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Jun 11 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The "Summit of the Americas" was just held in the US for the first time since 1994, with Biden as host, and it was boycotted by the leaders of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Bolivia, and El Salvador. Biden was excoriated by the leaders of Argentina and Belize. Seems under-reported
Anytime there was some diplomatic snafu under Trump, the Think Think punditocracy screamed that he was destroying the US alliance system and international order. Meanwhile huge swaths of America's own Hemisphere just sided with Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua in rebuke of Biden
Biden blocked the attendance of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua because they're Not Democracies™ -- leading Mexican president Lopez Obrador to boycott the summit in protest. Amusingly, the left-wing Mexican president demonstrably had a better relationship with Trump
Simultaneously as Biden was retributively blocking the ability of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua to attend a largely symbolic international meeting, he was planning his big upcoming trip to supplicate Saudi Arabia -- famously a bastion of Democracy™

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Jun 10
The myth-making around Jan 6 was instantaneous. Fast forward to today, and it's been declared as official historical doctrine that the most powerful government in world history was nearly "overthrown" by a swiftly-dispersed mob of confused marauders. Absolutely beyond ludicrous
In order to get anyone to believe that the world's most powerful military/police/surveillance state could've really been "overthrown" -- by a roving band of directionless chumps -- you have to wage a seriously extreme, protracted propaganda campaign. And that's what they've done
It sure didn't seem like Committee member Adam Kinzinger felt the need to undertake any kind of deliberative, dispassionate, fact-finding process before concluding what occurred was a "coup attempt." Because he'd already declared that conclusion within a matter of minutes
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Congratulations to Jake Sullivan, Krysten Sinema, Peter Thiel, Jens Stoltenberg, Eric Schmidt, William Burns, Anne Applebaum, Chrystia Freeland, Michael Gove, the King of the Netherlands, and of course Henry Kissinger on what's no doubt been another successful Bilderberg weekend
Naturally, the heads of the CIA, National Security Council, Department of Commerce, NATO, European Council, Pfizer, Shell, Palantir, and so forth are merely taking part in their private, personal capacity
The Ambassador of Ukraine to the US, Assistant Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Department, Mike Mullen, and David Petraeus all just rubbing elbows together in their private, personal capacities to share ideas about "Geopolitical Realignment"
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Surprise! The Texas Shooter and the Ukraine Military Get Their AR-15s From the Same Place
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Daniel Defense, the US company that manufactures the AR-15 style rifle used by the Uvalde shooter, also manufactures parts for the AR-15 style rifle used by elements of the Ukraine military. Don't hold your breath for anyone else to point this out
Pundits who feverishly call for arming the Ukrainian population simultaneously call for disarming the American population. Are they aware that these companies producing the dreaded AR-15 -- which they now want to shutter -- are currently producing AR-15s for the Ukraine military?
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May 23
Recently @RichardHanania claimed that the GOP opposition to Ukraine war funding was unprecedented in his lifetime. In 2011, 87 House Republicans voted to demand cessation of the war in Libya. In 1999, **187** House Republicans voted against authorizing the war in Kosovo
So there is always a modest upsurge of GOP "anti-war" sentiment when a Democrat's in power. And the same applies in reverse: does anyone really doubt at this point that a huge percentage of Dem opposition to the war in Iraq was simply a function of partisan hatred for Bush
There's a tendency to over-interpret these modest shifts over time as genuine ideological transformations, but the depressing reality -- as usual -- is that they can be largely explained by the same old reflexive partisanship. I admit it took me awhile to appreciate this
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May 23
Biden keeps making these clear, direct statements of policy intent, and the idiot media just regurgitates whatever White House PR handlers email them afterwards. Maybe because they don't want to believe Biden really is shredding decades of precedent to antagonize China and Russia
Just watch the video -- to dismiss it simply as Biden "misspeaking" is utterly ridiculous. "Misspeaking" used to mean when you flub a word, or mess up the subject/predicate of a sentence. Not when you're uncomfortably forthright about your policy intent

When people say "US policy hasn't changed," they're just talking nonsense. There is no such thing as some official US foreign policy that exists separate from the president. He sets the policy! If he doesn't want "strategic ambiguity" anymore, he can simply say so. And now he has
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May 22
It's worth reflecting on how unusually supine Congress is right now. Here's a "pissed off" Barry Goldwater in 1984 fuming about Reagan's secrecy. "How can we back his foreign policy when we don't know what the hell he is doing?"

Do senators "know what the hell" Biden is doing?
Also note that back then, Congress wasn't nearly as cowed by the "Intelligence Community." Goldwater personally threatens the CIA Director that if they double-cross him again, he's "going to raise one hell of a lot of fuss about it in public." (Style of rhetoric also superior)
A few years earlier, Goldwater had famously been a member of the Church Committee, which investigated the abuses of the security state agencies. Despite rampant, unprecedented abuses by these agencies recently, there's never been any serious talk of another Church-style committee
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