The Raw Deal (23 February 2023) with Jim Fetzer

Five ways the war in Ukraine has changed the world provide the launching point for today's show, where I was released from a local hospital yesterday after my admission on Friday for (what turns out to have been) a pneumonia-induced heart attack, where the pneumonia filled my lungs with liquid and reduced my blood oxygen level to 74%. Fortunately, they immediately diagnosed the problem and put me on antibiotics and enhanced the supply of oxygen to my body. Exceptionally fine medical case. The five ways (on which I comment in passing): (1) the return of European war; (2) alliances tested and toughened; (3) a new Iron Curtain; (4) a battered and reshaped economy; and (5) a new age of uncertainty. Putin's speech to the Russian Federation Assembly deserves widespread dissemination, but we don't have that with our Rothschild/Zionist controlled press. So I shared major potions but not all (where it can be found in its entirety on my blog at jameshfetzer.org). Americans need to understand that Russia has not been the aggressor and that constant NATO expansion since 1991 (when it had 13 members) to today (now 30) has been in violation of solemn agreements not to expand "one inch to the East" and in reckless disregard of Russia's legitimate concerns for its national security. Everyone needs to read this with care and concern for the manner in which the West has abused its relationship with Russia--again and again and again. Russia did not provoke this conflict. Putin has now been forced to suspend Russian participation in the only nuclear arms agreement remaining in place, where the Mayor and key residents of New Palestine, Oh, find it insulting and objectionable that the President of the United States should be in Ukraine declaring eternal dedication to Ukraine while completely ignoring the people in crisis here in the USA. Joe defaulted on discussing the FAA, which may or may not come to pass. But excellent extended calls with Paul and Frank rounded out the show and made me feel most welcome back!