I'd cut Putin a wee bit more slack than you do however. He's one of the few, perhaps the only notable, political leader paying at least some attention to his country's best interests rather than The New World Order.
Second that. This war was ginned up in 2014 when the CIA fomented a coup & overthrew the govt. Add to that guilt of every presidential admin since Bush I (sans Trump) since they keep shoving NATO ever eastward after promising not to. Have to remember Russia has been invaded twice in the last two centuries so their unease with NATO on the border is perfectly understandable. Moreover, why the constant demonization of all things Russian? If they had 20 armored divisions poised to plunge thru the Fulda Gap in a blitzkrieg-style attack across Western Europe to the English Channel, I get it but that hasn’t been the case since 1991 . Seems the neocons are all in & now looking to start World War III.
Why does NATO even exist anymore? It’s alter alliance The Warsaw Pact dissolved with the implosion of the Soviet Union & NATO should have been scrapped with it.
Frightening times we’re living. Seems the whole of the Western world has gone mad & appears hell bent on committing suicide.
Happy New Year Mr Surber & thanks for all you do!!! ;<)
He can be a viscious killer and that still does not make this war and the billions we're throwing at it right. Zelensky is far from any angel either. Those “Two wrongs”, Putin AND Zelensky, don’t make a right.
Putin is a murderer and an oligarch, but our own representatives – not just the deep state and TLAs – have been pushing this own our side for a long time. For example: https://gettr.com/post/p22pzdi298c
That Zelinsky's wife spent $40,000 in one day Christmas shopping in London was interesting. And prior to that I saw a news item about Zelinsky buying his parents a 13 million dollar "house" someplace out of the war zone, with three new cars in the driveway. Who does he think he is, Antifa? The way these news snippets disappear down the memory hole leads me to believe Western Media are the least intellectually curious people on the planet. Maybe they've got a piece of the action.
I've been alive near 70 years. Nothing will get better, or "upwards," as long as Commiecrats own the education system, the fake news media, Hollywood, movies, TV, music and other entities.
Some may disagree, but I am developing a healthy dislike for America, as I perceive it is becoming. Anti free speech, anti liberty, pro open borders, the promotion of a bizarre transgender agenda on the entire nation, banana republic elections (no offense, Nigeria). my growing distaste for america almost makes me a liberal.
Wait! Don't do that. I hear ya but America is what we were given in 1776, not what we have today, its not America. Fight for what real America stands for, the idea of it. Dont let them win.
You make a good point. However, the depressing decay that has accelerated so rapidly since trump left office is hard for me to watch. I went to spain a month ago and have not paid any attention to the day to day news. It's just depressing.
The news is a TRAP. Dont watch it. Some astrologer I was reading said in 2022 to 2026 there is the same astrological alignment as from 1772-1776. Feels like it doesn't it? This is war. In 1772 half of our country (the colonies) wanted to remain loyal to king George, half wanted to break. Way less than half fought for independence. That's where we are today. Way less than half will fight for freedom but whats literally in our DNA won't be denied. 30% didn't get even 1 shot and 30% will fight the good fight.
Don: As I see it, with a lackluster Republican leader like McCarthy and Biden's minions running rampant for another two years, it is not going to get any better anytime soon.
So the question is: do the caring Americans in this country sit back and let it happen, or do we all do something about it? And if the latter, what?
True, sad and scary column. What the hell happened to us?
I am hanging by the thinnest threads of hope that somehow, someway, by the mercy and Grace of God, this Nation awakens and turns the tables on those attempting to destroy everything it once stood for.
But I won’t believe it until people - ALOT OF PEOPLE - start going to jail for their evil deeds.
Like so many words, the left has changed the definition of fascism to suit their new world order. Get yourself an old dictionary while you still can so you’ll know what words used to mean. You’ll be amazed.
“Leftists stand on their heads and blame you that their world is upside down.” That piece of truth is from the great Jim Quinn - radio DJ (KQV) - later conservative talk show host. It sums things up perfectly.
Great column, Don. No truer words were spoken. Fascism is everywhere and its participants are fully complicit. The rest of us are expected to be compliant. I pray that 2023 will be better. I had high hopes for 2022, but I have to admit that I was mightily disappointed. Yeah, maybe next year. Happy New Year everyone!
I am at the same time buoyed and saddened by Don's recognition of the travesty that is the "Russia-Ukraine War." Buoyed because if he recognizes, as he obviously has, that the conflict is being prolonged and used by the neocon element that is in control of America's foreign policy, others who read his influential postings may also become similarly enlightened. Saddened because we have as yet not put a stop to it, which could be done by the simple expedient of stopping economic/military support to the dictator Zelenskyy. We must do this, not merely for the sake of the Ukrainian and Russian people who are being chewed up wholesale by the competing dictatorships, but as well for the people of Europe who are being deprived of heat, food and freedom by their rulers who are either operating as or on behalf of the globohomo/NATO/WEF/Davos cabal that is working in conjunction with their coevals in the so-called "Biden Administration." Recognition that America has absolutely no interest in who controls the territory of the Ukrainian steppe is perhaps the beginning of the awakening process. And even more urgently, we must stop our intervention in the dispute for the sake of that part of America that is still worth preserving against the depredations of the leftist/Marxist leadership that controls the democrat political party. America has been invaded, both literally and figuratively, with the southern border having been obliterated by those America-hating democrats who lied, cheated and connived their way into power in conjunction with the hordes of third world offscourings whose illegal incursion they so enthusiastically facilitate. And yes, they DO want to replace traditional Americans with a population that is more amenable to dictatorial control. Everything that has been done under the "Biden presidency" has been long planned by Obama and the traitorous scum who surrounded him. We are now simply seeing how they are now implementing their schemes under the rubric of "crisis management." After all, it was Obama's favorite catamite, Rahm Emanuel who advised him to take advantage of such "crises," in order to do things that would never be possible under normal circumstances. Obama lied his way into power, posing as a "nice, clean and articulate black" (Biden's description, not mine) and Biden took power by pretending to be a "normal/traditional, American patriot," in the fashion of FDR and JFK. I hope this charade has finally been revealed as the horrible, tragic masquerade it is and that our elected representatives do what the people have told them in no uncertain terms: AMERICA OUT OF UKRAINE, NOW!
Well said. And doesn't the U.N.charter say something about letting peoples and ethnicities - the Russian speaking and identifying eastern Ukraine, have self determination? Instead, they have been bombed and the teaching of their own language forbidden by Zelensky. And he is supposed to be the good guy?
Whether or not Ukraine (when did we stop calling it "The Ukraine"?) is democratic or a corrupt Dictatorship ... doesn't really matter. The issue is Russian expansionism. Over a year ago, not unlike Adolf Hitler and "Mein Kampf", Putin wrote a tract on how he was going to re-constitute the Soviet/Russian Empire. Biden's weakness in everything but spending and persecuting Conservatives, give Putin the opening to begin the plan he laid-out, figuring (a) Ukrsine was a pushover, and that (b) neither Biden nor NATO would intervene. An added benefit would be fracturing NATO. But, he got (a) wrong, and when Ukraine beat Putin in the field, Biden and NATO realized Putin owned s Potemkin army.
Had we abandoned Ukrsine, Putin would have moved on - like Hitler in the 30's - to Moldavia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and, then, likely, their age-old client-statr Finland. He could have then presented the West with an ultimatum: US out of Europe, and Europe agrees to Finlandization: all significant political & economic decisions subject to Russian aka Putin veto, or face nuclear war.
Although we didnt start the fight, Biden's weakness contributed greatly to its start. We must continue to support, regardless of Ukrainian politics and/or cupidity until Russia leaves the Ukraine.
Yup. Agreed. Putin didn't start it either, we did. Antagonizing Russia with talks of NATO for Ukraine. As if we would consider for one second having China or Russia in Mexico or Canada
Good un Don.
I'd cut Putin a wee bit more slack than you do however. He's one of the few, perhaps the only notable, political leader paying at least some attention to his country's best interests rather than The New World Order.
Second that. This war was ginned up in 2014 when the CIA fomented a coup & overthrew the govt. Add to that guilt of every presidential admin since Bush I (sans Trump) since they keep shoving NATO ever eastward after promising not to. Have to remember Russia has been invaded twice in the last two centuries so their unease with NATO on the border is perfectly understandable. Moreover, why the constant demonization of all things Russian? If they had 20 armored divisions poised to plunge thru the Fulda Gap in a blitzkrieg-style attack across Western Europe to the English Channel, I get it but that hasn’t been the case since 1991 . Seems the neocons are all in & now looking to start World War III.
Why does NATO even exist anymore? It’s alter alliance The Warsaw Pact dissolved with the implosion of the Soviet Union & NATO should have been scrapped with it.
Frightening times we’re living. Seems the whole of the Western world has gone mad & appears hell bent on committing suicide.
Happy New Year Mr Surber & thanks for all you do!!! ;<)
NATO is just a name for the whole money laundering scheme
Putin is a viscous killer. Lionize him at your own peril.
He can be a viscious killer and that still does not make this war and the billions we're throwing at it right. Zelensky is far from any angel either. Those “Two wrongs”, Putin AND Zelensky, don’t make a right.
Putin is a murderer and an oligarch, but our own representatives – not just the deep state and TLAs – have been pushing this own our side for a long time. For example: https://gettr.com/post/p22pzdi298c
There was no coup.
"He rolled NATO as if it were the town drunk". Classic!
Happy New Year, Don and fellow Surberfans! We've got to be close to hitting bottom.
I got a bad feeling when he and his wife got the hero shot on Vogue's cover.
What kind of war is it when one of the “leaders” has time for glamour shots?
That Zelinsky's wife spent $40,000 in one day Christmas shopping in London was interesting. And prior to that I saw a news item about Zelinsky buying his parents a 13 million dollar "house" someplace out of the war zone, with three new cars in the driveway. Who does he think he is, Antifa? The way these news snippets disappear down the memory hole leads me to believe Western Media are the least intellectually curious people on the planet. Maybe they've got a piece of the action.
Yep, we are way too close to hitting the bottom. But after that, it's only upwards, right?
I've been alive near 70 years. Nothing will get better, or "upwards," as long as Commiecrats own the education system, the fake news media, Hollywood, movies, TV, music and other entities.
Ohhh yeah…..
“And the three men I admire most
The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
They caught the last train for the Coast
The day
The music
Died…”
I would say he played them like a piano.
Some may disagree, but I am developing a healthy dislike for America, as I perceive it is becoming. Anti free speech, anti liberty, pro open borders, the promotion of a bizarre transgender agenda on the entire nation, banana republic elections (no offense, Nigeria). my growing distaste for america almost makes me a liberal.
It’s not really America you dislike- it’s the deformed version trying to be hoisted upon us by these evildoers.
The true America you love is what you are grieving over. Keep that vision and faith: we’ll need when it’s time to rebuild it.
Wait! Don't do that. I hear ya but America is what we were given in 1776, not what we have today, its not America. Fight for what real America stands for, the idea of it. Dont let them win.
You make a good point. However, the depressing decay that has accelerated so rapidly since trump left office is hard for me to watch. I went to spain a month ago and have not paid any attention to the day to day news. It's just depressing.
The news is a TRAP. Dont watch it. Some astrologer I was reading said in 2022 to 2026 there is the same astrological alignment as from 1772-1776. Feels like it doesn't it? This is war. In 1772 half of our country (the colonies) wanted to remain loyal to king George, half wanted to break. Way less than half fought for independence. That's where we are today. Way less than half will fight for freedom but whats literally in our DNA won't be denied. 30% didn't get even 1 shot and 30% will fight the good fight.
American oligarchs are the primary, but not the only problem
At this point, I'd say that the U.S. is as corrupt as Ukraine ever was.
Don: As I see it, with a lackluster Republican leader like McCarthy and Biden's minions running rampant for another two years, it is not going to get any better anytime soon.
So the question is: do the caring Americans in this country sit back and let it happen, or do we all do something about it? And if the latter, what?
True, sad and scary column. What the hell happened to us?
I am hanging by the thinnest threads of hope that somehow, someway, by the mercy and Grace of God, this Nation awakens and turns the tables on those attempting to destroy everything it once stood for.
But I won’t believe it until people - ALOT OF PEOPLE - start going to jail for their evil deeds.
Like so many words, the left has changed the definition of fascism to suit their new world order. Get yourself an old dictionary while you still can so you’ll know what words used to mean. You’ll be amazed.
“Leftists stand on their heads and blame you that their world is upside down.” That piece of truth is from the great Jim Quinn - radio DJ (KQV) - later conservative talk show host. It sums things up perfectly.
Great column, Don. No truer words were spoken. Fascism is everywhere and its participants are fully complicit. The rest of us are expected to be compliant. I pray that 2023 will be better. I had high hopes for 2022, but I have to admit that I was mightily disappointed. Yeah, maybe next year. Happy New Year everyone!
I am at the same time buoyed and saddened by Don's recognition of the travesty that is the "Russia-Ukraine War." Buoyed because if he recognizes, as he obviously has, that the conflict is being prolonged and used by the neocon element that is in control of America's foreign policy, others who read his influential postings may also become similarly enlightened. Saddened because we have as yet not put a stop to it, which could be done by the simple expedient of stopping economic/military support to the dictator Zelenskyy. We must do this, not merely for the sake of the Ukrainian and Russian people who are being chewed up wholesale by the competing dictatorships, but as well for the people of Europe who are being deprived of heat, food and freedom by their rulers who are either operating as or on behalf of the globohomo/NATO/WEF/Davos cabal that is working in conjunction with their coevals in the so-called "Biden Administration." Recognition that America has absolutely no interest in who controls the territory of the Ukrainian steppe is perhaps the beginning of the awakening process. And even more urgently, we must stop our intervention in the dispute for the sake of that part of America that is still worth preserving against the depredations of the leftist/Marxist leadership that controls the democrat political party. America has been invaded, both literally and figuratively, with the southern border having been obliterated by those America-hating democrats who lied, cheated and connived their way into power in conjunction with the hordes of third world offscourings whose illegal incursion they so enthusiastically facilitate. And yes, they DO want to replace traditional Americans with a population that is more amenable to dictatorial control. Everything that has been done under the "Biden presidency" has been long planned by Obama and the traitorous scum who surrounded him. We are now simply seeing how they are now implementing their schemes under the rubric of "crisis management." After all, it was Obama's favorite catamite, Rahm Emanuel who advised him to take advantage of such "crises," in order to do things that would never be possible under normal circumstances. Obama lied his way into power, posing as a "nice, clean and articulate black" (Biden's description, not mine) and Biden took power by pretending to be a "normal/traditional, American patriot," in the fashion of FDR and JFK. I hope this charade has finally been revealed as the horrible, tragic masquerade it is and that our elected representatives do what the people have told them in no uncertain terms: AMERICA OUT OF UKRAINE, NOW!
Well said. And doesn't the U.N.charter say something about letting peoples and ethnicities - the Russian speaking and identifying eastern Ukraine, have self determination? Instead, they have been bombed and the teaching of their own language forbidden by Zelensky. And he is supposed to be the good guy?
"Maybe next year." From your mouth to God's ear, Don.
Happy New year to you and your family. And also to all the fans of Surber.
Fasçiasts are leftists, and leftists are fasçists. What part of National SOCIALIST German Workers Party are Democrats too stupid do understand?
Hey Z -- You're back!
Whether or not Ukraine (when did we stop calling it "The Ukraine"?) is democratic or a corrupt Dictatorship ... doesn't really matter. The issue is Russian expansionism. Over a year ago, not unlike Adolf Hitler and "Mein Kampf", Putin wrote a tract on how he was going to re-constitute the Soviet/Russian Empire. Biden's weakness in everything but spending and persecuting Conservatives, give Putin the opening to begin the plan he laid-out, figuring (a) Ukrsine was a pushover, and that (b) neither Biden nor NATO would intervene. An added benefit would be fracturing NATO. But, he got (a) wrong, and when Ukraine beat Putin in the field, Biden and NATO realized Putin owned s Potemkin army.
Had we abandoned Ukrsine, Putin would have moved on - like Hitler in the 30's - to Moldavia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and, then, likely, their age-old client-statr Finland. He could have then presented the West with an ultimatum: US out of Europe, and Europe agrees to Finlandization: all significant political & economic decisions subject to Russian aka Putin veto, or face nuclear war.
Although we didnt start the fight, Biden's weakness contributed greatly to its start. We must continue to support, regardless of Ukrainian politics and/or cupidity until Russia leaves the Ukraine.
Corporate America and politics share this attribute: do what you are told, or you are out!
Funny that woke programmers and managers who despised working for the cia, fbi, dod were actually willingly working for the cia, fbi, dod
Yup. Agreed. Putin didn't start it either, we did. Antagonizing Russia with talks of NATO for Ukraine. As if we would consider for one second having China or Russia in Mexico or Canada