Ron Paul is constantly ignored — exactly because — he has a gift for succinctly delivered intelligent communication

© 2022 Peter Free

 

18 January 2022

 

 

An introductory premise

 

Being bright and realistic does not fly in 'Ahmurhika'.

 

We prize hostile and stupid.

 

 

Below, I quote two observations that point to this psychic flaw of ours

 

One is from the always intelligent Ron Paul.

 

The other, from one Al Jazeera's perceptive geopolitical analysts.

 

You can bet how quickly both will be ignored.

 

 

Ron Paul's observation

 

Of the United States' war-provoking "Russia-bashing" Ukraine bullshit, he said that:

 

 

When US politicians talk about Russia massing troops on the Ukrainian border, for example, they leave out the fact that these troops are actually inside Russia.

 

With US troops in some 150 countries overseas, you’d think Washington might pause before criticizing the “aggression” of troops inside a country’s own borders.

 

They also leave out the reasons why Russia might be concerned over its neighbor Ukraine. CNN reported recently that the Biden Administration approved another $200 million in military aid to Ukraine last month, making nearly half a billion dollars in weapons over the past year.

 

Imagine if China was sending half a billion dollars in weapons to Mexico to strengthen and embolden a hyper-aggressive anti-US regime. Would the US not be “massing troops near the Mexican border”?

 

Also there is that issue about the US-backed overthrow of the democratically-elected Ukrainian government in 2014, which is the starting point of all these recent problems.

 

And this week Yahoo News reported that the CIA is training Ukrainian paramilitaries on US soil!

 

Recent talks between the US and Russia failed before they even began, with the US side refusing to even consider ending useless and provocative NATO expansion eastward.

 

How embarrassing it was to hear Blinken ridiculing Russia for coming to the aid of ally Kazakhstan as a color revolution (with likely US backing) was brewing. “I think one lesson in recent history is that once Russians are in your house, it’s sometimes very difficult to get them to leave,” Blinken told reporters.

 

He said this with a straight face even as the US continues to illegally occupy a large part of Syria, continues to occupy part of Iraq against the will of that country’s parliament, and occupied a good part of Afghanistan for 20 years!

 

Incidentally, as soon as the regime change attempt was put down in Kazakhstan, Russian and allied troops began leaving the country. But, of course, the reflexively pro-war US media doesn’t report anything outside the narrative.

 

© 2022 Ron Paul, Washington’s Bi-Partisan Russia-Bashers Are Determined to Start a War, Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity (17 January 2022)

 

 

Coincidentally, the same day

 

Marwan Bishara, an astute political observer, wrote that:

 

 

There are probably nicer ways to say it, but when I read that in a 2021 national poll, 46 percent of Americans believed that “another civil war is likely” compared with 43 percent who did not, the only words that came to mind were mutually assured destruction . . . .

 

I mean seriously, America, what are you thinking?

 

Instead of acting fast to prevent such a calamity, you continue to fan the fire, recklessly moving towards civil strife, eyes wide open.

 

If you have forgotten the horrors of your own devastating civil war, take a look at our ongoing bloody and disastrous civil wars, which have collapsed states under the yoke of violent polarisation.

 

Thing is, you never had it so good in terms of prosperity, freedom, and wellbeing, so why throw all of it away over differences of opinion?

 

Why not manage your disagreements democratically?

 

In other words, why not put democracy back at the centre of your domestic policy, instead of pretending to put it at the centre of foreign policy?

 

America is a warlike nation and when there are no brown people to bomb somewhere else, it turns inward, applying “war” to anything it hates.

 

So, there is the American war on poverty, the war on drugs, the war on crime, and of course, the war on cancer, the war on AIDS, and of late, the war on COVID-19.

 

Now that Americans are split . . . there is an intensifying “war” on fascism and an ugly “war” on liberalism.

 

© 2022 Marwan Bishara, The prospects of another American (un)civil war, Al Jazeera (17 January 2022)

 

 

The moral? — Being colossally ignorant, blunderingly mindless, and belligerently hostile . . .

 

. . . do not augur well for the United States' survival.

 

Stupidity-based fury is not a survival trait.

 

Irrational, evidence-avoiding rage kills not only what it is aimed at, but also the entity that generates it.

 

This is so basic a psychological element, that I know of no significant spiritual tradition that does not teach the principle — somewhere.