(Once a year I’ll share with extended family and close friends about things I’ve talked about since 2016. War, and domestic war. This year I’ll share with you, too:)
Happy 2023 family and friends (but I’m repeating myself . . .)
I thought I’d take a moment to share my thoughts on themes I’ve been talking about since 2016. Time to see if I am just another lunatic (and I won’t argue that I’m not!), or maybe got a thing or two sort-of close.
One year ago there was no war in Europe. Today there is war in Europe.
NATO (the West) has sided with Ukraine; this is no longer a “special military operation” to recapture some lost Russian provinces and protecting ethnic Russians from oppressive Ukrainians. NATO (the U.S.) shipped missile systems, and all manner of ammunition to Ukraine. And $100 Billion in cash, some of which has filter back to D and R politicians in the U.S. In the news today, Germany, Poland, and the U.S. are trending toward sending battle tanks to Poland. Patriot missile donations are old news. YouTube shows soldiers with strangely American or British accents fighting Russians in the Ukraine. U.S. Embassy acknowledged one recently deceased American in the fighting. The 101st Airborne and the 82nd Airborne deploy to Poland and Romania. Secretary of Defense Austin admitted that there are troops in the Ukraine to “monitor” the weapons we sent. And this is just what is in the Press.
The point: War in Europe was not reality twelve months ago, but it is today. It is not just gun fights, it is full economic warfare. Somebody blew up the Nord Stream pipeline— it didn’t blow up itself. U.S. sanctions on Russia remind me of the U.S. sanctions against Japan just prior to their attack on Pearl Harbor. American politicians (R and D) by a large margin support this war against Russia/for Ukraine. Continue reading →
