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I just read these 3 parts and I think it's a horrible crime that's been committed. When will these people ever pay for all the lies told and countless lives lost?

Looking forward to part 4. Keep up the good work. I've been following you for 2 years now.

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Could it be that “Public Health is a mere continuation of politics by other means.”

Clausewitz famously said “War is a mere continuation of politics by other means.”

Has the system been successful in making covid-19 an existential threat to justify a wartime total mobilization response?

These three substacks by Pierre Kory documenting “the system’s” effort to keep low cost, effective drugs off the market: he has documented a very successful political effort. This is my take on this issue and the broader issue of systems tactics to preserve the status quo of the USA and the West.

The system has successfully mobilized most of the journals, media, politicians, medical schools, colleges, military, doctors, pharmacists, hospitals, finance, and others, including people who are afraid of their own lives and wanting to be responsible citizens by following the dictates of the system which must include "vaccination." And don't question that the very definition of vaccination had to be changed to fit the experimental drug.

In the middle of a war, one must ensure that tactical losses are put in context of the larger political goal which is the total eradication of Covid-19. One way this is done is to put down protests, hide information, and bring to bear the most formattable mercenary, the one who has been the trusted warrior for the last several hundred years, THE SCIENCE. And because this is an existential war, slight modifications to scientific practice are just fine in the middle of the battle. Don't you remember the refrigeration trucks parked outside hospitals in NYC?

Barbara Tuchman's book "The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam" comes to mind.

Our bodies contain trillions of microbes without which we would instantly die. It is impossible to defeat microbes. So the political goal of defeating microbes was the Big Lie successfully used to mobilize most of the modern world in the existential fight against Covid-19.

If we cannot destroy microbes without destroying ourselves, the same logic says we can’t destroy Russia and China without destroying ourselves.

For me, the insight for the above comment is my seemingly full-time effort to grapple with both Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine at the same time. Below I link a substack that makes the case for Russia’ war in Ukraine. This article is one of many that point out the way that Putin has mobilized support within Russia for the existential war in Ukraine. He was justified to support the oblast, example, Donbas, that have been continually attacked by Ukraine forces since the US sponsored coup in 2014 resulting in over 14,000 deaths, and today the Ukrainians again shelled a giant nuclear power plant that Russia has controlled since March. It is folly to accuse Russia which learned lessons from the Chernobyl disaster would attack a facility that they controlled? And further folly to accuse Russia of bombing gas pipelines which they spent billions to construct and would be a continuing source of revenue? The propaganda against Russia has been the west's approach but this time most of the world is behind Russia. And since the US stated goal is to break up Russia and remove Putin and NATO has been mobilized in Ukraine, the Russian people know that this is an existential threat, and the state has been mobilized for war by the clear and present danger from the US and NATO. Putin has claimed that his goal is a multi-polar world which threatens the US empire. As the folly of empires in the past has shown, they fall apart internally first, and they try many strange attempts to survive. The Ottoman empire lasted for 600 years, half of the time it was in decline. It is unclear how soon the American empire will survive, but the statement by Morris Berman in “Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire” – his statement that in its final stages, an empire takes steps which hasten its decline. That seems to hold for militarism of the USA since WW II.

Here is the article I mentioned.

"Politics By Other Means: Putin and Clausewitz”

Big Serge 19 hr ago" (copied at 9AM EST on 10/5/22 note by Don)

https://bigserge.substack.com/p/politics-by-other-means

My main source about Ukraine war is the site moonofalabama.org.

A couple of days ago, on 10/7/22 the headline article is about the threat of nuclear war and propaganda. The US has the option of first strike use of nuclear weapons, but the Russian policy does not allow for that. There is a US election soon and things are not looking good for NATO/US war in Ukraine. Many governments including US, Ukraine, and Poland are expressing fear that nuclear weapons will be used in Ukraine Well the us is ready as reported in a 2020 article: “Pentagon Deployment of New, “More Usable” Nuclear Weapon Is a Grave Mistake” https://www.justsecurity.org/68481/pentagon-deployment-of-new-more-usable-nuclear-weapon-is-a-grave-mistake/

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