tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post822041105112590352..comments2024-03-29T02:03:49.151-04:00Comments on History Unfolding: A few thoughts on where we are goingDavid Kaiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-3407542367029291612016-08-13T03:17:20.439-04:002016-08-13T03:17:20.439-04:00http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/08/2-billion-cias-bi...http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/08/2-billion-cias-bill-for-turkish-coup.html<br />Above article translated from russian based on turkish newspaper reports is what the turkish population believes, a cia plot using nato turkish generals plus gulen people to establish a puppet regime like somoza, pinochet, et al. The cia is a state in state. How can the elected officials make policy when the spooks run counter to that?<br /><br />The russian, chinese, iranian experience of their American friends is that with friends like that who needs enemies. Imagine we are rome, intrigue , assassination all inclusive. Noone trusted them. Greed, cynicism, power struggles that destroyed smaller countries to satisfy internal ideological struggles or assuage egos in the senate. The population of USA as such has no influence on policy. Terms of reps, senators are very long, unlike turn of century. Presidents have little to say as the cia, nsa, military, etc. have own agendas and are also splintered within. Putin, China have similar problems. A modern state has a huge bureaucracy which lives on inertia, self perpetuation. US military industrial complex is titanic, turning evil eye as in lord of rings and destroying. SCO concept is to starve the beast by taking USD away from reserve currency status and overriding the concept of divide and conquer from britain, now USA. Power's talk, translated means color revolution, soft coup, regime change.Indonesia, latin america were all targets. Military takeovers due to socialist leaning governments all planned by CIA. Nowadays they will support anyone who follows 'our'(wall street, cia, military) line. CNN and co. propagandize and hollywood, facebook distracts. . Daily fight for existence(low worker participation, high indebtedness, low wage job boom) has eliminated middle class, real journalism, educated reading politically particpating public. Trump is one of 'us', the huge unwashed msses who watch spiderman, reality shows, respond to sound bites instinctively and have never read a book in their life. Hillary has captured the black vote but we know she will do nothing for that. They would be better switching to repubs once to gain influence by showing they can switch, not be taken for granted. Big bank support is not helping the ghetto. Cool songs and hollywood stars with the right talk fool the people while they pick their pockets and leave them dead in the gutter. Hillary is anyway physically in very bad condition and being a democrat in dnc responsiblity can be dangerous(6 bodies in 6 weeks). Trump tax plans are likely reaganesque irresponsible. However borrowing from chinese, japanese, europeans who buy t bills is not much longer an option. Negative interest rates on savings accounts means mattress money, banks go broke. Western model of permanent economic growth, consumerism on debt, pushed out,expanded to infinity is, as in all history a no win game. Debt forgivenessby kings was standard so that farmers would have incentive to join military. Boots on the ground- russian, iranian, syrian cooperation shows, brings results. Bombs on prestige targets occassionally brought nothing against ISIS till russia stepped in. Hillary's glee over ghaddafi's death plus nuland's Ukraine game, bill's bombing of serbia, sakashvili's georgian invasion during sochi can all be factored in as russian motivation. A terror state on its south flank would be deathly, for CIA perhaps a nice playground. America is so far away but pretends it should set agenda everywhere. S400 sales to SCO members in asia is climbing plus intelligence, military, trade cooperation. Soft and hard regime change, sanctions pressure will become useless. Internal dissent, gorbie style peaceniking a la Trump will prevail as debt laden, impoverished America(as soviets similarly collapsed due to mismanagement, overexpansion) tire out. Generational theory wins out over your patriotism. That is the old religion whose song has been sung. British empire died too with old men not accepting it going decades later into their graves.Energyflowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14476915209268786507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-27542496413526702482016-08-12T00:02:37.951-04:002016-08-12T00:02:37.951-04:00Professor
Great candid post.
I say things which...Professor<br /><br />Great candid post. <br /><br />I say things which I think are somewhat similar, in some ways, but in a less dignified way, like suggesting reading Tarzan rather than the NYT to see how others might really see us and our ideology.<br /><br />You discuss it as the illusion of having allies in the Middle East...<br /><br />I could not agree more.<br /><br />all the best Bozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.com