Firstly, as a predicate, let us look objectively at the real existing world and its history. An objective student of history then discovers a total Hobbesian jungle, with constant war among various states, regions, religions, and even various criminal and insurgent movements. These "actors", constan…
Firstly, as a predicate, let us look objectively at the real existing world and its history. An objective student of history then discovers a total Hobbesian jungle, with constant war among various states, regions, religions, and even various criminal and insurgent movements. These "actors", constantly fight, at every level, driven by greed for resources, land, and freedom, or fear of defeat, genocide and slavery. Further, in this zero sum game of geopolitics, all the competitors undertake constant research and innovation in the arts of war and industry, searching for relative advantage over each other.
For many years, since 1945, the united states has been a the most productive, rich and secure player in the great game. Mostly this is a because of our favorable geography, which keep our homeland and industrial base secure, while we built up a vast fleet of ships and became the preeminent naval power on the planet. Our naval power then allowed us to blockade Germany and Japan, strangling them, while keeping our own homeland safe. Our, 'allies' in the conflict, Britain, France, China and the USSR (now Russia), took the brunt of the losses. Shortly after the war ended, we backstabbed the USSR and China, and took control of Japan and Germany, and then, with our Nato vassals in tow, we began a fight for global dominance over them. After some close calls, finally managed to win the cold war in 1989. This history of bravery, merit, luck, treachery and violence, left citizens of America with a lot of money and power. A very fortunate place, at least relative to citizens of other jurisdictions on the planet. Now, in 2024, 35 years later, we still are a major power, but we have declined in relative terms, and we have allowed our army and navy, industrial base and technology to atrophy. China is now the dominant land power in Asia and has more warships than us, and is rapidly building more warships. It is our equal or even better in terms of technology. If the trend continues a few more years, china will unambiguously control many key technologies , and also the key indo-pacific trade logistics. For example they will have ability to cut our access to computer chips or block our trade access to southeast Asia and Singapore. On the domestic front, our pampered overpaid and corrupt elites, blind to any danger, have opened our borders to infiltration by anyone with a motive, both friend and foe. All this even though lower class families and small businesses are highly vulnerable to crime, theft, extortion, fraud, and inflation. Even though our children are vulnerable to the drugs and predators that stream across effortlessly. Even though our research labs become open to Chinese, Russian and Iranian espionage and theft of our intellectual property. Even though our universities are vulnerable to the actions of malevolent foreign professors, visitors and exchange students, who indoctrinate our vulnerable youth to hate their own society and culture, and to commit violence against other students and even to promote various sexual perversions among young children. This is simply anti-american propaganda designed to subvert and delegitimize our politics by promoting racist hate and slander among black and white Americans and between and various immigrant ethnic groups (latinos, asians, jews, Russians, muslims). It is the old game of divide and conquer.
All this ultimately means that our continued status as a relatively wealthy nation depends on maintaining internal security and promoting political cohesion in education, and also a strong border wall and defensive force to filter friend from foe. In the current international climate of chaos, border security takes precedence over everything else, including charity to the limitless needy refugees and economic migrants tht beg to come here. This is why we need to make peace with Russia, despite the fact that Putin is a ruthless killer of his enemies, and claims much of Ukraine as Russian territory.
Statesmen understand that rigid dogmatic rules and alliances lead to instability and war. To achieve global peace and security we simply must start by recognizing that mother Russia is not a liberal tolerant democracy and never will be, and that we cannot change this. Yet, despite her tyrannical ruler, we must have good relations with her, in our own vital interest. This is because we have a common enemies and a common interest in avoiding nuclear war, and in keeping our citizens safe from terror and extortion. Our hubristic and insane warmongering elite, must thus stop trying to dictate the boundaries and modes of governance among the Slavic peoples of Europe. It none of their competence or business, nor nato's business, and it is enormously expensive, and we have little to lose or gain, regardless of what happens to Ukraine. This idiots war of elitist greed and folly has much lower priority, by any measure, than our need for Russian support against China, and our need for border and internal security, and our need to rebuild our technology and military industrial capacity. It is thus best for America to let the fate of Ukraine be decided locally by European powers within the confines of their continent. To quote Gladstone after first Crimea war, we should "let sleeping dogs lay".
Why won't Tucker "fight evil tyrants" ?
Firstly, as a predicate, let us look objectively at the real existing world and its history. An objective student of history then discovers a total Hobbesian jungle, with constant war among various states, regions, religions, and even various criminal and insurgent movements. These "actors", constantly fight, at every level, driven by greed for resources, land, and freedom, or fear of defeat, genocide and slavery. Further, in this zero sum game of geopolitics, all the competitors undertake constant research and innovation in the arts of war and industry, searching for relative advantage over each other.
For many years, since 1945, the united states has been a the most productive, rich and secure player in the great game. Mostly this is a because of our favorable geography, which keep our homeland and industrial base secure, while we built up a vast fleet of ships and became the preeminent naval power on the planet. Our naval power then allowed us to blockade Germany and Japan, strangling them, while keeping our own homeland safe. Our, 'allies' in the conflict, Britain, France, China and the USSR (now Russia), took the brunt of the losses. Shortly after the war ended, we backstabbed the USSR and China, and took control of Japan and Germany, and then, with our Nato vassals in tow, we began a fight for global dominance over them. After some close calls, finally managed to win the cold war in 1989. This history of bravery, merit, luck, treachery and violence, left citizens of America with a lot of money and power. A very fortunate place, at least relative to citizens of other jurisdictions on the planet. Now, in 2024, 35 years later, we still are a major power, but we have declined in relative terms, and we have allowed our army and navy, industrial base and technology to atrophy. China is now the dominant land power in Asia and has more warships than us, and is rapidly building more warships. It is our equal or even better in terms of technology. If the trend continues a few more years, china will unambiguously control many key technologies , and also the key indo-pacific trade logistics. For example they will have ability to cut our access to computer chips or block our trade access to southeast Asia and Singapore. On the domestic front, our pampered overpaid and corrupt elites, blind to any danger, have opened our borders to infiltration by anyone with a motive, both friend and foe. All this even though lower class families and small businesses are highly vulnerable to crime, theft, extortion, fraud, and inflation. Even though our children are vulnerable to the drugs and predators that stream across effortlessly. Even though our research labs become open to Chinese, Russian and Iranian espionage and theft of our intellectual property. Even though our universities are vulnerable to the actions of malevolent foreign professors, visitors and exchange students, who indoctrinate our vulnerable youth to hate their own society and culture, and to commit violence against other students and even to promote various sexual perversions among young children. This is simply anti-american propaganda designed to subvert and delegitimize our politics by promoting racist hate and slander among black and white Americans and between and various immigrant ethnic groups (latinos, asians, jews, Russians, muslims). It is the old game of divide and conquer.
All this ultimately means that our continued status as a relatively wealthy nation depends on maintaining internal security and promoting political cohesion in education, and also a strong border wall and defensive force to filter friend from foe. In the current international climate of chaos, border security takes precedence over everything else, including charity to the limitless needy refugees and economic migrants tht beg to come here. This is why we need to make peace with Russia, despite the fact that Putin is a ruthless killer of his enemies, and claims much of Ukraine as Russian territory.
Statesmen understand that rigid dogmatic rules and alliances lead to instability and war. To achieve global peace and security we simply must start by recognizing that mother Russia is not a liberal tolerant democracy and never will be, and that we cannot change this. Yet, despite her tyrannical ruler, we must have good relations with her, in our own vital interest. This is because we have a common enemies and a common interest in avoiding nuclear war, and in keeping our citizens safe from terror and extortion. Our hubristic and insane warmongering elite, must thus stop trying to dictate the boundaries and modes of governance among the Slavic peoples of Europe. It none of their competence or business, nor nato's business, and it is enormously expensive, and we have little to lose or gain, regardless of what happens to Ukraine. This idiots war of elitist greed and folly has much lower priority, by any measure, than our need for Russian support against China, and our need for border and internal security, and our need to rebuild our technology and military industrial capacity. It is thus best for America to let the fate of Ukraine be decided locally by European powers within the confines of their continent. To quote Gladstone after first Crimea war, we should "let sleeping dogs lay".