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The world is about to change drastically.
Remember those "Russian" drones in Poland and Russian Planes flying over Estonia? You don't hear anything about those obvious hoaxes anymore.
Trump's recent comments gave retards in Europe a momentary burst of bellicosity. But now people are realizing what Trump actually said. He told Europe it is on it's own in Ukraine.
Russia will be in Odessa within months. There are a few globalists in Europe that want to go to war with Russia. That is about it.
And don't miss the part where he talks about the debt to GDP ratios and comparison of current US debt to when Britain pulled out of India.
I only wish Trump had ended NATO with honor instead.
Today is the 26th, and the period when the Rapture was to take place is over. All my neighbors, and both of my church-going sons and their equally devout wives are still here. I kind of thought they would be.
Althouse - The Musical is growing by leaps and bounds. Latest stars to commit:
Christopher Walken as RH Hardin
Ken Jeong as Dinky Dau
Richard E Grant as Laslo
Ric Flair as Ride Space Mountain
Mick Jagger as Mick
Hugh Laurie as the late Dr Michael K
Dean Norris as David Begley
Rachael Stirling as Peachy
Wallace Shawn as Shouting Thomas
Donald Fagen as Narciso
Christoph Waltz as RCOcean
Ron Perlman as Temujin
Jon Lovitz as Le Douanier
Special appearance by Johnny Galecki as John Althouse Cohen
Dennis Franz as Not Illinois Resident
Clint Eastwood as Clyde (because of the famous line)
David Strathairn as Narr
Billy Mumy as Quaestor
Jennifer Garner as Freeman Hunt
Bob Odenkirk as Iman
Kirk Franklin as Kirk Parker
Stephen Lang as the Drill SGT
More stars signing on each day. May singlehandedly bring Midtown back to normal! CC - JSM
An abrupt end of NATO? Without America, a nonviable organization. An aborted alliance... reliance, perchance progress. Summer after Springs.
NATO's reason for being was the USSR. Once it fell apart and half of the old Soviet buffer states joined the west, NATO became a self-milking machine. War pigs gotta get their paychecks and promotions. Military bases need a lot of money to sustain regional economies.
NATO "should" have been dissolved and reimagined circa 1995. But, the EU economies got lazy dodging their payments as they simultaneously exploited US exports and badmouthed US culture.
“Summoned U.S. Military Officers Are Expected to Hear a ‘Rally the Troops’ Message
Several generals and admirals said the unusual meeting in the Washington area called by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth would be both disruptive and expensive.”
“Mr. Hegseth, though, seems to be reveling in the secrecy surrounding the event. In a social media post on Friday, Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, who is retired from the Army, compared the gathering to a “surprise assembly” in 1935 at which German generals were “required to swear a personal oath” to the Nazis and Adolf Hitler.”
Hmmmm…
NYT
No longer using the walker post-knee replacement. That development happened faster than I expected!
Swelling is coming along. The compression stockings I have to wear are annoying but I get it. The new knee is so quiet compared to the old one!
Keep getting better Jamie.
"john mosby said...
Althouse - The Musical is growing by leaps and bounds. Latest stars to commit:
Christopher Walken as RH Hardin
Ken Jeong as Dinky Dau
Richard E Grant as Laslo
Ric Flair as Ride Space Mountain
Mick Jagger as Mick"
Don't know what happened to Mick, but he was the First one who predicted a Trump win while the rest of us said
"No way, Jose"
Hegseth is not just a low IQ, alcoholic former part-time talk show host, he is delusional enough to think he has value to impart to the leaders of the US military.
Restructuring in the military might be called for, but it’s being conducted by an inebriant Fox show host.This is the post woke post DEI world where incompetent white men are hired, especially for their lack of expertise and on their identity politics.The people who wanted this post woke world will get a very good taste of what that exactly means.
Good for you, Jamie
@john mosby, I understand that Chris Hemsworth has been signed to play me. The resemblance is uncanny, but he needs to work on a Virginia accent.
Go to bed Igna. You are over tired and need to take your meds. Your mental state seems precarious.
You might feel better if you furthered the cause by killing a Republican, but I sense that you think that is something best left to other compatriots.
Resist Sister! Resist!
@Jamie, great news! Keep it up.
Achilles said...
The world is about to change drastically.
Remember those "Russian" drones in Poland and Russian Planes flying over Estonia? You don't hear anything about those obvious hoaxes anymore.
France and Germany have both informed their hospital to b prepared for several thousand casualties a month.
Poland and other nations bordering Russia have started fortifying their border, including laying down, digging, building up various forms of tank obstacles. And in some areas, having learned from Ukraine operations, building covered trenches to move troops beyond drone vision.
How many possible front line nations are building their own drones? Well, they're cheap, can be done in almost any factory building, easily designed, in fact, almost open sourced at this point, and can use many off the shelf components that are readily available. Therefore, we haven't a clue.
Why were flag officers summoned to a big unprecedented meet? Speculation among field grade officers (I asked one tonight) is "something big", but no real clue. Just- "Something Big!"
Why were flag officers summoned to a big unprecedented meet? Speculation among field grade officers (I asked one tonight) is "something big", but no real clue. Just- "Something Big!"
Epstein file release, or diversion..
Must be a connection
James Comey was a card-carrying, life-long Republican right up until 2016. The fact that right-wing nuts see him as "the left" now speaks to just how delusional and ungrounded the movement is that is in bed with Trump. Back during the mid-2000s Bush administration officials talked about how we were the sole super-power and therefore we could "create our own reality". Of course, there is short-term political reality, and then there is the reality of reality.
Great progress, Jamie!
kakalogorrhea.
Old woman wearing a "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" t-shirt attempts to decapitate a Trump effigy.
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1970196397128392883
Now do RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard, Kak.
’…Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, who is retired from the Army, compared the gathering to a “surprise assembly” in 1935 at which German generals were “required to swear a personal oath” to the Nazis and Adolf Hitler.”’
I would hope a West Point alumnus would possess a modicum of intellectual rigor and historical erudition, but…
Hodges is a hard core leftist. He attacked Trump, and has publically endorsed Biden and Harris.
The least surprising thing I’ve heard today, RC.
john mosby said...
“Althouse - The Musical is growing by leaps and bounds.”
Any truth to the rumor that Alyssa Milano and Sarah Silverman got into a cat fight outside the casting director’s office over who was going to play Inga?
"Now do RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard"
What does Signal say about this meeting?
"Trump's recent comments gave retards in Europe a momentary burst of bellicosity. But now people are realizing what Trump actually said. He told Europe it is on its own in Ukraine."
For all Trump’s unpredictability, so far Putin finds him completely predictable.
Big Mike:
Your words in the 3rd comment are ambiguous. Did you 'kind of expect' your Christian neighbors and relatives not to be raptured because you didn't believe it would happen at all, or because you didn't think any of them seemed virtuous and holy enough to make the cut?
Soviet Inag is here to call anyone non-leftist a "nazi"
hmmmmm.
"When Anti-Fascism Starts to Look… Fascist"
Sent to me by a friend who is no longer on the left.
wow.
This is someone else, who left the left.
Very interesting, and intelligent analysis of the illiberal left and their behavior.
What does Signal say about this meeting?
Does that mean something to you?
"James Comey was a card-carrying, life-long Republican right up until 2016."
Yes, Comey said he was a Republican and was registered as one. And that means absolutely nothing! There's no evidence of him saying or doing anything conservative or endorsing any conservative candidate for office. We dont even know who he voted for. A Communist true believer can register as a Republican. And tell everyone he's a "Life long republican".
Thats why Obama chose him as FBI director. Its why, his name was floated as a replacement for Stevens on the SCOTUS. He's a Republican in the same sense that David Souter was.
Whats astounding to me about Comey is this - I can't think of a recent public official who such a liar and so without honor. And had such contempt for the law. Yet constantly talked about "the rule of law" and how honorable he was.
And there's the fact that he's - on a personal level - such a weirdo clown. I hope the FBI searches the drapes when they arrest him, because he'll probably try to hide there.
Emerson's "The more he talked of honor, the faster we counted our spoons" fits Comey to a tee.
My take is, Hegseth is going to get all those generals and admirals in a big room, then have the doors locked while SEAl and DELTA appear as Hegseth reveals names of people he wants dealh with "with extreme prejudice". Said special operators mow them down, to "encourage the others".
That sound about right, Inga?
thats an interesting question, why don't these prophets evern mention Matthew 24, furthermore one can refer to James (no one is worthy, no not one) the first part tells you it could happen at any time, and don't take any earthly signs as proof
before Comey worked for the FBI he was on the board of HSBC along with a couple of other mandarins from GHCQ and other places, a very negligent bank when it came to monies from strange places, yes they were fined some nominal amount, but nowhere near what they were due, and no executive was charged, funny detail that,
compared the gathering to a “surprise assembly” in 1935 at which German generals were “required to swear a personal oath” to the Nazis and Adolf Hitler.”
But remember, we're the ones who are losing our ever-loving minds ...
/rolls eyes and walks away
Liz Cheney and Adam Kinsinger were card carrying full fledged Republicans as well.
Comey got the HSBC job (a job he was unqualified to hold) through the Clintons. 10 million for a few years work. He is a Clinton lackey, bought and paid for.
effinayright said...
My take is, Hegseth is going to get all those generals and admirals in a big room, then have the doors locked while SEAl and DELTA appear as Hegseth reveals names of people he wants dealh with "with extreme prejudice". Said special operators mow them down, to "encourage the others".
One of the other suppositions being bandied about is that for every 10 flag officers walking in, 9 flag officers and a newly created civilian walk out. Though many JOs would prefer that to be 8 or even 7 or 6 flag officers walking out... Not quite "extreme prejudice", but would serve a purpose.
he had also been of the saboteur gang against alberto gonzalez, twenty years one, he still doesn't have a clue,
and don't get me started on the whole illegal surveillance faint as what he accepted under obama was magnitudes larger than stellar wind ever was,
you can also add the details of the raid on bayoumis pad in london that never made it into the 9-11 report, as was the 28 pages, so these are pretty bad hombres, compared to the flattery that they receive constantly
I don't where liz went off the deep end, but the death of her fmr client general suleimani had a part, he not us, was the kingmaker in bagdad for the better part of 20 years,
An "Amen, Bro" to RCOCEAN II regarding the "card-carrying" [any of you ever seen one of those?], "life-long" Republican.
Comey's voting record is private, and even if he wanted to do some back-filling claiming he always voted GOP, it would be entirely self-serving.
The POINT is, Comey BEHAVED like a partisan leftist criminal when a senior official in the so-called "Justice" Department. No amount of attempted whitewashing by alluding to an immaterial membership in a political party absolves him of his criminal behavior.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/education/2023/05/18/who-is-ian-roberts-the-new-superintendent-of-des-moines-schools/70219522007/
This should be the biggest education scandal of the year- if not decade. An illegal alien- with a weapons charge- and a final order of deportation- and no work permit- hired as a school system superintendent with a base salary of- &270,000 a year. Plus perks! And he apparently was superintendent of more then one school district previously!
I really think what this points out is- school system superintendents are totally superfluous and unneeded. Each school, by itself, should have a principle- wholly responsible to the taxpaying citizens to see to it that the children in his/her school that are educable (some children aren't) are educated.
The chair of the board that hired him: Jackie Norris -- former Chief of Staff to Michelle Obama. Who is running for senate in Iowa. Wow.
Two notes on the first comment:
1. We don't hear much now about the drones flying over Poland and the Migs flying over Estonia, because for the last three days, drones have been shutting down multiple airports in Denmark, while a large Russian landing ship lurked just off the Danish coast with its transponder off. The fact is that many of the drones in Poland were shot down or crashed. No American civilian could possibly know one way or the other whether they were really Russian, but all signs point to yes. Just today, I think it was, Russia Today was saying "Poland will certainly not survive being divided again" (4:40 on this otherwise-boring video). A country whose propagandists say things like that is certainly capable of using drones in grossly illegal ways.
2. Achilles still has unfinished business with me from the last sunrise thread. He called me a "Macron stooge" and I asked him either to come up with one or two instances of me ever saying anything whatsoever that was positive about Emmanuel Macron, or to withdraw the accusation with abject apologies. I'm still waiting. He also needs to correct his false statement about the last Moldovan elections. Can't seem to get anything right - almost as if he doesn't want to.
well we never this provocatively stupid in the cold war, our navy knew not to engage the bastion, the forward navy bases, nor fire rockets into the interior of Russia, that would be regarded as a foolish gesture, heck the Dems freaked out over the Pershing deployment, and they were way more sensible than they are now in some respects,
The DemocRATs keep talking about “revenge” and “retribution”, but they never say what this revenge and retribution is for. Just what did the asshole leftwingers do exactly?
It’s not entirely clear under what legal authority Lindsey Halligan is play-acting as US Attorney. But when Alina Habba was challenged for play-acting as US Attorney after her temporary period expired in New Jersey, a judge ruled that the interim appointment is per position, not per person, meaning that Erik Siebert — the guy Trump fired on Friday — would already have used up the possibility of such an interim appointment last May.
In other words, Halligan may not be a US Attorney at all, and unless she fixes that problem by Tuesday, when Comey can no longer be charged, the entire thing might just disappear. Then EDVA could be left with an indictment charging Jim Comey, but with no one willing to stand in a courtroom to prosecute it.
My bad joke is that the EDVA Rocket Docket will blow up just like SpaceX.
because we didn't kill or imprison you, iman, that is itself a criminal offense,
one has to take the paddle like otter, and say 'can I have another,
say you know fani and dread pirate smith, and others, well yes you tried to ruin me, bankrupt me, even let me die in prison, no hard feeling all right
specially when they are guilty of the same thing they accused me, that turnstile is over,
Besides Trump, the list of individuals in Trump’s orbit that these leftwing assholes had arrested and prosecuted is not a short list, narciso. I’m going to spend some time and document it.
If they weren’t murdering or attempting to murder people, they wouldn’t know what do with themselves.
its a long list, but i'm not going to go through it now,
tomorrow maybe, if someone is utterly without scruples as all these characters have proven, well its a cinch to do anything to someone you consider a deplorable, a fascist, yadda yadda,
Yes John Mosby..The Doctor is in the House, seeking to help those up in here suffering from that horrible illness that swept less than half the country. 'MAGA ASS KISSIUM" I will be sending out Digital prescriptions of TYLENOL for the really ill ones AND A SIGNED PHOTO of JFK JR
Achilles said...
The world is about to change drastically.
Remember those "Russian" drones in Poland and Russian Planes flying over Estonia? You don't hear anything about those obvious hoaxes anymore.
>>>>>It's only been about a week! And how do YOU know they were hoaxes? Just more bloviating on your part.
Trump's recent comments gave retards in Europe a momentary burst of bellicosity. But now people are realizing what Trump actually said. He told Europe it is on it's own in Ukraine.
>>>> No, he didn't . He said we would continue to sell NATO the armaments they could then sell onward to Ukraine. He didn't wash his hands of the war. He said we wouldn't give Ukraine weapons for free.
Russia will be in Odessa within months. There are a few globalists in Europe that want to go to war with Russia. That is about it.
>>>>> Wha.....? Russia's had almost 4 years to extend the territory they stole. They're right where they started. Have you bothered to look at a freakin' MAP, to see the situation on the ground? Russia no longer can send men and materiel across Crimea, as the Ukrainians have throttled Russki control. They have no viable route to bypass the Ukrainians north of the peninsula.
And don't miss the part where he talks about the debt to GDP ratios and comparison of current US debt to when Britain pulled out of India.
>>>Wow. What an apples-to-rutabagas comparison. Britan had endured enormous financial losses because of the war, and it was necessary for them to let their colonies go to focus on their own economic recovery.
>>>We're not flat on our backs. THEY were.
I only wish Trump had ended NATO with honor instead.
>>>No you don't You can't shit all over him, and then speak of honor.
Another of trumps"only the best people" The insurance lawyer got called out at hearing and Judge wants to know why he received contradicting paperwork and it was also noted the Lawyer spells just like trump,, Principal,like the person you do detention for at school or principle the real meaning.Nobody spell checks in this group of misfit characters. The judge asked why the wrong paperwork was there and Haligan says I dont know I signed that one..The judge says"you also signed the wrong one..She says "oh well"
What a bunch of goofs huh? Beaucoup Dinky Dau wtf OVER?
one has to take the paddle like otter, and say 'can I have another,
Otter never took the paddle. That was Kevin Bacon ... administered with sexual glee by Douglas C. Neidermeyer.
What Democrats and Liberals don’t understand is that we just don’t care anymore about anything you say. Anything. You’ve lied about so much for so long, we see you as mentally ill. That goes for Politicians, MSM, entertainers, and even the nags here. You say blah blah blah, and we stick our fingers in our ears, smile, and sing La La La. So just shut the fuck up.
@Dr. Weevil, while it is possible (probable!) that I simply do not understand how the Rapture was supposed to work, i never expected it to happen. At 79 I should be able to ask about it directly soon enough.
What Lindsey, the Insurance lawyer, said in the Comey indictment is wrong. Comey did not falsely state to a U.S. Senator during a 2020 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that he had not “authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports." The FBI Director answered the Senator's question, saying only that he stood by his earlier testimony. Effectively, the alteration of Comey's real answer is an attempt to charge him for something he said in May 2017, which cannot be included in this indictment. Lindsey Halligan has no idea what Jim Comey, the Republican, said eight years ago, so the grand jurors were served ham sandwiches.
This is what it looks like when your political goals rely on controlling the narrative and you lose the ability to control the narrative. Sorry Dems pathetic nitpicking and cool kid snark is no way to win hearts and minds…
The free speech advocate had the day off today but Ramaswamy was youtubing that two people were deplatormed for wrongthink. No idea who they are but how 2023 of YouTube
Too bad, Gadfly. Dems literally changed laws in order to prosecute Trump. Your heros are about to reap the whirlwind of what they’ve sown.
RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules. (This is a serious rule. The besieged entity’s very credibility and reputation is at stake, because if activists catch it lying or not living up to its commitments, they can continue to chip away at the damage.)
I don’t understand why interfering with an election isn’t a crime.
To take Odessa it would be necessary for the Russians to achieve a massive military and engineering feat of establishing a bridgehead over the Dneiper. Given what they have been up to recently it seems unlikely that they have it in them. Maybe if they are given several years of peace, in which to recover, and somehow keep the Ukrainians from a similar recovery.
Rapture?
Ask the SDAs about October 22, 1844.
Is it just me or is it odd that our top military leaders, those brave men and/or women that are needed to fight our good fights around the world, seem afraid to meet with our Secretary of War? What’s the purpose of yammering about this to the press?
I am betting that Hegseth is going to read UCMJ Article 88 to the assembled flag officers. That's the one that criminalizes contemptuous statements by officers against the President, SecDef, and a few other officials. And it applies to retired flag officers as well.
There's been a lot of buzz on both right and left about Trump faithfully executing this statute. That's why suddenly people like Milley have shut up. CC, JSM
Rocco: "Any truth to the rumor that Alyssa Milano and Sarah Silverman got into a cat fight outside the casting director’s office over who was going to play Inga?"
Any such fight would have occurred inside the casting director's office. And it would have involved pillows. CC, JSM
So Buwaya agrees with Trump that the Ukrainians and Europeans got this, and don't need us involved in squabbles on distant shores that have nothing to do with us, to help a country that fought with the Nazis against a country that never did anything to us. Unless you are going to count their involvement in a war that we were fighting where we had no business to be thousands of miles from home. All those Americans died in vain, we lost the war, and Viet Nam is fine.
Jaq: "ll those Americans died in vain, we lost the war, and Viet Nam is fine."
Sorry, but I have to jump in with my hobbyhorse that VN was a campaign where we accepted defeat in order to win the Cold War. Kind of a macro-level version of what Giap himself was doing against us at the micro level.
And "Viet Nam is fine" - yes, it is our ally against the ChiComs, and it is turning into a capitalist country. Kind of what we did on a similar timescale with Taiwan and South Korea.
So many times, the US gets criticized for not seeing the big picture or taking the long timeline. VN is one case where we did. CC, JSM
But I do agree with you that we have no business in Ukraine v Russia, other than to speed it towards a peace so that the ChiComs will stop laughing at Europeans killing each other. CC, JSM
Peachy, I like "Inag". Inag and TBHag are the two sisters in The Simpsons. Not related: I miss Drago
"It's only been about a week! And how do YOU know they were hoaxes? Just more bloviating on your part."
Well, the SIM cards from the drones were Polish and Swedish, Poland refused to discuss the matter with Russia, which demanded a meeting.
As for the incursion, according Col MacGregor, who was a senior advisor to the SecDef under Trump, his contacts in the military say that no incursion took place.
What possible reason could Russia have right now to drag NATO into the war? They are winning. Even if you believe that they are losing, that's even more reason not to drag NATO into the war.
So we have a "incident" were one side, the accuser, has everything to gain if people believe it (drag NATO into the war), and the other side, the accused, has nothing to gain, and so the reasons for them doing it are given as "the are evil and stupid" and the false flag is then used as evidence of that, "proving" what you assume
The goal of the war up until recently was not to take land, it was attrition, and so it was better, from the point of view of attrition, to let the Ukrainian troops come to them. Why didn't they destroy the bridges over the Dnieper? They wanted the Ukrainians to send their army to be destroyed. This policy of imposing attrition on the Ukrainians is bearing fruit now.
We can argue all day. I think that the Ukrainians should have taken that first deal Putin offered that left their country intact and neutral and respected the language rights of the ethnic Russians, like Quebec, but it will not surprise me in the least if Russia takes Odessa.
Time will tell.
China's holdings of US debt over the past decade have dropped from $1.3 trillion to $700 billion, a level not seen since around the year 2000, while their total foreign holdings are at record highs.
"Even though the *dollar amount* of total foreign holdings has increased over time, the share of total U.S. public debt held by foreigners has declined in recent years, because *total U.S. debt has grown faster than foreign purchases*" ChatGPT sources Congress.gov for this.
Our military empire costs a trillion a year, not counting probably 300 or 400 billion for "black ops," CIA's army and weapons distribution to various "players", color revolutions and foreign coups. I suppose Joe Biden might be right, that there is "nothing that American can't do."
Time will tell.
James Comey
@Comey
Small lies matter, even about yearbooks. From the standard jury instruction: “If a witness is shown knowingly to have testified falsely about any material matter, you have a right to distrust such witness' other testimony and you may reject all the testimony of that witness ...”
9:32 PM · Sep 27, 2018
Apparently Comey "stands by his testimony," my first question would be to him "does this statement include your oath to tell the truth to Congress?"
An opinion poll in Poland says that even a majority of Poles believe it's a false flag operation by Ukraine.
In this same thread, we're told Trump has abandoned Ukraine and forced a hapless NATO to go it alone, AND that several NATO nations formerly under Soviet rule are negaging in 'false flag" ops, itching to gin up a war. Go figure.
That's great, Jamie.
Keep up the recovery, Jamie.
As for SIM cards in mystery drones, everybody knows it's impossible for the Russians to acquire Western ones . . . right?
Wheels within wheels, false flags behind false flags.
It took less time for the Soviet Red Army of Workers and Peasants to go from Stalingrad and the Caucasus to Vienna and Berlin than it has taken Putin's rabble to go past their initial gains and take Kyiv and Odesa.
The whole point of acquiring Polish SIM cards for Russian drones was to allow them to navigate using the Polish cell-phone network. As Narr notes, getting hold of foreign SIM cards is not difficult, at least in democratic countries. What this proves is that the incursions were not just Russian but premeditated: they intended to invade Poland with drones. The fact that 19 of them crossed the border on the same day is one more proof that they weren't just strays that got lost along the way to Ukrainian targets. Only a propagandist or a fool would deny that they were Russian. If many Poles doubt it, that just show how massive and effective propaganda (Russian) and folly or wishful thinking (Polish) are.
Narr (10:18am):
Some on Twitter have had fun comparing the pace of the Russian advances on the Donbas front to the pace of a snail. In brief, a snail is three or four times faster.
Jaq:
Didn't you swear you were never going to reply to me again? Why don't you let Achilles answer my objections to his arguments? Is one of you a sockpuppet of the other?
As for your disingenuous question "What possible reason could Russia have right now to drag NATO into the war?" the most plausible argument I've seen is that Putin knows he's losing and wants at least a small war with NATO because losing to mighty NATO is less humiliating than losing to Ukraine. The idea that NATO wants a war with Putin is obviously false, but Putin certainly acts as if he wants one with NATO.
Rocco said...
john mosby said...
“Althouse - The Musical is growing by leaps and bounds.”
Any truth to the rumor that Alyssa Milano and Sarah Silverman got into a cat fight outside the casting director’s office over who was going to play Inga?"
I'm actually rooting for Sydney Sweeney- the challenging character work would make her a definite shoe-in for the Academy award for Best Actress.
Plus it also means Oscar wins for wardrobe and makeup effects when you think of all the work required to turn into your average, Inga AWFL.
The Soviet Union was a huge and formidable army, the Russians are supposed to be a threat to conquer Europe and at the same time, a weak sister who can't even deal with Ukraine.
I wonder which is it?
"Wheels within wheels, false flags behind false flags."
The question you must ask is what the Russians hoped to gain from that? What would motivate such an elaborate ruse? The incursion was far beyond the range of the Russian drones, so they put extra batteries in to double the range? Why? To motivate NATO to arm up their border? Obviously we can't know the truth, but the rule of false flags says that when the evidence is thin, and the accuser has a lot to gain, and the accused has nothing to gain, it's a false flag, almost certainly.
"AND that several NATO nations formerly under Soviet rule are negaging in 'false flag" ops, itching to gin up a war"
Tom Clancy explains it very well in The Sum of All Fears. They think that if the US can be drawn in, Ukraine can win. The US has announced reductions of forces in the Baltics, which has freaked them out, so yeah, that's what false flags are for, to change the dynamic.
It's not in the US interest to spend our treasure, and risk nuclear war, over a squabble in Europe. Look at European history, thousands of years of "squabbles." When will it end? George Washington was right, we should remain behind our oceans and not get involved in, for example, a blood feud between two nations who speak a mutually intelligible (according to ChatGPT) languages.
Europe made a huge bet, based on foolish assurances from Joe Biden, who believed that the Russian Federation would have collapsed by now, and never thought that this war would get dragged out this far, and that so much US weaponry would have been expended while losing territory and costing Ukraine massive casualties. Ukraine had the largest army, outside of Russia, in Europe. The Russians destroyed it, NATO rebuilt it, twice. Where are all of the Soviet weapons that Russia bequeathed Ukraine? Destroyed.
We have stopped giving either Europe, or Ukraine Patriot interceptors, which are now in short supply, and which we might need, and Patriot systems, many of which have apparently been destroyed, or Ukraine wouldn't be asking for new ones.
China can out manufacture us in missiles and drones, we are supposed to be sending Ukraine a "drone swarm" of 3000 drones, which will likely kill a lot of Russians, but do we really think that China can't manufacture drone swarms in quantities that we can't hope to match? This war is unleashing fresh Hell after fresh Hell.
If you want good results you have to start from a foundation of truth.
Europe is completely hollow both morally and economically.
Ukraine is a corrupt klepto state run by the remnants of the factions that allied with Germany against Russia in WW2.
Israel is a self indulgent nation. It rightfully protects its people and defends itself from enemies that seek its destruction. But there is no good reason why they should be allowed to hold influence over US politicians and cause the US to act in ways that are not for the benefit of the people of the United States.
The United States is headed towards fiscal disaster and we are mathematically incapable of sustaining the world wide military presence we currently occupy.
It is now time for the delusions to end.
"If you want good results you have to start from a foundation of truth." Indeed. Achilles needs to start building a foundation of truth by answering the question I've already asked him more than once. Why did he call me a "Macron stooge" when I have never, as far as I recall, said anything positive about Emmanuel Macron?
Of course his third paragraph is another filthy lie. Pity poor Hitler in Hell, hearing that he's responsible for putting a Jew and grandson of a Red Army colonel in charge of Ukraine! He would die of shame if he weren't already dead. And of course the "factions" that run Ukraine are the ones the people of Ukraine elected in a free and fair vote.
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