The most dangerous nation in the world…

[gipper]

The good old USA.

Will Americans ever realize their leaders are warmongering psychopaths? The world is realizing it, why not Americans?

Consequently: though WIN/Gallup never repeated its question, the evidence in this newly released poll, from Pew, clearly suggests that the percentage of people in the 65 nations that WIN/Gallup had polled in 2013 who saw the U.S. as being “the greatest threat to peace in the world today” would be even higher today than it was in 2013, when 24% of respondents worldwide volunteered the U.S. as being the world’s most frightening country.​

Perhaps people around the world are noticing that, at least since 2001, the U.S. is wrecking one country after another: Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, and Ukraine. Which is next? Maybe Iran? Maybe Russia? Maybe Venezuela? Who knows?

Regarding the 2013 WIN/Gallup End-of-Year international survey, you can see the nation-by-nation results here. For example, their sampling that year of 4,556 Americans found that residents of the U.S. answered to “Q8. Which country do you think is the greatest threat to peace in the world today?”: #1 Iran 20%, #2 Afghanistan 14%, #3 N. Korea 13%, #4 United States 13%, #5 Iraq 6%, #7 Syria 5%, #8 China 5%, #9 Russia 3%, #10 Pakistan 1%. A remarkably high 13% of Americans gave the correct answer. And, late in that year, U.S. President Obama pulled the trigger on his long-planned bloody overthrow and replacement of Ukraine’s government, which was portrayed throughout the Western press as being a ‘democratic revolution’, though it actually ended democracy in Ukraine.

And the U.S. has just increased its ‘defense’ spending, which already is three times China’s, and nine times higher than Russia’s. Do the owners of America’s military-industrial complex own the U.S. government, and own the U.S. ‘news’media, to permit this rabid military to control the government’s budget, in a ‘democracy’? Is that how it happens?
https://archive.ph/p2wFn

 

[Picaro]

Hey everybody !!! the gimpy commie kid found some stuff to cut and paste!!! Give him/her/it/mutant a big round of applause and a free ice cream!

Amurka iz evul !!! lol

 

[Picaro]

Hamas Is Underground So Why Is Israel Leveling Gaza Buildings?​

This sort of idiocy is definitely genetic in origin.

 

[gipper]

War and more war…


As an example of the bipartisan Neocon stranglehold over policy, Victoria Nulandseamlessly moved from the Clinton Administration to the Bush Administration to the Obama Administration, holding steadily more senior positions at each stage. Naive American voters might have been shocked to discover that a former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney was soon formulating foreign policy for President Barack Obama, including orchestrating the 2014 coup that overthrew Ukraine’s democratically-elected pro-Russian government, but our media never reported those strange facts. And the extremely aggressive foreign policy views of the Neocons extended to China along with most other countries not already under heavy American domination.

Neither Allison nor Mearsheimer were Neocons, with the former being a pre-Neocon traditionalist and the latter a leading Realist, most famous for his 2007 bestseller The Israel Lobby, who had actually been ferociously attacked and vilified by many of the Israel-centric Neocons. As these very high-ranking academics became the leading voices arguing for the likelihood of war with China, Neocon political apparatchiks could highlight and promote their analysis as proof that such conclusions crossed all ideological boundaries.

Thus, Neocon political muscle successfully backed an anti-China tectonic policy shift whose ideological cutting-edge had been provided by the writings of respected non-Neocon academics such as Allison and Mearsheimer. As a result, the notion of a likely war with China soon become a bipartisan article of faith within DC policy circles.

First appearing towards the end of the Obama Administration, these views were strongly reaffirmed by several senior figures in the Trump Administration such as National Security Advisor John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and most of the Republican Party adopted fierce rhetoric along those lines. Indeed, for several years I have argued that the 2020 global Covid epidemic probably represented the blowback of a botched biowarfare attack against China (and Iran) by such hardline national security figures, aimed at crippling what they regarded as our formidable global adversary.

After the Democrats regained the White House in 2020, many had expected these trends to reverse, but instead they actually accelerated, with the Biden Administration imposing unprecedented economic sanctions on China’s crucial microchip industry as well as engaging in loud saber-rattling over Taiwan, while the Democrats and Republicans began competing over which party could be tougher on China.

Others, however, have regarded this new ideological trend as an act of colossal folly. In the year before his 2017 death, Brzezinski updated his analysis to proclaim that the era of American dominance was already drawing to a close and that we must recognize this new reality.

• Toward a Global Realignment
  As its era of global dominance ends, the United States needs to take the lead in realigning the global power architecture.
  Zbigniew Brzezinski • The American Interest • April 17, 2016 • 2,500 Words

Instead of heeding his concerns and adjusting their policies accordingly, our political elites have doubled-down on their crude strategy of attempting to maintain an impossible American global hegemony, a policy that seems likely to end in national disaster.
American Pravda: A Rising China Faces the West

 

[elektra]

For once the gimpper is right. Democrats in power makes the USA the most dangerous country in the world.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The good old USA.

Will Americans ever realize their leaders are warmongering psychopaths? The world is realizing it, why not Americans?



Perhaps people around the world are noticing that, at least since 2001, the U.S. is wrecking one country after another: Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, and Ukraine. Which is next? Maybe Iran? Maybe Russia? Maybe Venezuela? Who knows?

Regarding the 2013 WIN/Gallup End-of-Year international survey, you can see the nation-by-nation results here. For example, their sampling that year of 4,556 Americans found that residents of the U.S. answered to “Q8. Which country do you think is the greatest threat to peace in the world today?”: #1 Iran 20%, #2 Afghanistan 14%, #3 N. Korea 13%, #4 United States 13%, #5 Iraq 6%, #7 Syria 5%, #8 China 5%, #9 Russia 3%, #10 Pakistan 1%. A remarkably high 13% of Americans gave the correct answer. And, late in that year, U.S. President Obama pulled the trigger on his long-planned bloody overthrow and replacement of Ukraine’s government, which was portrayed throughout the Western press as being a ‘democratic revolution’, though it actually ended democracy in Ukraine.

And the U.S. has just increased its ‘defense’ spending, which already is three times China’s, and nine times higher than Russia’s. Do the owners of America’s military-industrial complex own the U.S. government, and own the U.S. ‘news’media, to permit this rabid military to control the government’s budget, in a ‘democracy’? Is that how it happens?
https://archive.ph/p2wFn

Remember, immediately prior to 9/11 we were on a glidepath to budget surpluses

9/11 ushered in the Surveillance State

Moreover we went on to fight prolonged wars with absolutely zero strategic benefit to the People of the USA.

The politicians, bankers and arms dealers are the only ones who benefited

 

[gipper]

Dumb Americans will accept war with China, but thinking Americans know this will be disastrous.

Dying empire’s always resort to war, but dumb Americans are ignorant.

Last year when I’d produced the previous version of this chart, the latest available international economic statistics had been from the year 2021, and according to those, China’s real productive economy was already some 3% larger than the combined total for America, the European Union, and Japan.

Anyone who casually scans the daily headlines of the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal must surely be convinced of China’s severe economic problems over the last several years in sharp contrast with America’s booming economy, which seems to have now successfully avoided the threat of a looming recession. So naive Americans might naturally assume that the economic balance between China and our own Western bloc has recently shifted in our direction.

However, the facts are entirely different. According to the latest 2023 economic statistics, China’s real productive economy now outweighs the combined total for America, the European Union, and Japan by nearly 12%, while continuing to grow much more rapidly.

Back in 2021, Russia’s real productive economy was already substantially larger than that of Germany and approached that of Japan. But ironically enough, two years of unprecedented Western sanctions have produced such an economic boom that Russia’s real productive economy has grown by more than 42%, now ranking that primary target of our wrath as the fifth largest economic power in the world, far exceeding Japan.

Although Allison had played a central role in shifting American policy elites towards accepting the likelihood of a future war with China, he now recognized the momentous importance of these new developments. In March 2023, he took to the pages of Foreign Policy to emphasize that the formation of a powerful Russia-China alliance had completely changed the geopolitical landscape that he had assumed in his 2017 bestseller. His closing paragraphs summarized the disastrous consequences of America’s strategic blunder and cited Brzezinski’s warnings.
But the Neocons running the foreign policy of the Obama Administration were remarkably arrogant rather than rational, and that same year they orchestrated an anti-Russian coup in Ukraine, followed by the loss of Crimea and ongoing fighting in the Donbas, all of which permanently poisoned Russian relations. Not long afterward, Mearsheimer gave his prophetic talk on the looming future risks of a NATO-Russia conflict in Ukraine, a presentation that over the last year has been viewed some 29 million times on Youtube, perhaps more than any academic lecture in the history of the Internet.
The outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war completely changed everything, as did the unprecedented wave of resulting Western sanctions targeting Russia and the massive amount of financial and military aid provided to Ukraine, already totaling $120 billion, a sum far larger than the entire annual Russian defense budget. Over the last year, American-led NATO has been fighting a proxy-war against Russia on Russia’s own border, a war that many American political leaders have declared can only end with Russia’s defeat and the death or overthrow of Putin. The Hague in Europe has already issued an arrest-warrant against the Russian president for alleged war-crimes.
American Pravda: A Rising China Faces the West

 

[gipper]

It only get worse…but dumb Americans are clueless.

Later that same year, the outbreak of the Israel/Gaza conflict caused an enormous, further deterioration in our geopolitical position.

During the last ten months, the entire world has witnessed the shameful, humiliating conquest and subjugation of the American political system and our most elite universities by the Israel Lobby. As a result, our country has become tightly bound to the albatross of that genocidal, international terrorist state, which has become a global pariah even as it still desperately seeks to involve us in an unnecessary war with Iran, intending that American lives and treasure be sacrificed to destroy Israel’s most formidable regional adversary. These events have inflicted enormous damage upon America’s international prestige and credibility, while firmly welding Iran to the China-Russia bloc.
American Pravda: A Rising China Faces the West

 

[toobfreak]

Will Americans ever realize their leaders are warmongering psychopaths?

Yep. Certainly

• The Bushes
• The Obummas
• The Bidens
• The Clintons
• And the Harrises
• Except Donald Trump.

He kept us out of war, got world peace, and got us out of Afghanistan.

Reason #27 for pulling R for the Donald.