Neocons Dream of War with Russia

If you had any doubt that the neocons are still pulling the strings of the military-industrial complex, you are deceived.

Stratfor.com, viewed by many to be a mouthpiece for the CIA, has published their decade-ahead forecast, and topping the list is their forecast that Russia will "collapse" and that the US military will have to go in and decommission all their nukes.

You can read about it here.

Of course, an American-initiated invasion of Russia (and it is not conceivable that Russia, with or without Putin, is going to invite the US military in to take away their nukes) is not about making the world safer, it is about controlling Russia's vast natural resources, especially of energy.

It is not likely that China would welcome such a move either, no matter how much they might like to see Russia weakened.

The psychopaths running the USA inside the Washington beltway have a war in your future, if they have their way, a war that benefits Halliburton et al., but not you.

You can count on a Republican president to go along with the plan.

But Hillary? Yep. Wall Street and the defense industry are her two biggest donors.

Remember the words of Madelein Albright, Democratic Secretary of State, who, when asked how she felt about five hundred thousand civilian deaths in Iraq, replied:

"It was worth it."

For what, Madame Secretary?

The Deep State has told you what they plan.

"Preemptive" war against Russia.

Is that something you want?

Sanctions salami tactics

Plutocrats have a certain grudging respect for one another. Naturally, they would like to put each other out of business unless it impacted their own business adversely. So I conclude that Obama's sanctions are an attempt to isolate Putin from his plutocratic supporters (although perhaps supporters is too strong a word; Putin keeps his plutocrats on a pretty tight leash, just ask Mikhail Khodorkovsky).

But what if under the table the West is inviting Putin's plutocrats to join them, where the grass is greener and you don't have old Vlad busting your chops. We're not going to mention that we're going to give you a haircut on the way, but are you really ready for the rebirth of the Soviet Union? The London bankers must certainly be for it.

On the other hand, you have the Chinese promising big business... but China's biggest real estate investor is unloading everything as China replicates the Western real estate bubble and collapse....

It's tough being a Russian plutocrat these days. It's tough being a plutocrat anywhere, really, with all this talk that plutocrats are *too* wealthy (and are actually mass murdering their fellow humans with their insatiable greed by hording wealth and depriving others of health care, education and jobs).

Come to America! Come to the UK! Plutocrats rule! This is the subtext of what the Russian plutocrats are hearing.

Putin collects his chips

With an IMF deal in the neighborhood of $18 billion on the fast track, and Putin asking for about $16 billion amount in payment for gas much already delivered and other obligations, it would appear that Putin is coming out ahead financially so far on his Crimean adventure.

While President Obama authorized the sale of some of America's Strategic Petroleum Reserve, oil prices seemed to up this morning when I checked.