An Acute Case...

 ... of being sore losers. I kid you not. 

Two U.S. officials confirmed to Fox News Thursday that a Russian "experimental intermediate-range ballistic missile" (IRBM) launched at Ukraine was not hypersonic.

In fact, those were not missiles at all, I am sure. The US is finding new ways to humiliate itself every day. Mr. Smith wrote a superb piece for Larry's blog. I will quote him but read the whole thing at Larry's blog, where Smith gives incoming DJT some advice. 

The first is that America is not as powerful as you think it is. It wasn’t as powerful as you thought it was in your first term, but its weakness is much more obvious now. 20 years in Afghanistan gave Taliban an air force. The Houthis kicked the US Navy out of the Red Sea. Niger ordered the US and NATO out. The blank check for Israel alienates the world. The dollar is losing ground. Yuge failure. The second reality has come in the last four years. They’re not afraid of America any more. It’s not as scary, not as powerful and not as competent as they thought it was. It has dribbled away the reputation it had in 1945. Always at war, always losing. (Afghans! Houthis! Niger!) 800 bases around the world are 800 hostages. If American aircraft carriers don’t frighten the Houthis – why would they frighten China? Ukraine exposed the fraud. American/NATO weapons are boutique weapons – expensive, fragile and produced in tiny quantities. As your new Secretary of Defense can tell you, your generals aren’t warriors – they’re bureaucrats with MBAs dreaming of becoming sales reps for the MIC. “As long as it takes” isn’t very long. Send more weapons? What’s left to send? The “game changers” are defeated. You don’t have a big stick.

Enjoy Smith's eloquent style.Yes, Ukraine exposed the fraud.