With the unbending support provided by the US foreign policy establishment for the obvious Israeli “atrocity” propaganda ploy to facilitate a second Naqba, the complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza, that establishment has once again shown itself to be the dumbest people in the diplomatic and international relations room.
Russia is practising the old 'give them enough rope and they'll hang themselves" strategy. It has been obvious that Hubris in Washington was leading this way back in the 90s. At least it seemed so. But as Mr Boyd so eloquently and comprehensively shows what was once a suspicion or conjecture is now a basic fact of politics.
The question now is what-if we manage to avoid the nuclear war that these idiots are aiming to start- comes next?
It seems to me that there are two possibilities, one likely the other remote.
The first is that the entire western world, the EU/NATO, the old Imperial settler colonies and the last of the nations that cannot smell the coffee- the incurable compradors, the military dictatorships and the banana republics- will all collapse suddenly when their host , the US, goes down.
But there is a chance that, one by one and quietly NATO will implode as nation after nation wakes up and sneaks out of the room, leaving only the hard core anglos plus honorary anglo Japan to discover that the USS Total Dominance doesn't have lifeboats.
As to Israel it was Abba Eban, its Foreign Minister, who wrote its epitaph. The charge he made against Arabs-that they never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity to make peace- was the purest projection. For a century the settlers have have rejected one chance after another to compromise, to anchor their community within the tolerant and vibrant Levant, instead they have always chosen war, violence, terror. They have lived by the sword and so they will die.
I would suggest that the folks who are getting fat and happy whilst doing all this harm to others are not the dumbest people people in the room. Perhaps, just perhaps, those of us who have seen exactly what they are doing, for all these years, are the dumbest people. After all, the US establishment is still fat and happy and killing and impoverishing people and enriching themselves. In plain sight now, no attempt at subterfuge. Just think - a "leader" can be responsible for untold deaths, and all that really happens is a little angry muttering from those of us who can see what they are doing.
They still wear the gold uniforms; the rest of humanity are the red shirts. The most egregious killers will, of course, be honored when they expire of old age. I honestly don't know what the answer is, but I now feel that all of our exposure and analysis of dirty deeds, done, not dirt cheap, but at ruinous cost to others, is nothing more than an ant convention. When the ants get too annoying, they are easily destroyed with a few squirts of insecticide, that's all that happens.
Matter of cynical perception - who are the dumbest people in the room. Dumb people just go ahead and do bad things, while the smart people are going on and on about how stupid it would be for the dumb people to do bad things. The "dumb" people know it is more efficient to apolologize than to ask permission, and now they don't even bother to apologize. The establishment is established, y'all.
Just a little 4 am cynicism. Oh, and politicans do not get "destroyed" by tellingly clever interview questions or responses. They just shrug it off and continue on their merry way.
Pretty bleak djean111 but it's impossible to disagree. The only thing that I will add is that their knavish tricks are understood by an increasing number of people worldwide, even in their home countries are still dazzled. The scales are slowly coming off the eyes.
Those fat and happy folks are consuming the very foundations that support and protect their wealth and privilege while making the rest of the population hate them more and more. Quite a few may die fat and happy, but the ones that don't may very well reap the whirlwind. Sadly a few may do a chameleon act, just like the legions of Nazis in Germany who hid their past and reinvented themselves as good citizens and even captains of industry (like the senior level Nazi whose family controls BMW). But their nations will no longer be economically, politically or socially dominant, a reality they will grieve over just as much as the current detestable British establishment grieves over its loss of the British Empire.
Good article Roger. They are a real basket of deplorables. It is astonishing to me how these inepts can get to run the show. They might be the dumbest in the room, but where are the adults? Time to bring back the court jester whispering in their ear "you are just a man" as these idiots have gone the whole hog of god-like omnipotence, despite the vast volumes of evidence to the contrary.
It really is that obvious, isn't it?
Russia is practising the old 'give them enough rope and they'll hang themselves" strategy. It has been obvious that Hubris in Washington was leading this way back in the 90s. At least it seemed so. But as Mr Boyd so eloquently and comprehensively shows what was once a suspicion or conjecture is now a basic fact of politics.
The question now is what-if we manage to avoid the nuclear war that these idiots are aiming to start- comes next?
It seems to me that there are two possibilities, one likely the other remote.
The first is that the entire western world, the EU/NATO, the old Imperial settler colonies and the last of the nations that cannot smell the coffee- the incurable compradors, the military dictatorships and the banana republics- will all collapse suddenly when their host , the US, goes down.
But there is a chance that, one by one and quietly NATO will implode as nation after nation wakes up and sneaks out of the room, leaving only the hard core anglos plus honorary anglo Japan to discover that the USS Total Dominance doesn't have lifeboats.
As to Israel it was Abba Eban, its Foreign Minister, who wrote its epitaph. The charge he made against Arabs-that they never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity to make peace- was the purest projection. For a century the settlers have have rejected one chance after another to compromise, to anchor their community within the tolerant and vibrant Levant, instead they have always chosen war, violence, terror. They have lived by the sword and so they will die.
It's all very sad-like the history of America.
and it is sad-like the history of 1948 israel to here as well..
I would suggest that the folks who are getting fat and happy whilst doing all this harm to others are not the dumbest people people in the room. Perhaps, just perhaps, those of us who have seen exactly what they are doing, for all these years, are the dumbest people. After all, the US establishment is still fat and happy and killing and impoverishing people and enriching themselves. In plain sight now, no attempt at subterfuge. Just think - a "leader" can be responsible for untold deaths, and all that really happens is a little angry muttering from those of us who can see what they are doing.
They still wear the gold uniforms; the rest of humanity are the red shirts. The most egregious killers will, of course, be honored when they expire of old age. I honestly don't know what the answer is, but I now feel that all of our exposure and analysis of dirty deeds, done, not dirt cheap, but at ruinous cost to others, is nothing more than an ant convention. When the ants get too annoying, they are easily destroyed with a few squirts of insecticide, that's all that happens.
Matter of cynical perception - who are the dumbest people in the room. Dumb people just go ahead and do bad things, while the smart people are going on and on about how stupid it would be for the dumb people to do bad things. The "dumb" people know it is more efficient to apolologize than to ask permission, and now they don't even bother to apologize. The establishment is established, y'all.
Just a little 4 am cynicism. Oh, and politicans do not get "destroyed" by tellingly clever interview questions or responses. They just shrug it off and continue on their merry way.
Pretty bleak djean111 but it's impossible to disagree. The only thing that I will add is that their knavish tricks are understood by an increasing number of people worldwide, even in their home countries are still dazzled. The scales are slowly coming off the eyes.
Those fat and happy folks are consuming the very foundations that support and protect their wealth and privilege while making the rest of the population hate them more and more. Quite a few may die fat and happy, but the ones that don't may very well reap the whirlwind. Sadly a few may do a chameleon act, just like the legions of Nazis in Germany who hid their past and reinvented themselves as good citizens and even captains of industry (like the senior level Nazi whose family controls BMW). But their nations will no longer be economically, politically or socially dominant, a reality they will grieve over just as much as the current detestable British establishment grieves over its loss of the British Empire.
Good article Roger. They are a real basket of deplorables. It is astonishing to me how these inepts can get to run the show. They might be the dumbest in the room, but where are the adults? Time to bring back the court jester whispering in their ear "you are just a man" as these idiots have gone the whole hog of god-like omnipotence, despite the vast volumes of evidence to the contrary.
No need for nukes. China has hypersonics. Iran has hypersonics. Just take the genocidal maniacs out already...
But the response may be nukes, there are many psychopaths in this group and I would not put a global murder/suicide beyond their capabilities.
True.
Hopefully one (or more) of them has sufficient intelligence to launch a preemptive, hypersonic strike in the event of an anticipated nuclear attack.