{"id":22875,"date":"2017-02-20T17:21:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T22:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22875"},"modified":"2017-02-20T17:21:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T22:21:33","slug":"red-hysteria-engulfs-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22875","title":{"rendered":"Red Hysteria Engulfs Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<header><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" title=\"Red Hysteria Engulfs Washington\" src=\"http:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/images\/news\/2017\/02\/20\/or-38659.jpg\" alt=\"Red Hysteria Engulfs Washington\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"date\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2017\/02\/20\/red-hysteria-engulfs-washington.html\">Red Hysteria Engulfs Washington<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<p>President Dwight Eisenhower\u2019s warning about the dangers of the military-industrial complex made half a century ago ring as loud and clear today. The soft coup being mounted against the Trump government by America\u2019s \u2018deep state\u2019 reached a new intensity this week as special interests battled for control of Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The newly named national security advisor, Lt Gen Michael Flynn, was ousted by Trump over his chats with Russia\u2019s ambassador and what he may or may not have told Vice President Pence. The defenestration of Flynn appeared engineered by our national intelligence agencies in collaboration with the mainstream media and certain Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Flynn\u2019s crime? Talking to the wicked Russians before and after the election. Big, big deal. That\u2019s what security advisors are supposed to do: keep an open back channel to other major powers and allies. This is also the job of our intelligence agencies.<\/p>\n<p>There is no good or bad in international affairs. The childish concept of \u2018good guys\u2019 and \u2018bad guys\u2019 comes from the Bush era when simple-minded voters had to be convinced that America was somehow in grave danger from a bunch of angry Mideast goat herds.<\/p>\n<p>The only nations that could threaten America\u2019s very existence are nuclear powers Russia, China, India, France, Britain and Israel (and maybe Pakistan) in that order.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has thousands of nuclear warheads targeted on the US mainland. Any real war with Russia would invite doom for both nations. Two near misses are more than enough. Remember the 1962 Cuban missile confrontation and the terrifying 1983 Able Archer scare \u2013 near thermonuclear war caused by Ronald Reagan\u2019s anti-Russian hysteria and Moscow\u2019s panicked response.<\/p>\n<p>Margolis\u2019 #1 rule of international relations: make nice and keep on good terms with nations that have nuclear weapons pointed at you. Avoid squabbles over almost all matters. Intelligence agencies play a key role in maintaining the balance of nuclear terror and preventing misunderstandings that can cause war.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Hysteria Engulfs Washington President Dwight Eisenhower\u2019s warning about the dangers of the military-industrial complex made half a century ago ring as loud and clear today. The soft coup being mounted against the Trump government by America\u2019s \u2018deep state\u2019 reached a new intensity this week as special interests battled for control of Washington. 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