{"id":274127,"date":"2023-10-06T07:10:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T07:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=274127"},"modified":"2023-10-07T06:00:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T06:00:02","slug":"hats-off-to-matt-gaetz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=274127","title":{"rendered":"Hat\u2019s Off to Matt Gaetz"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Paul Craig Roberts \u2013 paulcraigroberts.org Oct 5, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Hat\u2019s off to Matt Gaetz.\u00a0 He has held the Republican Establishment accountable and removed their man from his position as Speaker of the House.\u00a0 Whatever the downside of Gaetz\u2019s achievement, Gaetz\u2019s victory is a victory for us.<\/p>\n<p>Forever it seems, the Republicans have talked the talk but haven\u2019t walked the walk.\u00a0 They align their talk with our concerns about what our children are taught and not taught, about the safety of our streets, about \u201caffirmative action,\u201d about the offshoring of our manufacturing jobs, about living standards, about government\u2019s fiscal irresponsibility, about aggressive foreign policy, but they lack the courage to do anything.\u00a0 Instead, they align their walk with the teachers\u2019 unions, with the offshoring corporations, with the military\/security complex on gratuitous wars that serve only armaments profits, and with aggressive neoconservative foreign policy that threatens nuclear war.<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz said \u201cenough,\u201d and for the first time in history a Speaker has been removed from office.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the cost, this is an important gain.<\/p>\n<p>Gilbert Doctorow sees it as a life-saving gain. Doctorow thinks, as Jeffrey Sachs, Col McGreggor and I do, that US\/NATO involvement in Ukraine is leading to nuclear war with Russia.\u00a0 With the House now in disarray, the real possibility is created that \u201cthere will be no stratagem, no dirty trick that Biden and his fellow war criminals in power can turn to continue assistance to Ukraine.\u201d\u00a0 In other words, more war funding for Ukraine is possibly dead in the tracks, at least for awhile<\/p>\n<p>Doctorow thinks that the silver lining might even be brighter.\u00a0 The US Imperial System might collapse from \u201cthe scandalous judicial persecution of Donald Trump to remove him from the electoral race in 2024\u201d and from \u201cthe treasonous behavior of the sitting president when he served as vice president under Barack Obama.\u201d\u00a0 Perhaps, Doctorow says, divine intervention will save us from nuclear war.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gilbertdoctorow.substack.com\/p\/divine-intervention-and-the-end-of?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=1203055&amp;post_id=137659616&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=dx5km&amp;utm_medium=email\">https:\/\/gilbertdoctorow.substack.com\/p\/divine-intervention-and-the-end-of?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=1203055&amp;post_id=137659616&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=dx5km&amp;utm_medium=email<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With Congress in disarray, now is the time for Putin to bring the Ukraine conflict to a quick end before it can escalate further and result in nuclear war, as Putin himself admits is a possibility.\u00a0 Zelensky cannot stop Russia from seizing Odessa, Kharkov, and Kiev, and installing a Russian friendly government, something Putin should have done in 2014. Now is the opportunity and time for Putin to act and to save the world from nuclear war.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"zEEqsw9xYB\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/pages\/donate\/\">Donate<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Donate&#8221; &#8212; PaulCraigRoberts.org\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/pages\/donate\/embed\/#?secret=XkYgL3HJ6o#?secret=zEEqsw9xYB\" data-secret=\"zEEqsw9xYB\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2023\/10\/05\/hats-off-to-matt-gaetz\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Congress in disarray, now is the time for Putin to bring the Ukraine conflict to a quick end before it can escalate further and result in nuclear war. 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