July 26, 2008
Elaine Meinel Supkis
War and money are intertwined like two snakes on a staff. The US government is still the free-wheeling, free spending entity today that it was yesterday, last year and since WWII. The US public is literally pushed hard to support this warmongering by the media. And the Pentagon conspires with the media to lie about wars, lie about war spending and to not cover important war-related news. The true battlefields are not visible to the average US voter. Just look at the curious case of Obama and his talk about 'walls' in Berlin: the US is stuck on Cold War imagery yet is one of the major wall builders on earth.
US Congressional Panel Hears Testimony on Case for Bush Impeachment
Congressman Dennis Kucinich, a former Democratic presidential candidate, introduced formal impeachment resolutions in the House of Representatives, listing numerous actions by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, and appeared as a witness at Friday's hearing:"The decision before us is whether Congress will endorse with its silence the methods used to take us into the Iraq war. The decision before us is whether to demand accountability for one of the gravest injustices imaginable. The decision before us is whether Congress will stand up to tell future presidents that America has seen the last of these injustices, not the first," he said.
Since Democrats took control of Congress two years ago, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has drawn sharp criticism from within her party for refusing to endorse formal impeachment proceedings against the president.
Although Kucinich presented his resolutions on the House floor, each was turned back to the House Judiciary Committee.
This is making virtually no news here in the US. Only 450 international news outlets are carrying the story of Kucinich's long haul towards trying to impeach Bush and Cheney for lying us into a war that is destroying our nation. In other words, since 90% of the news outlets carrying this story are either foreign or 'fringe' US media, the US public isn't very engaged in this business even though a simple majority would like to see Bush and Cheney sent to prison. Public support cannot exist in a vacuum. The isolation and suppression of this story would be complete if we had no internet to break the embargo.
Here is the only Daily Kos article from on the 24th, about the hearings:
Finally, there was the tactic eventually employed to greater effect by Kucinich, taking advantage of the rules permitting any Member of the House to bring a resolution directly proposing impeachment to the floor at any time as a highly privileged motion, and forcing the Speaker to designate a time within two days after the motion is noticed for its consideration. That gave Kucinich the ability to threaten, after his Cheney resolutions were ignored by the Judiciary Committee, to follow up his first Bush resolution with a second one if the Committee didn't act within 30 days. In theory, he could have threatened an even shorter timeline for the second one, or indeed to bring one every single day until he got what he was looking for. But with that being clear to everyone, granting the hearing (but refusing to call it an impeachment hearing) must certainly have seemed the simplest solution. Especially if you can schedule them for a Friday when there are no votes in the House, so that fewer people will want to stick around to participate or follow along.
When historians write the obituary for the US, this story will be a top example as to the futility of democracy in a corrupted imperial system. Across the board, the US has been unable to cope with the concept of empire. We saw the GOP deliberately destroy the concept of impeachment with the goofy attempt on Clinton over the most trivial of issues. The system of stopping imperialist powers such as the Independent Prosecutor concept was utterly destroyed and both parties terminated this weak check on imperial powers.
When the Democrats swept into power in the House and Senate, although by a very slim margin, the Democratic leadership wanted the people to suffer as much as possible so dissatisfaction with the Republican faction's rule would heighten and the Democrats could then sail into power without promising much except to keep the status quo intact. No need to offer even the slightest change of imperial course. Just to continue onwards as we have in the past.
The Republicans were and still are totally irresponsible. They certainly were instrumental in clipping imperial power during the Clinton years, they prevented government spending to the point that for the ONLY time in the last 35 years, we had ONE year of solvency! But that was all fake. They did that so they could gain power and with this, loot the nation openly. So the instant a Republican took the imperial throne, wild overspending doubled and trebled. Now, we can 'change course' but the red ink is still very much there and up to our necks.
Anti-socialist spending Republicans love the idea that we are too broke to care for Americans! But this has several bad sides: angry Americans, the bankruptcy of our government leading to both external and internal collapse, and of course, the end of capitalism which depends on socialist systems to survive.
When the media wanted to impeach Nixon, I remember the daily hammer blows against him. This political theater was motivated by some very dark forces. We learned this year that 'Deep Throat' was an FBI agent, Mark Felt, for example.
Hoover died in his sleep and was found on the morning of May 2, 1972. Tolson was nominally in charge until the next day when Nixon appointed L. Patrick Gray III as acting FBI director. Tolson submitted his resignation, which Gray accepted. Felt took Tolson's post as Associate Director, the number-two job in the bureau.[20] Felt served as an honorary pallbearer at Hoover's funeral.[21]
On the day of his death, Hoover's secretary for five decades, Helen Gandy, began destroying his files. She turned over twelve boxes of the "Official/Confidential" files to Felt on May 4, 1972. This consisted of 167 files and 17,750 pages, many of them containing derogatory information. Felt stored them in his office, and Gray told the press that afternoon that "there are no dossiers or secret files. There are just general files and I took steps to preserve their integrity." Felt earlier that day had told Gray, "Mr. Gray, the Bureau doesn't have any secret files", and later accompanied Gray to Hoover's office. They found Gandy boxing up papers. Felt said Gray "looked casually at an open file drawer and approved her work", though Gray would later deny he looked at anything. Gandy retained Hoover's "Personal File" and destroyed it.[22] When Felt was called to testify in 1975 by the U.S. House about the destruction of Hoover's papers, he said, "There's no serious problems if we lose some papers. I don't see anything wrong and I still don't." At the same hearing Gandy claimed that she had destroyed Hoover's personal files only after receiving Gray's approval. In a letter submitted to the committee in rebuttal of Gandy's testimony, Gray vehemently denied ever giving such permission. Both Gandy's testimony and Gray's letter were included in the committee's final report.[23]
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Despite initial suspicions that other agents, including Angelo Lano, had been speaking to the Post,[1] in a taped conversation on October 19, 1972, Haldeman told the president that he had sources, which he declined to name, confirming Felt was speaking to the press. "You can't say anything about this because it will screw up our source and there's a real concern. Mitchell is the only one who knows about this and he feels strongly that we better not do anything because . . . If we move on him, he'll go out and unload everything. He knows everything that's to be known in the FBI. He has access to absolutely everything." [37] Haldeman also reported that he had spoken to White House counsel John W. Dean about punishing Felt, but Dean said Felt had committed no crime and could not be prosecuted.
As our empire turns increasingly Sovietized, it is interesting to revisit the Nixon impeachment. He won his previous election in a total landslide, heavily assisted by the media. The Vietnam war was VERY unpopular at this point. But the press, as always, supported warmongering, not the opposite. Nixon's secret plan to end the war was to go off to Mao's China. This was in an election year! The media totally approved of this. While in China, Bush stood on the Great Wall and gave a speech about how all walls should be torn down between peoples. This was to be his 'echo' of the famous JFK speech in Berlin a decade earlier. Indeed, talk about walls is standard US fare when overseas as we shall examine soon here in this article.
The thing here is that Hoover had huge 'dirty' files about all the top people in the US. All of which was obtained under cover of 'protecting America from communists' but none of which had anything to do with protecting anyone but Hoover and his ideological allies. The fact that Felt first read these and then disposed of them is significant. For this was at the dawn of the period of time when the world's top empires all ended up in the hands of spies and spooks. For example, if Felt was a Putin, he would have preserved these files and used them to move into power. It is notable that once Felt saw all these files, Nixon's troubles began to increase.
This still doesn't explain why the media went after a 'popular' president. In truth, the fear that anti-war Democrats might take over the White House on the eve of the 1973 Arab/Israeli Jewish war was, I would suggest, a very powerful motivation for the media to deep six a potentially popular candidate. We can see very clearly today that pro-war candidates are the only ones allowed to run the US empire. I remember clearly how, after the Arab/Israeli war, suddenly the charges about 'the Imperial Presidency' suddenly was in the news. And the tag put on Nixon was that HE was the imperialist, not the military/industrial complex.
Why Nixon was destroyed by our media is still a murky story. We can make many guesses. One might be the wage/price controls of 1971 and the sudden ending of the gold peg---these might have rocked someone's yachts. Right before the election of 1972, Nixon did two interesting things: he made the farmers happy by selling our grain to the Soviet Union and he pulled all the troops out of Vietnam even as he expanded the air war. All of this made chicken soup out of the so-called 'Cold War.' The military industrialists saw the writing on the wall.
I really can't prove any case here so far. It is just astonishing to see the US repeating nearly exactly all the news stories from back then, today. We are trapped in this time/space loop that is totally ridiculous. Only difference from the Nixon years and today is the entire US economic and financial systems is now bankrupt. Back to today: the media in the 60's and 70's was willing to show us war carnage openly and seriously. Today, this is all censored. And back then, the US was still the 'leader of the free world' due to real fear that communism might spread while today, the communists are the capitalists and the free west is in near total lockdown.
‘Impeach Bush for lying about Iraq’
A former Democratic presidential candidate, Kucinich said Congress needed to ask: “what responsibility does the president and members of his administration have for that unnecessary, unprovoked and unjustified war?"He said his call for impreachment in the House of Representatives "drew an audible reaction from the audience and support from fellow Congressmen".
This is news story is from Russia. HAHAHA. Not the US. I would suggest the entire military/industrial automatons in Congress will never dare impeach an emperor due to war lies, fake attacks like the one that launched the Vietnam War. No one will EVER be punished for obvious war crimes. The criminal imperial organization must not be sullied. Nixon was impeached for very stupid, small things. Not his many war crimes like his illegal secret war against Cambodia, just for one glaring example. LBJ should have been impeached and put on trial, too.
But this will never happen. If Kucinich went after silly, useless stuff, then we might see a Clinton-style impeachment. Nixon's record of being unpopular has been long surpassed by Bush, Cheney AND CONGRESS. This is a collapse in legitimacy that is very serious and should be the topic of discussion in the media, HAHAHA. No. This collapse in public support for the imperial systems is not mentioned at all by wealthy media owners seeking to corrupt Congress even further. This is why yesterday's editorial by the Wall Street Journal amused me greatly. Does this have something to do with the new Jewish owners of the Wall Street Journal pushing people's buttons? We suspect something is afoot here and it isn't pretty.
Both on the left and the right, there is a big problem for us if we go 'partisan'. This prevents UNITY ON ISSUES. Both parties exploit the differences to prevent left and right from uniting against the warmongering parties. For frankly, both the GOP and DNC are military/industrial supporters who are in love with red ink.
I have many, many differences with the libertarian right wing. But I also have an important point of unity: stopping the wild imperial spending and warmongering. Yet, instead of the left and libertarians uniting, this is all fractured due to other, lesser, ideological issues. Which everyone clings to even as our collective ships sail right into WWIII and the Apocalypse.
Obama's Berlin speech appears to resonate with crowd
He didn't break into German, but he spoke of tearing down walls of division, and the crowd loved it.Tens of thousands of Germans, along with some resident Americans, filled Berlin's Tiergarten park to hear Barack Obama talk about the U.S., Europe and their shared visions and challenges. It was a remarkable turnout for the lazy days of late July, when most Germans are more focused on summer vacations than foreign politics.
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"I doubt that Obama is the messiah, but I hope that, if he gets elected, there will be some essential change in foreign and security policy," said Martin Wegner, a 38-year-old software engineer who joined the Obama fans -- some of whom had to wait hours to clear security checks."I hope Obama brings freedom back to the U.S. -- freedom that has been given up so quickly with the security measures after 9/11," Wegner said.
Reagan went to the Berlin Wall and stupidly said, 'Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!' True, the Germans themselves, tore it down after paying Gorbachev huge sums of money to remove Soviet troops from East Germany. But Reagan got the credit for all this even though the tearing down of the wall took the US totally by surprise and the money paid to Gorbachev was opposed by the US State Department. That wall was so useful for our empire! We regretted its loss.
Obama went to Israel which is busy building walls all over Palestine, locking the natives in tiny ghettos. These walls are HUGE. They are the Berlin Wall all over the place! Obama went to the Wailing Wall but didn't visit any of the many walls erected by Jews using US funds. He didn't go to Gaza and yell, 'Mr. Olmert, TAKE DOWN THIS WALL!!!' Nope.
These walls are OK! On top of this, the wall the US is busy building across the US southern border with Mexico is never mentioned, either. Everyone wants walls torn down except for walls restraining third world people. Those, we want to raise EXACTLY LIKE THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA. It was to keep 'barbarians' out. One wall that really matters is the one that surrounds the island nation of Japan: trade barriers. The US has led the push to remove these barriers and is now being swamped by other exporting nations. The US trades more and loses in this matter and there is no talk in the media about raising some sort of barriers to stop the flood if imports pouring into this nation, destroying our economy.
McCain: bin Laden could face Nuremberg-like justice
He told CNN's Wolf Blitzer, "We have various options. The Nuremberg Trials are certainly an example of the kind of tribunal that we could move forward with. I don't think we'd have any difficulty in devising an international -- internationally supported mechanism that would mete out justice. There's no problem there."
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When asked if as president he would move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee unequivocally stated, "Yes." Asked when, he said, "Right away."
Years and years of corruption in our elections has now brought us to this: our foreign policy is written in Israel and our Presidential candidates are spending more time trying to please the Israeli Jews than American voters. American voters don't give a hoot where our embassy in Israel is. They care about high gas prices. Our political leaders pretend to worry about high gas prices but do everything they can to insure these prices are high due to our wayward diplomacy and support of ethnic cleansing in the Holy Land.
And Nüremberg trials again! HAHAHA. Bin Laden's crimes are no different from US Presidential war crimes! But our political leaders can't help it. We must pretend we are clean and the Nazis and various others who are defeated by the US/UK/G7 empire are evil and deserve to die. This childish form of justice is pure 'might makes right' and is more Mafia than some sort of international justice system.
Iraq war's total cost nearing Vietnam's price tag
The new report by the Congressional Research Service estimates the U.S. has spent $648 billion on Iraq war operations, putting it in range with the $686 billion, in 2008 dollars, spent on the Vietnam War, the second most expensive war behind World War II. Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the U.S. has doled out almost $860 billion for military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere around the world.All estimates, adjusted for inflation, are based on the costs of military operations and don't include expenses for veterans benefits, interest on war-related debts or assistance to war allies, according to the nonpartisan CRS.
The report underscores how the price tag has been gradually rising for the war in Iraq, which began in March 2003. In late 2002, then-White House budget director Mitch Daniels estimated the Iraq war would cost $50 billion to $60 billion. A year later, L. Paul Bremer, then-chief of the U.S. occupation government in Iraq, said the war would cost $100 billion.
This astonishing news is a headline! But the body of the story mitigates the headline in funny and totally dishonest ways. Comparing this stuff to GDP is a trick. The US GDP has grown, yes, but the issue of war has to always be tied into the red ink problem and worse, the selling of red ink to China and Japan! This is NOT mentioned. Also, this news is not tied into general Pentagon military spending! We are not just at war with the Iraqis or just the Afghanis, we are at war with all Muslims in the Middle East. So we must include military spending we give for free to Israel, just for one glaring example. The military support of all the Arab despots also is not included in these numbers. Parking most of our fleet near the Gulf of Persia is not part of all these numbers. Just like leaving out the cost of our fleet hanging out of Vietnam is part of Vietnam war spending!
Here are the report's estimated costs of major wars, in 2008 dollars, and their costs as a percentage of GDP in each of their peak years:_American Revolution: $1.8 billion; GDP figure not available
_War of 1812: $1.2 billion; 2.2 percent
_Civil War, Union: $45.2 billion; 11.3 percent
_Civil War, Confederacy: $15.2 billion; GDP figure not available
_World War I: $253 billion; 13.6 percent
_World War II: $4.1 trillion; 35.8 percent
_Korean War: $320 billion; 4.2 percent
_Vietnam War: $686 billion; 2.3 percent
_Gulf War: $96 billion; 0.3 percent
_Iraq war: $648 billion; 1 percent
_Afghanstian/Global war on terror: $171 billion; 0.3 percent
_Post 9/11 domestic security: $33 billion; 0.1 percent
_Post 9/11 operations: $859 billion; 1.2 percent
This is so devious! The Vietnam War was over several countries, not just in Vietnam! Yet, the War on Terror is broken down into smaller bits to minimize the cost to our GDP. Adding up just the numbers here, the truth is, the War on Terror is costing us a minimum of 2.6% of our GDP. This is GREATER than the Vietnam War! This is why it always pays to read the raw data being used by liars and swindlers. When it comes to war money talk, lies pour out faster than patriotic propaganda. On top of this, the dire effects on our economy when these wars END is never mentioned. The fact is, we see a sudden surge in inflation. For example, the Cold War basically ended when Nixon sold wheat to Russia and kissed Mao's ass. US spending on war dropped rapidly after Nixon withdrew troops from Vietnam.
Inflation then took off. Tricks used to contain this inflation failed badly. US spending on wars against Muslim peasants is still continuing. But it doesn't feed the military/industrial complex. There are not enough bombs or high-cost equipment being destroyed fast enough! If we expand this war mess into Iran, the percentage of GDP being used up with warmongering will be far over 5%. Fatally over 5%. This requires rationing and enforced savings like in WWI, WWII and the Korean War.
4,000 U.S. Combat Deaths, and Just a Handful of Images
The case of a freelance photographer in Iraq who was barred from covering the Marines after he posted photos on the Internet of several of them dead has underscored what some journalists say is a growing effort by the American military to control graphic images from the war.Zoriah Miller, the photographer who took images of marines killed in a June 26 suicide attack and posted them on his Web site, was subsequently forbidden to work in Marine Corps-controlled areas of the country. Maj. Gen. John Kelly, the Marine commander in Iraq, is now seeking to have Mr. Miller barred from all United States military facilities throughout the world. Mr. Miller has since left Iraq.
If the conflict in Vietnam was notable for open access given to journalists — too much, many critics said, as the war played out nightly in bloody newscasts — the Iraq war may mark an opposite extreme: after five years and more than 4,000 American combat deaths, searches and interviews turned up fewer than a half-dozen graphic photographs of dead American soldiers.
The US is entertained by increasingly graphic, brutal and bloody movies and TV shows. We are very addicted to warmongering entertainments. We cheer blood and death and laugh at this misery. But real blood, real gore is hidden from view. We don't want to see what we are doing overseas. The veil of secrecy, the fog and night of propaganda lies means there is no outrage, not feelings about what mayhem we are creating. This is coupled with the total elimination of any news about Jewish war crimes in Palestine. No matter how hideous, these are never mentioned in US media.
I am amazed we learned about torture! The business of how our nation turned into clones of the Soviet/Nazi systems screams for impeachment of Bush and his gang who are proven to ask for torture of prisoners! Yet that barely makes the news. And is seldom discussed.
Ex-insurgents Want More Money, or Else
AFP
The Iraqi officer leading a U.S.-financed anti-jihadist group is in no mood for small talk -- either the military gives him more money or he will pack his bags and rejoin the ranks of al-Qaeda."I'll go back to al-Qaeda if you stop backing the Sahwa (Awakening) groups," Col. Satar tells U.S. Lt. Matthew McKernon, as he tries to secure more funding for his men to help battle the anti-U.S. insurgents.
Our empire basically is paying various Muslims to not attack us. Everyone in that part of the planet either hates or disrespects us. Ditto, Asia, for that matter. Poland wants the US to protect them from Russia but also wants us to PAY them for the privilege of protecting them! Everyone is lined up to line their pockets. Japan wanted us to move our bases out of Okinawa but they wanted us to pay for this by taking out loans with the Bank of Japan! Everyone, rich or poor, wants us to pay them to be part of our empire. This is not included in the GDP drag of our empire! In truth, it is well over 10% of our GDP is used this way, protecting our imperial buddies as well as suppressing a billion Muslims. It is not worth this expense! Why?
We are running in the red by the same amount. Eliminate this and we might right our ship. The libertarians are certain about this. Why can't we all fight together for this one thing?
Military says US troops killed Iraqi editor's son
The U.S. military said Friday that bullets fired by American soldiers killed the 14-year-old son of the chief editor of a U.S.-sponsored newspaper during a gunbattle this week in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk.The military said Arkan Ali Taha was hit when soldiers came under heavy gunfire from a passing taxi and shot back. The boy was riding in the cab and the driver was later taken into custody, the statement said.
The father said his son was not involved with extremist groups and didn't know how to use weapons. He said the boy had hired the cab to bring a set of keys to the newspaper.
We are shooting down the sons of many Iraqi officials this month. This is the 'surge' at work. The surge is NOT done. It continues. Oil is now flowing from northern Iraq because the elaborate pipe protection system is finished and we can use Praetorian guards to watch it for the oil companies...AT OUR EXPENSE. Not one drop of this oil is paying us for guarding this oil.
Here is an old Obama story about Iran Kitty and how we have to scratch ourselves to death:
Democratic keynote speaker Barack Obama calls for missile strikes on Iran
By Tom Mackaman
1 October 2004
Obama told the Tribune, “[T]he big question is going to be, if Iran is resistant to these pressures, including economic sanctions, which I hope will be imposed if they do not cooperate, at what point are we going to, if any, are we going to take military action?”Answering his own question, Obama said, “I hope it doesn’t get to that point. But realistically, as I watch how this thing has evolved, I’d be surprised if Iran blinked at this point.”
Obama advanced a racist argument for attacks on Iran and Pakistan. Making a comparison between the “Islamic world” and the Soviet Union, he argued that the religious outlook of Iranians and Pakistanis made them less prone to compromise and reason and more warlike.
Not only are we in this mythology about how unreasonable Muslims are compared to say, Chinese or Russian communists, everyone is anxious to re-write history. Throughout the Cold War until Nixon suddenly forced by greater economic forces, ended the Cold War, the Russians and Chinese were propagandized as unfeeling, unthinking suicidal totalitarian war mongers. We couldn't negotiate with them, talk with them, visit with them or anything. Then, quite suddenly, Nixon did all this! The missile treaties appeared exactly in tandem with the US economic deterioration!
The US today is not repeating this. As we deteriorate, we continue. This is due to it being very lucrative for our allies as well as the ruling elites who have invested heavily in military industries and matters. And the Jews want a huge, very expensive military machine backing them up as they battle the Palestinians and ward off their neighbors who hate them for obvious reasons. Europe wants this because they are terrified of Russia's embrace that is slowly encircling Western Europe in a commodity embrace. They desperately need a warmongering, nutty US to be their club to hammer the Russians in negotiations.
China and Russia eye energy deals
China and Russia will launch high-level talks aimed at encouraging energy co-operations, beginning with a visit to China by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin, the Chinese government said today, after years of frustrated deal-making over oil and gas.Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao told Reuters that Sechin would visit China on 26-27 July for talks with Vice Premier Wang Qishan.
Liu called the launch of the two nations' vice premier-level "energy negotiations mechanism" an important step that would help them "jointly plan energy cooperation."
But talks between Russia, with its abundant reserves of oil and gas, and China, with its constant thirst for steady energy supplies, have yielded limited progress so far, largely because the two heavyweights disagree on pricing.
The dance of Russia and China is like two scorpions mating. And they will mate. This is a threat to Europe and the US. And we can't stop this.
Chavez Offers His Hand and Heart
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev received Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Meiendorf Castle and, several hours later, Chavez met with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the residence at Novo-Ogarevo. Kommersant special correspondent Andrey Kolesnikov observed that Chavez reached an agreement with the president on large Russian oil company’s development of the rich mouth of the Orinoco River and then continued on to talk about sales of Russian military hardware with the prime minister.Chavez raised his hands up when he saw Medvedev, but he didn’t try to hug him, obviously recalling the bitter experience about a year ago of having Putin slip through his arms. When Chavez had arrived from Minsk, where he and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko held meetings and jostled each other for several days, he apparently expected the same reception he got in Belarus from a kindred spirit.
Both Russia and China are using the US weakness to deeply invade our 'sphere of influence' we had since the Monroe Doctrine. This will only get worse as our empire goes bankrupt.
Russian bombers could haunt US borders
Airbases in Latin American countries can ensure the 'permanent presence' of Russia's strategic bombers near US borders, says a Russian general."The flight to the US (from southern Russia where the bombers are based) takes about 10 hours and even with two mid-air refuelings the aircraft can spend only 1.5 hours near the US coast," Ria Novosti quoted Army General Pyotr Deinekin as saying. He added that using Latin American bases compensates for the difficult logistics of airborne refueling and allows for a near permanent airborne presence in close proximity to the US.
The general made the remarks in reference to Moscow's alleged intention to station the bombers in Cuba, Venezuela and even Algeria as a reprisal against US missile plans in Europe.
Tit for tat. Far from seeing an international consensus we have a deteriorating situation due to weak US finances. WWII expanded US industries and after WWII, our industries were giants that strode the planet. This series of small wars is destroying our industries. And we grow weaker, not stronger. So GDP is meaningless when talking about wars. The Vietnam war's expenses ended up destroying our industrial base when the war ended. Japan and Germany saw theirs grow as the Cold War ended. Ours died. This is worthy of examination. And is not being talked about at all.
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