tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post6596722703187629090..comments2024-03-28T20:28:01.733-04:00Comments on Mike Norman Economics: Tom O'Connor — Did Russia Kill A U.S. President? New Cia Documents Reveal Spy’s Theory About JFK's Deathmike normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03296006882513340747noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-23183901338948344182017-07-29T08:09:31.822-04:002017-07-29T08:09:31.822-04:00My best guess is that virtually nobody in the USA ...My best guess is that virtually nobody in the USA or the UK who are talking incessantly about imaginary threats of russian attacks overt or covert believes what they say, and they talk like that because complicated multiethnic/multinational states and alliances need an external enemy to maintain cohesion despite many centrifugal forces. The external enemy must be identified whether it exists or not, and Russia is just very convenient because of its past. I have also noticed several anti-german campaigns in the recent past, especially taking as pretext the greek situation, and I suspect that were also about trying to talk up an imaginary german bogey in addition to the imaginary russian one.<br /><br />There is a story that at one point V Putin asked whether the Russian Federation could become a member of NATO, which if you think of it would be perfectly logical for both sides, if the point of NATO were to maintain peace in Europe; but of course the answer was not at all affirmative :-).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com