Carter agreed that’s true.

“And do you know why? I normalized diplomatic relations with China in 1979. Since 1979 do you know how many times China has been at war with anybody? None. And we have stayed at war,” he said.

The U.S., Carter said, has been at war for all but 16 years of its 242-year history.

Back to politics. in summary

One should wonder why a Democrat, and a top notch environmentalists who campaigned for top candidates like Obama Hillary and Kerry and praised by them is now labeled “anti vaxxer conspiracy theorist”, “ antisemitic”, “Hitler”.  Democrats don’t do that to their fellow party comrade. 

The answer is very simple. The Neoconservatives Republicans whom some are all of a sudden finding them harmless have a bigger plan. 

It is all about foreign policy.  These Republicans did not endorse Biden in 2020 for healthcare, environment, education LGBT, or immigration.  Republicans are shrewder than that. These NeoCons Republicans don’t give a rats ass about those things. And that is why they should not be allowed to be aligned with Democratic Party.  

RFK jr is a Democrat with Democratic values and does not challenge Biden on domestic stuff. Except maybe on environmental stuff that for example Biden is allowing further leasing of land for coal production, something that Obama cut. The other is vaccine development and regulation of drug development in general and power of pharmaceutical companies. 

None of the above makes RFK jr a Trump, the only point the two converge is that both are against all out war, for different reasons. And here is where you bud heads with the stronghold of Neoconservative Republicans. This is where the fight is. 

If as a voter our focus is domestic issues and we care less about foreign policy, that is fine too. But keep in mind that dollars spent on military complex, takes away dollars from the needies. 

Many claim Biden is not in a war, who are we kidding. US without being in a war spent 115 billion dollars in Ukraine proxy war so far. Something gotta give to pay the bills. Why do true democrats care about this, because to pay for it, something gotta give, for example every household in the affected states will receive at least $95 per month less in food stamp.These are people who are already struggling. This is how foreign policy impacts domestic stuff. 

Bottom line for many is fear of Trump. That is the main issue. But don’t forget that those asshole republicans running the show in this admin are by far and by magnitudes more dangerous to the world, by far more dangerous for the future of the US, and by far more dangerous to humanity.  Trump is a pussy compared to these dangerous Republicans. 

Regardless of all of this, it is not about RFK jr and him wanting to run, it is about how theses Republican smearing him and doing a character assassination of a fellow Democrat, it is about how censorship being promoted.  It is not just happening to RFK, it is happening to many other scholars with Democratic views. This is what these republicans are best at. And many democrats are taking the bait. 

France and Jamaica advance from group F. 

in Group G, Sweden wraps it up with solid 9 points and in a surprise games South Africa beats Italy and advances. 

Jamaica ties Brazil and Brazil eliminated.

Stage is now set for the big game in the next stage between Sweden and USA. 

Japan will face Norway, Netherlands will have south Africa. Swiss vs Spain,  Denmark vs Australia, England vs Nigeria. 

Another potential big game in the round of 16 could be Germany vs France. With Germany losing to Colombia and if they finish 2nd in the group. 

A Super Pac affiliated with Robert F Kennedy Jr, the anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist running for president as a Democrat, owes half its cash to a longtime Republican mega-donor and Trump backer, according to campaign finance reports filed on Monday.

The group, American Values 2024, reported receiving $5m from Timothy Mellon, a wealthy businessman from Wyoming, according to NBC News and Politico. It registered with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) in April, days before Kennedy officially launched his campaign, according to FEC records.

Mellon, 81, is the grandson of Andrew Mellon, a former US treasury secretary who made his fortune in banking. The Texas Tribune reported that Mellon, a top donor to Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election effort, supported controversial immigration laws and was responsible for 98% of the contributions to the Texas governor Greg Abbott’s fund to build a border wall. Mellon, who twice gave $10m to the Trump-aligned America First Action Super Pac in 2020, also used racist stereotypes to describe Black people in an autobiography he self-published in 2015.

The Super Pac, which described federal policies aimed at containing Covid-19 as “draconian”, received nearly all of the rest of its funding from another billionaire donor, Gavin de Becker, an author and security specialist associated with Jeff Bezos. De Becker has given to both Republican and Democratic candidates, according to FEC records, more recently including Ron Johnson, a Republican senator of Wisconsin, and businessman and the failed 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang.

Together, Mellon and De Becker account for about 97% of total donations to the Super Pac.