As I’ve said before, we went from horrendous under Joe Biden to horrendously horrific under Donald Trump. And given Donald Trump’s narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) and his psychopathic and sociopathic tendencies, things will almost surely get much worse. I warned against enlisting the services of people like Trump to run the show before he was elected in 2016, and we in the United States elected him again. So unfortunately, I guess we deserve what we will most likely be getting. My “course” is the best way out of this crisis that will only get worse, and if you and everyone else with half a brain has any sense, you’d be paying close attention to what I have to say and what I am strongly recommending for both the US and for humanity as a whole.
If the democrats allowed Trump to get along with Putin, and had they not pushed the lie of Russia-gate especially after the US coup in Ukraine under Obama do you think things would be a lot different in Ukraine now? I absolutely believe if AIPAC didn't rule the roost in American politics there wouldn't be a genocide in Gaza, but Truman did give them his full support as well as most presidents who followed. This mess is not a one man show. I was around and remember when some twenty thousand or so US troops invaded Panama and kidnaped President Noriega. More than a thousand Panamanians were killed. Of course that war was just the tip of the iceberg in regard to our interventions on that continent. Did you think Bush/Cheney were good guys as they lied us into war in Iraq which was pushed by Netanyahu, and Biden in the Senate, which set off a chain of wars in countries that Israel defined as terrorist countries and needed to be taken out?
The short answer is that I’ve agreed with everything I’ve ever heard John Mearsheimer say. Yes, the war in Ukraine was completely avoidable. Yes, the Israel lobby has a disproportionate influence on U.S. politicians, and we should have heeded the advice John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt offered in their 2007 book The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. Yes, Joe Biden is problematic. Yes, George W. Bush is incompetent and problematic, and Dick Cheney was even worse.
Regarding Noriega: he was corrupt and deserved to face justice. The CIA tolerated him as long as he cooperated, but once he stopped playing ball, he became a liability. While capturing him and bringing him to trial may have been justified, we should have avoided the loss of innocent lives in the process.
I want to make it clear that my point is not that I support Trump's position on most things, especially his support for a genocide, but what I really hated during his first term in office is using him as a scape goat while we gave people like Cheney and Bush a pass and looked the other way when it came to holding others to account We continue to call January 6 an insurrection instead of the riot it was.
An uncaring temperament is the social and emotional core of psychopathy. This feature distinguishes psychopathy from other conditions associated with aggression or antisocial behavior. A person with an uncaring temperament may:
Behave in ways that cause others physical, social, emotional, or financial harm
Not express remorse or guilt after causing harm
Not show concern when others are in distress
Lie to, use, or manipulate others to get what they want
Seem cold
Be unconcerned about doing well in school, work, or in relationships
Not keep friends
Seem insincere or superficial...it is not me!...I am not a dr.....
So where can we read and pay close attention to what you have to say and what you are strongly recommending for both the US and humanity as a whole. I checked your empty substack. Do we have to scour the internet for your replies and comments? Or just monitor these means?
One good thing I can be sure of about President Trump is that he is better than Hilary Clinton, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris. And he's never been diagnosed NPD or psychopathic or sociopathic tendencies.
Trump may not have been officially diagnosed with NPD, but his obvious psychiatric issues are on full display, and according to he niece, were on full display for any who cared to look beyond the surface, since his childhood. As he ages and his dementia progresses, he is more like his toddler-self... that old saw about 'two childhoods' in action. A sedentary lifetime of junk food , bad sleeping hygiene and apparent medical 'boosters' have taken their toll and the negative effects are increasingly apparent.
Trump is from the same mold as the Clintons, Bushes, Bidens, et.al. and even some of the Kennedys... rich people who learned that if they ignored being told "NO!", there were no consequences for them.
Newsome seems to be the Dem heir apparent, more out of the frying pan into the fire for Uniparty-trapped voters. I would guess he is a Rothschild/Clintonite puppet (which subsumes Obama), as he has not been linked to the Adelsons.
The US Oligarchy is screwed, stuck between the 250+ year-old Rothschild Class Empire and the emergent BRICS+. From the Napoleonic Wars on, the Rothschilds quietly rode the Anglo-European donkey, transitioning during the late 19th through the 20th centuries from that saddle to the US donkey. Now the US donkey isn't a solid seat, but the transition to riding Russia and China et.al. has been stymied by BRICS+.
Turns out AI and search engines don't seem to want to 'talk' about what the Rothschilds did with the denomination of their assets in the 'transition' from Sterling to US$ reserve currency.
But a simple search noticed this:
Lord Jacob Rothschild explains in the semi-annual RIT Capital Partners report: "Our significant US Dollar position has now been somewhat reduced as, following the Dollar's rise, we saw interesting opportunities in other currencies as well as gold, the latter reflecting our concerns about monetary policy and ever declining real yields."
When did this happen? 2016. Yup, the year Trumpty Dumbdy 'won'. Or more to the point, the year Lynn de Rothschild's best buddy Hillary 'lost'. The leading edge of front-running the world-wide exit from the US$ Reserve System by a decade.
Naw, all that 200+ year Rothschild Oligarchy stuff is just Conspiracy Theory. Where's my T-shirt that says, " I need some new Conspiracy Theories, all my old ones turned out to be TRUE"
A synopsis of it can be found in the film which is included on my Substack page. I’m going to redo the film in the next few weeks, but for now that spells out my basic arguments. Thanks for asking!
Professor Mearsheimer, long time consumer of your insight, thanks for sharing.
Do you think that Carney might be prefiguring some sort of contemporary recreation of the Nonaligned Movement of the mid cold war?
Could such a political coalition of the well behaved mid powers, possibly with the EU involved, add a political component and to the BRICS economic alliances, that has enough economic power to create a political economy that's independent of the US choke points?
Imagine if such a political and economic coalition came together to craft a law based military alliance, and Mexico and Canada joined. Could such a decentralized military alliance of mid powers act as an effective counterweight to the more consolidated three great powers?
For what it’s worth, those are good questions, but I’m going to predict that John would say Trump is kind of an anomaly who has slightly disrupted the system temporarily, but that at the end of the day, offensive realism and great power politics will come roaring back to rule the day. As such, it’s the great powers in the system that really matter—the minor powers will ultimately fall in line and be forced to get behind the great powers because ultimately it is the structure of the international system that will prevail. And just like John says that nationalism trumps liberalism every time, survival for the middle powers trumps economic intercourse and feelings—so when push comes to shove they’ll fall in line behind the great power that aligns with their ultimate survival—which in the case of Canada is the US.
In the meantime, while some of his initial instincts regarding Ukraine were sound, Donald Trump is an idiot and he is doing a great deal of damage and a huge disservice to the United States of America.
Trump is a symptom of imperial collapse, where the inertia of incumbency refuses to yield to responsive government, not the one off problem in the first instance. Empires in decline often get bogged down on trying to maintain incumbencies as well as infrastructure built when the empire was healthy.
Historically, there seems to be a tendency for empires in decline to pass through a period of violent fascism where the imperial impulse is washed out by violent war. Some of this violence is directed at the citizenry because the periphery has grown strong enough while the empire's sliding to resist. And the impulse towards cruelty has to be expressed somehow.
This was the case for Italy, Germany, Japan and Spain which saw their imperial ruling classes fall under fascism. The UK did not go through such a cleansing and that's reflected in a system that caters to the intact aristocracy and is quite rough for regular people to live in.
Humans are notoriously bad at transition strategies due to the inertia of incumbency. So the opportunities to wind down the US empire the easy way are elusive. Trump is an indicator that the empire is going to wind down the hard way. Buckle up.
As a French speaker, I couldn't help but notice that you often use the french expression "coup de grâce" for "final blow". You really have to pronounce the "ce" at the end (more or less as in "grass"). Otherwise, it sounds like "coup de gras" ("blow of fat"), which isn't quite what you mean!
Carney did not say that 'the rules-based international order' is being destroyed. He said that it HAD ALWAYS BEEN A FICTION, but the western countries played along with this lie because it suited them. He literally said, 'there's no use to maintain the lie, because the lie doesn't suit us anymore'. Thanks to Trump, the lie has been exposed
Gaza Whored of Peace: Simply changing of the prison guards to a private umanswerable company with, of course, no Palestinians. It is simply a continuation of criminal international war crimes.
Donald Trump as well as other so called Head of States are currently meeting in Davos where they plan the political future of the world by subversion... Treason. Their goal is well known...it is a one World Government with a Jewish ruling class and Noahide Laws that eliminate the rights of every Citizen. This is an act of Treason.
No politician in this world has the mandate from the people who elected them to engage in a one world Government. Furthermore the WEF is a Terrorist organization... a private organization. And the WEF has no accountability. If their actions... and they do... infringe on my rights as a citizen and the politicians follow the orders of said Organization... this is called Treason...punishable by Death.
Contemporary Western leaders decry the erosion of international law, the ascendancy of might over right, and the disintegration of the balance-of-power framework. In doing so, they allude specifically to the unilateral imposition of rules on trade and economic affairs.
Yet, they address merely the symptoms, not the underlying causes.
They are fully aware - they cannot feign ignorance—that they themselves kindled this descent into absurdity and the law of the jungle. This they did by enabling a rogue actor to perpetrate massacres and flout every tenet of international law and humanitarian norms, bolstered by their direct and indirect support under unequivocal American auspices.
That is the conflagration they ignited, and it now consumes them.
By stating that Russia will “continue to resolve issues on the battlefield until a settlement is reached,” the Kremlin has removed any remaining ambiguity about the nature of its war against Ukraine.
This is not a slip of the tongue. It is a doctrinal statement.
According to Presidential aide Yuri Ushakov, Moscow does not believe a long-term settlement is even worth discussing unless the territorial question is resolved first. In plain language: Russia will keep fighting until Ukraine accepts the loss of territory—and only then will diplomacy become meaningful.
This matters, because it cuts directly through one of the most persistent myths surrounding the war: that it is fundamentally about NATO.
War First, Diplomacy Second
The formulation is revealing. Negotiations are not framed as a means to stop violence. Violence is framed as the means by which negotiations acquire legitimacy.
Russia’s position is not “we fight because diplomacy failed,” but rather: we fight so that diplomacy produces the outcome we want. Any talks held before battlefield objectives are achieved are, by definition, premature.
This turns diplomacy into a ratification process for conquest.
The announcement of a trilateral working group (Russia–USA–Ukraine) meeting in Abu Dhabi does not contradict this logic. On the contrary, it reinforces it. Moscow is signaling that talks may proceed in parallel—but only as a pressure mechanism, not as a substitute for force.
Territory Is the Core Objective
Ushakov’s insistence that no durable settlement is possible without resolving the territorial issue is the clearest confirmation yet that land seizure is not leverage, but the goal.
If the war were primarily about NATO expansion, Russia could credibly negotiate:
force posture limitations,
arms control regimes,
confidence-building measures,
neutrality arrangements.
Instead, Moscow defines “resolution” in cartographic terms.
This places the war firmly outside the category of defensive security dilemmas and squarely inside the tradition of imperial revisionism: borders are not expressions of sovereignty, but variables to be adjusted by power.
NATO Was a Narrative, Not a Cause
NATO has functioned as a mobilizing narrative—useful for domestic legitimacy and external messaging—but not as the decisive strategic driver.
That becomes obvious when Russia states that even a ceasefire or settlement is meaningless without territorial concessions. If NATO were the core issue, territorial rollback could be decoupled from security arrangements. Moscow refuses to do so.
This is consistent with Vladimir Putin’s long-standing worldview: Ukraine is not treated as a fully sovereign political subject, but as a space whose alignment, borders, and agency are contingent.
In that framework, war is not an aberration. It is a legitimate political instrument.
Negotiations as Coercive Theater
Holding talks while openly committing to continued battlefield escalation is not a contradiction. It is strategy.
The purpose is to:
normalize Russia as a co-arbiter of Ukraine’s borders,
shift pressure onto Kyiv to “be realistic,”
test whether Western capitals are willing to separate ceasefire logic from territorial restoration.
This is why calls for “freezing the conflict” or “interim arrangements” are so dangerous. They align perfectly with Moscow’s sequencing: fight → consolidate → negotiate → legitimize.
The Strategic Implication for the West
The takeaway is uncomfortable but unavoidable.
There is no stable settlement available that preserves Ukrainian sovereignty and accommodates Russia’s stated objectives. The two are mutually exclusive.
Any peace framework that treats territorial conquest as negotiable precedent does not end the war—it institutionalizes it. It signals that force works, that borders are provisional, and that sovereignty is conditional on power.
Russia has now said this explicitly. The remaining question is whether the rest of us are willing to listen—and to act accordingly.
There is ample verifiable information that Russia is not 'bogged down'. If anything, the pace is quickly accelerating.
Putin took the minimal casualty, short logistics path 'slow march' strategy in the hopes that SOMEONE in the US/NATO/EU sphere would wake up to the fact that Russia was not going to back down this time. "Not one inch Eastward" turned out to be an intentionally total lie, just like Minsk 1&2 and Istanbul. The latest Trumpian excesses combined with increasingly impossible to cover-by-propaganda losses in Ukraine and Iran, was what was required to get the Rothschild Class to change marching orders for its political and militarist puppets.
It is the US Empire that took over the British Empire's position of oligarchic genocidal territory-acquisition fetish, demonstrating an unbroken and largely unchallenged progression from before its 1776 inception. Unfortunately, the Rothschild Class has decided the Bretton Woods system and it's US-centric oligarchy has gotten too big for its britches and needs an economic/monetary smack-down.
An uncaring temperament is the social and emotional core of psychopathy. This feature distinguishes psychopathy from other conditions associated with aggression or antisocial behavior. A person with an uncaring temperament may:
Behave in ways that cause others physical, social, emotional, or financial harm
Not express remorse or guilt after causing harm
Not show concern when others are in distress
Lie to, use, or manipulate others to get what they want
Seem cold
Be unconcerned about doing well in school, work, or in relationships
Not keep friends
Seem insincere or superficial...it is not me!...I am not a dr......
The real Jesus of Nazareth, of proletariat mind, would have rebuked them, perhaps whipped them again, and called them Pharisees and Sadducees (which are not terms of endearment).
As I’ve said before, we went from horrendous under Joe Biden to horrendously horrific under Donald Trump. And given Donald Trump’s narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) and his psychopathic and sociopathic tendencies, things will almost surely get much worse. I warned against enlisting the services of people like Trump to run the show before he was elected in 2016, and we in the United States elected him again. So unfortunately, I guess we deserve what we will most likely be getting. My “course” is the best way out of this crisis that will only get worse, and if you and everyone else with half a brain has any sense, you’d be paying close attention to what I have to say and what I am strongly recommending for both the US and for humanity as a whole.
If the democrats allowed Trump to get along with Putin, and had they not pushed the lie of Russia-gate especially after the US coup in Ukraine under Obama do you think things would be a lot different in Ukraine now? I absolutely believe if AIPAC didn't rule the roost in American politics there wouldn't be a genocide in Gaza, but Truman did give them his full support as well as most presidents who followed. This mess is not a one man show. I was around and remember when some twenty thousand or so US troops invaded Panama and kidnaped President Noriega. More than a thousand Panamanians were killed. Of course that war was just the tip of the iceberg in regard to our interventions on that continent. Did you think Bush/Cheney were good guys as they lied us into war in Iraq which was pushed by Netanyahu, and Biden in the Senate, which set off a chain of wars in countries that Israel defined as terrorist countries and needed to be taken out?
Absofuckenlutely I remember it wasn’t a good idea then and definitely not one now
I know absolutely American politics is fucked up.
The short answer is that I’ve agreed with everything I’ve ever heard John Mearsheimer say. Yes, the war in Ukraine was completely avoidable. Yes, the Israel lobby has a disproportionate influence on U.S. politicians, and we should have heeded the advice John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt offered in their 2007 book The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. Yes, Joe Biden is problematic. Yes, George W. Bush is incompetent and problematic, and Dick Cheney was even worse.
Regarding Noriega: he was corrupt and deserved to face justice. The CIA tolerated him as long as he cooperated, but once he stopped playing ball, he became a liability. While capturing him and bringing him to trial may have been justified, we should have avoided the loss of innocent lives in the process.
So yes, I agree with your comments.
I want to make it clear that my point is not that I support Trump's position on most things, especially his support for a genocide, but what I really hated during his first term in office is using him as a scape goat while we gave people like Cheney and Bush a pass and looked the other way when it came to holding others to account We continue to call January 6 an insurrection instead of the riot it was.
So, foreign intervention is okay if it means taking out a 'bad guy' who no longer serves US interests and thus becomes a 'liability'.
Yeah, I get it. You're perfectly content with the US Empire; you just want to rearrange the management to better suit your ends.
Disgusting.
I didn’t say that Miss Disgusting.
Nice Kevin but include the descriptor malignant - VERY important.
Haha. I agree!
An uncaring temperament is the social and emotional core of psychopathy. This feature distinguishes psychopathy from other conditions associated with aggression or antisocial behavior. A person with an uncaring temperament may:
Behave in ways that cause others physical, social, emotional, or financial harm
Not express remorse or guilt after causing harm
Not show concern when others are in distress
Lie to, use, or manipulate others to get what they want
Seem cold
Be unconcerned about doing well in school, work, or in relationships
Not keep friends
Seem insincere or superficial...it is not me!...I am not a dr.....
Yup - and it’s best not to have people with those characteristics in positions of ultimate power…
Shit is happening. And it smells farty from all angles.
There is only one lid taken from the sewer, the smell is horrific, but there is more then one sewer. And all sewer have many lids.
I've been told I have half a brain.
So where can we read and pay close attention to what you have to say and what you are strongly recommending for both the US and humanity as a whole. I checked your empty substack. Do we have to scour the internet for your replies and comments? Or just monitor these means?
One good thing I can be sure of about President Trump is that he is better than Hilary Clinton, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris. And he's never been diagnosed NPD or psychopathic or sociopathic tendencies.
What was your "course" again?
Trump may not have been officially diagnosed with NPD, but his obvious psychiatric issues are on full display, and according to he niece, were on full display for any who cared to look beyond the surface, since his childhood. As he ages and his dementia progresses, he is more like his toddler-self... that old saw about 'two childhoods' in action. A sedentary lifetime of junk food , bad sleeping hygiene and apparent medical 'boosters' have taken their toll and the negative effects are increasingly apparent.
Trump is from the same mold as the Clintons, Bushes, Bidens, et.al. and even some of the Kennedys... rich people who learned that if they ignored being told "NO!", there were no consequences for them.
Newsome seems to be the Dem heir apparent, more out of the frying pan into the fire for Uniparty-trapped voters. I would guess he is a Rothschild/Clintonite puppet (which subsumes Obama), as he has not been linked to the Adelsons.
The US Oligarchy is screwed, stuck between the 250+ year-old Rothschild Class Empire and the emergent BRICS+. From the Napoleonic Wars on, the Rothschilds quietly rode the Anglo-European donkey, transitioning during the late 19th through the 20th centuries from that saddle to the US donkey. Now the US donkey isn't a solid seat, but the transition to riding Russia and China et.al. has been stymied by BRICS+.
OK
Turns out AI and search engines don't seem to want to 'talk' about what the Rothschilds did with the denomination of their assets in the 'transition' from Sterling to US$ reserve currency.
But a simple search noticed this:
Lord Jacob Rothschild explains in the semi-annual RIT Capital Partners report: "Our significant US Dollar position has now been somewhat reduced as, following the Dollar's rise, we saw interesting opportunities in other currencies as well as gold, the latter reflecting our concerns about monetary policy and ever declining real yields."
https://cointelegraph.com/news/rothschild-dumps-us-dollar-for-gold-other-currencies-bitcoin
When did this happen? 2016. Yup, the year Trumpty Dumbdy 'won'. Or more to the point, the year Lynn de Rothschild's best buddy Hillary 'lost'. The leading edge of front-running the world-wide exit from the US$ Reserve System by a decade.
Naw, all that 200+ year Rothschild Oligarchy stuff is just Conspiracy Theory. Where's my T-shirt that says, " I need some new Conspiracy Theories, all my old ones turned out to be TRUE"
OK indeed.
Well, thanks for all that.
Still waiting for Kevin Flynn to tell me where to read his wise words of wisdom or what his "course" is.
A synopsis of it can be found in the film which is included on my Substack page. I’m going to redo the film in the next few weeks, but for now that spells out my basic arguments. Thanks for asking!
The New World Order is the pipe dream of the “Old Guard” the banking elites want their power back……….. in America we have had a DEEP $TATE working for the last 60+ years to undermine America and push “Globalism”…….. https://davidsthoughts.substack.com/p/anouncing-a-new-series-deep-tate?r=2u141v
«Grandpa» Miersheimer explaining brilliantly what is going on with the world of great, medium and small powers right now.
Professor Mearsheimer, long time consumer of your insight, thanks for sharing.
Do you think that Carney might be prefiguring some sort of contemporary recreation of the Nonaligned Movement of the mid cold war?
Could such a political coalition of the well behaved mid powers, possibly with the EU involved, add a political component and to the BRICS economic alliances, that has enough economic power to create a political economy that's independent of the US choke points?
Imagine if such a political and economic coalition came together to craft a law based military alliance, and Mexico and Canada joined. Could such a decentralized military alliance of mid powers act as an effective counterweight to the more consolidated three great powers?
For what it’s worth, those are good questions, but I’m going to predict that John would say Trump is kind of an anomaly who has slightly disrupted the system temporarily, but that at the end of the day, offensive realism and great power politics will come roaring back to rule the day. As such, it’s the great powers in the system that really matter—the minor powers will ultimately fall in line and be forced to get behind the great powers because ultimately it is the structure of the international system that will prevail. And just like John says that nationalism trumps liberalism every time, survival for the middle powers trumps economic intercourse and feelings—so when push comes to shove they’ll fall in line behind the great power that aligns with their ultimate survival—which in the case of Canada is the US.
In the meantime, while some of his initial instincts regarding Ukraine were sound, Donald Trump is an idiot and he is doing a great deal of damage and a huge disservice to the United States of America.
Trump is a symptom of imperial collapse, where the inertia of incumbency refuses to yield to responsive government, not the one off problem in the first instance. Empires in decline often get bogged down on trying to maintain incumbencies as well as infrastructure built when the empire was healthy.
Historically, there seems to be a tendency for empires in decline to pass through a period of violent fascism where the imperial impulse is washed out by violent war. Some of this violence is directed at the citizenry because the periphery has grown strong enough while the empire's sliding to resist. And the impulse towards cruelty has to be expressed somehow.
This was the case for Italy, Germany, Japan and Spain which saw their imperial ruling classes fall under fascism. The UK did not go through such a cleansing and that's reflected in a system that caters to the intact aristocracy and is quite rough for regular people to live in.
Humans are notoriously bad at transition strategies due to the inertia of incumbency. So the opportunities to wind down the US empire the easy way are elusive. Trump is an indicator that the empire is going to wind down the hard way. Buckle up.
Unconditional surrender of the Fourth Reich.
The New World Order is the pipe dream of the “Old Guard” the banking elites want their power back……….. in America we have had a DEEP $TATE working for the last 60+ years to undermine America and push “Globalism”…….. https://davidsthoughts.substack.com/p/anouncing-a-new-series-deep-tate?r=2u141v
my Davos cartoon: https://substack.com/@nemopix/note/c-203677784
Great analysis, as always!
As a French speaker, I couldn't help but notice that you often use the french expression "coup de grâce" for "final blow". You really have to pronounce the "ce" at the end (more or less as in "grass"). Otherwise, it sounds like "coup de gras" ("blow of fat"), which isn't quite what you mean!
Carney did not say that 'the rules-based international order' is being destroyed. He said that it HAD ALWAYS BEEN A FICTION, but the western countries played along with this lie because it suited them. He literally said, 'there's no use to maintain the lie, because the lie doesn't suit us anymore'. Thanks to Trump, the lie has been exposed
Gaza Whored of Peace: Simply changing of the prison guards to a private umanswerable company with, of course, no Palestinians. It is simply a continuation of criminal international war crimes.
I think they're planning to keep some Palestinians around as slaves to build Trump's seaside fantasy-land.
Donald Trump as well as other so called Head of States are currently meeting in Davos where they plan the political future of the world by subversion... Treason. Their goal is well known...it is a one World Government with a Jewish ruling class and Noahide Laws that eliminate the rights of every Citizen. This is an act of Treason.
No politician in this world has the mandate from the people who elected them to engage in a one world Government. Furthermore the WEF is a Terrorist organization... a private organization. And the WEF has no accountability. If their actions... and they do... infringe on my rights as a citizen and the politicians follow the orders of said Organization... this is called Treason...punishable by Death.
https://fritzfreud.substack.com/p/how-the-spanish-rail-disasters-affect
I'm pretty sure President Trump isn't for a one world government.
Sure he goes to Davos, but didn't he just pull the USA out of something like 60 global organisations - including 30 that were a part of the UN?
I got a really big clock to sell to you... bargain price...
Oh and real estate in Gaza too.
Seems you'd be interested in buying that stuff...
Alrighty then.
Contemporary Western leaders decry the erosion of international law, the ascendancy of might over right, and the disintegration of the balance-of-power framework. In doing so, they allude specifically to the unilateral imposition of rules on trade and economic affairs.
Yet, they address merely the symptoms, not the underlying causes.
They are fully aware - they cannot feign ignorance—that they themselves kindled this descent into absurdity and the law of the jungle. This they did by enabling a rogue actor to perpetrate massacres and flout every tenet of international law and humanitarian norms, bolstered by their direct and indirect support under unequivocal American auspices.
That is the conflagration they ignited, and it now consumes them.
Gaza lays it bare.
Russia Has Finally Said the Quiet Part Out Loud
By stating that Russia will “continue to resolve issues on the battlefield until a settlement is reached,” the Kremlin has removed any remaining ambiguity about the nature of its war against Ukraine.
This is not a slip of the tongue. It is a doctrinal statement.
According to Presidential aide Yuri Ushakov, Moscow does not believe a long-term settlement is even worth discussing unless the territorial question is resolved first. In plain language: Russia will keep fighting until Ukraine accepts the loss of territory—and only then will diplomacy become meaningful.
This matters, because it cuts directly through one of the most persistent myths surrounding the war: that it is fundamentally about NATO.
War First, Diplomacy Second
The formulation is revealing. Negotiations are not framed as a means to stop violence. Violence is framed as the means by which negotiations acquire legitimacy.
Russia’s position is not “we fight because diplomacy failed,” but rather: we fight so that diplomacy produces the outcome we want. Any talks held before battlefield objectives are achieved are, by definition, premature.
This turns diplomacy into a ratification process for conquest.
The announcement of a trilateral working group (Russia–USA–Ukraine) meeting in Abu Dhabi does not contradict this logic. On the contrary, it reinforces it. Moscow is signaling that talks may proceed in parallel—but only as a pressure mechanism, not as a substitute for force.
Territory Is the Core Objective
Ushakov’s insistence that no durable settlement is possible without resolving the territorial issue is the clearest confirmation yet that land seizure is not leverage, but the goal.
If the war were primarily about NATO expansion, Russia could credibly negotiate:
force posture limitations,
arms control regimes,
confidence-building measures,
neutrality arrangements.
Instead, Moscow defines “resolution” in cartographic terms.
This places the war firmly outside the category of defensive security dilemmas and squarely inside the tradition of imperial revisionism: borders are not expressions of sovereignty, but variables to be adjusted by power.
NATO Was a Narrative, Not a Cause
NATO has functioned as a mobilizing narrative—useful for domestic legitimacy and external messaging—but not as the decisive strategic driver.
That becomes obvious when Russia states that even a ceasefire or settlement is meaningless without territorial concessions. If NATO were the core issue, territorial rollback could be decoupled from security arrangements. Moscow refuses to do so.
This is consistent with Vladimir Putin’s long-standing worldview: Ukraine is not treated as a fully sovereign political subject, but as a space whose alignment, borders, and agency are contingent.
In that framework, war is not an aberration. It is a legitimate political instrument.
Negotiations as Coercive Theater
Holding talks while openly committing to continued battlefield escalation is not a contradiction. It is strategy.
The purpose is to:
normalize Russia as a co-arbiter of Ukraine’s borders,
shift pressure onto Kyiv to “be realistic,”
test whether Western capitals are willing to separate ceasefire logic from territorial restoration.
This is why calls for “freezing the conflict” or “interim arrangements” are so dangerous. They align perfectly with Moscow’s sequencing: fight → consolidate → negotiate → legitimize.
The Strategic Implication for the West
The takeaway is uncomfortable but unavoidable.
There is no stable settlement available that preserves Ukrainian sovereignty and accommodates Russia’s stated objectives. The two are mutually exclusive.
Any peace framework that treats territorial conquest as negotiable precedent does not end the war—it institutionalizes it. It signals that force works, that borders are provisional, and that sovereignty is conditional on power.
Russia has now said this explicitly. The remaining question is whether the rest of us are willing to listen—and to act accordingly.
You don't tug on superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off the ole Lone Ranger
And you don't mess around with Putin
Your point of view is very insightful.
In the words of the immortal Kenny Rogers:
You've got to know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em
Know when to walk away
And know when to run
And, of course:
The world don't move
To the beat of just one drum
What might be right for you
Might not be right for some
Taking 4 years to get where they are now is not resolving things on the battlefield. They are bogged down
There is ample verifiable information that Russia is not 'bogged down'. If anything, the pace is quickly accelerating.
Putin took the minimal casualty, short logistics path 'slow march' strategy in the hopes that SOMEONE in the US/NATO/EU sphere would wake up to the fact that Russia was not going to back down this time. "Not one inch Eastward" turned out to be an intentionally total lie, just like Minsk 1&2 and Istanbul. The latest Trumpian excesses combined with increasingly impossible to cover-by-propaganda losses in Ukraine and Iran, was what was required to get the Rothschild Class to change marching orders for its political and militarist puppets.
It is the US Empire that took over the British Empire's position of oligarchic genocidal territory-acquisition fetish, demonstrating an unbroken and largely unchallenged progression from before its 1776 inception. Unfortunately, the Rothschild Class has decided the Bretton Woods system and it's US-centric oligarchy has gotten too big for its britches and needs an economic/monetary smack-down.
The New World Order is the pipe dream of the “Old Guard” the banking elites want their power back……….. in America we have had a DEEP $TATE working for the last 60+ years to undermine America and push “Globalism”…….. https://davidsthoughts.substack.com/p/anouncing-a-new-series-deep-tate?r=2u141v
Jan. 24th Bored of Peace
https://ojaiohana.substack.com/p/videos-bored-of-peace
An uncaring temperament is the social and emotional core of psychopathy. This feature distinguishes psychopathy from other conditions associated with aggression or antisocial behavior. A person with an uncaring temperament may:
Behave in ways that cause others physical, social, emotional, or financial harm
Not express remorse or guilt after causing harm
Not show concern when others are in distress
Lie to, use, or manipulate others to get what they want
Seem cold
Be unconcerned about doing well in school, work, or in relationships
Not keep friends
Seem insincere or superficial...it is not me!...I am not a dr......
The real Jesus of Nazareth, of proletariat mind, would have rebuked them, perhaps whipped them again, and called them Pharisees and Sadducees (which are not terms of endearment).
https://griobhtha1.substack.com/p/x-rubicon-praying-for-slaughter
John . I admire you greatly but Trump says many provocative statements to see reactions. He is NOT taking over a LESS THAN UNIFIED Canada, see ALBERTA