The Deep State Is Desperate: This Town Needs an Enemy
Friday, November 22, 2019 18:25
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“The Deep State Is Desperate: This Town Needs an Enemy”
by David Stockman
“We should take nothing for granted only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”
– President Dwight D. Eisenhower,
“Farewell Address to the Nation” (January 17, 1961)
“We’ve seen the brightest minds of the foreign policy establishment on display this week. Indeed, Adam Schiff’s Show has highlighted everything you need to know about what’s really going down in Imperial Washington. Take this revelation from former National Security Council official Tim Morrison: “I continue to believe Ukraine is on the front lines of a strategic competition between the West and Vladimir Putin’s revanchist Russia. Russia is a failing power, but it is still a dangerous one. The United States aids Ukraine and her people so they can fight Russia over there and we don’t have to fight Russia here.”
Folks, that just plain whacko.
Trump-hating Democrats are so feverishly set on a POTUS kill that they’ve enlisted a posse of right-wing neocon Russophobes – Morrison, Taylor, Kent, Vindman, among others – to finish off the Donald. And, so doing, they’ve made Imperial Washington’s real beef against the president crystal clear. It’s not about the rule of law. It’s not about abuse of presidential power, nor is there an impeachable dereliction of duty.
Of course, Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, and the Clintonista apparatus at the center of the Democratic Party are overcome with inconsolable grief and anger about losing the 2016 election. Their zeal to drive the Donald from office just makes them useful idiots for the foreign policy establishment and its Deep State operators. And they have a far more encompassing and consequential motivation…
Whether out of naiveté, contrariness, or just plain common sense, the Donald has declined to embrace the War Party’s latest bogeyman. He resists the demonization of Putin’s Russia. And, so, he threatens the American Empire’s raison d’etre. That’s the real reason for the Russiagate hoax, for Prosecutor Mueller’s farce, and, indeed, for impeachment over Ukraine.
The real starting point is to identify Russia for what it is: a kleptocratic state sitting atop an aging, Vodka-chugging population and a third-rate economy with virtually zero capacity to project 21st century offensive military power beyond its own borders. The bogeyman cited by Morrison, et al., is a complete chimera. And the notion that the cesspool in Ukraine is a strategic buffer against Russian aggression is just plain idiocy.
Russia is an economic and industrial midget transformed beyond recognition by relentless Warfare State propaganda. It’s no more threatening to America than the Siberian land mass that Sarah Palin once espied from her front porch in Alaska a decade ago. And how could it be?
Russia’s gross domestic product (GDP) in 2018 was $1.66 trillion. Folks, the GDP for the New York City metropolitan area alone is about $1.8 trillion. Russia’s economy is about 8% of America’s.
Russia’s GDP
And that dwarf economy is composed largely of a vast oil and gas patch; a multitude of nickel, copper, bauxite, and vanadium mines; and some very large swatches of wheat fields. That’s not exactly the kind of high-tech industrial platform on which a war machine capable of threatening the good folks in Brea, California, Lincoln, Nebraska, or Worcester, Massachusetts, is likely to be erected.
Not only are Russia’s vast hydrocarbon deposits and mines likely to give out in the years ahead. So are the livers of its Vodka-chugging work force. According to a recent Brookings Institute study, Russia’s working-age population is heading south as far into the future as the eye can see.
Russia’s working age population will be nearly 20% smaller than today by 2050. Yet today’s figure of about 85 million is already just a fraction of the U.S. working age population of 255 million.
Russia’s Working-Age Population
Russia’s pint-sized economy can’t support a military anywhere near to that of Imperial Washington. To wit, its $61 billion of military outlays in 2018 amounted to about a month of funding for America’s defense. The Russian defense budget currently amounts to less than 4% of the country’s anemic economy.
The idea that Russia presents a national security threat is laughable. Not only would Putin never risk nuclear suicide, but even that fantasy is the extent of what he’s got. That is, Russia’s conventional capacity to project force to the North American continent is nonexistent – or at best, lies somewhere between nichts and nothing.
These truths shatter the whole foundation of the Warfare State. It renders NATO an obsolete relic. And it eviscerates the case for America’s absurd $900 billion defense and national security budget. With the latter’s demise, though, the fairest part of Imperial Washington’s self-importance and unseemly prosperity would also crumble. So, impeachment – by the Duopoly’s foreign policy establishment – it is…”
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“And now, what’s going to happen to us without barbarians?
They were, those people, a kind of solution.”
They were, those people, a kind of solution.”
“Waiting for the Barbarians”
“What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum?
The barbarians are due here today.
Why isn’t anything happening in the senate?
Why do the senators sit there without legislating?
Because the barbarians are coming today.
What laws can the senators make now?
Once the barbarians are here, they’ll do the legislating.
Why did our emperor get up so early,
and why is he sitting at the city’s main gate
on his throne, in state, wearing the crown?
Because the barbarians are coming today
and the emperor is waiting to receive their leader.
He has even prepared a scroll to give him,
replete with titles, with imposing names.
Why have our two consuls and praetors come out today
wearing their embroidered, their scarlet togas?
Why have they put on bracelets with so many amethysts,
and rings sparkling with magnificent emeralds?
Why are they carrying elegant canes
beautifully worked in silver and gold?
Because the barbarians are coming today
and things like that dazzle the barbarians.
Why don’t our distinguished orators come forward as usual
to make their speeches, say what they have to say?
Because the barbarians are coming today
and they’re bored by rhetoric and public speaking.
Why this sudden restlessness, this confusion?
(How serious people’s faces have become.)
Why are the streets and squares emptying so rapidly,
everyone going home so lost in thought?
Because night has fallen and the barbarians have not come.
And some who have just returned from the border say
there are no barbarians any longer.
And now, what’s going to happen to us without barbarians?
They were, those people, a kind of solution.”
They were, those people, a kind of solution.”
- C.P. Cavafy
Source: http://coyoteprime-runningcauseicantfly.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-deep-state-is-desperate-this-town.html
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