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Re: Empire [message #98364 is a reply to message #98363]

Mon, 10 March 2025 07:37

Rusty
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Registered: May 2018
Location: Kansas City Missouri

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Well, we have a politician right here right now that isn't the most virtuous individual ever to be in the position of highest power in our own government. The world stage and actions of nations are the final arbiter of all the machinations in politics.

And any politician of Ukrainian heritage would know of its relationship with Russia that aligning with NATO would be tantamount to serious consequence. As Sachs points out in the article, Russia was not interested in what alignment Ukraine had with western economic countries. It had signed a "lease" since it had from the 18th century to the critical Black Sea port in Crimea. It was pursuing negotiations with Ukraine for the civil war in eastern Ukraine.

You pursue the character of Putin and the novi-russki to paint a sinister backdrop to what led up to this conflict. Without acknowledging all the evidence of what the United States and Britain were up to in regards to NATO encirclement "to" the Black Sea, a strategic aspect of naval security to Russia.

Skirting the issue of what the prime political aspect is of this having ever to occur. As Sachs has pointed to all along. The US had been on this quest ever since the unification of Eastern Germany and dissolution of the Warsaw Pact. That NATO "would not" move one inch further towards Russia.
Plenty of official non journalistic opinion pieces of documentation to back this up.

So, the character driven plot for what you're substantiating doesn't really factor into what the real motives are in this sordid and tragic affair of states. Hundreds of thousands of people have died and not just Ukrainians. Many thousands of Russians. It's a fight upholding principals of states.
Our country sits back and supplies some of our weapons in storage to essentially degrade, (as an official in the Biden administration revealed) and at a wild longshot chance of toppling the head of state in Russia along with our sanctioning.

And shucks, it didn't work out after all. Well, dusting our hands off. Next... China! Onward ho!

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Re: Empire [message #98381 is a reply to message #98364]

Thu, 20 March 2025 17:20

Rusty
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Location: Kansas City Missouri

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If not for a few bloggers sharing their research into our behavior in the world. We'd be at the mercy of our absentee journalism and media outlets. Whom are totally devoid of any ethical standards. They only regurgitate the will of our national security apparatus.

Egghead here, (Brian Berletic) and his New Atlas YouTube channel untangles the web of deceit that our government offers Russia with a ceasefire in Ukraine. One of many over the years in our proxy minded meddling of sovereign governments of country's we seek to diminish in our quest for world wide dominance. Dr. Evil's real counterpart in the world that is humorless and void of virtue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59OHfllPDrM

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Re: Empire [message #98385 is a reply to message #98381]

Sun, 23 March 2025 11:22

Rusty
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Registered: May 2018
Location: Kansas City Missouri

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Ben Norton seems to ferret out the most detailed analysis of what our government projects to the world and our citizens that's cloaked in disguises in plain sight. A political equivalent to the man behind the curtain in the Wizard of Oz.

Here he untangles a speech by JD Vance recently to a group of Silicon Valley bigwigs that have grouped together with an incentive towards "reindustrializing" our country. Using China as the foe of the near future to incentivizing revitalization of tech industry under the threat of war with the Chinese.

The theme of war permeates our political landscape incessantly. Our military industrial complex depends on it. It feeds on government subsidy. Which perversely points to Modern Monetary Theory used for all the wrong reasons.

China incidentally has only participated in one military campaign back in 1979 lasting all of one month. When Vietnam invaded Cambodia. The Sino-Vietnamese War. Whereas the US has been constantly involved with war and suppling weapons of war since post WWII. Yet China represents a so called national security threat to the US. Mainly due to their superior build up of their economy. Which we allowed ostensibly through our very own acquiescence of our industry in the name of neoliberal financial doctrine.

We can't compete with China now on all levels of commerce from heavy industry to sophisticated high tech and scientific sectors. An empire based on war is an empire losing sights on its own principles of democracy.

Ben Norton:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywmpea6vvOE

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Re: Empire [message #98387 is a reply to message #98385]

Tue, 25 March 2025 10:50

Rusty
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Location: Kansas City Missouri

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What I seem to glean from my influencers I read and listen to in both the economic and political spectrum. Which blends together always. Is that our country's elected leadership, are themselves influenced by our wealthy elite through dependency on campaign financing. Have a conflict of interest due to that and through an ideology as well financed by elite wealth in the form of think tanks and organizations promoting ideology in line with their financing. And further supported by an institutionalized educational system that teaches within the format consistent with the dominant ideology of finance capitalism which is in line with what supports the ideology of the wealthy elite.

We have a system created that tamps down any alternative ideologies that's perceived as being contrary to the dominant one. Using further the means of communication of journalism and media that have primarily been acquiesced by elitist wealth. Sort of a closed loop system now that might loosely be analogous to an electrical canceling circuit. When a perceived distortion encountering the prominent ideology waveform is detected, it may be referred to as being "radical". Harmful to the system. An enemy of the state. And cancelled out.

That's been applied to certain countries of our world over the years. Threatening our own national security its been said. Primarily those countries have had an economic ideology that runs counter to capitalism and more so now, finance capitalism's evolution in the traditional centers of capitalism, the G7. That has eschewed investment in traditional industrial capitalism that requires greater investment, socialized subsidy and requires longer less gain in return on investment.

Over time now our finance capitalism has eroded the welfare of its population, the infrastructure of its society and has warped the political legislative structure of its governments. While our so called rivals who have used alternative hybrid economic ideologies have surpassed our own capabilities. Coming to terms with this reality has shown both denial and overreaction on what our governments do to counter their perceived threats.

Using both an exorbitant privilege of an advantage in trade currency dominance and a military complex used unsubstantiated to try and force compliance with our ideology. Both of which are now reflecting the undeserved and unwelcomed title of most exceptional and most essential nation on earth itself. A very self centered, narrow minded and arrogant perception for a nation that comprises only 4.5 percent of this planets population.
Which ironically is the same as our economic ideology.

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Re: Empire [message #98388 is a reply to message #98387]

Tue, 25 March 2025 11:25

Wayne Parham
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Rusty wrote on Tue, 25 March 2025 10:50

Our country's elected leadership, are themselves influenced by our wealthy elite through dependency on campaign financing. Have a conflict of interest due to that and through an ideology as well financed by elite wealth in the form of think tanks and organizations promoting ideology in line with their financing.

I definitely agree with that.

What I see in many American politicians is a class of people that often make a career out of "civil service," using their influence to gain a huge amount of money and power, often without ever working in any other field. That is only possible if they are growing their net worth through influence peddling of some sort.

Other parts of the world have other kinds of problems. Some other countries' problems are similar, some less so. Some countries are worse, others aren't.

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Re: Empire [message #98389 is a reply to message #98388]

Tue, 25 March 2025 12:10

Rusty
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Location: Kansas City Missouri

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Which is why, what the world needs now is, cooperation sweet cooperation, dialogue, diplomacy and broad minded multi disciplined integration of reasoning. Our government has in its current administration, 13 billionaires in it's decision making cabinet. These are people that have a distinctive business oriented profit making mindset. Government should not be profit motivated in and of itself. Rather a catalyst of promoting economic stability and uplifting the wellbeing of its citizens. The free market isn't the end all of making that possible. The free market is a human invention and has its limitations limited in capitalism towards profits for a relatively few participants.

Our foe's or perception of foes now seems to be motivated by a threat evaluation to what the bottom line of our wealthy elite might be effected by eroding their free lunch they've grown accustomed to. The Chinese have a completely different ideology and philosophy to ours. Its been spectacularly successful for them. Yet.. We perceive that a threat?

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Re: Empire [message #98391 is a reply to message #98389]

Wed, 26 March 2025 05:36

Rusty
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Registered: May 2018
Location: Kansas City Missouri

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Fascinating discussion here by who else. Wolff and Hudson. Encompassing near everything going on on this spinning ball we all live. But mainly the nonsense that swirls within the empire mucking up a logical, rationally functioning world.

https://michael-hudson.com/2025/03/the-strategic-disjoint-continues/

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Re: Empire [message #98396 is a reply to message #98389]

Fri, 28 March 2025 09:58

Rusty
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Registered: May 2018
Location: Kansas City Missouri

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A large component of our empire concept is the assessment of what our intelligence gathering complex feeds our military, diplomatic and legislative branches of government. Larry Johnson is a former CIA Analyst with insight into how politics and the neocon deep state influence warps the realism of what should be the whole purpose of intelligence threat assessment.
But when you're looking for justification to promote questionable policy to use our military and our soft power, (sanctioning) to the ends of what our war game planners idea is of the world and how we fit on top of everyone else. A little fudging of figures is needed kind of like cooking the books a crooked financial officer might do.

Larry here points out the US Annual Threat Assessment flaws which he was all too familiar with when he served his time at the CIA.
A big piece of the puzzle that our national security is based on. Lets call it what it is. Fraud!

https://sonar21.com/us-annual-threat-assessment-is-a-hot-mess/

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