COMMENTS POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN RUSSIA INSIDER
"As Trump Tweets
the Generals Run the Show and They're Restarting the Nuclear Arms Race"
That sadly is the truth. He’s a noisy child diverting people
from the real show.
I do believe that it makes little difference anymore who is
president.
Unless, somehow, the US came up with another figure like
John Kennedy.
But then I think we all know what would be the fate of such
an unlikely figure.
Contrary to all our hopes and dreams and teachings, it is often
the evil men who prosper.
And the words of Lord Acton, long ago, about the effects of
power on corruption remain some of the truest ever uttered. America approaches
total corruption as a political society.
We are in for very dark times.
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Response to a comment
saying “Fortunately Russia gets ten times as much bang for the buck” in its
arms:
Unfortunately, the number of bucks the Pentagon has at its
disposal is almost unlimited.
That's the way it is when you have the privilege of having the
world's reserve currency and you have an irresponsible, out-of-control form of
government.
America is pretty close to totally corrupt, or it wouldn't
be thinking the way it does.
Russia and China must spend enough to make war unthinkable
for the US without sinking into an unwinnable arms race.
No one understands this better, I think, than Mssrs. Putin
and Xi.
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Response to a comment
saying “Putin is not going to get into an arms race with the USA”:
Putin has already clearly stated his intention to avoid
that.
I don't know whether it will prove possible, but this is a
man of extraordinary ability.
And I think we are all fortunate to have him. All of us in
the world.
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Response to a comment
saying “The CIA has a budget of around $52 billion a year”:
No one really knows the budget of the CIA.
What's on the books is window-dressing.
And besides, it enjoys the corrupt privilege of financing
itself through drug sales, gun running, and a whole lot of other Mafia-like
operations.
Who do you think is responsible for the plague of opioids on
the world markets today, causing violent havoc with low-level drug-dealing
gangs from Chicago to Montego Bay, Jamaica? The CIA in Afghanistan.
CIA even can counterfeit currency.
You recall, some years back, stories about large numbers of
near-perfect US one hundred-dollar bills discovered in circulation and the
suggestion North Korea was creating them?
The suggestion about North Korea was nonsense propaganda.
Almost certainly, it was CIA doing the counterfeiting. It’s an old dirty trick
of intelligence services with high technical abilities. Even today, it has
flooded the economy of Venezuela with counterfeit national currency in a
successful effort to create rampant inflation.
