Economy and Defense

In May of this year, General Scott Berrier testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee and what he made clear was honest and straightforward: ‘the threat landscape is exponentially more dangerous than it was in 1984 (…) We are now in a multipolar world with strategic competition at the forefront’ But what is he really saying? As much…

This ridiculous story jumped out at me the moment it became ‘a thing’ in the mainstream media. In my time, I have heard and seen a lot of horseshit. However, the outright audacity of this claim deserves a righteous takedown as well as an examination of the need for people to believe — the lie. To start…

Aside from the drug war being the single largest policy failure in American history. We are once again, watching lawmakers try and breathe life back into a disastrous policy that will probably have no end. To start with, the Washington Jackals in this realm have only two priorities. First, saving the American World Reserve Currency…

The War Against Helvetica is Ongoing When we enter into the world of Swiss banking and American accusations of tax evasion. We are entering into a world of pure myth. We are entering into a world of whistleblowers and witnesses that do not exist. We are entering into a world of improperly scripted statements from…

Subtext: One Long Creeping Coup.. From the American Government’s censorship of the internet to the hammering of freedom of speech. Many are starting to get the idea that Congress is nothing more than window dressing and the American Supreme Court is paid just to stir up trouble. In fact, many must be getting the feeling…

The Balance of Power has Shifted Dramatically As defined by Freud, there are two states of any society. The first is Eros, the instinct for life, the quest to love, nurture, protect, and preserve. Much like present-day Norway. The second is Thanatos, which is driven by fear, hatred, and violence. It seeks the dissolution of all living…

The Start of an Era of Great Power Conflict Watching the Department of Defense’s budget hearing can test any journalist’s blood sugar. However, this year it felt a lot different, It felt like I was watching a metaphoric 90-year-old patient that had been put on life support and congress was infantilizing how they could keep…

Switzerland is a small country that has a state-of-the-art military — in the center of Europe. It is also relatively homogeneous and egalitarian and a prime target for Washington. When looking objectively at American pressure on Switzerland, it will be never-ending. What needs to be clearly understood, Is America’s attack on Swiss banking is a…

Subtext: The Counterinsurgency Collapse American Counterinsurgency in a Nutshell The father of modern intelligence work is Colonel Frank Kitson. He wrote two books: Low-Intensity Operations and Gangs and Counter-Gangs. These books are the bibles for counterinsurgency. To start with, we need to begin with a very brief history of American intelligence operations. In this way,…

Sometimes I just need to go on an epic RANT. So here it is… …Russia is bad and the West is good. And any shill that strays from this message will be fired on the spot and will never be seen again in polite journalistic society. They will be cast out of the studios to…

Many Americans, perceive Russia as fighting the very forces that make the average person’s life unbearable and a living hell in the United States. And much like the relief of the average Roman when the Visigoths came over the seventh hill to sack Rome in the summer of 410. Many Americans see Russia as fighting to bring…

This is the most recent Chinese Foreign Ministry’s roasting of the United States. In many ways, it’s fun to read; always keep in mind China is not talking about the American people so much as they are talking about the corrupt dumbshits in Washington. Always remember the Jackels in the District of Columbia don’t care…

The proxy War between the United States and Russia is quickly becoming one of the highest-intensity conflicts in history— where the two belligerents, armed to the TEETH with hydrogen-tipped weapons are locked in an existential conflict for dominance on the central Asian land mass. (Both) fighting a proxy war (right below) the nuclear threshold. In January,…

Subtext: You Better Believe It The Quest to Save Sebastopol Let’s be honest, for a country, Ukraine is an unnatural and artificial construct. Huntington would have defined Ukraine as a fault-line civilization– much like the Balkans. Given this fact, this region is tailor-made for a conflict. Over the millennia, empires have washed up like the…

The Acrimonious Acronyms Wallop the American Elections The Collapse of American Journalism Typically when stories of any significance are broken by American journalist; they start in the New York Times and Washington Post. From this starting point these pieces are commentated by cable news. And as these (things) cycle through cable news, they are then…

New Russian Tactics in Combined-Arms Warfare In Russia, the ‘Uralvagonzavod‘ armored production facility― is the largest in the world. This Russian factory produces more armored vehicles than all other tank factories combined. It is currently running around the clock and is producing over 900 armored vehicles a year. Additionally, Uralvagonzavod produces (approximately) 35–40 T-90s a month. And as…

Just when you think NATO humiliation has reached a crescendo. The Leopard tank barn burning has taken NATO to new heights in propaganda and deception. In many ways, we have all been asked to swallow endless amounts of anti-Russian propaganda from the dumbshits in Washington. The real problem regarding anti-Russian propaganda is that real-world defense…

The Nuclear Option? There is No Such Option By: Christopher Maffei Recently, Peter Zaihan was a guest on the Joe Rogan show. And as a typical Russophobic apostle, he started off by speaking about the Russian president in a mocking effeminate tone. Moreover, as a consultant for the Department of Defense, he wasted no time…

Russia Needs to be Careful of the Scope of Their Victory By: Christopher Maffei In a recent interview, EU Commission Chief von der Leyen, estimated that more than 120,000 Ukrainian men had been killed in action during the combined arms battles between both the northern and southern flanks of Kharkiv and Kherson. And adding to the catastrophic…

To start with, we need to thank Matt Taibbi’s journalism. Because of his work, we now know that the distortion of American reality that we have all been feeling to one degree or another has been born out through the―Twitter Files. And thanks to Matt’s research, we now know that the FBI has been grossly…

The War That is Sadly Ending in a Nuclear Conflict By: Christopher Maffei Being that I live in St. Petersburg for a portion of the year, I had the opportunity to interview a source within the Wagner Group about the conflict in Ukraine. This is the first in a series of interviews that will conclude…

The American Delegation to the G20 Was Sent Walking Empty-Handed By: Christopher Maffei In many ways, the G20 used to be the sanctuary for the typical Whac-a-Mole politicians that were moving up in the American empire. And over time, the G20 could even be a route for American officials to browbeat, berate, blackmail, sanction, and…

By: Christopher Maffei Russia’s brilliant military strategy will go down in the annals of war for years to come. Both as a political and economic defeat for the Western powers. And when looking objectively at the SMO, Russia has accomplished everything that it set out to do and more. At the start of the campaign, the…

By: Christopher Maffei In September, at the United Nations, the “Machiavellian Madman” (Biden) opined his typical platitudes and threats to an indifferent audience. And much like his Philadelphia speech. I could not help but think, that his threats seemed to be veiled in a passive dementia that comes and goes on (Q) — especially depending…

In September 2022, Admiral Charles Richard at the Association’s Air and Space Conference said, “All of us in this room are back in the business of contemplating a direct armed conflict with a nuclear-capable peer…this is no longer theoretical ” he quipped. Admiral Charles Richard is the 11th commander of STRATCOM. Since 1982 Richard has…

By: Christopher Maffei I would like to start by saying, any open intelligence regarding the Kharkiv counteroffensive needs to be taken with a grain of salt. This is due to the distortion of information from the belligerents in question. If true, on 6 September 2022, Ukrainian forces launched a counteroffensive in the Kharkiv region with…

If you live in California and don’t already have your bags packed. Then, believe me, brother, this will have you out the door and on the next plane to the Texas panhandle. And just when you may have thought the bubbly singing —Neoliberal— Nina Jankowicz was the end to supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. We now have the California…

In July of 2021, Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles) wrote a scathing letter to both Merrick Garland and Kristen Clarke to open an immediate federal investigation regarding a group of Los Angeles Sheriff’s calling themselves “The Executioners” Maxine Waters: “I ask that the DOJ take two immediate actions: launch an independent investigation into the existence of…

In May of 2013, Edward Snowden revealed an NSA program that gave clear evidence that 90% of the American people were under surveillance by the US government without justification or warrant. At the time, Jeff Moss, founder of the DEFCON hacker convention, asked NSA’s Keath Alexander, “… does the NSA really keep a file on everyone?,” Alexander…

By: Christopher Maffei Boris Johnson found himself in Ukraine… …Really? But, what the fuck, Boris Johnson would need to receive clearance from his Special Escort Group to even travel to Ukraine. Let’s assume by some miracle of administrative genius he moved Heaven and Earth and got authorization to travel to a bitterly contested combat zone…

“We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy’s side of the front is always propaganda, and what is said on our side of the front is truth and righteousness, the cause of humanity and a crusade for peace.” ―Walter Lippmann “The first casualty when war comes is Truth” ―U.S.…

By: Finian Cunningham The Western media narrative has no competitor. The media foghorns can blare all they want without hardly a dissenting voice tolerated, let alone heard. The apparent mass murder of civilians in Bucha and other locations in Ukraine has enraged Western public opinion against Russia. Russia is facing mounting accusations of genocide and…

By: Christopher Maffei At this moment, the United States is in a technical state of war with Russia. Therefore, the United States controls what you perceive as reality in the media. In Germany, this was called the omnipotent government or the total state. These systems of media control can be traced back to the ideas…

And Moving Western Monetary Policy Into Oblivion By: Christopher Maffei just thinking about a gold-backed Ruble and a new system of settlements other than SWIFT is like falling through a warm cloud and then soft landing into a tropical sea―then floating off into a beautiful sunset. Whereas, the American system of settlements is like “Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey“…

Russian Sanctions― Cutting Off One’s Nose To Spite One’s Face By: Christopher Maffei Gita Gopinath of the IMF― “Sanctions imposed by Western countries against Russia could lead to fragmentation of the global financial system and dilute the US dollar’s dominance” and that ” radical restrictive measures imposed by Western countries; after the launch of Russian…

Managing the Empire of Lies By: Christopher Maffei Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Chris Hedges points out, “the American system is a judicial burlesque– that has the appearance of the rule of law” and “it will exploit until exhaustion or collapse.”  In the simplest of terms, America is not a democracy but a totalitarian dictatorship. The evidence…

The False Narratives’ Of Russian Aircraft Being Shot Down By: Christopher Maffei There is a deep need, as well as psychological desperation within western society for easy victories against the Russian army– this can be shown in art. In this (one of many) fake news clips, we can see a Ka-52 being shot down by…

By: Stephen Lendman Big Lies and mass deception define US/Western reporting on all things Russia and Ukraine. It’s been this way since the run-up to and after Russia’s special military operation began to demilitarize, deNazify and neutralize US-colonized Ukraine and its coup d’etat regime. According to NYT fake news — likely supplied by Pentagon and…

By: Alastair Crooke Today’s zeitgeist is that all politics is but a Manichaean tapestry of the ‘good’ and those who have failed to ‘decolonise’ from their past. The war taking place in Ukraine has been understood on one side — the wider western view — in terms of the secular expression of today’s western culture.…

By: Christopher Maffei Given the fact, the probability of nuclear war is very high at this moment. The information you’re receiving in the western media has been severely distorted to reflect only a positive narrative. This is to calm the civilian populations to instill a positive morale for possible mobilization. The information that I’m communicating…

The American People Are Worth More Dead Than Alive By: Christopher Maffei In reality, what this “Coca-Cola Scholar“, is really saying—if an obliterated fragment from one of the doomed convoys carrying javelin missiles somehow finds its way onto Polish soil (from 20 miles away) NATO will go “Full Force”. Jake Sullivan a man that has…

By: Christopher Maffei The use of gas, nuclear weapons, and the mass bombing of cities such as the carpet bombing of Dresden, and North Vietnam is a concept known as “total war.” and or the concept of “total politics“. This warfare was reintroduced in the Napoleonic period and its doctrinal language sounds like this: Restarting…

By: Christopher Maffei (Mother of God) At this moment in history—The most important idea is to (de)escalate tensions between the United States and Russia. Believe me, when I tell you, President Putin will hear his words– and Senator Graham knows dam well that he will. The President of Russia is not to be treated like…

By: Christopher Maffei —A tribute to Tom Clancy Rockland watched a pair of antitank missiles reach out into the Russian lines. One miss, one kill. More smoke came in from both sides as the NATO troops fell back another five hundred meters. The village they were defending was now in sight. The sergeant had counted…

Please imagine, “The Ghost” lifting off from some unknown airfield from some forsaken place in Ukraine. Let’s start by assuming he has his ground crews and they are ready to service his aircraft and fight. First, he needs to be vectored through the endless noise of ECM jamming. To a location where he is going…

By: Christopher Maffei Russian combined arms, have eliminated Ukraine as both a political and military force. Now? Post Ukraine… As the laptop ” shitlibs ” sit comfortably in front of their laptops in the District of Columbia. They sit watching in horror—as American foreign policy falls into the abyss. Even worse, unbeknownst to them, an…

By: Christopher Maffei The US-(Puppet) “buttercup the clown” Stoltenberg “condemn(ed)” Putin’s recognition of both the DPR and the LPR for self-determination. I am not sure why Stoltenberg is unhappy he should be very happy that’s all the Russians did. Indeed, if the Russians wanted to they could have very easily had their T-90s in front…

As the American population is struggling with the reality of internal collapse. American allies are abandoning their commitments to American foreign policy. In the face of this shocking shift, Russia and Sino power are rushing in to fill the void left in the wake of the American collapse. In fact, The military alliance between Russia…

Looking out over the putrid squalor of a Los Angeles rail yard, tens of thousands of boxes lay strewn over the landscape of rail and dirt. And much like Afghan nationals falling from C-17’s to their death. These sights and sounds are metaphors for the end of the American Empire. An Empire that is no…

NYT: “In March of this year, the intelligence community, in a report drafted by D.H.S., the F.B.I. and the National Counterterrorism Center, under the auspices of the Director of National Intelligence, assessed that domestic violent extremists pose an elevated threat in 2021. And in the F.B.I.’s view, the top domestic violent extremist threat we face…

Hard Times― IT WAS A TOWN OF MACHINERY AND TALL CHIMNEYS, OUT OF WHICH INTERMINABLE SERPENTS OF SMOKE TRAILED THEMSELVES AND WE’RE NEVER UNCOILED. IT HAD A BLACK CANAL AND A RIVER THAT RAN PURPLE WITH ILL-SMELLING DYE, VAST PILES OF BUILDING FULL OF WINDOWS WHERIN THERE WAS A RATTLING AND TREMBLING ALL DAY LONG,…

Divide and Rule Reality That King Philip Would Have Envied On Medium By: Christopher Maffei Looking out onto the landscape of COVID passports and circus conspiracy theories comes the “Delta Variant” —  (ya right). Truth be told, we are living in a divide and conquer reality that King Philip would have envied — an upside-down reality (that is laughable).…

By: Christopher Maffei The American courts are now sacrificing their own enforcers. This fact is not lost on law enforcement as an occupation — as local law enforcement attends to basic traffic stops. State employees are starting to come to the painful realization they’ve been abandoned by their administrators, and have come to the bitter conclusion every…

By: Christopher Maffei In the dust-filled streets of Maimana City, Afghanistan. Marshal Dostum’s supporters hold their Kalashnikovs and RPGs aloft. A fundamental shift in power is on the horizon for Afghan politics. Dostum is a man that has well supplied his supporters with legacy small arms for many years. Looking closely at the light weapons,…

By: Christopher Maffei This is a continuing series on the threat to US National Security posed by the US Courts. Looking out onto the landscape of American Foreign Policy is Yang Jiechi. The Central Commissioner for Foreign Affairs in China. Yang’s daughter, Alice Yang, graduated from Yale and he attended the University of Bath. This…

By: Christopher Maffei Looking at the chaotic images of the smoke-filled streets of American cities, it seems obvious that the system of justice in the United States is beyond reproach. The real questions surrounding how much we spend on our legal system, and what impacts it has on our economy has not yet been born…

By: Christopher Maffei Switzerland is a small country that has a state-of-the-art military and is in the center of Europe. It is also relatively homogeneous and egalitarian. When looking objectively at US pressure on Switzerland, is that it will be never-ending. What needs to be clearly understood, Is America’s attack on Swiss industry helps with…

By: Christopher Maffei This is a fictional overview of these events and is simply meant for entertainment and alternate thinking. As the leaves are falling here in Moscow, I couldn’t help but think about Ed Snowden. Many things about this person do not make sense. To start with, he has not really released any information…

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By: Christopher Maffei The Storming of the Bastille 2.0 is coming. Looking out onto the graffiti-filled streets of the major cities. The smoke has cleared and law enforcement in the United States has been defeated. Both as a political and social force. However, social unrest is far from over. In reality, the forces that set…

A hot humid day, but a gentle, warm breeze is blowing. The smoke and tear gas swirl gently to and fro, hanging in the dense, sweaty air, as shafts of dazzling sunlight scythe through the smokiness at sharp angles. A mass protest is forming. Youths are chattering; people moving aimlessly. It still has not solidified…

This clip is of Montreux & Chillon Castle. This is the region where Charlie Chaplin was smart enough to retired too after many years of work. He has a statue in the Montreux Riviera. The walks there are beautiful and you can ride your bike all the way to Geneva if you want. I play…

By: Julian Rose The following is from a medical forum. The writer, who is a widely respected professional scientist in the US, prefers to stay anonymous, because presenting any narrative different than the official one can cause you a lot of stress in the toxic environment caused by the scam which surrounds COVID-19 these days.…

St. Maurice Switzerland is a beautiful village that has a rich history dating to the Roman period. Saint-Maurice is first mentioned in 200 and has some traces of a Bronze Age. In the Roman era it was a customs post, where an import and export tariff of 2.5% was levied. Maurice was the leader of…

This video is dedicated to my travelling partner. It is a combination of aerial clips over Lago Maggiore right on the Swiss-Italian border. The comune that it includes are: Maccagno con Pino e Veddasca, Angera, Monvalle, and Castelveccana. All those moments will be lost in time – Tears In Rain.

Zug is known as crypto valley. It is a hot spot for blockchain startups. It is well regulated. With one of the most competitive tax structures in the world. Many times you will find me cycling through #Zug on my way to #Brunnen. I really hope crypto currency will be the future. For ease of…

Beautiful night in Singapore .. My photos are free for anyone that wants to use them: Download High Resolution Here

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Walking down the sidewalk and caught this photo.. My photos are free for anyone that wants to use them: Download High Resolution Here

Took this shot overlooking the valley in Arches National Park My photos are free for anyone that wants to use them: Download High Resolution Here

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Took this shot on a high wave day on Maui My photos are free for anyone that wants to use them: Download High Resolution Here

Beautiful Fjords of Norway. Took this shot off the boat My photos are free for anyone that wants to use them: Download High Resolution Here

Nice shot November 2019 My photos are free for anyone that wants to use them: Download High Resolution Here

November photography trip to Bern – Federal Palace of Switzerland My photos are free for anyone that wants to use them: Download High Resolution Here

November photography trip to Bern -Below the Federal Palace of Switzerland My photos are free for anyone that wants to use them: Download High Resolution Here

November photography trip to Bern – Waterfowl on River Aire My photos are free for anyone that wants to use them: Download High Resolution Here

I took this shot after exploring a little after a hike. My photos are free for anyone that wants to use them: Download High Resolution Here

Took this shot on my way up to Bosco Gurin My photos are free for anyone that wants to use them: Download High Resolution Here

I took this shot in Locarno during the spring fest. My photos are free for anyone that wants to use them: Download High Resolution Here

Took this shot over looking Swiss Alps in Italy.. My photos are free for anyone that wants to use them: Download High Resolution Here

I took this photo with the drone right after Christmas My photos are free for anyone that wants to use them: Download High Resolution Here

What is even more beautiful than the ice caves is journey through the mountain to get there. My photos are free for anyone that wants to use them: Download High Resolution Here

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I took this shot in Singapore at the botanical gardens My photos are free for anyone that wants to use them: Download High Resolution Here

I took this shot in downtown Amsterdam. My photos are free for anyone that wants to use them: Download High Resolution Here

Took this shot in Oslo. Beautiful spring day ! My photos are free for anyone that wants to use them: Download High Resolution Here

This small place is right outside of Stockholm. Beautiful place with my traveling partner. My photos are free for anyone that wants to use them: Download High Resolution Here

I too this grayscale shot in Argentina. We drove up from Uruguay My photos are free for anyone that wants to use them: Download High Resolution Here

This palace in Rome once belonged to one of our forefathers. It was designed in 1580 Marcantonio Maffei. I took this photo in Roma when we attended the U2 concert. My photos are free for anyone that wants to use them: Download High Resolution Here

I took this shot in the Hotel. Beautiful deep blue color. My photos are free for anyone that wants to use them: Download High Resolution Here

I took this shot in the Ice Hotel. We did not stay there, it was far to cold My photos are free for anyone that wants to use them: Download High Resolution Here

I took this shot in Ireland with my wonderful traveling partner. It was built from 1142 by Conor O’Brien, Prince of Thomond My photos are free for anyone that wants to use them: Download High Resolution Here

I took this shot with an Iphone during the Fall My photos are free for anyone that wants to use them: Download High Resolution Here

I took this shot when right on Christmas Eve. My photos are free for anyone that wants to use them: Download High Resolution Here

I took this shot at Mauna Kea. Mauna Kea is beautiful location for astronomy, it has one of clearest skies on earth. My photos are free for anyone that wants to use them: Download High Resolution Here

I took this shot in the fall. The bust of Ernst Zahn. My photos are free for anyone that wants to use them: Download High Resolution Here

I took this shot in the fall in Weggis near Lucerne. My photos are free for anyone that wants to use them: Download High Resolution Here