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Saturday, March 26, 2022

Top Russian military leaders repeatedly decline calls from U.S., prompting fears of ‘sleepwalking into war’

via Washington Post.

Repeated attempts by the United States’ top defense and military leaders to speak with their Russian counterparts have been rejected by Moscow for the last month, leaving the world’s two largest nuclear powers in the dark about explanations for military movements and raising fears of a major miscalculation or battlefield accident.

Story here

My two cents.

The Biden Admin along with NATO has put in place sanctions that appear to be designed to destroy Russia.

NATO has "reinforced" its border nations with thousands of troops (even though we have had no intelligence stating that Russia was planning on making a push into ANY NATO country).

On top of the current sanctions the Biden Admin along with NATO has sought to "double down" on those sanctions even though the risk of world wide recession/depression or worse, deflation is increasing as is the worry of various pop up wars across the planet.

A looming fuel crisis is about to grip the EU and is hammering the American public as we speak. A food crisis of almost biblically proportions is looming for the people of the Middle East/Africa with outrageous prices for staples coming to the rest of the planet.

AND YET!!!!

The Pentagon expects their counterparts in Russia to pick up the phone and say hello? To work with them to deconflict?

Is everyone in DC smoking crack?

The risk is high.

We have numerous forces operating CLOSE to the Ukrainian border.

Missiles are flying all over the place. The risk of an accident happening (a missile going off course and striking NATO troops) is beyond high. Quite honestly its becoming more probable the longer this goes on.

Yet someone in DC expects for normalcy with regard to high level contacts to continue? Our SecState is NOWHERE TO BE FOUND, yet the Pentagon expects to somehow play warrior and diplomat in this major league contest of wills?

This seems simple to me.

Biden needs to stop posturing and get on the damn phone and get involved instead of the name calling. He's soft as cotton but trying to be tough while people die.

Physical courage (for real men) is easy. Moral courage isn't.

Biden is lacking in both regards.

Friday, March 25, 2022

Concealed Carry Self Defense....an example

Gun rights are women’s rights.

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— Some Welder 🇺🇸 (@SomeWelder) March 24, 2022

I've been trying to find the background on this but my Google-foo is weak. Anyone know? It's damn near viral on gun websites.

These Raw Nude Photos Will Remind You Every Body Is Beautiful (follow the link if you dare!...note this is sfw!)

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— Cosmopolitan (@Cosmopolitan) April 6, 2016

This is just wrong.

It's wrong on several levels. First have you noticed that its only women that are part of this campaign? I have yet to see a fat dude called "sexy" or "handsome" as part of it.

So this is the next battleground for women's rights?

Next what does it teach kids. I'm talking about impressionable elementary aged kids? I get what they're after. The same type of change that we've seen on a number of issues where things that were once frowned upon are now accepted, approved and in some cases glorified.

The problem with all this?

It defies basic truth.

Obesity is a serious issue and will/does affect millions in the US. Science is usually the crutch that is used to defend outlandish ideas but there is no science behind this. Just brute force, in your face, you better accept this.

But its unhealthy. We've already been thru covid which seemed to show that frailties across society could be used to limit even the healthy.

I contend that in an age where we've seen the return of pandemics that obesity is a national health issue. When it comes to public service, its a national security issue.

It's quite simple.

America is getting quite comfortable with lying to itself. We need to fix that quick. We DESPERATELY need a back to basics movement based in cold reality, not the fantasy of dreamers.

America’s ‘Unipolar Moment’ is Over .

via Real Clear Defense

It was a time of celebration--the 45-year Cold War was over. The West, led by the United States, had won. The Soviet empire collapsed. China, our de facto ally at the end of the Cold War, appeared to be foregoing communist ideology in favor of economic growth produced by a relaxation of state control over the economy. There was an element of hubris involved in proclaiming the end of a multi-polar world or suggesting that history had ended. Victory sometimes breeds hubris. And hubris can be dangerous.

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As President Reagan's U.N. Ambassador and trusted adviser, Jeane Kirkpatrick was one of the intellectual architects of our victory in the Cold War. But Kirkpatrick was not blinded by hubris when the Berlin Wall fell. In the fall of 1990, she wrote an article in The National Interest suggesting that the United States should become a “normal country” in the post-Cold War world. She warned U.S. post-Cold War policymakers against pursuing a “mystical mission” that reached beyond the Constitutional requirement to protect the nation's vital national security interests. Specifically, she wrote that the United States should not devote itself to establishing democracy around the world. She derided the notion that the conduct of U.S. foreign policy should be "the special province" of elites who too often do not pay its costs or bear its consequences. Such elites, Kirkpatrick warned, often develop "disinterested globalist" attitudes couched in high-minded terms such as "internationalism" instead of focusing on concrete U.S. national security interests.

Read the whole thing here. I could basically highlight the entire article it's so good.