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Feb 27, 2022·edited Mar 1, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Regarding the vodka. "a politician's devotion must be absolute" Did you mean "Absolut"?

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Real missed opportunity there.

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Gee, I use that to make my homemade vanilla. Now that everyone's in a "get rid of Russian vodka" frenzy, what'll I do?

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Feb 27, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Ronald Reagan, as he was signing into law what Congress had passed to to indemnify pharma, purportedly paused, and in his innocent voice asked, “Why can’t they just make safe vaccines?”

I agree that the intelligence agencies and their media arm are really running the puppet heads of state, and that they can render them useless. My innocent question: “Why don’t they make useful leaders?”

Put down your bag. Pick up the phone. Haven’t people suffered enough?

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One of your best!!! Actually this could probably have been two posts as it was a lot to digest, Sometimes I think that that might deter some people from reading fully. Definitely linking today @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/

As usual, a very good read,

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This is the most stupendous essay in my memory; i am 93 yrs old' i pray it's widely published, read by every US citizen, and completely understood and responded to.

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Feb 27, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

One of the best pieces I have read on this topic.Thank you.

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Feb 27, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Love the tittle. Excellent analysis.

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Feb 27, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

This piece should be required reading for TV watching imbecilic “patriots” of all sides. Amazing read!

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Feb 28, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Best on Ukraine I have read.

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A red-pill post sunk with a double shot of wodka. Clear-headed analysis in such inimitable style warranting multiple reads to get synapses syncing. Satire meets truth head on. It's doubtful the assimilated will read, but nevertheless, those of us who are not will keep this printed out for persistent perusal without power, by candlelight. A vigil for the mind while others forget in their Borgian busyness, ignorant, invisible and incongruous.

All of the above in plagiarist's honor. A tip of the hat to GC.

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Thank you for this. I have been feeling rather alone these days. Respectfully, I do have some related sources for people interested in these concerns.

John Joseph Mearsheimer, former US Air Force officer and the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, is no one's peacenik or hippy-dippy progressive. His 2015 lecture “The Causes and Consequences of the Ukraine Crisis” is available on YouTube. It has aged frightening well: a modern-day prophecy of unerring depth and detail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4

His 2014 Foreign Affairs article, claiming that the “the United States and its European allies share most of the responsibility” for the 2014 crisis is available here: https://www.mearsheimer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Why-the-Ukraine-Crisis-Is.pdf

He argued: "The taproot of the trouble is NATO enlargement, the central element of a larger strategy to move Ukraine out of Russia’s orbit and integrate it into the West. At the same time, the EU’s expansion eastward and the West’s backing of the pro-democracy movement in Ukraine—beginning with the Orange Revolution in 2004—were critical elements, too. "

Aaron Mate on the Jimmy Dore show did an outstanding smackdown of the war-mongering progressives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt3Zv-e4n1M&t=835s

Jimmy Dore actually has quite a few good vids now.

I have my own reflections and links to more related resources here: Some context for Putin's paranoia @ https://americanexile.substack.com/p/some-context-for-putins-paranoia

Thanks again. Much needed sanity in our current insanity.

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Mearsheimer has been a realism sage for a while. Ignored by the power elite unfortunately like too many. Dore an old school populist leftist who is fearless and honest. Enjoy hitting his channel weekly. Thank you🙏

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Feb 27, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Thanks again GC, for reducing my idiot quotient one post at a time.

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DEFINITELY A GOOD CITIZEN, SUPERB WRITING!

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Mar 3, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

The knuckleheads who are lamenting the plight of Ukranians are the same knuckleheads who lamented the plight of the Kurds. Because, CNN said so.

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So who are the 'useful idiots' spreading pro-Russian propaganda, and cheering on the invasion?

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The same ones who are demonizing Putin and the Russians. All wars are bankers wars.

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Strange to see someone so proud of having so little empathy for anyone. If you realy felt sorry for 'the little man', you would fight against the 'banker's war'.

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Strange to see someone so proud of having no clue what they're asking, what they're saying and about whom they're critiquing.

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Just a person who seems to have no problem with the current state of the Ukrainians (or Kurds). What more do I need to know?

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lol, ''seems.''

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Mar 2, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Just found your excellent internet place ..... what do you think about Herr Schwab bragging about Putin, Trudeau and Merkel being his minions? Has Putin gone off the reservation? Is he tired of being the Great Reset boy? An American named Russell "Tex" Benteley who is living in Western Ukraine in one of the breakaway areas opines that he believes Biden and Putin already had a plan to let Russian resume control of most of Ukraine up to the Kiev area (where most of the good stuff is...) and let the US save face by having the worthless area West of Kiev ....

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Hi Marilynne. Those are some tough ones to crack. Schwab is scrubbing the WEF site now to conceal his web of western connections but he won't stop. He might hide more but probably not since he's a psychopath. We'll see this summer with the next davos gig. Tex might be on to something. I'm not sure they coordinated their plans, but there's definitely some coordination in creating an energy crisis. Putin has no respect for Biden, or the "empire of lies" and maybe the empire caught him by surprise. He's off the reservation and going for the old trifecta (belarus+UA+RU) and maybe didn't expect the kind of backlash he's (all of Russia) getting. He got assurances from Xi so as long as there's no successful coup in Russia against him, he'll be fine. Far as UA goes, there could be a split down the Dnieper with Kiev being "neutral" and Russia controlling the whole black sea as well denying any future British funded UA ports or navy. Odessa is mostly Russian (speaking) and that's what I would do. Western Ukraine will still need to be neutral but it's fiercely anti-russian so it's a mystery how he'll keep them neutral when the final lines are drawn on a map, if that even happens. The UN is not going to recognize much anytime soon. The whole thing seems fluid and can change at any moment. Just some random assumptions, but time will tell.

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Thanks so much for your reply....another report I read states the US may be trying to hang Xi out to dry, also....Evidently Herr Schwab wants people in place who he can trust implicitly??

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That's possible though I'm not sure just how much pull the bond villain has. Xi's power may be challenged later this year internally, so we'll see. If he takes Taiwan before then it could solidify his standing within the party so that's probably his next move. Right now he's watching to see how the west reacts to Putin's similar move so he can prepare economically for the same fate. China will need to move risky assets off their books and shuffle around central bank holdings to minimize the effects of any sanctions.

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This (outstanding) article for Reader's Digest:

"The Deep State is winding down overt COVID-19 biofascism because they've got the health passport infrastructure underway and the optics are absolutely ruining their sock puppet, the DNC. In fact, the DNC looks so shitty all of a sudden that lots of American voters are seriously considering asking someone else to prom or maybe even going to the dance at another school.

People are flocking rightward. Rights love war and jingoism and hero underdog stories and riding Jesus dinosaurs and shit, right? Let's start lionizing the defender here because if he goes down and FSB starts going through the records, Grey Eagle or Parmesan Picasso may be in deep shit. Start telling a war story. Stop the COVID-19 stories. They're finally starting to annoy people."

The End.

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Mar 3, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

A few years ago I was looking into buying some dividend paying stocks, and many Russian stocks fit the bill. I came across an article talking about the Nordstream 2 pipeline being built from Russia to Germany. I bought some Gazprom since it seemed like a good investment. A while later I got a little worried when I read an article stating that the US State department was trying to talk Germany into scrubbing the project. I remember thinking what possible reason could the US State Department have for trying to scuttle a deal that ostensibly they had nothing to do with. Then more trouble when I found out Hunter Biden was indirectly on the natural gas payroll by being given a n undeserved, highly suspect board position on Ukrainian gas company Burisma. I started becoming concerned that the pipeline was squarely in the crosshairs of the US military-industrial-intelligence complex, and that they would figure out a way to destroy it. And low and behold, Putin is provoked over and over again into an invasion, and the first thing Germany does is scrub the pipeline deal. Good Citizen, how do you think this pipeline issue has played into this whole fiasco?

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Yes, a much bigger role than one would take away from reading this piece. I tried to avoid the economic warfare, saving it for another piece. My suspicion is that the U.S. gave their blessing for NS2 last year to lure Putin into a false sense of NG/EU security so he would move militarily. It could also be he anticipated the worst and went East for larger markets and projects. He now needs to control Ukraine to have the NG leverage over the EU next winter as there is no way they will be able to fill gaps if it gets shut off. Orban was smart to negotiate something with Putin a few weeks ago anticipating all this. Germany, not so much.

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Mar 3, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Right on target and the only thing I might add, is my suspicion that the USA has a good number of "Bio Labs" scattered around the Ukraine and there is a mention of the Gas company paying Hunter Biden over $83K a month for his expertise, is planning a pipeline to extract energy from Afghanistan, now that the Taliban has been prepaid with military equipment Hunter's daddy left behind. PS, caught me penniless. Hope to have a little something left, next week, if and when my Soc.Sec. check manages to get to me.

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