America

  • US and Russia have to make peace – or it’s war

    The belief in Russian diplomatic circles is that America remains a key global power even in its position at the other side of the Western world. While Russians think hard about their own progress, and note that most of human endeavour comes through difficulty, they also look to the success of others.

    In meeting Trump, Putin showed that this truly is a belief and that it underpins its objective view of how things need to be done. Even if the fight is against Ukraine, it ends at the doors of the White House.

    “Two Sides Of The Same West”
    Image credit: OpenAI ChatGPT.

    It may seem contradictory to some, but Russia regularly belittles its own neighbours. It can suffer having called America a great nation if it means others in Europe look lesser or the worse for it.

    The point is not going to be that Russia and America are best friends. Again, Russia is proud of its own progress and in this lies a hint as to its real worldview. The end of the war with Ukraine is looked at hopefully as being about peace. But this isn’t guaranteed. It needs a strong partner to make it happen. 

  • New York City hits reality with Mamdani rhetoric

    The talkative part is over as soon as the election result is declared. The difficulty sets in and it can show. In other large cities, a new Mayor discovers that just a part of their platform is not possible. In New York’s case it may be they discover all of Mamdani’s key points are unlikely to work out well.

    There’s a particular relaxation of the rules when it comes to a Left candidate in America. People recognise that the policies are unsound and not workable but give extra room for effort. It looks good to have somebody that’s enthusiastic about the role at least. 

    In time, however, to make the office professional again, there has to be a search for answers. This leads to a drafting in of local experts to help make the plans that will benefit the area more solidly. These replace the goals made by crowds at their respective kitchen tables.

    In New York City, there’s usually a reckoning soon after an election with the reality of not just statistics but public opinion. There’s a wide variety of interest groups in the City that feel alarm over the level of decay that’s taken place so far. This is a difficult front to have to overcome and cannot be won popularly.

    While Mamdani has a politically motivated constituency of his own, the groups are very wealthy and heavily invested in the built environment. An issue like rent control, which is really a matter of who lives where, is not a battle that he can win easily. It’s also already coveted by social experts who look at it religiously.

    If he’s a diplomat, he’ll provide clarity between all the competing groups in an important urban space. His likely ethic is to hedge with charity but align with reality. This will bring a modicum of change, but not reassure most renters who need their monthly payment to be affordable. It’s also not something that can last fifty years into the future.

    Magic Mamdani may be able to work some spells and get people to agree behind closed doors, but it’ll be a far cry from his rhetoric during the campaign. The lesson of the Left continues in one of the biggest fields of play in the world. It’s a test of democracy, but also of people’s patience, and such wrangling as this can’t last forever before the real troubles come.

  • Pres. Trump accused in the shooters manifesto shows a flaw in the plan

    If Trump has been accused of perversion in the shooters manifesto it goes to show that there may be a flaw in a plan to implicate him in the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein. It’s what legal experts have been waiting for – in part because they find it difficult to assess the volume of information that’s part of the case. 

    It’s not such a startling belief because it comes from an outsider and a lone-wolf shooter. This is what such people believe and spread as a conspiracy theory on the periphery all of the time. It doesn’t make them pull the trigger, but it certainly leads to a weakening of the will to reconsider options.

    President Trump bats aside a claim made by shooter that he’s a paedophile (Source: @60minutes/YouTube).

    The fact of people across the world being willing to believe falsehoods that they cannot themselves investigate is leading to a lot of fake news. It circulates and blocks out the light of real news that’s narrated by the informed. It can mean communities have a false basis of reasoning in political issues.

    The slight increase of propaganda is also a problem in this area and this is noted by some American experts to be a source of interference in legal matters. To bring out a claim against Trump that he’s an abuser is now looking unlikely because the issue is muddled by these types of overwrites.

    It also plays into the hands of disruptors everywhere, and can lead to lapses in security because a person’s focus is weakened by it in practice. If it’s what can animate the world of a deviant shooter, it has to be questioned how long this speculation should last, and how valuable it’s already been to those that misuse it.

  • Is Putin behind the Epstein story?

    The time to tell the truth about Epstein has come and gone over and over, and so far, no one has really come out as the prime suspect, except the man himself and the shadowy aide who remains in prison.

    This has the markings of a plot, handled clumsily by online sleuths, followed assiduously by public media, and yet left untouched by the people behind the scurrilous and sparing facts of espionage.

    The work to find out if anyone is behind the Epstein story as a work of political fiction is more of a possibility at official levels than anywhere else at this point.

    The State of Russia – a suspect in every detailed attempt to takedown Western leaders ‘overnight’ – is led by a former spy who’s known to have spent time in key cities in the West as a part of his secret work.

    Russians are particular in their handling of contacts, using social networks of any type to make their way into the homes and workplaces of the rich and powerful. Their efforts are clever – and prolific.

    It may be that Putin has a hand in this. He’s calm on the international stage, and confident in his dealings with leaders. It doesn’t reveal perverts rule this part of the world but it shows an image of chaos he’s long sought to prove exists in our leadership structures.

    The publishing of material has weighted more on the American side, showing it won’t undermine their status at all. But it came close. It could have been a story of proportions, casting doubt on more than reputation, but on American ethics itself.

  • America packs a punch to Russian hacking attempts

    In a time of heightened fears over hacking and cyber security compromises, Russia is now accused of seeking to target specific US citizens with a coordinated attack against its critical domestic Internet infrastructure.

    In announcing the operation to combat it, Operation Masquerade, the FBI has explained its approach to cutting off such suspicious access to the commercially available hardware that has been identified as vulnerable. It’s also suggested Americans act to safeguard their own mobile devices.

    It’s believed it had a high level of support, indicating that it was meant to benefit the State of Russia in some way, but the outcome may have meant to be more sinister, risking the locations and job specifics of particular individuals, not just their Internet data.

    This attempt is seen as an effort to undermine security systems by seeking direct routes to workers that are involved in Intelligence and counter-Intelligence work, mainly by hooking up to their home broadband setups to peek inside.

    However, it’s risky to launch such a campaign in the first place, having frustrated many who’ve tried it before and resulting in lengthy legal action because it’s seen as a serious crime by US authorities.

  • America and Russia challenge each other on new lines

    The ascent of Artemis II into deep space brings back the old challenge that existed between the two competing world powers that never saw eye to eye.

    It’s the extent to which things matter and the sacrifices involved in doing it.

    In recent years many nations have entered a much more advanced space race, leading to a diversification in such competing fields of endeavour as these, and yet there’s a niggling suspicion it’s still true that you can’t teach old dogs new tricks.

    America is a leader of the free world and behind technology uses it can ship to other countries, as well as use to their maximum advantage.

    By example, space travel is not so much a frontier now as a forte that it can hold up as an example of its can do attitude.

    Russia, meanwhile, is stockpiling its power by launching out on missions it alone identifies and defines, muzzling attempts at diplomacy to challenge peace anywhere it chooses to.

    This bolsters its feelings of pride, notching up kudos points at home for the journey, at least.

    But the stakes are high, and such divergent paths are not easy to put together. The determination of what either does next is in psychic territory as far as respective plans are, but there has been a long road to this point.

    There are hints to some successes, either way, but these mean little if they cannot be vocalised and used to ultimate advantage.

    America and Russia come together over these such things, however, and in years to come it will be clear what new advantage there is. The results may be the precursor to the same times as before.

  • US targets in Iran are precise but misunderstood

    The targeting of a school in Iran – as it’s believed to have been – isn’t understood in the West for obvious reasons. We don’t enact clearances in the same way that military juntas do in the Middle East, who destroy schools as part of victory parades or in preparation for the removal of a rival leader.

    In fact, schools are a battleground in the region. Many are setup each year to bolster the respect of a leader for charitable efforts. Although complaints are made that these are supposed to substitute for a real education, it’s said to have still become a fad amongst warring and tribal loyalists.

    The annihilation of schoolchildren isn’t a stated part of the aims of the American superpower, and it definitely isn’t legal in its own domain.

    Iranians are proud of their education and the loss is a bitterness because it seems so far removed from the actual trouble caused by their former Supreme Leader, who, while not known for indulging in school building for superficial reasons himself, didn’t dissuade from taking part in pettiness, either.

    The result of military action is to see society pockmarked in often distressing ways, reminding us that the imperfect science of leadership has results that cannot be put alongside promises, slogans, or actual outcomes. We are held to a need to keep going, but the facts of the matter are hard to bear.

  • It’s likely Epstein was trusted – but as an unknown

    Jeffrey Epstein’s emails have so far revealed an overactive mind and yet scant detail of specific sexual activity. These matters are left to other communications that take place between pimps, clients, and customers who make up the real remit of a sex selling activity.

    The implication of global, business, and political figures has only gone so far as to reveal a wide network of large corporate and financial interests spanning continents. These individuals aren’t guilty of sex crimes and therefore have no apology to make because of this fact only.

    The spurious claims that Prince Andrew, for example, had bought in to such a sex scandal deserves to be consigned to the recycle bin of historical narrative. He’s as guilty as any of us, placed in the centre because of an obsessive – and almighty – media clique that trails his life daily for more cuts for print.

    Jeffrey Epstein comes across as a financial figure that had more to hide in the shadows than most. It’s clear that he shouldn’t have been as trusted as he was, and inducements to give him sensitive information were worthy of being refused, more than most, but it took time for his true colours to finally be revealed.

  • Not all American dreams go up in smoke

    In America, the modern lore is filled with the stories of startups that have come to takeover not just American life but the modern world itself. This is a realised dream for policymakers but it’s really the underlying ingenuity of American inventors that has come through to truly export new ideas to the world.

    The beginnings of this renewed wave of optimism are less austere than those even before, but have their own tinge of austerity here and there, such as the personal garage that acted as basic office space for the few calling themselves employees. This, however, was a safe incubator for the real ideas to come through to change much of the fundamentals of the emerging new world order.

    In this Americans have a quiet majority across the world, and a silent strength that enables it to govern effectively. The past orders were considered but made with poor materials and held together badly, and technology is increasing the rigidity of people’s lives beyond all expectations. The scenario is much different now, and as America has been at the forefront of its development so far, it will no doubt continue to be in future.

  • Exclusive: Epstein’s pimp

    In an exclusive for Conservative News Site, a suspect alleged of acting as Jeffrey Epstein’s own pimp – thereby giving him access to circles of prostitutes in crime rings – is now able to be identified for the first time.

    Grant Cardone is a prolific business personality but also a criminal active in many domains. He’s alleged to have illegally obtained properties in Dubai, and in other exclusive developments worldwide.

    A suspect
    A suspect alleged of acting as Jeffrey Epstein’s pimp, allowing him access to circles of prostitutes in crime rings.

    His involvement in prostitution is said to be extensive. His contact with Epstein was conducted across private chat networks encrypted by hackers adept at securing such lines.

    American law enforcement authorities have questioned Cardone in relation to this before, but his activity has not been prosecuted because witnesses were not recoverable in prior investigations.

  • How the world is going to be safer is America’s guess

    America is now at the leading edge of world affairs as it centres on Iran and what happens next. The trouble is working out how to do it.

    The answer is not so obvious as people in leadership spheres may assume. It’s also reliant on a dimension of human resources that isn’t frequently understood.

    The President’s plan is wholesale and intended to be lasting, but the basics of the work is handed down to employees of departments that have to get it right every single time.

    The steps taken next are determinate of a safer world. The ‘as luck will have it’ scenario cannot be true because real issues are at stake for large and aware populations.

    The reality of leadership is long scrutinised by American leaders of all stripes, and the characteristics of this next phase will be determined by the President’s army of the willing.

  • US seeks to destroy Iran statehood abroad

    The US is seeking to undermine the very basis of the Iran regime by continuing to say what it sees to be its inherent flaws.

    The US itself has never taken a position that stipulates other cultures or races are wrong. It doesn’t have a racist foreign policy.

    It does have a guarded account of events, and seeks to understand things as they go. This makes American media accessible, relevant, and transparent as far as it goes in understanding its motives.

    Pete Hegseth (US Defence Secretary) speaking about President’s Trump position on Iran as a potential adversary.

    However, the hard facts point to a disagreement with the people of Iran insofar as they agree with the ruling leaders and their ultimate conclusions.

    These cannot be anti-American in nature or contain life-threatening wording in substance.

    What America feels is its responsibility in the region is a question that looms large over any to and fro of arguing. It’s not clear to everyone what threat America feels, and what provocation Iranians see so often.

    The case may be that Iran has a doctrine that regards any Western activity as interference in a region it wants to dominate, run, and control from its own power base.

  • Epstein proved America needs to professionalise

    The America of today is not the fulfilment of the ideal of its forefathers. This is clear. It’s not the letter but the word that is lacking. In other words, it’s not the reaction but the response that is much needed today in their culture.

    There’s a lot of repetitiveness in American culture. It’s not just media. It comes through, for sure, but it’s there, replete on the ground.

    This shows to us that not much depth is added to meaningful activity. It’s not a sign of being dumb but of being dumped. The fact is the intelligent are being left out of the great American equation. The game is small and the players are few.

    This is not a quick development in modern America. It’s been assumed for some time that the clever are at fault. They are somehow to blame for things as they are.

    Maybe their lives are slower. They are more shrewd investors, in both time and resources. It’s not a race but a project in their minds. The future is unfolding and not wrapping up in quick succession.

    This strikes against the verve or pulse that some feel in life. They insist in various contexts that people cannot be right if they’re wrong. They say that one mistake lasts a lifetime. They believe thinking is a result of confusion or error.

    These people are mistakes in their own way of doing it. They live reckless, thoughtless existences. They are hated – rightly – for demeaning the backbone of the country. They come from holes, fill the cracks, and don’t need to be seen.

    Jeffrey Epstein is one such example of this type of human rat life. He represents a strain of living detritus that doesn’t have the right equilibrium of respect to make sense of life. He believed in “kill or be killed” and ended his life as a loser for being one.

  • US Journalism is cracking under pressure

    The appearance of ‘random’ victims onscreen to demand the end of Prince Andrew has become a poor diet on the BBC News channel, but it’s less of a fault in London and more of a problem in perspective for New York City that it’s even happening.

    The fact is US Journalism is cracking under pressure – of too much exposure and not enough quality analysis. The tranche download of documents by the DOJ is a flurry of activity that has not been backed up with criticism of those that keep claiming sexual abuse harms.

    The reputation of NYC has always been that prostitution is a shady business, and that if it starts there it finishes there. Prince Andrew has never been guilty of buying sex on its streets – or in hotels. This has been proved, and yet it’s not pointed to as a reason for his innocence here.

    The headlong pursuit of more commentary – or more to say – has scattered relevant figures in a mad dash for safety. The errant political thinking of representatives has sent the public in the same way, proving yet again they fail to deal seriously with substantial issues. The elite class is shown up in such failures.

    The handling of a global news sensation has been a concern for media regulators in the US for some time. It’s been believed that too much harm results from an immature and overbearing approach to ending careers overnight. The call is for steady reporting and not the heady rush to any sort of finish line.

  • Donald Trump knows players, and knows the game

    Donald Trump has been embroiled in scandals since his first term in office and with the Jeffrey Epstein story it has occurred during his second term too. It’s just part of an ongoing drama of a battle between himself and the media that has ensued over the course of decades.

    His lengthy time in business started off a trail of press reporters that would ask him questions at every turn, often also finding a moment to ask if he’s going to run for the Presidency at some point. Now that it’s happened, the story has developed into something else altogether.

    Donald Trump speaking to a BBC reporter in 1998 about handling a celebrity-type of notoriety (Source: HARDtalk/BBC).

    Trump is someone who knows both the players and the game at the same time and he’s now so attuned to responding to peoples questions over all sorts of matters that his good humour and likeable nature comes through in his answers – even as people pester him over the same kinds of issues.

    The repetitive news cycle is sometimes the enemy of people who are trying to do a straightforward thing, but Trump has shown an ability to overcome a dull day to come through with ideas that shape an agenda. It’s not to everyone’s liking, but it’s his settlement over the purpose of it.