One of the agonising things about wars no one wants - and that's all wars - is that it takes so long for them to end. The outcome of the SMO in the Ukraine was a given from 24 February 2022. The Russian military is by far the most powerful in the world. NATO is in disrepair and neglect. Yet the tentacles of the Empire of Lies reach far and deep even today.
It's like Kari Lake's battle for Arizona. Everyone knows of the corruption of Maricopa, yet it takes finding one court - a diamond in a heap of bullshit - to right the wrongs.
It looks like Kari's headed for the Eisenhower Building anyway. She'll do the job Henry Wallace vowed to do eighty years ago. DC is that corrupt.
Russia and the US are natural born buddies. Vis the ISS. They would be good friends right now were it not for Raytheon and Lockheed-Martin and the rest.
Think Miss Sloane. Made by John Madden, mostly in Canada. Written by a very methodical first-time screenwriter Jonathan Perera. The story of how British pre-law English teacher Perera came to write Miss Sloane and how his screenplay ended up in the hands of John Madden is a saga in itself. Unfortunately it came out in the wake of Donald Trump's 2016 victory and it used the gun control issue to shed light on the nefarious business of DC lobbying.
For in many ways lobbying today is the root of all evil. Politicians campaign for truth and justice, then head off to Washington where they're suddenly confronted with another demographic. They have to straddle the demands of the donor class who finance them and their constituents who voted for them. And seldom, if at all, do the interests of those two groups meet.
Miss Sloane is a psychopath. A full-blown psychopath. She even hires hookers to bonk her so she doesn't have to get emotionally or personally involved. She cares only about winning, no matter the side, no matter the issue.
Somewhere along the line she becomes abhorred by all the gun violence. That's her one caveat. When she's beseeched by the NRA to help make guns 'pink' for women voters, she loses it - and is picked up by a member of the opposition. And that's when she - and you the viewer - discover how dirty that world really is.
There are others on the US political scene who also understand this and are trying to wake people to it before it's too late. Both Tulsi Gabbard and Scott Ritter are scared shitless and are trying to make voters understand. Only Donald Trump and Kari Lake on the political scene feel the same. Ironically, they're the only two who consistently speak the truth.
Donald Trump says he can end the Ukraine conflict in 24 hours. Why not give him a chance? When the alternative is a foul-mouthed git who hates humanity itself? Why not when Kari Lake's cojones are bigger than Arizona, and she can drain the swamp?
Let Donald deal with foreign relations, make peace. Let Kari deal with the bastard swamp creatures. Perfect division of labour. You want a VP who actually does something? Vote Trump/Lake 2024.
But the evils of Washington are not primarily about the lobbyists. They're only the periphery. The main evils are the politicians, a curious and endemically dishonest group who take the money of the donor class, accept the perks of the lobbyists, and lie to those who vote for them and keep them in office. Politicians and movie stars have a lot in common, if you think about it. Back to the pen of Jonathan Perera.
'Our system is rotten. It doesn't reward honest politicians who vote with their conscience. It rewards rats who are willing to sell out their country to keep their noses in the trough. Make no mistake: These rats are the real parasites.'
Have a look at Tucker on Twitter #3 if you're not one of the 50 million or so who already took it in.
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1668747661028081664
There are many rats singled out in that monologue, but the King Rat, from Delaware, seems able to hold to the shadows a lot. After all, there are a lot of rats going around. The King Rat, currently at any rate, has been able to successfully build an image as the poorest man in Washington. That's what psychopaths do. That's what psychopaths are so good at. Leading you down a garden path, slowly and carefully steering you off in the wrong direction, keeping you as far from the truth as is geometrically possible.
'I never know where the line is', admits Miss Sloane in a brief exchange with one of her victims. And indeed. If, at an early age, you find nothing wrong with stealing words from the father-in-law of a former Danish prime minister, or from the father of a current political opponent, you're not likely to ever know. Soon you will master the art of lying convincingly, with a straight face, about anything at all. About influence peddling, about childish pranks like blowing up pipelines, about instigating wars to preserve your own self-interests, about persecuting your political opponents.
But, without the ability to bribe or threaten, you're likely to find Washington a very lonely place. When you can no longer claim the title King Rat, you're likely to find the other rats eat you alive.
UPDATE 2023-06-15 Brooklyn Bridge
Found exactly this way.