January 31, 2021

Here we go again.

Insert F bomb after "Here we."

[Secretary of State nominee Antony] Blinken displayed his hubris a few minutes later when he said, "The door should remain open" for Georgia to join NATO under the justification of curbing Russian aggression.

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Blinken’s framing of the issue exposes his disingenuous approach. Russian aggression is a term used by Washington insiders to describe a Russian reaction to western aggression. Blinken knows that the 2008 war between Russia and Georgia was not Russian aggression, he calls it that because it suits his agenda and the American press is dependably ignorant enough to not ask questions.

In the 2008 war, Georgia was the aggressor against the South Ossetians . . . .[1]

This is an excellent article. The real money quote from it is:
War should be the last resort to defending America’s people and it’s homeland from foreign invasion; it should not be the last resort to enforcing America’s utopian vision on the world . . . .[2]
That utopian vision is what winds me up on any day of the week between Monday and Sunday. Can't we just have a foreign policy run by people like Wally in "My Dinner with Andre"? (Link to full movie.) He was majorly into a simple, uncomplicated life where just a cup of coffee in the morning was something to be savored. A great movie let it be said. That utopian vision is what winds me up on any day of the week between Monday and Sunday. Can't we just have a foreign policy run by people like Wally in "My Dinner with Andre"? (Link to full movie.) He was majorly into a simple, uncomplicated life where just a cup of coffee in the morning was something to be savored.

A great movie let it be said. The contrast between the two characters is delicious to anyone who happens to have noticed the yawning gulf between our Beautiful People and the rest of us peasants. Years ago when I first watched it the movie was merely a delightful personality study contrasting dreamy stupidity and intelligent pragmatism. Now dreamy stupidiyy governs the whole shootin' match.

Notes
[1] "Former Navy SEAL: The Miseducation Of Antony Blinken." By Kenny MacDonald, ZeroHedge, 1/29/21 (emphasis removed).
[2] Id.

1 comment:

paul scott said...

I watched Dinner with Andre. It was very interesting. Over the years I have taken tens of thousands of photographs, and I always tell people it's not the contrived portraits of girls and the landscapes that people stop at > it's the ordinary little family photos.
They say "oh how old is he there and is that his little girl ". Things like that..
My friend at the bottom of the earth Invercargill in New Zealand wants to make short videos of older people as a life story. He works now in the funeral business. I told him, this is what you do Bryan. This was today. You get the subject to think out a five minute talk and practice it. Then you turn the camera on straight in front, and let him talk, You say nothing, you let them go through and then you close the camera. My friend Bryan says to me > Is that it ? I said yes, that is it, apart from some record photos you put in. Relatives and friends will only look at this once, You are not making an adventure, it's his story.