The idea is to just look at the quotes a piece of reporting is built on.
To that end I hit the quotes in a news article with a highlighter pen.
Then go back and skim with them.
Of course, me being a goof had to then take the idea forward into a collage art expression process. ha.
These back-to-back heavy hitters caught my attention.
The world splits into separate realities. The Berlin NATO flack Mr. Prokopenko quote speaks to that - to what extent are the West's attempts to paint a reality of Russia as a successfully alienated nation becoming projection?
The rest of the quotes are telling - Mr. Xi of China trolls the west with his 'oil to the fire' quip.
Mr. Modi of India is all business as usual - 'to be clear! we are not overturning the global order; we are engaging in a hostile takeover.'
The mirror reflects - as the Russians would rather anyone but Russians die on the battlefield - so too are NATO nations happy for anyone - Ukrainians - other than their own people to fight and die.
One thing is for sure, with North Vietnamese troops reportedly deployed to Russia, the globalized wars are escalating. And let's not get too deep into the thought that if Ukraine still had its nukes, Russia would not have attacked that may be animating Iran's thinking in the aftermath of Israeli strikes, but somewhere Russia has leverage and deals to make with Iran in national defense. The pieces are there - even if they have not fallen into place yet.
The thought percolates - if the German Austrian Hungarian empire's collapse led inexorably to WWI, and the collapse of the British empire rolled into WWII, what we are seeing in all of it's entirety is the collapse of the American empire into a state of world war 3. Proxies, drones and industrialized guerrilla tactics. Though no nukes may be thrown - the end of the line for escalation may include gray area territory like satellites. No matter who 'wins'
- it appears we may be in for outcomes if it is not already happening.
Was the intent of Biden-Harris's Ukraine policy to put Russia and North Korean troops into a war time alliance on a live battlefield in a knowledge-sharing exercises fighting against NATO technology and war time capability? Count that as one of the landmark Biden-Harris-Nuland-Blinken-Austin foreign policy national security achievements, though it is unclear what the intent of their policy has been in Ukraine except to stoke war generally, in so far as war hurts Russia by forestalling any peace process for as long as there are willing and able Ukrainians to fight, and much fruit still blooms on the vine they have achieved that may be worth bearing. In connection to this the Biden-Harris directed efforts to foster Russia's relationships with China, Iran and India are just as remarkable political achievements as their facilitation of Russia's blooming relationship with North Korea. The Biden-Harris administration has done a job in giving all these nations - many with historically complicated relationships - a clear common purpose, enemy and shared challenges to solve - such as sanctions or the wests' arsenal of complex but brittle satellite microprocessor automated weapons systems. Were these broad strokes of geopolitical unification really their intent? Who knows. Maybe not even them. They could just be winging it.
The election is likely to snowball into a historic landslide. The Democrats stand no chance - the problem with the appointed one is that she would not have been the likely candidate in a primary election with a full field of candidates. Who the hell knows who would have won, but we all know probably not her. In a real Democratic primary with real candidates like the Democrats used to run, Kamala may have lasted a round longer than Ron DeSantis, who is Kamala's dark side crystal spirit doppleganger amongst the Repubs, but it's doubtful. The same factors and forces that would have washed her out in a primary are showing up now. The only function they served by hiding Kamala from the glaring sun of the media and citizen spotlight in a primary election is to forestall the inevitable melt to the even hotter and brighter general election sun. It's all vanity. No more, really. The party goombahs are sure that because they were taken with Kamala Harris as president, the general electorate would be too - all that stood to trip them up were the wild-eyed pigs in the wings of the democratic party putting a Bernie or some other goofball socialist over the top. They never count on the power of the moderate's nakedly self-interested eye to roll asides. I could well be wrong, but that's my read of the green.
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