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Pirate State [1]
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Date: 2025-02-21
By David Glenn Cox
Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. The King floats a “funny money” bonus check scheme. The King has sent the economy spiraling towards disaster. But here, before I end the life, you’ve known for at least the next ten years or so. Here’s a check! Spend it wisely. Spend it on things you can carry with you.
The stock market lost another one percent yesterday and that’s twice it’s lost one percent in a day. Just 98 more days to go. I remember when, “W” sent out rebate checks back in 01, telling my wife. “I bet we pay for this.” Whenever they give you free money, they’re trying to put you in a good mood before they tell you they’ve wrecked the car.
Due to the fickleness and utter corruption of the King. Our European Allies are checking their inventories for what dependence they have on the American military with an eye towards reducing it. Maybe the F-35 wasn’t such a good choice after all, if parts availability or weaponry could be denied by the King’s insufferabilty. So not only will the Defense Department stop their own new orders, so will our former allies. An undependable ally like the US it’s better to not have allies. Heavily invested in defense stocks, are you? Don’t say you weren’t warned.
But by the King withholding the largess from Ukraine, he changes the dynamics of the battlefield entirely. When Franklin Roosevelt embargoed oil to Japan. Japan had a two-year supply of oil on hand. Soon, she wouldn’t have enough oil to fight the US. It brought about a radical and unwise solution because the alternative was unthinkable.
A stalemate in 1917 brought one million dough boys and the war was over in a year. N’est-ce pas? In 2025, we have a stalemate in Europe. Russia, like a heavyweight palooka takes blow after blow, but won’t go down. The Russian economy is a dumpster fire with 23% interest and a government that doesn’t always pay up on Friday. Military analysts around the world predict Russia will run out of equipment or men by summer and no later than early fall, if their economy doesn’t collapse first.
Europe can talk and wonder about how much is this going to cost or where all the money will come from, ignoring the situation on the ground. This isn’t Joe Stalin’s Russia. This is a palooka punched out after twelve rounds and tired. When Russia invited North Korean troops to fight in Europe, they opened a door that would allow Royal Marines or French Troops to intervene on the battlefield anywhere they would choose. Russia broke the precedent by allowing foreign troops on the battlefield.
Ten months of watching and paying or ten days of fighting? Facing a well-equipped NATO force escorting the Russians to the border with the firmest of insistence. If the cavalry isn’t coming, it’s better to do something yourself sooner, rather than later. The lesson of Japan.
Oh, but Russia has nukes and might start World War III! Yes, it’s very true. You might want to ask your government why it would promote such a dangerous situation. Weather fun fact, prevailing air currents would carry any radioactive cloud back across Mother Russia. Plus, this was fun. Russia launched an intermediate range missile without the nuclear warhead. Playing chicken and trying to scare the west, then Russia tried it again. Only this time aimed at Kiev and the missile blew up somewhere over Russia. Something to think hard about before launching any nuclear weapons.
A War in Ukraine successfully settled by European power would effectively freeze the King of America outside of Europe. The King can advocate for Russian bargaining points if he likes but is only moving pointless hot air after Crimea is liberated.
Will Russia risk World War III in such a weakened state when their nuclear missiles could just as easily explode in their silos? Would Russia destroy the world over Crimea? The Russian air defense system has proven to be largely bullshit and wishful thinking. Western retaliation would be swift and utter, and Russia knows it. Any retaliation against NATO would require our King to respond. Or disavow NATO entirely, and the EU should consider that done and done already.
I wonder how many caught our King’s comments the other day? About how we needed to end the war in Ukraine, so we could gear up for China. Now me personally, I didn’t take any offense by the King’s remarks. But I did so wonder how Chinese would feel about them. The United States publicly announces it must end one war to prepare for another. But the good news is you might get a big check out of the deal!
European history cries out, appeasement and half measures don’t work. No matter whether appeasing a German Fuehrer, Russian Czar or an American King. Better to rise and fall on your own terms than to retreat on someone else’s terms. Accept it and act accordingly! The United States is a pirate state run by bandits who cannot ever be trusted or negotiated with in good faith ever again.
The European powers should announce a general mobilization with intention of Joining Ukraine on the battlefield ASAP. Then watch what happens next. Our King becomes irrelevant with no seat at the negotiating table. Completely shut out of European affairs while advocating for the loser.
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
― Winston S. Churchill
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