…the United States has groomed a whole generation of foreign policy wonks-in-training who lack any real understanding of how the world actually works. These impressive-on-paper people – let it be noted they are legion in both parties – the under-45′s who are always graduates of the right schools and first-rate players of The Game in Washington, DC (which really comes down to cultivating the right mentors who will guide you to the proper think-tank until your party returns to power), are no match for the stone-cold killers of the Kremlin, led by the Chekist-in-Chief Putin. They have grown up in a world where unipolar American power has never been challenged, and while they can utter pleasant, Davos-ready platitudes about the whole range of bien pensant issues – global warming, emerging trends in micro-finance, gender matters on the Subcontinent, et al – they have quite literally nothing to say when old-school conventional threats emerge and enemies – yes, enemies: not rivals or merely misunderstood would-be partners – emerge from the darkness with conquest and killing on their minds.
Related: “Brilliant. Positively brilliant. Thousands of American troops dangling at the end of a lifeline ultimately controlled by the sponsors of al Qaeda wasting billions of dollars on Obama’s strategy.”
As I keep telling my kids over and over, it’s not a question of “if” but “when” there will be a world war 3. Every civilization that has ever risen to greatness has been destroyed because they became too “civilized” to pick up their weapons and fight to protect their way of life until it was too late.
Throw out all bums in WAshington D.C. Time for new blood. We need term limits, now!
Impeach obumba now!
Sociopaths are timeless. As much as they wish to ignore or deny it.
are no match for the stone-cold killers of the Kremlin, led by the Chekist-in-Chief Putin.
More anti hate Russian propaganda again by the usual suspects. How many people have been slaughtered and countries disrupted by the US and Nato say in the last decade? Spreading democracy right?
Putin’s Triumph
By Israel Shamir
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38023.htm
Remember that photo of Reagan meeting some common folk in the Soviet Union, and a few feet from him is Vlad Putin?
Will someday, a photo of who B. Hussien met in his visit to Pakistan be released? Does Pakistan have cameras?
I know that B. Hussien has never released the information regarding how he gained entry into Pakistan, at the time of his visit, Americans weren’t allowed to visit as it was too much of a safety risk. So which passport did he use? … maybe there’s a hint for his love of Pakistan. He’s indebted to them. Which is exactly the reason the Constitution of the United States states the President can only be a natural born citizen, without any other attachments to other nation states. None.
and that is why the current SCOAMF is compromised. His “strategy” isn’t for America. It’s to put it in its place.
If we don’t get “new blood” now, we are sure to have a lot of new and old blood flowing in our streets. Does anybody here see any way, any peaceful way at all, to rid this Republic of the socialists and oligarchs that have taken it over? Does anybody see hope of democratically doing anything about our situation as long as our public media is in the control of both of those groups? Does anybody see any hope of peacefully ameliorating our condition as long as the socialist and oligarchs keep rousing the illiterate 47%? I fear we can do nothing.
Just who is it that we are supporting in the Ukraine?
If it is Stalin vs Hitler all over again did Canada just side with Hitler?
http://www.321gold.com/editorials/engdahl/engdahl032414.html
So the brokest nation in history, Brokistan, The United States of Debt, is unwilling to fulfill its internationakl treaty duties? When the US dollar is dethroned in international trade – coming to a country near you soon – they will no longer be able to fulfill the demand for all those EBD cards. Then no one will be interested in who knew what about Osama Bin Laden or Obama Been Lyin’ then.
Two missed key paragraphs:
“The first part is a lack of courage that’s enabled by a culture of conformism in the corridors of DC power, where one false move with the wrong staffer or donor can derail a whole career before it really begins. “Speaking truth to power” features frequently in novels and films about the nation’s capital, but is seldom encountered in reality for this reason. Savvy young people on the make quickly learn to mouth platitudes and make connections with equally bland and conformist mentors: if any of these people have genuinely novel, much less daring, foreign policy ideas, they learn to suppress them awfully fast.
Second, most of these smart young people really don’t know anything. Oh, don’t get me wrong, they had great SATs and went to top schools and have mastered the art of sounding smart, attaining admirable fluency in that unnatural dialect known as Beltway-speak, but as for any deep knowledge about any particular subject relating to how the world really works, that’s about as rare in this crowd as unicorns and Bigfoot. There should be no surprise that Chekists are winning handily these days.”
First one needs to recognize that platitude-speak will not disarm your foes; nor fight your war. Ostrich like behaviour, hoping it will all go away, when you next look up; only inspires derision. One may as well be engaged in watching Hollywood’s latest zombie movie installment; where the political class are the zombies.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/24/ukraine-crisis-partition-letter-idUSL5N0ML1LO20140324
Russian politician proposes new divisions of Ukraine
(Reuters) – A prominent Russian politician has proposed dividing Ukraine along the lines of an infamous Nazi-Soviet pact and suggested that regions in Western Ukraine hold referendums on breaking away from Kiev.
In a letter sent to the governments of Poland, Romania and Hungary, Vladimir Zhirinovsky also suggested those countries hold referendums on incorporating the regions into their territory.
Zhirinovsky, whose nationalist Liberal Democratic party largely backs President Vladimir Putin in the Russian parliament, sent the letter as Russia annexed the Crimea region of southern Ukraine last week.
He is deputy speaker at the Duma and his party holds a minority in the parliament. But his ideas and language resonate with a large part of the Russian population and the Kremlin’s increasingly pro-nationalist rhetoric.
His letter, seen by Reuters, suggested Poland, Hungary and Romania, who are now in the European Union, might wish to take back regions which he said were in the past their territories.
The regions were incorporated into Ukraine when it was part of the Soviet Union at the end of World War Two and featured in a secret annex of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact under which the Soviet and Nazi German foreign ministers carved up the area.
“It’s never too late to correct historical errors,” Zhirinovsky wrote.
It was not clear whether the letter was serious or a publicity stunt. But it follows a crisis in relations between Moscow and Kiev since the Moscow-backed Viktor Yanukovich was ousted as Ukraine’s president last month.
Zhirinovsky proposed Ukraine’s Chernivtsi, Zakarpattia, Volyn, Lviv, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk and Rovensky regions, together with Poland, Romania and Hungary hold referendums on whether the regions should break away from Ukraine.
Romania might wish to have Chernivtsi, Hungary the Zakarpattia region, and Poland the rest, he said.
The proposal would allow central Ukraine to be free of “unnecessary tensions” and the referendums would “bring prosperity and tranquillity to the Ukrainian native land,” the letter said.
Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman Marcin Wojciechowski dismissed the letter as a “complete oddity” and regretted some Russians “still think in terms of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.”
We should all be delighted that carving up countries at the behest of bigger powers is back in vogue.
You can have a Molotov treaty or a Molotov cocktail take your pick…!
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
“Throw out all bums in WAshington D.C.”
You’re so right.
You need new bums in there.
Great article by a x-Yale, West Point instructor:
http://theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/#.UzCEuc55shV
We have a crisis of leadership in America because our overwhelming power and wealth, earned under earlier generations of leaders, made us complacent, and for too long we have been training leaders who only know how to keep the routine going. Who can answer questions, but don’t know how to ask them. Who can fulfill goals, but don’t know how to set them. Who think about how to get things done, but not whether they’re worth doing in the first place. What we have now are the greatest technocrats the world has ever seen, people who have been trained to be incredibly good at one specific thing, but who have no interest in anything beyond their area of expertise. What we don’t have are leaders.
What we don’t have, in other words, are thinkers. People who can think for themselves. People who can formulate a new direction: for the country, for a corporation or a college, for the Army—a new way of doing things, a new way of looking at things. People, in other words, with vision.
[Prov 29:18 – people perish because of a lack of vision]
have mastered the art of sounding smart,
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“When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism.
But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans – an avian flu pandemic.”
Barack Obama-
Son of a bitch is gonna get us all killed….
Indeed, more anti-Russian propaganda. The US has monkeyed around in Middle Eastern
waters, and Ukrainian waters, incompetently but not innocuously. Obama and his Night
Hags have got lots of people killed in the Middle East. By siding with radical Islam
they might have got a lot more of us killed. By siding with Iran they may find
nuclear-armed cruise missiles falling on New York, in a few short years time.
Vladimir Putin is no doubt not a nice man (although frankly the soft treatment of the
Greenpeacers and Pussy rioters argues that he might be
too nice to be in charge of Russia) but he
is responsible. He understands what a reckless bunch of madwomen are in charge of
the US government right now, and has had some effect in neutralising them.
If the US government needs some serious geopolitical advice they can get it from
David Goldman. Or Mark Steyn, who learned about geopolitics in his English boarding
school. In the mean time, what can we say? “Bleat on, little eloi, bleat on – the
big bad Morlocks are going to get you!”
Why isn’t the Russian Army already in Lvov?
Problem is, what would they do when they got there? They would have to govern, and to do that, the Russians would have to make a sentimental return to the time honoured methods of the Gulag and the firing squad.
Those days are past. As they have been since at least 1980, recalling Solidarity and Poland, when the Russians hung on to rule there, but just barely, and only through their proxy Gen.Jaruzelsky
There’s no chance that Russia has the strength to rule an unwilling Ukraine now. Looking past the photo-ops of Putin spending his weekends skydiving from sub-orbital space, most of the social metrics tell me that the Russian ethnic heartland is in sorry shape. They got away with rule over Ukraine for the last few years by way of a rigged election. The fix may have still been in had it not been for the Yanukovich’s breathtakingly boneheaded mismanagement and corruption, but that’s the potatozone for you.
Following the links in this XX blog, I now have a phrase for how the Russians are proceeding: “Special War”.
My guess is that Russia will proceed with these methods until they get what they want: reclaiming all land east of the Dnepr, and any other parts of the Ukraine that may be comfortably governed. As to what the remainder may look like, I’ve found the map in Huntington’s “Clash of Civilizations” useful, as well as maps of electoral results since the end of the Cold War. There will be some excitement over who gets Odessa, which would be the new Ukraine’s only warm water port, yet the news tells me is pro-Russian.
Zhironovsky’s trial balloon was hilariously Machiavellian, I’m inclined not to believe he was free lancing. Poland, Rumania and Hungary would be mad to go along, but, hey, there’s no harm in asking. What is interesting is that the proposal is some variant of partition by plebiscite.
The fecklessness of the beltway crowd, their weird sense of grandiosity in championing a menu of liberal obsessions will be rescued by a couple of things. First, the fact of Russian power’s short leash. Russia is proceeding in the Ukraine as it is because of their weakness, not because of strength. The Russian army would otherwise be in Lvov by now. Putin is not Hitler. He’s not even Brezhnev.
Secondly, it doesn’t matter, overwhelmingly, to people in North America who rules in Kiev. Boycotting Russian vodka would be more about status seeking amongst your peers than any concern for the lives of people over there. Some other event, far more serious and immediate to people’s lives than the the goings-on in some far off country about which we know little, would be necessary to overturn the ruling caste in D.C..
Don’t worry about Putin and his nuclear weapons.
Don’t worry that China will probably pull the plug on our economy and pick any country they can conquer.
We need to be worried about Global Warming,
Greenish Energy,
and Climatic Climate Change.
Obumbles has it all under his control..
Bingo.. and fans’ hockey team opinions are more grounded. I hope you’re wrong about the outcome. This is a rare opportunity to do some heavy smashing on clearly identifiable bad guys. The restraint shown so far has been remarkable.
Related:
…let it be noted they are legion in both parties…”
LOL. When the democrats have made a mess of things, everyone is at fault. They’re just waiting for conservatives to admit to some of the blame then they’ll download everything onto Bush and Cheney (“see, Bush left such a mess that even Obama can’t fix it”).
Admit nothing! Obama and his retarded foreign policy team are dangerously inept and are a threat to world peace. Hilary, Kerry and Obama are flakes, mere gadflies in the deadly serious game of international politics and America’s adversaries know that. Allies all over the world should be very worried right now.
“These impressive-on-paper people – let it be noted they are legion in both parties – they have quite literally nothing to say when old-school conventional threats emerge and enemies – yes, enemies: not rivals or merely misunderstood would-be partners – emerge from the darkness with conquest and killing on their minds.”
Wow, a masterful enunciation of clarity on the gen xyz drone culture. Those unprepared to spill blood for their freedom are not worthy of keeping it – you know the preditors with pogroms on their mind do. You have to make it perfectly clear to them they will shed THEIR blood in any attempt to take your freedom.
Personally I believe this next global dust up is all but over as we have multi generations here with no stomach for a scrap to preserve their nation – it just isn’t important to them – they would welcome Hitler with open arms as their occupying tyrant, like Vichy French – as long as he doesn’t frig with their Iphone apps or vanity TV – probably wouldn’t even notice the invasion until they get hauled off to the incinerator.
The weakness of Democratic presidents gave the world the Iron Curtain, the Berlin Wall, and Vietnam. The Congressional Republicans should issue a unanimous declaration that Obama’s mishandling of foreign affairs is an invitation to the world’s thugs to initiate adventures like Crimea, like an Iranian bomb, and other developments that could only be solved by war. They should immediately call for deployment of US armor further to the east, and in the Baltics, and a unilateral declaration by Obama that the elected Baltic governments will receive he full diplomatic and military support of the US, and that any meddling by Putin with NATO signatories will not be tolerated by Congress.
This is a very astute quote – I grew up in war and pverty in Africa and am now a proud Canadian , but I will never forget.
Some of the incredible naivite I see in my fellow country men regarding the thirld world in general is still surprising to me after all these years.
They just don’t get that peoples motives can be mean , violent and brutish.
They cling to perceptions from liberal arts degrees and ignore the worlds brutal realities. My wife likes to say that “white people travel and experience , look , but don’t see.’
America needs a Texan holding the reins at the White House. I am climbing aboard the Rick Perry 2016 bandwagon even though it doesn’t even have horses yet. The man has his boots on 24/7.
Rick Perry would make a great President. The US would experience a boom like never in its history, from the day he was elected.
Duncan;
Pretty accurate summation of the real world of eastern Europe. The Euros bleat about needing USA help but have done little to plan their response. The USA is under going a fundamental disengagement in the ME and Euroland. They will help but no troops. Polish will try to cobble a old eastern bloc demarcation line with Russia. It might succeed because as you suggested the Russians would have trouble pacifying a hostile Ukraine let alone half a dozen other countries.
Geopolitics is fundamental. I see no strength in the EU. I see no commitment just useless whining. IMHO the Canadian Parliament should have recalled Harper and told him to butt out. Canada has no national interest there.