Lockheed Martin Stocks Up — Americans Dumbed Way Down

Phil Butler
5 min readFeb 17, 2022

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We finally did it. We consumed so much bullshit we are no longer capable of understanding, let alone discerning truth. The proof, you ask? Well, a New York Times headline or two should clue those of you not bobbing your head like those dashboard dolls of yesteryear.

Americans are beginning to resemble those wobbly toy dolls we once stuck on our dashboards

“Putin Motives Pose a Challenge for U.S. Intelligence Agencies,” reads the story from a day ago. I’ve reached my limit of free articles at the NYTs, so I cannot reflect further on that brilliant analysis. What I can tell you is that Vladimir Putin was supposed to have launched a major offensive against Kyiv yesterday. Alas, those pesky Russians just can’t stay on the Biden administration’s schedule for war. Perhaps that’s what the rest of the story is about, confused CIA or NSA agents?

Three weeks ago the same New York Times proposed that Britain was set to ‘go hard’ on Putin. “Britain Pursues More Muscular Role in Standoff With Russia on Ukraine,” Ended up with Boris Johnson’s regime evacuating British troops in a kind of reverse, mini-Waterloo move a few days ago. So, maybe it’s not just the CIA that is confused about what Putin is really up to? Don’t start laughing yet, there’s more.

Tom Nichols at The Atlantic wrote “Only Putin Knows What Happens Next,” about three weeks ago too. Nichols says Putin started this mess, and nobody really knows why? Which is, of course, either a stupid statement or an outright lie. Everybody in Washington knows why there is a crisis in Ukraine now, it’s the public that’s been misinformed to the point where World War III will seem a logical progression. Joe Biden took office, and the liberal order’s pressure on Russia’s borders is back on. NATO is the issue. And Nichols knows it.

Russia’s President Putin in an expanded meeting of Emergencies Ministry Board (via videoconference).

Another genius one from the NYTs four days ago starts with “U.S. Battles Putin by Disclosing His Next Possible Moves.” And with this, my question is, are these writers getting paid the big bucks for this nonsense? If so, maybe I should bitch about Putin too, and pitch America’s top newspapers! Say what? The funny thing in all this is how these Goofus newspapermen end up proving their previous lies in a kind of seesaw typing vomit that’s been the Putin story from the beginning. Sorry, what I am talking about is the fact that these editors know full well why the Russians are freaking out over Ukraine and Biden in office.

Andrew Higgins did a story this week about the Poland and Romania Aegis sites that Putin warned NATO about a couple of years ago. The new one in Poland is about to go active, and the Russians already said they would not tolerate the ABM sites if there is a hint they’d be used for an offensive first strike. So, Higgins and the others know full well the score, but it sells more ads and serves more elite pirates to just paint Putin as a demonic autocrat. Oh, you don’t know about Aegis, and how the Russians see the ballistic missile defense system so close to their borders. Sorry, let me explain.

Range of Iran’s Shahab-3 ballistic missile — Public Domain

Vladimir Putin warned NATO and the Romanians that installing the venerable Aegis land-based system in Romania was “painting a bullseye” on that former U.S.S.R. satellite nation. The system first installed on America-guided missile cruisers for fleet missile defense countermeasures was morphed into a land-borne facility ostensibly to protect NATO nations from pesky Iranian ballistic missiles. Aegis, which is produced by Lockheed Martin, is a powerful computer and radar technology to track and guide weapons to destroy enemy targets. And, as Putin claimed in 2016 when the Romanian site went live, it can also serve a dual offensive purpose. First, the system serves to protect Europe in the event an unprovoked first strike by NATO is launched. And second, the system can be used to send strike weapons with pinpoint accuracy toward Russian targets. This is from a video produced by Lockheed:

“The world’s most advanced combat system, Aegis can simultaneously attack land targets, submarines, and surface ships….”

Anyhow, the Russians did not go crazy when the Romanian system went operational, but the Polish one near the tiny village of Redzikowo is only 100 miles from Russian territory and 800 miles from Moscow. Now, with both these systems live, and with Obama Jr. back on the regime change job, the Russians know NATO moving into Ukraine is the next step. And after that? Well, these weapons systems and everything you see developing has absolutely nothing to do with ACME Roadrunner Iranian missiles. Russia is the chosen enemy, end of the story.

If you watch and listen to these Lockheed Martin psychopaths talking about the “excitement” and exude the fun and positivity they do talking about a deadly war system, I hope you will grasp the seriousness of Russia’s position. Who are these threatening foes? Does Europe really fear Iranian missiles that can barely hit Greece if the Iranians cross their fingers and close their eyes at launch? No. The “mission” is to push Russia back into her own territory economically, and physically, and to surround her with everything we’ve got. In December of 2021 Putin said this:

“Are we deploying missiles near the U.S. border? No, we are not. It is the United States that has come to our home with its missiles and is already standing at our doorstep.”

So, there it is, in case you really care to know. The New York Times, the Washington think tanks, the hedge fund’s disguised as NGOs, the billionaire liberal elites, and every one of the corporate-controlled media outlets know full well what the score here is.

By the way, Lockheed Martin stock is up 2.7% in the past month and 14.81% in the past year.

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Phil Butler
Phil Butler

Written by Phil Butler

A journalist, analyst, husband, father, and animal lover. I am semi-retired now, and living on Crete island.

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