Nice piece. Scary. It’s not even about us “allowing” it. As far as Russia is concerned, Ukraine can’t operate these missiles. Only NATO can program them. So if they fire them, it may as well be NATO that did it which means formal war with NATO. This is the stupidity of how WWI started and now the stakes are infinitely higher with nukes.
Hug your kids. Be sure to tell loved ones how you feel. This could end really badly.
The left has completely failed. 20 years ago we mobilized against these people and the best we could get was a president who paid lip service to the idea of a peaceful world void of neocons.
The red line was Obama’s open embrace of Bush with the rise of Trump. I found it appalling but didn’t see it ending like this, with neocons back in the drivers seat taking us to the war they always really wanted.
What scares me the most is what seems to be double-think on the part of more or less anonymous senior elements of the national security / IC / MIC / neocons “Cluster”.
On one hand we’re told that many of the eastern European (NATO member) nations live in fear because the Russians are so strong that they are capable of quickly and easily regaining control of most of their former CCCP territory in Eastern Europe.
And yet on the other hand there seems to be a concurrent belief, on the Cluster’s part, that Russia is an incompetent paper tiger (albeit with hypersonic missals) that could be easily neutered, and then partitioned into resource zones for the economic benefit of NATO nations.
Not that long ago Russia lost about 25,000,000 people fighting the NAZIs. Are we willing to loose maybe even more people - cities full of Americans and Western Europeans? I think some of the decision makers within the Cluster are . . . and that’s the scariest thing of all.
Our consciousness lags behind conditions. I guess this is normal or typical of the human experience. I think Orwell said something about how difficult it is to know what is under our nose.
Meanwhile, look at the lavish attention our U.S. media (with its First Amendment protections) gave the “debate” between Trump and Harris, and whether or not a cat was eaten/sacrificed by Haitians in Springfield, Ohio.
Nice piece. Scary. It’s not even about us “allowing” it. As far as Russia is concerned, Ukraine can’t operate these missiles. Only NATO can program them. So if they fire them, it may as well be NATO that did it which means formal war with NATO. This is the stupidity of how WWI started and now the stakes are infinitely higher with nukes.
Hug your kids. Be sure to tell loved ones how you feel. This could end really badly.
The left has completely failed. 20 years ago we mobilized against these people and the best we could get was a president who paid lip service to the idea of a peaceful world void of neocons.
The red line was Obama’s open embrace of Bush with the rise of Trump. I found it appalling but didn’t see it ending like this, with neocons back in the drivers seat taking us to the war they always really wanted.
What scares me the most is what seems to be double-think on the part of more or less anonymous senior elements of the national security / IC / MIC / neocons “Cluster”.
On one hand we’re told that many of the eastern European (NATO member) nations live in fear because the Russians are so strong that they are capable of quickly and easily regaining control of most of their former CCCP territory in Eastern Europe.
And yet on the other hand there seems to be a concurrent belief, on the Cluster’s part, that Russia is an incompetent paper tiger (albeit with hypersonic missals) that could be easily neutered, and then partitioned into resource zones for the economic benefit of NATO nations.
Not that long ago Russia lost about 25,000,000 people fighting the NAZIs. Are we willing to loose maybe even more people - cities full of Americans and Western Europeans? I think some of the decision makers within the Cluster are . . . and that’s the scariest thing of all.
Our consciousness lags behind conditions. I guess this is normal or typical of the human experience. I think Orwell said something about how difficult it is to know what is under our nose.
Meanwhile, look at the lavish attention our U.S. media (with its First Amendment protections) gave the “debate” between Trump and Harris, and whether or not a cat was eaten/sacrificed by Haitians in Springfield, Ohio.
Bullseye