Need to Know News (25 January 2023) with Joe Olson, Carl Herman, and Chris Weinert

War preparations are proceeding in Moscow for a "New Patriotic War" against NATO and the US: "Victory will be ours, like 1812 and 1945". This is serious. DEFCON 2 moving toward DEFCON 1. We are in the grip of (what now appears to be an all but inevitable) war that almost certainly cannot be stopped from going nuclear. Davos cheers it on encouraging more weapons to be sent to Ukraine, which will either be trafficked on the black market or which the Russians will promptly destroy. Protests in Israel over Bibi's plan to overhaul the judiciary to bend it to his will--and no doubt escape from his own corruption trial. It has become increasingly clear that what the global elites' most fear is the kind of populism that Donald Trump has inspired. The DOJ on the sly asked Biden's attorney to check out whether there were classified docs at his various residences, which they sought to keep secret. Look how that has worked out! The resources required to produce EV batteries are staggering in their impact on Earth, putting the lie to the myth of "green energy" and electric vehicles as "saving the planet"! Vaccine immunologists are looking more and more like the projectionists in Gulliver's Travels. A very disturbing report suggests that our own Department of Defense was complicit in the COVID pandemic and the development of the vax--which is simply appalling! Washington, D.C., has made itself the "enemy of the people" and, as Paul Craig Roberts observes, the treatment Biden is getting is a kinder and gentler version of what happened to Nixon and (more dramatically) to JFK. He is being thrown under the bus.