HISTORY IN CONTEXT N1

LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE HISTORY IN CONTEXT N1 Over time, I have argued against many of our policies, local, state and national. As most policies restrict our rights and freedoms, and sell us to the highest bidder. Our politicians, once elected, no longer work for us, the average citizen, but their buyers ( donors). We haven't had a free and fair election since 1980, maybe even before then. Too much influence of big money has skewed the outcome in favor of the super rich. Although I was a hippie growing up, with all that went with the label, I have been a reader, and I read everything. I didn't get my GED till I was 24, but the earned a Bachelors in business and a Master's in Psychology. I also studied Philosophy and followed politics, keeping up with most of what has been happening in the world. The incident in the White house today was shameful indeed. As America today talks about "going it alone" it belies the reality that we can not be the "world leader" and "isolationist" both at the same time. We cannot be the strongest country in the world ( with 180 bases in 55 countries) and also demand that the nations where our bases are located in pay us for being there. We cannot strong arm and subjugate our " allies". At some point people of the world will realize that we only wish to "extort" and "support", that we are literally running a "protection racket". We have been, but not so brazen about it. We have benefited from our alliances also. Trade with EU, Canada and Mexico, even China and Russia has provided us with a higher standard of living than otherwise. We have investments in these countries and we profit from those investments. Every time some in another country buys something on Amazon, watches a show on Netflix, gets an Uber, gets accommodations through Air B&B, an American corporation makes money, an American Billionaire gets richer. We can't say we don't need those countries, they may need us more than we need them, but for how long. China has been moving away for a while, BRICS are a reality, China and EU can get closer, Russia and China already are. Someone said, we have 330 million Americans, the other 8 billion live elsewhere, we can't afford to alienate every one.. Ukraine war was coming, we worked on it since 1990, look back on the history of our obsession with Ukraine. ( atleast read what I said in my reports), we wanted their resources and also wanted a place on the Russian doorsteps. Maybe Ukraine did invade Russia, ( it in fact didn't). Weeks before the invasion I had posted "DON'T POKE THE BEAR", but Biden couldn't resist the itch. Even if just for the fact that he believed that Putin and Trump were too close. Biden and many Americans have always thought that Russia was equal to USSR, even though Russia had become a Capitalist country, so much so, that I had written in 2003 that the Communists became Capitalist because "corruption is legal in Capitalism". (Nothing funny about this). I WILL WRITE MORE SOON M. N. R. 01 MARCH 2025