larry johnson clearly sees the insanity the empire operates in and tries to alert us but seemingly to little avail;

There was a time when I assumed that the Biden Administration was ignoring the intelligence and insisted on propagating what I call, the Russian Myth aka RM. The theology of RM insists that:

• Putin is terminally ill.
• Putin is very unpopular.
• The Russian army is poorly equipped and commanded by incompetents.
• Russia’s military industrial complex is a hot mess and incapable of producing artillery shells, missiles, tanks and armored personnel carriers.
• Russia’s economy is in tatters and struggling to stay afloat.

All of this is false. In fact, it is the diametric opposite of the reality. Yet, politicians and the media in the West persist on embracing the lies. The latest example of this comes from the Wall Street Journal, that published the following editorial on Sunday, 22 December:

Russia’s 2022 Istanbul proposal called for Ukraine to abandon aspirations to join NATO, become a permanently neutral state, and drastically shrink its armed forces. This would ratify Russia’s territorial gains and render Ukraine defenseless against inevitable future Russian aggression...........more.......