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>>4889526
The United States (and other powers of course. Russia has Syria and is actively trying to retake the Ukraine, among others) is and has been for well over a hundred years a neocolonialist power. The whole Cold War was based on power grabs. Pinochet was our man in Chilé. We, the CIA killed or aided in the killing of their democratically elected socialist leader, because he would have kept all Chilean wealth for Chilé.
The Shaw of Iran was the same story! On and on I could go.
Just read up. Don't need to respond with anything other than that, please. No need to derail the thread.

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>>2957350
> the rampant infiltration of the US government by communists
What?

Reality is very VERY disturbing.

This counts.

>>2674725
Do you know why he was being threatened with impeachment?
It wasn't for getting a blowjob.
>he lied for what he thought was national security
Nope.
>implying other presidents had better foreign policy and never did mistakes
So dragging the Vietnam war out for the MIC, paving the way for China to become a fascist capitalist dictatorship (by council) and all the horrific things he put Kissinger to... On the Bush White House rivals, but even then, I'm probably just seeing it as a contemporary of this age.

You can't blame an entire generation on the woes that the previous generation set us up with. You just can't generalize.

>The greatest generation
...gave us Kissinger and Rand, among other evils.

You can blame them for not writing any books that can hold a candle to generations past though.

This.
Though I've seen how Atlas Shrug was rather... influential.

I'm not kidding.

Why is this monster still alive, let alone honored!?

>you know its truel.jpg
I know its true that that man needs to be hung.

"Tenacity"? No... Drawing a blank.

>>2167242
Yes
<-Truly horrifying.

Pictured. My first Hitchens book. I couldn't bring myself to buy Hitch 22 from the Borders slash and burn sales. Mistake?

Also still reading pushing through Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction, Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction, the intro to The Odyssey, and intro for my Portable Hannah Arendt.

>>1975177
Not anything by that shithead.
I'd recommend pictured, unless you've read it.

I love history and geopolitical. Specifically Byzantine and revolutionary histories. I'm probably going to branch out to political theories and more ancient Greek. The old and the contemporary themes here connect in the most wonderful way.