Day: June 6, 2023

Warnings From The Past

We were warned about the rise of the Military-Industrial Complex by and outgoing president, Ike…….

Of course you do not because it was so long ago that we tend to remove such stuff from our minds…..so let me refresh your lagging brain….

Ike handed over the reins of government to JFK and he also had a warning for the country at large…..in 1961….

We have been warned decades ago by US PresidentJohn F. Kennedy who gave a speech on the dangers the globalists pose to us all before the American Newspaper Publishers Association on April 27, 1961:

It requires a change in outlook, a change in tactics, a change in missions–by the government, by the people, by every businessman or labor leader, and by every newspaper. For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence–on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific, and political operations.

Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed. It conducts the Cold War, in short, with a wartime discipline no democracy would ever hope or wish to match

Globalist?

“someone who believes that economic and foreign policy should be planned in an international way, rather than according to what is best for one particular country.”

We did not listen to Ike and we refused to listen to JFK.

Money flows out of the country to further some misguided bullsh*t…..

Our country needs so much work so it really does not need a military functioning in 82 countries or propping up some failing system in some dark corner of the globe.

Yes I believe the policies of this country should interact with others but we should not be bankrolling every minor conflict that arises…..shades of the old “Domino Theory” (now there is a post for another day.)

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

NATO’s Move East

About a month ago the announcement was made that NATO is opening an office in Japan…..I let my opinion be known on how much I thought this is a bad idea…..but read it for yourself…….

NATO Moves East

Looks like not all of NATO’s members are down with this stupidity…..

French President Emmanuel Macron objects to NATO’s plans to open a liaison office in Japan and thinks the alliance should stay in the North Atlantic, Financial Times reported on Monday.

NATO’s push to open its first office in the Asia Pacific is part of the US’s plans to get its Western allies more involved in its strategy against China in the region. NATO’s plans to open a Japan office were first reported by Nikkei Asia in early May, drawing a rebuke from Beijing.

People familiar with the matter told Financial Times that France’s position has complicated NATO talks on the Japan office, which have been ongoing for months. A French official said that Paris believes the NATO charter limits the alliance’s geographic range to the North Atlantic.

Macron has said publicly that he doesn’t think NATO should expand beyond the North Atlantic. “If … we push Nato to enlarge the spectrum and the geography, we will make a big mistake,” the French leader said last week.

All 31 NATO members need to agree to open a new liaison office, meaning France could potentially block the move. News of France’s position comes nearly two months after Macron said Europe should not follow the US into a conflict with China over Taiwan.

NATO has had its eyes on China for a few years now, and Beijing has repeatedly warned the alliance to stay out of the region. “NATO’s continued eastward foray into the Asia Pacific and interference in regional affairs will inevitably undermine regional peace and stability and stoke camp confrontation. This calls for high vigilance among regional countries,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said last month.

(antiwar.com)

I am glad to see that at least someone in NATO sees the folly in NATO moving East…..I agree as the name implies NATO should restrict itself to the North Atlantic.

Moving East is not going to work out well….it will not insure peace…the opposite maybe the outcome.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”