It has recently been reported that Donald Trump kick-started his 2020 campaign with a rally at Amway Center in Orlando in mid-June. Over the course of his speech, the sitting US president would preach against the “unholy alliance” of lobbyists and special interests and warned that nefarious entities in “Washington back rooms” want to take him down.
In the latest news from Washington, Paris, and in the Queen Mother’s secret bunker underneath Buckingham Palace the trillion dollar western intelligence agencies are nearly, almost, absolutely positive Iran attacked two oil tankers. Excuse me, but as horrible as World War III might be, thousands of dumbfounded CIA and MI6 spooks is an even more uncomfortable reality. What kind of numbskull protection are we paying for?
As citizens interested in policy, we can learn a great deal from the quasi-academic studies on Russian foreign relations strategies. A cursory review of any English language archive of academic papers on Putin, Russia, or even the word “oligarch” will produce a score of experts with doctorates who “know” exactly what Russia and her president are “up to.” My latest excursion into the knowledge vault at Academia.edu may be the benchmark for all future Russophobic genius.
Imagine yourself in school. You are 8 years old and it is recess time. You look for your friends, for the boys it is baseball or football, and the natural leaders set up teams and it begins. This is humanity, from its roots as hunter-gatherers so many hundreds of thousands of years ago, this is the natural order of things.
