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Biden Reveals Vacuousness of US Foreign Policy "Thinking"

We at The Gaggle have long suspected that the US foreign policymaking elite is in the grip of some warmed-over Nixon-Kissinger thinking. During the 1970s, Nixon brought the USSR's erstwhile ally, China, over to the US side. So, now the U.S. will flip that script and bring Russia over to the U.S. side. Back then, the USSR was the more formidable adversary against whom the U.S. had to mobilize its alliances. So, today, China is supposedly the more formidable against whom the U.S. needs to mobilize its alliances.

This thinking is amazingly delusional. Unlike in the 1960s, there is no conflict between Russia and China. The notion that Russia and China hate each other and that, at the drop of a hat, are ready to go for one another's throats is total fantasy. Russia and China are as close as any two Great Powers could be. There is no daylight between them. On the other hand, each fears and resents the West, particularly the United States.

Russia also has the experience of the last 30 years to guide it. Russia has seen NATO creep up to its borders. Russia has seen its constant demonization among Western politicians and media. Russia has seen the U.S. walk away from any agreements the moment they were in the slightest way inconvenient. The idea that Russia will abandon China and all the commercial, military and strategic advantages that come from the two countries' close relationship is delusion and fantasy. Yet, it is clear that the U.S. is incapable of getting outside of its warm, self-comforting bubble.

Russia "is being squeezed by China"? When did that happen?

Apparently, Russia is so desperate for the status that a few friendly words from Washington would supposedly bestow that it is ready to make a gigantic strategic shift, to undertake a massive change in its foreign policy--and all at no cost whatsoever to the United States. Ain't life grand!

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/06/16/remarks-by-president-biden-before-air-force-one-departure-4/

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The Gaggle Music Club: Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements

This week's selection for The Gaggle Music Club is Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements. Completed in 1945, the symphony is one Stravinsky's most important late works. Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic Symphony Society, the symphony premiered on Jan. 24, 1946 at Carnegie Hall, conducted by Stravinsky himself.

Often called Stravinsky's “first American symphony,” the composition shows his neoclassical language at its most taut: sharp orchestration, motor-like rhythms, lean textures.

Although Stravinsky often denied overt programmatic meaning in his music, he later admitted that the Symphony in Three Movements was a “war symphony.” The first movement, for example, was inspired by newsreel footage of wartime scorched earth tactics. Its violent rhythms and jagged piano writing reflect mechanized destruction. The final movement was inspired by Allied military advances, including the crossing of the Rhine in 1945. The march rhythms and the relentless drive exude a sense of military ...

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Same old same old. She is already planning her outfit for next press conference .

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They are so full of shit. This plan is just a way for the genocidal maniac to finish the job- it was disgusting- Trump saying this is the greatest day in history of civilization. Really? He is fucking idiot and I am stunned that all Arab states are praising him for this charade. I guarantee that nothing on the ground will change-- it will only get worse.

🇫🇷❌🇷🇺 — The Chief of Staff for the French Army, Gen. Pierre Schill, has stated that forces must be ready “as early as tonight” for high-intensity warfare, warning of a potential direct military confrontation in the near future with Russia over the defense of a NATO Ally in Eastern Europe.

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More Leftie Than Thou
"Jacobin" Magazine Celebrates A Strike Against Ol' Blue Eyes

Here at "The Gaggle" we have very little time for the "more Leftie than thou" school of thought--that's the approach to life according to which the only thing that matters is whether you take the right position on every issue under the sun from Abortion to Zelensky. No one in the world meets the exacting standards of this school of thought; any Leftie leader anywhere is always selling out to the bankers and the capitalists. The perfect exemplar of this is the unreadable Jacobin magazine. 

The other day I came across this article from 2021. It's a celebration of trade union power. And not simply trade union power, but the use of trade union power to secure political goals. Of course (and this is always the case with the "more Leftie than thou" crowd), this glorious, never-to-be-forgotten moment on the history of organized labor took place many years ago--in the summer of 1974 to be exact. Yes, almost half a century has gone by since that thrilling moment when the working-class movement of Australia mobilized and prepared to seize the means of production, distribution and exchange. 

Well, not quite. Organized labor went into action against...Ol' Blue Eyes, the Chairman of the Board, the Voice; yes, Frank Sinatra. Why? What had Sinatra done? Sinatra was certainly very rich, and he owned a variety of properties and businesses. But if the Australian trade union movement were, understandably, searching for the bright, incandescent spark that would finally awaken the working class from its slumber there were surely richer, greedier, more dishonest, more decadent, above all more Australian individuals it could have discovered. Australia was never short of them. Rupert Murdoch immediately springs to mind. Why Sinatra?

 

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