americans are almost proud of their lack of knowledge, or its price;

I am always amazed how little western governments are aware of their own (lack of) capabilities as well as of the nature and capabilities of their ‘enemies’.

They tend to not know the basic economic and sociological facts about their opponents. They operate on whatever nonsense they have come to believe about their ‘enemies’. They overestimate their own position, miscalculate and are astonished when, as a result, the factual situation turns against them.

We may recount, as Tucker Carlson does here, that the U.S. was “assured by some of the dumbest people on the planet, who currently serve in the United States Senate, that Russia was merely ‘a gas station with nuclear weapons’.”

Sanctions were imposed on Russia but failed to trouble it. They hurt those who imposed them the most.

The Trump administration recently put a 50% tariff on all goods from Brazil (even though it has a trade surplus with that country). This was to punish its government and judiciary for pursuing charges against the former president Jair Bolsonaro for plotting a coup after he had lost the elections.

Brazil is a nationalistic, well developed country which is allergic to interference by foreign powers. Anyone knowing that fact could have anticipated this reaction:...........more........

 several x posts follow in this sordid mess we witness in which the perps continue to hide;

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday cited a biblical scripture about being persecuted for belief in Jesus Christ to suggest he was being similarly persecuted by Kentucky Rep Thomas Massie pushing for the Epstein Files to be released..........more..........

 a good start. the more this happens the greater chance israel will learn some manners;

A group of Israeli teenagers were attacked overnight on the Greek island of Rhodes, hours after pro-Palestinian demonstrators reportedly blocked Israeli tourists from disembarking a cruise ship on a different island.........more.........

and this.........https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/22/israeli-cruise-rerouted-after-aegean-islanders-protest-gaza-war

 

"We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he pleases." -- Adolf Hitler

 it didn't happen because they didn't speak of it;

watch..........

 why did the house of reps close early you might wonder and here are a few possibilities;

see........

 caitlin. its a genocide and more;

The mass atrocity in Gaza is a genocide, obviously, and is an undisguised ethnic cleansing operation.

But it’s also a lot more than that.

It’s an experiment — to see what kinds of abuses the public will accept without causing significant disruption to the imperial status quo.

It’s a psychological operation — to push out the boundaries of what’s normal and acceptable in our minds so that we will consent to even more horrific abuses in the future.

It’s a symptom — of Zionism, of colonialism, of militarism, of capitalism, of western supremacism, of empire-building, of propaganda, of ignorance, of apathy, of delusion, of ego.

It’s a manifestation — of violent racist, supremacist and xenophobic belief systems that have always been there but were previously restrained, meeting with the unwholesome nature of alliances that have long been in place but have been aggressively normalized.............more...........

It’s an experiment — to see what kinds of abuses the public will accept without causing significant disruption to the imperial status quo.

Caitlin Johnstone

It’s an experiment — to see what kinds of abuses the public will accept without causing significant disruption to the imperial status quo.

Caitlin Johnstone