Well, this jibes with my "paper tiger?" impression. The US military establishment is an overweight and bloated bureaucracy that has never been called to account for anything, be it lost wars or especially, lost money. Was anyone anywhere fired or reprimanded or even suspended for a week with pay for the faked WMD Lie, let alone bombed weddings, torture parties, and downed airliners? (The Lockerbie victims paid the Pentagon's bill for that last one.) As per that post, it has never confronted anything more deadly than some bananas in pajamas with RPGs, and even then, lost miserably.
Let them wage vicious wars over pronouns sitting in foxhole cubicles and decorate each other with panels of ribbons for glorious budget meetings, launching PowerPoint armadas, achieving milestone projects like lunchroom cleanups and record customer satisfaction scores from defense contractors. They'll display their Purple Hearts for Papercuts beside the stuffed animals atop their desktops. But when the screens of their MacBook Pros go dark because of a thermobaric ignition over Boston, and look up, well, time for another career. I hear the Russians will be needing translators in DC soon.
We don't have the will, the weapons or the where-with-all to fight a war. Putin is smart. He can get anything he wants much cheaper. Just buy a few more Democrats.
The US thought it could create another Afghanistan, where Ukrainians with modern weapons savage the Russian military and bankrupt Russia, as happened to the USSR.
I would not be surprised If Russia is fighting a lower cost war, in materials and man power than the West in the Ukraine. The comment by Luongo about war being very energy intensive is on target.
Very well thought out and expressed. Many have said that Trump exposed the corruption and falseness of American domestic politics; well, I submit that Putin is exposing the corruption and falseness of American foreign policy. All I can say is "Lick my decals off, baby!" The truth economically, militarily, politically, and socially will be very good for the U.S. in the long run if we survive the machinations of our fools and our Constitutional governmental interregnum.
Technically speaking U.S. (along with Britain and Russia) did guarantee Ukraine’s territorial integrity in exchange for Ukraine giving up nuclear weapons (Budapest treaty). Not that U.S. ever intended to live up to it. Certainly not when Crimea was annexed.
Not really bizarre. The Deep State was set up in the wake of WW2. It was taken over, coopted, by the Neocons in the Clinton years, when the WEF was starting up.
Well, this jibes with my "paper tiger?" impression. The US military establishment is an overweight and bloated bureaucracy that has never been called to account for anything, be it lost wars or especially, lost money. Was anyone anywhere fired or reprimanded or even suspended for a week with pay for the faked WMD Lie, let alone bombed weddings, torture parties, and downed airliners? (The Lockerbie victims paid the Pentagon's bill for that last one.) As per that post, it has never confronted anything more deadly than some bananas in pajamas with RPGs, and even then, lost miserably.
Let them wage vicious wars over pronouns sitting in foxhole cubicles and decorate each other with panels of ribbons for glorious budget meetings, launching PowerPoint armadas, achieving milestone projects like lunchroom cleanups and record customer satisfaction scores from defense contractors. They'll display their Purple Hearts for Papercuts beside the stuffed animals atop their desktops. But when the screens of their MacBook Pros go dark because of a thermobaric ignition over Boston, and look up, well, time for another career. I hear the Russians will be needing translators in DC soon.
We don't have the will, the weapons or the where-with-all to fight a war. Putin is smart. He can get anything he wants much cheaper. Just buy a few more Democrats.
Are you willing to go to war over climate change?
Only the triple vaxxed need apply.
Interesting.
The US thought it could create another Afghanistan, where Ukrainians with modern weapons savage the Russian military and bankrupt Russia, as happened to the USSR.
I would not be surprised If Russia is fighting a lower cost war, in materials and man power than the West in the Ukraine. The comment by Luongo about war being very energy intensive is on target.
Wait until the US/UK deploy their secret solar-and wind-powered submarines. Game over, Russkies.
Sorry:
https://tomluongo.me/2022/06/29/the-g-7-squawks-but-theyve-already-lost-the-war-against-russia/
Very well thought out and expressed. Many have said that Trump exposed the corruption and falseness of American domestic politics; well, I submit that Putin is exposing the corruption and falseness of American foreign policy. All I can say is "Lick my decals off, baby!" The truth economically, militarily, politically, and socially will be very good for the U.S. in the long run if we survive the machinations of our fools and our Constitutional governmental interregnum.
Turkey joining BRICS? BRICTS?
Those are broadly my tendencies.
Technically speaking U.S. (along with Britain and Russia) did guarantee Ukraine’s territorial integrity in exchange for Ukraine giving up nuclear weapons (Budapest treaty). Not that U.S. ever intended to live up to it. Certainly not when Crimea was annexed.
Not really bizarre. The Deep State was set up in the wake of WW2. It was taken over, coopted, by the Neocons in the Clinton years, when the WEF was starting up.