long term game appears to be a hope of creating desperate vassal armies to send east to Russia. Regular appearances by Presidents Obama and Trump to speak at military colleges in Poland and Ukraine confirm this process is already underway.

Iran, North Korea, Venezuela and Russia are next on the list for American destruction (sanctions, arming of internal dissidents and terrorists, false flag atrocities, finally military action). President Trump has rather amusingly added China to that list. Amusingly as China in many measures of real economic output has surpassed the United States as the world's number one economy. China is an enemy that the US cannot take on without a world war, both economic and physical, which the US is in a poor position to fight at this pointLBJ or at least Ronald Reagan on. There's no power in the office. Presidents are just official spokesperson for the hands behind the throne.

This essay is the worst kind of statism I've seen a long time. Now that the internet is not advancing Washington's agenda, freedom of speech has become a bad thing? All of Hawdon's argument taken together reminds me of Soviet Writer's Guild chairman Alexei Alexandrovich Surkov's arguments in favour of social realism in Stalin's Russia. Soviet ideas censorship precluded writing which undermined the government. Has America fallen so far that a liberal publication calls for the repeal of the first amendment?

I'm sorry Juan but there's nothing peaceful about Antifa and people with masks on throwing bricks and rocks. There was violence on both sides and