Showing posts with label cold war history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cold war history. Show all posts

03 May 2026

Withdrawing 25 Per Cent of U.S.Troops from Europe is Requisite for Peacekeeping

 President Trump recently ordered the removal of five thousand U.S. soldiers from Germany as part of an overdue strategy to stop swelling the E.U. takeover of N.A.T.O. following the end of the Cold War. The E.U. will never sign off on peace with Russia and share the Ukraine as long as they have the United States forming the bulwark of N.A.T.O. Instead the E.U. and N.A.T.O. will rely on the U.S.A. to support N.A.T.O. ‘s growth right to Russian borders and continue the war against Russia through other means including Ukraine.

In order to reduce U.S. military expenses a little while the President is also planning to increase it more than a trillion dollars the President might implement a 25% to 50% reduction in troop deployments in European countries that were stationed during the Cold War when Europe wasn’t nearly as able to defend itself, and Germany still had leftover fascists. While censorship fascism has migrated toward the left (although it always existed on communist countries) in the UNited States and soaked into the fabric of corporatocracy, internet and A.I., European militarism exploiting America’s troop presence in Europe evolved to prevent Russia from fully actualizing its development as a post-Soviet era democracy and compelled it to develop new social institutions while simultaneously beginning the defense of traditional Russia interests in the Crimea and Ukraine against European and Democrat Party expropriation and aggression.

If the EU need rely upon its own military for a confrontation with Russia on the battlefield its political unwillingness to normalize relations with Russia and help it to return to a path of Democratic and free enterprise development without concern of European aggression will find more political support domestically from European citizens that don’t want a new round of World War fought within its borders.

As it is Germany does plan to increase its military a lot to be the biggest in Europe and that itself comprises a threat to Russia that lost more than 20 million lives the last time Germany invaded Russia in the Second World War. European strategy- possibly one stimulated by European elites that lost most of their royal positions by the end of the first World War and were content with being deeply wealthy partners with fascists in German corporatism partnering with Hitler and the 3rd Reich for example. Rich western Europeans still have a latent, practical desire to annex Russia through force. The entire paradigm is exceptionally destabilizing in regard to world peace.

Land war in Europe that is less than nuclear level may be sustainable only with American support. The policy of protracted war with Russia in Ukraine or in general European battle is profoundly bad for U.S. interests, and is so stupid for virtually everyone in the long run that it is mind boggling that the European political and Democratic Party IQs can be so low as to fail to perceive the opportunity costs of it.



14 June 2025

Remembering the Reagans, etc

 I used to spend a fair piece of time boating in S.E. Alaska. I saw several interesting vessels- one a stern steered boat with a large oar for a rudder, the sailing ship Lady Washington etc. I also saw former President Reagan's yacht near Wrangell as it passed on the way to town. I will recount that experience after mentioning briefly a pair of experiences myself- one on a skiff, to leave a chronological note.

For a few years when it was 32 my feet would turn black from cyanotic blood and I restored circulation by taking a hot shower-then the skin would turn back to pink or flesh color from a line above my ankle moving down eventually to my toes. It wasn't frostbite- it was something like trenchfoot that did it. I spent a day walking through deep water snow and creeks in combat boots. Comparable to keeping my feet in a bucket of ice and slushy water for a day. A couple days later they were swollen up like balloons and I had to get extra wide tennis shoes sizes to big for temporary use. I reinjured them in 2018 while bringing a skiff down from Juneau in October and nearly drowned crossing Taku Inlet. My boots had a leak and they stayed cold and wet for days. Then I returned to the shed and it was like my feet were on fire and hell for a week. I got snowed in and couldn't leave to go to a clinic in town. I made it eventually and got a drug that makes the brain not feel pain. My feet were nearly all recovered before that last injury.

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Sometime around the Republican National convention of 1992 Ronald and Nancy Reagan yachted up the inside passage and put in at Wrangell.

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Ronald Reagan like seemed a tool of God, a man of peace and Christian- wise as a serpent yet gentle as a dove in a political ecosphere of vipers, and yet he seemed to be fading and looked under the weather. Nancy was on his arm and seemed healthy enough and to be reinforcing him as they walked along the sidewalk with a small entourage. Nancy was also an actress.

Ron looked at me as I was taking my last $100 from the bank when he walked past outside the bank window. He was wearing a wool sweater he had bought at Hickok's- a clothing store that opened shortly before his visit and closed not long after the Reagans left Wrangell. I had served as a reservist mostly for 6 years of his administration and that changed the way I looked at things perhaps. Reagan was taking heat for the Iran contra connection with Oliver North at the time and was perhaps getting away from the media spotlight in Alaska on a yachting sojourn. I thought I would help him out so I wrote an letter to an editor asking if Reagan had secretly been a communist -really counter-intuitive to what the public thought he had been. The premise was that he had been a Democrat and admired Franklin D Roosevelt when a young guy, and added several trillion dollars to the national debt as President (the debt excusable as a one-time thing in order to end the Cold War- no subsequent President should have followed that deficit spending example).

Shortly after that it was announced that he had Alzheimers and went into seclusion for the remainder of his days. I worked for a temporary agency at a construction site years later with a guy for a day that looked like Reagan's twin brother; he was a bricklayer. Nice guy. Interesting times. Maybe the Reagans used their acting skills to get some of their political work done.

Reagan was somewhat transparent- there is a lot of biographical stuff written about him. I think Nancy not so much- well I haven't read that. At that level the public persona needs to coincide with the private. Interesting thing I read that was somewhat biographical was a history by an insider of how Reagan de-escalated nuclear missile stocks with the Soviets. He was the only one who thought about that much in his administration- his goal was to eliminate all nuclear weapons. Everyone else in the government; and this continued into the start of the Bush administration, was aboard the traditional hawkish point of view. 

Reagan was a kind of voice crying in the wilderness in his own way and Gorbachev met him halfway. I suppose there is a secret history of Mikhail and his philosopher wife Reza that hasn't been written and never will be. I suspect that the Gorbachev's were the tip of an iceberg of high level insiders that wanted to end communism in Russia yet had to be rather careful covert and indirect to get that done because traditional, conservative communists would not tolerate that movement toward liberalization directly. 

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Presidents may have a lot of secret communications, methods and means perhaps unknown to history. Heck, I thought I saw Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky in a ferry terminal parking lot in Juneau in 1994 I believe it was. She had on a fishnet sweater kind of thing over a t-shirt and asked if I had change for a dollar so she could use a pay phone to call a taxi- She said 'I've got to get Randy home'. Bill was dressed casually like a regular grunge Alaskan, yet wearing a very large gold star like a sheriff badge some place down south that no one in Juneau wears anything vaguely resembling it, and appeared to be drunkish. Secrets people keep lol Everyone has seen celebrities though at some time. I did see Sean Connery at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in New Orleans at 2 in the morning getting out of a limousine in the parking garage where I was cleaning the gutter as a temporary over night worker.