December 30, 2016
We regard the recent unfriendly steps taken by the outgoing US administration as provocative and aimed at further weakening the Russia-US relationship. This runs contrary to the fundamental interests of both the Russian and American people. Considering the global security responsibilities of Russia and the United States, this is also damaging to international relations as a whole.
As it proceeds from international practice, Russia has reasons to respond in kind. Although we have the right to retaliate, we will not resort to irresponsible ‘kitchen’ diplomacy but will plan our further steps to restore Russian-US relations based on the policies of the Trump Administration.
The diplomats who are returning to Russia will spend the New Year’s holidays with their families and friends. We will not create any problems for US diplomats. We will not expel anyone. We will not prevent their families and children from using their traditional leisure sites during the New Year’s holidays. Moreover, I invite all children of US diplomats accredited in Russia to the New Year and Christmas children’s parties in the Kremlin.
It is regrettable that the Obama Administration is ending its term in this manner. Nevertheless, I offer my New Year greetings to President Obama and his family.
My season’s greetings also to President-elect Donald Trump and the American people.
I wish all of you happiness and prosperity.
The world waiting on Trump’s inauguration and hoping the vindictive little man in the whitehouse will not do too much damage in the meantime.
The world does not turn around the USA anymore.
From the article above…
As it proceeds from international practice, Russia has reasons to respond in kind. Although we have the right to retaliate, we will not resort to irresponsible ‘kitchen’ diplomacy but will plan our further steps to restore Russian-US relations based on the policies of the Trump Administration.
That the world does not revolve around the US anymore is right, but what happens next in the world depends to a large extent on Trump’s actions in the near future.
Don’t think what happens next depends on Trump. The initiative, including trouble-making initiative, has already pass from Trump’s hands. Short of unilaterally igniting thermo-nuclear war, Trump will not be able to initiate much, trouble or otherwise. Even Yelen’s interest rate increase can be countered and effects neutralised. The US dollar is still mighty but no longer almighty.
The economic initiative now rest in China’s hands and in the hands of the Russian-Chinese partnership in Eurasian integration and the OBOR initiative.
Military initiatives – which the US is so ecpert in – are costly, economically unproductive (unlike in colonial times) and self-destructive. The US example of gains, economic, diplomatic or otherwise, have been demonstrated to be bankrupt.
The US no longer have the wherewithall to decide and initiate the global agenda. It should be happy if it can just salvage the US economy and relieve the 37% unemplyment rate (worse than the 20% of the Great Depression era of 1929-1933).
The US should pivot to Russia and China economically and negotiate for a ride on the coming boom of the Eurasia-OBOR economies!
Simon Chow You are 100% correct. Problem is the US neocons are acting out provably insane policies as if they are normal. These policies date back to the end of WW1! Even before to the lifetime of Henry James the amazingly prescient US author. His equally brilliant brother started the movement and study of Sociology in USA. Henry became a permanent ex-patriot in reaction to his brilliant analysis, still apt today in the 21st century, of America’s global footprint. USA will erase all of his writings because his analysis was, and still is, spot on. American CIA killed Hemingway for the very same reasons.
Those neocon think-tanks are not interested in diplomatic resolution. What they want is complete domination in Euro-asian region. They are hopelessly godless, arrogant and spiritually mis-guided. Soon Putin and orthodox Christians figure that out, the better it would be
for them and the rest of the world.
While we are commenting on this post, a well planned genocide is going on in middle east. The next goal of neo-cons is to stir up a Shia vs Sunni civil war in Arab world. As soon as Israhell/neocons touch Iran’s atomic assets, Iranians would happily block strait of hormutz oil route in retaliation, smaller gulf states will go down first, then that wahabi zionist state. It is worth mentioning that the US aircraft carrier that was stationed in Persian Gulf has been recalled for maintenance or whatever reason starting Jan 5, 2017. This whole saga could bring down dollar as a reserve currency and cause panic in stock market in no time. I am pretty sure Israhell will benefit from the ever receding Anglo-american middle-east domination. Once neocons find themselves in hot water after touching Iran, Israhell will happily offer them a escape route in exchange of control over middle east oil. It is interesting to note that Iran is not what it portrays itself to be. After thorough study of Iranian history and current geopolitics, I come to the conclusion that Iran is actually a closet friend of zionist Israhell.
There is a city in Iran called Isfahan which happens to house 124,000 Jews and one of their atomic research assets. There is a mysterious well in that city which local Iranians believe their Imam Mahdi to emerge from during the time of extreme geo-political crisis in middle east. Now their is a prophecy in Islamic literature regarding end time events that says “The so called last prophet of the Jews (Dajjal/antichrist) will emerge from Isfahan (Iran) and he will be followed by 70,000 Jews wearing Persian Shawls”. Looks like the Imam Mahdi character the Iranians are eagerly waiting for and the last prophet the Jews are so hell bound to bring in holy land could essentially be the same person. Israhell and Iran both are bad news for Sunni arabs and the rest of the world. Both of them are working synchronously to bring about a NWO type messianic figure in world politics. WW3 is just a side show to fool the masses.
It would be quite interesting to see what role Russia and/or China will play during this upheaval. Are they willing to bend over in front of pesky Israhell? Time will tell.
I find the “Saker” website to be a respectable alternative news media and would happily welcome any elaboration or criticism from its audiences regarding this topic.
Russia has been fighting the information war, not by trying to match the US flood of words by an equal volume, but rather by changing entire paradigms, often simply from its behavior and the image this presents to the world and to Russians.
The Obama administration, as Zakharova has so elegantly stated, has done more harm to the US through its missteps than any enemy could have.
And now as the world’s paradigms shift to account for a strong and helpful Russia, and the information war tilts – paradigmatically – in Russia’s favor, its leadership demonstrates a wonderful deftness in its coordinated official actions and social platforms.
As if it could have won that information war simply in words, if it had chosen to.
But paradigm shift was its playing field. We’re seeing geopolitical shifts of great proportions at the same time as we’re seeing changes in paradigm throughout the political and military domains of the globe. And each fuels the other.
Vlad and his team really know jujitsu.
It is judo actually. His jiu jitsu skills are yet to be confirmed.
..jiu jitsu or judo….they sure got him by balls…
In science and philosophy, a paradigm /ˈpærədaɪm/ is a distinct set of concepts or thought patterns, including theories, research methods, postulates, and standards for what constitutes legitimate contributions to a field.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigm
The current Russia is, what we in the west, were brought up to believe we were.
We now live in Orwell’s 1984.
The old cold war bogie man of population surveillance in the soviet union has nothing on the sophistication of the “rules based order” population surveillance of the US “west”
VVP = 1 classy leader…may God bless you!
Nothing drives your enemies crazier than your forgiving them!
Putin is Marcus Aurelius and Solzhenitsyn rolled into one.
New Year wises to Saker and his family!
May he has less to write about in 2017!!
Putin as leader of arguably the world’s most Christian nation
has taken direction from St Paul’s letter to the Romans:
“If your enemy is hungry offer him food,
If your enemy is thirsty offer him drink,
For in so doing you heap burning coals on his head.”
In other words by pointing out the immature petulance and malice of your enemy’s actions,
you hold a mirror to them with your maturity, grace and unflappability.
And reduce them to shame – if they have any conscience,
Or impotent humiliated rage if they are pure psychopaths.
However enraged psychopaths are still dangerous though.
Pray that we all get through this.
World peace may be on the horizon.
A brilliant move to not do what the opposition expect.
Our media was full of headlines ‘Obama trumped Putin’… ‘Putin set for Revenge’ etc etc
So I wonder what they will say now that Putin is not expelling US diplomats but throwing a party for their children.
Obama’s hissy fit has people ROFL. (rolling on floor laughing)
I’ve seen a lot as a student of world history during my 6 decades of existence. I believe this exchange stands alone in the annals of diplomatic own-goals. As Grieved notes, the paradigm is changing, and none to soon. However, for the Neoliberalcon Era to be properly closed, its criminal leaders must be brought to justice just as their Nazi brethren were and thus enable a new era where International Law reigns supreme and people and nations treat each other with respect and kindness in order to master the grave challenges facing humanity.
Putin does this stuff in politics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YzkOTsB7-M
Beyond The Physical Vladimir Vasiliev
more at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEZAVujeLN0
Russian Martial Art Beyond the Physical by Mikhail Ryabko 2001.
Now, some nice pics of the banished Russian diplomats and their families celebrating New Year with their US counterparts in Russia…..
Or will Barry the Grinch recall them before Putin rubs salt in the self-inflicted wound?
One really can’t help laughing about the psychotic zionazi freakshow flailing about:
Trump Publicly Commends Putin for ‘Great Move’ on US Sanctions
https://sputniknews.com/us/201612301049152737-trump-calls-putins-decision-great-move/
I suspect the zionazi handlers of obama have deliberately ordered him to do all these recent childish thing in order that they can use this soulless quisling as an example to prevent a real leftist gaining office in pindoland. If one will notice, this adolescent OTT vindictiveness is not helping obama’s personal image, it makes him look like a teenager among adults. While neocon sewage is based upon out adolescenting everybody else, the hardcore zionazis and other oligarchic fascists didn’t get where they are by acting out as children. The bigotry among zionazis, and their rightwing fascist associates is well known. I think their quisling obama servent has been tasked to voice objectionable rubbish guaranteed to preclude further black involvement in the pindo colony beyond the most subservient to zionazi power. Besides making sure their colony stays right.
Few probably know this here, but the strongest resistance to zionazism in the usa is among the black community, as is the understanding that 9/11 was a false flag. This was also true of resistance to the Vietnam war.
IMHO, one of the wisest persons you’ll ever meet is an older black woman. They have the answer to such head scratchers as: Is the glass half empty or half full? She’ll simply say, “Depends on whether you’re drinking or pouring.” Take that, Mr. PhD!
To whit: yes, the black community is well aware of who has been screwing them for decades. Just talk to an older black woman (but not Donna Brazile, Mooshelle or Oprah). She’ll probably also be able to tell you who really pulled off 9/11.
Oh, and Happy New Year to Mr. Putin and the Russian people. Think: peace — not tanks.
I just laugh. Putin is truly an honorable man. If I can say to him best wishes for the New Year, I would. But for now I wish to say to the Saker, those who comment on this site, the people of Russia, best wishes for you and your families in this coming 2017.
These kind of things are carefully watched in Asia and Muslim world and Putin is gaining day after day more political capital and respect. That is surely not a small issue.
Believed and trusted, after all, that Obama is an inteligent man, but he is a narrow-minded bigot and not only he, but most around him. In a democracy, which the US claimed to be, the people ought to boil of anger, but no they are exceptionally self-satisfied to realize that this is as much a national shame, if it suppressed and hidden. I feel an extra frustation because he received the Nobel peace prize.
Would be curious what the committee has to say. Would be Obama would donate the prize to Libia- Siria-, Yemens bombed-out people.
Even if he is a puppet to the necon elite would he be able to said to his masters: no, let me finish these three weeks with a little dignity. Unworthy behavior for a inteligent man, typical behavior for a vindictive narrow-minded individual.
Happy New Year to all!
Just as I was thinking that VVP was cornered into retaliating to show strength, he shows even more strength by not responding in kind.
The difference between a petulant child and an adult. Classy!
Saker, I really believe you shouldn’t announce any more holidays of your blog, because the events won’t let you have them. After the murder of the ambassador in Ankara, the crash of the Tu-154 and these newer sanctions, I just read that the Russian ambassador in Israel was poisoned in a restaurant.
Won’t the madness ever stop? Maybe after January 20?
We can only hope.
A masterpiece!
The rabbit hole named Barack Hussein ‘Barry Soetoro’ Obama goes deep.
The guy is gay, is married to Micheal, a Tranny and their two girls are not theirs, but are ‘leased’.
The guy has no valid birth certificate, could have been born in Hawaii, Kenya or Indonesia and no one has ever seen him at the universities he allegedly attended. His probable mother, Anne Durham, is from a blood line with tight CIA connections.
For whatever reason, Obama’s development stopped around the age 10, 12, while his narcissism, shamelessness and arrogance shot through the roof.
From the safe zone of his sand box, toddler Obama was encouraged to throw sand in the eyes of the whole humanity to the amusement of his imbecile Zionist handlers.
Three weeks more and the farce of the century is finally over. Good riddance!
“For whatever reason, Obama’s development stopped around the age 10, 12”
Possibly because of the use of Cannabis. The most disturbing aspect in Cannabis is that it stops your mental and spiritual development. Many Cannabis users are teenagers still at the age of 50-60. But they doesn´t realize it, instead they live in an illusion that they are spiritually more developed than others because of the effects of Cannabis. It would be really unwise to legalize that shit worldwide. Even currently I feel that the western hemisphere is ruled by the teenager minds.
I’ve read somewhere that this drug also block completely the brainwash system.
Making that specific brain less susceptible to ideas planted in our society.
There are the good, the bad and probably the ugly somewhere.
Cannabis not for children except for serious medical purposes. Yes indeed it does seem very much to prevent proper adolescent brain development. I am confidant that it interferes with boys reading developments. adolescent male brain reorganization very complex and radical process – nothing to dope but something to shape naturally by culture and family. In adults cannabis seem harmless.Also powerful medicine for many troubles, pain, etc.
@ _smr: you better not call Obama’s presidency the farce of the century, the century is still young and I bet that the orange rug is going to beat him by far in the exceptionalist discipline of being farcical.
I bet that both Russia and Obama know that the orange rug is Bibi’s boy, bought with Shelley Adelson’s money. It is just politically inopportune to blame the real culprits in the election hack.
Of course, it can be considered a sign of weakness and helplessness to put the blame on scapegoat Russia, but with half of congress and senate, the whole of FBI, part of the CIA bought, blackmailed and subverted by a certain mid east country, who also leads the media on a leash, it would not only have been ineffective, but counter-productive to out the orange rug as a “foreign agent”, whereas painting him as Putin’s poodle and president of Russian hacker’s grace achieves the goal of revealing Trump as controlled by a foreign power. The Russians (officially and publicly) laugh at Obama’s move because they do surely know what’s going on here, so they kind of play along.
Are the alphabet soup agencies going after Wikileaks and their Ass_angel poster boy? No! Why? In a functional judicial system one would go after them to find the forces behind, so why aren’t their any arrest and search warrants?
Is it necessary to hack the DNC when unit 8200 gets NSA raw data since Dubya’s times (another farcical presidential imbecile)? Again no! (on an off topical side note: did Clinton set up her own mail server in an attempt to avoid her mails being a sought after reading in some eastern Mediterranean country?)
Even Obama’s security teams surely knows that Russia has no need to hack anything when it’s a lot easier and sort of an old tradition to go shopping for data in Tel Aviv.
And why do you think that the US has abstained from the UN vote on illegal settlements instead of staying with tradition and vetoing? Because of being all of a sudden pissed with it after all these years of laisser faire?
The move against the RF Diplomats is for the show, the UN vote is the real pay back!
” you better not call Obama’s presidency the farce of the century, the century is still young and I bet that …”
Point taken, Peregrine. I always loved using superlatives, but as you they, that is a tricky business. Said superlatives, like exited dogs, might abruptly change course midway, chase after your and bite you in the ass…
Happy New Year to all Sakers !
“For whatever reason, Obama’s development stopped around the age 10, 12, while his narcissism, shamelessness and arrogance shot through the roof.”
I think that actually makes him the ideal Western “leader”; so-called Western “leaders” are simply a bunch of lousy figureheads and lackeys, after all. On this basis, the MSM slur “dictator” forever leveled at Putin and Assad actually has some — unintended — merit. I mean, being strong, intelligent, courageous, and vigorous could rightly be seen as wielding “dictatorial” power over assorted degenerates from societies gone totally rotten. It’s comical, in fact.
A short question: what is a Harvard university diploma worth it when you behave that way? answer: not even the paper it is issued on.
Ok, but do they really think that the whole world is blind and deaf? let’s cite just one example, when the U.S. was involved and actively wanted to influence the Russian presidential election.
“However, the real crime that landed Khodorkovsky behind Russian bars was the fact that he was in the middle of making a US-backed coup d’etat to capture the Russian presidency in planned 2004 Russian Duma elections. Khodorkovsky was in the process of using his enormous wealth to buy enough se3ats in the coming Duma elections that he could change Russian laws regarding ownership of oil in the ground and of pipelines transporting same. In addition he planned to directly challenge Putin and become Russian President. As part of the horse trade that won Putin the tacit support of the wealthy so-called Russian Oligarchs, Putin had extracted agreement that they be allowed to hold on to their wealth provided they repatriate a share back into Russia and provided they not interfere in domestic Russian politics with their wealth. Most oligarchs agreed, as did Khodorkovsky at the time. They remain established Russian businessmen. Khodorkovsky did not.”
The article is old but more relevant than ever:
http://www.warandpeace.ru/en/exclusive/view/54178/
A letter to the president of the Russian Federation, Mr. Putin
Even if i understand the reason behind the decision not to expel 35 US diplomats,
i firmly disagree with the invitation to the Kremlin.
President Putin, will You invite the families of the passengers from the Tu-154 flight to the Kremlin? Or the families of the dead civilians from Donbass (or Syria, or Lybia, or Serbia…)?
No, of course not, because their lives matter less, but the American diplomats which are 100% spies and there in Russia to organize a new Maidan are welcomed.
President Putin, are You that delusional to think the Americans (and other Westerners) will respect Russia more and change their behavior?
I think that Americans will conclude that if they mistreat Russia and its peoples, then they will be invited to the Kremlin. President Putin, You are encouraging and rewarding the current American behavior and thus Russia will continue to be a recipient of EXACTLY such American behavior.
Frau Merkel was right. President Putin, You are the new Hitler: the suffering and pain of the Russian people are not of Your concern. You prioritize the accommodation of Westerners.
President Putin, You are no good for Russia and it’s people. Please change your ways or let someone else lead.
Thank you.
I am rather shocked your comment was even allowed. You are the delusional one and a troll. To call President VVP hitler says everything about you…..why don’t you just go away — you are no friend of this site, Russia or its people.
some need attention and we ( no blame to you ) provide it. Think of his post as a fart in an elevator – make a face, hold your nose, and get off on your floor. Dialogue is useless: if he’s not embarrassed by his own faux pas, he won’t be embarrassed by your words.
“President Putin, You are no good for Russia and its people. Please change your ways or let someone else lead.”
The full application of the Western Golden Rule in its magnificent glory on display again: ‘To hell with Russian public opinion’. Reminds me of our ‘Anonymouse’ contributor hooked up on his precious weblink allegedly proving Russia’s ‘atrocious’ development under Putin.
Really, how do all these Anonymice ‘know’ that people outside Russia suffering from/struggling against Zionazi violence, oppression, and lawlessness have a problem with Putin? Rather than Putin showing callousness, I’d say it’s the aforementioned Anonymice who do. Have they asked the Syrians, or even contemplated doing so, perchance?
Sure, I would highly appreciate if victims of imperialist aggression were invited to the Kremlin. But if this came true (maybe it will), then the forever complaining Anonymice here would instantly switch their litany to some equally arrogant, disrespectful, and self-righteous pronunciamentos of no value whatsoever. Like the neocons, these ‘progressives’ are no good for Russia and her people, neither for Humanity at large.
21 days he still has the nuke keys.
He is not sane.
Addressing US military this past month he encouraged his audience to disobey Trump.
Despite the absurdity of his Russian hacking canard he still persists as if between now and 20th January he has another shoe set to drop.
He has torn Jerusalem in half on a line running north to south.
He thinks he is al-buraq.
He ain’t sane.
The man of lies is revealed.
There’s more…where are the carriers? A thesis arises, based on long-observed deduction as to real policy. Is there any indication they intend to leave? Why did they want the diplomatic gang back? That’s the obvious reason for the expulsions…
I am impressed and touched by Putin’s graciousness in the true spirit of Christmas!
Seems that the hacking hysteria is out of order, and it is just in an early phase.
The desperation is total over there.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-hackers-penetrated-us-electricity-grid-through-a-utility-in-vermont/2016/12/30/8fc90cc4-ceec-11e6-b8a2-8c2a61b0436f_story.html?utm_term=.1bff81d45757
Please take a look also at the comments , that is a mirror of their readers, and proof that the people are degraded beyond all sanity in their washed brain.
Well the irony is it has been defined as Ukranian malware…..now who controls Ukraine….:
https://www.rt.com/usa/372347-russian-hackers-power-grid/
This is an obvious false flag event. The Vermont electric utility did not even know of the malware until WaPo published the story, and then the malware was only found on one laptop not connected to the network. (http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/30/washington-post-publishes-false-news-story-about-russians-hacking-electrical-grid/). The only people who could have known that the malware was there were the people who planted it. And they obviously have ties to the ‘US officials’ who planted the story.
What is the purpose of such a false flag event? To justify cyber, or other, attacks on Russia?
What’s even funnier still, the American Left that used to laugh hysterically about the “Red Scare” has now gone all in.
“The Russians are coming! The Russians are Coming!”
Remember four years ago, when Mitt Romney chided Obama for not taking Russia seriously as a geopolitical rival, and Obama mocked him “the 1980’s called, they want their foreign policy back”?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS2a44F5TgM
This response is so stylish. Very Nice.
Best wishes for the new year to everyone.
There was the episode in which the Washington Post ran that breathless story about Russians aiding the spread of “fake news.”
That irresponsible story turned out to have been largely based on one highly dubious source called “PropOrNot” that identified 200 different American alternative media organizations as “useful idiots” of the Russian state.
The Post eventually distanced itself from the story, saying it “does not itself vouch for the validity of PropOrNot’s findings.”
This was a very strange thing to say in a statement that isn’t an outright retraction.
The idea that it’s OK to publish an allegation when you yourself are not confident in what your source is saying is a major departure from what was previously thought to be the norm in a paper like the Post.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/something-about-this-russia-story-stinks-w458439
It is another diabolical Putin plot. He is disrespecting the U.S. measures against Russia by not responding. Are there any depths to which the Russians will not sink??
Unfortunately for Obama and his cabal, the younger generation is much better at evaluating his preposterous claims about Russian hacking.
One example:
“The IP addresses that DHS provided may have been used for an attack by a state actor like Russia. But they don’t appear to provide any association with Russia. They are probably used by a wide range of other malicious actors, especially the 15% of IP addresses that are Tor exit nodes.
The malware sample is old, widely used and appears to be Ukrainian. It has no apparent relationship with Russian intelligence and it would be an indicator of compromise for any website.”
https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2016/12/russia-malware-ip-hack/
Then there is some hope. The internet and a lack of cleverness has done in Washington’s propaganda. More competent people would have seen Putin’s response coming.
sad that the fate of the so=called indispensable nation, the strongest? nation in the world is lead by sub-human dwarfs ergo imbeciles asinine senile idiots in one word devilish scum.
I think moderator might cut this
Once again, President Putin stands in dignity and wisdom high above the political weasels of the West. Obama may be showered with trappings of power and “awards”, such as “Nobel Peace” recipient etc., but throughout his disasterous tenure, he has shown himself to be a little man, vindictive, stupid, guilty of the killing and murder of hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world. God will be the final judge.
I hope and pray that President-elect Trump will be able and willing to work with President Putin and bring some sense of sanity to this world.
Peace to all!
This battle is no where to be finished. The hate against Trump and Putin and apparent racism towards russians is going to keep on for another month or so, at least.
Will CIA and Democrats sway Trump? Perhaps, the red-baiting and disgusting attacks on Trump’s effort to make peace with Russia, may work. Dont expect the crazy deep-state psycopaths to stop anytime soon.
I cant enjoy New years eve with such a hateful propagandashow going on in the western media right now, its like they need blood letting, they are rabid.
Anyway Good new years eve everyone, for whatever its worth in these horrible days..
P.S. I share a link on the new red scare, read and share!
“The New Red Scare
Reviving the art of threat inflation”
By Andrew Cockburn
http://harpers.org/archive/2016/12/the-new-red-scare/
Very smart move, indeed, for Putin not to engage the idiot in chief.
The most amazing aspect of Donald Trump’s ascent is that he has forced so much of the “Deep State” to un-mask itself. From elected officials, to party leaders, to the propagandists disguised as journalists, all have been revealed for the lying manipulators that they are.
Not only that, but they aren’t even particularly good at it or clever. One particularly insightful American blogger has called this latest outburst of stupidity by Obama a gift – the gift of transparent manipulation.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/12/29/muh-russians-president-obama-gives-rebel-alliance-best-gift-for-new-year/
The obviousness of the lie about Russian “vote hacking”, the laughably bad “intelligence” report “proving” it, and the clearly provocative “retaliation” by Obama all serve to diminish the already tattered reputation of the Obama and the “Establishment” (or Deep State).
One particularly amusing aspect of the propaganda is blatant projection, of accusing one’s enemies of your own sins. The American Left is apoplectic about Donald Trump’s “vacuousness” and “stupidity” – but that more accurately describes Obama and his acolytes.
As difficult as it is to fathom, Barack Obama is essentially a perpetual 19-year-old campus radical. His bizarre and schizophrenic actions in both domestic and foreign policy are the half-baked notions of a drug-addled college sophomore.
Obama genuinely believes that he has an almost magical power to persuade, with his eloquence and superior intellect. If he believes it in his own mind, and if he says it … then it must be true.
In his own mind, he did everything right the last eight years. The people of America, and the world, should be eternally grateful for what he has done. And if they aren’t, well then, that’s THEIR fault, for being too stupid to recognize his greatness and appreciate the wonderfulness of the glorious world he has created. A world of almost pure fantasy, existing only in his own mind and reinforced by the sycophants who doctor his intelligence reports to show him what he wants to see.
Recall the scene from the movie “Downfall” where Hitler is in his bunker, issuing orders to non-existent armies (it is used as the basis of the “Hitler Rants” parodies). That is Obama – in his bunker, completely detached from reality, commanding non-existent armies against foes that are all too real but for whom he has nothing but contempt.
Despite the propaganda to the contrary, Donald Trump is a serious man of action, not a vacuous fop like Obama. I believe that both America and the world will be much better served by him than it was by his predecessor.
Donald Trump? A serious man of action? Please don’t assume. He appointed ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis as his Defence Secretary, calling him by his nickname when announcing his appointment. Now it takes a mad dog to recognise another mad dog.
I was wondering if anyone had created, for Obama, another of the thousands of ‘dubbed over Downfall’ youtube offerings with Hitler ranting and raving in his bunker and breaking his pencils?
The petulant Dems are still smarting and the BBC is only too happy to oblige them in any way possible, no accusation being too outrageous -Putin has now declared war on a Vermont electrical utility:
“Politicians in Vermont, including the Democrat Governor, Peter Shumlin, are calling for a full investigation into the incident.
“Vermonters and all Americans should be both alarmed and outraged that one of the world’s leading thugs, [Russian President] Vladimir Putin, has been attempting to hack our electric grid, which we rely upon to support our quality-of-life, economy, health, and safety,” he said in a statement.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38479179
That’s not the worst of Russian sabotage: Patriarch Kirill has been spotted on the George Washington Bridge throwing caltrops onto the roadway, and Lavroc has been caught throwing clumping cat litter down the toilets in the Cleveland Museum of Art, clogging them up.
You can’t do satire any more…. people would think it’s real.
Hack the grid with an isolated laptop….
I listened to Putin’s New Year message. I felt like a homeless person staring though a restaurant window at people feasting. The Russians have an actual country over there — we have a broken down carnival side show and a soiled flag, with a drunken, has-been, clown in black face and carnival barker in an orange wig. The dog and pony show ran away from the circus to work in the Walmart parking lot, trying to attract customers to go into the store. The elephant who was in the living room sniffed something, is passed out under the couch, and can’t remember how he got there.
@ Blue
You never let us down when we need some light relief from the drudgery of reading the inanities coming from Washway. I look forward to getting my bellyful of laughter in 2017 thanks to your wit and colourful sniping. Cheers to all Sakerites.
Priceless! Thanks and happy New Year! May it be a saner one.
Yess. Priceless.
Thank you.
Cat: http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/TigerGreeneyeBW.jpg
Unfortunately he is dead now. 350 kg’s Siberian tiger. Thought I would come back for a visit this year., when I heard the news.
Take Care
Kent
@ Gonna frame this – thanks Blue!!
@blue: Laughing so hard…more, please, more and often! Great satire…I bow to a master!
Well blue, at least we are in good company as we stand peering through that window wistfully wishing for a real country for Christmas. And some of us are damn funny! Thank-you for the best first laugh of 2017!
k
LOL, the old “use an out of date Ukrainian malware available openly on the web and claim it’s Putin trying to sabotage vermont’s electricity grid” trick. Been ages since the zio-gays ran that one, pure genius, nobody will figure it out.
Fear not! Uncloggers Anonymous are leaping into action! President Vladimir Putin is sending a nesting set of Cherry Bomb Matrushka Dolls and if that doesn’t do the trick, I understand President Assad now has some spare barrel bombs….
Here is President Putin’s New Year message:
https://www.rt.com/politics/official-word/372389-putin-new-year-address-2017/
“The challenges endured by Russia in 2016 have only strengthened the nation’s unity and aspirations for success, thus showing the way forward, President Vladimir Putin says, in his traditional New Year message televised at several minutes before midnight…..”
Happy New Year to one and all.
Happy New Year Saker of the Vineyard blog. May the coming year treat you all very well.
@ vot tak
Special New Year Greetings to you and gratitude for the incisive, well-reasoned and humorous interventions you delivered during the past year for our benefit and enjoyment. Cheers!
I underscore these sentiments for your comments vot tak. I am glad to be in this little craft rowing against the current with you on board!
k
Happy New Year Shaker, staff and everyone on this blog.
And Thank God, that all you Americans there voted Hillary out by voting Trump in, as you may just have saved us all from a thermonuclear holocaust, by the skin of our teeth.
Whatever else comes, that alone gives me some faith in peoples innate sanity and hope for the future.
Doing anything other would in mind have been a death wish to commit mass homicide and suicide of which (if you’ve paid any attention) Putin has been warning us in the ‘West’ about over and over again.
Whatever Trumps failings, lets just count our blessings that he’s NOT on the same psychopathic path of total destruction that Hillary Clinton has clearly proven by her performance and promised us more the same of.
That’s reason enough for me to celebrate with a sigh of relief 2017 new years coming in for the sake of my family and all humanity.
Ray from Canada.
“At the start of the game all cards are dealt out to the players (some players might get a card more than the rest) and then everyone discards all the pairs they have in their hand.
After this is done, the game continues to the left. The first player draws a card from the player on his left and then the next player draws a card form the player to his left and so on. Everytime a player makes a pair, he discards it.
At the end of the game only one player is left with a single card, the Black Peter. That player is the losing player.”
Obama was that having Black Peter card in his hand.
I think most of decent western politicians and politicians all over the world deep in their minds are seeing that we will never come back to euphoria of August 1991 (“final crucial western victory”). 2016 will goes to history as final turnpoint of course of “Pax Americana”. Future will multilateral, with several global centers with no single power being able to do what ever he wants. That road is close now. As Clint Eastwood in “Magnum Force” said it : “Man got to know his limits”.
The big thing for 2017 will be the relationship between USA and China. Detente with Russian-American relationship will be logical. So between EU and Russia. I don’t see EU having much more chances than facing facts and growing adult.
re: Kissinger ( if you sup with Satan be sure to use a long spoon) and Russian diplomacy from Paulcraig Roberts:
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/12/28/what-is-henry-kissinger-up-to-paul-craig-roberts/
The beautifull move of December 30 in the astrological mirrors:
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.de/2017/01/vladimir-putin-another-work-with-god.html
Obama’s expulsions are steps to war. Putin avoided joining Obama’s ‘dance macarbe’ by refusing escalation. Something similar may have occurred regarding the recent plane tragedy. Obama is not sane.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/12/31/504296/US-Russia-could-go-to-war-before-January-20
A sputnik constellation is required providing full spectrum inputs and outputs.
I see scoffing reactions to the fake news black list but I see sweet f… (edited MOD) all inkling as to the fragility of information flow some of us have become accustomed to. At the flick of a switch we can find ourselves in a dark age. All of multi polarity is thuswise endangered…root & branch.
I’ve been away, thinking, and trying not to… So, thinking about a thesis: These people (you know who) took power in 2000, by means of a coup. Assume this. Ask then, why would they willingly relinquish it now? I can imagine reasons, but these may or may not obtain in either real options or in perceptions of reality – these people are delusional in thrall to greed. They may fear legal process too. Anyway, it may well be that they intend to continue as before, only “better” (that’s sarcasm). As before. War then and….now – can this be? Evidence?
COUP INDICATIONS
“When word of a crisis breaks out in Washington, it’s no accident that
the first question that comes to everyone’s lips is:
‘Where’s the nearest carrier?'”
President Bill Clinton
March 12, 1993
aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt
OK, SO WHAT?
WELL, WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THIS:
· ” During the first week of January 2017, there were no American aircraft carriers deployed at sea anywhere in the world.
· According to Fox News, this the first time since World War II that there has not been a single US carrier deployed anywhere in the world. ”
(see http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/where.htm )
And, just now, we might observe that there’s indisputably a trenchant and drummed effort at creating the perception of a bellicose and threatening enemy, an effort at disputing the election, no indication whatsoever that the incumbent cohort intend to relinquish power.
Implication are… I’ll leave that to you.
It’s a freak show. And on Christmas too (wanna bet?)
What absolute CLASS this man displays at every turn!
Sounds good. TOO good!
But I am the supreme sceptic when it comes to “world leaders”.
Is this guy a member of the Bilderberg Group, the Carlyle Group or the Trilateral Commission?
Russia ratified the CTBT inand has given consistent support to the treaty and the work of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation Preparatory Commission. This preparatory commission’s priority task is to have the treaty come into effect as soon as possible.