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john webster's avatar

I think you win this debate on points. Brian Berletic does indeed reveal the real US strategy and being aware of that is the 'due diligence' you refer to. But I hope that President Putin has implemented a contingency plan - who to replace him and what to do should he and the rest of his team be assassinated. Here in Britain the hate for Russia is deep and transmitted via the media daily and infects even those who should be aware of the duplicity of US imperialism.

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

Thank you for yet another cogent analysis of this important situation. It's good to know our species still has people, such as yourself, who are capable of thought, however few there may be in today's world.

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DEREK HANDS's avatar

“For anyone who still thinks Donald Trump does not represent the interests of what is called “the deep state” but is actually the shallow or official U.S. state, it is time to think again. If he is not a figurehead for those alleged hidden forces, then he will agree to a Russia-Ukraine settlement on Russia’s fundamental terms – that is, a mutual security agreement that stipulates the pulling back of U.S./NATO forces encircling Russia, etc. – when he meets with Putin in Alaska this Friday. There will be no further delay.

This, however, is extremely unlikely. Trump knows little but bullying and the use of the English language as a hammer. “I’m very highly educated,” he has said, without a scintilla of irony, “I know words, I know the best words. But there’s no better word than stupid.””

https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/trump-said-it-theres-no-better-word-than-stupid/

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Anne Prowse's avatar

Superb analysis, as usual.

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charles leone's avatar

All the West has is bluff. They have no cards. The collective West is sitting on dynamite waiting for a spark to ignite the biggest financial collapse in human history. What Warren Buffet once identified as financial AIDS: the $2 Quadrillion derivates bubble which the IMF and Bank for International Settlements has hidden from the Mainstream News Media.

It is this orgy of financial speculation that has been driving the ongoing cannibalization of the Western physical economic infrastructure since the 1980s leaving only the AI-powered military establishment in charge of the money empire with threats, sanctions and economic tariff warfare to loot colonies around the world ala the Roman Empire.

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Billy C's avatar

A friend posited to me this morning that Putin will offer a 2 week pause in hostilities so Trump can present the peace proposal to Ukraine and EU. Not long enough for Ukraine to regroup but allowing egomaniac Trump to claim he's the peacemaker- we will see- of course the devil's in the details of any concrete proposal that may emerge. Wouldn't bet on anything!

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