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Morgan Emerson's avatar

Centuries of careful diplomacy are being undone in moments of performative aggression.

Penfist's avatar

That is entirely accurate.

Morgan Emerson's avatar

Glad I found your writing!

Penfist's avatar

Danke. I publish at least three times per week. Adding subscriber videos soon. As in June soon.

Mark VanLaeys's avatar

Thank you Pen for not only doing the math, but also for providing a look at the larger picture which has no borders. Your one line captures so much of what is at stake around the globe. "Trust is not a renewable resource. It accumulates over generations and evaporates in moments." And that trust is now gone since every single cowardly republican is likely to just kiss the ring when the king issues the decree - and the Canadian friends of ours know it.

Mitch Ritter's avatar

It would be funny if the joke weren't ultimately on US!

Here is what a Perma War E-CON-O-my requires:

https://www.dw.com/en/us-increases-dominance-as-worlds-biggest-arms-exporter/a-71860617

See Major Barbara and George Bernard Shaw. No new biz models here, move along now!

Needless to say we don't even need Global Markets since our own internal markets have insatiable appetite for world's leading weaponry (especially High Tech and High Fi nance....)

Think of weapons and especially High Tech weaponry and systems kinda like this insightful

satire from the streets and global markets of Oakland....Bless Boots Riley! Don't have to look far to find the humor in our E-CON-O-mic underbelly: The corporate is often the personal...And young college grads can shlep their lifetime of debt to pay off those college federal loans working Call Center Jobs (although the Philippines is getting most of those now via off-shoring of jobs) via Boots Riley's Magical Realism Urban Film Verite via Democracy Now!

"Boots Riley on How His Hit Movie “Sorry to Bother You” Slams Capitalism & Offers Solutions"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdCPvMNKvhE

"Worry Free Is Make America Great Again...."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorry_to_Bother_You

Hasta Nanya,

Tio Mitchito

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