It really is weird to have the “superpower” of being able to see the obvious.
Obviously, Iraq did not have WMD. Obviously, neither the Iraq nor Afghan occupations would succeed.
Obviously, letting Covid rip will cause a mass disabling event which will severely damage our societies.
Obviously China does not regard the US, in specific as a friend, as for 12 years the US has publicly stated, over and over again, that China is Enemy #1.
Obviously, Russia would not let Sevastapol be taken away from them.
Obviously, Russia would not let Ukraine join NATO.
Obviously, offshoring our industrial base to China would make them stronger and us weaker.
Obviously, immiserating our working class would make them hate the liberal order and vote against it when possible (Brexit/Trump, etc.).
Obviously, China has food and energy problems, and obviously, having Russia as a friend helps China fix those problems.
Obviously, China cannot trust the West for supplies, as the West has sanctioned China.
Obviously, the West hates China’s government and wants it replaced, and obviously, the Chinese government doesn’t like this and prefers Russia, which does not want to overthrow their government.
Obviously, Putin must win his war, or he will lose power and be killed.
Obviously, bailing out the rich in 2008 led to a sclerotic economy which cannot fix problems because central banks made a rule that incompetent rich people will be allowed to stay incompetent.
Obviously, not charging rich people with the crimes they committed which caused the financial crisis, but hitting them with fines which cost less than what they made would make them commit more and more crimes.
Obviously, if the rich control government (as per the Princeton Oligarchy study and common sense), and if Covid makes them much richer faster, the government will not seriously try to control Covid.
Obviously, if logistics and supply chain issues make the people who run the logistics and supply chain richer, they will not, themselves, try to solve the supply chain problems.
Obviously, the Ukrainian government’s statements about the war can be trusted just as much, or rather, just as little, as the Russian government’s statements.
Obviously, Democrats are going to lose the mid-terms, and Joe Biden will be (even more of) a lame duck.
Obviously, Biden doesn’t really mind Manchin spiking his program, or he would have gone after Manchin’s coal business or his daughter’s Epi-pen crimes.
Obviously, it will be to China’s huge, long-term advantage that they didn’t let Long Covid disable a huge percentage of their population.
Obviously, in ten years or so, almost everyone will admit that letting Covid rip was a mistake, just like most Iraq war boosters now admit they were wrong about Iraq.
Obviously, Israel is an apartheid state.
Obviously, most American, British, and Canadian politicians are terrified of the Israeli lobby and unwilling to cross it.
Obviously, the US is one of the most corrupt societies in the world, it’s just that US corruption is either legal — or if illegal, not prosecuted.
Obviously, Canada’s rich benefit from sanctions against Russia, because they sell the same things.
Obviously, having oligopolies control most of the US economy has led to inflation being much more than it would have been otherwise.
Obviously, Western central banks have spent 40 years crushing ordinary people’s wages relative to inflation.
Obviously, ex-Federal reserve governors, treasury secretaries, and most Presidents are rewarded for their services after they leave office with huge post-facto bribes, and obviously, they know they will be.
Obviously, Sinema & Manchin are being paid well to spike progressive policies.
Obviously, most European nations are American vassal states.
Obviously, giving in to American demands to reject Huawei 5G networks convinced China that European states are not trustworthy trade partners.
Obviously, Biden, who was a key driver of the bankruptcy bill which made it nearly impossible to discharge student loans in bankruptcy, was not going to cancel student loan debt.
Obviously, China does not want to accept world rules made when it was its weakest.
Obviously, India is trending dangerously authoritarian, and is in danger of eventually engaging in ethnic cleansing.
Obviously, climate change is now past the point of no return, because we clearly won’t do anything to stop it until it is too late. (Sorry, just obvious.)
Obviously, most Western elites don’t care if people they don’t know in their own societies die or are impoverished.
Obviously, our massive “shock therapy” looting of Russia in the 90s was going to lead to a strong man taking over. (I expected military, turned out to be secret police.)
Obviously, drowning the government in a bathtub would create vast corruption among private contractors and lead to an inability to handle crises like Covid which require state capacity (if we wanted to, which mostly we don’t — see above).
Obviously, Bangladesh will be one of the first non-island states to be destroyed by climate change.
Obviously, making the rich even richer will never lead to improvements for the middle and working classes, as opposed to controlling the wealth and power of the rich.
Obviously, massively inequal societies turn into oligarchies of some sort, even if they are nominally democratic.
Obviously, repeatedly invading other countries in violation of international law would make international law weaker, and make countries not inside the blessed Western circle cynical about Western law and leadership.
Obviously, sanctions never cause regime change and only hurt ordinary people (this is the record for sections, 100 percent of the time).
Obviously, Venezuela and Iran will never trust the US or the West.
Obviously, China doing most of the world’s development would make developing countries prefer them to the US.
Obviously, the Chinese would be mistrustful of Western nations and Japan for humiliating them for a century.
Obviously, many Indians prefer Russia to the US and Europe, because Russia has been a reliable ally to them since their independence, when no Western nation has.
Obviously, the invasion of Ukraine is not a worse war crime than the invasion of Iraq.
Obviously, if Putin should be tried for war crimes so should George W. Bush (and many others who never will be).
Obviously, getting the Saudis to spread their noxious form of Islam and to arm guerillas against the Soviets has blown back horribly and has caused mass devastation far beyond Afghanistan.
Obviously, centrists agree with right-wingers on most issues, because they never roll back what right-wingers do while in power.
Obviously, centrists hate left-wingers much more than they hate fascists.
