Correct me if I'm mistaken but hasn't China been busy building it's industrial military base capability for some time now? Russia for sure. Wonder if we should be prepared for "air rifle" warfare. Plenty of oxygen to breath around the globe. Climatologists would go for this. Would it be a fair fight? I mean we in the West produce so much "hot" air it might be a blowout. (no pun intended).
The Blithy Lithy's act as EU and US stooges. Thinking they're in the know on how to combat Russia. They are completely embarrassing themselves.
Last, American and Western policymakers are all inbred goo. They all think alike based on the same assumptions for years and years. No one challenges them. Think tanks need to challenge their hypothesis or we're in big trouble.
Smith's recap of US assumptions about Russia can be summed up in one sentence: "We thought Russia was Libya". They really thought they could just slap Putin around and he would submit. This is a mistake that may put mushroom clouds on our horizon. Why are these "experts" making mistakes that a 10-year-old could see are stupid and dangerous?
Has it occurred to any of these “geniuses” that Putin could bring the EU and the US to their collective knees by withholding gas, strategic metals and a host of other commodities without ever firing a shot?
Do they not understand that they have “outsourced” this country to such a degree that the “sleeping giant” that Yamamoto feared after Pearl Harbor is now nothing more than a hollowed out shell? The author is spot on, we had best rethink the idea that we can go toe to toe with a country that still possesses the industrial might to call our bluff.
This whole episode is so irrational that it beggars the imagination and defies explanation by any normal human standards.
Off topic, but have you seen the “behavioral notes” that Biden’s handlers have him using? U n b l I e v a b l e! We are truly in deep doo doo folks.
Agreed. The level of self-delusion is astonishing. And Putin is playing his hand brilliantly. Every day the conflict continues, the closer we get to General Winter entering the stakes. He letting us Europeans stew in the juice as we slowly start to contemplate a very cold winter without fuel. Am I being too dramatic in saying that this is how revolutions start?
Summit of the Titans. Luongo and Mercouris provide an exceedingly interesting analysis of the European situation (and tangentially that of the U.S.). It is well worth viewing in its entirety. Warning: Once you start you will not be able to stop viewing them. How wonderful it is to have people of this calibre speaking out to educate the rest of us and promote truths about current economics and politics. Their contributions are invaluable.
Well we sorta meant it, kinda meant it, but not really. We (Lithy's) thought the US and EU would have our back so we went ahead and put it out there. Lunch tomorrow?
"It just is going to be painful for us for awhile until the US can afford [to] admit it has fallen from being the world's hegemon."
When you stop and think about it...just stop and think about it...no nation that is remotely serious about being the world's hegemon...about actually leading the World... could possibly accept being led by Joe Biden...Kamala Harris...Anthony Blinken...Lloyd Austin...and Victoria Nuland. And Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Adam Schiff. And Merrick Garland. And being cheer-led by Jen Psaki and Karine Jean-Pierre and Joy Reid and and Rachel Maddow and Brian Stelter. And the known propagandists at CNN and MSNBC and the New York Times and Washington Post.
It really is quite simply a horrifying and pathetic joke.
It was started in 1997 when Bill Clinton gave China temporary FNTS then made it permanent as he bounced out the door. He also announced on TV, to no challenges, that America had converted from a Agea/Manufacturing based economy to a Service Based one. I am a skilled Mold Maker for the Plastic Injection Molding Industry and it ruined my growing Shop for lack of work. I never passed on the trade as was done for me.
And at bargain base fire sale prices and Super Computers that he didn't have scrubbed of our advances and discoveries. Stalin had the Rosenberg, China has the Clintons.
Correct me if I'm mistaken but hasn't China been busy building it's industrial military base capability for some time now? Russia for sure. Wonder if we should be prepared for "air rifle" warfare. Plenty of oxygen to breath around the globe. Climatologists would go for this. Would it be a fair fight? I mean we in the West produce so much "hot" air it might be a blowout. (no pun intended).
The Blithy Lithy's act as EU and US stooges. Thinking they're in the know on how to combat Russia. They are completely embarrassing themselves.
Last, American and Western policymakers are all inbred goo. They all think alike based on the same assumptions for years and years. No one challenges them. Think tanks need to challenge their hypothesis or we're in big trouble.
Smith's recap of US assumptions about Russia can be summed up in one sentence: "We thought Russia was Libya". They really thought they could just slap Putin around and he would submit. This is a mistake that may put mushroom clouds on our horizon. Why are these "experts" making mistakes that a 10-year-old could see are stupid and dangerous?
Has it occurred to any of these “geniuses” that Putin could bring the EU and the US to their collective knees by withholding gas, strategic metals and a host of other commodities without ever firing a shot?
Do they not understand that they have “outsourced” this country to such a degree that the “sleeping giant” that Yamamoto feared after Pearl Harbor is now nothing more than a hollowed out shell? The author is spot on, we had best rethink the idea that we can go toe to toe with a country that still possesses the industrial might to call our bluff.
This whole episode is so irrational that it beggars the imagination and defies explanation by any normal human standards.
Off topic, but have you seen the “behavioral notes” that Biden’s handlers have him using? U n b l I e v a b l e! We are truly in deep doo doo folks.
Agreed. The level of self-delusion is astonishing. And Putin is playing his hand brilliantly. Every day the conflict continues, the closer we get to General Winter entering the stakes. He letting us Europeans stew in the juice as we slowly start to contemplate a very cold winter without fuel. Am I being too dramatic in saying that this is how revolutions start?
If you have the time ...
https://odysee.com/THE-EU-KILLS-ITSELF-2:805541f2608b1caafbd15158e068ee923992a9d4
Summit of the Titans. Luongo and Mercouris provide an exceedingly interesting analysis of the European situation (and tangentially that of the U.S.). It is well worth viewing in its entirety. Warning: Once you start you will not be able to stop viewing them. How wonderful it is to have people of this calibre speaking out to educate the rest of us and promote truths about current economics and politics. Their contributions are invaluable.
All those folks who cashed in on offshoreing our Industrial Base hopefully will be in the front lines.
If Russia has now taken the majority of the Ukrainian Heavy Industry Areas, 80% I have read, I assume that is impacting their ammunition production.
The backtracking by the Lithuanians is amusing. I believe the Russian Threat was more important, than " international law still has meaning".
Well we sorta meant it, kinda meant it, but not really. We (Lithy's) thought the US and EU would have our back so we went ahead and put it out there. Lunch tomorrow?
@Pete
"It just is going to be painful for us for awhile until the US can afford [to] admit it has fallen from being the world's hegemon."
When you stop and think about it...just stop and think about it...no nation that is remotely serious about being the world's hegemon...about actually leading the World... could possibly accept being led by Joe Biden...Kamala Harris...Anthony Blinken...Lloyd Austin...and Victoria Nuland. And Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Adam Schiff. And Merrick Garland. And being cheer-led by Jen Psaki and Karine Jean-Pierre and Joy Reid and and Rachel Maddow and Brian Stelter. And the known propagandists at CNN and MSNBC and the New York Times and Washington Post.
It really is quite simply a horrifying and pathetic joke.
Which would be funny if the joke were not on us.
I'm throwing all my weight and funds behind John Kerry and his "swift" boat climatologists to rescue us when the time is right.
It was started in 1997 when Bill Clinton gave China temporary FNTS then made it permanent as he bounced out the door. He also announced on TV, to no challenges, that America had converted from a Agea/Manufacturing based economy to a Service Based one. I am a skilled Mold Maker for the Plastic Injection Molding Industry and it ruined my growing Shop for lack of work. I never passed on the trade as was done for me.
We have Brilliant leadership huh?
Not only that, of course, but he also sold them our military technology:
https://www.amazon.com/Deception-Clinton-America-Chinese-Military/dp/0976116804
And at bargain base fire sale prices and Super Computers that he didn't have scrubbed of our advances and discoveries. Stalin had the Rosenberg, China has the Clintons.
Arguably, the 'good propaganda' can also now be labeled as failed.
And I'm sure the Diversity and Inclusion department is well funded too.
Dang you beat me to it. I was gonna say that. Good form Steghorn.