{"id":290739,"date":"2024-07-06T05:26:54","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T05:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=290739"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:09:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T06:09:26","slug":"when-you-dont-feel-like-celebrating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=290739","title":{"rendered":"When you don\u2019t feel like celebrating\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leo Hohmann \u2013 Leo Hohmann.com July 4, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Millions of Americans will celebrate today with fireworks, food and family. Flags will wave, drums roll, trumpets blare. But what are we really celebrating and are we being real with ourselves?<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t sense that any of what we\u2019re told about America and its \u201cfreedom\u201d is real. I feel like our independence has been stripped away by the lures of convenience and promises of safety and security through mesmerizing technology. The very concept of freedom is no longer seen as an inalienable right, endowed by our Creator<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n

Instead, we\u2019ve allowed corrupt politicians and bureaucrats to tell us what we can say, do, and soon, even what we can think. We are left with the freedoms the elites at all levels of government, along with their corporate partners, allow us to have. We are overtaxed, overregulated and kept in our place. Even if you work for years to pay off your mortgage and own your home outright, you really just rent it from the local bureaucratic thieves, who take the bulk of that money and spend it on your local government indoctrination centers (commonly known as public schools).<\/p>\n

And now the biggest freedom of all, the freedom to remain at peace with those around us, is about to be stripped away, at which time even the facade of freedom will disappear. We will be at war. And this time the war will not just be \u201cover there.\u201d The violence will come to our shores. For more on this, I recommend reading Martin Armstrong\u2019s take on the current geopolitical situation in his July 2, 2024, article titled \u201cTime to Call Putin\u2019s Bluff<\/strong>,\u201d from which I have provided excerpts below. Armstrong offers a brilliant response to the neocons in the Washington Uniparty who are pushing for World War III with Russia. His article is long but full of valuable lessons from history and well worth your time to read.<\/p>\n

By Martin Armstrong<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Your future will be utterly destroyed because of these Neocons who are consumed with personal hatred of Russians. They are pushing American policymakers, arguing that Putin is bluffing and we can, therefore, destroy Russia, and he will never fire a shot. They insist that Putin won\u2019t put his money where his mouth is regarding escalation. Adam Kinzinger, who is the classic Neocon \u2013 a Republican congressman from Illinois who jumped ship and ran to CNN so he could preach World War III after losing the election because of his views. He is now\u00a0CNN\u2019s senior political commentator<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is the same Adam Kinzinger who insanely claimed that we could \u201cTAKE OUT<\/strong>\u201d Russia in three days! I guess we could wipe out China in 4.5 days and then rule the world so nobody will retaliate. I have\u00a0NEVER<\/strong>\u00a0heard such reckless commentary in my entire life. And he is joined by another Neocon, Ben Hodges, a retired United States Army officer who served as commanding general of United States Army Europe.<\/p>\n

We have a very dangerous situation brewing, and Neocons are just so consumed by their personal hatred they are threatening civilization. As a hedge fund manager, you NEVER take a position without understanding where you are wrong. These people would\u00a0NEVER<\/strong>\u00a0be a trader because they clearly assume they will win, and Russia and China would NEVER retaliate and just fall to their knees and beg for forgiveness and lick their shoes while they are there.<\/p>\n

\u2026.These Neocons have weaseled their way into positions of power to manipulate the power of the United States for their personal vendettas.\u00a0 They are a threat to world peace and your future. People like Adam Kinzinger and Ben Hodges are very dangerous and will bring the United States to its destiny with the fall from the financial capital of the world.<\/p>\n

This only lends credence to those telling Putin he should nuke Kiev and then ask the world, is this where you want to go<\/em>? They can do as the Americans did to Japan and\u00a0drop leaflets<\/strong><\/a>, giving them a few days to get out of town. If they did what the Americans did and dropped these warnings, then they can argue they have done nothing different from the Americans. However, the argument is that then the people will see Russia is not bluffing, and they will round up these Neocons and lock them up where they belong.<\/p>\n

Perhaps that is the only way to prevent a complete all-out nuclear war. The average person has to wake up and demand that their governments back off. Should we all destroy our future and that of our children and grandchildren, all for the Donbas? Since the Ukrainians are denied a right to vote to remove Zelensky, they need to storm his palace to save their own country. Nearly 10 million have fled Ukraine, and Ukrainians are not allowed to decide their own fate, for that comes from Blinken in Washington.<\/p>\n

They are pushing this nonsense that Putin is bluffing with his warning of nuclear escalation. NATO\u2019s Secretary General, another sad representative of humanity, Jens Stoltenberg, has also\u00a0dismissed the likelihood<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0of Western aid to Ukraine leading to Russian retaliation. Personally, to save the world, NATO should be utterly destroyed. The Biden administration is controlled by Blinken and his other conflicted Neocons with lineages back to Ukraine who all profess their families were persecuted by Russians. They have usurped the power of the United States for personal gain, and there is\u00a0NOBODY<\/strong>\u00a0in Congress with the courage to save our nation.<\/p>\n

Blinken makes the decisions, and the debate shows that Biden is not running the country. Blinken controls the Biden administration, allowing Ukraine to use\u00a0US weapons to wage war inside Russia<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0now directly \u2014a red line the administration previously refused to cross. If I hire a hitman to tell him to kill someone, I cannot then claim innocence in court because he pulled the trigger.<\/p>\n

Historically, let me make this perfectly clear to these people who are bringing the world to destruction. War has\u00a0ALWAYS<\/strong>\u00a0escalated when red lines are crossed. The assumption that Putin is bluffing is self-serving by people who just hate Russians. Historically, countries usually\u00a0DO NOT<\/strong>\u00a0bluff, and when they make such threats, they are eventually carried out.<\/p>\n

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Indeed, if Blinkin and his other morally corrupt individuals ever studied history, they would discover multiple historical examples that show how this proposition has led to death, destruction, and the disastrous fall of empires, nations, and city-states. For centuries, Chinese general\u00a0Sun Tzu<\/strong>\u00a0has been revered for his wisdom in dealing with wars over the centuries. These Neocons have since Vietnam waged endless wars, under the pretense that they must defeat Russia. As Tzu warned:\u00a0\u201cThere is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Nearly 2\/3rds of our national debt is because of war \u2013 not social benefits. Since we\u00a0NEVER<\/strong>\u00a0pay off our debt, we then pay interest forever on every war, and the veterans have to be provided healthcare for life for their service.<\/p>\n

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Putin is the\u00a0ONLY<\/strong>\u00a0wise man or adult in the room. Putin trusts Sun Tzu\u2019s words:\u00a0\u201cPretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>This arrogance is filling the air, and it is so obvious that the West will lose. Clearly, the arrogance of our Neocons ensures that history will repeat itself, for they do not know their enemy at all. Even\u00a0Sun Tzu<\/strong>\u00a0said:<\/p>\n

\u201cHe will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.\u201d<\/em><\/h3>\n

Even if we closely look at World War II, we can see how these Neocons learned nothing. Japan\u2019s logic behind its attack on Pearl Harbor is an important example of miscalculating an adversary\u2019s willingness to escalate. FDR was doing everything to entice Japan to war, just as the US and Europe were doing to Russia. The Japanese did not understand that FDR wanted Japan to attack because Congress kept rejecting a\u00a0Declaration of War<\/strong>\u00a0to enter Europe. The Japanese misunderstood that America would not retaliate as our Neocons seem to be suggesting with Russia today that Putin is only bluffing.<\/p>\n

When Japan occupied French Indochina in 1941, America retaliated by freezing all Japanese assets in the states, just as they had done to Russia. FDR prevented Japan from purchasing oil. Having lost 94% of its oil supply and unwilling to submit to U.S. demands, Japan planned to take the oil needed by force. However, striking south into British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies would almost certainly provoke an armed U.S. response. To blunt that response, Japan decided to attack the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, hoping that the U.S. would negotiate peace.<\/p>\n

The attack at Pearl Harbor was a huge gamble that obviously was wrong for Japan. FDR used Pearl Harbor to justify getting into World War II both in Europe and the Pacific. Instead of reverting to isolationism as Japan miscalculated, the U.S. geared up for total war, and Japan\u2019s fate was sealed. This was FDR\u2019s plan all along. The U.S. had already broken the Japanese code and knew in advance when Pearl Harbor would take place.<\/p>\n

At the time, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) was the architect of the attack on Pearl Harbor. He wrongly assumed that by attacking Pearl Harbor, the Americans would back off and stop meddling in the Pacific. Ultimately, the Japanese military thought such an attack would shock the United States into a negotiated settlement. Obviously, Yamamoto did not know his enemy. As Sun Tzu said;<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Kinzinger is clearly making the same mistake as Yamamoto. The Russian people do\u00a0NOT<\/strong>\u00a0see Putin as a tyrant \u2013 it is America who they see as hating the Russian people. They love to claim Putin arrests opponents, yet the Biden Administration not only charged Trump in multiple cases, they have gone after all his supporters and even charged 1,400 people for January 6th when state Capitols have been stormed over issues like abortion, but nobody charges them.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Korean War<\/strong>\u00a0is yet another striking example of this arrogance and misjudgment of an enemy. In 1950,\u00a0General Douglas MacArthur<\/strong>, the leader of the United Nations Command, pushed American-led forces up the Korean peninsula against the North Korean military. Max Hastings, the military historian, wrote in his book\u00a0The Korean War<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0how MacArthur insisted on using American forces to achieve a complete victory against the North Koreans. He thought he could drive the troops up the Korean peninsula to the Yalu River, the border with China. However, Chinese officials made it clear to American and UN officials that they should not push their forces past the river. American intelligence reports also showed that PLA military forces were mobilizing in the regions adjacent to the Yalu River. Still, MacArthur insisted that the\u00a0Chinese would not enter this war<\/strong>. MacArthur\u2019s assessment also proved completely wrong as the Chinese troops began pouring into Korea in October 1950, marking one of the turning points in the\u00a0Korean War<\/strong>. Yet here we have Adam Kinzinger reassuring the world that they can do as they like and Putin will never respond, for he is just bluffing.<\/p>\n

The Temple of Janus<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Roman god Janus was the god of the beginning and ending of conflict, hence war and peace. In ancient Rome, the\u00a0Temple of Janus<\/strong>\u00a0stood in the Roman Forum with doors on both ends. Inside was a statue of Janus, who is always represented as the two-faced god. The doors of his temple were\u00a0open in times of war<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0closed to mark peace.<\/strong>\u00a0During a war, the Romans understood that things could change politically during the war. During peace, everything was stable.<\/p>\n

Read the entire article HERE<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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