most of the true believing neighbors of mine will refuse to even read such a thing as the following article but it rings true to me and has for some time;

In France, there is a derogatory term for people who sit around in neighborhood cafes fixing the world: “They’re just cafe du commerce”, referring to the small town meeting places of nineteenth century entrepreneurs. Well, the Trump impeachment ‘inquiry’, which has dragged on for months, has turned the media into one great cafe du commerce: day in and day and night out, each ‘news’ hour consists of an anchor surrounded by anywhere from two to five ‘experts’ guessing the meaning of each twist in the American soap opera based on the most recently uttered words. Rising numbers of Blacks and Latinos, ranging from young female podcasters to professors emeritus at prestigious universities, not to mention former State Department or Pentagon officials, many appear to be on call. Although they are not remunerated, their daily presence in every home is great for advancement.

The current issue under discussion has to do with Donald Trump’s callous betrayal of Syria’s Kurds, whose renowned fighters, including female brigades, have been killing or capturing ISIS fighters with US support for several years. It took only one phone call from Turkey’s President Erdogan for the US President to agree that he could ‘move a border’ with tanks, as Russia is accused of doing after consulting the mainly Russian-speaking inhabitants of Crimea in a referendum.

Responding to loud condemnation by soldiers and civilians aghast at this betrayal of America’s ‘sacred honor on the battlefield’, Trump claimed dismissively that ‘we never agreed to protect the Kurds for the rest of their lives’, finally convincing Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader of the House of Representatives, who until now, fearing the Republican Senate would refuse to actually impeach the President, had been dragging out the ‘investigative’ process hoping be able to declare in January that a trial would be too close to the start of the first major event in the 2020 election season, which should be allowed to decide Trump’s fate.

Most Americans, dependent on television, or local newspapers that are part of a nation-wide conservative chain, knowing nothing about daily events in other countries — whether Europe, Africa or Asia — will continue to believe that the only things that matter happen in Washington, D.C. They don’t know that our European allies, while still too pusillanimous to declare their independence, have scuttled our sanctions on Iran, and are horrified at our abandonment of the Kurds. In reality, the American media is clueless about the Kurds, as well as to Turkey’s unique geopolitical position. They know that it has been a member of NATO since 1952, designated as ‘a bulwark against the Soviet Union’s southern flank’ — but not much more.........https://journal-neo.org/2019/10/26/world-s-biggest-empire-talks-itself-into-oblivion/