Originally published at: THE LATEST PROPOSED MADNESS IS TO TRANSFER...
… some B-2 stealth bombers and those 30,000 pound bunker-buster bombs to Israel… Yes, you read that correctly. according to this article - again shared by the ever-vigilant V.T. (with our gratitude) - there are some proposing to transfer American B-2 stealth bombers and some bunker-busters to Israel, according to this article from India: US…
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… As I replied to Mogh. in another thread … it is the scale of the monopoly on force (up to and including the projection of that force) … everything else is of no consequence. I think History shows that when the monopoly of force is obtained combined with multiple abilities of projections of that force the “game” is over.
… It is my guess that since Political Science became nothing more than a “statistical discipline” certain aspects of Realpolitik are no longer taught to us serfs.
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The student advisor I had as a political science major (hiss PhD was in Chinese history) enrolled me in an individual study class for political theory based on the Socratic method to read and discuss the works of Marcuse, J. S. Mill, Marx and others. He eventually left academia a few years later and became an advisor in international policy for Larry Pressler, South Dakota senator.
Ironically he ended up retiring in the same community I now live, but did not know that until after he died.
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… Bill I’m guessing then that you were studying PS at about the time it was transitioning into a Statistical Discipline. In the required Survey of Political Philosophy class offered for those not wishing to specialize in PP in the syllabus it was explicitly stated that this course was being offered by the Department of Philosophy specifically because it was painfully obvious the Department of Political Science had now come to see it as their mission to abrogate their traditional purpose.
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The BINARY Choice “THEY” are giving us all:
Obliteration of your memory[technocratic global gulag].
Obliteration of your physical being[nuclear/or worse - all out world war]
What Leadership?
Indeed, there is NO Leadership!
ONLY MADNESS !!!
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The B-2 statement is certainly odd. Likely just more bluster. I doubt the State Dept Export Control Office / Technology Management Office at the Pentagon would grant an export license and allow outright transfer of those assets to IS. More likely just ‘base’ them there. That would be difficult of course. Maintenance is highly specialized (I worked on that program) and lots of special equipment / skills are required. Basing a (literally) irreplaceable asset of which we now only have 20 left within precision missile strike of IR would be a foolish move.
IS already has ‘stealth’ F-35s, so camel’s nose is under the tent WRT technology.
The other odd thing about the statement is they already have infrastructure to do ‘basing’ on Diego Garcia island (roughly 1K miles south of Iran) and have placed them there temporarily several times (Philippines also) so it would only give a few hours of flight time less if based in IS.
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That class was around 1975. I remember identifying and calling out a Marxist sociology instructor who simply laughed, smiled like so?
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Trump with that B-2 bombers moves reminds me a bit, his first term trip to Saudi Arabia and 30B dollar weapon deal.
As long as software of these bombers stay on US soil, let them pay for hardware, may be even copy it in Beijing, Tehran or Moscow. Me thinks, there is new vast array of war chachkas ready to be revealed by Pentagon and its affiliates.
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