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Reliving the Nightmare of 1914 Dare You - US Politics
From: Apollonius (Theocritos)
22-Jun
Reliving the Nightmare of 1914 (We're Doing It Again)
Reliving the nightmare of 1914 World War I had no good guys, no winners, just mediocre, small-minded politicians unable to step back from the brink By DAVID P. GOLDMAN MARCH 4, 2022 [Note: I am r...
Read more from pjmedia.comFrom: Apollonius (Theocritos)
22-Jun
'It Became Necessary to Destroy the Country to Save It'
Peter Arnett's celebrated quote - "It became necessary to destroy the town to save it" - was a fabrication during the Vietnam War but has a macabre application to Ukraine...
Read more from pjmedia.comFrom: Apollonius (Theocritos)
22-Jun
Cardinal Richelieu explains Vladimir Putin
"Ladybird, ladybird fly away home, Your house is on fire and your children are gone." The ghost of Cardinal Richelieu was singing the old children's rhyme to the tune of "Thank Heaven for Little Gi...
Read more from Asia Times... “You’re a monster,” I blurted out.
“You solicited my advice, Spengler, because you cannot bear the self-satisfied moralizing of the well-meaning people who set this tragedy into motion, and you are appalled by men of action who clean up the mess left by practitioners of the politics of virtue. Get a stronger stomach if you want to see under the surface of history – including the history that is unfolding before your squeamish eyes.”
From: Apollonius (Theocritos)
22-Jun
Cardinal Richelieu foresees Russia's victory in Ukraine
NEW YORK - The custom-built Oculus headset delivered to my door by a hooded monk seemed to malfunction. The palace on the Place de Vosges appeared once again in the Metaverse but in black and...
Read more from Asia TimesThat didn’t bother me; in truth, I preferred the damp ossuary of the Carthusian monks, numberless levels below the sewers of Paris, where I had first materialized the Cardinal’s spirit with the help of a magnum of Chateau Petrus and a spittoon. Virtual reality gave me headaches.
From: Schantelle (cephalogram)
22-Jun
['It Became Necessary to Destroy the Country to Save It']
Typical warmonger mentality! 
From: Guard101
28-Jun
The Warmonger
From: Guard101
28-Jun
AMAZING DOCUMENTARY
1914: The Horrifying Waste Of The Great War
| Great War In Numbers: Season 1 | Timeline
11 Jun 2022
Timeline - World History Documentaries
https://youtu.be/Rai0urG_KGw
The Great War was a conflict driven by quantity and numbers, fought by calculating generals for who no cost was too high. For the first time in history, everything was recorded in exacting detail and this documentary reveals the startling facts behind the staggering scale of the war to end all warsof 1914
From: AuntBetsie
1-Jul
Wars of such a magnitude disrupts the rest of the countries' peaceful life, not that there was always what we might call total ''peace'' as such.
From: AuntBetsie
1-Jul
Some of the politicians only feel mightful and strong under the warrior's disguise, but to me they are born criminals and mass-killers!
From: Apollonius (Theocritos)
5-Jul
Donald Trump Is Magnificently Right About Ukraine
Former President Donald Trump told the "Road to Majority" conference in Nashville on June 17: Now we have the nastiest inflation that we've ever seen, we have a war in Ukraine with perhaps...
Read more from pjmedia.comFormer President Donald Trump told the “Road to Majority” Conference in Nashville June 17:
Now we have the nastiest inflation that we’ve ever seen, we have a war in Ukraine with perhaps millions and millions of people dying in the end…you’re talking about tens of thousands of people dying…and perhaps it’s going to lead to World War III because of the way we’re handling it… We just gave $40 billion on top of another $16 billion, so we’re in for $56 billion…we want to help those people—we have to also save our country, by the way—and it’s horrible, horrible what happened. But when you look at Europe, and Germany and France and all these other countries – they’ve given a tiny fraction of what we’ve given…It should have never happened. If I were president that would have never happened. One hundred percent, that would never have happened.
Now the US Establishment is backed into a corner. Russia’s economy isn’t collapsing; it will shrink by about 8% this year, according to the International Monetary Fund, not the 50% that Biden predicted. Russia is making more money from energy exports than ever. Rather than collapsing, Russia’s military is running a reasonably efficient war of attrition in Eastern Ukraine, which Ukraine–with far smaller resources–cannot win. Sanctions on Russia turned into an own-goal as our inflation rate jumped with the oil price.
Trump is right about the risk of nuclear war. For example: A losing desperate Ukraine might use Western weapons to attack targets well inside Russia, provoking Russian attacks on arms depots in NATO countries bordering Ukraine.
Of course, letting Putin get away with an illegal and reprehensible invasion of Ukraine would be a black eye for the West. That’s humiliating. But a negotiated settlement of the kind Henry Kissinger proposed earlier this month in Davos would be better than two black eyes, and maybe getting our head blown off.