John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY PATRICK LAWRENCE IN CONSORTIUM NEWS
‘Too Big to Fail’: Russia-gate One Year After VIPS Showed a Leak
“A year has passed since highly credentialed intelligence professionals produced the first hard evidence that allegations of mail theft and other crimes attributed to Russia rested on purposeful falsification and subterfuge”
But this is just the way American politicians have learned to deal with any adverse finding about almost anything, especially in foreign affairs.
They just ignore it. The practice resembles the way they all have learned, when asked a question in an interview, just to repeat what it is they have been saying, perhaps in new words, without ever answering the question.
“How far will we allow our government to escalate against others without proof of anything?” is a reader question cited by the author.
But I ask, first, what the “allow” is doing in there?
Just what options, what real power, do average Americans have today? My best guess is that it is close to zero.
Yes, you’re still free, at least for a while, to write and speak words, words, and more words. But their net effect on the giant engine that is the American power establishment is close to zero also.
And perhaps before long – given events like the Alex Jones creepy stunts – you may not even be able to utter the words, at least in a way that anyone hears you.
The stupid, endless stuff about Russia and hacks is just one small battle front in a huge, multi-front war being waged by the American power establishment for world supremacy.
If you want to understand the engines driving this, read:
https://chuckmanwordsincomments.wordpress.com/2018/07/22/john-chuckman-comment-how-american-politics-really-work-why-there-are-terrible-candidates-and-constant-wars-and-peoples-problems-are-ignored-why-heroes-like-julian-assange-are-persecuted-and-r/
A further thought.
We have, of course, someone who can precisely and accurately answer any question in the matter.
Unfortunately, he is more or less imprisoned at the behest of the American government.
And should he be turned out of his current situation, he faces certain extradition to the US where he also faces ugly treatment and a long prison term.
Such are the realities of American power in the world today.
His name, of course, is Julian Assange.
And the Democratic Party’s own candidate, Ms. Clinton, was quoted in her charming fashion, “Can’t we just drone him [Assange] or something?”
Of course, saying that was in line with many ugly statements by Clinton, as the one, after Qaddafi’s assassination – a man who did his very best for his people and kept them in peace – “We came, we saw, he died! Ha ha ha!”
It isn’t just Trump who has a filthy mouth and constantly tells lies.
It is the whole American power establishment.
There is no easy solution, at least not in our time.
Powerful people who are determined to do terrible things will do them.
As the American power establishment sees it, the total stakes are too big for any argument or evidence to turn it around.
