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The future of the American Power tool was never in doubt. Just squeezing the protection racket.
Rubio recommits to NATO as peace talks flounder
The fix is in for new Air Force F-47 â and so is the failure
Just wait for the unstoppable lobby preventing any future effort to strangle this boondoggle in the cradle.If and when it finally comes to be written decades from now, an honest history of the F-47 âfighterâ recently unveiled by President Trump will doubtless have much to say about the heroic lobbying campaign that garnered the $20 billion development contract for Boeing, the corporation that has become a byword for program disasters (see the KC-46 tanker, the Starliner spacecraft, the 737 MAX airliner, not to mention the T-7 trainer.)
Boeing, which is due to face trial in June on well-merited federal charges of criminal fraud, was clearly in line for a bailout. But such succor was by no means inevitable given recent doubts from Air Force officials about proceeding with another manned fighter program at all.
âYouâve never seen anything like this,â said Trump in the March Oval Office ceremony announcing the contract award.
Well, of course we have, most obviously in recent times with the ill-starred F-35. Recall that in 2001 the Pentagon announced that the F-35 program would cost $200 billion and would enter service in 2008. Almost a quarter century later, acquisition costs have doubled, the total program price is nudging $2 trillion, and engineers are still struggling to make the thing work properly.
Thus, succeeding chapters of the F-47âs history will likely have to cover the galloping cost overruns, unfulfilled technological promises, ever-lengthening schedule shortfalls, and ultimate production cancellation when only a portion of the force had been built. (...)
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The Violence Prerogative
All oppressive, criminal, and genocidal governments cloak their atrocities in the language of virtue.
Noam Chomsky, Nathan J. Robinson Every ruling power tells itself stories to justify its rule. Nobody is the villain in their own history. Professed good intentions and humane principles are a constant. Even Heinrich Himmler, in describing the extermination of the Jews, claimed that the Nazis only âcarried out this most difficult task for the love of our peopleâ and thereby âsuffered no defect within us, in our soul, or in our character.â Hitler himself said that in occupying Czechoslovakia, he was only trying to âfurther the peace and social welfare of allâ by eliminating ethnic conflicts and letting everyone live in harmony under civilized Germanyâs benevolent tutelage. The worst of historyâs criminals have often proclaimed themselves to be among humankindâs greatest heroes.
Murderous imperial conquests are consistently characterized as civilizing missions, conducted out of concern for the interests of the indigenous population. During Japanâs invasion of China in the 1930s, even as Japanese forces were carrying out the Nanjing Massacre, Japanese leaders were claiming they were on a mission to create an âearthly paradiseâ for the people of China and to protect them from Chinese âbanditsâ (i.e., those resisting Japanâs invasion). Emperor Hirohito, in his 1945 surrender address, insisted that âwe declared war on America and Britain out of our sincere desire to ensure Japanâs self-preservation and the stabilization of East Asia, it being far from our thought either to infringe upon the sovereignty of other nations or to embark upon territorial aggrandizement.â As the late Palestinian American scholar Edward Said noted, there is always a class of people ready to produce specious intellectual arguments in defense of domination: âEvery single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort.â
Virtually any act of mass murder or criminal aggression can be rationalized by appeals to high moral principle. Maximilien Robespierre justified the French Reign of Terror in 1794 by claiming that âterror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue.â Those in power generally present themselves as altruistic, disinterested, and generous. The late leftist journalist Andrew Kopkind pointed to âthe universal desire of statesmen to make their most monstrous missions seem like acts of mercy.â It is hard to take actions one believes to be actively immoral, so people have to convince themselves that what theyâre doing is right, that their violence is justified. When anyone wields power over someone else (whether a colonist, a dictator, a bureaucrat, a spouse, or a boss), they need an ideology, and that ideology usually comes down to the belief that their domination is for the good of the dominated. (...)
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Either he still doesn't know how tariffs work or he just thinks that repeating the fairy tale of exporting nations paying tariffs (instead of domestic importing companies and ultimately consumers) will eventually get more and more believers. I'm sure many of his minions already believe that anyhow, but he's lied about it over and over so I guess those in the media and elsewhere, who know the truth, are getting tired of correcting him or his press secretary.
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Obama/Trump
How the US bankrolled Duterte's alleged crimes against humanity
The former Philippine president awaits trial for his brutal war on drugs. He waged it with our helpLess than a month after Duterte took office, then- Secretary of State John Kerry announced a $32 million weapons and training package specifically to support the Philippine National Police. He made no mention of Duterteâs numerous threats to weaponize law enforcement on the campaign trail, or the fact that 239 suspected drug users had already been killed by police without due process at that point.
Obamaâs administration authorized $90 million in military aid to the Philippines in 2016 and roughly $1 billion during the 8 years he was in office. As a growing chorus of human rights advocates criticized the United States for supporting Duterteâs atrocities, the Obama administration suspended some security assistance for the Philippine National Police in November of 2016, but kept military funding at normal levels.
These suspensions were swiftly reversed when Donald Trump took office in 2017. âI just want to congratulate you because I am hearing of the unbelievable job (youâre doing) on the drug problem,â he told Duterte in a phone call shortly after being inaugurated.
In 2018, the Trump administration provided $55 million to the Philippine National Police in aid and arm sales and $193.5 million in military aid to the Philippines overall. This aid package enabled Duterteâs regime on two fronts.
âThe war on drugs was primarily implemented by the Philippine National Police, but the attacks on human rights defenders and activists were mainly done by the military,â said Philippine-based human rights activist Judy Pasimio in an interview with Responsible Statecraft. (...)
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Might need a patriotic distraction soon-ish
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The evergreen, revisionist knee-slapper...
Well, you can't really expect her to know very much about world history. I wonder what her boss's pal Vlad thinks about her assertion that "it's only because of the United States of America that the French are not speaking German right now".
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The evergreen, revisionist knee-slapper...
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Very fine normal people
US Defense Secretary Hegseth wants to overthrow Chinaâs government, in âcrusadeâ against left (and Islam)
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is a self-declared âcrusaderâ who believes the United States is in a âholy warâ against the left, China, and Islam.
In his 2020 book American Crusade: Our Fight to Stay Free, Hegseth vowed that, if Trump could return to the White House and Republicans could take power, âCommunist China will fallâand lick its wounds for another two hundred yearsâ.
Hegseth declared that the Chinese âare literally the villains of our generationâ, and warned, âIf we donât stand up to communist China now, we will be standing for the Chinese anthem somedayâ.
In Hegsethâs conspiratorial worldview, Chinese communists and the international left are conspiring with Islamists against the United States and Israel, which are sacred countries blessed by God.
Under Trumpâs leadership, Hegseth promised, âIsrael and America will form an even tighter bond, fighting the scourge of Islamism and international leftism that will never fully abateâ.
âIslamists will never get a nuclear weapon but will be preemptively bombed back to the 700s when they tryâ, he added. (...)
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