You Can Only Dance Around...

 ... the unrelenting reality of real industrial output, military and political forces. You can try to get colorful clothes and bright makeup like in Kabuki Theater but that doesn't stop making it a theater. Reality doesn't care...

WASHINGTON/BERLIN, Oct 8 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden canceled his upcoming trip to Germany and Angola on Tuesday in a blow to plans for the highest level meeting ever of the Ramstein group of Ukraine arms donors that aimed to underscore unwavering support for Kyiv. The Ramstein group was set to meet at the highest level on the sidelines of Biden's Oct. 10-13 state visit to Germany, which would have been the first U.S. state visit in nearly 40 years. But the White House said Biden was postponing his trip to both Germany and Angola to handle preparations for Hurricane Milton and relief efforts after Hurricane Helene which last month killed more than 200 people. It added that it was still working on how the Ramstein event would work out, with Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz talking later on Tuesday."I just don't think I can be out of the country at this time," Biden said, adding that he hoped to reschedule the trip "and all the conferences I said I'd participate in".

The whole notion that a walking corpse can have any input on probable calamity of the hurricane is down right preposterous. Something much bigger is in play here. As Reuters asks--Ramstein Over? Well, not so fast, there is always pompous chihuahua of London, but in reality somebody has to "decide" on those "long-range strikes" on Russia and this is not easy. In the end, there are so many fat prestigious American, British, French and German targets for warmup in Europe and Middle East. But the comic relief comes, as always, by the way of Germany:

The German official reiterated Scholz's readiness for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, provided that they offer a prospect for progress on the way to a just and sustainable peace, but warned Russia to not interpret this as weakness.

Somebody has to tell this German official (and Scholz) that if they have requests or something to say--here is the phone of Presidential Administration in Moscow 8 495 625 35 81. This is the Section on Reviewing addresses of citizens and organizations, so Scholz may call there, they may connect him (as an exception) immediately with the department head and they may discuss what bothers Scholz and Germany. 

 

In related news, as some info pours in, it becomes clear that IDF is having a hell of a time in South Lebanon, since so far they managed to take 10.5 square kilometers of territory and their losses... well, we know how they report them.