What does one do?
I read Peter Hitchens blog and columns from the UK and he notes that his once great and mighty nation needs to do business with China so badly that the Chinese president’s protestors were held back further than George W. Bush’s were a decade earlier, plus the British police raided homes of people who protested the Chinese leader’s visit to the UK.
The UK lowered it flag to half staff the other year when the Saudi king died. The UK needs their money and business, too.
Sheldon Adelson, you mention doing business with the Chicoms, also supports Israel.
I support Israel, too.
But I smell something rotten when it comes to Israel’s supporters like the Neocons and so on since they love the jihadists-al Qaeda in Syria.
I think in order to deal with Iran and the potential of Syria as an Iranian base, they are players with the Saudis in trying to take out Assad.
But Russia got in their way.
Ukraine was just a spontaneous revolt to overthrow the pro-Russian government back in 2014?
Whatever, Putin came back with the Crimean takeover and eventually military deployments to help Assad in Syria even more.
The Saudis-Gulf Arabs want the energy pipeline to sell to Europe and Israel wants Iran’s ally and launch pad to attack Israel taken out.
Doesn’t that really make some sense.
And the USA’s reliance on Saudi money to prop up banks, corporations, government etc. etc.
So we have this campaign against Russia and anyone like Flynn who ‘talked to the Russians before the inauguration’, who ‘lied to Pence’ etc. etc. etc.
It all smells powerfully yucky like ****.
I hear ya!
But I think Russia is easier to handle and maybe even quasi win over (as we also worked with them in WWII), whereas the Chinese are the greater threat.