š TFF PressInfo # 749: With MIMAC ruling, Biden's drop out is of little importance.
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Lund, Sweden - July 22, 2024
Dear friend,
While it is good for the US and the world that Joe āhaving-supported-all-wars-there were-to-supportā Biden has dropped out, the mainstream media attention to the US presidential elections is mind-bogglingly out of proportion. There are 200 other countries, and among them, a few that will influence the worldās future much more than the US - but how many could even mention their leadersā names?
Secondly, while the presidentās personality, experience and style are of some importance, we must be aware that s/he first represents the declining, militaristic empireās MIMAC - Military-Industrial-Media-Academic Complex, what some call the deep state. And that MIMAC is getting desperate.
Influential people who work against MIMAC risk their lives - the Kennedys, Martin Luther King, Jr. in the US, Olof Palme in Sweden, and Dag Hammarskjƶld at the UN - and lots of unsung anti-war and peace heroes too. A short clip from 1967 when the US was greater but - already then - too arrogant:
Post-1945 US has been by far the most war-fighting and most killing nation, the most militaristic with 600+ military bases in 130+ countries and special operating forces and the CIA all over the place. Itās been the most regime-changing āleaderā.
Itās been exceptionalist and seen itself as Godās own country and as standing over and above everybody else, lately with its rules-based international order enabling it to violate every UN Charter norm and Geneva Convention.
Please do not believe that Kamala Harris will change any of that.
Biden was Obamaās Vice President when that administration carried out yet another regime change, this time in Kiev in 2014, which marks the true beginning of the NATO-Russia conflict playing out so tragically in Ukraine.
When you listened to Bidenās rhetoric about the US being the āessential nation of the worldā - and his own āIām running the world,ā it should be pretty clear that the problem is not Bidenās dementia but the USā hubris, immodesty, megalomania - arrogance.
And it only got worse after 1967. Perhaps God, the infinitely patient, has finally intervened?
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