Tanker attacks… even Sal the Clueless Salty Sailor twigs to reality…a little. He does give several innarrestin details, yo ho ho and lines of coke…> https://youtu.be/0203MPraczg?t=2

It took me some time for the old memory cells to function… See> Somerset v Stewart (wiki will do) It’s a really famous case, Mother used to quote it to me.

Fīat iūstitia ruat cælum

“Let justice be done though the heavens fall.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_justitia_ruat_caelum

Heretofore unknown to me a magazine site, sic legitur cum sale! >  Many articles

https://propagandainfocus.com/

Innarresting article> Wall Street, the Nazis, and the Crimes of the Deep State – Propaganda In Focus

https://propagandainfocus.com/wall-street-the-nazis-and-the-crimes-of-the-deep-state/

excerpt>

…As part of the 1947 national security shake-up, George Kennan was appointed at Forrestal’s recommendation as the inaugural Director of Policy Planning, i.e. the head of the State Department’s internal think tank, the Policy Planning Staff. In 1938, Kennan had proposed an authoritarian form of government in the United States, calling for suffrage to be withdrawn from “bewildered” and “ignorant” women, immigrants, and African Americans (Miscamble 1993, 17; Costigliola 1997, 128). Professing admiration for Austria’s fascist Schuschnigg regime, he claimed that “if malicious despotism had greater possibilities for evil than democracy, benevolent despotism had greater possibilities for good” (cited in Botts 2006, 844). After the war, he had the 1938 document removed from his papers in Princeton’s Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library. In 1947-8, Kennan was the architect of the Reverse Course in Japan, maintaining the zaibatsu and “reinstating the prewar political class with its Class A war criminals, as was not possible in Germany”; the US occupation, he remarked, could “dispense with bromides about democratization” (Anderson 2017, 60). Kennan claimed he “prefer[red] to remain ignorant” of Nazi war crimes; rather than purging Nazis from postwar German governments, it would be better, he claimed, to hold “the present ruling class of Germany […] strictly to its task and teach it the lessons we wish it to learn” (Simpson 2014, 88-9). Kennan personally intervened to obtain high-level security clearance for Gustav Hilger, who had served in Nazi foreign minister von Ribbentrop’s personal secretariat and played a role in the Holocaust, taking his advice on East-West policy (Simpson 2014, 116). In Latin America, Kennan advocated “harsh measures of repression,” even though this “would not stand the test of American concepts of democratic procedures” (cited in Anderson 2017, 86).

While publicly advocating “containment,” Kennan authored an important memo dated 4 May 1948 proposing that the State Department establish a directorate of political warfare operations capable of rivalling those of Britain and the Soviet Union (Kennan 1948). Such operations may be overt, involving political alliances, economic measures such as the Marshall Plan, and propaganda. Or they may be covert, involving “clandestine support of ‘friendly’ foreign elements, ‘black’ psychological warfare and even encouragement of underground resistance in hostile states” (Kennan 1948). All covert operations, Kennan recommends, should be run under cover of the NSC, headed by a single individual answerable to the Secretary of State.

NSC directive 10/2 (18 June 1948) provides for the establishment of an Office of Special Projects (OSP) within the CIA with powers to engage in covert activities relating to propaganda, economic warfare; preventive direct action, including sabotage, anti-sabotage, demolition and evacuation measures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance movements, guerrillas and refugee liberation groups, and support of indigenous anticommunist elements in threatened countries of the free world…

He’s an optimist.  The Russian goals are probably  more important than those of Agent Orange. Probably far more realistic.

The occupiers might want to get out while the gittin’s good. 

I expect the Ru/US negotiation will go on for several years, until the character of the US is such that they become reliable…a massive restructuring including the popular weltangschung  and the economic modus vivendi.

“If Trump’s efforts to resolve the Ukraine conflict fail, he will have three options: escalate, withdraw, or shift the burden to Europe. None of these choices will resolve the underlying issues, but they will shape the future of NATO, the EU, and the broader international order. Meanwhile, Russia will remain patient, waiting for the moment when the West is forced to acknowledge the new geopolitical reality.  

As for what happens next — whether the conflict expands, shifts to new regions like the Baltics, or fades into a prolonged stalemate — only time will tell. One thing is certain: Trump’s path to a ‘deal’ on Ukraine will be far more complicated than he initially thought.”

https://www.rt.com/news/612840-trumps-reality-check-ukraine-conflict/

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I wonder what the Wright brothers are saying when this video comes on the big screen at Abe’s Cafe… long way from Kitty Hawk, eh?

Bedtime story from Comrade Medvedev:

“A Rabid Animal Has Bitten Its Master

Ukrainian drones have attacked a pumping station responsible for transporting oil through the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC). This is not a Russian asset; the oil in this pipeline is classified as international property, belonging in various proportions to multiple companies, primarily American and European.

The pipeline transports oil from Kazakhstan’s major oil projects—Tengiz, Karachaganak, and Kashagan. In 2024, American businesses accounted for over 40% of CPC oil shipments, and together with other Western companies, their total share exceeded 65%. The neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv was well aware of this. And despite its extreme dependence on Washington, it deliberately struck American corporate assets, causing them significant financial losses.

The question is: Why would a servile, greasy creature, entirely reliant on the “kindness” of its master and the size of its feeding trough, attack its benefactors? The answer is simple. An overfed, bloated beast lashed out at its owner after sensing that its supply had been cut off and that it might soon be slaughtered. In desperation, it decided to bite its master—and bite hard. Salivating profusely, it sank its teeth into the very hand that feeds it—the hand of the U.S. president.

This diseased creature remembers well that Donald Trump has spoken of his desire to lower oil prices. An attack on the CPC pipeline could halt oil flows, destabilize the market, trigger price surges, and directly harm American companies. In other
against U.S. businesses, the oil market, and Trump personally.

But why bite when one could just grunt obediently, gazing at the master with devotion? Because this humiliated animal is in a state of sheer panic. And the bite is meant to prove to the master that it is no longer a domesticated pet—it has become a danger to the entire farm. Even to the owner himself…

Now, the master of this rabid creature must determine whether it is infected with madness and how best to protect himself. There are two options. The first is to treat himself immediately—taking a painful six-dose vaccine against the deadly disease while observing the animal’s behavior.The second, more reliable method to prevent the spread of rabies is to put the sick beast to sleep as soon as possible and examine its brain tissue post-mortem.
Which option the new U.S. administration will choose—time will soon tell.”