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[Human Events] The great funding pipeline that makes Washington D.C. the wealthiest region in America feeds mostly on military spending which still, nearly thirty years removed from the Cold War, requires a Russian enemy.
Unconventional candidate Donald Trump rattled Washington to its core in March 2016 when he wondered about NATO’s continued relevance and questioned America’s foreign policy in Ukraine.
That’s when this "Putin’s candidate" stuff started among both Republicans and Democrats, egged on by Ukrainians ‐ who almost certainly fed Steele the fake kompromat in the dossier.
Russia may be a convenient boogeyman that serves as a necessary foil to both sides in the Washington establishment. But, for once, let’s fight the real enemy: the global elites who started this nonsense.
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....the wealthiest region in America feeds mostly on military spending
Washington and Moscow, not really so different, just different product lines. We have the F-35 export line, they have the S-300/400 family of antidotes.
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But just like other types of drugs, there are only sellers because there are buyers...
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Someone miss the rise of China in the last 30 years which was made possible by 'Global Elites'. The same China that has never forget it was once the 'Middle Kingdom' on earth.
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...yeah, but those others aren't engaged across the world in 'hot' environments and keeping the seas free of pirates. Expensive being the world's policeman because somebody's knickers get in a bunch if barbarians overrun someone else's turf.
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Confucius say, "Greatest inventor
Not Chinese or copycat mentor.
Most fanciful thinker
(and surely big drinker)
Say, 'China must move to the center!'"
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And speaking of military spending, doesn't the USA out-spend the next five countries COMBINED?
Given that Chinese salaries are about 1/8 US salaries and China spends $200b vs the US's $700b, I'm inclined to say that China is effectively spending more than the US in procurement terms. Note all the new ship, aircraft and armored vehicle types that have been coming out of China almost every other year. That's not a sign of a military that is spending less money than the US.
[Jpost] So how are our new best friends in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... doing these days?
After last year’s grisly murder of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, it looked like it might be curtains for Saudi’s reformist crown prince, Mohammad bin Salman, known as MBS, who was accused of ordering his killing.
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You don't like Mo bin Salman? Just consider all the possible alternatives at the moment. Got a better one?
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In Capone's time, he'd have said. "Eh, OK. The linguine is getting cold..."
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And I do think MBS really doesn't consider the Khashoggi affair a loss. It reads more like, "OK, wahhabi losers. New sheriff in town. New rules. Watch and learn. One can hope, anyway...
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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After last year’s grisly murder of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, it looked like it might be curtains for Saudi’s reformist crown prince, Mohammad bin Salman, known as MBS, who was accused of ordering his killing.
