Saturday, October 31, 2020
One difference
Calibrating: There's one small difference between Trump and previous Deepstate puppets. I can't tell if the difference is intentional or just lack of opportunity, but it is a difference.
Since 1990, every president has started new REAL foreign wars at a rate of one per year. Bush Senior, Clinton, Bush Junior, Obama. All started real wars that killed millions of foreigners for no purpose except bloodlust.
Trump hasn't started any REAL wars. He's been playing the sanctions game relentlessly, but sanctions aren't bombs. When we hit a foreign country with bombs, there's nothing the foreigners can do to resist or avoid. They just die. When we hit with sanctions, the country can take many steps to avoid the impact of the sanctions, and often those steps make the country stronger instead of weaker. Cuba figured this out first, and others like Persia and Russia have learned from Cuba.
In earlier eras, sanctions might have weakened a country and forced its ruler to surrender. Not any more. The game is well known and the countermoves are successful.
Labels: Constants and Variables
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