tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post805694251069662145..comments2024-03-19T11:28:58.168-04:00Comments on History Unfolding: What the Mueller Report means, Part IDavid Kaiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-75038385023568632162019-04-21T13:06:12.370-04:002019-04-21T13:06:12.370-04:00We can only be glad to move on. If each time a pre...We can only be glad to move on. If each time a president is elected two or more years of investigation must be taken to be certain the Russians had no contact with anyone, no conceivable influence on the results, however vague would be difficult. The world has become very complicated andintertwined. I suspect if this investigation was broadened to question the influence of any foreign governments or citizens then it would be more fruitful. There is no no technical state of war or declaration of war or law aginst consorting with the enemy, etc. There is however a contrived 'red scare'without any 'reds'. The Russians were never defeated in war by us and included in our military alliances, therefore they are defacto the enemy. A particular egoism is needed to see things this way. GW Bush's attitude was particularly despised by liberals and decribed as 'My way or the highway'. Religious fundamentalists think similarly. People are then made subjects of witch hunts when they break internal rules of conduct and blamed of consorting with the devil, being abject sinners, etc. As Trump was from outside the political establishment he did not understand the unspoken, subtle cutural rules. Russia is satan. Peace with them is our end. As the whole establishment is financed by permanent military adventures this is rule number one. He naively assumed that a peace dividend, say a trillion per year, spent liberally on infrastructure, similar to the german or japanese economies with little military, but great economies, would be a great idea. Give peace a chance. But the inquisition got awakened, torture chambers and all. But having a half Russian wife I see what they mean. It is like that movie where the women's husband, an astronaut, is replaced after a routine flight, by an alien. Something strange and evil can be felt when she lets down her guard. Maybe it is demon possession by the orthodox religion or real aliens from another dimension centered around a multidimensional gate in the basement of the kremlin. Return of the body snatchers depicted this well founded suspicion. But I have my guard up as a God fearing blue blooded All American Boy. I think Trump's consorting with slavic women contaminated his brain. Perhaps exorcism and ridding him of this slavic female influence would help. <br /><br />Humour aside. As a democrat and a liberal, openness to foreign peoples, cultures is supposedly a given but it seems this does not go beyond financial interests of lobbyists, party donors, ideological dinosaurs. I recall reading of origins of WWI. The old men like Clemenceau leading the governments had ancient axes to grind against each other. The huns, etc. Prejudicial hatreds of the fathers'generation dies out hard if at all. Perhaps only a direct conflict with much bloodletting on both sides would do the trich as in our civil war. Prxy wars are so hypocritical. The mueller investigation is a proxy war by the Military Industrial Complex of the anglo saxon global empire in decline. <br /><br />Obviously Trump is uncouth, arrogant, ill spoken, egoistic, impatient. He is an upstart party basher of the establishment. Bernie was eliminated by cheating and took it well. Trump does not go gently into that good night. Like Clinton, he just keeps on going strong. You just gotta admire some of these guys. Brash, charmeurs, ego to the skies. It seems to be not deep state but a sense of consensus as in british gentry or japan. I recall end line of Hedda Gabler. 'People don't do such things'. She had just shot herself instead of accepting permanent oppression of middle class 19th century sweden. Revolution comes one way or another.Ed Boylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01753383765150492163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-69716517191296589962019-04-21T00:14:02.524-04:002019-04-21T00:14:02.524-04:00Professor
Fascinating stuff.
I thought this was e...Professor<br /> Fascinating stuff.<br />I thought this was especially special, having looked at the Logan Act on Wikipedia:<br /><br />"...Michael Flynn did ask the Russians not to retaliate against sanctions the Obama Administration imposed on Russia after the election, and Putin in fact did not do so--but that would at worst constitute the very technical, almost never prosecuted crime of violating the Logan Act, which forbids private citizens from conducting diplomacy. What remains rather interesting is that Flynn would ruin his life by lying about this...." DK<br /><br />One interesting question in this age, for me at least, is this: Is there such a thing, any more, as diplomacy, at least in the old 18th Century sense meant, and intended, under the Act?<br /><br />I rather doubt it. My own view is that the Internet and WWW has rendered what waws once meant by diplomacy obsolete, except under special circumstances.<br /><br />If trying to influence foreign governments is the main criterion, then certainly the NYT is guilty daily. Your blog, and mine, are very small fish in such a sea of foreign influence peddling.<br /><br />If I am guilty of trying to diplomatically influence the Chinese or the Russians, it is to have them not like me very much! My blog has no effect on their policies whatsoever. I am sure of that.<br /><br />Sadly, your blog is in a similar situation, even though you write for Time, and might come under the Logan Act that way!<br /><br />All the bestBozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.com