Such an important piece. It should help Spokane, Washington understand its place in post WW2 history — home to Fairchild Air Force Base, for 40 years until 1994 home to nuclear weapons-carrying B-52 bombers and for the last 30 years home-base to more KC-135 aerial refuelers (at last count 69) than anywhere in the world, more than all Europe combined, and more than Russia, China, Saudis Arabia, and India combined. And we in Spokane may understand —if only our propaganda-addled brains would allow— how come our Gonzaga University and its Clinton-pardoned trustee John Hemmingson, combined with Lockheed-Martin and other corrupt warmongering corporations, are now trying to cement Spokane’s blood-soaked history and economy more solidly in this blackmailing weapons-of-war scheme.
Quite pertinent, Kit, but if I may quote me French Historian friend Annie Laroix-Riz:" Neither the Atlantic pact nor Nato have in anyway modified the "peripheral strategy" clearly spelled out by Clarence Cannon in May 1949, that the USA will never intervene in Europe, either at the beginning of a war or at least until the carnage is sufficiently advanced to just pick up the remaining pieces ...Les Origines du Plan Marshall (2024) page 63/64. Ergo, 1917...La Fayette, nous voilà! and 1944...D-day when the Russians had already, single handedly, smashed their nazi friends, with whom the yanks were negotiating as early as 1942.
One reason those ships full of GIs aren't cominh is that in current technological conditions, many would get sunk and most of the rest blown up on harbor. This has been the case for 40 years.
How have those gaggles of morons that pass as politicians here managed to miss that fact for all those décadas?
And having done it, why don't they shut up and quietly see to our defense?
It would probably be easier and faster to make up with Putin and add Russia to Europe as a compatriot and a member of NATO. After all Russia is a capitalist, Christian, nascent democracy, so what's the hold up?
A good article, but it lacks a good dose cynicism. All the current talk of Trump’s intention to disengage from NATO and US commitment the „defense“ of Europe is nothing more than Trumpian rhetoric to squeeze more money out of Europe which was always the primary reason for NATO‘s existence (see The Long Telegram by George Kennan, 1948). One should also remember that the Halvord MacKinder‘s political/ geographic goal has not been abandoned by the American and British establishment. The Europeans were and are nothing more than deluded servants of Anglo-American world politics. I won’t believe anything regarding a USA withdrawel from NATO/EU until I see the closing of all US military bases in Germany and other EU countries. Look at the map! I lived right in the middle of these bases for the first 23 years of my life. No sovreign country has been as occupied as Germany! Anyone who believes the current rhetoric is not facing reality.
It's interesting how Europeans feel taken advantage of when lots of Americans feel it's the other way around. I'm glad we agree the bases should be closed. I certainly have no interest in defending Germany--their insane love for Obama tells me everything I need to know about them.
Their „insane love“ as you call it was based on widespread propaganda - misinformation - which was disseminated by the mainstream media. It wasn’t any different from that in the US. Germans can be as gullible as Americans. I know both countries intimately Most people don’t know how they are being manipulated; nationality has nothing to do with it.
Could be. I'll just point out that when Obama left office German support for him was over 80% while Merkel's approval was 50%. Why would the propaganda only work for one person?
Germany has been continiously occupied since 1945. They just dont know it. Because their media, like the rest of western media, is a lying propaganda organ. Britain too - most people dont realise how many US military bases are there. And they think they have nuclear weapons but actually that's a facade - the British pay for the nukes and the Americans own and control them. Utter farce.
From Lincoln to Woodrow Wilson to Trilateral Commission. D.C. is a crime. No legitimacy exists. A morally and physically bankrupt Nation that relies now on sustainable cannibalism by Marxist mandates. Blackmailed and humiliated, the U.S. is over. Ended by W.E.F. /U.N. extortion operatives. Capitalism itself has been erased. All local government is under the control of the guidance of the penal colonies four hedge funds of mercantilists. The lowest of the low. They cannot wage a war. People who print $ and still fail in all objectives are not capitalists. They are bailed out thieves. Dictators of fail armies that are too pathetic to allow videos of themselves on YouTube to be mocked. The inept slovenly dungheaps are merely instruments of extermination. Uncompetetive, and worthless. The march towards death by dictatorship is inevitable so long as the U.N. and Corporate failures have control.
I agree with you.If we stop relying on the preferences of the "worst world" and look at what is happening on a global scale, we will see that NATO and the United States are preparing for a big war, which will be (although it is already being waged by "small forces") the war of the future. future. future. The very rich stand up to those who want to get rich. All these joyful sobs about "ending the war in Ukraine" have been more than discredited by the bombing of Yemen and Somalia, the escalation of the conflict between India and Pakistan, and the genocide in Gaza. It is obvious that the "golden billion" was threatened by a decrease in consumption by the population and, even greater risks of imminent losses of "investments" of financial groups from the parallel expansion and development of the countries of the "global South". Naturally, voluntary separation from the rest of the world is not part of the plans of the Anglo-American rich...Trump's "policy" is option B, after Biden's failed option A.
The publication of the Politico article is not a revelation: its a piece of pure manupulation.....to boost the only thing the US is interested in exporting: gas and weapons.
Its great you noted the emotional jerker intro: thats s good tipoff as to the intent.
First the US is not withdrawing. NATO isnt the point. Because in fact the US has in the past 3 yesrs signed "bilateral defense cooperation agreements" with Norway, Finland and Sweden, which border on Russia. And has older existing ones with all of Europe.
Those agreements basically allow the US to " Ukraine" these countries one by one, using them to sap Russia but not commiting to war.
Its worth foing a study of those DCAs. They sre scandalously one sided. And involve invoking martial law and handibg over their sovereignity to the US.
Not coincidentally democracy rights in Norwegian public last week just barely managed to fend off their government enacting a new law thar would have made it chilldishly essy for their government to declare a state of emergency in which it unilaterly suspends democracy, suspebd human rights and property rights and give it the ability to impose forced labour everyone from 18-72 years into forced labour. Like Ukraine has now.. Except without even being at war.
The trigger for the proposed law could hsve been anything as simple as rhe electricity disruption that occuredin Spain, or even the Nordstream sabotage. Like THAT remote and with prrpetrator unknown. So one false flag and entire countries under martial law. ndefinitely.
I think everyone needs to start putting the pieces together on whats planned. This is well across administrations and countries in its scope and breadth.
The worst thing about NATO is what I call the "yapping chihuahua" syndrome. I'm looking at countries like Estonia and Latvia which are clearly trying to provoke Russia, so far without result. Britain also falls into this category. Without NATO they'd keep their mouths shut which is how it should be.
The Europeans have been shamelessly sucking the teat of the American nuclear cow for generations and are now hopelessly addicted to it. The US must bow out of NATO and Canada must follow, so that European defense is a totally European enterprise. Russia is no threat to Europe as a whole and it has been eager to join NATO for 20 years. It is only the foolish NATO reluctance that keeps them out. That has to change and the sooner the better!
Also WTF are the European mis-leaders spending theiir countries' time baiting and attacking Russia, when they dont even have the capability to withstand a response to their provocations? It's beyond stupid.
Such an important piece. It should help Spokane, Washington understand its place in post WW2 history — home to Fairchild Air Force Base, for 40 years until 1994 home to nuclear weapons-carrying B-52 bombers and for the last 30 years home-base to more KC-135 aerial refuelers (at last count 69) than anywhere in the world, more than all Europe combined, and more than Russia, China, Saudis Arabia, and India combined. And we in Spokane may understand —if only our propaganda-addled brains would allow— how come our Gonzaga University and its Clinton-pardoned trustee John Hemmingson, combined with Lockheed-Martin and other corrupt warmongering corporations, are now trying to cement Spokane’s blood-soaked history and economy more solidly in this blackmailing weapons-of-war scheme.
Wow, I didn't know any of this.
Another insiteful piece Kit. You are expressing what those morons masquerading as politicians are fully aware of. Very well articulated, thank you.
Quite pertinent, Kit, but if I may quote me French Historian friend Annie Laroix-Riz:" Neither the Atlantic pact nor Nato have in anyway modified the "peripheral strategy" clearly spelled out by Clarence Cannon in May 1949, that the USA will never intervene in Europe, either at the beginning of a war or at least until the carnage is sufficiently advanced to just pick up the remaining pieces ...Les Origines du Plan Marshall (2024) page 63/64. Ergo, 1917...La Fayette, nous voilà! and 1944...D-day when the Russians had already, single handedly, smashed their nazi friends, with whom the yanks were negotiating as early as 1942.
Good grief!
NATO is just part of the American empire. WW2 was an imperial conquest, not a war for dumbocracy.
One reason those ships full of GIs aren't cominh is that in current technological conditions, many would get sunk and most of the rest blown up on harbor. This has been the case for 40 years.
How have those gaggles of morons that pass as politicians here managed to miss that fact for all those décadas?
And having done it, why don't they shut up and quietly see to our defense?
for a think piece by German military analyst Lutz Unterseher on how Europe can defend itself after Trump 2 see: https://comw.org/pda/fulltext/2502EUarmyEng.pdf
This is fascinating, thank you.
The true position does sneak through occasionally:-
1 Western military stockpiles are nearly empty (British Armed Forces Minister);
2 Europe's military stockpiles are dangerously low (NATO Secretary General); and
3 Without American involvement, Europe could run out of ammunition within days of an attack, and rearming will take years (Bloomberg).
1: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/article/ukraine-western-allies-almost-nothing-left-weapon-stockpiles-z5z5v0z5j
2: https://simplicius76.substack.com/api/v1/video/upload/a14506ec-2bec-446f-ad6d-b38f34d62f36/src?override_publication_id=1351274&type=hls
3: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-03-06/europe-s-defenses-against-russia-invasion-would-last-weeks-without-trump-support
Omg we must quadruple defence spending immediately 😉
It would probably be easier and faster to make up with Putin and add Russia to Europe as a compatriot and a member of NATO. After all Russia is a capitalist, Christian, nascent democracy, so what's the hold up?
Christian, that's a hold up. "Our" banksters want their resources as colateral, another.
Good times.
"In 1977, it was revealed the company [Lockheed Martin] had for years bribed foreign governments and leaders to purchase its equipment."
Now: US cybersecurity capabilities, real-time intelligence and satellite surveillance...
Human life has been subordinated to a Bn-$$$ war machine for decades, if not centuries.
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May fantasies of keeping conflicts grinding on finally crumbe. Amen. All of them!
A good article, but it lacks a good dose cynicism. All the current talk of Trump’s intention to disengage from NATO and US commitment the „defense“ of Europe is nothing more than Trumpian rhetoric to squeeze more money out of Europe which was always the primary reason for NATO‘s existence (see The Long Telegram by George Kennan, 1948). One should also remember that the Halvord MacKinder‘s political/ geographic goal has not been abandoned by the American and British establishment. The Europeans were and are nothing more than deluded servants of Anglo-American world politics. I won’t believe anything regarding a USA withdrawel from NATO/EU until I see the closing of all US military bases in Germany and other EU countries. Look at the map! I lived right in the middle of these bases for the first 23 years of my life. No sovreign country has been as occupied as Germany! Anyone who believes the current rhetoric is not facing reality.
It's interesting how Europeans feel taken advantage of when lots of Americans feel it's the other way around. I'm glad we agree the bases should be closed. I certainly have no interest in defending Germany--their insane love for Obama tells me everything I need to know about them.
Their „insane love“ as you call it was based on widespread propaganda - misinformation - which was disseminated by the mainstream media. It wasn’t any different from that in the US. Germans can be as gullible as Americans. I know both countries intimately Most people don’t know how they are being manipulated; nationality has nothing to do with it.
Could be. I'll just point out that when Obama left office German support for him was over 80% while Merkel's approval was 50%. Why would the propaganda only work for one person?
Germany has been continiously occupied since 1945. They just dont know it. Because their media, like the rest of western media, is a lying propaganda organ. Britain too - most people dont realise how many US military bases are there. And they think they have nuclear weapons but actually that's a facade - the British pay for the nukes and the Americans own and control them. Utter farce.
From Lincoln to Woodrow Wilson to Trilateral Commission. D.C. is a crime. No legitimacy exists. A morally and physically bankrupt Nation that relies now on sustainable cannibalism by Marxist mandates. Blackmailed and humiliated, the U.S. is over. Ended by W.E.F. /U.N. extortion operatives. Capitalism itself has been erased. All local government is under the control of the guidance of the penal colonies four hedge funds of mercantilists. The lowest of the low. They cannot wage a war. People who print $ and still fail in all objectives are not capitalists. They are bailed out thieves. Dictators of fail armies that are too pathetic to allow videos of themselves on YouTube to be mocked. The inept slovenly dungheaps are merely instruments of extermination. Uncompetetive, and worthless. The march towards death by dictatorship is inevitable so long as the U.N. and Corporate failures have control.
I agree with you.If we stop relying on the preferences of the "worst world" and look at what is happening on a global scale, we will see that NATO and the United States are preparing for a big war, which will be (although it is already being waged by "small forces") the war of the future. future. future. The very rich stand up to those who want to get rich. All these joyful sobs about "ending the war in Ukraine" have been more than discredited by the bombing of Yemen and Somalia, the escalation of the conflict between India and Pakistan, and the genocide in Gaza. It is obvious that the "golden billion" was threatened by a decrease in consumption by the population and, even greater risks of imminent losses of "investments" of financial groups from the parallel expansion and development of the countries of the "global South". Naturally, voluntary separation from the rest of the world is not part of the plans of the Anglo-American rich...Trump's "policy" is option B, after Biden's failed option A.
The publication of the Politico article is not a revelation: its a piece of pure manupulation.....to boost the only thing the US is interested in exporting: gas and weapons.
Its great you noted the emotional jerker intro: thats s good tipoff as to the intent.
First the US is not withdrawing. NATO isnt the point. Because in fact the US has in the past 3 yesrs signed "bilateral defense cooperation agreements" with Norway, Finland and Sweden, which border on Russia. And has older existing ones with all of Europe.
Those agreements basically allow the US to " Ukraine" these countries one by one, using them to sap Russia but not commiting to war.
Its worth foing a study of those DCAs. They sre scandalously one sided. And involve invoking martial law and handibg over their sovereignity to the US.
Not coincidentally democracy rights in Norwegian public last week just barely managed to fend off their government enacting a new law thar would have made it chilldishly essy for their government to declare a state of emergency in which it unilaterly suspends democracy, suspebd human rights and property rights and give it the ability to impose forced labour everyone from 18-72 years into forced labour. Like Ukraine has now.. Except without even being at war.
https://www.altinget.no/artikkel/historisk-snuoperasjon-paa-stortinget-utloest-av-facebook-innlegg
The trigger for the proposed law could hsve been anything as simple as rhe electricity disruption that occuredin Spain, or even the Nordstream sabotage. Like THAT remote and with prrpetrator unknown. So one false flag and entire countries under martial law. ndefinitely.
I think everyone needs to start putting the pieces together on whats planned. This is well across administrations and countries in its scope and breadth.
Every article of yours is so well done, Kit. I promise I'll tip when I can. Keep up the good work!
The worst thing about NATO is what I call the "yapping chihuahua" syndrome. I'm looking at countries like Estonia and Latvia which are clearly trying to provoke Russia, so far without result. Britain also falls into this category. Without NATO they'd keep their mouths shut which is how it should be.
The Europeans have been shamelessly sucking the teat of the American nuclear cow for generations and are now hopelessly addicted to it. The US must bow out of NATO and Canada must follow, so that European defense is a totally European enterprise. Russia is no threat to Europe as a whole and it has been eager to join NATO for 20 years. It is only the foolish NATO reluctance that keeps them out. That has to change and the sooner the better!
Also WTF are the European mis-leaders spending theiir countries' time baiting and attacking Russia, when they dont even have the capability to withstand a response to their provocations? It's beyond stupid.