by Oui
Fri Mar 7th, 2025 at 11:28:31 AM EST
Dutch former Foreign Minister in a cabinet of Rutte !, set policy in the 2014 year of turbulence, Maidan massacre, Donbas hostilities, annexation of Crimea and the tragedy of Malaysian flight MH-17 of July 2014. Today after a stint as VDL's deputy [not on speaking terms], Frans Timmermans returned to Dutch politics to become the successor to Rutte as Prime Minister ... the voters saw it differently and overwhelmingly voted for a Geert Wilders (PVV) majority. Thus, Frans sits in the opposition seats .. quite uncomfortably. Has been shedding all his "Left" socialist feathers as he turns to the right on many issues plaguing Dutch society after 14 troublesome years of the Rutte Conservative cabal, lacking vision and refusal to solve problems in society.
After the Rutte chaos and defense spending multiplied, all that rests is cuts in social benefits, humanitarian aid to developing nations in the Third World, and years of austerity measures ahead. Infrastructure, public transport, housing and vision for 2035 are all sacrificed for the war in Ukraine and the BS war narrative for Europe's security.
To my amazement also on defense spending and America's proxy war against Russia in the Ukraine. His opinion piece in the British quality paper The Guardian today. Not peace, but more war ... shaking Zelensky's bloodied hands.
So contrary to the person playing a key role as Secretary General of NATO during the years Bush-Cheney declared war on the Russian Federation, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer.
by Oui
Thu Mar 6th, 2025 at 02:30:54 PM EST
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Saturday (March 1) a "new era of profanity" had begun, after a clash between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Washington the previous night.
Profanity? What is more profane than the deaths of tens of thousands of young men and women dying in the trenches of a useless proxy fight between two empires?
by Oui
Thu Mar 6th, 2025 at 12:16:51 AM EST
My diary ... one of dozens on failed foreign policy using NATO expansion in Europe.
NATO Posing the What If Question | 2 June 2023 |
Wishing a favorable outcome and throwing billions to make it happen may not be sufficient as the numbers game at the front just don't improve. The losses in manpower cannot be offset by more and sophisticated weapons. The terror strikes on Russian territory is one more indication the tide isn't turning in Ukraine's favor.
Military strategy is confused as too many diverse voices override one another. The armchair warmongers too are puzzled one the next strategy should be as not all ammunition and promised armor are ready for battlefield action.
Being ready from day one is quite different from a proces of escalation from one summit to the next. Unity is strong as any scepsis will only lead to a timely failure as Russia still occupies nearly 20% of Ukraine. Frustration on all sides in this war is growing. Time is on the side of the aggressor.
Blinken in Finland to tell the world Putin has failed ...
by Oui
Wed Mar 5th, 2025 at 01:59:37 PM EST
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11th November 1918: The Armistice of Compiègne ends fighting in WW1
The World War I armistice was signed in a train carriage dubbed `the wagon that ended the war'. "You had to break the will of the German military, whatever the cost, in November 1918
The Reception of President Woodrow Wilson on his Arrival in Paris, December 16, 1918
by Oui
Wed Mar 5th, 2025 at 09:38:49 AM EST
Erases ill-founded foreign policy aggression of the Bush-Obama-Trump1-Biden NATO years 2008-2025.
Her daddy screwed Europe and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2008 at the NATO Bucharest Summit by declaring "War on Russia." All war hawks jumped in to make a emerging Russian Federation a "pariah" state by the speeches from Ivo Daalder and John Kerry @AtlanticCouncil.
The military encampment of U.S. Armed Forces across Europe should end including the encirclement of threats by Forward Operating Bases and the deployment of nuclear tipped ballistic missiles .. the so-called "deterrent" to nuclear war. Best would be to cut back the size of NATO to a group true Democratic sovereign states where We The People have a voice in whether to go to war.
The panic mode across the EU group of nations and call for re-armament sound sort of like Nazi-Germany after the Treaty of Versailles to build the infrastructure, war machine for the purpose to "create jobs" and keep the consumer markt of the economy up and running. Preparation for destruction of human kind, nature and the planet.
Across the EU the people will once again suffer the consequences of failures in Western capitalism running a new round of AUSTERITY measures.
A DOUBLE/TRIPLE WHAMMY
Ukraine made the political choices leading to the Maidan massacre and coup d'état in February 2014 and the Russian aggression to re-conquer the Crimean peninsula and parts of the Russian speaking Donbas. As Joe Biden persisted given a green light by spineless leaders in Europe, the demolition of war returned to Europe and a strong hit on the major economies. Blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines was an terrorist act to the extreme and hitting infrastructure, an escalation of brutal warfare for Ukraine.
by Oui
Tue Mar 4th, 2025 at 07:18:34 PM EST
Highly irresponsible and likely based on conspiracies and UK weaponized disinformation by the SCL Group, not Mercer's Cambridge Analytica which nudged Trump into the White House.
I have found no evidence Putin's troll factory, hacker Konstantin Rykov, worked jointly with Cambridge Analytica on behalf of candidate Trump in the 2016 campaign. Separately? Yes of course ... the UK based CA played a key role and was defunct shortly after it was exposed by whistleblowers. I have written extensively about the matter, also at my time on BooMan Tribune.
Digging up old bears out of the bullfrog pond ... later more.
Back to actuality of the hours, day, week ... plenty to analyse as tempers are flying and proper communication is lacking. Full fledged kabuki theatre and politicians are puzzled whether they are the actors, or directors. Not even sure what script they are reading from .... #Joe on war or #Donald on peace.
A MASTERCLASS BY JOHN MEARSHEIMER
John Mearsheimer, Who Predicted Russia Ukraine War, Says Pro-Zelensky Europe 'Coalition' Won't Last
First hand from Mikhail Gorbachev
by Oui
Mon Mar 3rd, 2025 at 01:38:19 PM EST
"There Never Was a Good War or a Bad Peace" --
Benjamin Franklin's diplomacy and the 1783 Treaty of Paris
Jeffrey Sachs on the Trump-Zelenskyy meeting and
what comes next for Russia, Ukraine | MSNBC |
No Such Thing as a Good War or a Bad Peace | Slate - June 1999 |
To invoke for a moment the Vietnam War: Americans had to learn the price (more than 50,000 men) of ending a war ignobly. It is now clear that an ignoble peace isn't really so bad a thing. It can always be rationalized and softened by the arts of public relations and adept deployment of language.
Benjamin Franklin's words continue to haunt me: "There's no such thing as a good war or a bad peace." Perhaps what the Great War needed was less of the innocent idealism of Woodrow Wilson and more of the conscienceless adaptation to facts as practiced by the deplorable Bill Clinton.
Now, the matter of the tactical continuity between the two world wars. In general, yes, despite such novelties as air power and atom bombs. The infantry I fought in (admittedly for only four months) was hardly distinguishable from its 1914-1918 counterpart, except that for trenches, you'd have to read holes. I never saw a plane in all my time at the front, and I saw only one tank. The tactics of the Civil War (or even the Indian wars) were ours.
The former Soviet satellite states need to move on from history and not fight centuries old battles ... end the self-consuming HATE of your former enemy ... learn from Ghandi, MLK and Nelson Mandela.
Watching Volodymyr Zelensky during his talk with Trump in the Oval Office ... the fiery eyes of a warrior filled with hate, losing his footings on facts due to decades of propaganda, made Trump decide he is not the leader needed for Ukraine to make a lasting peace with Russia.
Unfortunately Zelensky found a new calling by Meloni, Macron and Starmer in London for further war escalation and deaths of his people. A repeat of Spring 2022 with Boris Johnson. Some asses never learn from past mistakes ... looking for the medicine man of the Old West.
by Oui
Mon Mar 3rd, 2025 at 11:11:44 AM EST
Very much like a B-movie rerun from the 1950s.
Roy Cohn: From `Red Scare' Prosecutor to Donald Trump's Mentor
How commenting on Roy Cohn got me suspended from Twitter | CFR - 22 Aug. 2022 |
The Communist hunter returns in a New Age ...
Great archive here @EuroTrib 😊
Forever War and The New American Police State | by Stephen D - 17 May 2006 | ... nearly two decades ago ‼️
Thus, we saw the rise in the GOP of smear merchants, fear mongers and rank opportunists like Nixon, Roy Cohn, the House Unamerican Activities Committee members and, most of all, Senator Joseph McCarthy. It is no surprise that the height of their power came during the Korean War when many innocent men and women in the State Department and elsewhere in the Federal Government had their careers ruined through the judicious use of slander, innuendo and outright lies by these political assassins.
Even the great General George C. Marshall, the man who had successfully led our armed forces during World War II, and then conceived and executed the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe was accused of being a traitor and of assisting the Communist drive for world domination.
[Conspiracy of Republicans on Marshall Plan for Europe's Recovery]
by Oui
Sun Mar 2nd, 2025 at 09:04:12 AM EST
A follow-up to yesterday’s diary …
Zelensky Wants More War, Not Peace
Just watched with amazement a discussion (no debate as this group think was uniform) how Europe will conclude the United States is not a reliable partner and can't be counted on when Article 5 needs to be invoked for the security and defense of Europe.
More specifics later ...
European leaders for the past three years have e been marching towards war with the Russian Federation ... now is the moment to put words into action. Thank you President Trump and d VP Vance for the necessary kick in the butt.
Parts of a new diary I was working on ...
by Oui
Sat Mar 1st, 2025 at 09:42:32 AM EST
For decades, Israel has supported the cause of an independent state of Kurdistan.
Jailed Kurdish leader urges PKK to lay down arms | Times of Israel |
by Oui
Sat Mar 1st, 2025 at 06:14:38 AM EST
See earlier posts in my recent diary ...
Volodymyr's Machiavellian State of Mind
What is one person's life worth? 3 Years ago it could have been a bargaining chip ... today he's old, tired and worn out ... absolute beyond any sense of reality.
Ukraine could trade territory in potential peace talks with Russia, Zelensky says
Zelensky Exits After Angry Xchange In Oval Office
Trump Blasts Zelensky In Oval Office
by Oui
Fri Feb 28th, 2025 at 11:59:32 AM EST
Just by opening his mouth and with his fascist puppet Elon Musk as big ass, Trump humiliates America and its citizens. What the country under Franklin Roosevelt had become with the great generation that liberated not only the Pacific and East Asia, but Europe and the Mediterranean as well. The voice of THE free world ... all gone down the drain of ugly racist behavior of white supremacy. UK PM Keir Starmer goes to Washington to appease the greatest dictator in the West. Promising a boost to the military and cutting back on so badly needed aid to the developing nations of the Global South.
Trump Responds To Movement In Canada To Become 51st State
by Oui
Fri Feb 28th, 2025 at 10:10:02 AM EST
Appeasement of a bully will not guarantee any love in the future ...
UK's Keir Starmer is on Trump's side to enforce ban on nuclear capability of "pariah" state Iran.
Trump's way to guarantee long time security for the Wahhabi regime of Saudi Arabia
by Oui
Thu Feb 27th, 2025 at 06:20:13 PM EST
Expanding militarism inside Europe with France, Britain, Poland and Germany leading.
The Dutch too have the need for a new generation D for Defense Death.
VIDEO
by Oui
Wed Feb 26th, 2025 at 05:39:32 PM EST
... At any WiFi connection near you ... 😅
Bigger yet in Trump 2.0 after great opening of settlement Trump Heights placed on stolen Syrian Land of the Golan Heights.
Trump shares Gaza AI-video showing him, Netanyahu sunbathing | Israel Hayom News |
The video, which Trump posted without additional comment, uses artificial intelligence to visualize a transformed Gaza landscape, with dollar bills flooding the area and ongoing parties taking place.
President Donald Trump shared an AI-generated video on his Truth Social platform Wednesday depicting his vision of Gaza's potential future under his proposed plan.
by Oui
Tue Feb 25th, 2025 at 10:30:36 AM EST
Stymied ... what is going on in the Ukraine ⁉️
No Agreement On Rare Earths After First Rounds Of U.S.-Ukraine Talks In Munich | RFERL - 15 Feb. 2025 |
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy refused to sign an agreement to grant the United States 50 percent of all future reserves of rare earth metals in Ukraine, according to news reports following a meeting between Zelenskyy and U.S. leaders at the Munich Security Conference on February 14.
Dozens of rare earth minerals are considered critical to the U.S. economy and national defense, and Ukraine has large deposits of many of them.
Zelenskyy said in February 4 that Ukraine would be "open to the fact, that all of this can be developed together, along with our partners who can help us protect our lands."
At their Munich meeting, Ukraine gave the U.S. delegation a revised agreement on rare earth metals amid concerns in Kyiv over a U.S. version that was presented to Ukraine on February 12.
The revised draft of the deal could open up its vast resources of key minerals to U.S. investment, according to Ukraine.
The vultures are circling the dead body ...
by Oui
Mon Feb 24th, 2025 at 02:03:12 PM EST
What an extreme BS ... I won't fall for it. Russia has been denied attendance for many years.
Futility of wars demonstrated repeatedly 😡
Zelensky and trench warfare ... more a reminder of trench warfare in the Battle of the Somme ...
The Battle of the Somme (WW1 documentary)
or the Maginot Line of defense in Northern France. See fields of graves near Verdun.
by Oui
Mon Feb 24th, 2025 at 09:58:08 AM EST
See posts on exit polls German election on Sunday here
This was the worst showing of SPD in German elections since World War II. Chancellor Olaf Scholz led the Ampel coalition suffers heavy defeat as the AfD doubled in size in a mere 3 years of the NATO proxy war in Ukraine. Defeat all around for democracy in the European Union. Forcing a break in the Scholz coalition, FDP Finance Minister Christian Lindner the big loser. The party did not meet the 5% threshold and will not return to the Bundestag. Greens too saw a minor loss. The parties in the Ampel coalition of SPD (206) - Greens (118) - FDP (91) for a total of 415 seats lost 210 seats or just about 50%. Habeck survived, but Scholz and Lindner will exit politics.
Election to the 21st German Bundestag on 23 February 2025
Election results in graphics - analysis
German election results explained in graphics | DW News |
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Chancellor Scholz reacts to projected election results in Germany | DW News |
Merz refrains from a shot across the bow and targeted the Trump MAGA vessel mid-ship.
by Oui
Sun Feb 23rd, 2025 at 04:45:55 PM EST
What is one person's life worth? 3 Years ago it could have been a bargaining chip ... today he's old, tired and worn out ... absolute beyond any sense of reality.
Ukraine could trade territory in potential peace talks with Russia, Zelensky says
Russia rejects swapping occupied territory with Ukraine after Zelensky suggestion | Le Monde - 11 Feb. 2025 |
