RSSTransparent fabrication.
I remember one evening in distant 1991, I was sitting with a few friends in the SAIS cafeteria discussing the future of the United States with a few very smart students, including a Pakistani Army Colonel, a US captain who served on aircraft carriers and a Spanish diplomat: we all agreed that “the system” was perfect, so to speak, and that the US would only collapse if a strong external shock would hit it hard. We all agreed that the combination of the best propaganda machine in history, the stupidification resulting from many daily hours of watching the Idiot Tube and, finally, a very effective repression apparatus made for a quasi perfect dictatorship: the one which only gives the illusion of democracy and people power.
‘… we all agreed that “the system” was perfect, so to speak, and that the US would only collapse if a strong external shock would hit it hard.’ Your paraphrase: ‘ the moronic basic [sic] Saker puts forth as the “perfect system” for a global Empire ‘, doesn’t exactly match. And are all USN Captains supposed to be of the same mind? And how do you know which such confidence – “transparent”, is it? – that something didn’t happen 29 years ago somewhere you weren’t? Or did you participate in that conversation? And what exactly is the motivation for fabricating such a story when it’s so tangential to the bulk of the article anyway?
I don’t care one way or another. But yours is not a substantive comment. Simply blowing steam is not useful to other people; it just wastes their time.