When serially attacked, loudly responding that we will only proportionally strike back and wish no wider war will only ensure a big, ugly one. – Victor Davis Hanson
When serially attacked, loudly responding that we will only proportionally strike back and wish no wider war will only ensure a big, ugly one. – Victor Davis Hanson
When attacked, attack back with ten times the force, send a serious message that if attacked you will annihilate your attackers.
Sorry, too much deception for me to be honest in by a multitude of players who have been spreading that Jones Town joy juice like CNN and other deceptive people which have caused a great deal of destruction for absolutely no good reason… some get their jollies just to destroy stuff.
The United States no longer needs to be the police of the world by forces that new technology has drastically changed this over the decade.
Pulling out before being slaughtered by enemies of foreign soil.
Look at the Afghanistan departure and that really tells how disorganized the western government has become.
“If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
Pretty much the same thing.
And Niccolo died 497 years ago.
VOWG…
My thoughts precisely…
I do think though, it is time to Annihilate the Mullahs…Not sure how that can be accomplished… Yet it seems they were far more contained during the Reagan & later terms. ’79 Hostage incident notwithstanding.
Truly the Terror instigating State of the planet
“I do think though, it is time to Annihilate the Mullahs…Not sure how that can be accomplished…”
It’s long past time, and the Iranian people would thank you for it.
One thing that never seems to be advertised is how many *billions* of dollars the Mullahs have in their offshore bank accounts. That money would need to be found and returned to the rightful owners: the people of Iran.
Much has changed in the last three years and the wests enemies have only grown stronger. Calling for the restoration of the Trump measures in order to tamp down the current situation will not be nearly enough. Much stronger measures will be needed and we are woefully unprepared and perhaps even unable to respond to those needs. The left has done a pretty thorough job of eviserating western civilization.
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Yep and done so with PURPOSE.
Imagine you’re in public school and the weakest most insane paste-eating 4 centuries of inbreeding psycho wants to hit you every time you turn your back to get into your locker. Furthermore you’re forced to not retaliate or at most, hit him as weakly as he hits you and only as many times as he was able to hit you before you grabbed his wrists and held him while he spits and screams at you every day, all day and you have to buy his lunch and sit next to him while he eats it.
Wow, nice analogy. Vivid.
Why are Germany and Japan among our best friends? Because by killing them and their wives and children in the many millions, without mercy, we threatened their very existence. They knew that after any next war meant there would not be a German or Japanese people. That’s how you get 80 years of peace and friendship.
As a young guy, less than 20 years after the end of WWII, I had a job for a short period driving a truck picking up incoming shipments at the docks in Melbourne, (Oz)…..the Japanese sailors used to regularly play pick-up games of baseball on the wharf……the assimilation started early.
Japan picked up baseball in 1872 and started forming professional leagues in the 1920s.
Assimilation of western ideas began centuries before American contact, indeed, centuries before there was a United States of America. The kimono as we know it is not a native Japanese garment, it is the native garment recut to mimic Western tailoring. Even the word, although Japanese, is adopted from European mis-usage and the name for the under garment is Portuguese, because the Japanese understood it to be of Portuguese origin (the long shirt).
The war years actually formed a break in the rate of assimilation, rather than enhancing it. The war was essentially caused by their assimilation.
Interesting. I (obviously) never knew that…thanks.
And the Italians.
Boomers know “that loose lips sink ships”. Everyone of us knows the corporatist media would telegraph American strategy and operational plans to the enemy, and be on hand to exploit the debacle created by their actions. If it were me, I’d keep everyone guessing, and keep the enemy guessing. Being on the defensive is way more wearing and costly than being on the offense. When you are on the offense, you know, when, where, how you will attack and the defender does not so, can’t concentrate their resources, but has to spread out and waste their resources. It’s foolish to indicate what’s on the table and what isn’t.
You also don’t know what equipment that a person has or accumulated.
Technology is a fickle beast to someone’s imagination.
Changing products from what they were originally intended.
Having politicians say what is illegal to have, produce or create.
I have products that were never created when I was born but am using it totally not what it was intended for as our politicians deem many things illegal.
There’s big money in war, especially if you’re connected.
Why not drag it out, like a parasite on a host, play the long game for the most gain.
The men in women’s dresses at the Pentagon may applaud this “bold statement” of Biden’s, just as those who would love to wipe America will.
This moribund, dangerously appeasing co-opted DeMarxist regime and their statist sclerotic presidential puppet can never win, let alone win ugly, which is what it will take, as it did in Ukraine, as they didn’t, creating the worst failure of deterrence since WW2.
But that’s what Trump would do, so please pardon my pessimism.
I would add to VDH’s obvious not brainer prescription of – “to prevent war, it should return to oil sanctions on Iran, embargo its banking transactions, slap a travel ban on Iran and its allies, cut off all aid to Hamas and the West Bank, and restore a true terrorist designation for the Houthis” – while taking out their military sites outside of Iran, for starters. Starve the Iranian terrorist rogue state while destroying their proxies, with no chance to rearm.
While Israel does their worst to Hamas in the Gaza, to utterly destroy them, while ignoring the Palestinian propaganda machine trying to deny them victory, but not its radicalization of our children, an abomination which must end now without resorting to their totalitarian tactics. “Free Palestine” is anything but; time for truth.
The only thing worse than a sand war is a oil war.. They have the funds and friends to change everything.. Russia, Russia, Russia because Trump, while the whole world burns down..
The present American leadership is more worried about backfilling their own power grabs than international responsibilities.. China will cut a deal and the money will follow them.. As it should..
Im not exactly sure what our plan is..