This is distraction. The WH has learned how to avoid substantive debate by spraying shit and seeing what sticks.
Treating this as important pushes real news off the front page and to some extent the complicity of the click receiving news publishers is happy to comply.
Though in any sane world, the distraction from the distraction from the distraction... Would each be career ending in itself.
But it's not a sane world. It's a world where the US doesn't even pretend to stick to the spirit or letter of deals that it makes. And so dealing with the US is pointless whether you are their oldest and closest ally or a nation currently at war with them.
You can't even rely on their own national self interest, you'd need to know exactly which billionaire has the ear of the president for the entire span of your agreement.
Absolutely agree. And yet, complicity and acceptance of uncivilized behaviour is dangerous.
If people normalize to lies, outrageous demands, lawbreaking, threats against allies and their sovereignty, etc ... if these behaviours are accepted as the new normal for a powerful world leader, without any outrage and with no pushback ... we show approval and we invite progressively worse behaviour.
It's all gradual, very incremental treachery. We accept it and encourage more.
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This is distraction. The WH has learned how to avoid substantive debate by spraying shit and seeing what sticks.
Treating this as important pushes real news off the front page and to some extent the complicity of the click receiving news publishers is happy to comply.
Though in any sane world, the distraction from the distraction from the distraction... Would each be career ending in itself.
But it's not a sane world. It's a world where the US doesn't even pretend to stick to the spirit or letter of deals that it makes. And so dealing with the US is pointless whether you are their oldest and closest ally or a nation currently at war with them.
You can't even rely on their own national self interest, you'd need to know exactly which billionaire has the ear of the president for the entire span of your agreement.
Absolutely agree. And yet, complicity and acceptance of uncivilized behaviour is dangerous.
If people normalize to lies, outrageous demands, lawbreaking, threats against allies and their sovereignty, etc ... if these behaviours are accepted as the new normal for a powerful world leader, without any outrage and with no pushback ... we show approval and we invite progressively worse behaviour.
It's all gradual, very incremental treachery. We accept it and encourage more.