Thank you for curating that Council on Foreign Relations video. A free curator is a great service, akin to Andrew Carnegie a couple of centuries ago and early last century funding swarms of free Carnegie libraries, one of which in Onehunga I attended in the 1950s. The books there fed me knowledge about science and engineering which were my particular interest. 100 years after Andrew, I'm happy to have helped enable the fantastically amazing QUALCOMM realm of mobile Cyberspace which enabled millions of others to produce and curate the most amazing internet library and interactive extra-somatic brain which is almost free.
Via those Virtuous Victorian Values of Andrew, me and thee, I can now listen and watch the Council on Foreign Relations people talk, in real-time, or delayed.
Back in the 1960s when I became very aware of global politics and everything, I learned of the Council on Foreign Relations, which was to me the mouthpiece of the Ruler of the World, and maybe even was the ruler of the world, more or less, sort of. Though even then the USA did not have things all their own way by any means. And was second fiddle to USSR in space in the early part of the 1960s with Yuri Gagarin showing how it's done.
In the 1960s, David Rockefeller and the Rockefellers in general were big time. Nuclear was a serious threat and I was seriously scared in the early 1960s. Digging an underground bunker was stymied by a lava flow 2 feet down at our home [I was the digger].
Fast forward to the late 1990s and SI was born thanks to Brad and Jeff Dryer, and Jill. What a wondrous world was born. Omigosh. My dreams coming true. Now I can watch and listen via my devices powered by Qualcomm.
Into SI appeared Tekboy. He was discussing things in Foreign Affairs Discussion Group and all over the place. It turned out that he's Gideon Rose who became editor of Foreign Affairs, the magazine produced by the Council on Foreign Relations. He stopped posting over a decade ago, being busy I guess. I've just looked and hey presto, here he is Message 17501736 Click upstream and you'll see one of my Reconstitute the UN posts. His last post was 2009. I'll ask Google what he's doing now.*
Good grief! If that video you provided was something to judge by, the Council on Foreign Relations has deteriorated .... searching for adjective = a LOT. Not that they were all that great back in the day but they seemed much less klutzy. The General seems to at least have a bit of sense. The others were unimpressive. Certainly not people who should be helping guide the world to Nuclear Armageddon. A puzzle that they were so unimpressive.
I suggest that you, me, Gideon, Vladimir, Volodymyr, get together to sort out the problem. By vote. To save CO2, we could perhaps do it over the internet. Heck, even Vlad's and Volo's names are similar so it should be a slam dunk easy job to get agreement.
After sorting out Ukraine, including Crimea, we could establish the UN Reconstitution Conference so that we don't run into even bigger problems over Taiwan, Hong Kong, Catalan, India's border with Pakistan, China and whoever.
Right now, it looks as though the war in Ukraine will just carry on with profits to Hunter, DementiaJoe10%, Raytheon, political kickbacks to Lindsay Graham, Nancy and whoever, and warmongers loving it.
The stated aim of weakening Russia is a retarded, nasty, mentality. Weakening people isn't a good thing to do. Strengthening them so they can be even better is wonderful. My early to mid 1980s strategy of strengthening China to mutual benefit turned out great, though I would say China is getting a bit carried away now as Big Shots tend to do, with goose-stepping and saluting and singing and generally getting too hubristic. I'm very happy that a billion people are now doing pretty well, who were doing badly. If China can't persuade Taiwanese to join up in one way or another, to a greater or lesser extent, then China should mind their own business and accept that they are too unlovable for marriage. What they could try is being less obnoxious, threatening, and violent.
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* Here's Gideon now = looks as though he's available for a little job: Rose was an Olin Senior Fellow and the Deputy Director of National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations from 1995 to 2000, [8] before he was appointed managing editor of Foreign Affairs to replace Fareed Zakaria. [6] On June 3, 2010, it was announced that Rose would be succeeding James F. Hoge, Jr. as the editor of Foreign Affairs. He took up the position on October 1, 2010. [9] Rose left as editor in January 2021 and joined the Council on Foreign Relations' thinktank to write a book. He was succeeded by Daniel Kurtz-Phelan. [10] |
