The Barnes Brief | 4 Mar 2020

1. Pay attention to this: they are using the war as pretext to create precedents they can extend to the rest of the world on a whim, including: summary seizure of property (see boasting of seizing yachts), summary censorship of independent media (see complete banning of RT), and summary removal from financial transactions (see Hillary’s comments). https://summit.news/2022/03/03/hillary-clinton-disappointed-crypto-exchanges-arent-banning-russians/

2. A key MAGA writer unraveling 1/6, also unravels the war clique in Ukrainian conflict: “America’s ruling elite is so used to kicking its own impotent population around with no fear of any kind of repercussion that they think they can do the same with a nuclear power. The ruling class is wrong, …show more

3. Glenn Greenwald: “the climate that arises whenever a new war erupts, instantly creating propaganda-driven, dissent-free consensus. There is no propaganda as potent or powerful as war propaganda.” https://greenwald.substack.com/p/war-propaganda-about-ukraine-becoming?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web&s=r

4. From a leftist critic of American foreign policy, but he has a point: universalism is essential to both the rule of law and any self-respecting moral code. As it says in the Christian tradition, do not point out the speck in another man’s eye until we remove our own much larger beam in our own eye. It reflects the old tradition that we cannot expect of others what we do not demand first of ourselves. https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/i-am-asking-for-a-coherent-set-of?s=r

5. Paul Watson’s inimitable Modernity series takes a turn to War.

*Bonus: New Yorker saves drowning deer on the ice. https://bigfrog104.com/did-you-hear-hero-crawls-on-icy-ny-pond-to-rescue-frightened-deer/