Irony

http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/image-of-the-day-hillarys-illustrated-foreign-policy-experience/

This is what interventionist foreign policy looks like.

“Once the most prosperous country in the Maghreb under the eccentric Colonel Gadaffi (yes, he was a tinpot dictator and his hands were by no means clean), it has been turned into rubble amid a civil war between a tiny Western-supported government, various military factions and fundamentalist Islamists in the wake of the intervention Ms. Clinton wholeheartedly supported.”

https://fee.org/articles/the-nuclear-war-that-almost-was-and-the-man-who-prevented-it/

This is why nuclear brinksmanship is SOOO dangerous.  One false positive and the world ends.

After a false positive while monitoring of nuclear monitoring in 1983, the Russian waited for confirmation:

If Petrov had simply sounded the alarm for his superiors, as he was trained and ordered to do, there is a good chance counterstrikes would have been launched on behalf of the USSR and the world may not be as it is today.

Fast forward to today:

The escalation between the United States and North Korea builds by the day. As each president continues to taunt the other, either by showing off military might or dishing out childish insults, the world gets closer to the possibility of nuclear war: one that could also involve the nuclear arsenals of China, even Russia. Unlike Petrov, neither world leader has taken a moment to fully think this through. A nuclear war is in absolutely no one’s interest.

http://bionicmosquito.blogspot.com/2017/09/isnt-it-ironic.html

Read this one for an accurate, yet sad interpretation of certain quotes in the most recent Trump speech to the UN.

Oppressive regimes cannot endure forever…

We can only hope.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/09/no_author/entire-volume-of-cia-files-on-lee-harvey-oswald-set-to-be-released-in-october-has-gone-missing/

Imagine that, the JFK files go missing mere months before they are set to be released …