pcr has some thoughts on the current event we all focus on at this point. he's got four essays on his site this am and the question is will i post all of them. i don't know;

Difficult to Find a Way Out of the War that is Enveloping Us

Paul Craig Roberts

I will leave it to Glenn Greenwald to tell you how small the chance is of avoiding war–

“War Propaganda About Ukraine Becoming More Militaristic, Authoritarian, and Reckless”

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/war-propaganda-about-ukraine-becoming?utm_source=url 

The American people are too brainwashed and disinformed to have any idea of what might be about to happen.  The price of American insouciance could be national death:

“It is genuinely hard to overstate how overwhelming the unity and consensus in U.S. political and media circles is. It is as close to a unanimous and dissent-free discourse as anything in memory, certainly since the days following 9/11. Marco Rubio sounds exactly like Bernie Sanders, and Lindsay Graham has not even minimal divergence from Nancy Pelosi. Every word broadcast on CNN or printed in The New York Times about the conflict perfectly aligns with the CIA and Pentagon’s messaging. And U.S. public opinion has consequently undergone a radical and rapid change; while recent polling had shown large majorities of Americans opposed to any major U.S. role in Ukraine, a new Gallup poll released on Friday found that ‘52% of Americans see the conflict between Russia and Ukraine as a critical threat to U.S. vital interests’ with almost no partisan division (56% of Republicans and 61% of Democrats), while ‘85% of Americans now view Russia unfavorably while 15% have a positive opinion of it.’”

Whereas the American people are merely stupid and brainwashed, American political leaders and media are insane psychopaths.  Here are two paragraphs from Greenwald: .......read more.......