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And that brings us to Harpy Number Three; someone who actually worked for Number One in the State Department -- and thus to the most terrifying words in the English language in case Number One lands 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: Secretary of State Victoria Nuland -- the neocon stalwart who immortalized "F**k the EU" even before Brexit. She should sue for royalties, but collect in US dollars, not depressed sterling.

The honorary Kaganate of Nulandistan dominatrix, as is well known, has enjoyed a pretty stellar revolving door; foreign policy adviser for Vice-President Dick Cheney; corralled into Obamaland by her protector and boss at Brookings, Strobe Talbott; Number One's spokesperson at State; and currently Assistant Secretary of State for Europe, in charge of demonizing all things Russian. Let's face it; get The Three Harpies in the ring, and they body slam those glowing WWF divas to Kingdom Come.

And those 51 warmongers love it

On Orlando, Hillary Clinton was keen to note, "this is the deadliest mass shooting in the history of the United States and it reminds us once more that weapons of war have no place on our streets." Of course there's no problem if those "weapons of war," manned or "advised" by US personnel, kill innocent civilians across what the Pentagon calls MENA (Middle East, Northern Africa).

There is hardly any question that the Three Harpies Remixed -- Hillary, Flournoy and Nuland -- will get "their" war on Syria, whatever the Orwellian semantics employed. After all 51 warmongering "diplomats" have already endorsed it. And a long time ago, as WikiLeaks revealed, Harpy Number One had already disclosed that "the best way to help Israel deal with Iran's growing nuclear capability is to help the people of Syria overthrow the regime of Bashar Assad." Realpolitik may have proved that Iran actually had a negative nuclear capability, but what the hell, regime change remains alive and kicking.

Others, such as the Stanley Kubrickian Dr. Strangelove, sorry, General Philip Breedlove, former NATO supreme commander, are also shopping for a Defense job in a putative Clinton administration. But he's no match to the Three Harpies dream team. It makes it so much cozier, and family fun, for the Deep State to deploy Full Spectrum Dominance -- that Enduring Freedom Forever doctrine -- when played by an all-star female cast. They came, they saw, they'll bomb.

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