Turning the canal back over to Panama—signed under Carter, implemented under Clinton—was one of the few bright spots of genuine good-will and positive-sum economic development of US foreign policy in Central America in the last 100 years.
It figures there are powers that be that found their way into the new administration and want to blow it all up just because they think they can.
And someone might remind the chicken hawks that president Carter was advised it would take two infantry divisions to keep it. Also, funny thing to see at Carter Center was how when actor John Wayne was ok with “giving up canal”, it was seen better.
No matter who wins or steals an election we all lose. Although, starting a nuclear war with Russia to Trump proof the election is pretty hard to beat on the insanity meter( Trump is giving it the old college try!)
"Every winning candidate since arguably Bush 1.0 (“Kinder, gentler America”) has run for office as a non-interventionist, and then morphed into John McCain immediately upon taking the Oath of Office. Not only that, but each president has arguably been a more reckless imperialist than his predecessor.
I don’t pretend to know how the process works, or even if it is the same for every president, but the results speak for themselves. Hell, look at Obama, who was elected in large part on a platform of ending the stupid wars. He not only failed to end a single war, he gave us a bunch of new and stupider ones.
And then there's Trump. He was arguably an even more explicit non-interventionist than 2008 Obama, and he also hasn't ended anything (let's wait for troops to actually come home before proclaiming Syria and Afghanistan to be triumphs) and has brought us into new conflicts in Venezuela and Niger, as well as expanded our wars on Ukraine and Yemen.
TL:DR: unless and until the Deep State is eradicated root and branch, it matters not who is elected."
The American Empire and the Deep State will collapse because of internal financial rot like the former Soviet Union. USG is spending money in a manner that makes a drunken sailor look like a fiscal conservative. Interest on the national debt alone is one trillion dollars and climbing. The fed, to finance the criminal fiscal irresponsibility of the USG will have to resort to QE (inflation). This house of cards, propelled by debt and inflation has to collapse. When the American people suffer the consequences of this collapse there will be hell to pay. We can only hope that the collapse comes and the architects of the collapse are brought to justice before we all die in a nuclear war.
I will admit that I thought things would have collapsed for at least 10 years. I never thought of ZIRP or NIRP or that such insane policies could be sustained as long as they were. This time, however, I think the train wreck is inevitable. The national debt is just the tip of the iceberg compared to the unfunded liabilities of Social Security and Medicare. A point is going to be reached, as Ludwig Von Mises elucidated, when the American people realize that inflation is a policy and they will start buying things, even bed pans, they do not need just to get rid of a currency whose purchasing power is constantly being eroded by inflation. (The crack up boom and flight to real values) And inflation (QE) will continue as a policy. Not only to fund the criminally profligate USG, but also to backstop the Greenspan Put. The Fed has no compunction about protecting the bigs from the consequences of their risky investment strategies by socializing those losses through a policy of inflation. This fact is proven by the bankster bailout. Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs should have been liquidated through what would have been an ugly bankruptcy process. Instead, when Mr. Market came around to collect his pound of flesh, the Fed intervened to save them. What puzzles me about this whole thing is why Lehman Brothers was allowed to fail. Richard Fuld’s risky investment strategy was in all essentials just as irresponsible as that of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley yet Lehman Brothers was allowed to fail. The only conclusion I can reach is Fuld must have peed in someone’s cornflakes.
I greatly oversimplified the financial crisis of 2008. Other actors that were bailed out included AIG, Fannie MAE and Freddie MAC and Washington Mutual. The bailout of the latter three essentially socialized the entire home mortgage industry.
I apologize for the long digression. The point is, however, that inflation is a policy of the USG, that as Ludwig Von Mises explained must end in the crack up boom and flight to real values. The fly in the ointment of all this is if the government can successfully implement a CBDC, then it is game over. The opposition to that policy, however, is very great. Laying aside the economic and financial aspects of the American Empire I would pin a lot of hope on nullification and secession. That, however would be an entirely different post.
More proof that Trump is Putin's poodle. What better way to encourage Latin American countries to get close to BRICS+ than for the U.S. to threaten them.
Turning the canal back over to Panama—signed under Carter, implemented under Clinton—was one of the few bright spots of genuine good-will and positive-sum economic development of US foreign policy in Central America in the last 100 years.
It figures there are powers that be that found their way into the new administration and want to blow it all up just because they think they can.
And someone might remind the chicken hawks that president Carter was advised it would take two infantry divisions to keep it. Also, funny thing to see at Carter Center was how when actor John Wayne was ok with “giving up canal”, it was seen better.
God bless America, and nobody else!
Let’s go get Canada… it’s lovely in the summer.
No matter who wins or steals an election we all lose. Although, starting a nuclear war with Russia to Trump proof the election is pretty hard to beat on the insanity meter( Trump is giving it the old college try!)
Something I wrote a long time ago
"Every winning candidate since arguably Bush 1.0 (“Kinder, gentler America”) has run for office as a non-interventionist, and then morphed into John McCain immediately upon taking the Oath of Office. Not only that, but each president has arguably been a more reckless imperialist than his predecessor.
I don’t pretend to know how the process works, or even if it is the same for every president, but the results speak for themselves. Hell, look at Obama, who was elected in large part on a platform of ending the stupid wars. He not only failed to end a single war, he gave us a bunch of new and stupider ones.
And then there's Trump. He was arguably an even more explicit non-interventionist than 2008 Obama, and he also hasn't ended anything (let's wait for troops to actually come home before proclaiming Syria and Afghanistan to be triumphs) and has brought us into new conflicts in Venezuela and Niger, as well as expanded our wars on Ukraine and Yemen.
TL:DR: unless and until the Deep State is eradicated root and branch, it matters not who is elected."
Just like Trump will not do mass deportation of illegals, because it can't be done, he will not take back the Panama Canal...because it can't be done.
This is what Trump does. This is the way he talks. He doesn't follow through - is Hillary in jail?
So what does anyone propose to do about it?
The American Empire and the Deep State will collapse because of internal financial rot like the former Soviet Union. USG is spending money in a manner that makes a drunken sailor look like a fiscal conservative. Interest on the national debt alone is one trillion dollars and climbing. The fed, to finance the criminal fiscal irresponsibility of the USG will have to resort to QE (inflation). This house of cards, propelled by debt and inflation has to collapse. When the American people suffer the consequences of this collapse there will be hell to pay. We can only hope that the collapse comes and the architects of the collapse are brought to justice before we all die in a nuclear war.
To be fair, we've been eharing predictions of dollar collapse since before I was a kitten.
Thing is. nobody, not in America, not in China, not in Russia, not in Africa, nobody of infuence and authority wants to see the demise of the USD.
I will admit that I thought things would have collapsed for at least 10 years. I never thought of ZIRP or NIRP or that such insane policies could be sustained as long as they were. This time, however, I think the train wreck is inevitable. The national debt is just the tip of the iceberg compared to the unfunded liabilities of Social Security and Medicare. A point is going to be reached, as Ludwig Von Mises elucidated, when the American people realize that inflation is a policy and they will start buying things, even bed pans, they do not need just to get rid of a currency whose purchasing power is constantly being eroded by inflation. (The crack up boom and flight to real values) And inflation (QE) will continue as a policy. Not only to fund the criminally profligate USG, but also to backstop the Greenspan Put. The Fed has no compunction about protecting the bigs from the consequences of their risky investment strategies by socializing those losses through a policy of inflation. This fact is proven by the bankster bailout. Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs should have been liquidated through what would have been an ugly bankruptcy process. Instead, when Mr. Market came around to collect his pound of flesh, the Fed intervened to save them. What puzzles me about this whole thing is why Lehman Brothers was allowed to fail. Richard Fuld’s risky investment strategy was in all essentials just as irresponsible as that of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley yet Lehman Brothers was allowed to fail. The only conclusion I can reach is Fuld must have peed in someone’s cornflakes.
I greatly oversimplified the financial crisis of 2008. Other actors that were bailed out included AIG, Fannie MAE and Freddie MAC and Washington Mutual. The bailout of the latter three essentially socialized the entire home mortgage industry.
I apologize for the long digression. The point is, however, that inflation is a policy of the USG, that as Ludwig Von Mises explained must end in the crack up boom and flight to real values. The fly in the ointment of all this is if the government can successfully implement a CBDC, then it is game over. The opposition to that policy, however, is very great. Laying aside the economic and financial aspects of the American Empire I would pin a lot of hope on nullification and secession. That, however would be an entirely different post.
More proof that Trump is Putin's poodle. What better way to encourage Latin American countries to get close to BRICS+ than for the U.S. to threaten them.