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Continue to hope this WW3 talk is all a smokescreen to divert attention from the terrible beating Ukraine is taking on the battlefield until after the November elections. If not, the future certainly looks bleak.

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Lavrov said at the UN, Russia can't stand & watch what Israel is doing in Gaza

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Coup Coup Coup:

Only the start-date for each coup is shown here, but some of these coups went on for years; 39% succeeded at Government-overthrow, 61% did not. This list is taken from “Table 1.1: U.S.-backed regime change attempts during the Cold War (1947-1989)”):

France 1947

Italy 1947

Albania 1949

Belarus 1949

Bulgaria 1949

Czechoslovakia 1949

East Germany 1949

Estonia 1949

Latvia 1949

Lithuania 1949

Poland 1949

Romania 1949

Hungary 1949

Russia 1949

Ukraine 1949

North Korea 1950

Guatemala 1952

Iran 1952

Japan 1952

Indonesia 1954

Syria 1955

Lebanon 1957

Tibet 1958

Laos 1959

Dominican Republic 1960

Congo 1960

Guyana 1961

Dominican Republic 1961

North Vietnam 1961

Cuba 1961

Chile 1962

Haiti 1963

Bolivia 1963

Angola 1964

Mozambique 1964

Somalia 1964

Brazil 1964

Dominican Republic 1965

Haiti 1965

Thailand 1965

South Vietnam 1967

Bolivia 1971

Iraq 1971

Italy 1972

Portugal 1974

Angola 1975

Afghanistan 1979

South Yemen 1979

Grenada 1979

Nicaragua 1979

Nicaragua 1980

Chad 1981

Ethiopia 1981

Poland 1981

Cambodia 1982

Suriname 1982

Libya 1982

Liberia 1983

Chile 1964

Philippines 1984

Angola 1985

Haiti 1986

Panama 1987

That list is incomplete. For two examples: it omits Thailand 1948 when the CIA cut itself in on the profits from the international opium trade, and Indonesia 1965 when President Johnson helped organize the extermination of at least 500,000 land-reform proponents there and helped to install General Suharto (who then embezzled $15-35 billion from the country). Including just those two additional cases, they total to 64 U.S. coups during those 42 years 1947-1989. Also not included are coups that the author felt were only supported by the U.S. Government but not planned by the U.S. Government, such as allegedly “the 1967 Greek coup or the 1976 Argentine coup.” The author recognized that there might have been coups she didn’t know about. Furthermore, she was explicit that her study was aimed at supporting “a theory regarding the security motives driving America’s Cold War interventions.” That is clearly a false theory (that America’s foreign coups were done in order to protect U.S. national security — which was virtually never the case). Two examples showing it to be false were the two I mentioned that she had excluded: the 1948 CIA Thai coup to install a regime that would cut the CIA in for off-the-books funding of the CIA from the drug underworld (kickbacks, basically protection-money aid to the CIA), and the 1965 Indonesian coup to benefit U.S. owners of rubber plantations there. Routinely, scholars are willing to start with false assumptions in order to support an unrealistically favorable view of their Government. It’s myth-preserving scholarship, not science; and it is common; it’s routine in the social ‘sciences’.

Zuess,

https://dissidentvoice.org/2024/07/64-u-s-coups-during-1947-1989/#more-152071

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If the West is out of weapons and has armies that are unprepared to fight Russia, how can they be preparing for a direct confrontation with Russia? There seems to be a disconnect between what we're hearing from many analysts, and what some EU leaders are saying. Is NATO up to a war with Russia or not?

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I think it is best described as "whole liquidation of the West, as an asset.

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Not.

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Century of the Jews, so get in line, buck up, buckle up and bend over, bucks and does!

https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/girls-will-be-girls-and-why-not-turn

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Those that believe this war is ridiculous are out of touch with the perverse and genocidal character of the crime families that control the Banking and the corrupt Governments of the West.

All of the policies from digital currency, health passport, the climate emergency fraud and this contrived war are part and parcel of the genocides of their long planned demolition of empire that will coincide with the loaming colapse of Earth's electromagnetic field associated with pole shift.

These psychopaths are in preparation for their inheritance from the safety of their well stocked underground enclosures, of what will be left the entire planet Earth

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US and west complaining that Russia are working with North Korea doesn’t US and western allies actually military aid in Israel Ukraine and Taiwan count?

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One minute of blah before the talent? Still too much but better than usual. Well done.

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But let's not forget: Vucic is a puppet of the war criminal - Tony Blair

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Mark, can you at least teach this guy how to pronounce the word “Sputnik?“ Who hires these guys?!

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