Detailed historical account of everything that’s happened. Has a bit of a Dan Carlin Hardcore History vibe to it. Grab a beverage.
Martyr Made- Thoughts on Ukraine (Remastered)
This one is free but I’m not sure if you need an email address to put into the free subscription box or not.
Update from Kate: This is first rate, make the time.
Many of us here don’t need any more “opinions” we get all our information from the CBC and MSNBC that’s all we need for an honest “fact checked” world view – oh yes and facts from “The View” for diversity reasons of course!!!
“Strategic empathy” is an “over the head” term for the EU globalist lovers who point fingers at those who don’t fall into cult like lockstep with their narrative.
This is excellent. It would make lowly peabrains like Colonialidiot go totally spastic.
Nah.
Cooper lost me when he started ranting about the Allied blockade of Germany after the First World War and blaming it for the already ongoing starvation at the time. He blamed the Allies for a problem that was entirely the result of continued centralized planning throughout the war by the German government, which had severely misallocated human resources to various industries in Germany, along with money-printing by the Reichsbank to pay for it all. This had resulted in the cratering of the German agriculture sector well before the German armistice in 1918, resulting in famine in the war years before the armistice. The socialist government which came to power after the armistice simply carried-on with the same war-based central planning (only now it was justified by Marxist principals) which exacerbated an already bad situation. The Allied blockade contributed to starvation after the war, but it wasn’t the cause of it, and famine would have occurred in the absence of a blockade. Famine was due entirely to the centralized planning and inflationary money printing inflicted on the country by a war government. This was followed by a socialist government which continued with the same policies. If, after the Armistice, the Weimar government had discontinued their socialist centralized planning and allowed the economy to recover, it is unlikely the famine would have been as severe as it was.
Conclusion: Cooper is a amateur who expresses popular, but misleading tropes, in a suppressed, righteous rage into a microphone to a gullible audience.
Hitler blamed the Allies for Germany’s ills following the First World War. So to does Cooper. But he can get away with it by citing the need for “strategic empathy.” However, his “strategic empathy” isn’t extended to the Allies and he vilifies them. He’s not interested in balance, or worse, he has no knowledge of what he is talking about.
I gave up listening to Cooper at about the 18 minute mark. Not going to waste my time. I doubt he has anything worth saying about Ukraine.
For background on centralized planning, famine and hyperinflation in WWI Germany and during the Weimar Republic see:
https://youtu.be/YygQ0Wq0wDA?t=3198
Who writes your paycheck, Lockheed-Martin? It takes a higher level of intelligence to possess the capacity to see things from a variety of perspectives. You obviously do not possess that higher level.
Sorry Dougie, allocating blame to the blameless isn’t a “variety of perspectives”. It’s just pathological hatred, no matter how much one bleats on-about “strategic empathy”. Maybe if Cooper had got straight to the point instead of spending 18 plus minutes getting his hate on for something that wasn’t factually correct, and had nothing to do with the topic he was ranting about, I might have had the patience to listen to him. But he didn’t. In the meantime I’ll be awaiting my paycheck from Lockheed-Martin. /sarc
I must have missed the posts where Doug clearly, coherently, and in a well structured essay proceeded to tell everyone the relevant history, current pros/cons of different actions, and Doug’s source for who is receiving pay from whom. I think that Doug might be the dyslexic spelling for Dung, because that’s all I see the content-less insults he posts as being.
As for the current conflict, I’d like both governments to lose, big, and be replaced by something better. That’s why I post on these threads so little.
Lockheed-Martin is getting their money’s worth, because this guy knows what he’s talking about. Germany’s post-war problems were directly caused by Germany’s conduct of the war. Allied policy deserves criticism, was incoherent and inconsistent and may have done harm, but it didn’t cause the problem.
Would really appreciate some analysis from our friend of days gone past, Ken Kulak.
Yup.
History?
A rational examination of what actions led to todays activities?
Whats that Greta quote?’How Dare you”?
I’ve forgotten Gang Green Greta’s catch phrase already..
That analysis comes close to my rather random collection of factoids about Russia Ukraine from the last couple of decades,fits very well with what a Russian Apprentice informed me of his home.
And of course confirmation bias,as I know very little of these peoples affairs..but I do know for sure,my government,the government funded media and their American Comrades are lying to me.
The facts I do have,identify my enemies as being here on North American soil.
The propaganda offered up by these liars,has that problem..I know they are liars.
So I ignore them and sneer at their attempts to influence me.
They are The Slime:Frank Zappa sang of.”I Am The Slime.”
Since I stopped watching TV,the level of idiocy in my affairs has dropped way down..Blood pressure is back in the green and the urge to polish my guns is back to just the regular maintenance such tools require.
Madness is contagious.
The cray cray spreads like wildfire through dry brush,sanity and rational thought seems to only return when your life is burn to ashes.
Stampede,it is in our blood.
Right along with dancing around fires as we burn our neighbours alive..
There is no such thing as “inhumane” these things we do to each other are all too human.
These are the reasons we evolved such lovely rituals,such as Rule of Law,Justice as a blind lady,institutional means of resolving conflict and speech,free speech and negotiation..
Civilization is wonderful,we can have less conflict,more wealth and greater personal freedoms..Than tribalism or savagery..
We,North Americans have allowed a bunch of lawless nitwits to manage our affairs ,for decades now.
We have,in the name of Democracy” spread destruction and pain worldwide.
A whole bunch of people on this planet hate and fear what our “leaders” do.
Now they are doing to us.
We are bankrupt,unable to supply our own needs and disunited in ways we never thought possible,on paper we owe,our enemies, more wealth than we can imagine..
Time to eat our leaders.
It is the civilized thing to do.
Corrupted money sure has created vast hord of evil people who control our system that need a ‘GREAT PURGE’ to rid of these disgusting individuals.
Just so.
John R.
A most excellent Comment…this started at least before I was born..1952, and has run unabated since.
Globalism…I look to all who would lord it over us, the great unwashed masses.
Starting with the Scum who got Banking (as we know it today), & fractional reserve lending going:
The Rothschilds… their circle of friends has grown since then. (Mid 1600’s)…while slowly morphing into Communists over the centuries.
The Knights Templar had their hand in the cookie jar way before the Rothchilds.
Shoot, you could probably go back to the days of Nimrod on that front.
The Tower of Babel wasn’t built in a day.
Excellent podcast. I shared it with anyone who might be interested. Countering the constant propaganda that is flowing from 99% of the media. That makes me a Putin stooge, I suppose. Create and foment a situation that brings about a mad dog, then poke the mad dog until he bites and voila! As always, follow the money.
Curious as to why the important events between ww1 and ww2 are being ignored? Hopefully they are not. Will listen later.