[Peace] [Peace-discuss] Pepe is correct & Bannon mostly so

[David Green]

Very interesting; but the more the word nationalism gets used from various
persuasions, whether positively or pejoratively, the less it seems to mean
in a consistent way; but nationalism has always been a kind of fiction, as
Eric Hobsbawm and others taught us; as well as a political football,
perhaps relevant as the World Cup approaches and we see that national
identity is a given in the most crass and chauvinistic terms.

On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 9:57 PM, Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss <
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156331653311678&set=a.
> 10150294029661678.381794.775051677&type=3&theater
>
> ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME – AGAIN
>
> Steve Bannon is absolutely bonkers with what’s goin’ on in Italy. La
> Repubblica calls him “the Dark Knight of global populism”. He talked to the
> paper (portal). Here’s the low down.
>
> For Bannon, “Rome is now at the center of world politics” (correct). He
> has “advised” La Lega’s Salvini, and said they paid due attention.
>
> He’s enthusiastic that Lega and 5S “hit the heart of the European beast”
> (correct), foreign capitals and “foreign opposition media” (FT, Le Monde,
> etc.). He considers Salvini and Di Maio “heroic” – and the other hero is
> Berlusconi (not really). On 5S, he says they are “similar to socialist
> Sanders in the US”, anti-establishment and for transparency. And are allies
> to Italy’s “Trump” – referring to Salvini.
>
> He’s sure “Brussels, the stock market and the financial powers will go
> through hell” (correct).
>
> For Bannon, Italy is “a sleeping giant, with a huge economy” (correct).
> Brussels and media like the FT are “afraid of Italy” (true – the FT even
> invoked “barbarians”).
>
> He expects a “confederation of free states” to emerge in place of the
> current EU (not so fast). “The fascists are in Brussels” (relatively
> correct). And “we are on the right side of history; Merkel and Macron will
> fall” (not so fast).
>
> Trump is “back to his national-populist agenda” and “things could not be
> better for the US” (incorrect). Especially now that “the military have been
> sidelined from the administration” (but not the deep state – on the
> contrary). He thinks Pompeo could become President one day (Lord have
> mercy).
>
> Bannon thinks the Judeo-Christian West must be united – thus no Russia
> demonization. He stresses Russia’s economy is smaller than Italy’s
> (correct). “The problem is Russia is hated by the Democrats because is a
> nationalist country and they have the Orthodox Church (fundamentally
> correct). “The real problem is Iran” (ridiculous).
>
> Well, as you can see the man IS on a roll.
>
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