Does my last response to you give the appearance that I didn't?
Maybe you should've quoted what I said, before you responded, no?
Sometimes you really seem to like putting your own foot in your own mouth,
I'm not exactly sure why you would want to do that, it seems counter-productive.
Maybe you should put your foot in your mouth before you speak?
- It might be more helpful, as you wouldn't make yourself look foolish.

"Does my last response to you give the appearance that I didn't?"

Yes.

You see mhaze, the problem with you is you have your tongue inserted up Uncle Sams rectum.
Now me, I may have fondness for Vladimir Putin, but that's only because him and China are trying to put a stop to the type of internal meddling in nation to conduct regime changes and overthrows.

I told you all from the beginning I don't support that crap.

You want to know what all this crap in the world is really all about?
- World Government.

Zbigniew Brzezinski:
"We cannot leap into world government through one quick step... The precondition for eventual and genuine globalization is progressive regionalization because by that we move toward larger, more stable, more cooperative units."

The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (1997) is one of the major works of Zbigniew Brzezinski.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Chessboard

Also back around that era you need to go look at George Bush and Dick Cheney's Strategic Energy Policy.
Which is basically about Americas need to control oil and energy for war.

If you ignorantly turn away from all these things, thinking everything is all roses, then you'll never actually see anything for what it really is, all you'll ever be is a useful idiot, like so many others.

Keep up the good work, they're counting on you.
- Baaaaaa

Brzezinski? You're basing your claims on Brzezinski?

Wow.

A failed apparatchik from a failed presidency is your goto guy?

Wow.

A book written a generation ago is your treatise?

Wow.

You might have noticed that the world has changed in those years. Well, not you, but someone with a clue. Even if it was true that the US policy was all about oil back two generations ago (it wasn't BTW) fracking and the advent of renewables has changed all those calculi. Or haven't you noticed.

Brzezinski? wow. Personally my goto guy is Caesar and his diaries which I use to work out what Italy's policy toward France is.

Kudos mhaze for your persistance on Trump. But you're right the Woke/ Marxist's rarely want to talk about 'why' they hate Trump.

Personally I think both Israel and Hamas are mad in their own ways and Ukraine and Russia both have issues.

We need to find an alternative to middle eastern oil this and the Suez Canal is at the root of the ME conflicts. Those that control the oil rule the world- I would prefer that the "rational" west controls the world- at least they believe in self rule as per Catholic Church independent subsidiarity.

Sometimes I'm unsure if The West or Russia is more Marxist- but Russia is run by organised crime it seems. The corruption of the western courts aren't much better at this point. At least the violence is mainly in the courtroom but more and more the violence will move to the streets. Sadly normal people seem reluctant to take action, to create sanity in policy, and law and order, in community cohesion, and protecting the vested interest of the founding culture in their own nations and cultures. It seems that the normal people have been stunned into inaction by fear, doing nothing will increase the environment of fear, and the decimation of their communities and slavery. The way to reduce fear is by creating and maintaining communities of like people, insulating the chaos outside. There must be integrity in the different levels of social hierarchy, preventing power creep, loss of identity, self sufficiency. Yet Marxism claims to be about stopping slavery- do you trust them? Wokeism has similar "aims" to Marxism, perhaps different "means"- though often they are similarly authoritarian.

We are the end result of a type of immortality, don't be responsible for it's end.
Freedom is not free- our ancestors have given their lives for us- why can't avoid our responsibilities to preserve the life of our line. Have courage in death, hopefully we have preserved something important.

It's ok to help other communities, for the common wealth. Generosity comes from strength.

Armchair Critic- Do you think that the world can be stable with more than one defining principle? Do you believe that one nation needs to manage this defining principle? Do you believe that a movement to a new global manager will create pain and death that may not be worth it?

In a sense I see the Russian conflicts as relating to the division between Slavic and Non-Slavic in just the same way as there is a division between ex-Roman and never-Roman territories in Europe north and south of the Rhine. In a sense there has been a migration of non-PIE peoples migrating into PIE/ Yamnaya Europe for the last 3,000 years and mostly European's have retreated. This includes Slavic and Hebrew cultures originating in the Middle East. There was the Chinese that invaded in the 1200-1300's and most recently the African's, Indian's, Chinese, Muslim's.

The Russian Royalty and it's British links was a chance for Russia to identify more closely with Europe that was broken with the rise of Marxism.