Whatever deals wound up being cut to finally allow the House of Representatives to elect Kevin McCarthy Speaker will probably not be clear for a while, if ever. But one proposed agreement demanded and won by the far right GOP holdouts is a significant cut in Pentagon spending. Difficult as it is for many to imagine, this firm demand for reduced military spending puts these ostensibly far right Republicans significantly to the left of many Democrats, including members of The Squad and Bernie Sanders, all of whom consistently vote for ever-increasing Ukraine War funding.
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The Democrat-initiated Russiagate hoax has bred myriad excuses to cover up US government crimes, global wars, and chicanery, while advancing fascism in America. Tucker Carlson says blaming Russia has become Washington’s default ‘political tool’ • This was [and remains] a ‘manufactured panic’ about Russia. We agree.
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ERIC ZUESSE—Consequently: the ‘news’-media in any imperial nation are required to deceive their publics to believe that the imperial-and-vassal, or “colonial,” relationship is voluntary, so that the public there will be deceived to think they live in a democracy — even though that’s actually impossible by the very nature of ANY empire. What this deceit requires is therefore to have a majority of the public being fools. Intelligent persons in the public thus constitute a threat to the existing rulers, and therefore must be suppressed or else eliminated.
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It is not Russia that is “wasting men and equipment”, it is the Ukraine, because no matter what the Ukraine does, it is unable to change the outcome of the current conflict. At this point it will surrender unconditionally or be utterly defeated. Adding weapons to the mix will simply cause more Ukrainian deaths and destruction, and a greater financial burden on those counties provisioning them. The US has expensive but vulnerable bases and interests all around the world. The cost of defending all of them from any possible attack is astronomical, while an attacker need to find only one weakness at one point at one time to inflict a major defeat on the USA.
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ANDREI RAEVSKY—NATO is trying really hard to force the Russians into a “NATO schedule” and out of their planned schedule. An added beneficial side-effect from such “for optics only” strikes is to give the morons in Congress a rationale to put even more money into the US MIC.
As for forcing Russia to attack in suboptimal conditions, that won’t happen. Neither Putin, nor Shoigu, nor Gerasimov nor Surovikin are the types who will respond to hysterics with “for optics only” actions (just look at their faces, I mean it!). And this also goes for the entire General Staff.
