07-08-2016, 11:21 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-08-2016, 11:44 AM by Cliff Varnell.)
My comments in red
David Guyatt Wrote:A really quite important article on US foreign policy under Hillary and the US Establishment position by Brit, Alastaar Crooke, a former spook and Foreign Office diplomat.
"Does he (Trump) not understand, (these "ancien regime" figures seem to say,) that rapprochement and entente with Putin now, could bring the whole structure tumbling down?
Ya'all don't get it.
Trump doesn't do strategic thinking.
He doesn't do any real thinking at all -- and has admitted to such.
He's a pure reactionary -- politically and personally.
It could collapse America's entire foreign policy? Without a clear Russian "threat" (the "threat" being now a constant refrain in the U.S. Beltway), what meaning has NATO? And without NATO, why should Europe stay "on side, and [do] the right thing?" And if Damascus, Moscow and Tehran succeed in emerging with political credit and esteem from the Syria conflict, what price then for the U.S,-led "rules-based" global order?"
So, the war in Syria is also the war against Russia and both are absolute requirements by the US to keep Europe inside the American NATO camp - and if Europe leaves NATO the entire US financial franchise is finished.
This is absurd.
War with Russia over what?
Obama and Putin negotiated the removal of chemical weapons from Syria, eliminating the rationale for military enforced regime change.
They negotiated the removal of Iran's nuke capability, eliminating the rationale for a joint US/Israeli attack on Iran.
The US-Russia conflict is overblown.
The US go to war over eastern Ukraine? Syria?
Spare me...
That's why Wall Street is financing Hillary in order to load her gun against Russia.
To fight over what? Syria ain't a player in either the oil or heroin markets -- ergo, American elites don't really care.
Start digging shelters I say, because if Crooke suggests a hot war with Russia is coming, then you can be pretty damn sure that really is the option chosen.
Clinton Derangement Syndrome.
If it doesn't involve oil or smack America ain't going to war with Russia.
What was the war in Vietnam over? Control of the Golden Triangle opium production.
2 wars in Iraq? Oil.
The bombing of Kosovo? Smack.
The invasion of Afghanistan? Smack.
The removal of Manuel Noriega wasn't about smack -- cocaine, instead.
Why fight ISIS? Oil.
In 2016 the US is the world's #1 oil producer (or at least has that capability) and #1 synthetic opioid producer.
What else do Americans fight over?