Trump can stop the Ukraine-Russia war by turning off the spigot for its proxy Ukraine. The same can be said of the war in the Middle East and its proxy Israel in the Middle East. From Martin Jay at strategic-culture.org:
rump may well get peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. But at what price?
Trump may well get peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. But at what price?
The cat is finally out of the bag. As the EU now comes to terms with a Trump win in Washington, it has to face its hardest dilemma to date: whether to continue supporting President Zelensky in Ukraine and keep the war going there, or face realities and shut down the racket and work on a peace deal. It really comes down to two relationships. One with the U.S. itself and its administrations; and two, with Trump himself.
Trump has claimed that he will stop the Ukraine war in 24 hours. Contrary to many reports he has even explained how we would do it, by simply shutting off all military aid to Zelensky. This move throws a spotlight on a prickly subject once again of how EU countries play such a minor role to the U.S. The former gets a free ride on being part of a global defence bloc, while the latter picks up most of the bill. It is little secret that most of the weapons which are keeping the war going on the Ukraine side are from the U.S. If that supply is abruptly halted, then the world’s media will be forced to look at the equation and report on Trump’s chief complaint that the deal between the U.S. and EU countries is unfair and needs rejigging.
The minimum spending of 2% of countries’ GDP is probably unrealistic and would need to be hiked to 4 or even 5 percent if there were to be some sort of balance on defence spending and equal responsibility for the so-called “peace keeping” initiatives that the West indulges itself with, which in all cases always ends in troubled hotspots around the world becoming even more of a threat than they were before U.S.-led intervention. Who could have imagined that the Taliban would be in power now in Afghanistan after the U.S.-led NATO coalition (plus a few others like Australia) cost over 2 trillion USD and 2500 dead U.S. soldiers? Biden may be gone, but the news archive clip of Afghans running alongside a U.S. air transport plane as it takes off will be remembered and watched perhaps in decades to come as a chilling reminder how U.S. intervention usually fails.
LOL! It says rump may get the peace deal.
The biker blog that had a transmission on the restroom floor with look a tranny also had the peace of shit shirt with peace sign and I laughed until the side hurts.
Flip it around and remove the circle for Runic symbol.
(wink)
The MIC is hooked on KIA=Shekels formula and there is no way to vote out of it.
Entertainments, distractions, bread and circus, 24-7 buffet, Benetton rainbow world EBT shopping bazaar will have to stop before it gets any better.
Something a real WAR could bring to pass.
Or it could end up like Germany take on the world and suffer as a conquered rump for the next 100 years.
I agree with PCR about the slow pace of the SMO means it will only get worse.
These things happen.
O/T-National Geographic 1962-1976 scavenger find!
And what a workout carrying all that back, short of breath for the first time in years.
Now looking at time capsule and one had an article about the self-reliant uplanders of Red State AKA hillbilly hilljacks from wayback, my kind where Papaw and Mammaw came from.
Breaking from Entombed:
Serpent Speech