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Brian Berletic
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Former US Marine, focused on geopolitics in Eurasia.
Bangkok, Thailand
Joined October 2022
🇺🇸Understand the US Regime Change Complex... ▪️Think about the US State Dept as an octopus with 8 tentacles - all performing the same task; ▪️Some are funded by the US gov directly, others channel money through foundations & "charities" carrying out activities side-by-side USAID; ▪️Not only does cutting a tentacle off not hinder an octopus' hunting, it is capable of regenerating it back - the US has conducted a "limited hangout" to convince the global public this problem has been solved, distracting away from the many other orgs it is using to conduct these very activities right now, around the globe; ▪️Some orgs like the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy reroute US regime change efforts via local tax collection making it even more difficult to trace it back to Washington; ▪️Others like Team Rubicon and Glenn Beck's "Nazarene Fund" do literally the exact same activities as USAID just under "right/conservative" cover;
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You only think the world is "ungrateful" to the US for "global peace" because you weren't among the hundreds of millions on the receiving end of its global subversion, sanctions, terrorism and military aggression. I think you claiming not to be a racist idiot actually makes your comments worse and more delusional especially considering US foreign policy for the past 2 centuries has been based entirely on racism and supremacist thinking.
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exactly. And not only that - there has been a concerted effort over recent years to reorganize, obfuscate, and re-route US money for these activities leading up to USAID being singled out - many believe this is "Trump" taking on the "deep state," when in fact he's simply helping the "deep state" slither back under its rock.
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China was a great nation long before there ever was a United States or even United Kingdom. It was always going to rise again - the only actual obstacle was British and then American empire squatting on them. Once removed from their borders, China began to grow again - and now is surpassing the West - because China is a great nation, not because the US helped them. The idea that the world needs the US because they are incapable of running their own affiars including their relations with other nations is absurd - rooted deeply in a racist, supremacist mentality. But if you don't think the West isn't inherently superior and you really believe in a necessary hegemon regardless of which nation fills that role, then it should be easy for you to acknowledge that America's time has come and gone and that China, being bigger, stronger, with a larger population and soon a larger economy should take over as global hegemon - right? And by the way, just travelling around doesn't mean you are informed by any stretch of the imagination. You also have to actually open your eyes. Plenty of fellow Marines sat with me in Japan, the Philippines, and Thailand and didn't learn a single thing about any of these places or the people living there.
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@toniolo_david At one point I believed as you did, when I was a 17 year old Marine recruit. But then I went out into the "empire," saw the truth of it, I grew up, and I woke up. I hope someday you will too.
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@stevepfi2 That's like saying a police officer has no experience being a criminal, so he isn't qualified to investigate and arrest them.
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you need to stop trying to sound smart, leave your fantasy world, and see what the US has ACTUALLY done around the globe. Peace and prosperity exists in Southeast Asia precisely where the US has/had the LEAST influence. Where it has the most influence, the nations are either failed states like Myanmar or deeply impoverished and behind the rest of the region like the Philippines which is giving up development with China for those US military bases you think are so great. PH has a larger population than Thailand, but a lower GDP. Go figure! Security? The US left more UXOs in Laos than there are men, women, and children! And that was amid a war that left 4 million+ dead and millions more displaced, maimed, or poisoned as well as a generation of birth defects and deaths/injuries to UXOs! China had to demine 1000s of UXOs to build the high-speed rail line that is ACTUALLY delivering peace and prosperity to the people here, finally after all these decades of US domination. The US ravaged Indonesia with death squads for decades and tried to divide and destroy Thailand for the past 2 decades. The worst episodes of instability were directly the result of US interference. World standards have risen because of technology, not US empire -and more specifically technology's prolipheration DESPITE US efforts to monopolize and control it. China's rise and the rapid development along its periphery as a result washes away this infanitile fairy tale you believe and are repeating. It exposes the US as the greatest hinderance to progress - not any sort of agent of it.
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@stevepfi2 I don't think that's true - if you want to make a case, try explaining why or proposing someone better. But the point is I think Ron Paul should be Secretary of State - his foreign policy could actually restore America as a functioning nation-state.
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There is no reason to have military bases abroad except to pursue empire. That's why only the US and its proxies have large numbers of bases abroad. This is why only empires throughout history have had large numbers of bases abroad. Unless you're going to try to argue the merits of empire, I think you need to reassess your stance, especially since it doesn't seem very well thought out - you insinuate bases are required abroad but failed to provide a single reason, even hypothetically as to why.
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He knows he's a popular pick. Most people that are aware of the Federal Reserve learned it from listening to Ron Paul. As important as it is to rein it in, foreign policy is the most urgent issue since US pursuit of hegemony is destroying the planet as we speak. Ron Paul spent his career condemning foreign military basing and intervention and would be uncompromising in ending it all and building sane relations with the rest of the world.
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Another troubling trend developed over the past several years is the creation of proxies who conduct political interference on Washington's behalf. The Taiwan Foundation for Democracy is a good example of this. It is obviously an extension of the US National Endowment for Democracy (NED) but technically uses tax money collected in Taiwan to fund political interference across Taiwan and around the Asia-Pacific region. This most recent limited hangout over USAID is the culmination of efforts to transform and obfuscate US interference taking place over several years.
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RT @aaronjmate: Washington Post headline: "Independent media in Russia, Ukraine lose their funding with USAID freeze" The headline should…
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🎙My conversation with @UsefulIdiotpod regarding continuity of agenda under the new Trump administration...
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