... who forget constantly that this blog exists since ... 2014. Here is a bit of a "down the memory lane" to those who still perceive me as a guy who doesn't understand what is going on in the world geopolitically, I am not claiming to know it all, never did, actually. So, here is a reminder. From 11 months ago:
But they are not "harmful", they are great because any pretense of morality, "democracy" and "human rights" has been finally dropped. All this nauseating moralizing of Washington is finally exposed for what it is--parasitic imperial aspirations, a geopolitical "realism" at its pinnacle. And this is healthy, because all this post WW II BS finally dissipates. For this we all should be thankful to DJT--he cleared the playing field of any smoke and mirrors, and we know what he wants. Pop-corn time, as well as schadenfreude, a feeling after Tucker Calrson explained to this cretin Pierce Morgan that, as one Russian observer put it, the old Euro "elites" can suck American cock because UK is irrelevant, and the US is now empire. Decrepit, impotent and pretentious but still stronger than London, who, together with Paris, Berlin and Rome, is nothing more than a touristy attraction.
Here is from even earlier times. Namely 6 years ago (2019) when explaining the nature of Monroe Doctrine and how it will go for the US.
As you can see, the whole doctrine was predicated on a quid-pro-quo principle of not screwing with Europe and her possessions. Of course this whole thing was not worth the paper it was printed on once the United States solidified and started to grow in the postbellum years and suddenly recognized herself a colonial power with pompous rhetoric about democracy and liberty serving as a fig leaf for full blown imperial conquests.
The US tried with a bunch of ignoramuses from CIA and Pentagon to do the same trick with Russia, remember SMO? Didn't work out, eh? But now some interesting school of thought emerges in Russia--that actually these were Chavistas who arranged this whole Maduro thing. I don't know, don't ask me, but this whole thing with Maduro's kidnapping and especially reactions in the US to this act of pure banditry, as Vasily Nebenzya called it, is down right grotesque.
Mark F. Cancian of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Marine veteran with years of official experience working on Defense Department funding, was rather more blunt: "A future administration will cancel the program before the first ship hits the water." ... Judging from Trump's bluster about his battleships' size and purported "lethality," to use his description, "the 'Trump class' battleship program seems optimized more to produce a scary-looking vessel than to address the rapidly changing threats to American military power on the open seas," observes Phillips Payson O’Brien, a professor of strategic studies at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Indeed, Trump's plan conforms more to the he-man approach to defense policy, exemplified by Hegseth's harangues to Pentagon officers and service members, than to any sober assessment of military needs.
Neither Pentagon nor CIA are good at "addressing the rapidly changing threats to American military power on the open seas", or in the air, or on the ground for that matter, and that will remain so for a very long time--donkey loaded with gold.
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