I agree with you. I mentioned the Long Emergency because whether one believes in peak oil or not, the scenarios he describes when the power goes out for whatever reason are real.
I don't believe what I read or hear most of the time either. However, listening to Putin at Valdai, I did not hear him say anything but what sounds like the truth. He paints a picture of sheer idiocy with respect to what the US has done with the various "springs." He mentions, "getting your ambassador killed in Libya...absolutely right on the money there.
People never understand me when I tell them that some countries do better or need a dictatorship. Going around the world trying to fix countries is nuts.
I am not sure about what happened in France...false flags are really useful devices as we have seen for some time.
As for Iran, I really don't have a problem with them. The US started the problem there with the Mordad Coup. As for what Ahmadinejad said about Israel being "wiped off the face of the earth," it was a combination of a misquote of Khomeini and mistranslation by the press. Khomeini gave a speech in which he said in Persian “Een rezhim-i eshghalgar-i Quds bayad az sahneh-i ruzgar mahv shaved.” This means, “This occupation regime over Jerusalem must vanish from the arena of time.”
American Jews are not aware that there is a Jewish population in Iran which is considered a minority. What seems never to be communicated by the press is that Iran is against the Zionist occupation of Israel, the outright steeling of land which started with Balfour declaration. Jews and Arabs were living very happily in peace together prior to this.
Zionism has nothing to do with the Jewish religion. What is even more interesting is that the Zionists who did this are really Khzarian.
Khazarian Jews It should be no surprise that Palestinians share the same genes which makes the genocide being perpetrated upon them all the more tragic:
The Missing Link of Jewish European Ancestry: Contrasting the Rhineland and the Khazarian Hypotheses