While I have no idea what you wrote which triggered a moderator to "remove" a comment, something irritated....
The article is not filled with facts, in anything other than the polemical way. It is opinion, masquerading as fact. So looking at the Hudson Institute, one learns that it is three short blocks from the White House, for starters. Nothing like being near to the seat of power.
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Hudson InstituteNice work, if you can get it.
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Fourth Floor
Washington, DC 20004Its leadership is doing quite nicely. "JOHN P. WALTERS, PRESIDENT AND CEO, $ 545,542 salary.
Of the 501(c)3 "charity" which pays no income taxes for being "charitable", one learns of the group. Form 990: With "functional expenses" of $22,325,841 on a gross of EOY $ 86,634,994. or about 25 percent of its total assets to pay its staff and benefits.As to the author, "A native of Missouri, he and his family currently reside in Northern Virginia." He is part of the governmental elite.Source: Hudson Form 990 FY 2022
Our upper class, deeply involved with the UK as with the US government can be gleaned by reading through Luke Coffey's bio online.
Luke CoffeyMy favorite laugher of the "facts" is:
"Fact: The US is not engaged in a proxy war against Russia."Why?
"The definition of a proxy war is a war 'fought by states acting at the instigation or on behalf of other states'.”Got that? Because some other nation didn't tell the US to fund the Ukraine-Russia war these last years, it isn't BY DEFINITION a "proxy war."Because were not "acting on behalf of other states." Though, of course, we are.
Word games for the rubes.
Meanwhile....
Debt ClockFederal Budget Deficit Grew to $2 Trillion in FY 2023 Tax Foundation, 12 October 2023
That's when I realized that the author was full of cowplop.