Reb Sones: None Dare Call it Deliberate ….plus

The bipartisan 'no-win' playbook defining Israel's endless war

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s career is defined by a central paradox. He is the ultimate “Mr. Security,” a leader of hardline rhetoric and vows of “total victory.” Yet, his political history is a trail of stunning concessions, from the Hebron Accords to the current, grinding war in Gaza.

This contradiction is often explained as pragmatism. But another, less-examined framework suggests these are not compromises, but the consistent execution of a “no-win” doctrine—a policy of managed conflict designed not to defeat enemies, but to maintain a permanent “equilibrium.”

This is the playbook of an elite, bipartisan U.S. foreign policy establishment, crystallized in the organization that has shaped it for a century: the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

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The Police State We Voted For

Privacy was on the ballot. We chose convenience

In March 2005, as Facebook remained a campus novelty and the first iPhone was still two years from release, a little-known document titled “The Police State Road Map” made a series of stark predictions.

It argued that Western democracies were on a quiet, evolutionary path toward a form of “global fascism,” built on a foundation of total surveillance, militarized policing, and sophisticated information control. The author, Michael Nield, envisioned a future where a small elite would micro-manage society using a technological and legal apparatus of totalitarianism, concealed from a public that would otherwise reject it.

To some, it read like a dystopian fantasy.

Two decades later, an examination of federal law, biometric industry growth, and domestic policing data shows that the document’s core warnings have been validated, and in some cases, surpassed. The architecture of a 21st-century surveillance state has been erected, not by a secret cabal, but through a series of legal, commercial, and cultural shifts that incrementally traded privacy for convenience and civil liberties for promises of security.

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