I’d like to believe that the author of this article is correct. I think he is, but having no credibility left doesn’t equate to having no power or influence left.
There is an old saying, “The cornered rat is known to kill its own kind for survival”. The elites will not go away silently into the night.
We see the battle in America which ostensibly is over President Trump.
It’s really over us, of course. All of these attacks on Trump are designed to get us to pull our support of him.
Trump represents the first time in a very long time that the average American felt powerful. That loving America and Americans was ok. That seeing the elites and their political swamp was a danger to us.
The war is on in America. “Nationalism” is the enemy of the swamp. Loving America and what it was and what it could be is wrong in the eyes of the elites.
They will not go down without a fight. And it could be ugly. …
I have long thought that our Neos want another Cold War. It’s the perfect scenario for our Military Industrial Complex. We get to buy lots of equipment, none of which really has to work. Heck we never have to use it. Who remembers the debacle with the Patriot Missiles in the first Gulf War? They didn’t work, yet no one got fired and we merely gave them more money to fix them.
When the Soviet Union fell, we agreed not to expand NATO into the former Soviet states. That agreement ended up being meaningless.
Now we’ve got US and other NATO forces closer to the Russian homeland. The Russians lost 27 MILLION people in World War II. All on their homeland. It’s difficult for Americans to imagine fighting for where we live. We’ve only been invaded once and that didn’t turn out so well for the British, but it wasn’t a town to town, house to house battle.
It’s not hard to imagine that Russia would want to protect its country.
Yet, as the US concentrates on re-fighting WWII in Europe, the rest of the developed world concentrates on economic warfare, forging new alliances based on trade.
And we wonder why we’re $20+ Trillion in debt. …
The Neos are doing everything they can to damage Russia.
At the behest of the Saudi’s we put sanctions on their oil exports to Europe thinking that we’d destroy Russia’s economies. All that happened was a shift in Russia’s exports to Asia.
We continue with other sanctions and vilification of Russia and so far the only result has been Russia’s alliances with China, Asia and the Middle East.
Even our “friends” the Saudis have made up with Russia and new growth and friendships are emerging.
The Neos would have you believe that they are smarter than you are. That we should trust them because they are the “enlightened” ones. They got spoiled though in the post Cold War era. There was a time when taking on 2nd and 3rd world countries was as simple as showing up and bullying them.
Developed countries aren’t so easy to bully. They are smart too. The cypto-rouble will get foreign investment into Russia, a country with a stable, virtually debt free economy. We sanction their banks and they figure out a different way to excel. Innovation used to be our greatness. …
The US Chamber of Commerce is the biggest enemy of “We the People” of any group in America. The Chamber is the largest lobbying group in the U.S., spending more money than any other lobbying organization on a yearly basis. They will claim that they exist to support American businesses.
Let’s see what they’ve supported in the past:
They were big supports of Hillary’s healthcare reform in 1993.
Opposes the DISCLOSE Act, which aims to limit foreign influence on U.S. elections
The Chamber of Commerce has come under attack by conservatives and others for its support of amnesty for illegal immigrants
The move by the Chamber comes days after the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC backed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, made a similar announcement.
The Swamp spent upwards of $32 MILLION to try elect Luther Strange. For all of you gun rights folks, the NRA spent almost one million dollars in the last week of the primary alone! All to protect the swamp
When two Republicans were running against each other in a Primary, the money poured out like water. Now that the race is between a Republican and a Democrat, they are not spending a dime.
It’s not Trump they hate. It’s us. Be proud. …
The irony drips off the page. “Biden and McCain, rivals”. “McCain gets Liberty medal”. “McCain’s lifetime of loyalty”. "He has devoted his life to securing and expanding liberty to people everywhere,"
And all of this at the Constitution Center.
The tips that the Constitution Center’s “Liberty Medal” might not really be Liberty in defense of the Constitution were pretty apparent. Presenter of the medal was Starbucks Executive Chairman Howard Schultz. Previous winners of the medal include Nelson Mandela and Colin Powell.
McCain actually summed up the Neo Con goals publicly better than most will.
"To refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain 'the last best hope of earth' for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history,"
They really believe that the average American should suffer in order to expand the empire. Please realize that these attacks on Trump are really attacks on us. McCain and his ilk find us just as deplorable as Hillary does.…
The phenomenon of not “talking” to countries we don’t like isn’t limited to the United States. Europe is falling into the same trap.
We all have the same problem with our neighbors. Most folks don’t even know who lives next door, but will claim “friends” that we’ve never met on Facebook and other social media. We not knowing neighbors merely hurts the social construct. Countries not even talking often ends up in war.
Countries don’t have to “like” other countries. They can learn to get along. Iran and Iraq, even with their history of animosity are cooperating militarily. Pakistan and India with their long hatred of each other have not used their nuclear bombs on each other, yet both have had them for a long time. North and South Korea have stayed on their side of the DMZ.
Running people off from a forum that is designed to have rational discussion over perceived problems doesn’t seem like a good idea. …
If you haven’t ever heard about the study “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm” it’s been the driving force behind our never ending wars in the Middle East. Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan you name have all been part of a plan/doctrine first written in 1996. The link to it is below.
Even Israel at the time thought the plan was too extreme. But we went off to support our Neo beliefs. We all know that plans don’t survive first contact and now we don’t know how to deal with defeat.
We continue to demonize Iran, but don’t want to invade Iran. If defeating Iran was really so important, we should left Saddam alive.
Iran and Iraq are training together to defeat terrorists in the Region. Imagine, two lifelong hatreds coming together to defeat common enemy! We created ISIS and brought two enemies together. I guess that’s a success of sorts.
And now we’re fighting for the same space that we’ve lost lots of good soldiers in. Too much weirdness. …
With the end of the Cold War, the US Defense Department has become both the State Department and the Department of Offense. We negotiate at the point of a gun and have ignored the defense of the United States.
We’ve spent $1.5 Trillion dollars on the F35, an airplane that marginally works and probably never will.
Russia had an advantage that the US didn’t in the past decades. They didn’t have the money to develop and field a huge, modern fighter aircraft fleet. Yes, they have done research on some really good jets. They still can’t afford to field a lot of them.
So, they concentrated on defending Russia with some awesome air defense capabilities. Having a large fleet of aircraft like we do doesn’t really matter if they can all be neutralized. And, missiles are cheaper.
Perhaps it’s time to concentrate on defending our country.…
I don’t understand what we gain by disengaging from Iran.
No one argues that Iran is a “nice” country. No one can honestly argue that Iran isn’t a big player in the Middle East. No one can make an argument that Iran doesn’t want to be more powerful in the region.
The Iran “deal” is an international agreement signed by seven countries. It does not require “certification’, but it does require regular inspections by international inspectors. The certification requirement was imposed by a Republican congress who disagreed with President Obama’s signing on to the agreement.
In a perfect example of the old saying “a broken clock is right twice a day” the ultra mega Neo Con group the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) makes some excellent points on the dangers to the US of messing with this International Agreement. Even our Secretary of Defense Mad Dog Mattis argues that this will hurt America in the long term because no one will trust us again.
Just like Syria, we’re doing this at the behest of our allies the Saudis. It’s clearly in their interest, which 9/11 should remind us is rarely in our interest.…
The Vegas shooting gets more bizarre by the day. Of course being an American event we all know that memories fade fast. Who recalls the Houston hurricane of a few weeks ago? Can anyone describe how their recovery is going today?
The same thing is happening with the Vegas shooting right now. It certainly doesn’t get much press anymore and certainly doesn’t get much critical inquiry.
I’m still watching it and paying attention to the little bits of information coming out from time to time. The timeline shifts are amazing and just add to the mistrust of the process. I’m still trying to figure out “who gains” from the shooting. More to follow on that.
As you look back at the videos, I’m still confounded by what you don’t see. This is an era where you always see a plethora of news and police helicopters during any incident. Hospitals own their own helicopters. I haven’t seen any helicopters in any of the footage. Seems odd.
Today’s post raises some more questions and observations. …
