Philip Giraldi – The Unz Review May 31, 2022
One recalls that when war fever surged demanding intervention by Imperial Britain in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877, a song became popular in the music halls which included “We don’t want to fight, But by Jingo if we do, We’ve got the ships, we’ve got the men, we’ve got the money too.” If the refrain sounds familiar, it should as the United States has been experiencing extreme “jingoism” since 2001. Any rejection of the “rules based international order” established and policed by “leader of the free world” Washington has resulted in immediate punishment by sanctions followed by threats of military intervention. In some cases, as in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, the actual armed intervention seeking regime change has been the end result. And it is all done to spread “freedom” and “democracy,” a claim that might be disputed by the millions of dead mostly Muslims who have had to suffer the consequences.
So the United States of America has been a country, like its best friend Israel, that seems to be perpetually at war…so what else is new? What’s new is that under President Joe Biden there has been zero diplomacy and almost reflexive reliance on wielding the “big stick.” To quote another bon mot from one of my favorite authors Raymond Chandler, creator of private eye Philip Marlowe, “…when in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.”
Don’t worry, Chandler’s two guys and many more like them are now in Ukraine under cover and in mufti training Ukrainians to use all the nifty Raytheon and Lockheed toys Uncle Joe has sent them. They are working together with the largely neocon advisers coaching Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is guarded by British and US special forces, on what to say and do during his increasingly strident international calls to widen the war. If they are successful and manage to sink another Russian ship or two using harpoon missiles, which Zelensky is threatening to do, the proxy US war with Russia could quickly become for real. Zelensky’s family meanwhile is reportedly safely ensconced in an $8 million villa in Israel. He also has a multi-million dollar villa property near Miami and another in Tuscany. Who would have thought that being president of the poorest country in Europe could bring such material rewards?
Australian journalist Caitlin Johnstone, who has a huge worldwide audience, opines that Biden is possibly the worst US president ever, worse even that his consistently denigrated predecessor and media punching bag Donald Trump. Her recent article succinctly addresses what makes Biden’s egregious failure both different and incredibly dangerous. She writes “Preventing nuclear war is a US president’s single most important job. It’s so important you shouldn’t even really have to talk about it, because it’s so self-evidently the number one priority. And this administration is just rolling the dice on nuclear conflict with increasing frequency every day. Even if humanity survives this standoff (and the one with China that’s next in line), Biden will still have been an unforgivably depraved president for allowing it to get this close. There’s no excuse whatsoever for just casually rolling the dice on all terrestrial life like this.”
Indeed, Joe Biden’s latest tricks include declaring that the US will go to war with China to protect Taiwan if Beijing should prove so bold as to want to take control of its wayward province. But the US established policy is to maintain “strategic ambiguity” about China/Taiwan, a diplomatic solution crafted in 1979 to help prevent any provocations by either party that would lead to the situation developing into a shooting war. Joe seems to have missed that point, if he ever understood it in the first place, and certainly his advisers appear to be no more savvy than he is, though the White House quickly issued a correction on the apparent gaffe in the form of a statement that automatic defense of Taiwan is not official policy. Yet.
But my favorite move by the Biden Administration, if one might be so bold as to suggest that it is actually capable of administering anything more kinetic than a hot dog stand, is the latest pander to Israel. The recent murder by military sharpshooter of Palestinian/American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh followed by a humiliating spectacle of police violence at the funeral as well as subsequently at a second Palestinian funeral, actually found some administration flunkies and congress critters calling for a full investigation by Israel. The Israeli government and army refused to do so and the White House has pretended that there is no longer anything to see or consider. Israeli Defense (sic) Minister Benny Gantz recently visited Washington but the issue of a murdered American was not even raised as top officials tried to outdo each other in expressing both their love for and fealty to the Jewish state, which Biden will soon be visiting. The US president will ignore the fact that Israel is celebrating his visit with its greatest eviction of Palestinian residents in twenty years.
That the United States has been a major source of money, weapons and political cover for Israel since 1967 if not before is indisputable, the result of corruption of America’s government at all levels by the groups and billionaires euphemistically described as the “Israel Lobby.” War criminal Israeli leaders like Ariel Sharon and Benjamin Netanyahu have boasted about their control over Congress and the White House as well as the media and every time Israel does something atrocious the only US response has been to give it more money. Israel would sorely love to have the United States fights its wars, most prominently by attacking Iran, but somehow that military intervention and regime change, apart from a number of assassinations, has not yet taken place.
But now all of that might be changing due to a combination of the Biden regime’s recklessness and Israel’s genuine contempt for the American people, who they have been parasitically feeding off of since their settler state was founded. The US has, for the first time, participated in a large-scale military exercise with Israel on May 18th which was designed to simulate an attack on Iran using American Air Force refueling planes to enhance the ability of Israel to keep its jets flying to maintain air superiority over the Persians. It was a war game in the most literal sense even though the tanker aircraft did not actually refuel any Israeli planes and it basically commits the United States to be a dedicated participant if the Israelis should throw the dice and chance on a military attack on Iran’s presumed nuclear and air defense sites.
I also smell a possible false flag if the exercise is repeated, as it surely will be. What if one of the US planes taking part in a future exercise were to be shot down in an incident staged by Israel that might plausibly be attributed to Iran? As the exercises will presumably take place over the Mediterranean Sea in the coastal waters part of which Israel has inter alia stolen from Gaza and controls, bringing Iran into the equation would be difficult but possible to manage with enough cleverness combined with hubris, which the Israelis have in plentiful supply. That Israel would without hesitation shed American blood if it were to advance its own perceived interests should not be doubted by anyone. Look only at the two Israel false flag attacks against the US, the Lavon bombing incident in 1954 and the bloody assault on the USS Liberty in 1967, which killed 34 American sailors and injured more than a hundred others in an attempt to sink the ship and kill all its crew. That is the Israel America has grown to love and nourish, a viper in one’s bosom, always willing to strike the body that feeds it.
But to return to Caitlin Johnstone’s observation, America is in deep trouble. Its economy is visibly sinking while standards of living are dropping and will decline further as military spending grows while both the increasingly “woke” educational system and industrial base are no longer competitive. We have a plausibly psychopathic government that is bringing us to the brink of war with several nuclear powers. What we Americans need is not another war, but rather an end to war, particular those wars that can somehow kill most or even all of us. Instead, help build pressure to wind down the Ukraine war through negotiations, stop feeding Zelensky with weapons and money. Leave China alone and stop being Israel’s patsy against Iran and inside Syria. Try to get along with competitors. It would indeed be a Brave New World, wouldn’t it? A country at peace with itself and working to benefit the American people – something that we have rarely seen since 1945.
Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is councilforthenationalinterest.org, address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is inform@cnionline.org.
Okay, I read a good way down, but it got worse.
Biden isn’t in control. The nutjobs running Amerika, don’t care about their country, or the wider consequences of their actions.
A similar, and easier to understand, is the pure justified hate directed at bankrupt Britain by the Russian fake news. Only, this hate isn’t fake. The daily threats by some of Russias top presstitutes, is an accurate measure of the mood in the Kremlin.
Most sheeple don’t know that MI6 has been waging a war against Russia. Banned British Council, Rockgate, Litvinenko, Skripal, and oh so much more that we don’t know about, or are distant memories like MI6 sinking the MS Estonia, and you see the staggering social media filth trying to get MI6 off the hook.
Biden just said something that might provoke the UK to false flag big time. Biden’s comment, you should know what he said.
Both the US and UK are trying to make themselves relevant, and to do this, means destroying Russia and China. I’ve watched a few financial vids, and they are clear, the UK is totally screwed. The UK could see stupendous inflation that could take many, many decades to recover from, but, as if we have decades left, given the weakening magnetic field, pole shift, and the 2040s, maybe 2030s micronova, and this is precisely why the UK and US don’t care about their debts, and way Boris has said ‘I don’t care about business’.
The world is in a three-way game of Russian roulette, and all three could kill each other and everyone else.
‘Rolling the dice on nuclear conflict…’, eh?
My donkey. Protracted struggles are the way to go on planet grind-grind-grind. And that IS the way it will go, just watch.
The norms of a declining EMPIRE. The SPIRITUAL DEATH is here the PHYSICAL death is not far away. War, to remove the predators of and on the flat plane.
Intellectualizing and logic will eventually lead you into a circle of which you will never escape out of.
Cannot comprehend what you did not create, the arts and sciences.
Spiritual WAR, you lose. lots of blood sacrifice. Ceremonial Magic low level consciousness, Davos, and the rest of the GANG OF EVIL.
ALL Centered on GREED
Mystic and Yogi
GO DOWN JEWUSA babylon !
most hated by people of the world
What do you expect to happen when you have a transnational cult of Jews who covertly govern all these ‘nations’: USA, Britain, Russia, Ukraine, EU, Australia, Canada. Of course they want to set up some major war to decimate millions of more white gentiles, as they are currently doing in Ukraine, directing their anti-white Jewish-Communist agent Putin to exterminate more pro-white Aryan Ukrainians…figure it out, if you can.
Nico, I can cipher that easily and so can you if you think about it for a nano-second. Russia having lost how many tens of millions of Russians fighting the Germans for their nation’s very life. Bodies a mile high at the Stalingrad gates. This stuff isn’t forgotten, ever. And it’s not just not forgotten it’s carved into the Russian psyche, heart and soul. Well now they’re baaaaaack. That’s how..
@hp….Of course,,the Jews & Commies will always have some deranged logic or ‘justification’ to institute a new Holodomor to slaughter more anti-Communist Aryans…
Pop Quiz: Who is Behind the Takedown of Jewmerika? Clue: Jews control Amerika.
Christian – “Satan the Devil”
Fred B. – “Yukon the Jack Atheist Nihilist”
Alex Jones – “Globalists and Chicoms”
Henry Makow – “Talmudic Jews, 33 degree Masons, Bankster Jews”
David Icke – “Reptilians and the shape shifting Queen”
Scotty Spencer (aka Smoloko) – “Jews and Freemasons”
Donald Trump – “Amerika has a bright future, we will make America Great Again!”
Bibi Netanyahu “the Savior of Israel” – “If we get caught they will just replace us with persons of the same cloth. So it does not matter what you do, America is a golden calf and we will suck it dry, chop it up, and sell it off piece by piece until there is nothing left but the world’s biggest welfare state that we will create and control. Why? Because it is the will of God and America is big enough to take the hit so we can do it again and again and again. This is what we do to countries that we hate. We destroy them very slowly and make them suffer for refusing to be our slaves.”
Yukon Jack – “Jews and Bible believers are the ones destroying this world. Like Evangelical Christians, John Haggee and ALL of the TV preachers, all the end times Baptists, all of the left and right wing Catholics, all of the Mormons and Seventh Day Adventists – they all are affirming and supporting the lunacy of the Bible and making it our reality whether you like it or believe in it. Name one Christian who does not support the court system, they all do, they all support this corrupt fake authority put over us because they believe God installed this system on earth.`
Anyone who believes anything in the Jew HELL BOOK is allied with the God DAMN Jews and is aiding and abetting Jews and their deranged world domination plots. All these believers in heaven are clawing up the world while desperately reaching toward heaven from hell. The demons are here, we are in hell, a prison planet, their is no redemption except death. If you are a Christian you are the devil’s personal assistant, you are the demon Jew helper.
If humans don’t wake up to the utter filth the Holy Bible represents they are completely doomed, they will raze everything to the ground and be calling out to heaven at the same time. No one gets to heaven, no one can be saved, no god cares about us at all, it is the biggest hex and black magic spell ever put on human consciousness, and if you even think for one second a Jewish Rabbi can save you from the god damned Jews you are as deluded as you can get. Jesus binds you to the Jews, Jesus turns you into a Jew helper and supporter of their domination plans. But once Jews gain enough power they will kill the fool Christian helpers off. No Christian ever gets saved, when you die you are dead just like any other lifeform and your beliefs make no difference whatsoever. And if you do have a soul it just gets recycled back here, back to hell. And if you think about it, if earth is hell and your soul is here, then you must of been already judged and put here – by aliens running this prison planet”
Nico, “the poor will always be with us” and the part that got left out, (the demons too).
“Instead, help build pressure to wind down the Ukraine war through negotiations, stop feeding Zelensky with weapons and money. Leave China alone and stop being Israel’s patsy against Iran and inside Syria. Try to get along with competitors. It would indeed be a Brave New World, wouldn’t it? A country at peace with itself and working to benefit the American people ”
Most Americans are as psychotic as its government. They could not live with giving up the bullying, intimidation and destruction America has been doing since its inception. It’s a top down illness.
Article Quote: “…designed to simulate an attack on Iran using American Air Force refueling planes to enhance the ability of Israel to keep its jets flying to maintain air superiority over the Persians. …”
Gen. McKenzie former head of CENTCOM who was recently replaced with Gen. Kurilla had this to say:
“Iran drones for the first time since Korean war deprive U.S from air superiority”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2QrrWq5gMw
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Just as Aircraft Carriers are obsolete, Fighter Jets too are fast becoming obsolete, with the advances in Missile and Drone technology. This is something IRGC has been focusing on since the beginning, developing weapons that matter namely Sure-Strike Missiles, Drones and Fast-boats.
The average Joe “blindly knows” that fast-boats are a joke and Aircraft carriers define power in the waters! This is a Hollywood injected idea!
To give you a real perspective, think of the Tanker Wars in Persian Gulf during the Iran-Iraq war and compare it with Ukraine’s naval capability against the Russians. As you see Russian navy controls the waters in the Black Sea blockading the Odesa port, one reason affecting global Grain supply. Ukraine have destroyed a Russian flagship with cruise-missiles but they are not masters of the Black Sea.
As much as artificial Arab states, ISIS, US and NATO, Zionists and enemies of Iran in general prefer to call Persian Gulf as just Gulf or Arab Gulf… the truth is that Iran is the actual real master of Persian Gulf.
Let us go back to 1985 Tanker Wars in Persian Gulf. If Iraq and its allies destroyed ~300 cargo ships, Iran destroyed over ~400 cargo ships! Iraq under Saddam had even “rented” 5 Dassault Super Étendard fighter-jets from France specifically to attack Iranian oil installations and ships! But Iran was primarily using fast-boats! When Iran started using its control of Strait of Hormuz by monitoring and checking all cargo ships… United Nations accused Iran of causing instability and free flow of commerce! Opening way for super powers of then to come to police the Persian Gulf. Just 24 hours before USS Stark incident, the young IRGC that had little equipment had attacked Soviet’s Ivan Korotoyev ship. Soviets did not involve themselves in Tanker Wars afterwards… US however did come to escort the massive Kuwaiti tanker Al Rekha, renamed it to Bridgton and put a US flag on it… that crazy escort on all sides and CNN doing news 24/7 saying US is escorting and no one can do a damn thing! …in a complex operation Nader Mahdavi and his team with just a few sea mines and two speed boats did the impossible. They dropped mines ahead of US escort fleet in such a way that only Bridgeton in the middle hits one of the mines! Shattered prestige! So as you see back then when Iran had almost nothing and despite losses, this was the result. Today things are very different.
Some days ago slave nation Greece under the order of its master took a Russian tanker carrying Iranian oil and gave the oil to US… all because of Russian sanctions. Iran in turn boarded two Greek tankers in Persian Gulf, neither NATO nor US did anything.
Now see this piece: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-29/russia-ukraine-war-break-putin-s-blockade-of-black-sea-wheat-ports
A former US admiral thinks they should help Ukraine break the blockade! Maybe if Ukraine had IRGC’s speed boats and tactical expertise and the iron will!
This week Chesterton and Yukon Jack go through this routine of finding evil in the OT. jOS rOGIERS (caps error) filled half a book with it, Dawkins alludes to it often, Christopher Hitchens did the same thing, and so did essayists in the 1700s and ever since, but war is always nasty and evil can only be found if you look at specifics and see sadism and attacks on the innocent, which certainly exist in the Bible. Genocide is not always bad, it’s just that Jews have made something of it to protect themselves as criminals. A gang can breed up in a short time and you can make the world cleaner by exterminating all the members, so I am not angry with the Bible except in some details, and Jesus changes its character anyway. This change is probably the main reason we find fault with the wild OT methods in the first place. As Vikings we might be amused by the OT’s nature.