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U.S./NATO Is in the Grip of a "Daemonic Death-Wish" and the Entire World Is Threatened

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Not wanting to sound hyperbolic but I am starting to conclude that the nuclear madmen running the U.S./NATO New Cold War they started decades ago are itching to start a nuclear war with Russia.

Their hypocrisy and nihilistic thirst for death and destruction are so extreme that it boggles my mind. They accuse Russia of starting a New Cold War when they did so decades ago and have been pushing the envelope ever since.

Now THEY ACT SHOCKED THAT RUSSIA after many years of patience has struck back in Ukraine.

In 2017, Oliver Stone released his four part interviews with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Putin Interviews were conducted between 2015, the year after the U.S. engineered - the 'coup d'e'tat' in Ukraine - installing 'Nazis to power' in that country bordering Russia and 2017.

Stone was of course bashed for daring to respectfully ask questions and receive answers from the Russian leader who the American media has always cast, like all the mythic bogeymen, as the new Hitler intent on conquering the world, when it is the United States, not Russia, that has over 750 military bases throughout the world and has attacked Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria - the list is endless.

In his Putin interviews, Oliver Stone, a man of truth and honor, lets viewers catch a glimpse of the real Vladimir Putin and the matters that concern him as the leader of Russia. In 2018, I wrote of those interviews:

. . . he [Putin] makes factual points that should ring loud and clear to anyone conversant with facts - ONE: that the U.S. needs an external enemy ("I know that, I feel that."). TWO: the U.S.A. engineered the 'coup d'e'tat' in the Ukraine on Russia's border. THREE: the U.S. has surrounded Russia with US/NATO troops and bases armed with anti-ballistic missiles - that can, as Putin rightly says to Stone, be converted in hours to regular offensive nuclear missile aimed at Russia.

This is a factual and true statement that should make any fair-minded person stand up in horror. If Russia had such missiles encircling the United States from Cuba, Mexico, and Canada, what American would find it tolerable? What would CNN and The New York Times have to say?

Yet these same people readily find it impossible to see the legitimacy in Russia's position resorting to name calling and illogical rhetoric. Russia is surrounded with U.S/NATO troops and missiles and yet Russia is the aggressor.

In the years since those interviews, U.S./NATO has consistently tightened the noose around Russia including fueling the Ukrainian attacks on the Donbass killing thousands, all the while pleading innocent and expecting no reply.

Now the reply has come.

Although I have no inside information, I get the sense that the Western Empire is planning/initiating counter-measures far more extreme than the highly publicized economic sanctions. While it is true, as many commentators such as Ray McGovern and Pepe Escobar have pointed out, that a paradigm shift is underway and the once dominant U.S./NATO bully boys must now contend with the Sino-Russian alliance that has ushered in a dramatic change, nevertheless, as in the past decades, the so-called leaders of the U.S. are a dumb bunch driven by 'unquenchable demons'. As McGovern says:

Yet, there remain unsettling indications coming from Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, Antony Blinken, and Jake Sullivan, that senior administration 'dolts' (copyright North Korean leader Kim Jong Un) in the Washington Swamp still don't get it.

I'm afraid they don't and never will. That is what frightens me. While it seems counterintuitive and totally irrational that these people would be planning to use some type of nuclear weapon in this current situation, I am not so sure. They obviously pushed Russia to have no alternative but to attack Ukraine and now that they have accomplished that goal it seems to me that they will up the ante. Diplomacy is not their way - violence is.

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