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Conservative Contrarian's avatar

It hit me yesterday, it seems I've been wrong in my estimations of the leaders of the EU & European countries. For the last couple of years as we witnessed what appeared to be their incompetence and malfeasance I concluded they were buffoons and criminals, but I now see the brilliance of their actions.

They have realized for years Russian President Putin has his eyes on Europe, waiting for the right time to invade. So to create their own defenses, with much assistance from US leaders, Europe has been transformed from a stable, attractive place, into a basket-case overrun with wimpy men, manly (sort-of) women and millions of third world escapees.

What a clever way of making sure Putin loses all interest in invading Europe, who would want it now? All this time I thought they were idiots.

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KATHERINE JERNIGAN's avatar

No. That just makes the takeover easy. Then use Soviet tactics to control the pansies.

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daverkb's avatar

The EU leaders are grifting sacks of doo-doo who are self-indulgent, narcissistic, low information, functionally atheistic and morally bankrupt. And they actually believe the Woke Marxist crap which they continually spout. Whether this was so as to what they believe, or not ... I had long wondered about. But it is true, and this is why they the EU clown leaders where so dismayed by what they heard come out of J. D. Vance's mouth during the MSE event. And they, the EU 'leaders' at that event, were like first or second graders finding out for the first time, horrors of horrors, that there is no Santa Clause.

It is an absurdity to think that Russia would want to invade Europe and have to deal with all the problems of a sinking, bankrupt and totally Woke civilization. Someone who thinks a Russian invasion of Europe is possible does not know Russian culture and history.

On they contrary, the Iron Curtain/Warsaw countries would have never have happened except Germany made the colossal Napoleonic Mistake of invading Russian territory in 1941. Russia with some 12 or 13 time zones has enough on its hands to run and keep safe from the predators as it is. Putin and the Russian leaders well-know this.

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Conservative Contrarian's avatar

I agree with everything except the Marxist point. Marxist are ideologues, the EU people worship themselves. They think they are responsible for the power they have been allowed to wield. However they have over played their hand and the wolf is on their trail.

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daverkb's avatar

Well then, we differ.

I say that most of the Western policy assumptions are Marxist standard practice and have been for a long time. All of the Agenda 21/30 stuff is based on the assumption of 'the collective' with the 'dictatorship of the proletarian' (the ruler class) in charge. And it has basically been a one party (all but in name only) rule. It was so in the United States, and such realization give birth to the name 'the Uni-Party'. Only in the United States, Trump upset the apple cart of political conformity.

You say that it just about 'them' the ruling class. But I also say that every system has it organizing principles. You say they rule out of worship of themselves (true). But I further add that they have to have 'a story' to sell the people, and that the story is based upon ideological fairy tales. I say, for just one example, that identity politic is pure Marxism (Mao-ism, and the Soviets had their version). And I further say I could expand this line of thought many time over.

So, I a lot agree with you, but go further. You say is true, but there is more to the story.

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Politico Phil's avatar

I have a question. At least since WWII (and certainly since JFK's assassination), the US has been ruled by "professional (lifetime) politicians and professional bureaucrats". Apparently this is true of all of the West. So how is it that the USG has been taken over by a bunch of outsiders with Trump the chief outsider? The scope of this bloodless "coup", for lack of a better word, is breathtaking.

My mind told me something was up when Vance was picked as the VP. What - not a political insider??? What's going on here. And it was all up hill from there right up to yesterday when Patel was voted for FBI Director BY MCCONNELL! Seriously? This isn't a revolution. This is a complete rout of the entire political organization of America. LITERALLY... the USG Executive Branch is entirely in the hands of political outsiders who aren't even politicians or bureaucrats. They are all "ordinary" working class, successful Americans.

And now I see their sights being turned on the international geo-political order which may be the primary purpose for their existence to begin with... at least in terms of the unstated power that is backing Trump behind the scenes. Americans will benefit from this simply by way of circumstance. But I can't get over the massive scope of this coup that is routing the powers that have ruled the West for the last 500 years. I'm gonna need a LOT more popcorn!

It appears (and I use that word advisedly) to me that there is a revolt inside the international order against the Apex Money Elite as represented by the British Crown/City of London, the Rothschild family/BIS and the Vatican. Even the current Pope (who is a walking obscenity) appears to be on his death bed and will have to be replaced. It further appears that there is going to be a complete geo-political realignment where the US becomes a friendly trading partner with the BRICS as lead by Russia. Heck - the US may join the BRICS as one big free-trade zone. Could this be the ultimate purpose of the threats of massive tariffs? To achieve the exact opposite effect? The same strategy is working domestically to achieve the MAGA goals.

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daverkb's avatar

Man is always ruled by a ruling class of some description or another. That is axiomatic. Even the American Independence movement, based in Calvinistic Christianity from the Reformation, was organized by and run by the Colonial elite, and not by back-woods frontiersmen, lowly farmers and tradesmen.

And also, things have an organic life of their own, even growing mass discontent.

Trump has a background, especially if one looks at the family history. He may not have been in with the elite party of Great Destroyers, but he was 'of class' all along. And people at the upper level are always in association with other upper-level types. And out of associations, conversations, business connectivity ... 'understanding' organically evolve.

This Trump thing is not just Trump and the outward forms, outward figures of Trump-ism. The landscape on this has been evolving ever since 1992. 911 was probably a tripwire which pushed 'understanding' along in a significant way. But so was 2008/2009 and all the events surrounding Covid Fake-demic. The final straws were somewhat Afganistan, but more so the Ukraine and the weaponization of everything including SWIFT (international payments system in USD).

So, the simple answer is that things happen once the smarter upper part of the ruling elites comes to feel threatened existentially in the wallets and their physical lives by the terrorism of the Legion of the Dummies. And in the Collective West, the clown dummies were the insane Woke ruling class, the exact people like to whom Vance spoke out his Munich speech.

It just gets to a point where the smart ruling elite can't take it any more, and they get together and do something radical themselves, like launch a counter-revolution to oust the insanity, the terror, the total dysfunctional system. In my lifetime, and before 2025, my best example is the Beria Moment when Marshall Zhukov marched his soldiers into a Politburo and arrested Beria. And then things were okay for awhile until Putin had to restore order again and save Russia from taking the Federation over from subversion from within.

One cannot entirely get to how this all works by reason alone. And that is because life is organic and has a life of its own. Put another way, life is like a giant Symphony, complete with its movements, themes, cadences and phrasing. And things within things.

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Politico Phil's avatar

Well, that went a long way to bring everything into focus! Especially, "It just gets to a point where the smart ruling elite can't take it any more, and they get together and do something radical themselves..." That seems to be confirmed.

I'm just guessing of course, but it does seem to me that the counter-revolution is going to take their assault all the way to the Apex money elite. It will be interesting to see what that results in as I described.

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daverkb's avatar

It is unwise to assume that the Apex Money is entirely homogeneous, or monolithic in its view and membership composition … nor in their working extensions. Man is a faction animal and differences of opinion is as natural as the rise and setting of the sun. And even though Apex Money controls enormous wealth and powerful institutions, they are still human beings and are subject to the same dynamics as the rest of us mere mortals. In the West World and as to controlling policy, the Money Elite were fine with the One World/One Government post WWII agendas … that is, as long as they worked, kept the ‘profits’ flowing and maintained control over populations and governments. But also, if things break down and if in breaking down the Apex Money Elite feels threatened with extinction and/or ruination, they will tack onto a new heading with no qualms or hesitation. The only inviolable rule is ‘to keep the game’ running. These top people controlling the world through money are also very smart, have multiple options either ready to go or in planning stages, and they think and plan over vast tracts of time as being reckoned in the decades. And so, it is entirely possible that the Apex Money to be one way and then another way according to what suits their calculations of the State of any current Status Quo. And that’s either short or long term.

I don't really know what the Apex Money is doing or wants to achieve at the moment, excepting that they want to survive, preserve their wealth and power, and perpetuate their control over peoples and nations. In this, I with safety assume that the Money People are basically amoral. And for these people, their twin gods are money and power.

What eventually happens between the Fed and the Trump administration will tip us as to what is going on, and as who has the real and/or degrees of shared power. For now it is wait and see.

We can ‘know’ or assume certain things, either by imminent and/or practical necessity. That is, what needs and must happen to keep the whole show going in the running of the Western World. For example, controlling inflation, maintaining favorable dollar flows, adjusting to new political realities, getting spending under control, and so on.

It’s really too much to go into here. Books will be written on the subject of the now restructure of the United States and the Western World.

As The Money story develops, we shall get larger glimpse as to how things work. And just as we are now seeing regarding how the Deep State – Administrative State functions as by the revelations of Trump’s first astonishing four weeks.

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Politico Phil's avatar

I see it happening as you say.

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daverkb's avatar

I have reason to believe now that places like California and New York are on the docket and slated for a counter-revolutionary roll back. I believe that the EU and Canada are going to be 'reversed engineered'. This may take some time, but it has to be done. The Trump family would be left in utter ruins if 'Woke' were ever allowed to rise again. Trump knows this. Mr. Musk knows this. Bannon knows this and has stated the situation clearly and out loud. And they all mean to win and survive.

Here's a video link to Tucker Carlson and a billionaire entrepreneur in the medical research field. Several things stick out. Maybe not conspicuously to most people, but at least ... to me. First, both Tucker and the billionaire speak but only up to a certain point. And secondly, both Carlson and the billionaire appear to know way far more than they dare say. A third thing conspicuously stands out. The billionaire buys the L.A. Times sight unseen 'as is' with zero 'due diligence'. Who does this? Almost nobody! But maybe Elon Musk does something similar, just jumps in. Given the location, I now believe that the now controlling power intends to knock Marxist Woke out of places like California. That is, they intend to take back the entire country more or less, in one shape or form ... or another. Time will tell. But don't be surprised. The next four years is going to be a high power locomotive coming down the tracks ... and they are just getting started.

https://rumble.com/v6r8gwm-dr.-patrick-soon-shiong-youre-being-lied-to-about-cancer-how-its-caused-and.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp

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Politico Phil's avatar

Well, you certainly got my attention! Your phrase "the now controlling power" stood out. "Now"? Not before? Who is that power and how are they different from before? All very intriguing!

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Fre'd Bennett, MAHA's avatar

Don' throw me in that briar patch, B'rer Rabbit. PLEASE

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Politico Phil's avatar

LOL

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Gaslighted's avatar

Russia has no reason to "invade" Europe, except when there are hostile forces massing on its borders. It's stupid to believe. The communists wanted to spread communism as a dogma of marxist-leninist orthodoxy and ideas or plans for invasions were to establish the "proletariat of the masses" which was an inevitable outcome of history according to the marxist-leninists. Russia no longer has that religion and hasn't for the last 30 years. Yet, Russia is a boogeyman that "justifies" trillions of dollars to be ostensibly used for "defense" but which is grifted. That gravy train is very important. Now, these cretins are screaming and crying, literally, because they are getting cut off. How oxymoronic it is to declare that they need to fear the boogeyman Russians invading while these same liars and grifters allow the unchecked actual and very real invasion of their countries by third world leeches that hate them. Finally, history shows how Europe (France, Germany, US and Britain) fairs when they invade Russia: graves of those failed efforts over the last 200 years are still being unearthed.

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Conservative Contrarian's avatar

They cling to their ability to frighten the easily frightened. The boy who cried wolf was eventually eaten by the wolf, their line is starting to fall on deaf ears; and Trump is the wolf!

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