the eu staggers towards collapse;

Liberal democracy is supposed to be a process, not an outcome. George Soros champions an “Open Society” that moves closer to truth by dispensing with irrational, authoritarian, and closed systems of values. Instead, through open debate, tolerance for minorities and dissidents, civil rights, and cosmopolitanism, democracies can find the truth. A king might draw legitimacy from divine lineage, the church, or military success, but a democratic leader is a mere man whose legitimacy comes from the rational consent of the masses. That is the theory anyway.

Perhaps there was a time when people believed this, but it is hard to believe now. What we still call democracy in the West is a game of whack-a-mole, in which a shifting alliance of politicians, international bureaucrats, judges, and taxpayer-funded “Non-Governmental Organizations” lecture people on whom they are allowed to vote for and what they are allowed to say.

Perhaps the most compelling example today is in Romania. In the most recent election, George Simion won a decisive first-round victory with over 40 percent of the vote, while the runner-up received only about half as much. There will be a runoff, with Mr. Simion the obvious favorite. Yes, Romania already had an election last November, in which Călin Georgescu won the first round. He was anti-globalist, orthodox Christian, skeptical of NATO, opposed to support for Ukraine, and he praised nationalist figures whom liberals call “fascists.”............more.........

i'd count this as the final indication that the orange man is a liar and little different than his predecessors;

 While Trump Speaks of Ukraine Peace, Washington Opens a Second Front Against Putin

Paul Craig Roberts

The US House of Representatives Has Passed the MEGOBARI Act (HR 36) that places Georgia, now an independent country and once a province of the Soviet Union, under American protection.  Washington has to protect free and fair elections in Georgia from Russia and protect Georgia’s “sovereignty and territorial integrity from further Russian aggression.”

There has been NO Russian aggression against Georgia.  With the collapse of the Soviet Union caused by the Politburo’s house arrest of Russian President Gorbachev, Russia under Yeltsin accepted Washington’s dismemberment of the Soviet Empire.  Soviet republics, some of which had not ever been independent states, such as Ukraine, were turned by Washington into New Countries.  

In 2008 a Georgian Army trained and equipped by Washington invaded South Ossetia, a Russian protectorate and a part of Georgia that did not want to exit Russia.  Russian peacekeepers were killed, and this brought Putin, inattentive as always, back from the Chinese Olympics to send in the Russian Army. The American equipped and trained Georgian Army was totally defeated within a few hours, and Georgia was in Putin’s hands.  What did he do?  He released Georgia to themselves and took his army home.

How is this Russian aggression?

As is obvious the members of the US House of Representatives are completely ignorant and uninformed morons.  America, as Mark Twain said, elects morons to represent them. And that is what Americans have. We are governed by morons.

Protecting Georgia from Russia is the excuse for Washington to take over Georgia, and, of course, bags full of money will facilitate the process by being handed over to key members of the Georgian government.

So what we have here is Washington’s effort to open a second war front against Russia.  Adam Dick with the Ron Paul Institute gives us a reliable indiction of what is happening.  https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/05/no_author/us-house-approves-megobari-act-to-pursue-in-georgia-more-ukraine-style-intervention-and-conflict-with-russia/ 

So, what do we make of this?  On the one hand Trump is pursuing peace negotiations in Ukraine with Russia.  On the other hand, Washington is preparing another Maidan, this time in Georgia.

How stupid are the Russians?  Did they learn nothing from the Minsk Agreement?  Is the Kremlin blind to the obvious fact that Washington is sequencing its wars with Russia and China by pulling out of Ukraine, turning it over to Europe, so that Washington can focus on China. This is the policy described  by West Mitchell in Foreign Affairs.  Why has no one but myself and John Helmer commented on this revealing article? ..........https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/05/16/while-trump-speaks-of-ukraine-peace-washington-opens-a-second-front-against-putin/

 we're living in insane times and here is one symptom;

Democrats block white political refugees from refuge in America

Paul Craig Roberts

Here is Richard Stengel, a talking head “political analyst” at MSNBC and former blah-blah person in the Obama regime.  Apparently, the Democrats are blocking white South Africans from refuge status in the United States.  https://x.com/amuse/status/1922988576544858194 

Stengel’s excuse, explained in the video, is that South Africa was once an apartheid state.  That was three decades ago before the white government voluntarily gave up rule to the blacks.

Stengel alleges that the South African refugees are the “descendants of the people who created the most diabolical system of white supremacy in history.” He goes on to demonize white people and drags in the Confederacy.  His argument is that the sins of the fathers are visited upon the sons.

Stengel is  Jewish and so he says nothing about the Apartheid state of Israel in which only Jews can be citizens–thus making Israel the only ethnically pure state on earth–and which is in the final stages of appropriating the entirety of Palestine, all of which was stolen from the Palestinian people in order to complete the creation of an Apartheid Israeli state.  But it is OK for Jews, God’s Chosen People, to do this.  But others who do it are diabolical white supremacists. 

Stengel was editor of Time Magazine for 7 years, so you can see how Americans came to be a brainwashed people...........https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/05/16/democrats-block-white-political-refugees-from-refuge-in-america/

 break a deal. face the wheel;

Hamas is claiming that President Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff promised them that the US would lift Israel's Gaza blockade in exchange for the release of Israeli-American IDF captive Edan Alexander but "threw [the deal] in the trash" after Alexander's release............more..........

 nine minutes with shawn ryan and tom holman;

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 eleven minutes with leo kearse speaking of the woke fantasies in a most entertaining fashion;

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 this four minute video came with the title: powerful un speech warns leaders they're enabling genocide;

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