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3askhgtoday at 2:12 PM2 repliesview on HN

Until the press and the public do not examine the real long term strategies of the US establishment, this won't change.

All you hear is reporting about Trump's daily contradictory statements, "leaks" in Axios that peace in Iran is imminent, then 40 tomahawk missiles. Next are probably fake peace talks again.

Until the press grasps that the US establishment wants a protracted forever war that hurts the EU, Japan, and India, no change will occur. The US wants to force investment of these countries in building valuable industrial infrastructure in the US and shake them down with high US energy imports.

The US population is suffering collateral damage. The billionaires are willing to take that sacrifice.


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JumpCrisscrosstoday at 2:14 PM

> the US establishment wants a protracted forever war that hurts the EU, Japan, and India, no change will occur

This presumes way more competence at the top than we’ve got.

> US wants to force investment of these countries in building valuable industrial infrastructure in the US and shake them down with high US energy imports

Americans want lots of things. Current policy isn’t promoting those interests. Currently, the war in Iran is causing long-term demand destruction for the sort of energy products America exports among our allies.

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martythemaniaktoday at 2:27 PM

There are no long term strategies, neither the "establishment" nor the public (ie you) seem to grasp that simple fact.

Americans simply do not wish to engage with reality any more, and that's why they're perfectly happy to elect a TV personality for a president who filled his cabinet with TV personalities who can do nothing more than LARP as statesmen.

I think your comment is another instance of this LARP, where the public can't tell the difference between reality and TV.