(Perspective! At some point in the near future, our attention to our personal daily concerns will be rudely interrupted by factors outside those dailies that we failed to consider affecting our personal affairs.
That has been the pattern which preceded every war which the populace
didn't want, but the leaders wanted - guess who has to fight it? – CL)
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/05/karen-kwiatkowski/an-unraveling-secession-or-wwiii/
The only factors that unite
Congress today are the Israel lobby and the defense industry – both of which
peaked in performance well over 30 years ago, and became endemically lazy. Intellectually
lazy, in choosing to label any and all critics as anti-Semitic or
anti-American, rather than debate or defend; Physically lazy in focusing on
short-term profits via expensive and unreliable offensive systems, and elimination
of policy competition through targeted and corrupt lobbying of Congress and the
state bureaucracy to achieve policy goals.
In a breath-taking move last week, Russia’s government
assigned a civilian economist to oversee its
defense department – perhaps to ensure that Russian defense
capability and innovation do not follow the well-trodden American path of
venerating and exaggerating past military successes and feeding on a
long-bloated Pentagon corpse, courtesy of unlimited state creation of both
“money” and “patriotism.”
