When Mr. Prigozhin embarked on his road trip to Moscow, for a moment I though Ukrainian victory was in hand, which in turn meant a certain reelection victory for President Biden.
It looks like Ukraine will continue to suffer and there is some doubt about Mr. Biden’s triumph parade down Pennsylvania Avenue.
That said, it looks like the Administration is taking pages from the Vietnam playbook of incremental escalation. Either supply Ukraine with what it takes to win this thing, or work towards brokering a settlement of this conflict. If winning is too costly or risky, then settle the darn thing, for gosh sakes.
Anyway, that is my thought, although I didn’t major in college in what Antony Blinken majored in, so take my thoughts for what they are worth.
The Biden administration has lengthened this war by being too slow to provide weapons, such as ATACMS and F-16s. Ukraine has so far abided by American insistence that American-supplied weapons are not used to attack Russian territory. As long as they continue to honor that condition I don’t think we will find ourselves in a direct conflict with Russia. Putin is evil but he’s not crazy. I believe he will avoid a full-on hot war with NATO if at all possible.
The idea of invading Mexico to fight the cartels is just crazy, and it is truly disheartening to see Republican candidates talk like it’s a serious option. The fundamental problem is the demand here, not the supply there. We need to comprehensively reform failed U.S. social policies that have disrupted families, wrecked schools, and produced generational poverty.
Fentanyl isn’t like alcohol or pot. The Libertarian view on drugs falls apart in reality, as we see playing out in all the zombie cities.
Fentanyl isn’t like alcohol or pot.
How much of US and Mexican society are we going to destroy because fentanyl is different? Libertarians didn’t create and maintain the madness of which the war on drugs is part that causes zombie cities.
How much of US and Mexican society are we going to destroy because fentanyl is different?
Looking at Philadelphia, Minneapolis, and San Francisco as examples, apparently a whole lot of US society.
“Putin is evil but he’s not crazy”
Joe, Victoria, Jake, Blinken and many more Neocons/Libcons are both evil and crazy.
Joe, Victoria, Jake, Blinken and many more Neocons/Libcons are both evil and crazy.
But not evil and crazy enough to make this comparison to Putin credible or relevant.
Karl,
Good to see you agree that Joe and the DS crew are evil and crazy. We may disagree how evil but at least this is progress.
“Putin is evil but he’s not crazy”
Definitely not crazy and I have yet to see evidence that he is evil. Seems like a patriot supported by the vast majority of Russians.
OTOH the warpig Nuland, Blinken, Biden etc are not only crazy but evil AND stupid.
Definitely not crazy and I have yet to see evidence that he is evil.
I disagree on both. First, the table. Putin sits at one end of a ridiculously long table and visitors/flunkies sit at the far end. Maybe that’s how you deal with people, but checks off the crazy box for me. The second evidence that he’s crazy is the overwhelming signs that he’s been huffing his own propaganda: weird talk of Slavic unity/destiny, cozy assertions that Ukraine would be a pushover, and continued empty threatening of Ukrainian allies even though he can’t do anything to them without them doing worse to Russia.
As to evil, he invaded Ukraine twice with justifications that would only make sense to a totalitarian state: nazi excuses like demonizing the other side as the sole pretext for war (Ukrainian nazis are a thing ergo we can invade).
And there’s the incredible corruption in the Russian military. This is why the war isn’t over. My bet is that the profit from selling off Russian military capability doesn’t stop at Putin’s cronies, but goes all the way to Putin.
On that last point, I think that bears repeating: Putin likely has profited handsomely from the crippling of the Russian military resulting over the last year in the deaths of tens of thousands of Russian soldiers. It’s only when the Russian military was tasked with taking on a tough opponent newly armed with high tech equipment that Putin suddenly cares about that. He got too greedy.
Mike,
A year ago, your comments on this blog would get you flamed and trolled to no end. Things are changing, the neocon normies that hang out here are starting to take the Red Pill.
Russia’s quick victory in Ukraine played a role in that sudden increased consumption of Red Pill? Sounds more like you’ve dipped heavily into the Blue Pill supply a year ago and still binge today.
When Mr. Prigozhin embarked on his road trip to Moscow, for a moment I though Ukrainian victory was in hand, which in turn meant a certain reelection victory for President Biden.
It looks like Ukraine will continue to suffer and there is some doubt about Mr. Biden’s triumph parade down Pennsylvania Avenue.
That said, it looks like the Administration is taking pages from the Vietnam playbook of incremental escalation. Either supply Ukraine with what it takes to win this thing, or work towards brokering a settlement of this conflict. If winning is too costly or risky, then settle the darn thing, for gosh sakes.
Anyway, that is my thought, although I didn’t major in college in what Antony Blinken majored in, so take my thoughts for what they are worth.
The Biden administration has lengthened this war by being too slow to provide weapons, such as ATACMS and F-16s. Ukraine has so far abided by American insistence that American-supplied weapons are not used to attack Russian territory. As long as they continue to honor that condition I don’t think we will find ourselves in a direct conflict with Russia. Putin is evil but he’s not crazy. I believe he will avoid a full-on hot war with NATO if at all possible.
The idea of invading Mexico to fight the cartels is just crazy, and it is truly disheartening to see Republican candidates talk like it’s a serious option. The fundamental problem is the demand here, not the supply there. We need to comprehensively reform failed U.S. social policies that have disrupted families, wrecked schools, and produced generational poverty.
Fentanyl isn’t like alcohol or pot. The Libertarian view on drugs falls apart in reality, as we see playing out in all the zombie cities.
Fentanyl isn’t like alcohol or pot.
How much of US and Mexican society are we going to destroy because fentanyl is different? Libertarians didn’t create and maintain the madness of which the war on drugs is part that causes zombie cities.
How much of US and Mexican society are we going to destroy because fentanyl is different?
Looking at Philadelphia, Minneapolis, and San Francisco as examples, apparently a whole lot of US society.
“Putin is evil but he’s not crazy”
Joe, Victoria, Jake, Blinken and many more Neocons/Libcons are both evil and crazy.
Joe, Victoria, Jake, Blinken and many more Neocons/Libcons are both evil and crazy.
But not evil and crazy enough to make this comparison to Putin credible or relevant.
Karl,
Good to see you agree that Joe and the DS crew are evil and crazy. We may disagree how evil but at least this is progress.
“Putin is evil but he’s not crazy”
Definitely not crazy and I have yet to see evidence that he is evil. Seems like a patriot supported by the vast majority of Russians.
OTOH the warpig Nuland, Blinken, Biden etc are not only crazy but evil AND stupid.
Definitely not crazy and I have yet to see evidence that he is evil.
I disagree on both. First, the table. Putin sits at one end of a ridiculously long table and visitors/flunkies sit at the far end. Maybe that’s how you deal with people, but checks off the crazy box for me. The second evidence that he’s crazy is the overwhelming signs that he’s been huffing his own propaganda: weird talk of Slavic unity/destiny, cozy assertions that Ukraine would be a pushover, and continued empty threatening of Ukrainian allies even though he can’t do anything to them without them doing worse to Russia.
As to evil, he invaded Ukraine twice with justifications that would only make sense to a totalitarian state: nazi excuses like demonizing the other side as the sole pretext for war (Ukrainian nazis are a thing ergo we can invade).
And there’s the incredible corruption in the Russian military. This is why the war isn’t over. My bet is that the profit from selling off Russian military capability doesn’t stop at Putin’s cronies, but goes all the way to Putin.
On that last point, I think that bears repeating: Putin likely has profited handsomely from the crippling of the Russian military resulting over the last year in the deaths of tens of thousands of Russian soldiers. It’s only when the Russian military was tasked with taking on a tough opponent newly armed with high tech equipment that Putin suddenly cares about that. He got too greedy.
Mike,
A year ago, your comments on this blog would get you flamed and trolled to no end. Things are changing, the neocon normies that hang out here are starting to take the Red Pill.
Russia’s quick victory in Ukraine played a role in that sudden increased consumption of Red Pill? Sounds more like you’ve dipped heavily into the Blue Pill supply a year ago and still binge today.