HOW EMPIRES PERISH

“At the opening of the twentieth century there were five great Western empires—the British, French, Russian, German, and Austro-Hungarian—and two emerging great powers: Japan and the United States. By century’s end, all the empires had disappeared. How did they perish? By war—all of them. …

“America survives as the sole superpower because it stayed out of the slaughter pens until the other great powers had fought themselves near to death and avoided a cataclysmic clash with a nuclear-armed Soviet Russia. …

“Yet, today, America’s leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers to ruin—from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new “crusades,” to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.”

— Patrick J. Buchanan, “A Republic, Not an Empire” (1999)

Derek Chauvin did not murder George Floyd

Manlet Zelenksy’s paranoia drives him into complete madness.

Orthodox Christianity is now banned in Ukraine.

Another Mysterious Death

An Australian fitness model dies of Suddenly at the age of 41: Popular New Zealand fitness influencer and mother of five, Raechelle Chase, has died suddenly. The model’s oldest daughter Anna Chase confirmed her death in a touching statement, News.com.au reported. “She was supportive, kind-hearted and always had the best advice for us,” she wrote. […]

https://voxday.net/2023/10/23/another-mysterious-death/

The Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican churches are now all calling for Israel to back off Palestine after their air strikes damaged one of the oldest churches in the world.

Israel is bringing the Christian world together in ways previously not expected.

❗️🇺🇸🏴‍☠️🇺🇦 Darya Dugina was killed by Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), The Washington Post quoted its sources as saying.

It is noted that a month before Dugina's murder, a car with a woman and her 12-year-old daughter entered Russia. There was a cat box in the car in which the Ukrainian killers had installed a hidden compartment. A month later, the bomb exploded in Dugina's car.

It is reported that SBU had been preparing for this murder and other attacks for almost 10 years - after the annexation of Crimea - in close cooperation with the CIA. For this preparation, the US spent tens of millions of dollars, providing Ukraine with advanced surveillance systems, training new recruits in facilities in Ukraine and the US, building new headquarters for Ukrainian military intelligence, and providing a vast array of intelligence data.

According to the newspaper, Security Service of Ukraine was also involved in the killing of Russian military correspondent Vladlen Tatarsky.

Officials, speaking anonymously, say the CIA has a significant presence in Kiev. But "Ukraine’s affinity for lethal operations has complicated its collaboration with the CIA, raising concerns about agency complicity and creating unease among some officials in Kiev and Washington."

"We have too many enemies who are more important to neutralize," said a high-ranking SBU official.
https://news.1rj.ru/str/photosvideoszv/365

The people who claimed that Trump would crash the economy and start WWIII have crashed the economy and started WWIII.

I just finished Guardians of The Twilight Lands - a heartwarming story that will appeal Narnia fans of all ages and sixth in L Jagi Lamplighter’s Unexpected Enlightenment.

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"So now we get to Avdeevka, which is shaping up to be the most significant battle of the second half of 2023 on the Russian side, after Bakhmut. What can we glean of Avdeevka apropos Russia’s strategies, or lack thereof, and which methods does Russia appear to be utilizing?"
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/battle-for-avdeevka-close-study#:~:text=So%20now%20we%20get%20to%20Avdeevka%2C%20which%20is%20shaping%20up%20to%20be%20the%20most%20significant%20battle%20of%20the%20second%20half%20of%202023%20on%20the%20Russian%20side%2C%20after%20Bakhmut.%20What%20can%20we%20glean%20of%20Avdeevka%20apropos%20Russia%E2%80%99s%20strategies%2C%20or%20lack%20thereof%2C%20and%20which%20methods%20does%20Russia%20appear%20to%20be%20utilizing%3F

🇺🇸🛢️ The US Needs to Refill its Dangerously Low Oil Reserves

The SPR today contains less than half the crude it had at its peak just over a decade ago. At about 350 million barrels, it's at its lowest since 1983.

To put what’s left into perspective, the US released about 270 million barrels over the last two years to cap oil prices. If the SPR is a revolver, it has a final round left in the chamber — and that’s it.

📎 Bloomberg

"US officials have expressed concerns that Israel has no workable plan for sending ground forces into Gaza, and are questioning whether the IDF can achieve its goal of annihilating the Hamas militant group, according to the New York Times."

https://www.rt.com/news/585653-israel-gaza-invasion-plan/

As we look at these horrific images coming out now, remember, this is what MAGA was fighting to stop for all these years

But you threw peace away bc you were too offended by tweets

Be careful what you wish for

RFK: "The purpose of the CIA was to create a constant pipeline of new wars...JFK realized they had been lying to him....I am going to take the CIA and shatter it into 1,000 pieces and scatter it to the winds.'"

Bravo! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

https://news.1rj.ru/str/LauraAbolichannel

'The Biden Administration Tries to Hide What It Knew About an Impending Massacre':

"It’s also not true the United States doesn’t train enormous intelligence assets on Hamas. As everyone now knows, the NSA collects on virtually everyone in the world. Further, the largest U.S. military base in the Middle East is in Qatar at Al Udeid Air Base, which is also the forward headquarters of U.S. Central Command. The Gulf emirate hosts Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, and former chief Khaled Meshaal, to the consternation of many who wonder why Washington lets Qatar get away with its double game. U.S. intelligence officials believe that it’s easier to keep tabs on Haniyeh in Qatar where they have plenty of visibility into what he’s doing. And yet according to U.S. officials, they weren’t tracking Hamas?
So what about the claims that the United States knew nothing about the attack—but that U.S. allies like Egypt were indeed aware, and warned Israel?

None of those stories add up, either.

Egypt is a U.S. listening post, which is why it was strange to hear that the Cairo government had given a head’s up about the attack to Jerusalem but not Washington. Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Michael McCaul (R-TX) said he was briefed on the Egyptian intelligence story. But if the account were true, he might have asked what the United States is getting in exchange for a $2 billion annual aid package if not previews of every piece of intelligence the Egyptian military and intelligence services collect. Obviously if the Egyptians did have something on a major Hamas operation designed to murder hundreds of Israelis, especially while Washington was in the midst of trying to broker peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia, they’d have given it to the Americans immediately. No, the purpose of that Egypt story was simple and obvious: to keep the media’s focus on Jerusalem’s failures, not Washington’s.

Here’s another bizarre fact. According to an October 13 New York Times article, Hamas fighters who flew paragliders into Israel to massacre Jews did their training in Lebanon. It seems highly unlikely that the United States, with intense intelligence operations right there, somehow missed the hordes of paragliders all of sudden randomly flocking to do training in Lebanon at the same time—not least because the U.S. ambassador to Lebanon, Dorothy Shea, is a paragliding enthusiast who posted videos of her own airborne adventures as recently as mid-August.

The Biden administration has allocated $72 million to pay the salaries of both the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and the country’s Internal Security Forces (ISF). One of the ISF’s big tasks is to target Israeli spy networks inside Lebanon. In 2022, the ISF rolled up no less than 17 Israeli networks based in Lebanon."

https://x.com/robinmonotti/status/1714227454624117231