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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Mort, I couldn’t agree more, with your analysis of the USG. <div class=""><br class=""><div class="">I trust the authors intent. Yes, he worked for the USG, did two assignments in the USSR, was friends with Karlovsky, and other dissidents so he isn’t pro-Russia. He is a liberal Dem, but anti-war. My friendship with Ray dates back to the seventy’s, I found him on FB a couple years ago, after you posted one of his articles you liked, here on the Peace List. I don’t trust the people he communicates or worked with, but I trust his sincerity. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The technicalities of his suggested solution are where I am weak, and wonder if his suggestion is worth promoting. I see it as similar to Med4all, an alternative to Universal Healthcare. Though I have little or no hope of obtaining either one under our system of capitalism, supporting and promoting alternative solutions, if nothing else, awakens the American people to the possibilities, if we had a government with the will to support the needs of the people rather than their corporate sponsors.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for your worthwhile analysis.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 20, 2021, at 5:10 PM, Brussel, Morton K <<a href="mailto:brussel@illinois.edu" class="">brussel@illinois.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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The problem, as I see it, is a basic antagonism to the “other”. Maintaining and striving for hegemony. Not a multipolarity of counterbalancing nations. I doubt that the protagonists tr<u class="">uly</u> seek “stability”.
<div class="">The problem lies with militarism in general; that sector does not favor a defensive strategy. They doubt it could ever be effective.
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<div class="">My feeling is that it’s hopeless with the present lineup, in the USA especially. We must be #1. Needed are revoluionary changes in governmental élites to affect current strategic thinking. </div>
<div class="">“We" would need real informed democracy in the nations involved, which do not currently exist (or have ever existed?). </div>
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<div class="">All this is aside from the fantastic, probably insuperable, technical problems of realization of the system described. "Star Wars" were shot down for valid reasons. </div>
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<div class="">Sorry …. I suppose it’s worth while speculating. <br class="">
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The author is a longtime friend, and while I prefer “no more nukes,” he offers a possible alternative, that maybe a compromise worth exploring.<br class="">
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