Lauren Johnson Wrote:Well, David, I would have to say your post clears things up. Well, said. And it's sad the Yelstin years placed Russia its current trajectory. Just sad?
Without the least bit of evidence, I wonder if some future Guido Preparata will tease out the current equivalents of Montague Norman and Hjalmar Schacht, if indeed they exist. Could Putin be piece in a vast danse macabre in ways yet to be imagined? I think its time for me to re-read Conjuring Hitler. One of my favorites.
Preparata has this to say in its conjuring of Hitler and WWII with particular notice to the bold text:
Quote: But the Hitlerites had to be duped into going to war against Russia with the guarantee that Britain,
and thus America, would remain neutral: Hitler would not want to repeat
the errors of World War I. Therefore Britain had to double' herself, so to
speak, into a pro-Nazi and anti-Nazi faction both of which, of course, were
components of one and the same fakery. The complex and rather grotesque
whole of Britain's foreign policy in the 1930s was indeed the result of these
ghastly theatrical diversions with which the Hitlerites were made to believe
that at any time the colorful Nazi-phile camp would overthrow the hawks
of the War Party, led by Winston Churchill, and sign a separate peace with
the Third Reich. The secret goal of this unbelievable mummery was to drive
Hitler away from the Mediterranean in 1941, and into the Soviet marshes,
which the British would in fact allow him to cleanse' for three years, until
the time would arrive to hem the Nazis in and ï¬nally crush them. (p. 204)
Just think about what he is saying with respect to the current hollering and at least wonder if the same tricks are being used now as in pre-war England.
Magda Hassan Wrote:Cliff Varnell Wrote:Mike Pence is a fully formed adult -- his politics aside.
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The only thing this 'adult' doesn't believe in is magic underpants and only because the Mormons have the market on that piece of insanity. Fundamentalist Catholics/Christians have their own well pack bags of delusional thinking, anti intellectualism, magical thinking, bigotry, dogmatism, irrationality. Pence is a fully paid up card carrying Christian fascist on a mission from his own self created invisible vengeful sky pilot. He is so far away from being an adult it is terrifying and in a whole other league from the tangerine cockwomble flim flam man on the make.
You're describing the modern Republican Party -- thousands of GOP officials are hypocritical religious fanatics like Pence.
But no, there's no one in the league of the eternally deluded, pathological liar Trump.
Is there any other politician in the world who would have refused to shake hands with Angela Merkel?
Fuck no...
As far as President Pence goes, it'll take the FBI a couple of more years to put together a case against Trump.
As long as the Resistance stays strong the Dems will re-take Congress in 2018 and elect Bernie Sanders in 2020.
Cliff Varnell Wrote:As far as President Pence goes, it'll take the FBI a couple of more years to put together a case against Trump.
As long as the Resistance stays strong the Dems will re-take Congress in 2018 and elect Bernie Sanders in 2020.
Sanders, a far-right servant of the Deep State when it comes to foreign policy, can then launch WWIII.
Paul Rigby Wrote:Cliff Varnell Wrote:As far as President Pence goes, it'll take the FBI a couple of more years to put together a case against Trump.
As long as the Resistance stays strong the Dems will re-take Congress in 2018 and elect Bernie Sanders in 2020.
Sanders, a far-right servant of the Deep State when it comes to foreign policy, can then launch WWIII.
Over what?
The US of A since Korea only goes to war over oil or heroin, although "weapons of mass destruction" is the go-to rationale.
North Korea isn't worth fighting WW3 over.
Oil and opiates we have plenty of, thank you.
Russo-philes think Americans give a flying fuck about the Ukraine, but we don't.
Cliff Varnell Wrote:Russo-philes think Americans give a flying fuck about the Ukraine, but we don't.
Fuck the Ukraine.
It is much bigger than that.
Magda Hassan Wrote:Cliff Varnell Wrote:Russo-philes think Americans give a flying fuck about the Ukraine, but we don't.
Fuck the Ukraine.
It is much bigger than that.
So President Bernie Sanders is going to start WW3 over what?