• LOL! That reminds me of a Neocon propagandist posing as a “political science professor” that I took a few classes from back in the 2000s. He always liked to say, “We could take on the entire world at once – and win!” In reality, Washington could not even take on Afghanistan and Iraq at the same time without going bankrupt.

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      In reality, Washington could not even take on Afghanistan and Iraq at the same time without going bankrupt.

      And even that was in a time of relative national unity after 9 / 11, and before another two decades of deindustrialization and financialization of defence contractors, and when the brutal-but-realist Kissinger-acolyte PNAC crowd was running things, and when NATO was happy to join in on American adventurism. Everything is different now.