A riveting talk by Sir John Major.
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Wikipedia speak of Sir John as follows:
Sir John Major (born 29 March 1943) is a British retired politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997. He previously held Cabinet positions under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, his last as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1989 to 1990. Major was Member of Parliament (MP) for Huntingdon, formerly Huntingdonshire, from 1979 to 2001. Since stepping down as an MP in 2001, Major has focused on writing and his business, sporting, and charity work, and has occasionally commented on political developments in the role of an elder statesman.
(More of the Wikipedia article is here.)
On yesterday’s World This Weekend the programme was entirely devoted to a speech that John Major gave on February 16th. His theme was: “We are moving into a more dangerous world“
BBC Sounds have a recording of that speech that will stay available for 29 days. That link is here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00282l8
I sincerely hope you can listen to it, for I found the talk riveting!
Learning from Dogs 
I did start listening to this and had to stop. I agreed immediately with his take on what’s happening. Democracy will not survive a man who would be king or dictator. I want him gone two months ago. I saw the truth of him the first time around. Now he has EM with him who is not elected and creating more havoc. If I could leave the country, I would but we will still all be victim to their poor judgement. I think that’s why we are all so unsettled. We see the bullet coming for us.
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Marlene, thank you for this comment. I agree with you but the truth is that a vast number of Americans believe in President Trump. I think the next few weeks are going to be key and will decide if we live in a country governed by the Constitution or by a President who thinks that the Constitution is under his control.
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I just want to hear he has fled the country.
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I suspect you voice the thoughts of many others.
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Too bad you can’t leave the US, you would find out that Europe is even worse. I was floored how the situation degraded in the last 15 years… In Europe! No reason US taxpayers ought to pay for European wokism, terrorizing Islamism, and Defense… Actually Europe ought to recover Common Sense… And freedom as JD Vance pointed out in Munich. Part of freedom ought to be for Europe to follow France rather than the USA…
The Dishonorable Major worked for THE major US weapon trafficker… He was to be followed by the equally dishonorable Blair… Invader of Iraq…
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Thank you for your further comment. My previous reply stands!
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Major was a weapon trafficker, among other glorious pursuits… Major was a major at Carlyle. Chairman of the International Advisory Board of the National Bank of Kuwait,[248] and Chairman of the European Advisory Council of the Emerson Electric Company.[248][255] He was a member of the Carlyle Group‘s European Advisory Board from 1998 and was appointed Chairman of Carlyle Europe in May 2001…
Investing in war
Companies in which Carlyle had a controlling interest netted more than $9.3 billion in contracts.
Overall, six private investment firms, including Carlyle, received nearly $14 billion in Pentagon deals between 1998 and 2003. (See related report, “The Sincerest Form of Flattery.”)
From its founding in 1987, the Carlyle Group has pioneered investing in the defense and national security markets, and through its takeover of companies with billions of dollars in defense contracts became one of the U.S. military’s top vendors, ranking among better known defense firms like Lockheed Martin, Boeing Co., Raytheon Co., Northrop Grumman and General Dynamics.
Unlike those firms, however, the Carlyle Group itself is not a manufacturer. It offers no services directly to the Pentagon, and has no defense contracts. Rather, it manages investments—some $18.4 billion from 600 individuals and entities in 55 countries, according to its Web site. The firm’s business is making money for these investors, the vast majority of whose identities are not disclosed to the Securities and Exchange Commission or other government bodies.
Though Carlyle itself has won no contracts, the companies it has owned or controlled have done billions of dollars worth of business with the Pentagon. The Carlyle unit that brought in the largest share—$5.8 billion—was United Defense Inc., which manufactures combat vehicles, artillery, naval guns, missile launchers and precision munitions. United Defense also owns the country’s largest non-nuclear ship repair, modernization, overhaul and conversion company, United States Marine Repair Inc. Its most famous product may well be the Bradley fighting vehicle. United Defense brought in more than 60 percent of Carlyle’s defense business.
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You clearly know a great deal more of the politics of the situation. Thank you for such a comprehensive reply.
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