NATO has been seriously baiting Russia with increased troop and missile numbers along the border and big war games along the border and into the Black sea
Fortunately, last weekend, German and Bulgarian ministers have both declared that what is going on is provocation, not defence, and a a top NATO general has come out and said openly that there is no evidence of a Russian threat
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-22/nato-general-admits-russia-not-threat-region
American neo-conservatives worship war (I count Hitlery and many american "progressives" amongst the neocons; check out the outrage from the supposedly liberal HufPo
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andras-simonyi/the-german-foreign-minist_b_10575544.html )
William F Buckley Jr and his National Review which began the Neo Con movement, appeared to have the specific aim (he and at least 2 of his other senior editors were on the CIA payroll) to ostracise anyone who was anti war from the American conservative fold, and to bring conservatives from a non interventionist foreign policy to one of supporting and even praising foreign wars and interventionist foreign policies. They succeeded.
At least the German and Bulgarian ministers realise that if NATO sparks a war with Russia, it will be fought in Germany and Bulgaria, not America
I can guess the response of many Americans if Russia and thirty odd other countries were staging military exercises just over the border in Mexico, and had warships just off San Diego - especially when a few goat rapists in the middle east are viewed as a direct and imminent invasion threat to america...
Nevertheless the bear baiting continues
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-...mes-dangerously-close-russian-patrol-boat-med
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Within mainstream keynesian economics there is also the fallacy that war is good for "the economy"
the keynesians defining "the economy" as "aggregate spending", so wasting trillions on bombing cities and killing people is therefore "good" because it increases aggregate spending.
It's the "Broken Window Fallacy" writ large
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With all of that said about a very dangerous situation being provoked by NATO in Europe
I'm tempted to view the call for a dissolution of national identities and a political and military union
as being a bit like someone in a relationship which is rapidly falling apart, producing a ring and proposing marriage in the hope that that will magically make things all lovey dovey once again.
We know how that turns out