@clacke @strypey "The Rights of Man, after all, had been defined as “inalienable” because they were supposed to be independent of all governments; but it turned out that the moment human beings lacked their own government and had to fall back upon their minimum rights, no authority was left to protect them.. ' #Hannah Arendt 's #Imperialism book

@clacke @strypey '...governments.. openly opposed to this encroachment on their sovereignty, but the concerned nationalities themselves did not recognize a nonnational guarantee, mistrusted everything which was not clear-cut support of their “national” (as opposed to their mere “linguistic, religious, and ethnic”) rights, and preferred either.. to turn to the protection of the “national” mother country, or, like the Jews, to some kind of interterritorial solidarity.'

Can Bush be seen as worse because he used the pretext of Weapons of Mass Destruction to invade Iraq, and the illusionary connections to 9/11 ? It seemed like he didn't take the pretext seriously himself, when he pretended to look for them under a podium during a speech later. Then his buddy's Halliburton corporation made a lot of money off the fiasco/catastrophe.. The Nato expansion concerned might be a more substantial pretext given the history of W. European invasions of Russia... @strypey