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Sunday, July 6, 2025

Lippman Gap = Imperial Overstretch - Vox Popoli

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In 1922, this report details, Lippman released his book “Public Opinion”, which is the instructional manual for how the United States government and media can propagandize peaceful peoples into warring against each other without knowing why—and Lippman proudly proclaimed: “Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong; where truth is poisoned at its source; one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people”.


https://voxday.net/2025/07/06/lippman-gap-imperial-overstretch/
 

This so-called Gap is the same thing that traditional historians more usefully describe as Imperial Overstretch. It is a common behavior by late-stage empires that usually precedes contraction, internal division, and collapse.

The US empire is already dominated by the foreign influence of AIPAC, which has no interests in common with the American people, and whose influence has proved reliably destructive since the fatal Naturalization Act of 1965 overturned 44 years of strict immigration limits that helped the USA become a strong and mostly homogeneous empire in the aftermath of the Civil War and WWI. This pernicious foreign influence was compounded by the hubris of being the sole major power to escape serious damage in WWII with its industrial capacity not only unscathed, but significantly enhanced.

Now the USA is facing imperial overstretch due to its overcommitments abroad and the internal weakening of the country by the mass post-1965 invasion. It is unfortunate that so many Americans, real and paper, would prefer to permit the country to collapse into chaos rather than even attempt to look into the causes of the US decline and probable fall. But this is part and parcel of the usual historical process; the American Indian did not recognize the problem and join forces to oppose the European settlers until it was far too late too.

US Support For Israel Comes At A Staggering, Multifaceted Price | ZeroHedge

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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-support-israel-comes-staggering-multifaceted-price 

In one of several observations about Israel that led to him being relieved of his position leading the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Levant and Egypt branch in June, Army Colonel Nathan McCormack summed up the relationship this way:

“[Israel is] our worst ‘ally.’ We get literally nothing out of the ‘partnership’ other than the enmity of millions of people in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.”

Bit by bit, that realization is spreading throughout American society, as citizens observe Israel’s conduct in Gaza, scrutinize the Israel-Palestine conflict as never before, and grow increasingly wary of Israel’s attempts to drag the United States into another major war launched on false pretenses. That latter dimension has special resonance with countless US combat veterans who’ve come to the terrible realization that their sacrifices and those of their fallen comrades were ultimately made for the benefit of a foreign government — and to the detriment of America’s security.

DMSO Heals the Lungs and Cures Chronic Respiratory Diseases

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•DMSO is also quite useful for addressing the infections that frequently accompany these disorders, as it has antimicrobial activity, reduces damaging lung inflammation, and potentiates many antimicrobial therapies (e.g., many untreatable resistant respiratory infections rapidly respond to DMSO mixed with an antibiotic and many individuals have cured a chronic illness by combining DMSO with a natural antimicrobial).

•A large volume of published data and many user reports show that DMSO often produces remarkable results for a wide range of respiratory disorders, of which asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and pulmonary fibrosis, pneumonia) will be covered here.

• This article will review the data demonstrating DMSO’s efficacy for lung diseases, along with an examination of the most common protocols used for them and other natural approaches that also aid in their treatment (e.g., for asthma, COPD, and pulmonary fibrosis). It will also provide guidelines for general DMSO procurement and use.


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Russian nationalist at the front – Part 1 – The Occidental Observer

 https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2025/07/05/russian-nationalist-at-the-front-part-1/

Introduction

Here we present the first part of this two-part series of articles, which consists of two interviews on different topics to provide a perspective on Russia and the war in Ukraine from a politically active person on the Russian nationalist right wing scene, Alexei Miltjakov, leader of Rusich.

The two articles should help to clear up many of the misunderstandings that exist about Russia and the war in Ukraine – including on the right wing.

The blog naturally distances itself from violence, terrorism, and all other forms of illegal activity. The actions and views of individuals and groups mentioned in the article series are their own.

We have originally translated it from Swedish and published it with permission from the Nordic Resistance Movement. Source: https://nordfront.se/rysk-nationalist-vid-fronten-introduktion-och-ukrainafragan

It was originally published on Nordfront.se on March 7, 2024.

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Russian nationalist at the front: Introduction, the Ukraine issue, and “denazification”

Photo: Rusich, Alexei Miltjakov.

INTERVIEW • Last year, Nordfront interviewed a Ukrainian nationalist fighting in the Ukrainian army against Russia. Now it is time for a Russian nationalist fighting for Russia to share his views on Russia, Ukraine, and the ongoing conflict.

Last May, Nordfront published a two-part interview with a Ukrainian nationalist participating in the war against Russia. The background was the many questions that had arisen about the Ukrainian position, partly in light of the Euromaidan coup in 2014, but also the ongoing war in the country.

Just as one can question whether a nationalist is fighting for Ukraine, there are a number of questions surrounding how one can support the other side in the war. Russia has declared that its military special operation in Ukraine is an “anti-Nazi” campaign, and there are frequent reports of radical nationalists being persecuted in Russia.

When nationalists discuss the Ukraine issue, they often do so from a geopolitical or ideological perspective: some believe that it is best for the world if Russia wins and thus reduces NATO’s power, while others see Russia as a neo-Bolshevik force that threatens the whole of Europe. With these interviews, Nordfront wants to give the perspective of the nationalists who are actually participating in the conflict and risking their lives for what they believe in, regardless of which side they are on.

The person interviewed is Aleksey Miltjakov, leader of a paramilitary and nationalist movement called Reconnaissance, Sabotage, and Assault Group (DShRG) Rusich, which has been involved in the conflict in Donbass since 2014 on the side of the Russian separatists and further in Russia’s military special operation in Ukraine. Rusich recently came back into the spotlight when Jan Petrovskij, also known as “Veliki Slavian” (The Great Slav), who previously lived in Norway and also fought for Rusich in Ukraine, was sentenced to prison in Finland.

The interview questions were first written in Swedish, then translated into English and Russian. Miltjakov then wrote his answers in Russian, which were then translated into English and then into Swedish, followed by the same process with a series of follow-up questions. Nordfront has therefore tried to keep the translation as literal as possible. Comments in parentheses are Miltjakov’s own, while comments in square brackets and comments followed by “editor’s note” are Nordfront’s additions, which are only intended to explain something to the reader and are not comments on the answers themselves. In cases where a comment in square brackets comes from Rusich‘s own translator, this is indicated. We leave it entirely up to the reader to take a position on Miltjakov’s answers, just as we did when we interviewed the Ukrainian soldier.

In the first part, Miltjakov tells us more about himself, about Rusich, its role in Donbass and in the military special operation, as well as his views on Ukraine as a nation, the political developments since 2014, and the ongoing war in the country. We also ask what the “denazification” of Ukraine is really about. Miltjakov is also given the opportunity to respond to serious allegations made in a media report by young people.

In part two, we ask about Russia, what it is like to live as a nationalist in Russian society, and how Miltjakov feels that other nationalists in both Russia and around the world have reacted to the war.

Putin schools Trump on realities of world geopolitics. - Richard C. Cook

 https://montanarcc.substack.com/p/putin-schools-trump-on-realities

The American Commentariat is exploding with derisive accounts of US President Donald Trump’s ongoing series of phone conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. These accounts are characterized by claims that Trump is desperately trying to con Putin into surrendering Russia’s real interests by agreeing to a cease-fire in Ukraine and somehow going along with the Western Empire’s aims of reorganizing the entire Middle East, Iran included, under a new hegemony with Netanyahu’s genocidal Israeli state at its ideological center.

To the Commentariat, it’s all just a game, orchestrated by Trump’s handlers, to wear Putin down, buy time for Ukraine and Israel to rearm, prepare the battle plans for a new anti-Russian assault in the Caucasus combined with an Israeli-American nuclear attack on Iran, while schemes to set China up for the really big battle are coming next.

Nothing has the Commentariat quite as excited as a possible Armageddon.

Meanwhile, the US’s European “allies” also continue to foam at the mouth for a really big war against Russia, led by NATO chief Mark Rutte and the “rogues gallery” of Merz, Macron, Starmer, and Zelensky, all on their knees begging “Daddy” Trump to hurry up and start World War III before they are removed from office by their own restless populations. They too are jeering the Putin-Trump phone calls. Polish foreign minister Sikorski says, “President Trump, Putin is mocking your peace efforts. Please restore supplies of anti-aircraft ammunition to Ukraine and impose tough new sanctions on the aggressor.” (Rt.com, July 4, 2025)

Of course Putin and the Russians are watching developments closely, as are China’s Xi Jinping and his cohorts. And it’s these two statesmen, with Putin the world’s most experienced and accomplished leader, who understand what it means to play the long game, where change is not measured in sound bites, but in centuries.

But don’t people realize how revolutionary it is that Putin and Trump have spoken together by phone, one-on-one, six times over a course of over a few months?

This is unprecedented. The US has been at war against Russia indirectly, diplomatically, by proxy, or via media, spying, sabotage, false flags, or electronic hacking, etc., since 1946. That’s almost 80 years ago.

During this time, the US, backed heavily by Britain, has systematically been trying to destroy Russia, without provoking, of course, all-out nuclear war, but has utterly failed. Plus the number of times that US presidents have actually spoken directly to their Russia counterparts without interference from scheming aides such as the Zionists that surround Trump—maybe never.

The Putin-Trump phone conversations are world-shattering simply by having taken place. And now Putin wants to sit down and meet with Trump in person as this report from Rt.com spells out: Putin-Trump meeting necessary – Kremlin .

One of the things which Putin has conveyed to Trump is the long history of positive relationships between Russia and America. It’s also time that Americans themselves learn something about this long history.

The story goes back to 1781, when the Continental Congress sent Francis Dana to the court of Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg to establish relations with Russia while urging the Czarina to offer recognition to the US even as the War of Independence against Britain was still raging.

Accompanying Dana was 14-year-old John Quincy Adams, who was serving as Dana’s secretary while his father John Adams was stationed in The Hague as America’s emissary to the Dutch Republic.

Fast forwarding to 1809-1814, J.Q. Adams returned to Russia as US minister, now representing a fully-independent United States, even as the nation was now fighting Britain in the War of 1812 and Russia itself was being invaded by the French under Napoleon.

Adams established a close personal relationship with Czar Alexander I who ruled as Emperor of Russia from 1801 to 1825. This relationship continued during Adams’ tenure as secretary of state under President James Monroe from 1817 to 1825.

By the time Adams became the sixth president of the US in 1825, he regarded Russia as the most powerful nation in Europe, surpassing even Great Britain which required a series of coalitions to finally succeed in defeating Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815.

In fact, one of Adams’ achievements as secretary of state and later president was to forestall any attempt by the “Holy Alliance” of Russia, Prussia, and Austria from sending armies into Latin America to prevent those regions from securing independence from Spain. The centerpiece of Adams’ policy was the statement he drafted for President Monroe forbidding future colonization of the Americas by Europe that was later known as the Monroe Doctrine.

As an aside, the Monroe Doctrine also pledged that the US would stay out of European affairs, a pledge the US abandoned when it allowed itself to be suckered into World War I on the side of Great Britain against its arch-rival Germany. (For an outstanding biography see Fred Kaplan, John Quincy Adams, HarperCollins Publishers, 2014.)

But the US stayed on good terms with Russia throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, including the time during the American Civil War when Russia sent warships to New York and San Francisco to prevent Britain from entering the war on the side of the Confederacy. Czar Alexander II freed the Russian serfs as President Abraham Lincoln was emancipating the American slaves. After the Civil War, Russia sold Alaska to the US to keep that vast region from falling into Britain’s hands. During the latter part of the 19th century, American engineers helped Russia build its railroads, and later it was US aid under Lend-Lease that enabled the Soviet Union to withstand assault from Hitler’s armies.

It was only after British Prime Minister Winston Churchill declared that an “Iron Curtain” had fallen across Europe after the Soviet armies had taken Eastern Europe back from the Germans did the US instigate the Cold War against its former Soviet ally, a conflict that continued until the Soviet Union disbanded in 1991. It was then that the West decided to destroy Russia altogether by the eastward march of NATO, combined with the imposition on Russia of neoliberal economic policies that produced havoc and deadly poverty in the 1990s. It was then, of course, that Vladimir Putin stepped forward to say, “enough is enough.”

Since then, Putin has fought off the West’s imperial assault via their proxy wars in the Caucasus and Ukraine, combined with brutal economic sanctions, and has reasserted Russia’s pivotal role in creating and maintaining a worldwide influence to counter the Anglo-American venture to control the world through financial and military assaults around the globe. The result has been BRICS—the economic system of alliances and relationships led by Russia, China, India, and a growing bloc of other nations, including Iran, that has become an effective counterbalance to the predations of the globalist financiers working out of London, New York, and Tel Aviv.

The fact of a new multipolar world is the centerpiece of what Putin has been patiently explaining to Trump through the series of phone conversations that we are now witnessing and which are likely the greatest hope the world now has for a future of peace, cooperation, and even prosperity.

The fact that the calls are continuing indicates that Trump is listening and, we hope, learning.

Richard C. Cook is a retired U.S. federal analyst with extensive experience across various government agencies, including the U.S. Civil Service Commission, FDA, the Carter White House, NASA, and the U.S. Treasury. He is a graduate of the College of William and Mary. As a whistleblower at the time of the Challenger disaster, he exposed the flawed O-ring joints that destroyed the Space Shuttle, documenting his story in the book “Challenger Revealed.” After serving at Treasury, he became a vocal critic of the private finance-controlled monetary system, detailing his concerns in “We Hold These Truths: The Hope of Monetary Reform.” He served as an adviser to the American Monetary Institute and worked with Congressman Dennis Kucinich to advocate for replacing the Federal Reserve with a genuine national currency. See his new book, Our Country, Then and Now, Clarity Press, 2023. He has recently been named a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).

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