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The first four months of the Trump restoration have exceeded everyone’s expectations for no other reason than it has shifted the conversation. The bad guys are still battling everything in the courts and Congress, but unlike the first time, Trump seems to have a plan, and he has been aggressive in executing it. As a result, he has been setting the agenda rather than the bad guys. The one place where he is failing is with Ukraine, where it looks like he has painted himself into a corner.
When Trump came to power, the choices with regards to Ukraine were to either abandon the whole thing and get blamed for tanks in Kiev or continue the Biden policy and get blamed for tanks in Kiev. To his credit he tried to shake things up by talking directly to the Russians and bypassing the snakes in the foreign policy community while doing it, in an effort to reset the board. Clearly, the snakes and the bad guys did not see that coming, so they were unprepared for it.
The problem is that the facts on the ground have not changed, so there is no deal Trump can make with the Russians to end the war. Zelensky will never do any peace deal as that means the end of him. The nationalists in Ukraine will never accept a deal, which is why Zelensky cannot do a deal. The Europeans seem convinced that peace in Ukraine means the withdraw of America from Europe, so they are fighting like hell to keep the war going, even as it harms their positions.
Now it seems clear that the Russians have understood from the start that Trump was never willing to break with the Europeans or take on the crazies in Washington who created the Ukraine mess. They were happy to talk with him, but they knew there was nothing he could offer them, as he was simply unwilling or maybe unable to do what is necessary to get a deal done with them. That means peace comes when Ukraine can no longer fight and the Russians dictate terms.
That is probably why Trump is so angry. He probably understood his dilemma, but for some reason thought he could charm his friend Putin into yielding on some things in order to get a deal done. This was a serious error. Russians have been known for centuries as unyielding negotiators. They never trade what they have for something they already have or are about to have. They always deal from their interests, never personal vanity or out of a need to get along.
The best example of this is the Hitler-Stalin pact. Stalin was a Bolshevik, and he detested the fascists, but Russia was not ready to fight the Nazis, so Stalin did a deal to buy time, even if it meant doing a deal with the hated Nazis. Stalin was also willing to make deals with the capitalists, because it served Russian interests. The point here is even at the peak of their ideological fervor, the Russians still did diplomacy like Russians, which means in the interest of Russia.
For some reason Trump and Witkoff seemed to have thought they could talk the Putin government out of being Russian, but now they are finding out that their charm offensives changed nothing. The position of the Russians has not changed with regards to Ukraine and the West. They want Ukraine as a demilitarized, deradicalized neutral state with no connection to NATO. They will get that at the bargaining table, or they will get that on the battlefield.
Trump also suffers from the fact that the rest of the world no longer trusts Washington, no matter who is in the White House. The thing many Americans struggle with when it comes to foreign policy is that the same people who have been lying to us for decades have been lying to the world. The people who ran the Biden admin were not suddenly honest when it came to diplomacy. The American political class lies about everything to everyone, even themselves.
In a way, Trump and his team are the new management of a company that used to be a dominant player in the market but after years of mismanagement is now in trouble, which is why there is new management. They can go to their customers and promise things will change, but the customers are under no illusions that new faces will solve the problems of the company. In fact, the new promises after years of broken promises just raise more suspicions about the company.
That is probably part of Trump’s frustration. He is being treated by world leaders as a guy who lies all the time, when he is not the guy who did the lying. It is the other side of being an American. There are good things that are associated with being an American, things like confidence and risk taking. The other side of the coin is the bad things, like dishonestly and unreliability. It is why the only thing worse than being the enemy of America is being the friend of America.
Even though there are hints of realism creeping into official foreign policy discussions, we remain a long way from a realistic foreign policy. Trump and his team are still making the mistake of thinking the world looks at America as the good guy, the white hat trying to make the world a safer place for democracy. In reality, the rest of the world views America as either a thumbless clod or a perfidious troublemaker. The Russians lean heavily toward the latter type.
Ironically, Trump finds himself in the inverse position as his hero Ronald Reagan at the end of the Cold War. Regan would say, “Trust but verify” when dealing with the Soviets, on the grounds that the West kept its word. It was assumed that the communists would cheat, just like they did at the Olympics. Now the roles are reversed, and it is the Russians who assume they will keep their end of the deal, but it is the West that will eventually break the deal.
This is the reality of late empire America. The emerging world order where major regional powers work to keep the peace is the result of the lone superpower failing to hold up its end of the bargain. The alien weirdos who gained control of foreign policy traded American respect and credibility so they could seek revenge on their ancient enemy to the east. The result is America has a lot of work to do in order to restore her reputation and that will require a mighty dose of realism.
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The so-called Left: every year is 1968.
The so-called Right: every year is 1985.
The so-called Kosher Sandwich: every year is 1933.
Thirty years of 1933 ruling the US has brought us to this point.
Yup
Z: “That is probably part of Trump’s frustration. He is being treated by world leaders as a guy who lies all the time, when he is not the guy who did the lying.“
The guy who did the lying:
Can’t Wait For 1848
The so-called Neo cons: every year is 1991
EVERY year is 1984.
Beautifully written essay. One thing to comment on, though: “That is probably part of Trump’s frustration. He is being treated by world leaders as a guy who lies all the time, when he is not the guy who did the lying.” My point is Trump himself is no paragon of probity. He’s talking garbage all the time — wild promises, exaggerations, misrepresentations, idle and toothless threats. Granted, it’s not the deliberate and malevolent lying of previous presidents. But the impression it creates on the rest of the world is similar: this is a fellow whose word cannot be trusted, who… Read more »
Sometimes being seen as a loose cannon works in your favor, and sometimes it doesn’t
Eventually it catches up with you, like the boy who cried, “Wolf!” People stop trusting you.
Agreed. The loose cannon is just a variation of the ‘good cop/bad cop’ routine. And it can be surprisingly effective. I have never been impressed with the Dr. Jekyll/Mr/ Hyde routine and would respond to it exatcly the way Putler did and call the bluff. Trump should have been prepared for this…
I think there are still too many jews and neocons in Blumpf’s orbit giving him really, REALLY bad advice and intel…
“Hey, I think we can work with this guy Trump!” said no international leader ever.
Many did during Trump’s first term. Then later they got assassinated or a huge effort to jail them began if they refused to be removed willingly. There was real hope there for a little while that America had changed course.
Exactly. Bluffs only work when you use them infrequently enough that they aren’t predictable.
Bluffs only work when you’re not bluffing most of the time.
Here’s a deal Trump could offer that would end the war very satisfactorily: Offer Zelensky asylum, on the condition that Z tell all about the many crooks who got him where he is. What Ukrainian would / could take over the mess? Does it matter for our purposes? – embarrassing a lot of the worst leftist crooks. Zelensky is an narcissistic entertainer who should have a legitimate grudge against the Dbag, NATO, Eurocrat, crooks. Even if he doesn’t rat out his “buddies” (police tactic 101), it’d be funnier than hell watching them crap their skirts(suddenly, Z would become totally untrustworthy… Read more »
Trump’s loose cannon approach to policy succeeds on the domestic side, but falls short on the international side. I mean, bless his heart, but he seems to think that America still calls the shots globally, like it’s 1991. I support the Donald on his domestic initiatives, but his foreign “policy” shows that he doesn’t do his homework. I had hoped that with his re-election the entire focus of his presidency would be on cleaning house here, drawing the USA away from its interminable “foreign entanglements”, reviving industry, etc. Alas, it is starting to look like our ADHD president will lose… Read more »
It’s like the first Hundred Days were fan service. Now, it’s “The big, beautiful Bill” and I am getting nervous, seeing the “national” “debt” soar to yet new heights, while DJT flails – without result – at being some kind of international broker of deals.
Trump is in a kinda sorta way our Charles de Gaulle: the last of his nation’s leaders who saw himself as leading a great and important nation, but a nation which in fact was in severe and irreversible decline.
He’s also got his pardon pen out again today, making sure that aspiring rappers and gang lords get the leniency they deserve.
Republicans never change, whatever the first 100 days was is over, now it’s back to the same shit from the first term. At least our oligarch overlords will get another tax cut as the country decays into ruin.
My old company had a list of “acceptable, but less than good” real estate borrowers for our underwriting.
Trump was on that list.
He was on that list because he was a strong credit, had good properties and followed the terms of an agreement…but almost put the asset in bankruptcy if things went sideways.
It was never personal: just the way he did business.
Trump has done his fair share of lying and double dealing, as his unilateral revoking of the Iran Treaty and some of his building deals have revealed…But in general, he is reasonably honest, but surrounded by neocons who are totally dishonest, like Gen Kellogg…That’s why none of these peace negotiations ever had a chance, and the Russians knew that…Putin is a good politician, so he goes along with these farcical peace overtures in order to be seen as reasonable by the BRICS people…But Trump unfortunately has no governor on his mouth, and continually harms his own position…Calling Putin crazy, apparently… Read more »
I wonder if the recent erratic verbal spewing is maybe age-related. It seems to have gotten worse and more unhinged (Putin is CRAZY) for example. He’s still light years better than Biden but he’s going to talk his way into war with that stuff and the Euros and neos are going to be right behind him egging him on.
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I have noted that there is more stuff on X recently about Trump’s mental state by the usual suspects. I typically don’t trust that stuff but Trump is no Spring chicken so there might be something to it.
The usual suspects have been questioning his mental state since 2016
The usual suspects also told us to “F off if we didn’t believe” that Slow Joe was “sharp as a tack.”
If you watch him being interviewed decades ago, when he was young, he comes across as reasonable and measured in his speech. So age definitely has something to do with it. He’s still in much better shape than that senile old coot Biden.Age gets us all.
Trump’s bluster and blow is part of the public act. It’s a show. I met him briefly in person, and I read may accounts of people who know him privately or work closely with him and he is a different cat.
I rather like the bluster and blow and how it fans the flames of the dopes who take it seriously. But you are probably right, Arshad: The dopes who run Europe probably take the show for real. I mean, they think the tranny thing is serious, so we are talking about the most gullible fools on the planet.
This is what I was going to say but I’ll give the examples of the “Canada as 51st State” and the idea of taking over Greenland. I don’t think he’s serious about either but it serves the purpose of trolling his enemies and getting them to say and do stupid things while also indicating the general direction of his thoughts. In this case, it probably a way to signal to the Canadians and Danes that they need to back away from their crazy “green” religion and start living in the real world where prosperity and stability requires stable and reliable… Read more »
And you can bet there are people in our own government who hope to use Ukraine as the way to take Trump down, even if it means nuclear war. Hell, they’d probably love to blame it on Trump as the end of their ‘get Trump’ storyline thinking they will write the history and can finally make Trump into the new Hitler for a hundred years to those who survive. So, I give him some sympathy there. It’s a shame it distracts from helping America get back on its feet.
He’s a real estate developer. BS is his game.
Yeah, you can imagine the disbelief in Moscow when Trump said he would have ended the Ukraine war in 24 hours… and if the Russians had been just waiting to take his orders the whole time.
He truly does have a completely overblown ego. Self-confidence is one thing, but I’d be surprised if there was ever a millisecond of Trump’s existence in which he wondered if he wasn’t really the center of the universe.
He could have ended it in 24 hours if he had completely cut off weapons, money and satellite intelligence, and recalled all our active duty military over there pretending to be mercenaries.
Trump’s bravado got the best of him in regard to Ukraine. America has a very weak hand. It faces a lot of challenges internally that it won’t even openly discuss. All of its major politicians are bought by a useless ally and make regular trips to undertake rituals of humiliation and fealty groveling and kissing ancient walls that Rome once crushed. The position is very weak. I mean, its most recent DHS Secretary openly facilitated an invasion and the drug cartelization of the country with mass coordinated population resettlement program. Americans sit here in oblivion while adult statesmen in China… Read more »
You would have to ask those rulers how they themselves would solve the problems in the US you describe. The answer is: it cannot be done with the population that exists at this time in the US. They would not stomach it — emphasis on “stomach,” because as in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, the people are nothing but a stomach, and their appetites must be satiated. Only a leader with an iron will could accomplish it, and it would require a state of exception and open suspension of the laws for years while it was done. It would require a wholesale cultural… Read more »
The population to do it still exists. The problem is the civilization they are trying to protect is vapor. It is ideas. Clinging to ideas that don’t work and are doomed because of populations that do not care about them. Once someone with power is willing to wield it and willing to do as you described then a significant population of people would stand behind it. Will that happen? Muh principles and muh constitution have a very strong grip, but it doesn’t hold it on younger cohorts on both sides. One side or the other is going to go there.… Read more »
Only a matter of time before a fire consumes a building as well. I’m sorry, but the hour has long passed. If you think I am wrong, then we will meet here in October 2026 as the mid-term elections are in full swing, and note how many “conservatives” are still engaged in trying to elect “fiscal conservatives” and “patriotic Americans” to Congress, yet again.
At some point you are out of runway. We’re out of runway.
The runway is owned by the Chinese.
And controlled by the tiny hats.
“Conservatives” just can’t admit to themselves that the Constitution only protects the Left, because that is the side willing to disregard it when it doesn’t help their cause.
Angry, aggressive, amoral–yet passive at the same time, thus the electric companions–which must include those f***ing escooters, that favorite form of transit for weedy hipsters. Thanks for the quote from Coriolanus, the Shakespeare play that I find most fascinating. I need to read it more, but I prefer candid theatrical dialogue as conceived by David Mamet to the Bard’s iambic pentameter or whatever they call it. Rhetorical quicksand might be an apt description.
Partitioning might work, but even as a bad example Pakistan v India or The Road Warrior. Maybe a high wall?
No such person exists on our side, I’m sure there are a number of critters on the left who are salivating at the thought of declaring martial law in order to “cleanse” the country of “domestic terrorists”.
Correct. Too few people remember that our leaders emerge from the existing culture. And that culture is sh1t. Trump was the last chance for one man to turn things around and at least give the Empire a bit of breathing space. He is failing. that leaves only the “collapse and rebuild” option.
There’s also “collapse and stay that way forever.”
It has to happen sometime.
We’re in the lawless exceptional state now, openly since 2020. The power to declare it wasn’t one man’s, but a class’s: “judges,” we could say, understanding that it’s not judges. It’s all their friends too. (They expected us to say it’s judges, so in 2019 they declared the term “kritarchy”—and noticing that we’re soaking in it—antisemitic.) Trump can’t make war deals because he’s not in command of the military. Everyone knows it, doesn’t say it, and acts accordingly. Actually they do say it, but we pretend they don’t. They’re not smart enough to have expected that, hence the propaganda and… Read more »
The United States has been utterly lawless for far longer than 2020, but otherwise, yes. As for the here and now, compare and contrast Americans flooding into Ukraine to fight for Our Democracy with what happens to any whites who aid and assist their South African brothers and sisters.
The US is schizophrenic. The left is honing knives for when they come back into power and cancel every executive order. Not saying they will but no legislation can or will pass, I know big beautiful bill whatever, we just have ever widened ideologues competing for the same spot. Only a madman would make a deal with us. And it is shocking how little Trump knows about the Russia Ukraine war since it seems many of the same people that saw Covid clearly from the beginning also saw this clearly from the beginning. We are not in some murky fog… Read more »
Once the BBB gets through the Senate it will literally be the extension of the TCJA of 2017 and no more. Actually, maybe a little more – they will replace the border funding in the BBB with Ukraine funding.
It is telling that eight years later, Trump still can only get an effing tax bill through Congress. It really shows you whose side the GOP is on.
Which is why myself and people I know are using the next three years as a time out to regroup and organize. The GOP are worse than useless.
Exactly. The GOP is worthless. Tax cuts for their cronies.
Also doing their usual thing of belligerently threatening the handful of programs that have any positive effect on normal people (along with all the fraud patronage etc that could be stopped instantly if anyone wanted to): SS, Medicaid, the various “food stamps” things, etc.
Fully aware of all muh market objections to such programs. Irrelevant—not only because there is no market, but because the GOP is not a libertarian party. They’re doing it to look like assholes and lose.
The GOP worked with the Brandon cabal to get his dopey POS printed money bills passed, let’s remember. But when it comes to a Republican wanting to pass legislation, they become supposed fiscal hawks, but only for stuff that affects poor people and veterans, not anything that affects the deep state, or the military, or rich people. Trump has always been 100% consistent and insistent that these programs not get touched. It’s the GOP playing their role as the loser party that puts this stuff in. From the GOP’s POV, all the negative blowback from it lands on Trump even… Read more »
No worries – Cornyn will soon be out.
If the left isn’t held to account for the evils that they perpetrated over the last 4 years then “the sky will be the limit”. If there’s no downside to auctioning off pardons with the autopen machine then there’s no downsides to finishing the pogroms with it.
The usual suspects – a talented people in so many ways – really are awful at running things. They’re naturally schemers, not statesman. Once they fully took over foreign policy in the mid 1990s, the country no longer had any real long-term strategy, at least not for the US. First, they raped Russia. Then it was war on the Middle East to help Israel and, hopefully, box in Russia. With no real past in China or exaggerated pogrom stories, they just left it alone, occasionally trying weasel their way into the CCP apparatus, but the Chinese brushed them aside. Other… Read more »
There was a plan – PNAC. They executed it to perfection. Unfortunately that plan wasn’t at all concerned with our nation’s well being.
The other problem is that it’s not really in the Jews’ best interest either. Completely lacking any self-awareness, it never dawned on them that ruining white nations – to which they are uniquely bred to live among and prosper – maybe wasn’t the best idea. They never asked the question: Where next? Asians are far too ethnocentric and distrustful to ever accept Jews into their society. Indians are just dumber Jews so that doesn’t work. The Middle East isn’t going to work. Africa is, well, Africa. South America is too poor and run a bit like Medieval Europe, i.e. strongmen… Read more »
I agree with your predicted result, but Jews think they can rule over the tribes they import into the West, including a diluted white non-tribe. Their problem is they always overplay their hand.
This.
Citizen of a Silly Country: “South America is too poor and run a bit like Medieval Europe” By and large, Central & South America are run by Crypto-Sephardic J00z. Every once in a while, a Catholic, such Pinochet, can emerge very briefly, but long term, it’s simply Crypto-Sephardic J00z. There’s a reason that Lev Davidovich Bronstein fled to Mexico, where he found succor. It’s the very same reason that Lee Harvey Oswald was required to spend time in the Mexican Embassy, prior to assassinating JFK. It’s also the very same reason why Mexico has the “Presidente” which it now has:… Read more »
It’s not well known here, but the Jews of Central and South America have a pogrom narrative and a demand for reparations, the return of farmlands taken from them by communists/Bolivarians/etc.
When I was a kid I sat through a couple red-versus-capitalist dinner table fights about it. Some relatives I never met were exiles from, I think, Honduras. I just wondered what they were doing there. Getting their vineyards expropriated, apparently.
Exactly. Jews once were much smarter, too. Always impulsive, and pumped full of grandiosity, and, again, hardly on the same intellectual plane as in the past, they thought the pivot to Asia would be for them and China would let itself be looted. You could tell when Big J realized that ain’t happenin’–poker faces are not their strong suit. So here they are, smack dab in the middle of places they flooded with violent savages who hate them as well, some of the Tribe playing matador with nuclear Russia, and left with no place to run. It was utterly predictable,… Read more »
Not only are the other groups not open to strangers, they see what our psy-op’d and heavily distracted hoi polloi cannot. They know how we became conquered and who occupies us.
This is not a world where information moves slowly over vast distances and getting reliable information is difficult and takes a long time. This was a global own goal.
Be interesting to see how it shakes out as the GAE collapses.
The discourse around this situation has been idiotic and bizarre from day one, but even three+ years later it’s no better. I see no reason why Russia needs to stop fighting a war it is winning, especially when doing so would involve them signing a loser’s treaty with a country backed by other countries that have proven themselves to be dishonest brokers in the past. I mean, we literally have the ex-leader of one of Ukraine’s biggest backers saying on the record that they lied to Russia about a peace treaty in order to arm Ukraine. Why would Russia work… Read more »
Trump thinks statecraft and war are like buying a hotel or a chain of properties. He is completely over his head and so are the ideologues around him, who know little history (Rubio, Hegseth) and are already captives to a worldview that does nothing but hand over American strength and sovereignty to Israel. They believe by simply saying something that everyone on earth is obliged to listen and do as they command. They themselves have almost zero bureaucratic power (judges run Trump’s presidency, not him) domestically, and this lack of strength is, well, a lack of strength. Why a foreign… Read more »
That’s exactly the problem. Treating this like some business deal is ridiculous. A business deal has two parties looking for mutual benefit, thus each has some leverage. There is also a court system to (theoretically) enforce the terms of a deal. Trump himself admitted Ukraine/US/NATO have no leverage and there is no court system to enforce anything.
Rubio isn’t an ideologue.
Rubio is a j00. A crypto-sephardic J00.
Marco Rubio: family was in the RUBY-trading bidness.
Jacob Leon “Jack Ruby” Rubenstein: family was in the RUBY-trading bidness.
I think I lost IQ points simply by scrolling by this graphic.
Yeah I couldn’t tell if it was satire or not.
Marco Rubio is a descendant of Sephardic j00z who traded in precious stones called, “Rubies”.
Jacob Leon “Jack Ruby” Rubenstein is a descendant of j00z [likely khazarian], who traded in precious stones called, “Rubies”.
Amongst the j00z, “Diamond” traders trump “Ruby” traders trump “Emerald” traders.
So Marco Rubio & Jacob Leon Rubenstein are kinda sorta middle-of-the-road middlemen; not particularly wealthy, but not exactly in the poor house.
And yes, they’re all j00z.
Unwitting self-parody, perhaps. Otherwise, I can’t figure it out, either. Maybe a “resident” making the most of his keyboard privileges.
Apparently, he wandered off the Unz Virtual Asylum.
This is why we can’t have nice things. Too many people abuse it.
Russians have been known for centuries as unyielding negotiators. They never trade what they have for something they already have or are about to have. They always deal from their interests, never personal vanity or out of a need to get along. There is also the fact that any deal with the US is completely unreliable, as the managerial elite no longer respects laws or precedent. The folks building the Keystone Pipeline got the go-ahead under Trump, then as soon as Biden took office, all those assurances were ripped away, and they lost a fortune. You can’t run a country… Read more »
America was founded as two nations. Jamestown, the founding colony of the South was built by men who wanted to live as they always had, but in North America. This also included businessmen who wanted to make some money, like trading blacks. Plymouth Bay was founded by religious extremists seeking the purity of starting from scratch to build the city on the hill. They eventually mutated into crusaders conquering the world. After they had conquered Jamestown-Americans. Healing the world fits easily into this vision even after the Puritan religion died out. Few Americans, not even Trump but maybe Vance, and… Read more »
Both of those America’s lost out to the usual suspects starting in the 1960s and fully by the 1990s. That’s who we’re trying to break from.
That cancer was there from the beginning. Going all the way back to George Washington’s letter to the Jews of Newport, RI.
For some reason, our leaders have always felt obligated to give them special consideration.
For those who don’t know the history, Newport, in the plantation of Rhode Island, was the largest slave auction port in the northern hemisphere…with the largest synagogue, located directly behind the auction block.
A situation like selling animals in the Temple, with moneylenders at their tables in front cheating worshippers, perhaps?
(To worship in the Temple, you had to exchange whatever coins for Temple shekels, thus the phrase “giving nine talents for ten.”)
“This also included businessmen who wanted to make some money, like trading blacks.”
See Alfred Jay Nocks’ “Our Enemy the State”. He posits America entering and exiting the revolution was led by dyed-in-the-wool mercantilists, not the least of which was Washington. The Bill of Rights was merely a sop to get the their agenda implemented.
Heh. Madison and Hamilton were both tea smugglers; the East India Company had been granted license by the Crown to import tea without paying taxes, and it was bankrupting all the little tea-sellers in Boston whose carts decorated every streetcorner, alongside the chestnut roasters and oyster carts (both of which were plentiful and harvested for free.)
Hamilton was such a shameless gangsta he wore gold lamé, and had a carriage gilded in gold-colored paint. He pimped out his ride!
Alexander Hamilton was almost certainly at least a mischling j00; his mother was a Christian girl, and his father was almost certainly a j00ish slave trader in the Caribbean.
That fact alone might have been why Aaron Burr so hated him.
Mercantilism isn’t a bad foundation if you can’t do anything else. It at least leads to a pragmatism that benefits ordinary people. So the focus has to be on keeping the lights on, the shelves stocked with food, and the toilets from backing up. China has prospered because it allowed practical concerns like that to take precedence over Communist ideology. The stupid situations the US keeps getting into arise because its elites can never resist the temptation to use the wealth generated by the mercantilists to go on various religious crusades. Since the stated goals of these crusades (racial and… Read more »
The fascinating aspect of the Plymouth/Jamestown dichotomy is that the Puritans started out as religious lunatics, but ended up as mercantilist atheists, whereas the Jamestowners started out as mercantilists themselves, but ended up as deeply religious Christians. It was a complete inversion of their original roles in the tragedy. Two quick points: A) The Jamestown turnaround very likely had a great deal to do with the subsequent mass immigration of Scots & Scots-Irish & Welsh; i.e. the bloodlines of circa 1600 A.D. Virginians were likely very different than were the bloodlines of circa 1800 A.D. Virginians. B) Goodness only knows… Read more »
The Puritans are still religious lunatics. Just a different religion now
They were busying starting corporations in the 19th century and throughout the 20th.
“Goodness only knows what would have become of the Anglosphere if the jesuits had not assassinated Henry Frederick Stuart in 1612. Among other things, we would never have had to have suffered through the English Civil War.” On a website I found (Wikipedia) it stated that Stuart probably died of typhoid fever. I can tell I’m dealing with a secular or late stage Protestant American of either bloodline (Puritan or Jamestown). They always offer a dubious/overly conspiratorial history and conclude with “Catholics messed up everything”.. The reality is that the English were tearing themselves up well before Henry the VIII.… Read more »
Bro, sarcasm is not a good look on a jesuit.
Try harder.
Ukraine translates roughly to “the edge, periphery, outskirts.” Edge of what? Russia. Periphery of what? Russia. Outskirts of what? Russia.
USA GTFO mind your own business.
I understand all that. My point was that Ukraine being on the periphery meant that it was still effectively part of Russia.
I look at Ukraine as analogous to Canada. Canada is essentially just like the United States, just slightly different. Once it becomes officially part of the United States, you won’t be able to tell any difference.
Other than Quebec, yeah
I don’t want Canada to become part of the US if it means Canadians voting in US elections. What a disaster that would be.
Look at the mess that a lot of our territories are, too. They get automatic US citizenship, and if they move to the US, they get to vote in US elections — there are more Puerto Ricans in the continental US than there are in Puerto Rico and they vote overwhelmingly Democrat, because they’re a beggar people.
All very good points, but owning everything up through Greenland can only be a plus. In keeping with the spirit of the commentariat here, at least it’s someplace for white people to run to, when the rest of America gets mudded all up. 😆
Russian word for periphery is “okraina”. In the times of Russian empire it was called “Malorossia” (small Russia) and their official nationality was “maloros”.
Thus their inferiority complex: servants for Poles for several hundred years and then “malorosi” for Russians.
beware of servant who becomes a boss.
I grew up speaking a Slavic language. We use kraj for edge in one context. In another context, I think it refers to faraway lands. “Stari kraj,” refers to the “old country,” as used by the diaspora here in the USA. As I’m sure you know, kraj and Ukraine are both very similar words with similar meanings.
Ukraine (Ukraina) in Polish literally means the borderland. That’s how the territories of former Galicia-Volhynia Principality + the conquests to the east of them were referred to as in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. On a side note, Ruthenian nobles from Ukraine wanted to gain status similar to Poles and Lithuanians in the country which contributed to the Cossack rebellions and rising ethnic/religious tensions. As a modern state project, Ukraine started mainly as a short-lived Austrian/Prussian creation of the Great War to establish Mitteleuropa project after the defeat of Russians and the Brest-Litovsk peace treaty with the Bolsheviks (which granted territories to… Read more »
The Russians seem to have realized what much of the American right has not, which is that Trump is an unreliable bullshitter who’s only firm principle is self-aggrandizment. That tweet from RT says it all “…Trump’s message leaves little room for misinterpretation Until he posts the opposite tomorrow morning” I’m curious how long people are going to continue to trust in the 4D chess plan as the momentum of the first 60 days of Trump2 continues to grind to a halt. Trump’s top cops came out this week to tell us that in fact Jeffrey Epstein DID kill himself, so… Read more »
They have no choice but to continue to believe until January 2029. Trump is the only politician to win the presidency by saying most of the things that Republicans spent decades not saying, and crippling the careers of those who did, like Ron Paul. One cannot blame people for at last embracing someone who said what they wanted to hear, for once. It was the first, and last time, they will hear such policies proposed. That there is no chance of them occurring is simply going to take time to dawn on most, because Americans have been fed Hopium since… Read more »
Normie has probably always been that way, but I’m more surprised by how many people that normally are more hardnosed have bought completely into Trump2.0’s Hope and Change. I was watching Mike Farris’ show with Kunstler and Dave Collum, and they were talking about the Epstein thing, and then later said they still expect prosecutions against the Blob. It was a real WTF moment, you guys think that the department claiming Epstein’s suicide is legit are going to be feeding useful evidence to DOJ against the people that whacked Epstein? Ok. Zman has gone pretty WWG1WGA on the subject of… Read more »
Trump is a captive of the deal he made to stay out of prison. He is as much of a puppet as Biden ever was.
The only difference is Trump knows it. That’s why he’s angry. Maybe he will get angry enough to tell the tribe to fuck off, but I doubt it.
The only silver lining is that precedents are being set, perhaps intentionally, that can be used later by better men.
Harder men.
Few will say what you just said, but it is the truth. He made a deal and people do not want to admit it. They revel in their putative self-ascribed electoral power that returned him to office, and owned “the Dems.” Everything changed the morning of October 7th for Donald Trump. He was given the choice of two jail cells, and took the more comfortable one. For this reason I would not be surprised if he is magically permitted to serve a third term, as his presence has frozen the remaining handfuls of heritage Americans in place for two more… Read more »
I am certainly hoping he serves a third term, thank you for that.
Why should we live by rules written by our enemies?
Trump himself operates under a rule written by our enemies.
The only chance he ever had to stop the Ukrainian war was to cut the aid. As soon as he allowed the aid to begin flowing again after the pause, the chance was over and the Russians realized he was not serious.
The real problem with Trump is and always was that he is one guy and a total outsider in DC. His party opposes him and his policies. They do everything in their power to jam up the works.
True. Although the MSM spins it as financial aid approved under the prior admin, and no “new” aid is in the works. Not sure I buy that, but we’ll see soon enough.
On the other hand, intel is just, if not more, valuable and that could have ended on the infamous Day 1. Perhaps Trump thought intel support was the only weak card he had, and perhaps he’s right. If he really wanted a deal, he would cut the intel and Zelensky would either sign on the dotted line Russia put in front of him or be obliterated.
Help me sort this out.
ZMan writes about the “alien weirdos who gained control of foreign policy traded American respect and credibility so they could seek revenge on their ancient enemy,” yet is disdainful of antisemites.
It seems like he holds out hope that we can make some sort of peace with the chosen, which seems foolish, if we believe his own writing.
Pardon my NAJALT, but Z has distinguished between Pale of Settlement Jews and other, more western European Jews. According to Z, our foreign policy problems largely stem from the Pale of Settlement Jews, the fruit of the Bolsheviks and the Holodomor, descendants of which are named Kristol and Kagan.
Then there are right-thinking North American Jews like Stephen Miller and Paul Gottfried and a bunch of Twitter MAGA-Semites, who hate the Kagan Kult as much as we do.
It’s not so much NAJALT, but as you accurately recognize at least two sometimes conflicting groups exist amongst our betters. Ones that know they have a great thing going here personally for them, and want to keep it that way. Ones that want to harness whatever they can of this husk of the GAE to wield against their enemies.
Both Marko and c matt are spot on. Imagine a Stephen Miller’s talent on the other side, it makes one shudder.
Remember, this is how the whole brouhaha started amongst them.
With golf clubs.
The German Jewish capitalists in Manhatten had fine golf clubs, and voted Republican. They didn’t want those low-grade Russian socialist Democrat shtetl dwellers from Brooklyn trying to crowd into their ritzy getaways.
The German, English, and French Jews had been here since the beginning and were Old Money, intermarried into the heritage population. The Russians were a bunch of noisy, lice-ridden immigrants fresh off the boat.
I’d guess that the anti-white subgroup is at least 80% of the total group.
The chosen are famously ethnocentric. I would hesitate to trust the pro-white subgroup to put any supposed shared values ahead of their tribal loyalty.
Remember, the neocons were accepted by the paleocons and then the neocons destroyed the paleocons.
“(((Marko)))”
LOL-ing.
Short for Markowitz. People call me Marko.
Short for Markowitz.
Marko: “the fruit of the Bolsheviks and the Holodomor“
The entire fiasco of the ongoing “War in Ukraine” is simply “Holodomor the Sequel”.
The khazarian j00ish bl00dlust will not be satiated until every last Ukrainian is dead, and Khazaria once again belongs to the Khazarians.
“Well there is no famine.”
Gareth Jones’s Diary
March 1933
(((Meyer Henoch Wallach Finklestein)))
Nom de Guerre, “Maxim Litvinov”
The Keeper Of Obscure Knowledge doesn’t know when to stop.
Gottfried inhabits a good few inches on my bookshelves and without him I’d be a few thoughts dumber, but…
He’s as old as my grandma and when he talks about Trump and his fans he sounds just like her, shitting on the animal gentiles who can’t talk.
His dispassionate thoughts are with us. People are not their dispassionate thoughts.
If we can exchange the war messianics, the Tribulation jews, for the technocrat messianics, the benevolent slavery jews, then at least they’ll stop trying to kill us.
Like blacks in the South, we might even become valuable chattel assets!
I hope they start trying to breed us…
They’re afraid that if they bred us we’d fire the ovens back up
Mr. Trump has displayed great proficiency in his real estate business. There, he was dealing with New York bankers with whom he shared a common objective; they both wanted to make the deal. The process was imply a matter of haggling over terms. In Ukraine, Trump seems to have the opinion that President Putin shares his objective to “end the war”. He doesn’t. The war is the means by which Putin intends to achieve the objectives that he set out clearly in several comprehensive speeches he gave before Trump returned to office. For Russia, the war will be over when… Read more »
Russia also started out with the worn-out scraps of a crappy Soviet industrial base that hadn’t yet been sold off. They have a tough time exporting their raw materials due to such things as distance, transport costs, lack of shipping ports, a creaky post-mafia banking system, and the like. WWII made our worn-out, post-Depression industrial base boom. General Motors made more selling tank dynamos than cars, for instance. Russia isn’t going to be the next China or even Brazil anytime soon, so ramping up for war production means a chance to rebuild their formerly robust base, despite the lack of… Read more »
Respect is earned, not stolen via gamesmanship or coercion. To his credit, Trump has overcome great trials and tribulations on his journey back to the White House, and that has earned him a measure of respect from Putin. But he is not going to give away the store out of sympathy for Trump’s ongoing plight. Trump will soon bail on Ukraine; which is win for everyone. His ego is smarting because he hates losing. He will get over it and move on to other matters.
I expect that if Trump bails on Ukraine, then the GAE will bail on Trump, one way or another. And I also expect that he knows this. He shows no signs of bailing.
His strategy, to the extent you can call it such, seems to be to keep talks going until Russia takes care of business. Then shrug his shoulders with an “I tried.”
Agree with c matt. The GAE may try to bail on Trump, but won’t the Technocrat mafia backing him see this as their chance to toss the neocons out of power and take over the valued Intelligence apparatus?
The people who run Intel aren’t giving it up to them or anyone else
The world is right not to trust America. Trump is sincere, but he will be gone in three years, and the idiots and crazies could be right back in power, undoing everything he did.
Since half of America is idiotic and crazy, and hates the other half and everything it says and does, the nation’s foreign policy, economic policy and trade policies cannot help but be wildly chaotic and untrustworthy.
‘The result is America has a lot of work to do in order to restore her reputation and that will require a mighty dose of realism’
Ha ha ha ha ha. Ha. ‘Her reputation and realism’. Good one.
We are not considered the good guys anymore. I’d say our reputation around the world is basically what the USSR’s reputation was back in the 1970s and 1980s when they were running around invading Afghanistan and helping cause trouble in Central America.
I don’t think most people get this.
I wonder if the answer to get back our respect from the world is to round up the people responsible for this debacle and execute a half dozen of them, a la Lincoln assassins.
Half a dozen? Maybe half a thousand.
The Russians already put it quite succinctly: “The USA&co are ‘not agreement capable’.” And the Merkel&Hollande comments reg. Minsk probably were the final nail in that coffin. The Russians, Chinese, Global South&co have also finally grasped what ‘our rules based international order’ really means: The USA&Israel can do whatever they want and will face no consequences ever. Their ‘friends&allies’ have to do whatever the USA&Israel want them to do, or else… Those who don’t do what the USA&Israel wants them to do will face the wrath of the USA, Israel and their ‘friends&allies’. No wonder ever more countries and people… Read more »
A good book on how Russia conducts diplomacy is Stalins War and this essay by the Z man is exactly right about the issue. Unlike the unpredictable United States which has been run by lunatics from the Robert Kagan cult the Russians still have a consistent foreign policy to this day.
Masculine nation, masculine culture, masculine values.
Stalin’s War is a good book.
Before he lost his mind, Tim Snyder made a good point about the 1938 pact: for Stalin-as-Bolshevik the only thing that mattered was the survival and extension of the Revolution. Once this is accepted, any compromises or accommodations become a detail.
Another book, by retired Swiss Colonel Jacques Baud, is The Russian Art of War, which is not too long but which gives a good overview of the Russian Army’s strategy and tactics as well as the post-Afghanistan TO&E of the army’s units, which have been further revised in light of the fighting with the AFU. Other articles by Baud, who served as a liaison officer with NATO and UN peacekeeping units, are available online. Predictably, the Western media sniff that he is a Russian stooge. Judge for yourself.
The US government has been a perfidious liar and troublemaker for decades now. If the intel community can’t be reined in and a substantial number of the usual suspects (both here and abroad) removed from governmental power and influence, this country’s downward slide will continue – maybe becoming as irrelevant as the former European powers.
As most will recall, very early in Trump 2.0, the administration decided to cut munitions to Ukraine. Republicans, neocons, democrats, the Pentagon, and our supposed ‘allied’ leaders, the media, and the purple haired-heifers down the street all went nuts, culminating in Zelensky’s temper tantrum visit. Trump gave in. The bruhaha was such that it was decided that the blame for the hold up in Ukrainian support should fall on SecDef, who supposedly acted ‘pre-emptively’. I don’t buy it, but Hegseth is a decent man, with more than enough stones to play the fall guy. Of course, the blob desperately wants… Read more »
What is the over/under on the time frame for a District Court Judge deciding that the draft must be re-instituted and sending all STRAIGHT White males ages 17-35 to Ukraine to die? I think that is where we are headed.
Europeans NEED a Ukraine War so they can send their entire White (Straight) Male population to die, to solve the “White problem.” A “terminal solution” if you will. The US leadership of Harvard, Yale, Judges, Feminists, NGOs, the media, and bureaucrats need this as well. There are too many (one is too many) White guys still around.
If they can keep the war going, after the mid-terms. Plus, by then Trump will have talked a bunch of those people you mention into joining the military. Europe is already in a panic to deploy their fed-up white males to avoid the riots when the next tragedy occurs in their streets.
‘Europeans NEED a Ukraine War so they can send their entire White (Straight) Male population to die, to solve the “White problem.”‘
Solves the ‘masculinity problem’ simultaneously. A two-fer.
The future is XX. Don’t ask Y.
you can’t have a draft in a multi-cultural society.
Sure, just draft only Straight White men. Because Patriarchy or something. Our leaders are very, very stupid. Just look at Obama. He was lucky not good.
Well I’ll be d@mned.
Did Barnea allow Whiskey a few days of R&R away from Gaza?
It’s been so long since we’ve heard from Whiskey that I had been thinking the Palestinians must have ass@ssin@ted him shortly after October 7th.
This. Young men in the UK and throughout Europe weren’t in the least bit hesitant to pre-announce they would go to jail before submitting to a draft. In some if not most of those countries that opens someone up to the possibility to prosecution, so it isn’t bluster in many if not most cases. I don’t even think a false flag in AINO would work any longer, and if the Regime thinks a “terrorist” blowing up the Alabama capitol in Montgomery will not blow back on D.C. rather swiftly, it is deluded (which it is, but not that deluded). The… Read more »
Starmer rallied against the open borders.
In Poland we have the Presidential elections now. The two main Ukraine-skeptic right-wing candidates (Mentzen and Braun) together collected 21% of the votes cast. As a result the establishment parties deemed it necessary to assure the pleb that no Polish troops are going to be sent to Ukraine.
Ukrainian nationalism is nazi-branded because they—the entire European and Anglo-American “they,” plus Putin—believe their own propaganda. They think the white world’s “far right” are literal nazis who’d gleefully leap across oceans to be slaughtered in trenches in memory of Adolf. When that didn’t happen, they didn’t change their minds, but they made a pragmatic decision to rebrand Ukraine™ as a girl cause à la Save The Whales. Women love love love to see all the men they won’t [date] shipped off to die. “White feather” campaigns are planned, we’ve heard from an Australian leaker, presumably for the coming total war… Read more »
Stalin did the deal because he thought the Germans and the allies would get into a prolonged fight (WWI style) that would take the starch out of both sides and leave them ripe for a Soviet attack. The rapid German victory enraged him. The Soviets were not able to pull the trigger on their attack before the Germans beat them to it.
Good analysis. But the thing is – Trump IS lying about the Ukraine war, over and again, all the time. He has not earned any right to be trusted – and he over and again throws away any such possibility almost daily. For example; Trump is repeatedly trying to wash his hands of the Ukr war, to deny responsibility, to claim it is Biden’s war; yet from 2016-2020 Trump’s administration was building/ training/ arming the Ukr military; and setting-up intelligence and various evil-research bases in Ukr. The Russians know all this (even if the US public do not) – and… Read more »
Whoever thinks assassinating Putin puts the GAE in a better position is a drooling retard
The one thing They fear most is a united White Colossus of the North; whether you kill the eastern half or the western half of it first, the mission is still being accomplished.
Just imagine: from Spain to the Bering Sea, with a short hop over to Alaska (and an island continent in the South Pacific)- if our peoples were united as a trade bloc or a family, 7 billion wogs against us still wouldn’t stand a chance.
Saw it coming from a year away. Trump’s campaign bluster about “this war wouldn’t have happened” and “I’ll settle this in a day” was just nonsense.
His followers want him to just walk away from this mess and let the Russians settle it. Maybe he’ll get there when he’s through blustering
I have found that my European acquaintances have a fundamental misunderstanding about the structure of the United States. Most of them were shocked to discover that laws and taxes vary from state to state. Until and unless there is a treaty ratified by the Senate there is no deal. The Paris Accords are an example. No Senate, no deal. Putin has repeatedly complained that he has no one to deal with, and he doesn’t. I don’t put the blame on us, the blame rests entirely on the suckers that mistakenly believe they have a deal because a president signed it.
Excellent essay. “Paul and I will be taking a victory lap on the Covid topic, so use the time to think about how you will congratulate us on being right about everything.” Z, you were one of the best on Covid but we should always remember that the Covid hysteria was retarded and transparently fake. All aspects of it. I am not the least bit surprised that the evil people who rule over us would cook up the hysteria, what saddened me was how so few saw through it no matter how silly and easily debunked. Facts, videos, nothing would… Read more »
Don’t extend your arm too much Z, most of were quick to see what was happening. Paul’s schtick about going out for a marguerita at a mexican restaurant as display of rebellion is getting tiresome. Don’t go there tonight please.
The whole world, including Trump by your account, will be well-served if it re-learns that diplomacy and statecraft are for advancing national interests, not making friends.
I think the last time the GAE had to negotiate at a disadvantage was the War of 1812. There’s no institutional memory of how to do it. But there should have been some (Vietnam, Iraq) regarding the unintended consequences of reckless adventurism. They thought they had got around those problems by using other people’s cannon fodder instead of our own (Syria, Libya) but they were wrong. There really aren’t any excuses for the hubris and incompetence that led to this. However, at this point the GAE should conclude that it stands to potentially gain more, or at least lose less,… Read more »
Also interesting is that there are more and more “scandals” coming out of the Biden circular firing squad. David Hogg, going Hogg Wild, has told a Project Veritas honey pot that Dr. Jill’s Chief of Staff really ran the White House, and that he was both scared of the dude and found him evil. Others are fingering Liawatha, aka Chief Fauxcohantas, as running the auto-pen for Biden. People within the Party are openly attacking the Lightworker as a failure. AOC is likely the front-runner for the nomination, on a full Gay Race Communism platform. Meanwhile the WSJ and the Murdochs… Read more »
The Obama and Biden Admin kept things together by doling out money. Obama’s “shovel ready” jobs went to feminist studies professors and the like. Biden and his “build back better” (really Obama 3.0) used the same playbook and stuffed billions into Dem NGOs. Trump has lots and lots of money to dole out to others: Red state cities and counties for Harvard/Yale type money to places like Auburn or Alabama. Plus all that Golden Dome stuff, which even if it does not work will “work” just like Obama’s Shovel Ready Jobs(tm). What is remarkable is that the Houthis with help… Read more »
Just a little aside: I usually go to Aldi at night and it really scares me. It’s all blacks and foreigners in there. This morning my dad made me take a detour and I took him to Aldi. Pretty much an all white crowd. Maybe I don’t have to move out in the boonies after all.
This is more related to yesterday’s post. Looks like, in response to the DC shooting last week, Trump appointed the Fox news host Ms. Pirro to AG of DC. She spoke resolutely and strongly about restoring justice and law and order and alluded to introducing harsh penalties. It was all said in context of the shooting last week. What is interesting is that even with Trump, the stimulus for such calls for justice all reach into the upper class. The consequences are spilling over into their stomping grounds. That said, he did specifically honor Lakan(sp?) Riley and the families of… Read more »
“Trump appointed the Fox news host Ms. Pirro to AG of DC. She spoke resolutely and strongly about restoring justice and law and order and alluded to introducing harsh penalties.” This is one of the few things the appointee can actually do. We have absolutely draconian sentencing laws. Problem is, they are never enforced. They are used as leverage to get plea bargains. The top prosecutor in any district can fix this by making all plea deals subject to his approval. He can just not sign off on guys who should go to prison for a long time, but won’t… Read more »
Trump appoints way too many media personalities, just because they are media personalities, to positions for which there are doubtless better candidates
My question is, how does the son of a SEIU big shot, who was important enough to be part of the Democratic response to Trump’s State of the Union speech, and a guest of Dem Chicago Congressman, and who spent 45 minutes with Obama at Obama’s mansion, end up shooting to death a young man he did not know and a young woman he did not know, pumping bullets into her as she crawls away until she is dead. And then surrenders without incident to the police shouting “Free Palestine.” Question1: How or why does a big shot spawn end… Read more »
For me the Obama vs. Ackman bit is not plausible. Obama is an actor raised up by the Pritzker/Emanuel Ilinois/Chicago political machine. He has no base of his own. He can be penniless and offed tomorrow. I can’t see any scenario that he is going toe-to-toe with any international finance oligarch.
He may not have had a base when he started, but he has one now
Patton knew. They killed him for it. JFK knew. They killed him for it. Sailors on the Liberty knew, shut up or die. 911. The clotshots. Will people wake up to ZOG, or will the whole world be a Palestine?
I wish it wasn’t so, but yes, the whole world will be Palestine before there’s any kind of pushback. Evil always appears to win, unopposed, laughing as it does so. Until, inevitably, it pushes a bit too far, and then, rather quickly, it is defeated. Doesn’t change the fact that decades if not centuries of pain are inflicted beforehand
Breaks my heart to see Western Civ piss its equity up a wall, all within two-ish decades.If the Russian language wasn’t so damned hard to grasp for this old fogies ossified brain, I’d be seriously considering Putins “free land offer” and go full Oriana.
[…] The Russians never give up at the negotiating table what they’ve already won on the battlefield. From The Zman at thezman.com: […]
The long arm of American foreign policy — like the long arm of the law — comes up short when it encounters another nuclear power. The Russians like to remind everyone of this, which is why they parade missiles thru downtown Moscow. Until the Golden Dome missile defense shield is activated, Moscow will be playing from a position of strength. But the top Russians fear American engineering prowess. When it comes to killing people or not being killed by people, the rest of the world is third class compared to America. Watch for the day when enemy hypersonic missiles can… Read more »
Luckily, that day will never come. The America that could seriously think about constructing such a defense is so far gone it no longer appears in the rear view mirror. It now exists in our imagination. This is what Russian and China understand. America is a nuclear armed moron that has to be managed.
I see the US as a really big, strong mental patient in an asylum. There are other patients egging us on and some orderlies trying to manage as things are spinning out of control
we can’t even build a simple bridge in this country. look at how trump still has not built a wall on the southern border. and the parts of the wall that were built are laughably easy to get over. we have no working hypersonic missiles, so we cannot have a defense against them.
YouTube has changed its algorithm. A lot of blacks talking about black fatigue. The irony right? The last thing a person who is far beyond fatigue wants to see is another black shucking and jiving about black fatigue. They are also hitting hard with fancy DoD propaganda. I watched one that was about Space Force. It was very diverse and the men were very lispy in their speech. It didn’t look like something that would strike fear in the heart of an enemy.
Then again, SpaceX and BlueOrigin are probably doing the heavy lifting.
I am jammed up daily with pro-Israel feeds. The one that gave me pause was the One For Israel ads. Jesus is the God of the Jews! At first, I mocked it for chutzpah and manipulation, but now… The speakers are good joes. Earnest. Real. Religion isn’t my dialect, but it fulfills a deep human need in others wherein my kind of thinking is cold, with cold comfort. I’m starting to like it. After all, Christianity started out as a Roman outreach to the urban, Aramaic-speaking Jewish citizens of the Empire. Should the Christians be able to break the hold… Read more »
Maybe, and then maybe not. The way to construct a Golden Dome is massive spacelift. Musk and Space X, check. [Space X has put into orbit about 85% of the total tonnage in the last five years, the new Starship rockets if built at the scale Musk promises, can either supply a Mars Colony or land and support a US Army division anywhere on the planet within four hours.] There is many a slip betwixt lip and cup of course. But that is the first requirement, massive and sustainable space lift. China can’t compete with us on that which is… Read more »
I’m sure Shaquinna and Quinisha are hard at work on that
They got the math skillz that took us to the moon, baby!
Golden Dome is a pipe-dream and will never happen. Iron Dome works because they are defending against home made missiles made from steel sewer pipe. ICBMs are incredibly fast (mach 20 +) and MIRVs and decoys multiply the number considerably.
MAD is the only viable solution to ICBMs coming across the Arctic.
You should listen to Ted Postol on Nimas YT channel. No way will that golden dome ever be built.
Defense spending is not meant to be effective, it is meant to be continuous