The Intercept has Glenn Greenwald’s article The New Yorker’s Big Cover Story Reveals Five Uncomfortable Truths About U.S. and Russia.

To stay within the bounds of fair use, I am only going to give you two paragraphs from the article. You really need to read the rest of it, by clicking on the link and giving the web site the traffic it deserves.

Constantly ratcheting up aggressive rhetoric and tension between Washington and Moscow is not a game. And yet it’s one that establishment Democrats – and their new allies in the war-loving wing of the GOP – are playing with reckless abandon, and with little to no apparent concern about the risks. They have re-created a climate in the U.S. where a desire for better relations with Russia triggers suspicions about one’s loyalties.
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There are, as usual, numerous highly influential factions in Washington that would stand to benefit enormously from the resurrection of the Cold War. They’re the same groups that benefitted so much the first time around: weapons manufacturers, the think tanks they fund, the public/private axis of the Pentagon and intelligence community, etc. And the people who exert the greatest influence over U.S. discourse continue to be the spokespeople for those very interests. When all of that is combined with the Democratic Party’s massive self-interest in inflating the Russia threat – it gives them a way to explain away their crushing 2016 defeat – it is completely unsurprising that the orthodoxy on Russia has become hawkish and pro-confrontation.

For the American voter it really comes down to a question of whether or not we want to take the chance of having a nuclear war. Iran is not the threat. We are the threat.

There is the YouTube video Stephanie Kelton -The Angry Birds Approach to Understanding Deficits in the Modern Economy. If you go to the YouTube post of the video, there are a dozen or so suggested followup links if you want to follow up on what you learned from the video.

If you pass up this opportunity to get a painless lesson on this subject, then you are unlikely to be much help in getting this country turned in the right direction. I cannot emphasize enough how important it is for you to know the information in this video.