...
@Lizard_of_Ahaz I would encourage all to vote on voting day like the rest of the world's democracy does. This allows you to witness debates to make a more informed decision eg there has been zero debate yet between the candidates. If you don't, obvious you are not really interested in democracy but instead suffer from TDS or are indoctrinated Democrat party supporters who will never change their vote.
I also predict it will be exactly like last election ie Trump will runaway in front but as days pass and more postal votes are counted, that lead will diminish. Your country is in trouble either way as Democrats won't recognise a Trump presidency and GOP's won't recognise a Harris one if it is postal votes that decide the election.
And the real ironic thing is the USA is not a democracy anyway, it is a constitutional republic ie the popular democratic vote does not elect presidents, the electoral college does.
ED The Democratic party is far from democratic as well ie the popular vote didn't choose the presidential candidate.
@puff You don't even know what "informed" means you brainwashed tool...
@Lizard_of_Ahaz Big boys play geopolitical games. And when it comes to assassinations and operations to interfere in other sovereign nations, I don't think they are the worse eg Mossad from Israel. The French famously blew up the Rainbow Warrier, a Greenpeace vessel, in NZ etc
Anyway, Ukraine is lost and Washington, the Biden admin, is panicking. Russia phobia is about to hit overdrive so expect more sensational stories from your news services. Israel not looking too flash either. Biden wars both. He could have stopped both. It will be a different world come election day so time to increase the paranoia levels amongst the voting public. Anyone not with the program will be accused as a Russian stooge.
Luckily, America's CIA would not do anything like that.
@puff Tell that to Ukraine and they will tell you to fuck off and die. Their new drones are raining thermite on the Russians destroying everything from their tanks to their underwear along with killing off their troops. The Russian advances have been all but stopped and they are losing massive amount of troops and equipment while Ukraine is sending thank you notes to Russian troops in the Kursk region for their "donations" of equipment and ammunition... Ukraine has control of Niu York and has pushed back Russians in Chasiv Yar and the Russian advance in the Pokrovsk direction has slowed to meters a day with huge losses for the Russians while the Ramstein conference ended with Ukraine receiving large military aid packages
@Lizard_of_Ahaz And you were winning in Afghanistan for 20 years too.
Things are heating up there and Ukraine has hit a missile dump, a big one, a few days ago in Russia. The thing is, it won't effect the outcome for Ukraine.
Understand Russians are not stupid. They know these long range missile and drone attacks are not about defending Ukraine by Ukrainians. They also know they also use NATO/ US technology to target and devise flight plans, targets identified and planned by NATO. They also know there is no leadership coming from the White House. So if NATO keep using these longer range weapons, Russia will respond, have responded already by taking out that military school in Ukraine, killing Swedish trainers. Col McGregor made me laugh describing this attack. He said Sweden wanted in on NATO and Russia has now welcomed them to the party with 3 dead Swedes. A rather dark and dry sense of humour which I enjoy.
If things keep escalating which seems likely as zero leadership/ diplomacy from the US and Europe, I'm inclined to think Russia won't strike in Europe or Ukraine nor the US proper which they are capable of. That will be the second next escalation. Instead, they will give the Houthi's or similar the go ahead to use one of the missiles they gave them and sink one of your ships in the Red Sea, or more probably a UK of French one if there. I think this because that is exactly what NATO is doing in Ukraine; supplying weapons and guidance to a third party to attack strategic assets for them. The definition of a proxy war which is rapidly heading towards a direct war between nuclear powers.
@Lizard_of_Ahaz you have it wrong lying labour and the Larcenous Nazi parties are the MAFIA which we call government. ALP and LNP are not parties they are mobs. we have the adult sized, but immature school kids called the Greens who look upon the mobs with envy and lust. Anything these three mobs claim and propose must be taken with a whole mountain of salt.
@vocaloldfart here we have the Friends of Putin Republican NAZIs...
@puff You are stupid for believing that crap.... Ukraine has hit so many large aviation ammo dumps the Russians are trying to import more missiles because they are running short. The only advances being halted are Russian ones..
@Lizard_of_Ahaz This guy lives in reality and understands the human cost. There are fine Americans out there, wish they were in power.
Your going to need better US properganda films made.
Try Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris,, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Hollywood represents America culture ar the Worlds fair. Even though Hollywood is a rip off of everyone's else's culture. Since porn is bigger than Hollywood, most would rather make love to themselves than kill poor people, they don't understand.
@Castlepaloma I prefer Korean movies myself. Squid games was a great series.