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Wow. Kent making clear the importance to the establishment of bringing Ukraine into NATO ASAP.
He called the Ukrainian militias fighting the people in the east, who are backed by Russian help, “minutemen” like those who served George Washington in America’s War of Independence from Britain.
Hey, why not?
If there was any question here as to the real motives of the American coup plotters here, they’ve already been put to rest. To the Blob, the eastward expansion of America’s military alliance in Eastern Europe is a sacred duty beyond question. No president has the right to overrule their consensus about that. Especially not this freak. So they do what they must.
Taylor now begins the same schtick: Ukraine is so important to America’s “interests.”
David Stockman pre-ridicules this assertion here.
Taylor: Ukraine is America’s “front line” in the conflict with Russia. Garet Garrett laughing in hell.
Haha, he claims that Yanukovich fled “street protests.” Says Russia “invaded” Crimea. Says referendum was held at “riflepoint.” Claims Russia invaded eastern Donbass, no mention of defense from attack by Kiev. What a despicable/hilarious liar.
No mention of Right Sector or the Azov Battalion. Big surprise.
As far as his story about the pressure from Trump and all, I have no reason to doubt it. Just don’t give a damn.
Hahahahahahahahahahah!!!!!!!
Oh my God. I can’t catch my breath. I am about to laugh myself into a coronary, whatever that is.
Clinton says she is being urged by ‘many, many, many people’ to run in 2020
“Look, I think all the time about what kind of president I would’ve been and what I would’ve done differently and what I think it would’ve meant to our country and our world. …
HAhahahhahahahhahhahahahah/….
*passes out coughing*
Corruption at Amtrak
Randal O’Toole, Policy Analyst at the Cato Institute and blogger at The Antiplanner, published a policy brief today that details actions by Amtrak that, had they been taken by a private firm, would likely be considered securities fraud.
A press release from Amtrak claimed that 99.1% of its operating costs are covered by its revenues, but the release purposely neglected to include depreciation among its costs. In 2018, depreciation was nearly one-fifth of Amtrak’s operating costs, coming in at $807 million. The total for 2019 is expected to be some $50 million more.
Of course, Amtrak failing to account for the cost of infrastructure upkeep is nothing new, as the organization needs at least $33 billion (with a “B”) in backlogged maintenance. That number rises to as much as $92 billion when the costs of replacing passenger cars and maintaining tracks used, but not owned, by Amtrak are taken into account.
Amtrak’s press release also misrepresented their “passenger related revenue,” at least $235 million of which is pure state subsidies. Minus these subsidies and adding the cost of depreciation, real total losses in 2019 totaled more than $1 billion, or 35 times the annual loss-figure provided by Amtrak in its release. Notes O’Toole,
Similar premature information releases by Elon Musk led the Securities and Exchange Commission to charge him with fraud and force him to resign as Tesla’s CEO. Unfortunately, if any government agency has the power to charge Amtrak with fraud, none have bothered to do so.
Do look through the brief. It’s a relatively quick read and has plenty of source citations. Such thorough scholarship deserves to be appreciated.
This post originally appeared at Ignore This.
Israeli Soldiers Kill Man
For no reason.
The Great Hero Mikhail Gorbachev: Don’t Build Berlin-style Wall Between Russia and West
Here’s a man who deserves some attention when he beseeches:
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, has warned against building a new physical or invisible wall between Russia and the West, 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
In written comments to Reuters before the anniversary of the Wall being brought down on Nov. 9, 1989, Gorbachev also accused Washington – Moscow’s former Cold War enemy – of destroying the nuclear arms control architecture that keeps the world safe. …
Three decades [after ending the Cold War and dismantling the Soviet empire], and suffering intermittent health problems, Gorbachev said he was concerned by the dire state of East-West relations and in particular by the lack of dialogue between Washington and Moscow about nuclear weapons.
He referred to Washington’s decision to withdraw from a landmark 1987 nuclear missile pact, the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which he negotiated with then U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from it in August was “not the work of a great mind,” said Gorbachev.
But despite his criticism of U.S. foreign policy, Gorbachev warned against throwing up real or invisible Cold War-style barriers akin to the Berlin Wall to formalize East-West differences.
“Any wall is an attempt to seal oneself off from the real problem by not solving it and that’s why I’m against walls. And in Europe I’m against any dividing lines or any ‘Iron Curtains’,” Gorbachev told Reuters.
“However dangerous the current situation is, I don’t think it’s a re-run of the Cold War. There’s no ideological struggle between Russia and the West. But there are economic links, freedom of movement, communication and a cultural convergence. So I’m convinced that a new Cold war can be avoided.”
Ron Paul says War Drums Banging On Armistice Day
From Serbia to Syria to Nikki Haley’s explosive new book, the war party is still firmly in control in Washington. Wars and threats of wars keep increasing, ensuring a steady of wounded and broken veterans to “thank” for their “service.” Don’t miss today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report:
Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.
Antiwar Vets Speak Out Against the Afghan War
The great Danny Sjursen and Danny Davis, along with some other Afghan combat vets explain why the war cannot be won to the New York Times
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