Listening to these auto history podcasts adds a new dimension to one of my standard themes.
I’ve often hammered the Big Point that our blockades and sanctions help the target country to develop its own skills. Blockades hurt ordinary Americans by depriving our industries of export revenue, and raising the prices of needed imports like sugar and coffee.
The auto history podcaster tells how our blockades also helped other countries, supposedly our allies. Canada profited by trading with the Eastern Bloc despite our permanent blockade. Most of Europe did the same, again contrary to our orders. Italy, France and West Germany sold lots of trucks and manufacturing equipment to Russia. German branches of US companies were part of this trade.
Those workarounds stopped in recent years. Now Canada and Europe strictly obey our orders, depriving THEMSELVES of food and petroleum and industrial work by helping us destroy Russia for no reason except our insane evil.
We briefly opened up to Russia in 1990 after we invaded and installed Our Drunk SOB Yeltsin. We resumed the default sanctions in 2000 when Putin took over from Our Drunk SOB.
That’s when Canada and Europe joined our war. Was it Putin at the Russian end, or Bush at our end? I’m inclined to blame Bush, since he planned and organized all the fake “global” crises: the “terrorist attack” of 9/11, the “financial attack” of 2008, the unspeakably horrible monstrosity of 2020. All were orchestrated by Bush, and all involved UNISON ACTIONS of every nation.
There was NO PHYSICAL REASON for these crises to involve every nation on Earth. 9/11 destroyed a few buildings in NYC. 2008 ruined a few banks. 2020 allegedly started at a market in China, or in Italy, or on a cruise ship, or in a biolab, depending on which fake story you believe. Crashing airplanes and crashing banks and real viruses don’t happen everywhere at once.
Only governments working together can make an event happen everywhere at once.
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