The Observation Deck

Matlock will straighten this out

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AA_x7i4feRw

You cannot really talk a neoconservative out of their ideologies or mindsets. There are a succession of new ones and incumbents with perspective that the same stuff will work, once they are in charge of more of it. But…the nigh unlimited deficit spending is temporary . 40.50. 60 years. Jimmy Carter was the last fiscally conservative President. He proved that most Americans do not like that. Reagan was a giant Keynesian: he proved that Americans do not really care about what you do, or even what you say: just point out what many of the blacks are doing and you can talk a much larger portion of the whites into anything else.
I had heard Francis Fukuyama had renounced the end of history. But he is not collecting speaking fees for anything else. It was rumored that Art Laffer had renounced the Laffer Curve, or at least qualified it beyond the typical propaganda value of it; but he will still take the speaking fees or appointments promoting it. You do not have to make things simple enough for an American to understand. You just have to make it simple enough for them to get angry or excited.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CQVSeQmMSls

Nuland will probably get another appointment
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=olQXEUoUP_M

They were not impressed with the U.S. Presidential Candidates debate
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F8buQBW_1zM

So the U.S. had already spent five billion dollars trying to get Ukraine into NATO by 2013. Interviewers do not ask Nuland why she wants Ukraine in NATO. It is probable her answer would amount to “because someone told me to” or “it is in U.S interests”. Who is the U.S.? Who are these people?

https://thehill.com/opinion/internation ... dling/amp/

I had tried to remember Allegorical Interpretation of the Bible. I did not get far. But I got an allegorical interpretation of Chad and JT.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OcRAibGztNk

Chad and JT: who is that sharp careerist? They look kind of sad. We had better check the situation.

Chad and JT: you look down. What’s up?

Sharp careerist: I spent 5 billion dollars trying to install a government in Ukraine that would join NATO.

Chad and JT: why did you do that?

Sharp careerist: I have access to the Funding. If I do a good job, I will get approval and promotions within my clique and network.

Chad and JT: have you considered not spending billions of dollars trying to install a government in Ukraine?

Sharp Careerist: whoa. I never thought about that. I guess i can try to do something else.

Chad and JT eat lunch. They meet up with the sharp careerist again.

Chad and JT: what is up dude?

Sharp careerist: I realized I have a lot of baggage against both Germany and the Soviet Union, and I used my position to take out that baggage. The United States should be hesitant to appoint people of recent Eastern European descent to high positions.

Chad and JT: that’s great, dude. You are full of emotional intelligence. And understand psychology. The world is great. Life is wonderful.

I had abused the Plato/Socratic dialectic in that last one.
Western Civilization is whatever western geography is doing. Or had ever done. Wendell Berry had suggested Place is more important than ideology or knowledge. But a simple word is more potent in motivation or emotions than rationality, and that word today is “West”. I do not remember who was “west” during the Napoleonic Wars.
Britain and France were Both West. France crippled itself trying to re-conquer Haiti, and then Russia. The United States fought on Frances Side. Thankfully, we were a small theatre of that conflict. But none of that matters now. You do not have to make things simple enough for an American to understand. You have to make things simple enough for an American to have an emotional reaction to. “West”.

They will have to call Matlock
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lzIT-9OVc ... IDIwMTQ%3D

Putin will remain popular in Russia as long as Russians remember the Yeltsin years.
The largest opposition party to Putin is the Communists.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ri4pJa-hhYU

I cannot keep up with the strategery

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1AhB-7vdE90

What this means I do not likely know

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6DsHnuA6E5A

They gotta call Matlock.
You no remember Matlock?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WpGxDoieN ... JnaA%3D%3D

The leadership class of baby boomers and Gen Xers are obsessed with World War 2. Or at least the outcome of World War 2. And that was a one-off.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_3DheXf5HVA

I cannot keep up with the strategery
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kzLmocZJbB0

In my village, we ate a lot of pizza

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SJBQikfYy ... 1lcg%3D%3D

Cypress Hill is a popular band
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l6Bkup9mdnM

There is some gallows humor
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1UR8uLSDMQ