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A very comprehensive, down-to-the-latest piece on the Ukraine conflict and all major related issues. Provides the clearest insight I have seen so far that our man in Russia, Evan Gershkovich, might indeed be a spy. Based on the biased manner he had been covering the NATO/US confrontation of Russia, he was never the best fit to be sent to do any journalist work outside the western realm. The WSJ kind of set him up to be caught---unwittingly as that might have been..

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Thanks. Good point: "The WSJ kind of set him up to be caught"...

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Apr 10, 2023·edited Apr 10, 2023Liked by John Varoli

The neocons manipulating President Biden are oblivious to the Common Sense awakening to the perils of brinkmanship when President Kennedy realized how close this World came to self-annihilation during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. He was then moved to seek Peace and Common Humanity with the Russians.

In June 1963, Kennedy uttered the essential truth that can keep us alive today: “Above all, while defending our own vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war. To adopt that kind of course in the nuclear age would be evidence only of the bankruptcy of our policy–or of a collective death-wish for the world.”

Talking and thinking like that was what got President Kennedy eliminated later that year because it was anathema to those who wanted perpetual WAR with the Russian Soviets to be the Status Quo, all the while demanding ever more discretionary spending to be re-directed away from US Civilian needs for the ever bigger, year after year, US DoD Budget in conjunction with the additional cost of Homeland Security as Americans are becoming more insecure than ever before with increased mass shootings as the US Economic Straitjacket tightens.

Americans are blind to the practical realities the US ARMS INDUSTRIES are making a killing off the Ukraine WAR like never before!

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Yes, good points. We saw how Big Pharma raked in mega billions during Covid. Now, it's the military's turn with Ukraine. Add to that, the 'green energy' companies as we combat the 'climate crisis'. Endless feeding frenzy at the public trough. Revolting.

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Maybe the big Oscar winner, "EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE, ALL AT ONCE' portends to the Unknown Future Humanity is facing, either together or apart?

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