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The fake narrative is nothing new for Brennan; a decade earlier Brennan was responsible for fake narratives about warrantless wiretaps under the Patriot Act to hide the real source of information that he was gleaning from the Torture Program.<ref>Brennan played a key role in the illegal wiretap program, overseeing the production of what personnel in the program called the “scary memos” intended to justify the domestic spying exposed by [''NYT'' reporter James] Risen. Brennan has since admitted that he relied on intelligence from the CIA’s interrogation programs to develop such memos, and his tenure in that role spanned the period when the CIA used its most extreme torture. https://www.thenation.com/article/government-war-against-reporter-james-risen/</ref>

The fake narrative is nothing new for Brennan; a decade earlier Brennan was responsible for fake narratives about warrantless wiretaps under the Patriot Act to hide the real source of information that he was gleaning from the Torture Program.<ref>Brennan played a key role in the illegal wiretap program, overseeing the production of what personnel in the program called the “scary memos” intended to justify the domestic spying exposed by [''NYT'' reporter James] Risen. Brennan has since admitted that he relied on intelligence from the CIA’s interrogation programs to develop such memos, and his tenure in that role spanned the period when the CIA used its most extreme torture. https://www.thenation.com/article/government-war-against-reporter-james-risen/</ref>

Brennan recruited a network of retired American and foreign intelligence operatives headquartered in [[London]], so-called "informants" or "outside contiguous US lures" (oconus lures), people who wanted the US taxpayer to continue the gravy train of [[NATO]] defense spending for another generation, although [[Millennial]]s are hard pressed to identify what NATO is,<ref>https://rusi.org/publication/newsbrief/nato-and-millennials</ref> how it came into existence, and why it continues to exist 25 years after the collapse of [[communism]]. Nor why European [[Welfare state|social democracies]] enjoy free healthcare while Americans do not, because Americans pay Europeans' defense costs. For this, the Russian bogeyman is needed, and because the Obama administration failed to live up to the Clinton-era commitment to defend Ukraine in exchange for relinquishing nukes, and in the event of Russian annexation. The Clinton-era [[State Department]] promise wasn't worth the paper it was written on, ratified by the Obama administration making the U.S. word in international agreements useless.<ref>The committment to defend [[Poland]] in 1919 at the [[Treaty of Versailles]] was honored by [[Britain]] and [[France]] twenty years later in 1939 when [[Hitler]] invaded; the commitment to defend [[Ukraine]] was guaranteed by the Clinton administration in 1994 (Budapest Protocols) if Ukraine gave up its nukes as its only deterrent against a [[Russian]] invasion. Twenty years later in 2014 Obama did nothing when the agreement was violated. Both Obama and the Clintons decieved Ukrainians, and did permanent damage to America's [[diplomatic]] prestige and credibility to honor its [[treaty]] commitments in the world.</ref>

Brennan recruited a network of retired American and foreign intelligence operatives headquartered in [[London]], so-called "informants" or "outside contiguous US lures" (oconus lures), people who wanted the US taxpayer to continue the gravy train of [[NATO]] defense spending for another generation, although [[Millennial]]s are hard pressed to identify what NATO is,<ref>https://rusi.org/publication/newsbrief/nato-and-millennials</ref> how it came into existence, and why it continues to exist 25 years after the collapse of [[communism]]. Nor why European [[Welfare state|social democracies]] enjoy free healthcare while Americans do not, because Americans pay Europeans' defense costs.<ref>"Of course, military spending is higher in the US than in Europe, even today when defense spending in the US is low by

 

For this, the Russian bogeyman is needed, and because the Obama administration failed to live up to the Clinton-era commitment to defend Ukraine in exchange for relinquishing nukes, and in the event of Russian annexation. The Clinton-era [[State Department]] promise wasn't worth the paper it was written on, ratified by the Obama administration making the U.S. word in international agreements useless.<ref>The committment to defend [[Poland]] in 1919 at the [[Treaty of Versailles]] was honored by [[Britain]] and [[France]] twenty years later in 1939 when [[Hitler]] invaded; the commitment to defend [[Ukraine]] was guaranteed by the Clinton administration in 1994 (Budapest Protocols) if Ukraine gave up its nukes as its only deterrent against a [[Russian]] invasion. Twenty years later in 2014 Obama did nothing when the agreement was violated. Both Obama and the Clintons decieved Ukrainians, and did permanent damage to America's [[diplomatic]] prestige and credibility to honor its [[treaty]] commitments in the world.</ref>

The [[military industrial complex]] on both sides of the Atlantic needed to be fed, and Trump talking about sending Europe a bill for US defense costs of NATO threatened the ''status quo''. As the [[Ukrainian crisis|Crimea Annexation]] illustrated, neither the US nor European allies were willing to confront Russia. And as the [[Libyan War]] sadly and clearly demonstrated, NATO was now transformed into an offensive neo-[[colonialism|colonial]] force resurrecting [[slavery]] on the [[Africa]]n continent, creating an unparalleled humanitarian and refugee crisis. Donald Trump challenged the corruption, short-sightedness, loss of direction, perversion of its purpose, and lack of accountability of the current generation of NATO leaders.

The [[military industrial complex]] on both sides of the Atlantic needed to be fed, and Trump talking about sending Europe a bill for US defense costs of NATO threatened the ''status quo''. As the [[Ukrainian crisis|Crimea Annexation]] illustrated, neither the US nor European allies were willing to confront Russia. And as the [[Libyan War]] sadly and clearly demonstrated, NATO was now transformed into an offensive neo-[[colonialism|colonial]] force resurrecting [[slavery]] on the [[Africa]]n continent, creating an unparalleled humanitarian and refugee crisis. Donald Trump challenged the corruption, short-sightedness, loss of direction, perversion of its purpose, and lack of accountability of the current generation of NATO leaders.