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Two interesting thoughts from Gordon Hahn’s latest piece:

The World Order’s Restructuring Intensifies as the Ukrainian War Implodes the West and Kiev

One question the piece tackles is a split between the U.S. and Europe. The core question:

The international level of the Ukrainian conflict is shifting from a bilateral confrontation between the West and Russia to a trilateral confrontation involving Russia, the U.S., and a new European-Ukrainian axis, with each riven by divisions generated by the intra-Atlantic cold civil war. This begs the question: Will Europe become a separate pole in the international system’s new multipolar stucture, adding to the U.S, and Sin-Russian pole?

Hard to tell, but I doubt it. Europe (which I understand to mean the European Union) does not have sufficient unity to become a real actor in a multipolar structure. The core project of the ‘ever closer union’ has failed politically and economically. It is bureaucratic laggardness, no intellectual heft, that is still driving it.

Europe’s resistance to America’s rapprochement with Russia and peace efforts for Ukraine means stagnation which will only hinder its development towards a more autonomous structure.

Another point of Hahn’s piece is made in his discussion about the future configuration of the government in Kiev. It is a warning to those who want to remove Zelenski:

Despite Zelenskiy’s weakened position domestically and internationally, this at least partially illegitimate president may be the last or next to last surviving pillar of the Maidan regime and the Ukrainian state. For all his narcissism, egoism, corruption, and mounting authoritarianism, Zelenskiy currently holds the Ukrainian elite together and is the face of Ukraine abroad, still well-liked in Europe. He remains a figure that minimally satisfies all the various factions in Ukrainian politics and is able to hold off opposition elements, many of which he has emasculated by banning parties and media and by either forcing their leaders into exile or arresting them (e.g., former President Petro Poroshenko and Viktor Medvedchuk).

For these reasons and perhaps others, Russian Vladimir Putin himself has been very careful not to seek Zelenskiy’s removal or reject him firmly and finally as a potential negotiating partner.

Currently there are only two potential replacements for Zelenski. Ukraine’s ambassador to London and former commander of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, General Valery Zaluzny. His deep relations with the radical (fascist) right in Ukraine would make him reluctant to look for peace. The other candidate, less popular, is the Director of the Military Intelligence Administration (HRU) General Kyryll Budanov. He has his own relations with the fascist right which is the power behind the throne in Kiev.

Zaluzny is Britain’s man while Budanov is a CIA seeding. Both could be used to interrupt Trump’s plan to replace Zelenski with a more pliant politician willing to make peace with Russia:

[This] could be seized upon by those who run secret operations. Not only could any order [Trump] issues be implemented by the CIA so as to achieve the Deep State’s alternative goals, but the CIA could pre-empt the White House by organizing its own coup operation, perhaps one led by Budanov and including the forces he has at his disposal as HRU chief but also the many disenchanted military units suffering at the hands of Zelenskiy and his use of the war for personal political and political-propaganda goals. If the CIA ushers in a truly neofascist Ukrainian regime replacing the partially neofascist Maidan regime, then the war could be dragged out by these extremist elements for quite a while, particularly if anti-Trump Europe supplies them with weapons, not to mention troops. Such a development would also sow distrust between Trump and Putin, perhaps helping to scuttle the US-Russian rapprochement. This is precisely what the globalist-wokist faction in the West wants.

Hahn only mentions the CIA and Budanov in the scheme of a ‘deep-state’ coup in Kiev sabotaging Trump’s policies.

I regard a combination of the British MI6 and Zaluzny as the more likely initiators to install a forever-war regime in Kiev.

Reprinted with permission from Moon of Alabama.

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I’m sure most readers have seen the fiery and angry dialogue between President Donald Trump and ex-Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office a few days ago. Trump admitted during the press conference that he let the conference continue as long as he did, knowing Zelensky would not like what Trump (and Vice President Vance) said and would become agitated and angry—which he did.

Trump played Zelensky the way Benjamin Netanyahu plays Trump.

Soon after the altercation in the White House, Trump announced he was suspending military aid to Ukraine.

It seems clear that Trump does indeed plan to put a stop to the war in Ukraine—without Russia returning any of the Ukrainian territories that voted to return to the Russian motherland, resulting in a genocidal campaign against them by Zelensky, and which Putin’s Special Military Operation has successfully liberated. And it’s also clear that the days at the helm in Ukraine for the corrupt and murderous Zelensky are numbered.

If only Trump would tell Israel’s corrupt and murderous Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu what he told Zelensky. But he never will. As with every president in modern memory, and the vast majority of the members of Congress in both parties, Trump is owned by the Israeli lobby.

Instead of Trump showing Netanyahu the door the way he did Zelensky, when Netanyahu visited the White House, he was treated like a king. Here’s the video of Trump showing deference to Netanyahu in the White House as if Netanyahu was the U.S. president and Trump was his subordinate (which, of course, Trump is).

Not only has Trump not demonstrated the slightest intention of stopping Israel’s genocidal ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the West Bank, but he has already taken steps to give Israel even more U.S. assistance in doing so.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has signed a declaration to expedite the delivery of approximately $4 billion in military assistance to Israel, calling President Donald Trump the Jewish state’s great ally, according to a statement released on Saturday.

The move is part of the White House’s broader effort to bolster Israel’s military capabilities amid ongoing regional tensions. Since Trump took office on January 20, his administration has reportedly approved nearly $12 billion in major foreign military sales to West Jerusalem.

On Friday, the Pentagon announced that the State Department had approved the potential sale of nearly $3 billion worth of bombs, demolition kits, and other weaponry to Israel. That emergency approval bypassed the usual congressional review process, marking the second instance in recent weeks of expedited arms sales to Israel amid a fragile ceasefire with Hamas militants – in a war that has already claimed over 1,700 Israeli and 62,000 Palestinian lives.

In May, Biden temporarily stopped deliveries of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel and announced that more weapons could be embargoed if the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) pressed ahead with an invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza. The IDF entered the city regardless, and Biden eventually lifted the temporary arms freeze.

The State Department praised the latest decision to reverse Biden’s “partial arms embargo” as “yet another sign that Israel has no greater ally in the White House than President Trump.” Secretary Rubio invoked emergency authority to fast-track this assistance, citing the national security interests of the United States.

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Be sure to take a look at the picture of Trump standing beside Netanyahu in the above report. I have never seen as big of a smile on Donald Trump’s face as in that photograph. He rarely smiles at all, much less smiling like a kid standing next to his favorite professional football player.

“Citing the national security interests of the United States.” BARF!

The innocent, unarmed, starving people of Gaza are absolutely NO threat to the national security interests of the United States. NONE! NADA! ZERO! ZILCH!

This is all about what it’s always about: Israel.

Writing in the Unz Review, Philip Giraldi wrote a column entitled Making America Great Is All About Israel. In his missive he wrote:

While it may seem only symbolic, referring to the West Bank as “Judea and Samaria” is a clear show of support for Israeli annexation. Mike Huckabee, Trump’s nominee to serve as the US ambassador to Israel, also refers to the West Bank using the same language and has said annexation is possible under the new Trump administration.

Earlier this month, Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas also reintroduced a bill that would require the use of the term “Judea and Samaria” in all official US documents.

Representative Claudia Tenney of New York also introduced the identical legislation in the House and maintained that “the Israeli people have an undeniable and indisputable historical and legal claim over Judea and Samaria.”

Congress and the White House have clearly become Israeli Occupied territory as Pat Buchanan once colorfully described the US government.

And there is more, lots more, but some of the developments are more interesting because they are impacting domestically on the United States and on the constitutional liberties and rights that are under siege as the Israel Lobby and Team Trump seek to suppress any criticism of the Jewish state and/or of the illegal activities carried out by its supporters through their corruption of government at all levels in the United States.

My favorite line spewed out regularly by both Democrats and Republicans is some version of the assertion that Israel is somehow a wonderful “democracy that is America’s best friend and closest ally.” Attorney General Pam Bondi went over the top when she called Israel “our greatest ally in the world” in an interview with Fox News. Interestingly, apartheid war criminal Israel is in fact neither a democracy nor a friend nor an ally but when the blind are leading the blind anything might well pop out of one’s mouth, particularly when it is not connected to a functioning brain that actually has a conscience.

Over at the FBI effusive comments also seem to be the general rule with Dan Bongino, the newly appointed Deputy Director of the FBI, when responding to a question about what might be the causes that are dear to his heart, stating, “Israel. Defense of Israel.” His comment reflects a broad commitment within the FBI and Justice Department to prioritize relations with Israel, as echoed by FBI Director Kash Patel, who affirmed that “America will prioritize Israel, and we stand by our number one ally.” Nice one Kash! Is that really your first name or just a pseudonym? Maybe you should be looking into the various internationally binding agreements entered into with the US guaranteeing the arrangements that are being violated by Israel in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza? They are war crimes and Washington is complicit.

In a recent interview with Judge Andrew Napolitano, Journalist Max Blumenthal, who is himself Jewish, said the following:

We’ve just learned that the Israeli defense minister, Israel Katz, considered authorizing bombing the funeral of Hassan Nasrallah, where thousands—hundreds of thousands—of unarmed people were mourning a late leader without weapons. They were in a stadium in Beirut. And Israel instead conducted a F-16 flyover, threatening that crowd. It’s just basically a terror apparatus with a parliament.

And the idea that it was even considered to do that demonstrates the impunity that Israel enjoys in Washington, along with the rest of Netanyahu’s comments that they’ve just simply stolen Mount Hermon in violation of a 1973 U.N. agreement. They just stole the highest point in Syria and are setting up ski slopes there. They’ve stolen a large segment of southern Syria, thanks in large part to the NATO/CIA-backed regime change operation that has seen the rebranded form of al-Qaeda take power in Damascus, which hasn’t fired a single shot against Israel. But they’re just taking it. And the United States has nothing to say about it. There’s no problem there.

Of course, the U.S. freaked out after a referendum of Crimeans voted for the annexation by Russia. The U.S. threw a tantrum at the U.N. and issued sanctions on Russia and began marching towards the Ukraine proxy war. But here Israel is allowed to steal all that it wants.

Napolitano: The same government that stopped you at Dulles. The president took an AI-generated clip mocking the turning of Gaza into Trump Gaza Riviera. Was that played in Israel?

Blumenthal: Well, everyone’s talking about it. It’s all the rage in the Israeli media. I think it’s generating lots of amusement in Israel. It really needs to be seen to believe, to be understood. There are images of bearded men with women’s bodies belly dancing on the ruins of Gaza. Elon Musk is throwing money. The showering children on the beaches of Gaza with money. There are golden coasts and buildings resembling those in Dubai rising up as Donald Trump hams it up shirtless on the beach, toasting Netanyahu. They’ve taken control of the Gaza Strip after the Holocaust we’ve just witnessed. And a golden statue of Donald Trump rises in the center of Gaza City.

It is a satanic video that many commenters are describing as also kind of anti-Christian. Kind of anti-Christian in that it resembles something that the antichrist would do.

Indeed.

Here is the “satanic,” “anti-Christian,” “antichrist” video clip Max referenced.

The Government Rag Intelligence Report released a brief exposé of the “satanic” video above, entitled: TRUMP’S GAZA PAGAN IDOLATRY WITHOUT PRECEDENT:

Trump’s proposal [for the U.S. to ethnically cleanse and occupy Gaza] was met with global criticism by both lawmakers and analysts who fear the plan would forcibly displace Gaza’s population of two million, while US critics wondered if the President’s vision would plunge the nation into the potentially bloody role of occupying power.

But late Tuesday night, Trump seemed to further promote the plan by posting a 35-second video to his Truth Social account that began with the question: ‘Gaza 2025: What’s Next?’

The AI-generated video, in a series of bold, gaudy images, shows a new Trump hotel, a giant golden statue of Trump, and a child holding a Trump balloon among resplendent beach front resort complexes.

That any Christian supports this idolater escapes me.

Me too.

During the joint White House press conference with Zelensky, Trump boldly stated that he intended to stop the U.S. flow of money into Ukraine and use it for “other things.” But as he made that statement, he almost let slip out what he really intended to do with the money: send it to Israel to further augment its military aggression in the Middle East—as he has already indicated by delivering over $12 billion of military aid to Israel in just his first month in office, as I previously noted.

If only Trump would tell Netanyahu what he told Zelensky.

Reprinted with permission from Chuck Baldwin Live.

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In the latest episode of the Peter Schiff Show, Peter dives into an eventful and troubling week for the U.S. economy, marked by tumbling stocks, a weakening dollar, and escalating global market tensions. Peter explains why Trump’s tough talk on NATO and increased tariffs may be exacerbating underlying structural weaknesses in the U.S. economy. He also highlights the surprising strength in precious metals and reiterates his call for investors to move into dividend-paying foreign equities as a viable countermeasure to domestic economic turmoil.

Peter starts by surveying the damage suffered last week by Wall Street, emphasizing the significance of the sell-off across indexes:

First of all, the stock market in the U.S. had its worst week in six months. The Dow Jones was down 2.7 percent on the week, and it’s now barely up on the year. It’s up about one percent in calendar 2025. The S&P 500 dropped three and a half percent. That’s down 1.7 on the year. The NASDAQ was down 4 percent on the week, 5.6 percent on the year. And the Russell 2000, the weakest of the major indexes, is down four and a half percent on the week, 7 percent on the year.

He then turns his attention to the dollar, noting a sharp weakening against other major currencies and linking it directly to recent geopolitical shifts and Trump’s rhetoric around NATO spending:

The big news is the huge spike in yields in Germany and the rise in the euro and other currencies. The dollar had its weakest week since sometime in 2022. The dollar index was down 3.5 percent on the week. It dropped from 107.6 to close at 103.8. Now, I have been calling for a weak dollar on my last several podcasts, saying I thought the dollar had topped, that it was going down.

Peter elaborates on the geopolitical context that’s sending tremors through currency markets, specifically Trump’s vocal displeasure regarding NATO and Germany’s resulting defense spending spree:

Now, what’s going on? Basically Donald Trump told Europe and Germany, ‘You guys are on your own for defense. You’re not spending enough on defense. We don’t know that we want to defend you. Maybe we’re going to pull out of NATO,’ which, you know, I think NATO shouldn’t even exist. But in response to this, Germany said, ‘Okay, well, we’re going to spend a lot of euros, I forget exactly how many, hundreds of billions, building up our defenses.’

This German commitment to ramping up military spending, Peter argues, is helping drive yields higher in Europe, making the euro more attractive compared to the dollar. The declining dollar has severe consequences for American investors, potentially disrupting large-scale capital flows:

Look at what’s going on with the dollar. If the dollar really starts to fall against the euro, that’s another reason not to own U.S. government bonds. In fact, it’s a reason not to own U.S. stocks. A lot of Europeans have been buying U.S. stocks because U.S. stocks have been the only game in town. U.S. stocks have been going up. Well, now they’re going down, but they’re not just going down in dollars; they’re going down in euros.

Adding insult to injury, Peter highlights the burgeoning U.S. trade deficit already reaching record levels. He points to this as concrete proof that the economy is fundamentally flawed and unsustainable:

They are not looking at the enormity of these trade deficits. We got a record trade deficit. I mentioned on the last podcast, a merchandise trade deficit. The unified trade deficit in goods and services came out for January minus $131.4 billion, the worst in history. There are some factors, maybe some tariff front running. We did import a bunch of gold, but still, it’s an enormous number, and it’s indicative of an economy that is completely screwed up.

Further evidence of economic weakness emerged last week when employment numbers badly disappointed expectations, underscoring stagnation in job creation within the private sector:

It started off on Wednesday with the ADP jobs report. That’s the private sector payroll number, and that was a huge miss. They were expecting 162,000 jobs, and we got 77,000, so a big decline from the previous month’s 186 and way below even the lowest estimate, which was 140,000. The high estimate was 300,000. We were nowhere near that. There were people thinking maybe we’re going to create 300,000 jobs, and we only got 77,000.

Finally, Peter warns against believing that Trump’s tariffs and protectionist measures could ever realistically revive American industry and productivity. The uncomfortable truth, he reveals, is that the American economy no longer has the productive capacity to compete, tariff or no tariff:

But the other problem that nobody is talking about, let’s assume that Donald Trump puts a tariff on imports that is high enough to actually result in U.S. production being cheaper. Right? The tariff is now so high, I’m not going to buy the Canadian product, I’m going to buy an American product. But without the tariffs, I would buy the import. Right? Let’s assume that happens. Well, where are we going to get the productive capacity? We don’t have it.

This originally appeared on SchiffGold.com.

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Thanks, Jerome Barber. 

Technocracy

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Thanks, John Frahm. 

Gateway Pundit

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Thanks, John Frahm.

NextGov.com

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Thanks, Ginny Garner. 

Lew,

The Columbia student threatened with deportation for his protests supporting Palestinian rights is, according to this article,  a US resident. That means he is here in America legally. He has been granted the right to live in the US. He has not broken any law.

See here.

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When Corruption Is The Path | ZeroHedge

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Ginny Garner wrote:

Lew,

Oliver Stone posted on X on 3/11 his 2022’s views on the Ukraine-Russia war as well as Jeffrey Sach’s “Geopolitics of Peace” speech before the EU on 2/19. Sachs lays out the neocon foreign policy and NATO expansionism of the past 30 years that initiated no-win wars. Words of wisdom from peacemakers Stone and Sachs. My quibble with Stone, whose filmmaking especially “JFK” I hold in high esteem, is his unfortunate promotion of climate change. Hasn’t it occurred to him that the #1 reason exposing why the climate change agenda is fraudulent is that the largest emitter of carbon, the US military, is excluded from policies proposed to fix the alleged crisis.

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Ginny Garner writes:

Lew,

President Trump has announced he will work to primary Rep. Thomas Massie, the best, most liberty promoting member of Congress. Is it because Trump doesn’t like Massie’s principled stance opposing the CR, the massive spending bill that increases defense spending that Trump supports? Link:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-says-gop-rep-thomas-massie-should-be-primaried-for-opposing-measure-to-avert-government-shutdown/ar-AA1AERoS

Or is it because Massie has told AIPAC to stay out of his office and recommended the powerful Israeli lobby group register as a lobbyist for a foreign nation? Massie famously told Tucker Carlson every Republican congressman has an AIPAC babysitter. Link: 

https://rumble.com/v51tdtr-thomas-massie-reveals-to-tucker-carlson-everybody-but-me-has-an-aipac-perso.html

Massie is sticking to his conservative fiscal guns. Link:

https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1899187371314413636

He is joining Sen. Rand Paul to fight the spending bill. Link:

https://x.com/SenRandPaul/status/1899153968002974111

The bill funds all of Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts that has received so much publicity. Link:

https://x.com/RandPaul/status/1899113680848961888

The spending bill includes more funding for war. Link:

https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1899106665829474365

It funds USAID but not the wall on the southern border:

https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1899060945554448666

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Thanks, John Smith.

In the central region that lies between the mainly Muslim north and largely Christian south, armed Muslims on February 24, 2004 killed more than 75 Christians in the town of Yelwa, at least 48 of them inside a church compound. Then on May 2 and 3, hundreds of well-armed Christians surrounded the town from different directions and killed around 700 Muslims. They also abducted scores of women, some of whom were raped. Both attacks were well-organized, and in both instances, the victims were targeted on the basis of their religion.

At the heart of the conflict is the distinction between “indigenes” — people who consider themselves as the original inhabitants of an area — and those whom they view as “settlers.” The concept of “indigeneship” has been exploited and used to discriminate against those termed as “settlers.”

“The Nigerian government needs to remove the distinction between ‘indigenes’ and ‘settlers’,” said Takirambudde. “As long as this distinction is given official recognition, the potential for further conflict remains.”

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Thanks, John Smith. 

The Guardian

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Writtes John Smith.:

Many Nigerians argue that the real reason for the violence isn’t ethnic or religious differences but the scramble for land, scarce resources and political clout. Poverty, joblessness and corrupt politics drive extremists from both sides to commit horrendous atrocities. …

Andrew Kakabadse, professor of international management development at the U.K.-based Cranfield School of Management, says oil companies have at various times pitted ethnic factions against one another for economic gain.

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Thanks,  John Smith. 

Counterpunch

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Counterpunch

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If you take the Russian “invasion” of the Ukraine in a vacuum, then it becomes easy to come to the conclusion that Putin’s overall goal is to restore the Russian Empire via territorial ambitions.

However, a student of history doesn’t look at these events in a vacuum.

Jeffrey Sachs talks about the Wolfowitz Doctrine and US Unipolar New World Order policy and its ramifications to the EU Parliament last month.  He validates everything I had guessed had happened from what I had pieced together on my own.

Be a student of history and listen to him.

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John Leake

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Gail Appel  wrote:

What a sick , psychopathic cabal of treasonous monsters our overlords are.

Send them to Gaza, Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia , Sudan.. one way , sporting cropped t-shirts emblazoned with “ Queers for Sale”

See here.

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