ERIC ZUESSE—The main modern iteration of this U.S. regime obsession to get a nuclear missile posted so near to The Kremlin so that the blitz-attack would happen too fast to be responded to, is the case of Ukraine, which is only 317 miles or five minutes of flying-time away from The Kremlin. What Cuba was to the United States in 1962, Ukraine came to be to Russia after Obama’s coup there grabbed it in February 2014. But whereas Cuba is 1,131 miles away from DC, Ukraine is only 317 miles away from Moscow; so, in this iteration of the geography-based strategy, Russia’s argument against Ukraine is even stronger than America’s argument against Cuba was in 1962. Russia has been altogether too trusting of the U.S. Government. But, by now, any further continuation of that trust in this Government, is extremely unlikely — not only in Russia, but everywhere.
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MAIN DESK—BIDEN’S BIG BOY SUMMIT—The roundtable discusses Biden’s carefully scripted but underwhelming “Big Boy” press conference, which, to no one’s surprise, turned out much more an electoral campaign speech—often mumbled—than a presidential presser, the whole concoction punctuated by hilarious gaffes that Biden’s mental deterioration now make almost inevitable (like confusing Zelensky with Putin—of all people). In addition, guest Jeff Brown paints a comprehensive picture of the global strategic situation, with a focus on Asia, where America’s futile attempts to surround China with military bases and alliances in order to stop its rise to global prominence, (already a fait accompli), is opening yet another front for a major kinetic war threatening humanity with nuclear Armageddon. A SECOND VIDEO-THE WEAPONISATION OF IGNORANCE—is also part of this outstanding package.
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ERIC ZUESSE—His answer was duplicitous. At 1:03:52 he had condemned “the neocon ideology, which is bankrupting our country” (which is true), then said, “That money is not being used for self-defense. That money is used for world domination and to make America the policeman of the world. NATO is the instrument of that. I am not going to abolish NATO.” So: he won’t abolish the instrument of America’s being the policeman of the world. Clearly, then, he’s not really against neoconservatism. But he continued there as-if it’s not so: “I’m going to change the function of NATO so that it becomes an instrument of peace.”
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BRUCE LERRO—If any of you think that some hodgepodge of long discredited socialist party, communist party and raging anarchists are going to help move France forward, we don’t agree.
Had Le Pen’s party won there probably would have been no more arms to Ukraine, and a death knell for the EU and another nail in the coffin of NATO. They also would have reversed Macron’s austerity measures. Russia would have been invited into Europe to provide cheap gas.
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ERIC ZUESSE—Domestically, America’s aristocracy are united against the public (their consumers and workers); and, so, their internal policies are united — Republican versus Democratic, or conservative versus liberal, as one — but differ only on their proposed ways of implementing this “neoliberal” domestic policy. However, on foreign policies, they are virtually 100% united on expanding yet further their empire, with virtually no difference on this “neoconservative” foreign policy — which is extraordinarily aggressive — to capture all countries that haven’t yet been brought into their ‘alliance’ (as being colonies of the U.S. empire).