J.D. Vance believes there’s a direct connection between woke capitalism and the current plundering of American cities. In The American Mind, Vance notes how the corporate class destroying America is also profiting from it, and argues that Americans need to fight back by reorienting the economy back towards the “real”.
Toppling a Communist Empire for $2.7 Million
Though widely thought of as focused on waterboarding terrorists or poisoning foreign potentates, it was by smuggling paper that the CIA achieved its most monumental triumph. R.M. Gerecht in a book review for The Washington Free Beacon charts how the late Cold War-era operation to flood Poland with Western books, magazines, printing supplies and audio recordings fatally weakened the country’s Communist dictatorship, setting the stage for the downfall of the entire Soviet empire. Total cost: US$2.7 million.