United States vs. Russia: Political Armageddon
On March 31, 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree approving an updated, dramatically changed, foreign policy concept for Russia. The U.S. shrugged it off.
Global Shake-Up in the 21st Century
Even before signing his March 31, 2023 decree, back in October of 2021, before the start of the Ukrainian war, Vladimir Putin looked "in amazement at the processes underway in the countries that have been traditionally looked at as the standard-bearers of progress," making the parallels between the woke West and the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution during a plenary. He, of all people, gave what could only be described as an anti-woke speech during a session of the 18th annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club. The theme of the discussion was "Global Shake-Up in the 21st Century: The Individual, Values, and the State." No matter what anyone thinks about Putin, his speech was yet again calm and deliberate, different in a manner from the hysterical West’s screeching 24/7/365. To me, not only the difference in substance but also the tone is of great importance during these times of unprecedented crisis.
Here's a part of Putin's speech to the Valdai Club that I find most interesting regarding the possibility of an upcoming Armageddon, well before the current U.S. vs. Russia war being fought in Ukraine:
“Of course, the social and cultural shocks that are taking place in the United States and Western Europe are none of our business; we are keeping out of this. Some people in the West believe that an aggressive elimination of entire pages from their own history, “reverse discrimination” against the majority in the interests of a minority, and the demand to give up the traditional notions of mother, father, family and even gender, they believe that all of these are the mileposts on the path towards social renewal.
Listen, I would like to point out once again that they have a right to do this, we are keeping out of this. But we would like to ask them to keep out of our business as well. We have a different viewpoint, at least the overwhelming majority of Russian society – it would be more correct to put it this way – has a different opinion on this matter. We believe that we must rely on our own spiritual values, our historical tradition and the culture of our multi-ethnic nation.
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In a number of Western countries, the debate over men’s and women’s rights has turned into a perfect phantasmagoria. Look, beware of going where the Bolsheviks once planned to go – not only communalising chickens, but also communalising women. One more step and you will be there.
Zealots of these new approaches even go so far as to want to abolish these concepts altogether. Anyone who dares mention that men and women actually exist, which is a biological fact, risk being ostracized. “Parent number one” and “parent number two,” “'birthing parent” instead of “mother,” and “human milk” replacing “breastmilk” because it might upset the people who are unsure about their own gender. I repeat, this is nothing new; in the 1920s, the so-called Soviet Kulturtraegers also invented some newspeak believing they were creating a new consciousness and changing values that way. And, as I have already said, they made such a mess it still makes one shudder at times.
Not to mention some truly monstrous things when children are taught from an early age that a boy can easily become a girl and vice versa. That is, the teachers actually impose on them a choice we all supposedly have. They do so while shutting the parents out of the process and forcing the child to make decisions that can upend their entire life. They do not even bother to consult with child psychologists – is a child at this age even capable of making a decision of this kind? Calling a spade a spade, this verges on a crime against humanity, and it is being done in the name and under the banner of progress.”
It feels quite surreal to read the Russian President's words as a serious critique of our own maddening societal changes. I wonder if there is any American politician with the guts not only to give a speech like Putin's but also to engage in a serious, civil discussion about what's going on with the woke Cultural Revolution in the U.S.? The question feels rhetorical.
However, one should not neglect that the very same day, in Q&A session after his speech Putin had referenced Ivan Ilyin who famously said “Politics is the art of identifying and neutralizing the enemy.” Timothy Snyder’s essay “God Is a Russian” is less kind to Putin: “Ivan Ilyin provided a metaphysical and moral justification for political totalitarianism, which he expressed in practical outlines for a fascist state. Today, his ideas have been revived and celebrated by Vladimir Putin.” But then again, in "On Resistance to Evil by Force," Ilyin also emphasized the importance of spiritual and moral preparation for the use of force. He believed that those who use force must be grounded in a deep sense of moral duty and responsibility, and that they must be prepared to face the consequences of their actions. I’d like to ask Mr. Snyder if he thinks Putin “celebrates” “deep sense of moral duty and responsibility” as well?
Putin may be "evil," as we've been told on around 13,200,000 webpages, or a "thug" and a "dictator," as late Senator John McCain called him with gusto in a CNN interview. Joe Biden expanded that to a "KGB thug." Hillary Clinton was more eloquent and referred to Putin as "someone who believes that the only way he can survive is by keeping a knee on the necks of others" during an interview with NPR. Madame Secretary Clinton and President Biden both also called Putin “a new Hitler.” Not to fall behind, House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy also said “Putin is evil” and the list goes on and on. Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, called Putin, what else, “evil," and Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO secretary general and also a clairvoyant, said 'Putin is not preparing for peace but for world war'.
(Putin never reciprocated those compliments with similar language)
Even if Putin is all of that, it is certain that he is not a one-dimensional caricature of Hitlerian Dr. Evil, driven solely by a desire to conquer Berlin, Germany & Wichita, KS in one fell swoop, as our mass media often portrays him. To illustrate the complexity of Putin as a thinker, as opposed to the simplified caricature presented in the media, I find this Putin comment to be of great importance:
“I have been remembering Nikolai Berdyaev. He wrote about the new Middle Ages, as was relevant at that time, about freedom, how it was such a heavy burden. But he also said something else – that the individual should always be at the center of development. The individual is more important than society or the state. I would very much like to see a future where all the resources of society and the state are concentrated around the interests of the individual. We definitely need to strive for this. It is difficult to say now how effective we will be in creating such a system, but this is what we should strive for.”
Sovietization of a Dream
Now think how individualism has been deeply embedded in American political philosophy for ages. The concept of individual liberty and the protection of individual rights are central to the American political tradition. The U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, for example, are focused on limiting the power of the government to protect individual rights and ensuring that individuals are free to pursue their own interests and goals. But is America now abandoning its rugged individualism by siloing us into group categories such as "racists", "toxic" this or that, or calling half a country "deplorables", or by stifling free speech—think Twitter files—and creating a culture of political correctness that restricts individual freedom and expression? And those processes are taking place at the same time that Vladimir Putin of Russia, no less, ponders individualism as the center of society? Is America really going through a process of Sovietization, and is Russia, paradoxically, going through a process of creating its own, perhaps the Russian Dream? The book of those seismic, transformative changes in both nuclear behemoths, the U.S. and Russia, facing each other over Ukraine, is tragically being written by Ukrainian blood on a small patch of land around Bakhmut that might decide the outcome of that gruesome war.
This is a complex topic that requires deeper analysis and discussion but history will be the judge.
In his speech to the Valdai Club, Putin articulated the underlying principles of Russia's new foreign policy, which is characterized by a deep disillusionment with the West. And then, the policy was signed by Putin himself on March 31, 2023. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has since confirmed that the new policy is centered around ending the West's monopoly on shaping the framework of international relations. As Lavrov put it, "Russia's new foreign policy concept will focus on the need to end the West's monopoly on shaping the framework of international relations."
Our government-aligned, slavishly obedient media has mostly neglected to inform their readers about such a tectonic change in our nuclear adversary’s policy. The New York Times search function returned zero (0) results when searching for “Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree approving an updated foreign policy concept for Russia” or any similar, truncated variant of the query:
Needing a bit of amusement, I flippantly searched the New York Times for "Zelensky hero," but the 151,962 results in the NYT alone surprised even me:
So, 100% propaganda vs. 0% real information seems to be the state of the Gray Lady and her mental abilities to distinguish propaganda from reality.
Any hope for our legacy media left?
Or course not. Jeff Bezos’s newspaper outlet, better known as the CIA speakerphone, the NSA disinformation comic, and the Pentagon’s worshiper, where truth seems to have gone to die in darkness, The Washington Post, also bravely neglected to mention the change:
The American’ Public Stays in the Dark
Let’s shed some light on the issues before the nuclear blast obliterates us all, a possible outcome unless the leaders come to their senses.
Commenting on the Russian updated foreign policy, Alexander Dugin, a Russian political scientist, philosopher, and commentator known for his ideology of Eurasianism, which posits that Russia is not just a European country but also part of a distinct Eurasian civilization with its own cultural, political, and economic traditions, wrote (emphasis mine): "The concept introduces and utilizes all the fundamental terms consistent and congruent with the theory of the multi-polar world and the Eurasian interpretation of the civilizing essence of Russia. Thus, the victory of the advocates of the sovereign path of Russia's historical existence has finally been enshrined in a key strategic policy document. Such full and unusual clarity and consistency in wording and definitions is certainly the result of the war with the collective West, which has entered a direct and fierce form where Russia's very existence is at stake. And not only winning but simply conducting such a war without clear principles, rules, and attitudes is simply impossible."
The Russian attitude towards the United States is quite interesting. Let’s hear it from the horse's, or rather the bear's, mouth:
IV. Foreign Policy Priorities of the Russian Federation
Establishment of an equitable and sustainable world order
18. Russia is striving towards a system of international relations that would guarantee reliable security, preservation of its cultural and civilizational identity, and equal opportunities for the development for all states, regardless of their geographical location, size of territory, demographic, resource and military capacity, or political, economic and social structure. In order to meet these criteria, the system of international relations should be multi-polar and based on the following principles:
rejection of hegemony in international affairs;
19. In order to help adapt the world order to the realities of a multi-polar world, the Russian Federation intends to make it a priority to:
eliminate the vestiges of domination by the U.S. and other unfriendly states in global affairs, create conditions to enable any state to renounce neo-colonial or hegemonic ambitions;
The U.S. and other Anglo-Saxon states
62. Russia's course towards the U.S. has a combined character, taking into account the role of this state as one of the influential sovereign centres of world development and at the same time the main inspirer, organizer and executor of the aggressive anti-Russian policy of the collective West, the source of major risks to the security of the Russian Federation, international peace, a balanced, equitable and progressive development of humanity.
63. The Russian Federation is interested in maintaining strategic parity, peaceful coexistence with the United States, and the establishment of a balance of interests between Russia and the United States, taking into account their status as major nuclear powers and special responsibility for strategic stability and international security in general. The prospects of forming such a model of U.S.-Russian relations depend on the extent to which the United States is ready to abandon its policy of power-domination and revise its anti-Russian course in favor of interaction with Russia on the basis of the principles of sovereign equality, mutual benefit, and respect for each other's interests.
Russian leaders are equally clear:
"The United States and its satellites are carrying out a full-out hybrid war against us today, which has been in preparation for many years, using Ukrainian national radicals as a battering ram. The purpose of this war is not hidden — not only to defeat our country on the battlefield, destroying the Russian economy, but also to surround us with a cordon sanitaire, turn us into a kind of rogue state" Sergey Lavrov said, commenting on the new policy during his speech at the Russian State Duma, the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia (parliament).
Great Schism 2, some 1,000 Years Later
As a small tangent on a gigantic issue of biblical proportions, note the coincidence. As everyone knows, there’s a horrible, bloody war of attrition and destruction going on in Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Culture notified the monks of the canonical Orthodox church from the Kiev Pechersk Lavra that they had until March 29 to vacate the monastery. Founded in 1051, only three years before The Great Schism, the Pechersk Lavra (‘Monastery of the Caves’) is considered the most prominent Orthodox Christian site in Ukraine.
The Great Schism (one), also known as the East-West Schism, which occurred in 1054 and resulted in the split between the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church. Despite the fact Ukrainians were, before the war, as the survey conducted in 2022 by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) reported, mostly Orthodox Christians (85% of Ukrainians identify themselves as Christians. 72% of the population avowed fidelity to an Eastern Orthodox Church) they are splitting already ravaged country into even more irreconcilable pieces, which is causing even more division among the people.
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church compared the eviction to the expulsion of Orthodox clergy under Communism. Such a move would “lead to a violation of the rights of millions of Ukrainian Orthodox faithful,” said Patriarch Kirill, in a letter sent to the UN, the heads of other Orthodox churches, Pope Francis of Rome, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Coptic Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria, and others. Pope Francis made a brief appeal at the end of the general audience on March 15, 2023, “And I think of the Orthodox nuns of the Kiev Lavra: I ask the warring parties to respect the religious places. Consecrated nuns, people consecrated to prayer — be they of any denomination — are in support of God’s people.” Alas, no one in positions of real power cares. Demonic forces, if you'll forgive a pun, have taken over the United States policy, and it shows no intent to go back to its religious and moral roots, if these ever truly existed.
Why would I say that?
In the Treaty of Tripoli of November 4, 1796, the United States, in the Treaty’s famous Article 11, states that "the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion," almost submissively admits it’s a secular state. Some scholars claim that this article was included to make it clear that the United States was not establishing a state religion and that the government would not discriminate against individuals based on their religious beliefs. The treaty was later ratified by the United States Senate and signed into law by President John Adams in 1797.
Sadly, in Ukraine, during the ongoing process of the Great Schism 2, the U.S. does not care about "discrimination against individuals based on their religious beliefs" at all and keeps pouring billions into the Ukrainian war, de facto the U.S. war against Russia. It also turns a blind eye toward religious-based atrocities such as the eviction of Orthodox clergy from a place of worship that has stood for over a millennium.
If we understood that the Tripolitan government was heavily involved in piracy, raiding ships in the Mediterranean and demanding ransom for their release, we’d see a nice, ironic closing of a circle—the U.S. Government, once an entity wholly submissive to the pirates of the Mediterranean, is today a gangster state, a global pirate looting the world and its own population alike. (Think of endless wars and never-ending bank bailouts that siphoned trillions of dollars from the U.S. Treasury and, ultimately, American people.)
Splitting Apart
Russia finally saw that the West—read the U.S. and its vassal states— supported Ukraine serves as a wedge in between West and East and is now acting accordingly, after centuries of Russia’s infatuation with the West, especially Western Europe. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many members of the Russian aristocracy traveled to Europe, and in particular to Paris. They were drawn to the vibrant nightlife and sophisticated urban lifestyle of the city, which contrasted with the more traditional and conservative culture of Russia at the time, in a sort of modern pilgrimage that continued after the fall of the Soviet Union, with many Russians becoming frequent tourists all over Europe. The wealthiest among them have established their residences in London, which has been dubbed the 'Financial Crime Cartel's capital' of Europe.
That love affair of Russians with Europe is ending now, although it will be a slow process, especially among the young people in Moscow and St. Petersburg that have the vast higher education / university system that is, as Simplicius The Thinker wrote on his Substack, "really one of the fundamental societal ‘leaks’ where Western indoctrination is able to flow unhindered into Russia by osmosis; it’s one of the chief portals and conduits for Western ideals, thinking, and ‘progressivism’ hatched in some academic think tank to rub off on young idealistic and impressionable Russian youth."
Moreover, Simplicius stated, “Russian people view themselves as European to the extent that they share similar cultural perspectives, unlike for instance, the Chinese people. So this makes Western ideals of neoliberal progressivism much more easy to rub off on Russians as opposed to Chinese.”
The U.S., with a smug air of superiority befitting a bully, observes these developments with both a nuclear and financial sword of Damocles. In one hand, they brandish weapons of war and the blood money that fuels them; in the other, they hold the thurible emanating stench of Ukraine's death and destruction.
A Smirk that Started it All
Let's revisit the well-known smirk that John McCain directed at Vladimir Putin on February 10, 2007. This occurred during Putin's delivery of one of his most renowned speeches, which took place at the Munich Security Conference.
Vladimir Putin telegraphed the future while, at that time, still juggling with possible outcomes, two or more possible futures. Recall when Putin made overtures to the West. On the eve of his meeting with President Bush, he said he "considers the American leader to be a good soul, too," and even suggested that NATO should admit Russia as a member. George Robertson, a former Labour defense secretary who led Nato between 1999 and 2003, said Putin made it clear at their first meeting that he wanted Russia to be part of western Europe. "They wanted to be part of that secure, stable, prosperous west that Russia was out of at the time," he said.
The Labour peer recalled an early meeting with Putin, who became Russian president in 2000. "Putin said, ‘When are you going to invite us to join NATO?" And [Robertson] said: ‘Well, we don’t invite people to join NATO; they apply to join NATO." And he [Putin] said, ‘Well, we’re not standing in line with a lot of countries that don’t matter.’"
Of course, NATO never truly wanted Russia's membership, as having a perceived enemy justifies gargantuan military budgets, but it's important to keep this perspective in mind as we read these important lines Putin has delivered in Munich:
However, what is a unipolar world? However one might embellish this term, at the end of the day it refers to one type of situation, namely one centre of authority, one centre of force, one centre of decision-making.
It is world in which there is one master, one sovereign. And at the end of the day this is pernicious not only for all those within this system, but also for the sovereign itself because it destroys itself from within.
And this certainly has nothing in common with democracy. Because, as you know, democracy is the power of the majority in light of the interests and opinions of the minority. Incidentally, Russia – we – are constantly being taught about democracy. But for some reason those who teach us do not want to learn themselves. I consider that the unipolar model is not only unacceptable but also impossible in today’s world.
It's no wonder that U.S. officials like John McCain or Madeleine Albright, who infamously said that the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children were "worth it" for the imposed sanctions, did not rejoice upon hearing Putin's prophetic words. The smirk and dismissal the U.S. has used against smaller countries it has ravaged over the decades, including Korea (1950-1953), Iran (1953), Guatemala (1954), Lebanon (1958), Cuba (1961), Dominican Republic (1965), Vietnam (1964-1973), Cambodia (1969-1970), Laos (1964-1973), Grenada (1983), Panama (1989), Iraq (1990-1991), Somalia (1992-1993), Yugoslavia (1999), Afghanistan (2001-2022), Iraq (2003-2011), and Libya (2011), has now been expanded to include nuclear powers, such as Russia, the biggest country in the world, and China, still the most populous country.
Fast forward to the Russia's New Foreign Policy Concept from March 31, 2023 and we’d see the word “unipolar” does not appear, not even once, in the document. “Multipolar” is mentioned nine (9) times. The document is clear:
I. Today's World: Major Trends and Prospects for Development
7. Humanity is currently going through revolutionary changes. The formation of a more equitable multipolar world order is underway.
The imbalanced model of world development which has for centuries ensured the advanced economic growth of colonial powers through the appropriation of resources of dependent territories and states in Asia, Africa and in the Occident is irrevocably fading into the past.
The sovereignty and competitive opportunities of non-Western world powers and regional leading countries are being strengthened. Structural transformation of the world economy, its transfer to a new technological basis (including the introduction of artificial intelligence technologies, the latest information and communication, energy, biological technologies and nanotechnologies), the growth of national consciousness, cultural and civilizational diversity and other objective factors accelerate the process of shifting the development potential to new centres of economic growth and geopolitical influence and promote the democratization of international relations.
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Vladimir Putin’s new foreign policy keeps the door open for peaceful coexistence with the United States, despite the war in Ukraine, something the documents do not mention at all:
The Russian Federation is interested in maintaining strategic parity, peaceful coexistence with the United States, and the establishment of a balance of interests between Russia and the United States, taking into account their status as major nuclear powers and special responsibility for strategic stability and international security in general. The prospects of forming such a model of U.S.-Russian relations depend on the extent to which the United States is ready to abandon its policy of power-domination and revise its anti-Russian course in favour of interaction with Russia on the basis of the principles of sovereign equality, mutual benefit, and respect for each other's interests.
Challenges and Dilemmas: Can the U.S. Shift its Priorities and Address Internal Issues?
The U.S. government has a neat little trick of sweeping problems under the rug and kicking the can down the road. Alas, the problems are not going to go away by pretending to be an ostrich with a head buried in the sand.
Could the U.S. peacefully "abandon its policy of power dominance"?
Does the U.S. show any interest in maintaining strategic parity and peaceful coexistence with Russia?
Could the U.S. embrace peace with Russia?
Could the U.S. ever say that 'Russia's internal matters are none of our business' and that 'we’d be keeping out of their internal matters'?
Do we, at least, in any way, shape, or form, show any respect for our adversary?
It does not seem so. Joe Biden told the world from Warsaw on March 26, 2022, that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin "for God’s sake" "cannot remain in power." (Yes, the White House walked back the U.S. Commander in Chief’s words, but Biden himself did not.)
Even more so, the U.S.-funded “hero,” Zelensky, signed a decree on October 4, 2022, formally announcing the "impossible" prospect of peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia under President Vladimir Putin. Do they think Putin is Muammar al-Gaddafi or Saddam Hussein, whom they can dispose of at will? Do they expect the Russians to remove Putin to accommodate their fantasies?
How could Russia trust us if the U.S. Army documents “It is likely that [U.S. Army] BCTs will have to defeat Russian Army units…in the near future (before 2025)” foresaw having to go to war with Russia by 2025 while prepping Ukraine for ongoing war?
How could Russia trust us if we even went online to recruit their citizens to work against their motherland?
I would guess, and I wish to be wrong, that the answer to all those questions would be no.
“Look Homeward, Angel”
Could the U.S. Financial Crime Cartel give up its looting of the Treasury?
Could the military give up its near-trillion budget and black budgets?
Could the CIA, NSA, FBI, and other intelligence agencies give up spying on Americans?
Could the government focus on America and Americans and their happiness instead of producing misery with every step they, the government, make?
Could the U.S. keep lavishly spending close to $1 trillion on its military budget alone?
Could the U.S. afford close to $1 trillion in interest payments?
Could the U.S. stop the gallop of de-dolarization with its ‘federal revenue’ in the $4-4.5 trillion range with ever-increasing debt?
Could the U.S. afford its insane deficit? (The deficit for 2022 was $1.38 trillion.)
How could U.S. officials sleep peacefully with the unprecedented debt of almost $32 trillion and counting as they keep sending billions for death and destruction in Ukraine and even more billions to the banks?
Again, I would guess, and I wish to be wrong, that the answer to all those questions would also be no. Those questions alone show the catastrophic mess, a gigantic pile of toxic manure our leaders have produced both within and without our borders.
We Need Serious People
In the movie The American President (1995), Michael Douglas as President Andrew Shepherd said, “We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them,” but it seems that the U.S. government of today lacks serious leaders who are capable of dealing with the enormous challenges our nation faces. It feels like we're living in a twisted version of reality, like a scene straight out of a Black Mirror episode on steroids, written by drunk writers on acid.
Instead of working to solve problems, they hurl insults at Putin and Russia, Xi and China, and send Ukrainian men to die for their own blood profit. They are out of touch with the lives of ordinary Americans and people all over the world, living in their own little bubbles of exuberant privilege, obscene wealth, and undeserved power. They feed us propaganda and believe it themselves, despite nobody else buying it.
”Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.”
As I wrote this essay, I started to think that Ochwiay Biano (Chief Mountain Lake), an elder of Taos Pueblo in New Mexico, was right. C. G. Jung, in his book Memories, Dreams, Reflections, recalls a conversation he had with Biano, which Jung reported as follows:
"How cruel the whites are: their lips are thin, their noses sharp, their faces furrowed
and distorted by holes. Their eyes have a staring expression. They are always seeking something. What are they seeking? The whites always want something, they are
always uneasy and restless. We do not know what they want, we do not understand them,
we think that they are mad."
The jig is up. The joke is on us.
“I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!”, speech from the movie Network (1976) is something we all should keep repeating from the top of our lungs. Unless we stop the madness, it would gobble us up as its willing victims, as we move on to be “killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter,” on the altar of the God Mammon—- the false idol of greed and callous materialism.
We can refuse to pay for this controlled, criminally insane system based on fraud and tyranny. We can live in self-managed, self-governed societies based on voluntary, cooperative institutions and truly human support for each other. "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion," wrote Albert Camus. Understand that we are free not to fund our insane government and are entitled to change it. We are free not to fund corporate wars.
We do not need anyone’s permission to be free if we choose to be free.
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August 7, 2022: The Great Pillage of 2022
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May 2, 2023: The U.S. vs. Russia: Bio-Weapons Terror
May 4, 2023: United States vs. Russia: Political Armageddon ←- you’re here
May 8, 2023: U.S. vs. Russia: Theft & Armageddon (cont.)
May 15, 2023: U.S. vs. Russia: Armageddon Approaching
May 16, 2023: U.S. vs. Russia: Armageddon: A Notch Closer
May 17, 2023: U.S. vs Russia: Desperate Propaganda War
May 19, 2023: U.S. Russia War: "The Gas Station" Strikes Back
May 29, 2023: U.S. Russia War: "As Long as it Takes"
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Illuminating, invaluable essay.
Substantiated what I have felt and known for some time.
Thank you