“War,” Carl von Clausewitz, “is simply a continuation of politics by the addition of other means.” But like all school children used to know, if A = B then B = A. So if Clausewitz is correct, then the policy is only war without death (if not in Egypt, but this is another topic for another time). That brings to mind Clausewitz today is the current state of American politics, seen through the prism of another thing that I knew at school, Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln. Modern Lincoln’s successor, President Obama, famous proclamation after winning the Iowa caucuses in 2008, “I’m not a …
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- Not approve of the Duma, the idea of selling products with sodium glutamate alone
- In Paris for talks on Syria hold
- In an accident with a minibus in the south-east of Moscow injured three people
- The sky at dawn, can be seen in the convergence of the three planets
- Russia moved three places in the ranking of Doing Business-2016
5 recent posts for today:
- We’re going to tear the wiring inept John Boehner RINO Doormat, December 17, 2012
- Croatian and Italy broke the world, June 13, 2015
- Fund “Skolkovo” was again illegally consumed 24 million rubles, February 12, 2013
- Died screenwriter and playwright Eduard Volodarsky, October 8, 2012
- Yatsenyuk: Ukraine, the accumulated debt should not exceed three years, June 25, 2015
