World War 3 was started in E Donbass and Crimea in 2014 by Putin. While I think it's more than reasonable to see Trump and his regime's actions as increasingly complicit in Putin's objective of global destabilization and violence, Israel - even the hardest Right members of its extremist government, do not want to start WW3 but to protect itself - even if their current tactics are myopic, excessive and brutal. We still remember WW2 all too vividly.
Netanyahu will do about anything to remain in the PM's office not unlike Trump's willingness to kill and engage war to distract (however unsuccessfully) from the Epstein Files.
I think it's time to stop throwing the word 'genocide' at about anything no matter how otherwise horrific. Even the most extreme brutality and slaughter is not presumptively 'genocide.' It is an increasingly lazy, overly simplistic term which incites while being a gross insult to those who have experienced true genocide over the many years.
I've also had enough of Netanyahu and Putin being put into the same sentence. Putin is a global war criminal, guilty of Crimes Against Humanity in Georgia, Syria and Ukraine. Netanyahu may well have met war criminal criteria for actions taken in Gaza but it’s also regional and specific. Each brings very different dynamics, politics, and history.
Israel didn't wake up on October 8 2023 and decide to start a full out war in Gaza. But that is exactly what Putin did in February 2022 when he launched a massive, criminal, and unprovoked war of imperialism on Ukraine. Russia's Crimes Against Humanity started from the outset and was always a basic part of Putin's strategy. I also don't think many understand the intense psychological, social and military impact of the Oct 7 Massacre by Hamas, enhanced by their extreme sexual violence and hostage taking, had on Israel.
No, this is not a rational of or excuse for Netanyahu or his Faustian terroristic coalition who I collectively abhor and want held accountable. But the extraordinary impact of the October 7 massacre on Israelis cannot be ignored - but often continues to be. There continues to be extensive conspiracy theories that 10/7 never happened...or wasn’t as substantive as has been reported. It did and was. Put that in the same pocket with still rampant Holocaust denialism. And unlike Putin, Israel and Netanyahu have not been a singular, unitary actor but reactive if since taking it way too far.
Consider the fact that the very first Kibbutzim in Southern Israel viciously attacked by Hamas were the 'peace' kibbutzim. They were the long established Left and socialist collectives who also largely despised Netanyahu and not only believed in Palestinian Rights but a two-state solution. Jews of the peace Kibbutzim not only supported Palestinian citizens but regularly drove Gazans in and out of Israel for medical care. This, of course, stopped on 7 October with Hamas offering no alternative plans. Did even one member of the international media ask Hamas?
It makes clear that Hamas has never had any interest in Palestinian Rights or about Gazan citizens and will kill as many Palestinian as it takes to achieve their fantastical goals. But only Israel is held responsible for reasons - some correct - but others very incorrect.
The Israeli Right is violently racist just as is the US Right and about all the European Right. And if folks want to read more about authentic and recent genocide, besides that by Putin, consider Myanmar, Sudan and Somalia. Consider China's cultural genocide of the Uyghur. Consider the Rwandan genocide in mid-1994 or the Nazi genocide targeting Jews starting before and during WW2.
How many know that world Judaism has yet to return to the numbers we had pre-WW2? No other historical act of genocide has even come close to such an outcome. But only Israel has received such laser like, more often decontextualized, attention and hatred. One reason is that across the millenia, the world has most often not had problems with dead Jews but has so when Jews return fire, organize or otherwise fight back
Again, I am not remotely justifying the brutal insanity Netanyahu unleashed on Gaza but sharing historical and geopolitical context. Putin and Netanyahu are not at all analogous. I can debate if Israel is an 'apartheid state' (I don't think so, but I can see arguments) but do not accept that no matter how brutal Netanyahu has made the war on Hamas, it is not genocide. Palestinian citizens are not even close to being wiped off the face of the earth, from Israel or from the Territories. And there are very many Palestinian professionals, to include MDs and RNs, who trained and continue to work in Israel.
The reality and History is far more complex and interwoven. Trump's outright insanity is now a wild card among wild cards. And Trump services Christian Zionism far more than Israel who are strong advocates for and supporters of a never-ending war in Israel to supposedly reclaim Israel's biblical lands. Those who simply scream about Israel's 'genocide' are lazy, simplistic and, perhaps, sometimes agenda driven. But Jews have long been a preferred target.
I welcome feedback and, of course, disagreement. But I also expect civility and individual thought. And please save me the UN and other group's 'conclusions' of Israel's genocide in Gaza. The UN’s Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict didn’t even formally acknowledge that sexual violence, including rape and gang rape, occurred by Hamas during their attacks in Israel on 10/7 until a report issued on March 4, 2024. I've read about every single one and have yet to find anywhere either Hamas or Iran are a direct focus for accountability.
If ever we do make reforms or better yet create a new constitution that can have an enforcement mechanism and can’t be gamed by a faction or factions of the populace, then we need to also impeach and remove from office any VP who doesn’t initiate 25th Amendment when the President becomes incapacitated. Both Vance and Pence have by their inactions failed to perform their Constitutional duty to initiate Congressional actions to prevent Trump from destroying the country and the world as he self-destructs and decays. Both are as responsible as Trump for thie totally unnecessary carnage because they had the power to stop it and did not do so. And we also are if we do not stop it.
Nancy, it doesn't make sense to me that the VP, who was chosen by the person who became the president, would be able to assess incapacity. ..too many conflicts of interest and no expertise in medical or mental health.What do you think about a rotating, bi-partisan group of mental health experts and medical doctors who serve for a year and are rotated out, but who assess the Pres. and the VP once or twice during that year. They're appointed by a special House/Senate Sub-Committee on the Fitness of the Executive and are chosen, randomly, from a constantly updated roster of luminaries in the respective fields of medicine and mental health. They should be an odd number like 3 or 5; they should administer tests like the Hare Psychopathy Checklist, and report back directly to the people...a semi-annual report published and distributed by the committee itself and made public through libraries, announced through the media, etc.
The approach you suggest is much better. I agree with you that there are inherent flaws in the 25th amendment. There are SO MANY flaws in the US Constitution especially the assumption of virtuous behavior without enforcement provisions excepting the courts. The amendment process is too difficult. What you are suggesting is amending an amendment, correct?
I would support such a mental health assessment of the Presidential candidates prior to elections as well.
P.S. - Actually, I would prefer a whole new constitution which mandates total public funding for all political offices at every level of government for example.
It is also ridiculous for instance that the populace does not vote for the VP candidate as well as the President. Dark money and influences have bought this office for decades.
Another great article detailing the sewage filled ticking time bomb that is our demented Mad Hatter-in-Chief's brain, what little is left of it anyways.
On the topic of ol' Lindsey, I'd love to know exactly what dirt Putin and Bibi have on him. That reprehensible chud is one of the most compromised in a Congress full of wholly owned and controlled puppets.
As you point out, the fact that our country has become so broken and corrupted that Graham feels comfortable openly bragging about his trips to Israel, as well as his check-ins with the Mossad, is truly infuriating and depressing...
In the US, they have been trying to scale structural eugenics for decades. They have succeeded at a blistering pace in Trump's second term but they've been building this machine for a very long time. It's why homelessness, alcoholism and drug abuse proliferate in the 'world's richest country.' Hitler got his playbook directly from the US' fine example of the wholesale slaughter and subjugation of indigenous and black peoples. The US was always at the forefront of the eugenics movement.
I posited early on the theory that felon is imitating and the Israeli war criminals actions in Gaza. His comment that we were going to bomb Iran so heavily that there would be no one left to surrender to us was telling. The language and the narcissistic mentality are telling. Project 2025 lays out thinning the US population of the disabled, old, sick,mentally ill, homeless, people of color, non Christians, etc. They’ve filled govt positions with the loyal and have moved from Latinos to Haitian and Somalis as targets, as well as the LGBTQ community and always women ( especially those who will not obey silently). Fuentes stated recently that all women need to be put in gulags and the men would sort out the “worthy” for breeding and the rest would be sentenced to work camps. Unfortunately this is not fringe ideology. Too many men, esp white men, are threatened be anyone who’s smarter and stronger then they are, or has different views or values. The cuts to entitlements and access to health care, even for veterans ( they’ve served their purpose so are no longer needed or valuable once out of active duty, especially if they’re disabled or wounded) . We all know how felon feels about soldiers.
The broligarchs have stated clearly that they believe in a few rich white men should rule the world, and the rest of us are to work as slaves for our survival. They want Greenland for its minerals, South America for its oil and natural resources, Middle East for its oil. They have no need or interest in the people unless they can serve them.
My dad always said that WW3 would be fought in the Middle East, but he thought they would start the war, not us.
I don't think the Shield of the Americas is just a grift.
Although not public about it. Musk and his Broligarchy are still back stage directing Trump
Musk's maternal grandfather Joshua Norman Haldeman, was the founder of the Technocracy Movement, a fascist idea and run out of Canada, he fled to South Africa, where he linked up with other fascists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement
Look at the map in the link above, you see Greenland, Canada, Mexico (As of early 2026, President Donald Trump is pursuing a strategy to use U.S. military force directly against drug cartels inside Mexico, a plan that has sparked significant diplomatic tension and is being staunchly opposed by the Mexican government. ) Cuba (he wants Marco Rubio to be Presidente de Cuba after it collapses due to his oil embargo),
Look at the bottom of the map and you will see three countries, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela with whom he has expressed much interest. The plan is to use narco terorism as an excuse, for them and Mexico, the rest of Cental America can be bought for pennies on the dollar.
This Shieild of the Americas, of which Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, and Trinidad and Tobago Were invited,
Key Absences: Notably, Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, and Cuba were not invited to the summit.
Because he has plans for Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Cuba.
Brazil will be part of the global south, that Oceania, Eurasia and East Asia will fight over to exploit.
It is obvious that his Board of Peace, is an attempt to replace the UN
In 1929, Congress passed the Young Act, which basically created the Bank for International Settlements, the purpose of which was to handle and distribute Germany's reparation payments from WWI.
Today the B.I.S. is the Central Bank of Central Banks, and first Monday of every month, the Head of member Central Banks, including the Fed, (or their representatives) , convene at the B.I.S., they occupy identical offices, laid out identically, and finalize their reports for their presentation.
It's first President was Paul Warburg. father pf the Fed, and brother of Max Warburg, Chief of German Intelligence in WWI. Said to be the mastermind behind Lenin's trip in a sealed car into Russia in 1917.
Point is that the excuse for founding an organization is not the reason for founding the organization, The B,I,S, started as a mechanism for distributing payments and became the central bank of central banks.
So it is with the Shield of the Americas and the Board of Peace.
World War 3 was started in E Donbass and Crimea in 2014 by Putin. While I think it's more than reasonable to see Trump and his regime's actions as increasingly complicit in Putin's objective of global destabilization and violence, Israel - even the hardest Right members of its extremist government, do not want to start WW3 but to protect itself - even if their current tactics are myopic, excessive and brutal. We still remember WW2 all too vividly.
Netanyahu will do about anything to remain in the PM's office not unlike Trump's willingness to kill and engage war to distract (however unsuccessfully) from the Epstein Files.
I think it's time to stop throwing the word 'genocide' at about anything no matter how otherwise horrific. Even the most extreme brutality and slaughter is not presumptively 'genocide.' It is an increasingly lazy, overly simplistic term which incites while being a gross insult to those who have experienced true genocide over the many years.
I've also had enough of Netanyahu and Putin being put into the same sentence. Putin is a global war criminal, guilty of Crimes Against Humanity in Georgia, Syria and Ukraine. Netanyahu may well have met war criminal criteria for actions taken in Gaza but it’s also regional and specific. Each brings very different dynamics, politics, and history.
Israel didn't wake up on October 8 2023 and decide to start a full out war in Gaza. But that is exactly what Putin did in February 2022 when he launched a massive, criminal, and unprovoked war of imperialism on Ukraine. Russia's Crimes Against Humanity started from the outset and was always a basic part of Putin's strategy. I also don't think many understand the intense psychological, social and military impact of the Oct 7 Massacre by Hamas, enhanced by their extreme sexual violence and hostage taking, had on Israel.
No, this is not a rational of or excuse for Netanyahu or his Faustian terroristic coalition who I collectively abhor and want held accountable. But the extraordinary impact of the October 7 massacre on Israelis cannot be ignored - but often continues to be. There continues to be extensive conspiracy theories that 10/7 never happened...or wasn’t as substantive as has been reported. It did and was. Put that in the same pocket with still rampant Holocaust denialism. And unlike Putin, Israel and Netanyahu have not been a singular, unitary actor but reactive if since taking it way too far.
Consider the fact that the very first Kibbutzim in Southern Israel viciously attacked by Hamas were the 'peace' kibbutzim. They were the long established Left and socialist collectives who also largely despised Netanyahu and not only believed in Palestinian Rights but a two-state solution. Jews of the peace Kibbutzim not only supported Palestinian citizens but regularly drove Gazans in and out of Israel for medical care. This, of course, stopped on 7 October with Hamas offering no alternative plans. Did even one member of the international media ask Hamas?
It makes clear that Hamas has never had any interest in Palestinian Rights or about Gazan citizens and will kill as many Palestinian as it takes to achieve their fantastical goals. But only Israel is held responsible for reasons - some correct - but others very incorrect.
The Israeli Right is violently racist just as is the US Right and about all the European Right. And if folks want to read more about authentic and recent genocide, besides that by Putin, consider Myanmar, Sudan and Somalia. Consider China's cultural genocide of the Uyghur. Consider the Rwandan genocide in mid-1994 or the Nazi genocide targeting Jews starting before and during WW2.
How many know that world Judaism has yet to return to the numbers we had pre-WW2? No other historical act of genocide has even come close to such an outcome. But only Israel has received such laser like, more often decontextualized, attention and hatred. One reason is that across the millenia, the world has most often not had problems with dead Jews but has so when Jews return fire, organize or otherwise fight back
Again, I am not remotely justifying the brutal insanity Netanyahu unleashed on Gaza but sharing historical and geopolitical context. Putin and Netanyahu are not at all analogous. I can debate if Israel is an 'apartheid state' (I don't think so, but I can see arguments) but do not accept that no matter how brutal Netanyahu has made the war on Hamas, it is not genocide. Palestinian citizens are not even close to being wiped off the face of the earth, from Israel or from the Territories. And there are very many Palestinian professionals, to include MDs and RNs, who trained and continue to work in Israel.
The reality and History is far more complex and interwoven. Trump's outright insanity is now a wild card among wild cards. And Trump services Christian Zionism far more than Israel who are strong advocates for and supporters of a never-ending war in Israel to supposedly reclaim Israel's biblical lands. Those who simply scream about Israel's 'genocide' are lazy, simplistic and, perhaps, sometimes agenda driven. But Jews have long been a preferred target.
I welcome feedback and, of course, disagreement. But I also expect civility and individual thought. And please save me the UN and other group's 'conclusions' of Israel's genocide in Gaza. The UN’s Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict didn’t even formally acknowledge that sexual violence, including rape and gang rape, occurred by Hamas during their attacks in Israel on 10/7 until a report issued on March 4, 2024. I've read about every single one and have yet to find anywhere either Hamas or Iran are a direct focus for accountability.
The Psychology of Loyal Idiots — What Hannah Arendt Called the Most Terrifying Evil of All
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNqVbevl7s8
If ever we do make reforms or better yet create a new constitution that can have an enforcement mechanism and can’t be gamed by a faction or factions of the populace, then we need to also impeach and remove from office any VP who doesn’t initiate 25th Amendment when the President becomes incapacitated. Both Vance and Pence have by their inactions failed to perform their Constitutional duty to initiate Congressional actions to prevent Trump from destroying the country and the world as he self-destructs and decays. Both are as responsible as Trump for thie totally unnecessary carnage because they had the power to stop it and did not do so. And we also are if we do not stop it.
Nancy, it doesn't make sense to me that the VP, who was chosen by the person who became the president, would be able to assess incapacity. ..too many conflicts of interest and no expertise in medical or mental health.What do you think about a rotating, bi-partisan group of mental health experts and medical doctors who serve for a year and are rotated out, but who assess the Pres. and the VP once or twice during that year. They're appointed by a special House/Senate Sub-Committee on the Fitness of the Executive and are chosen, randomly, from a constantly updated roster of luminaries in the respective fields of medicine and mental health. They should be an odd number like 3 or 5; they should administer tests like the Hare Psychopathy Checklist, and report back directly to the people...a semi-annual report published and distributed by the committee itself and made public through libraries, announced through the media, etc.
The approach you suggest is much better. I agree with you that there are inherent flaws in the 25th amendment. There are SO MANY flaws in the US Constitution especially the assumption of virtuous behavior without enforcement provisions excepting the courts. The amendment process is too difficult. What you are suggesting is amending an amendment, correct?
I would support such a mental health assessment of the Presidential candidates prior to elections as well.
P.S. - Actually, I would prefer a whole new constitution which mandates total public funding for all political offices at every level of government for example.
It is also ridiculous for instance that the populace does not vote for the VP candidate as well as the President. Dark money and influences have bought this office for decades.
Another great article detailing the sewage filled ticking time bomb that is our demented Mad Hatter-in-Chief's brain, what little is left of it anyways.
On the topic of ol' Lindsey, I'd love to know exactly what dirt Putin and Bibi have on him. That reprehensible chud is one of the most compromised in a Congress full of wholly owned and controlled puppets.
As you point out, the fact that our country has become so broken and corrupted that Graham feels comfortable openly bragging about his trips to Israel, as well as his check-ins with the Mossad, is truly infuriating and depressing...
Apt comparison.
In the US, they have been trying to scale structural eugenics for decades. They have succeeded at a blistering pace in Trump's second term but they've been building this machine for a very long time. It's why homelessness, alcoholism and drug abuse proliferate in the 'world's richest country.' Hitler got his playbook directly from the US' fine example of the wholesale slaughter and subjugation of indigenous and black peoples. The US was always at the forefront of the eugenics movement.
Love the poster, 'money back if not satisfied, just return in 2 days'- classic.
Trumps id is showing, but I think trump is maga's id personified.
...and vice versa, David. He and his base reflect and amplify one another's conscious and unconscious belief systems. :(
I posited early on the theory that felon is imitating and the Israeli war criminals actions in Gaza. His comment that we were going to bomb Iran so heavily that there would be no one left to surrender to us was telling. The language and the narcissistic mentality are telling. Project 2025 lays out thinning the US population of the disabled, old, sick,mentally ill, homeless, people of color, non Christians, etc. They’ve filled govt positions with the loyal and have moved from Latinos to Haitian and Somalis as targets, as well as the LGBTQ community and always women ( especially those who will not obey silently). Fuentes stated recently that all women need to be put in gulags and the men would sort out the “worthy” for breeding and the rest would be sentenced to work camps. Unfortunately this is not fringe ideology. Too many men, esp white men, are threatened be anyone who’s smarter and stronger then they are, or has different views or values. The cuts to entitlements and access to health care, even for veterans ( they’ve served their purpose so are no longer needed or valuable once out of active duty, especially if they’re disabled or wounded) . We all know how felon feels about soldiers.
The broligarchs have stated clearly that they believe in a few rich white men should rule the world, and the rest of us are to work as slaves for our survival. They want Greenland for its minerals, South America for its oil and natural resources, Middle East for its oil. They have no need or interest in the people unless they can serve them.
My dad always said that WW3 would be fought in the Middle East, but he thought they would start the war, not us.
I don't think the Shield of the Americas is just a grift.
Although not public about it. Musk and his Broligarchy are still back stage directing Trump
Musk's maternal grandfather Joshua Norman Haldeman, was the founder of the Technocracy Movement, a fascist idea and run out of Canada, he fled to South Africa, where he linked up with other fascists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement
Foundational of the Technocracy Movement is a Technate of America, https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:34227574. One can recognize it as Orwells Oceania
Look at the map in the link above, you see Greenland, Canada, Mexico (As of early 2026, President Donald Trump is pursuing a strategy to use U.S. military force directly against drug cartels inside Mexico, a plan that has sparked significant diplomatic tension and is being staunchly opposed by the Mexican government. ) Cuba (he wants Marco Rubio to be Presidente de Cuba after it collapses due to his oil embargo),
Look at the bottom of the map and you will see three countries, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela with whom he has expressed much interest. The plan is to use narco terorism as an excuse, for them and Mexico, the rest of Cental America can be bought for pennies on the dollar.
This Shieild of the Americas, of which Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, and Trinidad and Tobago Were invited,
Key Absences: Notably, Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, and Cuba were not invited to the summit.
Because he has plans for Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Cuba.
Brazil will be part of the global south, that Oceania, Eurasia and East Asia will fight over to exploit.
It is obvious that his Board of Peace, is an attempt to replace the UN
In 1929, Congress passed the Young Act, which basically created the Bank for International Settlements, the purpose of which was to handle and distribute Germany's reparation payments from WWI.
Today the B.I.S. is the Central Bank of Central Banks, and first Monday of every month, the Head of member Central Banks, including the Fed, (or their representatives) , convene at the B.I.S., they occupy identical offices, laid out identically, and finalize their reports for their presentation.
It's first President was Paul Warburg. father pf the Fed, and brother of Max Warburg, Chief of German Intelligence in WWI. Said to be the mastermind behind Lenin's trip in a sealed car into Russia in 1917.
Point is that the excuse for founding an organization is not the reason for founding the organization, The B,I,S, started as a mechanism for distributing payments and became the central bank of central banks.
So it is with the Shield of the Americas and the Board of Peace.
Horrifying!