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Terry T's avatar

I’m not sure you could have done a better job of encapsulating our predicament in a single article, Matt. This is a remarkable piece.

I very often wonder what the world would be like if FDR had lived out his last term. And that the crypto British agents / [not so] nascent fascists in the American deep state hadn’t jettisoned Henry Wallace et al from the ticket in 1944 along with the ideals of the American System you’ve so clearly described in your other writings. Under cover of WWII, all the while FDR was trying to dismantle the British Empire, the Empire subsumed the American brain like one of those brain eating fungi that create zombie ants. It’s a tragedy of Biblical proportions I’m afraid. Unfortunately for all living beings on this planet the collective empire (aka collective west) understands today it’s do or die. The corralling of all the formerly sensible neutral nations into this war of the worlds proves the urgency they’re feeling. Very Dangerous times.

In this context it’s fascinating to watch how the Russians are slow walking the so called Ukraine operation as they are stressing the empire, particularly the UK and west Europe through attrition. Of course it was Russia plus China , Iran, etc. who were to be weakened but very much the opposite seems to be happening. It is this fissure in the Empire’s armor that gives me some hope for the future.

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Martin Bassani's avatar

It looks to me that Trump’s nonsense talk about Canada as 51st state only solidified Canadians’ support for Carney. Who is to say that wasn’t so by design? I believe Trump was selected to be nominally in charge while Empire carries out the economic destruction of the the US, a reset which will make possible all sorts of imperial plans, including some sort of the North American Union. Under Trump the digital control grid is being erected at high velocity. Any war with Iran would turbo-accelerate the process America’s decline. Will Trump lead this effort or will he be dragged into it?

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