{"id":61940,"date":"2022-02-17T17:55:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T22:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61940"},"modified":"2022-02-17T17:55:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T22:55:30","slug":"stockman-were-not-useful-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61940","title":{"rendered":"Stockman: &#8220;We&#8217;re Not Useful Idiots!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"ArticleFull_header__Eyn7V\">\n<h3 class=\"ArticleFull_title__MEgbb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/stockman-were-not-useful-idiots\">Stockman: &#8220;We&#8217;re Not Useful Idiots!&#8221;<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"NodeContent_mainContent__t4rGu\">\n<div class=\"NodeContent_body__6iJOI NodeBody_container__hI8PI\">\n<p>Honest injun. We\u2019re not useful idiots here at Contra Corner!<\/p>\n<div class=\"AdvertisingSlot_desktop__lDlm4 AdvertisingSlot_tablet__MndqJ AdvertisingSlot_mobile__7vsEF AdvertisingSlot_placement__b8TLC AdvertisingSlot_align__800B1\">\n<aside id=\"in-content-video\" class=\"AdvertisingSlot_verticallySpaced__MBqFK\" data-google-query-id=\"CPHx9f7bh_YCFZkJiAkd6YEIZA\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/21841313772,21778456762\/zerohedge\/in_content_video_0__container__\"><strong>We do think, however, that the entire Ukrainian crisis is a Washington-confected con job.<\/strong>\u00a0And we came to that conclusion without relying on a single scrap of information peddled by Russki propagandists appearing on Strategic Culture Foundation or Zero Hedge.<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>Actually, we thought it up all by our lonesome! Well, we\u2019ll grant we did have a fair amount of help from Google, which insofar as we know works for the CIA, not the Russian SVR (foreign intelligence service).<\/p>\n<p>In any event, at the very center of the crisis is the Washington claim that the rule of law and the sanctity of sovereign borders are on the line in Ukraine and that, therefore, Russia must not be allowed to encroach a single inch into sacrosanct Ukrainian territory.<\/p>\n<p>That is to say, it is not a matter of America\u2019s national security interest in the precise Ukrainian geography, which happens to lie cheek-by-jowl on Russia\u2019s border, but the very governance of the entire planet: Conform to the \u201crule of law\u201d as articulated by Washington or get sanctioned, outlawed, pariah-ed, and even invaded, if worst comes to worst.<\/p>\n<p>We hear this refrain repeatedly from Secy Blinkey and national security advisor Snake Sullivan. But we find ourselves doubled over with laughter each time, knowing practically by heart the list of coups, regime change plots, invasions and occupations Washington has foisted upon other sovereign nations over the last 70 years.<\/p>\n<p>For want of doubt, however, we recently Googled in pursuit of the exact list and came up with a systematic study by a young scholar named Lindsey A. O\u2019Rourke. Here\u2019s her summary conclusion:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Between 1947 and 1989, the United States tried to change other nations\u2019 governments 72 times<\/strong>; That\u2019s a remarkable number. It includes 66 covert operations and six overt ones.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stockman: &#8220;We&#8217;re Not Useful Idiots!&#8221; Honest injun. We\u2019re not useful idiots here at Contra Corner! We do think, however, that the entire Ukrainian crisis is a Washington-confected con job.\u00a0And we came to that conclusion without relying on a single scrap of information peddled by Russki propagandists appearing on Strategic Culture Foundation or Zero Hedge. 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