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Feb 15 2022

Schwab’s Admiration for Lenin


Armstrong Economics Blog/WEF Re-Posted Feb 15, 2022 by Martin Armstrong

I can verify that this photo going around of Schwab with a statue of Lenin on his bookshelf is genuine. He really does have that in his office.

This is based upon first-hand knowledge, not speculation of rumor.

Let me explain something very important for those who do not know their Russian history. Following the 1917 October Revolution, the Bolsheviks/Communists relied upon the dogmas of Marx and Engels to create a new world of equality. They too preached that they would change all the existing ways and customs far beyond politics and economics. They attacked human nature, as the left is doing once again. Suddenly, the very notion of human morality that formed the very foundations of a healthy society was to be forever altered.

Churches were seized, and religion was abolished. Everything that was the foundation of humanity that we call conservatism today was attacked by the Communists in Russia. This today is unfolding with the woke mobs in the West. The Communists’ goal was to destroy the very fabric that binds society together to ensure that the people would remain as individuals and afraid to ban together to overthrow the government. They indeed destroyed the age-old moral values of people. You no longer smiled and said hello when passing a stranger. Religion had to be abolished, for you were to only trust in the government. God was rendered nothing more than a superhero in a comic book.

They drove a wedge between friends and all social relations between people, including the complete rejection of family. Children were taught the State was their real parent, and if their biological parents ever spoke against the State, they were to turn them in. They turned parents against their own children looking at them as a government informant. All this was proclaimed by Lenin to be “progress” for the advancement of society and the State.

Lenin indoctrinated his leading feminist lieutenant, Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952), who became the first female commissar in the Soviet government. They took what the suffragettes were fighting for in the West as equal rights, and included that as part of the communist manifesto.  They equated marriage to slavery to divide even husband and wife, not just the children against the parents. Lenin, Schwab’s hero, wages an all-out war on “old and outdated” institutions like marriage and family, elevating the State as the dominant role. Instead of marriage, there would be more disposable “unions of affection and comradeship.” Lenin launched the “liberation” of the family and made divorce a natural step. Abortion on demand was brought in during 1920.

Alexandra Kollontai actually wrote: “The family is ceasing to be necessary either to its members or to the nation.” Capitalists, she said, “are well aware that the old type of family, where a woman is a slave and where the husband is responsible for the well-being of his wife and children, is the best weapon in the struggle to stifle the desire of the working class for freedom and to weaken the revolutionary spirit of the working man and working woman.”

The Bolsheviks insisted that women would have the right to vote, but that was meaningless when they eliminated all opposition and imposed the one-party rule. The liberation and equality of women’s right to equal wages became a joke for capitalism is based upon your freedom to pick your profession, whereas under communism, individualism is ignored. Women were quickly ghettoized into state-chosen professions; their wages went down with the freedom to decide their own futures.

The strategy behind destroying the family unit was that women without husbands could then be socialized much more easily. Destroying the family unit was critical to the success of communism. This is the man whose bust is on Schwab’s bookshelf — one of his mentors.

Feb 15 2022

The West is Crumbling & Putin Knows it


Armstrong Economics Blog/Russia Re-Posted Feb 14, 2022 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: It appears that Russia has shifted its focus claiming it may need to protect Russian citizens in Eastern Ukraine. You seem to have more insight than what I read elsewhere. Biden is now scrambling with Borris here in London on a way to appease Russia. Do you think this will succeed?

SL

ANSWER: This is the oldest excuse in the book which every government has used from the USA to Hilter’s invasions to protect Germans living in Czechoslovakia was a similar excuse. In the case of the Sudetenland, the Czechoslovak borderland, it was annexed in 1938 because the German local majority had the right to self-determination. Even in 1989, In December 1989, the United States invaded Panama Canal Zone to protect the Americans there. What Putin has declared is nothing new. Most major powers have acted on the very same grounds. However, by Putin saying this is precisely what I have been saying. He could just take the East and not bomb Kyiv. That would back that excuse to protect the Russians in East Ukraine.

Putin has already won. The West tried to call his bluff and rejected everything he asked for. The problem with this poker game is that Putin holds all the cards and he is a master chess player. Our model picked up this week as capital flows have been in a state of panic. But Putin has previously sold all US debt holdings and we did not witness a massive wholesale liquidation of US debt by China. Our model has not shown a sustained crisis and it appears that we do have a situation where the West is crumbling.

Reliable sources report that Putin could take Kyiv in less than one week if he wanted. He could be in Paris in a few weeks. But that does not appear in our models at this time. It does show that Putin is winning the war without firing a shot. Ukraine will not be allowed into NATO. Will the West agree to secretly pull back to 1997 levels? The West has no power and the leaders of the West are incapable of winning a game of checkers, no less chess.

Even in Canada, the Premier Doug Ford of Ontario has announced that the Truckers have won. He will lift all capacity restraints for indoor meetings and proof of COVID-19 vaccination requirements by March 1st. We are saddled with the most incompetent group of world leaders I believe in recorded modern history. This leaves Putin as the smartest by far. All he needs to do is wait and watch how the West is pandering because they cannot even mount any defense whatsoever.

Feb 15 2022

Tucker Carlson Outlines the Recent Revelations of Clinton Allied Government Contractors Spying on Trump White House


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on February 14, 2022 | Sundance | 231 Comments

Fox News Host Tucker Carlson used his opening monologue to outline the recent court documents highlighting how government contractors aligned with the Hillary Clinton campaign were permitted to conduct electronic surveillance of Donald Trump as a candidate and a President.

The electronic data was extracted by Neustar, a federal contractor.  The head of the organization, Rodney Joffe, then used cyber tech resources from Georgia Tech to assemble the data and deliver a false report to the Clinton campaign of Trump-Russia connections.

Feb 15 2022

Smart Move by Zelensky, Puts Date on U.S. Claim of Russian Invasion, State Dept Begins Embassy Evacuations in Ukraine


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on February 14, 2022 | Sundance | 236 Comments

Please remember the PR firm alignment when you are deciphering the horsepucky.  State Dept uses CNN, Intel Community use Washington Post, FBI use New York Times and Politico.  This is constant.  So, when you want to see the fraudulent narrative from the State Dept, check CNN.   It’s all a pantomime, a theatrical performance, played out on a geopolitical stage.

We already know the baseline fraud from the Joe Biden White House.  They have built out an elaborate and fabricated scenario that Russia is going to attack Ukraine. The have used the political control operatives within the IC, Pentagon and State Dept to manufacture their claim. There is no attack planned and there never was.  The absence of the attack will be declared a brilliant and strategic victory by the Biden administration. That’s the plan.

In this ‘wag the dog’ scenario, Ukraine President Vladimir Zelensky is being used as a pawn, as the United States keeps up the pretense.   However, in a pretty smart move today, Zelensky tells the world –very publicly– the Americans have informed him of the exact date of the Russia attack (which he knows is never coming).

“February 16 will be the day of attack” on Ukraine by Russia, said a post on Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s Facebook page accompanying a video address to his country on Monday night. (link)  Wednesday aligns with the previous statements from the White House and State Dept.

On the U.S. side, in order to keep up the pretense of the pending attack; and to attempt to create a larger victory than the collapsed mess they created in Afghanistan; the State Dept issues a carefully crafted statement [LINK] declaring their mission priority to protect Americans and saying they are evacuating the U.S. embassy in Kyiv:

 …[…] “we are in the process of temporarily relocating our Embassy operations in Ukraine from our Embassy in Kyiv to Lviv due to the dramatic acceleration in the buildup of Russian forces. The Embassy will remain engaged with the Ukrainian government, coordinating diplomatic engagement in Ukraine.  We are also continuing our intensive diplomatic efforts to deescalate the crisis.” (link)

Remember, this is all a pantomime, an elaborate ruse, a complete farce.  The Biden crew picked this week because several months ago Russia announced they were conducting military exercises in Western Russia near the Ukraine border.  The United States is fabricating their claim of a pending Russian invasion of Ukraine around these Russian exercises.  When the invasion/attack doesn’t happen, Biden officials will declare a strategic geopolitical victory.

(CNN) […] Russian President Vladimir Putin “continues to add to” his “menu of options” with the type of capabilities he has added from the Russian military by land, sea and air, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said during a briefing on Monday.

On land, Putin has “combined arms capability, so it’s infantry, it’s armor,” but he has also added “air and missile defense as well as offensive air,” Kirby said. 

Putin also has built up his maritime presence. He has added “at least half a dozen” ships in the Black Sea that are LSTs — or landing ships — which have “one purpose, and that’s to put troops ashore,” Kirby said.

“He’s got significant naval power inside the Black Sea,” Kirby said. (more w/ updates) 

As soon as Russia completes their military exercises without an invasion of Ukraine, Joe Biden will declare victory.

Factually, this entire fiasco is a little embarrassing for The United States.  It’s all made worse by some allied nations going along with the pretense.

However, on the positive side…. hopefully by the end of this week it will all be over, and we can just watch the national address by Joe Biden and various White House officials, as they proudly declare victory and emphasize how brilliant their foreign policy and diplomacy have been because nothing happened.

Next week the Biden team will be on television telling stories about how their strategic geopolitical excellence averted a thermonuclear war that was never coming in the first place.   Believe me, tens of millions of Americans will fall for it, because the reality of what took place is just too grand in scale, too bizarre, to fathom.

Last point, do not ignore an important point that Republicans in DC know this is all a performance.  They fall into two groups.  Group #1 are involved in the pretense, and Group #2 won’t call it out because they are fearful of the media portraying them as nuts.

Feb 14 2022

Book Review “The Real Anthony Fauci”


Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health Published on November 16, 2021

I have been Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over the last year or so as he traveled to world giving talk about what was happening to Western Civilization. I was impressed by his knowledge of what was going on as I also had come to many of the same conclusions, maybe even more, because of my military background as a Green Beret and set up a blog in 2014 to promote my views. I used the Special Forces Green Beret motto De Oppresso Liber (liberation of the oppressed) since i felt that the citizens of Western Civilization, and in particular the United States home of the free because of the brave was under assault by enemies both foreign and domestic. The image below is of Robert F. Kennedy taken from the January 23, 2022 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Robert Malone ‘Defeat the Mandates’ march on National Mall.

Kennedy’s book is a masterpiece of detail and fact foot noted extensively more so then any book I have ever read and I have read a lot of them. I already knew maybe 1% of what he wrote on and I have no reason to doubt the other 99% so I highly recommend reading this book. But I do caution you as the fact Kennedy has unconverted will disturb you and result in your questioning the very foundations of our entire medical system. Kennedy’s book with be viewed in the future as the cornerstone of breaking down and exposing the corruption in our medical system and the federal, State and local governing bodies.

If you have read Alexis de Tocqueville’s book Democracy in America Part I published in 1835 and Part II in 1840 you will understand how far we have fallen form the genius of out Founders and their U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. We stropped teaching about the “importance” of our Constitution in public high schools and colleges a long time ago. Today its just a obsolete historical document. And in fact the National Archives now has ‘harmful content’ warning for the US Constitution, and all other related documents.

Feb 14 2022

Tucker Carlson on Jan. 6 Committee


Published originally on the The Daily Caller  on July 27, 2021 

This is an old post but its worth listening to it again as the Democrat “insurrection” con job will be coming up again very soon. The fake trial of President Trump ( the leader of the J6 insurrection) unfolds in the spring/summer so that it can be used to effect the outcome of the November election. Keep in mind the the J6 performance was run by the FBI with the full approval of both Pelosi and McConnell.

The following is from From Martin Armstrong

Perhaps I need to explain the plot here why McConnel has joined the Democrats against his own party. You see it all hinges on their desperate attempt to call January 6th an insurrection. They are relying upon a sanction imposed on former politicians who supported the Southe during the Civil War. They passed the 14th Amendment on June 13th, 1866, which attributed federal rights to the states. But buried in there is Section 3 which reveals why you see Republicans who should be thrown out of office, not because they are against Trump, but because they are trying to prevent Trump from “draining the swamp” in 2024 in which both Washington politicians swim in together.

14th Amendment; Section 3

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

Feb 14 2022

Why the Jan 6 Event Must be Labelled an Insurrection only that Will Bar Trump from 2024


Armstrong Economics Blog/Civil Unrest Re-Posted Feb 14, 2022 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT: Marty, you are right. Republican politicians have hated Trump and look to stab him in the back every chance they get. They do not like outsiders as you said. Mitch McConnel is the latest disgusting Republican calling January 6th a violent insurrection. It is really hopeless to expect anything from Republicans in DC. They are all only after their own power.

Keep up the great work

EY

ANSWER: Perhaps I need to explain the plot here why McConnel has joined the Democrats against his own party. You see it all hinges on their desperate attempt to call January 6th an insurrection. They are relying upon a sanction imposed on former politicians who supported the Southe during the Civil War. They passed the 14th Amendment on June 13th, 1866, which attributed federal rights to the states. But buried in there is Section 3 which reveals why you see Republicans who should be thrown out of office, not because they are against Trump, but because they are trying to prevent Trump from “draining the swamp” in 2024 in which both Washington politicians swim in together.

14th Amendment; Section 3

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

This January 6th investigation is determined to declare that this was a “violent insurrection” as now Mitch McConnel is doing to prevent Trump from running in 2024. These people are playing with fire for this will only result in the total collapse of any faith in Congress whatsoever for this is all about protecting their own deep pockets. Even criminally charging Trump does not prevent him from running for office any more than it stopped Nelson Mandella in South Africa. A felon can run for office. There is no bar from that since so many criminal prosecutions are for political agendas.

They are determined to call January 6th a “violent insurrection” despite the fact that the doors were opened for them and the FBI stated they did not seize guns from the intruders. There were government agents in the building who were dressed in black to hide their identity obviously accomplishing a separate agenda.  Then there was the planting of a pipebomb that had no detonator by some unknown person that was conveniently found. This was most likely a strategic plant most likely yet another government agent so they could call this violent all to fit a real conspiracy. I am NOT saying this as a Trump supporter but as an American. I am not so sure you will see Trump on the ballot in 2024. I think they will install DeSantis. This is a desperate plot to prevent Trump from running in 2024.

My point here is a Mitch McConnel is a back-stabbing politician who is making statements for the benefit of ALL politicians against the people. Here is a video from 2016 and career politicians everywhere were upset when Trump won. Suddenly, democracy became evil populism that might dethrone career politicians like Kerry and McConnel. This is why they and the press did absolutely everything to stop Trump from draining the swamp and they began an all-out campaign to try to turn the world against him.

I now get emails from people who voted for Biden now admitting that they understand what I was warning about from the outset. It was NEVER an election between Trump v Biden – it was Trump v World Economic Form and this entire agenda to end democracy just as they have successfully accomplished in Europe. The head of the EU never stands for election nor does the European Commission who makes the laws. European Parliament is there for a dog and pony show with zero power. These swamp creatures do not want someone elected by the people who will upset their feeding-trough. Representative government is NEVER one that is ever for the people throughout history.

John Kerry has come out many times against Trump calling him a populist who represents the lowest of the low in society. He paints Trump supporters are extreme-right and everything from Nazis to the criminals and prostitutes as in Les Misérables. He would love nothing more than to advance the UN to a one-world government. Authoritarian populism is evil, but a tyrannical dictatorship that is unelected is noble.

They think arresting everyone who was in the capitol building to make this an insurrection sending all those people to prison, is solely to prevent Trump from running in 2024 and to protect their own fiefdom, which is outright despicable.

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Feb 14 2022

US Household Debt Rises by $1 Trillion


Armstrong Economics Blog/North America Re-Posted Feb 14, 2022 by Martin Armstrong

Household debt in the US spiked to the highest level since 2007. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Americans accumulated an additional $1 trillion in debt, with the figure growing by $333 billion in Q4 alone.

Mortgage and auto loans are the main sources of debt for Americans. Home loan originations hit a record high last year thanks to low rates, and mortgage debt increased by $258 billion in Q4 to $10.94 trillion.

Balances on auto loans rose by $15 billion in Q4, and $84 billion over the course of the year. Around $734 billion is attributed to new auto loans in 2021 to a total of $1.46 in auto loan debt. The Fed noted this was the largest volume on record. The chip shortage and supply chain crisis have caused auto prices to spike by 20% on average. The current median monthly payment on a car loan is $418 per month.

Credit card debt also rose as well, increasing by $52 billion in Q4, marking the largest increase on record. On a positive note, card balances are $71 billion lower than they were at the end of 2019.

The International Monetary Fund has warned that high household debt hinders long-term GDP growth. “Our study found that a 5 percentage-point increase in the ratio of household debt to GDP over a three-year period forecasts a 1.25 percentage-point decline in inflation-adjusted growth three years in the future. Higher debt is associated with significantly higher unemployment up to four years ahead. And a 1 percentage point increase in debt raises the odds of a future banking crisis by about 1 percentage point. That’s a significant increase, when you consider that the probability of a crisis is 3.5 percent, even without any increase in debt,” the IMF stated in a report released in 2017. In the short-term, increased debt will provide a small boost to the nation. If inflation persists and people are required to take on more debt for essentials like transportation and shelter, the nation’s GDP will be at risk.

Feb 14 2022

Putin Has Won


Armstrong Economics Blog/Russia Re-Posted Feb 13, 2022 by Martin Armstrong

In all honesty, Biden is the very last person you should put on the phone with Putin, who is clearly the most intelligent world leader on the stage today. The US is showing it is pathetic, incompetent, and barks but has no teeth. The West has clearly surrendered Ukraine to Russia. There is no way Ukraine will be allowed into NATO. On that score, pretending that Biden rejects every request from Putin is really a joke – Putin has won already. Mitch McConnel is also a joke and should be run out of Washington. The major issue is to pull all nukes and NATO forces back to where they were in 1997.

Macron’s meeting with Putin was also pathetic. Biden’s phone call was a real joke. They called it a high-stakes phone call on Saturday morning that was a complete failure because it once again was no concession to any point and just more of the same threats. The White House admitted failure stating “no fundamental change in the dynamics unfolding now for several weeks.” Typical, Biden told Putin that “if Russia undertakes a further invasion of Ukraine, the United States together with our Allies and partners will respond decisively and impose swift and severe costs on Russia,” according to the White House.

Biden’s handlers and all Western allies began to evacuate their embassies in Kyiv. American diplomats moved to Lviv in western Ukraine, where they could be more easily evacuated if a Russian invasion begins. Biden has ordered all 150 American military trainers and members of the Florida National Guard who have been in Ukraine to help its forces prepare for a potential invasion to leave.

Russia has already liquidated its US bond holdings but there is no indication that China has begun any wholesale liquidation of US debt at this time. While our model shows this was a Panic Cycle week and that the capital flows were indicating a geopolitical event, despite the US intelligence officials reporting that Putin has given the order to attack its neighbor within days, this may be faulty intelligence as they did in Afghanistan. Perhaps they have no intelligence beyond climate change these days. While our model targeted the week of February 14 as both a Directional Change and high volatility, the Panic Cycle in the Ruble is going into the Week of March 7th with the rise in volatility the week of the 14th. Of course, if Putin invaded and stopped with the East, that may be a way to watch Germany freeze in this very cold winter and call the West’s bluff.

US intelligence claims that a Russian invasion would be preceded by two days of aerial bombardment and electronic warfare, followed by a ground assault with the potential goal of overthrowing the Kyiv government. They just may have no clue and assume this is an all-out invasion to take all of Ukraine.

A lot of people have asked about how the hell can our computer project these targets even near-term a year in advance? Most people have a theory and then try to find facts to support it. That is why such analysis always fails. I discovered the incredible regularity of time and I did not begin with a theory so I am still trying to understand why the timing is so accurate. Here is a chart of the Monthly Array on the Dow from last July 2021. Even back then December and February were the strongest targets as you can see in the top Aggregate of 72 separate and independent models. December was the high intraday or on a closing basis in so many markets and here we are in February. Correlating everything with Russia allows us to hone in on the timing and where. It is not my personal opinion.

When we look at the Dow Array, this hinted that we could get the opposite trend from February into March and this opens the door as I said at the WEC, a high on the ECM turning point would also warn of a potential decline into 2023. Take note that May is a Monthly Panic Cycle. Clearly, a March high would not look good going forward.

With the US telling the world that Putin will invade this week, Putin is perhaps more inclined to keep the mystery going. He has won insofar as the West is abandoning Ukraine. Even if Putin enters Ukraine, he will most likely stop taking the East which is predominantly Russia ethnically. The likelihood of him bombing Kyiv does not appear to be very high. Time is on the side of Putin and he has proven to Ukraine that the West is not about to defend them and that NATO is weak. Putin has achieved his goal – the West ran with its tail between its legs.

If the West dared to try to remove Russia from SWIFT, we are looking at an incredible rise in commodities and expanding the shortages. Even car production is dependent upon platinum. Energy prices would rise sharply in Europe, and I really do not see how Germany can afford to turn off the gas from Russia. This is one giant mess and it seems that either these morons are intentionally slapping Put in the face and begging for him to invade so they can escape the COVID nightmare they have created, or we truly have the most unqualified group of world leaders in all recorded history.

Ou model is picking up the panic of the West withdrawing from Ukraine and the wealthy in Ukraine rushing to get their capital out to the USA for safe-keeping. All Putin has to do is sit back and watch the West collapse further and he is very smart. Why invade and allow the West to escape COVID using Russia?

Rome fell because of internal weakness which the Barbarians’ then could smell the weakness. The West will fall. It has at best 10 years remaining. The WOKE movement is dividing and weakening society. The more divided, the easier it is for the collapse. Civilization rises when everyone comes together and benefits. It falls when one group tries to exploit another. Canceling people for something they said or did 20 years before is absurd. I think we all have said something stupid in high school. It seems to have begun with Kavanaugh’s hearing for the Supreme Court dragging up allegations from school decades before. If something happened back then, why wait 30 years to bring it up?

We are cascading into oblivion. Of course, every society that has ever attempted Marxist socialism style from the days of the first Communist society, Sparta 5th century BC, has cascaded into oblivion. Sparta was so Communist, they never even issued coins because that would encourage individual wealth. So here we go again and nobody ever bothers to consult history to ask a simple question:

Has anyone tried this before? Did it work?

Feb 14 2022

It’s Official – White House Ukraine Crisis is Manufactured – Pelosi Says if Russia Doesn’t Invade Ukraine, It Proves Strength and Brilliance of Joe Biden Policy


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on February 13, 2022 | Sundance | 265 Comments

There it is.  Whoopsie, Pelosi just gave the game away.

We have been looking for this exact political construct and today we got it.  Nancy Pelosi appears on ABC This Week with George Stephanopoulos to discuss current events. This was all planned in advance.  This is guaranteed to be a political pantomime.

The first topic is the “Russia-Ukraine crisis,” with Stephanopoulos asking Pelosi directly if she believes Russian President Vladimir Putin is about to invade Ukraine.  Nancy Pelosi’s response [Transcript Here] tells us all we need to hear:

PELOSI: “Well, I think we have to be prepared for it. And that is what the president is — yes, I do believe that he is prepared for an invasion. I also understand why the President of Ukraine wants to keep people calm and that he wants his economy not to suffer. But, on the other hand, if we were not threatening the sanctions and the rest, it would guarantee that Putin would invade. Let’s hope that diplomacy works.

It’s about diplomacy deterrence. Diplomacy deterrence. And the president’s made it very clear. There’s a big price to pay for Russia to go there. So, if Russia doesn’t invade, it’s not that he never intended to. It’s just that the sanctions worked.” … “I’m very proud of the work that the president has done.” (read more)

Can you see the domestic political scenario that has been created out of thin air?

Democrats need a win on something; anything, to shift the narrative and change the reality of their failure into an illusion of success.

First, accuse Vladimir Putin of doing something he never intends to do, a fabricated scenario.  Second, tell the world you will strongly respond to the fabricated scenario.  Third, tell the world the exact date when the fabricated scenario is supposed to happen.  Then, when the fabricated scenario never happens, it is because you are so brilliant and strong to have outmaneuvered and cowed the Russians.

Declare the absence of the Ukraine invasion event as the result of your brilliance and announce a foreign policy victory.  That, my friends, is exactly what has taken place.

Yes, this is exactly how pathetic they are.

The fact they made this “Ukraine crisis” out of thin air, is what reconciles this:

Exactly as Predicted HERE