Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded November 27th, 2024.
Well it may have taken four years and fourteen days, but the horde has breached the gates and there’s nothing for it but to wait and watch the Trumpocalypse unfold January 20th, 2025. At least, that’s how something more than half of America, and most of the rest of the planet, feels. But they’re dead wrong. The prelude to the Trump sequel is playing out already in the form of his announced picks for high office. While it’s tempting to laugh off the coming carnival, and the buffoons currently being crammed into the tiny car, there’s a sinister undertone to this second coming; the kind of creepiness only a scaring, painted clown can elicit.
Professor Jeremy Kuzmarov is a scholar, journalist and author, who writes for and serves as Managing Editor to Covert Action Magazine. Kuzmarov’s book titles include, ‘Obama’s Unending Wars’, ‘The Russians Are Coming, Again’, (written with John Marciano) and his latest, ‘Warmonger. How Clinton’s Malign Foreign Policy Launched the U.S. Trajectory From Bush II to Biden’. His recent article at CAM, ‘Marco Rubio: An Abhorrent Choice for Secretary of State‘ prefaces the sophomore Trump presidency; an administration that could prove not only worse than the first, but even more disastrous than the Biden one it replaces.
Jeremy Kuzmarov in the first half.
And; in recent weeks the outgoing American president has signed off on the use of advanced US missiles by Ukrainian forces against targets inside Russia. The launching of ATACMS rockets soon followed the Biden announcement, raising the stakes in the two and half years-long conflict to catastrophic dimensions, or as Russian president, Vladimir Putin drily noted, the conflict “had now acquired elements of a global character.”
Last week, Russia answered with devastating effect, debuting the so-called Oreshnik hypersonic missile, reportedly destroyed the Yuzhmash weapons plant where ATACMS and other advanced Western weapons systems were stored. But if the Oreshnik was meant to deter their future use, it was less successful than the Kremlin might have hoped. Monday 13 more ATACMS were launched against Russian targets in the Kursk region.
John Helmer’s a journalist and author who’s spent decades living in and reporting from Russia. He’s the principle behind the web news site, Dances with Bears and has, as well as serving as advisor to governments at the highest level, too been a professor of political science, sociology, and journalism. His article, ‘THE UKRAINE WAR AFTER THE PENNY HAS DROPPED – MAKE THAT THE ORESHNIK‘ examines the recent, but not latest, escalation in the war over there.
Among his many book titles are: ‘The Man Who Knows Too Much About Russia,’ ‘The Lie That Shot Down MH-17, the lately released autobiography, ‘Dunce Upon a Time: A Life of Mistakes’, and ‘Skripal in Prison,’ the first and perhaps only book to follow the Skripal saga from its beginnings.
John Helmer and Biden’s cataclysmic departing in the second half.
But first, Jeremy Kuzmarov and après le déluge, Le Donald.
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