@WillieBeakman@KobeissiLetter Trump nominee J Powell kept fed rate between 1.5-2.5% from 2018 to 2019. The economy was humming then. Economists will tell you fed rate changes can have effects on the economy months to years after rate changes. Inflation could felt from this and GOP in those years.
In 2019 actor and comedian Volodymyr Zelensky ran as the peace candidate winning the Ukrainian presidency with 70% of the vote. As Benjamin Abelow observes in his brilliant book, โHow the West Brought War to Ukraine,โ Zelensky almost certainly could have avoided the 2022 war with Russia simply by uttering five words โ โI will not join NATO.โ But pressured by NeoCons in the Biden White House, and by violent fascist elements within the Ukrainian government, Zelensky integrated his army with NATOโs and allowed the U.S. to place nuclear-capable Aegis missile launchers along Ukraineโs 1,200-mile border with Russia. These were provocations that senior U.S. diplomats like post-WWII foreign policy architect George Kennan, former U.S. Defense Secretary Bill Perry, and former U.S. ambassador to Moscow Jack Matlock had long described as โred linesโ for Russian leadership. Letโs face it, the Neocons wanted this war with Russia, just as they wanted war with Iraq. Listen here to NATO Supreme Commander General Wesley Clark describe how White House Neocons justified the Iraq invasion:
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