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Trump is always, always, right.

But his answers are not necessarily what the establishment and bureaucracy, a global community (i.e. cabal of Western big corporations and their oligarchs) want.

The political correct answer today is to pledge unconditional support to Ukraine. But, to question Israel, coerce them into not taking the action they see fit in dealing with an enemy which actually did attack them unprovoked, did take hostages, did target civilians...

Can’t say I disagree.

I have a son in the USN and I think he’s decided to get out after his 4 years.

I don’t want him to get tangled up in these BS conflicts which are really just about money and power.

No one seriously believes it anymore: “democracy, human rights, sovereignty...” These are silly battle cries used to motivate the masses while our entire Middle East strategy is built around a despot kingdom Saudi Arabia, while we give a single party communist regime, the PRC, most favored trade status year after year...

Of the 251 military operations post 1991, maybe a handful can be argued to be about true self-defense/national security for us. The rest?

***The expeditionary, offensive (but we often lie and pretend it’s defensive), without Congressional approval, often in secrecy, where no one can articulate a true national security argument for us, has become the norm.***

***The military intervention where US policy makers CANNOT tell the average American how this war will make them more free, safe, or wealthy, has become the norm.***

These are military campaigns at the behest of special interests that stand to profit from them. That simple.

Irony, it was the left in the 60s, 70s and 80s that screamed “no blood for oil,” called us a “hegemony” and “world policeman,” which said that war should be a last resort and not used for economic gain. Back then, we actually were fighting a real enemy in the Cold War, the Warsaw Pact and Soviet Union. Today, it is under leftist leaders, like Obama, Biden, in Europe (Macron, Scholz...) where they called Reagan a “Saber Rattler” that are quick to use force and almost always for economic gain, we propagandize and censor our own public... Funny-

In fact, today you basically do not even hear anything about the idea of a just war anymore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_war_theory

Today, we just superficially gloss over this idea with our policy makers throwing out some cliche’s of how our enemy is the bad guy, slap a label on them, and use a bunch of unsolicited qualifying remarks that do not even make any sense to describe the situation.

Ukraine is the PERFECT example. The justification for war today is as silly and shallow, funny really, as something from a Monty Python show. Literally nothing holds up under scrutiny, neither the arguments for why Russia is this evil empire (we provoked Russia: we lied, we cheated, we broke numerous promises and are hypocrites in expecting them to accept what we never would) and bad guy, nor why we are defending Ukraine for democracy, sovereignty and human rights none of which are real either. You just need to throw around some slogans, it doesn’t matter if they are entirely baseless, the people don’t know better and the MSM won’t really look to hard.

Not even most our bigger allies have the war industrial base to “go it alone,” i.e. Germany, UK, France...

And these are nations with 50+ million people, in Germany's case 80+ million. These are bigger industrial economies (where the industrial revolution started), high tech nations.

Thinking Israel can develop and build their own modern fighters, missile systems, guided bombs, command and control systems, missile defense systems, from the ground up, is a far-far stretch. Even the stuff that is “Israeli” and everyone associates with them, usually is packed with US defense contractors (Raytheon, LM, Boeing, General Dynamics, Northrup Grumman) working with them, or US sourced components, i.e. Arrow missile, Iron Dome, Trophy self defense system... Example: https://www.northropgrumman.com/what-we-do/advanced-technology-and-innovation/the-brains-behind-military-electronics-custom-asic-chips

For Israel, there is no way around it, they will be dependent on foreign sourced military hardware.

However, what lesson should be learned from this is that they need to ensure to manage risk by sourcing some military hardware from Russia and China. Most EU nations are basically going to be the same problem as being solely dependent on us and that poses a risk today.

Historically, since the US and Israel pretty much lined up in interests 100%, and it was unimaginable that we abandon them, being solely dependent on us made sense.

However, what has happened under the Biden administration speaks for itself. It's what the topic of this thread is about!

When I was 22 I was still a libtard.

Getting married, having children, getting a job, paying taxes, becoming a manager, traveling the world, cured me of this mentally twisted world view.

I’m sure in 10 years many of these kids will have very different views.

Is this the BabylonBee?

In an era where the use of unconventional forces is at a peak, we cut back on them.

Makes perfect sense. (Sarc)

To build the entire scope of modern military weapons requires an economy, an industry, larger than what Israel has.

They produce what is critical (key) for them, and most of their basic systems (rifles ammo...) and they are a tech leader in some areas, but to produce it all and be able to do that in mass, is out of scope for a small nation of 9,000,000 people.

So they purchase F-15s, F-16s, F-35s, AH-64s, certain air defense systems, air to air systems (complex weapon systems)... These are complex systems that require the expertise of a broad range of folks to build, a large degree of specialization, specialized hardware, specialized high tech an (((economy of scale that is far out of scope for Israel))).

Only major security agreements: https://www.state.gov/u-s-security-cooperation-with-israel/

Most agreements between our two nations: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/formal-agreements-between-us-and-israel

Specific the logistics agreement: https://books.google.com/books/about/Defense_Logistics.html?id=3rTCV-S06XEC

We sort of promised them that we would materially support them in a conflict. By withholding military hardware in order to pressure them to do what we want (outside of the scope of previous agreements) we are once again violating a treaty / agreement.

One of the problems with the US and any agreement / promise we make, is that Congress and the White House turn over constantly and the promises made by predecessors mean little for those following.

I agree with you 100% that we need to worry about our own problems, that we should NOT get involved in every foreign dispute and bankroll them. That said, unlike Ukraine where the argument is very weak, with Israel we have numerous agreements, we helped create the state, they assist us also, and the argument for why we should help actually holds true unlike Ukraine which is not a democracy, is not sovereign, and where the war was very much so provoked by us (NATO East expansion, etc)...

Even just combining these two conflicts (in the MSM and in a single bill to fund them) was a political maneuver and highly deceptive.

One is a legitimate cause where they really were attacked, are surrounded by heathens and savages that want to kill them. The other one is a bunch of rich folks and politicians in the West that would like to expand their wealth and power. Biden making these rich folks happy and giving them what they want. Personally I’d have no problem cutting Ukraine off since this is a BS war caused by the Biden administration, 100%. This caused a war: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-president-zelenskiy-holding-talks-with-biden-adviser-says-2021-12-09/ (((And it was entirely unnecessary.)))

But cutting Israel off or even pressuring them to execute this war according to our political whims (what benefits the Biden administration since the Palestinians have done a good job with the Western media and now Biden is trying to appease a lot of kids that vote) is further than I would go.

While I agree that we should be less involved and worry about our own problems, I wouldn’t go entirely isolationist. I’m not claiming you to be that way, just telling where I’m coming from. That said, some causes are justified, and some allies are true, and some nations really do have a democracy, follow laws, are sovereign... Abandoning Israel is IMHO a very bad thing.

IMHO, nations like Israel depend on the US war industrial base.

Unfortunately for them, that makes US politicians have influence over them.

Some of these weapon systems are complex and a small nation of 9,000,000 people can’t realistically afford or have the broad tech and industrial capabilities to build all of these things.

Think of it like this, Israel is like the state of New Jersey, that’s it. Would that state if it’s own nation really have the ability to build all these different and complex weapons systems, in mass?

Israel does well, and they have a big domestic military industrial base given their size, but they are largely dependent on us.

FYI- By withholding weapons from Israel we are violating an agreement with them. Once again we just do whatever we want because there is no one to hold us accountable, no real near peer competitor. And because the MSM is pro-Democrat, they don’t roast him in this issue.

https://www.state.gov/u-s-security-cooperation-with-israel/

We withdrew from the Ballistic Missile Treaty because we wanted to build a missile defense system, which was in violation of that treaty.

As usual, when we want to cheat and lie, we blame the other side.

Funny thing is, I defended that move and it was correct. But that said, we still were the ones to unilaterally withdraw from the treaty and that actually plays a role today in the Ukraine crisis.

Let me attempt to explain using various maps:

Here’s Russia and where they have bases around the world: https://bigthink.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/18410104.jpg?fit=1200,675

Here is the US and where we have bases around the world: https://bigthink.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/18410101.jpg?fit=1200,675

What does this tell me: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/vwc2uv/us_military_bases_around_the_world/#lightbox

What does this tell me? https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2013/02/cia-rendition-map3.jpg

I know we care a lot about democracy and human rights, so explain this to me: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/57r7lv/authoritarian_regimes_supported_by_the_usa_in_the/#lightbox

What does this map tell us: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/uf9fa4/ussponsored_regime_changes_and_military_invasions/#lightbox

You live in a distant and parallel universe, far away from reality.

It must feel really good to exist in this universe? Sort of like when on a euphoric high on some drug or otherwise delusional and no longer in touch with the physical reality around you.

We (the US) have progressively become worse and worse since 1991. It’s not Russia invading, bombing, and sponsoring coups everywhere. It’s us.

And no, we are not spreading freedom, democracy, human rights, and sovereignty. We are completely OK with a dictator and oppressive regimes as long as they serve our political and economic interests. In fact, if this democracy thingy gives us an answer we don’t like, we’ll overthrow a democratically elected government and install a dictator.

Now, go watch your Captain America, read your doctored up History book, and go pretend you’re a force for good.

Places like Iraq and Libya didn't become terrorist hot-beds until we overthrew the government there, created a power vacuum and civil war.

We had zero moral and national defense arguments in both cases.

We lied about Iraq, specifically WMD.

In both cases you wanted to use as examples, we created a WORSE security threat to us, economically damaged these nations.

We simply are/were trying to tear these nations out from under Russia and put them under our control.

All for peace, freedom, democracy, sovereignty and human rights, of course.

Let me ask you this. What nation do you think has overthrown the most governments, even elected ones, on this planet? Russia or the US?

We need to seriously calm down in how we deal with the world around us. This bomb everyone at the drop of a dime mentality has already made us into a pariah on the worlds stage. Just not in the US and Euro media, but even juts in Mexico and you'll see and hear a very different tone.

I'm not saying there never is a need for use of force.

However, when you are involved in 251 different military campaigns in 33 years, spend $880 billion a year on war (not counting Ukraine and Israel), bomb more countries than anyone else, invade more countries than anyone else, have the third largest war machine in the world in brute military manpower, have troops in more countries than anyone else, have more troops deployed outside your borders than anyone else, have more “deployed” nukes than anyone else, overthrow more governments than anyone else, export more weapons than anyone else, (((MAYBE))) it's not the other guys that are predatory. (Please let me know which of these facts you disagree with?)

But hell, who needs facts?

Do you really believe that Libya today is better off, safer, and isn’t a bigger threat to everyone?

Libya: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.QUPawvC8gQMtL07oLBzqywHaGr%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=82739c9c5442ee931873a8642c20c73797f63152431e4fe2f75624d223f408f0&ipo=images

Do you really believe that Iraq today is better off, safer, and no bigger threat?

We created a BIGGER threat to the West when we got rid of both of these men who were keeping these nations under some semblance of control, where we had a single voice to speak with.

However, these nations are oil producers and were aligned with Russia and we want our fingers in the jar. We want that real estate. Get it?

This is what we are after: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gisreportsonline.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F02%2FFilling-the-void-in-Libya-1140x576.png&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=21f0dcf36fe1354978055e836e8ef648e4311a5bbf2bbe898216af73a5445558&ipo=images

And we created a (((FAR WORSE AND DANGEROUS))) situation for our, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East regards the security situation.

The jets of major US oil executives were on the ground before Qaddafi’s body had even cooled off. In fact, when those forces not happy with us arming other military factions in Libya attacked us and killed our Ambassador there (yeah, we were arming folks and some got pissed about that), we used the jets of private oil execs in part to evacuate our folks. Do you really believe that our ambassador was killed because of a stupid video? Why do you think our State Department and CIA wanted to keep things hush-hush and were reluctant to come to our own folks help when everything started going South? We were providing arms, intel, money and other equipment (example ATVs) to certain groups in Libya which we thought we can control and would be more on our side, which of course pissed off others that were fighting the folks we’re helping. That made us a target.

But in a nation where you have the intelligence community often defining the media narrative (push some stories and censor others), we chose to make it about an anti-Islamic movie and managed to keep the real story almost entirely out of the news: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/sep/12/movie-assault-us-consulate-libya

Dude, only 14% of the entire population of Libya had Internet access in 2012! Hahaha Most don’t speak English. Many Domains were blocked. Other stories had existed prior and this, and these sort of stories aren’t really new (Koran burning and toilet flushing etc). BUT, we needed a scapegoat after that disaster, and coming out and telling the truth isn’t the sort of stuff we do, and so a BS story about a movie sparking this violence was pushed.

Do you see the US struggling with Russia over lordship of Ethiopia? How about Armenia? What about Trinidad and Tobago? Hint, every nation where we are in a conflict with the Russians has an “economic value” to us and it is us encroaching into THEIR sphere of influence: Iraq, Libya, Venezuela, Syria.

But, things are changing, Russia has begun to massively increase their war budget starting 2022, manpower, and cut the dogs or war loose. Russia has forged new alliances, is playing the proxy game... Things are changing (Chad, Sudan, Ivory Coast, Niger), and it’s a change we asked for. We wanted this conflict. If people were aware of what has been set in motion, they would not be so upbeat and casual about it.

If you ask “why” enough times, everyone eventually hits a wall and if honest simple has to say, “because I believe.”

AI,

Another over used buzz word.

WW2 was the beginning of the end for our republic with the creation of the OSS and follow on CIA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWxh2oS7Ays

But, there was a time where that was rolled back in the 70s because of the public outrage, and an American spirit that was not accepting of these illegal and freedom robbing practices. “Freedom” was still alive in the American psyche which would not have tolerated what we are doing today.

Post Cold War, we were the only remaining worlds super power, with the dissolution of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. China was at the time, in a military sense, barely even an emerging power. We quickly learned that the use of force can achieve quick results. That we could use force with impunity. Our policy makers became trigger happy. The US has been involved in about 780 military campaigns of various types since its creation in 1776. In 220 years of our existence we had about 529 various military campaigns (~2.4 per year). In the last 33 years, we have had 251 (~7.6 per year).

Then came 9-11 and a dumb-ass President that opened the flood gates for the “deep state,” i.e. the intel and police state. This moron advocated flat out Unconstitutional policies and laws like the Patriot Act, bold faced lied to the American public when he said we don't torture when he himself signed and authorized “torture.” The era of secrecy, mass surveillance, the ability to side step Constitutional rights, total control had been born. Exactly what we tried to get rid of in the 1970s, what Truman feared, what Eisenhower feared, what our Founding Fathers wanted to prevent, had been created. In fact, we essentially have adopted all the same vile tactics which we once proclaimed were evidence of how evil the once former Soviet Union was: kidnapping (extraordinary rendition), torture (enhanced interrogations), assignations, gross violations of our own Constitutions and the rights guaranteed therein. The IC grew by leaps and bounds in manpower, budget, scope of powers, all new agencies... The US Intel Community is roughly (((TWICE))) the size of the Russian FSB and all their intel services combined: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Intelligence_Community

What you define as us learning has made us indistinguishable from what we once called the “evil empire.” And that is meant literal.

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This war in Ukraine is a war “we” created.

This is us expanding East: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-president-zelenskiy-holding-talks-with-biden-adviser-says-2021-12-09/

—We wouldn't accept the Russians or Chinese building bases in Mexico. We were willing to risk nuclear war when the Russians based missiles in Cuba in 1962: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis

—We lied about NATO expansion Eastward: https://www.france24.com/en/russia/20220130-did-nato-betray-russia-by-expanding-to-the-east

—We violated Minsk: https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/631007/us-begins-second-phase-of-ukrainian-training-equipping-mission/ (We bragged about it in our official .gov sites!)

—We have been invading the Russians sphere of influence, even nations outright allies with them where they have naval and air bases: Iraq, Libya, Venezuela, Syria...

—We attempt to break Montreux constantly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreux_Convention_Regarding_the_Regime_of_the_Straits

—We withdrew from the Ballistic Missile Treaty: https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2002-07/news/us-withdraws-abm-treaty-global-response-muted

But that does not stop us from wanting to pretend like we're some knight in shining silver armor defending national sovereignty, democracy and human rights in Ukraine and that we didn't provoke this war.

You know, if we care so much about human rights, maybe we should talk to our friends the Saudi's and Jordanians. If democracy is such an important deal breaking issue, maybe the PRC shouldn't have most favored trade status with the us. If sovereignty is an issue, maybe we should stop trying to overthrow democratically elected governments and meddling in the elections of other nations, even allied to us: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/12/obama-admin-sent-taxpayer-money-oust-netanyahu/ https://www.jpost.com/Blogs/The-View-from-Israel/Obamas-shocking-interference-into-Israels-election-process-389858

We are no longer the USA of Norman Rockwell and Ronald Reagan. Those are not the values we represent or spread. We are not motivated by the same ideals.

Sure,

As long as it’s just money we’re throwing at it.

We are the nation with forces in the most countries around the world. With the most troops deployed outside our borders. With the biggest war budget in the world. One of the nations with the most manpower in the armed forces. We have invaded or attacked more countries than anyone else in the world post 1991 (251 military operations). And you talk about them being “predatory?”. Are you for real?

Post 1991 we were left as the only worlds superpower. China was barely on the radar. We quickly learned that we can use force with impunity to get what we want.

Post 9-11 we changed our MO and became much more aggressive, more assertive and massively meddling in other countries using our non-conventional and Intel capabilities which had grown enormously post 2003.

Today you have US congressmen proposing the invasion of another nation merely because it “sounds good,” because it benefits him politically, and this neighbor is a NAFTA member and poses ZERO threat to us: https://youtu.be/UD4kFxyHALo?si=UhhhqtklLlBStVge. I assure you, the Mexicans do not see the Russians as predatory.

Instead of trying to pretend labels, cliche, and slogans are an argument, try using facts. It may help.

In the Cold War, the Russians were expansionist, atheist, and a threat.

But today, this threat is gone and history. We try very hard to resuscitate this boogieman than hasn't existed in 33 years and is not coming back.

Russia today is extremely similar to ourselves, even though no one here would admit that. They are a nation ruled by a small group of oligarchs that have a disproportionate hold on government. They are an oil, gas and coal (energy) empire and in fact our only true global competitor.

On the world stage, there are two nations which control all the worlds oil and gas production, the US (2/3rds) and Russia (1/3rd). All of the other nations that produce oil and gas are either in our or the Russian sphere of influence, i.e. Saudi Arabia (US), Iran (Russia), Kuwait (US), Syria (Russian), Jordan (US), Libya (Russian still but contested by us), Iraq (US now, formerly Russian), Venezuela (Russian)...

We are competitors, and Russia today is a pseudo-democracy (like us), with a Constitution, a Christian and European value system, and about the same share of GDP that is free (not controlled or administered by government).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_government_spending_as_percentage_of_GDP In fact, no kidding, their share of government as part of the GDP is slightly less than us!!! Ironic.

Which brings me to this idiotic war in Ukraine. There was no reason for this BS. None!

This was us wanting to expand into the Russian sphere of influence, take control of a border state and make it part of a military alliance.

This caused a war: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-president-zelenskiy-holding-talks-with-biden-adviser-says-2021-12-09/

Would we allow Russia or China to build military bases on our border in Mexico? Possibly station nukes there, missile defense, intel outposts??? No way in hell. No major power accepts another playing on their border and in fact historically we have demonstrated that we are willing to go to war over this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis

We can deny it, but an argument can be made that we flat out lied regards NATO East expansion: https://www.france24.com/en/russia/20220130-did-nato-betray-russia-by-expanding-to-the-east (an article actually explaining both sides a bit).

It was us that withdrew from the Ballistic Missile Treaty because we wanted to pursue missile defense: https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2002-07/news/us-withdraws-abm-treaty-global-response-muted

We try to violate the convention controlling how many warships can be in the Black Sea routinely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreux_Convention_Regarding_the_Regime_of_the_Straits

We blew off Minsk (German/French brokered and agreed upon by Russia and Ukraine): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk_agreements

It was us that attacked Libya, Russian aligned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_Libya (an organization supposedly for defense attacked, without any direct threat to themselves, an organization supposedly with the North Atlantic as their AO and members)

It was us that invaded Syria, a formal Russian ally and with a navy and air base there since 1970: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_intervention_in_the_Syrian_civil_war

It was us that tried to overthrow the government in Venezuela, Russian aligned, and got caught red handed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gideon_(2020)

It was us that invaded Iraq, Russian aligned, under false pretenses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq

If you notice, every one of these is an oil / energy producing nation.

You don't see us struggling with the Russians over who can have lordship of Ethiopia (LOL).

If you put yourself in Russia's shoes, with us encroaching into their areas, NATO expansion, the Ballistic Missile Treaty, our routine attempts at trying to violate Montreux, it becomes obvious that our pushing on them over many years, breaking of promises and formal treaties, reached a breaking point in Ukraine. IMHO, there were people involved over many years that had personal biases (personal vendetta) and were not acting entirely pragmatic and objective in our best interests: Example Victoria Nuland (Russian hating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Nuland)

Now, there are some that believe that Ukraine is about “democracy, human rights, and sovereignty.” Arguments we pull from our @ss often when we want to justify a military intervention somewhere, but that is very unlikely. I'll spare us the details of how Ukraine has a horrible human rights record, isn't a democracy, nor truly sovereign, so these arguments don't really resonate with anyone that has a clue.

The more probable reason is that Ukraine has an economic value to us, we (the US) wield much of our influence in Europe through security policy and NATO, and our global corporations and financial institutions want to see Ukraine both in the EU and NATO as an insurance policy. We essentially took control over Ukraine in 2014 (Maiden) and our decision with NATO for Ukraine in October 2021 came on the heels of arming and training their military over many years. Our logic (speculation) was that Russia would not want to pay the price in trying to stop us through force.

That said, this war isn't really because of some Russian aggression, some expansionist and violent ideology... Rather, this war is the consequence of simply trying to “ram-rod” our interests and ignore those of someone else also impacted. IMHO, our arrogance, pushing on the Russians over many years (they have had enough of our BS) and gambling with 41 million lives caused this war.

It is an unnecessary war that was predictable in both that it would happen and how it will end regards Ukraine. What the American public didn't realize when they thought it was cool once again to go to war, was that Russia isn't some chump we can push around. They can push back, economically, politically, militarily, and they are. What the American public didn't realize is that this isn't something we just wiggle our way out of once we had enough. The consequences will by lasting and eventually even American blood will spill. But you always need to look at the bright side, at least most Americans today know to put the blue side up on the Ukrainian flag. As usual, this war has given the public a small geography lesson and maybe 1/2 the population can find the Ukraine on a globe.

I think you too were around when all this stupid nonsense ended in 1991.

It was a beautiful time. No more proxy war games, no more block alliances.... free movement of people, transparency, even cooperation between former adversaries and the Russians helping us and we them regards security threats etc.

Smarter and cooler heads were in charge back then (Reagan / Gorbachev and even in our bureaucracy).

I do not think that our leadership really thought things through when we opened that door in Ukraine October 2021 and basically re-opened that era of proxy wars and block alliances.

In a worst case scenario, long term, if Russia and China deepen and broaden their alliance, that would pose a greater threat to us than the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact in the Cold War!

Birth control

Abortion

Euthanasia

Sterilization

The childless yuppie career couple

Sex changes and all this weirdo gender junk

Self-hate (villainize) of European history and culture

Self-hate (villainize) Christianity and morals

Self-hate (villainize) whiteness and this one race

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Culture of death

All of Western civilization is infected.

These (the article) are but manifestations of this culture of death.

Yes,

True allies and where we do have a legitimate argument to help, we restrain and coerce into holding back (which we would never do if in their shoes).

BS wars we caused and which were entirely unnecessary, where we have ZERO hope of winning, we write near blank checks for to keep alive even though we could end this now and the outcome will be better than what it will be in 12 months. Our national political process is dictating the timeline in Ukraine. The end will come AFTER the 2024 elections.

It’s just about politics.

Niger has asked us to leave.

—We were dragging our feet in doing so.—

This amounts to poking us in the eye.

I wouldn’t go so far as to wish our own demise or greater troubles on the horizon.

I agree that we set huge wheels in motion which will cause us grief for years to come.

Russia isn’t some punk we can push around like we do with others using our military might, political influence, and economic weight. They can push back, and are.

But you shouldn’t be happy about this!

This is a horrible and unnecessary mess. Yes (((we))) the Biden administration caused this. But celebrating things which hurt us isn’t how we should look at it either.