By Gordon Duff and New Eastern Outlook, Moscow (Est. 1816)

President Trump, and not obliquely, has put the assassination of Vladimir Putin “on the table” as part of a new policy, one at direct odds with both American and international law.  This isn’t just a broad policy against those Washington deems enemies, but Russia was specifically listed as a target for highest level assassinations in order to achieve regime change.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, during a policy address at Stanford University’s Hoover Institute on January 13, 2020, outlined the new policy. The title of the speech was “The Restoration of Deterrence, the Iranian Example.”

The Hoover institution has a long history of CIA ties and receives secretive private funding from a variety of “strange bedfellows:”



  • The Bradley Foundation, cited by the Council of Islamic American relations for Islamophobia and hate-mongering.
  • The Scaife Family Foundation, long run by now deceased Richard Mellon Scaife, right-wing extremist billionaire who employed an army of private security operatives used to threaten members of the press, including involvement in the death of Steve Kangas, founder of America’s independent press.
  • The Castle Rock Foundation, a front for Adolf Coors, one of the largest funders of right-wing extremism and Russophobia in the United States
  • The Koch Foundation, largest funder for climate denialism through profits from the coal industry

Former President Herbert Hoover, long blamed for failing to address the needs of a starving nation during the first 4 years of the great depression, for whom the Hoover Institution is named, was a powerful advocate for allowing and possibly even supporting Hitler in his war against Russia.

Only recently, after being suppressed for 50 years, has Herbert Hoover’s World War II analysis, “Freedom Betrayed,” been published, by the Hoover Institution.  In that work, the “betrayal” was entering the war against Hitler and fighting alongside Russia.

You see, TDC or “top dead center” for American conservatives has always been the destruction of Russia and the subjugation of the Russian people on behalf of the Deep State.

In his Hoover Institute address, Pompeo clearly stated that an attack on Russia, on its leadership and even President Putin, was very much a part of the new American policy under his leadership.

He further clarified, “The importance of deterrence isn’t confined to Iran.  In all cases, we must defend freedom.  That’s the whole point of President Trump’s work to make our military the strongest it has ever been.”

This was, of course, before Iranian missiles easily punched through America’s Patriot Missile defenses in a humiliating attack with, according to Trump “no casualties.”  On January 16, 2020, however, the Pentagon announced that 11 members of the US military serving at the Assad Air Base had been evacuated to Landstuhl, Germany in order to be treated for wounds.

Trump lied, but nothing compared to the wild threats from Pompeo against a nation whose nuclear strategic arsenal significantly overshadows that of the United States, certainly qualitatively and in that area, overwhelmingly.

“The destruction of Suleimani is an example of a new US strategy aimed at deterring its opponents. This applies equally to Iran, China and Russia.

The states are now realizing the possibilities of the strongest position that we have ever had with regard to Iran. We are just holding it back for now. But in order to truly protect freedom, it is important to restrain all enemies. That’s the whole point of President Trump’s work. That’s why he is trying so hard to make our army the strongest it has ever been.”

When Secretary of State Pompeo, after months of planning, pushed through the drone assassination of Iran’s General Soleimani, chief architect of the ground war against ISIS, little did he expect Iran’s reaction?

When, only days later, Iran obliterated America’s largest base in the Middle East with a devastating ballistic missile attack, forcing the US to back down and seek more sanctions.

The real issue is how much of the Pompeo rhetoric is real and to what extent Pompeo and Trump are bluffing.  One thing that has become clear, however, is that both Trump and even Pompeo, a graduate of West Point’s infamous “Class of 1986,” a hot-bed of Russophobic extremists called “the West Point Mafia,” are not schooled in the realities of warfare.

From the Daily Beast:

“An account of the meeting in the upcoming book A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America depicts Trump becoming increasingly angry as his generals tried to teach him the fundamental basics of American post-war history.

The book states that the meeting took place six months into Trump’s presidency after his generals became concerned about ‘gaping holes’ in Trump’s knowledge of America’s key alliances. The idea was to bring Trump to the Pentagon’s Situation Room, where military leaders, so the plan went, would give him a crash course on who America’s allies were, why they were worth keeping on the side, and where on earth they were located. (Trump didn’t know)

However, the meeting seems to have descended into chaos almost immediately. Secretary of State Tillerson, then-Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, and National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn reportedly took turns trying to explain their points to Trump. But Trump is said to have first appeared bored out of his mind before he got increasingly angry.

Trump is then said to have complained about President Obama’s Iranian nuclear deal, and the length of the war in Afghanistan. Each time, his generals reportedly tried to gently explain why his view of these complex geopolitical issues might not be entirely accurate. It was reportedly during a conversation about Afghanistan that Trump blew his top.

The president reportedly called Afghanistan a “loser war,” and told his military leaders: “You’re all losers… You don’t know how to win anymore… I want to win… We don’t win any wars anymore… We spend $7 trillion, everybody else got the oil and we’re not winning anymore.” It’s reported that Trump was so angry at this point that he wasn’t breathing properly.

In his most incendiary comment, Trump—a man who, remember, managed to get out of military duty in Vietnam due to a supposed bone-spur problem—is said to have told the assembled forces: ‘I wouldn’t go to war with you people… You’re a bunch of dopes and babies.’

The comment reportedly left the room dumbfounded. Tillerson was ‘visibly seething,’ and decided to speak up. The secretary of state said: “No, that’s just wrong… Mr. President, you’re totally wrong. None of that is true.’ When the meeting ended soon afterward, Tillerson reportedly stood with a small group of confidants and said: ‘He’s an (expletive deleted) moron.’”

Conclusion

Is Pompeo’s statement to the Russia hating establishment, an open threat against a foreign leader, carelessness, hubris or insanity?

Is President Trump ready to back Pompeo, as he did with the disastrous Soleimani killing?

We then have to ask, how can such statements be made with no pushback from congress or the media, not a single word?  Has America become suicidal?

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23 COMMENTS

  2. If Iran doesn’t build nukes after all of the recent incursions into the Twilight Zone. they must have built some good bunkers in their mountain range. I bet N. Korea wouldn’t trade their nukes for all of China’s gold, after all of the scary talk coming out of the West and all treaties are on hold for the next century.

    • I am more then sure that Iran bought some of the missing nukes the soviet Union lost after their fall. And am am also pretty sure that Iran knows how these nukes function and how to build them. If times seem in need of using them, they will most probably do use them.
      Why did US never attack Iran seriousely, one has to wonder, if this wouldn’t be the case?
      Most propbably Iran got the message through long time ago.

    • Selberdenker

      YOU Stupid Shithead You Don’t AT ALL Know What You’re Talking about ….. You Fuking Idiot The Founder of Islamic Revolution in Iran was Imam Khomeini and Imam Khomeini Dictated That Ordered A Ban on Iran developing ANY Nuclear Weapons coz the Radiation Kills for Centuries AND Not for just THAT War BUT The Way USA Inc is Forcing Iran The Iranians Better Have a Nuclear Detterant IF They want to Survive Against the Democracy Invader called the USA ……. Mind you ALL the instigation behind USA Inc is From ” Israel ” AND Israelis Maintain Independent Secretive Relations With EVERYBODY to maintain Their Survival in ALL This Bullshit That the Israelis Forced USA Inc to do ……… Israelis maintain Secretive Good Relations With EVERYBODY and They’re Always Finding New Markets to Sell their Military Stuff BUT At the Same Time The Israelis Tell ALL the Goyim Groups That ” We’re Special Friends and cooperate with US and the Rest are Worthless Liars ” …….. AND The Israelis do this ” Trust US Only and the Rest are Bullshit ” works to keep the Goyim Divided and Israel getting away With Whatever it wants because of Secretive Special Relations with EVERYBODY and They Don’t give a Rat’s ASS For Slave called ” USA Inc “

    • “I am more then sure that Iran bought some of the missing nukes the soviet Union lost after their fall.” – Selberdenker

      Per Duff Iran bought a half dozen 500kT warheads from one of the former Soviet states to use in suicide boats against the US fleet in 1992 if they were invaded. When they started to deteriorate and become unstable (as all nuclear weapons do from radioactive decay) they were disposed of by transfer to Israel (of all places).

  3. Hoover sat on his ass for 4 years, that’s the simple truth. Please outline his programs to help millions of starving Americans. Oh, you can’t?
    Why?
    None existed. Ah, but he fed europe, or so we are told.

  4. “The Koch Foundation, largest funder for climate denialism” Im a so called ‘denier’ no Im a skeptic. It doesnt matter, WHO you are, human caused climate change is a HOAX. Cant be strong enough. Probably the Koch Bros are making a killing on the F A K E criminal so called Carbon Credit schemes that are planned to bankrupt the whole planet. Same as ‘big oil’ is.
    Human caused Climate change is a FRAUD period, and impossible, unless you have plans to change the output of the sun!. Geophysically provable by numerous sources with real geophysical data, numerous reviewed published physics papers.

    • Fake journals, fake papers, Koch spent millions on them, none of them are real, all junk science from the kind of hacks that denied cancer in cigarettes for decades. Sorry..you’ve been had.

  5. Shut up Anything before the Assasination of Kennedy might be Forgivable BUT Since the Assasination of JF Kennedy Everyone been a Warmonger ” Insert ” …….. Shut Up and Wake Up Since the Assasination of JF Kennedy You’re just LOST SOULS ……

  6. Much is disturbing, but shouldn’t come as a surprise, coming from an establishment that has an open public standby regime change arrangement for every other country on the globe besides the Five Eyes Club. The Russia hating and chopping department has been working 24/7 for the past 200 years, out of a bloodthirsty royal banker London club. The fight is pretty much for providing the military equipment, since the nuclear capabilities cancel each other out. Drone swarming seems to be the new favorite toy and threat coming from Pentagon Mickey Mouse & Tim Burton club.

  9. Trump and Pompeo by putting Russia and China on notice, have in fact put the entire US establishment under ‘imminent threat’ for a reciprocal response – one that pummels Washington to the re-echo after the killing of General Suleimani: “Do unto others as they would do unto you.” The irony: “In order to truly protect freedom.” WTF Pompeo! Last I heard 9/11 all but destroyed any freedoms we had left. Millions radiated each day at airports in a manner reminiscent of jail arrival where now we can expect to be de-loused and innoculated due to the deadlier outbreak of SARS. The only freedom in America is corporate freedom to plunder and rob the resources of a once proud nation trampling EPA laws with abandon. Why, heck, even our pride is emaciated – pummelled in the dust. Bolshevik Zionists – those deceptive wolves in sheep’s clothing, are ensuring their freedom though, backed by the laws of 27 states and growing. Israel trumped our freedoms and takes pride of place and everything else it can lay its hands on!

  11. Criminally insane homicidal maniacs do not get well. History in China (see Sun Tzu) proved that the Emperors of past were truly beyond words in the reality of completely insane. Sun Tzu escaped and the worst Emperor of his Era was psychologically destroyed. The writing was that Emperor set himself on fire. The psychology for People of World Earth is to THINK (/meditate) on how to get the brains of the out of control completely insane homicidal maniacal lunatics to implode. Our minds are very powerful energy and the connection is indisputable. 9 Houses Cultivation. 9 Compartments in the Brain. Time to become whole in our minds and wholly do what Sun Tzu did, too.

  12. How much more proof do we need that the US is a rouge terrorist State gone mad. If I were Russian Chinese Iranian Syrian Turkish or any other free nation falling foul of US dictatorship (sanctions) . The UN may as well be disbanded as it is not fit for purpose. if the UN isn’t prepared to reel in the US, then Russia and who ever else see’s fit to go rouge too, and live by the dog eat dog rule.

  13. While watching an excerpt from the Stanford speech, I noticed another extremist, psychopath, former SoS, Condoleezza Rice, approvingly taking it all in. Birds of a feather…

  14. It was good that Gordon exposed the words of a low life U.S. President today Donald Adolph Hitler. While fool Trump may be foolish enough to order a nuclear attack on Russia or Iran or the rest of the planet (not his love Israel) he is unable to carry out such a foolish order personally. Only highly skilled others can do that. We can only pray that the others know that others on this planet also have nukes and the ability to put them right in the center of NY or any other major city of the U.S. or the world. There will be no winners in such a battle next time, only losers. There is much built up resentment against the arrogant U.S. going all the way back to WWII or earlier. Some of these lesser countries would love to send a nuke our way and watch the massive death and destruction of the most hated country of thugs on the planet. Everyone should have pictures of Nagasaki and Hiroshima on their walls to remind them every day of the horrors of nukes, which today are thousands of times worse than then. Only a fool like Donald Adolph would even consider using nukes today anywhere in the world because they will come back to bite the hand which used them on others.

    • I agree with all the other excellent comments here. The inmates have taken over America today. These are the slow learners who will be all quite incinerated in a nuclear explosion in one of our major cities.

  15. As in the words of that great intellect and oratorial genius of a US Prez, “this is really bad, this is not good.”

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