Democrat's Investment in Ukraine

U.S. Democrats seem to be the primary financially belligerent party of the Ukraine conflict to match Russia.  Democrats apparently haven’t a clue about why influential Russians have a disagreeable position to their own, so I will again try to interpret for them, as one would need to interpret verbal speech to the deaf, or sign language to the blind. Presently the U.S. President is piling on war crimes charges against Mr. Putin, so Democrats haven’t yet reached an understanding or deescalating phase regarding the Cold War. They have ramped up eternal recurrence of Cold War, beyond questions of good or evil, evolution is on our side, Putin the brutal bully must go, Russia retreat and transgenderize itself Zarathustran mime-set.

Democrats are so far to the right that Joe Biden’s re-election committee could be expected to use Nuclear War in 24; re-elect the President  as a campaign slogan. Apparently President Clinton choose to exploit the weakness of Russia at the end of the Cold War and snatch Ukraine to the west. Russia was effectively without leadership at the time when President Yeltsin of the Soviet Union relinquished Ukraine in a paper with Bill Clinton and British P.M. Major. Because nations and people have longer memories than 30 years, the decision to wrest Ukraine entirely away from Russia wasn’t sound. The problem is that fake patriots seek to avoid peace and prosperity for all unless it’s got through force.  Democrats subvert U.S. national interests and call that patriotism because they are not bright enough to form political economy beyond subjective, existential desire.

 In my opinion President Reagan was inspired by God to end the Cold War, and following that effort with the withdrawal of Soviet forces from East Germany in December 1989 and the election of President George Bush 1 whom more or less followed up R.R.’s peace policy without exploiting Russia or taking advantage of the circumstance like carpet-bagger politicians would, President Clinton was elected as the pick of media litter bringing hubris and expansion to Wall Street and leftist-corporatist, British causes. 

With Mr. Clinton, Russians could bite it , Ukraine belong to the west and American religious cultists burn alive. Thus began a long term Democrat party build up to tighten Ukrainian forces and European hegemony eastward that shattered the Reagan/Bush I policy of peaceful , profitable co-existence with Russia. The business, peace and optimism sense of President Reagan was replaced by treacherous legalists carving out wealth from the body of humanity. Let me make one thing perfectly clear; I am not saying that President Clinton was especially wicked, stole the Ukraine like Molotov for the Kaiser or levered President Yeltsin into submission with the rain of cruise missiles on Serbia. My opinion is that the policy was  blunder. 

Humans, including politicians I suppose, can blunder. What concerns me is that Democrats doubled and tripled down on the blunder and don’t acknowledge making it, as if they had political Papal infallibility in starting or supporting most wars the United States has engaged in since 1860. The purpose of the U.S. entry into the Serbian conflict was to put out a destabilizing political fire in Europe so post-Cold War peace could develop. I had no idea of the perfidious nature of high-level restructuring of the former Soviet union occurring in 1994 or that the seeds of a future war were being sewn by the west. The effort to reinforce peace and prosperity in one locale was simultaneously being subtly flanked in another by the west’s leadership lusting after low-hanging fruit.

 In my opinion a free enterprise oriented Russian ally was best for U.S. national interest. Free societies without over-weaning Orwellian force allow a free marketplace of ideas to flourish and select best political developments, quite unlike that of the United States today. With far right wishes to take everything through force and consolidate wealth and far left wishes to establish a dictatorship of the proletariat, free individualism is repressed in U.S. social media if not extirpated. The far left and right take different roads to arrive at the same destination of authoritarian over legions of mindless, hop-head minions.

The Ukraine was Russian for nearly a thousand years. Then Communists overthrew the Tsar with German helping (ping) Lenin sending him to Russia ab aboard a sealed train, and Lenin gave part of Ukraine to Germany in exchange for an end to the German war on Russia. Later, Stalin retook all of Ukraine in the process of rolling up the Nazis, honorably more or less. 

When the Soviet Union ended the Ukraine should have returned to Russia, I guess, would be the conservative point of view. Instead President Yeltsin ended the Soviet Union and with the N.A.T.O. bombardment of Serbia in mind, like Lenin, gave Ukraine away. It went to the west as an independent country when he signed a paper with President Bill Clinton. The foundation of future conflict was cast. Conservative Russians were destined to try to recover their lost ancestral homeland. Now the Democrat Party seeks to make Russia an isolated nuclear power like North Korea, and that is a dangerous alternative line of development to peaceful, free enterprise based cultural integration. The irony is that in filching Ukraine to the west, the profit and stability for the west would be far less than it would have been if the forceful, alienating, belligerent line of development was eschewed.

To build a free Russia working in partnership with Europe and the United States it was necessary that Russian interests in the Ukraine and Crimean Peninsula were respected (they weren’t). Taking the Crimea from Russia was an unthinkable mistake since it was Muscovite's winter and holiday resort more than two-hundred years.  If after the collapse of the dollar, national bankruptcy and reorganization, Joe Biden signed an agreement with Justin Trudeau  to relinquish Florida to Independence that became flooded with Canadians who sought to join Canada and rename the U.S.A. the Knighthood States of Loyal Minions, would northerners of the Knighthood States be down with that?

When the Russian military recaptured the Crimea the Democrat Party began a deep and lasting regime of sanctions on Russia, developing enmity that  emerged as hatred for President Donald Trump’s alleged associations with Russia while Vice-President Biden's son was on a Ukrainian payroll in a job he had no experience paid $10,000 a month. The Democrat party conducted a witch hunt to enfilade the hidden collusion of Russia to elect President Trump that lasted  the entire Trump presidency. 

 Reigniting the Cold War for the modern era seems nearly insane policy the Democrat party and supporting Republicans have taken to heart in outdoing themselves to pile more hate on Russia and supply more weapons to Ukraine. Recent discoveries of potential war crimes victims around Kiev threw more accelerants on the fire of Democrat Party hate of Russia. Politicians ought to wait for actual material and credible evidence through quality, objective investigation for each individual that may have been a victim of particular crimes by particular individuals to form an opinion rather than lump phenomena into a generality of actionable condemnation.  

Possible war crimes should be considered impartially after the war, rather than during it when the possibility is used to justify increased investment in supplying weapons of war, unless perhaps, the war crimes are so broad and indisputable that response is necessary to prevent further war crimes. Human nature tends to distribute war crimes equally I would think, rather than to just  one side of a conflict. Clean coal and clean war may be pejorative propaganda. It is possible that executed civilians were illegal combatants attacking Russian soldiers without wearing uniforms an d they were given field expedient summary judgment ts with on-the-spot execution of judgment. At any rate, was POTUS guilty of war crimes because of the My Lai massacre directed by one Army Lt? Or was that explained away as a delegation of authority event perpetrated by one officer and subordinates in the AmeriCal division on a Vietnamese village civil populace? Polemics and prejudice join war time propaganda sometimes to malinterpret facts to one side’s political advantage. Truth it is said, is the first casualty of war.

 One author of war technicalities whom was required reading at a U.S. military academy (Van Creveld) said that irregular military commit the most war crimes because they are undisciplined and without unit traditions. Ukraine with a large percent of irregular forces and even foreign fighters fits that paradigm rather well, as may some Russian units.  Ukrainian forces may have killed suspected Russian sympathizers after capturing and binding their wrists if they were forced to withdraw suddenly under fire. There are any number of possible explanations besides that of Russian forces slaughtering Ukrainians, although that too may have occurred. It is even possible that Isis and Al Qaeda volunteers training in Ukraine killing Russians with U.S. weapons killed a few people for sport before taking their valuable stinger and javelin missiles back to slums in France- who can say. Fitting every thing that occurs into a preferred narrative isn’t the best way to discover the truth of matters.

The Strait China, Russia and Islam (?) vs Queer World Order

Trying to interpret the Biden administrations effects upon international order is challenging. Maybe it’s pac-man and bit coin for capitalist concentration of wealth rejecting even free enterprise unless its own by special, unknown insiders. If one could live one-hundred years more to watch the unfolding of history that would be a thread I would follow. As it is, the administration’s choice for a raucous belligerency toward Russian President Putin and most things Russian has flipped a rail switch on the main line of historical development.

Keeping with the phenomenal history of the Democrat Party’s election of homicidal lawyers to the office of President (e.g. Roosevelt, Kennedy, Clinton, Obama), President Biden has been the primary supplier of state-of-the-art weapons of war to Ukrainian pro-western forces in their fight with Russians and is likely to be given due credit for providing the means to kill Russians. That may create some lasting hard feelings toward the U.S.A. in conservative Russia.

President Nixon’s Sect. Of State Henry Kissinger opened the door to China with ping-pong diplomacy during the Vietnam War when Russia and China were not too friendly with Sino-Soviet relations virtually gun-to gun over the Amur River. Vietnam was definitely not pro-China and Soviets supposed weapons and advisers to the North Vietnamese government.  Eventually China was drawn into a closer working relationship with American business and that of the west after the end of the Cold War with Soviet-Russia when China in effect stood alone against the capitalist west. President Biden has changed the calculus of China’s need to integrate with capitalism and relation ship with Russia.

President Reagan’s policy of ending the Cold War and normalizing relations with a free Russia miraculous paid off. President Clinton sewed the seeds for future conflict in wrenching Ukraine entirely away from post-Soviet Russia, yet for 20 years after that blunder Russia and China increased free enterprise activities and cooperation with capitalists. Democrats in the White House and even out of it when persecuting President Trump for imaginary collusion with Russia to win the 2016 Presidential elections brought adverse relations with Russia to a fever pitch whenever possible. Russia’s reconquista of Crimea in 2014 solidified Democrat Party hatred of Russia and ‘the dictator’.

The Ukraine war of 2020 brought the maximum degree of sanctions the Biden administration and Europe could impose of Russia, and Russia was left isolated developing toward a North Korean condition from the point of view of Democrats, with the exception of fellow traveler authoritarian nations and unaligned nations like India. While that narrative is obviously quite flawed, it wasn’t certain that a cultural war wasn’t at the heart of the conflict because Russians and Ukrainians could easily have lived together peacefully along a shared Ukraine divided between Russia and the west along the Dnepr River. Fundamentally Russia seemed to be the leading non-conformist to Democrat party and European elite will to force homosexual marriage upon all of the nations of the world and to move toward atheism with evolution doctrine in support that from their viewpoint makes all civil institutions acceptable (even if it did not justify the expropriation of heterosexual marriage unto a bi-sexual nature).

An interesting prospect in light of the total economic war on Russia and developing funding of Ukrainian weapons supplies, military and foreign legion of guest fighters is where it stops with no end game mentioned publicly. Would western forces reaching the Russian border be content to stop at that point, or would success tempt them to pursue the Dictator to the heart of Moscow where presumably he would suicide like Hitler instead of being captured? That is a rosy and dangerous point of view unlikely  to actualize as envisioned.Trying to interpret the Biden administrations effects upon international order is challenging. Maybe it’s pac-man and bit coin for capitalist concentration of wealth rejecting even free enterprise unless its own by special, unknown insiders. If one could live one-hundred years more to watch the unfolding of history that would be a thread I would follow. As it is, the administration’s choice for a raucous belligerency toward Russian President Putin and most things Russian has flipped a rail switch on the main line of historical development.

Keeping with the phenomenal history of the Democrat Party’s election of homicidal lawyers to the office of President (e.g. Roosevelt, Kennedy, Clinton, Obama), President Biden has been the primary supplier of state-of-the-art weapons of war to Ukrainian pro-western forces in their fight with Russians and is likely to be given due credit for providing the means to kill Russians. That may create some lasting hard feelings toward the U.S.A. in conservative Russia.

President Nixon’s Sect. Of State Henry Kissinger opened the door to China with ping-pong diplomacy during the Vietnam War when Russia and China were not too friendly with Sino-Soviet relations virtually gun-to gun over the Amur River. Vietnam was definitely not pro-China and Soviets supposed weapons and advisers to the North Vietnamese government.  Eventually China was drawn into a closer working relationship with American business and that of the west after the end of the Cold War with Soviet-Russia when China in effect stood alone against the capitalist west. President Biden has changed the calculus of China’s need to integrate with capitalism and relation ship with Russia.

President Reagan’s policy of ending the Cold War and normalizing relations with a free Russia miraculous paid off. President Clinton sewed the seeds for future conflict in wrenching Ukraine entirely away from post-Soviet Russia, yet for 20 years after that blunder Russia and China increased free enterprise activities and cooperation with capitalists. Democrats in the White House and even out of it when persecuting President Trump for imaginary collusion with Russia to win the 2016 Presidential elections brought adverse relations with Russia to a fever pitch whenever possible. Russia’s reconquista of Crimea in 2014 solidified Democrat Party hatred of Russia and ‘the dictator’.

The Ukraine war of 2020 brought the maximum degree of sanctions the Biden administration and Europe could impose of Russia, and Russia was left isolated developing toward a North Korean condition from the point of view of Democrats, with the exception of fellow traveler authoritarian nations and unaligned nations like India. While that narrative is obviously quite flawed, it wasn’t certain that a cultural war wasn’t at the heart of th

The basic consequence of the Biden approach to asserting Democrat Party platforms globally is the prospect of a unified Asia and strait economic block to counter that of the older, more prosperous and queering west. Russia forced into a Chinese led economic block will be the primary natural resource supply yard for the Chinese economy allowing China to be far less reliant upon supplies from the west. A unified Russia and China paradoxically drawing India and most of Eurasia into its sphere of trade would be virtually independent of the economy of the older, queering west  that would fulfill Toynbee’s paradigm of a repressive minority being supplanted by an external proletariat.

 A Russia that supplies resources to China is a strong economic platform itself, without even considering the constellation of other nations such as India, Vietnam and Islamic countries of Asia that would be more neutral yet active trading partners. It is likely that Europeans would continue investing in China though the new Iron Curtain imposed by the west on Russia would preclude direct trade through Russia to China as hyper-loop trading routes are established between Russia and China. The Trans-Pacific trade agreement that fell through would have been an odd bird in  light of the events with the west and Russia. China trade would have dropped off at some point as China saw the advantage of forming very close economic ties with Russia- even opening better relations concerning trade with India to make a new golden trade triangle. The U.S.A. has invested heavily in China and China is a major supplier of manufactured goods to the U.S.  The U.S.A. cannot easily put harsh ‘secondary’ sanctions on China without damaging its own economy and increasing inflation. For example, the price of an iphone if iApple’s Chinese plants were closed might be doubled in the U.S.A.  Americans like to spend a thousand dollars for a telephone the size of an aircraft carrier. At some point China will be able to get on without U.S. participation in its economy rather than vice versa as things are evolving.

 The west does have good ties with the elite royals of the Muslim world yet the ordinary Muslim world is likely to be more interested in maintaining and developing ties with rising Asian nations if China form one becomes more tolerant of religious self-determination.  An Afghanistan and Pakistan trading with Vietnam, India, Russia and China might even draw in North African rank and file Muslims to the rising Asian trading block. China has the challenge of religious tolerance including that of Islam and Christianity while it builds a Eurasian focused primary trading alliance of strait nations concerned with   restoring the environment to health so far as possible while the Biden administration circumstantially is trying to increase global oil supply and arms production and to increase public debt. It is indeed a perplexing future world order that won’t actualize as considered perhaps. Yet it is something to consider while space exploration and development goes on.

Is California's Reparations a P.R. Stunt?

 California's legislature has considered paying reparations to descendents of former slaves. I wonder if it is a P.R. stunt since California didn't have black slaves before 1863 so dar as I know. It did enslave some native Americans and maybe their ancestors are the intended beneficiaries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_California

 I am fairly sure that California doesn't intent to pay reparations to descendents of all of the millions of slaves of the slave states wheresoever they may be, and providing money to any slave's descendants that migrates to California to live would be generous yet improbable. 

 Some Democrat party p.r. moves are intended to assure re-election camapigns and federal pork by appealing to constituents. Getting rid of Justice Clarence Thomas seems a present priority as the party would like Pres. Biden to appoint another extreme leftist-corporatist judge to SCOTUS. 

Hillbilly Wars (a poem)

 

Europe’s aborigines fight
racial supremacy’s fight
territorial gains eastward to grow
and know it’s what they herd

Blending annexations to race with law
paws to wet eyes plate pace
power defined integrity
Covid and war ubiquity

  To mask or not is the question
stupid, ignorant expansion
promulgating more racial rights and lore
with gore strewn through the night.

The Billionth Span (a poem)

 

Divine conception in a uterus
with hyperinflation mysterious
time is a spatial covenant
from the beginning first word plus

Time is a spatial covenant
scalar fields to Godly sacraments
a word gave first light impregnating night
futures to pilgrims the reverent

A word gave first light impregnating night
stars followed with galactic second sights
myriad variations evolving predestined plans
chirility chords spun to the right

Myriad variations evolving predestined plans
emanations of fields so never banned
divine conception in a uterus.
c.m.b. web caught the billionth span.

Corporatist-Fascist-Axis-Warsaw Pact NATO Dream Team

 The betrayal of peace making that ended the Cold War evolved a corporatist-fascist dream team to the west with everything beside a General Westmoreland to lead its on the spot field work. When Russia let down its guard following President Reagan’s peace overtures and decided to join with the west in a peaceful merger of free enterprise it not only relinquished whatever security there is in communism for ordinary people, it exposed itself to the military power of the west. I believe no one then envisioned a future in thirty years where Russia would be the economic target and political pariah to a corporatist dream team driving history to the precipice of nuclear war in a quest evolve a plutocratic, atheist, queer world order.

  The west did work rather well with Russia and the former Soviet Republics until the Clinton administration in some way arranged with President Yeltsin and Prime Minister Major for Russia to give up the Ukraine in 1994. Instead of electing an experienced President in 1994 the U.S.A. elevated a freshman team with experience only in Arkansas and England’s Oxford University where Bill Clinton was an alumnus. That was a team full of itself, British Thermal Units and hubris seizing the day to wrest Ukraine away to the west and build up N.A.T.O. to defend the new state of affairs over time. They saw a weak Russia that needed time to build a free enterprise infrastructure and government. It was a time where Federal Reserve Director Allan Greenspan commented on the ‘irrational exuberance’ of a market that was beginning a great upward expansion investing in the world without Soviet Union to get in its way, with limitless cheap labor and new markets to invest in or exploit. Taking Ukraine without any concern for Russian sentiment was a carpet bagger’s gimme put.

 The former Warsaw pact nations were largely flipped to join N.A.T.O.  evolving a super-team of militarization to the world such as had never existed before. Rather than developing the world through peace, the former Axis powers, the former Warsaw Pact members, the United States and Britain chose belligerency and non-neutrality to align itself against Russia. What could be taken through pressure and force was preferred to the peace road to social and economic development that appeared to be the way when President Reagan’s request to President Gorbachev to ‘tear down this wall’ was fulfilled. Russia that experienced 20 million dead during the Second world war from the Nazi invasion and Operation Typhoon now faces the prospect of a Super Fascist Team on its borders. Could its leaders trust the west again as in Dec. 1989 and withdraw military forces homeward and let down its guard to try a peaceful approach?

 I enjoy considering the state of world civilization and its leading U.S.-Euro branch within Toynbee’s paradigm of historical cycles occasionally. My guess is that if the western branch of world civilization is successful at suborning Russia and then China it will have achieved the climactic universal phase of civilization that is its final phase. Toynbee’s paradigm has an external proletariat merging with internal proletarians and others resentful of the repressive minority (plutocrats and affiliated minions of the west) to subvert and put down the former civilization. Decadence accelerates the fall. Because Russians and Chinese would be added to the global population of those resentful of the United States and Europe, the total could be substantial. If the overthrow was peaceful (however unlikely that might be), perhaps the Eastern branch would dominate the new leadership of world civilization for a time. Picking horses to bet on at that point to win, place, or show is kinda tough.

     Russia did use military power to attempt to retake its former homeland Ukraine. The dream team added a constellation of new economic sanctions in response and gave Ukraine a billion dollars of high tech weapons from its vast stockpile of conventional weapons to defrappe the Russian incursion. China was warned not to help Russia yet appeared recalcitrant. Chinese leaders may feel that Russia and Russian natural resources and technical excellence at military equipment and space technology design may be its best chance to survive as an independent nation not subject to the corporatist-plutocratic powers that dominate development of the nominally democratic west. 

World Gas Compresence Warped by Ukraine Conflict

 For some time the United States tried to capture the European natural gas market and get it to dump easy Russian imports via pipeline. The Ukraine war brought Europe to move to comply with future imports of liquefied natural gas from the United States and eschew Russian gas. President Biden can declare a ‘mission accomplished’ for U.S. fossil fuels. The ramifications of the sea change are interesting.

  I will consider just a few obvious consequences or ideas concerning the change. Importing natural gas on vast l.n.g. super-tankers  from the U.S. will make Europe’s energy far more vulnerable to disruption in any future war or sabotage incident. Myriad new kinds of small, fast hybrid drones carrying a few pounds of shape charges might land on super l.n.g. tankers and detonate themselves and the entire explosives-transporting vessel. Europe in the winter without imported U.S.  gas would be in a difficult position, possibly moderated by imports of  warm winter clothing from China.

 Exporting vast quantities of gas to Europe may drive up the cost of propane in the United States that is already fairly high. Russia may develop pipelines to carry its gas to China providing that nation with a stable long-term source of inexpensive, somewhat clean energy useful for economic output. A good result likely to occur is that with the new source of cheap natural gas China may be able to wean itself off reliance on domestically extracted coal for power plants sooner, and that would help reduce a major source of planetary global warming gases.

 

What's behind tunnel-vision door number 1?

In the 1964 Presidential election campaign Senator Barry Goldwater was feared by the American left as an existential threat to human survival because they believed he could lead the nation to nuclear war with the U.S.S.R. Has President Biden’s lawyerly tunnel division brought the nation to the same place, or an even worse one, than Barry Goldwater might have if he had one them 64 election vs L.B.J.?

I don’t wish to take a side in the narrative vs. anti-narrative manner of blue versus red politics and social media since I am an independent. Neither will I take an anti-narrative position in contradiction of the prevailing Ukraine war narrative that blue and red together voted to fund 100% in the U.S. Senate.  The narrative and the error position of the U.S. Government are plain enough. I simply write my independent and objective ideas on this topic. Because Blue control of most social media and search engine sites tend to de facto censor reader prospects, and blue as well as red sites each expect at least mild compliance with blue or red political positions with conflicting or independent positions marginalized, harassed or attacked, my present post-Obama era writing is encountered by few readers so I have even less reason to not just write what I think. If I was a college professor I might have student protests or have my contract canceled. In the United States corporatism and networking compels general compliance and sycophancy for promotion.

  Former Senator and Vice President, President  Joe Biden, has moved the nation into the most confrontational position he or anyone else possibly could have over the Russian reconquista of Crimea and part of Eastern Ukraine (Borderland) that probably should have been named South Russia to disambiguate the historical balance of ownership. The President has a kind of tunnel-vision that leads him to see the darkness ahead as the only possible course to take to get over or beyond the mountain though the monster of nuclear war may be lurking within (or not). That is a gamble he is willing to take even if he is unaware there may be alternatives to the tunnel that goes deep into the mountain and perhaps not through to the other side. I believe Mr. Goldwater may have been a little more intellectually adaptable.

I want to note here that I should be happy to have a chance to use Cold War rhetoric that I have been gathering dust since I left college as an undergraduate. And I have some improvements on the venerable rhetoric such as military education in Nuclear Biological and Chemical defense. At Army chemical school we road around in helicopters a bit with radiometers simulating nuclear radiation detection. We also used charts and other items to make fallout pattern predictions.  We sacrificed Armadillos at Ft. McClellan’s Plains of Mars facility and read the entrails for predicting. Modestly I recall that by the fifth armadillo entrail reading I was able to predict fallout within twelve hours and thirty miles of a simulated incident, and that I am making a joke. It is necessary to explain that jokes are jokes in political writing so the droll won’t take them literally.

 A solution to the problem of war in Ukraine could still be made that would not make Ukraine’s President happy at all, yet would end the war, secure the peace and provide a means to rapidly return to a normative condition economically speaking not seen in Europe since 2014. Eastern Ukraine could be named Southern Russia and West Ukraine recognized by Russia as an independent state. Sanctions on Russia would end directly and a Marshall plan to rebuild Western Ukraine proceed.  Russian would need to pay to reconstruct Southern Russia since they did commence the military phase of hostilities. Arguably the military operation pre-empted further hegemonic N.A.T.O. expansion into all of Ukraine occupied by non-Russian elements.

Political concessions and compromises are sometimes useful to end or avoid hostilities. Peace is usually preferable to war, and more constructive. *

Consider some of the potential problems riding a juggernaut down into tunnel darkness.

  Russia and the Soviet Union together experienced between 20 and 40 million dead during the Second World War. They have concerns about facing a super-N.A.T.O. dream team made of the former fascist powers plus the former Warsaw Pact nations, and former Russian allies Britain and the United States. If Russia is backed into a very dangerous corner with President Biden demanding regime change in Russia publicly (as if he were a kid with no Presidential power to act on what he wishes) militarily or financially it is possible that nuclear war could occur. The Biden administration may believe a nuclear war is unthinkable if they don’t escalate the Ukraine conflict with select special weapons. What would happen if Russia did feel that nuclear war was their sole, remaining practical choice to complete financial or military defeat by the Super-N.A.T.O. team?

  A limited nuclear exchange might be winnable for Russia in a sense. Five warheads fired onto five western cities followed by an equal retaliatory strike by the United State would probably end the conflict. Conventional follow up military conquest of Russia prob ably wouldn’t happen because of the concern about remaining U.S. and European cities being vaporized en mass in the traditional M.A.D. policy of Cold War 1.0 If for example, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Boston, London and Berlin were vaporized the economies of those nations with annihilated cities would be thrown into a slum p worse than that following the take-down of the World Trade towers in New York in 2001. Russia could survive the loss of Moscow, Novosibirsk and a couple other towns more easily than the west could survive its loss. In fact fewer people would be killed in Russia in the limited nuclear war than were lost during the Second World War.

  For the United States to actually invade a nuclear armed Russia it would be necessary and probably not possible to take down all of the Russian nuclear weapons capability using a vastly greater number of nuclear weapons than would be used in a limited retaliatory strike, so it might as well jump to an unlimited nuclear strike on Russia hoping Russia hasn’t got time to reply in kind. In my opinion those are a pair of reasons why the tunnel approach to resolving the  Ukraine conflict may not be an optimal choice, although President Biden prefers it and has indicated that the conflict may be protracted and even generational since it is one between “freedom  and authoritarianism”. The Democrat Party’s force their way through lawsuits presumably is regarded as that of freedom rather than attempted one-party neo-authoritarianism obviously to avoid the appearance of waging a war of authoritarianism against authoritarianism. I believe the new language is not just dredged from the Cold War 1, it is necessary because he cannot say that it is a battle of free enterprise versus communism, because Russia has free enterprise too these days, generally speaking. Maybe a better description would have been Corporatism vs. Free Enterprise  Developmental Corporatism with a Roman Republic style Dictator appointed to lead a quasi-Republic until the time of crisis and/or war is over (Romans selected a Dictator for a year (renewable) until peace resumed and civil crisis ended.

Barry Goldwater’s campaign slogan was “In your heart you know he’s right”. The 1964 national vote tally said “no”. Regarding President Biden being right I would say; I don’t think so. Maybe a re-election slogan for Joe Biden could be “Onward, onward into the tunnel road Old Joe- snatching conflict from the jaws of peace; where it stops, no one knows”.

* Peacetime may also be periods of inflated political egos and irrational market exuberance. Recently in support of the prevailing political narrative concerning the immanent danger to N.A.T.O. Russia presents by annexing Crimea and invading the Borderland (aka Ukraine), it has created timidity and analytical Lillyputianism disease wherein Russia is a vast right-wing threat to little n.a.t.o. that requires President Biden to rage defiantly like Churchill in his darkest hour (paraphrase) that Russia will not get a single inch of n.a.t.o. land because the U.S. will defend every single inch of n.at.o. lands under article 5 of N.A.T.O.!!!

  The remarklable shrinking of N.A.T.O. defense capability versus Russia in the minds of the western media and U.S.Government calls for a comment. 

1) The Soviet Union/Russia let the former Warsaw Pact countries it had occupied since it recovered them from N.A.Z.I. occupation during the Great Patriotic War (aka W.W. 2) voluntarily. It had only captured them because of taking tens of millions of casualties and with the Western allies as partners. Russia or the Soviet Union before the Second World War had no capcity to conquer Eastern Europe at all, and only invaded Hitler after Germany got Stalin to sign a treaty that green lighted Soviet invasion with a no competition agreement.

2) Russia today has no capacity to invade or to occupy N.A.T.O. nations, nor the troops to garrison N.A.T.O. nations. Russia has a somewhat modest modern military modeled on the U.S. military post-Vietnam volunteer force of quality rather than draft style quantity. Neither has Russia indicated an interest with fighting directly with N.A.T.O. in N.A.T.O.’s  super-sized, post Cold War 1 condition that now has most of the members of the former Warsaw Pact nations including  the former East Germany as members. N.A.T.O. was designed to battle the entire Warsaw Pact and Soviet Union. When the west flipped most of the Warsaw Pact to its side leaving just a diminished Russia facing it alone, Russia’s potential for invading N.A.T.O. became even more remote. Intelligent western leaders and media should be aware of that, unless of course they are simply too dopey and busy being queer. It is possible that queer Corporatist policies combined with liberal dope intoxication lead to diminished military ability of N.A.T.O. members and an enlarged sense of detachment with an integral, tranquil state of fear and paranoia and avarice. Winston’s unexpressed maxim be invoked that even paranoids have enemies.

Imported cheap labor; a variety of human trafficking

Humans shouldn’t need to journey to foreign countries to find a job. Neither should citizens of a nation or state be bumped from a job or not be able to find a job because of the availability of cheap foreign labor for corporate employers to exploit. Labor trafficking may be one form of human trafficking that usually escapes notice. There are perhaps numerous forms of human trafficking ossified as establishment norms. President Biden may have notice that the labor market is comparatively tight in the U.S. presently. A war in Ukraine stimulates demand for Ukrainians to find good-paying (compared to Ukraine wages) in the U.S. President Biden decided to take in 100,000 Ukrainian ‘refugees) dislocated by war. Senator Graham of South Carolina, whom has championed arms shipments to Ukraine to protract the war that is useful for clearing out arms inventories in the U.S., is from a state that continuously airlifted military supplies from Charleston area airfields during the Iran and Afghanistan wars. Southern arms manufacturers and delivery airlifts may be humming again during a protracted conflict in southern Europe. There is a difference between refugee streams caused by natural disasters and refugees streams caused by human political and economic policies.  U.S. chief executive attitude toward Russia since 1994 was not one of genius at finding peaceful economic relations with liberty and justice for all Ukrainian stakeholders. if Russian tsars had not referred to the region as the borderland (Ukraine) and had instead referred to it as South Russia modern U.S. Presidents would have found the art of painting nation-building by the numbers not as challenging to rightly interpret. The war was a disaster for all except  perhaps for those that profit from cheap human labor trafficked internationally.

I know this post may sound somewhat harsh to some people. Consider this; if the United States were in the midst of political reform like that of the French revolution now, at the conclusion the rich would have a greatly increased portion of the national income. The American electorate has been divided into partisan red and blue branches fighting over social issues including race and gender, instead of non-partisan economics concerning allocation of national income. Fundamentally there is a profound lack of intellect leading the Democrat Party. As partisan patches on portions of the economy to advantage some people are applied, objective approaches to just fixing non-discriminatory entire economic classes and categories regardless of race or gender are ignored so the rich win and actually improve their position during the polemical era of Democrat party reforms.

Human labor trafficking today is not so different from the way it was in the U.S. in the 1800s when thousands of Chinese workers were imported to build railroads and deported when done. Obviously none had U.S. government provided medical coverage. That historical phenomenon is usually regarded as an example of white racism in error; it was an example of human labor trafficking by American and possibly British capitalists. I would think that slavery in the United States followed by southern conflict labor until the 1930s and later the Bracero program and illegal alien migrant labor comprised a continuum of cheap labor for domestic capitalists. Today that form of human trafficking of labor over international borders is done under the rubric of ‘globalism’. It would be better if businesses relocated rather than labor, for when the labor wages rise without concern for the subversion of imported traffic labor, business can relocate to new nations with cheaper labor until zulu wages rise. In that way life should become progressively better globally. Nations with the most efficient production will export to those affluent nations that are consumers creating a balance that slowly reverses and the cycle continues around nations between production, consumption, wages, real estate values and profit if corporations don’t avoid paying fair tax rates and wealth isn’t so concentrated and protected internationally that politicians become sycophantic minions of global plutocrats and oligarchs.

Development of technical sophistication in economics through free enterprise need guard against international trafficking of human labor lest the advantages of a capitalist, free enterprise system to ordinary people be negated. Global free enterprise should occur with labor secure in nations. Whenever manufactured crises result in economic slumps it is concentrated wealth that buys up distressed properties. When national labor values are subverted via human trafficking a global race to the bottom results with concentrated wealth and a planetary proletariat with approximately equal standard of living fighting among itself at the other end of a bifurcated spectrum.

  I should note that capitalism differs from free enterprise. In the Atlas Shrugged/Ayn Rand paradigm they are virtually the same and the capitalist whom is a hard-working, inventive individualist is opposed by legions of parasitical mob workers seeking to expropriate the fruits of capitalism for-themselves. Capital may be had and increased by anyone through almost any means though, unlike free enterprising, inventive individuals and small businesses. Criminals for instance may build up capital through theft. Since crimes are defined by government policy, when capitalists run governments capitalist crimes may occur systemically. The felony edge that allows unfair competition in an evolutionary economy may become collusive, mass felony capitalist behavior without defining themselves as being legal felons. The label of felon would be reserved and applied non-wealth class behaviors. If capitalism isn’t well-regulated a large set of criminal behaviors by capitalists will not only be uncorrected, they will be regarded by minions as virtuous. Society will suffer for that and develop along dis-optimal lines with free enterprise becoming expropriated unto uncreative ad hoc neo-collective capitalists in organized capitalist crime. 

With crime being defined by the ruling class, criminal collective felonies by the ruling class on the masses may continue for some time. A democracy may react to capitalist crimes first by individuals and then by majority sentiment eventually promulgating new regulations  to limit the felony exploitation that in turn may be rolled back by political partisans. By that time though, the ruling classes usually has evolved into a new form of exploitative felony behavior to supplant the old. 

Because ex post facto laws are disallowed in modern democracies (although litigants may pursue civil monetary reparations usually without luck), felony capitalists are comparable to creators of designer drugs that can stay a step ahead of regal recognition of laws by producing new designer drugs to replace those outlawed in continuing legal/illegal synthetic dialectics. Global capitalist investors often use quantum computing to skim wealth off the top of planetary human business resources. The dialectical evolution of capitalist crimes is a process of thesis/anti-thesis/synthesis progression paralleled in politics by the rise of a repressive, exploitative, non-creative, exploitative class of capitalist sycophants to the top reinforcing its own agenda and narrative.

Even communists had greatly intelligent and creative individuals working for them that in an American system might have their invention rights taken by the corporation they work for.

The Ukrainian war exposed an example of variation of human labor trafficking recently on the morning it was announced the U.S. made a sale of vast quantities of liquefied natural gas to the European Union. Senator Lisa Murkowsky (Rino- Alaska) let slip that 2200 Ukrainians work in seafood processing plant in the state as she sought to ban Russian sea-foods from Alaska (there are Russian sea-foods in Alaska?). If procurers of imported labor argue that there aren’t enough Americans to do the work (because the wages paid are quite low), I would reply that they should bite it as the fishing presently is bad and might improve if fewer fish were caught with work supply equalizing with higher wage labor supply. There is a paucity of large salmon in the waters of Alaska these days so bad that subsistence fishing itself is sometimes curtailed. Chinook isn’t skookum no more.

I was somewhat miffed to learn that the state trafficked cheap human labor here while I could not get hired to a seafood processing plant myself in the winter of 2010-2011. Instead I slept on the ground in Anchorage with the temperature zero Fahrenheit for months unable to get hired. That winter then mayor, now U.S. Senator Sullivan made camping in Anchorage parks illegal without providing reasonable alternative places to survive the winter. Hostility with Russia, protracted war in Ukraine and trafficking human labor are probable more to the liking of the Marine reserve officer than peace, prosperity and egalitarian democracy with caps on human labor trafficking and the number of corporations an individual may invest in at one time to three.

 I don’t own a seafood processing plant myself so getting cheap foreign labor to work there has no value to me at all. In fact it has negative value. Supply and demand works in labor too, as well as sales,. Availability of cheap foreign labor means that corporate employers and political procurers can exploit foreign workers and domestic to the maximum extent employers desire. They need not make accommodations for domestic workers to do heavy lifting for example through the intelligent use of wheeled carts or other mechanical equipment. Instead they can use cheap human labor that is essentially disposable and keep the cost of labor down. Instead of preventing injury or unemployment to U.S. citizen workers and paying a livable wage, employers throw in disposable workers at lower wages than Americans could work for and afford housing.

There is a simple injury method that can readily be fixed by anyone with a brain if it were of value to do so. I injured my lower back this way myself long ago and suffered a life-long problem when needing again to work jobs that required males to do heavy lifting. It is very simple. I lifted 80lb. Bags of potatoes from one table unto a shoulder and carried them across a space to a conveyor belt. In a few hours the uneven lift on one shoulder caused a vertebra/disc injury. I weighed 160 lbs at the time so I was lifting half my weight and one side of the vertebra/disc was crushed in comparison to the other side. 

I saw another tall, thin yet strong fellow injury the same way moving heavy fish boxes of about 80 lbs from a table to a cart a few feet away. The uneven lifting, turning and twisting motion caused him to wince by the end of a couple of days, The role could easily have been dampened with the intelligent use of an adjustable height wheeled cart. Disposable labor may have trouble getting medial treatment for lower back injuries and usually walk off with them, exacerbating them over a period of years. Trafficked labor may fear reporting injuries too, as they may be banned from hire next year.  Like older Americans that cannot afford to pay $230 per month for Medicare coverage of injuries or illness and for whom Obamacare coverage costs twice as much as their monthly income, imported  seafood workers may not qualify for be able to afford any sort of Obamacare Medicaid or Medicare coverage. Trafficked labor is cheaper than healthy U.S. labor.

Labor in Alaska seafood processing is cheap (though some crab meat sells for $10 a pound and one can take in $850 dollars in one crab pot with 80 pounds of crab for example). Political procurers and human labor traffickers can always get more. Human labor trafficking is a corrupt establishment defended by corporate and publicly financed broadcast media. The war in Ukraine will provide cheap units for human labor traffickers that U.S. and International corporations can exploit 

When cancel culture goes too far; The Karjakin Conundrum

If political speech that is discordant with political sentiment of the powerful is sufficient to get a candidate banned from the candidates tournament shouldn't more care be taken to inquire into the political ideas of additional candidates in case they are subversive too, using alcohol, tobacco or vote for Democrats? A new kind of ethics inquisition could examine past and present chess GMs and eliminate players from chess records that support the wrong side of things. Waterboards, not chessboards, float political boats. History and Candidates tournaments ought to be written by Victors on ethics committees or sundry Corporate or Communist bureaucracies such as interviewed Alexander Solzhenitsyn for his book The Cancer Ward.

World Marbles champion Ludvig Von Gates said that chess is just a game like marbles, and Sergei shouldn't be banned even if he said bad your mama jokes.

Was Mikhail Tal an anarchist seeking to undermine the Liberal World Order with brash, non-union game plans? Was Robert James Fischer, disgruntled enough to seem anti-Semite, though he was Jewish enough to be World Champion, a communist? Are Quislings lurking in FIDE rolls? Can GMs with sympathies running toward imperialism or fascism be permitted to assault social media sensibilities with FIDE support? Ought not M. Botvinik and all red communist (or is communist blue these days) world champions be retroactively stripped of FIDE ratings and titles and be cast onto the chemical ash heap of history east of Eden? Can’t a three-hundred question test be put together to elicit criminal political opinions  from subversive GMs that need be taken before each tournament? Does FIDE have political officers as efficient as those of the player political branch of the Soviet Communist Party or the Nazi Gestapo to sort through social media for hints of player political incorrectness?

There is just one player to have led in a World Championship chess match with Magnus Carlsen besides Magnus Carlsen at any time (I don’t recall if V. Anand led at any point). That player was Sergei Karjakin. Booting Mr. Karjakin from what should be a non-political chess championship qualifier seems plain wrong. Dictatorships don’t tolerate dissent. FIDE might consider moving to chess boards and getting off waterboard style social media political correctness. What if Mr. Karjakin actually has the best chance to thrash MC in the WC this year? The Candidates without Karjakin will put an asterisk on the WC for 2022- *Magnus Carlsen was world champ in 2022 except perhaps the best qualified challenger was banned from challenging.