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Posted: Feb 10, 2025 - 10:11am

Chris Hedges: The Empire Self-Destructs
We share the pathologies of all dying empires with their mixture of buffoonery, rampant corruption, military fiascos, economic collapse and savage state repression.

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Posted: Feb 4, 2025 - 1:26pm

Sounds like a Mearsheimer 'realist', though Secretaries of State tend to say one thing and do another...

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Posted: Jan 31, 2025 - 10:39am

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F-35 crashes same day Lockheed CEO touts its success
The US military's biggest boondoggle keeps boondoggling
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Posted: Jan 29, 2025 - 9:44am

New neocon manifesto: Keep US troops in the Middle East forever
The 'Vandenberg Coalition' wants Trump to prioritize Israel and maintain Iran as enemy number one
A leading neoconservative for most of the last half century has released a comprehensive series of recommendations on Middle East policy for the new Trump administration nearly all of which are ideas that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud Party would happily embrace.

The 16-page report, entitled “Deals of the Century: Solving the Middle East,” is published by the Vandenberg Coalition, which was founded and chaired by Elliott Abrams, who has held senior foreign policy posts in every Republican administration since Ronald Reagan (except George H.W. Bush’s), including as Special Envoy for Venezuela and later for Iran during Trump’s first term.

Created shortly after former President Biden took office, the Coalition has acted as a latter-day Project for the New American Century, a letterhead organization that acted as a hub and platform for pro-Likud neoconservatives, aggressive nationalists, and the Christian Right in mobilizing public support for the “Global War on Terror,” the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and the move away from a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict, particularly under the George W. Bush administration in which Abrams served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Near East and North African Affairs, surviving a number of purges of leading neoconservatives in that administration after the Iraq occupation went south. (...)

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Posted: Jan 27, 2025 - 8:27am

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The totally inexplicable thing is why he chooses to make these threats by public tweet. Diplomacy — even when the talk is tough — is best done in private dialogue. 


Edit: I read some details and see that there were exchanges between Trump and Pedro on social media.


Have to remember who is real audience is, see Kurtster. 
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Posted: Jan 27, 2025 - 8:21am

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I find this methodology maddening. Running a country by sending out social media posts while taking a dump. Hit send and everyone runs around with their hair on fire till the next stupid post. 



He might think that the swagger and ludicrous demand as a start to negotiations makes him seem like a tough guy, but all the world (except ⅓ of ‘Merica) see him as a capricious doofus.



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Posted: Jan 27, 2025 - 8:09am

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The totally inexplicable thing is why he chooses to make these threats by public tweet. Diplomacy — even when the talk is tough — is best done in private dialogue. 


Edit: I read some details and see that there were exchanges between Trump and Pedro on social media.

I find this methodology maddening. Running a country by sending out social media posts while taking a dump. Hit send and everyone runs around with their hair on fire till the next stupid post. 

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Posted: Jan 26, 2025 - 2:30pm

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The all allies and supporters part is a nice broad brush for him to attack anyone he wants



The totally inexplicable thing is why he chooses to make these threats by public tweet. Diplomacy — even when the talk is tough — is best done in private dialogue. 


Edit: I read some details and see that there were exchanges between Trump and Pedro on social media.
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Posted: Jan 26, 2025 - 1:58pm

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The all allies and supporters part is a nice broad brush for him to attack anyone he wants



You know, the best approach will be for EVERYONE to be the enemy. One person can be ignored, but if three people - I said three people... then it's a movement....
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Posted: Jan 26, 2025 - 12:22pm

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The Donroe Doctrine — hilarious.  Best thing that has happened to Canadian nationalism in a long time.  Good wakeup call for Europe. 

The Panama Canal nonsense will ultimately hurt US business interests throughout Latin America as did the recent unconditional support for ethnic cleansing terrorism and baby killing in the Gaza concentration camp.    Perhaps it does not matter as long as the bipartisan view is that money falls from the skies.  

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Posted: Jan 26, 2025 - 12:03pm

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The all allies and supporters part is a nice broad brush for him to attack anyone he wants

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Posted: Jan 23, 2025 - 2:42pm

Klingons
Once ridiculed Space Force ready to blast off with Trump
Air Force officials are pushing for interstellar superiority in the name of great power competition
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Posted: Jan 10, 2025 - 11:41am

AEI would print money for the Pentagon if it could
The DC think tank will find any reason to boost the DOD's already out of control budget, this time it's Russia
The American Enterprise Institute has officially entered the competition for which establishment DC think tank can come up with the most tortured argument for increasing America’s already enormous Pentagon budget.

Its angle — presented in a new report written by Elaine McCusker and Fred "Iraq Surge" Kagan — is that a Russian victory in Ukraine will require over $800 billion in additional dollars for the Defense Department, whose budget is already poised to push past $1 trillion per year.

Before addressing the Ukraine conflict directly, it’s worth looking at the security outcomes of high Pentagon spending during this century. As the Costs of War Project at Brown University has found, the full costs of America’s post-9/11 wars exceed $8 trillion. In addition, hundreds of thousands of people have died, millions have been driven from their homes, thousands of U.S. personnel have died in combat, and hundreds of thousands of vets have suffered physical or psychological injuries. And this huge cost in blood and treasure came in conflicts that not only failed to achieve their original objectives but actually left the target nations less stable and helped create conditions that made it easier for terrorist groups like ISIS to form.

Any call for ratcheting up Pentagon spending needs to reckon with this record of abject failure for a military first, “peace through strength” foreign policy. The new AEI report fails to do so.

As for its central thesis — that a Russian victory in Ukraine will require a sharp upsurge in Pentagon spending — neither part of the argument holds up to scrutiny. (...)

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Posted: Jan 8, 2025 - 12:03pm

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"Would you or would you not like Canada to become the 51st state of the United States?"

No: 82%
Yes: 13%

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No Among:

NDP: 94%
LPC: 89%
BQ: 88%
GPC: 87%
CPC: 73%
PPC: 57%

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Leger / Dec 9, 2024 / n=1520 / Online
The 13% should be deported to Florida.


trump wants to take a place with a population greater than California and a land area greater than the entire US and give them the senate clout of N. Dakota

he wants tariffs to keep manufacturing jobs out of Canada but also wants Canada to be part of the US so tariffs won't apply and the jobs could stay there 
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Posted: Jan 8, 2025 - 11:22am

"Would you or would you not like Canada to become the 51st state of the United States?"

No: 82%
Yes: 13%

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No Among:

NDP: 94%
LPC: 89%
BQ: 88%
GPC: 87%
CPC: 73%
PPC: 57%

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Leger / Dec 9, 2024 / n=1520 / Online
The 13% should be deported to Florida.
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