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How the US government is thwarting peace efforts in Ukraine and Israel

From LifeSiteNews
By Frank Wright
Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh warns of political repercussions for the Biden administration’s handling of the international crises in Europe and the Middle East.
To get to the news these days, you have to look beyond the facade of mainstream media. No major outlet in the West has reported the findings of Seymour Hersh, made in aĀ postĀ on Substack on March 21, which claim that the United States government is determined to prevent peace in Ukraine.
Citing an anonymous āAmerican official,ā Hersh wrote āofficials of the Biden administration, working with [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelensky, continue to rebuff any chances of significant progress in peace talks.ā Referring to his earlierĀ report, which documented ongoing talks between the U.S. and Russia, Hersh says his source is ākept abreastā of this dialogue concerning a negotiated settlement to the war in Ukraine. According to the unnamed mole, peace was within reach, and the U.S. moved to prevent it with a threat to turn off the money supply to Ukraine.
We were on the verge of a reasonable negotiation several months ago before Putinās re-election and Zelenskyās military degradation.
The U.S. leaders got wind of the possibility and gave Zelensky the ultimatum ā āNo negotiations or settlement or we wonāt support your government with the $45 billion in non-military funds.ā
This is the amount that Ukraine receives now, aside from military aid, to support its government. Without it, Zelenskyās regime would collapse. This was an ultimatum ā but why did the U.S. issue it? The source explained:
Biden has staked his presidency on meeting the Russian threat to NATO and outsmarting the monster, and he will not change course now, under any circumstances, and the end is inevitable.
Does this end justify the means? The source gave a sobering assessment of the Biden administrationās willingness to risk a war with Russia, to save face at home: āThere is no road to victory for Ukraine, and it will end with Putin as an historical icon in Russia, having recovered a national jewel [Kharkov] from the West.ā
What Russia has gained, it is going to keep, said the source. āThe reality,ā he said, is āthat the lands in disputeā ā four oblasts formerly in Ukraineās control and Crimea ā āfrom north to south and east to west all are Russiaās. So stop talking about it and make a deal.ā
This may be news to many ānews-believersā in the subject nations of the U.S. Empire, but it is well known in government circles. Aside from Hershās report, a grim assessment that āUkraine could fall very quicklyā is reported to have fueled French President Emmanuel Macronās recent outbursts, which saw him threaten to send French troops to fight Russia.
Panic in the EU
Macron isĀ reportedĀ by Politico to have made that remark at a dinner in Paris on Tuesday, March 19. It followedĀ leaksĀ from French intelligence which said Ukraine could not win the war, was running out of men to conscript, and that the French army were āmajorettesā compared to that of the Russians.
Germany and other EU nations were quick toĀ distanceĀ themselves from Macronās rhetoric, fearing the direct entry of NATO troops into Ukraine could lead to a nuclear war.
Even Ukraineās Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba downplayed the suggestion,Ā saying Macronās words were āmisinterpretedā by EU leaders who āpanickedā over his talk of sending troops to Ukraine.
Added to this picture, again largely excluded from the news, is the obvious fact that the sanctions intended to weaken Russia haveĀ backfired. In reality, the one beyond the official narrative, the actions of the Biden administration have been a catastrophic failure.
āThis is the world the Biden administration fostered,ā says Hersh, quoting anĀ EconomistĀ report that shows how Russia has not only weathered the storm of sanctions, but has in the process emerged a champion of a strengthening system, parallel to that controlled by the U.S.
According toĀ The EconomistĀ on March 14:
Russiaās economy has been re-engineered. Oil exports bypass sanctions and are shipped to the global south. Western brands from BMW to H&M have been replaced with Chinese and local substitutes⦠Dissent at home has been strangled.
This last line could apply equally to the situation in the West, whose propaganda apparatus overmatches anything seen in the Soviet Union. Our āhypernormalizationā ā the state of unreality created by state propaganda ā differs in one other important regard. Toward the end, most of the people in the Soviet Union knew their government was lying to them.
Biden, Trump, and the end times
Hersh claims that the predicament created by the Biden administration will likely see its undoing in the next election.
āIts refusal to seek a middle ground in the Ukraine war, along with its inability to check Israelās continued assault in Gaza, will become a political liability in Bidenās campaign against Donald Trump, who warns of unending violence if he loses the presidential election in November.ā
Trumpās own remarks on Israel have caused much concern amongst those convinced of his pledge to āend the forever warsā ā a vow he repeated on the campaign trail inĀ January.
Yet his ambiguity on Israel has seen him criticized by Jewish groups, as PBSĀ reportedĀ on March 22.
Trumpās stance on both Israel and Ukraine ā that neither war would have happened had he been president ā is shaded by moves to appease the over 30 million Christian Zionists who PBS says lie at the core of his support. PBS said of Trumpās previous tenure:
Trump pursued policies that were popular among American Christian Zionists and Israeli religious-nationalists, including moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem and supporting Jewish settlements in occupied territories.
PBS also noted his family connections to the Jewish community:
His daughter Ivanka is a convert to Orthodox Judaism, and her husband and their children are Jewish. The couple worked as high-profile surrogates to the Jewish community during Trumpās administration.
Finally, the report touched on the evangelical Zionists:
Trumpās core supporters include white evangelicals, many of whom believe the modern state of Israel fulfills biblical prophecy. Prominent evangelicals who support Zionism have also been criticized for inflammatory statements about Jewish people.
This huge constituency includes many Christian Zionists who support the Armageddonist notion of ushering in the āJewish Messiahā ā through the sacrifice of red heifers and the rebuilding of the Jewish Third Temple on the site of the Al-Aqsa mosque.
This process is underway, with five red heifersĀ arrivingĀ in Israel in September 2022, expedited by U.S. Zionist ChristianĀ groupĀ Boneh Israel, and a large altar was constructed in Jerusalem to perform the diabolical ritual to usher in āthe End Times.ā
CBS NewsĀ reportedĀ from the site on March 5, 2024.
Beyond the end?
With the sitting president mired in a disaster of his own making, and his successor with ties to a group dedicated to sparking Armageddon, the story beyond the mainstream media is all about the end times. The end of the Biden administration, the end of the war in Ukraine, and perhaps the end of the world if the factions of insanity succeed in provoking an escalating war with Russia or in the Middle East.
Hershās article ends with what could read as the epitaph for the one-term wonder Joe Biden.
The best that Biden has come up with is continued, if so far empty, talk about a ceasefire in Gaza, and a commitment that no American soldiers will be sent to the front in Ukraine.
The president also promises that the United States will keep on paying for Ukrainians to fight and die in a proxy war that could be ended.
Added to this is the fact that the Biden administration continues to supply Israel with military hardware, without which it could not continue its war. As retired Israeli Major General Yitzhak BrikĀ saidĀ of the U.S. in November,Ā āThe minute they turn off the tap you canāt keep fighting. You have no capability⦠Everyone understands we canāt fight this war without the United States.ā
Brik has returned with an assessment of Israelās war which dovetails with that provided by Hersh on Ukraine. It has been a defeat, both in military and in diplomatic terms.
āWe have already lost the war with Hamas, and we are also losing our allies in the world at a dizzying pace BrikĀ saidĀ to Israeli news outletĀ Maāariv, on March 24.
The realization is growing that the current model of U.S. power is determined to prevent the outbreak of peace. With little promise in the White House but more of the same, the hope is that in November, this will change. Yet, here are forces at work which would prefer that the end times come for us all.
What is needed is a clear statement on the future of Ukraine, of relations with Russia and the state of Israel from a man who once promised he could stop it all. We have a leaderless U.S. in the thrall of an election cycle. Instead of resignation to the end times, we need to hear some serious talk about what comes next. Our future depends upon an alternative to business as usual.
Crime
āWeāre Going To Loseā: Steve Bannon Warns Withholding Epstein Files Would Doom GOP

From theĀ Daily Caller News Foundation
By Jason Cohen
Former White House adviser Steve Bannon warned on Friday that Republicans would suffer major losses if President Donald Trumpās administration does not move to release documents related to deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epsteinās crimes and associations.
AxiosĀ reportedĀ on Sunday that a two-page memo showed the Department Of Justice (DOJ) and FBIĀ foundĀ no evidence Epstein kept a āclient listā or was murdered, but publicĀ doubtsĀ have continued. Bannon said on āBannonās War Roomā that failure to release information would lead to the dissipation of one-tenth of the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement and significant losses for the Republican Party in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 presidential election.
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āItās not about just a pedophile ring and all that, itās about who governs us, right? And thatās why itās not going to go away ⦠For this to go away, youāre going to lose 10% of the MAGA movement,ā Bannon said. āIf we lose 10% of the MAGA movement right now, weāre going to lose 40 seats in ā26, weāre going to lose the [presidency]. They donāt even have to steal it, which theyāre going to try to do in ā28, because theyāre going to sit there and they go, āTheyāve disheartened the hardest-core populist nationalistsā ā thatās always been who governs us.ā
Bannon alsoĀ demandedĀ the publication of all the Epstein documents on āBannonās War Roomā Thursday. He called on the DOJ to go to court and push for the release of the documents or for Trump to appoint a special counsel to manage the publication.
Epstein wasĀ arrestedĀ in 2019 and charged with sex trafficking. Shortly after, he wasĀ found deadĀ in his New York Metropolitan Correctional Center cell shortly after. Officials asserted that he hanged himself in his cell.
However, Epsteinās death has sparked years of theories because of the malfunctioning of prison cameras, along withĀ guardsĀ admitting toĀ falsifying documentsĀ about checking on the then-inmate. The DOJ inspector general later confirmed that multiple surveillance cameras outside of his cell were inoperable, while others captured the common area outside his door.
Both Bannon and Daily Caller News Foundation co-founder Tucker Carlson haveĀ speculatedĀ that Epstein had connections to intelligence agencies.
Former Labor Secretary Alex Acosta allegedly indicated that Epstein wasĀ tiedĀ to intelligence,Ā accordingĀ to Vicky Ward in The Daily Beast.
espionage
FBIās Dan Bongino may resign after dispute about Epstein files with Pam Bondi

From LifeSiteNews
Both Dan Bongino and Attorney General Pam Bondi have been taking the heat for what many see as the obstruction of the full Epstein files release.
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino took the day off on Friday after an argument with Attorney General Pam Bondi over the handling of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epsteinās case files.
One source close to Bongino told Axios that āhe aināt coming back.ā Multiple sources said the dispute erupted over surveillance footage from outside Epsteinās jail cell, where he is said to have killed himself. Bongino had found the video and ātouted it publicly and privately as proof that Epstein hadnāt been murdered,ā AxiosĀ noted.
After it was found that there was a missing minute in the footage, the result of a standard surveillance reset at midnight, Bongino was āblamed internally for the oversight,ā according to three sources.
Trump supporter and online influencer Laura Loomer firstĀ reportedĀ Friday on X that Bongino took the day off and that he and FBI Director Kash Patel were āfuriousā with the way Bondi had handled the case.
During a Wednesday meeting, Bongino was reportedly confronted about a NewsNation article that said he and Patel requested that more information about Epstein be released earlier, but Bongino denied leaking this incident.
āPam said her piece. Dan said his piece. It didnāt end on friendly terms,ā said one source who heard about the exchange, adding that Bongino left angry.
The meeting followed Bondiās controversialĀ releaseĀ of a bombshell memo in which claimed there is no Epstein āclient listā and that āno further disclosure is warranted,ā contradicting Bondiās earlier statement that there were ātens of thousands of videosā providing the ability to identify the individuals involved in sex with minors and that anyone in the Epstein files who tries to keep their name private has āno legal basis to do so.ā
The memo āis attempting to sweep the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking scandal under the rug,ā according to independent investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger in aĀ superb analysis published on X.
āThe DOJās sudden claim that no āclient listā exists after years of insinuating otherwise is a slap in the face to accountability,ā DOGEai noted in its response to the Shellenberger piece. āIf agencies canāt document basic facts about one of the most notorious criminal cases in modern history, thatās not a paperwork problem ā itās proof the system protects its own.ā
During a recent broadcast, Tucker Carlson discussed Bondiās refusal to release sealed Epstein files, along with the FBI and DOJĀ announcementĀ that Epstein did not have a client list and did indeed kill himself.
Carlson offered the theory that U.S. intelligence services are āat the very center of this storyā and are being protected. His guest, Saagar Enjeti, agreed. āThatās the most obvious [explanation],ā Enjeti said, referencing past CIA-linked pedophilia cases. He noted the agency had avoided prosecutions for fear suspects would reveal āsources and methodsā in court.
Investigative journalist Whitney Webb has discussed in her book āOne Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime That Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein,ā how the intelligence community leverages sex trafficking through operatives like Epstein to blackmail politicians, members of law enforcement, businessmen, and other influential figures.
Just one example of evidence of this, according to Webb, is former U.S. Secretary of Labor and U.S. Attorney Alexander Acostaās explanation as to why he agreed to a non-prosecution deal in the lead-up to Epsteinās 2008 conviction of procuring a child for prostitution. AcostaĀ toldĀ Trump transition team interviewers that he was told that Epstein ābelonged to intelligence,ā adding that he was told to āleave it alone,ā The Daily BeastĀ reported.
While Epstein himself never stood trial, as heĀ allegedly committed suicide while under āsuicide watchā in his jail cell in 2019, many have questioned the suicide and whether the well-connected financier was actually murdered as part of a cover-up.
These theories were only emboldened when investigative reporters at Project Veritas discovered that ABC and CBS NewsĀ quashedĀ a purportedly devastating report exposing Epstein.
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