Thank you for your work and the various perspectives of media article. Don’t know if you read Robert Hubbell take on the NSS. Thought a good perspective.
Said in the notes forum that am saving Robert’s article as time will move forward. Have some friends in Europe that reached out over the weekend that are very concerned in reference to the “new strategy”. They stated they were already in preparation of this since his views on NATO from years past have been clear. However, this “new view” has been “tweaked” as my friend choice of words used was very much more fascist than expected. It appears many more are very concerned in European countries that see the USA even much more differently than they were ready to admit. As said, time will tell. It’s a sad state of affairs, that some Americans are blinded. History does repeat itself, maybe not the exact events but ideologies that should be buried for good have reemerged, unfortunately. Never forget, seems to be forgetful.
The United Kingdom significantly has curtailed intelligence sharing with the U.S. due to concerns over the legality and ethics of U.S. military strikes in the Caribbean. Other allies, including Canada and the Netherlands, have reduced greatly intelligence reporting and are restricting sharing information that has to do even with National Intelligence. Believe France and Germany will be doing the same in the very near future.
Stay safe and healthy. Thank you again for all your work.
I cannot believe how much work you do to show us the spin! Here's where I had to return, though:
"Trump introduced the document as 'a roadmap to ensure that America remains the greatest and most successful nation in human history,'" as he systematically destroys everything in his path from boats in the Caribbean and anyone who isn't white, to the economy in the US, relationships with Canada and Mexico (not to mention the EU); to the release of numerous drug dealers and sex abusers sentenced to life in prison (along with all the J6 insurrectionists, many of whom have already been arrested for sex offenses and other crimes); as he and his anchor babies grift billions from the idiots who pull out their plastic to worship at the Trump altar. I need to stop for a while, but I'm too nervous he'll bomb someone else or kill more in ICE custody or sign a new executive order banning Americans from breathing.
"To get the “big picture,” it helps to look at multiple perspectives. The truth is usually somewhere in between."
I believe that but add the caveat that while I think that it is always helpful to be familiar with differing points of view, the illuminating "in between" (which is often a lot more multi-threaded and complex than meeting dead center) seems to me to require reasonable good faith from participants. According to Bob Woodward, Trump has said:
"You've got to deny, deny, deny and push back on these women," Trump said, according to Woodward. "If you admit to anything and any culpability, then you're dead. That was a big mistake you made."
(...)
"You didn't come out guns blazing and just challenge them. You showed weakness," Trump told the friend, according to Woodward. "You've got to be strong. You've got to be aggressive. You've got to push back hard. You've got to deny anything that's said about you. Never admit."
Which seems to encapsulate much of Trumps observed behavior even when he is confronted with convincing counter-evidence. Personally I have found the Guardian a better reflection of what I am able to verify than most mainstream news, and that was particularly true in the run-up to GWB's Iraq war. Much that I read there first was borne out by subsequent events. Indeed I counted a seeming lack of the investigative reporting I had seen in the Vietnam War era, as part of what went wrong in the Iraq adventure. Fox, what I have seen of it, seems more about promoting propaganda than what I think of as auditable receipts.
I do think that I, and many others, are in danger of ignoring stuff that matters that is outside of the view of the point of view to which I am partial, but again, the receipts tell the real story. It seems to me that extremists, and I see the whole MAGA phenomenon in the category, building it's worldview oblivious to extended consequences. That a successful "America First" or even a tempered "Me First" (for we all pursue self interest) involves complicated obligations to others. Maximizing use of fossil fuels? Where does that go? It's been said that reality has a liberal bias, and in a world of Orwellian leadership, that may well be so.
Thank you for your work and the various perspectives of media article. Don’t know if you read Robert Hubbell take on the NSS. Thought a good perspective.
https://substack.com/@roberthubbell/note/p-181020233?r=viplr&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Said in the notes forum that am saving Robert’s article as time will move forward. Have some friends in Europe that reached out over the weekend that are very concerned in reference to the “new strategy”. They stated they were already in preparation of this since his views on NATO from years past have been clear. However, this “new view” has been “tweaked” as my friend choice of words used was very much more fascist than expected. It appears many more are very concerned in European countries that see the USA even much more differently than they were ready to admit. As said, time will tell. It’s a sad state of affairs, that some Americans are blinded. History does repeat itself, maybe not the exact events but ideologies that should be buried for good have reemerged, unfortunately. Never forget, seems to be forgetful.
The United Kingdom significantly has curtailed intelligence sharing with the U.S. due to concerns over the legality and ethics of U.S. military strikes in the Caribbean. Other allies, including Canada and the Netherlands, have reduced greatly intelligence reporting and are restricting sharing information that has to do even with National Intelligence. Believe France and Germany will be doing the same in the very near future.
Stay safe and healthy. Thank you again for all your work.
I cannot believe how much work you do to show us the spin! Here's where I had to return, though:
"Trump introduced the document as 'a roadmap to ensure that America remains the greatest and most successful nation in human history,'" as he systematically destroys everything in his path from boats in the Caribbean and anyone who isn't white, to the economy in the US, relationships with Canada and Mexico (not to mention the EU); to the release of numerous drug dealers and sex abusers sentenced to life in prison (along with all the J6 insurrectionists, many of whom have already been arrested for sex offenses and other crimes); as he and his anchor babies grift billions from the idiots who pull out their plastic to worship at the Trump altar. I need to stop for a while, but I'm too nervous he'll bomb someone else or kill more in ICE custody or sign a new executive order banning Americans from breathing.
"To get the “big picture,” it helps to look at multiple perspectives. The truth is usually somewhere in between."
I believe that but add the caveat that while I think that it is always helpful to be familiar with differing points of view, the illuminating "in between" (which is often a lot more multi-threaded and complex than meeting dead center) seems to me to require reasonable good faith from participants. According to Bob Woodward, Trump has said:
"You've got to deny, deny, deny and push back on these women," Trump said, according to Woodward. "If you admit to anything and any culpability, then you're dead. That was a big mistake you made."
(...)
"You didn't come out guns blazing and just challenge them. You showed weakness," Trump told the friend, according to Woodward. "You've got to be strong. You've got to be aggressive. You've got to push back hard. You've got to deny anything that's said about you. Never admit."
Which seems to encapsulate much of Trumps observed behavior even when he is confronted with convincing counter-evidence. Personally I have found the Guardian a better reflection of what I am able to verify than most mainstream news, and that was particularly true in the run-up to GWB's Iraq war. Much that I read there first was borne out by subsequent events. Indeed I counted a seeming lack of the investigative reporting I had seen in the Vietnam War era, as part of what went wrong in the Iraq adventure. Fox, what I have seen of it, seems more about promoting propaganda than what I think of as auditable receipts.
I do think that I, and many others, are in danger of ignoring stuff that matters that is outside of the view of the point of view to which I am partial, but again, the receipts tell the real story. It seems to me that extremists, and I see the whole MAGA phenomenon in the category, building it's worldview oblivious to extended consequences. That a successful "America First" or even a tempered "Me First" (for we all pursue self interest) involves complicated obligations to others. Maximizing use of fossil fuels? Where does that go? It's been said that reality has a liberal bias, and in a world of Orwellian leadership, that may well be so.