05/21/2024 6:04:00 AM PDT
· 17 of 106 redgolum
to canuck_conservative
Interesting precedent, and not a good one. But it seems like WWIII is going to happen on schedule so enjoy the ride. The last drop is a big one though.
05/15/2024 1:25:36 PM PDT
· 50 of 94 redgolum
to MinorityRepublican
I would not bet on that.
Outside the russophile bots here, reality is that Russia’s strategic aims are to control the buffer states again, and the EU NATO states will not allow that to happen.
With the low birth rates of the last 40 years, who runs out of cannon fodder first?
I suspect the plan was for the slavic civil war in Ukraine to suck up the Russian military that they won’t have the meat to push into Poland. And Poland is NATO.
Then we have to pay for them. Taxes must go up, or benefits go down. Or realistically both.
The boomers are retiring, and going to the biggest benefit draw in US history. No amount of screaming and declaring about how so and so is “owed” will change that.
Because even in the bad old days, the old USSR wanted Constantinople back. The new/old Russia has it as a strategic long term objective.
Israel is at a cross roads. They have functioned as a colony of first the UK and now the US for all of their history. The UK has long since stopped supporting them, and with the decline of religion in the US there is little political reason for the US to continue to support Israel unconditionally. The anti bill of rights bill that was recently passed is a great example of it.
The next decade will determine the political future of Israel.