We just don’t live in a world without limits

Delusionists: “Our Power Has No Limits!”

Mar 08, 2022

I am not an anti-war absolutist. I mean, I was in the military myself.

For the last 40 years I watch and read and evaluate the quality of official rhetoric justifying wars. If the rhetoric makes legitimate claims (like the Soviet Union repelling the Nazi invasion in 1941), and the rhetoric matches actual reality, then war can be justified. The justification is founded on things that matter and are real. If so, the corresponding rhetoric is clear and fits with actual facts, so it has a discernible quality.

Then there are wars that have no sensible justification, wars of aggression that cannot be defended by sane people. For those wars, the quality of the official rhetoric is a stinking garbage heap.

The US rhetoric has been a stinking garbage heap for 30 years, a continuous progression of wars of aggression (all of them are one continuous war against Russia), culminating in NATO’s aggression against Ukraine in 2014.

That Russia puts an end to the US/NATO Ukraine project now surprises no one who pays attention. And no one who understands:

We do not live in a world without limits.

We’re ruled in the west by precisely such people for 30 years: delusionists drunk on limitless power who believe they live in a world without limits.

I continue to be flummoxed by the obsession with Putin and Russia, from banning Russian cats, to Russian authors, Russian performers, Russian dressing, et al. Yes, Russian troops out of Ukraine. The solution is very easy but seems to elude us with our projection on "Hitler-like" Putin. How ridiculous. All the US has to do is to agree to Russia's very reasonable demands articulated over at least the last 8 years, to prohibit Ukraine from becoming a part of the war-making "defensive" NATO, that should have been dissolved in 1991 with the fall of the USSR. The US has already armed Ukraine to be a virtual member of NATO, including conventional, biological, and preparations for Nukes.
But Boeing, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, and other members of MICIMAC just won't let that happen because NATO is a huge pot of gold for them, and they happen to own the US political system.
Remember the Cuba Missile Crisis in October 1962. The US absolutely was not going to allow Soviet Missiles in Cuba. Imagine if Khrushchev dismissed and ignored those concerns.
I don't remember any calls for sanctions on the US from their destruction of Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Yugoslavia, and any one of a number of US violent interventions in the world. Over 400 military interventions since WWII, and thousands of covert interventions in dozens of countries.
The fact is that the US has orchestrated a cult-like stupor in and obedience to US of A(trocities) Exceptionalism that has made us collectively stupid, unable to critically think about most everything. Want the war to end. Make it clear to Russia that the USA we will not support an armed Ukraine, whether in NATO or not. Why is it so difficult to grasp this simple demand? Oh, I know we are supposed to hate Russia and its system and political leaders. Ever since 1917.
But fool me once,shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me. Not this time. I see articles questioning Putin's mental stability. Well, I am certain that President Biden and his war-loving Blinkey Sec'of State, are diagnosable as psychotic with delusions of grandeur, and they are leading us into WWIII.
- S Brian Wilson

Yes and this comes back to one of the root causes of this conflict, which is NATO’s effort to expand further east, and incorporate Ukraine into the umbrella of NATO membership, and Ukraine’s suicidal insistence that this is what they want, even though they and NATO were confronted over the course of 15 years. This isn’t like Vladimir Putin woke up one night and was like “oh I got a headache, I’m gonna invade Ukraine.”
This is concerted policy from Russia that has been articulated in great detail, since Vladimir Putin addressed the Munich Security Conference in 2007. He laid down the foundation and said further eastward expansion is unacceptable. What did NATO do? They turned around in 2008, in the Bucharest Conference, and they invited Ukraine and Georgia to become members. This prompted a detailed Russian response which was effectively captured by the US Ambassador to Russia at the time, William Burns.
He later became CIA Director. But back then he was the US Ambassador to Russia. He wrote a memorandum called “Nyet means Nyet”. That was in February 2009.
And what he said is, “the Russians have said no. This is a red line.” And then he said, “this is a reasonable red line. We have to respect the Russian’s perspective on this one. Ukraine if it becomes a NATO member, will cause serious problems for Russia, and again, 2009, that Russia will use military force, destroy Ukraine, seize Crimea, seize the Donbas.”
Well good Lord what has happened today. And people are saying it’s because Putin woke up with a migraine? No. This is because NATO and Ukraine conspired together to create the conditions for a war that they knew 14 years ago was inevitable if they continued with this policy.
- Scott Ritter at 16:00 in the video: