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  • Senate Unanimously Revives Lend-Lease Program

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 13th 2022 10:41am EDT

    There was actually a robust, and even bitter debate over the original “lend-lease” in 1941 — a full 31 senators ultimately voted against it. “Remember, if we lend or lease war materials today, we will lend or lease American boys tomorrow,” Sen. Burton Wheeler (D-MT) declared https://t.co/ftTaAt03pm — Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 12, 2022 A […]

  • Jimmy Dore: Twitter Censoring Ukraine War Coverage

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 12th 2022 4:36pm EDT

    Anyone who is saying Twitter’s ban violates the First Amendment doesn’t know Twitter is a private company and the First Amendment protects individuals against government. — Robert Reich (@RBReich) January 9, 2021 In Musk’s vision of Twitter and the internet, he’d be the wizard behind the curtain – projecting on the world’s screen a fake […]

  • Zelensky Announces Arrest Of Viktor Medvedchuk

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 12th 2022 3:28pm EDT

    ??BREAKING: Pro-Kremlin lawmaker, Putin’s crony Medvedchuk captured. Zelensky announced that Viktor Medvedchuk, a lawmaker with the pro-Kremlin party Opposition Platform was captured by the Security Service. Medvedchuk is accused of treason. He escaped house arrest in February. pic.twitter.com/M3SIi65uht — The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) April 12, 2022 This is a war between democracy and autocracy. In […]

  • The Bulwark: Putin Wants to Break NATO. Republicans Want to Help Him.

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 12th 2022 8:06am EDT

    Yes, we do. We have our own reasons to get rid of NATO. I’ve yet to hear a compelling case for NATO in the 21st century. The Bulwark: “Vladimir Putin’s central objective in Europe isn’t to capture Kyiv, the Donbas, or any other part of Ukraine. It’s to weaken the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which […]

  • Coach Red Pill: Scott Ritter and the Battle of Donbas

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 11th 2022 5:56pm EDT

    Now watching.

  • Patrick Lancaster: The Missing of Mariupol

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 11th 2022 5:41pm EDT

    War correspondent and hero Patrick Lancaster reports from Mariupol.

  • George Packer: How We Can Be Worthy of Ukraine

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 11th 2022 12:44pm EDT

    Ukraine is viagra for Boomers and liberal imperialists and especially those Americans who fall into both of these categories and who write for establishment mouthpieces like The Atlantic. The Atlantic: “Don’t forget about Ukraine,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said last Sunday at the end of an interview with CBS. “We have the same values, we have […]

  • Mark Levin Is Sick Of The Putin Wing Of The Republican Party

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 11th 2022 9:59am EDT

    The feeling is mutual. We’re sick and tired of people like Mark Levin who have squandered trillions of dollars and whose legacy is nothing but a trail of destruction that runs through the Balkans, North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and now eastern Europe. We’re sick of them sowing chaos abroad and neglecting our […]

  • Fareed Zakaria: Will Putin Hinder Rightwing Populist Leaders?

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 10th 2022 9:18pm EDT

    Why did Zemmour fade and Le Pen surge in the French presidential election?@compactmag_ has the one piece of analysis you need to read. Bottom line: Zemmour went against his own insight from 2019: The French right can’t rely on the bourgeoisie. https://t.co/jx6iYcL2w8 — Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) April 11, 2022 Results for France’s established conservative and […]

  • WSJ: The Right’s Russia Temptation

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 10th 2022 6:52pm EDT

    Jeffrey Scott Shapiro is alarmed by our lack of hostility toward Russia. In the 19th century, the United States had good relations with the Russian Empire. We bought Alaska from Russia. We traded with the Russia of the tsars. This was at a time when the Russian Empire controlled Ukraine, Central Asia, the Baltic states, […]

  • Caspian Report: The Ukraine War From Russia’s Perspective

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 10th 2022 12:06pm EDT

    In the United States, we have an unfortunate tendency to look at foreigners through the prism of good and evil, angels and demons, Autobots and Decepticons. It is part of our evangelical Protestant cultural heritage which we share with the UK. The Serbs, Russians, Iranians, Iraqis and Italians have all taken turns being on the […]

  • Jimmy Dore: United States Admits To Spreading Lies About Ukraine War

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 10th 2022 11:37am EDT

    It says a lot that this isn’t a scandal. Joe Biden is lying about Putin’s WMDs. This has been confirmed. We’re so used to “journalists” lying and spreading state and corporate propaganda that it barely registers anymore.

  • Breaking Points Audience Revolts Over Tucker Carlson Take

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 10th 2022 10:38am EDT

    I think I have solved the mystery. Younger voters who dislike the political establishment and who like Tucker Carlson and Breaking Points and who consume independent media are far more skeptical and opposed to U.S. intervention in Ukraine than Boomers who get their news from Facebook and cable television. If your views on foreign policy […]

  • Counter-Currents: What’s Really At Stake In Ukraine

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 9th 2022 3:47pm EDT

    Greg Johnson thinks that Western nationalists should support Ukraine. Counter-Currents: “In my debate with E. Michael Jones on the Ukraine war, my opening statement argued that nationalists in the West — and indeed, around the world — should support Ukraine against its invader, Russia. E. Michael Jones argued that Westerners should not support Ukraine. Jones began with […]

  • Jimmy Dore: Sean Penn Pushes Using Nuclear Weapons In Ukraine War

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 9th 2022 2:16pm EDT

    Libtards and Reaganite Boomers have converged over Ukraine.

  • Ruble Bounces Back From Rubble

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 8th 2022 3:48pm EDT

    Gas prices and inflation sure haven’t gone down a month into this. Yahoo News: “(Bloomberg) — In the days after the Ukraine war began, the ruble’s collapse was a potent symbol of Russia’s newfound financial isolation. International sanctions on Vladimir Putin’s regime sank it to a record low of 121.5 rubles per dollar, triggering memories […]

  • Olga vs. Patrick Lancaster

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 8th 2022 3:35pm EDT

    Olga took down her video on Stepan Bandera. Note: I’m sharing her videos here because I like to watch interesting takes from both sides.

  • Rich Lowry: Aiding Ukraine Not Like Invading Iraq

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 8th 2022 11:41am EDT

    Rich Lowry thinks we are refighting the Iraq War. He is partially correct. It is difficult to underestimate the profound impact that the Iraq War had on our views about foreign policy. It is not really just about Iraq though. The wars in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Afghanistan have all blended together to shape our […]

  • Politico: Why the ‘America First’ Politicians Aren’t Convincing Most Republicans

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 7th 2022 5:45pm EDT

    I like the hand we are holding. Here are five reasons why “neo-isolationists” should look on the bright side: 1. Over a month into the war in Ukraine, the latest polls show that 39% of Republican voters (Quinnipiac) want the United States to withdraw from NATO. In early February, 28% of Republican voters (Gallup) wanted […]

  • NBC Narratives: U.S. Is Using Intel To Fight Infowar With Russia, Even When Intel Isn’t Rock Solid

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 7th 2022 11:31am EDT

    Oh … So, I was right not to trust anything the media says about Russia based on years of experience. NBC Narratives:

  • Today In The Free World

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 7th 2022 11:00am EDT

    RT America went down. RT was blocked on YouTube. It is now on Odysee. Abby Martin’s showed was deplatformed on YouTube Chris Hedges’ show was deplatformed from YouTube. Naturally, Scott Ritter was also banned from Twitter for questioning the official narrative about Bucha and calling Joe Biden a war criminal. It seems that his account […]

  • Poll Watch: Republicans Closely Divided On NATO

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 7th 2022 9:01am EDT

    (Quinnipiac poll) Do you approve/disapprove of Biden? Overall: 38/53GOP: 5/93Dem: 83/11Indie: 30/58Men: 32/59Women: 43/48Whites w/ college: 47/48Whites w/o college: 27/66White men: 30/64White women: 39/55Whites: 35/59Black: 58/28Hispanics: 34/52 — Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) April 6, 2022 If the election for the US House was today would you vote GOP/Dem? Voters: 47/43GOP: 94/3Dem: 3/94Indie: 42/36Men: 49/35Women: 40/50Whites […]

  • 63 House Republicans Vote Against Resolution Affirming Support For NATO

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 6th 2022 2:10pm EDT

    Just now 63 House republicans – nearly one-third of the entire gop caucus – voted against support for NATO “as an alliance founded on democratic principles.” The gop truly is Putin’s Party. pic.twitter.com/iCWHUK7wq7 — Bill Pascrell, Jr. ???? (@BillPascrell) April 5, 2022 Good. It is better than nothing. NATO was created to contain communism. The […]

  • Zelensky: Ukraine Will Be a “Big Israel” After The War

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 6th 2022 11:30am EDT

    This is a war between liberal democracy and autocracy. JTA: “(JTA) — Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s Jewish president, said his country will look more like Israel, a democracy on constant military alert, than like their more relaxed European neighbors, given the prospect of long-term tensions with Russia. “We will become a ‘big Israel’ with its own […]

  • Foreign Affairs: The Price of Hegemony

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 6th 2022 9:32am EDT

    Good morning. Robert Kagan, a co-founder of the Project for a New American Century, infamous Iraq War neocon and husband of Victoria Nuland, has a surprising admission in a new article out in Foreign Affairs. Foreign Affairs: “For years, analysts have debated whether the United States incited Russian President Vladimir Putin’s interventions in Ukraine and […]