PFP syndrome
Article I didn't bother to read accuses Obama of having "Progressive Foreign Policy".
I don't think the term can be defined properly since the 1989 Switchover. Before the Switchover, the symptoms of PFP were clear in an objective sense. We were doing everything Stalin wanted us to do, while pretending to be acting in our own interests. Truman began the trick. Eisenhower partly relieved the syndrome, then JFK brought it back in full.
1. Make war against China while pretending to be fighting Russia. eg Korea and Vietnam.
2. Maintain sanctions against Cuba, helping to cement the otherwise shaky bond between Russia and Cuba.
3. Clumsy support of anti-populist regimes in Africa, allowing Russia to support the more beneficial regimes.
4. Keep making new "nuclear disarmament" treaties, always giving the advantage to Russia.
5. Use FBI to maintain false-flag "pro-Soviet" and "anti-Soviet" groups in USA. eg Socialist Workers, John Birch. Use this isometric exercise to keep America cramped and distracted so we can't see the real collaboration.
6. Use Sputnik to
weaken our education system under the guise of strengthening it.
I suppose one or two of these could have been accidental, but the pattern is so consistent that I doubt it. Maximum paranoia is never enough.
What about Obama? I assume the article is bitching about his loosening of Persia and Cuba. Both of those moves are Ike-like
backoffs from PFP. Relieving sanctions allows both countries to return to normal. In the historical normal both countries were generally friendly with America, and both had solid cultural and commercial connections with America. How is that Progressive?
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