Kay Bailey Hutchison Has Issues.

She is not very bright and not for once was noted to speak on issues of which she has zero understanding, including suggestions to bomb Russia into oblivion. They really do grow (some of them) dumb in Texas. She is a raging Russophobe, American exceptionalist and she is the US ambassador to NATO. Her latest? Let's start WW III. 

NATO earlier announced plans to take steps to ensure Ukrainian vessels’ safe passage through the Kerch Strait and expand the scope of aerial reconnaissance in the Black Sea region. A statement to this effect was made by US Ambassador to NATO Kay Bailey Hutchison. She told reporters at a press briefing on Tuesday that NATO foreign ministers were expected to endorse that package of measures at a two-day meeting in the US, which is beginning on Wednesday.

This is a very good demonstration of my theorem that lawyers do not make good military thinkers or leaders. In this sense she is no better than other "strategist" Dr. Blank who really needs some basic course in navigation and naval geography, which may provide some basic understanding of what Black and Azov Seas really are in a larger scheme of things, including, apart from overwhelming missile salvo Russia can provide against any combination of surface targets, such teeny-weeny problem for NATO as these seas being part of Russia's Southern Military District which, accidentally, has those wicked MiG-31Ks armed with hyper-sonic Kinzhals on combat station precisely around Black and Azov seas. If Hutchison wants to start World War Three, she may as well start it with a major Kaboom, or...just hear me out...why doesn't she ask for a personal participation, preferably on board of NATO's flag ship, and be there in person when "ensuring safe passage" for Ukrainian vessels. I think her wish will gladly be granted by NATO's naval group sent to Kerch Strait to teach those arrogant Russkies. 

But we have been through this before--appointing ignorant and unprofessional people to important public positions is a fine tradition of American governance especially in XXI century, especially when talking about any diplomatic positions which are occupied by people with zero skills. Oh, come on, look at Michael McFaul, an alleged Russian "scholar" or at a general "level" of US Department of State. But Hutchison is just a symptom of a serious illness which afflicted American politics which can not produce anymore anyone other than aggressive ignoramuses who may, at some point of time, help to unleash hell. The only upside of that will be that together with us, deplorables, those jerks will vanish too. In fact, they might be first to do so.

And She Huffs and Puffs.

In a continuous demonstration of US "elites" getting dumber with each passing minute, another former lawyer, TV reporter and, later, US Senator turned "diplomat"  comes out of the closet of mentally deranged and promises to bomb Russia. I kid you not. 

The US ambassador to Nato has warned Russia that if it does not halt the development of a new cruise missile in violation of a treaty between the countries, the US will “take out” the missile.

Kay Bailey Hutchison was speaking to reporters about a longstanding issue of contention, a Russian ground-launched cruise missile which Washington says breaks the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF).

Alrighty then, it seems they do have a contest on "dumb and dumber", with one cabinet member offering couple days ago to impose a sea blockade on Russia, now this. She went further though. Considering the fact that a lot of missile technologies R&D are done in and around Moscow "taking them out", considering a rather mediocre performances and ranges of current US TLAMs (not to mention the fact of very impressive air and missile defense around Moscow), the only way Kay Bailey Hutchinson will be able to have any chance on "taking out" Russian missiles will be to attack Moscow with nukes. That will require a substantial number of nukes. Of course, Russians in response will have no inhibitions of well... you know what. 

This whole fuss, mind you, is about the weapons which US initially labeled as myth. Morons in Washington Times go even further:

The new, nuclear-powered cruise missile was one of several advanced weapons Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled during a March press conference, designed to showcase the former Soviet Union’s military prowess

This whole "former Soviet Union" Freudian slip is very demonstrative of the intellectual "level" of people who formulate policies in D.C. and who are, for the most part, utterly unqualified for even basic mental and menial tasks but what do ya know--here we are. 

Desperation coming out of D.C. is palpable, apart from parading the US politics as a cesspool that it is around the world, globalists desperately need some victories, but those are very hard to come by and the swamp is hysterical. As I already stated, what happened on March 1st this year, with Putin's address to Federal Assembly was a complete reformatting of the world order with the tools which are simply beyond the reach of the United States. To counter them the US will have to spend enormous resources which she doesn't have. Now, Hutchinson wants to take Russian missiles out. Does she also want to take Brussels out, or Dallas? That is very easy to do, moreover, Russia can do it without any nukes, thus letting Brussels' civilians live but NATO HQs, certainly, can be dealt with. After all, something like M=20 hypersonic glider Avangard can deal with the issue in purely conventional way.  After all, Avangard is long past R&D stage and is actually deployed on full combat duty. 

The level of recklessness, incompetence and immaturity of current Washington is stunning. It is a collection of spoiled teenagers (despite sometimes advanced ages) who are absolutely unqualified to run such a complex country as the US and they continue to spoil for fight without understanding consequences for themselves. The fact that they don't give a damn about majority of Americans (aka Deplorables) is now well established. So, where does it leave us? It is a complex issue but as the events in Syria testify to, with Russia now really upgrading Air Defenses there, and US fate in Syria being sealed,  I can only forecast for you an increasing number of cognitive dissonances in coming weeks. And yes, Washington has no real answer to any of them. Well, except for that (Yvonne Lorenzo sent me this):

The Last Jedi accusation comes in a new paper by Morton Bay, a Research Fellow at the University of Southern California (George Lucas' alma mater). Bay analyzed all tweets sent directly to Last Jedi director Rian Johnson over a seven month period after the movie's release. 

His conclusion? More than 50 percent of the negative tweets aimed at Johnson came from "bots, trolls/sock puppets or political activists using the debate to propagate messages supporting extreme right-wing causes and the discrimination of gender, race or sexuality," Bay writes. "A number of these users appear to be Russian trolls."

So, next time you have plumbing broken in your kitchen, know--these are Russians who did it and they need to be "taken out".

UPDATE: Ah, good. Not perfect but good. Let's say--better.

I was not talking about preemptively striking Russia. My point: Russia needs to return to INF Treaty compliance or we will need to match its capabilities to protect US & NATO interests. The current situation, with  Russia in blatant violation, is untenable. 

As per INF Treaty and technologies tied to it--it is the topic for a separate discussion. It is important discussion and it has to be held but there will be no repetition of the "Soviet Union 1.0" willfully surrendering its legitimate national interests and extremely sensitive military technological advantages. In related news--please, try to express yourself clearly next time. Russians do not threaten the US nor like when being threatened.