Well, He Is Not Alone.

There are many people from 404's "supporters", you know from the US, UK, Brussels, who would, but then again, why would, they do, support anything, including genocide of Russians as long as they are in the "circle" and improve their savings accounts and stock portfolios. 

You all know the names. 

Oh, No! LOL))

Surprise, surprise. Outrage in Ukraine as the government attacks anti-corruption watchdogs. President Zelensky tightens his control 

Few deputies could remember a law of such importance being rushed so quickly through parliament. The passage of Bill 12414, which subordinates Ukraine’s two main independent anti-corruption bodies to the presidentially appointed prosecutor-general during wartime, had the feel of something done in panic. Unveiled at a hastily convened committee session on July 22nd at 8am, neither the committee head nor the majority of members were present. By the afternoon, the bill had been rushed over to the president for signature. Volodymyr Zelensky’s men had been able to find the numbers to comfortably pass the bill

Well, he is your SOB, so deal with it. You sang him praises, but then again, Time magazine also posted this guy ... in 1938.

And, following the tradition in 2024:

I wonder who will be next? Western media have this strange attraction to war criminals and other scam of the Earth. Maybe they look for their own kind. I wonder when The Economist and Time will start reporting on wholesale pedophilia, crimes against humanity and degeneracy of West's "elites"? Ah, wait, The Economist and Time are a part of it, never mind. Naive me. 

Soldiers of Misfortune. Larry on Rats.

I repeat it ad nauseam--high intensity policing operations, that what COIN effectively is, in Afghanistan and Iraq, at which the US still managed to fail spectacularly, are not the real wars between state actors. Many people in the US military still don't get it. It is one thing when some US general cannot wrap his brains around it, but what would you expect from lower ranks? Larry gives some insights:    

Meet Ryan O’Leary. He currently is in the Bakhmut area of operations fighting under the command of Ukrainian officers. Mr. O’Leary is not happy. He is a 34 year old alumni of Carroll High School in Iowa and a National Guard veteran who served in Afghanistan and Iraq. He reports that his unit is undermanned and lacking in heavy weapons because “they’ve gone missing.” In other words, the weapons are being sold on the black market. O’Leary blames the logistics problems on the corrupt, criminal behavior of his Ukrainian chain of command — from the Major General to his Captain. He specifically calls out a Captain Baroda, noting that Baroda traffics in a host of illegal narcotics. Read the following series of tweets. They are self-explanatory... I fear that young Mr. O’Leary has signed his death warrant. 

He did. As did this guy, form UK. 

Safari in Donbass is not exactly described by the US Field Manuals, because the whole idea, as an example, that the HQs of the US armor decision or airfields are easy targets for stand off weapons is not the thing which is taught in US military academies. Let alone to lower ranks whose primary "education" is based on a disaster of Western public schools' "education" and then some NCO schools, which, if to follow US military mythology, are the best in the world. But then again, nobody seems to be fazed by the fact that "the finest fighting force in history" is absolutely not ready to fight anything like SMO (it is still NOT the war, it is Operation) and manages to lose all of its much less intensity wars. 

So, now these guys, who still lost to backward goat herders with AK-47s and RPGs, go to hunt nasty Rooskies and suddenly recognize that they know very little about real war. They get killed in industrial quantities, or begin to appeal to whatever they try to appeal to, because they also knew nothing about "enterprise" they got themselves into. Being on the receiving end sucks. When you are on the receiving end of 152-mm highly mobile artillery, or NURS and ATGMs from Mi-28 or Ka-52, let alone from 3M14 or Iskander, the perspective changes dramatically. For some it changes too late, for others--good luck trying to escape 404 now, Zagrad-Otryad units, SBU and Nazi "supervisors" will make sure nobody escapes. That is why they are mixed with regular units and others stay behind. Plus, constant executions of VSU grunts who begin to suspect something is routine and is well documented, including by Russian drones. So, good luck to this "veteran" in his attempts to return to Iowa. If Russian artillery shell, tank or infantry will not get him, his Ukie "friends" will, in the back, most likely. Democracy, cough-cough, I mean Wall Street, needs sacrifice. For everything else there is a Top Gun: Maverick warfare community.  

This Weekend...

... a corrupt and fun-free World Cup starts in Qatar. Don't you ever think that I am a prude--I am a prude only for my family, but in general I did a lot of crazy shit in my life, including extreme fun (I am not going to delve into details of that) and that is what World Cup always was--bunch of inebriated people mingling together, rooting, screaming, cheering, dancing... crying. But apart from a beauty of the game, it is always a humanity on parade. It was my dream to see WC 2022 in the US, Seattle was one of the venues, but now we know how Sarkozy made a true French football legend Michelle Platini vote for Qatar. France wanted contracts there. 

Just take a look at this documentary on Russia's WC 2018. 

Now to the subject matter. I am on record--I always rooted for the US National Men's Team. In 2002 I fell in love with them. They were not only fearless, they played an amazing, almost romantic in its abandon, counter-attacking game and they would have rolled over Germany (Germany! Yes THE Germany), until they were killed by a corrupt referee.   

This was the team which could have reached a final. 20 years passed since then. 

The U.S. Men’s National Team has ditched the red, white, and blue in favor of a rainbow flag in order to “bring attention to social issues” while they play in stadiums built by slave labor. The USMNT decided to change the colors on the shield logo, replacing the red stripes with the colors of the gay and transgender (and Black Lives Matter) “pride flag.” Coach Gregg Berhalter suggested that Qatar has “made strides and there has been tons of progress,” but the country has more work to do to be more inclusive. Therefore, the USMNT will make the pride flag part of its normal uniform.

Here are the colors:

What can I say? I am not rooting for that. Global sports is long overdue for a complete overhaul, starting from abolishing International Olympic Committee and reconstituting FIFA on a completely different bases which promote the game, not woke BS and bribery. Keep utterly corrupt Olympics banned--those are insult to morality and intelligence. Well, my good ol' reliable Italy for which I root for more than 44 years now, I'll be always Azurris' fan, despite the sad fact that they didn't make it to Qatar. Serbia? Sure! Maybe Portugal, I still admire CriRo and they always had some amazing talent there. Anybody, but not this.   

Sometimes It Is Better To Watch...

 ... even without knowing Ukrainian language. Even Ukie TV cannot hide this anymore. Here are one of the latest "mobilized" personnel of the 72nd Brigade of VSU. They are completely confused, nobody knows where and how they should deploy. The CO, to his greatest credit, tells them to simply "walk away" since nobody has actual list of personnel--this may save their lives.

I spoke about a definite trend on accelerating demoralization of VSU in my today's video and, plus, the trend on the acceleration of the collapse of the VSU defenses is also very pronounced now.  This whole situation is further confirmed by the soldiers of the same 72nd Brigade who complain about lack of equipment, ammo and about very high losses.  

Sadly, UTube erases almost instantly any reports from Zvezda TV on the "containment centers" fro VSU POWs. You have to find those videos yourself. VSU POWs go through cultural shock when encountering humane treatment, medical care, showers and being well fed. This overall change of the background of SMO may be in the foundation of obviously grossly exaggerated "peremoga" (victory in Ukie) by "annihilating" some whole battalion of "Russian" armor at some Severnyi Donets river crossing, which, as VSU said (red flag immediately) was "attempted five times in a row". That doesn't sound like Russian Armed Forces. I cannot find anything on this in Russian sources, not to mention the fact that there is a reason I don't have Telegram nor do I follow it. Same reason for me having no social media accounts.  

But this, actually, is a very interesting development which caught my eye and which is very indicative of the utter dysfunction in Military-Industrial Complex in the US, to the point when competent opinion of military is completely overruled by a bunch of Congressional freeloaders.

I will elaborate on this issue in depth, hopefully, in my next couple of videos. It has everything to do with Real RMA and actual war-fighting capability--a precise subject of which no person at Capitol Hill has any clue. 

 

UPDATE: I have to apologize but looks like the videos I posted above are from 2014.  My bad, so I removed them. Remarkably, these removed videos in no way contradict present situation with VSU because there are many similar videos from the front-lines today, in May 2022. I guess, the more things change, the more they stay the same. 

This one is from May this year. Sorry for my screw-up.

Wet Dreams.

She is a mighty fine governor, but let's be honest--when she speaks with the straight face that "Trump's legacy" is what America "needs", like support (I mean licking boots) of Israel, tax breaks for filthy rich, "business deals" which accelerate American industrial decline and other anomalies, like cowardice, she is right--continuing to consider these "accomplishments" as a positive legacy and talking about why GOP "failed" is exactly the reason why it will continue to fail because GOP is a party of quislings  whose only function now is to negotiate with Democrats how main constituency of GOP, people who give money to it, may hold on to its riches for a little while longer. 

GOP reminds of a crack addict who tries to act normally while having a severe case of coming down, by means of dressing in tuxedo,  while trying to convince oneself that the condition he is in is just a passing one. GOP "elite" is as treasonous as radicals from Dems and if the average Joe dies tomorrow, they will not care. Of course, they will continue to massage abortion issue and pledge allegiance to Israel, but they will do nothing for people who actually, diminishing as their numbers are, provide a residual functionality to this country. 

For starters, let's drop the pretense that GOP is a "conservative" party--I am on records for years, there is nothing conservative about GOP. It is not and hasn't been since the times William Buckley "sold" himself as intellectual, same goes for a neocon cabal, which in a classic rabbinical tradition demagogued its way into the Republican pseudo-intellectual Parnassus pushing the only button which matters for main GOP contributors--greed, and tawdry sloganeering which passed for decades as "conservatism". Evidently rooting for New England Patriots, or Texas Cowboys, being addicted to laissez faire and peeing one's pants  (or wetting eyes, or both) from seeing innocent countries and scores of innocent people being killed is considered somehow "conservative". As Kristi Noem proved in her interview, this is precisely what GOP intends to do, while feeding deplorables all those "issues" of abortion, Israel and "trade deals" which somehow should address their unenviable fate. Remarkably, MAGA and Trumpism is exactly the vehicle which may break the Republican camel's back and stop its gravy train of congressional dealings, which is ironic, really--one fraud being broken by another. But then again, normal people in America have no political and ideological sanctuary to run too. One chapitaue, left from the road, populated by Democratic Party, is the one containing Room 101 and face recognition check-points, where straight white humans need not apply or approach, until they brought there in shackles and on their knees. The other one is a circus of political treason, corruption and pathos-ridden BS being sold as a virtue, which, in the end, is merely another stop before being delivered into the "rehabilitation" camp being built behind first chapiteau --your choice, America, of how you commit suicide.

So, while I respect governor's farming background and her hard work at getting her degree in political "science" and then getting elected to US Congress and governorship, I have to really question her grasp of the current situation and how GOP will continue--it is not even for a debate--to betray its main constituents who still believe that GOP somehow represents their interests. Poor people. So, MAGA is perfect for separating GOP from power, which it doesn't need anyway, since it is the party of deserters, plus, considering the "intellectual" level of its "top" and what passes for its ideological machine--no hope for it to do anything what benefits the core of the American people. MAGA, for it also being a fraud and populist demagoguery, at least breaks, for now, the ideological impasse to which GOP led majority of its constituency, trying to sabotage any change of direction towards substantive questions about America's nationhood, real economy, GOP helped to obliterate, declining wages, loss of jobs, violence, dramatic social stratification, unchecked immigration, debilitating and criminal foreign wars, corrupt political discourse, insane cultural practices and destruction of educational system. You know, all those secondary, to support of Israel, tax cuts and abortion, issues which have absolutely no bearing (wink, wink) on lives of the majority of people. I see NO people with enough intellect, integrity and awareness in the so called Republican cultural milieu, who can provide any viable definition of conservatism and lead the party between Scylla of neocon foreign policy and neoliberal economics of GOP establishment and Charybdis of MAGA populist bullshittery, which, in the long run, is even more damaging because it cannot deliver, as Trump's presidency demonstrated so vividly, even when adjusted for DNC and media's sabotage of his chaotic reality TV show. There are NO people in GOP which can defeat democrat's insanity, because they cannot generate ideas without betraying the real nature of GOP--a party of good ol' boys who are into it to make money. Or serve Israel, like popular "conservative" Ben Shapiro, who, and you guessed it, is a lawyer and political "scientist"--a precise category of people who led the United States down the road of ruin. As Thomas Sowell succinctly put it:" Road to hell is littered with Harvard degrees." 

In related news, another wowser from Boeing: 

But it's not just the pandemic that is dragging down Boeing. The company is facing a huge challenge with its new 777X, a longer variant of the widebody 777, taking a $6.5 billion write-off on the still unfinished aircraft. Test flights of the 777X began a year ago, but safety regulators are demanding design changes to address safety concerns. And with the market for such giant, long-haul jets evaporating during the pandemic, Boeing is now pushing back the plane's entry into commercial service into late 2023. Boeing has also had a slew of other design and production problems with the 787 Dreamliner and the KC-46 midair refueling tanker for the Air Force.

Read the whole thing. Honestly, my heart bleeds for Boeing's commercial division, for people who worked there, in the end for company itself which was a leader in commercial aviation for such a long time. Now it faces a de facto financial ruin and I don't know what is the outlook. I doubt  that even the term "foggy" really applies to its future as is true to the whole United States. Just to confirm that things proceed apace. Aw, poor-poor dear Teddy Cruz as if he didn't know what was coming. 

“The first week in office, what has Joe Biden done? He’s signed an executive order ending the Keystone pipeline, destroying 11,000 jobs,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said in a Tuesday interview on Fox News.

No shit, genius. Ask your party what it was busy with the last five years. Or fifty, for that matter. I am sure GOP's sterile "conservative intellectuals" will explain it to you. Or not. 

Devaluation.

We all live in a time of devaluation. Everything is being devalued: human live, dignity, US Dollar, liberty, you name it. But what devalues even faster than all that are words, or, rather, their meaning, their semantic load. Like an old line of words written in ink which fades away with the age, words lose their meaning in the modern United States. I am not talking about Orwellian trick of replacing an actual meaning with something else, such as rioters and insurgents in Seattle or Portland being called "protestors", no, not that. I am talking about US main-stream media, who apart from being staffed with a lot of human compost, and who share responsibility for tearing already damaged United States apart, are complicit in devaluation of meanings. 

Here is an example: De Blasio Blasts 'Tyrant' Trump Over Election Delay Musing. Make no mistake, I like good hyperbole myself and use it once in a while, but US media do not know the limits beyond which meaning of tasteful disappears and simple BS and pathos start. They don't--look at them, from morons in NYT and WaPo, who do not understand that if shit they shovel into out faces hits the fan they may experience a rather unpleasant reckoning with people coming for them, to all kinds of other media personalities who never experienced any real difficulty, let alone danger in their life and still think that journalism is actual profession. Yet, most of pampered self-proclaimed "intellectuals" and words handlers, most of who would shit their pants when faced with real anger, real weapons and real danger, use the militant vernacular whenever they can and as a result, already disturbed and uneased American mind faces those facts that someone "blasted" someone, of someone "torched" somebody, or that someone "destroyed" someone else on a daily bases. 

Remarkably, all those terms are used by people who never served a day even as a cook in any armed forces, by people who would contemplate suicide if denied dining in upscale restaurants and shopping for designer brands. Yet, they have no problem using aggressive battle-like rhetoric and descriptions disregarding the fact that most of them are cowards. One has to wonder what such mama boys as Don Lemon or Chris Cuomo experience when they "fire back" at someone. What can possibly this Cuomo dude, an offspring of rich New York political family, experience in reality when not "embedded" with US troops and faces something he and his kind want all of us to face completely on their own? What can possibly they "analyze" with any degree of competence and courage? US media-political elite is pathetic, specimens of corrupt political animals from Jerry Nadlers and Liz Warrens on one side to a hypocritical Jim Jordans and Lindsey Grahams on the other, who are in it not for America and her people, but to satisfy their urges to realize their mediocre selves through power, is terrifying as is a media class which serves them. The US is burning and disintegrating in a front of our very own eyes but nothing is being done about it, nothing. Even when one makes an allowance for presidential election year politics.  

Thus we are all subjected to an incessant daily assault of all kinds of "blasting", "torching", "destroying", "firing back" and other battle terms making up an opaque massive stream of utter BS pouring out of every type of media on people. All that designed to cover up a complete paralysis, corruption and incompetence of US "elites". But the real downside of all this media battle of evermore is devaluation of meanings of all those terms. This devaluation, in the country which is ready to explode, can have a dire consequences for these very same "elites" when real blasting, torching, destroying and firing back starts. We'll see then how well people who are in the business of pep-talking the country into the real civil war will deal with real, not devalued meanings. It could be very scary and deadly, I know--been there, done that. We'll see how degree in journalism, political science or law will help to survive a real deal, which now seems almost assured. 

Everything One Needs To Know.

In many respects America's fate, even despite an economic calamity of a gigantic scale, was contingent upon bringing justice to those who unleashed unprecedented, historically, witch-hunt and mass-psychosis campaign. Anyone with an average IQ and even fleeting acquaintance with principles on which law operates knew and know where and who all those Russia, Ukraine and other "Gates" originated from. Well, it doesn't matter, evidently. 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General William Barr said on Monday he does not expect a Justice Department review of the FBI's handling of 2016 election interference to lead to criminal investigation of former President Barack Obama or former Vice President Joe Biden. "As to President Obama and Vice President Biden, whatever their level of involvement, based on the information I have today, I don't expect Mr. Durham's work will lead to a criminal investigation of either man," Barr said.

Sad, but totally expected, to be honest.  Barr, however, made some clarifications:

Barr did not rule out the possibility of others being criminally investigated, without offering specifics.

We'll see about that, which, I am a bit on a shaky ground here, since Barr's statement is not born out by the reality:

Barr added that the election should be decided strictly on policy debates, and that any investigation of a political candidate would need to be approved by him personally. "We cannot allow this process to be hijacked by efforts to drum up criminal investigations of either candidate," Barr said.

Well, sure, we all know that Biden sonny's, Hunter, tenure with Ukrainian Burisma had nothing to do, like really-really nothing, with the fact of his senile cretin-father being Ukraine's Gauleiter not only on Obama's orders (Obama always was an amateur in foreign relations, not that there are any professionals in them in D.C. nowadays, but still) but on his own volition, being also an architect of a bloody coup and war there, having blood of thousands of innocent people on his wandering hands. This is not to mention that this coward is now hiding from exposure for his sexual exploits and, once those 2020 "elections" begin to delve into, quoting Barr, "policy debate" (Good ol' Joe cannot, fvcking orient himself in space-time continuum, let alone have "policy debates") we all can be 100% sure that sexual history of Joe will hit the "printing presses" of partisan media. So much for the "policy debate". But, as we all know, the land of the "laws" doesn't really hold up that well under the closer scrutiny. Evidently prosecuting corruption (sedition and treason is also not biggy anymore, evidently) in the US nowadays is contingent merely on who holds and how much power and influence. As Larison reports:

The president announced on Friday that he was firing Steve Linick, the State Department’s Inspector General. One possible reason that Linick was removed may have been that he was conducting an investigation into the bogus emergency declaration that the administration used to expedite arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the UAE last year. 

Say it ain't so! Come on, we all know that Mike Pompeo... oh, wait:

If Linick was investigating the bogus emergency declaration, he would have come across reporting that showed how a former Raytheon lobbyist serving at the department was instrumental in pushing through the plan to expedite arms sales that benefited his old employer. He would have discovered that there was no genuine emergency that justified going around Congress. Once his investigation was concluded, it would have found that the emergency declaration was made in bad faith and that the law was abused so that the administration could proceed with arms sales that Congress opposed. Another reason for the firing was to protect Mike Pompeo from an investigation into the Secretary’s abuses of government resources for personal purposes.

We all know that a person who openly states that he "lied, cheated and stole" for a living as CIA's big honcho, is being truthful. How can anyone doubt Pompeo's truthfulness? Reality of the American political discourse, however, is such that one cannot stop wondering if any normal, not damaged mentally, people are left in D.C. I am sure many people around the globe ask the same question. American political "elites" today represent a gruesome picture. All politics, everywhere is a dirty business, always was and often it did attract people with serious psychological, if not psychiatric, problems. There is an excellent work titled The Psychological Assessment of Political Leaders: With Profiles of Saddam Hussein and Bill Clinton. It is long and, at times, tedious read including delving into this proverbial psychobabble, but it is unequivocal in singling out narcissism as one of the main features of Western politicians. Lust for power and narcissism. It is in the foundation of the explanation to the phenomenon of American politics driven by non-stop lowbrow "election cycle" circus. 

Once "look good" triumphs over all other considerations, the political class and its subservient media are doomed and so is the nation this political class pretends to lead. I am on record for years, that the only things US political class knows how to do is to "look good", unless they are caught in corruption or sexual scandal. And that is the problem--they are not caught often enough and this is everything one needs to know about present moment.      

The Story of US "Foreign Policy".

No comments are necessary. US has NO own foreign policy, it has only outside manipulators and serves their interests.  

 

Joe Biden's World.

I don't like Joe Biden. I don't like him not because of his Russophobia--I've seen worse. I don't like him as a human because he is a low life scumbag--an embodiment of everything what went wrong with America's so called "elites". Not only he is badly educated and has no business expressing his opinions on geopolitical issues, he has no business to be in politics because he is completely detached from geopolitical reality and has no qualifications to competently influence important geopolitical decisions. It is his militant stupidity which is awe-inspiring. If anyone wonders--Ukraine's "project" was to a large degree Joe Biden's brainchild. We all know how it turned out. It was on his watch, together with Barak Obama, that US-Russian relations have been destroyed almost completely. So, yes, Joe Biden is an idiot. Yet, this imbecile together with some help of yet another US "diplomat"--a euphemism for foreign policy headless-chickenry published a piece in Foreign Affairs with rather a telling title:

                     How to Stand Up to the Kremlin

Needless to say that neither Joe Biden nor his sidekick can have any sensible advice on how to "stand up to Kremlin" for two reasons:

1. US elites in general have zero knowledge of Russia or her intentions. In fact, if that would have been a zero it would have been better, since it would exclude a possibility of delusion the US lives in regards to Russia. But we all know that--this whole blog is dedicated to this specific issue; 

2. NO, I underscore, no current American politician and many in top military brass know what real military power is and what its application entails. American catastrophic military record and inability to win any war since  Korea is a great testimony to this. American civilian leadership in general is completely detached from any realities of warfare and is not qualified for developing any workable strategies.

So, here is the guy, a former VPOTUS, who, apart from having no clue about Russia, offers an advice on how to stand up against it. And his first "salvo" reveals a depth of his ignorance:

At its core, this assault is motivated by the Kremlin’s desire to protect its wealth and power. The Russian regime that emerged from the ashes of the Soviet collapse consolidated immense authority and privilege in the hands of a small cabal of former intelligence officials and oligarchs. They appear strong from the outside, but their power remains brittle at the core—a fact that Putin and the top members of his regime understand better than anyone.

This, folks, is an exhibit A of the reason for why the United States finds itself in the situation it is today--that is of a dramatic loss of its standing in the world and finding rather humiliating limitations of own military and economic power. 

1. The "passage" about consolidation of authority and privilege in the hands of oligarchs obviously completely ignores the fact that it was precisely this "cabal" of "former intelligence officials" which not only "concentrated" privileges but somehow, surprise, surprise, re-nationalized huge chunks of Russia's strategic natural resources and manufacturing resources from the hands of the US controlled and, often, supported fifth column of criminal banksters and real oligarchs, who are responsible for a calamity of 1990s. Obviously causality between this and Putin's genuine immense popularity is beyond the grasp of these two clowns. Biden simply doesn't know what is an overwhelming support of a nation.

2.  For Biden, who never worked any normal job a day in his life and prostituted himself to a Congressional politics and has a mentality of a provincial rag from Cranston, it is difficult to grasp the abyss which separates his, Biden's so called "knowledge" and the knowledge of said Vladimir Putin. What Putin understands is  beyond Biden's grasp--he simply has no background for that. He probably never heard that many in Putin's "cabal" are actual scientists and people who held very serious positions which required an incredible level of expertise across the whole spectrum of activities crucial for Russia's economy and security. 

As one example, Sergey Chemezov, who is currently a head of a monstrous Rostec Corporation which employs directly more than half-a-million people, not only has a Ph.D. in economics but completed his post-graduate degree in the Military Academy Of General Staff. The significance of the latter is difficult to overstate. In other words, very many people in this "cabal" (aka Siloviki) somehow have incredibly impressive academic credentials, not to speak of running structures of which our Cranston boy-lawyer have no clue, unless it was explained to him by Congressional Research Service. Biden is a professional in BS. What kind of "briefings" he and Obama were getting in the White House is a separate topic, since the impression one gets from their actions after that is that briefings were done not by intelligence professionals but by Larry, Curly and Moe. But never mind, Biden is still on the offensive, he gets another shot:

To safeguard its kleptocratic system, the Kremlin has decided to take the fight beyond Russia’s borders to attack what it perceives as the greatest external threat to its survival: Western democracy. By attacking the West, the Kremlin shifts attention away from corruption and economic malaise at home, activates nationalist passions to stifle internal dissent, and keeps Western democracies on the defensive and preoccupied with internal divisions. This allows Moscow to consolidate its power at home and exert untrammeled influence over its “near abroad.” 

Well, Russian system certainly still has kleptocratic elements in it but it sure as hell improved since early 2000s, US Congress, however, didn't--it was busy selling the United States to the left and to the right, from Israel to Saudi Arabia, to anyone who would pay more. As Phil Giraldi brilliantly observed today:

And Congress is to a certain extent the source of all evil, as its numerous committee meetings gorge on advice from experts who are frequently anything but, reflecting the hardline views of many of the legislators themselves with nary a contrary opinion in sight. A recent session of the Senate Armed Services Committee featured a statement by leading neocon Eric Edelman. His presentation is hawkish in the extreme, with particular focus on Iran and Russia. It can be summarized briefly by citing some of the section headings: “Adopt a post-ISIS Strategy for Syria and Iraq,” “Develop Credible Military Leverage Against Iran,” “Recognize Russia as an obstacle, not a partner,” “Increase internal pressure against the Iranian regime,” and “Enforce nuclear restrictions on Iran.”So it’s garbage-in and garbage-out on how much of the government gets a large percentage of its information.

So, the whole notion that current US legislators, AGAIN, most of whom never served a day in their life, can have any serious opinion on foreign policy or military-political issues is, frankly, preposterous. Overwhelming empirical evidence of utter corruption and stupidy is everywhere. So, the question then is this: what divisions? Wasn't Mr. Biden a VP to a President who, apart from being a pathetic mediocrity, left a legacy of a:

1. Acute crisis in racial relations in the US;

2. War in Syria, a crime against Libya;

3. Faux-recovery, which benefited mostly 1 percenters;

4. Destroyed Russian-American relations;

5. Reinforced suicidal cultural policies...

and many more. Wasn't Mr. Biden not only presiding but actively promoting this both homicidal and suicidal agenda? Sure he was. Now, when his totally corrupt and perverted Democratic Party and its candidate has been defeated in Presidential Elections of 2016, Biden finds nothing better than expound on a Russia-gate "theory" and continue to spew the whole article a certifiable delirium which has not a single evidence in real life to support outlandish claims. None, zilch, nada. By publishing this utter trash by frustrated ignoramuses Foreign Policy magazine, undoubtedly, didn't serve its reputation well. Yes, folks, it is worse than Soviet Union, it is Nineteen Eighty-Four all the way:

 And finally, as more news breaks each day about the extent of Russia’s disinformation campaign and the tactics that Moscow used to manipulate public opinion and exploit the fault lines within U.S. society, it falls on all Americans to be aware and informed citizens. We must collectively reject foreign influence over our democratic institutions and do more to address the challenges within our own communities, rather than allowing demagogues at home and tyrants abroad to drive us apart. Putin and his cronies do not understand that the greatest strength of American democracy is an engaged citizenry. Even if the president refuses to act, we can.    

I don't think that Biden and his ilk even understand that THEY are the main reason for those very serious fault lines in the American society and the only people they disinform are themselves. American elites are utterly corrupt, they are also responsible for wrecking the country to such a degree that one does concern himself with thoughts about the future of American Republic. With clowns like Biden it has none. America needs those treasonous, corrupt elites go. As Oliver Cromwell addressed Long Parliament in 1653:

It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.

Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your God; which of you have not barter'd your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?

Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defil'd this sacred place, and turn'd the Lord's temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redress'd, are yourselves gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors.

                   In the name of God, go!