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Addictions often break up families :
"As with any close-knit family, the transatlantic partnership between the United States and Europe that was forged from a cataclysmic world war has passed through occasional rough moments.
European powers’ refusal to join in President George W. Bush’s “war of choice” in Iraq in 2003 is one example. The fallout from President Barack Obama’s swipe at NATO partners as “free riders” unwilling to pay their fair share for their own security is another.
But the stark message of fraying bonds, growing disregard, and diverging values that senior Trump administration officials laid out for shocked European leaders last week has diplomats and seasoned observers asserting that this is more than a passing family spat."
(More than a rift, CSM News, emphasis added). Yes, addicted family members even sometimes kill one or more other family members.
This Dredd Blog series has detailed what one president called our "oil addiction", which is an ancient family affair in western civilization:
"The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed by the Deity to regenerate our victims, while incidentally capturing their markets; to civilise savage and senile and paranoid peoples, while blundering accidentally into their oil wells."
(On The Origin of The Bully Religion - 2) Russia was not the first nation to subdue "enemy" nations in order to blunder "accidentally" into their oil wells (The Peak Of The Oil Wars - 17).
Anyway, when the addiction combines with the religion, all hell can break loose again (Doing The Right Thing - Mithraism - 2).
The previous post in this series is here.
"I'm expecting all hell to break loose:"
