Not Gonna Hold Back!

That's what we're being told about Zhou when he meets with Vlad--he's not gonna hold back. 

Meanwhile he's warming up at something called the G-7, where democratic leaders gather at the bottom of history's slippery slope and bloviate about becoming more "gender neutral" and "feminine":

.@BorisJohnson: G7 nations must build back in a “greener,” “more gender neutral and perhaps a more feminine way” pic.twitter.com/nLbYzGDk7d

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) June 11, 2021

Who thinks Putin--or Xi--would've been impressed had they been present?

Homerun McIntyre!

Twitter at its best. He's a Canadian, but he goes yard with this one. This is the question:

I presume that partisan US late night talk shows never call out this sort of bizarre nonsense from Biden. How on earth did he get permission from his handlers to schedule a meeting with a sentient world leader? https://t.co/8IFANm4XWw

— Stephen McIntyre (@ClimateAudit) June 1, 2021

I can only presume that they're so desperate that they think cheap Russian bashing will somehow boost his credibility.

 

Briefly Noted: Zhou Mano A Mano With Vlad--What Could Go Wrong?

You'll recall that the Hillary retreads in charge of the Zhou regime's "foreign policy" got baked and eaten alive in Alaska by their PRC counterparts. Apparently having learned nothing from that escapade, the regime is now sending Zhou himself to go mano a mano with Vlad Putin in Geneva. Zhou's handlers have told him to say that, after some highly suspicious maneuvering regarding the Nordstream 2 deal, Zhou is ready to get tough on human rights--whatever that really means. As reported by The Guardian:

In a speech marking the Memorial Day holiday, Baiden said: "I’m meeting with President Putin in a couple weeks in Geneva, making it clear we will not stand by and let him abuse those rights."

He also said that the moment was right to show the world, and namely China, that the US was ready to lead again after four years of a largely inward-looking foreign policy under Donald Trump.

"It’s time to remind everybody who we are," he said.

That could be problematic. Following revelations regarding the Nordstream 2 deal and the coverup of US involvement in the Wuhan lab screwup--and ensuing deaths of millions internationally--most of the world may believe they already know exactly "who we are." They are undoubtedly more aware of who Zhou and his bagman Hunter are and have been for many years than are many in the US.

Most certainly Putin and his world class foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov (as opposed to US amateurs), have little doubt regarding the nature of the Zhou regime. Barrons reports via AFP: Putin Ready To Discuss Rights In Russia, US.

President Vladimir Putin is ready to discuss a range of rights issues with his US counterpart Zhou Baiden when they meet next month, including the "persecution" of those behind the US Capitol [protest], Moscow said Monday.

Baiden on Sunday pledged to press the Kremlin chief to uphold human rights when they meet in Geneva in mid-June for their first summit.

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters on Monday that Moscow would not shy away from discussing any issue at the summit and Putin could raise the January 6 protests in support of Baiden's predecessor Donald Trump.

"Of course, we will be ready to discuss everything, including problems that exist in the United States," Lavrov told reporters. He said Russia was monitoring the "persecution" of those behind the January 6 [protest] at the US Capitol.

"A lot of interesting things are happening there," he said, adding that Russia wanted to discuss "protection of opposition rights" in the United States.

Russia has some strong talking points in this regard. Consider that disgraced former AG Bluto Barr and his FBI Director stood by doing little to nothing (beyond denying that Antifa exists) while the Establishment/Deep State proxy thugs roamed the streets perpetrating violent attacks for months before Election 2020. Now peaceful opponents of the coup are being persecuted by the Deep State FBI, with many being held in durance vile while trumped (!) up charges are manufactured--in the face of all evidence to the contrary. The US has an election fairness rating on a par with third world countries such as Mexico, according to international election watchdog groups, yet the Establishment is opposing all efforts to audit suspect elections.

If Putin and Lavrov get any media coverage at all, this could turn into a major PR disaster for the already reeling Zhou regime.

UPDATED: The Zhou Regime Blinks

It was pretty clear from the beginning that the Zhou Baiden regime's decision to use the hapless Ukraine to push Putin around and bend him to the Zhou regime's will was going to end badly. That seems official now. After all the belligerent rhetoric emanating from the Deep State someone--probably Putin--seems to have convinced the regime that they were painting themselves into a corner. Given that all the escalation was a result of mouthing off on the part of the Zhou regime directed at Russia, this is clearly a humiliating climb down. Ray McGovern covers this:

Baiden and Blinken Blink on Ukraine

President Zhou Baiden has now taken a waiver on the "unwavering", full-throated support that he, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg had been giving to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The recurring "unwavering" meme was played right up until late Tuesday after Baiden’s telephone talk with Putin Tuesday.

Zelensky’ earlier profession was comedy. But what serious people saw in his decree three weeks ago (March 24) was a de facto declaration of war on Russia. With that decree, it became the official policy of Ukraine to take Crimea back from Russia. Kiev began to dispatch by rail tons of military equipment headed south and east. And Russia did the same – south and west to Crimea, and to the Donbass where armed clashes have increased between the Ukrainian regime and anti-coup-regime forces (dubbed "pro-Russian separatists" by western media) determined to preserve a degree of autonomy.

With strong rhetorical support from the U.S. and NATO, the Ukrainian regime seemed eager to let slip the dogs of war. Then someone – whether in Washington or Moscow, or both – apparently told Zelensky that "unwavering" rhetoric was not going to protect him from disaster, should he tweak too tightly the nose of the Russian bear. On April 9, Zelensky used his Facebook page to call off the dogs of war and stress the need to establish a new truce in the Donbass. Earlier that day the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces had said that the use of force to "liberate" the Donbass is unacceptable, since Ukraine "puts the lives of its citizens in first place", and civilian as well as military casualties would be massive.

That's rather remarkable, isn't it? The CinC of Ukraine's military made a public statement to the effect of: For God's sake, Zelensky, stop acting like a Neocon puppet because you do not have our support. Talk about being chopped off at the knees! Zelensky is revealed to the world as pretty much a president in name only. Not to put too fine a point on the matter, Ukraine itself is revealed--for anyone with any lingering doubts--to be a US puppet that's being manipulated by an incompetent or mad puppet master. The stuff about NATO? Please. They're simply the DC Deep State's poodle, but you can bet that they, too, were sending some borderline hysterical messaging to DC to back off.

The Global Threat

Yesterday we took a look at the way in which the Zhou Baiden regime is marshalling all the resources at its disposal to wage war against domestic enemies (We Will Crush You). Those resources include government resources--Congressional inquiries, prosecution through DoJ that will focus on conservative dissidents, and a purge of the military to ensure that our armed forces will be a loyal arm of the regime. The resources also include non-governmental entities that are being charged with the all important task of controlling the flow of information and of public discussion. After the fact government measures by means of law enforcement and prosecution working through the courts are too little and too late in the information war--non-governmental social media and tech companies such as Twitter, Facebook, Google, and Amazon can act more efficiently and flexibly without the delay involved with working through the courts. In that regard we quote Caitlin Johnstone regarding the Corporatist model of the regime:

In A Corporatist System Of Government, Corporate Censorship Is State Censorship

In all this we saw the consistent twin focus of the regime and its proxies, a focus that tells us that their immediate concerns are 

1) to safeguard instruments of social control represented by the Covid regime and its vaxxing campaign, and 

2) to safeguard the legitimacy of the regime by suppressing all questioning regarding Election 2020.

 

It's worthwhile to turn to anti-war activist Johnstone's prescient 2018 article for a reminder of how this works and, especially, for the role of the Deep State: