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Mariner #14: "By depleting resources and political will.
Yep.
Only a neocon could think this is how you position to fight China."

ansel12 #19: "However or whoever or whenever the West fights China, it will need NATO and the American military better prepared, and better armed, with a reinvigorated weapons-producing West and greater awareness and unity on military issues, and a lessened Russian threat.
All that is happening, and even under the liberals in control, it is still happening to a degree."

Right, or at least it seems to be happening.
I am haunted by words from Bob Gates and Barak Obama:

"I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades,” former Defense Secretary Robert Gates says of Vice President Joe Biden in his new book coming out later this month.
Gates' assessment of Biden's boss is only slightly better, depicting an Obama administration with very murky lines of communication on military issues."

"Yet searing, anonymously sourced quotes from Obama kept appearing through the race.
One Democrat who spoke to Obama recalled the former president warning, "Don't underestimate Joe's ability to fuck things up." Speaking of his own waning understanding of today's Democratic electorate, especially in Iowa, Obama told one 2020 candidate: "And you know who really doesn't have it? Joe Biden.""

And those were before Afghanistan.

These are what worry me, more than anything else.

I think a lot of the positives are being forced upon the left by circumstances, which is a benefit for us from the Russian invasion.

Another example of the left being forced into something by the invasion that helps us, besides the better position of the West militarily, is the effect caused by the winter threat of a freezing and starving Europe which seems to have weakened the anti-energy forces and hopefully moved a lot of voters away from them, it sure seems to have advanced nuclear energy.