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Open Thread 2017-40
Last week's posts on Moon of Alabama:
October 29: UN On Khan Sheikhoun – Victims Hospitalized BEFORE Claimed Incident Happened
A rather laughable report about an obviously faked incident.
October 31: How General Kelly's Attitudes Reflect the U.S. of A
Stories about generals, and the U.S. of A, as enlightened defenders of humanity are fairy tales.
November 1: Is The "Moderate Al-Qaeda" Set To Target Hizbullah?
We anticipate that the Saudis have devious plans for Lebanon.
November 2: Neocons Push Dubious Paper To Allege Iran – Al-Qaeda Connection
The CIA pushes an likely fake paper to reinforce animosity against Iran.
November 3: Syria Summary – ISIS Loses Control Of Its Last Urban Refuge
The Islamic State is gone. The Saudis and the U.S. lost their war on Iraq and Syria.
November 4: Lebanon – Hariri's Resignation – The Opening Shot Of The Saudi War On Hizbullah
The starting signal for the Saudi Lebanon operation.
November 5: Saudi Arabia – This 'Night Of The Long Knives' Is A Panic-Fueled Move
The clown prince robs his peers and breaks the ruling consensus in his country.
Please use the comments as open thread …
Red Ryder at 18. However, Trump’s indoctrination is based on old line Protestant-capitalism concept and belief that wealth is indicator of God’s grace, and he has no other ideological etching. He is waging an economic foreign policy, solely. Imho, more or less right (no quibbles and footnotes offered.) I keep telling US citizens they should read The Art of the Deal – if only because it was a world wide yuuge bestseller.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump:_The_Art_of_the_Deal
does not mention that it has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, French, and many more. How many books has DT published? (> amazon: books Trump.) Of course edjicated ‘pwogressives’ can’t possilby fathom that the question is relevant and a correct answer might be interesting. (Not of course that any of these works represent my pov or have any theoretical interest.)
Trump is a tee-totaller, never did any drugs (afaik), does not smoke, and is a serial monogamist (bimbos with punch, kinda 1960 Playboy..) who despises pedophilia, but has nothing against gays. He was never accepted by the top Manhattan socialites / pol circuit / old-money rich. All this makes him ‘a boor’, a ‘misogynist’, a ‘hater’ and so on, he is an outsider, an usurper, an intruder who must be dislodged as quickly as possible. His tweets show he is ‘erratic’, ‘crazy’ and should be impeached, … (Heh, i’m not defending the man i’m no fan..) All these personalia things count, because:
The difficulty in grasping what is going on in US foreign policy comes about in part because the USA is a ‘country’ – better, a corporate congolomerate – that is doing business and is open to the highest bidder (> lobbyists, Clinton foundation, others, etc.) – anybody who pays +++ can get a piece of the pie to get x y z done, but only with quid pro quo… That is why the US has to, at all, any costs, maintain it’s vaunted military superiority, as without that the whole racketering scheme collapses, and rip-offs can’t be implemented. The balance sheet is not adding up any longer, horizons are cracking, the deals aren’t satisfactory, Trump is a last hope.
DT, as a ‘despised’ reformer, mild maverick — the PTB resist that part of the outcome of their disastrous behavior, they loathe DT and wish him dead, as a symbol of their own loss of power and their incapacity to bow to the inevitable and do something about it.
Posted by: Noirette | Nov 7 2017 17:01 utc | 82
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