Another great article Kit. The NATO attack is one of the biggest disgraces of the 20thC drenched in propaganda. And virtually no one is aware of what happened or even cares. For those interested Michel Chossudovsky has written extensively on the NATO attack on Serbia and knew Milosevic. See this from his substack https://michelchossudovsky.substack.com/p/evolution-nato-aggression-world-serbia-russia
Another great article. I was born and raised in Yugoslavia. We then emigrated to America in the 70s. And it has taken me years to come to terms with the destruction of my homeland in the 90’s.
It is wonderful to see you expose the Western narratives for what they are, complete, and total fabrications. Although the vindication of my views by your words is somewhat bitter, sweet.
Agreed. Please do. I feel that Parenti’s overall view was still too much focused on Milosevic and Serb nationalism as the primary ( if not root) cause of the conflicts instead of seeing Serb nationalism as being just one amongst many nationalist movements that were reemerging after being suppressed by Tito’s Yugoslavia: Bosnian Muslim, Croat, Slovene,Albanian, etc.
For me, not enough emphasis is placed upon IMF and world banking roots which I feel were at the core of the decline of Yugo. They imposed an increased payback schedule the moment Tito died. Then, Milosevic stood in the way of bankers that wanted a cut of Yugo banking sector when he refused to open banks to Western investors. They then unleashed their military wing, NATO, upon Serbs to teach us a lesson about life..
The ethnic/religious stuff is just icing on the cake of destruction..a good foil to hide the hidden agenda..
That's interesting, because I think Parenti did a decent job emphasising how the mainstream depiction of Milosevic/Serbs as rabid, genocidal ethnonationalist Nazi progeny was a complete fraud, while the West's Albanian, Bosniak and Croat proxies absolutely were deranged Nazi venerating ultranationalists hellbent on achieving ethnically pure states via brute force. Only "decent", mind - I'd personally go in a lot harder and deeper on every front, with much more detail.
I also thought Parenti's dissection of the IMF's carveup of Yugoslavia was pretty good, providing a concise but comprehensive overview with excellent citations that made for considerably useful supplementary reading. This segment actually inspired one of my favourite investigations, which didn't get the attention I feel it deserved - https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/declassified-yugoslavias-propaganda.
My main issues with Parenti's work lie with some of his sourcing, his basically non-existent indictment of the ICTY fraud, failure to go in more forensically on all the atrocity propaganda (some of his references in this area are citationless quotes from/accounts of contemporary TV news reports) and the lack of reference to the CIA/MI6 role in all this. Ultimately though it was probably about the best book on the subject one could write at the time. Ed Herman's five-parter on the breakup of Yugoslavia for Monthly Review Online fills in *some* of these gaps very well. But I feel a definite urge to write something on all this.
Yeah. He did a great job at exposing the false narrative that the intervention was of a humanitarian nature, which it was not, but there is still the underlying leitmotiv (at least in my reading of his work) that Serb Nationalism under Milosevic was somehow the critical component of the casus belli.
While clearly is takes two to tango, and in former Yugo it was more of a square dance of nationalistic nausea with Milosevic, Tudjman & Izetbegovic, Milosevic was an easy scapegoat. I think Parenti sometimes fell into that storyline even while brining up the elephant in the room, the collective west and their imperialist nature.
It is clear that Western banking dominated imperialism, under guise of free market reform, decided to carve up a nation and bring it to its knees, whilst also showing other nations in the region that this is what happens if you oppose us... the omnipotent Western 'free market'..
I was visited by a lawyer with UN, I forgot his name, who was giving a talk at UCLA school of law in summer of 95 or 96. He looked me in the face and said something to the extent of.. Kosovo is a goner, you should know that closed door deals have been made at UN between various groups and officials to break Kosovo away from Serbia and Montenegro...
So, for me the questions that are still unanswered is why and how would a banking sector ((IMF) have such power and sway over the destiny of a nation? Why the 'shock therapy' approach to Yugoslavia after death of Tito? Clearly all these measures were aimed at brining down the country. They knew full well that these austerity measures would cause inflation and exacerbate social tensions and interethnic strife. This was all by design to ruin a nation and help it mend.. When and how did the West start to pump money and assets into Slovenia/Croatia? Why were the Germans so instrumental in punishing Serbs while promoting Slovenes/Croats? How much of what happened in Yugo was directly linked to existing stereotypes and animosities towards Serbs (who inherited Yugo) by Germans? When did British intelligence start their activities? etc. etc..
So.. yes.. Parenti's work was pivotal in showing a different angle and deconstructing the narrative that had been presented and repeated by trained seals like Christiane Amanpour.. and he, along with Noam Chomsky, represented the lone critical voices on the matter.. which I thought was amazing given the charged environment at the time.
As an aside, I was a linguist at UCLA in the 90's. Met Chomsky twice. Both times we spoke about Yugoslavia as opposed to linguistics (which pissed off my department Chair.. oh well..) Anyhow.. I am not a journalist and leave that for people like you who have a sense for where and what to dig. I look forwards to your additions to Parenti's body of work on the matter.
Parenti actually goes into some detail on the US strategy of "third worldisation" globally and its relevance to Yugoslavia in a contemporary talk here: https://youtu.be/YZ6QpjPTaG8?si=ABTAtAxwoT6AyD2M. Washington wants a world filled with militarily and economically weak/dependent states with populations who'll work for subsistence wages for Western corporations without alternative models emerging/succeeding.
The US also seems to viscerally oppose strong, unified states in Central and Eastern Europe (Washington was central to the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Yugoslavia's creation post-WWI, eg). As I went into in the investigation I linked to, socialist Yugoslavia was useful to Western powers for a variety of reasons, and when that utility was spent, the time came to clip its wings.
A similar story played out in Japan. Following WWII, it was permitted to become an industrial powerhouse. When its economy became strong enough to rival the US in the 1980s, Washington encouraged 'reforms' to its financial sector that created a major economic crisis from which the country has never recovered. And now Germany has been deindustrialised by sanctions on Russia, in much the same manner.
With the precision of seasoned surgeon, Kit Klarenberg dissects the truth from the hegemonic fantasies of the Trump administration. “openly advertising unconscionable war crimes is now apparently formal US government policy” Klarenberg writes. A three year old can pull a trigger, but that just makes them dangerous, not an effective military strategist. Bombing a gathering of unarmed civilians in Yemen is terrorism not self-defense. Delusional indeed!
what is this obsession by this tiny group from amongst 350 million people who are prepared to destroy the world in order to destroy Iran? And why don't the 350 million do something about them?
and who are that tiny group?
name 'em, shame 'em, deal with them, they are certifiable lunatics, certify them.
Sadly because there are so few in that 350 million that can see to grasp the light in a very long dark tunnel that has been constructed, generation after generation, purely to obscure our higher nature, that in reality, is more than likely, right before us.
well I don't know. I'm not there. Haven't been there in over 20 years. But I see many Youtube videos showing capable, good, intelligent american people in all kinds of walks of life. Well, mainly 'hands on' workers I guess. My favourites are loggers, tree loppers, welders, diy people, mechanics, farmer types. Mainly them is all I see. Don't know anything about the rest. But those I see sure impress me as people. Never comes up in those videos which just show them at work but I'd expect they'd grasp all this obvious lunacy.
For the most part they tend to be small town & country people that in essence have maintained a real connection to the real world, which in itself seems to demands more personal integrity. Back in the early 80s in Los Angeles I ended up sharing a house near the end of a lease, with Steve a nice guy from Oregon who was checking out the big city before returning to the family farm. A group of his city friends were having pizza with us & talking talking when Steve made one of his rare comments that left us all with question marks on our faces, it took several seconds before I realised he had followed the whole conversation from a spiritual perspective, it was a beautiful realisation, & a reminder that the truth has many perspectives.
I should imagine Steve would have moved back to the potato farm in Oregon & certainly would have been a fine father. At the end of his lease he had not finished his adventure into the unreal world of city life so moved to Santa Barbara on his way north towards the family farm.
Yep. It was a bit of rhetoric really. But if somehow that fact - that they are lunatic - could be got into the popular mind then something would surely happen?
Things do 'get into the popular mind'. Everything from a sudden desire to read the latest book, see the latest movie, obey the latest mad govt injunction re fatal epidemics that don't exist.
Well, people on the left (not the US 'left' - i.e. 'Liberals' - who are not 'leftists') have been pointing out for decades that the workers toil their guts out for a pittance while the share owning classes sit back and rake in extortionate profits from them, but that obvious truth fails to get through too. Too dumb, too lazy, too worried for their families, too brainwashed, too demoralised, too disempowered, too complacent . . .?
We are bombing the Houthis, Iranian allies, over the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait
If Iran is brought down with a decapitation strike, there are no Iranian shore-based batteries threatening the Strait of Hormuz
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It worked in the Pacific for 80 years, we made both the Soviets and China back off from Japan and Korean expansion, we became the sea's policeman so we see it as peace
The military’s fascination with airplanes and arial bombardment mirrors its longstanding fascination with cavalry as an effective arm of the service. We learned in WW II, that bombing cities, railroads, transportation hubs, industrial areas only stiffens civilian resolve, and doesn’t do as much damage as our military thinks it does. Factories, roads, bridges, railroads all get repaired fairly quickly. Now, everything is deep underground, hidden from view. I doubt even saturation bombing of the heaviest kind can give our fearless leaders anything but a guess at how much damage they may have done. The Generals and the professionals appear to want some kind of a sterile, clean, precise minuet, devoid of the human element. Everything can be accomplished with the touch of a button! The smooth, effortless coordination of man and engines of mass destruction, engaged in the heady pastime of raining death on faceless, hapless humanity 30,000 feet below.
The post-Vietnam combat aviator mirrors the Medieval knight in the childish pretence that it is his birthright to slaughter peasants without being exposed to any retaliation. Infantrymen with MANPADS drive these people up the wall like archers and arbalists a few centuries earlier.
The roots of America’s over reliance on high-tech weapons trace back to WWII and the 'Bomber Mafia'—USAAC generals who drank the Kool-Aid on strategic bombing. Inflexible and dismissive of warnings (even from the British), they assumed enemies couldn’t adapt. This arrogance persists today: U.S. war planners chronically underestimate opponents, clinging to the delusion that superior technology guarantees victory. The 'steel over blood' mentality bred complacency—believing the Germans would just take the bombing and collapse, rather than innovate and fight back. That same flawed thinking still shapes U.S. strategy.
The Boeing B-17 'Flying Fortress'—hailed by Boeing and the Air Power 'Geniuses'—was supposed to be the unstoppable wonder-weapon: a high-altitude fortress that could waltz into Nazi Germany unescorted, drop 'precision' bombs (thanks to the miraculous Norden bomb sight), and single-handedly win the war. Who needed fighters? The 'experts' knew they’d be useless up there anyway.
The Norden sight itself was a propaganda coup—a myth so stubborn it still lingers today. In reality, it couldn’t hit a barn from 30,000 feet, let alone a factory. But no matter! The plan was flawless: B-17s would soar safely above the Reich, untouched by pesky things like BF-109s, FW-190s, or Krupp’s FLAK 88 —because obviously, the Germans would just sit there and take it. Wham, bam, thank you ma’am!
Too bad the Bomber Mafia forgot to factor in an enemy that fought back with fierce determination. Some things never change—underestimating the foe remains America’s favorite general staff pastime.
The B-17 was tough, no doubt about it—but flying it unescorted into Germany in 1943 was suicidal. German defenses had already evolved into a formidable defense, yet the USAAC’s top brass clung to their 'strategery' (yes, that dumb), entire bomber formations were chewed up. The result? The 'Mighty' 8th Air Force crews were slaughtered: 26,000 dead, 28,000 POW's, 5,600 bombers lost— some of the largest unit losses of the war; all because generals refused to admit or even consider that their unescorted 'precision' high-altitude bombing doctrine was a fantasy.
Only after this blood sacrifice—and only after air superiority was won, escorts deployed, and 'precision' bombing quietly abandoned—did the B-17 finally become effective. But hey, why let reality interfere with dogma? Some lessons, it seems, must be learned in triplicate.
The technology laden B-29 was Boeing’s sequel to the B-17 —only bigger, costlier, on the bleeding edge of technology and unfortunately "not ready for prime time" when first deployed. At over $2 billion (1945 dollars—double the Manhattan Project!), it remains WWII’s most expensive weapon. The B29 was born from the same flawed concepts of Strategic Bombing. Named the ‘Super-Fortress,’ it instead spent more time burning due to engine fires, ditching from fuel starvation and returning to base with mechanical issues rather than fighting the Japanese. The B29 operational losses were about 35% lost to Enemy fighters and AAA and the rest lost to "other causes" (e.g. causes listed above and others).
Enter Gen. Curtis LeMay, fresh from Europe’s "bomber war education program". His solution? Scrap the fantasy:
a: Ditch ‘precision’ bombing (again), it was a farce in the first place. Another huge factor in this were the winds of the jet stream, a little known phenomenon over Japan. Lower altitudes got the planes below the effects of the jet stream.
b: Strip the guns and add more incendiary ordinance, more bombs mean more destruction. Japan had little left in the way of defensive fighters at this point of the war. And Japan was never the defensive equal of Germany at any point in the war.
c: Torch Japan from 5,000-10,000 feet with firebombs—because if you can’t hit a factory, just erase the city it’s in. This was a technique that was proven by the British and Americans and used wholesale against German cities and their citizens.
The B-29 finally ‘worked’, just not as originally conceived—once LeMay and the USAF brass stopped pretending it was anything but a billion-dollar fire bomb delivering dump truck. After all progress is progress!
Fast forward 80 years and another generation of "Bomber Mafia" has taken the reins at the DOD, the outcome remains much the same. In spite of technology and war plan fantasies: as General William Tecumseh Sherman stated: "War is Hell".
Surely all that stuff about American airmen getting PTSD from being shot at has got to be disinformation? They're making themselves look weaker than they are to make future enemies underestimate them. Got to be.
Nope, it's real. But it's more from the realization of the massive evil they inflicted. I knew a guy who's dad was a flight engineer on B52’s in Viet Nam who had untreated PTSD and royally fucked his children up as a result and died a death of despair in his early 60’s.
The strength and endurance of Hamas, with its homemade missiles and small arms, illustrates the limitations of indiscriminate bombing campaigns as well as any mentioned.
Hamas is (of course!) stronger today than it was two years ago; more men, more experience, more determination, more reasons to hate.
Of course, because when has indiscriminate bombing o civilians not stiffened the spine of a resistance movement?
That nutjob yahoo, although he looks like a Paleolithic throwback, does not behave as if he were stupid enough to have been convinced otherwise.
While Trump remains in the same camp as the Satanic Zionists the US can never return to wholesome decency. Clearly there is no Western nation that is not controlled the parasitic spawn of the fallen Angles, what ever the degree of genetic perversion of humanity runs in these demon's blood lines, they are an alien perversion of Gods creation, they are less than nothing & can never inherit the earth because they are the antithesis of creation itself.
Lucifer is nothing more than a lowly jumped up technician whose creations will only ever be second rate imitations of anything of real value. This is more than apparent, in the lowly nature of the grasping parasitic Globalist Bankers that perversely destroy the purity Gods creation, precisely because they know full well, they will always be less, even than the smallest thing they destroy.
They target shipping to & from Israel to disrupt business, US Carrier attacks, US surveillance (17-18 reapers downed to date) & military targets within Israel, including shutting down Ben Gurion airport.
Last I checked, Israeli economy is suffering, its wealthy double passport holders are returning to home countries, & workforce is shrinking.
It will be death by a thousand cuts, but eventually, with US economy on brink, both Great Satan & Little Satan will go down
Unlike the Great Satan who bombs civilians into oblivion & has more prisoners than any other country.
Or its bff Little Satan, who routinely imprisons Palestinians for the crime of living on their own land, starves & tortures to death mothers, fathers, babies, children...
What’s it like being a terrorist sympathizer? Do you have voodoo of trump and Netanyahu and you stick pin in and jerk off on? Are these dolls washable or do you order new ones from Temu?
So you saying that the Houthis have been LARPING at defending the Palestinians so far? Typical Arab chest beating I guess trying to pretend like you’re serious. No surprise that the Israelis have seen through this charade and have restarted the war.
Well, I suggest you keep coping. The US navy is running out of expensive AA missiles, while Ansar Allah send hundreds of cheap drones to soak them up. And the killer fact is that the Red Sea is still a closed passage for Zionist cargoes. So much for US 'might' - more like US 'might-not' really. Too bad for your delusions of US grandeur.
Another great article Kit. The NATO attack is one of the biggest disgraces of the 20thC drenched in propaganda. And virtually no one is aware of what happened or even cares. For those interested Michel Chossudovsky has written extensively on the NATO attack on Serbia and knew Milosevic. See this from his substack https://michelchossudovsky.substack.com/p/evolution-nato-aggression-world-serbia-russia
Thanks so much for your kind words, my friend! I love Chossudovsky's work, it only grows more relevant with each passing year/month/week.
Thank you for that link, it makes for some very interesting reading.
Another great article. I was born and raised in Yugoslavia. We then emigrated to America in the 70s. And it has taken me years to come to terms with the destruction of my homeland in the 90’s.
It is wonderful to see you expose the Western narratives for what they are, complete, and total fabrications. Although the vindication of my views by your words is somewhat bitter, sweet.
Curious, (and I keep asking this to all the former residents of Yugoslavia I meet everywhere), have you read Michael Parenti’s “To Kill a Nation“?
It's a great primer but flawed. I am tempted to write an update.
Agreed. Please do. I feel that Parenti’s overall view was still too much focused on Milosevic and Serb nationalism as the primary ( if not root) cause of the conflicts instead of seeing Serb nationalism as being just one amongst many nationalist movements that were reemerging after being suppressed by Tito’s Yugoslavia: Bosnian Muslim, Croat, Slovene,Albanian, etc.
For me, not enough emphasis is placed upon IMF and world banking roots which I feel were at the core of the decline of Yugo. They imposed an increased payback schedule the moment Tito died. Then, Milosevic stood in the way of bankers that wanted a cut of Yugo banking sector when he refused to open banks to Western investors. They then unleashed their military wing, NATO, upon Serbs to teach us a lesson about life..
The ethnic/religious stuff is just icing on the cake of destruction..a good foil to hide the hidden agenda..
That's interesting, because I think Parenti did a decent job emphasising how the mainstream depiction of Milosevic/Serbs as rabid, genocidal ethnonationalist Nazi progeny was a complete fraud, while the West's Albanian, Bosniak and Croat proxies absolutely were deranged Nazi venerating ultranationalists hellbent on achieving ethnically pure states via brute force. Only "decent", mind - I'd personally go in a lot harder and deeper on every front, with much more detail.
I also thought Parenti's dissection of the IMF's carveup of Yugoslavia was pretty good, providing a concise but comprehensive overview with excellent citations that made for considerably useful supplementary reading. This segment actually inspired one of my favourite investigations, which didn't get the attention I feel it deserved - https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/declassified-yugoslavias-propaganda.
My main issues with Parenti's work lie with some of his sourcing, his basically non-existent indictment of the ICTY fraud, failure to go in more forensically on all the atrocity propaganda (some of his references in this area are citationless quotes from/accounts of contemporary TV news reports) and the lack of reference to the CIA/MI6 role in all this. Ultimately though it was probably about the best book on the subject one could write at the time. Ed Herman's five-parter on the breakup of Yugoslavia for Monthly Review Online fills in *some* of these gaps very well. But I feel a definite urge to write something on all this.
Yeah. He did a great job at exposing the false narrative that the intervention was of a humanitarian nature, which it was not, but there is still the underlying leitmotiv (at least in my reading of his work) that Serb Nationalism under Milosevic was somehow the critical component of the casus belli.
While clearly is takes two to tango, and in former Yugo it was more of a square dance of nationalistic nausea with Milosevic, Tudjman & Izetbegovic, Milosevic was an easy scapegoat. I think Parenti sometimes fell into that storyline even while brining up the elephant in the room, the collective west and their imperialist nature.
It is clear that Western banking dominated imperialism, under guise of free market reform, decided to carve up a nation and bring it to its knees, whilst also showing other nations in the region that this is what happens if you oppose us... the omnipotent Western 'free market'..
I was visited by a lawyer with UN, I forgot his name, who was giving a talk at UCLA school of law in summer of 95 or 96. He looked me in the face and said something to the extent of.. Kosovo is a goner, you should know that closed door deals have been made at UN between various groups and officials to break Kosovo away from Serbia and Montenegro...
So, for me the questions that are still unanswered is why and how would a banking sector ((IMF) have such power and sway over the destiny of a nation? Why the 'shock therapy' approach to Yugoslavia after death of Tito? Clearly all these measures were aimed at brining down the country. They knew full well that these austerity measures would cause inflation and exacerbate social tensions and interethnic strife. This was all by design to ruin a nation and help it mend.. When and how did the West start to pump money and assets into Slovenia/Croatia? Why were the Germans so instrumental in punishing Serbs while promoting Slovenes/Croats? How much of what happened in Yugo was directly linked to existing stereotypes and animosities towards Serbs (who inherited Yugo) by Germans? When did British intelligence start their activities? etc. etc..
So.. yes.. Parenti's work was pivotal in showing a different angle and deconstructing the narrative that had been presented and repeated by trained seals like Christiane Amanpour.. and he, along with Noam Chomsky, represented the lone critical voices on the matter.. which I thought was amazing given the charged environment at the time.
As an aside, I was a linguist at UCLA in the 90's. Met Chomsky twice. Both times we spoke about Yugoslavia as opposed to linguistics (which pissed off my department Chair.. oh well..) Anyhow.. I am not a journalist and leave that for people like you who have a sense for where and what to dig. I look forwards to your additions to Parenti's body of work on the matter.
Parenti actually goes into some detail on the US strategy of "third worldisation" globally and its relevance to Yugoslavia in a contemporary talk here: https://youtu.be/YZ6QpjPTaG8?si=ABTAtAxwoT6AyD2M. Washington wants a world filled with militarily and economically weak/dependent states with populations who'll work for subsistence wages for Western corporations without alternative models emerging/succeeding.
The US also seems to viscerally oppose strong, unified states in Central and Eastern Europe (Washington was central to the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Yugoslavia's creation post-WWI, eg). As I went into in the investigation I linked to, socialist Yugoslavia was useful to Western powers for a variety of reasons, and when that utility was spent, the time came to clip its wings.
A similar story played out in Japan. Following WWII, it was permitted to become an industrial powerhouse. When its economy became strong enough to rival the US in the 1980s, Washington encouraged 'reforms' to its financial sector that created a major economic crisis from which the country has never recovered. And now Germany has been deindustrialised by sanctions on Russia, in much the same manner.
I would love to read it! Plus if you have other recommendations (less flawed etc.) that would be great too.
With the precision of seasoned surgeon, Kit Klarenberg dissects the truth from the hegemonic fantasies of the Trump administration. “openly advertising unconscionable war crimes is now apparently formal US government policy” Klarenberg writes. A three year old can pull a trigger, but that just makes them dangerous, not an effective military strategist. Bombing a gathering of unarmed civilians in Yemen is terrorism not self-defense. Delusional indeed!
“go back to the JCP one
8:29 year Window Guys breakout window one
8:32 year Iran today is literally one
8:36 week one
8:39 week that is
8:43 unacceptable . . .
the
11:00 Iranian program as it currently exists
11:03 is a weapons preparation program there's
11:05 no other way to describe
11:07 it . . .
15:54 you know who did that Donald
15:56 Trump Donald Trump actually built a
15:59 employment plan to launch preemptive
16:01 nuclear strike against
16:03 Iran we built weapons especially for
16:06 this purpose . . .
16:31 big bombs didn't work which is exactly
16:34 why Donald Trump has made low yield
16:37 ground penetrating nuclear weapons that
16:39 do
16:40 work . . .
if we're going to say we're going
16:53 to take out the Iranian nuclear
16:55 capability then we will take it out
16:56 using the weapons that are designed for
16:58 that
17:00 purpose . . .
17:50 if Iran thinks that the initial attack
17:53 against it is going to be a very limited
17:55 strike they're wrong if the decision's
17:58 made to take out Iran's nuclear
17:59 infrastructure then we will also take
18:01 out the political component of that
18:03 nuclear program the weaponization aspect
18:06 of it which is a regime we believe is
18:08 prepared to either issue the order or
18:10 has already issued the order to create
18:11 nuclear weapons this will be a regime
18:13 change
18:15 operation . . .
because if it gets to
18:55 the point where Iran does this or
18:57 attempts to do this Iran will no longer
19:01 exist . . .
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20:50 confessions made by very Senior People
20:53 by policy makers by decision makers by
20:56 members of the Iranian government um
20:59 and it is condemned Iran because now the
21:02 United States has every justification
21:04 under international law to take a
21:06 Hardline stance
21:09 against the Iranian nuclear
21:11 program um and that's that's where I
21:14 stand on
21:15 this“?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq5qNGUeI6g
what is this obsession by this tiny group from amongst 350 million people who are prepared to destroy the world in order to destroy Iran? And why don't the 350 million do something about them?
and who are that tiny group?
name 'em, shame 'em, deal with them, they are certifiable lunatics, certify them.
Sadly because there are so few in that 350 million that can see to grasp the light in a very long dark tunnel that has been constructed, generation after generation, purely to obscure our higher nature, that in reality, is more than likely, right before us.
well I don't know. I'm not there. Haven't been there in over 20 years. But I see many Youtube videos showing capable, good, intelligent american people in all kinds of walks of life. Well, mainly 'hands on' workers I guess. My favourites are loggers, tree loppers, welders, diy people, mechanics, farmer types. Mainly them is all I see. Don't know anything about the rest. But those I see sure impress me as people. Never comes up in those videos which just show them at work but I'd expect they'd grasp all this obvious lunacy.
For the most part they tend to be small town & country people that in essence have maintained a real connection to the real world, which in itself seems to demands more personal integrity. Back in the early 80s in Los Angeles I ended up sharing a house near the end of a lease, with Steve a nice guy from Oregon who was checking out the big city before returning to the family farm. A group of his city friends were having pizza with us & talking talking when Steve made one of his rare comments that left us all with question marks on our faces, it took several seconds before I realised he had followed the whole conversation from a spiritual perspective, it was a beautiful realisation, & a reminder that the truth has many perspectives.
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long time ago now. near fifty years. have those people raised a generation like minded since then would be the question/the hope I think.
I should imagine Steve would have moved back to the potato farm in Oregon & certainly would have been a fine father. At the end of his lease he had not finished his adventure into the unreal world of city life so moved to Santa Barbara on his way north towards the family farm.
It's difficult to certify a billionaire when they have access to expensive lawyers.
Yep. It was a bit of rhetoric really. But if somehow that fact - that they are lunatic - could be got into the popular mind then something would surely happen?
Things do 'get into the popular mind'. Everything from a sudden desire to read the latest book, see the latest movie, obey the latest mad govt injunction re fatal epidemics that don't exist.
Well, people on the left (not the US 'left' - i.e. 'Liberals' - who are not 'leftists') have been pointing out for decades that the workers toil their guts out for a pittance while the share owning classes sit back and rake in extortionate profits from them, but that obvious truth fails to get through too. Too dumb, too lazy, too worried for their families, too brainwashed, too demoralised, too disempowered, too complacent . . .?
Yep there is a basic group 'purpose' missing all over the western world.
And that'd be the intent of the group to find the best possible paradigm for the future for the group and all its members.
A search. An investigation. A direction.
I don't see it today. Everyone satisfied with the current paradigm and happy to work within it.
Like a ship without a rudder ambling randomly through the ocean as the crew squabbles.
Scott still thinks that the USA military reigns supreme and that his bellowed Marines are supermen.
Good gods
We're going to nuke Iran
We're tying up China and have Russia tied up
We are bombing the Houthis, Iranian allies, over the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait
If Iran is brought down with a decapitation strike, there are no Iranian shore-based batteries threatening the Strait of Hormuz
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It worked in the Pacific for 80 years, we made both the Soviets and China back off from Japan and Korean expansion, we became the sea's policeman so we see it as peace
Now we want to claim the oil sands of the Mideast
I simply admire your investigative journalism & your writings. Thanks for writing about relevant issues, such as this one
What they done to Libya is criminal
Another excellent article. Thank you, Kit.
Any US troop claiming PTSD over their failed bullying attempts should be appropriately treated with "oh, fuck off".
Thanks, Kit.
It is very interesting.
Arrogance, complacency, and impunity are sad features of the American military.
The military’s fascination with airplanes and arial bombardment mirrors its longstanding fascination with cavalry as an effective arm of the service. We learned in WW II, that bombing cities, railroads, transportation hubs, industrial areas only stiffens civilian resolve, and doesn’t do as much damage as our military thinks it does. Factories, roads, bridges, railroads all get repaired fairly quickly. Now, everything is deep underground, hidden from view. I doubt even saturation bombing of the heaviest kind can give our fearless leaders anything but a guess at how much damage they may have done. The Generals and the professionals appear to want some kind of a sterile, clean, precise minuet, devoid of the human element. Everything can be accomplished with the touch of a button! The smooth, effortless coordination of man and engines of mass destruction, engaged in the heady pastime of raining death on faceless, hapless humanity 30,000 feet below.
The post-Vietnam combat aviator mirrors the Medieval knight in the childish pretence that it is his birthright to slaughter peasants without being exposed to any retaliation. Infantrymen with MANPADS drive these people up the wall like archers and arbalists a few centuries earlier.
The roots of America’s over reliance on high-tech weapons trace back to WWII and the 'Bomber Mafia'—USAAC generals who drank the Kool-Aid on strategic bombing. Inflexible and dismissive of warnings (even from the British), they assumed enemies couldn’t adapt. This arrogance persists today: U.S. war planners chronically underestimate opponents, clinging to the delusion that superior technology guarantees victory. The 'steel over blood' mentality bred complacency—believing the Germans would just take the bombing and collapse, rather than innovate and fight back. That same flawed thinking still shapes U.S. strategy.
The Boeing B-17 'Flying Fortress'—hailed by Boeing and the Air Power 'Geniuses'—was supposed to be the unstoppable wonder-weapon: a high-altitude fortress that could waltz into Nazi Germany unescorted, drop 'precision' bombs (thanks to the miraculous Norden bomb sight), and single-handedly win the war. Who needed fighters? The 'experts' knew they’d be useless up there anyway.
The Norden sight itself was a propaganda coup—a myth so stubborn it still lingers today. In reality, it couldn’t hit a barn from 30,000 feet, let alone a factory. But no matter! The plan was flawless: B-17s would soar safely above the Reich, untouched by pesky things like BF-109s, FW-190s, or Krupp’s FLAK 88 —because obviously, the Germans would just sit there and take it. Wham, bam, thank you ma’am!
Too bad the Bomber Mafia forgot to factor in an enemy that fought back with fierce determination. Some things never change—underestimating the foe remains America’s favorite general staff pastime.
The B-17 was tough, no doubt about it—but flying it unescorted into Germany in 1943 was suicidal. German defenses had already evolved into a formidable defense, yet the USAAC’s top brass clung to their 'strategery' (yes, that dumb), entire bomber formations were chewed up. The result? The 'Mighty' 8th Air Force crews were slaughtered: 26,000 dead, 28,000 POW's, 5,600 bombers lost— some of the largest unit losses of the war; all because generals refused to admit or even consider that their unescorted 'precision' high-altitude bombing doctrine was a fantasy.
Only after this blood sacrifice—and only after air superiority was won, escorts deployed, and 'precision' bombing quietly abandoned—did the B-17 finally become effective. But hey, why let reality interfere with dogma? Some lessons, it seems, must be learned in triplicate.
The technology laden B-29 was Boeing’s sequel to the B-17 —only bigger, costlier, on the bleeding edge of technology and unfortunately "not ready for prime time" when first deployed. At over $2 billion (1945 dollars—double the Manhattan Project!), it remains WWII’s most expensive weapon. The B29 was born from the same flawed concepts of Strategic Bombing. Named the ‘Super-Fortress,’ it instead spent more time burning due to engine fires, ditching from fuel starvation and returning to base with mechanical issues rather than fighting the Japanese. The B29 operational losses were about 35% lost to Enemy fighters and AAA and the rest lost to "other causes" (e.g. causes listed above and others).
Enter Gen. Curtis LeMay, fresh from Europe’s "bomber war education program". His solution? Scrap the fantasy:
a: Ditch ‘precision’ bombing (again), it was a farce in the first place. Another huge factor in this were the winds of the jet stream, a little known phenomenon over Japan. Lower altitudes got the planes below the effects of the jet stream.
b: Strip the guns and add more incendiary ordinance, more bombs mean more destruction. Japan had little left in the way of defensive fighters at this point of the war. And Japan was never the defensive equal of Germany at any point in the war.
c: Torch Japan from 5,000-10,000 feet with firebombs—because if you can’t hit a factory, just erase the city it’s in. This was a technique that was proven by the British and Americans and used wholesale against German cities and their citizens.
The B-29 finally ‘worked’, just not as originally conceived—once LeMay and the USAF brass stopped pretending it was anything but a billion-dollar fire bomb delivering dump truck. After all progress is progress!
Fast forward 80 years and another generation of "Bomber Mafia" has taken the reins at the DOD, the outcome remains much the same. In spite of technology and war plan fantasies: as General William Tecumseh Sherman stated: "War is Hell".
Surely all that stuff about American airmen getting PTSD from being shot at has got to be disinformation? They're making themselves look weaker than they are to make future enemies underestimate them. Got to be.
I doubt it.
Nope, it's real. But it's more from the realization of the massive evil they inflicted. I knew a guy who's dad was a flight engineer on B52’s in Viet Nam who had untreated PTSD and royally fucked his children up as a result and died a death of despair in his early 60’s.
These aviators are the spiritual heirs of the French knights whining about English archers and arbalists.
>the narrative that wars could be won via airpower alone
This narrative has existed for as long as the USAF has existed, and earlier. It has always been a fiction.
The strength and endurance of Hamas, with its homemade missiles and small arms, illustrates the limitations of indiscriminate bombing campaigns as well as any mentioned.
Hamas is (of course!) stronger today than it was two years ago; more men, more experience, more determination, more reasons to hate.
Of course, because when has indiscriminate bombing o civilians not stiffened the spine of a resistance movement?
That nutjob yahoo, although he looks like a Paleolithic throwback, does not behave as if he were stupid enough to have been convinced otherwise.
As usual, I seem to be missing something.
While Trump remains in the same camp as the Satanic Zionists the US can never return to wholesome decency. Clearly there is no Western nation that is not controlled the parasitic spawn of the fallen Angles, what ever the degree of genetic perversion of humanity runs in these demon's blood lines, they are an alien perversion of Gods creation, they are less than nothing & can never inherit the earth because they are the antithesis of creation itself.
Lucifer is nothing more than a lowly jumped up technician whose creations will only ever be second rate imitations of anything of real value. This is more than apparent, in the lowly nature of the grasping parasitic Globalist Bankers that perversely destroy the purity Gods creation, precisely because they know full well, they will always be less, even than the smallest thing they destroy.
So by the same token the Houthis expect Israel to be cowered by their missiles? Lat time I checked Tel Aviv beaches were packed.
Ansar Allah doesn't target civilians.
They target shipping to & from Israel to disrupt business, US Carrier attacks, US surveillance (17-18 reapers downed to date) & military targets within Israel, including shutting down Ben Gurion airport.
Last I checked, Israeli economy is suffering, its wealthy double passport holders are returning to home countries, & workforce is shrinking.
It will be death by a thousand cuts, but eventually, with US economy on brink, both Great Satan & Little Satan will go down
The Houthis are holding civilian hostages now taken from ships they hijacked. This is a war crime.
Hostages? Or POWs by any other name?
Unlike the Great Satan who bombs civilians into oblivion & has more prisoners than any other country.
Or its bff Little Satan, who routinely imprisons Palestinians for the crime of living on their own land, starves & tortures to death mothers, fathers, babies, children...
Hostages. Anything else are weasel words of a terrorist sympathiser.
On the topic of "terrorist sympathizer", the US with its global protection racket, is arguably the greatest terrorist the world has ever seen.
Looking forward to watch countries line up to join BRICS now that Trump has finished his 1st pump & dump.
That goes for the thousands of hostages grabbed off the street by our proxy, Little Satan?
Not to mention the bulk of the US Ziogovernment.
What’s it like being a terrorist sympathizer? Do you have voodoo of trump and Netanyahu and you stick pin in and jerk off on? Are these dolls washable or do you order new ones from Temu?
They won't be packed once Ansar Allah get really annoyed.
So you saying that the Houthis have been LARPING at defending the Palestinians so far? Typical Arab chest beating I guess trying to pretend like you’re serious. No surprise that the Israelis have seen through this charade and have restarted the war.
Well, I suggest you keep coping. The US navy is running out of expensive AA missiles, while Ansar Allah send hundreds of cheap drones to soak them up. And the killer fact is that the Red Sea is still a closed passage for Zionist cargoes. So much for US 'might' - more like US 'might-not' really. Too bad for your delusions of US grandeur.
It’s been nearly 20 months of genocide so are the Houthis angry yet?