Is someone keeping a list of the money laundering going on? All this helping out has long seemed just another wealth transfer from me to a bunch of trustafarians I don’t know, designed to enrich their foundations and enlarge their trusts.
Now competing with the Educational Industrial Complex, the Medical (including Pharma) Industrial Complex, the Ethanol Industrial Complex, the Environmental Industrial Complex and best of all the Homeless Industrial Complex. What’s the word I’m looking for? Fascism? Nah that couldn’t be.
I'm so old I remember when God told the Israelites not to make treaties with Egypt and Assyria because He would protect them in return for their faith.
I'm so old I've forgotten that G. Washington tossed MY silver dollar across the Potomac and he didn't pay me back. To get even, I just haunt Andrew Jackson's home, near mine. Not too near, understand, because all GOP big wigs go there for a party as soon as they get sworn in. I don't want to step in anything.
Aren’t we all sick to death of seeing NA kids coming back in flag draped coffins. And for what! No country we lose our children to or for thinks we’re where it’s at. Most of them hate our guts.
Enough is Enough of this crap. We’re going to have to defend our borders soon enough anyway and may as well get to it early!
Want to spend some defense $ and get a Patriotic Buzz doing it? Declare a 150 mile DMZ south of the Arizona, Texas border (OK crybabies you can include Cali if you want to) and man it with hunter killer drones. State that anything that can’t be immediately id’d as farm equipment is a target and show that you mean business by blowing half a dozen to hell and gone.
No Migrant issues, no fentanyl probs, we can still buy avocados (🤮)… where’s the downside?
All we really have to do is cut off the welfare, medical care, jobs, and schooling for illegals. Also defund all the agencies that are resettling Illegals. And trim up our welfare system for citizens
What I was thinking was, protect our borders In Artizona and Texas and to also protect our border with California, Oregon, and Washington State. Plu don't forget our communist neighbors to the north
My heart too. I’d go further - we are being invaded all day every day by people/terrorists who only want to steal from us and destroy our lives and our economy. That sounds an awful lot like an act of war to me. We need to deploy our military the entire length of the border and place them with their guns, tanks, etc pointed south.
As for Europe, Ukraine is their neighbor. Let them deal with it.
I keep reading about NATO being formed shortly after WWII to contain the USSR. I was traveling in Europe in 1956, and Europeans I talked to had vivid memories of Germany rising twice in their lifetime. They wanted to be protected from Germany, not the USSR. And my recollection is that NATO was formed partly to reassure the first members -- all of whom had been attacked by the Nazi regime in the previous decade -- that Germany would not rise again. Yes, Stalin was at a high point of his power, but he was not the threat that Germany had very recently been.
I lived in Belgium in the early 80’s. One day while walking in Brussels I stopped an elderly woman to ask for directions. Due to my lousy French accent, with daggers in her eyes, she immediately asked if was German. When I said no, that I was an American, she burst into a huge grin and gave me my directions. She remembered. If I had told her that I was German, she probably would have beat me with her cane.
1.: In 1956 Stalin was not "at a high point of his power". By then his corpse had been on display on Red Square for 3 years, with long lines of Russians shuffling past his glass box, in a sort of low-budget version of Sleeping Beauty without the prince.
And 2.: While in 1956 there were still a lot of bad feelings about the Germans -- inevitably, because a lot of people had been killed, maimed, persecuted and impoverished -- by that time the Russian threat had taken their place. We took it as given that not much could be done when their nuclear bombs started flying.
To illustrate that mood: We had a neighbor woman who was borderline crazy, or worse, who would scream at us kids in our backyard over nothing, and one day she went: "When the Russians come they'll take you to Siberia!"
I should add: I was in the middle of responding to your initial question: "You loved next to Hillary?" -- right when you corrected your typo and made it "lived". I'm glad you did, because "Loved next to Hillary" is a prospect too dreadful to contemplate, enough to send one to Epstein's island.
Americans knowledge of European History is Zero. Other than the Hollywood version of D-Day, they would know nothing.
Millions of Germans were killed after WWII, as vengeance. And Eastern Europe especially, people are taught, just like Israelis and Palestinians, to hate each other.
Sleepy time is over, time to wake up from the American Dream.
Europeans have been in conflict with one another since time began. As for millions of Germans being killed after wwii, I find this to be untruthful. Perhaps you speak of the East Germans who were under the Stasi regime. Millions were not killed.
Israeli’s are not taught to hate anyone sir. Hate is a pill you swallow in the hopes someone else gets sick. Israeli’s dislike the hateful things the so-called Palestinians (it’s a made up term) do. One more thing, Jews worldwide are not putting up the hate directed at them anymore. Not going to happen again. NEVER.
Letting your neighbors kill you is not a clever strategy. Fighting back and eliminating the threat is not clever, it is mandatory. Believe what you will but when your enemies know you are stronger and more committed than you NEVER AGAIN will be the order of the day. Millions of Germans. Laughable. They died fighting a war. Dresden was paybacks and millions didn’t die. Your view of survival and history is jaded. No one is goi g to. E putting me or mine in ovens EVER AGAIN. Know that.
You believe millions of Germans, living in other countries, were not killed after the end of the WWII. So be it.
It was Nazis, who encouraged European Jews to move to Palestine, among other things. And those same Nazis killed millions of other People's, Gypsies, Soviets. The tragedy of European Jews was not isolated to European Jews. Dresden, like Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was a decision, and an easy target.
If you don't want your future to be precisely what you claim you don't want it to be. Learn alternatives besides ratcheting up bloodshed.
After all, the Nazis killed card-carrying Nazis to consolidate power. Ask Ernst Rohm
Stalin was at a high point of his power when NATO was formed in 1949, not when I was in Europe in 1956. i remember his death in 1953.
Again, my experience in 1956 did not reflect the mood in Europe when NATO was formed, but it was instructive to me that the mood I experienced was still concerned with Germany as much as, or more than with the USSR. I don't know what years your comment about neighbors screaming at you was noted, or where it took place. And I am surprised your neighbor referred to 'the Russians" and not the Soviets.
Actually, in 1949 Stalin had just been defeated by Harry Truman's airlift to Berlin, and that conflict of slightly less than a year must have increased the Europeans' eagerness to join NATO -- also because their economies were still recovering. But I'm inclined to think that by now, Europe is wealthy enough to increase their military spending to a level that will discourage Russia, and the US absolutely must quite the deficit spending or there's going to be an economic catastrophe.
The crazy neighbor incident would have occurred in the late 'forties or early 'fifties. And nobody I knew referred to the Russians as "Soviets". Maybe that's something American, like describing the Germans as "Nazis" which, despite all the crimes of the Nazi regime, ordinary Germans don't deserve, certainly not anymore.
But getting seriously into all that is bound to take us clear back to WWI, and the wisdom of Wilson to get the US involved in that. Did I say wisdom? Wilson's lack if wisdom. When you try to figure out how that war started, it looks like an enormous mistake produced by a lot of incompetent politicians, on all sides. And by 1917 the war in the west -- in Belgium and northern France -- was in a mass-murdering stalemate, and if the US had not intervened, it seems inevitable that there would have been a settlement soon. A settlement that would have been less vindictive on the allied side, that would not have dismembered Germany, and hence much less likely to sow the seeds for WWII.
And this is why quite a few historians look at the two World Wars as one war, from 1914 to 1945, interrupted halfway by an unproductive break of about 18-19 years.
Technically you are right, but we didn't bother to specify "West Germany" or "Deutsche Bundesrepublik. Just Germany; and nobody in his right mind was interested in touring East Germany.
My Pa taught me to stand up for myself. He didn't give me an allowance for standing up to bullies, nor did he fight my battles for me once I was big enough. It hurt my feelings a bit until I grew up and understood. The euro-peons need to grow up. Let 'em siphon off someone else's youth and treasure.
Thankfully, Biden, McConnell, Pelosi and the rest of them will be dying off in the next few years. Then all we have to deal with is/are AOC, the Muslim from Minneapolis, and the rest of the next generation crazies! Hah!
New York Times said, “Favoring Foes Over Friends, Trump Threatens to Upend International Order.” Our friends are few and far between and with few exceptions like Japan and Taiwan would jump ship in a heartbeat. At least Japan has made a move to alter its policies to be able to defend itself. Taiwan has an army of a half million men ready to defend itself. Most of our so called friends will be the friend of whomever provides the biggest paychecks and the most lavish cocktail parties. The number of dictators in the UN is staggering and our reliance on any one of them would be beyond foolish.
I would not say we should cut defense spending, I would say we should spend it more wisely on the future of our own defenses. With the world on a slide toward communism and starvation, we are going to need retooling, rethinking, and most of all strong leadership to have the vision to do both while rebuilding a strong and vibrant economy that will handle. Only one name comes to mind when listing these goals and we all know who that is.
Has anybody watched Tucker's Putin interview? Does anybody give two hoots about playing baby sitter for nations who don't pay up? Okay, put all that on the back burner. We must adjust our thinking and focus on our own problems instead of everybody else's. Our border has to be Priority Number One, and the death penalty for drug cartels Priority Number Two. If they aren't, bend over and kiss your ass good bye, because the border crisis, drugs running rampant across America, and the government printing money like it's confetti, are critical aspects for our survival.
I have been watching the Tucker/Putin video. I am still in the History of Russia part. I will finish today. I will say that after the fall of the Soviet Union I have had little to no worry about Russia.
Perhaps the NATO idea was based on strength in numbers. That may be true unless those that make up the numbers are weaker than the enemy it is coalescing against. It looks like we are the playground strongman and the wimps and chickens are lined up behind us.
While we're on this topic of paying for world welfare, can we also stop funding and drop out of the WHO? And do the same with the UN after kicking them out of our country?
Shrugged, the strength in numbers is a moot point. Our only defense is M.A.D. As we see in Ukraine. It is difficult to win a ground war. WWII, Germany had 18 years to prepare, both in military strength and in human mental strength to launch an invasion against a depleted and decadent Europe after WWI. If France or England had nukes at the time Hitler would not have done much(unless he developed photon torpedoes or Phasers). There is no need for a militarized nato in 2024.
Democracy worth saving? What democracy? We certainly don’t have it in this country. This is another distraction from the real story that the president has no brain. They keep trotting out people who say how vibrant and engaged our president is. You don’t have to be a doctor like me to realize that this guy is so impaired that he couldn’t lead himself to the bathroom let alone be the leader of the free world.
On the other hand, somebody in the White House decided it was a great idea to release a video of Mr. Biden bringing fried chicken to a black family and sitting around the meal asking questions. The only stereotypic trope they forgot was to bring watermelon for dessert. Who in the White House came up with this idea ? The true joke is on anybody who votes for this dimwit. The country we are becoming is the laughingstock and the world filled with danger.
In truth, America, under an America First/MAGA Administration, will have only a true handful of likeminded Allies in the world.
Hungary, Japan, Taiwan, now Argentina, Israel (once the O’Biden administration is gone, and Iran put back in a box), and perhaps a few others, but just a few.
Nearly every single other country is either full-fledged Communist/ Socialist, and/or has bent the knee to the Golden Calf of the WEF’s New World Order, and that includes Canada and Mexico.
We will not be “isolationist”, we will be isolated in terms of our fundamental raison d’etre: our “claimed reason for the existence; the sole or ultimate purpose of being. (literally "reason to be").” That reason for being: the Constitution of the US, and the Judeo-Christian values that underpin it.
That’s fine by me.
But we’ll need first to rid from within our own midst everyone here who opposes that reason for being, as well.
"I am not calling for isolationism but for a scaling back on our commitments. Just who are willing to send our sons and daughters to fight in protecting Argentina? Jimmy Carter gave the Panama Canal away nearly 50 years ago. Let Panama fend for itself."
I am calling for isolationism, for at least 5 years! Close that damn border. Bring our businesses back to the USA or tariff the hell out of them. Clear out all illegals, one way or another; it's their choice, either or...just leave the USA.
Shut down the Department of Education, period!
Families use tax incentives to decide their children's education, private or homeschool, mandating that all Americans must take US and World History and Civics courses, incorporated with mandated English only, math, all sciences, especially biology.
Destroy Wokeism, everywhere in the USA or get the hell out! Enforce the criminal and mental health laws. Open the closed mental health facilities and get rid of the mentally ill running our schools, hospitals, and businesses via any constitutional means necessary.
Pass legislation abolishing most sections of the Obamacare mandate, especially that which deals with encouraging mutilation and destruction of our children. Anything relating to encouraging and paying for transgender mutilation is abolished! Shut down hospitals and prosecute any and all medical professionals participating in destruction and mutilation of American children.
Reestablish the nuclear family by encouraging couples to get married and procreate, with family tax incentives.
Encourage small family farms, with tax deduction incentives. Allow Americans to decide what they want to put in their bodies for nourishment, not the corporate farmers led by the government, even those from other countries.
It's time for Americans to take care of Americans first. Only then will America be great again.
I swear, if the commenters here could be put in charge, things would turn around very quickly!
And actually, our whole country has a hundred and fifty million likewise capable and clear people who would be big improvements over much of the current Congress (and all the congressional Dems should be thrown out by the voters, not just the RINO’s).
The silver lining in the dark cloud around us, is that if Trump gets in things could reverse incredibly quickly—like a cork popping to the surface of a glass of water. Just 3 years ago we were doing superlatively. We could be again very quickly.
Who could have guessed the man not starting any wars during his presidency is the greatest threat to a currently insane world of wars on the brink of disaster?Perfect job of bringing perspective to a msm/left-brained reaction and fear mongering cabal of pure evil. Poll is a snap ,lead on Poca-Man as we work towards a MAGA 2024 election and return to sanity in a must win battle !
Why I remember a time when the dems were considered the “anti-war” party with their anti-Vietnam protests in the 60s. Of course, that was all a ruse. Dems love war. The better to control people with and maintain political power.
Now when Trump maintains his “no new wars” policy, the dems paint him as “a threat to ‘our’ democracy” and “Putin’s puppet.” It’s all so topsy-turvy.
Don, when I read your pieces I feel like we're twin sons from a different mother. Absolutely spot on about NATO. NATO was mainly set up to be the European trip wire to deter a Soviet takeover of western Europe. Yes, a part of the rationale for NATO was to integrate Germany into the West, but that was mainly the role of the EC, EU, Franco-German Coal Board, or whatever the hell it was called back then.
I was actually smack dab on our side of the Fulda Gap, right on the Intra-German border, when the Berlin Wall came down. That was a looooong time ago. A reassessment of NATO is far overdue.
$34-Trillion in debt and our interest payments have overtaken our defense spending. For foreign aid, we have to borrow money from China to give it and, ultimately, that will be our downfall.. We're like the broke guy at the bar buying drinks for the entire bar on his credit card and thinking he's rich.
I'm so old I remember when George Washington warned us about the danger of foreign entanglements. Good times, good times.
Is someone keeping a list of the money laundering going on? All this helping out has long seemed just another wealth transfer from me to a bunch of trustafarians I don’t know, designed to enrich their foundations and enlarge their trusts.
…and let’s not forget the bottomless pit known as the Military Industrial Complex!
Now competing with the Educational Industrial Complex, the Medical (including Pharma) Industrial Complex, the Ethanol Industrial Complex, the Environmental Industrial Complex and best of all the Homeless Industrial Complex. What’s the word I’m looking for? Fascism? Nah that couldn’t be.
Hear! Hear!
Nicely put EODMom !
That list would be longer than a sales receipt from CVS
Trustafarians. Great word!
I'm so old I remember when God told the Israelites not to make treaties with Egypt and Assyria because He would protect them in return for their faith.
I'm so old I've forgotten that G. Washington tossed MY silver dollar across the Potomac and he didn't pay me back. To get even, I just haunt Andrew Jackson's home, near mine. Not too near, understand, because all GOP big wigs go there for a party as soon as they get sworn in. I don't want to step in anything.
Yesterday we spoke about newspapers. Today I once again came here to read what should be in every newspaper and isn’t.
Aint that the truth?
‘I’m not calling for Isolationism’…why not!?!!!
Aren’t we all sick to death of seeing NA kids coming back in flag draped coffins. And for what! No country we lose our children to or for thinks we’re where it’s at. Most of them hate our guts.
Enough is Enough of this crap. We’re going to have to defend our borders soon enough anyway and may as well get to it early!
Want to spend some defense $ and get a Patriotic Buzz doing it? Declare a 150 mile DMZ south of the Arizona, Texas border (OK crybabies you can include Cali if you want to) and man it with hunter killer drones. State that anything that can’t be immediately id’d as farm equipment is a target and show that you mean business by blowing half a dozen to hell and gone.
No Migrant issues, no fentanyl probs, we can still buy avocados (🤮)… where’s the downside?
All we really have to do is cut off the welfare, medical care, jobs, and schooling for illegals. Also defund all the agencies that are resettling Illegals. And trim up our welfare system for citizens
Right?!
Check out the wall between Egypt and Gaza! Now, THAT’S a wall!
https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2009/12/10/21/273975.jpg?quality=75&width=1200&auto=webp
See what you can do when you don’t have a bunch of d-rat progressives wailing about ‘feelings’
Imagine? A wall like that to keep out fellow muzee ’s.
Looks like somebody stayed awake during History class
Like this idea a LOT.
What I was thinking was, protect our borders In Artizona and Texas and to also protect our border with California, Oregon, and Washington State. Plu don't forget our communist neighbors to the north
A man after my own heart.
My heart too. I’d go further - we are being invaded all day every day by people/terrorists who only want to steal from us and destroy our lives and our economy. That sounds an awful lot like an act of war to me. We need to deploy our military the entire length of the border and place them with their guns, tanks, etc pointed south.
As for Europe, Ukraine is their neighbor. Let them deal with it.
Amen Brother and Sister!
I keep reading about NATO being formed shortly after WWII to contain the USSR. I was traveling in Europe in 1956, and Europeans I talked to had vivid memories of Germany rising twice in their lifetime. They wanted to be protected from Germany, not the USSR. And my recollection is that NATO was formed partly to reassure the first members -- all of whom had been attacked by the Nazi regime in the previous decade -- that Germany would not rise again. Yes, Stalin was at a high point of his power, but he was not the threat that Germany had very recently been.
I lived in Belgium in the early 80’s. One day while walking in Brussels I stopped an elderly woman to ask for directions. Due to my lousy French accent, with daggers in her eyes, she immediately asked if was German. When I said no, that I was an American, she burst into a huge grin and gave me my directions. She remembered. If I had told her that I was German, she probably would have beat me with her cane.
Germany is a threat because of their green agenda and their Muslim problems
How long before they start exporting the Muslim problem?
It's already here and everywhere else; look at the UK and France, just for starters.
Two corrections:
1.: In 1956 Stalin was not "at a high point of his power". By then his corpse had been on display on Red Square for 3 years, with long lines of Russians shuffling past his glass box, in a sort of low-budget version of Sleeping Beauty without the prince.
And 2.: While in 1956 there were still a lot of bad feelings about the Germans -- inevitably, because a lot of people had been killed, maimed, persecuted and impoverished -- by that time the Russian threat had taken their place. We took it as given that not much could be done when their nuclear bombs started flying.
To illustrate that mood: We had a neighbor woman who was borderline crazy, or worse, who would scream at us kids in our backyard over nothing, and one day she went: "When the Russians come they'll take you to Siberia!"
Wow! You lived next to Hillary?!
😏
I should add: I was in the middle of responding to your initial question: "You loved next to Hillary?" -- right when you corrected your typo and made it "lived". I'm glad you did, because "Loved next to Hillary" is a prospect too dreadful to contemplate, enough to send one to Epstein's island.
Not quite. At least she didn't run for President.
Americans knowledge of European History is Zero. Other than the Hollywood version of D-Day, they would know nothing.
Millions of Germans were killed after WWII, as vengeance. And Eastern Europe especially, people are taught, just like Israelis and Palestinians, to hate each other.
Sleepy time is over, time to wake up from the American Dream.
Europeans have been in conflict with one another since time began. As for millions of Germans being killed after wwii, I find this to be untruthful. Perhaps you speak of the East Germans who were under the Stasi regime. Millions were not killed.
Israeli’s are not taught to hate anyone sir. Hate is a pill you swallow in the hopes someone else gets sick. Israeli’s dislike the hateful things the so-called Palestinians (it’s a made up term) do. One more thing, Jews worldwide are not putting up the hate directed at them anymore. Not going to happen again. NEVER.
Millions of Germans were killed in countries that took out vengeance at the end of the war. But you already know that.
Orthodox Jews and the state of Israel program their children to hate Palestinians, just like Palestinians program their children to hate Israelis.
Keep spreading LOVE in Gaza and the West Bank and your Never Again will happen again.
I don't love nor hate Israelis any more than I love or hate Palestinians.
Time and population. Time and population. Killing your neighbors is not a clever strategy.
Letting your neighbors kill you is not a clever strategy. Fighting back and eliminating the threat is not clever, it is mandatory. Believe what you will but when your enemies know you are stronger and more committed than you NEVER AGAIN will be the order of the day. Millions of Germans. Laughable. They died fighting a war. Dresden was paybacks and millions didn’t die. Your view of survival and history is jaded. No one is goi g to. E putting me or mine in ovens EVER AGAIN. Know that.
Hmm....
You believe millions of Germans, living in other countries, were not killed after the end of the WWII. So be it.
It was Nazis, who encouraged European Jews to move to Palestine, among other things. And those same Nazis killed millions of other People's, Gypsies, Soviets. The tragedy of European Jews was not isolated to European Jews. Dresden, like Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was a decision, and an easy target.
If you don't want your future to be precisely what you claim you don't want it to be. Learn alternatives besides ratcheting up bloodshed.
After all, the Nazis killed card-carrying Nazis to consolidate power. Ask Ernst Rohm
How about Hamas surrenders and the war ends today?
How about the U.S. Colony surrenders and England will only hang a few traitors as examples?
Hamas are a bunch of murderers, as are the guys in Military Uniforms in Gaza.
Sorry, relative Morality doesn't cut it.
I should have worded my comment more carefully.
Stalin was at a high point of his power when NATO was formed in 1949, not when I was in Europe in 1956. i remember his death in 1953.
Again, my experience in 1956 did not reflect the mood in Europe when NATO was formed, but it was instructive to me that the mood I experienced was still concerned with Germany as much as, or more than with the USSR. I don't know what years your comment about neighbors screaming at you was noted, or where it took place. And I am surprised your neighbor referred to 'the Russians" and not the Soviets.
Actually, in 1949 Stalin had just been defeated by Harry Truman's airlift to Berlin, and that conflict of slightly less than a year must have increased the Europeans' eagerness to join NATO -- also because their economies were still recovering. But I'm inclined to think that by now, Europe is wealthy enough to increase their military spending to a level that will discourage Russia, and the US absolutely must quite the deficit spending or there's going to be an economic catastrophe.
The crazy neighbor incident would have occurred in the late 'forties or early 'fifties. And nobody I knew referred to the Russians as "Soviets". Maybe that's something American, like describing the Germans as "Nazis" which, despite all the crimes of the Nazi regime, ordinary Germans don't deserve, certainly not anymore.
But getting seriously into all that is bound to take us clear back to WWI, and the wisdom of Wilson to get the US involved in that. Did I say wisdom? Wilson's lack if wisdom. When you try to figure out how that war started, it looks like an enormous mistake produced by a lot of incompetent politicians, on all sides. And by 1917 the war in the west -- in Belgium and northern France -- was in a mass-murdering stalemate, and if the US had not intervened, it seems inevitable that there would have been a settlement soon. A settlement that would have been less vindictive on the allied side, that would not have dismembered Germany, and hence much less likely to sow the seeds for WWII.
And this is why quite a few historians look at the two World Wars as one war, from 1914 to 1945, interrupted halfway by an unproductive break of about 18-19 years.
One more correction. You cannot speak of "Germany" in 1956 as there were two of them.
Technically you are right, but we didn't bother to specify "West Germany" or "Deutsche Bundesrepublik. Just Germany; and nobody in his right mind was interested in touring East Germany.
It is interesting to watch and see if the Ossies are going to save Germany from destroying their country by Greens & muslims.
NATO was keep Russia out Germany down and Western Europe from fragmenting
Good morning, all.
My Pa taught me to stand up for myself. He didn't give me an allowance for standing up to bullies, nor did he fight my battles for me once I was big enough. It hurt my feelings a bit until I grew up and understood. The euro-peons need to grow up. Let 'em siphon off someone else's youth and treasure.
Have a great day!
The fact is the European Drooling Class is BFF's forever with the wannabee DC Drooling Class.
And they do not give a damn what the "little people" want.
Parasites. Everyone of them.
Thankfully, Biden, McConnell, Pelosi and the rest of them will be dying off in the next few years. Then all we have to deal with is/are AOC, the Muslim from Minneapolis, and the rest of the next generation crazies! Hah!
New York Times said, “Favoring Foes Over Friends, Trump Threatens to Upend International Order.” Our friends are few and far between and with few exceptions like Japan and Taiwan would jump ship in a heartbeat. At least Japan has made a move to alter its policies to be able to defend itself. Taiwan has an army of a half million men ready to defend itself. Most of our so called friends will be the friend of whomever provides the biggest paychecks and the most lavish cocktail parties. The number of dictators in the UN is staggering and our reliance on any one of them would be beyond foolish.
I would not say we should cut defense spending, I would say we should spend it more wisely on the future of our own defenses. With the world on a slide toward communism and starvation, we are going to need retooling, rethinking, and most of all strong leadership to have the vision to do both while rebuilding a strong and vibrant economy that will handle. Only one name comes to mind when listing these goals and we all know who that is.
Taylor Swift!!!
Has anybody watched Tucker's Putin interview? Does anybody give two hoots about playing baby sitter for nations who don't pay up? Okay, put all that on the back burner. We must adjust our thinking and focus on our own problems instead of everybody else's. Our border has to be Priority Number One, and the death penalty for drug cartels Priority Number Two. If they aren't, bend over and kiss your ass good bye, because the border crisis, drugs running rampant across America, and the government printing money like it's confetti, are critical aspects for our survival.
I have been watching the Tucker/Putin video. I am still in the History of Russia part. I will finish today. I will say that after the fall of the Soviet Union I have had little to no worry about Russia.
Perhaps the NATO idea was based on strength in numbers. That may be true unless those that make up the numbers are weaker than the enemy it is coalescing against. It looks like we are the playground strongman and the wimps and chickens are lined up behind us.
While we're on this topic of paying for world welfare, can we also stop funding and drop out of the WHO? And do the same with the UN after kicking them out of our country?
Yeah, we should drop out the WHO; Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle, and Kenney Jones are wa-a-ay past beyond their "sell by" date.
Daltrey aged better than Robert Plant
True - Led Zeppelin passed their "Sell by" date about three years after "Whole Lotta Loaf"...
Ha! Yes, they are past their sell by date. Luckily, their music still stands the test of time.
Keith Moon
Keith Moon passed away on September 7, 1978 - over 45 years ago. He was 32.
John Entwistle has died as well...that's why I added Keith Moon
Didn't knew about John Entwistle's passing...
The 'Quiet One' died in '02 He was the best. My all time favorite band.
Shrugged, the strength in numbers is a moot point. Our only defense is M.A.D. As we see in Ukraine. It is difficult to win a ground war. WWII, Germany had 18 years to prepare, both in military strength and in human mental strength to launch an invasion against a depleted and decadent Europe after WWI. If France or England had nukes at the time Hitler would not have done much(unless he developed photon torpedoes or Phasers). There is no need for a militarized nato in 2024.
Spot on Shrugged !!
Democracy worth saving? What democracy? We certainly don’t have it in this country. This is another distraction from the real story that the president has no brain. They keep trotting out people who say how vibrant and engaged our president is. You don’t have to be a doctor like me to realize that this guy is so impaired that he couldn’t lead himself to the bathroom let alone be the leader of the free world.
On the other hand, somebody in the White House decided it was a great idea to release a video of Mr. Biden bringing fried chicken to a black family and sitting around the meal asking questions. The only stereotypic trope they forgot was to bring watermelon for dessert. Who in the White House came up with this idea ? The true joke is on anybody who votes for this dimwit. The country we are becoming is the laughingstock and the world filled with danger.
You ain't black if you don't vote for me, well somebody did, throw in Barry's clinging to their guns and bibles......
The biggest threat is the entrenched administrative state.
In truth, America, under an America First/MAGA Administration, will have only a true handful of likeminded Allies in the world.
Hungary, Japan, Taiwan, now Argentina, Israel (once the O’Biden administration is gone, and Iran put back in a box), and perhaps a few others, but just a few.
Nearly every single other country is either full-fledged Communist/ Socialist, and/or has bent the knee to the Golden Calf of the WEF’s New World Order, and that includes Canada and Mexico.
We will not be “isolationist”, we will be isolated in terms of our fundamental raison d’etre: our “claimed reason for the existence; the sole or ultimate purpose of being. (literally "reason to be").” That reason for being: the Constitution of the US, and the Judeo-Christian values that underpin it.
That’s fine by me.
But we’ll need first to rid from within our own midst everyone here who opposes that reason for being, as well.
We’ve got our work cut out for us.
"I am not calling for isolationism but for a scaling back on our commitments. Just who are willing to send our sons and daughters to fight in protecting Argentina? Jimmy Carter gave the Panama Canal away nearly 50 years ago. Let Panama fend for itself."
https://www.nysun.com/article/trumps-derision-of-nato-prompts-a-nervous-europe-to-spend-more-on-its-militaries?
I am calling for isolationism, for at least 5 years! Close that damn border. Bring our businesses back to the USA or tariff the hell out of them. Clear out all illegals, one way or another; it's their choice, either or...just leave the USA.
Shut down the Department of Education, period!
Families use tax incentives to decide their children's education, private or homeschool, mandating that all Americans must take US and World History and Civics courses, incorporated with mandated English only, math, all sciences, especially biology.
Destroy Wokeism, everywhere in the USA or get the hell out! Enforce the criminal and mental health laws. Open the closed mental health facilities and get rid of the mentally ill running our schools, hospitals, and businesses via any constitutional means necessary.
Pass legislation abolishing most sections of the Obamacare mandate, especially that which deals with encouraging mutilation and destruction of our children. Anything relating to encouraging and paying for transgender mutilation is abolished! Shut down hospitals and prosecute any and all medical professionals participating in destruction and mutilation of American children.
Reestablish the nuclear family by encouraging couples to get married and procreate, with family tax incentives.
Encourage small family farms, with tax deduction incentives. Allow Americans to decide what they want to put in their bodies for nourishment, not the corporate farmers led by the government, even those from other countries.
It's time for Americans to take care of Americans first. Only then will America be great again.
I swear, if the commenters here could be put in charge, things would turn around very quickly!
And actually, our whole country has a hundred and fifty million likewise capable and clear people who would be big improvements over much of the current Congress (and all the congressional Dems should be thrown out by the voters, not just the RINO’s).
The silver lining in the dark cloud around us, is that if Trump gets in things could reverse incredibly quickly—like a cork popping to the surface of a glass of water. Just 3 years ago we were doing superlatively. We could be again very quickly.
Who could have guessed the man not starting any wars during his presidency is the greatest threat to a currently insane world of wars on the brink of disaster?Perfect job of bringing perspective to a msm/left-brained reaction and fear mongering cabal of pure evil. Poll is a snap ,lead on Poca-Man as we work towards a MAGA 2024 election and return to sanity in a must win battle !
Insane world on the brink of disaster, indeed!
Why I remember a time when the dems were considered the “anti-war” party with their anti-Vietnam protests in the 60s. Of course, that was all a ruse. Dems love war. The better to control people with and maintain political power.
Now when Trump maintains his “no new wars” policy, the dems paint him as “a threat to ‘our’ democracy” and “Putin’s puppet.” It’s all so topsy-turvy.
Don, when I read your pieces I feel like we're twin sons from a different mother. Absolutely spot on about NATO. NATO was mainly set up to be the European trip wire to deter a Soviet takeover of western Europe. Yes, a part of the rationale for NATO was to integrate Germany into the West, but that was mainly the role of the EC, EU, Franco-German Coal Board, or whatever the hell it was called back then.
I was actually smack dab on our side of the Fulda Gap, right on the Intra-German border, when the Berlin Wall came down. That was a looooong time ago. A reassessment of NATO is far overdue.
Well, papa was a rolling stone
...wherever he laid his hat was his home...
$34-Trillion in debt and our interest payments have overtaken our defense spending. For foreign aid, we have to borrow money from China to give it and, ultimately, that will be our downfall.. We're like the broke guy at the bar buying drinks for the entire bar on his credit card and thinking he's rich.
Americans can't figure out that NATO expansion begets Russian Military expansion.
But you can be certain the War Profiteers and Mongers in DC know.