Wow. Another "Just Wow" moment.

The author of the NYT opinion piece Johnstone is commenting on is arguing how the US needs to commit more decisively to defense spending in order to have a credible military with which to exercise foreign policy.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Holy shit. These people are too fucking much. There is never enough pork, and there is no such thing as a limit. It's a combination of two insanities these people are running with. The first is a genuine delusion. Some part of them actually believes the US and its western allies could possibly emerge "victorious" from war with both Russia and China. That is a profoundly dangerous delusion. The second part (probably the stronger of the two) realizes that this has nothing to do with actually winning any conflict, but rather 100% to do with lining the pockets of the war machine. The fact that this person is given space to sell this huge lie (essentially a sales pitch to give him and his cronies more free money) in the NYT tells us all we need to know about who is in power in our society and has been for a hundred years: the war party. The war party is the only party, and its wings are omnipresent.

As an aside, the positioning of the new Italian leadership demonstrates clearly that they don't want to rock the gravy boat either. Best not to get any hopes up that we currently have anyone who really has popular interests at heart rather than the interests of the most violent, greedy, sociopathic elements of the elite, who are 100% in control of all purses at this point. The only way to pry that power from them will be internal violence in whichever country where it starts.

Again, just wow...