(Oct 2, 2022 01:49 PM)Kornee Wrote: (Oct 2, 2022 01:21 PM)RainbowUnicorn Wrote: (Oct 1, 2022 09:22 AM)Kornee Wrote: Anyone who can't see that the current conflict in Ukraine is a key part of an all-out push by globalists for a world dictatorship is imo truly naive.
Putin is pushing for world dictatorship & is a "Globalist" ?
No. Actually watch all of that vid linked to in #9.
Moreover as America becomes an increasingly multicultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat.
But they were doing that long before multiculturalism -- the WASPS and white Catholics of the old days were just as disinclined. The proxy wars during the Cold War had to be justified by fear of the communist bogeyman spreading everywhere like falling dominoes.
The American public was opposed to involvement in WWI, and Wilson was reelected in 1916 by promising to keep the US out of the war. It took propaganda about an alliance between Germany and Mexico and portraying the Germans as perpetrating brutal acts to build up the menace enough to tip the scale.
Similar public reluctance, initially, with WWII. But the sanctions and embargoes that the US placed on resource-strapped Japan invited an attack (preempting a need to resort to bloated threat sloganeering).
NYT Review: Endgame: "After some 50 years during which foreign affairs commanded the highest priority in Washington and on television and the front pages, the subject has virtually disappeared for most Americans.
This is true from top to bottom. President Clinton clearly pays as little attention to foreign affairs as he can get away with. Network television regards foreign news as a drag on ratings. And all the signs seem to suggest that the American people, having won the cold war, are quite happy to devote their attention to national and local problems. For many in the foreign policy establishment, this means the public cares less and less about what they have to say.
But they keep saying it anyway. And some are saying with increasing alarm: Wake up, America, before it is too late.
One of those most troubled by the sudden turn in American attitudes is Zbigniew Brzezinski..."
So Brzezinski seems to have written "
The Grand Chessboard" due to the US's apathy about being world policeman and assuming the throne of "paramount power". Along with its lame expectation that the communist party in rising China would eventually collapse due to the latter's parasitical embracement of capitalism (and concomitant, creeping democracy). Which was an utterly failed prediction of '90s economic experts. As the Kenton character in "Devs" colorfully related to Jamie in this video excerpt, by referencing the earlier and much more prophetically telling incident of 1989:
https://youtu.be/QqjA9iTd2i0
"I was in the CIA. I was based in Hong Kong, and we were working toward what we called the American century. The 20th century was all about war in Europe, communism in Russia and Asia. But the 21st century was gonna be all for the Stars and Stripes. Things seemed to be going pretty well, the Soviet Union had collapsed Europe was nicely weak and stable, and on my beat a popular uprising had started on mainland China. The focus point was Beijing. [...] What happened next the Chinese government sent in soldiers and tanks to Tiananmen Square, shot everybody they could, took the revolution by the neck, and crushed the __ing life out of it. Today China is the most powerful force on the planet, the most powerful force the world has ever known. And it turned out to be the Chinese century."
Little of Brzezinski's influence, IOW. The US instead remained a lackadaisical, boneheaded "world policeman" that only fed the applicable opportunistic corporations via its futile interventions, and getting nothing but increased national debt for itself in return. Along with continued mockery of its incapacity to finish a war in winning mode. Hardly a stealthy "mastermind" by any stretch of the imagination, that has been adeptly moving game pieces on some Grand Conspiracy Playfield.
"Brzezinski became one of the foremost advocates of NATO expansion. He wrote in 1998 that "Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire." --After power
NATO somewhat mimics bureaucratic departments, from the standpoint that once one of those administrative agencies is created, it doesn't want to stop growing or die even if its original purpose becomes defunct. NATO -- via very its inherent, mindless bacteria programming -- was headed in the expansion direction regardless, before Brzezinski became highly vocal about it in the late '90s. And despite his advocacy, NATO still repeatedly evaded Ukraine becoming a member up until the current conflict made those former fears of Russian anger/response irrelevant.
Oct 2, 2022 12:23 PM
