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Anna's avatar

Poor Ben Rhodes tries to sit on three chairs at once and falls from all three.

1. Support for the dementia-stricken Biden. This is rather anti-American.

2. Support for NATO (US) meddling in Ukraine, including the terrorist operations on the territory of Russia. This is an invitation for the thermonuclear phase of the ongoing WWIII.

3. A shyness towards (a) the dominance of AIPAC over US congress, (b) the infiltration of Langley by Mossad, and (c) the inability of EU/US compradors to withstand the pressure from the supranational private banking cartel that relies on and rules the dishonorable MIC and thuggish CIA/MI6/Mossad "security services."

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I read that with a kind of suspended disbelief, struggling to rationalize how anyone, anywhere could read this and see it correspond with the reality visible to their own eyes. A feat of sleight of hand, indeed!

Take this little gem, one of many I reckon you could pull from the text and crucify:

"The willingness to share sensitive information, on display in the run-up to war in Ukraine, should be applied to other cases where human rights can be defended through transparency."

Where was America on the human (and constitutional) rights of the Russian-speaking population of the Donbass?

Where was America as Ukraine committed war crimes in the region?

Elsewhere:

Where was America when Russia offered a specific regional security document to Europe and NATO? Oh, that's right, it rejected it.

Where in the document is the reference to FJB destroying Nordstream 2, causing an environmental disaster, and wrecking an ally's economy?

Where is there any recognition of Washington's hypocrisy about defending territorial integrity in Ukraine, but totally ignoring it in Syria to steal the latter's oil?

The whole document, top to bottom, is almost parody. It is Quixotic, and disengaged from reality. In Alice through the Looking Glass we are introduced to the Red Queen Effect, which means that we constantly co-evolve with the systems we interact with, so that if we’re not doing things differently, we’ll pretty much remain in the same place. And frankly, this document admits that the world is moving on, but the author offers no substantive changes with the times that would indicate America wants to move on from the Wolfowitz doctrine in a meaningful way. That remains the only show in town, and this (and any) US administration is absolutely focused on keeping the hegemony standing, Thyucides Trap, be damned!

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