So we are now starting to see some of the more senior foreign policy positions in the Trump administration being filled, and its wall to wall warmongering America-supremacist Zionists; with an extra dollop of Cuban US vassal dictator-loving diaspora thrown in.
Thanks Roger, Looks like in with the new and out with the old means very little these days as one carbon copy neocon is swapped out for another carbon copy neocon. It has always amazed me how these conservative "free-thinkers" always think the same about any given subject. It would be nice to be surprised just once with some original thinking and perhaps even a little nuance. It's been very tedious watching the last couple of decades of bullshit and bluster as the failures continuously mount but nothing changes.
Depressing. The usa is clearly a failed fascist state when only these kind of (neocon) people come out on top. Do they really have nothing better to offer? Where are all the good people? Trampled by these powerful people that dictate most of the policy? It looks similar to what happened in Germany and Italy back then and I think it is very bad for the world.
OK, so the T2 is full-on Zionist. This is NOT a surprise.
I note you didn't say anything about DOGE, perhaps the single most important element in the mix.
You also seem to deplore Ratcliffe's criticism of the Russia Russia false accusation backed by the Blob against T1 (during a time when few were willing to do so). Why was/is this bad? Or is the idea that Trump is such an anomaly, then and now, that all US officials should be against him, election be damned? I don't understand your view here. Are you implying that there is no struggle in the US in the corridors of power, that the only line that matters is whether or not they are pro or anti Zionist or pro or anti Trump?
My take is that it's a multi-layered cauldron of conflicting interests. One of those interests is the American people, especially the MAGA supporters who, though technically powerless, nevertheless wield influence, hard as it may be to quantify materialistically. There are many in the nation fed up with over-regulation which is stifling growth and innovation. There has been a justice system weaponized against one side for over a decade now which needs course correction. The Woke business is affecting school children and families across the nation and needs to be reined in.
One way to get the Zionist monkey off America's back is to resolve Palestine, a thorny issue which has been a mess since 1947 when the UN unlawfully kick-started it, no doubt due to Jewish lobbying power. If we look at it only through a moral lens, then the solution is to rescind the original UN Resolutions and force all Israelis to leave. Is that ever going to happen? Not in the foreseeable future given facts on the ground now.
Or find a way for the two peoples to live together. Will Israelis agree to this without having the upper hand making native Palestinians, both Muslim and Christians, second class citizens with reduced rights? No, they won't.
So what is left? Forcing the Palestinians out. It is unjust, wrong, harsh but it would give Israel a chance to normalize herself has a nation state with a homogeneous population and greatly reduce the conflict in the region as long as the US puts its foot down, bolstered by regional partnerships with SA, Iraq, Lebanon etc., on insisting that Israel abandon the Great Israel scheme and remain within the original 1947 borders, taking the whole thing. Maybe part of Jerusalem could be a special Holy City run by the UN or some such along the lines of the Vatican, albeit with three different popes, but that's it. The Palestinians get resettled in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon and the Jews get Israel.
This seems to be what is being proposed by Trump, though I have yet to see it spelled out clearly. One may deplore such a solution but be hard pressed to come up with
a) a more workable one
b) one that involves less loss of life and peaceful life journeys.
Trump is not an ideologue nor a mental patient as you somewhat seem to have typecast him. He is, along with many other things, a pragmatist, a doer, a builder, a deal maker. He wants this Israel business to end so that America can be Great Again which it cannot be as long as it is being dragged by the nose by the eschatological conflict in Palestine which unsettles the entire region.
Similarly with DOGE: it is not a partisan agenda, rather a pragmatic one. A cynic might say that the principal purpose is to rebalance the budget so that the Empire can afford to field its huge military all over the world, but the fact remains that without doing something like this the nation is on a one-way trip to the scrap heap. Trump is going to sincerely try to prevent this. Or do you disagree? Do you think it's all posturing, kayfabe?
Again, I think there are many layers and levels to this. Some of the struggle playing out in the media is performative, but some of it isn't. There are some real issues effecting real people and I suspect this Administration offers a chance for the nation to address some of these real issues, no doubt imperfectly, no doubt only partially, but still more substantively than in many a long, shitty decade.
[ end of rant!]
Keep up the good work!
The two above options being basically set in stone, what other options are there?
My cynical take on DOGE is that one of the biggest MIC contractors, Musk, has seen the fiscal writing on the wall and is leading the drive to slim the US budget down so that the funds can keep flowing to MIC for another generation. Have no data, it's just a good narrative fit.
That said, if they do indeed cut most of the Administrative State down by a lot, that would be a good thing. I find both all-black or all-white interpretations always a tad lacking.
Red or blue wing, it's the same plane, piloted by the deep state.
Thanks Roger, Looks like in with the new and out with the old means very little these days as one carbon copy neocon is swapped out for another carbon copy neocon. It has always amazed me how these conservative "free-thinkers" always think the same about any given subject. It would be nice to be surprised just once with some original thinking and perhaps even a little nuance. It's been very tedious watching the last couple of decades of bullshit and bluster as the failures continuously mount but nothing changes.
Depressing. The usa is clearly a failed fascist state when only these kind of (neocon) people come out on top. Do they really have nothing better to offer? Where are all the good people? Trampled by these powerful people that dictate most of the policy? It looks similar to what happened in Germany and Italy back then and I think it is very bad for the world.
OK, so the T2 is full-on Zionist. This is NOT a surprise.
I note you didn't say anything about DOGE, perhaps the single most important element in the mix.
You also seem to deplore Ratcliffe's criticism of the Russia Russia false accusation backed by the Blob against T1 (during a time when few were willing to do so). Why was/is this bad? Or is the idea that Trump is such an anomaly, then and now, that all US officials should be against him, election be damned? I don't understand your view here. Are you implying that there is no struggle in the US in the corridors of power, that the only line that matters is whether or not they are pro or anti Zionist or pro or anti Trump?
My take is that it's a multi-layered cauldron of conflicting interests. One of those interests is the American people, especially the MAGA supporters who, though technically powerless, nevertheless wield influence, hard as it may be to quantify materialistically. There are many in the nation fed up with over-regulation which is stifling growth and innovation. There has been a justice system weaponized against one side for over a decade now which needs course correction. The Woke business is affecting school children and families across the nation and needs to be reined in.
One way to get the Zionist monkey off America's back is to resolve Palestine, a thorny issue which has been a mess since 1947 when the UN unlawfully kick-started it, no doubt due to Jewish lobbying power. If we look at it only through a moral lens, then the solution is to rescind the original UN Resolutions and force all Israelis to leave. Is that ever going to happen? Not in the foreseeable future given facts on the ground now.
Or find a way for the two peoples to live together. Will Israelis agree to this without having the upper hand making native Palestinians, both Muslim and Christians, second class citizens with reduced rights? No, they won't.
So what is left? Forcing the Palestinians out. It is unjust, wrong, harsh but it would give Israel a chance to normalize herself has a nation state with a homogeneous population and greatly reduce the conflict in the region as long as the US puts its foot down, bolstered by regional partnerships with SA, Iraq, Lebanon etc., on insisting that Israel abandon the Great Israel scheme and remain within the original 1947 borders, taking the whole thing. Maybe part of Jerusalem could be a special Holy City run by the UN or some such along the lines of the Vatican, albeit with three different popes, but that's it. The Palestinians get resettled in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon and the Jews get Israel.
This seems to be what is being proposed by Trump, though I have yet to see it spelled out clearly. One may deplore such a solution but be hard pressed to come up with
a) a more workable one
b) one that involves less loss of life and peaceful life journeys.
Trump is not an ideologue nor a mental patient as you somewhat seem to have typecast him. He is, along with many other things, a pragmatist, a doer, a builder, a deal maker. He wants this Israel business to end so that America can be Great Again which it cannot be as long as it is being dragged by the nose by the eschatological conflict in Palestine which unsettles the entire region.
Similarly with DOGE: it is not a partisan agenda, rather a pragmatic one. A cynic might say that the principal purpose is to rebalance the budget so that the Empire can afford to field its huge military all over the world, but the fact remains that without doing something like this the nation is on a one-way trip to the scrap heap. Trump is going to sincerely try to prevent this. Or do you disagree? Do you think it's all posturing, kayfabe?
Again, I think there are many layers and levels to this. Some of the struggle playing out in the media is performative, but some of it isn't. There are some real issues effecting real people and I suspect this Administration offers a chance for the nation to address some of these real issues, no doubt imperfectly, no doubt only partially, but still more substantively than in many a long, shitty decade.
[ end of rant!]
Keep up the good work!
The two above options being basically set in stone, what other options are there?
This is about foreign policy, covering DOGE in another piece.
Looking forward.
My cynical take on DOGE is that one of the biggest MIC contractors, Musk, has seen the fiscal writing on the wall and is leading the drive to slim the US budget down so that the funds can keep flowing to MIC for another generation. Have no data, it's just a good narrative fit.
That said, if they do indeed cut most of the Administrative State down by a lot, that would be a good thing. I find both all-black or all-white interpretations always a tad lacking.
Roger has gone full retard again
Wow . All that talk to the voters about ending the Forever War and restoring America meant nothing .
No thinking to do anything different.
Makes it easy for military victories to decide America’s bleak future.