Retired Admiral James Stavridis was the former NATO Supreme Allied Commander who conducted Secretary Hillary Clinton’s war in Libya without congressional authorization. Stavridis represents the military side of the State Dept war machine, while Michael McFaul, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia, represents the diplomatic side.
Hopefully, more Americans are awake now to the nature of U.S. foreign policy as it relates to who controls the use of our military. Most modern interventions are conducted from within the U.S. State Dept using joint elements of the CIA that operate within it. The State Dept and CIA now control all pentagon operations and direct U.S. missions.
Once we accept how this modern process of global influence works, then we understand how and why Mike Pompeo moved from CIA to State during the Trump administration. Pompeo was the ‘mitigator,’ the person installed to block President Trump from interfering in this construct. What Bill Barr was to the DOJ, Pompeo was for the State Dept. It’s always uncomfortable to look at the Deep State with clear eyes.
As you review the propaganda; and there is no doubt this is pure propaganda as pushed by NBC today on Meet the Press; keep in mind that U.S. operators are deeply embedded inside Ukraine to facilitate goals of the State Dept proxy war against Russia. New York Times – … [E]ven as the Biden administration has declared it will not deploy American troops to Ukraine, some C.I.A. personnel have continued to operate in the country secretly, mostly in the capital, Kyiv, directing much of the vast amounts of intelligence the United States is sharing with Ukrainian forces, according to current and former officials.
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As noted in the interview, albeit with parseltonge to obscure the reality of the situation and keep the American public thinking sending more money and weapons into Ukraine will change the outcome – it won’t, Russia has dug in throughout Donbas and now controls eastern Ukraine. Donbas was always the goal of Vladimir Putin as a buffer against Western use of Ukraine.
Ukraine is to the United States what North Korea is to China; both are fully controlled proxy states. Western media keep pretending that Ukraine is not the playground for the U.S. government. However, the larger reality is clear and accepting that reality explains why the U.S. government is funding the Ukraine government. Meanwhile Vladimir Putin is clear-eyed and has no problem watching the U.S. go bankrupt trying to keep Ukraine afloat.
Once you understand the U.S. government strings and puppets, the pantomime is no longer fun to watch.
It’s all propaganda.
Essentially, our government are the bad guys.

Rush and I were two of the only people who really enjoyed the Putin Trump Helsinki press conference. I watched it streaming upon the White House YouTube while Rush was watching and commenting during his show. It was a good time. Had my dad still been alive, I would have had him on the phone at the same time. Then it would have been the best.
McFaul, aka McFail, had a total Twitter freak-out thinking Trump was going to hand him over to Russia. Same with Browder. All kinds of people chimed in upon this freak-out. It is still one of the greatest Trump Putin moments EVER!
Sorry Establishment, you got exposed in one of the best trolling pressers that day.
Still wish Trump had handed these clowns over. Or sicked the IRS after the billions in taxes the Clinton Foundation owes. Maybe the Moynihan and Doyal suit will someday get us that tax money.
Even though Trump’s narcissism of trying to build his legacy via the miracle shot, to his credit, he did try to work with China and Russia instead of poking them into war. Don’t say about the weapons sent to Ukraine during his administration. He probably didn’t know about it. Save people one way, and kill them another, lol.
Saying Pr. Trump did not know about the weapons to Ukraine solidly reveals your lack of analytical thinking.
Sure. So, you say your “messiah” wanted to provoke the bear. Why work with Russia in Syria, building railroad projects, etc., if that were the case? So, in your mind, it was a good idea to send weapons to Ukraine? If you do, you are not much different from a typical bloodthirsty, warmonger “conservative.” GFY. You have nothing to say, so you call people names. Are “conservatives” a bunch of pu**** now too? Go and learn some recent history or, even better, some REAL history before espousing some asinine comment.
Question to McFaul and Stradivarius. How much territory has Ukraine taken back by force from Russia? None visible or confirmed, just Russian advances. Has there even been an offensive counter attack by Ukraine. The Ukraine army is getting grounded to dust. Why would Russia try to blow up a Nuke power plant that they captured? Its Ukraine that is targeting that Nuke plant, not Russia. These are 2 fools spreading lies.
Germany and France is in panic mode. Their industries are scaling back and many shutting down due to energy scarcity and costs. Several EU countries are refusing to send money and weapons to the black hole of Ukraine. The EU is Germany. When Germany says enough and stands up to the US and starts demanding a peace negotiation, then this will end.
Johnnyfandango, exactly right. Watching all the drone video showing the Ukr soldiers being targeted and destroyed en mase on a daily basis tells the real story of who is winning and who is cannon fodder.
Germany is a bad actor all on it’s own.
The Russian War will lead to the a European Union. For now, I am glad that Europe will not be able to make toilet paper this winter.
will lead to the end of the European Union.
Watch Italy, the forces for itexit are ascendant.
Yes, Germany anf France are the hub of EU, but if Italy leaves, it collapses.
The whole underlieng structure is inherently unstable, and I’m convinced a second PDJT term, would have seen him topple it, and givenbits instability, without much effort.
Italians are not sacrificing their lives so Germans are warm in winter.
NATO is being humiliated, too. Ukraine was the largest and best equipped military in Europe courtesy of NATO and the US. So essentially you can say NATO is fighting Russia using a proxy and Russia is handing NATO its ass. It is evident to the world NATO is a paper tiger when faced against a peer or near peer military.
The Germans are a bunch of pussies and will never have the gonads to stand up to the Deep State. Plus their communists aka the Greens are fully onboard the communist WEF reset plans.
The EU will never send money to the most corrupt country in Europe because it knows that this is a war that the Deep State instigated and hence it falls on the Deep State to bank roll it.. which means more borrowing from the future.
It would certain be a twist that would give us some clues about who is allied with whom in the Great Train Robbery known as Ukraine. I suspect the US and EU are thick as thieves in the whole economic and political realignment; however, the EU countries are going to be under far more pressure than our own fascists this winter. Unfortunately, we’re still too comfortable to do anything stare agape at what’s happening.
Now Medvedev has let the cat out of the bag—Russia is going to go all the way to Odessa, while the West bankrupts itself trying to turn the tide….
Step back and look at the years of corrupt money laundering flowing through Ukraine. The entire territorial Russian war becomes secondary. I don’t think it’s just about Putin taking resources and real estate. It think the exposure of years of US corruption in Ukraine and current rivers of dirty US money flowing in and out of that shit hole is what it’s all about.
And their desperation that PDJT was going to end it and expose it.
To cut Ukraine off from the Black Sea, and the resources accorded to Ukraine that are there….which are substantial.
Which is why Putin is courting Erdogen from Turkey which controls the egress from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean.
The Uniparty strategy is NOT “controlled opposition” cause that implies some degree of manipulation; the Uniparty strategy is fully complicit portraying of a party in opposition that isn’t at all, but is ni fact actively working with the “other side”.
Without the Uniparty strategy (a few highlights)
either B. Goldwater would have won in 1964, OR JFK would not have been assasinated.
Neither would have ‘gone along with’ the strategy in Viet nam. What we saw play out was NOT “unintended consequences” it was EXACTLY what was intended.
Without the “Uniparty strategy” we would have WON the debate, 30 years ago on School Vouchers, instead of snatching defeat from the jaws of Victory, and accepting not half a loaf, but one moldy heel, with “Charter schools”.
So, no continueing to produce graduates who can’t read their diploma, no CRT, TRANS GROOMING, etc.
And, no Public School Teachers Union, to fund the Dem party wing and supstitute the 3 R’s with marxist crap.
Without the Uniparty strategy, we have honest public debate, hence no senseless, not in Americas best interest wars.
No MSM, as the regulatory authority if FCC and Anti-trust laws would have prevented 5-6 megacorporations from gobbling up market share.
Ditto, Big tech.
And, we would not have had manipulation of election outcomes, which faccilitates the continuation of the destruction of the U.S.
Destroy the Uniparty strategy, by exposing it, so that ALL voters recognise and accept the truth, and reject the divisive manipulation that has us identifying as “R”, “D” “I” or “so disgusted I don’t vote!” and embracing we are ALL Americans, and all the other false narratives, manipulations and machinations, which are dependant in the Uniparty strategy, fail.
Ergo, ANY coarse of action which does not have this goal as uppermost, is seriously flawed, and quite probably a distraction that saps time, energy and effort from our goal.
“Essentially, our government are the bad guys.”
To everyone thinking about joining today’s military, or re-enlisting, let that sink in and with all the implications.
One implication is you are cannon founder and nothing more.
Another implication is, if the American People get too “uppity”, you will be turned on them.
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2022/08/28/all-the-way-to-odessa/
I left the military after 29 years. Feel like I have been played as I didn’t wake up until 2015. Left in 2020. Disappointed in what I supported. We are the bad guys.
Jim, left after 20 years with the same realization.
Only “We” were not the bad guys. Its the corruptocrats who never wore the uniform and bled for their brethren
Is this the first military stalemate where one side – Russia – continually takes more territory?
Isn’t it ironic that the very people who fought stalemate after stalemate, with the most powerful military force ever formed, are projecting defeat on Russia?
And, in Ukraine they are trying to emulate the Russian defeat in afganistan, which only occured because the U.S. funneled 100’s of billions in weopons to the mujahadeen.
(And didn’t THAT work out well for us?)
By fighting this emergency action the way he is, Putin is negating almost any value of such weopons.
In afganistan, the people hated the Russians. I eastern ukraine, most of the people ARE russians,…makes a big difference.
The Biden administration is intentionally destroying our military because they want the United States to be defeated by a foreign adversary, most likely China.
The treason from within is vast.
ChinaGate. The GOP let CFR Clinton transfer our technologies, manufacturing infrastructure to China. the CFR wants China built up and America destroyed. CFR Bush sr laid it out in his NWO speech (twilight language) and every President has helped lead America further down that path except for PDJT.
When the Admiral and the Ambassador speak, no one at CTH believes what they say. The Ukraine has been just a corrupt vehicle to enrich the sons of Biden, Kerry, Pelosi’s and Romney. All orchestrated by the likes of Victoria Nuland, Robert Kagan, Alexandra Chalupa and Alexander Vindman.
I was once surprised by the speed with which our President Donald J. Trump was impeached for a phone conversation with Zelenskyy. Now I realize that the CIA tribe had this war with Russia planned for 30 years and Trump represented Peace and Prosperity.
Trump was onto the Ukrainian corruption. The Dems, GOP and DS needed to get him out quick.
No shit, Sherlock. But a typical American still believes in a democracy and freedom BS narrative. Too late. They are just buying time and seeing who has the gut to push the red button. 2025 Deagel forecast, if that is the case, we all know who got destroyed.
On the other note, they are setting up the narrative of blaming Trump for the miracle shot he is still promoting as a saving “shot.” An attempt to isolate him from his base? Who knows? Who cares?
Putin and Russia are fostering the independent republics in the Donbass and Crimea, and Odessa. The people there are free and independent ethnic and cultural Russians in all but nationality. Part of the foster program is to seed and support native Militias within these republics, and support them in establishing their indepence from, and freedom from, the western Ukraine with it’s Nazi batallions and hijacked politics.
Putin has rightly called out the US FedGov as The Empire of Lies, and is making a stand for Christian Western Civilization. He will find allies in at least Hungary, and probably Romania and the Czech Republic as well. I think Poland seems to be waltzing with the EU and the Empire of Lies.
Interesting times.
Poland and Russia are long term enemies.
The USSR occupation was not friendly either.
“Essentially, our government are the bad guys.” Sundance
That is the most profoundly sad sentence I have read in many years.
You have helped expose the apocalypse, along with many other independent/alternative sites, by revealing the machinations of the world’s powers that want complete control.
My use of the word apocalypse is in the original Greek context; as in a revelation, an uncovering of certain mysteries, certain hidden things.
Your words reveal that the United States has become an Empire of Lies, Deceit & Corruption.
It will require many Pure Hearts to combat and vanquish the legions of dark forces we face.
But foremost it will require a turning back to God by the multitudes in this land of ours, on this world of ours.
Too many “on our side” are still pretending not to see the glaringly obvious God vs Satan nature of this conflict, and insist on viewing it in stricktly worldly/mortal terms.
Ultimately, WE will win when we turn to GOD, as with him ALL is possible, without him nothing is.
“It’s always uncomfortable to look at the Deep State with clear eyes.”
Sundance, it’s painful.
Thank you for todays exposés.
Very valuable to us.
Sean McFate wrote three books about that region. He is a Strategist, and the books had Donbas as the focal point and PMCs.. I read two and quit. Search his name.
Yes they are the bad guys ! Murderers and thieves !
All you have to know is the high esteem that the Establishment holds for Looootennnant Kerrrrnelll Vinddddmannnn.
I hung in, as long as I could, roughly 2/3 thru, just to getca jist of what they were saying.
Gee the fact that you, a supposed expert on Russian splinter groups, have never heard of this group that claims responsibility, SMACKS of CIA, and you know it.
THEM, trying to spell out what Putins objectives are, is rediculous.
His goal was to prevent Ukraine from being a gateway to Russia for invasion.
He has accomplished that.
Secondary, to secure 1/2 of Ukraine, so as to consolidate and make more permanent that goal, and he is well on his way to that.
That, in the process of responding to provacations he could no longer ignore, and that that responce is exposing deep state behaviorsvin Ukraine is a bonus.
Remember when Hezbollah called George W Bush satan? Yep. All this time the evil has been the USA. Breaks my heart but it’s TRUE. Needless wars around the world. Millions of needless deaths of innocents around the world. May God have mercy on us for what we have allowed our government to do.
Yes Gertrude, our gubmint is a den of vipers.
Thank God for Sundance and his analysis. I couldn’t not bear all this horrible news without his insight and straightforward reporting.
“Hopefully, more Americans are awake now to the nature of U.S. foreign policy as it relates to who controls the use of our military.”
Ah, Rip van Winkle, please wake up. Genl Butler’s damning assessment was lodged in 1935.
“WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one INTERNATIONAL IN SCOPE”
“But what does [war] profit the men who are killed…and WHAT DOES IT PROFIT THE NATION?“
— War Is a Racket, Genl Smedley Butler
So no one will be offended if we stop going up to uniformed 22-year-olds in airports and thanking them for “serving their country”? Maybe we should grab them by the shoulders instead and tell them they’re being sent on a deceptively posed mission that has nothing to do with protecting the people of Kansas.
Or are we going to duck the heart of the issue by laying this entirely at Obama’s feet for Woking the armed forces? Because as much as a scourge O was to America, the MIC scourge vastly precedes his predations.
And yet, in the conservative circles I know, where military service remains practically the third rail of patriotism, to interrogate the decades-long, expropriated purpose of the USM ventures one internal contradiction too far.
It hurts some but it is true. If a young person ever asks us advice about joining the military service today, our reply should be: Why?
It’s sad to have to acknowledge that the U.S. are the bad guys.
I felt the same way when our first half-black, America-hating Islamophile president was in office.
Quick send two more billion to the zelensky scam.
WWRD – what would Reagan have done? I don’t think he’d be saying it’s all America’s fault that Russia, in violation of countless agreements and treaties, invaded Ukraine for economic and imperial aims and has been shelling, bombing, and terrorizing the civilian population. He’d do a hell of a lot more than our somewhat limp wristed Biden response, I’m certain Reagan would tell Russia to get the hell out or else their leadership could pick their favorite Ghaddafi outfit in preparation for the inevitable – as would Trump. US Troops would be in country, 100%, and Russia would not be threatening to use nukes against Europe.
Wow what a brillant analysis. Just the sort of thing I’d expect from the 7th floor of State.
By seizing the Donbass what has changed since Putin has been waging surrogate war there for a decade? Is Russia more secure now that Ukraine wants to join NATO, just as those warmonger states Finland and Sweden have just done?
Wow Sherlock did you get a merit award from the 7th floor?
What will not change is the Demorats resolve to sell out all our allies, be it the Laotians, Cambodians, Nicarguanians, Cubans, Vietnamese, South Africans, Rhodesians, Biafarians. Don’t forget the Israelis.
Remember Kaiser Bill had a ball watching the US go bankrupt proping up the French and Brits in WW1. Hitler laughed it up when he duped the Americans in repeating their WW1 follies.
The 7th floor doesn’t get it and so do their surrogates.
Its almost unwatchable.
Pure effluent.