On Thursday, President Biden warned that the US-led Western sanctions campaign against Russia will lead to “real” food shortages across the world.
“With regard to food shortage, yes, we did talk about food shortages. And — and it’s going to be real,” Biden said at a press conference in Brussels. “The price of these sanctions is not just imposed upon Russia, it’s imposed upon an awful lot of countries as well, including European countries and our country as well.”
Biden’s sanctions on Russia come as the US is facing a 40-year high inflation rate and record-high gas prices. Although he tried to blame the inflation on what he called “Putin’s price hike,” Biden has admitted before that Americans will feel economic pain because of the sanctions he imposed, which include a ban on Russian oil imports.
So far, the Western sanctions have done nothing to slow Russia’s attack on Ukraine and have not deterred Russian President Vladimir Putin. When confronted with this fact, Biden snapped at a reporter and said deterrence isn’t the point, and signaled that he expects the war to go on for a long time.
“Sanctions never deter. The maintenance of sanctions — the maintenance of sanctions, the increasing the pain, and the demonstration — why I asked for this NATO meeting today — is to be sure that after a month, we will sustain what we’re doing not just next month, the following month, but for the remainder of this entire year. That’s what will stop him,” he said.
Biden makes no sense because If sanctions don’t deter, than they will never stop him either.
Biden gibberish , “Sanctions never deter. The maintenance of sanctions — the maintenance of sanctions, the increasing the pain, and the demonstration — why I asked for this NATO meeting today — is to be sure that after a month, we will sustain what we’re doing. That’s what will stop him”
Yes. It’s clear, though, given his point re world-wide “food shortage” and price increases (famine & disease in the global south), he sees the real problem as NATO resolve, and fears that $19.99 “happy meal” will cause the street to turn on them and elect peace candidates.
Well Robert, one thing’s for certain; Amerikkka’s going to turn on Bye-Done.
All’s good and well with the cheerleading Amerikkkan public when the MSM dupes us into supporting one side over the other, especially where those hated Russkies are involved. But grumbles over inflation have already commenced, and when basic supplies actually disappear, we’re gonna revolt, which means a Rethuglican president next term. I shudder to think who is going to capture this honor ( not that anyone the Dems would offer would be an improvement.)
On the other hand, could the people actually get behind a third-party candidate? One can hope…
Where have you gone Gene McCarthy? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
What’s that you say Mrs. Robinson Peacenick Gene has left and gone away….
LOL!
I campaigned for Gene and he was the first candidate I was eligible to vote for.
Sadly, Amerikkka didn’t get it.
And then commenced the great betrayal -The Big Chill.
I been hoping for over 40 years. That was the first time I voted 3rd party. But we had Clinton vs. Trump and Trump vs. Biden and they still voted for one of them. So no, there is no hope.
Sadly, Wars, I’m inclined to agree…that old “wasted vote” syndrome…
Wasted vote: Everyone who voted for George W. Bush, instead of Ross Perot, wasted their vote.
Exactly. And it would only take one election cycle to change everything. They couldn’t corrupt them fast enough before the next election. But if they did, we could vote them out again. Sooner or later the scum would be removed.
I voted third party the first time I voted. I voted for the Constitution Party candidate, John Schmitz, who was Mary Kay LeTourneau’s father. I couldn’t bring myself to vote for Nixon. Years later I found out that Schmitz was living a double life.
I voted for Ed Clark in 1980. I didn’t even know what a Libertarian was at the time but I couldn’t pull the trigger for either Carter or Reagan.
It would appear that Putin picked this time to put his foot down. The mid terms are coming up. If Biden creates enough of a sh8t storm, it is bye, bye Democrats, and hello Republicans. if only Biden had been a peace maker back last December……………..
Candidates campaign on not getting us into wars. Woodrow Wilson, FDR, and LBJ. Then you have Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize right after taking office (what a fraud), Bush the Warmonger who preached “compassionate conservatism” in his presidential campaign, and Trump “Wouldn’t it be better to get along with Russia”, which immediately got the Deep State poised against him.
Do you think there is a 3rd party candidate on the horizon? Any names come to mind?
I had great hopes for the Lincoln Republicans (who opposed Trump). But I’m not sure that they are still viable.
I’ve no clue, Duane.
But whomever the Greens offer will be a sight better than anyone with a D or R after their name.
Sometimes the Libertarians will nominate someone more palatable as well.
I’ve voted Libertarian the last election. Jorgensen’s platform made an antiwar person drool. Voted for Jill Stein the previous two. So, that’s three women in a row for me and none of them were named Clinton.
Voted for Jill Stein as well.
If we make it through another Presidential election, any doubt the next President could be worse than Biden?
I keep thinking they couldn’t get worse and yet, they still do.
Trump wouldn’t have gotten elected without an “R” or “D” next to his name. Nor, Biden, Obama, Bush, Clinton and on down. Damn near everyone on my ballot was better than any of those and yet didn’t have a chance. So, we don’t need much to be on the horizon other than someone with a pulse.
Parliamentary System beats our Presidential System, then every vote would have more authority and meaning.
RINOs they were and probably funded by the CIA
I think Biden’s comments in the top post are what I call “inoculation” propaganda. He is finally coming to realize that his own sanctions are having unintended consequences that will wreak havoc throughout the world, especially among the poor. So he’s trying to blame Putin before the consequences become common knowledge.
The US/NATO circular firing squad is loading up.
It does show how ineffective sanctions are at modifying other folks policies.
As if this is new. US sanctions even going back 60 years to Cuba, do NOT lead to régime change, as people know who is the perpetrator of punishment. As well as being illegal, cruel to innocent citizens, and arrogant. This time the USA gets some blowback.
My guess is Putin understood exactly what the sanctions put on by us would do. Cut off 20,000,000 barrels of oil, cut off 30% of the world’s wheat and what do you get? What we also get is the administration going berserk with military spending, spending money we don’t have. And now the Fed is talking about raising interest rates, as we are about to go into a recession. Perfect, eh?
Aren’t people just about fed up with all of this crap?… It pisses me off royally.
Donna, if they’re not pissed off, it’s because the MSM has convinced them that any sanctions against Russia ( and our proxy war) are “good” things, even if it screws us.
Putin = bin Laden. Outsmarting our idiots.
It is unfortunate that public has no idea what the war is all about. And Russia is not even attempting to explain. It realy would be bellow dignity. Whoever wanted to know what had been happening in Ukraine for the last eight years, could easily do that.
Many well meaning analysts portray Russia as weak economically, miliary operation stalled, heroic resistance, no good early warning.
We are talking ourselves into a war with the unthinkable weapons, even if not nuclear. We are technologicaly behind in the offensive weapins, and woefully behind in defense capabilities.
Instead of paying attention to the majority of world that did the homework and is not blaming Russia. — we are whipping up the war hysteria. And having as a result a infantile population thinking a little war wjth Russia would be watched on TV.
There is no voice of sanity. There may be plenty of old
fossilized people in poitics today, but none of
them adults, to trust with our lives, Nobody to rely on
Russia needs to explain. Putin needs to explain to the citizens of Russia. The whole thing is the mother of clusterf*cks. Statesmen like George Kennan warned about just such scenario happening. Administration after administration played the game of Risk that has culminated in this. Centrist Democrats are fools to want Biden to be a war President.
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Other than maybe Manchin and Sinema, who are those centrist Democrats?
I supposed it’s possible to make a case that e.g. Sanders, AOC, and a couple of others are an eeensy teensy weensy bit to the left of center. If you squint real hard and pretend, anyway. The rest are all center-rightists, like all but a handful of the Republicans.
When told of food shortages and food lines in Nicaragua,Sanders said that this was good and ensured that “at least the poor will get something”.Reality being that long lines formed,people waited for 24 hours, and then the elite escorted by armed men pulled up to the front of the line and helped themselves. Sanders was disconnected from reality by his political fantasy beliefs.
There is not a great difference between centrist democrats and right wing,fascist Republicans like Cruz,Grahm,Graham, compounded by the Supreme Court and the state of Texas and South Carolina,anyone get ready for the firing squads and the elimination of a woman’s right to choose
The U.S. media immediately shut down any outlets that might attempt to explain the Russian point of view. And they describe as treasonous (“Putin lover!!”) anyone who questions the narrative or exposes the Ukraine/Russia and U.S. foreign policy warmonger project of many years (setting up a nuclear-armed, bio-weapons labs, money-laundering outpost in Ukraine).
The media are also enabling (wittingly by some, unwittingly by others) a false-flag chemical attack that will be blamed on Russia. That started with Nuland (“oh, the evil Russians are going to take over our bio-labs and use them for an attack”). The seed has been planted. I have no doubt there will be a chemical attack that will be perpetrated by the people of deception and blamed on Russia.
Biden has mentioned it twice. No official red line as of yet but the rhetoric is skirting the edges.
Extremely well said…
Even ‘if’ nuclear…
Since Nixon ended the draft and replaced it with a lottery that evolved into the volunteer armed forces, war has become just another spectator sport. Civilians are representative of their society. So don’t be so cruel they are the ‘result a infantile population thinking a little war with Russia would be watched on TV.” They have “no skin in the game.” I let go of my animus of civilians during the 9/11 attacks. They looked so scared. I served as a medical corpsman in Vietnam. I was not surprised we were attacked. For the first time I actually felt sorry for them.
Attack and destruction of communication satellites. That is what I expect if Russia is pushed to the wall.
And our electric grid. Next would be our most valuable farms. As a spoiled country, we have not known starvation as others have, other countries that we created the circumstances which led to their starvation.
No need. Russia is substantially self-sufficient and whatever it doesn’t have it can get from the rest of the world, most of whom are not supporting economic sanctions. Russia has no need to conduct any military operations other than securing Ukraine and placing its strategic assets in place around the world where it can directly threaten the West, thus bringing MAD back into balance.
Joe Biden wrecked the American economy and now he is working on destroying the rest of the world.
“Now I am become joe Biden, the destroyer of worlds.”
No, he has taken a blow torch to it. On top of that, the Fed is raising rates to fight inflation. Perfect timing, eh. Me thinks the Fed should hold off. It looks like 2008 here we come.
In the mid 1970s inflation was an evil monster and the economy was stagnant. Hence, stagflation.
Who was the President? Hint: He was the worse President after Joe Biden!
Jimmy Carter took office during a period of “stagflation,” as the economy experienced a combination of high inflation and slow economic growth.
George W was president in the 70’s?
James Earl Carter Jr. is an American former politician who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981.
You said “worse after Joe Biden”. You missed a few.
No if you lived under Jimmy Carter and his antics then yo know he was the worst.
I did and he wasn’t.
So you enjoyed stagflation and the Iranian hostage crises along with dead Americans in the failed rescue attempt. Along with his simpering press release that he had malaise and had sinned in his heart because he had sexual feelings for some bimbo.
No. Carter was a lousy President. Now reread what you wrote and compare that to Bush jr., for one. I guess you enjoyed multiple wars, torture and the “Patriot” Act. Not to mention the way he left the economy when he left office.
I appreciate math, science, and logic in short intelligence. As for George W I agree with you. He was a creation of Carl Rove who had an ability to get anyone from the entrenched ruling families in America elected. As the son and grandson of the ruling elite George W made it into and out of Ivy League schools without learning much. Jimmy Carter was book smart and graduated from the US Naval academy in Nuclear Physics, but he was not street smart. Joe Biden on the other hand has always been a low IQ liar and opportunist. Now with dementia he is even worse. Essentially then you have the bottom three Presidents in our era vying for the bottom feeder award. That is why critical thinkers are not affiliated with any party as far as voting goes.
I don’t vote “R” or “D’ and I didn’t vote for Carter. But Carter shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same breath as Bush or Biden. I don’t know why you’d think someone who looks like a raging peacenik, as compared to everyone who succeeded him, to be one of the “bottom three Presidents in our era”.
Then you should love President Trump since he fired the prime NEOCON and kept America out of a war with Iran.
But first he hired the prime NEOCON and he, Trump, was responsible for any possible war with Iran. So, no.
Same here Wars.
Carter wasn’t even close.
Carter started the deregulation that gave the Reagan presidency its start at presiding over economic recovery. He and Reagan were probably the best two presidents since Grover Cleveland.
And I voted for Ed Clark because I couldn’t stomach either one. Little did I know what was to come after them. And they were lousy.
Carter, worse than Dubya? Trump?
Or Bye-Done?
At least Carter kept us out of a war with Iran, though I recall that interest rates were exceedingly high during his tenure.
Carter was lousy but he didn’t exactly inherit a booming economy. He didn’t bomb anyone. Who else can say that?
And Bloomberg reports that without Russian oil there will be a global recession. Time to start breaking the oil habit entirely.
HAHA!! Germany tried, got rid of nukes and coalfired power, then forgot it needed Russian gas to bridge the gap to “clean energy”. This is not a sudden decision that is immediately in action.
Biden ain’t the guy to do it. So far he has signed off on licenses to drill at a 34% greater rate than Trump.
Licenses mean nothing.
I’m with you there. Hillary didn’t facilitate the Euromaidan coup, and Biden isn’t waging war out of concern for the people of Ukraine. This is probably about seizing control of natural gas. It’s the same reason we invaded Afghanistan instead of focusing our efforts on Bin Laden.
Putin isn’t just protecting ethnic Russians in the Donbas region. The area he now controls encompasses Ukraine’s best known natural gas fields.
How many wars have been fought over the control of energy?
It is time to end the waste at both a political and personal level.
Like Hillary told us, it’s intended Afghanistan reprised.
So Biden admits it is all useless yet wants to go on doing the same cruel vicious destruction of a whole nation he has declared an enemy . There is not even an attempt to understand the Russians, the world or even the US population except the big makers and sellers of arms. This is leadership? President Putin is somehow crazy????
The demands of Russia to be treated seriously and with respect ((Putin has asked for at least 15 years and been scornfully rebuffed) are not unreasonable for anyone sane, but the USA not only attacks and destroys sovereign nations across the world, but pretends ONE invasion after 8 years of patient attempts to solve the Ukie/Russia disagreements diplomatically is a war crime!!!!!! The USA is purposely extending and intensifying a “war” which it is obviously losing, and killing many of the Ukrainians it pretends to care about.
Well said!
Yes. Yes. And yes. I voted for the man, and now I am wondering just WTF is he doing???
You did not have a good choice in the last election and you will.not have a good choice in the next.I do not believe given his domestic actions that Joe Biden is all that different then Putin.They re both good at killing and hurting their people
Only Putin is smarter and shewder.
Nothing to worry about it will only affect us little people on Main Streets around the world. The 1% will fine/s
all over a small insignificant country called Ukraine
Of no strategic value to the U.S., but it is the last piece in the game of Risk to surround Russia.
I very much agree.
sanctions just makes people suffer
And not the right people.
Is suffering a right? Or just a rite of passage? If suffer thy people unto us…a, then who is responsible? We’ve been making iran suffer from our first cia democratically elected gov overthrows in 58…How dare the suffering masses disparage our military, our righteousness as divinely- designated ‘ the greatest nation in worlds history,[cept maybe isreal]. to be in your country and propping up a ruthless dictator who was in our pocket? We have markets to plunder…
I agree.!
“With regard to food shortage, yes, we did talk about food shortages. And — and it’s going to be real”
But not for him.
Heck no. He gets the same hamburgers that Obama loved on Air Force One.
Once I can agree with you. He.Pelosi,Guliani.Kerry,Romney-all their families are gorging themselves upon cash from the Ukraine.
It’s crazy. We are now going to allow the psychopaths to make us go hungry?
It leaves a terrible after taste in my mouth…
Look for sales of freezers to take off. Emergency provisions. Water storage.
Purchased a 7 cubic foot freezer chest a few years ago to store bulk purchases from BJs and Costco’s. My wish list now is a water purifier and a garden tiller. Might just buy a water purifier very soon. As for a tiller I will barter with a neighbor to make me a garden patch in exchange for a shotgun and a box of ammo. Too old these days to bust soil myself.
I would have preferred a gas tiller to electric (gas might be expensive, but if the SHTF there may not be electricity available), but the price difference was big enough that I got an electric tiller for just under $100. Not heavy duty, but my garden will likely max out at about 1/8th of an acre so I should be able to hack it.
I’ve been thinking about a chest freezer for years, and should have bought one by now. But my next purchase will probably be a manual pump set-up for our electric well, for the reason mentioned in the first paragraph.
Thomas, I’ve wanted an old-fashioned hand pump for years. The water table is very high around here; maybe this will be the year we install one.
And would you believe we’ve had our Craftsman tiller for 40 years? Still runs like a champ. We’ve had to replace the tines a couple of times is all.
I don’t know about now, but Craftsman products used to be VERY well built. Sounds like you got one of those.
I bought a cheap electric tiller because it was cheap — $100 versus a minimum of $250 for even a cheapo gas tiller — and because I could get it shipped to me in three days. I prefer gas both because this is a CORDED electric and so has limited range, and because I’m more likely to have the electricity go out than I am to not be able to get the bare minimum gas to run it.
Which is why I want that hand pump kit. I think it costs about $100 as well, but I need to figure out how to install it.
I live in Florida, which means every couple of years a hurricane comes through and knocks out the power for anywhere from a full day to a week. Having continued access to well water (instead of drinking bottled water, going without showers, etc.) would be very nice. Could even be a life-saver in some situations. I’ve also been planning to set up rain barrels. Not necessarily for drinking water, but to run toilets, etc. when the power is out.
Also on the list is a solar setup, but now we’re talking big money. If we owned instead of renting, we could get it “free” and pay it off with the excess power it generates. And we are looking to buy a place, so …
Heh…Thomas I grew up in the city and every time we lose power I say to my husband, “At least we could flush our toilets when the power went out!” (We do have a gas-powered generator.)
Well, we have a half-acre pond if worse comes to worst…😐
Hi VLP
Only problem with freezers is that if the power lines go off grid, all that carefully preserved produce will spoil.
Freezing is much easier, but canned goods will stay viable for at least two years. I’m canning every single thing we grow this year. It’s labor-intensive but not difficult.
When I was a kid on the subsistence farm, we had a garden of probably two acres, and in the fall my mom spent a couple of weeks canning — I was 7-10 years old so I was picking crops, snapping green beans, etc. after school that whole time. We also ran a few head of cattle — one milk cow, and always a couple of steers fattening up — a few pigs, and chickens for both their eggs and their meat. Churned our own butter, even. Whatever else might happen, we weren’t going to starve!
Everyone around here has chickens except us. We don’t eat many eggs except for baking.
Might be time to look into getting some though, but hubby would never kill an animal we owned for food. Eggs only.
We do grow the legal amount of marijuana so I guess we could trade!
“but hubby would never kill an animal we owned for food.”
Me and your hubby would get along great. I catch and release insects. And I wish I was lying.
Wars, we do the very same!…even houseflies if possible. The exception are mosquitoes though.
I’m one of those strange women who loves spiders. House guests may come over and note, Hey there’s a spider on your ceiling! My response is, yeah, he lives here.
Good to hear from another poster who values life, even it if might be considered “undesirable “. 🙂
Wow, spiders are welcomed guests in my house too. I watched two of them mate the other day. Anything that bites me though, is unwelcomed.
I read somewhere a few years ago that wherever you are on earth, except possibly Antarctica (outside the human facilities, anyway), there’s probably a spider within three feet of you. And most of them are harmless, even beneficial. So no biggie.
Yup Thomas, no poisonous spiders native to these parts .
Interesting about being three feet away from a spider…my sisters-in-law are terrified of them, I should tell them that just to mess with them 😆
Thomas your childhood sounds idyllic to me. I grew up in the city but was born to be a farmer; I strongly believe that I was one in a previous life. The fact that I was horse-crazy didn’t hurt either.
My dream came true when we purchased this property and built our home with our own hands and the help of tradespeople in the family.
Our mortgage was …lol…$25k!
This year’s planting season begins now.
I already have a small garden in and sprouting (I’m in Florida and started right after what was supposedly likely to be the last hard freeze — did end up having to cover it once to protect it from frost after all), but this morning I decided to go bigger. Ordered a tiller and a large assortment of heirloom seeds this morning and plan to get to work as soon as they arrive next week.
Good job, Thomas. Don’t forget to plant crops that will last through the winter, too, like hard squash, if you have room. And CAN everything you are able to, in case of power outages which would render a freezer useless.
We have a farm and have been growing our own fruits and veggies for 40 years. Hubby’s pride and joy is his orchard of 50+ fruit trees. And my mare provides plenty of good fertilizer!
Canning equipment and supplies are on my “to do” list. I lived the best part of my childhood on a subsistence farm, and also worked on friends’ and relatives’ farms growing up. Loved it. The only down side is that not everything grows well in this north Florida sandy soil, especially absent a lot of fertilizer to liven it up. Watermelons, potatoes, etc. do OK, but pretty much everything else needs help. On my “to do” list for later today is finding how much I’ll have to pay to get a truck load of cow manure put down before the next growing season.
Look for a neighbor with a horse, Thomas. Most of us horse owners have more manure than we can use ourselves. Our neighbors haul off trailerloads of it. It decomposes quickly too.
Or contact a stable. They may even bring it out just to get rid of it, since horses poop on the average of ten times a day 🙄
I’ll look into that! Real Florida “horse country” starts about 40 miles south of where I live, but we’ve got some around here.
Would a neighbor who is a horse’s ass suffice?
😆
With each passing day, I find myself liking Pres. Biden, even less. I’ve tried him on to see how he fits but he doesn’t fit…
I voted for him. I feel like I did when I voted for Obama. Crappy. I am just afraid of the alternative.
Me too. The thing that bothers me most about him is that there don’t seem to be any viable check or balances on his use of sanctions or his willingness to wage war on Russia. He could be “pure as the driven snow”. But the precedents he is setting will nonetheless give future Presidents unprecedented (unchecked) power.
Biden is a puppet. His mental state is so far gone that it’s obvious he isn’t making the policies.
Very well stated…
He must have started out higher on your list than on mine. I gave up on him a year ago.
I never had any faith in him. I stupidly voted for him only because he “wasn’t Trump”.
I hang my head in shame; never again.
In my case, I find myself DISLIKING Biden even more with each passing hour.
Ditto that!
And the Great Reset marches on… how long can it still be hidden from the general public?
Especially now that Biden is shooting his mouth off about The New World Order. You know, that supposed conspiracy theory.
Conspiracy theory my a–.!
So the sanctions will hurt us, even if they are useless. Last paragraph… In the same breath, Biden says that sanctions are useless, and yet asks for the EU to famish its own citizens nonetheless for at least one year.
Let’s guess the Ds are going to be flushed forever in 2022. Then we get a bunch of Rs?
We need to consider boycotting US elections that we already know are rigged for Rs.
What will life be like with a republican president and congress voted in by 12% of the adult US population?
In every election, one wing or the other of the US single-party establishment is supposedly about to be “flushed forever.”
It never happens, because that party has spent the last 125 years (starting with adoption of the “Australian” ballot which it controls access to) building a system that inherently tends toward ensuring the survival of both wings and precluding the possibility of significant outside competition.
Do not worry. Up here Trudeau got 30% of less than 60% and he is the prime minister!!!
Sanctions basically just starve the common people. And oligarchs have been trying to figure a way to squeeze more out of Americans for a couple decades now. They have slowly figured out how to treat us like they have third world countries for a century.
Bloody well said GStorm!
Biden sounds awfully cavalier about outcomes… I find it a tad disturbing.
Maybe that’s because Biden knows he isn’t going to be around much longer.
The goal, of course, is to make Americans (and, all the others around the world at the mercy of the U.S. warmongers) so miserable that they’ll plead for an attack on Putin.
The only way I can describe the actions of the people who took over U.S. Foreign policy thirty+ years ago (and who own both political parties and most politicians) is: demonic.
Hey, Russia used to be a food importer. But in the last rounds of sanctions, it became the number one exporter of wheat. Ukraine is fourth on the list. That’s why Russian have left the black fertile soil of the bread basket of Europe alone in the war. Even Putin knows this war will be hard for the global market.
Russia has counter-sanction options they haven’t even used yet that will destroy the EU economy and throw the US into recession if not depression.
Meanwhile, the Russian economy is not seriously hurting at all. They expect higher inflation for a couple years, that’s about it. They will have to make adjustments in the overall economy functioning, but they’ve done that before. Biden’s threats are meaningless.
It sounds very American: “sharing the pain…” It just seems to me, none of this feel like a real strategy. It feels like a guessing game… My concern, as always, is what else this might trigger… My big question is (and I am sure many others will appreciate it) what impact this will have on good Russian Vodka?… I am a “patriot”, in a manner of speaking, but patriotism goes down a lot easier after I’ve had a vodka and tonic… Russian Vodka…
I might also add, I think Biden needs a reality check…
Consider this a conspiracy theory, but I think the unprecedented nature of Biden’s attack on Russia could be heavily influenced by Artificial Intelligence. That could explain why it feels so much like a game.
How were the 400 additional individuals Biden said would be targeted for sanctions identified? How did we put that list together so quickly? Why don’t we know anything about the process used to select them?
Mr. Angell:
I am more than willing to consider all of the possibilities…
And Blinken is always going on about their ‘modelling’ and ‘projections’ for this or that eventuality… It does sound like someone has spent a little too much time at their screens and not enough time back in the real world.
Donna, as we speak, the government is coming for my Russian composer CDs, the vodka in my cupboard, and my silver-gray cat that resembles a Russian Blue…
They’ll be in for a surprise. Mr. Grey has eight toes on each front paw instead of the normal five, and he has all his claws 😉
“Food shortages” is a pleonasm for “hunger”. What the h*** is this moron talking about when he intones “it’s going to be real” when it has been real throughout all of human history but rarely for the ruling classes?
With the looming economic collapse from sanctions blowback, from narrative collapse as Russia wins decisively in Ukraine, from US cultural and political wars-of-wokeness, and from the burdens on the US polity of financial distress, homelessness, and rising violence … all these factors both close enough and far enough off to provoke god-knows-what-sort-of-catastrophe between now and November, this electoral season is shaping up to be an “apocalyptic spectacle” to put 2016 and 2020 to shame.
While crossing my fingers for “No Nuclear War, Please”, I confess, I can’t wait. Stocking up on the popcorn. (Yes, human suffering is terrible, but I’m prosperous and safely distant from all that, and besides, there is nothing that this insignificant speck of humanity can do about any of it other than watch in shock and awe.)
Good luck to all of you.
We all hope you are going to keep hanging out. If not, very best to you but certainly check in with us, when time allows… Good luck to you!!!
best-donna 🙂
That seven year famine in the end time prophecy is becoming more and more real. Just saying.
I keep trying to make sense of Biden’s thinking but there is no logic…
If I hear “maintenance” one more time, I’m going to blow a cork. We are not talking about servicing a car, we are talking about peoples lives.
Another word comes to mind: BLOWBACK…
Another Long War. Our hawks just keep doing the same thing. It never works. They just do it again anyway.
Urgent! Biden from his bunker after nuclear Armageddon devastated the entire world, “If there are any surviving Americans out there: Yes. We think the price is worth it.”
Uoure warning of and being concerned about food shortages while deliberately withholding Afghanistans foreign currency reserves?