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The World’s Silliest Empire<\/a><\/h3>\n
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I couldn’t help but notice that over the past few weeks the Empire has become extremely silly\u2014so silly that I believe it deserves the title of the World’s Silliest Empire. One could claim that it has been silly before, but recent developments seem to signal a quantum leap in its silliness level.<\/p>\n

The first bit of extreme silliness surfaced when Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, the head of the United States Central Command, told a Senate panel that only a very small number of Syrian fighters trained by the United States remained in the fight\u2014perhaps as few as five. The tab for training and equipping them was $500 million. That’s $100 million per fighter, but that’s OK, because it’s all good as long as the military contractors are getting paid. Things got even sillier when it later turned out that even these few fighters got car-jacked by ISIS\/al Qaeda in Syria (whatever they are currently calling themselves) and got their vehicles and weapons taken away from them.<\/p>\n

The next silly moment arrived at the UN General Assembly meeting in New York, where Obama, who went on for 30 minutes instead of the allotted 15 (does Mr. Silly President know how to read a clock?) managed to use up all of this time and say absolutely nothing that made any sense to anyone.<\/p>\n

But it was Putin’s speech that laid out the Empire’s silliness for all to see when he scolded the US for making a bloody mess of the Middle East with its ham-handed interventions. The oft-repeated quote is \u201cDo you understand what you have done?\u201d but that’s not quite right. The Russian \u00ab\u0412\u044b \u0445\u043e\u0442\u044c \u043f\u043e\u043d\u0438\u043c\u0430\u0435\u0442\u0435 \u0442\u0435\u043f\u0435\u0440\u044c, \u0447\u0435\u0433\u043e \u0432\u044b \u043d\u0430\u0442\u0432\u043e\u0440\u0438\u043b\u0438?<\/a>\u00bb can be more accurately translated as \u201cHow can you even now fail to understand what a mess you have made?\u201d<\/div>\n

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The World’s Silliest Empire I couldn’t help but notice that over the past few weeks the Empire has become extremely silly\u2014so silly that I believe it deserves the title of the World’s Silliest Empire. One could claim that it has been silly before, but recent developments seem to signal a quantum leap in its silliness […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5712,4995,259,1239,446,447,522,584,660,694,776,822,826,827,834],"class_list":["post-13075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-cluborlov","tag-dimitry-orlov","tag-empire","tag-is","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-middle-east","tag-obama","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-syria","tag-un","tag-united-nations","tag-united-states","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13076,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13075\/revisions\/13076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}