{"id":36040,"date":"2018-07-19T07:48:29","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T12:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36040"},"modified":"2018-07-19T07:48:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T12:48:43","slug":"russia-insanity-and-the-treason-that-wasnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36040","title":{"rendered":"Russia, Insanity and the Treason that\u00a0Wasn\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2018\/07\/18\/russia-insanity-treason-wasnt\/\">Russia, Insanity and the Treason that\u00a0Wasn\u2019t<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>It\u2019s become clear to me U.S. politics is reaching a breaking point.\u00a0 The level of hysteria over Donald Trump\u2019s summit with Vladimir Putin is wholly disproportionate to what actually occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Putin declared the Cold War over.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/07\/patrick-j-buchanan\/trump-calls-off-cold-war-ii\/\">Pat Buchanan agrees<\/a> and so do I.\u00a0 For as much grief as I give Donald Trump for his many missteps in foreign policy, his going to first Singapore and then Helsinki in the service of peace and better relations is more than commendable.<\/p>\n<p>It was necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump may not be the President many of us wanted.<\/p>\n<p>But, like it or not, he is both the president we have and the one we deserve.\u00a0 Our politics have been on a collision course with the bottom of the cesspit since 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>We have bathed in the waters of \u201cthe archipelago of War Party think tanks beavering away inside the Beltway,\u201d as Buchanan put it in his recent article, and come out stinking like either liberal interventionists or neoconservatives.<\/p>\n<p>Or do I repeat myself.<\/p>\n<p>Both are in service of a greatly-expanded Deep State and corrupted political and financial class that is the height of what Sam Francis termed \u201cAnarcho-Tyranny.\u201d\u00a0 Lawlessness for those with power and both ends of the truncheon for those without.<\/p>\n<p>The net result is a corporate media that is the very definition of fascism. I\u2019m talkin Mussolini here, not the meaningless pablum of the frothing Twitterati of Soros\u2019 and Brock\u2019s \u201cResistance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just take the phrase \u201cAll within the State, nothing outside the State\u201d and replace \u201d the State\u201d with \u201cour State of Insanity,\u201d and you\u2019ve got it nailed.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2018\/07\/18\/while-his-opponents-cry-treason-trump-sues-for-peace.html\">I wrote recently for Strategic Culture Foundation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia, Insanity and the Treason that\u00a0Wasn\u2019t It\u2019s become clear to me U.S. politics is reaching a breaking point.\u00a0 The level of hysteria over Donald Trump\u2019s summit with Vladimir Putin is wholly disproportionate to what actually occurred. Putin declared the Cold War over.\u00a0 Pat Buchanan agrees and so do I.\u00a0 For as much grief as I [&hellip;]<\/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":[5,6],"tags":[149,199,7844,11536,694,16963,7748,827,857],"class_list":["post-36040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-cold-war","tag-deep-state","tag-donald-trump","tag-pat-buchanan","tag-russia","tag-tom-luongo","tag-treason","tag-united-states","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36040","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=36040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36041,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36040\/revisions\/36041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}