During a speech this week former Biden advisor Tara Reade suggested that Russophobia is “completely manufactured” by the Obama and Biden administrations, as well as the Republican Party and the military industrial complex.
The whistleblower, who currently lives in Russia, argued that the entire US system has been “overtaken by the intelligence community, by the military, and companies such BlackRock, Raytheon, and LockHeed.”
“The politicians in the US that should be serving the people are serving their pocketbooks and the corruption is off the roof,”Reade suggested, adding that the Biden “regime” is now moving towards “fascism and a police state” in which people are losing their freedoms.
As one example, she recalled her former boss Leon Panetta, who previously served as the head of the CIA. “Now he sits on the board of Raytheon. Yet you’ll see him on MSNBC trying to talk about why we should have more weapons going to Ukraine. Well, of course he wants more weapons, because he’s personally profiting.
The last two failed wars (Iraq and Afghanistan) are clear proof of this: We spent an estimated $4-5 trillion to date, and we are not safer (arguably less safe), thousands have died or maimed for life, and the terrorists are even more determined to do damage to America.
The only winners were the war profiteers and military contractors, paid for by every working American taxpayer. Meanwhile, we hear from our GOP "leadership" that we cannot afford to rebuild our roads, bridges, and schools, and providing medical care for all is simply out of the question. This is madness.
It's like that, except ten thousand times worse. We spent $8 trillion on it, not 4-5, and on top of that, consider all the lives lost, and the liberty that such totalitarian measures as the PATRIOT Act destroyed. They had to print all of this money with the Federal Reserve, so no one would notice how much these imperialistic crusades actually cost. And now we're still getting the inflation from all that printing, on top of the Obama inflation, the COVID stimulus package inflation, and Bidenflation. Now our Empire is going bankrupt, after decades of trying to print money and take over the world.
I worked with several people over the years who lived in the Soviet Union or its satellites. They all said that it collapsed from within from incompetence and corruption, not from external forces.
We have a situation where we have the largest military many times over, but are crumbling from the inside out. Call it infrastructure root rot. The shiniest armor and sharpest sword are useless if what's inside is emaciated and weak.
@OtterBertGreen1yr1Y
I keep asking, what is it we're defending?
A society marked by extreme inequality, where social mobility has crawled to a stop; a country where health care is an expensive and uncertain gamble; a place where most citizens are in debt up to their eyeballs to corporations that nickel and dime them to death; and a nation that makes a mockery of its founding documents in its laws and priorities. And who is doing the defending?
Ironically, it's a "volunteer" army, recruited largely from the most economically depressed areas of the country, essentially a mercenary force that can be sent anywhere and do anything because their actions usually remain invisible to the rest of us.
@ISIDEWITH1yr1Y
How do you feel about the claim that Russophobia is manufactured by administrations to serve certain interests, rather than genuine national security concerns?
@9NQ7FFC1yr1Y
This is a fact and not an allegation. There is more than sufficient evidence to support this claim.
The U.S. defense budget is an obscenity. It needs to be cut by half, over time. The problem is that the GOP will never do it and the Dems are scared of being labeled as weak on national security, even if the bulk of defense spending is just making Beltway contractors fat with wealth.
We could fully fund high-speed rail, offer free universal childcare and pre-k, massively expand Obamacare and still have trillions left.
Do we really believe we could win a conventional war in the South China Sea, when we had to throw in the towel against a ragtag group like the Taliban? As soon as the first carrier goes down to the bottom of the sea with its thousands of sailors, being hit by a Chinese missile, the American public will question the premise that we need to defend Taiwan. And, of course, nobody wins in a nuclear war. Don't get me wrong, there needs to be a level of deterrence, but a big chunk of the military budget would be better spend in the battle of ideas.
Certainly the trillions of dollars spent on the military industrial complex is in itself a major reason why our national infrastructure, medical system and education system are all in disrepair for lack of funding.
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