Douglas Macgregor: The War Machine Is Out of Control — And It's Coming for YOU

Another interview with Douglas Macgregor. He thinks since the end of the Second World War things have been set up for the benefit of America and the private fortunes of various people. He expects Japan and South Korea will ask American troops to leave, he thinks the threat to Taiwan is clearly non existent, that Israel is an artificial creation which at one time might have done good for the Middle East. This looks less likely now. He expects a collapse in the bonds and derivative markets and this will make the increase in the American defence budget impossible. 

Meanwhile the Middle Eastern monarchies are terrified of their populaces who are angry with Israel.

Iran turned out to be much more cohesive than we thought and may get the bomb.

R.I.P John Charmley who exploded the Churchillian version of history

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Churchill is said to have said

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.''

It has been and he did.

Though actually he did not say those words. He said

"For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself."

John Charmley, perhaps the greatest historian of our time, utterly exploded the Churchillian version of history but the explosion has been ignored.

Douglas Macgregor: Middle East Crisis Could Spark Global War, U.S. Dollar Losing Reserve Status

Iran is not close to getting the bomb and if they did the Middle East would be safer. Has the North Korean bomb made the world dangerous?

What is interesting is the larger numbers of Israelis who are leaving Israel. A Cypriot politician is complaining about the numbers. The Palestinians will sympathise.

Douglas Macgregor explains in this interview that America's attack on Iran was to use the cant word, performative. The Iranians knew the attack was coming and signalled their retaliation.

The Iranians did better than was widely expected and regime change is not going to happen. Israel will of course want to instal a puppet regime there.

This article in the Spectator from 2017  by John R. Bradley
Forget our misguided friendship with Saudi Arabia: Iran is our natural ally is still very relevant. Iran is not the West's enemy.

Quotations

“A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.”  Arthur Schopenhauer

"I have always felt a certain horror of political economists since I heard one of them say that the Famine in Ireland would not kill more than a million people, and that would scarcely be enough to do much good." Benjamin Jowett

“Till recently it was thought proper to pretend that all human beings are very much alike, but in fact anyone able to use his eyes knows that the average of human behaviour differs enormously from country to country.” George Orwell

Nearly 377,000 Gazans died since October 2023?

The official overall Arab death toll in Gaza now stands at 56, 077 but it does not include people missing trapped under the rubble. A report written by Israeli academic Yaakov Garb for the Harvard Dataverse estimates that nearly 377,000 Palestinians remain unaccounted for since October 2023.

A British writer who knows Gaza well said a year ago in a book serialised in the Times that the official figures were a considerable underestimate, oddly enough since they come from what Israel reminds us is the Hamas-run Gazan Ministry of Health.

Quotations

"What is the news ? " asked the bird. Yudhisthira [whose name meant: firm in all battles] replied calmly:"In this cauldron filled with the grease of great delusion, with the fire of the sun and the fuel of day and night, stirring with the ladles of months and seasons, Time the great cook is cooking all of us living beings."
The Mahabharata








“The state is the great fiction by which everyone endeavors to live at the expense of everyone else.” Frederic Bastiat, the French economist.

How right Obama was about Iran and Ukraine

The only man who comes out well from the Israeli attack on Iran is Obama. How wise his agreement with Iran now looks.

He was also right not to arm Ukraine or fight a proxy war against Russia in 2014 but very wrong to help overthrow Yanukovych and Gaddafi.

Had Hillary said days before the 2016 general election that her top priority would have been "regime change in Syria".

She lost and the word dodged war but only for a time. It sees that the neo-cons are the undead.

I can't see any American, British or European interest at stake in the Middle East, now the Soviet Union has gone.

Quotations

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”

Henry David Thoreau

[What's the price of Facebook and X?]

"No duty is more important than that of returning thanks."

St. Ambrose

“In the European century that began in the 1840s from Engels's article of 1849 down to the death of Hitler, everyone who advocated genocide called himself a socialist, and no exception has been found.”

George Watson, The Lost Literature of Socialism (1998)

"Interestingly, until very recently the dominant orthodoxy was that the world was a far safer place with a single global superpower - the American Hegemon. How's that working out for you?"