Wow -- thank you very, very much for the "bananas" link: ..."President Nixon and Henry Kissinger, his chief foreign policy adviser and subsequently secretary of state, were more or less BANANAS."
I was completely unaware of that.
Extract from The Arrogance Of Power: The Secret World Of Richard Nixon, by Anthony Summers, with Robbyn Swan, published by Gollancz. Copyright Anthony Summers 2000.
Will there be, I hope, a chapter 3? And maybe some predictions? Your piece generally ends with Wynken, Blynken, and Nod's spectacular demonstration of incompetence fairly soon after taking power. And I appreciate seeing Mr. Yang's response to Blynken. I remember back in the 1967 time frame thinking that the only way I could tolerate being forced into the military was to resist "the communist bloc's" attempts to foist their governmental and economic systems on me. Here it is 50 years later and we are guilty of exactly what I was complaining about then. It was, after all, the US that made sure that the Bolivian army murdered Che Guevara when he went down there to foment a revolution and bring communism to the country. How is that different than what we did in Ukraine and tried to do in Belarus and Boliva? And it gets worse. Tass has reported that US staffers said to the Russians after the summit that Russia had better get in line because if it didn't there would be additional pressure. Lavrov basically said don't do it. You'll get a very asymmetrical response (we've had enough of your bullshit).
I think there's a lot more to the national currencies movement which isn't just Russia and China. Argentina, Venezuela, Iran and other countries are doing it and it's not entirely nascent. Indeed I think you need a third chapter to address all the dumbass things the US and its vassals are doing to pressure Russia and China specifically.
Wow -- thank you very, very much for the "bananas" link: ..."President Nixon and Henry Kissinger, his chief foreign policy adviser and subsequently secretary of state, were more or less BANANAS."
I was completely unaware of that.
Extract from The Arrogance Of Power: The Secret World Of Richard Nixon, by Anthony Summers, with Robbyn Swan, published by Gollancz. Copyright Anthony Summers 2000.
Will there be, I hope, a chapter 3? And maybe some predictions? Your piece generally ends with Wynken, Blynken, and Nod's spectacular demonstration of incompetence fairly soon after taking power. And I appreciate seeing Mr. Yang's response to Blynken. I remember back in the 1967 time frame thinking that the only way I could tolerate being forced into the military was to resist "the communist bloc's" attempts to foist their governmental and economic systems on me. Here it is 50 years later and we are guilty of exactly what I was complaining about then. It was, after all, the US that made sure that the Bolivian army murdered Che Guevara when he went down there to foment a revolution and bring communism to the country. How is that different than what we did in Ukraine and tried to do in Belarus and Boliva? And it gets worse. Tass has reported that US staffers said to the Russians after the summit that Russia had better get in line because if it didn't there would be additional pressure. Lavrov basically said don't do it. You'll get a very asymmetrical response (we've had enough of your bullshit).
I think there's a lot more to the national currencies movement which isn't just Russia and China. Argentina, Venezuela, Iran and other countries are doing it and it's not entirely nascent. Indeed I think you need a third chapter to address all the dumbass things the US and its vassals are doing to pressure Russia and China specifically.