Nice to know that Canadian political parties are as cold-blooded hypocritical, cowardly and completely bought off by the Zionist lobby as our R&D duopoly. None of them north or south of the border deserve a single damn vote.
There is no question mark for the MIC. They don't want a war with Iran. It might give war too bad a name for it to sell to the public, like it has after other military disasters in our past.
It WOULD be a military disaster. They're angling for a war in Africa against people who can't sink aircraft carriers or shut off the oil supply from the Persian Gulf in a few hours. That's far more profitable, you see.
Yes, the children hiding under the desks is reminiscent of my Oklahoma elementary education days. We also employed the cafeteria tables....There is so much going on and I do exploit RT for Russian culture (analysis of Pope Francis/death of artist Zurab Tsereteli) as well as succinct alternative political analysis...The latest US embarrassment (validating my assessment that we've gone from the White House 'crash test dummy masquerading as President' to a loose cannon) is the Trumpian threat to seize the Suez canal - the commentary reflecting how the rest of the world sees the US was nothing short of ridicule to something along the lines of the US should be put out of its (and the world's) misery....etc., etc....yes it was RT but still reflecting how row is laughing - crying.....how the US is viewed from outside.............
In another insightful update that I have caught in two places is another Trumpian out-of-touch/insane hack - A. Wes Mitchell...whom Larry Johnson attributes to being an architect of the Ukraine War....(https://nationalinterest.org/feature/strategy-avoiding-two-front-war-192137)....Russian based academic/journalist in an interview on dialogue works had the same assessment in an interview a few days ago...According to the theory, Trump and Russia talks is just theater and to make Trump appear as a peace-maker by offering terms Russia/Ukraine are certain to reject....Then Trump will escape Ukraine, leave it to the Europeans who would have to buy US arms (guess who benefits) and the US would focus on China....All of this is based upon Mitchell plan...Mitchell who served in both Trump administrations expresses the 'how to avoid a two front war' concept in most recent Foreign Affairs (May-June) article....According to this argument, Ukraine war started under Trump and Trump serves empire no less than Biden.....Sorry for the long winded rant just had to vent...
I don't give Trump that much credit for deviousness. He may be a deviant, but he's not devious at all. I can see him being manipulated into doing just what that guy speculated in Ukraine, though.
And so long as he stops providing Ukraine with live intelligence data, it would avoid a direct military confrontation with Russia, which would then proceed to grind the Zelensky regime into history.
That would take a profitable while, though, so I can see the MIC going along with it. So long as Ukrainians are stupid enough to keep dying for their profits, they have little incentive to stop the meatgrinding machine, and it will kill thousands more Russians as well, so the vampires will be satisfied and move on to the next target, probably in Africa.
I never wanted to imply that anyone in Trump Administration - top to bottom - had any degree of intellectual competence which for the current team is at the level of an onion. Supposedly the author of 'avoid the two-front-war' strategy has aspirations to be the next Brzezinsky....But to contribute to (my) cynicism - just read any interesting analysis (Covert Action) of how neocons populate the so-called 'great' US universities. Well Nuland and Clinton at Columbia is old news - heard that university now has reputation for being the place where failed policy-makers go to retire....But the latest now to validate the notion of failing upward is that Jake Sullivan will be joining Samantha Power at Harvard...Again sorry for the long rant but it's been a bad week....
I have tried to “steel man” every argument I can think of to appease Putin, including the fact that “peace” itself might be a good enough justification. But I guess my Eastern European genetic software instinctually opposes a Russian dictator, groomed by the KGB
Then you shouldn't be directing US foreign policy towards Russia, that's all. My wife's genetic software turns out to be 50% Russian and 25% Ukrainian. All she wants is peace, but I guess that figures.
Mine's mainly Scottish, Welsh, and Irish, so if I'm predisposed to be biased it's only England that needs to look out.
Nice to know that Canadian political parties are as cold-blooded hypocritical, cowardly and completely bought off by the Zionist lobby as our R&D duopoly. None of them north or south of the border deserve a single damn vote.
Big Oil >? MIC + Israel.
There is no question mark for the MIC. They don't want a war with Iran. It might give war too bad a name for it to sell to the public, like it has after other military disasters in our past.
It WOULD be a military disaster. They're angling for a war in Africa against people who can't sink aircraft carriers or shut off the oil supply from the Persian Gulf in a few hours. That's far more profitable, you see.
Yes, the children hiding under the desks is reminiscent of my Oklahoma elementary education days. We also employed the cafeteria tables....There is so much going on and I do exploit RT for Russian culture (analysis of Pope Francis/death of artist Zurab Tsereteli) as well as succinct alternative political analysis...The latest US embarrassment (validating my assessment that we've gone from the White House 'crash test dummy masquerading as President' to a loose cannon) is the Trumpian threat to seize the Suez canal - the commentary reflecting how the rest of the world sees the US was nothing short of ridicule to something along the lines of the US should be put out of its (and the world's) misery....etc., etc....yes it was RT but still reflecting how row is laughing - crying.....how the US is viewed from outside.............
In another insightful update that I have caught in two places is another Trumpian out-of-touch/insane hack - A. Wes Mitchell...whom Larry Johnson attributes to being an architect of the Ukraine War....(https://nationalinterest.org/feature/strategy-avoiding-two-front-war-192137)....Russian based academic/journalist in an interview on dialogue works had the same assessment in an interview a few days ago...According to the theory, Trump and Russia talks is just theater and to make Trump appear as a peace-maker by offering terms Russia/Ukraine are certain to reject....Then Trump will escape Ukraine, leave it to the Europeans who would have to buy US arms (guess who benefits) and the US would focus on China....All of this is based upon Mitchell plan...Mitchell who served in both Trump administrations expresses the 'how to avoid a two front war' concept in most recent Foreign Affairs (May-June) article....According to this argument, Ukraine war started under Trump and Trump serves empire no less than Biden.....Sorry for the long winded rant just had to vent...
I don't give Trump that much credit for deviousness. He may be a deviant, but he's not devious at all. I can see him being manipulated into doing just what that guy speculated in Ukraine, though.
And so long as he stops providing Ukraine with live intelligence data, it would avoid a direct military confrontation with Russia, which would then proceed to grind the Zelensky regime into history.
That would take a profitable while, though, so I can see the MIC going along with it. So long as Ukrainians are stupid enough to keep dying for their profits, they have little incentive to stop the meatgrinding machine, and it will kill thousands more Russians as well, so the vampires will be satisfied and move on to the next target, probably in Africa.
I never wanted to imply that anyone in Trump Administration - top to bottom - had any degree of intellectual competence which for the current team is at the level of an onion. Supposedly the author of 'avoid the two-front-war' strategy has aspirations to be the next Brzezinsky....But to contribute to (my) cynicism - just read any interesting analysis (Covert Action) of how neocons populate the so-called 'great' US universities. Well Nuland and Clinton at Columbia is old news - heard that university now has reputation for being the place where failed policy-makers go to retire....But the latest now to validate the notion of failing upward is that Jake Sullivan will be joining Samantha Power at Harvard...Again sorry for the long rant but it's been a bad week....
Russia, Pakistan, Iran, Congo, indeed, who wants the war to continue?
Always enjoy the weekly recap. Linking as usual @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/
We Midwesterners seem to have our own sensibilities!!
Glad there will be no war in Iran. Netanyahu can suck it
Another great column!
Thanks, OB! :*)
I have tried to “steel man” every argument I can think of to appease Putin, including the fact that “peace” itself might be a good enough justification. But I guess my Eastern European genetic software instinctually opposes a Russian dictator, groomed by the KGB
Then you shouldn't be directing US foreign policy towards Russia, that's all. My wife's genetic software turns out to be 50% Russian and 25% Ukrainian. All she wants is peace, but I guess that figures.
Mine's mainly Scottish, Welsh, and Irish, so if I'm predisposed to be biased it's only England that needs to look out.
I can see why Dave Chapelle lives in Ohio. People are smarter there. I may come home to die.
Oh, we have our share of dumb people. Many of them hold public office, and there's a real sociopath running for governor.
Now, I just might go to Yellow Springs and visit Dave Chapelle after I retire. I've never been there and it sounds like a cool place.
Oh, I remember plenty of dumb people from my youth in Ohio. But there were kind, smart ones, too. Smart is not thick on the ground here in Tennessee.
Because of Chapelle's commentary, I too am really curious about Yellow Springs. I am going to Google it now.