Down The Memory Lane With ...

 ... Donnie, who, as we all know, is a draft dodger. 

You can see already then his delusions about American military power and of his own intellectual abilities in matters of warfare and applied geopolitics. Today, these delusions came to a head. But as I state ad nauseam--the US doesn't have real strategists of global repute at all. Self-promotion through the American media and PR machine is a completely different matter, but it doesn't make grilled chuck roast taste like a USDA Prime ribeye, and anybody can taste the difference.

Now, here is the issue through personal observations, and many will not like what I am about to say. Since the resignation of Joe Kent from his position I listened enough of his statements, including during conversations with Tucker, to come to a final conclusion that people at the top still cannot comprehend the depth of the US historic departure from the position it never in reality occupied. It has never been a great land power, period. It was good, while it was fighting in coalitions, but that's about it. Joe Kent, for all his personal courage and some pedigree against enemies which can hardly fight back, continues to reside in this alternative universe that, let me put it in the most simple way--"yeah, we are not that good today, but we used to be and if the right people come ... ", I hope you get the message. That's the attitude, and that's delusion. 

It doesn't mean that the US military has no competent or courageous professionals, absolutely not. I will continue to repeat it. There are many people of honor, integrity and courage, but they are of the mythology and ethos which really doesn't reflect realities of the continental warfare and Joe Kent in a sense is an Exhibit A of this attitude, especially considering his CIA paramilitary background which limits one's views on real warfare. Especially continental one. This cannot be changed, because overall American views on war break down the moment US military faces an actual continental power. Iraq is not and never was a real continental power, Iran always was, give and take 100 years long hiatus for Pahlavi's reign. The Iran-Iraq War should have been a warning to the US, but it wasn't. And now we have a former CIA para telling us that the US military-industrial-congressional-media (and executive) complex knows nothing about world outside? Whose fault it is then? I guess we know the answer, even when the right words are spoken. 

US cannot defend Gulf. It cannot defend itself and the widening gap cannot be closed.