It should be cold comfort indeed, but the successive inability of one US administration after another to control Israel and the extraordinary passion with which the leaders of Western Europe, Canada and NATO continue to defy the United States to risk thermonuclear world war with Russia at the whims of Ukrainian junta leader Volodymyr Zelensky are not unprecedented. For the dark, universally unacknowledged world history of the past 120 years is clear: Tails Wag Dogs. Global superpowers and great continent-spanning empires are brought into needless total conflict and utter mutually assured destruction by the machinations, betrayals and petty intrigues of tiny postage stamp states – usually with unacknowledged, disgusting and even genocidal recent political histories. It has happened again and again, like the hugely respected anti-hero in Shakespeare’s Scottish play, who is seduced into treachery, murder and escalating deep dives into utter evil by the three dark witch-women who cross his path (A touch that the author expressly designed to impress King James I from Scotland who had grown up with vague and frightful memories of his own mother, other, the murderous husband-killer Mary, Queen of Scots). We see the same pattern in Georges Bizet’s wonderful opera “Carmen,” where the noble, gallant soldier …read more Source:: Ron Paul...