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Stratfor reports about “The Role of the Mexican Military in the Cartel War”

By / 2 Comments / 12 November 2017

Mexico offers perhaps the greatest foreign policy challenge to the United States.  Few nations’ internal problems have greater potential to hurt America; over few nations do we have so little ability to influence their developments (as our shared history makes them allergic to our assistance). “The Role of  the Mexican Military in the Cartel War“, Stephen Meiners …

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One of America’s few wise men tells us about Mexico

By / 13 Comments / 3 May 2009

Summary:  This is a brief report about Mexico, seen as a problem for the USA.  Analysis of the problem and our government’s idiotic response, plus a possible solution. Contents “La Rubia y La Droga – Notes From an Unknown Planet“, Fred Reed, Fred on Everything, 30 March 2009 U.S. military outreach to Mexico likely to …

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Our ruling elites scamper and play while our world burns

By / 70 Comments / 1 October 2018

The political wrangling — in Congress, among our elites, and between the peons — exists IMO (guessing) only because of confidence that mainstream economists are correct.  They believe that this recession (or depression) will trough late this year.  No matter how rapid the decline, there is little the government can do in the next few quarters.  So …

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The State Department needs help, stat!

By / 10 Comments / 13 October 2009

Summary:  Zenpundit writes about one of the major geopolitical problem facing America.  His analysis, like mine and others, misses the key point — the key challenge.  Describing the problem is easy; describing the solution is difficult. Zenpundit has a typically excellent post up about one of the major challenges in American geopolitics:  “Hillary Should Dare …

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Obama’s national security team: I hope you didn’t really believe in change?

By / 8 Comments / 7 June 2009

I was going to write about this travesty, but Tom Engelhardt has said it — and better than I could. “Who Rules the Pentagon?“, Tom Engelhardt, posted at TomDispatch, 25 November 2008 — Excerpt: The Obama national security “team” — part of that much-hailed “team of rivals” — does not yet exist, but it does …

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