infectedwithnyanites:

lordandgodoftheobvious:

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“The U.S. is provoking a new Cold War to ensure an enemy to struggle against, guarantee robust defense spending for decades, and to make sure there is no repeat of the “peace dividend” that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union.”

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I do want to stress the fact that the article in question was written in The American Conservative. By a US diplomat. So, you know, probably not a CPC shill.

America without a manufactured enemy to rally people around defending the flag and indoctrinate them with fanatic jingoism would collapse within a decade or two. The specter of a threatening great evil and modern bread and circuses are the glue keeping the fragments of this slowly corroding empire precariously stuck together.