How the West won . . .

“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.”

― Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)

Will the American Oligarchy Accept Limits or Choose World War Three?

"The US is a market state that is dominated by and run for transnational capital. Its foreign policy and the military are a tool of the American oligarchy. Therefore, any serious policy discussion needs to deal with the fact that national interests as they’re expressed today are not in any real sense national but representative of the interests of a small cohort of the super wealthy."

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Sanctions on Moscow have hurt European economies while Russia's has GROWN

"Speaking exclusively to MailOnline, Dr. Ksenia Kirkham, a specialist in economic warfare at King's College London, said Europe is 'shooting itself in the foot' with its sanctions strategy and has pushed Russia to 'escape Western mechanisms of control' and become more self-reliant.

And Alan W. Cafruny, professor of international affairs at the US' Hamilton College, argued Europe's decision to cut off Russian oil and gas imports has done nothing but damage their own economies and line the pockets of US corporations - all while Russia continues to export its hydrocarbons out east unperturbed."

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