Reminded also of another 'nam parallel in a way with the emphasis on Operation Rolling Thunder

Beard's An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States was pretty revelatory for me personally. We love it, tremendous, a lot of people are saying this

Sorry for spamming this lol, but isn't the core of it essentially to cement a global currency domination via petrodollar kind of skeletonized from Bretton-Woods taking the imperial baton from the British? Or from the creditor perspective currency stability and ensuring the long-term viability debt assets, ie control through debt peonage) from the debtor perspective, like the optimates of Rome?

OTAN (tm) (c) (r) we love it. I'm also reminded of Obama speaking to that whole "washington consensus" and the rightward reaction it inevitably caused domestically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kwlxN_wwrw

EXACTLY. Trump holds up a mirror to these ghouls with all the niceties and aesthetic prestige filtered out and the cognitive dissonance between their imagined selves and the reality that is reflected in Trump seems to catalyze an extremely defensive reaction and impulse to constantly redefine themselves as not-Trump. They cannot ever reconcile the truth as to do so would be to realize how hollow and grotesque their lives really are.

In the premiere episode of American Prestige, Danny and Derek get into the nitty gritty of the US's withdrawal from Afghanistan. Did the military intentionally botch the withdrawal? Has the imperial frontier contracted in any meaningful way? Will the Taliban gain legitimacy with the Afghan people? Plus, an in-depth interview with Stephen Wertheim, discussing his new book “Tomorrow, the World”, which explores how and why during World War II U.S. elites decided that their nation should, indeed must, dominate the world.

E1 - Ghosting Afghanistan w/ Stephen Wertheim

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