The neoconservative clique that had pushed to be at the controls of the Iraq War had shown an alarming inability to anticipate adverse reactions to their group-think driven initiatives. Exhibit A in this regard in Iraq was the decision, shortly after the dramatic success of the Shock and AweTM invasion, to disband the Iraqi Army virtually overnight. Thousands of soldiers walked away from their barracks carrying their AK-47s with them and fuel an insurrection that cost the peace. In spite of this record, when Barrack Obama became president the neoconservatives were welcomed into the Democratic administration’s foreign policy tent. As for why he did this, it was probably at the request of the same predators he rescued from the pitchforks.Lenin once said “Years go by and they seems like weeks, but once in a while a week goes by that seems like years.” The week that began Sunday March 20 was of the latter kind. America has been an empire since at least the 1850s and its reach expanded right up until this year. But in January 2022 the USA reached too far. A month earlier Russia had submitted two draft treaties for consideration by the US and NATO that explicitly stated her red lines in the wake of decades of provocations by the west, including NATO expansion to its borders and unilaterally tearing up arms control treaties dating as far back as the Reagan administration. On January 26 America formally blew off Russia’s insistence her concerns be taken seriously. On February 24 those other means began in the form of a “Special Military Operation” in which Russian troops crossed the border into Ukraine. The United States responded with the most draconian sanctions yet imposed, as well as by seizing hundreds of billions of dollars worth of Russian assets outside its borders. America also attempted to cajole and coerce countries around the world to do likewise. All NATO members signed up, as did most but not all other western and central European nations, as did the three non-European, five-eyes countries. The rest of the world, however, not so much. Nevertheless America was smugly confident the sanctions and seizures would quickly bring the Russian society and economy to its knees.
A Week That Seemed Like Years
A Week That Seemed Like Years
A Week That Seemed Like Years
The neoconservative clique that had pushed to be at the controls of the Iraq War had shown an alarming inability to anticipate adverse reactions to their group-think driven initiatives. Exhibit A in this regard in Iraq was the decision, shortly after the dramatic success of the Shock and AweTM invasion, to disband the Iraqi Army virtually overnight. Thousands of soldiers walked away from their barracks carrying their AK-47s with them and fuel an insurrection that cost the peace. In spite of this record, when Barrack Obama became president the neoconservatives were welcomed into the Democratic administration’s foreign policy tent. As for why he did this, it was probably at the request of the same predators he rescued from the pitchforks.Lenin once said “Years go by and they seems like weeks, but once in a while a week goes by that seems like years.” The week that began Sunday March 20 was of the latter kind. America has been an empire since at least the 1850s and its reach expanded right up until this year. But in January 2022 the USA reached too far. A month earlier Russia had submitted two draft treaties for consideration by the US and NATO that explicitly stated her red lines in the wake of decades of provocations by the west, including NATO expansion to its borders and unilaterally tearing up arms control treaties dating as far back as the Reagan administration. On January 26 America formally blew off Russia’s insistence her concerns be taken seriously. On February 24 those other means began in the form of a “Special Military Operation” in which Russian troops crossed the border into Ukraine. The United States responded with the most draconian sanctions yet imposed, as well as by seizing hundreds of billions of dollars worth of Russian assets outside its borders. America also attempted to cajole and coerce countries around the world to do likewise. All NATO members signed up, as did most but not all other western and central European nations, as did the three non-European, five-eyes countries. The rest of the world, however, not so much. Nevertheless America was smugly confident the sanctions and seizures would quickly bring the Russian society and economy to its knees.