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I see no children. I see no innocence.

I see terrorised, blackmailed obedience freaks.

What is more, I see them in every one of the 5 Eyes nations plus quite a few elsewhere too.

They are obedient to a cabal of globalists who believe they have a divine right to rule.

Americans make the mistake of believing their Constitution protects them from the beasts of aristocracy..... that is such a sad illusion to witness and prevents them from fighting the real enemy.

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A few new and/or improved comments here. One. "but by fidelity to American ideology and a good nose for what plays in Peoria" The American ideology is the logic of empire. I call the attitudes required by the denizens of the Washington regime (as well as our vassals) as one that thinks of itself as the master of the universe. As you have quoted before: "It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy; power is enough. Two. You speak of the puerile name calling by various members of the Washington regime. This is a demonstration of the low quality of the members of the regime. They are, after all, trying to insult these people. As an insult calling someone a thug, a war criminal, etc not only pales by comparison to a real insult (Lady Astor to Winston Churchill) If you were my husband, I'd put poison in your tea. Churchill - if you were my wife, I would drink it, but it also highlights their lack of self awareness that highlights all of their very real war crimes in Vietnam, Panama, Serbia, Bosnia, Libya, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria and Iran (not to mention Central and South America). Three. Obama was neither any different nor any better for all he spent some of his youth overseas. It was on Obama's watch that we fomented the coup in the Ukraine and we started murdering American citizens without the least fig leaf for the constitutionally required due process. And finally, I disagree that it started in 2001. I'm not sure when it did start but we stopped talking to the other countries in this world and we started tell 'em what it be like earlier than that.

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Silly sods. I cannot imagine a more pernicious human being than Hillary Clinton. Excellent piece, very well written.

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Spoiled children, who have gotten their way and only their way, for far too long.

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Biden’s brain just recycles his tough-talk from his heyday leading the charge for the mass incarceration economy: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/03/07/politics/biden-1993-speech-predators/index.html

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Patrick,

I think you have it backward. It's not infantile, so much as it's senility. Infants might not have much knowledge, but they are curious and vital. This is neither curiosity nor vitality, simply a system congealing around basic needs and wants.

Frankly it began with Reagan, but Reagan had the advantage of dealing with an adversary further along the process of decline, leaving his administration to look vital. Even though it required living off the credit cards.

The Russians had a serious reality check, with the fall of the Soviet Union and now we are heading toward our own reality check.

When what was vital becomes disattached from the underlaying organic source of its vitality, it becomes a scab and while we want to pick at it and it irritates, it is part of a natural cycle of regeneration. So some effort has to be given to considering what comes next. Is it further decline, corruption and decay, or can something be born of it?

In the not too distant future, Eurasia, as well as Africa and South America, are going to come to come to terms with the US no longer being top dog and will move onto other arrangements.

The issue then becomes, what happens in the US? When the dollar breaks down, likely states will have to issue forms of local currencies, leading to a breaking down of the Federal system. Which implies various forms of junior Trumps, appealing to local aspirations.

Meantime our intellectual class has to come to terms with the fact they have sold their souls to the various hustlers on the left, in order to keep their paychecks and were drug down into the mud as well.

It there something that can grow in this situation, or does it just go to the oligarchs, warlords, cartels and gangs?

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Wow, talk about hitting the nail on the head!

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I was looking back at The Bush (Jr) Doctrine which astounded me when I visited his Presidential Library in Dallas six years ago. The ugliness of it - framed and hanging from one of the walls - apart from the fact that it was a library with scarcely a book anywhere to be found - just lots of big photos or his quotes printed large also hanging to further help cover up the walls! Astounding!

1. Take the Fight to the Enemy (i.e. attack first)

2. Make No Distinction Between Terrorists and the Nations that Harbor Them

3. Confront Threats Before They Fully Emerge

4. Advance Freedom.

It all adds up to state-sanctioned thuggery/bullying - blaming everyone for the sins of one - in my understanding. Proudly hanging on the wall in the Bush Jr Presidential Library. Along with a replica of the President's Office and the Rose Garden outside! Giving it Presidential imprimatur!

Infantile imperialism currently with the name-calling! How well you have described it Patrick!

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We have to pull together the “serious people”in the US and around the world to call for a new security and development architecture, which is the only solution to the existential crisis we are facing. Please see and sign the Schiller Institute Petition calling for an international conference to make this happen:https://schillerinstitute.nationbuilder.com/convoke_an_international_conference_to_establish_a_new_security_and_development_architecture_for_all_nations

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Thanks, John. Of course you are right - not his words - merely put into his lips to read aloud! The entire library in Dallas was full of schmaltz and how "Daddy" was such a jokester! Really quite a sad presentation of a man who was eight years President of the US.

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