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Do you agree or disagree with Ambassador Chip Bohlen’s statement that #Russia was unwilling to be a good neighbor in the global community after #WWII?
Did the Soviets start the #ColdWar, as Bohlen claimed?
Or was the West the aggressor?
Please comment below 👇🏼
Did the Soviets start the #ColdWar, as Bohlen claimed?
Or was the West the aggressor?
Please comment below 👇🏼
Declassified documents I’ve seen from both British and American intelligence indicate that WE were the aggressors.
OPERATION UNTHINKABLE shows us that even before the war was over, in April 1945, the Cold War had already begun — and Winston Churchill started it. Not Stalin!
OPERATION UNTHINKABLE shows us that even before the war was over, in April 1945, the Cold War had already begun — and Winston Churchill started it. Not Stalin!
Link to the declassified documents from the UK National Archives:
America’s efforts to block oil & gas pipelines from #Russia date back to #JFK, who pressured #NATO allies into an embargo of the Friendship pipeline in 1962.
This 2019 Radio Free Europe article on #NordStream2’s construction is quite telling indeed… rferl.org/a/us-efforts-s…
This 2019 Radio Free Europe article on #NordStream2’s construction is quite telling indeed… rferl.org/a/us-efforts-s…
#JFK’s 1962 embargo on oil pipes and pipeline technology marked a foundational decision that became a template for future #USSR-USA conflicts, as shown by the embargo on pipeline technologies in the early 1980s by Ronald #Reaganʼs government to halt the Trans-Siberian pipeline.
Let’s go back to the summer of 1961, when — in the words of US delegates at #NATO — the main discursive line was that European countriesʼ Soviet oil & gas trade was allegedly imperiling the security the entire Western bloc.
The Friendship pipeline was a threat, the U.S. said.
The Friendship pipeline was a threat, the U.S. said.
Those who say #LBJ killed #JFK do a great disservice to both men.
Despite his youth, Kennedy was in frail health with an illness that could kill him. He chose his successor with care. Johnson was the man he selected, over many objections.
As he said himself, LBJ was HIS man.
Despite his youth, Kennedy was in frail health with an illness that could kill him. He chose his successor with care. Johnson was the man he selected, over many objections.
As he said himself, LBJ was HIS man.
Source: New York Times coverage of Kennedy’s announcement of VP nominee, Democratic National Convention. July 15, 1960.
#JFKSaturday
archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.co…
#JFKSaturday
archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.co…
Sen. Kennedy said many times throughout the primary season of 1960 that because of LBJ’s many years as Senate Majority Leader, “Lyndon Johnson is the best qualified man to run the country of all the candidates in this race, including myself.”
On this #JFK Saturday, I’d like to share with you one of the weirdest pieces of Kennedy memorabilia in my collection:
The MORNING Extra edition of the Los Angeles Times for Friday, Nov. 22, 1963. 📰
Somebody goofed that headline!
The MORNING Extra edition of the Los Angeles Times for Friday, Nov. 22, 1963. 📰
Somebody goofed that headline!
Here’s the full front page:
Andrew Dawson, Deeper Dig ..
The world can solve this right now & have A few Biblical answers ..
The Smallest of Details in reports & timing, most important ..
The world can solve this right now & have A few Biblical answers ..
The Smallest of Details in reports & timing, most important ..
11-4-1987
7-1-2022
1 + 1 = 3 + 4 = (7) - 1 - 2022
There is so much here !
7-1-2022
1 + 1 = 3 + 4 = (7) - 1 - 2022
There is so much here !
This Master Thread 🧵 is a collection of my deep dives into 20th Century HIDDEN HISTORY, sourced from declassified documents 🗄 and films 🎥 in US government archives.
#WWI #WWII #FDR #ColdWar #JFK #RFK #MLK #LBJ #JFKFiles #ColdWar #CIA #FBI #USSR #SovietUnion #Ukraine #Nazis
#WWI #WWII #FDR #ColdWar #JFK #RFK #MLK #LBJ #JFKFiles #ColdWar #CIA #FBI #USSR #SovietUnion #Ukraine #Nazis
More on #OperationUnthinkable
At the height of #ColdWar tensions with #Russia, the Soviets might have been pleased—or understandably frightened—to know that #JFK distrusted America’s military and intelligence establishment almost as much as they did. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
Kennedy had barely settled into the Oval Office when Admiral Arleigh Burke planned to publicly assail “the Soviet Union from hell to breakfast” in a speech.
#JFK ordered the admiral to back off & required all military officers to clear any public speeches with the White House!
#JFK ordered the admiral to back off & required all military officers to clear any public speeches with the White House!
President Kennedy’s biggest worry about the military was not the personalities involved but rather the freedom of field commanders to launch nuclear weapons without explicit permission from the commander in chief.
So he issued orders that no nuclear launch without POTUS approval
So he issued orders that no nuclear launch without POTUS approval
@TuckerCarlson CIA organized #JFK’s brutal public assassination six weeks after he ordered we withdraw from Vietnam.
A few days after his murder, oil man LBJ reversed that to escalate the war which killed millions of poor people.
CIA asset #LHO really was a pasty.
A few days after his murder, oil man LBJ reversed that to escalate the war which killed millions of poor people.
CIA asset #LHO really was a pasty.
@TuckerCarlson #JFK ordered we start pulling out of Vietnam War six weeks prior to his murder with #NSAM263 ::
jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/a…
A few days after JFK’s murder, Texas oil profiteer #LBJ ordered the escalation of the war which led to millions of ☠️ #NSAM273 ::
history.state.gov/historicaldocu…
jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/a…
A few days after JFK’s murder, Texas oil profiteer #LBJ ordered the escalation of the war which led to millions of ☠️ #NSAM273 ::
history.state.gov/historicaldocu…
@TuckerCarlson It was pretty well known at the time #JFK’s assassination was a #fascist #coup on the 🇺🇸
A lot of old articles, interviews about it.
Here’s a clip from one of #JimGarrison’s ::
22november1963.org.uk/jim-garrison-p…
A lot of old articles, interviews about it.
Here’s a clip from one of #JimGarrison’s ::
22november1963.org.uk/jim-garrison-p…
[2] This doesn't even highlight how Wade was with the FBI, and ran successful Nazi spy infiltration and arrests in the USA and central/south America during WW2 for FBI Director Hoover (who oversaw JFK assassination investigation). He appeared to be a dependable ally of Hoover.
[3] Nor does it highlight how Judge Sarah Hughes was a prominent "right to abortion" advocate, even being a public events during the very same months of the 1970s during which she was on the initial 3-judge panel.
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This #NYTimes piece on #Biden is #interesting. It'is almost honest.
The reporters express surprise that #SenileJoe is siding with the #Dem #Left. Maybe they really ARE surprised. If they are, it just shows they were conned as thoroughly as most of the country was in 2020.
This #NYTimes piece on #Biden is #interesting. It'is almost honest.
The reporters express surprise that #SenileJoe is siding with the #Dem #Left. Maybe they really ARE surprised. If they are, it just shows they were conned as thoroughly as most of the country was in 2020.
It’s now clear that Biden had a three part agenda: 1) Get elected #POTUS. 2) Pass a lot of very expensive government programs. 3) Go down in history as an #FDR or #LBJ, a president who permanently transformed American society.
#Joe’s problem was that 2) endangered 1). He needed to pretend to be “moderate” to get elected. So he ran a campaign that came down to ‘#OrangeManBad, #SenileManGood, and let’s not talk about what I’ll do in office.’ And it worked. He got the #DemocraticParty united behind him.
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I know EXACTLY who needs to hear this, but America's most #Socialist president was #LBJ, not #FDR. No president in US history created more socialist programs for this country, key among them:
#Medicare
#Medicaid
#HeadStart #VotingRightsAct
#CivilRightsAct
I know EXACTLY who needs to hear this, but America's most #Socialist president was #LBJ, not #FDR. No president in US history created more socialist programs for this country, key among them:
#Medicare
#Medicaid
#HeadStart #VotingRightsAct
#CivilRightsAct
#LBJ grew up dirt poor and credited access to public education with his ability to win a congressional seat at 27. His first year in office he DOUBLED the national budget for public education. LBJ also established the plan for the rural hospital system Trump is dismantling.
#LBJ established #NationalPublicRadio in 1967 to make arts and education communication accessible to everyone. He said, "America wants more than a chicken in every pot."
I saw the movie #Apollo13 with #LunarModule Program Director #JoeGavin. Now it’s time to tell the forgotten story—which that film doesn’t show—of how he & his #Grumman #Team helped rescue the astronauts with a #LMLifeboat while the world watched: andrewerickson.com/2020/04/apollo… #Apollo50
Five decades ago, during the aborted #Apollo13 mission of April 1970, #Grumman Aerospace Corporation’s #LunarModule saved 3 astronauts by becoming a lifeboat-tugboat. Throughout the crisis, #LM Program Director #JoeGavin manned his post @NASA’s #MissionControl Center in #Houston.
Gavin led a multi-hundred-person team in Houston & Bethpage, NY to help coordinate assessment & use of the #LM’s capabilities for emergency #LunarLifeboat role.
Gavin, virtually all of his colleagues + contemporaries & #Grumman itself have subsequently departed from the scene.
Gavin, virtually all of his colleagues + contemporaries & #Grumman itself have subsequently departed from the scene.
Replace "oligarchy" and "authoritarianism" with T-R-U-M-P and people might actually listen.
Cue all the folks who hate Bernie claiming that socialism is bad when at least half their daily lives are *stops to get mail and also remembers I'm on Internet* filled with small s socialism.
#Bernie is his own worst enemy with his incessant buzzwords.
#Bernie is his own worst enemy with his incessant buzzwords.
Ok I just finished my last #Audible #Audiobook. Time to trade them all in and get new ones. For my personal record I am going to tweet all the book, that I have listened to in the last few months. Ok here we go.
Learned more about #JFK than I have in my life. I really enjoyed this one. It's long, but for someone like me that didn't live through that time period, it was good at giving a sense of just how close we came to nuclear war and how JFK avoided it.
audible.com/pd/B00507LPX4?…
audible.com/pd/B00507LPX4?…
Another President I knew barely anything about, #LBJ. This book was really good too. I will probably listen to it again because I would like to be able to retain and repeat some of the stories that prove how corrupt #LBJ (and the Democrats) were. audible.com/pd/B00BFYJQJQ?…
06/01/2019 - 78 years ago today, the longest-serving #UnitedStates #President, #Franklin D. #Roosevelt (#FDR) addressed the 77th #Congress with his "#Four #Freedoms" speech with the intent to shift #US #foreign #policy from that of #neutrality to #interventionist.
#FDR promoted the idea that the people of the world, in all nations, shared entitlement to four freedoms: that of the freedom of speech and expression, the freedom of worship, the freedom from want and the freedom from fear.
