Given the scale of the stakes for western government; and given the professed intentions of govt-aligned big tech to control the story; it is almost impossible to have an honest and open dialogue on the internet about what is happening in Ukraine. That said, for those who have been using independent resources to form their own opinion of the events in/around Ukraine, this interview highlights some important aspects.
First, notice how Prime Minister Shmyhal is not the least bit bashful about saying cash is important because American taxpayers, the working American people, have a duty to fund the pensions and retirement accounts of the Ukrainian people, including govt politicians. [03:37] Indeed, much of the financial assistance Joe Biden has been sending to Ukraine (beyond the weapons to support the proxy war) is going toward paying the wages and salaries of corrupt Ukranian leadership.
Let that first point settle in deeply, as we consider how working Americans are being financially destroyed by U.S. monetary/fiscal policy, yet the same U.S. officials wiping out your bank account are funding the bank accounts of people in Ukraine. Interview WATCH:
Second point. Notice [06:02] how Prime Minister Shmyhal hedges, pauses and thinks about the response to the question of ‘what is victory’, a stalemate or Russian exit? In the U.S. proxy war against Russia, Shmyhal is not the person who can answer that question, only the White House can.
This CBS interview is pure propaganda intended to keep the U.S. audience believing a false premise about the Russian war in Ukraine. The pearl clutching faux empathy from Margaret Brennan is enough to make an intellectually honest person very angry. This narrative engineering effort from the American corporate media is sickening, genuinely sickening.
The level of narrative control in combination with the extreme media promotion of government propaganda is totalitarian in scale. U.S. govt sponsored censorship and the collaboration with on-line Big Brother tech controls have reduced the internet discussion to a series of coded messages, and carefully scripted word assemblies in order to avoid the looming eye of Sauron.
It was only a few decades ago when the former Soviet Union was famous for their propaganda against their own citizens. Now, with the multinational corporations dictating policy to western government via the World Economic Forum, that entire dynamic has flipped.
In 2022 we have even worse media propaganda against the U.S. citizens than Pravda ever attempted over the former Soviet states. At least in the former Soviet Union the propaganda effort was laughed at by the citizens on the streets. If you point out the media dynamic today in America, you become a target for the totalitarian political state and their FBI state police units. It’s remarkable how the dynamic has flipped.
We, the free-thinking American people, are now intellectual dissidents in our own country.
HATE Margaret Brennan!!!
Her husband is a Syrian born attorney in the USMC! His religion is ISLAM! Is he another terrorist cell!?!?
If true, both must lose their jobs for conflict of interests consistent with the Constitution of the United States of America.
Canning one would demand canning the other, given their marital ties.
Looking him up, found this fascinating tidbit:
Yakub wrote a dissertation titled “The Islamic Roots Of Democracy.” It was published in 2005 by the University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review. In the paper, Yakub lays out an argument for why the principles of Islam support democratic ideals.
Must have been a very short dissertation.
Hey shmyhal, I have a better idea. GFY and that corrupt grift driven country of yours. American taxpayers owe your irrelevant country NOTHING!!!
I think he was told to say that in the hopes we Americans would fund all their personal needs, retirement, etc.
Hmmm. Could the “Big guy” be behind all this looking for his 10%?
Why would we?
…because were idiots!
Big 100 percent correct.
In a country with more than enough tools available, including the second amendment, to fix things, I think “idiots” is quite appropriate.
Because the big guy and many others taking corrupt $$$ from them do not want them to let the American people how much corruption has been going on between them.
If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it’s a
10% er.
Then I want a refund of all that I paid in for 44 years.
I truly believe that’s what the Covid virus was used for. Eliminating as many people as possible from the Social Security roles. Governors like Cuomo and Wolf were just more blatant about it.
I never get that— they keep saying that, but there’s no “lockbox” (to use the famous Algore phrasing) keeping that money. It’s spent already. It’s just a scare story.
Couldn’t put it any better myself.
Ukrainians seem to be mostly adept at putting their hands out.
Blame their government.
No different here. We get ripped off by ours on a daily basis.
This is why I no longer subscribe to conservatism as sold by the GOP. There is a massive loophole or exception in that conservatism for overseas spending in defense and foreign aid in the cause of regime change against whoever the globalist deem to be their enemy.
I am an American Nationalist (iow, Patriot) and so, if we are going to spend the money anyway, I rather that we spend the money here at home than on corrupt Ukrainians or Iraqis or Free Syrian Army, etc. Trump thought this way and was branded a liberal, but I now subscribe to his commonsense on the matter of fiscal policy. If the money is going to be spent, let’s spend it wisely on making our country amazing. Let’s spend it on solving actual problems here that can easily be rectified by spending a few billion here like we do overseas. I don’t believe that we should spend money domestically like the Democrats do, which is to spend money to lock in voters into perpetual dependency on the government.
Rather I believe we should spend on worthy projects, like the Wall, or other key infrastructure and on rebuilding run down communities; on school choice for all and on NASA programs and on strategic weapons systems like AI, hypersonic weapons and robotics to keep ahead of any potential adversary. I believe in reforms that make sense like sending Department of Education back to the States or even welfare and health care programs because one size does not fit all.
The conservatism of reducing the size and scope of government is a red herring. It will never be achieved. The GOP played it’s base by spending as much as Democrats have but only they spent on Defense and created new enemies in order to keep that spending flowing to their interests. Trump was an intolerable pause in that racket because he was the first president not start a new war. He was ending conflicts across the globe and demanding major countries closest to these conflicts to pay up or settle the differences. While Trump did spend on defense, he did so only on the strategic side to keep ahead of China and Russia, while reducing the operational side with withdrawing troops from NATO and ending conflicts in the Middle East and Afghanistan.
As has been stated over and over by Sundance, the GOP and Dems form a globalist party. They are in unison in opposing any nationalist sentiment domestically and overseas. It’s not farfetched in my mind to believe that the Globalist Party looks at nationalism like the US looked at Communism during the Cold War. And so, just as they did many things to domestic communists during that period (spy, arrest, jail), it’s beginning to look and feel like they are willing to do the same to nationalists (Patriots not the racists) here in America.
We’re the conservatives. We’re the only ones who want to conserve the country we grew up in.
Except for a dozen or so, these DC “conservatives” are all Reagan-Fakers and MAGA-Masqueraders. They’d sell their own grandmothers if they weren’t already pimping them out.
Their day is coming.
I watched J.D. Vance last night, don’t trust him at all
He exudes opportunism and is fooling Trump, hope he doesn’t win.
Agreed
Unfortunately he is not the first person to fool president Trump.
Yuup, how about OZ? Since he has dual citizenship, he is not even a true American.
Just looked it up. Turkey.
True American?? He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. What is a “true American” in your opinion?
I’m starting to question the idea that Trump is being fooled over and over. Dr. Oz was my breaking point on that matter. How does anyone not see Dr. Oz for what he is?
People keep saying he’s so good at vetting people, but he has been terrible at vetting people. From Omarosa to Mike Pence and everywhere in btwn.
The “RNC” is showing us what they truly are in Tennessee and We will see other states try to exclude real American Patriots from running.
If I could direct money to be spent… 200 new tech nuclear reactors, then make electricity as free as the interstates we drive on and paid for.
Really? Because in NY State we pay a ridiculously high “clean energy” tax every month on our electric bills because we are bailing out two wore out, out of state owned, nuke plants in upstate. So why weren’t they able to fix themselves if they are so lucrative? Why if they are the bee’s knees of power are we the taxpayers on the hook for repairs they never made all the while supplying electricity and making money? I’d really like to know. And now we the taxpayers should build some more? And who exactly will be realizing the profits while making absolutely none of the investment?
So well said. I agree with you 100%. Our supposed leaders are disgusting.
Spot on Dufrst.
53 “likes” after being posted ~12 hours must be a record. Well said, indeed.
Sorry, a Nationalist is not a patriot. Only an American is a patriot. You evidently are for the new world order if you are a nationalist patriot. Go back home now.
I vote to stop funding the US Federal government! I resent paying the bastards anything. Why is it legal for them to extort money from me without properly representing me, and without getting MY approval for how the money is being spent. I want it stopped. They work for us, and right now they aren’t fulfilling their obligations.
You cannot stop funding the US government. The government would just ‘print’ more money, making the value of your work less.
Inflation is a tax.
Back in Reagan’s day it was called “starving the beast” – but let’s be honest now, Reagan did his part in growing the debt.
Splain!
He trusted Tip to fix the border. Epic failure. I do love the Gipper, but that was a major goof.
Tax cuts now, spending cuts later.
Vladimir has all the goods. These grifters are just trying to cash in before Vlady outs all of them.
I sure as hell hope he will expose them all.
Wouldn’t that be nice, just for once? No payoffs, no cover up’s, just put it out there and watch them all cover their crotches when their clothes are stripped away?
One can hope…..
Let’s go VLADY! Let’s go VLADY!
1 USD = 29 UAH. The USD is converted to the UAH-Ukrainian Hryvnia.
The Ukrainian people actually use their own currency?
Intellectual dissidents is appropriate.
Insert Mickey Mouse and the big middle finger please.
This dude can go F himself and suck eggs.
What happened to the almost 15 billion we already gave these POS ?
Got laundered back to our people, and to their oligarchs. Like Barry’s $400M to Iran.
You have to add that to the $1,300,000,000.00 Odroner sent earlier.
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I have a sneaking suspicion that we *really* don’t want to know what our hard-earned, stolen and misappropriated tax dollars have paid for in Ukraine.
It has helped pay the nazis teaching them how to “play nice” with other nazis.
Just made them say they want more now…..we have to pay their wages and retirement too.
I don’t think Biden or many, many of the other corrupt politicians in DC have much choice in the matter as to wether we the taxpayers pay the corrupt politicians in the Ukraine (As in pay them off)…Lest documents start surfacing here and there as to just how corrupt out goverment really is…We’re probably being screwed two-fold here…The original corruption at tax-payers expense and now the blackmail end of things (Hush money).
Exactly this!
It looks like the Ukrainians are turning over massive amounts of weapons to the Russians. We all know who paid for these. I expect the Big Guy is getting his 10%. This stuff will show up in a weapons bazaar near you.
Did not want to spoil the fun yesterday but upon further review of my past comments the video had been posted nearly 3+ weeks ago. Looking back at the video…I recall the depot type workshop pictures and empty artillery shell canisters from that posting a I posted nearly the same comments.
2nd time around for this one folks.
A link would be appreciated.
Sorry, need to look things up yourself instead of always asking for someone else to give you a link.
How would Larry know where to begin to find a post from nearly three weeks ago? Thedoc00 may not remember where, but it seems a polite request.
Sending sophisticated armaments to Ukraine will turn out to be one of the worst decisions made when we reflect back on this in the future.
There is no reliable chain of custody for these units. They WILL end up somewhere unexpected, in the hands of folks who dislike us much more than the Russians.
Its also interesting to see that the FGM-148s that the Ukrainians are using is not the foreign export “D” variant, but the latest more advanced “C” version.
Don’t be mad at this cutout. Zelensky and his Chicken Kiev Cutlets take their orders from our Deep State Syndicate.
That means the Prime Swindler was ORDERED to ask for these amounts, so our Pirate Plutocrats can steal and launder their half.
“I vas chust followink orders, mein NippleFuhrer–your orders!”
They arent shy about their blackmail.
My opinion has not changed about Ukraine, and it will likely never change.
You have bad guys, and worse guys.
One side, is supposed to be our leaders, the other is a KGB man……
I dont see much of a difference between em all.
I think the KGB man is the bad guy and our side are the worse guys here.
Ukraine is a money laundering hole !!!!
This is what the average Joe Blutts takes too lightly. Ukraine is the laundry machine for crooks all over the world.
This 2000 Journal of International Affairs article discusses “The Natasha Trade: The Transnational Shadow Trade of Trafficking in Women”
(if you can get into JSTOR)
And of course there are some politicians who prefer “women” very, very young.
Russia / Putin tried for years to work with the West, but beginning with Clinton we kept poking the bear, expanding NATO countries and filling them with weapons and western advisors, up to the very border of Russia. When Putin objected, saying the U.S. would never allow missiles so close to its border (google Cuban Missile Crisis), we called Putin a bully. The mainstream media totally ignored the Nazi Ukranian AZOV battalion who for years kept bombing the Donbass region, terrorizing its residents and killing over 14,000 Russian speaking civilians. Then, the icing on the cake, Putin received intelligence that the West, using Ukraine as the proxy, was planning to invade the Donbass region in March, so he said enough is enough and beat the West to the punch. And so here we are, screaming about Russia the invader. This is Alice in Wonderland upside-down crazy. Never thought I would see the day that I would be rooting for Russia.
Too bad America doesn’t just keep herself to herself instead of trying to remake the whole world. There isn’t enough left of the U.S. to spread that far.
Well son of a bitch……..
LOL
Ohhh hell yeah if there’s one thing we are good at it’s printing money. It works great until it doesn’t.
Printing it and giving it away to other countries.
Mark Levin has always been one of those, “I don’t like kinda guy”.
We have an elderly conservative friend, Trump supporter, who watches FOX, not CNN or Face the Nation. He’s fallen for this sham completely. Sad.
Same here. My 75 year old neighbor was a cold war era Air Force pilot. Even after all of my careful explanations on how we’ve meddled in Ukraine and pushed NATO, showed him all the Col. MacGregor interviews, he still believes Russia are the bad guys in all of this. NeoCons are relying on this leftover remnant cold war sentiment.
My Republican Senator here in Montana (Daines) keeps emailing me stuff like this: “…. America and the world need to know about Putin’s atrocities against the innocent people of Ukraine now, not after time has passed and the aftermath of evil and bloodshed have been cleaned up…..”. And these old warriors and patriot friends of mine fall for it, hook, line and sinker. I have written my dissent to Daines repeatedly, only to get these form letters back. It has really shaken my outlook.
I have also fallen for your sham. I’ve even bought his last book and YOU need to read it.
How do you make a hormone (whore moan)? Don’t pay them!
It’s because of crap like this why I hope and pray for a decisive Russian victory. We have the worst leaders of all time running this country. And what they are doing is if not already so, borderline treasonous.
Praying for Gods’ Blessings Vladimir Putin, your country and your people. Bog was Blagoslovijo Amin. Podaj Gospodi, Tebje Gospodi.
From pundits down to hobby-bloggers, there are a lot of folks who always looked pretty genuinely conservative, who have gone absolutely nuts in their venom toward Russia and Putin and in support of US involvement in Ukraine. I suppose the pundits are looking to feather their nests. I don’t know what it is with the less-well-connected. Maybe they just believe the propaganda.
Here we have a classic example of media ho interviews grifter.
FU, Ukie-carry your own bags. No blood or treasure for these scam artists or their American counterparts.
The United Soviet Socialist States Of America. PDJT and MAGA is the United States Of America
As difficult as it was, I forced myself to listen to Levin on the radio in my truck the other day. He compared Zelinsky to Churchill and said that he would be remembered for a 1000 years. I shit you not. He makes sure he drops Trumps name every 2 minutes or so to shore up his patriot bona fides. Scared my dogs yelling at the radio.
Right, being paid was what Franklin and Washington et al were most concerned about during our Revolutionary War..
Why do American taxpayers have to fund Ukraine pensions? How in the world should America and its citizens have anything at all to do with Ukraine? Biden sold his soul to these fools and we pay the price of a stolen election once again. My goodness the whole administration needs to be in jail and take all of the Obama administration too and lock them up.
This is absolute madness that a foreign official is telling Americans we have to fund their retirements. When does this nightmare end?
This whole interview makes my blood boil. So obviously fake, yet so many can’t see it. Unbelievable.
I had the same feeling of appreciation for this man telling me that I had to pay for his retirement etc. as I had when RWR ran “are you better off” campaign ads that had a mom making peanut butter sandwiches because her reduced standard of living required it. It is still remembered today and RWR was elected twice for such populism. Let’s do our best to make sure the message of this interview is received just as, “fondly” today as the RWR campaign ads were in the past.
If they can arrest 1 sniper, can they arrest 2? If they can arrest 2, can they arrest 4? If they can arrest 4, can they arrest 16? If 16 then 32? If 32 then 64? If 64 then 128? If 128 then 256? If 256 then 512? If 512 then 1024? If 1024 then 2,048? 4,096? 8,192? 16,384? 32,768? There is a point where they are overwhelmed, and then you win.
This is why we cannot have nice things.
They didn’t even have the decency to put him in a cheap suit, before trying to stick their hands in our pockets.
This is completely outrageous!!!!
Let the people of the United States of America vote on this bullsh*t and see how much money they get!!!
We are in debt up to our ears and just the corrupt United States government is giving money away to fund another country’s pensions/salaries when we can’t fund our own…… you can’t make this stuff up!!!
Why would Americans agree to fund Ukraine, when we can’t fund ourselves ???
Beggars can be choosers, if you are Ukranian. Boy, that Burisma board seat sure was a great investment for corrupt Ukraine.
Did Brennan call him out for his callous white privilege attitude over American minority groups?
What war isn’t a crime?
I could only take about 4 minutes, I despise that woman. She is batcrap crazy. The entire world would be better if we didn’t have “The Media”, I really, really hate them.
And I have to say this is the strangest war I have ever followed. No matter which way you turn we are screwed and so are the innocents of Ukraine. The old gramma and her flag was quite touching. Ukraine military can go pound sand.
I’m just glad my hearing aids broke and haven’t gotten them fixed yet. Can’t hear all the caterwauling.
Cannot watch the video because I “do not want that to destroy my beautiful mind.” That is a quote re Barbara Bush. Snort.
Methinks the Ukrainian “gvmt” asking – well, no demanding money from the US is EXTORTION, and/or at a minimum blackmail.
Which several prior US administrations are all on board with. Throw money, weapons, etc at Ukraine to appease them so they don’t blow our Mafia operations in the Ukraine out where all can see.
The grand question for me is, why should American taxpayers foot the bill for the Ukrainian blackmail of the Clinton’s, Obummer’s, Biden’s or Lord only knows who else has been living high off of the Ukraine gig going on for so many years? Goes to show how much credence our “esteemed present and former leaders” have for the intellectual capacity of anyone besides themselves. Zero.
The universe is unfolding as it should. I sure wish I live long enough for the GREAT EXPOSURE.
I am “enjoying” all of them being tied up in their underwear.
TheBig Guy’s 10% cut of the $4.77B … ? A cool $477M thanks taxpayers for creating true generational wealth for the whole Biden clan. Our country is being looted far more severely than any smash and grab at a BLM Target Store.
You might say that the penalty the American taxpayer should justly bear is to be taxed to death as recompense for the same group’s dereliction (in their permutation as self-governing citizens) for allowing the Deep State to metasticize (‘under our watch and in our names’) into the greatest peril the world faces.
After all, who else BUT the American citizenry can rein in the excesses of its own run-amuck institutions? You never hear expressions of culpability up here, only endless victimization vignettes. Sure, the forces we face have been devious and clever. But greater citizen vigilance since 1947 at least might have alleviated our present condition.
The first-order issue is not the trangenderification of the US Military, but since at least Smedley Butler’s 1935 War Is a Racket, that it does the bidding of empire/internationalist interests in a manner that is often directly injurious to America itself (and certainly to America’s young men and women).
Another step to destroy AMERICA! This Biden regime funneling more American tax dollars to line the pockets of American politicians is absolutely reprehensible !!
But nobody will get up and shout that Biden Hates America and Americans. He does, or else he wouldn’t do the sheet he does. He did when he was a VP also, just like O does.
Why do Americans need to pay for that? Because we have given them money all along? Or just because they say so?
Call him what you will. His remarks this week were much needed. Personalty, I loved them and wish I had a print out of his whole entry.
Double-spanxed Margaret Brennan is very difficult to look at, especially in the morning.
This is a disaster. Ukraine is being destroyed for Victoria Nuland and the Neocons. Congress never met a war it didn’t love. The fact that our nation is crumbling and all the effort is going to Ukraine says it all. Sadly, this can only end up in WWIII because we no longer have a functioning government.
The “war propaganda” is strong with these two.
A plantation on another continent to go with the one here in the USA.
Ukraine GDP pre-war $155 Billion; Texas GDP $2 Trillion … we are fully funding Ukraine at $5-6 Billion per month. WTF?