Most surprising. People here do not usually collectively fall silent, far less invent doppelganger topics to bury another topic.
So I'm resurrecting it. I'm happy to receive opinions and objections. It's only a "best guess" by me, and perhaps others have different "guesses" about what's going on. But it's not a bad launch point for what might well be the most important political problem we're facing today.
The context was out-of-control partisanship, particularly in America. And just as a follow-up to that, I surmised what might be happening in the hallowed halls of Washington, behind our backs. There seems to be what I called a "money and power machine" running, some strategy designed to shift power to certain elites of business, politics and media. And I speculated on how the game works. My explanation runs as follows:
"My best guess, without knowing for sure, of course, is that the money-and-power machine works this way. Money is drawn out of the public purse in the name of Ukraine. It's taken from all the taxes on ordinary Americans...billions and billions, all of which is expected to disappear in various kinds of explosions; so if it never reappears again, nobody is surprised. Where did it go? It went up in explosions...allegedly.
Except it didn't. Only some of it did.
The tax money is sent to Ukraine (and other such causes) in the name of "foreign military aid." A portion of it is used for that, of course. But some, and the profits from the arms become kick-backs and support for American politicians, coming from the arms dealers. So the formerly-tax money arrives back on American shores "laundered" as legitimate war profits, money legitimately earned by the arms dealers in "aiding" the Ukraine cause. No tax payer can any longer can recognize it as the taxes that were taken from them.
The American people are poorer. The politicians are richer. The power shifts to the wealthy, yet again; but this time, the wealthy is cloaked in both pro-democratic rhetoric and elaborate gestures of Socialist sympathies, of "heartfelt understanding of the poor and oppressed in America," so nobody notices.
And as the war worsens, more and more draconian power-moves start to look justified, as well; after all, we can't afford to lose the war, can we? So we have to give more and more trust and support to the government that's running it...And that's why the politicians will never negotiate a peace or even a withdrawal with Putin; because if they do, the war will end, and the flow of money will be reduced. They will keep fighting a "regime change" war with the largest nuclear power on the planet, just so the machine keeps churning out the money and justifying the power moves.
Did you imagine the ambitions of some of these power brokers will stop at the American borders?
Think again, I say. Not for nothing is "globalism" all the rage among the elites.Meanwhile, the public will be told, "Support Ukraine. Hate Russia. That's all you need to know."
They'll be told Ukraine is a "democracy," and that "we have to make the world safe for democracy." But at least a decade ago, Farage was already warning the UK against antagonizing Putin in Ukraine, and was simply told to sit down and shut up. That, it seems, was the plan all along.Distributing hatred is exactly what's going on. And the poor people of Ukraine pay first; but the poor of America pay richly as well. And the powers in charge are laughing all the way to the bank."
Comments? Additions? Objections? Criticisms? Cream pies in the face? Anything?
