tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post2399403342287621120..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Has Donald Trump Already Managed to Break the United States? Is War Next?The Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-68184419803479910182017-02-09T01:21:42.011-08:002017-02-09T01:21:42.011-08:00I notice that even as he makes more or less valid ...I notice that even as he makes more or less valid criticisms of Trump, Kagan himself remains a dangerous nutcase.<br />(More or less valid. Although I find it odd that in the very same breath he denounces both rapprochement and tough talk with rival countries--both apparently leading to the exact same bad result.)Purple library guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01930984683714519212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-89915774973432742612017-02-07T16:08:25.808-08:002017-02-07T16:08:25.808-08:00750+ US military bases and counting world wide. Th...750+ US military bases and counting world wide. The invasion, interference and occupation of sovereign nations since WW11 is more then 50+. The military and political provocation of Russia and China is instigated by propaganda and outright lies. <br /><br />The complete destruction of sovereign nations, many through proxy wars. The American Empire along with NATO are the ones in their goal of neoliberal world domination that bestows this violence on countries of the world whose wealth they seek to plunder or who they seek for geopolitical reasons.<br /><br />Russia and China alledgedly seeking hegemonic dominance is completely without evidence. Empty assertions, propogated by the west to justify their own militarism. No one but the American people believe them. These same people who never question their government and their militaries ongoing wars against sovereign countries.<br /><br />Millions have had to run from their homes and countries because of the US's destruction of their countries. Millions have died, because of the military violence imposed on their countries by the US and NATO.<br /><br />Their most recent target, Iran, they have accused of being the greatest cause and supporter of terrorism in the world! This from the greatest purveyor of violence and terrorism the world has ever seen, The United States of America.<br /><br />I'm sure that Trumps recent threats against Iran are strongly encouraged by the necon powers of the Deep State and strongly encouraged by Israel and Saudi Arabia, 2 of the US's most violent and Imperial allies.<br /><br />Is it a coincidence that out of the 7 countries that Trump has chosen to block from entering the US, that 3 of these countries, Iraq, Libya and Syria are Iranian allies? I doubt it..<br /><br />Now that the anti-intellectualism that has dominated American culture has been realized through the election of Donald Trump, all that is left, is to watch the consequences of that anti-intellectualism in the form of Presidential decisions.<br /><br />The American cultural wasteland ends at the Oval Office.The resident in chief that Farley Mowat would have called a psychopath, the American people call their president.<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07842215982128591742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-15189555813570808652017-02-07T06:34:18.432-08:002017-02-07T06:34:18.432-08:001) No argument that tRump & co are out to end ...1) No argument that tRump & co are out to end democracy and perhaps even provoke war. Calling them 'mad' is part of the coping strategy but I fear it masks and excuses the coldly-rational behavior.<br /><br />2) I see most of the 'principled' neo-CONs acquiescing to tRump as he consolidates power. Do not look to them to go against tRump in a pinch, they saw their own party massively vote for him and they are coming into line now. (Frum - an irrelevant Canadian aside - watch Paul Ryan for ex.)<br /><br />3) "China and Russia are classic revisionist powers"<br />Classic western BS.<br /><br />I googled this phrase - and found (perhaps?) the source in that 'left-wing scourge' Financial Times... back in 2014. (When tRump was just a failed celebrity.) <br />https://www.ft.com/content/fb9a5ba6-fd4d-11e3-96a9-00144feab7de<br /><br />Cept in their case they lumped in Iran with these other two...quelle surprise!<br /><br />After Napoleon and Hitler, Eastern Europe as Russia's buffer zone was a survival policy. (As was the reclaimed the Crimea - it was only part of the Ukraine because of Khrushchev's vanity and hosted Russia's main warm water naval base.)<br /><br />China has had centuries to learn not to trust the west. All their 'aggression' is looking to secure the trade-routes (in their immediate neighborhood) for the New Silk Roads.<br /><br />Iran: invaded by neighbors, undermined by the CIA and literally surrounded by nuclear powers including their existential enemy in the region. <br /><br />So - when the background arguments we rely on in the west are based on this kind of BS, I think tRump will have little opposition in his jihad.<br /><br /><br />Northern PoVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04670080478290108536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-89312387047856767212017-02-06T23:39:49.307-08:002017-02-06T23:39:49.307-08:00TB, what Bannon has in his dark, twisted mind isn&...TB, what Bannon has in his dark, twisted mind isn't a proxy war. Anything but.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-83186282831440754322017-02-06T20:04:25.402-08:002017-02-06T20:04:25.402-08:00Go to war or proxy war?
It would seem to me that t...Go to war or proxy war?<br />It would seem to me that the USA has a dwindling supply of friends.<br />Even the US evangelistas have little appetite for all out war and a Obamadrone ,as we have seen,conflict is unlikely to be effective.<br />That said; the optics of an all out drone war against the non,Christian, believers would make good press in the USA as did the Gulf War...how soon we forget!<br />The Anglo Spheres appetite for conflict knows no bounds <br /><br />TB<br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com