IDIOTS, MORONS, AND SURREALITY IN AMERICA TODAY

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MAY 1, 2022 AT 9:35 PM

Paul Plante says:

And after the weekend visit of Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff to Ukraine to get their pictures taken with incipient fascist dictator Zelensky of Ukraine in a photo-op which used some 36,000 gallons of fuel from Washington to Kyiv, and the same amount going back, generating some 986kg of CO2 per passenger for the round trip, which makes a mockery of Nancy’s global warming blather, where Nancy promised Zelensky unlimited American support for the duration of his war with Russia, we come to the serious question of exactly who and what it is that Nancy is pledging our tax dollars to support, and I seriously doubt that that airhead even has a clue, being a shallow thinker such as she is, focused solely on selling out America to the highest bidders while getting her face on television alongside Charley “Chuck” Schumer.

I have been told that the citizens of Ukraine have clearly demonstrated they want to be free of an authoritarian government and are willing to die to achieve that independence, which is why we should be financing their war with our tax dollars, while risking being drawn into a global conflict that Joe Biden will be clueless as to how to handle, believing as he does that he is in charge of events and is the one making history happen, as opposed to now being controlled by events over which he has no control.

But is that really true that the citizens of Ukraine are so disposed?

And how do we know it is true?

Who are these “citizens” in Ukraine who have clearly demonstrated they want to be free of an authoritarian government and are willing to die to achieve that independence?

Is everybody in Ukraine a Ukrainian?

And that answer is of course not.

For example, there are said to be between 11 and 12 million ethnic Russians in Ukraine, including approximately 1.5 million who live in the Crimean peninsula, and a 1989 census showed that the population of Ukraine included 22% ethnic Russians.

And according to the CIA Factbook for Ukraine (no, it is not top secret, and yes, it is free for every American on the internet) last updated on April 26, 2022, the Ethnic groups in Ukraine were as follows: Ukrainian 77.8%, Russian 17.3%, Belarusian 0.6%, Moldovan 0.5%, Crimean Tatar 0.5%, Bulgarian 0.4%, Hungarian 0.3%, Romanian 0.3%, Polish 0.3%, Jewish 0.2%, other 1.8% (2001 est.)

So who then, of that mix, are we supporting with our tax dollars?

As to the “Ukrainians,” they are like the Navahos, the Apache, or Mohawks, or Sioux in this country, in that they are a tribe, a “people,” and that is it.

Like the Mohawks, who annihilated the Adirondacks, the Hurons, and ultimately, the Mohicans, that Ukrainian tribe wants it all to itself, BUT, just like there were factions in the fore-named, so too in the tribe of Ukrainians, keeping in mind that historically, while the Ukrainians, like the Mohawks, were one tribe out of many, there was NO Ukraine.

For example, after the Partitions of Poland in 1772, 1793 and 1795, the extreme west of Ukraine fell under the control of the Austrians, with the rest becoming a part of the Russian Empire.

So where exactly is this Ukraine we are spending our tax dollars to defend?

According to history, the concept of Ukraine as a nation, and the Ukrainians as a nationality, began with the Ukrainian National Revival in the mid-18th century, in the wake of the peasant revolt of 1768/1769 and the eventual partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Between 1917 and 1920, several entities that aspired to be independent Ukrainian states came into existence.

This period, however, was extremely chaotic, characterized by revolution, international and civil war, and lack of strong central authority.

Many factions competed for power in the area that is today’s Ukraine, and not all groups desired a separate Ukrainian state.

Ultimately, Ukrainian independence was short-lived, as most Ukrainian lands were incorporated into the Soviet Union and the remainder, in western Ukraine, was divided among Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Romania.

As to the Ukrainian War of Independence, it was a series of conflicts involving many adversaries that lasted from 1917 to 1921 and resulted in the establishment and development of a Ukrainian republic, most of which was later absorbed into the Soviet Union as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of 1922–1991.

In 1919 total chaos engulfed Ukraine, with it said that in the modern history of Europe no other country experienced such complete anarchy, bitter civil strife, and total collapse of authority as did Ukraine at this time, where six different armies-– those of the Ukrainians, the Bolsheviks, the Whites, the Entente [French], the Poles and the anarchists – operated on its territory, and Kyiv changed hands five times in less than a year.

Belligerents included Ukrainian nationalists, Ukrainian anarchists, Bolsheviks, the forces of Germany and Austria-Hungary, the White Russian Volunteer Army, and Second Polish Republic forces, all of whom struggled for control of Ukraine after the February Revolution (March 1917) in the Russian Empire, with the Allied forces of Romania and France also became involved.

That struggle lasted from February 1917 to November 1921 and resulted in the division of Ukraine between the Bolshevik Ukrainian SSR, Poland, Romania, and Czechoslovakia.

The February Revolution of 1917 encouraged many ethnic groups in the Russian Empire to demand greater autonomy and various degrees of self-determination, and a month later, the Ukrainian People’s Republic was declared in Kiev as an autonomous entity with close ties to the Russian Provisional Government, and governed by a socialist-dominated Tsentralna Rada (“Central Council”).

And speaking of a divided Ukraine, the Kiev Uprising in November 1917 led to the defeat of Russian Republic forces in the capital, and soon after, the Central Rada took power in Kiev, while in late December 1917 the Bolsheviks set up a rival Ukrainian republic in the eastern city of Kharkov – initially also called the “Ukrainian People’s Republic,” and hostilities against the Central Rada government in Kiev began immediately, so that under those circumstances, the Rada declared Ukrainian independence on January 22, 1918, and broke ties with Russia.

Given that the Rada had a limited armed force at its disposal (the Ukrainian People’s Army) and was hard-pressed by the Kharkov government which received men and resources from the Russian Soviet Republic, as a result, the Bolsheviks quickly overran Poltava, Aleksandrovsk (now Zaporizhzhia), and Yekaterinoslav (now Dnipro) by January 1918, while across Ukraine, local Bolsheviks also formed the Odessa and Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republics; and in the south Nestor Makhno formed the Free Territory – an anarchist region – then allied his forces with the Bolsheviks.

Aided by the earlier Kiev Arsenal Uprising, the Red Guards entered the capital on February 9, 1918 which forced the Central Rada to evacuate to Zhytomyr, and in the meantime, the Romanians took Bessarabia.

Almost immediately after the defeat of Germany in WWI, Lenin’s government annulled their Brest-Litovsk treaty – which Leon Trotsky described as “no war no peace” – and invaded Ukraine and other countries of Eastern Europe that were formed under German protection, and simultaneously, the collapse of the Central Powers affected the former Austrian province of Galicia, which was populated by Ukrainians and Poles.

The Ukrainians proclaimed a Western Ukrainian People’s Republic (WUNR) in Eastern Galicia, which wished to unite with the Ukrainian People’s Republic (UNR); while the Poles of Eastern Galicia – who were mainly concentrated in Lwów (Ukrainian: Lviv) – gave their allegiance to the newly formed Second Polish Republic, and not at all surprisingly, the two sides became increasingly hostile with each other.

On January 22, 1919, the Western Ukrainian People’s Republic and the Ukrainian People’s Republic signed an Act of Union in Kiev.

By October 1919, the Ukrainian Galician Army of the WUNR was defeated by Polish forces in the Polish–Ukrainian War and Eastern Galicia was annexed to Poland; the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 granted Eastern Galicia to Poland for 25 years.

A new, swift Bolshevik offensive overran most of Eastern and central Ukraine in early 1919, and Kiev – under the control of Symon Petliura’s Directorate – fell to the Red Army on February 5, and the exiled Soviet Ukrainian government was re-instated as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, moving to Kiev on March 15, while the Ukrainian People’s Republic (UNR) faced imminent defeat against the Bolsheviks – being was reduced to a strip of land along the Polish border with its capital moving from Vinnytsia to Proskuriv (now Khmelnytskyi), then to Kamianets-Podilskyi, and finally to Rivne.

But the UNR was saved when the Bolshevik armies had to regroup against a renewed White Russian offensive in South Russia and the Urals, which threatened the very existence of Bolshevism – and so required more urgent attention.

During the spring and summer of 1919, Anton Denikin’s (White Russian) Volunteer Army and Don Army overran all of central and Eastern Ukraine and made significant gains on other fronts, yet by winter the tide of war reversed decisively, and by 1920 all of Eastern and central Ukraine except Crimea was again in Bolshevik hands.

Facing imminent defeat, the UNR turned to its former adversary, Poland; and in April 1920, Józef Piłsudski and Symon Petliura signed a military agreement in Warsaw to fight the Bolsheviks, and just like the former alliance with Germany, this move partially sacrificed Ukrainian sovereignty: Petliura recognised the Polish annexation of Galicia and agreed to Ukraine’s role in Piłsudski’s dream of a Polish-led federation in Central and Eastern Europe.

Then, on March 18, 1921, Poland signed a peace treaty in Riga, Latvia, with Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine which effectively ended Poland’s alliance obligations with Petliura’s Ukrainian People’s Republic, and according to this treaty, the Bolsheviks recognized Polish control over Galicia and western Volhynia – the western part of Ukraine – while Poland recognized the larger central parts of Ukrainian territory, as well as eastern and southern areas, as part of Soviet Ukraine.

So what Ukraine are we spending our tax dollars to defend?

As to what is called “Ukraine” being nothing more than a cobbled-up mess, the territorial evolution of the Ukrainian SSR between 1922–1954 was as follows: Okrug Taganrog and Shakhty lost (1924); Polish Volhynia gained (1939); Transnistria lost (1940); Transcarpatia gained (1945); Romanian islands gained (1948); Crimea gained (1954).

Crimea, of course, was a gift to Ukraine SSR from Nikita Krushchev, the way Frankie Roosevelt made a gift of North Korea to Joe “The Butcher” Stalin towards the end of WWII, and the way Truman made Viet Nam a gift back to the French after WWII, as if big powers have the undisputed right to hand over smaller countries and the people in them to other big countries, which is why there is chaos in DICTATORIAL Ukraine right now, where there are NO opposition parties allowed, like when Hitler took over Germany and jailed or killed the Commies while banning other German parties from participating in government, which is exactly what is going on in Ukraine today, an incipient FASCIST regime being installed with US taxpayer dollars, while the ruling Democrats work like hell to ban the Republican party in this country.

And consider that it was Ukraine, along with Belarus and Russia, that were the founding members of the USSR.

The USSR, as I recall, of which Ukraine was a founding member, crushed the Hungarian revolt in 1956, when it was the Hungarians fighting to be free of Ukrainian dictatorship.

So who are the Ukrainians who want to be free?

And where exactly is this country called Ukraine, because I do not believe it really exists, and what I think needs to be done is for an international commission to go down through every treaty there has been over there in Europe to determine exactly who owns what, and where this incipient Hitler Zelensky and his big boss Joe Biden gets his claim from to represent ALL the people in Ukraine, when he clearly does not.

He is the leader of a city who wants to be the ruler of a country, except he has no country, and all the people in the country he wants to rule do not want him as their leader.

My views of reality, anyway.

But stay tuned, because this story is just getting going now, and with Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi now firmly in charge, it has legs and a long way to run.

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MAY 2, 2022 AT 9:06 PM

Paul Plante says:

Going back to this being Joe Biden’s war of choice, just as Syria was Hussein Obama’s war of choice back in the days of “me & Barack,” as Joe calls them, let us first go to a VOX.com article titled “Ukraine has more than Russia to worry about – A Ukrainian journalist on the Kremlin’s escalation, NATO, and a former president’s treason charges” by Jen Kirby on January 28, 2022, where we have as follows in the opening sentences, to wit:

“Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine” is a line you often hear from Western officials as they struggle to find a diplomatic offramp to Russia’s military buildup around Ukraine.

But Ukraine, the country at the center of all this — the one that would actually be invaded (again) by Russian forces — sometimes seems like a bit player in a greater geopolitical drama, with Moscow and Washington the stars.

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And people, that is what it is, and all it is – a bit player in a greater geopolitical drama, with Moscow and Putin as the (BOO HISS) villains, and Washington and Joe Biden and our sacred democracy, the only truly sacred democracy on the face of the planet, as the stars.

But let us go a bit further in that article where we have more proof that this is Joe Biden’s war, as opposed to Zelensky’s, to wit:

Jen Kirby: Over here, it feels like we’re constantly hearing the drumbeats of war.

What is the mood in Ukraine, as much as you can sum up?

Oleksiy Sorokin (the political editor and chief operating officer of the Kyiv Independent): I think, obviously, after the recent comments by the US, the comments coming from the UK, some people are worried.

I know a lot of my friends who don’t follow politics are now asking me questions: “Is Russia actually going to invade?”

But on the streets, in general, people carry on with their lives, because for many Ukrainians, we’re accustomed to war.

For eight years, Russia has been invading Ukraine, has been trying to meddle with Ukrainian internal affairs.

So having Russia on our tail, having this constant threat of Russia going further — I think many Ukrainians are used to it.

That’s why we’re probably more calm than some people in the West.

Jen Kirby: That’s fair enough!

You mentioned recent comments from the US.

I feel like there’s been so many comments; is there anything in particular you’re referring to?

Oleksiy Sorokin: Yes.

I think the comments coming from President Joe Biden that a “minor incursion” would be less of a big deal, and cause internal conflict for NATO members.

That’s the comment that struck many Ukrainians because for us, we are already at war with Russia, and having a US president saying that, well, some invasion is less costly than others, got a lot of people in Ukraine worried.

But we know that the presidential administration then went back on their comments saying that actually any move into Ukraine would be considered an invasion, and I think for many people that calmed the Ukrainian community, and a lot of Ukrainian politicians as well.

But also, if we’re talking about comments by the American side, we see that Ukrainian officials, they tend to say that nothing unusual is happening, that everything is fine, that we are continuing business as usual, we know that everything is okay.

And then we have the American officials, for example, Jen Psaki saying that Russia will invade, we see Biden saying that Putin has to do something already.

Those comments are getting people worried.

The problem that we’re facing now is that Ukrainian officials are trying to calm people down, and Western officials are heating up [the threat].

Jen Kirby: That’s interesting.

I wonder, from your perspective as a journalist, do you think that Ukrainian officials are underselling the threat, or are Western officials overselling the threat of a Russian invasion?

Oleksiy Sorokin: I think it’s both.

I think that the truth is somewhere in the middle.

There’s obviously an increased threat of Russia launching a full-scale invasion.

But I would say the comments coming from particularly the US are kind of going overboard, because we see that every day or every two days, American officials are saying that Russia will invade.

And I know that they might have some kind of intel that we in Ukraine don’t have.

But I still think that those comments are causing — I wouldn’t say panic — but some worries, not only [for] the Ukrainian public, but also some politicians.

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So, who really is in charge here?

And of what?

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MAY 3, 2022 AT 10:00 PM

Paul Plante says:

So, on January 28, 2022, that being twenty-seven (27) days before their lives were to be turned upside down on Thursday, February 24, 2022, the day the Biden-provoked Russian invasion of Ukraine began, as we see from this above interview of Oleksiy Sorokin, the political editor and chief operating officer of the Kyiv Independent, the people of Ukraine were totally clueless as to what was really taking place between the Biden Regime and Russia in terms of the “gunboat diplomacy” of the Biden regime, where Putin was expected to pass beneath the yoke in subservience to Joe Biden as his acknowledged “overlord,” and they were therefore left unprepared for the fate that Joe Biden had prepared them for, which was to be his “sacrificial lamb” in his proxy war against Putin of Russia.

But what about Zelensky

What did he know, and when did he know it?

And for that answer, let us go to the Times of Israel story “Ukraine leader says warnings of imminent Russian invasion are stoking ‘panic’ – Zelensky demands proof of Moscow’s attack plans, decries intelligence reports as ‘only provoking panic and not helping us’” by AFP and TOI Staff on 12 February 2022, just twelve (12) days before this Zelensky, a TV comedian turned politician, was to become the war leader of a country at war with Russia, where we have as follows, to wit:

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday that warnings of an imminent Russian attack on his country were stoking “panic” and demanded to see firm proof of a planned invasion.

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Now, this is incredible, people!

Simply incredible.

But it is exactly what you would expect from this inept Biden crowd, which is why the title of this thread is “Idiots, Morons, and Surreality in America today,” because how else can you explain this clown show that has gotten Ukraine into a real shooting war to soften up Russia, so Joe Biden can then sweep in and deliver the coup de gras to Putin in person, and so, leave no doubt in the minds of anyone as to who the real “LEADER OF THE WORLD” here, with a message to every other dictator out there who won’t recognize Joe Biden as his overlord that you don’t **** with Joe Biden if you know what is good for you, which takes us back to Zelensky on 12 February 2022, as follows:

Zelensky’s comments came a day after US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan warned that a Russian attack on its western neighbor could “begin at any time.”

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Jake Sullivan, of course, is an Obama-era retread who was involved in the US-backed coup in Ukraine when “protesters” spurred on by Biden and Sullivan set up camps in Kyiv’s Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square), and in December 2013 and January 2014, started taking over various government buildings, first in Kyiv, and later in Western Ukraine, the same type of riot that occurred in Washington on 6 January 2021 when the Democrats killed our Constitution so as to be able to put Joe Biden in office as our president, which takes us back to the story of Zelensky going to war against Rusia, even though he didn’t know it, to wit:

Ukrainian leaders have been trying to talk down the prospects of an all-out war because of the damaging effect it was having on the country’s teetering economy and public morale.

“We understand all the risks.”

“We understand that the risks are there,” Zelensky told reports.

“Right now, the people’s biggest enemy is panic in our country.”

“And all this information is only provoking panic and not helping us,” he said.

“If you or anyone has any additional information about a 100-percent chance of an invasion, give it to us,” he added.

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As I say, people, incredible!

Here we have Zelensky, on whom the burden of fighting this war is going to be placed, having no clue that he is going to actually be fighting Russia, on his own!

But as I have said, so what, because he was to be sacrificed all along, which takes us back to the story once again, as follows:

Moscow is demanding binding security guarantees from the West that includes a pledge to roll NATO forces out of eastern Europe and to never expand into Ukraine.

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In other words, Ukraine should have been made neutral like Switzerland and Belgium, but no, said Joe Biden!

A neutralized Ukraine would not suit his needs, which was war with Russia.

So Joe refused, and now Zelensky and the people of Ukraine are paying the price.

But hey, it now gives Jill Biden, Joe’s wife, an excuse to fly on our tax dollars to Europe where she can visit all those people whose lives have been upended by Joe Biden to offer her sympathies, while getting her picture on television, which for those people, is what it really is all about.

And for the moment, that is the news!

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MAY 4, 2022 AT 9:13 PM

Paul Plante says:

And this is un-******* real, people, and I mean seriously so!

Just yesterday, the rug-chewing Democrat madman in the Washington white house who believes himself to be the “Leader of the World” because a television comedian turned politician in Ukraine told him so, pledged our future and that of generations of Americans yet to come to defend Ukraine, being quoted in an article on Ukrinform, the Ukrainian multimedia platform for broadcasting, as follows:

“U.S. President Joe Biden has said that dictators like Putin must be stopped and their aggression must be resisted, no matter how high the price.”

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No matter how high the price?

Uh, okay, Joe!

But as for me, I think that is something only a certified madman would say, or Joe Biden, and it takes us back to February of 2003, when Joe Biden was still a senator who was the ranking minority member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and p. 86 of “FIASCO – The American Military Adventure in Iraq” by Thomas E. Ricks, which chapter was entitled “THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS,” where we had the same classic shallow-thinking by Joe then that put him into the white house on 6 January 2021, to wit:

In previous wars, Congress had been populated by hawks and doves.

But as war in Iraq loomed it seemed to consist mainly of lambs who hardly made a peep.

In the months of the run-up to war, Congress asked very few questions, and didn’t offer any challenge to the administration on the lack of postwar planning.

The last chance was offered by hearings on Iraq held in February 2003, but this was not an opportunity Congress would take.

It had made its choice the previous October when it gave the president a blank check to go to war.

As a body it was willing to ask questions, but that was little more than a pose, because it didn’t object when it didn’t get responses that spoke to the issue.

It was a Congress that would take no, or something close to it, for an answer.

Douglas Feith’s appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at its major prewar hearing on Iraq was a memorable demonstration of testimony as tap dancing.

He couldn’t say how many troops might be required, or what a war might cost, or even what other countries might join the U.S.-led effort.

“Senator, it’s hard to answer a lot of these what-ifs because a lot depends on, you know, future events that we don’t know,” Feith told Sen. Joseph Biden, the Delaware Democrat who was the ranking minority member on the panel.

“There are enormous uncertainties.”

As for the key question of the duration of the occupation, Feith deferred answering.

“I don’t think I want to venture into the prediction business,” he parried.

“The American people have no notion of what we are about to undertake,” Biden concluded that day.

It was an important observation about a democracy about to launch a war in a distant land, alien culture, and hostile region.

But it was made in a tone of passive resignation.

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And here we are again today, people, and once again, like before, the American people have no notion of what Joe Biden has now undertaken in our names with us having absolutely no say in the matter whatsoever, while handing us the bill for it, and for the record, this according to several different accounts, the Iraq War has cost the US nearly $2 trillion.

And that is money we and our children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren are on the hook for – $2 TRILLION gone up in smoke, wasted, with nothing tangible or of any account to show for it, and here Joe goes again, spending more tax dollars to make another war with, because Joe Biden is very good at starting wars and causing massive death and destruction of other people on the face of the earth, while Joe innocently claims the moral high ground, as if he is somehow entitled to it, which he most certainly is not.

Meanwhile, back here in the reality we all live in, a reality far removed from the cloud cuckoo land where Joe Biden resides, let us go to a Rigzone article titled “Oil Down as China Lockdowns Outweigh Prospective Russian Oil Ban” by Bloomberg & Julia Fanzeres on May 03, 2022, where we have as follows concerning diesel fuel, to wit:

For now, the most extreme pocket of tightness in the oil market is in diesel.

Record fuel exports from the U.S. Gulf Coast are draining local supplies, pushing diesel margins to the record high levels.

Retail prices have peaked in recent days.

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And that takes us back a day to another Rigzone article titled “Oil Rose Amid Surging Refined Products Markets” by Bloomberg & Julia Fanzeres on May 02, 2022, where we had as follows concerning diesel fuel, a vital commodity for our economy, as follows:

Fuel markets continued to show signs of extraordinary tightness with diesel futures surging nearly 5%.

The shunning of Russian oil products has forced Europe and Latin America to depend more on U.S. imports for fuel leave fuel supplies tight.

A measure of diesel’s future’s premium over crude futures –the diesel crack spread– shot up on Monday to reach a fresh high dating back to 1986.

Diesel’s strength relative to crude is rooted in depleting supplies around the world as countries cut back on Russian fuel.

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What this moronic idiot Biden has done to us is to pledge our diesel supplies to Europe and Ukraine in order to keep Joe’s war of choice against Putin going.

And diesel doesn’t grow on trees – it has to be produced from a barrel of oil, of which there are now also shortages.

And the result is that in this country, the price of diesel is skyrocketing, with a gallon of diesel in California now going for $6.471, which state is our major port of entry for foreign-made goods, and all the trucks that move those goods use diesel fuel.

So don’t expect price inflation from Joe Biden’s war of choice in Ukraine to be going down any time soon.

And once again, that is the news, like it or not!

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MAY 5, 2022 AT 6:32 PM

Paul Plante says:

And as we sit here watching Joe Biden, the self-styled “Leader of the World” who thinks he is the leader of the world because Zelensky of Ukraine told him he was, working to destroy our future so he can say that it was he who finally was able to do what Hitler and Napolean were unable to do, which is to be the Conqueror of Russia, and Putin, who Joe hates with a passion, because Putin will not pass under the yoke in front of Joe and proclaim him Imperator and Overlord, we have the following high school civics question to consider, to wit:

Q: Based on a review of history, how many people does it take to seriously **** up the world for everybody else?

A: A mere handful!

In this case of Ukraine and Russia, with whom we once had much better relations, we have Barack Hussein Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Victoria Nuland, Jake Sullivan, Tony Blinken, who has come down with COVID despite being vaxxed up the ying-yang, Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, Wally Ademyemo and Jerry Powell of the federal reserve.

So, less than ten!

And with that said, let us go to a Rigzone story titled “Oil Climbs with Impending Russian Bans and Record Low US Fuel Supplies” by Bloomberg & Julia Fanzeres on May 04, 2022, to see where Joe Biden is taking diesel fuel, to wit:

Oil rallied as supply concerns took center stage with the EU threatening to ban Russian supplies this year and U.S. regional fuel inventories dropping to record lows.

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Yes, people, we need to learn that this is a new day and age, and we are no longer a sovereign independent country.

We are now nothing more than a province in the world empire of Imperator Joe Biden, the undisputed ruler of all the world and all the people in it, and so, we have to expect that our resources here in this country aren’t really ours, they are Joe Biden’s, and being the world ruler, if Joe thinks those resources are better used elsewhere than here, so it will be, which takes us back to Rigzone, to wit:

The European Union said it plans to ban Russian crude and refined by the end of this year.

“This will be a complete import ban on all Russian oil, seaborne and pipeline, crude and refined,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said.

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And according to Imperator Biden, it is we who are going to make up that deficit, which takes us back to the story, as follows:

Adding to the sense of supply pressure, East Coast diesel inventories fell to a record low as U.S. refiners increasingly supply global markets in the absence of Russian product, according to data from the Energy Information Administration.

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Yes, people, face it, we are not that important, anymore, and that diesel fuel is needed elsewhere, so we will simply have to learn to do without, which again takes us back to the story, to wit:

The phaseout of Russian oil in Europe will come at a time when the world is grappling with a refined-product crisis — potentially making it all the more costly for the region to wean itself off Russian fuels such as diesel.

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As I have said before, incredible, but this is the New World Order, and we have to accept that we are now no longer number one, but just another number, which takes us to an article in American Shipper, a trade publication, titled “Armada carrying US LNG heads to Europe, but it won’t be enough – Invasion of Ukraine is pushing a lot more US natural gas toward Europe” by Greg Miller on March 21, 2022, where we learn more about our fate as a mere province now, to wit:

Fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is being felt across all shipping markets, but none more so than liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipping.

Consequences to this shipping segment have been immediate, sweeping and possibly permanent.

Traditionally, about 30% of U.S. LNG exports has gone to Europe.

The destination mix has dramatically changed.

Over the past two months, around 70% of U.S. LNG is going to Europe, according to Evercore ISI analyst Sean Morgan.

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Yes, people, we have it, but there are other people in Joe’s other provinces who need it more, and given that like Joe Stalin before him, Joe Biden gets to determine what resources will go where and who will have to do without and freeze and starve as a result, we have to sit here and watch our natural gas disappear over the horizon along with our diesel fuel, and our future, because to Joe Biden, the ruler of the world, that is the right thing to do.

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MAY 6, 2022 AT 8:19 PM

Paul Plante says:

And speaking of provocative headlines coming at us from out of Joe Biden’s newest province in his Empire, that being Ukraine under Biden puppet ruler Zelensky, a TV comedian turned WARLORD of Ukraine, we have as follows:

RUSSIA INVADED UKRAINE

ENLIST TO THE INTERNATIONAL LEGION OF DEFENCE OF UKRAINE


Yes, people, if you are reading that as Joe Biden having turned Ukraine into a free-fire shooting gallery where if you like to kill people with impunity while getting a handsome paycheck as a mercenary in Zelenkski’s private army, financed by US tax dollars flowing into Ukraine in a literal flood, there is the opportunity for you to do so.

That recruiting notice for mercenaries to fight for Zelensky goes on as follows:

On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a military attack on Ukraine.

In the first few days of the hostilities, the Russian army has conducted attacks on the civilian population and infrastructure.

Civilians are dying each day due to Russia’s acts of aggression against Ukraine.

Ukrainians have already demonstrated their courage and strength in defending their homeland, Europe, and our common civilizational values.

This is not just an invasion of Ukraine by Russia, but a start of a war against the entire Europe.

President Zelensky has created the International Legion of Ukraine, consisting of foreign citizens wishing to join the resistance against the Russian occupants and fight for global security.

Join the Legion and help us defend Ukraine, Europe and the whole world!

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Ukrainians are defending Europe, and our common civilizational values?

Uh, okay, if that is the way you want it, Zelensky, but frankly, I personally think that that is a load of horse****, as is the statement “This is not just an invasion of Ukraine by Russia, but a start of a war against the entire Europe.”

That horsecrap from Zelensky about the “start of a war against the entire Europe” has to be one of the most stupid statements by a politician that I have heard in years.

It is not the “start of a war against the entire Europe,” because Europe happens to be NATO, and it has been known for a long time now that Russia is no match for NATO troops, so Zelensky, out of his league and then some, is engaging in a hysterical flight of fancy there.

And then we come to the bull**** statement that President Zelensky has created the International Legion of Ukraine to fight for global security.

Is this dude kidding us, or what?

Without a continuous massive influx of both US arms and US money, Zelensky and Ukraine cannot even defend themselves.

So if we are counting on Zelensky to provide global security, then we are great big fools and that is a fact.

And the very last people one should depend on to provide global or national security is mercenaries, whose loyalty is to no flag, no country, only the hand that holds the money to pay them with, and when that money is gone, so too are the mercenaries.

As to mercenaries, those of us who were around in the 60’s remember well their use in the Congo and Biafra, and on 29 April 2009, the UN released a report titled “UN experts concerned over mercenaries’ alleged coup plot in Bolivia” stating therein that a group of United Nations independent experts on mercenaries voiced their deep concern over reports that five people were involved in a plot to overthrow the Government of Bolivia, and according to information available to date, the Bolivian police launched an operation on 16 April in the eastern city of Santa Cruz against a group, including foreigners, who were allegedly plotting to assassinate President Evo Morales and other top officials.

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And on 12 September 2017, the Human Rights Council in its Thirty-sixth session issued its “Report of the Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination on its mission to the Central African Republic” wherein was stated as follows concerning the use of mercenaries by governments to strip others of their human rights, to wit:

The Secretariat has the honour to transmit to the Human Rights Council the report of the Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of people’s to self-determination on its mission to the Central African Republic.

In accordance with its mandate, the Working Group studied the impact of mercenarism and foreign fighters on human rights, including the right of peoples to self-determination, in the context of the armed conflicts that took place in 2003 and 2013.

The Working Group also assessed the situation with regard to private security companies in the country.

During the past conflicts, and to date, armed groups composed of mercenaries and foreign fighters have committed scores of human rights violations against the civilian population.

A large part of the population today continue to live in fear of attacks and killings by armed groups, despite the presence of international peacekeepers in the country.

The activities of mercenaries and foreign fighters continue to be a significant challenge to the stability of the Central African Republic.

There is thus a critical need to adopt measures to combat the activities of those actors, including eliminating impunity and reinforcing efforts to facilitate effectively peacebuilding, reconciliation and development in the country.

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So ask yourselves, people, what it is that this rug-chewing madman in the Washington white house has set in motion in Ukraine using our tax dollars to support a mercenary army.

And ask yourselves as our tax dollars now flow to Ukraine and into the pocket of this Zelensky to support his private army how any of that makes us safe in this country, or serves to make the world we all have to live in, a better place!

And if you want to go to a free-fire zone and kill people with impunity while getting paid to do so, Ukraine is the place to be, and to make it easy on you to get there, this is what the advertisement from Zelensky for mercenaries to fight for him has to say, to wit:

VISA REQUIREMENT IS CANCELLED FROM 1ST MAR TILL THE END OF MARTIAL LAW, PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO82/2022.

And if you think that makes Zelensky sound like a dictator, you got that exactly right!

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MAY 7, 2022 AT 6:59 PM

Paul Plante says:

What a great conversation we could have today with Carl Gustav Jung if only he were still around about the sheer insanity of these times which have now descended down around us with the ascension of Joe Biden as “Leader of the World” as what used to be America sinks back into the mire of benighted ignorance that has been the death of “democracies” since time immemorial.

How many countries to date has Joe Biden helped to totally **** up and destabilize?

Let’s see – we have Iraq, Libya, Syria and now Ukraine!

And how much have those wars cost us?

According to a September 1, 2021 report from the Costs of War project at Brown University, it was revealed that 20 years of post-9/11 wars have cost the U.S. an estimated $8 trillion and have killed more than 900,000 people.

$8 TRILLION gone up literally in smoke, and what do we have to show for it today besides on great big ******* mess with Joe Biden’s fingerprints all over, high inflation, a cratering stock market and economy headed towards a recession?

What have we as a nation and as a people gained from Joe Biden’s war against autocrats to protect failing democracy, other than an autocrat now in charge of this country using our tax dollars to support a dictator in Ukraine in the name of democracy, which is an absolute joke.

And speaking of jokes, just yesterday, in a CNBC article titled “Biden announces a new military aid package to Ukraine as concerns about Russian escalation grow” by Amanda Macias on May 6, 2022, we learned as follows concerning Joe’s ability to continue to finance his proxy war against Putin where Joe is more than willing to fight to the last Ukrainian to defeat Putin and Russia while leaving that country in ashes like Iraq, Libya, and Syria where the hand of Joe Biden has been before, to wit:

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced Friday that he will sign a new weapons package for Ukraine, as the war-weary country enters its 11th week of conflict with Russia.

The funding comes from the remaining $250 million in presidential drawdown authority, which allows the president to transfer excess weapons from U.S. arsenals without congressional approval.

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Now, is everybody following this?

Think about what is being said there.

This fool Biden and his pack of idiot advisors, that being Tony Blinken and Jake Sullivan, have started a war they now do not know how to handle, and Joe, who had no idea what he was getting us into, or Ukraine, NEVER having won a war before in his lifetime, has run out of money to fund it with.

Going back to that article, we have more on Joe’s massive ignorant blundering here with respect to his proxy war in Ukraine against Putin, who I believe reads the same news I do, as follows:

Last month, Biden requested $33 billion from Congress after he exhausted his remaining drawdown authority.

He reiterated his request on Friday by saying that for Ukraine to succeed against Russia, the U.S. and its allies must continue to flow weapons and ammunition into the country.

“Congress should quickly provide the requested funding to strengthen Ukraine on the battlefield and at the negotiating table,” Biden added.

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And you know what, people?

That is not going to happen!

Can anyone out there in their right mind who is sane and rational and not a Biden ideologue imagine AOC and her pack foregoing their GREEN DREAM and free stuff for their followers in this country to finance a war in Ukraine, when they don’t like wars, or veterans of wars?

And this won’t be the first time the Democrats have started a war, and then grew tired of it and shut off the funding, because they got bored with it and wanted to move on to destroy something new.

They did it to the South Vietnamese, as well, which brings us to these closing words from the news back when, to wit:

WASHINGTON, April 18, 1975 (AP) – The Senate Foreign Relations Committee today approved a $200 million appropriation for humanitarian aid for South Vietnam, but a $722 million request for military aid remained stalled in Congress.

SAIGON, South Vietnam, April 21, 1975 (Agence France Presse) – President Nguyen Van Thieu resigned tonight after ten years in office. He appointed Vice President Tran Van Huong to replace him and denounced the United States as “unworthy of trust.”

WASHINGTON, April 22, 1975 (CNS) – A Pentagon official just back from Vietnam says he believes the worst threat to Americans remaining in Vietnam may be deserting ARVN combat troops who feel they have been betrayed.

“They’re likely to go berserk in their bitterness and attack anyone they feel responsible for their defeat,” the general said.

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And like it or not, that is American history as written by the Democrats in Washington, D.C.

Will it repeat in Ukraine where stupid, shallow-thinking Joe Biden is now caught with his teats in the wringer up to the arm pits because he has started a war he don’t have the money to fight it with?

Stay tuned is all I can say.

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MAY 8, 2022 AT 9:04 PM

Paul Plante says:

And given that it is our tax dollars that are supporting Joe Biden’s war of choice against his hated arch-enemy Putin of Russia because Putin won’t abase himself before Joe Biden and acknowledge Joe Biden as his lord and master, let’s go back to this mercenary force Joe is putting together for his lackey Zelensky in Ukraine, where we were told as follows in the political propaganda put out by Joe and Zelensky concerning this mercenary army, to wit:

This is not just an invasion of Ukraine by Russia, but a start of a war against the entire Europe.

President Zelensky has created the International Legion of Ukraine, consisting of foreign citizens wishing to join the resistance against the Russian occupants and fight for global security.

Join the Legion and help us defend Ukraine, Europe and the whole world!

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My goodness people, but that sounds grand and glorious, does it not – fighting for the global security Joe Biden is unable to afford us because he is incompetent while defending not only Ukraine, and Europe, which is unable to defend itself, but the whole world, as well!

So who exactly are these mercenaries that Joe Biden and Zelensky are hiring on in Ukraine to fight for the global security Joe Biden is unable to afford us because he is incompetent while defending not only Ukraine, and Europe, which is unable to defend itself, but the whole world, as well?

For that answer, let us go to an article in the on-line publication Task & Purpose titled “Legion of the damned: Inside Ukraine’s army of misfits, veterans, and war tourists in the fight against Russia” by Andrew Milburn who retired from the Marine Corps as a colonel in 2019 after a 31-year career as an infantry and special operations officer, his last position in uniform being Deputy Commander of Special Operations Central (SOCCENT), and prior to that commanding officer of the Marine Raider Regiment and Combined Special Operations Task Force – Iraq, on March 18, 2022, where we learn about these mercenaries that our lives and futures and those of everybody in the world depend on to keep us safe, to wit:

LVIV, Ukraine — “Jesus, what a f**ked up country,” John said in exasperation at the vagaries of the Polish rail system.

John was one of the latest recruits for Ukrainian President Zelensky’s Foreign Legion, bound for the Ukrainian city of Lviv where his recruiter had told him to report.

A rail-thin, 20-something from Mobile, Alabama, John had tried the U.S. Army but left halfway through his enlistment due to “medical problems,” he told me.

I wondered if his medical problems had resolved sufficiently for him to be fighting the Russians but said nothing.

Sporting woodland camouflage, a scraggly goatee, and thick glasses of the style made famous by Jeffrey Dahmer, John seemed to me to be an unlikely candidate.

He soon confirmed that impression.

“I wanted to fight, see,” he explained, “But my mom said that I wouldn’t be any good at that.”

“So I figured, they are going to need someone to show them the way.”

The Way – it turned out – was not the Way to expel the Russians, but a different kind of Way.

John was here to enlist in the Ukrainian Army as a chaplain.

I tried to be encouraging but couldn’t deflect an image of John delivering eulogies in broad Alabaman to uncomprehending Ukrainian soldiers as they headed up the line.

Sorry about the no-fly zone thing President Zelensky, but we can save the Ukrainian people in other ways.

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Talk about surreality, people, are we now stuck inside a story in the pages of National Lampoon that we are unable to get out of?

Sure does seem it to me, anyway, which takes us back to that story of those to whom we owe our future, to wit:

John, incidentally, was one of the first prospective Legion recruits whom I met, but by all accounts, his story was not unusual.

The initial crop of applicants has been a mixed bag – with a swarm of Fantasists for every one candidate with experience in combat.

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A swarm of fantasists, people – that is who Joe Biden and Zelensky are counting on to keep us and the world safe, which takes us back for more, as follows:

Recruits for the Ukrainian Foreign Legion are invited to apply via the Ukrainian embassy in their country of residence.

After a cursory initial interview, they are told to head for Ukraine via Warsaw and overland to Lviv in western Ukraine.

The route is so well known that it is heavily monitored by the Russians, according to a Ukrainian special forces officer I spoke with.

He was worried that they would soon begin targeting recruits before they reached their destination.

After Lviv, the recruits are sent to a camp near the Polish border for selection and training.

Selection apparently follows no discernable process other than separating those that don’t have military experience from those that do.

The former are put through a 4-week training course — the latter are given a weapon and sent to the front in ad-hoc units with a Ukrainian officer.

Some candidates are inexplicably rejected while others – regarded as being eminently unsuitable by their peers, are retained.

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And with Joe Biden in charge, and him being real big on “equity,” that is exactly what one would expect from Joe – that those regarded as being eminently unsuitable by their peers are retained in Joe’s mercenary army, because it is the right thing to do for the sake of equity, so those who are really incompetent can pretend otherwise because they made the cut, which will make them feel good about themselves and all warm and squishy inside as a result, which in turn makes Joe Biden feel good about himself as the champion of the incompetents and misfits of America.

Getting back to the story it goes on as follows:

In their first trial by fire earlier this month, the volunteers were put into a hasty defense north of Kyiv, as the Russians began their onslaught on the towns lying north of the city.

After the initial volley of Ukrainian anti-tank missiles had stopped the attackers in their tracks, enemy soldiers spilled out of their armored fighting vehicles about a quarter-mile in front of the volunteers, and into a withering storm of fire that halted the assault.

“Shoot the ones in black uniforms,” a Ukrainian platoon commander is said to have told his foreign charges.

“They are Belarusians.”

Ukrainians are particularly incensed (but not surprised) at the perfidious complicity of Belarusian autocrat Alexander Lukashenko in taking his stance as a sycophantic second to President Vladimir Putin.

Sadly, as with Putin, it is Lukashenko’s soldiers who are paying the price.

Although the Legionnaires helped to halt the attack, their performance that day was uneven — an observation that led the Ukrainians to discharge the surviving members of the initial intake, without any ceremony or official notification.

Worse was to come.

An unknown number of new recruits were training at a camp near the border when, a strike by Tupolev bombers, carrying Kh 101 cruise missiles, destroyed the camp.

The death toll is not yet clear, but Ukrainian officers have told me that it will likely be more than 100.

With most of its initial intake now discharged, and many from subsequent intakes killed or wounded, the plan to stand up the Ukrainian Foreign Legion program is one part of the Ukrainian war effort that is definitely not going well.

“We should only take experienced combat veterans — that is the lesson that we are learning,” a Ukrainian general told Task & Purpose on condition of anonymity.

“The others don’t know what they are getting themselves into – and when they find out, they want to go home.”

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And that, people, is more of the news that affects the lives of all of us as Joe Biden continues to blunder his way into WWIII, which will be another war he don’t know how to win, never having yet won a war in his lifetime as a hack politician who went into politics because he couldn’t make it in the real world, but stay tuned, for this show has just begun.

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MAY 20, 2022 AT 9:13 PM

Paul Plante says:

So what has been going on here with Joe Biden’s war of choice against Putin, which Joe wants us to believe was really Putin’s war of choice, and in some senses, Joe is right on that score, because Joe made it patently clear that he was a clear and present danger to Russia’s national security with his turning Ukraine into a Biden-esque fortress state, so Putin did the logical thing and attacked before Joe Biden could build up his full strength in Ukraine.

And that brings us to a Reuters article titled “After delay, U.S. Senate overwhelmingly approves $40 billion in Ukraine aid” by Patricia Zengerle on May 19, 2022, as follows:

WASHINGTON, May 19 (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly approved nearly $40 billion in new aid for Ukraine on Thursday sending the bill to the White House for President Joe Biden to sign into law as Washington races to keep military assistance flowing nearly three months after Russia’s invasion.

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And that brings us to another Reuters article titled “G7 pledges billions for Ukraine ‘to get through this'” by Natalia Zinets and Jonathan Landay on May 19, 2022, where we have further as follows:

KYIV/SLATYNE, Ukraine, May 19 (Reuters) – The Group of Seven agreed on Thursday to provide Ukraine with $18.4 billion to pay its bills, funds that Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said would speed up Kyiv’s victory over Russia and which were just as important as “the weapons you provide”.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told reporters at the G7 finance leaders’ meeting in Germany: “The message was, ‘We stand behind Ukraine.'”

“We’re going to pull together with the resources that they need to get through this.'”

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So we really can’t pay our own bills in this country, but what the hey, why not pick up paying for Ukraine’s bills too, to keep their economy running?

And that takes us to a Reuters article titled “EXCLUSIVE – War forces Ukraine to divert $8.3 bln to military spending, tax revenue drops – minister” by Natalia Zinets on May 12, 2022, where we learn thusly about where this money needs to go in Ukraine, to wit:

“We urge our partners to provide part of the funds as grants to reduce (our) debt burden which is already growing due to martial law as well as the need for financing,” Marchenko said.

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And note that about “martial law,” as we go back to the Reuters story “After delay, U.S. Senate overwhelmingly approves $40 billion in Ukraine aid” by Patricia Zengerle on May 19, 2022, where we have Joe Biden feeding us pure bull**** as only Joe Biden can feed it, to wit:

“I applaud the Congress for sending a clear bipartisan message to the world that the people of the United States stand together with the brave people of Ukraine as they defend their democracy and freedom,” Biden said in a statement, noting that he would announce another package of security assistance on Thursday.

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Defend their “democracy?”

But as I say, that is pure bull**** from out the mouth of Joe Biden because Ukraine does not have a democracy to defend.

To the contrary, Ukraine is a right-wing dictatorship under martial law, the way Germany was after the Reichstag Fire Decree that made Hitler a dictator like Zelensky and put an end to the democracy of the Weimar Republic in Germany.

And Ukraine has no history of democracy, either.

And it is interesting that Joe Biden had his CIA scrub the history of Ukraine in that regard when he had them rewrite their chapter on Ukraine in the CIA World Factbook on April 26, 2022, so that Ukraine’s history during WWII has literally disappeared.

And what history was that, one asks?

Let’s look and see:

According to Peter Kenez, “before the advent of Hitler, the greatest mass murder of Jews occurs in the Ukraine in the course of the Civil War.”

“All participants in the conflict were guilty of murdering Jews, even the Bolsheviks; however the (Ukrainian) Volunteer Army had the largest number of victims.”

The number of Jews killed during the period is estimated to be between 35,000 and 50,000.

A total of 1,236 violent attacks on Jews had been recorded between 1918 and 1921 in Ukraine.

Among them, 493 were carried out by Ukrainian People’s Republic soldiers under the command of Symon Petliura, 307 by independent Ukrainian warlords, 213 by Denikin’s army, 106 by the Red Army, and 32 by the Polish Army.

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WOW!

No wonder Joe wanted his CIA to scrub that out of the record as he tries to make Ukraine out as a democracy, which it clearly is not.

And here, we need to make it clear that a fascist is not synonymous with a Nazi.

While the Nazis may have been fascists, all fascists are not Nazis.

Mussolini’s crowd were fascists, and so, too, if I recall, was Franco in Spain.

So when I call Zelensky an incipient fascist, I don’t mean he is a Nazi, I mean he is a fascist.

Fascism goes back to Rome and comes forward from there to our times today, and yes, I do believe that Zelensky is an incipient fascist, where “fascism” is defined as a one party system of government in which each class has its distinct place, function, and representation in the government, but the individual is subordinated to the state and control is maintained by military forces, secret police, rigid censorship, and governmental regimentation of industry and finance.

Is that Ukraine today?

Think about it, people.

What exactly is it that Joe Biden is creating in Ukraine with our tax dollars?

And why?

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MAY 31, 2022 AT 8:19 PM

Paul Plante says:

Getting back to here, wherever here might now be as we continue to be engulfed with the sheer surreality that is the world in the time of the reign of Joe Biden, known to future history as “Joe the Terrible,” this as events continue to wobble and unravel in the real world outside of the make-believe world that exists in Joe Biden’s head, where Joe is the greatest world leader there ever has been and ever will be, where America is great again because Joe has built it back better than it has ever been before, nobody before Joe having a clue as to how to build something back better as opposed to making a real hash of things, above here, when I last left off, we are confronted with two serious questions, to wit:

I: What exactly is it that Joe Biden is creating in Ukraine with our tax dollars?

II: And why?

And to properly address those questions, we need context, and in this case, that context has to begin with a document on the United States Department of State website titled “NATO-Russia Founding Act – Fact sheet released by the White House, Office of the Press Secretary, Washington, DC, May 15, 1997,” where we have as follows, to wit:

On May 14, NATO Secretary General Solana and Russian Foreign Minister Primakov announced agreement on the text of the “Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security between NATO and the Russian Federation,” creating a new relationship between the Alliance and Russia.

The Act has been referred to NATO countries and PresidentYeltsin for approval.

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Does anyone in Washington, D.C. today, starting with this mental midget who is now Joe Biden’s secretary of state, that being the loser Tony Blinken, remember any of that?

Going back to the document, it continues as follows:

The Clinton Administration has made building a more stable, secure, and undivided Europe one of its key foreign policy priorities.

At the Helsinki summit in March, Presidents Clinton and Yeltsin agreed on the importance of crafting a cooperative relationship between NATO and Russia.

The Act provides the basis for an enduring and robust partnership between the Alliance and Russia, one that can make an important contribution to Europe’s security architecture in the 21st century.

The preamble notes that NATO and Russia do not consider one another adversaries and cites the sweeping transformations in NATO and Russia that make possible this new relationship.

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So, if on May 15, 1997, NATO, which let’s face it, is the United States, and Russia did not consider one another adversaries, what has happened since to make them adversaries now that the bellicose, belligerent jingo Biden is in charge in Washington, D.C.?

And before we delve the answer to that question further, because the simple answer is Joe Biden’s massive ego and megalomania (a person who is obsessed with their own power), let’s go to a Washington Post article titled “Opinion Biden’s ‘team of sycophants’ enabled his Afghanistan disaster” by Marc A. Thiessen on August 19, 2021, for a closer look at the shambles which is the decision-making body of the inept and incompetent Biden regime, to wit:

In 2014, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) took to the Senate floor to deliver a blistering speech opposing Antony Blinken’s nomination as deputy secretary of state.

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It is this very same Tony Blinken who is now Joe Biden’s inept and incompetent but bellicose, belligerent and jingoistic secretary of state whose blunders have now got us entrenched in Ukraine right after Joe’s embarrassing skeddadle out of Afghanistnam, which goes to show how much Joe values having proven losers on his team, which takes us back to the story, as follows:

Noting his years working for then-Vice President Joe Biden, McCain declared that Blinken was “not only unqualified” but also would be “dangerous to America and to the young men and women who are fighting and serving our country.”

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And say what you will about John McCain, but the dude was right on the money with that statement about Blinken being dangerous to America, which is the prime reason Joe chose Tony over anyone else, because Tony is a proven quantity in Joe’s eyes, which takes us back to that story for more explanation, as follows:

As evidence, McCain cited a 2013 speech in which “Mr. Blinken discussed a number of the administration’s achievements, including, one, ending the war in Iraq responsibly; two, setting a clear strategy and date for the withdrawal from Afghanistan.”

To call these achievements, McCain said, was “Orwellian.”

The senator then went on to cite a series of Blinken statements that McCain said were “so divorced from reality, one can only draw one of two conclusions: either that Mr. Blinken is abysmally ignorant or he is simply not telling the truth.”

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That, people, is the architect of Joe Biden’s misadventure in Ukraine that John McCain was talking about there with his statement, a true statement in my estimation based on Tony’s track record, that Joe Biden’s secretary of state is abysmally ignorant of reality outside of Washington, D.C., which takes us back to the article, to wit:

When President Donald Trump was in office, the media were always celebrating the “adults in the room” — the presidential advisers who restrained Trump from following through on his worst instincts.

To his credit, Trump sometimes invited people who disagreed with him such as H.R. McMaster and John Bolton to join his inner circle.

And when his generals warned him of disastrous consequences, he modified his plans.

Trump wanted to pull all U.S. forces from Syria but was persuaded to leave 900 in place.

He wanted to pull out all U.S. forces from Afghanistan before leaving office but was persuaded to leave 2,500 troops on the ground, pending a conditions-based withdrawal in May.

And when he would not listen to reason, there were people willing to put their stars on the table.

In 2018, after clashing with Trump over the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria and Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis submitted his resignation.

Where are the adults in the room today?

Nowhere to be found.

ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos asked Biden this week whether any of his advisers had pushed back on a complete withdrawal and recommended leaving a residual force of 2,500 troops in Afghanistan?

“No.”

“No one said that to me that I can recall,” Biden replied.

That he can recall?

If someone did push back, and Biden cannot recall it, then we have a 25th Amendment problem.

But if Biden is correct, and not one single person in his circle of advisers — in or out of uniform — pushed back on his plan to withdraw no matter the conditions on the ground, or made the case for leaving a residual force, then that is a shocking indictment of his national security team.

Far from a team of rivals, Biden has surrounded himself with a team of sycophants and enablers who share his worst instincts.

Blinken is an ideologue who has been working toward a full Afghanistan withdrawal since he joined the Obama administration in 2009.

Ditto for national security adviser Jake Sullivan.

But others such as Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark A. Milley knew better.

Why didn’t one of them have the courage to do what Mattis did, and resign rather than carry out a policy they knew — or should have known — would lead to the disaster we see unfolding?

In his speech seven years ago, McCain noted that former defense secretary Robert M. Gates famously said Biden has been “wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”

He did not make those blunders — or this one — alone.

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And there for the moment we shall rest with the thought in our heads that Joe Biden is no Bill Clinton, and not by a long shot!

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