Philip Giraldi — The Unz Review Feb 28, 2023
At last week’s Rage Against the War Machine peace rally in Washington there was no shortage of speakers who denounced the Biden Administration’s hypocritical foreign policy, which essentially judges any violent action undertaken by the United States and its friends as good by definition while anything done by rivals or competitors, sometimes conveniently referred to as “enemies,” as “evil.” In the current context of Ukraine versus Russia, where the US is engaged in proxy warfare, speakers were able to cite and compare the formidable list of America’s armed interventions worldwide since World War Two ended. Neither Russia nor any other nation comes anywhere near the United States in terms of constant bellicosity, conflicts which hardly ever reflect any real vital national interest or imminent foreign threat. Throw into the hopper the 800-plus US military bases scattered around the world and a growing defense budget larger than those of the next nine nations combined, including China and Russia, and the reader will obtain some idea of the real problem: the United States has become a nation that is best described as a warfare state. That is where the tax money goes to disproportionately and the corruption it feeds produces a willingness to engage in “one more war” on the part of the coddled, protected and richly remunerated political class which in turn supports the carnage by overwhelming majorities.
Several speakers last week also cited as the real problem the media, which once upon a time sought to expose lies and subterfuges by government but now has become a partner with the White House in shaping and promoting a preferred narrative. It should also be pointed out that that media is overwhelmingly Democratic in terms of its ownership and sympathies, so much so that it collaborated in efforts to label Donald Trump and his staff as “Russian agents.”
Sometimes this promotion of a particular point of view is best accomplished using silence, i.e. by not sharing or following up on a story. There was virtually no coverage of last week’s peace rally even though speakers included a number of well-known public figures, three of whom were former congressmen. Likewise, apart from a brief mention in The Washington Post, there has been virtually no follow-up in the mainstream media on Seymour Hersh’s carefully researched and documented investigation of the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines by the United States hidden behind the plausible deniability of a covert operation carried out last September.
Much of the press ignored the clear investigative line on day one when the pipeline exploded that the White House had previously been warning that it would “do something” to stop Nord Stream and that it had both the means and motive to follow through on its threat. Likewise, after the Hersh story broke and Russia sought and obtained a hearing featuring Professor Jeffrey Sachs and former CIA Officer Ray McGovern testifying before the United Nations Security Council to initiate investigation of the matter, the US media ignored the story on the evening news and did not follow-up on it on the next day or subsequently.
A major story involving what were war crimes committed both against adversary Russia and NATO ally Germany and which had nuclear conflict potential was thus made to disappear, but the US and its propaganda machine were not finished yet. The White House predictably denied any role in the pipe line destruction and Vice President Kamala Harris sought to turn the tables by declaring at the Munich Security Conference that it is Russia that is guilty of “crimes against humanity.” She claimed that “First, from the starting days of this unprovoked war, we have witnessed Russian forces engage in horrendous atrocities and war crimes. [They] have pursued a widespread and systemic attack against a civilian population – gruesome acts of murder, torture, rape, and deportation. Execution-style killings, beating and electrocution. Russian authorities have forcibly deported hundreds of thousands of people from Ukraine to Russia, including children. They have cruelly separated children from their families.”
Harris concluded that “we” must continue to “strongly support Ukraine…for as long as it takes!” One might observe that Harris has been unable to secure the actual US borders over the course of more than two years, so “as long as it takes” by her reckoning might well run into the 2050s. And she is hardly known for her ability to discern what is and isn’t true. She might well have added spice to her tale by joking how it must keep Vladimir Putin and his cabinet up until late at night coming up with new atrocities to carry out.
Joe Biden doubled down on the Harris remarks in a speech in Warsaw a few days later, delivered on his return from the Kiev photo op with the man he loves more than any other, Volodymyr Zelensky, where he gave the diminutive comedian another half billion dollars of US taxpayer money and promised that the US will never give up until Russia is defeated. He commented somewhat hyperbolically to Zelensky that after a year of fighting “…Ukraine stands. Democracy stands. The Americans stand with you and the world stands with you.”
Biden told the Poles just before the February 24 anniversary of the conflict in Ukraine that it was a just war pitting “democracy” against “totalitarianism.” Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “craven lust for land and power” had only served to unite democracies around the world. “It wasn’t just Ukraine being tested. The whole world faced a test for the ages …. And the questions we face are as simple as they are profound: Would we respond, or would we look the other way? One year later, we know the answer. We did respond. We would be strong, we would be united, and the world would not look the other way.”
Demonstrating that delusion is bipartisan, the Biden visit to Kiev was followed by a group of Republican congressmen repeating the feat and traveling to Ukraine to fawn over Zelensky at his presidential palace on the following day. One wonders if there is anyone still “at home” trying to alleviate the huge toxic spill that appears about to consume Ohio? One might well ask where the US federal government gets these idiots from? Dancing around to the tune of a conflict that could have been negotiated away and winding up at the brink of a nuclear war which would in all likelihood destroy the planet is “a test for the ages?” And who pays for these useless congressional trips? More’s the pity, this is not just going on in Eastern Europe. The US is currently cooperating with France in what looks like what will become another military intervention in a perennially unstable Haiti and, of course, China is also in the cross hairs.
And then there is always the Middle East, where Israel benefits from “ironclad” commitments and “unbreakable bonds” rhetoric from Washington. When Israel commands “Jump!” the Biden regime only asks “How high?” Since the media avoids any provocative reporting about the Jewish state, how many Americans know that self-declared Zionist Joe Biden’s Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides has just given Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the green light for attacking Iran with US support for any action taken? Nides told the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem last Sunday that “Israel can and should do whatever they need to deal with [in regards to Iran] and we’ve got their back.”
There is already a precedent as Israel has in fact been attacking neighboring Syria repeatedly without any comment from Washington, which actually has troops based in that country stealing Syrian oil. Nor has Washington objected when the Israeli army raided two Palestinian camps during the past month, killing respectively 10 and 11 civilians and wounding more than 100 others. To set the stage for what comes next vis-à-vis the wag the dog relationship, after Israel struck a defense compound in Iran on January 29th, the Biden administration suggested to reporters that the Israeli attack was part of a new “joint effort” by Washington and Jerusalem to contain Tehran’s nuclear and military ambitions. Secretary of State Tony Blinken elaborated on the shift on the next day while offering no criticism or concern for the destabilizing potential of the strikes, let alone a condemnation. Instead, he defended the Israeli attack, saying “[It is] very important that we continue to deal with and work against as necessary the various actions that Iran has engaged in throughout the region and beyond that threaten peace and security.”
Nides’ comment reveals that he is ignorant regarding who is causing trouble in the Middle East. It also confirms that even if there is a military action initiated by Israel that does grave damage to US interests, the White House will support the Israelis. That should surprise no one as the top three officials at the State Department are Jews, as are the top two on the National Security Staff, the Head of Homeland Security, the Director of National Intelligence, the Deputy Director at CIA, and the president’s Chief of Staff. The policy shift, for that is what it is, also gives Israel the green light to attack Iranian targets with impunity. Nides also stated that the United States is pledged to deny nuclear weapons to Iran, implying that if it believes such a development is imminent it would destroy the facilities used to create or store the weapons. He also mentioned that the US will not engage in any possible negotiations with Iran as long as it is selling weapons to Russia. Though Nides has no problem with freely killing Palestinian children, he is rather more inflexible when Persians are somehow involved, saying that “The Iranians are providing drones to Russia and those drones are killing innocent Ukrainians. There is no chance today of us going back to the negotiating table.”
So what do we have? Does anyone remember the famous quote attributed to British statesman Lord Palmerston, that “Nations have no permanent friends or allies. They only have permanent interests.” The United States, uniquely, does not even appear to have interests, apart from pandering to the various constituencies and groups that have bought or stealthily acquired control over the political system and media. So the American public, less safe and prosperous now than at any time since the Second World War, is kept in the dark about what is important and is lied to about almost everything. That is why we are on the brink of destruction in Ukraine and are slaves to the power brokers who hate Russia and favor Israel above all nations. Raging against the war machine will do little good if we are incapable of first figuring out who is screwing us and then developing the courage to put a stop to it. Starting with cutting the current tie that binds with Ukraine and Israel would be a good beginning followed by bringing the troops home from nearly everywhere. Trying the Biden Administration officials who initiated an illegal war by destroying Nord Stream and putting them all in jail would be even better. Yes, every one of them in jail with no parole, starting with mumbling Joe himself.
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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
As an American, I wish the entire Biden regime, along with Zalensky’s regime, could be isolated on an island and bombed into oblivion. The American people want nothing to do with our government’s aggression against Russia. We willingly wish Russia would eliminate the Biden Regime and save our country.
Amerika is a warfare state? Amerika has had a war economy since WW2.
The only thing which has detracted from this war economy, is the prolific printing of fiat money since 2008 (& earlier). To put it bluntly, the MIC system simply wasn’t able to grow fast enough, or find enough low risk military theaters.
It wasn’t enough that bankrupt Amerika out spent all the world’s militaries combined, and despite this, most US hardware isn’t up to it, such as tanks that require constant maintenance, a nuclear force which is over 30yrs old, and aircraft carries made redundant by the missile age.
Just a handful of missiles could close every European port of note, including the UK. Not that I think they would do it, but there’s going to be no resupply from Amerika.
This bonkers idea that Amerika can win over Taiwan is a laugh.
Think Russia is fighting it’s best game in UKraine? Nowhere near it. The Russians intend to methodically destroy what was Europe’s largest army, and kill as many Nazis as possible. If this continues until August, which some are fingerings, then UKraine and NATO will lose around 500,000 men, and Russia around 60,000 men. But more likely the nukes will be landing before then.
The question is, how to actually implement the recommendations the author recommends in the last three sentences?
It’s always their last war that does them in and this one looks like it’s their last.
When America does finally get into a war against a nation that can actually fight back, perhaps then they will wake up and demand their very own regime change.
Perhaps the “enemy” they have attacked will make it easier by bombing the infamous district of criminals
Obviously, the campaign foisted on us regarding failure of the MSM to properly inform Americans regarding our massive lies and corruption regarding wars of aggression has been working famously. I’ve written dozens of Letters to Editors and have not ONCE gotten a reply or inclusion of my letters in their publications. What do we get for our efforts? We get a mentally insane president who even alludes to running for high office once again?? Our state governor, a hugely wealthy man, has never ONCE addressed the state’s populace of the true and sorry state of our state and federal budgets and our growing debtor status. He and his demented health commissioner are still the biggest pushers of the useless and dangerous mRNA “vaccines” i.e. genocidal yet mandatory a year or two ago if a state worker wanted to keep his/her job, they’d better get the shots this idiot governor has pushed until we are blue in the face. Yet, the ignorant population doesn’t even make an effort to learn about our sorry state. Leadership from the top? Look again, it doesn’t even exist.
One thing is for sure….if the attack on the USS Liberty happened today,news of it would never see the light of day!!.
USA = ZOG
Russia = ZOG
NATO = ZOG
Ukraine = ZOG
The governments of all these ‘nations’ are on the same Zionist-Communist team working together. The only winner is ZOG. The only loser is the white race being decimated/exterminated. Figure it out, if you can.
Nico x = ZOG.
The mystery of madness of the war in the Ukraine is very similar to the mystery of Covid vaccines.
Power & Control – Geopolitically, the US-led Masonic money-power West envisions a NWO dominated by Asia. Russia is seen as rather central to the ongoing Eurasian economic developments. Russians want to control and own Russia. US, Jew, Brit, French and German moguls want to own and control Russia.
Money -The US is the epicenter of the biggest empire the world has ever seen. It is a business empire and the most profitable business the empire runs is not drug trafficking but wars and the armaments industries. Starting and maintaining wars of a contained nature could be what sustains the American empire.
What we seem to have with the war in the Ukraine is a clash of globalist stakeholder interests regarding their alleged future prospects.
For the past two years we have strained our brains trying to figure out the rational behind the Covid vaccines. We now know they were never needed to make anyone “safe” and especially for the US bioweapon virus they were allegedly designed to eradicate. Yet despite the absence of any real threat to well over 99% of the population from the virus, and the proven ineffectiveness and actual harms from them, all of our governments have kept pushing them on their people.
We have kept asking why, supposing there was method to the madness of the toxic vaccines, and none of the rationales which have emerged shed any positive light on the establishments of our nations facilitating the plandemic and pushing the vaccines, such as:
1. Control – The cancellation of our basic and local rights over life and health though the artificial declaration of “emergency conditions” and forced vaccine programs being necessary in order to centralize powers over health on a global scale according to all of the WEF and UN control designs;
2. Culling – That control through the cancellation of our basic and local rights over life and health with the WEF and UN pretexts being necessary to being massive but selective culling operations though vaccines programs where people will continue to remain ignorant of what substances they are actually to receive – i.e., the continued use of select batches of vaccines, the immune systems of undesired, or “non-essential”, types can we weakened to greatly accelerate mortality rates in those types or classes;
3. Money – The cancellation of our basic rights over life and health being necessary for the vast profits to be made by all NWO stakeholders with shares in the leading drug companies producing the vaccines, not just for this plandemic but for all those in the planning – i.e., none of the control measures can be reliable unless influential people are sufficiently rewarded not to interfere with or oppose the actual agendas.
If on the other hand the reasons for the vaccines are actually just for control over health on a global scale, and for profits, and are devoid of the rationales given above, then in the light of the abject failure of the vaccines to produce any real benefits, we still must remain mystified as to why all of the effort of the entire realm of officialdom to cover up the harms, and as to why our governments are still pushing the jabs. They do not work. They are toxic. There is no threat of anything serious from the virus to anyone even if it is even still active.
Perhaps there is no rationale or centralized control of anything but just a clashing of interests and it is we who try work out the rationales for these mysterious messes who end up doing their thinking for them, and to our own disadvantage, but I doubt it.
Nevertheless, it could be the case that those at the top of this top-down, Masonic, money-power running things both in the West and in the East are not really united in terms of any rational justifications, but rather they are simply “stakeholders”, made up of groups with different interests, who are only able to work together on various isolated projects such as a plandemic, the Covid vaccines, the UN Agendas, and the WEF Resets, and certain wars serving their interests, and that there is no reality or reason to anything other than collaborating in various schemes to the extent of realizing their special stakeholder interests. Perhaps this New World Order stuff we have hear so much about and which our various political leaders have been touting for so long is nothing but a disordered jumble of these various stakeholder interests such that when the interests of one stakeholder power block conflicts with those of another then they simply fly apart and revert back to some “old-world” order methods to sort out their differences. If that is really what is going on, then it would seem there is no top-down Masonic NWO pyramid really running things. This I also doubt is the case.
Another Possibility and Motive
Still, what seems to be case with this war is that there are two opposing power blocks each wanting to direct the future according their interests, each vilifying the other, but each of whom are still stakeholders in the UN-WEF-NWO designs, each of whom deceived their own people with a fake pandemic and subjected them to toxic vaccines to comply with some NWO top-down, Masonic money-power control plans. The same pyramid of power is behind all major efforts to radically reduce world population. To start culling the people of the earth, they would seem to have to start practicing on their own first. That is what they have done with their fertility-reduction, family-destruction, sexual diversification programs in the West – while exhibiting these methods to the East as conditions for Western-style prosperity, investments, and IMF and World Bank funding. In this grand culling project, it is the people who have been the victims of their own governments controlled by this same insidious order, which is the last thing they can afford the people wake up to.
Hence, not only do they need to create a number of fake and even real perils and crises to deflect attention from themselves and within our societies, but they also require an external foe to marshal hostilities outward and away from themselves to enable them to carry on the pretense they are serving and protecting their own people, while promoting their globalist agendas and resets. However, the facts are that they want to get rid of most of us over the long run of say the next 20 or 30 years. Covid for them was not a very clean operation. It went according to their lockstep script but it created significant hostilities and mistrust in the people focusing on their governments and on their entire top-down order.
The war in the Ukraine was most certainly planned as was the plandemic, and if those at the top of the pyramid did not foresee and plan both operations in sequence to bring about their NWO ends of totalitarian controls and culling with the people diverted with the proxy enemies, then their master, Lucifer, certainly did.
Carl Jones = Commie mole
Fred b: saying they were ‘planned’ is just too simplistic. There was a biowepon, but much of it was faked. The war was planned, but they didn’t expect the current outcomes.
Note the two narratives being forced down sheeple’s throats. The bioweapon was accidentally released from Wuhan, and that Russia is losing, when its not.
Sunak gets a deal, but there is ZERO detail about the deal. We are back in the EU.
America has not been 100% under Jew heel 17 out of 239 years since 1776.
Let that sink in for a moment.
If you can spell J.E.W. you have disqualified yourself at the CIA job interview.
I guess Phil Giraldi, Larry Johnson, Scott Ritter and others have passed it—what, a stick in my eye? I don’t see any stick in my eye!
I guess we are not going to talk about the revelations from discovery from the Dominion Voting Systems vs Fox News regarding Rupert Murdock admitting to Fox News LYING about Donald Trump winning the 2020 elections and LYING about election “irregularities” and the Fox News actors, I mean anchors knew they were lying.
Another good piece from Giraldi, but I have to fix a couple things….
“[J]United States has become a nation that is best described as a warfare state. That is where the tax money goes to disproportionately…” … Not quite accurate as the tax payers money actually disproportionately and overwhelmingly goes to pay towards the insane compound interest on the cartel’s, I almost said national, debt. In other words, the money from the shakedown of the citizens goes to international Jew “bankers” and their absurd, and entirely unconstitutional, system of credit and currency, The criminally insane amount of money thrown at the military industrial complex gets tacked on to the debt. A debt which We the People do not owe but get robbed for it anyway. Cue the music…You say you want a revolution….
Next is…”It should also be pointed out that that media is overwhelmingly Democratic in terms of its ownership and sympathies”… ummm, “Democratic” should actually say “Jewish”, of course, as in, It should be pointed out that the media is overwhelmingly Jewish in terms of ownership and sympathies. There ya’ go.
it is ridicule : Germany was lured into only
3 wars since 1870 and was blamed by jewish
alliied hate medias that not only germans
have to be eleminated but specialy their
MILITARISM . germany was always a peaceful
society beside 1618-1648 when french, swiss +
swedish troops devastated germany .
besides bought troops service for the british in
china +america .
one thing is clear for me : US military
industrial complex was great + prosperous
by white suprematic engineers of Nazi germany
and other europeans . since they are all retired
I enjoy the downfall of that US military complex.
may they now rely on black scientists + engineers !
but remember woke : MATHEMATICS IS RACIST !
Not only will the US military industrial complex fall apart. So will everything else. Bureau of Labor Statistics:
Electricians, plumbers and carpenters Estimated 84% are
WHITE HETOROSEXUAL MALES
Other construction and extraction occupations 82%
Installation, maintenance and repair occupations 80%
Machinists, welders, and technicians 78%
Airline pilots, truck drivers, heavy equipment operators 76%
Farmers and ranchers 72%
Firefighters and police officers 70%
Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineers 65%
White men are 3/4 to 4/5 of those doing actual work, whereas the other classes are paper-pushers and parasites
Not only will the US military industrial complex fall apart. So will everything else. Bureau of Labor Statistics:
Electricians, plumbers and carpenters Estimated 84% are
WHITE HETEROSEXUAL MALES
Other construction and extraction occupations 82%
Installation, maintenance and repair occupations 80%
Machinists, welders, and technicians 78%
Airline pilots, truck drivers, heavy equipment operators 76%
Farmers and ranchers 72%
Firefighters and police officers 70%
Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineers 65%
White men are 3/4 to 4/5 of those doing actual work, whereas the other classes are paper-pushers and parasites
@ Carl Jones
There is always some real substance to their massive deceptions, exaggerations, and scare mongering tactics – something real the media and and politicians can feed on and inflate to fit the plans. For the NWO and Reset stuff we are still in lockstep mode, but not all things go according to plan. The vaccines blew up in their faces and the same will happen to the CBDC’s.
The entire plandemic was planned and it was planned in the US. The dimensions and the magnitude of the global lockstep measures was beyond anything China could plan, organize, coordinate and fund with the total compliance of every single one of our Western governments. The evidence is no longer disputable, as you would likely agree. If under the globalist Obama government, the US farmed out gain-of-function work to Wuhan then it would have to be part of a planned cover stagey incase the push-back noise was to become too loud after kicking off the pandemic. Even if the virus was let go from the Wuhan lab to start things off, which theory is without any reliable evidence, the evidence is that the virus was released some 10 years after the SARS-CoV-2 virus was isolated for the plandemic at the US bioweapons lab at Fort Detrick. All sorts of illegal gain-of-function work was farmed out to numerous labs ever since. As with 9/11, the US will spend billions to bury the evidence.
From the NATO end of things the war most certainly has been planned.
On of the major purposes of these exercises appears also to be to “slow down” and reset all our major systems according to the designs of the central planners. When through Covid and the alleged threat of a WW3 you find nothing but total compliance by all major corporations and our governments (no real opposition to the ongoing slow-down ops), you have to conclude they are continuing to follow a script in lockstep obedience to some central planning and orders.
Totalitarian controls over currencies, trade, resources, consumption and us is what it is all about. No one outside of the elitist circles now knows how to invest, or even the point of investing, especially if everything is to shrink or crash as we are continually advised. Meanwhile our economies continue to survive and even to grow. The elites continue build and buy assets. The only conclusion you can reach is that despite any substance to any peril which is planned, even an economic crash, the official bullshit factor is incredibly high and the people are nothing but dung to them.