It didn’t have to be this way. I am reminded of a quote from Condoleezza Rice about the morning of 9/11. She knew that U.S. forces going to DEFCON-3 would trigger a similar escalation by Russia so she called President Putin and told him our military would be going on high alert. He told her that he knew and that he had ordered his forces to stand down. Then he asked if there was anything he could do to help. Rice recounted that she had a moment of reflection: “The Cold War really is over.” But the choices made in the aftermath of that day by people like her unleashed a destructive zeitgeist in Washington foreign policy that has led us to this point where the specter of nuclear war now hangs in the air as it did during the tensest moments of the Cold War. […]
Throughout Vladimir Putin’s political career he has watched as American foreign policy has run amuck in the world like a bull in a china shop. He has learned how our leaders operate and understands the treachery of which they are capable. Libya is a good example. Colonel Gaddafi had been cooperating with the United States. He shut down his nuclear program, gave up his weapons of mass destruction, and began opening his country and economy to the world. By 2008, U.S. military leaders were calling Libya a top U.S. ally in combating transnational terrorism. Gaddafi allowed an American embassy to open, and before the paint had even dried the diplomats and spooks posted there were already working on his overthrow. They worked with U.S. and transnational NGOs and foundations to train “pro-democracy” activists and seed an opposition movement.
When the Arab Spring dawned in 2011, violent protests broke out in Libya, spearheaded by radical groups covertly armed by the United States and its allies, and the government tried to quell the rebellion and restore order. The restoration of order was deemed heavy-handed by the United States and NATO and thus the pretext for intervention was established. NATO began intervention by establishing a no-fly zone over Libya, which quickly turned into a bombing and cruise missile campaign against military installations and civilian infrastructure.
Gaddafi’s reward for cooperating with the American government was to be sodomized with a bayonet on the way to his mob execution. Rather than expressing regret or even responding with a modicum of discretion, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton crowed, “We came, we saw, he died.” Vice President Joe Biden echoed her sentiments, “Whether he’s alive or dead, he’s gone. The people of Libya have gotten rid of a dictator. NATO got it right.” In the wake of Gaddafi’s murder, Libya devolved into utter anarchy with slave markets where you could buy a human being for $40 and a civil war that lasted until 2020. The country became a seedbed of terrorists. Gaddafi’s regime had stood between Italy and Subsaharan Africa. With him out of the picture, Italy and the rest of the EU quickly became overrun with illegal immigrants.
The message the Libya episode sent to governments around the world was clear: You can do everything the Americans ask but there is still an excellent chance that they will put a knife in your back. It became painfully obvious that American foreign policy had become completely divorced from any rational aims. From that point on, Putin began actively working against American interventionism, most notably in Syria with his support for the government of President Assad in its fight against rebels and terrorist groups like ISIS, many of whom were trained and armed by the U.S. government. As Russia drifted further from the West, the U.S. government’s antagonism towards Russia further increased. The next target for a color revolution would be Ukraine.
Interesting that he said people ‘like’ Condoleeza Rice were responsible for stabbing Libya in the back, but doesn’t quite mention the names of those who actually did it. Now who was president in 2008? Hmmm, the name escapes me.
The entire multi-national order was in on it. Heck, Canada even sent troops and materiel, under Harper.
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it was 2011 that the stabbing occurred, not 2008, and Bush was still president in 2008.
my personal interest in history taught me that even before l was born, the great USofA was fcuking up foreign policy by dwelling on their short term interests and among other thing tolerating EXTEME despotism as long as there werent any of joe mccarthy’s cummuniiiiiists in the shadows.
aka ‘CIA’ is a misnomer, *gathering intelligence* is just one department. meddling in the interests of the CEO of United Fruit who is the *brother* of the director of said CIA is par for the course.
google it. has to do with things in Nicaragua in the heady days of somoasa fambly owning most of the country.
buuuuut thats the hard line right wing for ya !!!
Precisely. It is Democrat Party governments that treacherously turn on their allies. All was good in Lydia until 2008. Then Obama and the Democrat apparatus took over and that relationship went into the crapper. It’s amazing that Israel managed to survive that go around. Will they be able to survive the upcoming Iran nuke deal is worrying.
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Anyone who doesn’t understand the US is and has been the greatest danger to world peace for the last thirty years is too stupid for this sort of conversation. It is the top rogue nation in the world, untrustworthy, treacherous, and utterly incompetent to boot. Most of the major humanitarian crisis in the last 20 years stem from US stupidity. If the world goes up in a nuclear holocaust, it’ll be the fault of the US.
Actually it will be the fault of those wanting to perpetuate these actions out their own self interest.
As was learned in 2016 and then in 2020, the US can pick and choose who they elect, but the bureaucracy seems to be a leviathan that suffers no such limits.
To know what depths they would sink to, was given the response
“At this point what difference does it make”.
And then when it was clear that nothing would be done to the malefactors they taunted those to whom they should be in service to with
“Well SOB he got fired”
You have to ask yourself why? The fact that members of Congress enter DC with meager bank balances that suddenly balloon to multimillions might give you an answer. We need a serious blood letting as a cure.
Canadian..
Let’s be real here, ever since the creation of the CIA, the US has actively sought to undermine numerous Democratically elected Governments World Wide.
That started already in the mid ’50’s with Iran…destabilizing the country and eventually installing the Shah. They’ve run unabated since. Ukraine is just the latest example…
SOP for the US….and a country that since I learned how to read, has been on a war footing since Pearl Harbour….always fighting someone somewhere.
I’m fairly certain America’s problem started with the election of ” Honest ” Abe.
After the Civil War it’s been a steady decline.
It really picked up after 1913 and the Monster from Jekyll Island, The Fed Res.
Ammendment 17 didn’t help either.
Yep. That was the transformative moment that turned these United States into The United States.
Then the FBI in the 20’s, to enforce prohibition, the firearms act of 1934, Nixon taking the US off the gold standard…
Keep in mind, Washington led 4 state militias into Pennsylvania to crack down on tax evaders before the ink on the Bill of Rights was even dry.
Whiskey Rebellion .
Some folks trying to live life by bartering with their own made up fiat.
At least the stuff was good for something.
Today’s fiat you can’t even wipe your azz with it or start a fire, too much plastic.
Most of that time was during the Democrat regime and inspired by Obama. Get that straight.
That is a great read. The same cast of buffoons keeps turning up over and over again.
It is well researched, concise and to the point.
Question is, what do we do about it and all the fookery going on now.
If the general populace refuses to do nothing then they are defacto in favor of it.
Our leaders govern with our consent , if we pull that consent then they are done like dinner.
More of us then them.
All this stops when we say so, so as the saying goes ” you should only look into a mirror ” to find the root of your problem .
“Manufacturing Consent”. See: almost anything going on in “democracies” worldwide in the past 30 years.
It is a great read. I’m late for work because I took time to read it. Thanks Kate! Where do you find the time to find all of these great articles?
It’s been said that the winners write history. Have you ever heard the MSM state that the US supported Arab Spring was an Obama disaster?
Terrific article indeed. Probably the best one I’ve read since this Ukraine mess started.
Cast of buffoons indeed. The current crop of American “leaders” is unbelievably and tragically incompetent at everything. And Canadian “leaders” are no better, not that anyone bother to listen to Canada in the first place. I’m not sure there’s a sane western leader to be found these days.
Why would anyone trust the US government?
I trust them. I can be 100% certain that whenever they speak, they lie.
I may have mentioned that I just finished a biography series on Allen Dulles, CIA Director during the Eisenhower years and a few of Kennedy’s term. I’m being very charitable when I say this guy was a one man foreign policy wrecking crew starting with Guatemala’s elections and the United Fruit Company, Cold War, Bay of Pigs fiasco, MK Ultra, Iran and that’s just a few. The world’s current problems with Iran, if you want to call them problems, is a direct result of CIA operatives meddling in their affairs way back as early as the fifties. It’s stunning how it’s still biting us in the ass half a century later.
Made me wonder what this world be like if someone had put a leash on that man.
Burton
Bingo…I just alluded to that very thing above.
Shit disturbing world wide ever since the OSS turned into the CIA.
Only now they have near the entire Western Hemispheres’ Media whoring for them 24/7
Steak
And the RCC and CIA have been working hand in glove since the CIA was created.
burton
And Dulles was behind the assassination of JFJ, which was financed by HL Hunt, the Texas oil Oligarch. Senator Prescott Bush was a good buddy of Dulles. I read a lot about Dulles when researching the JFK thing
Yup, Dulles was fired by Kennedy soon after Bay of Pigs and then Johnson puts him on the Warren Commission to investigate Kennedy’s assasination.
Totally reasonable.
Very much on point.
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/i-am-asking-for-a-coherent-set-of?s=r
All our “leaders” are owned and operated by the CCP through various cutouts and we are ****ed.
I read somewhere many years ago that Gaddafi was removed from office by the US for just threatening to sell oil in a currency other than the USD therefore threatening the petro dollar and robbing the US of its true power. Sound familiar to what is happening today?
NAR
I recall that as well….
At some 30 trillion in the shutter, I suspect the US would do pretty much ANYTHING to retain its position as keeper of the world’s reserve currency.
Used to be backed by gold, now backed by deceit and a knife (Carrier Air Group), and a Fleet of SSN’s
Same people peddling the same nonsense.
The Saudi’s are considering just that and Biden is the point man. Owned and operated by the CCP.
Belarus (destroying democracy)
Ukraine as a whole
Crimea
Donetsk
Transnistria
South Ossetia
Chechnya
Syria (including chemical weapons)
Dagestan
Russian interference in America, including the 2016 election
Yup. America is the problem.
Do you idiots suffer from brain damage?
“Russian interference in America, including the 2016 election”
Sign up for your fourth shot yet?
It’s confirmed by the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report. You should read it.
“ It’s confirmed by the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report. You should read it.”
And it amounted to nothing more than a minor nuisance. Russia has been meddling in every US election since the 30s. They count on people like you who think history started at 9AM this morning. That way they can turn what was a routine occurrence into a spectacle, and dummies like you will bite.
You should f off. Bipartisan? That’s a laugh. They’re all in on it and you’ll swallow anything.
Pick up any of those rocks and you will find an American under it….
You forgot Kazakhstan on your list. People there were getting tired of a corrupt dictatorship. Putin intervened to make sure the dictatorship stayed in place.
I remember going there in 2009 to visit the Deere dealership. Their website had a blurb praising the wise leadership of President Nazarbayev. Bad things could happen to businesses that did not praise that wise leadership.
You mean like the US did in El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Argentina, and various other places?
alla S
hahahahahahahaha, you are always on the wrong side of TRUTH, may the BULLSCHIFF be with you
@Allan S – Nice list, lets make some more, starting with Latin America then we’ll move around the world Asia Pacific, Africa, Middle East……it’s going to take some time before we get to Afghanistan.
Argentina 1890 – Troops – Buenos Aires interests protected
Chile 1891 – Troops – Marines clash with nationalist rebels
Haiti 1891 – Troops – Black workers revolt on U.S.-claimed Navassa Island defeated
Nicaragua 1894 – Troops Month-long occupation of Bluefields
Panama 1895 – Naval, troops – Marines land in Colombian province
Nicaragua 1896 – Troops Marines land in port of Corinto
Cuba 1898 – Naval, troops – Seized from Spain, U.S. still holds Navy base at Guantanamo
Puerto Rico 1898 – Naval, troops – Seized from Spain, occupation continues
Nicaragua 1898 – Troops – Marines land at port of San Juan del Sur
Nicaragua 1899 – Troops – Marines land at port of Bluefields
Honduras 1903 – Troops – Marines intervene in revolution
Dominican Republic 1903-04 – Troops – U.S. interests protected in Revolution
Cuba 1906-09 – Troops – Marines land in democratic election
Nicaragua 1907 – Troops – “Dollar Diplomacy” protectorate set up
Honduras 1907 – Troops – Marines land during war with Nicaragua
Panama 1908 – Troops – Marines intervene in election contest
Nicaragua 1910 – Troops – Marines land in Bluefields and Corinto
Honduras 1911 – Troops – U.S. interests protected in civil war
Cuba 1912 – Troops – U.S. interests protected in Havana
Panama 1912 – Troops – Marines land during heated election
Honduras 1912 – Troops – Marines protect U.S. economic interests
Nicaragua 1912-33 – Troops, bombing – 20-year occupation, fought guerrillas
Mexico 1913 – Naval – Americans evacuated during revolution
Dominican Republic 1914 – Naval – Fight with rebels over Santo Domingo
Mexico 1914-18 – Naval, troops – Series of interventions against nationalists
Haiti 1914-34 – Troops, bombing – 19-year occupation after revolts
Dominican Republic 1916-24 – Troops – 8-year Marine occupation
Cuba 1917-33 – Troops – Military occupation, economic protectorate
Panama 1918-20 – Troops – “Police duty” during unrest after elections
Honduras 1919 – Troops – Marines land during election campaign
Guatemala 1920 – Troops – 2-week intervention against unionists
Costa Rica 1921 – Troops
Panama 1921 – Troops
Honduras 1924-25 – Troops – Landed twice during election strife
Panama 1925 – Troops – Marines suppress general strike
El Salvador 1932 – Naval – Warships sent during Faribundo Marti revolt
Uruguay 1947 – Nuclear threat – Bombers deployed as show of strength
Puerto Rico 1950 – Command operation – Independence rebellion crushed in Ponce
Guatemala 1954-? – Command operation, bombing, nuclear threat CIA directs exile invasion and coup d’Etat after newly elected government nationalizes unused U.S.’s United Fruit Company lands; bombers based in Nicaragua; long-term result: 200,000 murdered.
Panama 1958 – Troops – Flag protests erupt into confrontation.
Cuba 1961 – Command operation – CIA-directed exile invasion fails.
Cuba 1962 – Nuclear threat, naval – Blockade during missile crisis; near-war with Soviet Union.
Panama 1964 – Troops – Panamanians shot for urging canal’s return.
Dominican Republic 1965-66 – Troops, bombing – Marines land during election campaign.
Guatemala 1966-67 – Command operation – Green Berets intervene against rebels.
Chile 1973 – Command operation – CIA-backed coup ousts democratically elected Marxist president.
El Salvador 1981-92 – Command operation, troops – Advisors, overflights aid anti-rebel war, soldiers briefly involved. in hostage clash; long-term result: 75,000 murdered and destruction of popular movement.
Nicaragua 1981-90 – Command operation, naval – CIA directs exile (Contra) invasions, plants harbor mines against revolution; result: 50,000 murdered.
Honduras 1982-90 – Troops – Maneuvers help build bases near borders.
Grenada 1983-84 – Troops, bombing – Invasion four years after revolution.
Bolivia 1987 – Troops – Army assists raids on cocaine region.
Panama 1989 – Troops, bombing – Nationalist government ousted by 27,000 soldiers, leaders arrested, 2000+killed.
Haiti 1994-95 – Troops, naval – Blockade against military government; troops restore President Aristide to office three years after coup.
Venezuela 2002 – Command operation – Failed coup attempt to remove left-populist president Hugo Chavez.
Haiti 2004- Troops – Removal of democratically elected President Aristide; troops occupy country.
Honduras 2009 – Command operation Support for coup that removed president Manuel Zelaya.
Hey Shithead…
“Russian interference in America, including the 2016 election..”..???
LMAO.
It’s now confirmed You shallow JackAss…dick and every bit of BS Spewed by the US MSM.
Stupid..?? Nope, you’re well beyond that sonny.
Like Doug,I trust our governments.
To be Fools and Bandits.
Trust ,the trust in civil society,that belief that no matter how off the rails the actors become,the institutions will correct the madness..
Trust is gone.
Stupid is impossible to predict and defend against.
You can only stop stupid by banishment and death.
I find nothing in the posted article to disagree with.
The Blatant dishonesty and malice of our Parasitic Overload is obvious world wide.
Everything our “leaders” have approved for use abroad,no matter how inhuman,illegal and insane,has come home to be used against us.
“The 5Is,five eyes,used to spy on each others citizens,for it is not illegal if your government allows their counterpart to spy on you…
Then the very government for whom it is a crime to spy on its citizenry,uses the results of this “foreign” spy work to monitor and attack these citizens…
This is “Legal”..
The official line,”Putin is evil,Putin is all things bad” is tired and lame,especially when trumpeted by such scum as our “leadership.
I have no enemies in The Ukraine or Russia,but plenty here on the North American Continent..
We,as North Americans,will never be trusted abroad.
We have betrayed too many and assaulted even more..
Bomb Them!
Being the official response to any foreign resistance.
If we,citizens,want “World Peace”.the first thing we would need to do is arrest and hang our legacy “Dear Leaders”,having a nice Trail after the hangings as a token of our esteem for our Demonically Possessed Progressive Comrades.
And then become Fortress North America,using our natural resources for our own benefit..
Letting the rest of the world find their own way.
For the “White Supremacy” accusations are real.
Projection,but real.
The ugly truth of our Progressive Comrades,is they are Supremists,preaching that all coloured persons are unfit to live their own lives,incapable of doing without our help.(The Whiteman’s Burden)
A hideous soft racism,inherent in the Do Gooder creed.
Hell even Jesus saw through that scam.
Dependency is slavery.
Well.
Look at where our “help” has got us.
“We are from the government,we are here to help you”.
Time to reduce the “helpers” number,without mercy,without pause .
Looks like TAT called it right with the term “The Empire of Lies.”
And so more “conservatives” join the left in believing people outside the US are sub-humans who only act as a reaction to what Americans do.
Not everything is our fault. Libya was France’s project, and Putin chose war on his own.
Russian propaganda! Everything my tiny broken hamster brain can’t process is Russian propaganda!
You’re right about one thing. The size of your ….. brain.
It would be nice to see oil traded with crypto.
Giving the same people that print money control over energy prices was a big mistake, in fact, it is a conflict of interest on a global scale.
Much like giving the politicians control over the educational system is also a conflict of interest.
Or the people who control traffic lights control over gasoline taxes.
Or the people who manage pensions control over health-care.
Or the people who claim a monopoly on violence control over who may or may not own firearms.
The list goes on and on and on.
…and we see, again, like during the 2016 Trump campaign, those mouthpieces who claim the mantle of conservatism clamoring to preserve the status-quo, and keep everybody in thrall.
It is truly disgusting.
Does anyone remember what happened to Libya after Obama paid to it’s leaders removal?
It’s now a (black) slave trader nation.
Think about that for one second. A (black) American Prez that tuned a nation into a slave state.
@Dustoff – “A (black) American Prez that tuned a nation into a slave state.”
Lets not forget the birthplace of ISIS, well armed with Gaddafi’s abandoned military arsenals.
Afghanistan = Al Qaeda
Libya = ISIS
Ukraine = Azov
Pretty much all those things were done by Democrats.
The problem is not Americans but Democrats.
Harper was a Democrat? He recognized the Soros installed gov’t of the Ukraine instantly, sent Canadian troops and materiel to Libya to help oust Ghadaffi, condemned Assad, etc.
GWB gave his “Islam is Peace” speech while the ruins of the WTC were still smoking, flew members of the Bin Laden family and other Saudi nationals out of the USA while threatening to shoot down other passenger jets.
etc.
I was talking about the things listed in the excerpt above.
But If we made a list of all the bad things that have happened since lets say the Vietnam war ( started by a democrat, ended by a republican ), not only would there be more done by Democrats, but the more horrible traitorous things were done mainly by Democrats.
Exactly
Don’t forget interference in Canadian elections and economy by left leaning, Democrat party supported organizations. When the Canadian media declared the a Democrat president would be a friend to Canada, I knew the loaded dice had been rolled.
A pox Demoncrats and Lieberals.
OT, but related to Deep State evil:
Feds Admit Illegal Handling of Jan 6 Case, Prosecute Anyway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP7wGnJKKpA
The Military-Industrial Complex makes some American politicians unbelievably rich.
Its so bad now they imprison Americans indefinitely without trial so they can war internally as well as internationally.
I’m not really religious, but Jesus wept there are a shit-ton of evil people in power. I don’t think there’s a better word to use.
Buddy.
Simply Spot on my friend..!!
I much preferred the “bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran” Kate, complete with online doodad that simulated various atomic yields. This hand-wringing “it’s all our fault” Kate is very odd.
Looks like Covid and/or the vaxx has caused geopolitical viewpoints to one-eighty.
We’re doomed, I tell ye, doomed.
“It became painfully obvious that American foreign policy had become completely divorced from any rational aims. ”
So, you trying to say that ‘win the next election at any cost’ isn’t a rational aim?
Better to rule in a hell,than to share power in a paradise.
“The kind of Americans the world fears or respects have been put out of government and military leadership and replaced by a menagerie of nursing home patients, human resources ladies, affirmative action hires, sexual degenerates, and obese four-star generals angling for board seats on the next Theranos start-up.”
That snippet will keep me nourished for the next couple of days!! Bravo!
And for dessert I also read this:
“The day of reckoning has arrived. Leaders like Putin, Xi, and Mohammed bin Salman are no longer amenable to being pushed around and morally browbeaten by the circus freaks that constitute the United States Government.”
I happened to be stewing about this just last night. The U.S. and the E.U. have made a very bad mistake. A new financial order will be created out of this mess that will result in New World Order’s utter humiliation.
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