Max Boot: America needs its own Macron-a charismatic leader who can make centrism cool-June 16, 2017...(Neocons have never once been right about anything)

 
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12/10/18, “The Largest Conspiracy Theory Peddlers Are MSM and the US State Department," Strategic Culture, Caitlin Johnstone

“At the same time we are seeing a push from the mass media to advance a narrative that the Yellow Vests protests in France are due to Russian influence, with Iraq-raping neocon Max Boot publishing a column today in the Washington Post that is based entirely around the talking point that two trending Russian topics on social media have been “giletsjaune” and “France,” and Bloomberg putting out an article blatantly titled “Pro-Russia Social Media Takes Aim at Macron as Yellow Vests Rage”. Their entire theory is that since there are people in Russia talking about a major event that everyone else in the world is also talking about, the protests against Macron’s unpopular centrist policies are therefore the result of a conspiracy seeded by Russia.

But you’ll never hear this theory about a Russian conspiracy referred to as a “conspiracy theory” by the mainstream press. The theory that Russian elites have conspired to infiltrate the highest levels of the US government has been given serious treatment at the top echelons of media and political influence, despite its lacking any discernible evidence whatsoever, but when they talk about these alleged conspiracies they always make a point of using the word “collusion” instead. There is no actual difference between the words collude and conspire when used in this way, but the former is used because a deliberate effort has been made to stigmatize the word “conspiracy” while the word “collude” remains effectively neutral in the public eye.”…

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Comment: Neocons have never once been right about anything. In the early 2000s neocons were just a few demented warmongers in the Bush administration that everyone ridiculed. In 2018 they control the entire US government. As hideous as mass murder is, everyone realized neocons had figured out an easy way to get free taxpayer cash. No war=No free US taxpayer cash. The Endless Unwinnable War Industry isn’t really about war of course because “winning” is not the object. It’s about endless mass murder and misery paid for by US taxpayers.

P.S. I'm waiting for my yellow vest in the mail from Putin.

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