by This is a good interview.Alastair Crook says says how the U.S. is losing ground to Russia and China as these countries strive to improve their standard of living and so are catching up with the U.S. He says the U.S. is making a mistake thinking they can cripple these countries economically and military as this has never worked on the past.Alastair Crooke says the U.S. is putting all its money into the military and turning its economy over to a war orientated one. That scam!Just think if all those trillions were invested into new green technology instead, then the U.S could be world leaders for many decades to come. The project for a new American century should start at home, and then the U.S. could get off oil and not need to control the ME anymore.Alastair says, that the West will
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Alastair Crook says says how the U.S. is losing ground to Russia and China as these countries strive to improve their standard of living and so are catching up with the U.S. He says the U.S. is making a mistake thinking they can cripple these countries economically and military as this has never worked on the past.
Alastair Crooke says the U.S. is putting all its money into the military and turning its economy over to a war orientated one. That scam!
Just think if all those trillions were invested into new green technology instead, then the U.S could be world leaders for many decades to come. The project for a new American century should start at home, and then the U.S. could get off oil and not need to control the ME anymore.
Alastair says, that the West will portray the Russians and the Chinese as so incredibly evil they that even the liberals will be prepared to go to war with them. This made me think of WW2 where our enemies were said to be so despicably evil that hundreds of Quakers even left their gentle, pacifist religion to go and fight in the war.