War or Images of War?

speaking of WEFwe have already seen what this “reset” is going to be like , the super rich elites have doubled their wealth over the past C years and we will end up owning nothing and being very happy
Who in his right mind believes that

Putin went to the young leaders school of WEF. Does anyone need to know any more?

Hi Penelope As usual, I find myself aligned to your thinking.. I’ve spent the morning reading and researching an article by Chris Hedges on Consortium News – “Democrats, the more effective Evil.”
This is THE most intensely magnified observation, and without any doubt at all IMO, “IS” THE REASON behind the attack against Russia (China next?)
Have a read.. I would love to know your thoughts.. I believe if everyone had to read this, then The Zionist States of Amerika would be finished over night becasue there would be no support for anything that comes out of their mouths or back sides as was the case with G double ya, with Biden a close second… The only ones resisting this information will be the primates who are incapable of reading or even knowing what the word research means?
Sorry for the length but I couldn’t decide what to leave out… It is actually longer. 😬
On point particularly for me is:

>>>An economic crisis means a political crisis. And a political crisis is traditionally solved by WAR against enemies inside and outside the nation. The Democrats are as guilty of this as the Republicans. WARS can get started by Democrats, such as Harry S. Truman in Korea or John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson in Vietnam, and perpetuated by Republicans. Or they can get started by Republicans, such as George W. Bush, and perpetuated by Democrats such as Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

Bill Clinton, without declaring WAR, imposed punishing sanctions on Iraq and authorized the Navy and the Air Force to carry out tens of thousands of sorties against the country, dropping thousands of bombs and launching hundreds of missiles.(Murdering 1.5 innocent men,women,and children in the process).

The WAR INDUSTRY, with its $768 BILLION MILITARY BUDGET, (more than the rest of the world put together) along with the expansion of Homeland Security, the FBI, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the National Security Agency, is a bipartisan project.

The handful of national political leaders, such as Henry Wallace in 1948 and George McGovern in 1972, who dared to challenge the war machine were ruthlessly hounded into political oblivion by the leaders of both parties.

Biden’s bellicose rhetoric towards China and especially Russia, more strident than that of the Trump administration, has been accompanied by the formation of new security alliances such as those with Japan, Australia, and Great Britain in the Indo-Pacific.

U.S. aggression has, ironically, pushed China and Russia into a forced marriage, something the architects of the Cold War, including Nixon and Kissinger with their opening to China in 1971, worked very hard to avoid. President Putin and President XiJinping, after their meeting recently in Beijing, issued a 5,300-word statement that condemned NATO expansion in eastern Europe, denounced the formation of security blocs in the Asia Pacific region, and criticized the AUKUS Trilateral Security Pact between the US, Great Britain and Australia. They also vowed to thwart “color revolutions” and strengthen “back-to-back” strategic coordination.

Warmongering by the Democrats always comes wrapped in the mantle of democracy, freedom and human rights, making Democrats the ‘more effective salespeople for War’. Democrats eagerly lined up behind George W. Bush during the calls to invade Afghanistan and Iraq in the name of “humanitarian intervention” and “liberating the women of Afghanistan”, who would spend the next two decades living in terror, burying family members, many of them their children.

Even when Democrats, including Barack Obama, criticized the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq while running for office, they steadfastly voted to fund the Wars to “Support our Troops” once elected. Now, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, says “an Assault on Ukraine is an Assault on Democracy,” the same argument Democrats clung to a half-century ago while launching and expanding the disastrous war in Vietnam.

Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), the chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, is currently crafting legislation he proudly calls “The mother of all sanctions bill.” The bill led in the House by Gregory Meeks of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, also a Democrat, demands that the administration “not cede to the demands of the Russian Federation regarding NATO membership or expansion.”

NATO expansion to Ukraine along Russia’s borders is the central issue for Moscow. Removing this for discussion obliterates a diplomatic solution to the crisis. Sanctions under the legislation can be imposed for anything deemed by Ukraine to be hostile. The sanctions cannot be lifted until an agreement is reached between the government of Ukraine and Russia, meaning Ukraine would be granted the authority to determine when the U.S. sanctions will end.

The proposed sanctions, which target Russian Banks, the NordStream2 natural gas pipeline, state-owned enterprises and leading members of the Government and Military, including President Putin, also calls for blocking Russia from SWIFT, the international financial transaction system that uses the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency.

“The legislation would grant at least $500 million in foreign military assistance to Ukraine, in addition to the $200 million in new assistance sent over the last month,” writes Marcus Stanley. “This makes Ukraine the third leading recipient of U.S. military assistance globally, after Israel, and Egypt. While it wouldn’t come close to giving Ukraine the ability to combat Russia on its own, it may come with U.S. military advisors that would increase the danger the U.S. would be drawn into a conflict. The bill also takes steps to DIRECTLY INVOLVE COUNTRIES BORDERING RUSSIA in negotiations to end the crisis, which would make it much more difficult to reach an agreement.”

While cutting Russia off from SWIFT will be catastrophic, at least in the short term, for the Russian economy, DIRECTLY pushing Russia into the arms of China to create an alternative global financial system that no longer relies on the U.S. dollar will cripple the American empire. Once the dollar is no longer the world’s reserve currency the dollar will precipitously drop in value, perhaps as much as by two-thirds, as the pound sterling did when the British currency was abandoned as the world’s reserve currency in the 1950s.

Treasury bonds, used to finance America’s military-based balance-of-payments deficit and the ballooning government budget deficit, will no longer be attractive investments for countries such as China. The nearly 800 U.S. military outposts abroad, sustained by debt — the Chinese have lent an estimated $1 trillion to the U.S. on which they collect hefty interest — will dramatically shrink in number. Meanwhile, the massive U.S. interest payments, at least in part, will continue to fund the Chinese military.

THE U.S. DOMINATION OF THE WORLD ECONOMY, after 75 years, IS ‘OVER’. It is not coming back. We manufacture little, short of weapons. Our economy is a mirage build on unsustainable levels of debt. The pillage orchestrated by the capitalist elites and corporations has hollowed the country out from the inside, leaving the infrastructure decayed, democratic institutions moribund and at least half the population struggling at subsistence level.

Chris Hedges: Democrats, the More Effective Evil – Consortium News

At least the German perpetrators didn’t hide their faces.

Authoritarianism begets greater Authoritarianism.

The more that Authority takes over more roles, responsibilities & lives of more people, the less those people can do, and think for themselves.
The less those people can do & think for themselves, the more Authority is needed.

“Learning” goes way beyond textbooks and lectures.
Much true learning is reliant on life lessons.
Which is better street smarts of book smarts?
BOTH.

Those “street smarts” can & should include the abilities to discover, observe, witness, try…even fail, with that failure serving as greater opportunity to learn from our own mistakes.
Those mistakes often serve as a means of employing greater reasoning, logic, problem solving and other critical thinking skills.
Those mistakes can & should serve as lessons to learn to take greater responsibility for our own actions.
When the state assumes greater control over more aspect of our lives, affording itself more control & responsibility for more things, and offering its Citizens more “protections”, dependence & such, more people lose the abilities to engage in those greater reasoning, logic, problem solving and other critical thinking skills.
And lose the critical skill of taking personal responsibility for themselves and their actions.
Leading to greater ignorance.

Much contemporary thought/belief holds that the so-called “Dark Ages” (actually an absence of the Enlightenment of knowledge, knowledge formerly present in the Classical Greek period) was a result of the fall of Rome.
Yet I hold the distinct possibility/notion that growing ignorance amongst more Roman citizens, officials, and society is what led to the fall of Rome.
The Roman Statesman & pre-humanist Philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero noted the decay of truly Enlightening knowledge lead to that fall of Rome. As did others.

Cicero worried greatly about the Dictatorship of Julius Caesar, and butted heads with Autocratic leaders like Mark Antony.
Cicero witnessed how the growing levels of state control were leading to greater levels of general & widespread ignorance.

A book entitled The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, that I strongly recommend, details & outlines much of this ignorance.

The Dunning Kruger effect – The ignorant are too ignorant to recognize their own ignorance.
Thus they tend to think they know more than they truly know, tend to hold less regard for other info & opinions, and tend to place more confidence in what they think they know.

Charles Darwin had a similar observation/opinion when he wrote that “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.“.
That concept, taken to it’s logical extension, means that in those times, by those people whom think they are at the height of knowledge, are in fact rather at the height of ignorance.

“The one who engages in conversation,” Cicero wrote,
“should not debar others from participating in it, as if he were entering upon a
private monopoly; but, as in other things, so in a general conversation he should
think it not unfair for each to have his turn.”

Only 3% of Americans were for the War of Independence.