With the Biden administration doing everything it can to keep America’s borders wide open in what looks increasingly like a rogue regime aiding and abetting America’s foreign enemies, Texas has moved to protect its own borders, and the DOJ doesn’t like it. They’re threatening to sue the state for placing barriers along the Rio Grande River. The Governor has announced that DOJ has no jurisdiction to prevent Texas from protecting their border when the Federal government not only is NOT doing their job, but they appear to be actively subverting any efforts to protect Americans from this “immigrant” invasion.
The DOJ said in a letter, “The State of Texas’s actions violate federal law, raise humanitarian concerns, present serious risks to public safety and the environment, and may interfere with the federal government’s ability to carry out its official duties.”
You can think of this move along the lines of passing laws that make it illegal for people to defend themselves against attacks, such as we have with anti-gun laws in America today, and around the world, such as in Britain, having laws that make it illegal for you to use physical violence to stop a person from invading your home.
The move by the DOJ makes it all the more naked the nature of the Democratic Party, of which the DOJ has now become nothing more than a weapon of lawfare aimed at the heart of the American republic itself. Abbot responded to the threat by the DOJ to sue them if they fail to comply within a week, “Texas has the sovereign authority to defend our border, under the U.S. Constitution and the Texas Constitution. We have sent the Biden Administration numerous letters detailing our authority, including the one I hand-delivered to President [Joe] Biden earlier this year.”
Since 2021, there has been a war simmering between the United States and Iran. The US began seizing – via court-based “arrest” orders – ships carrying cargo (mostly oil) –out of Iran, to various nations that the United States has under economic sanction. The nations under US sanctions, such as Venezuela, have no real method to respond to the United States.
Iran, however, is a different matter.
Iran has begun seizing ships in the Persian Gulf by force, and in earnest, in response to the actions by the United States; the number is now up to twenty vessels. Additionally, some firms in the United States have begun to refuse to unload ships seized with Iranian cargo, fearing Iran seizing their vessels in retaliation.
Because of the clear threat presented to the “freedom of the seas”, the United is now responding to Iran by reinforcing its forces in the Persian Gulf with additional destroyers…and a few thousand US Marines.
While the first inclination of many will be to recall that the United States severely damaged the Iranian Navy in 1988’s Operation Praying Mantis – launched in response to an Iranian naval mine severely damaging the USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) – that was some thirty-five years ago.
Iranian frigate IS Sahand (74) burning on 18 April 1988 after being attacked by aircraft of U.S. Navy Carrier Air Wing 11. US Navy photo. Public Domain.
Iran’s naval capability – while still no match for the US Navy in a direct fight – has significantly improved since their defeat, very likely enough to cause serious damage to United States forces in the process. Such a defeat, were it to happen, would almost certainly spark hysterical screams from within Washington, DC, demanding an all-out invasion.
LtGen Paul K. Van Riper, USMC (retired), c.1995. LtGen Van Riper led the “opposing force” in the “Millennium Challenge 2002” exercise. USMC official photo. Public Domain.
This is certainly not a whimsical or marginal threat. There has been a long-standing resistance within the Washington establishment to any rational negotiations with Iran; indeed, this escalated after then-President Donald Trump called off a disproportionate attack in response to Iran shooting down an unmanned US surveillance drone in 2019. In fact, hysterical calls for war with Iran have been a steady feature of US rhetoric for over a decade.
While the reasons for this hysterical behavior by long-serving chickenhawks in the Washington Swamp are unclear, they are nonetheless real. And with the weak, disconnected and floundering administration currently in place in the Swamp, wallowing in failures both domestic and foreign, highly irrational decisions are a serious possibility.
Iran is not Iraq. An irrational and ill-advised war against the current iteration of Ancient Persia – no matter how technically weak it may appear – would be an absolute disaster for the United States in the immediate sense, but also for the wider world, as the impact on the global trade system would not simply be catastrophic, but could swiftly escalate out of control.
For far too long, the people of the United States have bought into the mythology of “American Invincibility”. While this belief was justifiable until about 2010, it is no longer the case. The US Navy currently fields less than 300 vessels; all of the armed services except the Marine Corps have admitted that they expect to fall short of their recruitment targets by at least 20%, if not more. As the Biden administration openly admitted less than two weeks before this writing, US industry has not been able to step up the production of basic artillery ammunition to meet the needs of the administration’s support to Ukraine.
There is nothing left for the United States’ potential need for combat operations, should that happen.
Munitions Production on the Home Front, 1914-1918. Imperial War Museums. Public Domain.
And there are painfully few options available, if any still exist at all. Despite some twenty-odd years of near-continuous combat, neither US industry nor the wider population have been mobilized for the possibility of a major war…or wars. In 1941, as the forces of Imperial Japan were attacking Pearl Harbor, the United States had been girding for war for nearly two full years, mobilizing a “command economy” to increase the production of war materiel to support Great Britain in its war against Hitler’s Germany, and instituting the first peacetime military draft in the country’s history, giving all of the armed services of the day time to bring in and train troops in readiness for war.
None of that has been happening in the last 20+ years. And the cold reality is that it is likely not possible, without twenty years, minimum, of corrective measures: Thirty years of globalism’s industrial and business realities have removed the bulk of heavy industrial manufacturing from within the borders of the United States. Likewise, there is virtually no chance of the Draft being reactivated; while it is certainly still on the books as a legal option, the social policies instituted, promoted and encouraged by the Democrat Party in the last fifteen years have poisoned the recruiting well for the military, encouraging the armed service’s core demographics to pointedly not step forward to enlist. Basic training has been eroded to the point where the vast majority of troops with under ten years service are not psychologically prepared for combat at any level.
And yet – the chickenhawks of the Swamp persist, thinking that their actions to please their vote base have had no impact on military readiness – despite facts to the contrary – because they are so disconnected from the real world…
…Now, if the issue were simply Iran and a shortfall for materiel’s shipments to Ukraine, this might not be that large of a problem. A problem, certainly, but not a critical one.
However, as many chickenhawk cheerleaders crow over the recent attack on the Kerch Bridge over the Sea of Azov, Russia’s response was swift and decisive: Russia has abandoned the deal it agreed to previously, which allows the export of Ukrainian grain crops to supply the world’s food needs.
Satellite picture of Crimea, 05-16-2015, with location of the Kerch Bridge in red. NASA. Public Domain.
Russia is now actively targeting the port city of Odessa with long-range missile strikes, and is laying naval mines to close off Ukraine’s remaining coastal regions. Moscow has also hinted at the possibility that it will attack commercial vessels attempting to reach Ukraine.
The real danger in this series of moves lies far to the south, where Egypt is critically dependent upon Ukrainian wheat to feed its population. In the face of this loss, Egypt – already struggling with massive unemployment and the irrational and childish dismissal of its concerns over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dame (GERD) project by the government in Addis Ababa.
This is important, because if Egypt lashes out against Ethiopia in desperation – using an air force largely reequipped by the US – it could easily spark a much wider war, a war that could easily result in the closing of the Suez Canal…an act that, as was demonstrated by the grounding of a single container ship in 2021 for less than a week, would up-end the world trade system.
Which loops us back to Iran.
If the United States tilts that windmill, it will destroy the International North–South Transport Corridor, the decade-old project by Russia, China, Turkey, India and Iran to build a trade corridor designed to drastically shorten the transit of commercial cargo, bypassing the Suez Canal entirely.
This is a hair-trigger environment that is capable of sparking World War 3. This is not hyperbole, in any way.
It is solely the construct of the Swamp – a body that imagines itself as completely immune to anyone it deems “lesser”…which term includes you and I.
Let that sink in.
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Testimony before the House Judiciary committee by Laura Dehmlow, section Chief of the Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) of the FBI exposes the agency’s complicity in burying a pre-2020-election story exposing a laptop of Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, which contained numerous incriminating evidence of influence selling to foreign companies by the Biden family. She alleges the FBI knew from the start the laptop was legitimate but chose to remain silent when the DNC machine pushed forward the myth the laptop was a Russian hoax.
The House Judiciary GOP tweeted out “Testimony reveals the FBI knew the Hunter Biden laptop was authentic, but when asked by a social media company about the laptop’s authenticity the FBI said ‘no further comment.’”
This writer wants to once again point out the fact that the FBI, led by a Trump-appointed director, chose to intentionally mislead the American public about the truth of the Hunter Biden laptop to protect Joe Biden, who was running against Donald Trump. They chose to violate American law to protect the then-sitting-President’s opponent. There is little more damaging than this, yet the DNC and its anti-American supporters continue to defend this man and his crack-whore son.
The House GOP writes:
As the federal court in Missouri v. Biden explained in damning language, the FBI’s actions prevented millions of Americans from having a clear understanding about a salient issue in the 2020 presidential election: The FBI’s failure to alert social-media companies that the Hunter Biden laptop was real, and not mere Russian disinformation, is particularly troubling. The FBI had the laptop in their possession since December 2019 and had warned social-media companies to look for a “hack and dump” operation by the Russians prior to the 2020 election. Even after Facebook specifically asked whether the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation, Dehmlow of the FBI refused to comment, resulting in the social-media companies’ suppression of the story. As a result, millions of U.S. citizens did not hear the story prior to the November 3, 2020 election.
A shooting just before the Women’s World Cup in Aukland, NZ has left 2 dead, 3 injured, with the shooter also being killed in a shootout with police that injured one officer. The shooter, Matu Tangi Matu Reid, 24, was on house arrest for domestic violence he was convicted of carrying out against his then-girlfriend.
After New Zealand passed some of the most anti-gun laws in the world (second only to countries like China and North Korea), another mass shooting has demonstrated confiscating guns from law-abiding people won’t stop insane people from mass killings, be it with guns, cars, knives, or chemicals.
The shooter is a non-white, also dispelling the other favorite leftist trope to scare people to hand in their guns, that it’s only white supremacists mass murdering the world, so it’s racist to resist gun confiscation plans.
Unfortunately for the party of sedition, the Democratic Party, one of the IRS whistleblowers who has come forward is Joseph Ziegler, a registered Democrat. Ziegler was interviewed by CBS News’ Catherine Herridge and spoke before congress, claiming in both that any effort to fully investigate Joe Biden or Hunter Biden was cut off by higher ups with the excuse that such a move would require too high an approval to happen.
The investigation of Hunter Biden seemed to implicate Joe Biden, who was then a private citizen. Remember, the Hunter Biden investigation happened under Donald Trump’s watch, with a DOJ that had obviously gone rogue, defying the Trump administration in every turn and protecting his potential future opposition for the 2020 election.
In the CBS News Interview, Ziegler told Herridge, “It’s a matter of are we treating everyone the same? Are we treating all taxpayers the same? And in this case, no. I don’t think so.”
Herridge follows up by asking him if he wants the DOJ to revisit the recent Hunter Biden plea deal. He responded “This is up to the U.S. Attorney who brought the charges, David Weiss, and it’s up to the judge to make that decision. But at the end of the day, it’s a matter of are we treating everyone the same. Are we treating all taxpayers the same?”
Herridge follows up by asking “And in this case?” Ziegler answers, “And in this case, I don’t think so.”
The problem for the DNC is their go-to card to distract from the overt lies they must tell just to claim the power they have (that the white cis-gendered devil will destroy the world unless we become racist and bigoted and totalitarian, which is the only way to end evil, which can actually happen) is to use their six degrees of phobic language game to demonize the truth tellers before anyone else listens to them fairly.
By six degrees of phobic language game I am referencing the “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” game, where you choose an actor and try to connect that actor through six movies or less, a game that is easy to play if you have a thorough working knowledge of the cast and crew in movies. The same game can be claimed with declaring dog whistle guilt, that is, to connect a belief or statement of fact to some true evil by connecting it to the evil through a connection of “related” facts. This is how the DNC connects patriotism to white supremacism, integrity to white supremacism, rejecting the murdering of unborn children to white supremacism, etc.
They can still do their six degrees of phobic game, but not so easily when the accuser happens to be a registered democrat who also happens to be a member of a “protected” DNC class, a homosexual.
GOP House members stand alone in signaling the alarm that the Chinese Communist Party has infiltrated our universities and colleges. No Democrat joined them in efforts to investigate the deep ties discovered between the bastion of leftist brainwashing, the University of California Berkeley. House Republicans sent a letter to the dean of Berkeley Michael Drake, pointing out the unholy alliance between his university and the CCP’s Tsinghua University in Shenzhen.
The letter points to the work the two schools do together developing technologies that share American secrets with Chinese Communists, creating national security threats to the country. The letter was signed by committee chairman Mike Gallagher (R-Wisc.) and Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.).
They wrote, “Berkeley’s P.R.C.-backed collaboration with Tsinghua University raises many red flags.”
This is the second time Congress called the Marxist-training University into question for its CCP ties. In May, the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee exposed $200 million in funding it accepted from groups directly connected to the CCP.
Again, no Democrat joined in the effort to expose these CCP ties and attempt to bring people to justice who participated in this act of treason.
China’s state spokesperson newspaper Global Timeswarned the Americans that if they don’t back off cracking down on China, China will stop “cooperating” with American on “Climate Change.” This happened as the Mass Mailer President Biden Committee’s “Climate Czar” John “Private Jet” Kerry praised the fascist state that is currently engaging in a Hitlerian holocaust of Uighurs. He said of the fascist government that they were “doing an incredible job of building out renewables,” urging the CCP and America to put aside “political issues….and come together to take action.”
The Global Times editorial pulled no punches, however, and contained no plaudits, as Kerry’s opening statement to the Climate Summit between himself and Chinese officials in Beijing.
The editorial read, “If the U.S. continues its crackdown on China, escalating tensions and hostility between the two sides, it is unlikely to be conducive to any kind of cooperation, including on climate change. While Washington has long wanted to isolate climate change issues from its other political and trade policies related to China, there is actually no way to separate bilateral cooperation on global warming from the broader context of China-U.S. relations.”
Kerry’s visit comes right after Treasury head Janet Yellen visited the fascist state, herself praising China’s efforts on global climate change and spreading the lie America can work with China to save the planet from certain man-made doom.
If only the Nazis cared about the planet like Kerry does, he’d probably support them as well.
One of the bastions for leftist insanity that gave us some of the worst leftist policies in the country that continues to enable leftist violence and thuggery is finding itself at odds with the tyrannical mob it enabled. Apparently, the officials of Portland, Maine who helped cultivate this unholy beast are now seeking to reign it in by modifying ballot initiate rules so that the city is not completely at the mercy of the leftist mob.
Mayor Kate Snyder is hoping to add nine amendments to the city code, including one that would enable the city council to override any passed referendum. A group called “Enough is Enough” is leading the charge to reign in the mobocracy that unfettered ballot initiative create, but it is being attacked by the leftist mob with signs that say “Enough is Enough. How Dare You Ask for More!”
The sign implies the mob is always right and should always be listened to, which is not a surprise coming from a cult that assumes America is a “Democracy,” the worst form of government in the world, and not a Constitutional Republic with Democratic features designed to prevent the mob from ruling over the minority.
Watching these leftists come face to face with their own leftist “officials” who themselves have grown sick of the unhinged demands from this mob is highly entertaining on one hand, but from an American constitutional perspective, it drives home the fact that significant sections of our country are no longer under American constitutional jurisprudence. To be sure, the Mayor of Portland and her elite colleagues aren’t trying to restore American Rule of Law to their fallen city, they just don’t want to lose too much power to the Frankenstein beast their actions (in collusion with the MSM) created this hate-filled, anti-American, anti-human mob in the first place.
After a leftist Manhattan judge ruled in 20212 that NYC’s teachers’ entrance exam was racist, NYC eventually decided to no longer appeal the ruling but rather began settling with black and Hispanic teachers who failed the exam. 95 percent of whites passed the test while only 53 percent of black and 50 percent of Hispanics passed the text. So far, since former Mayor Bill de Blasio stopped the appeal in 2018, the city of New York has given out $750 billion to failed teachers, with at least one collecting over $2 million after failing multiple times.
It is expected the city of New York will give out more than $1.8 billion in total settling a case that still has plenty of appeals available for it. There is an irony in the fact that people who failed to successfully demonstrate minimal competence to serve in the NY Public School system as teachers are now costing that same school system nearly $2 billion to assuage their hurt at failing. Talk about failing up……
There is a perception in the world, a perception with solid reasoning behind it, that the United States of America is the most powerful nation in the recorded history of the world. In fact, the world system of the early 21st Century is hinged on that very concept.
But – is it true?
Economically, the United States is certainly a powerhouse. As measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP) the US economy is almost larger than the next three economies in the world. However, in GDP per Capita the US is seventh, and in Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) (a measure of the ratio of the price of a “basket of goods” in different countries, that is used to compare the absolute purchasing power of national currencies), the US is in 10th place. In exports, the US is in second place to China, and even then, the vast bulk of US exports are limited to petroleum, aircraft, pharmaceuticals and medical instruments, due primarily to the high costs of US labor. Dangerously, the imbalance of imports shows that the US is reliant on the willingness of the rest of the world for a vast amount of its real goods, like industrial machinery.
We could talk about how reporting on the quality of education in the US is “cooked”, but we’ll let the World Population Review discuss that.
But really – that’s not why you’re reading this, right? After all, if the Reader has been reading the Freedomist for any length of time, you are fully aware what my focus is. So, let’s go there.
Militarily, the United States Armed Forces possess a set of demonstrated structures that maximize its global reach and power projection…in theory. The state of the US military – and, critically, its supporting industrial base and capacity – is abysmal. This is not a question solely of culture or corruption, although those things are certainly major factors. The issue to keep in mind, here, is that the United States military is an apolitical and a-cultural bellwether for the nation – if the military works, the nation’s political and cultural problems are not insurmountable; conversely, if the military isn’t working, metaphorically speaking, the nation is in danger…How much danger, we will look into below.
Why is the military in the poor state that it is? On the surface, the issues started to became public, albeit in a very quiet way, in 2001…not with the 9/11 attacks, but with the release of the 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review. The 2001 QDR – one of a series of documents issued every 4 years from 1997 to 2017 by and for the Washington, DC bureaucratic swamp that describes a “4-year plan” (…) – was the first to explicitly state the plan to replace the notion of “strategy” (in the historical sense) with “capabilities-based planning”.
Basically, “strategy” was too hard to do effectively in an “asymmetric environment”, where hostile actors could erupt anywhere, at any time, and act in unpredictable ways. So…it followed that traditional strategic planning model no longer functioned. The solution – “capabilities-based planning” – posited the notion that if an issue arose, a “basket” of units with various capabilities appropriate to the nation, region and operational environment could be quickly assembled, and thrown into action, until the problem went away.
Given what should have been the obvious disaster in the making with such a childish idea, it should be no surprise that it failed, miserably, utterly and completely, almost from its first use.
But the problem is much deep than this.
JUNGLE GHOSTS
The United State Armed Forces were badly scarred, in a psychological and cultural sense, by the collapse of the Western effort in the Vietnam War. This is well known. What is not so well known, at least among the general public, is the US military’s responses to the defeat.
South Vietnamese refugees aboard a U.S. Navy vessel during Operation Frequent Wind, the final evacuation of Saigon, Republic of Vietnam. April 29, 1975. US Department of Defense. Public Domain.
The US military, as a group, essentially abandoned “counterinsurgency” in the aftermath of the Vietnam defeat. It had deployed massive forces, conventional and special, which had uniformly fought hard, in a confusing and frustrating environment. And it had failed. In the bizarre world of guerrilla warfare, while US and Allied units won every engagement above the level of the infantry company, they had still lost the war, because South Vietnam had ultimately fallen, seemingly rendering the efforts moot.
The reasons for South Vietnam’s collapse are many, and not the subject for this article. But, the reaction by the US military was to refocus all of its efforts towards very likely fights with the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China, in effect, “World War 3”, ala, “World War 2, but with lots more nukes.”
To do this, the US military – primarily the Army – had to rethink its concept of strategy, following the failure of its “Pentomic Army” experiment. The answer seemed to arrive in 1976, when John Boyd, Colonel, USAF (ret.) first presented his “Patterns of Conflict” work, that outlined what is now known as the “OODA Loop”. The OODA concept took the US military establishment by storm in the mid-1970’s, and resulted in two things: the revitalization of the Opposition Force (OPFOR) concept, and in a new battle strategy for winning the conventional side of World War 3 – “AirLand Battle”.
The US military had maintained the idea of an “opposing force” as a training model since 1946; in fact, the Freedomist covered this unique and seminal organization in May of this year. In the late 1970’s, the program was completely overhauled, and centered on a then state of the art training facility at Ft. Irwin, CA, and later at Ft Polk, LA (now renamed as Ft. Johnson), which focused on counterinsurgency as operations in Iraq and Afghanistan shifted in focus, in concert with the US Marine Corps’ facility at 29 Palms, CA. The concept has been maintained and updated over the years. The concept created the most realistic combat training facility ever established, that trained a generation of primarily US Army armor officers and troops in how to fight and win on an armored battlefield. The armored warfare training program fell out of extensive use during the Global War on Terror, as there was little need for massed armored formations after the successful invasion and conquest of Iraq in 2003.
Coupled to the success of the AirLand Battle concept in 1991, it seemed that the US military had recovered from Vietnam, and was back in the dominant position it had seemingly enjoyed since the end of World War 2.
A Brigade of the U.S. 3rd Armored Division masses in northern Saudi Arabia in preparation for the invasion of Iraq during the Gulf War, February 1991. US Army photo. Public Domain.
COLLAPSE?
But, lurking beneath the surface, there was a palpable, unsettled feeling – something just didn’t…“feel right”. There was suspicion, whispered in private, that we were actually training potential combat leaders how to “win the battle, but not the war”. Those concerns, however, were mostly forgotten as “bumps in the road” and “just bad luck”, as Iraq and Afghanistan metastasized into the quagmires they became.
But, hey – counterinsurgency is hard and messy, right? It’s comparatively a lot harder than the good, old-fashioned smash of the armored fist into the bad guy’s face.
Right?
But then – Russia formally invaded Ukraine. (The war had actually been going on for some eight years by 2022, but no one wants to talk about that.) And, after a year of intense combat – the very type of “main-force” combat Western combat leaders thought AirLand Battle was designed to fight – the Ukrainians launched a counter-offensive in the summer of 2023, using troops given a “quickie” training course in US/NATO AirLand Battle concepts, and fortified with deliveries of US M2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles and German Leopard 2 main battle tanks…..the results were as dismal as they were alarming.
A Ukrainian Leopard 2 tank and several Bradley fighting vehicles destroyed by the Russian forces in Russia’s Zaporozhye Region, June 2023. Photo: Mil.ru. CCA/4.0
The US military, as well as the armed forces of the wider NATO Alliance, is getting a ringside to the live practice of the war they planned to fight…and it doesn’t look good.
The reality is that the AirLand Battle concept was never designed as an “attack” strategy, like its predecessor, the misnamed “Blitzkrieg” – it was always implicitly a defensive strategy. While people in the higher levels of the Army and the wider Pentagon establish speak confidently and relentlessly about “combined arms” and “maneuver warfare”, the cold fact is that their operational plans remain rooted in Airland Battle doctrine, a doctrine that does not play well on the offense…unless, of course, your opponent is a badly-trained, badly-equipped and demoralized rabble, who hate their leaders so much, they are willing to allow a foreign invader to enter and conquer their nation, wholesale.
The situation with Ukraine and Russia is spiraling out of control. What began as a craven attempt to restart the Cold War for “fun and profit” has now grown, until it is beginning to run off of the rails. This naked corruption, coupled to unsustainable recruiting numbers in the armies facing Russia – and soon, perhaps, those of Belarus and the People’s Republic of China – and an exhausted and flagging industrial base that cannot keep up with the vast needs for munitions and weapons – and not simply advanced weapons, but even basic arms – has led the White House to the highly unusual (and frankly rather alarming) decision to activate individuals within the “Inactive Ready Reserve” for immediate deployment to the European Combatant Command.
In 1941, as the Japanese launched their attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States had spent well over a year building up its military forces in the first peacetime military draft call-up in the nation’s history. As well, war industry production had been steadily increasing since 1939; Lend-Lease would be formalized in early 1941, vastly increasing the production of war materials.
Neither the United States nor its allies have been able to increase production of basic military supplies like artillery ammunition. No one willing to support Ukraine seems to be able increase its production rates to serious war levels, even after some eighteen months of fighting. Western defense firms do, indeed, produce very high quality weapons…but that quality comes at an equally high price, in that those weapons frequently require special materials and/or complex components, all of which cost a lotof money.
And, just as there is no desire in the West to “gear down” to use simpler weapons and equipment, there is no desire to implement a peacetime draft to flesh out military numbers; in fact, a peacetime draft may be impossible, not only in the US, but in most of Western Europe…
And meanwhile – Russian industry is working multiple shifts, not simply producing war material for Ukraine, but fulfilling foreign orders as well. China is expanding its influence in resource-rich Africa, while securing “back door” supply chains to support Russia through its “Belt & Road” corridors in Asia.
The outlook is grim. For far too long irrational, incompetent and openly corrupt corporations and politicians have been inventing ways to sustain the “Great Green Machine”. For twenty-odd years, “Achmed the Goat-Herder” was touted as an existential threat to Western Civilization. When that failed – not simply because the general public realized that presentation for the lie that it is, but because using a $100million+ fighter plane to bomb Achmed is stupid and wasteful in the extreme – it was decided to push Russia into a “cold” conflict, to boost sales numbers.
And now…the incompetents in charge have no way out. They think that they do – but they do not. They are playing at a craps table, where failure will lead to a nuclear exchange.
And that exchange is aimed at you and me.
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