Maybe I’m just being naive, but the whole idea of allowing deep strikes by the Ukrainians into Russia seems so rife with horrible consequences that only a madman would give it serious consideration as a prudent course of action. When the President of a major nuclear power tells you in no uncertain terms, if you do not stop facilitating, aiding and abetting military incursions into the sovereign territory of Russia, the use of nuclear weapons against all nations involved in said incursions, whether directly or indirectly, will not be ruled out as legitimate military targets in any retaliation that we might deem appropriate, up to and including a nuclear response, then a rational person would assume that he is not engaging in empty bluster but is deadly serious. Is this kind of provocative and dangerous policy the best we can offer?
On the issue of the Secret Service, it just appears to be an extension of the same type of ethos that unfortunately characterizes the whole of government and the law enforcement agencies in particular. They are apparently above any type of accountability or oversight as far as they are concerned. Lying seems to be their guiding principle and consequences be damned.
I’m exasperated by the totally impotent response from the Congress in the face of such blatant misconduct, and I’m being generous in using the word misconduct. I’m quite certain that if people started losing their jobs and facing imminent legal consequences that things would change overnight.
Just as an aside, I’m still infuriated that an FBI employee and his paramour were awarded a huge financial settlement instead of winding up behind bars.
Mark - adding a poll to your posts would be interesting. This post could be Trumps first assassination attempt was a screw up, 3 letter agency, or a foreign country.
Should Trump be arrested if he travels outside the US for having assassinated Soleimani in Baghdad? Obama? Dubya? Why should we expect that other countries wouldn't want justice against us for what we do to them? Perhaps there's a better way to deal with relations with other countries than arresting them like that.
Maybe I’m just being naive, but the whole idea of allowing deep strikes by the Ukrainians into Russia seems so rife with horrible consequences that only a madman would give it serious consideration as a prudent course of action. When the President of a major nuclear power tells you in no uncertain terms, if you do not stop facilitating, aiding and abetting military incursions into the sovereign territory of Russia, the use of nuclear weapons against all nations involved in said incursions, whether directly or indirectly, will not be ruled out as legitimate military targets in any retaliation that we might deem appropriate, up to and including a nuclear response, then a rational person would assume that he is not engaging in empty bluster but is deadly serious. Is this kind of provocative and dangerous policy the best we can offer?
On the issue of the Secret Service, it just appears to be an extension of the same type of ethos that unfortunately characterizes the whole of government and the law enforcement agencies in particular. They are apparently above any type of accountability or oversight as far as they are concerned. Lying seems to be their guiding principle and consequences be damned.
I’m exasperated by the totally impotent response from the Congress in the face of such blatant misconduct, and I’m being generous in using the word misconduct. I’m quite certain that if people started losing their jobs and facing imminent legal consequences that things would change overnight.
Just as an aside, I’m still infuriated that an FBI employee and his paramour were awarded a huge financial settlement instead of winding up behind bars.
All excellent points.
One Smart Police Dog could have stopped the attempt.
They can spot an evildoer at a distance, and can disarm them literally.
Shepherds can run 27 MPH. Dobies can run 45MPH.
Mark - adding a poll to your posts would be interesting. This post could be Trumps first assassination attempt was a screw up, 3 letter agency, or a foreign country.
https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/articles/7584884241684-How-do-I-add-a-poll-to-a-Substack-post
So it's looking likely then that long range missiles are on their way to Russia.
Maybe the US can tie up the Iranian president to the first missile just to speed things up.
So they don't have enough secret service to provide security for Trump to have a rally in Wisconsin we are told.
BUT we can provide a huge secret service contingent to the Iranian President at the UN meeting?
This is the guy who is trying to have Trump assassinated?
He gets secret service protection?
Should Trump be arrested if he travels outside the US for having assassinated Soleimani in Baghdad? Obama? Dubya? Why should we expect that other countries wouldn't want justice against us for what we do to them? Perhaps there's a better way to deal with relations with other countries than arresting them like that.
You have a good point there Mark, I guess I see Solemani as a terrorist killing our people overseas.
I guess some see him differently?
Is there such a thing as right and wrong then?
Yes there is. And what Trump did, in yielding to the Zionists, was wrong.
We are in a conflict here, The Western world is. It is a religious battle to one side.
I agree we should never have gotten into this conflict, but The West sought to integrate two diametrically opposed cultures.
We should have stayed in relatively isolated and let them to theirs and kept ours to us.
"Globalism" is to fault.
We should embrace nationalism, each nation can have its own culture and I embrace and love the diversity of different cultures.
When we or anyone tries to "homogenize" The World we are wiping out the diversity of cultures.
Bringing China to America and America to China means the end of both cultures.
Our leaders have sought to make all humanity "the same", one people, one planet. The clash of civilizations has resulted. It was folly.