The West’s Refusal to Seek World Peace

• The West’s Refusal to Seek World Peace
  by Martin Armstrong, https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/
  The press has done nothing but put forward present propaganda and they are driving the world into the arms of death. Once upon a time, the world leaders gathered together for a conference in Munich to discuss WORLD PEACE and SECURITY. Today, they seem to conspire on how to bring the world into the arms of death, perhaps to reduce population and forge a new one-world government with the deranged idea that they can actually wipe both Russia and China off the face of the earth.
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  The WORLD PEACE and SECURITY conference speech of Putin in 2007 reminded me at the time of the famous funeral speech by the renowned ancient Athenian General Pericles. My favorite passage is how Pericles is reminding the people what they are fighting for that their form of government, democracy, is superior to that of Sparta which was effectively the first Communist State in history.
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  “[W]e differ from our antagonists. We throw open our city to the world, and never by alien acts exclude foreigners from any opportunity of learning or observing, although the eyes of an enemy may occasionally profit by our liberality.”
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  The exceptional nature of what will also be remembered for centuries is the famous speech of Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Munich conference on February 10, 2007. In the spirit of Pericles, Putin delivered a speech that was not significantly different from that of the “Great Funeral oration,” which was both patriotic for Athenians and concerned for the peace of the world.
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