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“The existence of horror anywhere ipso factor justifies bringing that horror home - enlightened universalism would demand nothing less.”

I said since the 2020 Election Color Revolution Blueprint came out our foreign policy is our domestic policy now. To the extent we have a government, it’s the State Department. The recent CTI revelations about the DoS domestic GEC anti-disinformation section affirms same.

In Defense of what’s Defensible of American Foreign Policy;

(And it will be quite noticeable when it’s gone, and we’ll see that the rest of the world quite kills and wars without us).

Now in defense of America; when France fell in 1940 FDR said to an aide “This time we’re not leaving.” Harry Hopkins the traveling FDR said essentially the same thing to DeGaulle. This is understandable as it was the Second World War in a generation. All of our policy and largely successful since has oriented around preventing another World War, even if we have to fight or more often pay for small ones. Let’s note that we haven’t despite what you may believe caused or started wars in peaceful areas, instead we are going into area of endemic war, or as Sherman said of Mexico Eternal War.

So to prevent another world war we got involved. Our policy is as much peace as possible. We quite overextend in peace maneuvers far more than wars.

The other consideration is the collapse of Empires all over the world: this is a period of nearly unprecedented chaos, and no it’s not all our fault.

China 1911

Russia 1917

Germany 1918

Austro-Hungary 1918

Ottoman 1918

Ottoman Caliphate 1924 (this still haunts the world).

We 🇺🇸 are not responsible for WW1. Nor did we seek to get involved. We could have indeed not supplied the Allies with weapons and money, but keeping Great Britain a going concern was in our interests (their Fleet, the bases). Our support drove Germany to rash measures against us that dragged us in (however “justified” still rash).

WW2; 1945

By the end Japanese Empire and Nazi Germany had fallen.

The rest are weakened.

Over the next 30 years, and to an extent with our connivance the rest of the European Empires fall.

Dutch, British, French, Portuges.

NATO was about keeping more than the Germans down.!

Not that the imbecilic Europeans didn’t fatally weaken themselves.

In 1989 the USSR Warsaw pact Empire collapsed. We aren’t responsible for the ensuing chaos such as it was... and indeed it’s an excellent success of policy that Helmut Kohl and the FRG are there to catch the DDR, and we Eastern Europe.

Indeed we fed the Russians through a couple of rough winters.

And now the spiral of overreach begins. George Bush declined to move NATO East... but Bill Clinton doesn’t.

My Defense of 🇺🇸 policy ends here.

In fact Bill was quite adventuresome really. He has other matters on his mind.

Let the Albanian 🇦🇱 Madeleine Albright take her vengeance on the Serbs ! Haiti? Sure...

NATO East? Why not..

Bill has a government to ReInvent- Arkansas style.

At this point our government becomes corrupted through 2 major vehicles;

1. The laundering of the Rape of Russia money in the West, the entire administration not just neocons but Treasury (Lawrence Summers) are in on the swag.

Times were great for MBAs to pal with gangsters!

2. Domestic; Bill Clinton exclaims The Era of Big Government is over!

The Era of contracting out government functions begins!

> which is why our government is a Contracting Brokerage.<

The government does little in the physical or financial realm, it manages and Brokers Contracts.

*In Fairness the government was paralyzed by bureaucracy, idiocracy, and “the death of common sense.”

In truth at last things actually got done. “Government” worked.

The terrible part is - the Government and the Contractors are often the same people, see Hunter Biden (an idiotic crackhead example) or married.

It’s also why including Contractors the actual Federal Government is not 3 million, but 6-9 million with contractors.

The Clinton’s privatized and mobbed up the government.

By mob I mean criminal corruption. They’re trapped.

The government can’t quit.

They can’t. They’d be dead or in jail, and probably dead. Their actual associates might kill them if they lost power, because the money stopped. This is not “the M@fia runs the government “ this is they don’t want to go to jail- or die. Not to mention there’s a lot of dangerous people around now after decades of war that also have wives, mortgages... are SMBs, and won’t let the party stop.

So our actual government is you see largely already outsourced, and has to keep the money going or they’re dead or in jail.

They’re Prisoners of their own Devices now since the 1990s.

In 2001 - 9/11 happens.

This is both a genuine highly threatening situation and an opportunity to ... profit.

The actual war - terror, Afghanistan, Iraq - all done really but mop up by 2003. The Afghans and Iraqi were exhausted and ready for peace and to run their country.

But Profit won out. You see once the interests are created, they can’t be turned off. So we have this inane nonsense about (making them White) Democracy... you know the rest.

So my defense ends pretty much in 1991. We did good things, American women became the majority of voters , they elected a leering rapist... he turned out to be really the most transformative American President since FDR and not for the good... here we are.

Now they can’t quit. Hence frenzy when Trump* mentions Ukraine, COVID, 2020, Ukraine war... and whatever happens in 2024.

They can’t quit in DC, especially at State. So here we are...

*Only Peter Sellers at the Height of his Powers could do Trump’s first term any justice. Clouseau without the accent, all of DC Chief Inspector Dreyfus.

John Grisham novel as slapstick comedy.

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