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DUers are leaving in droves because of me! What have I done?!

In fact, I apparently am co-responsible for murdered people in Libya, or at any rate they were murdered "all because not a damn person cared here about it."

Pretty radical stuff!

The blah-blah about disbanding NATO has been a near-constant of its history. The NATO powers have never been serious about any of that. It's a show to make them look thoughtful and make it appear that outcomes are not predetermined by their hardwired geopolitical logic. They demonstrated that very clearly after 1989, when it was truly high time to disband NATO. Instead they expanded it and, for the first time, found ways to employ it as a vehicle for out-of-area wars completely unrelated to the supposed defensive mission of the alliance. The decision by the old, old imperialist powers, US-UK especially, to forego the historic opportunity for global peace and to instead pursue new threats and warlike actions put a lie to the globalizing rhetoric and produced a reaction in a Russia that initially was thrilled to be a junior partner to the West - before shock therapy and Iraq and all the rest.

Anyway, when NATO or CIA-State put out a press release, they've at least got one person who will read it at face value in you. I enjoy your opinions, as a barometer, and sometimes I genuinely respect your work, when you gather and present a great deal of detail.