Political Observer attempts to ‘read’ Gideon Rachman’s Propaganda?

Mr. Rachman begins his ‘essay’ with a Pop Song. Looking at Rachman’s bloated Cast of Characters, is more than a possible explanation, for his attempt to mimic Trollope in miniature ? A quick review is instructive? Yet like the Neo-Con, Mr. Rachman relies on the exhaustion of the both the patience, and critical faculties of his Reader, via his attempted pastiche of a Master?

fall of the Berlin wall, soundtrack for a decade, eastern Europe, Northern Ireland, Oslo accords, Israel-Palestine conflict, the age favoured peacemakers, , democrats internationalists, nationalists, warmongers, conspiracy theorists, Russia, war, Ukraine, Middle East, the Abraham peace accords, Israel, Arab states, Hamas attacks, Israeli invasion of Gaza, Middle Eastern war, a reinvigorated peace process, US, Joe Biden’s presidency, Donald Trump, the presidency in 2024, swing states, a darkening global political mood, The Gaza war, Ukraine, competition for munitions, desperately short of shells, Air defence systems, Ukraine and Israel, The west’s already weak ability, “Global South”, Russia is committing war crimes, charges of double standards, the Ukrainian war effort, The Kyiv government’s, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Russia, Russian forces, Ukrainian cities, A battered Ukraine, Kyiv’s western backers, Russian war machine, US Congress, Trump-supporting Republicans, Vladimir Putin, abandon Ukraine to its fate, A Trump victory, progressives and Arab-Americans, stay at home or vote for fringe candidates, if pro-Palestinian sentiment, But history abounds with absurdities, The intense global spotlight on Israel and Gaza, mass deportations…announced in Pakistan, Sudan and Nagorno-Karabakh, Other urgent problems are also in danger of being left to fester….Climate change…COP28 summit…world leaders distracted by Gaza…With America overstretched overseas and unstable at home…China may sniff an opportunity… that China is intent on displacing the US as the dominant power in the Pacific, and perhaps the world…The main focus of Xi Jinping’s ambitions is Taiwan…Biden has repeatedly pledged to defend Taiwan…security crisis in east Asia to the ones gripping Europe and the Middle East.

The end point of this ‘essay’ is that Pop Song, yet all Rachman offers is a counterfeit, of a Master of political melodrama, of another age? Have I engaged in the hyperbolic? Mr. Rachman set what passed for a ‘standard’!

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