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What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [943]
I don't understand why Washington would want a fight.
Presidents are like hood ornaments on a car. No one directs their attention to who the driver is. The oval office is a revolving door. What never changes are the entrenched interests: extractive industries, banking, oil, pharmaceutical, agricultural, military weapons. These interests work with (i.e. bribe via lobbies) whichever party happens to be the flavour of the day and buy or extort* their way to influence through campaign contributions. Notice how all the big players fund both parties. The interests have no loyalty to the USA as a country. It's just a tool to be used and discarded. America is used as muscle internationally to expedite their plans (see Gen. Smedley Butler quote below. Nothing has changed. Once in power, they stay in power). As mentioned, "Washington" ( and I emphasize
Washington because this represents the entrenched interests and their paid, professional servants in government ) is not the government elected to represent the will of the American people. The two party system in the USA has become a dialectical rouse.
Washington considers it's tool America as the "indispensable nation", above all others, and it must keep every other country under it's thumb.
You run your country our way, or else. Washington can not tolerate being anything other than a uni-lateral power. It dictates. Washington has been un-successful in keeping Russia in a state of servitude. The neconservative faction of Washington has had long term plans to conduct a nuclear first strike against Russia in order to bring it back into line. Wizard, you are correct to say that nuclear war is unwinnable. Washington does not care. This is why we see the now constant process of demonization of Russia - by any means, turning it into a perceived villain in order to justify this attack. None of us will survive Washington's insanity. And this is why I returned to this forum after 3 years away.
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extort* - want to read about how the entrenched interests operate in countries other than the USA? Read John Perkins' 'Confessions of an Economic Hitman'. Plenty of interviews on YouTube. He was one of the guys who bribed, threatened and extorted leaders in 3rd world countries on behalf of these international entrenched interests that control Washington.