Posted on 03/30/2025 1:47:34 AM PDT by Nextrush
Couldn’t agree more... I got a 4 day suspension for telling the moderators to do their job and remove his content. First time in 18 years I’ve ever been suspended. I used the “F’n” job (exactly how I wrote it)... When I was suspended the moderator wrote me and said he was just doing his F-——g job but he spelled it out in caps. Go figure. Seems the BLOG PIMPs post have been removed several times but he keeps posting them until they stay up.
Inveigled? More like bamboozled and lied to as well as arranged via bribe and threat in order to create a bottomless pit into which to throw billions, and those responsible all have straws with which to imbibe large gulps.
With a willing, greedy SOB whose greed and craving for power played directly into the plans, and made it relatively easy.
The dead on both sides? Collateral acceptable loss, looking at the big picture of worldly control and greed. The military/industrial complex approvingly nodding like bobble head dolls.
The prior admin went along with it, with a potato brain at the helm whose favorite political action was to suck on ice cream cones and sniff little boys and girls, oblivious of the power plays being conducted under the cover of "his" presidency.
10% sent his way helped to soothe the savage beast.
70 years of the USA providing missle defense, air cover, and boots on the ground while they bask in the warm and comfy relative safety(being trade opartners with huge one way tariffs) and allow a quiet invasion until their numbers are in the minority, without firing a shot, because they are superior in thought and view, you see.
Clearly, Russia is not populist enough nor free enough to warrant isolating ourselves from our defense alliances with the Western world just to cut a deal with Putin over Ukraine.
In other words, Russia is not worth dissolving current alliances? Attempting to stop the current slaughter does not need to dissolve a prior commintment to pick and choose, or end long term relationships. However, all relationships are malleable, and need adjustment from time to time, as newer diplomats and leaders grasp the reins and endeavor to place their political mark on the world scene.
This is not a question of being "yellow-bellied" it is a matter of prudent foreign policy and preserving-if necessary reforming-a defense system that has succeeded almost flawlessly for 70 years.
Reformation is precisely what this is, for the prior arrangement no longer serves it's purpose, political or militarily.
In the history of the world, no alliance was written in stone, but was always subject to adjustments, based on the interests of those involved.
I’ve been targeting that POS for a few years but never suspended...yet.
I’ve even included the mod in my replies to him...but no support from them.
I’ve often wondered if the POS has contributed $$$ and gets a free pass from the mods?
Regardless, I’ll continue exposing THE VILE POS as long as I can remember in the early mornings. 😊
If you're want to be really personally offensive, you are going to have to up your game.
General William Tecumseh Sherman would have thought that Putin is totally justified in taking a rebellious region back into the fold just like he did to Nathan Bedford Forest. Sherman done kicked the rebels backsides above their ears.
I fully agree on the moral and practical necessity of ending the war in Ukraine.
A few codicils:
First, we must be wary of the tendency to justify extricating ourselves from a bad situation in Ukraine by citing our own bad behavior in a shameful situation. We are not less bound by commitment and honor to Ukraine because we contributed to the war dishonorably.
Second, we must be wary of a justification to extricate ourselves from Ukraine by claiming that the original sin was committed by a previous administration. If every administration broke the bond of its predecessor we would soon have no allies at all.
Third, it was not just the Biden administration that involved us in this mess. Donald Trump himself bragged that he supplied more arms to Ukraine to deter this war than did Obama, suggesting approval of the war by Trump. To forget that both parties fêted Zelinski as he addressed a joint session of Congress and promised him support in the war, is hypocritical in the extreme.
Third, if we disproportionately paid the freight for NATO, it was not without conscious will and compensation. We ran the show and the vehicle of NATO confined the spread of nuclear weapons, a threat that has now broken wide open. We took that course on behalf of the Western world starting with the Marshall plan and continued it because we chose it. If we hollowed out our industrial base in exchange for alliances, we did it when we were fat and rich and we conditioned our allies to expect us to overpay. Spoiled children and spoiled pets are usually the fault of the parents and Masters.
Fourth, smashing NATO and alienating a half billion people in Europe is not reform and was not necessary. It certainly will not help find willing European partners to a regime of tariffs to restore American industry and convert America back into a mercantilist nation. Instead we have infuriated very, very angry trade partners.
Fifth, we have not yet begun to assess the damage we have done to our trust with our Pacific rim allies who were counting on us not to abandon them as we are doing to Ukraine. Again, we've unleashed the threat of nuclear proliferation in the Pacific as well as in the Mideast and Europe. We have prompted those allies to consider cutting their own deals with the Chinese.
Sixth, all of this was unnecessary. By way of one illustrative example, why did we begin our negotiation by conceding almost every conceivable Russian demand? Why did we do so without involving our Ukrainian ally? Why did we couple a speech by the vice president excoriating Europe for its human rights record and couple that speech with remarks about the questionable worthiness of NATO partners to deserve our protection? Why did we combine all of this with aggressive bluster about Greenland with threats to take it by force if necessary? Why did we humiliate Zelinski on international TV? Are we to believe that the timing of these events was coincidental?
The war in Ukraine must be stopped, but it must be stopped the right way, and we have gone about it the wrong way entirely.
You and Saul Alinsky shamefully justify your positions by knowingly aligning them with Russia and approving, imitating, and even endorsing Russia's behavior.
It is usually a good idea to extricate one's self out of a bad situation due to it's very definition. Being in one due to dishonorable actions by previus nefarious characters makes it more imperitive to extricate. It does not serve as an exception.
To your second:
Our elected representation is designed to hopefully reflect the will of the people.
If prior administrations did not reflect those views, and they were subsequently thrown out by their ears, by overwhelming numbers, because the following candidate/representative declared that they would do this, then it is their obligation to do so.
That allies disagree or agree, is secondary, and can be handled by diplomacy, provided the new plans are justified and with good reason...something we give the new admin time to develop and implement, and show the friuts of.
To your third:
Every new plan and agreement starts with conscious plan and compensation in mind,initially. However, it is/was the deterioration over seventy years, to the point where we foot the bill, we use our resources, we commit, while the very people we protect and shield against the Bear deal directly with the Bear, while they allow multi 100 million invasion to take place, an invasion which they personally invite, lest they be deemed unworthy, while they poo poo the USA for not going along with their policies, their global agendas, their politics, their one sided market tactics, all the while as they themselves lead each other into a socio economic failure from which they will be lucky to survive. Never mind the Bear, they are their own enemy, but fail to see it. What is left to defend, other than our own interests?
To your fourth:
Briefly, see number three, and add that our angry trade partners will always be angry when their glass bubble is shattered, and now they must enter the reality stage, and yes, actually come to the table, and either have tariff wars ad nauseum, or perhaps sit down and hammer out actual tarrifless trade agreements beneficial to both parties, not just thiers, while our negotiators walk around with no idea other than self and freind's pockets lining.
To your fifth:
I do not see where the current President Trump has unleashed the threat of nuclear proliferation at the pacific rim, the middle east or anywhere else. on the contray, by his very actions, he designs to contain it, and actually reduce the threat of same.
To your sixth:
Numerous why's. I recall 55 years ago, when Henry the K was asked why he was succesful in diplomatic negotiation, his response paraphrased was that his team and those on the other side would spend the first two weeks exactly and precisely defining what the words they were going to use would mean. After that, it was simply a matter of discussing and coming to a beneficial conclusion, without misunderstading or misconstruing the intended meaning of spoken word.
It has only been a couple of months, have some faith and give the man time and room to work. I believe (even) you will be approving and supportive.
Russians don't want Nazi worshippers breaking away and aligning with NATO.
Keep digging.
It makes Ukraine a pawn in a large game of controlling natural resources and insuring domestic tranquility.
They thought we were "giving" them aid by the tens and hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars. hahahahahaha....
they have huge natural gas, oil deposits in and near the Black Sea. They have enormous infrastructure to supply fertilizer and large areas of farmland. They also have rare earth minerals that we'd like to keep out of the hands of China....
Why then did we scuttle NATO?
Because they're costs are more than their benefits.... simple ledger. They somehow think we (the USA) "needs" them. They forget that they are a vassal state that is kept safe by the willingness of our men to fight and die for their freedom.
They hate violent men. They've raised generations of pussies that won't defend a priest, woman or child from being beaten, raped and stabbed in public and are so fearful of the muslim horde that they are willingly kneeling and imprisoning patriotic citizens of their countries....
they are trying to drag us into WW3....
F@##k them. all of them....
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