Hi Alex, as a Russian, I've been listening to numerous Russian geopolitical analysts. It seems, the consensus among many of them, as it comes to potential direct confrontation between Russia and NATO, is that Russia's responce will be very harsh.
Russia will have no pity or restrain when fighting the Europeans. Ukranians are considered relatives, gone mad, but still relatives. Thus, such surgical, carefull advances of the Russian SMO.
No such curtesy will be given to Europeans. No Russian troops on the ground. More likely just nuking hard all the Euro infrustracture to sink it to the Middle Ages. Europeans said and did too much to have even a shred of pity left for their sad fate among Russians. It wont be pretty.
Like Michael Tyson once said "Everyone got a plan, untill they get punched in the face".
Yes, but the Euro populations, by the most part, are as russophobic as their elites. The share of Russians that have contempt for your regular Europeans grew substantially last years.
Not many Russians buying into this line "Its not the people who hate you, its the elites!". Europeans have always been hatefull toward Russians, there is a millenia long track record of this sentiment.
It is disheartening to read this Andrey. As a Belgian, you have no idea how we despise our politicians here. Our minister of Defense is attacked on X like never before. The insults are worth a book. Why? Because the Belgians (and many more Europeans) know damn well that the ministers and media are liars. The current drones in our skies?...Russian of course...if only you would see the comments of the Belgians that IT MIGHT BE RUSSIA AGAIN. You see, it is OUR governments that wants us killed. They would love to use Russia as the tool to do the dirty job cause the elites are the greatest cowards that ever walked on this planet. Our lives here right now are hell, idiotic high traffic fines every few meters, parking fines for 15 minutes too late payments, no nature anymore here in Flanders; apartment blocks built everywhere, they start to be build them now in famers' fields now too. Food, petrol prices, rents, energy keep on increasing every few months. Every one feels unwell and our streets are filled with mafia. Believe me, we want to meet the Russians, have fun with them and feast and maybe, that is what, we the people, ought to do!
I post this to show how the Belgians react to the Minister of Defense, Theo Francken.
The list of comments on X and it goes on and on like this every single day.
Theo Francken
@FranckenTheo


His post yesterday:
‘Grateful to our British friends for their swift support and solidarity.
The deployment of a UK anti-drone team in Belgium strengthens our collective security and showcases our unity in countering hybrid threats. ‘
A fraction of the kind of the tons Comments he gets every day:
‘Having a halfwit as defense secretary is dangerous.’
‘You're making a fool of yourself, Theo. No one believes your story anymore’
‘Weak men create hard times’
‘No drone seen, “success.” Lying. That's really shitty. No, that's not how it works, Theo. Just say that you continue to support a corrupt country. Stealing money from the Russians and leaving us sitting ducks. That's not going to happen, Theo. No, it's not, Nazi scum, you know. Denial is pointless.’
‘Poor Theo has become a dumb slave to the elite.’
‘It doesn't get any more ridiculous than this!’
‘What I'm wondering 🤡 do you ever read our comments? 🙄’
‘Why didn’t you think of that before?'
'And now all of a sudden there won’t be drones anymore, right? Is it because now you have UK gear, OR because the big military order has been signed and sealed?’
‘Warming up to “serving” the country.says the man who has never worn an army uniform. There is nothing “warm” about warfare, because that is the ultimate goal.’
‘You lost the plot Theo’
‘Our Theo lies, but unfortunately he's not very good at it because you need a good brain for that.
He would destroy Moscow, but he can't even shoot down a drone. He's making himself look utterly ridiculous.’
etcetera...boy, have we Europeans had it with our hollow dumb but dangerous
There is nothing in the EU that's worth a war to take: failing economy, no resources, and a discordant population made so by their leaders. So the EU's claim that Russia wants to take them over is laughable.
I’d be very surprised if the loud mouth Europeans risk going to war with Russia. It’s one thing to shed Ukrainian blood, that Europeans never cared about anyway, but a much different thing to shed your own blood for the sake of Ukraine. This is even more unlikely as the U.S. wants no part of it. Russia isn’t a threat to the U.S. It’s China the U.S. has to try and take down. The European leader# will have to crawl back into the holes they came out of when the Ukraine front line collapses.
I agree in whole with the notions of the technicalities for the sake of precision:
US is the greatest enemy of US (living for too long on a free teat is addicitve) and it is EU 'leaders' rather than European as not all europeans are members of Euro Utiopia project.
"It's China the U.S. has to try and take down". Actually, win-win cooperation is very possible and thrived during the most prosperous periods of U.S. history. We don't have to take any nation down. We can collectively set our sights on the supranational financier oligarchy that is dead-set against allowing any degree of national sovereignty and is using each country's own traitors with their web of central intelligence agencies to achieve that goal https://archive.org/details/treasoninamerica00chai The problem is that education about the American System of Political Economy no longer exists in our school systems. In Anton Chaitkin's opinion (which is very relevant to Krainer's last discussion with Tom and Crypto Rich where Tom mentions Rand Paul), libertarianism was introduced by Imperialists as an anti-American System measure. Anton's substack is excellent, as are his books, all of which I use for homeschooling: https://antonchaitkin.substack.com/
"Very unfortunately, such preparations entail destroying the economy and creating high levels of youth unemployment. Young men with jobs and good career prospects aren’t willing to go to war. To make them willing, they must first be robbed of their future. Then they must be convinced that Russia is to blame. Finally, they must be recruited, trained up and armed to fight the enemy they’re told to fight."
I don't think this is the plan, but the result of stupidity. In Germany, with Energiewende, De-Atomarization, Migration and Sanctions against Russia our Politicians have crippled the economy and will ruin it. To divert from this tragedy, they have to call for war. But I think nobody from the young ones will follow. They will call for other governments which care for the country.
We and our five children live in the countryside, have build and retsored some houses. We are craftsmen and -women and can bake and butcher. We will survive anyway. But there will be problems for the masses in the cities.
"They will call for other governments which care for the country." Sadly, at present, there are no viable alternative parties; our governments do the bidding of the Anglo-American fraternities
Public funds are spent on War which isn’t socialism , but spending on its infrastructure is. Any ideology argument makes no sense as it contradicts itself. but love of War does.
Its sickened the minds of those who have power with Money as God as its life force reflecting a modern savage pretending its human.
🌐✨ Welcome to EU Resorts: Your Luxury Stay in the Control Grid
A 5-Star Partnership Between the Bank of International Settlements & Panopticon Security
🏝 Where freedom takes a permanent holiday and democracy checks out as soon as it checks in.
🌟 Special “All-Inclusive” Highlights 🌟
🏛 CIA Signature Experience — Watch sovereign nations unite to form a stunningly undemocratic structure, meticulously designed for your control.
🪆 Soviet Parliament Deluxe — Enjoy the charm of representatives earning luxury salaries to rubber-stamp every closed-door decree from the unelected EU politburo.
🏄♂️ Serfs Beached Club — Ride the endless waves of centralized control, private property confiscations, and middle-class wipeouts by the rip curls of wealth transfers.
👑 Commissar Ursula “Pfraudzer Contract Redact Queen” ER’ Pockets Line-’Em — Marvel as she announces Rearm Europe! by mobilizing trillions in your unused savings for historic military spending.
🌈 Open Gates, Grooming Gangs, Crimewaves, and Rainbow-Wrapped Policy Paralysis — Experience the chaos of unchecked social decay, all wrapped up in politically correct packaging that blinds the masses to the rot beneath.
📈 ECB Credit Carnival — Thrill rides through asset bubbles, banking collapses, and recession waves, culminating in large-scale unemployment.
💶 Reichbank Revival Spa — Immerse yourself in a hot bath of hyperinflation, followed by an invigorating austerity scrub—perfect for cultivating your next charismatic leader.
💳 Total Life & Savings Management™ — Enjoy the peace of mind of knowing every aspect of your life and money is centrally controlled.
🔍 Coalition Treaty Twist — Prove every euro you own—or watch it vanish in a puff of money-laundering allegations.
📹 Real-Time Eugenics Stream — Daily auditions for facial recognition scans, compliance scores, and access passes to your digitally geo-fenced ‘freedom zones.’
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The authors of the Azerbaijan article themselves -- commendably, in my view -- seem to describe the trip they were on as being a stage managed PR exercise by the Azerbaijan government. Also, it seems the Azerbaijan government's budget disclosures seem to suggest the costs here are actually <10 billion and still counting; also, the Azerbaijan government's budget disclosures are rumored to be only partial disclosures. And there is a bunch more to critique on that on the money side of things and, perhaps more importantly, on the desirability of the plans themselves. Also, the argument here seems to be that we, a vast continental scale system, should trade one overly centralized and quite de-democratized system for another that is in the mold of... wait-for-it ...Azerbaijan! But I am certain there are in fact more than just those two options :)
Thanks Alex, excellent follow-up on Part 1. IMHO the root of our problems lie in the failing Global (Western) Financial System which began in 1971: This says it all: https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ and the following financialisation of the system, led by the US and City of London.
"The last time the US government faced an imminent financial crisis was in March 2020. At the time, it was the height of the stock market crash amid the COVID hysteria. In a matter of days, the Fed created more dollars out of thin air than it had for the US’s nearly 250-year existence. At the push of a button, the Fed was creating more dollars out of thin air than the economic output of the entire country!" It's the last embers of a dying empire squirming in their desperation to survive. https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/the-road-to-zero-leading-to-food?s=w
Any guesses for the next induced crisis? 2026-7-8 or before the 2030 Great Reset?
I recently watched a British street interview from 1969, a time when "authorities" weren't entirely afraid of plebian feedback. Discussion centered around the industrial town of Sheffield. Responding to a tyranny of roads building for "busy executives", one young lady reflected, "what about the countryside?"
Do we have any real "real journalists" able to focus on real "real issues" anymore?
Bogus expectations have pushed bogus values or narratives under scrutiny of bogus science to expose bogus authority.
I understand and appreciate all the points up through the last sentence which implies, unless I'm misreading it, that "1 million+ Ukrainian youth who have been sacrificed in the war to destabilize and regime-change Russia." I want the war to stop as soon as possible, and I think it would have ended if the US & EU/NATO hadn't sustained it. And yes the goal of US/EU is "to destabilize and regime-change Russia." Well, yes, in that sense I do get Krainer's point. But I do think Putin shares the blame in being more aggressively expansionist than was justified, perhaps. Yet I also know that NATO pushed beyond the boarders it agreed to abide by and forced the confrontation and would not find a solution to the war which would have been better for the Ukrainians and Russians and everyone than this continuing disaster, no matter what Zelensky says. That's my current opinion. And yes, the historical blood baths in Ukraine and surrounds, Gaza and surrounds, Sudan and surrounds, all across our world do call for bold actions now by we parents and grandparents who aspire for a decent future for our descendants.
Russia entered Ukraine to stop the Ukraine government from killing Ukrainians. Russia is the largest country in the world by far. It has absolutely no need or desire to expand its territory.
The Kiev government was bombing its own people in eastern Ukraine, because the eastern Ukrainians are more pro-Russian and wanted to keep ties with Russia.
For 8 years, the Kiev government killed ITS OWN PEOPLE in the east. THAT is why Russia launched the special military operation.
Our mainstream legacy media are totally silent on something significant. Seems the President of Ukraine Mr Zelensky,who is Jewish, I hope it's not racist or Anti-Semitic to say that,has recently been spending a lot of time in conference with Jewish religious leaders in Ukraiine. I did not know that for over a millenia Ukraine was a hub of European Jewry and reached high levels of culture,and after the horror of WW2 once again some western Ukraine cities are again hubs for Jewish culture and FINANCE. And now a 'conspiracy theory' is abroad online that the same Israeli cabal who are pursuing the conflict in Gaza intend to colonize and settle Ukraine,on the premise it's their ancestral homeland which at least is truer than their claim for Judea. They plan to start moving in by 2029. I shouldn't think the Americans will allow this.
"If it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is"
Google AI Overview:
The claim that Azerbaijan built 4,000 km of highways, 45 tunnels, 447 bridges, and 16 viaducts for approximately $5 billion is likely inaccurate, as these figures conflict with available data on reconstruction projects and infrastructure development costs. While Azerbaijan has invested heavily in infrastructure, especially in recently liberated territories, a single project of this scale with those specific details and cost is not widely reported.
Google also: The Most Pointless Construction Projects In Azerbaijan
Great article, and excellent discussion in the chat.
Here in Canada, we have the worst of both worlds -- UK and USA influences. The latest federal budget calls for more money to NATO, more austerity and zip on the environment. What else is new?
And, frankly, the amount of Russophobia and Sinophobia makes me sick. Most people believe the Hollywood gunk about good guys/bad guys it seems, even as their rent and groceries become unaffordable.
"The Jetsons" future is totally doable, but the elite in charge of the western world seem to want nothing but war, and to satisfy their lust for greed and power. And so many ordinary people have been taken in by their BS.
What an impressive picture of Azerbaijan. It makes me happy for them but also very sad for the incredible waste of money and lives that our govt has invested in. Trump said he would like to see all those billions that are being invested in wasteful and destructive wars brought home to invest in infrastructure and jobs here at home. It is hard to see so little positive action in this regard. I do see he is doing some good things--but he'd best begin to take some actions that help the average and low-income families or we will see the midterms go the same way that this Nov's elections went. I do not want to see the Democratic population--that doesn't have a clue what Trump is doing due to the MSM misinformation and their own out-of-control TDS--win back the Senate and House. Trump has done some good things and Kennedy is doing great, but just warming up. Please dear God give us a full 4 years to accomplish more swamp cleaning and some really positive transformation in all areas of health in our country. We owe it to the whole world to model this.
Hello Alex. Whilst I agree with most of your points on this substack, I would like to suggest that the West no longer follows the classic free trade model. Corporate involvement with Government to create high taxation for nefarious spending is now the accepted road of travel. During the height of British economic growth entrepreneurs created high levels of economic growth and became independently wealthy. The majority of those entrepreneurs then used their own money to build railways, hospitals, schools etc. This growth first appeared during the 16thC but declined after our Civil War. It then reasserted itself during the first Industrial growth of the late 1700s but again declined during the 19thC. We must ask what happened after the Civile War and again in 19thC. There we will find the answer of what has transpired today. I would suggest the rise of the Banking families.
Xi Jinping did, in fact, tell the American delegation to Alaska during the Biden years that China was now becoming more successful than USA because they used taxes to create a better country and more opportunities for their citizens. Unlike USA who wasted money on the creation of war. China has a far lower tax rate than America or the West in general.
Genuine question: Will you still have a job when the globalists have chipped, vaxxed, stolen their belongings or murdered them because of their skin colour and/or religious beliefs and crammed what's left of humanity into tiny living quarters?
Hi Alex, as a Russian, I've been listening to numerous Russian geopolitical analysts. It seems, the consensus among many of them, as it comes to potential direct confrontation between Russia and NATO, is that Russia's responce will be very harsh.
Russia will have no pity or restrain when fighting the Europeans. Ukranians are considered relatives, gone mad, but still relatives. Thus, such surgical, carefull advances of the Russian SMO.
No such curtesy will be given to Europeans. No Russian troops on the ground. More likely just nuking hard all the Euro infrustracture to sink it to the Middle Ages. Europeans said and did too much to have even a shred of pity left for their sad fate among Russians. It wont be pretty.
Like Michael Tyson once said "Everyone got a plan, untill they get punched in the face".
Putin knows, its not the population but the ruling elite who must be brought down.
Yes, but the Euro populations, by the most part, are as russophobic as their elites. The share of Russians that have contempt for your regular Europeans grew substantially last years.
Not many Russians buying into this line "Its not the people who hate you, its the elites!". Europeans have always been hatefull toward Russians, there is a millenia long track record of this sentiment.
I'm in California and came to love your people through my study of your great, soulful literature.
I took Russian in high school. IMO the language is beautiful, and its rhythm is perfect for poetry.
I love Russia! I'm from England, so I understand if you don't like us, though.
I dont agree buts lets agree to differ.
It is disheartening to read this Andrey. As a Belgian, you have no idea how we despise our politicians here. Our minister of Defense is attacked on X like never before. The insults are worth a book. Why? Because the Belgians (and many more Europeans) know damn well that the ministers and media are liars. The current drones in our skies?...Russian of course...if only you would see the comments of the Belgians that IT MIGHT BE RUSSIA AGAIN. You see, it is OUR governments that wants us killed. They would love to use Russia as the tool to do the dirty job cause the elites are the greatest cowards that ever walked on this planet. Our lives here right now are hell, idiotic high traffic fines every few meters, parking fines for 15 minutes too late payments, no nature anymore here in Flanders; apartment blocks built everywhere, they start to be build them now in famers' fields now too. Food, petrol prices, rents, energy keep on increasing every few months. Every one feels unwell and our streets are filled with mafia. Believe me, we want to meet the Russians, have fun with them and feast and maybe, that is what, we the people, ought to do!
I post this to show how the Belgians react to the Minister of Defense, Theo Francken.
The list of comments on X and it goes on and on like this every single day.
Theo Francken
@FranckenTheo


His post yesterday:
‘Grateful to our British friends for their swift support and solidarity.
The deployment of a UK anti-drone team in Belgium strengthens our collective security and showcases our unity in countering hybrid threats. ‘
A fraction of the kind of the tons Comments he gets every day:
‘Having a halfwit as defense secretary is dangerous.’
‘You're making a fool of yourself, Theo. No one believes your story anymore’
‘Weak men create hard times’
‘No drone seen, “success.” Lying. That's really shitty. No, that's not how it works, Theo. Just say that you continue to support a corrupt country. Stealing money from the Russians and leaving us sitting ducks. That's not going to happen, Theo. No, it's not, Nazi scum, you know. Denial is pointless.’
‘Poor Theo has become a dumb slave to the elite.’
‘It doesn't get any more ridiculous than this!’
‘What I'm wondering 🤡 do you ever read our comments? 🙄’
‘Why didn’t you think of that before?'
'And now all of a sudden there won’t be drones anymore, right? Is it because now you have UK gear, OR because the big military order has been signed and sealed?’
‘Warming up to “serving” the country.says the man who has never worn an army uniform. There is nothing “warm” about warfare, because that is the ultimate goal.’
‘You lost the plot Theo’
‘Our Theo lies, but unfortunately he's not very good at it because you need a good brain for that.
He would destroy Moscow, but he can't even shoot down a drone. He's making himself look utterly ridiculous.’
etcetera...boy, have we Europeans had it with our hollow dumb but dangerous
politicians....
There is nothing in the EU that's worth a war to take: failing economy, no resources, and a discordant population made so by their leaders. So the EU's claim that Russia wants to take them over is laughable.
I’d be very surprised if the loud mouth Europeans risk going to war with Russia. It’s one thing to shed Ukrainian blood, that Europeans never cared about anyway, but a much different thing to shed your own blood for the sake of Ukraine. This is even more unlikely as the U.S. wants no part of it. Russia isn’t a threat to the U.S. It’s China the U.S. has to try and take down. The European leader# will have to crawl back into the holes they came out of when the Ukraine front line collapses.
I agree in whole with the notions of the technicalities for the sake of precision:
US is the greatest enemy of US (living for too long on a free teat is addicitve) and it is EU 'leaders' rather than European as not all europeans are members of Euro Utiopia project.
"It's China the U.S. has to try and take down". Actually, win-win cooperation is very possible and thrived during the most prosperous periods of U.S. history. We don't have to take any nation down. We can collectively set our sights on the supranational financier oligarchy that is dead-set against allowing any degree of national sovereignty and is using each country's own traitors with their web of central intelligence agencies to achieve that goal https://archive.org/details/treasoninamerica00chai The problem is that education about the American System of Political Economy no longer exists in our school systems. In Anton Chaitkin's opinion (which is very relevant to Krainer's last discussion with Tom and Crypto Rich where Tom mentions Rand Paul), libertarianism was introduced by Imperialists as an anti-American System measure. Anton's substack is excellent, as are his books, all of which I use for homeschooling: https://antonchaitkin.substack.com/
“War, good God y’all, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing”
"Very unfortunately, such preparations entail destroying the economy and creating high levels of youth unemployment. Young men with jobs and good career prospects aren’t willing to go to war. To make them willing, they must first be robbed of their future. Then they must be convinced that Russia is to blame. Finally, they must be recruited, trained up and armed to fight the enemy they’re told to fight."
I don't think this is the plan, but the result of stupidity. In Germany, with Energiewende, De-Atomarization, Migration and Sanctions against Russia our Politicians have crippled the economy and will ruin it. To divert from this tragedy, they have to call for war. But I think nobody from the young ones will follow. They will call for other governments which care for the country.
We and our five children live in the countryside, have build and retsored some houses. We are craftsmen and -women and can bake and butcher. We will survive anyway. But there will be problems for the masses in the cities.
"They will call for other governments which care for the country." Sadly, at present, there are no viable alternative parties; our governments do the bidding of the Anglo-American fraternities
Public funds are spent on War which isn’t socialism , but spending on its infrastructure is. Any ideology argument makes no sense as it contradicts itself. but love of War does.
Its sickened the minds of those who have power with Money as God as its life force reflecting a modern savage pretending its human.
🌐✨ Welcome to EU Resorts: Your Luxury Stay in the Control Grid
A 5-Star Partnership Between the Bank of International Settlements & Panopticon Security
🏝 Where freedom takes a permanent holiday and democracy checks out as soon as it checks in.
🌟 Special “All-Inclusive” Highlights 🌟
🏛 CIA Signature Experience — Watch sovereign nations unite to form a stunningly undemocratic structure, meticulously designed for your control.
🪆 Soviet Parliament Deluxe — Enjoy the charm of representatives earning luxury salaries to rubber-stamp every closed-door decree from the unelected EU politburo.
🏄♂️ Serfs Beached Club — Ride the endless waves of centralized control, private property confiscations, and middle-class wipeouts by the rip curls of wealth transfers.
👑 Commissar Ursula “Pfraudzer Contract Redact Queen” ER’ Pockets Line-’Em — Marvel as she announces Rearm Europe! by mobilizing trillions in your unused savings for historic military spending.
🌈 Open Gates, Grooming Gangs, Crimewaves, and Rainbow-Wrapped Policy Paralysis — Experience the chaos of unchecked social decay, all wrapped up in politically correct packaging that blinds the masses to the rot beneath.
📈 ECB Credit Carnival — Thrill rides through asset bubbles, banking collapses, and recession waves, culminating in large-scale unemployment.
💶 Reichbank Revival Spa — Immerse yourself in a hot bath of hyperinflation, followed by an invigorating austerity scrub—perfect for cultivating your next charismatic leader.
💳 Total Life & Savings Management™ — Enjoy the peace of mind of knowing every aspect of your life and money is centrally controlled.
🔍 Coalition Treaty Twist — Prove every euro you own—or watch it vanish in a puff of money-laundering allegations.
📹 Real-Time Eugenics Stream — Daily auditions for facial recognition scans, compliance scores, and access passes to your digitally geo-fenced ‘freedom zones.’
📺 Surveillance State Network — One channel, one truth, streaming you 24/7.
📱💉 Vaccine Passport Platinum — Carry it in your smartphone… or have it stylishly implanted under your skin (Fall 2025 Collection).
🧬 Biomedical Apartheid Experience — Jabbed vs. Unjabbed: Dawn of the New Unclean — a social separation sensation.
💉 Patented Syringe Solutions™ — Now loaded with M urderous R eally N efarious A cting L ife-N eutralizing P articles (M.R.N.A.L.P.) for those long lasting defects and premature departures.
🎁 Book Now! No need for a return ticket—sovereignty is so last season.
I think with sadness about the environmental destruction and pollution caused by all this "development".
The authors of the Azerbaijan article themselves -- commendably, in my view -- seem to describe the trip they were on as being a stage managed PR exercise by the Azerbaijan government. Also, it seems the Azerbaijan government's budget disclosures seem to suggest the costs here are actually <10 billion and still counting; also, the Azerbaijan government's budget disclosures are rumored to be only partial disclosures. And there is a bunch more to critique on that on the money side of things and, perhaps more importantly, on the desirability of the plans themselves. Also, the argument here seems to be that we, a vast continental scale system, should trade one overly centralized and quite de-democratized system for another that is in the mold of... wait-for-it ...Azerbaijan! But I am certain there are in fact more than just those two options :)
Thanks Alex, excellent follow-up on Part 1. IMHO the root of our problems lie in the failing Global (Western) Financial System which began in 1971: This says it all: https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ and the following financialisation of the system, led by the US and City of London.
"The last time the US government faced an imminent financial crisis was in March 2020. At the time, it was the height of the stock market crash amid the COVID hysteria. In a matter of days, the Fed created more dollars out of thin air than it had for the US’s nearly 250-year existence. At the push of a button, the Fed was creating more dollars out of thin air than the economic output of the entire country!" It's the last embers of a dying empire squirming in their desperation to survive. https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/the-road-to-zero-leading-to-food?s=w
Any guesses for the next induced crisis? 2026-7-8 or before the 2030 Great Reset?
Two good articles, Alex.
Forgive me for moving on a tangent.
I recently watched a British street interview from 1969, a time when "authorities" weren't entirely afraid of plebian feedback. Discussion centered around the industrial town of Sheffield. Responding to a tyranny of roads building for "busy executives", one young lady reflected, "what about the countryside?"
Do we have any real "real journalists" able to focus on real "real issues" anymore?
Bogus expectations have pushed bogus values or narratives under scrutiny of bogus science to expose bogus authority.
https://ozziethinker.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/why-corruption-begins-with-science-commerce/
I understand and appreciate all the points up through the last sentence which implies, unless I'm misreading it, that "1 million+ Ukrainian youth who have been sacrificed in the war to destabilize and regime-change Russia." I want the war to stop as soon as possible, and I think it would have ended if the US & EU/NATO hadn't sustained it. And yes the goal of US/EU is "to destabilize and regime-change Russia." Well, yes, in that sense I do get Krainer's point. But I do think Putin shares the blame in being more aggressively expansionist than was justified, perhaps. Yet I also know that NATO pushed beyond the boarders it agreed to abide by and forced the confrontation and would not find a solution to the war which would have been better for the Ukrainians and Russians and everyone than this continuing disaster, no matter what Zelensky says. That's my current opinion. And yes, the historical blood baths in Ukraine and surrounds, Gaza and surrounds, Sudan and surrounds, all across our world do call for bold actions now by we parents and grandparents who aspire for a decent future for our descendants.
Russia entered Ukraine to stop the Ukraine government from killing Ukrainians. Russia is the largest country in the world by far. It has absolutely no need or desire to expand its territory.
The Kiev government was bombing its own people in eastern Ukraine, because the eastern Ukrainians are more pro-Russian and wanted to keep ties with Russia.
For 8 years, the Kiev government killed ITS OWN PEOPLE in the east. THAT is why Russia launched the special military operation.
Our mainstream legacy media are totally silent on something significant. Seems the President of Ukraine Mr Zelensky,who is Jewish, I hope it's not racist or Anti-Semitic to say that,has recently been spending a lot of time in conference with Jewish religious leaders in Ukraiine. I did not know that for over a millenia Ukraine was a hub of European Jewry and reached high levels of culture,and after the horror of WW2 once again some western Ukraine cities are again hubs for Jewish culture and FINANCE. And now a 'conspiracy theory' is abroad online that the same Israeli cabal who are pursuing the conflict in Gaza intend to colonize and settle Ukraine,on the premise it's their ancestral homeland which at least is truer than their claim for Judea. They plan to start moving in by 2029. I shouldn't think the Americans will allow this.
"If it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is"
Google AI Overview:
The claim that Azerbaijan built 4,000 km of highways, 45 tunnels, 447 bridges, and 16 viaducts for approximately $5 billion is likely inaccurate, as these figures conflict with available data on reconstruction projects and infrastructure development costs. While Azerbaijan has invested heavily in infrastructure, especially in recently liberated territories, a single project of this scale with those specific details and cost is not widely reported.
Google also: The Most Pointless Construction Projects In Azerbaijan
Great article, and excellent discussion in the chat.
Here in Canada, we have the worst of both worlds -- UK and USA influences. The latest federal budget calls for more money to NATO, more austerity and zip on the environment. What else is new?
And, frankly, the amount of Russophobia and Sinophobia makes me sick. Most people believe the Hollywood gunk about good guys/bad guys it seems, even as their rent and groceries become unaffordable.
"The Jetsons" future is totally doable, but the elite in charge of the western world seem to want nothing but war, and to satisfy their lust for greed and power. And so many ordinary people have been taken in by their BS.
What an impressive picture of Azerbaijan. It makes me happy for them but also very sad for the incredible waste of money and lives that our govt has invested in. Trump said he would like to see all those billions that are being invested in wasteful and destructive wars brought home to invest in infrastructure and jobs here at home. It is hard to see so little positive action in this regard. I do see he is doing some good things--but he'd best begin to take some actions that help the average and low-income families or we will see the midterms go the same way that this Nov's elections went. I do not want to see the Democratic population--that doesn't have a clue what Trump is doing due to the MSM misinformation and their own out-of-control TDS--win back the Senate and House. Trump has done some good things and Kennedy is doing great, but just warming up. Please dear God give us a full 4 years to accomplish more swamp cleaning and some really positive transformation in all areas of health in our country. We owe it to the whole world to model this.
Hello Alex. Whilst I agree with most of your points on this substack, I would like to suggest that the West no longer follows the classic free trade model. Corporate involvement with Government to create high taxation for nefarious spending is now the accepted road of travel. During the height of British economic growth entrepreneurs created high levels of economic growth and became independently wealthy. The majority of those entrepreneurs then used their own money to build railways, hospitals, schools etc. This growth first appeared during the 16thC but declined after our Civil War. It then reasserted itself during the first Industrial growth of the late 1700s but again declined during the 19thC. We must ask what happened after the Civile War and again in 19thC. There we will find the answer of what has transpired today. I would suggest the rise of the Banking families.
Xi Jinping did, in fact, tell the American delegation to Alaska during the Biden years that China was now becoming more successful than USA because they used taxes to create a better country and more opportunities for their citizens. Unlike USA who wasted money on the creation of war. China has a far lower tax rate than America or the West in general.
Genuine question: Will you still have a job when the globalists have chipped, vaxxed, stolen their belongings or murdered them because of their skin colour and/or religious beliefs and crammed what's left of humanity into tiny living quarters?
Mutual cooperation and dialogue is the way to lasting peace and put an end to declining living standards and hardship of people in Europe.
High time for Euro losers err "leaders" to pick up the phone and call Moscow. Pittance cost calling compared to funding endless war...!