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.
There are substantial differences between W.W. II and the Ukraine conflict about 80 years later obviously. Logistics, weapons technology, communication and political configurations have changed a lot. Here is a video with more background on the German military posture compared to that of the American during World War Two.
One might learn something from that regarding the military posture of the United States today with so much manufacturing having shifted offshore and the industrial base half located in China and elsewhere. Solar rechargeable electric vehicles perhaps with auxiliary fuel cells may be a sustainable mass produced military vehicle for foreign militaries that reduce cost and reliance on fuel logistics down the road. Already the rise of drones and solar-power AI drones are changing the realities of equipment that might survive mass air and ground attack from drones. Fuel supply vehicles would be especially difficult to defend making self-fueling military vehicles de rigeur in the future.
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.
Apparently the Ukraine hasn’t any hummingbirds. That may be an explanation for why Emperor Zelensky is cruel enough to send young women ages 18 to 24 into the front line of battle as combat infantry. He also plans to send old men over 60 there as well.
I had no idea that hummings don’t live in the old world. They are found only in the new world. Sadistic royalty sending women and old men to be splattered in battle should be sure to go with them.
A few dozen Russian drones entered Polish air space in a significant escalation of the conflict between N.A.T.O. and Russia, perhaps to signal to N.A.T.O. that they are ready for World War Three. N.A.T.O. members preponderantly have supplied weapons to Ukraine as well as intelligence and personnel support for decades. Europe's political structures make escalation to the worst case war level routine historically. America has followed that jackassery since Bill Clinton was President.
When N.A.T.O. cruise missiles attacked the Donetsk a day ago in an effort to kill Russian military personnel at a regional headquarters Russia was perhaps prompted to retaliate by attacking the route the N.A.T.O. supplied cruise missiles took to attack Russia- The Donbas is regarded by Russia as a part of Russia; Poland is the primary supply hub for the entry of implements of war into the Ukraine. The N.A.T.O. attack had strategic military value and perhaps required a substantive response.
It is improbable that the drone missions to Poland did significant damage as N.A.T.O. air defenses were activated and in no way depleted from previous attack. It is possible the drones were launched by Ukraine to trick Donald Trump into aggressive support for Ukraine. https://suno.com/s/nGoRgj1dUov8heNv Free Space
The likely consequence is that the morons in Western leadership will continue to regard the prospect of W.W. Three as a bluff until it occurs, and then try to win a nuclear war. It is still not too late to settle the conquest peacefully by sharing Ukraine with Russia, ending sanctions and demilitarizing the place except for a self-defense o in the western portion. N.A.T.O. troops stationed in Ukraine will not be acceptable to Russia.
N.A.T.O. Chief Mark Rutte insists Ukraine is an independent country and has a right to have troops stationed there or join N.A.T.O. because it "is an independent country" and doesn't understand that is what the fight is about. Leadership that seems retarded or intentionally ignorant is not encouraging for the west that would like to see the issue peacefully resolved.
Russia is in opposition to foreign troops being stationed in the borderlands, and is opposed to the borderlands becoming part of N.A.T.O. Russia also wants part of the borderlands to be recognized as a part of Russia based on historical precedent. And the retarded leader of N.A.T.O. has zero understanding of the Russian position and simply asserts that Ukraine is entirely western and independent in an 'it all is ours' viewpoint regarding the big pie of chips called the borderlands that will need to be shared peaceful and profitably between Russia and the West if the potential for World War Three is to be reduced.
Russia and its leader Vladimir Putin are not at some point after a few hundred thousand more people are killed in the war going to give the pile called the borderlands entirely to the West, It just isn't going to happen. Until the west recognizes that fact the world economic and political schism is going to continue and possibly even grow and that is not in anyone's interest.
Consider the Batan Island base? Marines have put Nmesis missiles there to control Luzon Strait. They are good for 115 miles. Batan is the northernmost populated island in the Philippines. Technically it is a good place to have a circumference kill zone on Chinese incursions into the south China and Philippine Seas. That island was the first place the Japanese attacked in W.W. II, so it is another example of Generals fighting the last battle as if the next would be like it. While China would like to dominate the fisheries, oil and seafloor mining opportunities in the area, it isn't too likely to be of much significance in event of W.W. 3. President Trump isn't a dummy, yet his strategic outlook is probably more a factor of his economic outlook than developed with strategic military considerations. Europe for example would be far more secure with peace in Ukraine- sharing it with Russia, than pursuing a complete our way or no way policy of conquest in Ukraine over all Russian claims.
The U.S. Government has been rebuilding many old, abandoned airfield for a possible war with China this last year in the S.W. Pacific region. Many airfields would make it harder for China to take all of them out. Aircraft will need places to land to refuel and rearm in event of war. The U.S.A. has developed a more new battle doctrine for that combat theater yet of course even that advanced theoretical paradigm is changing a lot, perhaps so far as to become obsolete, as a result of Ukraine war development of drone technology for war. I am sure that DARPA is working on a plethora of A.I. self-regulating drones for attacking various targets negating the need for human operators in some cases. Island and bases may be neutralized by undersea refueled drones as well. Just as air tankers refuel aircraft in flight, sub-sea tanker mini-subs may be developed to refuel amphibious drones as well as undersea drones. All of this is of course a Field of Morons paradigm, rather than a Field of Dreams. Yet is is the way political leaders are driven by power and financial pressures and incentives.
The longer the Ukraine conflict continues the more the Eastern Block will deploy there own systems positioned to defrappe the Western Block that will be deploying counter-system. It is all very good for defense contracting business. This progression deserves a Ludlum title at least- like the Aquitaine Progression or The Parsifal Mosaic, though it reminds me of the perennial war between Oceana and some other power that went on interminably in Orwell's 1984. With the rise of A.I. that sort of scenario may evolve and people will become more isolated, conditioned by the daily hate and surveilled by the state. It needs to slip over a world population slowly, with subterfuge, rather than to be forced upon them.
9-11 demonstrated the fragility of major American cities to attacks with high explosives from the air. The Ukraine War has shown how drones take out conventional ground forces and the way cities are destroyed. Casualties and property damage from even a conventional war with China would really set back the U.S. economy with destruction of thousands of urban core buildings, power and communications centers. Drones will be vectored to the U.S. mainland from a number of different approaches perhaps, while the U.S. attacks China with cargo ships full of drones. China would be equally devastated with perhaps 200 million dying from starvation and disease as secondary effects becoming collateral casualties resulting from loss of economic infrastructure and food supply disruption plus disease. It is important to have peace in Ukraine directly sharing it with Russia and retiring Zelensky. Continuing escalation doesn't lead to a good place for east or west. President Trump needs to withdraw all support from Ukraine and reestablish relations with Russia if he wants to make a difference, and of course he can't do that.
Europe has a lengthy history of fighting interminable, internecine wars. There is no reason to slacken hold of the reins America held until recently on that following WW 2. President Trump does not understand that European leadership would venture right up to and over the edge given the vacuum of US leadership globally since President Clinton.
On leaders cooperating; it isn't certain at all about who the leaders really are or even the structure. It could be a plutonomy. European history indicated they war until they can't- when they have left things in ruins. Cooperation is possible though.Look up the prisoners dilemma, and the diner;' dilemma- a pair of philosophically illuminating theory examples that is applicable to leadership in Europe with some modifications
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.
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.
Recent analysis have discovered that China is surpassing the United States in the development of power required to support the needs of artificial intelligence development. It has also developed a practical engineering approach to developing lunar rockets and colonization. That is a result of the United States having forgotten how to get things done on large scale projects, besides piling up public debt at which the nation excels, since the last Apollo moon landing,
China is on schedule to start building a moon base by 2030 and may be the first to develop artificial general intelligence- surpassing the combined intelligence of all of humanity.
Because the Democrat Party is corrupt it doesn’t get things done. It would fund day care instead of environmental remediation, and flood the nation with illegal workers getting paid under the table to support the economy of Democrat voters. Government cannot substitute for good wages and union negotiations for employer provided day care. The Republican Party is too interested in corporate profit and tax cuts to lead an intelligent political Risorgimento for the U.S.A. like nation runs risks similar to those of the late Roman Empire of failing through too much focus on investments abroad, lack of political cohesion and leadership and other nations maturing militarily and economically beyond the criterion of the healthy political economy of Rome. It did not help when the capital was moved abroad to Constantinople.
The United States has far fewer engineers than China. Because China can coordinate teamwork in larger numbers better than the United States, which is overly focused on entertainment and consumerism, it can create a web of space science supporting industry, while the United States cuts the N.A.S.A. budget and hired a Lysenko to lead the Department of Health.
I have advocated a few policies over the years to renew the national energy grid, to develop electro-magnetic accelerators to launch space ships to orbit and to build electro-magnetic accelerators on the moon and in space to accelerate space-ships on vectors around the solar system. Robert Goddard if living and funded would have accomplished that by the age of 130 or less I would guess.
Scientific American published an article decades ago about build a super-conducting power line across the nation within liquid hydrogen filled pipelines. Solar and wind power as well as nuclear power could be added to the line that could be buried below interstate highways. That would go a long way toward solving the problem of a clean power grid that is suitable for the present need for power. Plainly though, super-cooling of super-conductors will be easy at a moon base, so it is likely that lunar development would catalyze the rise of artificial general intelligence with easy super-conduction. The nation requires leadership on the challenges presented for power, super-conduction and artificial general intelligence.
Few politicians have good sense about the global environmental challenges to day and the way a transformation to a sustainable economic based in environmental economic principles is required to sustain human rather than artificial life on Earth. One might hope for a leader able to walk and chew gum at the same time, yet such hopes are never fulfilled. Perhaps the greatest challenge for the United States is how to engineer a President and Congress that can realistically address those major challenges of a new energy grid, a better, more effective space transport technology, making water through evaporation on condensation on a vast scale in canals along the Mexican border, adapting the economy to harmony with the requirements for a healthy and even thriving global ecosphere without ongoing atmospheric heating and mass species extinction, securing the nation’s borders, structuring universal basic income for all citizens to allow realistic adaptation to challenges of occupational obsolescence and exploitation by corrupt industries and actors of capitalism in the effort to renew the United States as a great, leading, beneficial nation able to compete successfully in economics with China in the future.
China has an interesting AI problem of success putting people out of work. With 800-900 million workers needing a basic income to stay alive the challenges for development of relevant occupations for humans in the new economy of AI and robots within a competitive global economy will be interesting to observe; can they get it right the first time?
President Trump has worked with moderate success on two important goals; one to secure the borders and secondly to end the Ukraine war. The west investing time. Thought and budget in the absolutely useless distraction of the Ukraine war instead of responding to the challenges mentioned above is doing it’s best to let China be the smart nation and the West the stupid political entity.
In the ideal, democracy would have brilliant public service motivated grass roots citizens littering cities and rural copses solving the nation's challenges. Unfortunately corporatism has made minions of the masses and they select from political column A or B. In the decadent era of the Byzantine Empire there were chariot racing fans that wore colors as Bloods and Crips did in the 80s. They fought like soccer hooligans; greens versus blues and reds. They even became political. The Byzantine Empire's decline and fall went on for hundreds of years. They had very few writers or philosophers, yet a surfeit of Icon painters in monasteries and elsewhere until they divided over that too in a battle with iconoclasts.
Approximately near Poland's eastern border, the 23rd longitude east is a good, non-threatening demarcator for troops from countries once commanded by Napoleon and Hitler. If Merz and Macron would keep their military forces well away from that line or passing beyond the Carpathian mountains Russia should be far less threatened by Western military encroachment. Ukraine is on the Russian side of the Carpathians and is called the borderlands historically, for good reason.
It is disquieting to have the return of militarism with France and Germany after the end of the Cold War. Macron is something like Napoleon and Merz more than a little like Adolph Hitler, yet of course without a semblance of charisma. One might wish they were not aggressive and assertive regarding Ukraine, as they are, as if it is a play-ground for the west and a field testing lab for western military weapons.
I need stipulate that Ukraine is nothing like Formosa/Taiwan strategically. The Communist Chinese might like that island nation with a history of independence to be theirs, yet like the Falkland Island in relation to Argentina, it isn't like to happen except through a slow evolution as China and Taiwan have peaceful and prosperous futures working together. Unification is a possibility though not a necessity.
Alternatively Taiwan is well defended and has good allies. mainland communists are not likely to attempt a military takeover because they would lose Shanghai and Beijing in the process most likely. A major war would perhaps bring half a billion Chinese to the brink of starvation within a couple of months as on-time deliveries of production fail. China has far more to lose than it has to gain with war against a well defended island with strong allies.
Ukraine on the other hand was historically part of Russia and the Soviet Union occupying Russia for hundreds of years, usually, except for a brief interregnum of Germany taking it over. German militarism is always a latent, recrudescent possibility- as is that of France, when they believe the time is opportune. Because President Trump isn't assertive enough publicly in his quest for peace, and not strong or eloquent enough to speak publicly about the proper role of N.A.T.O. with American support in defending Europe, delusional fears about Russia posing a threat to Europe have been present since the Obama administration.
The Cold War 35 years ago yet there were some that continued to fear the Soviets and Russia and sought expansion and takeover of the power vacuum vacated by the Soviets. Russia obviously would rise in time after reorganization of government and economics from a communist to a free enterprise basis. It would reasonably expect to emerge as the former Russia with most of it's possessions intact- including Ukraine. It did not expect to retake places occupied by the Soviet Red Army during the final years of the Second World War and made part of the East Bloc Warsaw Pact.
The West and the United States are quite well able to defend Europe from a non-existent threat of a Russian assault. It is challenging to envision Russian marine skydivers parachuting from 15,000 feet in numbers sufficient to capture England, or to imagine Russian commandos storming over the Alps any time soon with the skill of General Suvorov in escaping Western forces going over the Alps. It is true that Russians are capable of hitting Poland if the poles were asleep and fearful enough to stay deep in bunkers hoping passing Russian tankers would not notice them yet that seems improbable. Jews at least would put up stiff resistance as they did to the Nazis in the Warsaw ghetto during W.W. 2.
Russian knows that a general war would follow an invasion of Western Europe and that their casualties might exceed those the Nazis inflicted during world war 2- perhaps 20 to 40 million dead, with devastated cities, and the west is aware that nukes might be involved and more than a billion people globally would perish from famine and pestilence such as can exist in a mass produced, interlocked global economic sphere. Russians are not really as stupid as Europeans seem to believe they are. The problem exists in European imagination and the wish to have military power over Russia via Ukraine. It is a major stumbling block for the European leadership psyche apparently. Without European and American support Ukraine would already have returned to being Russian.
It is time now for at least President Trump to be realistic knowing that Europeans and the puppet President of Ukraine Zelensky aren't. Just say know to war and accept the fact that peace is better. The west need trust and welcome Russia fully into the global economy. One day it could be a full part of a tax free American-European-Russian trading block.
A war with tens or hundreds of thousand of robots versus humans and eventually against other robots will help train a new generation of combat robots how best to evaluate and kill human targets; a brave new world for programmers seeking fool-proof ways to deliver death to political opponents that breathe oxygen. Robots with AI are likely to rationalize 'Death to mouth-breathers!' Field training robots is a practical step, necessary step if they are to evolve to be effective killers of humans. The dispersion of military technology to non-belligerent nations seems like a parallel course to increase market sales in the civilian sector creating continuous increase of profits through expansion into secondary markets.
It is probable that a swift escalation in robot technology will follow a continuing war without a stoppage due to peace. Airborne drones will rise to deliver camouflage machine gun power in semi-autonomous drones that can reconnect with airlifting drones for redeployment to more optimal locations. A similar phenomena will arise if it does not already exist with airborne placement of drones with automatic grenade launchers and flame throwers.. Hundreds of forms of death flowers will bloom followed I would think by a host of anti-drone and anti-robot vectors. to fight without human combatants present initially. Then, the robot armies will seek and destroy human combatants farther from the front lines where they are ensconced in 'safer' positions.
That may be the beginning of the end of wars fought among humans with human political choices being the primary determinants of conflict. Instead the evolution of robots may enable the end of ostensible democratic leadership to war and give power over to rare elites or individuals representing vast concentrated wealth able to afford and command millions of robot warriors purposed to eliminate opposition political elements taking human form. Hence robots represent the end of democracy and rise of oligarchic plutonomy for global conquest.
Plainly soldiers will want more ai directed autonomous flying sticky mines to be able to attack robotic dogs in the field attacking them- bullets and grenades tossed from human arms might not be too effective. It isn't known if small electro-magnetic pulse grenades will be effective against robots. New forms of thermite (temperature between 4500-and 5400F Super Claymore mines with different shaped sticky packages may be effective upon opfor ground robots. Some flying vehicles might be taken down with white phosphorus flying air mines in close combat under the forest canopy situations. Adaptations to a plethora of new weapons seems ready to rapidly accelerate technologies of infantry war that of course will eventually proliferate to the rest of the world outside the present theater of combat; including of course, terrorists.
In order to capture opposition force (opfor) technology and software in various kind of robot dogs and other immobilized opfor machines the development of lightweight Faraday cages thrown by soldiers like a weighted fishnets or dropped from quite stealth drones flying above to cut off capture target robot dogs, for example will become part of an anti-drone squads battlefield toolkit. It is essential to isolate captured drone quickly so remote operators cannot order a drone to erase its software useful for reverse engineering.
Obviously there will appear mobile, stealthy flying AI 'Generals' to command battlefield drones without the presence of a human operator. The Brigadiers will be small yet with the best chips and software available and be encased in an EMP hardened shell able to avoid detection or destruction readily. If dumb battlefield drones are disabled with emp attacks the Brigadiers will download new programming to them.
With so many drone attackers in combat the U.S. Army has bought a high power microwave system that broadcast rather like an EMP, high power microwaves to take down opfor drones en mass. Obviously that technology can be adapted to kill humans. It can also be adapted to be transported by drones along with a partner carrying a power pack for the device, that will have directed evolution to more application including taking out ground combat drones. Networks of mobile microwave emission detectors will also be fielded for triangulating opfor anti-drone microwave bursts in the spiral of escalating technology of robotic war. Microwave destruction of drones with locations known to operators provide instant precise location where the Micro-wave emitter is enabling follow up counter attacks to the center of the drone destruction pattern with JDAMS, mortar and conventional artillery rounds.
When the technology proliferates and AI brigadiers become common it is possible that rogue applications of the encrypted control units may be found and applied in the general anomic breakdown of social order because of the dispersion of social control and security.
Dividing the global economy is not in America's interest. There is no winning scenario developing western hegemony over Russia through annexing formerly Russian Ukraine entirely to the west's puppet and expanding N.A.T.O right up to Russia- it is instead the most stupid plan available. Pres. Trump can end the war by stopping America's war against Russia through the Ukraine puppet dictator.
Melania Trump could tell her husband to stop funding the war then peace could break out and issues of displaced persons would be easier to resolve. Raising the issue of misplaced war orphans now is a smokescreen for war mongers that want support from the American public to continue it. They make too much money on it. Cold warrior politicians for moving N.A.T.O. eastward never die; they just fade into Ft. Knox.
Presidents Trump and Putin will meet in Anchorage this Friday without the presence of the notorious political lunatic of Ukraine named Big Vlod Zelinsky to piss on the two-man collusion to end a war.
The Ukraine war makes a lotta money for a lotta people supplying weapons. I am not one of those so I don't care if they stop. There is the vermin factor to consider. The conflict seems like an activity of human vermin biting one another. It could lead to nuclear war and that would be fine with me if the rats were the only victims. Because atomic war would involve a lot of other people including me, I would like the vermin to quit protracting the war and return the world to a less precipitous level of brinksmanship that can be found with universal peace.
All that wonderful killing technology is employed to fight over real estate that could be peacefully divided. Russia gets Crimea, Donetsk, Donbas and a few other areas and Ukraine gets to keep the land west of the Dnepr beyond Judge Roy Beans Saloon (if they built the replica south of Kiev finally).
Trump and Putin should agree to end the war together with Trump stopping any support including Starlink, weapons, cash, loans, military advice, Satellite pictures etc that keep Ukraine a bellicose belligerent and Putin stipulating that he would go any farther militarily than the agreed on real estate east of the Dnepr. Obviously N.A.T.O. should stay out of Ukraine and should repay then United States for all of the money it sent there since the Clinton era.
Human idiots that cannot find a way to conclude the war should just find a high cliff overlooking the sea, take their armies with them and run off of it together, everyone wearing a 30 lb lead weight belt. The float test of truth could determine the moral victor in the Ukraine war, and those survivors could have their pick of a good acre of land on whatever side of the Dnepr they choose and a free, self-service burial plot of `1/4/ acre with that generous space for civilian relatives lost in the conflict, adjoining their one-acre mini-ranches.
President Trump has decided to become a war monger and eschew ending the conflict with reason. Basically he is surrounded by Europhiles that want Ukraine for-themselves at the expense of Russia. The President fails to understand that his position, and that of Europe is to demand that Russians unconditionally surrender Ukraine, and all of the Russian lands East of the Dnepr River that weren't allocated, in a way, by Bill Clinton to Russia.
Russia will never surrender Ukraine to the west. One can adumbrate all of the legal arguments one wants in support of the theft of Ukraine from Russia and it will never change the plain fact that Russians regard Ukraine as part of Russia. To expect Russian to surrender Ukraine by accepting a specious cease-fire is complete b.s. The war will end one of two ways like as not. One, Russia recaptures all of the land east of the Dnepro taken by the west, or two, nuclear conflict.
President Trump can play the idiot and keep throwing fuel onto the fire and show that he is not capable of independent reasoning as was President Reagan, or he can stop listening to Europeans that want as much of Russia as possible for themselves in their paranoid yet avaricious desire to wimp Russia as a weakling that will finally relinquish Ukraine, go on trial, pay reparations and be poor with sanctions lasting a lifetime. There is a delusional party in the conflict and it isn't Russia.
When Ukraine declared independence in 1991 Russia was too disorganized and weak to contest that, and Russia was under the military threat of N.A.T.O. when it dropped it's guard to end communism and the Soviet power. Ukraine was part of Russia- it wasn't a colony, before the communists took over everywhere. And Russia is fighting to get it back, as Abraham Lincoln and U.S. Grant fought a civil war with secessionists to keep the United States intact. President Putin has resisted European colonization of Ukraine for more than a decade. Like American revolutionaries Putin is resisting a tremendous world power in Russia's battle against N.A.T.O. forces of imperialism. Some believe the United States never really understood the Vietnam conflict or the Iranian Majlis either when they choose to overthrow the prime minister with a coup and restore the imperial power of the Shah of Iran in 1953.
The Congress and President Trump are moving toward more weapons for Ukraine and more sanctions on Russia as of that would do anything besides protract the conflict another year or more. The President apparently never had a realistic grasp of the history of the conflict and simply believed his charisma and power could end the conflict and develop a peaceful, prosperous bilateral economic relationship with Russia. Yet Mr Trump is no Reagan and lacks the faith and optimism, much less realism required to go against the conventional, dysfunctional war policies of the rich weapons manufacture and sales sycophants in government.
If the President actually wanted to end the war he should elucidate what his position is regarding a permanent peaceful resolution of the conflict. Presently his ideas seem to be rather secret. Without public disclosure of what his criteria are there is no reason to trust him at all as competent peace developer with Russia.
Since Vietnam the United States generally escalates conflicts and continues them indefinitely at great cost in lives and dollars, and usually without a successful outcome. Congress and Presidents seem to be content with copious bloodshed and trillions added to public debt while letting the conflict evolve to a bad end. There is no reason to believe the Ukraine war will turn out any different, and President Trump seems to have lost his energy for peaceful thought in preference for the usual bloody approach Democrats love.
There are real land settlements that need be made public and understood. Russia’s requirements are well known in that respect. They also want a normalized international situation without sanctions, reparations demands and war crimes trials after a permanent peace if actualized.
Russia wants a pacified West Ukraine that does not join N.A.T.O. and caps its military to a defense force of some kind comparable to that of Japan after the end of World War Two I would guess.
To recognize and accept those basic conditions is requisite for peace. Otherwise the disingenuity of President Trump with someone to blame in Moscow turning about to accept new sanctions and weapons renders the administration even more untrustworthy internationally. Seeming to be deceptive and untruthful is not a way to bring anyone to have enough trust to bring a realistic, peaceful end to the war.
The President’s strong point against war was a moral point in his favor, and frankly he can use moral points in his favor. Instead the President and Majority Leader Thune seem to be airhead sycophants of death and moral corruption insofar as they could strongly advocate clear and acceptable terms to Russia that would bring an end to the war next month. Dragging out that conflict the rest of the year may be appealing to the Antifah crowd and various elements of what has evolved into a neo-terrorist Democrat Party domestically yet it takes Republicans down a dark, descending path of Stygian, chthonic realms of moral darkness through tunnels of political doom cheered on by amoral, godless ghouls of original sin that the right-minded do not know or love.
The West is half of the problem; and 100% of the cause of war from the Russian point of view. Russia is pushing back against the western push eastward in the only way that works with the west; force. Realpolitik adapted for the present would acknowledge that and draw a line in Ukraine that each side can live with.
Iran's leadership has been dedicated for some time to building a nuclear weapon. It developed it's own nuclear enrichment centrifuges deep underground at the Fordo plant near the city of Qom.
Israel is a major U.S. ally; a peer of Britain, yet one with more active tactical interests regarding America's own international political posture concerning oil and other concerns. Israel even defrappe's European concerns about the Mediterranean Sea becoming the turf of Muslim naval and air forces for better hegemonizing Europe. Russia recently sold it's Sukovsky 57 felon jet fighter to Algeria and other nations in the region.
Because Iranian leadership is hell-bent on having a nuclear device to bomb Israel, Israel attacked Iran. So the conflict need reach its final denouement with the destruction of the Fordo facility, and the very large bunker buster may only be delivered by a jet bomber Israel doesn't have yet the U.S. Air Force does. Hence President Trump will decide to bomb Fordo.
At this point the Federal Government of the United States may be looking for a regime change in Iran equivalent to the revolution that brought the Ayatollah Khomeini into power in 1979. War is a reprehensible activity, yet even worse are ineffective, vacillating half measures that exacerbate the time and scale of conflicts- as has occurred in the Ukraine conflict because of Europe and the Biden administration unwillingness to share East Ukraine with Russia and settle the conflict.
Most of the world political opinion after a war that leaves the clerical branch of Iran's traditional three part political stool of political power between civilian, military and clerical powers in charge will feel more sympathy andunderstanding if that government seeks revenge. An exacerbated new attack on Israel would be viewed as a quid pro quo. Thus the C.I.A. may be seeking that expatriate Iranian leader and internal dissidents to be groomed to take control with the civilian branch and a populist civil government with traditional, yet liberated conservative moral values not antipathetic to shared values concerning marriage and the social and economic equality of women in Russia, the United States and even Argentina- in the latter case women have only a 35% pay gap economically, and that may improve eventually.
It is unlikely that the U.S. will become involved in a ground war in Iran. The next revolutionary government of Iran may have help from various rebels and U.S. Air force bombing missions yet the revolt or coup to change leadership ranks in order to bring a non-nuclear civil government willing to restore peace and prosperity with a new openness to non-belligerent relations with Israel and the world will need to find its own people to lead it toward a new independence from internal tyranny.
