Consider the symbiotic relationship between foreign policy and the military/security budget. The massive Pentagon budget and the massive power of the CIA and NSA require a dangerous enemy. Thus, US foreign policy creates the "Russian threat," the "Chinese threat," the "Iranian threat," the "Al Qaeda threat," the "ISIS threat," the "Saddam Hussein threat," the "Gaddafi threat," the "Assad threat," and now the "Maduro threat." In order to maximize profits, the military/security complex increases the risks of war. In other words, the profits come at an expense greater than the budget imposed on taxpayers. In the case of war with Russia, the cost is the destruction of life on earth.
Propaganda serves the same role in democracies as it does in dictatorships. The public have to be deceived in order for citizens to accept an agenda that serves others than themselves. The public's patriotism and gullibility pave the way for propaganda's success. Currently Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Adviser John Bolton are preparing the public for US military intervention in Venezuela with false claims that Cuba has taken control of Venezuela's security apparatus, and Hezbollah and Iran have active cells operating in Venezuela. This alleged risk to America has "to be taken down" in Venezuela and "all across the globe."
All over the Western world the public has been sold out by government; yet only in France is there effective protest.
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