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Roosevelt's annual message on 6 December 1904, to Congress declared:[3]

All that this country desires is to see the neighboring countries stable, orderly, and prosperous. Any country whose people conduct themselves well can count upon our hearty friendship. If a nation shows that it knows how to act with reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from the United States. Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society, may in America, as elsewhere, ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power.

While the Monroe Doctrine had warned European powers to keep their hands off countries in the Americas, President Roosevelt was now saying that "since the United States would not permit the European powers to lay their hands on, he had an obligation to do so himself."[4]

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Many have observed that the Cuban Missile Crisis demonstrates the galloping hypocrisy of the USA's cheerleading and sanctions campaign against Vlad the Invader. The usual response from Team Putinhate is to say that the comparison is bogus because NATO has nothing to do with the invasion -- which was completely evil and part of a Hitlerian Scheme of world conquest stemming from the Evil Soul called Putin.

The first difference, of course, between then and now is that Kennedy did not fuck around with sanctions and internal censorship. He just told the Soviets to take the nuclear missiles in Cuba down or we drop the Big One. Back-channel diplomacy led to a solution that involved the USA removing missiles from Turkey, which shows that it was not JUST threats that saved the world from nuclear annihilation. But there was NEVER any consideration of anything so silly as "sanctions."

The more significant difference between then and now is that the US is attacking itself and its allies with these preposterous sanctions. The propaganda is aimed exclusively at the citizens of the USA and it allies in the sanction game, obviously in hopes of keeping us on board with a policy of economic suicide.

Oddly, this perverse policy has a strange resemblance to the Lockdown/Vaccine Only approach to the threat of illness and death from Covid. Both are unique and unproven strategies that call for economic sacrifice for the Greater Good. Instead of articulating how the policies are supposed to work, both the Covid and Putin arguments are deemed to be Already Decided and the Truth as Dictated by our Government is the only message permitted in the Main Stream of American public life.

On another thread I recently posted the idea that the parallel dishonesty from the lock step Government Media Complex on these two supposedly separate problems demonstrates that a single strategy is at work behind both campaigns -- economic suicide.

This has stumped me from the start of this night mare. I could not divine why Capitalism would destroy itself or why the Already Infinitely Powerful would care to become more powerful. I am still very hazy in my grasp of what is going on -- but as far as I am concerned the absurdity of the Ukraine Nonsense demonstrates that we are looking at the Full Monte of Population Reduction.

How to go from 8 billion down to 2 billion people? If you just start shooting folks, as Hitler found out, you spend too many bullets. Besides, when you are going after everybody, once you slaughter a few people, the rest will make it much harder to kill them.

No, what you need is a Science Fiction type of global catastrophe that no single person is responsible for. Obviously this is pretty far fetched. Any more far fetched than the story being told right now by the President of the United States about why he is sending weapons into Ukraine?