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Parting shot—a word from the editors
The Best Definition of Donald Trump We Have Found
In his zeal to prove to his antagonists in the War Party that he is as bloodthirsty as their champion, Hillary Clinton, and more manly than Barack Obama, Trump seems to have gone “play-crazy” — acting like an unpredictable maniac in order to terrorize the Russians into forcing some kind of dramatic concessions from their Syrian allies, or risk Armageddon.However, the “play-crazy” gambit can only work when the leader is, in real life, a disciplined and intelligent actor, who knows precisely what actual boundaries must not be crossed. That ain’t Donald Trump — a pitifully shallow and ill-disciplined man, emotionally handicapped by obscene privilege and cognitively crippled by white American chauvinism. By pushing Trump into a corner and demanding that he display his most bellicose self, or be ceaselessly mocked as a “puppet” and minion of Russia, a lesser power, the War Party and its media and clandestine services have created a perfect storm of mayhem that may consume us all.— Glen Ford, Editor in Chief, Black Agenda Report
First they call me a ‘Russian Troll’ then ‘Anti-American’ then ‘Un-American’ then ‘Traitor’ because I oppose the wars that benefit the democrat warmongers…..? If not ‘current greater evil’ at least ‘equal greater evil’…..if there is any such thing as degrees of evil, perhaps evil is evil.
I’m not sure which evil is greater. It looks to me pretty close to a tie. The Democrats want to start World War 3, a nuclear war, as soon as possible. Either that, or they’re playing chicken, telling the world “do whatever we want or we’ll start World War 3.” I wonder if they really believe they can “win” a nuclear war, or even survive a nuclear war. I find it much more believable that the outcome of a nuclear war would be the story of the 1959 film “On the Beach.” In that story, everyone dies in the end,… Read more »
Hiroyuki, you’ve summarized well the crisis that we’re facing. I hope more people realize this soon.