Amen!

Amen!

Amen!

Amen 🙏

Amen 🙏

AMEN Arminian’s and Thank You for that beautiful prayer.

Blessings to you✝️

Now that there is funny!

Would be less funny if it weren’t possibly true.

Winner of THE chicken dinner!!

Hubby sings that song, gets the audience to participate “mush, mush.” 😅

Lol

Its like refurbishing an old building. You have to identify the weak spots, fix them, and then move in with the major improvements and modernization.

You cant rebuild something if the foundation isn’t rock solid. Look forward to modernizing SS for the people that earned it.

is there anywhere that these are documented and itemized/bulleted?

It’s much worse than this:

– Russia owns the sky
– Russia has superior manufacturing, raw materials, outpacing NATO, EU, and USA combined
– they have North Korea (China) as a mnf backstop
– Russia now has a 1.3-million-man trained military and officers
– they developed cheap powerful glide bombs, and produce 1,000 drones per day
– Colonel MacGregor estimates 1.8 million KIA Ukrainians
– probably 300K plus amputees
– millions fled; I’ve met three young Ukrainian families in Northern California
– Russia has ‘escalatory dominance’ with their unblockable hypersonic midrange missile which has 36 programmable sub-missiles

Biden let Z-Bag kill Gonzalo.

I miss that guy.

The MSM is the number one enemy of the United States and We The People.

Great Britain lost an entire generation of young men in WW I. Their treasury was depleted by 25%. WW II took an even greater toll on their solvency – another 25% of their wealth gone. They have been a third rate power since the Second World War ended.

Ukraine’s losses of young men, intellectuals, workers, and entire families will affect that country for generations. It has so much to offer in natural resources.

The maddening thing about all of this; it did not ever have to happen. The war mongers and those that want billions laundered back to the West did this.

Well put.

Yes, and they continue to lie about “Russia killing civilians!” as the kidnap their own men and drop them off at the front line.

They were mostly Christian white men. So the war mongering oligarchs are happy….

I cannot think of a single intelligent person who would ask that question.
Least of all, President Trump.

Interesting. Sundance has done some pretty deep analyses of Russia in recent years and I believe his conclusions are quite different.

New York Times, May 2, 1998

Foreign Affairs; Now a Word From X

by Thomas L. Friedman

“His voice is a bit frail now, but the mind, even at age 94, is as sharp as ever. So when I reached George Kennan by phone to get his reaction to the Senate’s ratification of NATO expansion it was no surprise to find that the man who was the architect of America’s successful containment of the Soviet Union and one of the great American statesmen of the 20th century was ready with an answer.

”I think it is the beginning of a new cold war,” said Mr. Kennan from his Princeton home. ”I think the Russians will gradually react quite adversely and it will affect their policies. I think it is a tragic mistake. There was no reason for this whatsoever. No one was threatening anybody else. This expansion would make the Founding Fathers of this country turn over in their graves. We have signed up to protect a whole series of countries, even though we have neither the resources nor the intention to do so in any serious way. [NATO expansion] was simply a light-hearted action by a Senate that has no real interest in foreign affairs.”

”What bothers me is how superficial and ill informed the whole Senate debate was,” added Mr. Kennan, who was present at the creation of NATO and whose anonymous 1947 article in the journal Foreign Affairs, signed ”X,” defined America’s cold-war containment policy for 40 years. ”I was particularly bothered by the references to Russia as a country dying to attack Western Europe. Don’t people understand? Our differences in the cold war were with the Soviet Communist regime. And now we are turning our backs on the very people who mounted the greatest bloodless revolution in history to remove that Soviet regime.

”And Russia’s democracy is as far advanced, if not farther, as any of these countries we’ve just signed up to defend from Russia,” said Mr. Kennan, who joined the State Department in 1926 and was U.S. Ambassador to Moscow in 1952. ”It shows so little understanding of Russian history and Soviet history. Of course there is going to be a bad reaction from Russia, and then [the NATO expanders] will say that we always told you that is how the Russians are — but this is just wrong.”

One only wonders what future historians will say. If we are lucky they will say that NATO expansion to Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic simply didn’t matter, because the vacuum it was supposed to fill had already been filled, only the Clinton team couldn’t see it. They will say that the forces of globalization integrating Europe, coupled with the new arms control agreements, proved to be so powerful that Russia, despite NATO expansion, moved ahead with democratization and Westernization, and was gradually drawn into a loosely unified Europe. If we are unlucky they will say, as Mr. Kennan predicts, that NATO expansion set up a situation in which NATO now has to either expand all the way to Russia’s border, triggering a new cold war, or stop expanding after these three new countries and create a new dividing line through Europe.

But there is one thing future historians will surely remark upon, and that is the utter poverty of imagination that characterized U.S. foreign policy in the late 1990’s. They will note that one of the seminal events of this century took place between 1989 and 1992 — the collapse of the Soviet Empire, which had the capability, imperial intentions and ideology to truly threaten the entire free world. Thanks to Western resolve and the courage of Russian democrats, that Soviet Empire collapsed without a shot, spawning a democratic Russia, setting free the former Soviet republics and leading to unprecedented arms control agreements with the U.S.

And what was America’s response? It was to expand the NATO cold-war alliance against Russia and bring it closer to Russia’s borders.

Yes, tell your children, and your children’s children, that you lived in the age of Bill Clinton and William Cohen, the age of Madeleine Albright and Sandy Berger, the age of Trent Lott and Joe Lieberman, and you too were present at the creation of the post-cold-war order, when these foreign policy Titans put their heads together and produced . . . a mouse.

We are in the age of midgets. The only good news is that we got here in one piece because there was another age — one of great statesmen who had both imagination and courage.

As he said goodbye to me on the phone, Mr. Kennan added just one more thing: ”This has been my life, and it pains me to see it so screwed up in the end.””…….

Rest in the Vine: George F. Kennan and The Limits of Your F****** Bullshit, Pal

I like VDH but I think he is wrong about Mr. Putin. Looking at him as a Soviet Union Communist is just ignoring the recent history of Russia and how it was turned into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Total hogwash. Zelensky is more of a danger to the U.S. than Putin. He is not worthy to be included in any discussions of any kind and should be told to sit down, shut up and let the big boys handle this. Do you have a link for what you posted? I need to see this with my own eyes so I can make an intelligent decision about whether to listen to anything Hanson says.

Maybe he should run for president since he knows so much!

VDH is classic old-timey conservative, i compare to my dad. he grew up in the heart of the cold war and was never really capable of seeing what has come after it. they were inundated with 40 years of wussia baaaaad propaganda being blasted in their face nonstop. it has an effect even on the smartest among us.

either that or they pretend not to know things.

russia is not the USSR. Putin is not KGB. the west is not the unvanquished knight in shining armor.

It is the West’s ‘leaders’ who are unprincipled as Angela Merkel admitted publicly that they lied and duped Putin in various agreements to gain time for the arming of Ukraine (and they had a large force about to attack their own citizen ethnic Russians in the East when Putin finally stepped in).

Putin has been the person who has rebuilt many of Russia’s orthodox churches.
Putin’s principles are about supporting Russians and Russia.

He also wanted for Russia to join the European Union as Russians considered themselves as European as any country in Europe.

Not any more after the way they have been treated.

Hanson is a historian of the past and not always right in his judgements and predictions for the future. He’s dead wrong about Putin.

“NATO and the West” have ceased to be the free world and have morphed into a totalitarian war-mongering police state. If VDH has not noticed that by now then he’s completely out of touch.

Oh come on now for heaven’s sake! What did President Teddy Roosevelt, General Patton, and President Truman ever know about anything, much less about Russia and its great leaders !!!

You are hereby found guilty of disrespecting the much loved and great man Vladimir Putin. Off to the Gulag with you and in about half no time!

Based on the precedent of the last several decades, it’s a certainty that the US and EU will not honor any agreement they sign with Russia. Or with anyone else for that matter.

Why not? We have that long bridge in the Florida Keys?

Somehow driving for miles under a kazillion tons of raging ocean doesn’t appeal to me. But to each his own.

Excellent idea. The mere suggestion of that bridge, would cause many globalist strokes.

I like the bridge idea as well because for at least 40 years we’re endured one vicious and destructive mess after another and corruption with lies and deceit that never stop.

Musk’s Mars idea doesn’t interest me — it’s too far away in more ways than one. I want something like the bridge or a tunnel or developing the arctic whatever that means.

Cleaning up DC is a good start, and I’d like to see that spirit of renewal catch on, but I’d also like something new and innovative, like the bridge.

I hope President Trump has several ideas in mind.

CUT THE CORD
CUT THE CORD
CUT THE CORD

FJB

No. I did not notice…what is it?

and…Mary Queen of Peace, pray for us and the whole world.

He walked out on the State Dept,. too.

Reagan’s ‘Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall’ was almost left unsaid | Stanford News:
“Feeling despondent, Robinson hoped that his next meeting with a high-ranking American diplomat would provide him the material needed for the speech. But that too was unhelpful, Robinson said.
“He was full of ideas about what Reagan should not say,” Robinson said, including under no circumstance was Reagan to make a big deal about the Berlin Wall. “They’ve gotten used to it by now,” the diplomat said.
It was not until Robinson broke off from the advance team to join a group of Berliners for dinner that he finally found inspiration. Robinson, who himself was astounded by the wall’s omnipresence, asked his dinner companions if they had – as the diplomat insisted – really become used to the 27-mile barricade that enclosed their city.
“There was a silence. And I thought, I committed just the kind of gaffe that the diplomat wants the president to avoid. They looked at each other and one man pointed and said, ‘My sister lives just a few kilometers in that direction but I haven’t seen her in more than 20 years. How do you think we feel about that wall?’” Robinson said.
For the rest of the evening, the guests shared their experiences. Robinson realized that Berlin residents had simply stopped talking about the wall rather than become used to it. …
That Monday, when the team met with the president, Griscom asked Reagan if he had any thoughts about Robinson’s speech. All Reagan said was that it was a good draft, Robinson recalled.
Robinson then stepped in. He told the president that people in East Berlin would be able to hear him speak. Depending on weather conditions, he might even be picked up in Moscow by radio. Robinson asked if there was anything Reagan wanted to convey to the people listening from the other side.
“And the president said, ‘Well, there’s that passage about tearing down the wall. That’s what I want to say to them. That wall has to come down.’”…
“Ronald Reagan could imagine a different kind of world. He could imagine a post-Soviet world. He could see a world without the Berlin Wall. If you put him in a position to give a speech in front of the Berlin Wall, he would feel a certain sense of duty to tell the truth as he saw it,” Robinson said. “The speech belongs to Ronald Reagan.”…….

The Times and the State Dept.-Blob HATED both of Actual President Reagan’s phrases “Tear Down This Wall” and the “Evil Empire”. State kept trying to censor them, thinking them hostile and dangerous.

But the morally-ambiguous Status Quo was hostile and dangerous, not Ronald Reagan’s Moral Clarity. That clarity freed millions.

Today, we have another Power-Mad Imperial Government bent on World Domination though Lies and Murder. Not Soviet, but American and Globalist.
 
UPDATE: Aside from the Money Laundering and Foreign Aid Kickbacks, the Biden Bird Flu Bio-Weapons Labs, the Sex Trafficking Slavery, the Child Trafficking, the Drug Trafficking, the MIC Weapons Trafficking, the Plutonium Trafficking, the Color Revolution Industry, etc., Lady Lindsey has correctly confessed to yet another Economic Greed Head Motive of the War Pig’s Evil Empire: the trillions in Shale Energy and other Minerals underneath Donbass and environs.

Oh, how they scoffed at the Evil Empire.

And then became one.

Habakkuk 2

12 “Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed
and establishes a city on iniquity!”
13 Is it not from the Lord of Hosts
that the people labor to feed fire,
and the nations weary themselves for nothing?
14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord,
as the waters cover the seas.

Your Presence is Your Glory, Lord!

Rest in the Vine: The New Evil Empire Strikes Out

Completely different situation. We are losing this war … in fact arguably we have already lost it. And nobody seems to know why we fought it (at an incalculable cost to ourselves) in the first place. As far as I can tell it’s all down to simple anti-Russian bigotry.

REPORTER: Tulsi Gabbard declassified more documents last night related to the Russiagate hoax.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: She’s doing a great job, by the way. That was another fake story. I’m very happy with the job she’s doing. That’s right, they declassified some terrible documents talking about Democrats and what they did. Radical left lunatics.

REPORTER: It showed that then-DNI James Clapper sent out emails to IC officials saying that it would be a team sport to push them to debunk the 2017 ICA report and that it might need them to compromise on their normal modalities. What’s your reaction to the latest declassification? And in your view, sir, what does real accountability look like for the players?

TRUMP: It’s incredible what we’re finding. Absolute proof of guilt. And we’ll see what happens. But Clapper and Comey and that whole group of criminals, they’re criminals. And they made it very tough. You know, they did the fake Russia, Russia, witch hunt that lasted for two years. And I get totally exonerated. There was no doubt about it. They should have done it in one day, not two years. But it was a whole scheme to try and demean Trump so that I couldn’t win an election. And that is a criminal group of people. They’re sick people and they’re criminals and they should be taken care of.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/08/14/trump_clapper_comey_and_that_whole_group_of_criminals_should_be_taken_care_of.html

Difficult but definitely doable. The opposition would be absolutely rabid…….

well, it’s not an original idea 😂 , but it does catch my fancy.
surprisingly, it’s been under consideration for a very long time –
first proposal made in 1890.
accessory improvements like roads would likely be added to enable construction.
but with technological advances, a builder as President,
and American can-do, it’s a lot close to reality than you might think!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bering_Strait_crossing

That is funny. Thanks for posting.

The oligarchs drool over oceans of American, Russian and European blood spilled in an unwinnable nuclear war.

No more genocidal European Wars!!!!

iwasthere: I think you mean Shemya, Alaska, in the Aleutian Islands. There’s a 10,000 ft. air strip, there, used for emergency purposes by commercial airliners to/from Asia and a US military signals and communications base.

To go to Russia from the US, you fly over the Arctic. You don’t travel across the Atlantic, then across the European continent.
Need to look at a globe to see it, not a flat map.

Do we get their cut?

The Telegraph reported:

Why divided Ukrainians are refusing to fight for Zelensky

Russian gains in the east are undermining morale while casting Kyiv’s manpower problems in stark relief

“’The entire defense line is like a sieve’, wrote Stansislav Bunyatov, a Ukrainian serviceman and blogger, a sentiment echoed by Borden Krotevhych, former chief of the Azov Brigade. Krotevhych wrote: ‘This chaos has been growing for a long time, worsening with each passing day. A stable line of combat, as such, effectively doesn’t exist’.

Ukraine is ‘visibly losing the war’, says Konrad Muzkya, a Polish military analyst, largely because of the manpower crisis. So why won’t men like Pavlo, 35 and a new father, enlist? ‘Probably because I am afraid’, he says, with disarming honesty.
‘Afraid to die or, worse, lose my mind and become a burden to my family. Afraid to leave my family in poverty. Afraid that my daughter will grow up an orphan. Afraid of being captured and tortured for months’.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/08/14/why-divided-ukrainians-are-refusing-to-fight-for-zelensky/

just saw the ukraine has launched its biggest drone strike of the war.you know the cia was all over that.i said days ago i wish they would have kept their meeting secret until it was done and over.this just screwed trumps negotiations.so i hope they talk trade and pdjt tells putin to soften em up a little more.