I stared in disbelief at the image of dozens of Representatives cheering and waving Ukrainian flags on the floor of the House after voting to spend another $95,000,000 on the folly in Ukraine. These truly are people who are no longer my countrymen. Given the fact that about 70% of the populace is oposed to this warmongering giveaway as well as the "open border" policy currently in effect, I suggest that, rather than nationalizing the Presidential election as some wish to do, we should nationalize eletions for Senators and Representatives. Those who have been so keen on killing Ukrainians and Russians in Eastern Europe while holding the southern border of our own country wide open would probably all lose resoundingly.
This latest capitulation by the Repubs in both sides of Congress is a wake up call, for me at least. If the upcoming election isn’t a shocking MAGA wave (screw Republican, conservative, blah, blah, yadda , blah), then I can’t see any political way forward. If every RINO isn’t replaced, then what good are the true patriots qua politicians.
I can only see a way forward that has a steadfast minority of solid Patriots who, having no political clout, serve only as prophetic voices in the wilderness, around which a desperate nation can possibly coalesce and replace RINO Nation.
Hopefully the Freedom Caucus can transform into that.
If that is isolationism, so be it. The hand we’re currently playing is a loser.
I think most western militaries today are being designed mainly as forces against their own citizens to counteract uprisings as more and more of them wake up to what their bereft politicians and bureaucrats are doing to them.
We talked Ukraine/NATO in 2008 and Putin invaded Georgia. We overthrew a democratically elected pro-Russia President(Yanukovych) in 2014 and talked Ukraine/NATO and Putin took Crimea. We overthrew Poroschenko and installed Zelensky and talked Ukraine/NATO; Russia invaded Ukraine.
Russia told us in the 90's: 'we will not tolerate Western missiles on our border' and we still tried and collected billions...
The worst thing is there is absolutely NO accountability anywhere.... especially for the dead soldiers.
$60 billion here, a trillion there. What comes after a trillion? Quadrillion? Number 1 followed by 15 zeroes. LOL. What the hell, it's just a number. Our grandchildren will be happy to pay it off, right? And BTW, when was the last time we saw a congressional Democrat waving an American flag?
I love this writing style. Biting humor. At least a get a chuckle reading Don Surber and Mark Steyn while knowing their articles are documenting the demise of western civilization. Unless we wake up.
“NATO cannot fight a foreign war when it is under attack … from within.” And neither can we. There is a reason we have borders and oceans. We need to seal them and let Europe take care of itself.
Our "betters" in D.C. have already warned us about what will come: they will continue to bankrupt our country, and send our children - NOT theirs, of course - to die. In order to line their pockets, of course.
All while denouncing you for not using proper pronouns, or treating mentally ill men like women, you bigot, you!
They are terrified of what might happen if we unite against their nonsense; after all, we rather outnumber them, no? Why do you suppose their goal is to divide and distract?
Look to the future, my friends, and act accordingly. What kind of world are we gonna leave to Keith Richards, huh? ;D
Our greatest mistake was winning World War II which left a vast MIC on the hunt for new dragons to slay. Germany's greatest mistake was allowing AH to involve them in a war they couldn't win. Once the German Army became embroiled in a war of attrition with the Red Army the handwriting was on the wall. Stalin had an inexhaustible supply of manpower & he expended them profligately. Look @ the casualty figures: U.S. KIA in World War II was 435,000. The Red Army incurred 3.5 million casualties in the first 3 months of Operation Barbarossa alone. Germany was far better pre-1945. The rest of Europe never got over World War I & they had no stomach for a redo.
What is especially frightening is that this world has the worst "elites" certainly since 1914 & most likely of all time. Their cluelessness is only eclipsed by their overindulgence in frivolity, the mundane, & the sordid. Who in their right mind would obey/follow these people into gunfire or trust in their grasp of a particular geopolitical situation/crisis? One can make the claim with metaphysical certitude that they will make exactly the wrong decisions for the physical well-being of their respective countries no matter at what price. The West has lost its way & now seemingly wants to commit suicide.
Don't see how we vote our way out of this; once the West turned its back on God we could only be sundered.
Paraphrasing the Right Reverend Jeremiah Wright, G_d, damn these people! And soon.
In my dotage I've read a lot of history, and one thing stands out: wars are never started by ordinary people. They and their children just pay for, fight and die in them. Wars are started by the bespectacled elite - the Boltons, Kerrys, Albrights, and Ramrod-Clintons who never reap the wages of their oh-so-smart-and-aggressive Big Ideas. In my King-For-24-Hours world, the first procedure would be a Constitutional amendment requiring a congressional declaration of war before a single dollar or weapon goes overseas, followed immediately by a congressional draft in which 10% of Congress is conscripted. And should the remaining 90% get itchy and start another war, another 10% gets a free uniform. Rinse and repeat.
NATO should have dissolved very shortly after the Soviet Union did. Instead it got March of Dimes syndrome. Once it had achieved its initial objective - said objective being both ambitious and important - it had to find other ways to justify its continued existence.
Germany is the dark face in the woodpile. Two world wars. Hates Russia . Without Stalin in WWII, the allies would have had a more challenging time to conclude the hostilities in Europe. Think about it. Who was our ally in both world wars? Right. Go to the head of the class. RUSSIA. I opine, to hell with NATO and the EU, one of the same. Close all military bases in Europe. Bring the military personnel home. Those bases and the personnel thereto assigned (and their dependents) support the local economies.
Get off our backs, Europe and take care of you own stuff. Put the military we bring home on our own borders and stop the invasion of illegal aliens . Mexico is a terrorist state. Say it loudly Congress. Seal the border. Our hemisphere. Our responsibility.
The reactions on the floor of the HoR merely showed how right PDJT was and brought out all the idiocy of the yea voters.When a dem rep states the Uk-Russia border is our border but votes against added security on the US-Mex and is praised we are in trouble.Not all in on rep T.Massie but the fact house sgt at arms wants to fine him for posting the loons on line via X shows the depth of corruption.Great post Poca-Man and Putin needs 2 bullets plus wooden stakes for our MIC.
American Historical Ignorance fills the pot of belligerence in Europe. Most don't know the squabble over Alsace-Lorraine, any more than that Ukraine was a creation of the Soviet/Bolshevik Communists Lenin, Stalin and Khrushchev.
The U.S. would no more allow Mexico to encroach on their former lands taken by Military force to become U.S. states, than Russia is going to allow NATO to expand any further into Russian influence. Underneath the facade of "democracy" is a very nasty, underhanded USA that wishes to have the wealth of resources inside Russia (and to some extent the Ukraine).
GDP???? What a joke Western GDP has become since the days of Paul Samuelson. Owner's imputed rent and Government make up 50% of the GDP numbers (and no one taxes the Government).
More weapons is not a deterrent, it is an invitation to more Russian weapons. And endless strategy when Diplomacy would be the far more productive investment.
Biden is truly the best personification of what is left of the once decent, proud nation. We have a brain-rotten, line-reader for the inside rats controlling the Presidency.
The problem is that this is a problem that's been more than a hundred years in the making, and it’s hard to turn back the clock. Wilson, after claiming the opposite to get elected, dragged this country into WWI, at the point when Germany had already beaten Russia in the east, and the war on the western front was a dilemma stuck in a stalemate stuck in a quagmire. If at that time the US had stayed out, there would have had to be a settlement – all sides were exhausted, and the people were famished, to the point where parents had to abandon their children. In the town in the Netherlands where I grew up were several women – by then married to local Dutchmen – who during that war had come from Germany as starving little girls, and never went back to Germany (The Netherlands had stayed out of it, so conditions were tolerable there.) A settlement of WWI back then might have meant a few territorial gains for Germany – like the port of Antwerp – and everybody could have gone home. But no, Americans had been whipped into a furious anti-German frenzy, so the US threw the Founding Fathers’ warnings about not getting involved in other people’s wars to the wind; it intervened, rushed “Over There” and broke the stalemate. All at he behest of Wilson, one of the worst presidents ever, who boosted eugenics and racism, re-segregated the federal government while promoting it as the solution to all our problems, and created the federal income tax.
And what was the final result of Wilson’s intervention? True, finally everyone could go home – for a little while. But Germany was left in huge political turmoil, extremely angry about America having facilitated the European allies’ imposition of the vengeful Versailles treaty, with enormous payments to make and huge losses of German territory – next came the Great Depression, which originated here, and hit Germany too. Result: a miracle-worker by the name of Adolf Hitler who promised to set everything to rights, and did – for a little while. And then the US came and intervened, again. And once again, the peace was royally messed up, with Stalin getting all kinds of goodies from the left-leaning Roosevelt administration – no wonder he wanted more yet, so Hello, Cold War; and Putin was a product of THAT.
In the aftermath of WWII the Americans created NATO, as a defensive alliance against Russia, with the implicit promise of coming over and intervening again if need be.
Is it any wonder that the Europeans have not done their share of keeping up their militaries? Would you, if you’d gotten used to Uncle Sam picking up your messes, every time? And instead of complaining about funding the Ukrainian war, have you thought of a way to get out of this while neutralizing the Russian threat to Europe? O wait, I forgot, there is a way: The Time Machine that brings us back to 1914.
I stared in disbelief at the image of dozens of Representatives cheering and waving Ukrainian flags on the floor of the House after voting to spend another $95,000,000 on the folly in Ukraine. These truly are people who are no longer my countrymen. Given the fact that about 70% of the populace is oposed to this warmongering giveaway as well as the "open border" policy currently in effect, I suggest that, rather than nationalizing the Presidential election as some wish to do, we should nationalize eletions for Senators and Representatives. Those who have been so keen on killing Ukrainians and Russians in Eastern Europe while holding the southern border of our own country wide open would probably all lose resoundingly.
Another ‘None of the above’
This latest capitulation by the Repubs in both sides of Congress is a wake up call, for me at least. If the upcoming election isn’t a shocking MAGA wave (screw Republican, conservative, blah, blah, yadda , blah), then I can’t see any political way forward. If every RINO isn’t replaced, then what good are the true patriots qua politicians.
I can only see a way forward that has a steadfast minority of solid Patriots who, having no political clout, serve only as prophetic voices in the wilderness, around which a desperate nation can possibly coalesce and replace RINO Nation.
Hopefully the Freedom Caucus can transform into that.
If that is isolationism, so be it. The hand we’re currently playing is a loser.
I think most western militaries today are being designed mainly as forces against their own citizens to counteract uprisings as more and more of them wake up to what their bereft politicians and bureaucrats are doing to them.
Great piece Don.
We talked Ukraine/NATO in 2008 and Putin invaded Georgia. We overthrew a democratically elected pro-Russia President(Yanukovych) in 2014 and talked Ukraine/NATO and Putin took Crimea. We overthrew Poroschenko and installed Zelensky and talked Ukraine/NATO; Russia invaded Ukraine.
Russia told us in the 90's: 'we will not tolerate Western missiles on our border' and we still tried and collected billions...
The worst thing is there is absolutely NO accountability anywhere.... especially for the dead soldiers.
$60 billion here, a trillion there. What comes after a trillion? Quadrillion? Number 1 followed by 15 zeroes. LOL. What the hell, it's just a number. Our grandchildren will be happy to pay it off, right? And BTW, when was the last time we saw a congressional Democrat waving an American flag?
I love this writing style. Biting humor. At least a get a chuckle reading Don Surber and Mark Steyn while knowing their articles are documenting the demise of western civilization. Unless we wake up.
“NATO cannot fight a foreign war when it is under attack … from within.” And neither can we. There is a reason we have borders and oceans. We need to seal them and let Europe take care of itself.
It keeps getting harder to stay positive.
Good morning, all.
Our "betters" in D.C. have already warned us about what will come: they will continue to bankrupt our country, and send our children - NOT theirs, of course - to die. In order to line their pockets, of course.
All while denouncing you for not using proper pronouns, or treating mentally ill men like women, you bigot, you!
They are terrified of what might happen if we unite against their nonsense; after all, we rather outnumber them, no? Why do you suppose their goal is to divide and distract?
Look to the future, my friends, and act accordingly. What kind of world are we gonna leave to Keith Richards, huh? ;D
Have a good day, everybody.
Our greatest mistake was winning World War II which left a vast MIC on the hunt for new dragons to slay. Germany's greatest mistake was allowing AH to involve them in a war they couldn't win. Once the German Army became embroiled in a war of attrition with the Red Army the handwriting was on the wall. Stalin had an inexhaustible supply of manpower & he expended them profligately. Look @ the casualty figures: U.S. KIA in World War II was 435,000. The Red Army incurred 3.5 million casualties in the first 3 months of Operation Barbarossa alone. Germany was far better pre-1945. The rest of Europe never got over World War I & they had no stomach for a redo.
What is especially frightening is that this world has the worst "elites" certainly since 1914 & most likely of all time. Their cluelessness is only eclipsed by their overindulgence in frivolity, the mundane, & the sordid. Who in their right mind would obey/follow these people into gunfire or trust in their grasp of a particular geopolitical situation/crisis? One can make the claim with metaphysical certitude that they will make exactly the wrong decisions for the physical well-being of their respective countries no matter at what price. The West has lost its way & now seemingly wants to commit suicide.
Don't see how we vote our way out of this; once the West turned its back on God we could only be sundered.
Paraphrasing the Right Reverend Jeremiah Wright, G_d, damn these people! And soon.
In my dotage I've read a lot of history, and one thing stands out: wars are never started by ordinary people. They and their children just pay for, fight and die in them. Wars are started by the bespectacled elite - the Boltons, Kerrys, Albrights, and Ramrod-Clintons who never reap the wages of their oh-so-smart-and-aggressive Big Ideas. In my King-For-24-Hours world, the first procedure would be a Constitutional amendment requiring a congressional declaration of war before a single dollar or weapon goes overseas, followed immediately by a congressional draft in which 10% of Congress is conscripted. And should the remaining 90% get itchy and start another war, another 10% gets a free uniform. Rinse and repeat.
NATO should have dissolved very shortly after the Soviet Union did. Instead it got March of Dimes syndrome. Once it had achieved its initial objective - said objective being both ambitious and important - it had to find other ways to justify its continued existence.
Germany is the dark face in the woodpile. Two world wars. Hates Russia . Without Stalin in WWII, the allies would have had a more challenging time to conclude the hostilities in Europe. Think about it. Who was our ally in both world wars? Right. Go to the head of the class. RUSSIA. I opine, to hell with NATO and the EU, one of the same. Close all military bases in Europe. Bring the military personnel home. Those bases and the personnel thereto assigned (and their dependents) support the local economies.
Get off our backs, Europe and take care of you own stuff. Put the military we bring home on our own borders and stop the invasion of illegal aliens . Mexico is a terrorist state. Say it loudly Congress. Seal the border. Our hemisphere. Our responsibility.
The reactions on the floor of the HoR merely showed how right PDJT was and brought out all the idiocy of the yea voters.When a dem rep states the Uk-Russia border is our border but votes against added security on the US-Mex and is praised we are in trouble.Not all in on rep T.Massie but the fact house sgt at arms wants to fine him for posting the loons on line via X shows the depth of corruption.Great post Poca-Man and Putin needs 2 bullets plus wooden stakes for our MIC.
American Historical Ignorance fills the pot of belligerence in Europe. Most don't know the squabble over Alsace-Lorraine, any more than that Ukraine was a creation of the Soviet/Bolshevik Communists Lenin, Stalin and Khrushchev.
The U.S. would no more allow Mexico to encroach on their former lands taken by Military force to become U.S. states, than Russia is going to allow NATO to expand any further into Russian influence. Underneath the facade of "democracy" is a very nasty, underhanded USA that wishes to have the wealth of resources inside Russia (and to some extent the Ukraine).
GDP???? What a joke Western GDP has become since the days of Paul Samuelson. Owner's imputed rent and Government make up 50% of the GDP numbers (and no one taxes the Government).
More weapons is not a deterrent, it is an invitation to more Russian weapons. And endless strategy when Diplomacy would be the far more productive investment.
Biden is truly the best personification of what is left of the once decent, proud nation. We have a brain-rotten, line-reader for the inside rats controlling the Presidency.
The problem is that this is a problem that's been more than a hundred years in the making, and it’s hard to turn back the clock. Wilson, after claiming the opposite to get elected, dragged this country into WWI, at the point when Germany had already beaten Russia in the east, and the war on the western front was a dilemma stuck in a stalemate stuck in a quagmire. If at that time the US had stayed out, there would have had to be a settlement – all sides were exhausted, and the people were famished, to the point where parents had to abandon their children. In the town in the Netherlands where I grew up were several women – by then married to local Dutchmen – who during that war had come from Germany as starving little girls, and never went back to Germany (The Netherlands had stayed out of it, so conditions were tolerable there.) A settlement of WWI back then might have meant a few territorial gains for Germany – like the port of Antwerp – and everybody could have gone home. But no, Americans had been whipped into a furious anti-German frenzy, so the US threw the Founding Fathers’ warnings about not getting involved in other people’s wars to the wind; it intervened, rushed “Over There” and broke the stalemate. All at he behest of Wilson, one of the worst presidents ever, who boosted eugenics and racism, re-segregated the federal government while promoting it as the solution to all our problems, and created the federal income tax.
And what was the final result of Wilson’s intervention? True, finally everyone could go home – for a little while. But Germany was left in huge political turmoil, extremely angry about America having facilitated the European allies’ imposition of the vengeful Versailles treaty, with enormous payments to make and huge losses of German territory – next came the Great Depression, which originated here, and hit Germany too. Result: a miracle-worker by the name of Adolf Hitler who promised to set everything to rights, and did – for a little while. And then the US came and intervened, again. And once again, the peace was royally messed up, with Stalin getting all kinds of goodies from the left-leaning Roosevelt administration – no wonder he wanted more yet, so Hello, Cold War; and Putin was a product of THAT.
In the aftermath of WWII the Americans created NATO, as a defensive alliance against Russia, with the implicit promise of coming over and intervening again if need be.
Is it any wonder that the Europeans have not done their share of keeping up their militaries? Would you, if you’d gotten used to Uncle Sam picking up your messes, every time? And instead of complaining about funding the Ukrainian war, have you thought of a way to get out of this while neutralizing the Russian threat to Europe? O wait, I forgot, there is a way: The Time Machine that brings us back to 1914.