Posted on 04/06/2022 3:30:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Before our effete Washington "warriors" drag us into a war that most Americans do not seek, should we not at least have a "national conversation" on the matter?
Great change is afoot. People can feel it. The post-WWII global order is cracking. At a minimum, a renewed Cold War mindset is driving a permanent wedge between the U.S.-E.U. Atlantic Bloc and strategic competitors in Russia and China unwilling to yield their national sovereignties to "rules-based systems" run from office suites in Brussels; Washington, D.C.; New York City; and the City of London. As with any zero-sum struggle between competing systems, though, the potential for "cold" wars to turn kinetically "hot" is high.
Will the war in Ukraine stay in Ukraine, or will NATO allies find cause to engage Russia directly? Where are the red lines these days? Nobody seems to know. At the same time, traditional avenues for de-escalation and normal diplomatic stopgaps have largely been thrown out the window. The West has declared linguistic war on all things Russian in a fit of pique, and the Russian people, not surprisingly, increasingly view the U.S.-led West with great apprehension and even enmity. Appeals to emotion within both societies are quickly overtaking sober restraint and common sense. Tempers have begun to boil over, and mixed messaging from D.C. and the E.U. has only added a dangerous accelerant of confusion to an already smoldering tinderbox.
With a vaunted cyber-warfare program that allows Russia to cause more harm to its enemies than it achieves with traditional munitions, while gaining some measure of plausible deniability, hybrid warfare affecting banking systems, power grids, and supply chains makes total war upon civilian populations inevitable. At the same time, the relative anonymity of cyber-attacks makes it increasingly difficult for hostile parties to distinguish
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And the “Great Reset” probably requires WWIII so those actors are likely pushing it behind the curtains.
Meanwhile, our addiction to cheap communist slave labor has built another potential enemy into a super power. I don't know how we can hold our leadership accountable when we don't even hold ourselves accountable.
I thought it was Covid? Moving the goalposts?
The most incredible aspect of this war hysteria is the near total unanimity in the support for any and all acts of war toward Russia. There is no peace movement, no fear of escalation. In every march toward war or conflict in my life there has always been the campus peaceniks, the Hollywood pacifists, the cowards, the America Firsters. Anyone counseling even tapping the brakes is branded a Putin stooge by all quarters. Ex MAGA people here who, three months ago, were wanting to dramatically scale back NATO now want to expand the reasons why NATO goes to war. I think this reflects the near total control the media has on individual decision making in America.
And that goes double for the woketardian generals in the Pentagon.
Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper
With Lloyd Austin and Mark Milley in charge, what coould possibly go wrong?
The one thing we DON”T need right now is a pack of shysters trying to decide what's best for our nation and the world as a whole.. They will ALWAYS check their own pockets first..
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