{"id":354510,"date":"2018-03-30T06:33:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T05:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/you-know-the-us-is-losing\/"},"modified":"2018-03-30T06:33:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T05:33:03","slug":"you-know-the-us-is-losing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/you-know-the-us-is-losing\/","title":{"rendered":"You Know the US Is Losing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>How do you know when a politician is lying?<\/p>\n<p>Their lips move and words come out.<\/p>\n<p>How do you know when the United States is at a disadvantage in a geopolitical quagmire?<\/p>\n<p>Our diplomats and Presidents want to \u2018open up talks.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Multiple times in the past four years the U.S. has used negotiating ceasefires in Syria and Ukraine to rearm and regroup those we\u2019re backing or get our opposition (the Syrian Arab Army, the Russians) to let their guard down and then attack within 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve used the U.N. Security Council as a bludgeon to brazenly lie about on the ground facts in Syria to attempt to save our pet jihadists in places like Aleppo and now eastern Ghouta.<\/p>\n<p>And in each of these instances the Russian counterparts have documented the U.S.\u2019s mendacity, patiently building up an international file of such incidents for future use.\u00a0 As I\u2019ve pointed out so many times, the Russians rightly feel we are \u201cNot Agreement Capable\u201d either from a short-term or long-term perspective.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Winning Looks like Losing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So, why do I think the U.S. is in a losing position right now, despite the pronouncements from President Trump and his most ardent supporters that he\u2019s winning on everything?<\/p>\n<p>Because on the two most important issues of 2018, Korean denuclearization and strategic arms control, Trump is ready to sit down and talk.\u00a0 And we have not been willing to do that on either of these issues at the Head of State level for most of this century, if not longer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2018\/03\/14\/the-neocon-full-court-press-for-war-is-here\/\">I wrote recently<\/a>\u00a0that the Neoconservative cabal in D.C. is in its final push for war with Russia.\u00a0 The catalyst, for me, was President Putin\u2019s state of the union address on March 1st where he unveiled new weapons that conjured up images from the finale of Dr. Strangelove.<\/p>\n<p>I said, and still&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/03\/thomas-luongo\/you-know-the-us-is-losing\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you know when a politician is lying? Their lips move and words come out. How do you know when the United States is at a disadvantage in a geopolitical quagmire? Our diplomats and Presidents want to \u2018open up talks.\u2019 Multiple times in the past four years the U.S. has used negotiating ceasefires in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-354510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}