{"id":109710,"date":"2022-03-20T09:32:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T13:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=109710"},"modified":"2022-03-20T09:33:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T13:33:52","slug":"the-ukraine-war-is-so-much-more-serious-than-anyone-knows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=109710","title":{"rendered":"<h2>The Ukraine War is so much more serious than anyone knows<\/h>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Putin: Destined to Hang or Drown?<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/putin-e1533534178464-1.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"815\" height=\"397\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109711\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/putin-e1533534178464-1.webp 815w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/putin-e1533534178464-1-300x146.webp 300w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/putin-e1533534178464-1-768x374.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 815px) 100vw, 815px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Tom Luongo<br \/>\nGold Goats \u2018n Guns <\/p>\n<p>As we end this third week of World War III it\u2019s becoming clear that the West\u2019s end-game strategy is now regime change in Russia. As the money and weapons pour into Ukraine the Ukrainian Flag further morphs into the 21st century\u2019s version of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wag_the_Dog\">\u2018Old Shoe,\u2019<\/a>\u00a0all around the Twittersphere.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy\u2019s even been invited to the Oscar\u2019s for pity\u2019s sake.<\/p>\n<p>If you were ever in doubt about this,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/watch-lindsey-graham-calls-putins-assassination-third-time\">just watch Senator Lindsey Graham (Neocon \u2013 SC) triple-down on assassinating a world leader.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Speaking at a press conference, Graham said \u201cI hope he will be taken out, one way or the other,\u201d\u00a0adding\u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t care how they take him out. I don\u2019t care if we send him to The Hague and try him. I just want him to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIt\u2019s time for him to go,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>Graham further said of Putin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2022\/03\/17\/video-biden-calls-putin-war-criminal-kremlin-responds\/\">echoing Joe Biden\u2019s blurted remarks<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cHe\u2019s a war criminal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u00a0<strong>wish somebody had taken Hitler out in the \u201930s.<\/strong>\u00a0So yes, Vladimir Putin is not a legitimate leader. He is a war criminal.\u201d Graham declared.<\/p>\n<p>Graham further proclaimed that\u00a0<strong>Russia is \u201cgoing to have zero future\u201d\u00a0under Putin<\/strong>, adding\u00a0\u201cI think the<strong>\u00a0world is better off without Putin<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 the sooner the better, and I don\u2019t care how we do it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is called\u00a0<em><strong>Saying the Quiet Parts Out Loud<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2022\/03\/17\/dumbshit-russians\/\">Even Paul Craig Roberts is trying to figure out why Putin<\/a>\u00a0isn\u2019t treating his enemies more ruthlessly. We awake Americans have a real sense of the depravity that our leaders carry and at times I think we get carried away with our own insights here.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>As I said would happen, Russia\u2019s go-slow war has played 100% into their enemies\u2019 hands. Russia needed a quick victory to forestall a devastating psyops campaign against her and to intimidate further NATO expansion. What the Kremlin achieved by \u00a0believing that the West would respect \u00a0humanitarian intentions is infamy.\u00a0\u00a0Instead of discouraging provocations of Russia that will eventually lead to nuclear war, the Kremlin\u2019s liberal goody-goodly war policy, which the West sees as \u00a0irresolution, has encouraged more provocations<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dr. Roberts\u2019 thesis is one I\u2019ve heard from multiple people, including from my friend Dexter White on two recent podcasts we did (<a href=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2022\/03\/12\/podcast-episode-99-dexter-white-putin-mumu\/\">here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2022\/03\/03\/podcast-episode-98-dexter-white-fog-truth-ukraine\/\">here<\/a>). Putin\u2019s slow rolling the Ukraine operation has further emboldened Neocon crazies whose whole being is focused on interpreting every action by their enemies as a weakness to exploit.<\/p>\n<p>This analysis further solidifies my conclusion that they are left-brain possessed, betraying all the attributes of someone psychologically unbalanced to the point of madness. They become paranoid psychotics seeing everything in terms of their enemy.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the most popular refrain of desperate globalists, \u201cPutin did it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s true or not. What matters is keeping people in that suggestible state. It\u2019s easy to do since they, themselves, are there too.<\/p>\n<p>Lindsey Graham likes to play tough guy. So does Biden. Neither of these men have ever been in a real fight with their bodies on the line in their life. They\u2019ve never really been in a life-threatening situation. For them their fear is far worse, it\u2019s reputational which means fear of exposure.<\/p>\n<p>They hide behind cameras, their positions, and their egos.<\/p>\n<p>They live in fear of being shamed.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to dismiss Graham as a buffoon, because he is. But he\u2019s also a very important cog in the machine. So, when he speaks it\u2019s important. Don\u2019t be flip about these statements, they absolutely mean something.<\/p>\n<p>If you look around D.C. you see the same psychological projection of inner rot every time one of these war mongers gets in front of a camera to manufacture consent. They are also fearful of the shame of exposure which drives them to madness like Lindsey displays now on a nearly daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>This push for regime change in Russia, however, begs a very important question: \u201cWhy have they gone this far? Why do they think they can get regime change when Putin has 70+% support?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Is it because they really are scared of the emerging facts on the ground, that Russia is grinding out, inevitably and inexorably, a victory in Ukraine on Russian terms that isn\u2019t a reflection of bad military strategy and\/or poor intelligence and logistics?<\/p>\n<p>Or is it something deeper.<\/p>\n<h3>Something Darker<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2022\/03\/15\/podcast-episode-100-alistair-crooke-russia-war-independence\/\">Alistair Crooke and I talked about<\/a>\u00a0this in our latest podcast. Russia\u2019s collective psyche is a reflection of Putin\u2019s. You\u2019ll see that their anger and frustration is now real and complete. The West hates Russia and Russians with a burning passion that is irrational.<\/p>\n<p>The fear of loss of potency has made war-mongers out of way too many folks because they refuse to blame themselves for this mess:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That they allowed Biden to take the White House<\/li>\n<li>That they believed all the crude propaganda about Trump and Putin<\/li>\n<li>That they still wear their masks, now with Ukrainian Flags on them, to show their wisdom over those who are now clearly traitors.<\/li>\n<li>That their paychecks are getting smaller by the day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/552095-americans-nuclear-war-ukraine\/\">When you see a push poll by Pew that states more than one-third of Americans\u00a0<\/a>are willing to risk nuclear war to stop Putin in Ukraine, you know something has gone way off the rails, and it ain\u2019t the Russians.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not fear that makes the Russian people and Putin angry, it\u2019s disappointment at having their hand of friendship consistently slapped away so thoroughly in the post-Soviet era.<\/p>\n<p>What goodwill that existed in the West towards Russia in the 1990\u2019s, seeing them as victims of a terrible evil to be pitied, has morphed into disgust for following a man into war for threatening their comfortable existence behind their iPhones.<\/p>\n<p>When Putin speaks now he is visibly, viscerally angry. He\u2019s been systematically, for years, cutting Russia off from the influences of the ill-liberalism of the West.<\/p>\n<p>Putin knows he\u2019s been pushed into this by people who are powerful but psychologically small. And the Russian people have been deeply disrespected to the point of war. That\u2019s why his poll numbers rise while Bidens\u2019 barely budge.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14012 jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomluongo.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-1.png?resize=424%2C421&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomluongo.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-1.png?w=780&amp;ssl=1 780w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomluongo.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-1.png?resize=300%2C298&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomluongo.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-1.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomluongo.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-1.png?resize=768%2C763&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomluongo.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-1.png?resize=88%2C88&amp;ssl=1 88w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomluongo.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-1.png?resize=81%2C80&amp;ssl=1 81w\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"421\" data-attachment-id=\"14012\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2022\/03\/18\/putin-destined-to-hang-or-drown\/image-1-28\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomluongo.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-1.png?fit=780%2C775&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"780,775\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomluongo.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-1.png?fit=300%2C298&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomluongo.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-1.png?fit=616%2C612&amp;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>That all leads to regime change as the end-game because it may be the only option, which implies continued escalation to the point of something unthinkable.<\/p>\n<p>And it makes perfect sense that\u2019s what they are planning, not just regime change, but a wider war (see the buildup of NATO troops) to grind Russia into a paste and atomize it, Russian culture and the Russian people.<\/p>\n<p>That said, Davos has very little human intelligence on the ground to actually make that happen. All the sanctions and expelling diplomats helped Russia\u2019s and Putin\u2019s security.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Embassy in Moscow has less than 50 people in it.<\/p>\n<p>While that is a sad state of affairs and means there is little to no hope of diplomacy, it also means there isn\u2019t any infrastructure to do what Lindsey is so desperately saying\u2026 Someone take him out, anyone!<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a sign of creating the new narrative while simultaneously betraying helplessness, in my view.<\/p>\n<p>Now, unfortunately that leads me into an ever darker place. They don\u2019t just want regime change and some kind of negotiated settlement for Ukraine. That\u2019s actually way off the table now.<\/p>\n<p>They see the writing on the wall for their financial system which has failed. The only option they see now is making open preparations for WWIII thinking they still have the materiel and the manpower to enforce their Great Reset, which was always leading to war.<\/p>\n<p>Lindsey Graham\u2019s job is to build up the propaganda war to justify NATO\u2019s entrance into Ukraine in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The program now is WWIII, possibly with nukes and the abject humiliation of Russia and its eventual destruction.<\/p>\n<p>And ours.<\/p>\n<p>I begged off \u2018working\u2019 yesterday because of this realization. I was drained to the point of exhaustion and planned on sleeping my depression off. I re-watched\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8mq5Sqc3GQ8\">part I of Oliver Stone\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Putin Interviews\u00a0<\/em>from 2016.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recommend everyone watch these films, they are an enlightenment.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to know your enemy, you should study him. Demonizing him may win you friends at the water cooler, but it will cost you your soul. About 20 minutes in, during their first conversation, Stone brings up the multiple assassination attempts on Putin.<\/p>\n<p>If you watch nothing else, watch this segment\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8mq5Sqc3GQ8?t=1237\">(click here<\/a>) to get a better understanding of Russia and Putin. The punchline is simple:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDo you know what they say among the Russian people? Those who are destined to hang, do not drown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><cite>\u2013 VLADIMIR PUTIN<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Putin is well aware, hyper-aware of his situation. A person in his position who has been fighting this way for more than 20 years, a project he has dedicated the 2nd half of his life to, is not so stupid as to be the willing dupe of\u00a0<em>Davos<\/em>\u00a0nor is he blind to the capabilities or the ruthlessness of his enemies.<\/p>\n<p>This is why I hold to the positions about Putin that I do. He may fail here. War is hell and nothing ever goes according to the plan on the white board.<\/p>\n<p>But, if you are going to be led into war who would your bet on? People like Lindsey Graham could never stand in front of a camera and say what Putin said to Stone. Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because there is no there there. He\u2019s just a shadow projector with a hand puppet up its ass.<\/p>\n<p>But if you turn the camera away from Graham and Biden and look at Putin, he\u2019s speaking to the world now.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/vwdgap-globalists-hide-putins-speech-from-the-world.html\">That\u2019s what his latest speech was about.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t aimed at his enemies.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s done talking to them. They aren\u2019t listening.<\/p>\n<p>That speech was aimed at everyone else including Americans and Europeans, \u201cThis is what they think of you. This is what they are willing to do to demand your obedience,\u201d They will steal your money, take your children, burn your life to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>And it isn\u2019t like he doesn\u2019t have a very sound point, folks.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone was calling for regime change now, it\u2019s Putin.<\/p>\n<p>It may have zero effect or play here in the West. In fact, I predict it will have almost zero effect. But it will resonate around the world in those places now very scared of the conflict that Biden and\u00a0<em>Davos<\/em>\u00a0are forcing on everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Under those circumstances clarity comes quickly. Big decisions happen fast.<\/p>\n<p>I think a global memetic collapse is in process as I type this. We can\u2019t see it here in the West because we aren\u2019t allowed to. But in parliaments and politburos around the that part that\u00a0<em>Davos<\/em>\u00a0just sees as \u2018the help,\u2019 it\u2019s happening. The headlines are coming in almost too fast for anyone to keep up with.<\/p>\n<p>This is what happens when fearful men become cornered.\u00a0<em>Davos\u00a0<\/em>is cornered. The drowning man will do everything to keep from drowning, including drowning his rescuer.<\/p>\n<p>The hanged man has already accepted his fate. He is free.<\/p>\n<p>What happens next is not in his hands, it\u2019s in ours.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2022\/03\/18\/putin-destined-to-hang-or-drown\/\">https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2022\/03\/18\/putin-destined-to-hang-or-drown\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putin: Destined to Hang or Drown?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}