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KW NORTON's avatar

Great post thanks. My take is the Americas and America has been at war since before it existed. Colonized by hostile warlike Europeans ( my ancestry mostly European) nearly all who originally served the East India Company of London did not come in peace. They were warriors and administrators - able representatives of European royalty. Any history but that is almost certainly fantasy. Native Americans did not take kindly to being colonised and exterminated. What we are experiencing today is a long violent history. There was a respite when the founding ancestors got a notion to found a Nation based on the unalienable rights of the individual but they proved in deed they never truly understood what that meant. It was a great idea - still is.

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JohnSmith's avatar

Along these lines, see "The Best Enemy Money Can Buy" by Antony Sutton (1986), which describes how the US govt (and the Council on Foreign Relations network) supported the Soviet Union before its engineered collapse: archive.org/details/antony-sutton-the-best-enemy-money-can-buy/mode/1up

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