What do Pakistan’s Imran Khan, Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, USA’s Donald Trump, Hungary’s Viktor Orban and Mexico’s Lopez-Obrador all have in common?
First, they are all strong nationalists. Second, the U.S. government has either influenced the removal and judicial incarceration or is currently seeking the removal and judicial incarceration of each of them.
As the U.S. State Dept. (Tony Blinken), USAID (Samantha Power) and CIA (Director Burns) conduct influence operations around the world to advance the interests of the multinationals; newly released diplomatic cables from inside Pakistan reveal the U.S. influence effort to remove former Pakistan President Imran Khan.
It sucks to wake up every day and accept the USA are the bad guys.
THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT encouraged the Pakistani government in a March 7, 2022, meeting to remove Imran Khan as prime minister over his neutrality on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to a classified Pakistani government document obtained by The Intercept.
The meeting, between the Pakistani ambassador to the United States and two State Department officials, has been the subject of intense scrutiny, controversy, and speculation in Pakistan over the past year and a half, as supporters of Khan and his military and civilian opponents jockeyed for power.
The political struggle escalated on August 5 when Khan was sentenced to three years in prison on corruption charges and taken into custody for the second time since his ouster. Khan’s defenders dismiss the charges as baseless. The sentence also blocks Khan, Pakistan’s most popular politician, from contesting elections expected in Pakistan later this year.
One month after the meeting with U.S. officials documented in the leaked Pakistani government document, a no-confidence vote was held in Parliament, leading to Khan’s removal from power. The vote is believed to have been organized with the backing of Pakistan’s powerful military. Since that time, Khan and his supporters have been engaged in a struggle with the military and its civilian allies, whom Khan claims engineered his removal from power at the request of the U.S.
The text of the Pakistani cable, produced from the meeting by the ambassador and transmitted to Pakistan, has not previously been published. The cable, known internally as a “cypher,” reveals both the carrots and the sticks that the State Department deployed in its push against Khan, promising warmer relations if Khan was removed, and isolation if he was not. (read more, including cable)
It is truly sad that our government are the bad guys and bullies of the world. Been that way a lot longer than we knew.
I think Korea was the beginning of it.
Civil (so-called) War was the beginning. Before that war all States were sovereign, afterwards, not so much. Central government accumulated a lot of power during and after.
Millions of acres of land was stolen during Reconstruction by the North
If you want to know why those of us from the South hate the North with a passion, visit Shiloh. Take a look at the burial sites, and you will know. Then look up the Daughters of the Confederacy, and you will see it a second time.
Carpet-baggers were agitators to incite a race war. Sound familiar !
Romney and Hillary are carpetbaggers deluxe
yep. Shiloh was one of the earliest pilgrimages I remember being taken on by my parents. It is as you say, you will know. Union forces burned my family’s home duing the war of northern aggression, sold the silver at auction first. That grandfather freed his slaves in the early 1850’s, for no cost, and they and he were partners on the land…they burned his house anyway. His son became an attorney and was known for ‘running the carpetbaggers out of the county’. Rest in peace…never forget.
We remain Sons and Daughters of the Revolution, and Sons and Daughters of the Confederacy., scattered from the Jamestown remnants. Keep your land, they are not making any more of it.
Yeah, it was a “reconstruction “ alright!
I think we call it build back better now.
Then the Spanish-American War, taking of Hawaii, and every aggression from then forward.
In the immortal words of John Wilkes Booth : “Sic simper tyrannus “
Thus always the tyrant.
And Lincoln was a savage, imperial dictator who initiated the end of constitutional restraint on the federal government.
Sic semper tyrannus!
Have you ever studied what we did diplomatically to Japan in 1940-41?
Kermit Roosevelt started it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/11/us/kermit-roosevelt-leader-of-cia-coup-in-iran-dies-at-84.html
It goes way back long before Korea, probably all the way back to the Mexican-American War, certainly ramping up after the Spanish-American war. “El Norte” has been bullying Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Pacific Islands for almost as long as the US has been around. After WW2 we just expanded to cover the entire globe.
Maybe sooner tonyE. Been reading how Japan was ready to give up but the powers to be wanted to go ahead with the atomic blast. For several reasons.
Longer than that I’ll bet. Spanish American war?
WW2 was the beginning of it.
While we were undoubtedly the good guys during the war itself, the modern day military-industrial complex was born from the war effort.
We were supposed to demobilize and return our peacetime system of governance once Germany and Japan were defeated. But that never happened.
Bad guys? More than that…they are criminals and extortionists with zero repercussions…
Eisenhower said beware of the great Military Industrial Complex [MIC] when he was leaving office.JFK said he wanted to spread the CIA to the wind look what that got him.:/
Think see-eye-aayy!
Under the Biden administration the rest of the world lost their fear of the US but not their hatred. Countries now routinely treat the US with contempt and face no repercussions. That is a very dangerous mix.
Generally, if your treat people with dignity when you have overwhelming power, they will respect you.
In the long run being respected is better than being feared.
Bullies and thugs are feared.
That seems to be Putin’s philosophy.
Messing with another country armed with nukes. Wonderful. Can’t imagine what could go wrong.
The IC needs some new tricks. Their playbook is so old
The old tricks still work just fine.
Actually, its not like they have such a great record of success.
Their maiden coup worked, but their effort to destabilise the ME, thru their twitter facilitated “color revolutions” was a “mixed bag”.
The Muslim brotherhood hoods they installed, didn’t last a year.
The caliphate was destroyed, and (I assume their biggest goal) it did NOT spread to the Oil Producing Gulf, as I suspect they had hoped.
True, like arming the cartels in Mexico, the turmoil in the ME caused by their (intentionally, in my view) arming of ISIS DID trigger a mass migration up into Europe, so a secondary goal was achieved.
As Sundance points out, their plan to use the war against Putin in Ukraine as an excuse to sanction Russia into submission and force Putins “regime change” hasn’t worked, and in fact has backfired, with Putin threatening the WESTS economy, to the point it may well spur “regime change” (looked at France, lately?).
Both on their chosen International Front, and on their domestic front, aks “War against Putin” and “War against Trump” they are NOT “prevailing” but are instead steadily, inexhorably LOSING Territory.
The Indictments domestically, is a near perfect metaphore for the “spring offensive” in Ukraine; lack of ammunition (no legal predicate) and lack of weopons systems (complete loss of credibility) and lack of “manpower” (due to lack of credibility, unable to manipulate Public Opinion) so even losing the “useful idiots” now.
They are neither omniscient, nor anywhere near a 100% success rate.
In fact, they are LOSING in both wars, sacrificing weopons systems (like credibility of institutions without which they can no longer manipulate public opinion) in an attempt to stave off losses, but these are sacrifice plays, only prolonging the war, without gaining any ground.
Dutchman has it right. The IC only THINKS they are omniscient and omnipotent. They miss the obvious and tend to screw up everything they touch.
Thanks Dutch!
dont fix what aint broke (for the oligarchs – for the peasants, not so much).
“It sucks to wake up every day and accept the USA are the bad guys.”
Yes, it does. It actually hurts to figure out that the US polity has become so fundamentally corrupted by corporate money that it can not be trusted to do good. It used to bug us that we’d seen like 40 years of non stop wars… why? Eventually we figured it out…
There are not enough guillotines in the World to fix this.
In the meantime, all we can hope is that Putin does his thing. Eventually this will affect the power of the Western Bankers… it will hurt Europe, us too. But we will survive. The Bankers, however, won’t.
Once the Old Money is removed, their political meddling will diminish and the local democracies will heal.
We can only hope.
Otherwise, we’re looking at a Civil War.
My wife once asked me, “how do Europeans fix these things?“… I thought about it… “With a European War or a revolution“.
The London Bankers are on the throes of death…. Watch out for the throes of large dying animals, they kick around a lot.
I couldn’t agree more it’s all about greed/money and power damn civilization! I sometimes remind myself of Joshua dispersing the tribes into Israel and GOD was leading the way.Joshua would not move till God said to all the other tribes that had to be displaced feared Joshua’s army he never lost.I honestly believe or Lord is leading this battle the walls are starting to tremble and shake the Ole Guard is dead for all intended purposes.
@TonyE
I often think of writing a comment
Then scroll through what others have written
And wind up just upvoting a variety
And
Never posting
Your post is very well and aptly stated
And sadly
So very few would arrive at your conclusions; . . .
The only thing I would adjust is,
It is a revolution in the making in uSA
The blue Metros and
Blue city states
Will be yielded to the globalists
and their foot soldiers / blind followers
Dying a slow death
As. . .
They are takers and consumers
Not doer’s
Or
Fixers
the rest of the Republic will fracture into Regions
A tribulation. . .
Where have I heard that before. . .
I have heard it . . .
I believe. . .
up vote both of you.
“There are not enough guillotines in the World to fix this.”
There are more efficient (& less messy) methods to remove parasites and rodents from society….
In 1974 I lived in Norway as a student at the University of Oslo. It was during the OPEC years and Americans were routinely hated by European college kids. I defended my country every day.
I have come to realize since the 1980s onward that my country has left me. I’m as patriotic as I ever was, but my country is an authoritarian, getting near totalitarian mess.
I almost feel like echoing Michele Obama in reverse – for the first time in my life, since 2021, I’m ashamed of my country.
Canada, Australia, New Zealand too.
Things are getting tasty…
IMO there is no way “ a lid” can be kept on this much longer.
I know I am spitting mad..( but quietly so) and have had enough of any politician.🤮
Watch tax revenues dry up, smart average folks are preparing.
Earlier today I was talking talking to a Sikh neighbour of ours.
He had just returned from three months in India ( The Punjab Region)
He says India is a “tinder box” and that BRICS is gaining momentum.
The U.S.A. is the “ Empire of Lies”
If President Trump goes to Gaol…I say look out!
Hyperbole? I really don’t think so..
We have psychopaths running the show…there is no treatment for psychopathy.
Avoidance or Elimination..
Ask anyone with a psychopathic ex.
Fortunately I missed that fate, but know a few folks that didn’t.
Cheers!
Sadly, Canada currently has a psychopathic Prime Minister.
Oh yes…he is a classic NPD much like his mother.
Living here in British Columbia among rabid anti Trudeau folks is a comfort though.
Cheers!
I raise my glass to you, Dekester!
🥂
And Australia just instituted policy where all economic activity dealing with money is to be CBDC no cash. Aussies were easy pushovers for Covid so not holding my breath for them to revolt against this either.
Thanks for that.
‘If Trump goes to gaol, look out’.
If civil war comes, we get one shot at the title before the evil tyrants put armed immigrant guards (led by ‘The Squad’) on every corner of every city of every state, backed by the woke military and certain police forces.
That’s why it is important to have a list of addresses for all the tyrants in your area, all the hubs of woke, all the woke leaders, 2IC’s, etc.
Because, what do you reckon the tyrants are doing right now? We see them pushing, pushing, pushing to incite a war, because they ALREADY know their targets and just want one chance to wipe them all out.
The tyrants are already targeting Sundance, et al. They just want an excuse to turn it from electronic war to kinetic war.
If I were Sundance (a 5-star general in this war), I’d certainly have a computer backup and a spare bed at a friend’s house ready.
I learned while sailing the Caribbean to ask does your president call you and ask your opinion how to run things? Well neither does mine. We got along fine after that.
I am ashamed of the Americans in power…greedy lying bastard thieves. That’s what our government has become – a den of thieves.
When they say “you will own nothing and be happy” they aren’t saying “WE will own nothing and be happy”. No…they want it all for themselves. Absolute control, absolute power and anyone who doesn’t agree is a big fat target.
For the sake of my children and their children…God please protect Donald Trump!!!!
WHAT is “the swamp”?
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-“You knew I was a snake”
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Their own dirt
will bury them
The Best IS Coming ❣️
✝️❤️🇺🇸
-and the 🌎
These people are a cancer and plague upon this earth. God help us rid ourselves of their influence 🙏
This isn’t the US. This is a gang of criminals who have illegally taken over the US government and used it to protect their criminal operations and their ill-gotten gains. We are currently occupied by an illegitimate group of gangsters.
A Kleptocracy.
Run by kleptomaniacs. They steal for themselves the wealth of every nation they can corrupt and control.
A reincarnation of 1917 Russian Bolshevik Revolution.
I was listening to preacher the other day said Mafia has more credibility in heaven probably than the Politicians that rule now.Kings,Rulers and Politicians are suppose to rule for the good of man not against them like these satan loving pieces of garbage we have now.
So well put.
Did you notice?
Khan is not allowed to challenge the results.
In Brazil, Bolsolnaro is not allowed to challenge the results.
They are attempting to make it here that you cannot challenge the results.
What a strange coincidence!
Hmmmm.
Hmmm indeed. There are no coincidences in criminal investigations or politics.
They tend to take out the good guys, or at least the better guys. Who do you think is behind it?
Negative ghost rider. USA isn’t the bad guy. The scum anti-usa bas**** in dC are
Indeed, however people in other countries especially Europe they do not say DC they say USA lumped all together. Yes US is hated in most of those countries. Years back was my first encounter when a friend and I went to the former Yugoslavia on vacation. While in Montenegro we both spoke English when we communicated with each other. Sitting at a table, some overheard us speak, immediately they said out loud Amerikanke wich means Americans, they looked angry. Both of us quickly said we are Canadian in the Serbian language, they just smiled and looked. Good Lord scary, they were men that commented. In Belgrade the same thing happened, we had to explain NO we are not. From those two moments we decided we would speak Serbian while out in public, English when alone. Fast forward after US/Nato devastated Yugoslavia we again went to Serbia this time we knew better and spoke their native tongue, even with our bad accents. We did get asked where we were from Canada seemed to be not so bad but America was despised. Truthfully I don’t blame them after seeing and hearing what was done to that beautiful country. It is breathtaking, still is at the sea in Montenegro. No disrespect to the American people meant.
Somehow this garbage has to stop
PRAY!!!
Cannot have nationalists, let alone economic nationalists.
A number of them might get ideas of bypassing the multinationals and ignoring most of that unelected UN bureaucracy that encroaches upon all Sovereign Nations.
Add Turkey President Tayyip Erdogan, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, and Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili to the list . . .
And, not to mention their most important target for regime change: Russian President Vladimir Putin.
was scrolling to see if someone had added Putin. thank you, comrade. 😉
When you finally accept that our country is run by gangsters, it’s freeing in a way.
No more trust. Not one iota. No more “cooperation”. No more support. No more compliance.
Cue the climate change lockdowns.
Cue the aliens.
Oh, nothing is working – they aren’t scared any more.
Cue WWIII.
Oh, no one will volunteer to fight in the wars.
Cue the Draft.
Then, cue the Civil War because we aren’t going to send our sons and daughters to get slaughtered for the military industrial complex and our corrupt gangster government.
“we aren’t going to send our sons and daughters”
part of me thinks this might finally be what forces us out of our passive stupor.
but the other part of me thinks even THAT will not be enough. the diarrhea of propaganda will be an overwhelming tsunami like we have never seen when these evil warmongers decide to go all out.
I dont participate in protests or the political process BUT I will die in the streets to prevent my sons or daughters to fight an unjust war.
Terrific post!
F&*k em! Crude? Sure but I mean it.
Cheers!
“Then, cue the Civil War because we aren’t going to send our sons and daughters to get slaughtered for the military industrial complex and our corrupt gangster government.”
If people were to be forced to sacrifice their own lives in mortal combat, they might as well offer it up to save their own homeland, and not for a Globalist royalty, hell bent on expanding their corporate interests in foreign lands.
👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸
Totally agree, BFAW!
Afghanistan base handed over to facillitate the CPEC – Iran to China feeding energy pipeline
gwadar port – have a look, look it up
Iran was freed up to facillitate this from War 1. Obama versus Russia to control the energy flow. (think ISIS) (Benghazi)
Unity between China and Pakistan
article Jan 6, 2021
The United States has enough energy resources, oil, to fuel the entire world for 200+ years. President Trump is correct when he says we could pay off our National Debt using oil. The globalist don’t like that idea.
They want to crush USA and cripple and weaken its citizens – the ‘belief that America is the land liberty and freedom’ is slow to die among the non-elitists, regular peoples of the world – gives them ideas. Globalists must crush the nationalists and theri individualism that is a hallmark of Americans.
They’re scared to death to think that PDJT and Putin would get together.
So MY US government is doing the job of the United Nations using all the power and influence of the US taxpayers? We need to clean house of this traitorous government
it is not MY government. the republic ceased to exist in November 2020.
it ceased april 18, 2016
No.
They are stealing from your left behind country, and funding their Globe Nation
See the transition from treason to hero (to justify their actions on us)
The UN needs to be demolished and tenants sent to China, plenty of office and living space. Anywhere but US soil. It should have been done 20 years ago.
Where is the comely Victoria Nuland this week??
Which country is she pot stirring in now after her failed trip to Niger demanding to see the overthrown president.
She even tried the “Biden Protocol”… threatening to remove US aid unless they acquiesced to her demand.
Request was denied and the blackmail given short shrift.
Two quick tweets followed from the coup leader.
One saying that this was fine. Perhaps the money would be better spent taking care of America’s homeless.
The second saying that perhaps the money would be better spent for Nuland to diminish her…uh..er…avoirdupois.
Ouch!!
It seems more and more countries have the USMilitary Industrial Complex’s number.
I can only cheer if this is the case.
Where she goes, death follows. Happy to see the Nigerians tell her and Paris Boy to pound sand.
Yes indeed. Manufactured chaos and colour revolutions are her calling cards. A spectre whose presence announces her intent.
was that second tweet real? i had assumed it was just some joke or meme, but hot dayum if so – the peasants are no longer afraid of the bully. ALL OF US, not just the people of Niger, will suffer deeply as the oligarchs exact their wrath… but one way or another it must come.
I’m may have been, Muley, though from what I’ve read I think not.
In any event, the French have been shown the door as well. But I get the feeling that the African countries are finally realizing they’ve been ill used and abused by the West. See Fauci and Gates for specifics in that regard.
At any rate, fake or not I had a jolly good laugh at her expense. It’s high time war mongers were held up to ridicule…and, it is to be hoped, in the end will receive a just reckoning.
Betsy, my french is a bit rusty so i looked up the word.. laughing out loud I am!
While reasonably well versed in the French language, I have never heard this term.
Let’s try a direct translation and then round off?
“Avoirdupois” =
“To Have Some weight or heft”= equals in colloquial American usage “to be or have a fat ass”.
A genteel French word, George. I do like to taste my words before I spit them out.
And this one was delicious 😉
Dear Betsy jones, I hope you will forgive me for my not so genteel translation.
For a death calling card war monger, I am not going to worry about hurting her feelings.
No worries, GreyRockMan. None at all. No forgiveness needed, dear sir.
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They who wish to harm us no longer work in darkness
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No they do not, Dekester. Modern day Icaruses flying to close to the sun.
Arrogant?
Cocky?
A surfeit of hubris?
I pray the latter because we know what comes next.
Slava Bogu!!!
Amen, Donna.
Where will Nuland be this week ?? We will know where when the proverbial sh1t hits the fan…
Yeah, I saw that!!!
Don’t forget, there was an assination attempt on Khan as he campaigned.
And now this just posted…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/developing-ecuadorian-presidential-candidate-fernando-villavicencio-assassinated-campaign/
CIA involvement?
I wouldn’t bet not.
Should be interesting to see what happens with the BRICs conference later this month.
Look for some U.S. instigated trouble and/or distractions. This is an existential threat to the status quo.
Sundance be busy today 😉
I had an American flag on a pole in my yard. At the last Trump indictment I lowered it to half mast, upside down. After a couple of days I took it down completely. I didn’t want to have to explain it to my Grandchildren.
Signed, stranger and pilgrim in a banana republic.
on the contrary, I think your grandchildren deserve to know who the enemies of the republic are. let them grow up on and internalize this knowledge, so they can fix where we failed.
I want to allow them to enjoy some innocence while they can. What’s coming is coming.
We lost control of our country … long ago.
Without the internet, none of this would be visible. The Godless have always been breaking and taking bits of the world, here, there.
The only good old days were those filled with people living their best lives.
VSG did not drain the sewer but at least he drastically lowered the water level
Day One of Trump Administration 2.0, we need the top 60% of the State Department, DOiJ, FBI, DHS and CIA sent packing.
Forgot to mention the Pentagram. It’s sorely in need of an exorcism much like the rest.
Pentagram ground broken 9/11/41
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon
OHMYGOSH!!!
And it was a missle..
A lot more than 60%.
Alll these agencies are unconstitutional! They need abolishing!
Yup! If it’s not SPECIFICALLY LISTED in The Constitution, OUT!!!!
Absolutely. The state department needs to be reduced to issuance of visas.
80%
I see no good reason for young men and women to enlist. None.
It is a challenging dilemma for patriots who love their country and hate the criminals running it.
it has become easier for me when i think of it thus:
this is not the republic that we grew up in or that was founded. it is a usurper regime, and as such, i have no loyalty to them or to their illegitimate diktats.
even more clearly…it was not even the Republic you thought it was growing up
It was not even a Republic after 1913. Central Bank, Income Tax, and Woodrow Wilson ( a Democrat) deciding to resurrect Jim Crow with his film, “Birth of a Nation”.
We have met the enemy, and he is us.
MAN! Does it EVER! Prior to discovering Sundance in 2015, I just automatically assumed and accepted that the United States was the “good guy”. Ummm. Not so much any more….
When contractors can serve your intel. that means corporatins have surpassed your military.
corporations – global and identifiable – are the ones throwing our lives around for their goal.
a Trump like Corpration that was US first – would be nice. A global use all governments and militaries screwing all people is not nice.
The left raged when President Trump said America wasn’t a cleanskin in bad dealings Internationally.
The enemy is those we trusted. No more!
2024 or kneel.
them and what army.
Sounds like Joe in the blackmail of Ukraine to oust the prosecutor of Burisma.
“call him, call him” Joe talking of Obama
Pakistan, Brazil, USA, Hungary and Mexico – it will be interesting to see which other nations produce individuals, in leadership roles, who will also willingly stand up and be their nation’s voice of conscience.
Strange bedfellows in one respect, but each one of these men appear to have that natural, in-born love of wanting to improve the lives of their country’s citizens.
Well, its been known for some time for the rest of the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century
Yes, and in their founding documents, those PNAC neocons called for a catalyzing event like a new Pearl Harbor. And they we got 9/11.
Mortal Republic – How Rome Fell into Tyranny:
The story of Rome’s fall is both complicated and relatively straightforward: The state became too big and chaotic; the influence of money and private interests corrupted public institutions; and social and economic inequalities became so large that citizens lost faith in the system altogether and gradually fell into the arms of tyrants and demagogues.
Sean IllingThe inequality problem is maybe the most striking for me. What you saw in Rome, and what you see quite clearly today, is the wealthy undermining the very system that made them wealthy, and a total failure to see how ruinous that is in the long term.
Edward WattsYeah, it’s a real problem today, and it was a real problem in Rome. There’s a pivotal period in Rome, around the middle part of the second century BC, in which there’s an economic revolution that displaces a lot of people who had belonged to a hereditary aristocracy and moves them off the top economic rungs of the state. At the same time, it’s creating economic conditions that prompt people in the middle to basically become very frustrated that their economic prospects are not increasing either. And what ends up happening is the people who win from this economic revolution try to preserve their gains through just about any means they can, and that includes gross political obstructionism, the rigging of elections, and a total unwillingness to compromise. This kick-starts a death spiral that ultimately undoes the Roman system from within — and we’d do well to learn from it. Because the story of Rome shows that once you reach that breaking point, that point of no return, you cannot unwind the clock.
https://www.vox.com/2019/1/1/18139787/rome-decline-america-edward-watts-mortal-republic
but from the 2nd century BC to the fall of Rome, howeve you want to define it, took hundreds of years…….
But things do move faster in today’s world
This has 0bama the moors stench all over it.
All the chants of the US being tyrants has come true under Biden and the Deep State.
Every time I get heartbroken about being essentially forced out of the military, I see something like this.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the US government was also behind the current prosecution of Netanyahu for “corruption.” The Dems/ foreign policy establishment has been trying to get rid of him for years. Clinton tried to get rid of Netanyahu by sending campaign consultants to his opponent.
Trump and Netanyahu together ignored the foreign policy “experts” by ignoring the establishment view that the Palestinian “problem” had to be solved before there could be Middle East Peace. Trump and Netanyahu ignored the Palestinians and won the Abraham Accords.
It sucks to wake up every day and accept the USA are the bad guys. C’mon Man… How bout No Shit! I realized that more than 50 yrs ago. I’m not alone either. It won’t stop unless it’s ripped out by the roots.
Our unelected government and unelected meddling minions are what makes America suck. I am embarrassed by their actions.
PDJT i his latest speech pointed out the U.S. is giving the taliban in afganistan $ 2.1 BILLION/year, IIRC.
So imagine what we are giving Pakistan in aide.
“,…and sunofabitch, they arrested him!”
“warmer relations if Khan was removed, and isolation if he was not”
Run… do not walk… away from the U.S., Pakistan… if you know what’s good for you. You have been warned.
I’ve always wondered over the past 6 or 7 years… aside from that whole “al-Zawahiri” thing and “Mass Casualty Event” obsession… was Osama bin Laden maybe on to something, at least early in his formative years? Perhaps the U.S. really… REALLY… created a monster, on multiple dimensions… oopsy!
“It sucks to wake up every day and accept the USA are the bad guys.”
It has been increasingly impressed on me over the last 25 years how ugly our US policies have been and are continuing to be. Our actions are marked by rapacious greed for profits and power. The need for control in every country of the world has led to endless regime change operations, NGO proliferation, sanctions policies, and bribes on top of endless spying, censorship, and propaganda. We do not honor our agreements, are only loyal to money and power, and lie whenever we are faced with uncomfortable truths.
We have truly become The Empire of Lies.
I agree Belle. Do you think God will destroy a nation as corrupt and evil as ours has become?
I pray for our country. I think about Abraham pleading for Sodom. He asked God if he would spare the city if righteous men can be found – at first 50, then 45, then 30, 20, and finally, 10. In each case, God answered that he would spare Sodom for the sake of the righteous men, even 10. But obviously, he could not find even 10 and though he destroyed Sodom, he spared the lives of Lot and his family.
I pray that when God looks down on us, on all the evil and corruption taking place, he is able to find some righteous men still and spares us. That is why it is necessary for us to live righteous lives in the midst of evil and not become accustomed or permissive of it.
Do it and get it over with.
And this doesn’t even include all the pedophilia.
God help us.
The self-absorbed elitists running this country have taken the plot from the 1958 book, The Ugly American, to a new level of ugliness and moral depravity.
While the original story revolved around the USA arrogant State Department (and other like-thinking) elitists thinking they could export the values of our culture over to the SE Asians and reap profits as a result. But they were desperately wrong.
At the very least, unfortunately!
Pray for PDJT!!!
Biden really is evil! He needs a piece of his own medicine!
“It sucks to wake up every day and accept the USA are the bad guys.”
My dad watched one of his friends get blown to pieces by a child suicide bomber at Khe Sahn. I’ve had this figured out for a while now. It’s sad that it’s taken most of you 20+ years to figure out what I knew back in high school. Better late than never, I guess.
You forgot about Netanyahu
Netanyahu may be a nationalist, but he’s also a major enabler of the Deep State’s agenda. So no he doesn’t belong on that list.
And honestly, neither do Bolsonaro or even Khan.
The Ugly American, starring Joe the Grifter Biden.
I bet that nobody from The Intercept is being arrested for Wiki-leaking this.
“It sucks to wake up every day and accept the USA are the bad guys.”
When I was 5-6 years old (for real!) I asked my g-parents why the news reported every night that gorillas were being brought into the U.S.
They said those were guerillas – soldiers/ people fighting against their govts!
I wondered and asked – if those countries and people are SO bad (the news and videos showed the awful fighting!), WHY are they bringing them here?! It’ll only ruin our country!
Some years later I watched the original Star Trek and Mission Impossible tv series and other “spy” shows, so I’ve never wondered if we were the bad guys. It was pretty obvious!
(“We can’t violate the Prime Directive of non-interference in other cultures, Captain!”, and it was always violated!!
M.I. said “The State Dept will disavow any knowledge” of the brave operatives who risked their lives to overturn foreign govts, assassinate “bad” rulers, change votes, etc!)
I love/d Jesus and our Republic!!!! Our patriotic hymns make me cry!
But after seeing so many videos of Normandy, et al, knowing my loved ones had been sent there, to Viet Nam, Korea…
the sad truth had to be that somebody wanted bad things to happen to the best people!
I met those bad people in schools, from elementary to college – they were administrators!!!! We didn’t get along bec compromise is a 4-letter word to God!
I watched our church’s school sell out to “educators” and “federal funding” – whoever funds you owns you!, I protested to a teacher.
And I’ve seen the creeping corruption all my life but few believed it was really that bad! Very sad situation indeed!
I told as many as possible about salvation, even in public schools and wherever!, hoping to awaken them to the problems so they’d push back.
I homeschooled my children by faith!, on the barest budget – and have seen amazing miracles of all kinds, by His great grace!
And I have seen many bowed down and mired in sin and corruption who couldn’t believe in His free grace.
But I still “preach” it!, because He is the Only Way Out!
Thankfully!!!!, He always wins!!!, one way or another! : ) Bless Him Always!
Your post ends on the important things in life. Things will get better as more people realize that.
AMEN! Thank you.
“What do Pakistan’s Imran Khan, Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, USA’s Donald Trump, Hungary’s Viktor Orban and Mexico’s Lopez-Obrador all have in common?
First, they are all strong nationalists. Second, the U.S. government has either influenced the removal and judicial incarceration or is currently seeking the removal and judicial incarceration of each of them.”
If Lopez Obrador is a nationalist, he’s definitely a misguided one. His policies unfortunately are awful for the Mexican people. Homicides are through the roof with his hugs not bullets, abrazos no balazos, policy.
Destabilizing a countrys internal security is a proven means of ousting a non compliant problematic President…
Obrador is a nationalist in the sense that he wants the reunification of the old Mexican Empire.
He’s not a friend of MAGA.
Very soon they’ll be making moves on Modi too. They tried to knock him out with all the farmer’s revolts, but it looks like he managed to calm the waters.
Which is ironic. Modi despises Khan and probably celebrated (albeit in private) when the latter was ousted.