I was planning on publishing Part 2 of my article on Alexei Navalny. However, today Alexei Navalny’s body is being laid to rest in a funeral service in Moscow attended by a few thousand well-wishers and supporters. My wife has always cautioned me not to speak ill of the dead.
Powerful writing! Whether or not we all ultimately die in a nuclear holocaust, it is entirely fair to say that America has betrayed every value it has ever claimed. Democracy and human rights may be at the top of the list. It is especially disturbing to witness the role the journalists have played enabling preventable violence, rather than holding power accountable. https://shahidbuttar.substack.com/p/why-we-cant-have-nice-things-like
99% of Western politicians are delusional fuckwits. They lie to the people about everything, implement totalitarian policies, demonise more than 50% of the people and then are too stupid to realize why they now need police protection from their public. Sadiq Khan recently proclaimed that London is reasonable prepared for nuclear war. What a shit-show. They shut the fucking city down when temperatures hit a mere 40 degrees Celsius. The reaction to George Galloway's being elected is an interesting case at the moment as in the era of totalitarian uni-party politics what we previously would recognize as a valid and necessary 'political opposition' is now being recast as 'divisive' and 'subversive'.
Excellent portrait of the ugly American leaders whose disregard for all people as is now seen the leadership kill many people all over the world and back the most heinous leadership in Israel as our friend against the great Palestinian people who are made to look as terroirs by a media bought and paid to misrepresent the truth ….than you Scott Ritter , as a former infantryman in Vietnam and I was caught in black September in Jordan as I visited my former home after being kicked out of Jerusalem so Israel can kill and steal more land with the blessing of USA and UK & other western elites I was almost killed with a bullet in me that’s still there during the Vietnam war and I think of the horror I went threw and many other soldiers that died for a lie not known to them , to see who we are now your very right of the nuclear option it seems like the movie with slim Pickens riding the nuclear war head with excitement in Dr Strangelove , I thought that was comical but not anymore
Very strongly worded and motivating. But what should we do that will work? Elections are coming up but who is there? Where are our George Galloways so we can use our write-in vote? Bobby Jr. didn’t work out. Writing to our Congress members doesn’t work. I reply to Senator Cardon’s emails but to no effect. I was glad to see an appellate court vacated some Jan 6th judgements and I hope the majority, if not all, are vacated. What can we do that will have a timely effect other than finding and electing our own George Galloways?
Again thank you very much for your very strong, bull’s eye article.
Sobering article, Scott. Thank you for the urgent wake-up call. Hopefully sanity will prevail somehow.
With Putin in office, I feel that his level headedness may save us all from ourselves. But what if something happens to him, God forbid? On another note, what's with the comments from a few here that there are no such things as nuclear weapons? I am all for questioning established "truths" that turn out to be lies and propaganda. But this is a new one to me. What were those bombs that exploded over Nagasaki and Hiroshima, vaporizing many tens of thousands? As a nuclear weapons/arms inspector, I'm sure you have some strong feelings about those comments.
Chilling and timely. I remember being in grade 3 or 4, USSR, when one day the lesson was stopped and we were told to line up in a hallway. There, in front of all the pupils of our school, the principal announced that American Pershing 2 with nuclear warheads were put in Europe and as a result we may all die soon. Being a kid, I felt dissapointed because my friend's bday was coming up and I really hoped that, if a war was inevitable, it would happen after the party. Funny and sad, 40 years later I don't care much for parties anymore and peace seems as elusive as never before.
I recall my elementary school nuclear drill in the early 60’s (Cuban Missile Crisis). We had to squeeze in under our little metal desks with our heads down. It was reassuring to know our little metal desk would protect us from nuclear incineration. Now to the present. I’m looking to find that little metal desk to protect me from: a Cyber Pandemic, an EMP attack, Power Grid Failure, Disease X, mRNA aerosol, terrorist attacks, nuclear incineration, famine, geo-engineered severe weather, etc., etc.
I know exactly how you feel Scott...nothing we can do. The solution is in the hands of senile warmongers in the US and EU including sick UK. It's Incredible their stupidity and attitude, they send arms and soldiers to Ukraine, but don't any one dare sending help to Russia. There is no need to say who and when started this war, it's been said over and over not only in Russia but in the US and their puppets in EU, UK and throughout the entire world. There is no secret of the hatred the US feels for Russia. They just can't accept the fact that it was the Soviet Union (Russia) that won the war, took Berlin and killed 7 out of 10 nazi soldiers in the second world war. Russia suffered the most too, over 20 millions were killed. Any way, in this war of Russia against Ukraine, the US, UK, Nato and some other countries are the ugly aggressors they represent the evil, just as Israel, US and NATO united against Palestine.
Russia was attacked in many ways by the US and NATO long before Feb. 2022 and is fighting for it's survival. Russia in this war is right and Ukraine, US, UK, Nato etc are wrong and evil.
Scott—This is the best thing to come out of Navalny’s death I’ve seen. The whole thing surrounding his life and death is about deceit, manipulation, betrayal and hypocrisy, all perpetrated by the US through that sad sack of a man. For you to now have opened our eyes to how these characteristics have driven the US since our founding, and driven us to edge of the Abyss, in the form of a eulogy is simply brilliant. And, I hope, a deterrence. There is a parallel and fundamental decency in the US that could just as easily flower and grow in the next 20 years as not. I’m going to follow your lead and try to make that happen. Thank you for all you do, my warrior for peace.
There is no way that capitalism was EVER even close to being the highest stage of human development. A society that worships private profit over the public good of everyone on the planet is low and mean and stupid. Socialism was our chance, and still is, but we may run out of time. People who think that the Soviet Union under Stalin represented Marxism are ignorant, no matter if they have some title that calls them "Sovietologists". Capitalism is destroying the planet.
Powerful writing! Whether or not we all ultimately die in a nuclear holocaust, it is entirely fair to say that America has betrayed every value it has ever claimed. Democracy and human rights may be at the top of the list. It is especially disturbing to witness the role the journalists have played enabling preventable violence, rather than holding power accountable. https://shahidbuttar.substack.com/p/why-we-cant-have-nice-things-like
Excellent article, thank you . It’s quite chilling to read, God protect us from ourselves .
Tragic and true, Scott. The Empire is insane.
99% of Western politicians are delusional fuckwits. They lie to the people about everything, implement totalitarian policies, demonise more than 50% of the people and then are too stupid to realize why they now need police protection from their public. Sadiq Khan recently proclaimed that London is reasonable prepared for nuclear war. What a shit-show. They shut the fucking city down when temperatures hit a mere 40 degrees Celsius. The reaction to George Galloway's being elected is an interesting case at the moment as in the era of totalitarian uni-party politics what we previously would recognize as a valid and necessary 'political opposition' is now being recast as 'divisive' and 'subversive'.
I tried to oppose the powers in 2007.
I ran. For SF killafornia mayor against Gavin. ScKamala put me in jail.
They took my business away.
Ah, if only my own Russian mother has been less of a Russophobe, less brainwashed by the Arrogant West, less a victim of the scamdemic Harmacide.
They used the scamdemic Harmacide to silence us all, then went to war.
Why?
"The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion." - Thomas Paine
The world, well the West anyway, appears to have gone collectively insane.
Excellent portrait of the ugly American leaders whose disregard for all people as is now seen the leadership kill many people all over the world and back the most heinous leadership in Israel as our friend against the great Palestinian people who are made to look as terroirs by a media bought and paid to misrepresent the truth ….than you Scott Ritter , as a former infantryman in Vietnam and I was caught in black September in Jordan as I visited my former home after being kicked out of Jerusalem so Israel can kill and steal more land with the blessing of USA and UK & other western elites I was almost killed with a bullet in me that’s still there during the Vietnam war and I think of the horror I went threw and many other soldiers that died for a lie not known to them , to see who we are now your very right of the nuclear option it seems like the movie with slim Pickens riding the nuclear war head with excitement in Dr Strangelove , I thought that was comical but not anymore
Very strongly worded and motivating. But what should we do that will work? Elections are coming up but who is there? Where are our George Galloways so we can use our write-in vote? Bobby Jr. didn’t work out. Writing to our Congress members doesn’t work. I reply to Senator Cardon’s emails but to no effect. I was glad to see an appellate court vacated some Jan 6th judgements and I hope the majority, if not all, are vacated. What can we do that will have a timely effect other than finding and electing our own George Galloways?
Again thank you very much for your very strong, bull’s eye article.
Sobering article, Scott. Thank you for the urgent wake-up call. Hopefully sanity will prevail somehow.
With Putin in office, I feel that his level headedness may save us all from ourselves. But what if something happens to him, God forbid? On another note, what's with the comments from a few here that there are no such things as nuclear weapons? I am all for questioning established "truths" that turn out to be lies and propaganda. But this is a new one to me. What were those bombs that exploded over Nagasaki and Hiroshima, vaporizing many tens of thousands? As a nuclear weapons/arms inspector, I'm sure you have some strong feelings about those comments.
Chilling and timely. I remember being in grade 3 or 4, USSR, when one day the lesson was stopped and we were told to line up in a hallway. There, in front of all the pupils of our school, the principal announced that American Pershing 2 with nuclear warheads were put in Europe and as a result we may all die soon. Being a kid, I felt dissapointed because my friend's bday was coming up and I really hoped that, if a war was inevitable, it would happen after the party. Funny and sad, 40 years later I don't care much for parties anymore and peace seems as elusive as never before.
I recall my elementary school nuclear drill in the early 60’s (Cuban Missile Crisis). We had to squeeze in under our little metal desks with our heads down. It was reassuring to know our little metal desk would protect us from nuclear incineration. Now to the present. I’m looking to find that little metal desk to protect me from: a Cyber Pandemic, an EMP attack, Power Grid Failure, Disease X, mRNA aerosol, terrorist attacks, nuclear incineration, famine, geo-engineered severe weather, etc., etc.
Tom Lehrer said it best, "We will all go together when we go, every Hottentot and every Eskimo..."
I know exactly how you feel Scott...nothing we can do. The solution is in the hands of senile warmongers in the US and EU including sick UK. It's Incredible their stupidity and attitude, they send arms and soldiers to Ukraine, but don't any one dare sending help to Russia. There is no need to say who and when started this war, it's been said over and over not only in Russia but in the US and their puppets in EU, UK and throughout the entire world. There is no secret of the hatred the US feels for Russia. They just can't accept the fact that it was the Soviet Union (Russia) that won the war, took Berlin and killed 7 out of 10 nazi soldiers in the second world war. Russia suffered the most too, over 20 millions were killed. Any way, in this war of Russia against Ukraine, the US, UK, Nato and some other countries are the ugly aggressors they represent the evil, just as Israel, US and NATO united against Palestine.
Russia was attacked in many ways by the US and NATO long before Feb. 2022 and is fighting for it's survival. Russia in this war is right and Ukraine, US, UK, Nato etc are wrong and evil.
Scott—This is the best thing to come out of Navalny’s death I’ve seen. The whole thing surrounding his life and death is about deceit, manipulation, betrayal and hypocrisy, all perpetrated by the US through that sad sack of a man. For you to now have opened our eyes to how these characteristics have driven the US since our founding, and driven us to edge of the Abyss, in the form of a eulogy is simply brilliant. And, I hope, a deterrence. There is a parallel and fundamental decency in the US that could just as easily flower and grow in the next 20 years as not. I’m going to follow your lead and try to make that happen. Thank you for all you do, my warrior for peace.
There is no way that capitalism was EVER even close to being the highest stage of human development. A society that worships private profit over the public good of everyone on the planet is low and mean and stupid. Socialism was our chance, and still is, but we may run out of time. People who think that the Soviet Union under Stalin represented Marxism are ignorant, no matter if they have some title that calls them "Sovietologists". Capitalism is destroying the planet.