Comments by "LS O\x27Brien" (@lsobrien) on "Princes, Prostitutes, Politicians and Bribes 💰| Andrew Feinstein" video.

  1. The one industry prevented from collapse by Maggie Thatcher and her heirs is the arms. This broader trend — one that has been called military protectionism — mimics another. As revealed in Curtis’ The Mayfair Set, under David Sterling the SAS evolved from being a band of Lawrences into the world’s premier mercenary force. Of course, like private physicians, they do a bit of “national service” (i.e. the raid on the Iranian Embassy) but the bulk of their work is the propping of Arab princes and African despots, so that they may, in turn, fulfill the Foreign Office’s need of “forces of stability”. So vital, to take one salient example, is Saudi Arabia as a lynchpin (putting solidarity between kings to one side), that we routinely overlook this hub and exporter of Wahhabism — the greatest ideological foe to British values found offshore. Well, those we like to profess anyway. This relationship almost guarantees perpetual war. Wars, we were told, nuclear weapons had made redundant. Trident, in its titanium skin, with its terrible luminous eyes trained on its equals on what we call Russia and China — perhaps even on those currently irradiating American soil. I say ‘perhaps’ because the Keepers, as Martin Amis named nukes in his essay Thinkability, are incomprehensible. Their purposes are beyond the scope of human imagination, Their intentions surpass the confines of our theory. And to Them, the spawn of Rutherford and Oppenheimer: we are nothing. Mere fetuses of the post-civilisation age, and the one it will dwarf in terms of span: the Age of Atom. https://medium.com/@lukeob/england-the-banana-monarchy-a536aee0da24
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