Friends + Interlocutors,

Wonderful. It’s happening again!

Europe is sleep walking to war. Now it is Russia which is the target. In the last century, it was Germany, twice. Then as now, the narrative and rationale were bogus, based on arrogance, lies, intrigue, manipulation and ignorance. 

Ezra Pound said a lot of things, much of which was right. For instance, “The enemy is ignorance (our own).” 

And so did Charles Bukowski, viz., in a letter to me dated January 1991: “It looks like this country is in for another one. The idiot concepts of our leaders are endless. Nothing has been learned from the past. Just new bodies, new waste, new hell. Always a new excuse for a new war. I am sick with it all. It sits in my gut churning, and they go on ahead.”

Patrick

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