Unknown European powers have started a global wolfpack-style war sinking Russian oil tankers probably with an intention to damage Russian oil sales. Selling oil help Russia pay for its special military operation to recover land lost to the west during the 1991 carpet bagging era following the Soviet collapse.
Russian ships have been sunk in the Black Sea off the coast of Senegal, West Africa in recent days. That escalation to a global battle changes things significantly; risking Russian responses that could be attacks on England, France or Germany- the most likely perpetrators of the expansion of the theater of war.
With Russian military forces making slow, steady progress advancing toward the Dnepro River- a simple demarcation line to end the conflict, the Trump administration has sought to bring both sides to agreement on ending the war, yet the Western powers backing Ukraine have no intention of allowing peace to occur unless it is on their terms. Regardless of the fact that a neutral Ukraine with reduced exterior borders where Russia and the West could resume East-West trade and normal commerce would be best for all concerned, the corruption of Ukraine's government and surreptitious will of the Western European traditional powers to own all of Ukraine and intimidate Russia with military forces on Russia's border such that they support Ukraine's war efforts vociferously have continued the death machine of thousands locked into combat.
Peace with Russia can only occur with international recognition of a reduced Ukraine and Russia recovering its former Ukraine lands and a neutral, demilitarized Ukraine that poses no threat to East or West. Ukraine as the middle ground or borderland should recover quickly enough and prosper from international trade. The alternative of moving further down the road to global disaster is a reprehensible one. If Russia chooses to retaliate by sinking western ships arriving at European ports that alone could begin a collapse of the world economy and swift advance toward nuclear war. One feels that European leadership have their heads up their arses regarding the opportunity cost of pursuing the course of fomenting continued war instead of peace.
It may be that the rampant godless atheist trend of Europe away from faith has naturally brought the leaders to cluster into claves of violence and aggressive expansion Eastward toward Russia. They may feel entitled with natural exuberance such that developing hegemony over Russia and its vast natural resources is their right. U.S. Presidents have not, since the end of the Cold War, perhaps with the exception of President Trump, recalibrated their view and opinion of European military and political increase and unification, They tended to be blind to the implicit dangers of a very large, recrudescent European military that has a history of being the source of all global wars tamed only a little by the devastation of Europe in the two World Wars of the 20th century.
Zelenski and European political war mongers think President Trump is a chump not to be taken seriously in regard to ending the Ukraine war. They expect to deface Trump's 28 point peace plan to their satisfaction and alter the points adding measures to the effect that Russia must capitulate and withdraw all forces from Ukraine or else.
The basic problem with securing peace quickly is that Euros reinforce Zelenski and each expect the U.S. leadership to be spineless sycophants providing full support for the war on Russia in Ukraine as was President Biden. President Biden provided political and military fellatio to Ukraine and Europe can’t believe President Trump won’t really continue those policies. Neither realize that the negotiation is largely between President Trump and Russia. The Europeans are interested, crazy, war mongering coaches for Ukraine and fans that whole-heartedly want the war to continue even if Ukraine is losing.
President Trump has it within his power to end the war himself simply by recognizing Russian ownership of Donbas and Crimea and ending sanctions on Russia with a promise from President Putin to stop the war at whatever military lines it has in combat contact with Ukraine if and whenever the Ukraine government does plead for peace. That is, Russia will not continue the fight over the Dnepro River just because Ukraine has agreed to quit fighting.
Without U.S. military support, intelligence and sanctions Ukraine will continue to lose the war- only faster. European perfidy relies on the N.A.T.O. treaty to snair the U.S.A. on the wrong side of a conflict with Russia over Ukraine at some point in the future I would think via clever, calculated, planning and trickery. After the Cold War, building up N.A.T.O. to such a large, unnecessary size that it would make the United States a junior partner obligated to do Europe's bidding was a foreseeable mistake. I noted that problem a decade or two ago. European leadership was always latent war mongers even when they were beaten down after W.W. 1 and 2. War is in their political genome.
European military forces of the E.U. always were a potential enemy of the United States that would need to be offset by an alliance with Russia. It hasn't reached that point yet. It is not reasonable to suppose that U.S. and E.U. political choices would always be in agreement. Wars can occur between powerful nations and armies sometimes. The potential change of allies to adversaries can happen quickly. Scaling back N.A.T.O. to a size that would not present a threat to the United States if it turned to the dark side of the force would rectify a problem that has increased the past three decades.
After W.W. 2 N.A.T.O. allies of the United States were not remotely as powerful as the U.S. military. That balance is changing; even with the encouragement of recent U.S. Presidents. Ending the Ukraine war and normalizing relations with Russia is good for the U.S.A. and Russia. The Euros say that land shouldn't be taken by force. Yet when Russia was so weak after the end of the Cold War and Ukraine so tempting for the west they took it en passant from Russia the rightful owner. Euros and N.A.T.O. had so much military force advantage they did not need to use force; still Ukraine was in effect taken by force from Russia the rightful owner. Sharing Ukraine with Russia is the only remedy to prevent continuing battle and needless killing. Russia knows it cannot get a fair hearing in any European 'World Court'. If the World Court judicial composition were switched to operations by BRIC nations every five years or so the verdicts probably would be different. Force de majeure is the only remedy when the judiciary is completely corrupt like a European based World Court that hasn't any legal authority over nations anyway.
Ukraine's Zelenski and the parliament remind me of the wise guy issues the U.S.A. had in negotiations for various matters with Sodom Hussein's Iraq. Ukraine is ostensibly an ally though one that primarily flies a skull and crossbones favored by England, Poland, France, Germany and a few other nations. The United States is the chump footing the bill for the Ukraine war and the host of corrupt politicians and business people making a fortune from the senseless conflict.
Zelenski's latest ploy is to ditch Pres. Trump's 28 point peace plan that Mr. Trump requires Zelenski to sign by the 27th of November or lose American military and intelligence contributions.
The method to extend that deadline is his disavowal of his power as President of Ukraine that was extended during martial law to avoid elections and saying only the parliament has the power to make laws to enable peace negotiations to exist with Russia. The parliament probably isn't willing to negotiate or enable negotiations while the corrupt are profiting.
The Zelenski government can play a wise guy version of who's on first fairly well for a disingenuous neo-ally/nephew/shill of various powers that want to expand into former Russian lands like Ukraine. President Trump will probably need to let his deadline play out rather than continue an interminable succession of delays in ending the war. President Putin has already said the 28 point plan can form the basis for a peace settlement, albeit with some possible tweaking. It is a good deal for Russia and more than West Ukraine needs.
President Trump’s peace plan for ending the Ukraine war is nearing a critical phase where it might actually have a chance of fulfillment in spite of opposition from select European leaders urging the war to continue until the cows come home. President Trump has, in effect, instructed pro-war leaders to hold their horses with the war material supplied by the boat, ship and trainload to Ukraine, and let the war burn out along a reasonable final line in the Donbas and Crimea. He would have each nation resume normal relations with the world and begin hiring construction workers to build Ukraine and Donbass and for farmers to grow grain; for medical personnel to return to treat hundreds of thousands of maimed humans, and for young attractive Ukraine women to return to their country and stop advertising themselves on the internet for international wife prospects on the low low.
The Ukraine parliament may be in a process of ridding itself of corrupt leaders embroiled in a corruption scandal. A change of government may bring about an end to the war if it is willing to sign off on sharing Ukraine with its historically rightful owner.
Select Democrats are continuing the divide and conquer approach to political power by making a video urging active duty military to not obey illegal orders (from President Trump).The implication is that the President is ordering the military to perform illegal actions, and continues to do so after court decisions to order the action to stop. Neither the President nor the Courts benefit from Super-intervention by select Democrats admonishing military members. Levering the military undermines the trust in the executive, the military and government itself. President Trump wasn't wrong in suggesting the Democrat Party is flirting with sedition. After all they do favor policies that are harmful to the nation and of more value to Mexico and Europe than Americans rather often.
The military are already aware they can be court martialed for following plainly illegal orders. For members of the national guard to follow the President's orders to deploy in order to security the safety of federal officials or to secure the safety of American citizens is more of a legal issue; a technical one, for the judiciary to decide, rather than individual soldiers themselves. Placing an onerous burden of jurisprudence upon soldiers to litigate thorny legal issues in their minds and make a choice to obey an order or not is wrong. That in itself is not sedulous, although it does strive to disrupt the Executives and Judicial role in domestic affairs and infuse distrust and chaos amidst the military.
President Trump was accused of leading an insurrection against the U.S. Government by the Democrat (ic) Party and must relish the opportunity to return the favor to Democrats. It would not be too surprising if Congressional Republicans established a committee of some sort to investigate Democrat party affiliation with foreign governments of Europe and with Mexico to discover hidden relations to drug cartels and those seeking to continue war and transfer hundreds of billions of dollars to the corrupt government of Ukraine for war against Russia. Republicans though don't have a total war upon political opposition as their political modus vivendi.
NBC reported however that Trump "suggested that Democrats should be killed"- in a libelous parsing of what the President actually said; a textbook case of fake news. Trump simply referred to the on the books legal penalty for sedition.
The political split between President Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene as ended her effectiveness as a Republican politician. She should seize the day and convert to the green side of the force and lead a high tech Green Party environmental, peace and prosperity party campaign for the Presidency in 2028. Trump has the audacity to try impossible things like being President and ending the Ukraine war; so should she.
Enough Senate Democrats flipped from the dark side of the force to support voting for a continuing resolution to fund the government until January. Holding the people of the United States hostage in order to get free health care for illegal aliens and other weird Democrat Party demands appealing to crazies that work hard for the dissolution of the United States government was never a good plan. The Democrat Party increasingly relies on disruption and needless force when plain opportunities for democratic action and legislation exist. Without good ideas it is difficult to pass good legislation even if a majority in all branches of government. Creating chaos or attacking the structure of government itself thence seems like a practical alternative for that party.
While the government closure still exists I believe it is useful to comment on how extremist the Democrat Party has become. It is extremely incompetent if not simply insane regarding the formulation of policy. President Trump on the other hand is skillful at many things and possibly incompetent at environment requisites yet one can’t really know for sure since he is something like a card player who doesn’t always show his hand and engineers opponents into believing various things about what cards he is holding. Future prospects for good Presidential leadership from with party appear dismal.
And that is the interesting point about all of this phenomena of Democrats shutting down government for no good reason, supporting the ‘rights’ of illegal aliens over those of U.S. citizens, being pro-war and spending hundreds of billions on a completely unneeded effort to make N.A.T.O. and the EU a vast left wing immoral new Nazi invader of Russia and Russian Ukraine and running up public debt as if it was not real and has no consequences.
Democrats eschew sane policies to make democracy work better. They oppose secure borders free from illegal entry, they oppose real voter ID verification; Democrats fail to innovate real policy to eliminate poverty or even to make patents affordable for poor people that invent things. Even the cost of copyrights make securing prolific authorship products unaffordable.
The nation and economy has many challenges ahead that the Democrat party seems not to have a snowball’s chance in hell of recognizing or responding to from artificial intelligence and robotics that will disrupt the economy progressively. Simply expanding the size of government and various programs in a jury-rigged kind of way will degrade the public and be an inadequate response to the new challenges.
Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush were the last competent U.S. Presidents with the partial exception of Donald Trump- he too shows competence at many things yet not so much in 40% of his work. The cliche about people that can’t stand prosperity comes to mind; after the success at ending the Cold War through the great work of Ronald Reagan and his excellent team in the Executive branch the nation elected a series of Presidential lemons that took the nation down the road to hell. It is possible that President Trump can turn that tide yet like King Canute discovered the powers of nature and in the modern context, idiot Democrats that are a positive lunacy as an opposition party is hard to control.
It would be a great thing if President Trump at least paid for his new dance hall grafted on to the White House instead of the public. It might be even better if there was some sort of referendum at least in Congress on matters of making significant changes to various federal structures that have meaning to the nation. A dance hall built while the nation has massive public debt and a decaying ecosphere in a world with a still unsettled conflict in Ukraine that could mead to the end of humanity does seem out of touch with the majority of Americans.
One might wonder if President Trump will have the Lippizon Stallions perform in the new dance hall or if that will be the venue for his WWF wrestling extravaganza. President Trump has a reputation as an anti-intellectual, anti-science real estate developed who likes a show. If it weren't for the fact that the Democrat Party leadership is completely deranged apparently he could not have stood a chance of being elected. It would be great if he could reign in some of his excesses and focus on making the nation competitive in fields like EVs, solar panel manufacture, a nation-wide super-conductor network and perhaps paying off the public debt and opening the government for business again.
At least the joint will be good for command performances of the Travelling Robot Chamber Ballet to enthrall foreign dignitaries. Maybe some President will host the DVA for lunch or open the doors for a Sunday breakfast for D.C.'s homeless people.
Narrowly avoiding a decision that would have ramped up the prospects for World War Three, President Trump today in a meeting with Ukraine's President Zelensky rejected giving the nuclear-weapons-capable longer range Tomahawk weapons to Ukraine that wanted to attack Russia with them. The war needs to end rather than escalate. So President Trump agreed to meet with Russia President Putin in Hungary and talk about ending the conflict. President could himself nearly end the war by stopping adding weapons fuel to the fire. ending sanctions in Russia, recognizing Ukraine land presently held by Russia as Russian and stipulating that Ukraine will not be permitted to become a N.A.T.O member on Russia's border. President Putin would only need to agree to halt the war along present lines of combat contact and to not attack Ukraine any more except where N.A.T.O. member military personnel present an armed threat with troop build-ups in Ukraine.
The country isn’t sliding into dictatorship at all. Franklin Delanor Roosevelt was far worse. It is just Democrat propaganda because they are completely corrupt morally.
What happens is the party leadership is just lawyers, and this country has an adversarial legal system rather than a magisterial like the UK, so all the lawyers do in Congress is act like hostile combatants- except there isn’t an impartial judge. A few lawyers are useful in government yet real people with good ideas- not just litigants that sue people, is what is needed.
Many ordinary people don’t seem to have a good sense of history. They don’t even know U.S. history very well and it makes them quite malleable to political manipulation. That being said it is not alright for the left to terrorize federal office buildings as they do in Portland. Remember this is an era following Timothy McVeigh and the Murer Federal Building destruction in Oklahoma City and the 9-11 attacks. The very, very loose and somewhat predatory sieges of federal buildings provides hate and potential opportunities for threat vectors to attack and perhaps destroy federal buildings and personnel.
Many Americans really don’t like illegal aliens taking jobs in the U.S.A. and would like them deported. Remember that most of my life was in the affirmative action era and I was not the newly favored class. Anti-white males discrimination became commonplace, and it did not help blacks nearly as much as it might have if every other race and gender did not pile in to that open door.
The U.S. Supreme Court eventually decided that race based employment favoritism is wrong. Certainly the Democrat Party of the ante-bellum south used it routinely, and in the segregation era race based favoritism applied even to water fountains in many areas of the country, though I never saw anything like that in the state of Washington growing up. I remember traveling through Portland on weekends even before the dams on the Columbia River were completed. It used to be more of an industrial town.
I understand the homeless problem very well because I have lived that way myself. I slept on the street for a while in order to finish a computer programming and systems analysis class at Western Business College on SW 6th in Portland. If one is homeless the first thing necessary is to never use drugs, alcohol or tobacco and of course those are heavily used vices in Portland’s homeless community. Portland has had leftist ‘leadership’ for quite some time. The last Republican governor of Oregon was Vic Atiyeh when I lived there. Politicians of both parties aren’t fixing the homeless problem and they could definitely reduce it with several practical measures they won’t try even when given the information to do so- I have tried that myself several times in writing.
I could say that giving transit passes to certified homeless so they could decentralize might help, or that providing tax breaks for hiring those out of work the longest proportionately could help the homeless find work. Even Oregon’s requirement that renters pay two month’s rent plus a deposit makes it tough for the broke to afford an apartment. It is useful to the left to have people on the street so they can try to accomplish their agenda by getting sympathy votes from the naive.
About 23 and me; I don’t want to give my genetic code to the corporate world. Genetic programming is very advanced and with Artificial General Intelligence around the corner it is only going to be more so. I don’t really want corporate to have my genetic code. Not only can gene specific bioweapons be designed that can target individuals but any competent agency with the genetic data, a plethora of genetic manipulations may be made to affect the individual target vector’s genetic ensemble. In a real way a human being’s body is like a mobile, ossified live book of information. Very soon it will be possible for others to reprogram or alter the letters or content making up the information that is the individual. I like to write science fiction, yet the present facts clearly support a continuing advance in the ability of corporate science or anyone else having genetic codes of people with technology and wealth to seriously interfere with people. Further, it is well known that internet security is terrible even for very secure organizations. Eventually all of the information is found by hackers and sold on the dark web.
I am not certain yet I seem to recall that the Army’s blood draw records for personnel including veterans was partially sold to science corporations for research- hopefully it was anonymous. I am sure if it did the data will make its way to foreign enemies.
Returning to the topic of illegal aliens. The confederacy was made of Democrats that liked cheap or free labor. They like illegal aliens today because it is cheap labor. Because so many Democrat Party voters don’t do labor themselves they don’t care if the illegal workers take American jobs or displace American workers while gutting wage increases for U.S. labor. They did that to my prospects all of my days. It was very hard to find temporary work because the Mexicans took the jobs for a fraction of what legal workers would get. They are also sometime very arrogant and rude. I support 100% legal workers without a hidden underclass. Yet the rich too tend to like to keep wages down with a wage segregated illegal underclass. In my entire life the Democrats have always made the problem worse, and they undermine democracy by supporting open borders. With open borders it doesn’t matter how people vote in Congress for immigration levels- illegals decide themselves what those levels and numbers will be.
With so many Mexicans working in America Mexico itself underdevelops and that favors the drug society of gangs; narco-traffickers who use the open border and retard Mexican development. The U.S. left want to say it is racist to close the border to all except legal entrants and of course it isn’t. Mexico will continue to be corrupted by the fact that wages are better in the U.S. for illegal migrants here. NAFTA could only have worked if all of the workers on both sides of the border were legal. Supply and demand applies to wages as well as product pricing.
I am sure you are tired of this by now. It is about divisive politics that doesn’t result in anything useful for the nation, except for those that are rich. The country really could use a new political party with good ideas- there are challenges ahead yet opportunity exists too. It is kind of exciting that aluminum and sodium EV batteries are going to appear in a year or two. Reportedly they can be recharged in 4 minutes, are good for 500 miles per charge, and weigh 250 pounds less than lithium ion. The Tesla 2 in 2026 may have them (or not), and may sell for $15,000. The batteries are said to last for 500,000 miles. Solar panels are also cheap now. I bought a 300 watt panel recently for 120 dollars.
Apparently President Trump is as much of a lunatic for escalating the Ukraine conflict to potential World War Three as former President Biden. Liberal tomahawks attacks on Russia are mad. Tomahawk missiles can be used to deliver nuclear weapons. And with American operators and intelligence launching the weapons into Russia it is not at all unthinkable that Russia may respond with attacks on Europe and the United States. If the attacks are non-nuclear then it is probable that Russian counterattacks would be non-nuclear. If one remembers how flimsy the U.S. economy was demonstrated to be physically after 9-11, President Trumps insane decision to escalate the worth is a bad prospect for a stable, healthy economy for the remainder of his term.
The question now moves more toward one of; will civilization exist to survive the Trump administration? If the choice is to demure on upgrading the insane conflict continued because the west is unwilling to stop the war by recognizing Russia's political requisites for Ukraine regarding land, security and ending sanctions, there would be hope. President Trump's brain is itself the fuse that can end the war peaceably within a month or continue the Democrat preference to advance a Napoleonic delusion about Russia, Ukraine and history and develop a tighter, closer relation to hell on Earth for humanity.
President Trump is threatening to send 1000 miles range Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine if Russia does not agree to a peace settlement. Apparently President Trump does not understand that Russia already wants peace. Russia simply wants security conditions to be met, fair lines to be drawn and obviously for diplomatic recognition of its presently held land in East Ukraine in addition to an end to U.S. sanctions.
President Trump must be aware that Zelensky won’t sign off on a peace deal; instead he wants the war and martial law to continue indefinitely. He is said to be preparing to continue to lower the draft age over the next three years of war and to bring in women too for combat contact. Plainly Zelensky intends to string Trump along until another war mongering sycophant U.S. Democrat Party President can be elected and take office in January 2029.
The disingenuous and illogical parameters President Trump brings to negotiate a peace deal also offers the prospect of U.S. military operators working the Tomahawks to attack Russia since Ukrainians haven’t the training. Threats to bring peace don’t really work in a nuclear era where battle with the power with the most nuclear weapons on the planet is the main adversary. Russia has numerous missiles of its own to counterattack the United States with at some point where American provided and operated missiles have done sufficient damage to make a counter-strike necessary. Tomahawks are nuclear explosive capable making every launch on a Russian city a 50-50 chance of that city's incineration. Russians may tire of giving the west a continuous first nuclear strike opportunity.
Maybe the Congress at least should be required to have a vote-even an advisory, non-binding vote on topics concerning the escalation of conflict to a stage invoking possible nuclear exchange. Presidents Biden and Trump each seemed to lack sufficient reasoning skills to comprehend what can bring peace in Ukraine fairly directly. All that is required for that is for President Trump to end sanctions on Russia and to cease support for Ukraine, and assure President Putin that the U.S. won’t allow Ukraine to join N.A.T.O. President Putin would need to agree to stop the war along the combat contact lines that presently exist.
President Trump has all the cards to stop the war in his hand already. He seems incapable of playing that sort of bold move.
The demonstrated inability of Donald Trump and MAGA emulated in effect by environmentalist imposter Democrats will play out badly in the decades ahead when extra solar planetary colonization efforts get underway. People with callous disregard for their own national and global ecosphere will have little ability to design or build new, verdant ecosphere in space habitats, upon Mars somewhere perhaps underground or elsewhere around the solar system. F students in environmental engineering don’t suddenly become A students when that is requisite for transformation of arid, lifeless alien deserts into places with vibrant biosphere supportive of human life. Instead they seek ways to burn gasoline in places without an atmosphere. Donald Trump has done good work in trying to secure the U.S. borders and bring. Law, order and accountability for all people living here, yet he seems to be flip flopping on positions about stopping or fueling the Ukraine war driving a wedge between southeast and west economic blocks thereby damaging the US economy.
Fighting and fossil fuel vehicles alone won’t alone build up a civilization for man in the modern world, anymore than it could for guerrillas or brown bears. Man does not live by fighting alone.
Ukraine’s continuing destruction of Russian oil refineries is causing shortages and driving up the price of gas to consumers. If Ukrainian drones continue to wreak havoc on Russian oil production it is possible that the Kremlin may seek relief and import hundreds of thousands of Chinese workers and engineers to repair devastated oil infrastructure in exchange for a deal such as a full share of free fuel from fuel production facilities brought back online.
If China can get Russian oil and gas for a quarter of the present market cost, that would be a boon for the Chinese economy. It would also reduce the unemployment rate in China
It may slso simulate new deals to build pipelines across Afghanistan to India in addition to those planned for China.
While the West drives Russia east in this major realignment of global economics Ukraine is being reduced to rubble, Oreshnik missiles are being deployed to Belarus and President Trump has flip flopped to believe a war against Rusdia in Ukraine can be one. The conflict does continue to escalate toward Worrld War Three.
President Trump has gone father over to the dark side of the force after meeting with Ukrainian Emperor Zelensky yesterday. He said Russia is a paper tiger and has decided to push the war forward another year until Russia loses and Europe wins.
In my opinion European leaders are incapable themselves, of finding peaceful coexistence. They are heirs of original colonial powers and have thousands of years of fighting against even themselves as well as evolving weapons and technology. The reason Europe has been at peace since the end of the second world war was that Russia and the United States dwarfed them militarily and the gross destruction of Europe during W.W. II set them back. With the Clinton era expropriation of Ukraine from Russia and expansion of N.A.T.O. eastward the gradual return of European lunacy against peace and pro-war, this time in a new and improved more unified EU form, has returned. I believe the insanity of European leadership couldn’t find peace if the lives of 10 billion souls depended in it. President Trump has joined with the Biden-European plan to prosecute war upon Russia through Ukraine.
President Trump may believe that he is in some way protecting America’s security and that Russia and China plus India and other nations are too weak economically to resist the combined military and economic power of the US and Europe. If so gambling on developing war for more years and not escalating into nuclear holocaust seems like a bad bet. Maybe Trump is just expressing hard negotiating tactics. If that is the case he is an idiot.
The Ukraine was has two most likely outcomes; Russia has the land east of the Dnepr River and Ukraine the west bank, or nuclear devastation of Europe, the' United States and Russia. This is an amusing circumstance where the point that the meek shall inherit the Earth’ rises to preeminence. The godless, sadistic, lunatic, incompetent leaders of Europe and the United States should return to peace with Russia and renormalize economic relations directly.
Compare what President Eisenhower through G.H.W. Bush (41) said about Russia; they would never have called a nation with that nuclear arsenal a paper tiger.
President Trump is himself the primary cause for the continuation of the war into 2026. Supplying weapons, cash and information to Ukraine protracts the war. It will continue until he stops doing that.
If Trump wants to make security guarantees for the land west of the Dnepr, and the Pecos, that is reasonable. Prime Minister of France Clemenceau said that World War Two was caused by the United States failing to guarantee the peace of World War One. Russia isn’t Germany though, neither is it communist, and it merely wants its land back and to not have a voracious EU seeking to devour on its Western border. Satan is finding fresh fruit in the present generation of Euro-American leadership. Needless to say the godless, atheist, avaristic leaders of Europe and Donald Trump are following the former President of the US Joe Biden on the insanity plan for corporate and political profit through their blind allegiance to Emperor Zelensky.
The economic reasoning of President Trump regarding the war's effects on the US economy are amorphous. While Ukraine grain fields are made fallow during battle world prices of grain may rise, Africans relying on Ukraine grain starve and American farmers producing grain experience higher grain sales prices. Eliminating Russian oil from the European market is good for American oil producers obviously, yet bad for Europe that will cheat and buy some Russian oil discreetly anyway.
America will lose sales from and develop more global customer loyalty to the BRIC nations. Restoring full western control over the Ukraine is probably going to occur solely by ending the war on satisfactory terms with Russia and dominating the Ukraine market with a flood of cheap, high quality products from the west made in. Hina, Korea, Japan, Vietnam and Thailand.
President Trump may also be thinking short term sales proplits instead of long-term global strategy . The big dummie. May add up the value of oil, grain and weapons sales in his merchandising mind and decide Thad short term national profits are what matter most.
Donald Trump has forgotten the art of the deal. It seems more like the art of b.s. today. He must offer Russia something they value, such as Ukraine real estate they haven't already got. A settlement should demilitarize the borders a dozen miles except for guards. Sanctions should be lifted, and N.A.T.O never take Ukraine into membership. To have peace the parties need to be and act peaceful. Trump just seems incapable of good judgment on the topic. Russia needs peace guarantees as well as Emperor Zelensky.
The improvisational, creative rock star Frank Zappa said something like ‘Politics is the entertainment division of the military-industrial complex’. That was a perceptive remark at a deeper level of social analysis. Zappa’s remark might be upgraded to include the 5% of the 1% with the military industrial complex regarding who politics in the United States primarily benefits. One wonders about President Trump though; when he has seemed to dissent with simply expanding wars upon second rate nations he appears to be an exception to that paradigm. Yet when he follows it such as to support a war against Russia he seems to be right in tune with Zappa’s prognostication.
The late Charlie Kirk sought to bring more Christians into political engagement in politics with his 'Turning Point U.S.A.'. He had saved 12 million dollars while growing that organization from age 18, so he was probably sincere about faith and bring the nation to return more to the faith of the founders. It is not particularly surprising that a radical left-leaning youth in a state with a dominant non-Christian religion was the tool to take down an existential irritant. One might wonder if anything of that tragedy was at all meaningful in light of the Zappa paradigm of politics largely going where it is directed by the M.I.C. and plutonomy.
The late Charlie Kirk is a good example of the problems Christians have in engaging politcs. Can one even affect contemporary politics significantly without being rich? Jesus said that it was easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. That presents a Hobson's choice of a sort to those with Christian spirit who would like to make the nation a better place.
The Ukraine conflict generated by massive paranoia, European perfidy in politics, the worth of wars to military and industrial corporations, Russian resistance to N.A.T.O. eastward expansion and loss of Ukraine to the west via President Clinton is a difficult inertial monstrosity to resist. President Trump has gone as far as he feels reasonable- even sending some American military officers to Belarus to observe the Belarussian-Russia joint military exercises that were made to offset N.A.T.O. military exercises near Belarus.
Obviously the war is counterproductive to global well being, peace, security and economics. Some of the military-industrial establishment may even have realized that expending conflict to increase profits may be harmful to themselves too if the conflict transitions into World War Three. Maybe they won’t resist a draw-down even though traditional profit tactics goad them forward into hellfire.
The Democrat Party is very dangerous though. They seem to lack competence at politics generally and serve to render actual functioning marketplace of ideas style Democracy improbable because of the mass confusion and incompetence they bring to the electorate. Disseminating lies, illusions and so forth are commonplace for Democrats. Apparently they really are against U.S. border security and a democracy of, by and for the people of the United States rather than anyone in the world in general. Massive civil disobedience that is perpetual has the effect of making political self-determination by the electorate ineffective. The party simply is a third column for those that attack every sort of American establishment within the United States without concern for the harm dumped upon fellow citizens as a result of their party’s political malfeasance.
Democrats throw so much smoke and bull into the political system that accomplishing meaningful environmental economic progress, or ending the Ukraine conflict; slowing massive species extinction and keeping the U.S. Government finances solvent are set not on the back burner- they thrown into deep freeze, Democrats are the smoke and mirrors mass confusion tool for concentrating wealth. They may provide election cycle rhetoric and raising taxes on the rich yet act on that only when they haven’t political power to actually do so. Fundamentally Frank Zappa was correct. There must be some coordination and some level to make the American electorate so badly informed and unconcerned about the state of the nation, the public debt and impoverished lives of millions that exist even when the unemployment rate is quite low. Upgrading and innovating where things Frank Zappa accomplished in music yet in U. S. politics that capacity seems notably absent.
When the leaders of China, Russia, India and 17 other nations met in Beijing recently to discuss a new world order with themselves as the core alternative to the U.S. led world order that has prevailed during the post World War Two era, it was prompted as a response to sanctions President Trump has placed upon nations helping Russia break sanctions from the west. Sanctions to redress compiled U.S. trade imbalance and stimulate domestic American production were a synthetic combination of basic trade realignment and sanctions created on Russia and its numerous allies for asserting historical rights in Ukraine militarily.
President Trump failed to reverse the Biden-Lindsay Graham approach to complete support for West Ukraine and war on Russian Eastern Ukraine and that policy is predictably bearing fruit. In the history of the world and the United States following the second world war the emerging nations of the world have long aspired to rise to a standard of living equal to the west, while American led western business sought global markets to invest in. After the end of the Cold War a new world of markets for sales and production arose with the west investing in emerging economies heavily.
Russia for a time received much U.S. and western investment and was on track to become a full member of the western led global economy even while India and China were developing to such an advanced stage as to aspire to be rivals for world leadership in economics. Russia China and India developed or redeveloped nuclear military capabilities, and when Russia invaded Eastern Ukraine in response to the west reneging on promises not to expand N.A.T.O. apparently in an effort to created economic and military hegemony over Russia- possibly with the idea that Ukraine could be a lever not only for military purposes, but to help with continuing domination of the world economy by militarily degrading Russia and intimidating China into compliance with Western trade criteria forced upon it, a crucible was made that brought BRIC nations to support Russia and finally seek economic independence from the West.
The maladroit U.S. leadership in regard to the Ukraine war that followed the Clinton administration’s carpet bagging approach to taking all of Ukraine for the west and not sharing it with its historical owner-Russia prompted the military reconquista effort by Russia and aggressively promoted the unification of BRIC nations, North Korea and Iran and many others in a compact both formal and informal to stand against the power of the west. Compelling a major world political and economic schism in order to try to assert Western hegemony over the Ukraine and the globe was a stupid policy approach. With cooperation with Russia and China instead of belligerency the United States and Europe would have enjoyed decades of prosperity and stability. As it stands the West faces major economic challenges; the U.S. has vast left and right wing generated public debt and a global trading production and competition with the younger, more populous and very hard working, intelligent Eastern and BRIC nations as adversaries rather than partners. Even as that occurs the Trump administration has taken up the Biden-Graham militarism policy of supplying weapons to Ukraine in order to continue the conflict in Ukraine.
Continuing support for the Ukraine war will continue to stimulate the East and BRICs to build an economic house of self-reliance apart from the west. And of course with the vast scale of the India and China production and trade markets it is inevitable that the west will continue to defect to trade with the Eat and BRICs and not cohere within sanctions on Eastern allied nations in trade.
President Trump’s betrayal of his own campaign promises to swiftly end the Ukraine war was his own worst betrayal of his own policies that might have rectified global trade to a natural free flowing status normalizing relations with Russia without forcing Russia Eastward in very tight new economic, military and trade agreements. A future U.S. president will need to try to rectify the failed Trump isolationist policies, yet in the interim there may be additional economic disadvantages that compile and present new additional challenges to repair.
Apparently the Ukraine war will continue on to roll over into 2026. Zelensky and Putin have antipathetic goals and are talking past one another. N.A.T.O. members preponderantly want to occupy Ukraine with proxies regardless of how the war concludes in order to make it an advanced base for potential future military engagements. President Trump hasn't a wood for the trees forest gumption to stop selling weapons to Ukraine in some form because of potential proplits. That decision is decisive, enabling Ukraine to hang on with the illusion they have a chance to fulfill N.A.T.O. goals of making Ukraine something like a Non-Official-Agent (NOC) of N.A.T.O. given certain defense assurances from N.A.T.O.; having things their way like a vast, sumptuous mountain of Whoppers.
The final denouement of the conflict, if not nuclear war, may be Russian military forces finally stopping at the Dnepr with extreme global tension the zeitgeist, on the brink of World War Three, with a cease-fire agreed to by both sides (three or four sides including Donald Trump and N.A.T.O.-Europe) settling nothing. That would be comparable to the armistice at the end of World War One between Germany and the allies, that set the machinery for W.W. Two into motion. When those atop the leader pole are in conflict everyone below feels the pain.
Of course it would be a far more complex post-war situation with something like a Star Wars Revenge of the Clones, A.I. General Intelligence, Drone Wars economy building to an unbounded, non-recognizable anomic, protracted adverse economic circumstance in complete disregard for the need to transition to a global new foundation of ecological-economic synergy.
President Trump's peace effort with the Ukraine war seems to be failing and instead is leading toward nuclear war. Reportedly the administration is working on security guarantees for Ukraine making them an informal ward of N.A.T.O. providing the full package of weapons, cash, foreign forces etc. President Putin has visited his country's strategic nuclear war development center and informal reports indicate that nuclear war may follow Ukrainian missile attacks on Russian cities and other targets deep inside the nation.
President Trump appears to be another stooge of those forces that control White House puppets of the Deep State. The threat of assassination may be what the President fears. That ear-marking shot may not have been an accident. Matthew Crook, like Lee Harvey Oswald and Jeffrey Epstein, was conveniently killed. Dead men tell no tales.
President Trump made a statement today that Ukraine can't win just being defensive. He said offense is necessary to win a war. He also blamed the Biden administration for putting restrictions on Ukraine's use of U.S. missiles. Donald Trump is all over the place, illogically in flip flopping about concerning the Ukraine war and America's political position on it. THe President president may not mind playing Russian roulette on starting World War Three yet there are some voters that do care.
The President is wrong about a great defense not being able to win a Super-bowl anyway. The Baltimore Ravens did that with Trent Dilfer (a game manager) as Q.B. in a rather lackluster offensive show- the defense was that good and could force turnovers; defense can score too thought fumble returns, interceptions, touchbacks and otherwise achieving great field position for anemic offenses. One might consider Vietnam's defense against the US led attack on Northern forces, and the Afghan Taliban attack on Coalition forces, or the insurgent attack on U.S. and Coalition forces in Iraq, to ask if defense against a superior enemy occupying a nation cannot be successful. A reality check should lead one to prefer a peaceful actual outcome of a war, rather than a nominal one leading to further post-settlement conflict. Russia is not a local insurgent force either. Perhaps he expects a division size charge of the light brigade from Ukraine upon Russia. Trading head blows with American weapons on Moscow and Petersburg etc will not lead to a good outcome for the U.S.A. perhaps; Boston , D.C. and San Francisco might be targets of retribution eventually- when all hell breaks loose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RavlPsM3xdM History of N.A.T.O Expansion Eastward
Very ignorant leaders of the west still believe they might drive Russia out of Ukraine without achieving massive civilian casualties in large numbers in the west and a few cities here and there being vaporized; it isn't very likely to develop in such a salutary fashion. The war is very harmful to U.S. global economic and environmental interests, besides presenting large opportunity costs. The ignorant just do not comprehend history well enough to recognize Russia's very legitimate right to the Ukraine; much less the eastern portion of it. Instead continuing delusional, Utopian legalistic fictions based in honest carpet bagging real estate at the end of the Soviet state to let them move forward in a trance supporting killing.
President Trump may go down in history as just another ineffective, vacillating U.S. President unable to comprehend that war isn't always the right or efficient remedy and may entail only the prospect for being at best, a pyrrhic victory. He may be leaning toward becoming a new and improved Joe Biden on solving the Ukraine war.
