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[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Bit on the nose, don't you think?

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

it's a natural habitat for that witch

[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago

Tbf her natural habitat should be a pyre.

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Is she the one who didn't know what 'CIA cut out' means?

[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

No, that was the recent NED PR director or something.

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

National Endowment for Vassalization

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago
[–] chesmotorcycle@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I was hoping this was from The Onion.

[–] Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

The Onion would never be so blatant.

[–] Pathfinder@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

“A Kubrick stare involves an actor looking out from under the brow line and tilting their head towards the camera. Sometimes, the actor will smile in a sinister fashion. It is often used to convey that a character has become dangerously mentally unstable… It often heralds that something "intense" will soon take place”

[–] itsoctober@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 weeks ago

The Nulands: A family business of perpetual war (March 20. 2015)

Victoria Nuland and Robert Kagan have a great mom-and-pop business going. From the State Department, she generates wars and – from op-ed pages – he demands Congress buy more weapons. There’s a pay-off, too, as grateful military contractors kick in money to think tanks where other Kagans work, writes Robert Parry.

Neoconservative pundit Robert Kagan and his wife, Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, run a remarkable family business: she has sparked a hot war in Ukraine and helped launch Cold War II with Russia – and he steps in to demand that Congress jack up military spending so America can meet these new security threats.

This extraordinary husband-and-wife duo makes quite a one-two punch for the Military-Industrial Complex, an inside-outside team that creates the need for more military spending, applies political pressure to ensure higher appropriations, and watches as thankful weapons manufacturers lavish grants on like-minded hawkish Washington think tanks.

Not only does the broader community of neoconservatives stand to benefit but so do other members of the Kagan clan, including Robert’s brother Frederick at the American Enterprise Institute and his wife Kimberly, who runs her own shop called the Institute for the Study of War.

... In other words, the Family Kagan has almost a self-perpetuating, circular business model – working the inside-corridors of government power to stimulate wars while simultaneously influencing the public debate through think-tank reports and op-ed columns in favor of more military spending – and then collecting grants and other funding from thankful military contractors.

[–] Coco0330@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

Victoria Nuland is proof the Democrats are just as bad as the Republicans.