The plain fact is Russia is an economic and military weakling and is not the slightest threat to the security of the United States. None. Nichts. Nada. Nope.NATO's purpose is to politically dominate Europe, not protect it from Russia.
Its entire expenditure for national defense amounts to just $50 billion, but during the current year, only $35 billion of that will actually go to the Russian Armed Forces. On an apples-to-apples basis, thatβs about three weeks of Pentagon spending!
Once upon a time, there was a fairy kingdom that lived inside a place called The Beltway and was surrounded on all four sides by a land called America. The Beltway was aligned with another kingdom called Manhattan, inhabited by disembodied heads that spoke from the walls of bars, and with yet another closed kingdom called Hollywood, the abode of half-educated narcissists. These kingdoms were in eternal political syzygy and spoke not with the people of the surrounding lands, of whom they knew nothing.
Distance from that history lets Jacobin promote a very different brand of socialism without being overly defensive about the past or feeling a need to redbait those to its left for being insufficiently anti-communist or pro-American. This historical distance is also perhaps the reason young people are so receptive to the idea of socialism today.Jacobin is my favorite commie rag. The howlers emitted from there are nonstop.
A large part of the 3 billion Euros annually allotted to Ankara will serve to finance support for the jihadists, and as a result will increase the number of migrants who are fleeing the war. Above all, by repealing the visa regulations with Turkey in the next few months, the Europeans are establishing free circulation between the Al-QaΓ―da camps in Turkey and Brussels. By crushing the Iraqi and Syrian people under the pressure of the jihadists whom they are indirectly financing, and abandoning the Turkish people to the dictatorship of President ErdoΔan, they are preparing the foundations for a vast confrontation of which they will themselves be the victims.He goes on to compare this deal to Munich. I agree with the characterization of Erdogan as fundamentally Hitlerite, and the european elites knowing full well they are dealing with a mad dog. Now, like then the pols are licking their chops over the power they will get from the resultant crisis and mobilization to deal with it.
βThe Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what Iβm saying? We knew we couldnβt make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.βGlad to see a mainstream rag like Harpers grow a pair. It will be interesting when people figure out the Pedo and Militia accusations are the same shit.
I must have looked shocked. Ehrlichman just shrugged. Then he looked at his watch, handed me a signed copy of his steamy spy novel, The Company, and led me to the door.
Nixonβs invention of the war on drugs as a political tool was cynical, but every president since β Democrat and Republican alike β has found it equally useful for one reason or another.
