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Skip to Comments By Andrea Widburg This is why  62% of Americans  say Putin would never have attacked Ukraine if Trump were still in the White House. Perhaps they remember Trump’s 2019 threat to Erdogan.  In a jovial letter , Trump said work with me for a good deal or I’ll destroy Turkey’s economy. The media sneered, but Erodgan retreated. Biden, however, invited Putin to engage in a “minor incursion.” Putin took that invitation and ran with it. Things really are bad and Americans know it. Biden’s theory, though, is that everything is great. The problem, he says, is that Americans have become delusional thanks to COVID stress. COHEN : Speaking of that, looking back inward at home, you know we're in this rare sliver of time where Democrats have unified control of government in the House, the Senate, and the White House, and yet our agenda has been moving slower than we would have liked. What’s your message to Democrats who say that our elected officials ca

Skip to Comments By Gary Benoit In this episode of “Beyond the Cover,” host Gary Benoit interviews C. Mitchell Shaw about his article “The QAnon Phenomenon” in the February 14, 2022 issue of The New American. Looking at QAnon from the vantage point of time — it has now been over a year since Q’s last post — Shaw points to examples of how Q was terribly wrong and beguiled those who accepted his (their?) posts as credible. But more importantly, Shaw discusses the lessons we should draw from this, particularly the importance of looking at claims with a discerning eye to avoid being beguiled again.   × Are you enjoying Tex's Place? Please consider making a contribution. Even $5 or $10 goes a long way to keeping us online, and advertisement free. You can contribute by CLICKING HERE Original Here Posted by Tex Join the Conversation! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ We have a wonderful, active, and engaged comm

Good evening everyone, Last night in the comments section, our friend 6917SctyGrp, contacted me and requested I share this speech for all of you who may have missed it. He said: @TexArmyVet Please consider posting this speech tomorrow in Reveille. It is a great speech and one we should all hear. At first I misunderstood and thought he was referring to Trump's speech and I included that replay in REVEILLE.  Ooops!  After his subsequent reply I realized he meant Tulsi's speech, and so I posted that one instead. Then I thought, rather than simply including it in REVEILLE, I should instead make it its own individual thread so that more of you will see it, and foster conversation and debate. Thus, here is that video, and feel free to share whatever you think of Tulsi and her speech in the comments section. Have a wonderful evening y'all! Tex Posted by Tex Join the Conversation! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ We have a wonderful, active, and engaged community. Come join us in the commen

Skip to Comments By STACEY LENNOX The polling firm that proudly served Joe Biden in 2020 has some advice for Democrats. Impact Research wrote a memo, which is  circulating on Capitol Hill,  alerting Democrats that no one likes their policies regarding COVID-19. Prepare for the most comprehensive attempt to retcon the last two years we have seen yet as Democrats now understand that their political fate depends on embracing reality. Impact Research  is advocating for Democrats to declare that their leadership has defeated the threat from COVID-19 and claim the win. The title of the memo is “Taking the Win Over COVID-19.” From the memo: After two years that necessitated lockdowns, travel bans, school closures, mask mandates, and nearly a million deaths, nearly every American finally has the tools to protect themselves from this virus. It’s time for Democrats to take credit for ending the COVID crisis phase of the COVID war, point to important victories like vacc

Skip to Comments By Anders Corr China and Russia are de facto allies. When President  Joe Biden   came  to Xi Jinping with American intelligence about an upcoming Russian invasion of  Ukraine , begging Xi to do something about it, Xi must have thought Biden pretty naive. First, Xi almost certainly knew and approved Vladimir Putin’s horrific plan in advance. Putin needed a buyer of last resort for the sanctions he knew were coming, so he had to get guarantees from Xi first. Second, even if Xi didn’t know, he would have approved. The Russian invasion, including war crimes like  attacks  on civilian apartments and power stations in Kyiv, take the spotlight off Beijing’s own human rights abuse and territorial aggression. Third,  Russia ’s invasion is turning it into a pariah state. The sanctions that resulted are forcing it into  China ’s arms, just as with the coups in Burma (Myanmar) in 2021 and Thailand in 2014. China is playing the democracies, and their sancti

Skip to Comments By RICK MORAN Russia is certainly getting very good at making threats. Today, President Vladimir Putin threatened nuclear war or something. He put Russia’s  nuclear forces on “high alert,”  according to media reports. Now, Dmitry Rogozin, the director-general of Russia’s space program, Roscosmos, tweeted out a threat to the International Space Station, saying that U.S. and NATO sanctions could “destroy our cooperation on the ISS.” He also suggested that the ISS could crash in the United States or Europe. There are currently four NASA astronauts, two Russian cosmonauts, and one European astronaut onboard the space station. Business Insider: According to CNN , Biden further stated that the sanctions “will degrade (Russia’s) aerospace industry, including their space program.” In response, Rogozin  said on Twitter : “If you block cooperation with us, who will save the ISS from an uncontrolled deorbit and fall into the United States or Europe?

Skip to Comments By Cristina Laila North Korea on Sunday fired what is believed to be a medium-range ballistic missile eastward toward the sea, according to  Yonhap News Agency . Reuters  reported : South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff reported that North Korea had fired a suspected ballistic missile toward the sea off its east coast from a location near Sunan, where Pyongyang’s international airport is located. The airport has been the site of missile tests, including a pair of short-range ballistic missiles fired on Jan. 16. The missile fired on Sunday flew to a maximum altitude of around 620 km (390 miles) and to a range of about 300 km (190 miles), the Joint Chiefs of Staff said. The United States condemned North Korea’s missile launch and begged Pyongyang to engage in dialogue, in a statement to  Yonhap : “The United States condemns the DPRK’s ballistic missile launch,” the department spokesperson told Yonhap News Agency, referring to North Korea by its