Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11 (1986)
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The U.S. bombs cruisin' overhead
There goes my love rocket red

Shoot it up
Shoot it up

Blaster bomb bomb, bomb ahead

Multi-millions still unfed
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OpEd: What's Really Driving Trump's Moves in Venezuela and Greenland
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... Many Americans seeking to understand what drives President Donald Trump have looked back to the history of the 19th century, to when the world was carved up into spheres of influence dominated by a handful of "great powers."

But an influential new paper argues that we should cast our eyes further back, beyond the swaggering statesmen of the imperialist era to the age of absolute monarchs if we really want to understand the world Trump is shaping.

Wellesley College's Stacie Goddard and Georgetown University's Abraham Newman call this emerging order "neo-royalism," and describe it as a global system dominated by rivalries between a small group of leaders and allied "hyper-elites," all looking to gain wealth or status. ...

The idea of great power competition and spheres of influence, the traditional way of understanding that era, actually doesn't make sense of what's happening now. We understand there's all this stuff about the "Donroe Doctrine" and this Western hemispheric stance.

But why it doesn't make sense is that a lot of the moves that you're actually seeing the Trump administration make aren't necessary. They're costly, and they undermine United States security. ...