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JeriAnn's avatar

Very much appreciated your comments about media manipulation and the current moment with Iran -- we are seeing a ratcheting up of US threats about military dominance as being an immediate threat in the next few days, while at the same time both Hegseth and Graham had said we're looking at "weeks." Graham said on Jan 16 that the US strategy for now is bluster -- but the media just overlooked that and is really investing in the immediacy of military action.

And in Rubio's speech, if you follow all the fear-based words, it becomes clear that the US was asking Europe for an alliance against the new "tyranny in the East" -- China, who was described in detail but never explicitly named. "West" appeared 18 times in his speech -- that tells you the US is very focused on "the East." Taken as a whole, US foreign interference now looks like a sort of urgent land/resource grab war v China (who has been playing more strategically and for the longer term).

David Ginsburg's avatar

I believe the reasons for America’s switch from warfare to jawfare are threefold: first, that the missiles fired by Iran at Israel during the twelve day war wreaked far more havoc than either Washington or Jerusalem/Tel Aviv have hitherto let on. Second, that the Pentagon had warned Trump that another war could well be lost. And third, most importantly, the consequences of a defeat at the hands of Iran would expose the superiority of Chinese weaponry, and hence dispel any notion that America still had the strongest military in the world. That notion would ring hollow forever more. The demise of American bragging rights would cut to the quick. Destroy her soul.

AntonioB's avatar

What Anglo-Saxons and Germanics-Scandinavians call "West" is not my West. European civilization, from Lisboa to Moskva is European civilization. Heirs of Roma and Athens then Constantinople. Catholicism and Orthodoxy. From Calvin and Luther, Reformation is something else. Then Americans are still something else.

The fuzzy ideology of American WASP core call "West" USA and its bitches like Norway, Danmark, Germany and few others. There is zero philosophy of culture in that. A Russian, Orthodox slav heir of Eastern Roman Empire is more Western than any American.

A trivial illustration of thiis are the similarities in churches: Brioude, Assisi, Vladimir

Fernando's avatar

Epstein Scandal Summary:

Overwhelming, undeniable, and deeply shameful evidence reveals the grip of Mossad/Israel—better understood as the Rothschild banking Dynasty, shadow owners of both Israel and the United States, with Mossad as their ultra-secret armed branch—on vast segments of Western political and economic elites.

This influence remains entirely unpunished thanks to America’s dual justice system:

One that simply does not exist for the ultra-rich and powerful, and another—the prison system—for everyone else, ordinary citizens like you and me.