How has it come to this? The Cold War is truly over, there is no great ideological struggle for the minds of men, no final battle between the forces of freedom and the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Instead what we have is a sordid little shell game by seedy American robber barons and their slimy Russian oligarch counterparts. General Flynn and his son, the Attorney General, the former Trump campaign manager and foreign policy adviser, his son, and who knows who else? And what for, an all-out struggle to determine which philosophy will rule the future? No, its just cheap under-the-table business deals like you’d expect from price-fixing small town used car dealerships and crooked finance company managers..

Its the ultimate triumph of Capitalism, and the crowning failure of Socialism, and neither is coming out of this with any class or dignity. History will remember our time as the Era of the thugs, The Epoch of the douche bags. The world is being carved up between
low-life gangsters and sleazeball Vegas houseboys. Its not just a tragedy, its a fucking farce.

No one can even claim the pride of going down swinging to the end, of dying fighting for the Right and the Free. In this war, both sides deserve to lose.