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PETER HITCHENS: Why do we stir up trouble in foreign countries but can't even run our own?
DailyMail.com ^ | 12/31/2022 | Peter Hitchens

Posted on 12/31/2022 5:05:54 PM PST by Nextrush

What a twisted society we have become. We stir up wars in other people's countries and praise ourselves for doing it.

But there is no political reward for protecting our own people against crime and disorder on their streets and in their homes. It is no longer clear if anyone is governing the country at all, so busy are we putting other nations to rights.

Burglaries go unprevented, uninvestigated and unpunished, in colossal numbers. Our capital city seethes with uncontrolled knife crime and stinks of marijuana.

Christmas brings news of terrible ultra-violent crimes in supposedly peaceful suburban areas. Migrants stride boldly ashore in unknown numbers. We pay heavy taxes for pitiful services, cratered roads and a health system that is the envy of nobody.

Yet nothing happens about all this. The surest way to gain praise in politics is to make simple-minded statements about a crisis abroad and demand that we sent bombs and shells to some strife-torn state, or actually bomb it ourselves...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: ftxdonationstodems; illegals; immigrants; kickbacks; lootingthetreasury; migrants; moneyiswhy; ukraine; zelvisneedsmoremoney
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This is about the UK but much applies to the USA and other nations.

The reason the politicians seek confrontation or impose sanctions or worse on other countries is to distract from the failures right here in our own backyard.

1 posted on 12/31/2022 5:05:55 PM PST by Nextrush
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To: Nextrush
Why do we stir up trouble in foreign countries but can't even run our own?

DemocRATs.

2 posted on 12/31/2022 5:07:53 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Nextrush

National governments seek to enrich the individuals who make up the national government. They do not care about the nation. At all. Most of the politicians think nationalism is stupid and they would prefer globalism. And they want to be rich when that happens. Screw “the people”.


3 posted on 12/31/2022 5:14:39 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (No one is as asleep as the "woke". They define the term "useful idiot".)
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To: Nextrush

It could be simply due to the ARROGANCE of the Leftists running our government - that they know best and if other countries resist, they get their governments overthrown.

But I tend to think they feel that they MUST control the world, or the world will not obey their commands regarding the abandonment of fossil fuels (Russia, for one, has no intention to take orders from the WEF, and they control more carbon-based fuel than any other country), so unless we run those countries through puppet governments, the planet will burn up (in their twisted minds)...therefore, no choice.


4 posted on 12/31/2022 5:18:09 PM PST by BobL
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To: MtnClimber

And Fakeservative Republicans as well.


5 posted on 12/31/2022 5:20:26 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Nextrush

Good question Peter.

I wonder what his brother would think of current conditions.


6 posted on 12/31/2022 5:21:00 PM PST by EEGator
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“Why do we stir up trouble in foreign countries but can’t even run our own?”

That’s because we’re waiting for other countries to run ours. /s


7 posted on 12/31/2022 5:21:08 PM PST by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: Nextrush
The answer is simple, because it pays. Not to you, but somebody is making gravy, alot of gravy. And because of that they can buy any politician they need.
8 posted on 12/31/2022 5:21:41 PM PST by Badboo (A fascist is the one who wants to take your guns. That's how it always starts.)
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To: EEGator

His brother Christopher was a great interventionist in the George W Tony Blair camp back in the days before he died of cancer.


9 posted on 12/31/2022 5:23:34 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Nextrush

Our border is being invaded and no one seems to care.


10 posted on 12/31/2022 5:24:24 PM PST by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: Nextrush

The CIA can’t run ANY country, the USA included.

Turn them [the CIA] all out.


11 posted on 12/31/2022 5:27:22 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: MtnClimber

And neocons

An unholy but potent alliance


12 posted on 12/31/2022 5:31:50 PM PST by wardaddy (Truth is treason in the Empire of liars)
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To: McGruff

The replacement workers being brought in.


13 posted on 12/31/2022 5:35:13 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Jyotishi

Bolsonaro is here now...


14 posted on 12/31/2022 5:38:37 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Nextrush

“Can’t ever”...

Socialists and their enablers prevent Americans from running the country. Uniparty in todays terms.


15 posted on 12/31/2022 5:40:46 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Peter Hitchens: "A Russian invasion of Ukraine would be an act of clinical insanity" Feb 14, 2022
16 posted on 12/31/2022 5:54:13 PM PST by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees )
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Migrants stride boldly ashore in unknown numbers.

QUIT CALLING THEM “MIGRANTS.” They are illegal criminal alien invaders. Always have been, always will be. QUIT!!

17 posted on 12/31/2022 6:09:14 PM PST by upchuck (When you never took the vaccine or boosters: Still alive and healthy with no chance of side effects)
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To: Nextrush

As Eisenhower warned...”watch out for the military industrial complex”


18 posted on 12/31/2022 6:22:38 PM PST by goodnesswins (The Chinese are teaching calculus to their 3rd graders while ours are trying to pick a pronoun.)
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To: Nextrush

Bookmark.


19 posted on 12/31/2022 8:20:34 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
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To: Taxman

Ping


20 posted on 12/31/2022 8:53:00 PM PST by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2023 AND 2024!)
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