[MtnClimber]

James Howard Kunstler ping

[popdonnelly]

He doesn’t impress me as knowing what he’s writing about. The article is just a rant.

[one guy in new jersey]

Interesting. Thanks for posting. -OGINJ

[Jane Long]

Some kind of game is afoot in all this. Neither Trump nor Putin could possibly want to turn this fiasco in Ukraine into a greater war that will destroy what’s left of Western Civilization.

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Agree.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Thanks for posting. One sentence leapt out ---

"It ought to be clear now that the initial Hillary Clinton campaign prank metastasized into the worst perversion of abusive government power in our country's history, and is yet on-going."

As to "campaign prank," Kunstler is being too kind. Remember when Clinton was in the Oval Office, and Mrs. Clinton called herself the "co-president?"

These last decades has been her unbridled lust for power, prestige and wealth.

[marktwain]

Kunstler seems of the opinion that everything in the world is controlled by deep conspiracies of powerful people.

He rejects the reality there is a lot of randomness in the world and there are a lot of competeing conspiracies.

Nobody wanted what happened in WWI. Nobody wanted what is happening in Ukraine.

People, even smart, powerful people, don’t know everything, cannot accurately predict far into the future, and make lots of mistakes.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Your post sparked memories of that "co-president" so now being mentioned in the hoax themes of news today. So, here's a little retrospective:

"So I don't understand why Clinton became so huffy when Jerry Brown tossed in a zinger about Hillary during their recent debate. Something to do with her law firm doing business with the state her husband governs.

"Clinton played the chivalrous spouse, telling Brown he wasn't fit to stand on the same stage as Hillary. This put Brown, a bachelor, at a disadvantage, since he couldn't say that Clinton wasn't fit to be on the same stage as his wife. Of course, he might have responded that Clinton wasn't fit to be on the same stage with Linda Ronstadt, whom Brown used to date. Or with Mother Theresa, with whom he nursed the needy. Then since-departed Paul Tsongas could have chimed in that neither of them were fit to be in the same swimming pool with him. If the campaign lasts long enough, who knows?

"Later, while performing for the cameras at a Polish restaurant in Chicago (Arkansas governors just love Polish food), Clinton said he could handle political abuse but would 'hit' those who maligned his wife."

Source: Hillary, The Woman Who Whould Be Co-President Seattle Times, Mar 20, 1992

That "law firm" stuff has brought testy behaviors from the Clintons for the last 32 years....

And, no, Epstein didn't kill himself.

[nopardons]

BTTT

[GOPJ]

I will proffer a harsh truth to you: the best outcome in Ukraine would be for Russia to win the war as expeditiously as possible, neutralize and disarm the place, change-out its illegitimate government, and let it revert to being the frontier backwater it was for eight decades previous, when it was not a problem for the other nations of the region.

Mr. Putin has put up with our country’s psychotic nonsense with remarkable patience. The idea that he seeks to conquer western Europe was a preposterous confection of the neocon crazies in our State Department and Intel “community.”

There's solid brilliance behind this strange idea...certainly worth thinking about.

[little jeremiah]

Fantastic Kunstler article, one of his very best.