yes, you are so right. We're not reliving Soviet style expansionism are we comrade.
Wars are never money makers, but loss leaders. Since when does destroying physical assets (wealth) create more wealth,, it doesn't.. That's why military actions are used as a last resort.
Most modern countries have laws against foreign regime change and foreign leadership assignation. If they didn't, there'd be many less military conflicts. Reluctance to engage in practices from worries surrounding escalations causing global economic destabilization and disruption is bad for business ie. profits.
The only "puppet masters" are the systems (not individuals) that evolved to ensure economic stability which keeps us in the west employed, housed, and fed.
no we are NOT reliving soviet expansionism. Putin held back for years while ukraine funded and trained BY uSSa trained militias and provided weapons to allow them to keep shelling Donbas residents so Putin actions were his "last resort" when ukraines leaders started the push to get NATO closer to borders yet again. deny as they are, that WAS americas aim.
laws against regime change? really? then tell gaddafis ghost about that! and a few others. syria? hmm? funny Burmas not been "corrected" by the uSSa isnt it?
americas never lost out by sending troops and pillaging doing deals for mineral oil or other essentials everywhere theyve gone to play global peace..err warmongers that Ive noted
systems are setup and continued BY vested selfinterested owners OF the businesses we work for at low wages while the owners and shareholders reap power and profit way above "fair"levels economic stability for whom? not the working stiffs! when a factory worker gets maybe 20k a yr but produces goods/value adds product worth 200k per year then somethings seriously smelly in Denmark.
Aussie workers are well paid compared to some other nations. yesterday an article quoted prices of 11+$ for a sandwich in Melbourne. the staff get 25$ or less pr hr they would make at least 100 sandwiches in a busy snackbar between 11 to 1pm and probably more. the product sure isnt costing that much neither is the labour for volume produced. I used to worl electronic assembly/wiring. I turned out 25 complete units per day for 10$ hr casual those units sold EACH for 600 and I am talking 1990s my labour 80 a day/cost of components? around 10 per unit total. the system is always in favour of those already well off and designed to keep them that way. capitalism as america and other are running it is NO different to the communist regimes in the "all are equal but some are more equal than others" as Orwell noted decades past. and so did Upton Sinclair and Ayne rand.
unions have been broken for the most in need of their help the rest are part OF the govt system and the leaders tend to move TO govt jobs. Power shift by the Toflers is also worth a read as to how workers are kept poor to suit the big end of town. and yes eventually things turn to crap. and then a war. any war is a profit making/employment providing ass saver. raytheon and all the rest are right now selling their stockpiles and busy making more weapons at HUGE profits. as an aside : I see the eu warmists are promoting EU and elsewheres fuel heating n food shortages as "good practice" for their new world order lifestyles for the pooer classes to adapt to. too damned right theres an AGENDA behind a lot of this
I applaud your loyalty to your country, deluded though your views of it might be. Wars make money for the arms manufacturers and the military-industrial complex, which arguably run the United States. And more than money, it empowers them, and power is arguably an even greater prize than money (though the 2 are connected, of course).
From where I stand (Australia), NATO - dominated by the US - has been the more aggressively expansionist of these 2 adversaries. Not ostensibly to conquer, but to control, by installing and supporting puppet regimes, or otherwise regimes friendly to the US and its interests (oil and other resources).
And the projection appears to be more in the other direction, with the simplistic designation of Putin as evil (and even more idiotic idea that he is mentally ill) and Ukraine as the innocent victim.
Even without delving into the very complex history and ongoing issues in this region, it is obvious that there is massive brainwashing going on - most likely to drum up popular support for an escalation of this war. By NATO and the US.
spot on. and of course rebuilding..at a price is another uSSa forte for extra funds and control of whatever poor sods theyre supposedly helping .Clintons sure made a motza "helping Haiti" look at how many decades it took for germany russia and UK to "repay" uSSa for its delayed and over rated ww2 assistance
Superb essay. I would quibble about your assessment of Yemen, which is not US versus Yemen, but yet another proxy for the much bigger dispute with Iran. The persistent problem is the world is filled with 8 billion conniving, selfish individuals who form alliances on the fly to improve their chances of survival and, perhaps, success. Nothing is what it seems. Mankind's capacity for evil is only exceeded by our deviousness.
So the question always becomes, what can we do about it? My own strategy is always to support those who are trying to do good, and help them to do it better, but to always be prepared to survive failure. The world never gives us everything we want. We have to fight for anything we get. If we want peace, we'll have to fight for that too.
Life sucks, and then we die. The best we can hope for is to make it suck a little less, for a little longer.
I rather hope that you're wrong and I grew up as a resistor to the American Empire. For sure those who have put Biden in and before that Obama and Clinton need to go as they've bankrupted the US financially and morally. But something can be raised here. We shouldn't let the billionaires just relocate the capital of the World to a new Empire of their choosing.
@Chris... I find your perspective interesting. It definitely has an eastern flare for western dissent. After all, it was the US's Obama/Biden that ordered Putin to reclaim Crimea and again Biden to order Putin to attempt annex Ukraine, just like Henry Ford ordering Hitler to invade Russia so he could sell cars in Moscow.
For some reason you and others think the US is an empire. It's a very European outlook, albeit an antiquated remnant of european monarchies. It just shows how much europeans do not understand the US.
I do find it interesting how monarchists, ppl looking to reestablish royal leadership and lineages, have this respect and admiration for Putin despite his crimes of blackmail, extorsion, and some claim even murder of defectors and potential political challengers. I'd guess his admirers are looking for a degree of certainty in their lives during a time of uncertainty from disillusionment and unrealistic expectations our "system of civilization" can keep us safe from threats like SARS/CoV2, chemical pollutants, and other factors out of our control. The feeling of security is merely an illusion of civilization, its not real.
No czar, dictator, king, queen, or elected body can protect us from the uncontrollable, they can only recreate the illusion to make the insecure feel better for a short time. Inevitably, we become disappointed with our "supreme leaders", feel betrayed where they end up like Mussolini and Gaddafi.
When Putin called the US "an empire of lies", he does what most mentally ill ppl do, project their own behaviors onto others as a deflection.
@Ungovernable Rich (Rude to PM) has hit the key point, "billionaires just relocate the capital of the World to a new Empire of their choosing", except the US not an empire. Empires are political entities with a emperor or a king that gains power through conquest of lands. That is not the US.
Throughout it's short history and despite the strong, traditional british and french mentoring, the US had attempted and failed at becoming an empire using methods found in european style colonialism. A strong fanatical, now somewhat tempered, christian influence (remember they were kicked out of europe for being fanatical) left no political or moral will pursue tactics such as Belgium's treatment of the Congolese or the UK's treatment of the chinese and control of western slavery market. Imperialism is a more appropriate for the US, not by forceful means, but passively by the allure of wealth portrayed in media, likely an intended consequence to pacify dissent it's own population.
Despite more moderate christian influences, politically US has never been able to shed some fanatical views and mentored techniques in the treatment of their own population.
So, @Ungovernable Rich almost got it correct. The US is a vehicle for the unscrupulous, almost all migrated and adopted from europe. To trade with europe, the US was forced to engage, partner and become part of old world leadership corruption.
Like Putin, this article reeks of deflection. We from and the surrounding european continent blaming the US for our old and current economic leaders actions. The US is just the current vehicle for the still and long standing european trade network owners. If "we" want to blame someone, all we need to do is look in the mirror.
I read you carefully. Thank you for writing this. A lot of work goes into your writing and that is something I appreciate.
I'm sending you a warm greeting from Ibiza.
hardest thing is getting anyone to read anything bar whats the msm view
so many are still carrying the ussr russian 50s etc view
they dont even realise its NOT ussr anymore(facepalm)
but yeah even if biden carks it we then have cackles and the puppetmasters to contend with
and wars are such a nice moneymaker...always a handy war to cover their screwups in the nation isnt it?
yes, you are so right. We're not reliving Soviet style expansionism are we comrade.
Wars are never money makers, but loss leaders. Since when does destroying physical assets (wealth) create more wealth,, it doesn't.. That's why military actions are used as a last resort.
Most modern countries have laws against foreign regime change and foreign leadership assignation. If they didn't, there'd be many less military conflicts. Reluctance to engage in practices from worries surrounding escalations causing global economic destabilization and disruption is bad for business ie. profits.
The only "puppet masters" are the systems (not individuals) that evolved to ensure economic stability which keeps us in the west employed, housed, and fed.
one good eye and a chip on the shoulder?
no we are NOT reliving soviet expansionism. Putin held back for years while ukraine funded and trained BY uSSa trained militias and provided weapons to allow them to keep shelling Donbas residents so Putin actions were his "last resort" when ukraines leaders started the push to get NATO closer to borders yet again. deny as they are, that WAS americas aim.
laws against regime change? really? then tell gaddafis ghost about that! and a few others. syria? hmm? funny Burmas not been "corrected" by the uSSa isnt it?
americas never lost out by sending troops and pillaging doing deals for mineral oil or other essentials everywhere theyve gone to play global peace..err warmongers that Ive noted
systems are setup and continued BY vested selfinterested owners OF the businesses we work for at low wages while the owners and shareholders reap power and profit way above "fair"levels economic stability for whom? not the working stiffs! when a factory worker gets maybe 20k a yr but produces goods/value adds product worth 200k per year then somethings seriously smelly in Denmark.
Aussie workers are well paid compared to some other nations. yesterday an article quoted prices of 11+$ for a sandwich in Melbourne. the staff get 25$ or less pr hr they would make at least 100 sandwiches in a busy snackbar between 11 to 1pm and probably more. the product sure isnt costing that much neither is the labour for volume produced. I used to worl electronic assembly/wiring. I turned out 25 complete units per day for 10$ hr casual those units sold EACH for 600 and I am talking 1990s my labour 80 a day/cost of components? around 10 per unit total. the system is always in favour of those already well off and designed to keep them that way. capitalism as america and other are running it is NO different to the communist regimes in the "all are equal but some are more equal than others" as Orwell noted decades past. and so did Upton Sinclair and Ayne rand.
unions have been broken for the most in need of their help the rest are part OF the govt system and the leaders tend to move TO govt jobs. Power shift by the Toflers is also worth a read as to how workers are kept poor to suit the big end of town. and yes eventually things turn to crap. and then a war. any war is a profit making/employment providing ass saver. raytheon and all the rest are right now selling their stockpiles and busy making more weapons at HUGE profits. as an aside : I see the eu warmists are promoting EU and elsewheres fuel heating n food shortages as "good practice" for their new world order lifestyles for the pooer classes to adapt to. too damned right theres an AGENDA behind a lot of this
I applaud your loyalty to your country, deluded though your views of it might be. Wars make money for the arms manufacturers and the military-industrial complex, which arguably run the United States. And more than money, it empowers them, and power is arguably an even greater prize than money (though the 2 are connected, of course).
From where I stand (Australia), NATO - dominated by the US - has been the more aggressively expansionist of these 2 adversaries. Not ostensibly to conquer, but to control, by installing and supporting puppet regimes, or otherwise regimes friendly to the US and its interests (oil and other resources).
And the projection appears to be more in the other direction, with the simplistic designation of Putin as evil (and even more idiotic idea that he is mentally ill) and Ukraine as the innocent victim.
Even without delving into the very complex history and ongoing issues in this region, it is obvious that there is massive brainwashing going on - most likely to drum up popular support for an escalation of this war. By NATO and the US.
spot on. and of course rebuilding..at a price is another uSSa forte for extra funds and control of whatever poor sods theyre supposedly helping .Clintons sure made a motza "helping Haiti" look at how many decades it took for germany russia and UK to "repay" uSSa for its delayed and over rated ww2 assistance
Superb essay. I would quibble about your assessment of Yemen, which is not US versus Yemen, but yet another proxy for the much bigger dispute with Iran. The persistent problem is the world is filled with 8 billion conniving, selfish individuals who form alliances on the fly to improve their chances of survival and, perhaps, success. Nothing is what it seems. Mankind's capacity for evil is only exceeded by our deviousness.
So the question always becomes, what can we do about it? My own strategy is always to support those who are trying to do good, and help them to do it better, but to always be prepared to survive failure. The world never gives us everything we want. We have to fight for anything we get. If we want peace, we'll have to fight for that too.
Life sucks, and then we die. The best we can hope for is to make it suck a little less, for a little longer.
I rather hope that you're wrong and I grew up as a resistor to the American Empire. For sure those who have put Biden in and before that Obama and Clinton need to go as they've bankrupted the US financially and morally. But something can be raised here. We shouldn't let the billionaires just relocate the capital of the World to a new Empire of their choosing.
Brilliant and incisive. Thank you.
@Chris... I find your perspective interesting. It definitely has an eastern flare for western dissent. After all, it was the US's Obama/Biden that ordered Putin to reclaim Crimea and again Biden to order Putin to attempt annex Ukraine, just like Henry Ford ordering Hitler to invade Russia so he could sell cars in Moscow.
For some reason you and others think the US is an empire. It's a very European outlook, albeit an antiquated remnant of european monarchies. It just shows how much europeans do not understand the US.
I do find it interesting how monarchists, ppl looking to reestablish royal leadership and lineages, have this respect and admiration for Putin despite his crimes of blackmail, extorsion, and some claim even murder of defectors and potential political challengers. I'd guess his admirers are looking for a degree of certainty in their lives during a time of uncertainty from disillusionment and unrealistic expectations our "system of civilization" can keep us safe from threats like SARS/CoV2, chemical pollutants, and other factors out of our control. The feeling of security is merely an illusion of civilization, its not real.
No czar, dictator, king, queen, or elected body can protect us from the uncontrollable, they can only recreate the illusion to make the insecure feel better for a short time. Inevitably, we become disappointed with our "supreme leaders", feel betrayed where they end up like Mussolini and Gaddafi.
When Putin called the US "an empire of lies", he does what most mentally ill ppl do, project their own behaviors onto others as a deflection.
@Ungovernable Rich (Rude to PM) has hit the key point, "billionaires just relocate the capital of the World to a new Empire of their choosing", except the US not an empire. Empires are political entities with a emperor or a king that gains power through conquest of lands. That is not the US.
Throughout it's short history and despite the strong, traditional british and french mentoring, the US had attempted and failed at becoming an empire using methods found in european style colonialism. A strong fanatical, now somewhat tempered, christian influence (remember they were kicked out of europe for being fanatical) left no political or moral will pursue tactics such as Belgium's treatment of the Congolese or the UK's treatment of the chinese and control of western slavery market. Imperialism is a more appropriate for the US, not by forceful means, but passively by the allure of wealth portrayed in media, likely an intended consequence to pacify dissent it's own population.
Despite more moderate christian influences, politically US has never been able to shed some fanatical views and mentored techniques in the treatment of their own population.
So, @Ungovernable Rich almost got it correct. The US is a vehicle for the unscrupulous, almost all migrated and adopted from europe. To trade with europe, the US was forced to engage, partner and become part of old world leadership corruption.
Like Putin, this article reeks of deflection. We from and the surrounding european continent blaming the US for our old and current economic leaders actions. The US is just the current vehicle for the still and long standing european trade network owners. If "we" want to blame someone, all we need to do is look in the mirror.