Mike Pence Declares War on the World at West Point

• Mike Pence Declares War on the World at West Point
  by John Wight, https://www.rt.com/
  The commencement address Trump’s VP, Mike Pence, gave to West Point graduates recently goes down in history for all the wrong reasons. It was an address littered with war talk that was so extreme it was more compatible with a speech you would expect to hear from a character in a Hollywood spoof than from a leading politician and government official.
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  This was no spoof, though, be assured, and as such the world needs to wake up to the fact that this administration is staffed with enough cranks and crackpots to fill an entire ward. Here, for your consideration, is one of the more tame sections of Pence’s West Point commencement address: “It is a virtual certainty that you will fight on a battlefield for America at some point in your life. You will lead soldiers in combat. It will happen. Some of you may even be called upon to serve in this hemisphere.”
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  The country that instantly springs to mind upon reading the above passage is Venezuela, which for the past few months has existed in the crosshairs of US aggression, subjected to savage economic sanctions which according to Washington-based think tank, Center for Economic and Policy Research, have killed more than 40,000 people since they were introduced by the Trump administration in 2017.
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  The threat posed to Venezuela’s democratically elected sovereign government by a clutch of fanatical neocons in Washington – whom, as if by dint of a cruel joke played by history find themselves in power – is inordinate. Indeed it stands pristine example of international banditry on a par with ancient Rome’s siege of Syracuse (modern day eastern Sicily) during the Second Punic War.
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  The difference between ancient Rome and the Rome of our time – i.e. Washington – is that according to the latter’s current VP, Mike Pence, America will not only be going to war with one country or state at a time, but with the entire world at the same time. Hark:
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  “Some of you will join the fight against radical Islamic terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq.  Some of you will join the fight on the Korean Peninsula and in the Indo-Pacific, where North Korea continues to threaten the peace, and an increasingly militarized China challenges our presence in the region.  Some of you will join the fight in Europe, where an aggressive Russia seeks to redraw international boundaries by force. And some of you may even be called upon to serve in this hemisphere. And when that day comes, I know you will move to the sound of the guns and do your duty, and you will fight, and you will win.”  
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