Posted on 03/21/2022 6:56:31 AM PDT by Auntie Mame
The center is not holding, things are falling apart. We have moved on from mass psychosis over vaccines to mass psychosis over the urgent need to go to war with Russia.
The sanctions are bad enough; the early economic fallout from them is already causing pain for working and middle-class Americans. But we did sanctions last week, the public demands more. Do something, even if that thing is horrifying in its implications. Two years of pent-up dissociated rage is being channeled and redirected at an external target by the same people responsible for the response to COVID-19, among the worst atrocities in American history.
Americans of Russian descent—the vast majority of whom have no association with Putin or the Russian state, not that their mistreatment would be justified if they did—are bearing the brunt of a particularly vicious campaign of racial hatred and attacks. Quite the contrast to the early days of COVID when liberals were tripping over themselves to get to their nearest Chinese restaurant to prove that racism was the real virus. Joe Biden couldn’t find time in his State of the Union address to mention the 13 Americans killed in Afghanistan but he did find time to celebrate the idea of Ukrainian pensioners throwing themselves under the tracks of Russian tanks. It is hard to imagine a more ignominious end to Pax Americana.
Pax Americana is dead and we have killed it.
It didn’t have to be this way. I am reminded of a quote from Condoleezza Rice about the morning of 9/11. She knew that U.S. forces going to DEFCON-3 would trigger a similar escalation by Russia so she called President Putin and told him our military would be going on high alert. He told her that he knew and that he had ordered his forces to stand down. Then he asked if there was anything he could do to help. Rice recounted that she had a moment of reflection: “The Cold War really is over.” But the choices made in the aftermath of that day by people like her unleashed a destructive zeitgeist in Washington foreign policy that has led us to this point where the specter of nuclear war now hangs in the air as it did during the tensest moments of the Cold War.
https://amgreatness.com/2022/03/14/the-architects-of-our-present-disaster/
When the same idiots are in charge how can you expect anything different? They’re not going to wake up some morning and think, “geez, we’re wrecking the country, better change course!”
This is the world we’re leaving to our grandkids.
Between 1815 and 1914 there was relative peace. Then things got very bad.
Between 1945 and now there has been relative peace. That’s going to change.
Thanks for that link to the prior posting. This is so interesting, it’s worth a repost. (Note, I did a search for “architect” with no results.)
In the early years of this century, I figured that the 2010's would be a repeat of the 1910's. Looks like I was off by a decade.
This war is all on Russia.
It was inevitable as the last of the great russian death throes.
It is here...a dying power.
That was a really good article.
I am thinking that the best way to describe the rot in the State Department, and in the federal government, is that it is being managed by psychopaths.
Every month a new “crisis”
RINOs killed it.
The Dems would not have been able to steal anything in 2020 were it not for the complicity of RINO-controlled state legislatures.
RINOs are the reason for the woke clown world we have had to endure for over 2 years.
Vote out every RINO who must face a primary and replace them with constitutional conservatives. This is the only way we get our country back.
No more RINOs = No more stolen elections = No more consequences from stolen elections
An absolutely amazing piece. Thank you for posting it.
A full title search works better, but it is worth the re-post.
In 1948, when Israel became a nation, Pope Pius XII said, “We have now entered the End Times.” Israel coming a nation was the signal. We will probably only see how things happened after the fact, and not while they are happening. I believe that we are further along than most people would think.
One more thing, “tribulation” is for the correction of the just. People like Soros and Hillary do not experience tribulations.
The very same Assistant Democrats who are pushing for war with Russia are the very same people who have been keeping the invasion of the USA going for 30 years.
There are actually over 100 conflicts and wars raging every single year. War is man’s nature.
...wars and rumors of wars...
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