blurg… you are correct:

Obama is going to use his last three weeks in office to damage Israel in at least one more UN Security Council resolution.

“Brainwashing”?

IIRC, just have the media repeat it widely (pile on, gang up) and often enough, “racist-sexist-homophobic-xenophobic-Islamaphobic” — Joseph Goebbels.

Yes, there is a lot of consensus in the US and elsewhere that the US is dirt.

But, if we let the UN leave and go to some place like Brussels, Mumbai, Kuwala Lumpur, Nairobi, or some other world-class toilet, then the consensus will, net, grow and our ability to do something about it will shrink.

But, if we keep the UN in the US, then we will be able to control, limit, constrain, truncate, etc. the dirt consensus. The UN 24×7 party culture can keep smoking funny stuff and strutting around like Poo Bahs but will we keep them useless, ineffectual, and relatively harmless.

And we can trim the budget, cool off the parties, and have fewer Poo Bahs.

Or, again, “keep your enemies closer”.

There are no complete panacea’s for every business problem. AI is really important-and powerful when used where it provides a lot of power. But, as BRC would tell you, putting an aircraft carrier on land isn’t a good idea.

It already has a strong US consensus. It’s like a drug addicted child you keep giving money to until they overdose.

To draw from a not totally wrong comment from the bad guy in a movie, Israel shouldn’t wear itself out trying to fight the Arabs and, instead, should try to get the Arabs to fight each other and kill each other.

Well, of course, an approach, an open door, an obvious, and powerful way is available and has been for ~1000 years: (1) Whisper to the Sunnis “You know, some of those Shiite pigs were telling us that they really hate you good Sunnis and are planning to rape all your women and feed all your men to Crusader pigs.”. (2) Then whisper to the Shiites “Those Sunni swine are determined to feed all your men to filthy pigs and rape all your women.”

Borrowing from another movie, and/or a comment attributed of H. Kissinger on selling weapons (a.k.a. gun running), “Sell guns to both sides.” or “Too bad both sides can’t lose.”.

Ah, it’s just movies.

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Sigma Algebra, you need to join the Big Data Contrarians group on LinkedIn. We mostly ridicule exaggerated Big Data claims. This doesn’t have anything to do with Big Red Car’s post, and is only marginally associated with your comment other that that one hash tagged phrase. It is full of big data and online surveillance pokes and prods though, so I thought you and other readers might enjoy it. I did, of course ;o)
https://youtu.be/VPYA9racfO4