{"id":365024,"date":"2018-06-11T16:36:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T15:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/where-why-and-when-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-06-11T16:36:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T15:36:35","slug":"where-why-and-when-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/where-why-and-when-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Where, Why, and When &#8211; LewRockwell"},"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>In any analysis of contemporary international politics it pays to be cautiously pessimistic. As the default mode one can generally expect that any way in which things\u00a0<em>can\u00a0<\/em>go wrong to threaten the peace and security of the planet, they\u00a0<em>will<\/em>.\u00a0Anticipation of improvement is a chump\u2019s bet.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why the analyst\u2019s gut instinct rebels at any indication that things overall may be moving in a positive direction, however haltingly or indirectly. But consider:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2018\/06\/02\/lee_smith_on_spygate_it_was_a_larger_political_operation_to_dirty_the_trump_campaign.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2018\/06\/02\/lee_smith_on_spygate_it_was_a_larger_political_operation_to_dirty_the_trump_campaign.html\">Goodbye Russiagate, hello Spygate<\/a><\/u>: Allegations of Trump\u2019s and his team\u2019s collusion with the Kremlin are increasingly exposed as what they are: a cover for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-06-04\/fbi-agent-charge-russiagate-operation-and-clinton-email-matter-testify-tuesday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-06-04\/fbi-agent-charge-russiagate-operation-and-clinton-email-matter-testify-tuesday\">an anti-constitutional conspiracy<\/a>\u00a0within the structures of the US Deep State (CIA, NSA, FBI, Department of Justice, etc.) in complicity with \u2013 the Russians? \u2013 no with their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2018\/02\/09\/is-steele-dossier-full-russian-dirt-or-british.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2018\/02\/09\/is-steele-dossier-full-russian-dirt-or-british.html\">British sister agencies (MI6, GCHQ<\/a>), first to deny Trump the presidency, then to neuter him and remove him from office, and above all to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2017\/06\/16\/it-the-russia-stupid.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2017\/06\/16\/it-the-russia-stupid.html\">block any chance of a patch-up with Russia<\/a>. While\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-06-08\/mueller-charges-manafort-witness-tampering\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-06-08\/mueller-charges-manafort-witness-tampering\">Robert Mueller and his merry band of Democratic donors certainly have not given up<\/a>, their prospects are fading and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.poconorecord.com\/opinion\/20180525\/opinion-how-russia-investigation-helps-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.poconorecord.com\/opinion\/20180525\/opinion-how-russia-investigation-helps-trump\">Russia obsession is beginning to turn into a political liability<\/a>\u00a0for the DNC in the November Congressional elections.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><u>Europe\u2019s anti-Russia sanctions<\/u>: American pressure on Europe with respect to trade with Iran, added to Trump\u2019s new tariffs, feeds resentment across Europe, especially in powerful Germany, which especially objects to Washington\u2019s threatening sanctions on companies participating in Nord Stream 2. It may be too soon to guess how soon the EU will pull the plug on anti-Russian sanctions, but there\u2019s something in the air when even the likes of European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker can say that\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/968404\/Russia-EU-Juncker-Putin-Brussels-Moscow-Crimea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/968404\/Russia-EU-Juncker-Putin-Brussels-Moscow-Crimea\">Russia-bashing has&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/06\/no_author\/when-where-and-how-will-the-empire-strike-back\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In any analysis of contemporary international politics it pays to be cautiously pessimistic. As the default mode one can generally expect that any way in which things\u00a0can\u00a0go wrong to threaten the peace and security of the planet, they\u00a0will.\u00a0Anticipation of improvement is a chump\u2019s bet. That\u2019s why the analyst\u2019s gut instinct rebels at any indication that [&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-365024","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\/365024","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=365024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}