One of the benefits of growing a bit older is it becomes blindingly obvious to anyone who isn't a rank partisan just how unimaginative and incapable most of our elites truly are. The big ideas they supposedly have turn out to be disastrously wrong but when committed by government in the name of some great cause are rarely punished. In foreign policy, we have had a string of disasters (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, etc.) in which our leaders basic assumptions were fundamentally flawed and often jaw-droppingly obviously wrong as well. But lots of elites make out financially so in the end they don't really care.
The US obviously has problems but the recent election shows that a sizable share of the public still has a lot of fight in it and is willing to buck the status quo. Western Europe on the other hand looks like its essentially in hospice care while it waits for the diseases of immigration, economic stagnation, and cultural self hatred to force the end of a 700 year run as one of the most consequential drivers of world affairs.
The last week showed some Euro leaders are belatedly recognizing just how weak they are, and despite a lot of bravado the terms of any armistice in Ukraine will be dictated by the US and Russia and they will do what they are told. What will be interesting is if they actually try to re-arm and are forced to cut social welfare spending is if that finally provokes native Europeans to wake up and demand that violent welfare queens from incompatible 3rd world countries are cut off or sent home so what social spending remains is devoted to the people that actually belong there. I am not optimistic but maybe...
Zelensky is an evil little goblin but I have to think he is clever enough to have an escape hatch ready at all times. One of these days I expect he will be forced to flee the country, assuming he ever goes back to Ukraine, and that he will spend the rest of his life given rambling speeches for a six figure appearance fee and living off of the loot he has siphoned over the last couple of years. If I were him I would never be more than a few minutes away from a fueled up plane that could zip me to Israel.
"They wisely drove a steak through the heart" Stake, perhaps? It looks like spellcheck struck again...
As for holding an election during a war, we did it during the Civil War, in 1864, with Lincoln getting 55% of the popular vote to McClellan's 45%. Soldiers in Europe in World War II voted in the 1944 election: "The Soldier Voting Act of 1942 permitted all members of the military overseas to send their ballots from abroad. Over 3.2 million absentee ballots were cast during the war." https://www.history.com/news/vote-by-mail-soldiers-war
Elections can be done during wartime, with soldiers at the front voting. Zelenskyy would probably lose, so that's probably why he cancelled the election in 2024. He's not the squeaky clean hero the media claims - and he's been quite controversial in Ukraine for a long time - see https://streamfortyseven.substack.com/p/its-complicated-zelenskyy-turns-out
He's got property in the UK he can head out for, if needed - and he's *not* poor.
Yesterday Martin Armstrong went on Greg Hunter's USAWatchdog to sell another $10 tract about how the EU works, and/or convince us that his computer "Socrates", which presumably has no human inputs/assumptions from himself, and is the first AI to operate for decades and never be wrong, now indicates that Zalenskyy's EU and UK allies will carry on and help him start WW III by May 15th. Oh, also that Socrates shows that the Ukraine flatlines and will not continue after this continuation and escalation of the war. Marty, er Socrates, may be right ("they" often are). And such a result would not end the "Project" of reconstruction (something that since the Civil War we've never been very good at wrapping up quickly).
One of the benefits of growing a bit older is it becomes blindingly obvious to anyone who isn't a rank partisan just how unimaginative and incapable most of our elites truly are. The big ideas they supposedly have turn out to be disastrously wrong but when committed by government in the name of some great cause are rarely punished. In foreign policy, we have had a string of disasters (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, etc.) in which our leaders basic assumptions were fundamentally flawed and often jaw-droppingly obviously wrong as well. But lots of elites make out financially so in the end they don't really care.
The US obviously has problems but the recent election shows that a sizable share of the public still has a lot of fight in it and is willing to buck the status quo. Western Europe on the other hand looks like its essentially in hospice care while it waits for the diseases of immigration, economic stagnation, and cultural self hatred to force the end of a 700 year run as one of the most consequential drivers of world affairs.
The last week showed some Euro leaders are belatedly recognizing just how weak they are, and despite a lot of bravado the terms of any armistice in Ukraine will be dictated by the US and Russia and they will do what they are told. What will be interesting is if they actually try to re-arm and are forced to cut social welfare spending is if that finally provokes native Europeans to wake up and demand that violent welfare queens from incompatible 3rd world countries are cut off or sent home so what social spending remains is devoted to the people that actually belong there. I am not optimistic but maybe...
Zelensky is an evil little goblin but I have to think he is clever enough to have an escape hatch ready at all times. One of these days I expect he will be forced to flee the country, assuming he ever goes back to Ukraine, and that he will spend the rest of his life given rambling speeches for a six figure appearance fee and living off of the loot he has siphoned over the last couple of years. If I were him I would never be more than a few minutes away from a fueled up plane that could zip me to Israel.
This video lays it the Obama treachery out well, I think you will like it:
Story Ukraine War Fraud | Nato Expansion: Not 1 Inch Closer | Putin Goes Nuclear | Zelensky Fake Act: https://old.bitchute.com/video/wmVgUsoLUZBR [6:12mins]
"They wisely drove a steak through the heart" Stake, perhaps? It looks like spellcheck struck again...
As for holding an election during a war, we did it during the Civil War, in 1864, with Lincoln getting 55% of the popular vote to McClellan's 45%. Soldiers in Europe in World War II voted in the 1944 election: "The Soldier Voting Act of 1942 permitted all members of the military overseas to send their ballots from abroad. Over 3.2 million absentee ballots were cast during the war." https://www.history.com/news/vote-by-mail-soldiers-war
Elections can be done during wartime, with soldiers at the front voting. Zelenskyy would probably lose, so that's probably why he cancelled the election in 2024. He's not the squeaky clean hero the media claims - and he's been quite controversial in Ukraine for a long time - see https://streamfortyseven.substack.com/p/its-complicated-zelenskyy-turns-out
He's got property in the UK he can head out for, if needed - and he's *not* poor.
Mega Banger; Classic lines “Legacy media is simultaneously calling Trump Chamberlain and Hitler - he is somehow appeasing himself”
Yesterday Martin Armstrong went on Greg Hunter's USAWatchdog to sell another $10 tract about how the EU works, and/or convince us that his computer "Socrates", which presumably has no human inputs/assumptions from himself, and is the first AI to operate for decades and never be wrong, now indicates that Zalenskyy's EU and UK allies will carry on and help him start WW III by May 15th. Oh, also that Socrates shows that the Ukraine flatlines and will not continue after this continuation and escalation of the war. Marty, er Socrates, may be right ("they" often are). And such a result would not end the "Project" of reconstruction (something that since the Civil War we've never been very good at wrapping up quickly).