No one can deny that North Korea is paranoid and wants to be seen as a legitimate “player” in the world. If we want to be seen as a leader in the world, we must though get beyond the notion that foreign policy is a “shoot first” and “occupy later” concept. Our role in how North Korea is now is based on our initial roles in how North Korea got to be.…
Foreign influence over domestic elections. We are pre-occupied with some threat of Russian influence. Yet lots of countries influence our electoral process before and after elections, and of course we’re very famous for influencing other countries elections.…
Economics is a very boring subject. The folks that stick it out in school are the ones running the world. They count on you finding it boring and the media usually ignores it too. We share what’s going on here.…
The US involvement in Syria clearly is not America’s best moment. We got involved at the behest of our “allies” Saudi Arabia and Israel. Like so many “wars” we fight in, we let the CIA and the US military organize things. We send lots of military hardware to those we support, to include ISIS. CIA groups fought against our military groups. And it all failed.
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How do you describe a nation that ignores laws and treaties whenever it decides it doesn’t want to follow them? For the rest of the world, they are more and more calling that nation a bully. And it’s the United States who is the bully.…
Just think about this for a moment. These folks live right next door to North Korea. They would bear the biggest brunt of a war. And they say “no” to President Trump. This is kind of like a disagreement with your next door neighbor, and then the Governor sends in the National Guard.…
Something rather unprecedented just happened in Syria: US backed “good terrorist” forces attempted a surprise attack against Syrian government forces stationed to the north and northeast of the city of Hama. …
Most of the embargos against Iran back in the day never really worked, as European countries violated them regularly. France was a huge violator. It’s a cliché, but in this case it really was about the oil.
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As usual, things aren’t always as they seem when presented to us in the US media.
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The trifecta of 487s! County, State and University! My response to folks saying this is always, “so what”? Liberals have no response to that statement. They want you to feel offended. With that said, what kind of person studies sociology anyway?
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