U.S. Likely to Keep Troops Based in Afghanistan Permanently

More than seventy years after the end of the war with Japan the United States still has 39,000 troops stationed there. In Germany, 3rd Reichland, the United States still has 35,000. In Afghanistan, seventeen years after 9-11, the United States has fewer than 10,000- and it is still a hotbed of terror activity and coordination. The United States cannot afford to once again dump Afghanistan to the care of militant lunatic warlords.

Actually Afghanistan is centrally located and a good position for a rapid response force to Asian troubles that could arise. So long as the government of Afghanistan wants a U.S. troop presence some should remain.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-07-11/three-reasons-for-trump-to-end-the-afghanistan-forever-war

It would be good to cut down on global troop deployments obviously in order to save money. There are just 200,000 U.S. military forces based abroad presently and that number isn't too high if it helps keep the peace.

http://www.visualcapitalist.com/u-s-military-personnel-deployments-country/

What about saving money in Europe with increased N.A.T.O. national spending beside American? The President was right about that.

Germany and Poland worry about Russia. Demagoguery about Vladimir Putin and his 'aggression' for retaking parts of Russia lost to Bill Clinton by Boris Yeltsin is common. Russia isn't going to roll troops into Baltic nation as if it were Czechoslovakia in 1968 or even launch a Blitzkrieg. Basically its bullwhip. With the slightest effort the United States could be on very good terms with Russia and even consider a free trade deal along with free expression and travel reciprocally. Reagan might have spoke about constructive engagement with Russia and helped Russians learn to become more liberal and drink vodka that's iced. The likeliest prospect for war with Russia would be if a NATO nation repeated Hitler's excuse for invading Poland with a BS premise, with Russia being the target instead of Poland.

By Graham Robson-Parker - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=50055652

Germany rarely sends troops to fight overseas with N.A.T.O. because of the NAZI heritage and it is convenient to get NATO protection. Germany does have maybe the best troops carrier with automatic weapons, yet it costs 12 million dollars and Russia's are almost as good as though of Turkey that cost just a couple million. In any case Germany won't use their armor anyplace unless Russia attacks... it must be a joke to envision Germany sending some of those 12 million dollar armored personnel carriers to Afghanistan.

Poland worries to much about Russia- wasn't it the Germans that invaded Poland, while the Soviets liberated it? Poles do contribute to NATO missions well enough. Even so NATO HQ should be moved to England with a dual HQ in Poland and the Tusk of NATO should be replaced by some Polish fellow so they will feel better. Maybe Poland would like Germany to send some of the 12 million dollar Boxer troops carriers to patrol their frontier to race Russian troops carriers on Saturdays?

Pres Trump’s Toynbee Rating C+

Pres Trump’s Toynbee Rating C+

The historian Arnold Toynbee wrote a number of history books examining world civilization (s) that was titled ‘A Study of History. In that work he examined 23 civilizations that had existed and developed a thesis regarding similarities in their structures and why they rose and fell. In that context I would like to consider President Trump’s work so far in light of Toynbean criteria regarding the United States. The Toynbee S-R criteria of challenge and response for a civilization is examined with the political leader's work in mind.

Toynbee provided several salient features of civilizations with which one may consider the U.S. situation. It has an internal and external proletariat of Mexicans. It has a (nearly) former majority transitioning to become a repressive minority. It has a wealth class that invests far beyond its borders and lets the nation be flooded by the external proletariat and foreign investors owning business and collecting rents.

Those are not the sole elements of Toynbee’s paradigm the U.S.A. shares with civilizations such as that of ancient Rome and possibly the British Empire among others. The leadership is also unable to change from its old economic infrastructure of fossil fuel transportation and move to the new (such as electric lines in freeways to power electric cars) and thus become surpassed by economic leadership and competition abroad.

President Trump rates a C+ for trying unsuccessfully to defend the border against an inflow of cheap labor from the external proletariat. He rates a D for reinforcing too much the overly mature fossil fuel technology and downgrading electric personal transport vehicles, and a B for trying to stop the loss of American capital investment abroad.

Google, MSN, Edge, Bing,Yahoo Don't Allow News Source Control

Allowing readers to choose what news sources they have on a news aggreegator page used to be standard. Google news still allows a reader to 'hide' news sources yet I have found that doesn't work worth a damn. I have tried to get rid of the Washington Post, CNN and NPR for weeks and so Google news led off with three Washington Post stories and more content from CNN and NPR continues to appear.

Imagine going to a library and discovering that the library staff chose the books you may read. News aggregator pages present a lot of bs and entertainment yet just don't allow smart choices of news sources. The Internet at a bulk level has made news fundamentally, a propaganda and control device for the rich.

I checked out several specialized news aggregator pages and they are basically bull too. Google reader used to work fine, yet it was closed down years ago.

The Internet is becoming less useful and more time wasting in the tradition of MSN... Why does MSN need three pages (Bing, Edge) and none that allow intelligent personal choice of news sources?. People should not be forced to choose to be dumb and have idiots choose their news sources for them nor spend hours researching where a news aggregator that doesn't want to manage your FB page is..

Brit Zero Tariff Trade with US is Contingent on Brexit

Britain needs to cut ties with the EU to have a free trade zero tariff deal with the U.S.A. The U.S.A. cannot allow Europe to piggyback on Britain's special status. 

Britain is slipping into darkness having trouble making Brexit work. It shouldn't be that difficult to employ sappers to demolish the links to the continent, yet they can't get it done. I believe a new British PM might be able to get the job done. The right guy for the job just might be former World Chess Championship challenger Nigel Short.

 GM Short is presently running for the Presidency of the world chess organization FIDE. He could maybe be induced to just jump into the real world of punch and roll British politics and be willing to accept the post of Prime Minister simply to get Brexit done. How difficult can it be?

Maybe President Donald Trump can advise the Brits on how to get Brexit done. I believe he could find a way, shortly.

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/brexit-referendum/brexit-chaos-what-happens-next-british-pm-theresa-may-n890151

During the Second World War Prime Minister Churchill was able to face down the evil of the continent with a little American and allied help. If England is not to be effectively annexed onto Europe to serve as a parking lot with fish and chips shops and ye old quaint buildings it needs to reinforce its own national security with the same kind of spirit as Winston Churchill. Britain's back-blast from its age of colonialism could erase it altogether without care. Plainly it needs a Christian spiritual revival and secure borders to bring it into the global arena with free trade without attachment and culture submissiveness.  

Brits May Need GM Short or Pres Trump to Work Brexit for Them

Britain is having trouble making Brexit work. It shouldn't be that difficult to employ sappers to demolish the links to the continent, yet they can't get it done. I believe a new British PM might be able to get the job done. The right guy for the job just might be former World Chess Championship challenger Nigel Short.

 GM Short is presently running for the Presidency of the world chess organization FIDE. He could maybe be induced to just jump into the real world of punch and roll British politics and be willing to accept the post of Prime Minister simply to get Brexit done. How difficult can it be?

Maybe President Donald Trump can advise the Brits on how to get Brexit done. I believe he could find a way, shortly.

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/brexit-referendum/brexit-chaos-what-happens-next-british-pm-theresa-may-n890151

Britain needs to cut ties with the EU to have a free trade zero tariff deal with the U.S.A. The U.S.A. cannot allow Europe to piggyback on Britain's special status.

Novichok; The Affordable WMD

The nerve agent Novichok recently used in London is eight times more powerful than the three strongest previously mass-produced nerve agents GA, GB and VX. Novichok has a greater danger in that it can be made into a solid form as powder. It is thus a persistent nerve agent unlike the liquids and gases that etherialize into disappearance in the warm sunshine.

Iran has made five varieties of Novichok and several western nations have made a batch for 'research' purposes. Plainly the U.N. is remiss if it hasn't already voted to outlaw Novichok and invention of any more persistent nerve agents.

Speculation regarding the source of the attacks in the U.K. continues. Of course the source was most likely a state agent though it might be possible for a prosperous chemist to manufacture the item secretly. Even more important than the attacks is the fact that it brings publicity to a very dangerous weapon of mass destruction that can be placed upwind of high population density civil areas to create hundreds of thousands or millions of deaths.

Plainly Novichok should get some serious attention until it is eradicated.

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

Google's News Source Screen Doesn't Work Well

  Google news has an option for each story to hide all stories from each news source (it should just say cancel them) that doesn't work at all well. One spends more time repeatedly trying to get rid of stories from CNN, The Washington Post and NPR then actually reading news. Seriously; each day for the past week or two I have selected the best no more stories from CNN, NPR and The Washington Post option available at least 30 times and yet the stories still reappear. It is as if Google is a partner of the leftist brainwashing, propaganda hate the President.

The Internet's strength is free choice designer selection of content to review. When heavy programming power forces choices and works to subjugate readers that isn't good.

Alternatively Google might just be cheap. After all they might not profit from the news page and just let their leftist, anarchist programmers maintain it (one or two fellows that are in the Google equivalent of exile to Siberia). I now regard the Google news page as the moral equivalent of Windows.