John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY MICHAEL KLARE IN CONSORTIUM NEWS
“World War III’s Newest Battlefield
“Next month, U.S. troops are heading to a massive mock battle in a region of the Far North that is becoming a vortex of economic and military activity”
I do object to the author's use of the term, "Putin's regime."
It is the Russian government, full stop.
The use of that "regime" expression is so common in material from America that it is tiresome.
The phrase is a red flag concerning propaganda content, so why use it?
And by the way, anyone from a country where the president represents a minority of votes and the Congress literally runs on limitless amounts of lobby money and where a trillion dollars a year is spent on the military and state security, does seem slightly short-sighted about the meaning of the word "regime."
Remember, too, America represents about five percent of the world's population, yet in dozens of efforts, it tries to tell the other ninety-five percent how to run their affairs.
But even the “five percent” figure creates a big distortion, because the people who count, those who actually run America, represent just a small fraction of one percent of the world’s population.
Now, that is my idea of a “regime.”
