World War Zelenskyy
Zombie Democrats and Neocons want more fresh flesh and blood.
Idiot Senator Chris Murphy, Connecticut’s embarrassing gift to America, claimed the White House is now “…a wing of the Kremlin”. After Trump and Vance were forced to publicly spank the diminutive darling of the Democrats and neocons, Ukraine President Volody Zelenskyy, every one of them rushed to a MSNBC or CNN studio to condemn President Trump as Putin’s poodle and to tell Vance he should consider ski vacations in his adopted homeland of Russia.
I saw it over the weekend. Democrats trying to be first to get in front of a camera looked like the scene from World War Z when the zombies were swarming over the walls and trying to get to a helicopter evacuating non-zombies.
President Trump also has been doing such pro-Russian things like talking to Putin to find a way to end the killing in Ukraine, a war that has so far cost America and the EU around three quarters of a trillion dollars and Ukraine as many as a million and a half lives to fight Russia to a stalemate.
Democrats are running the same play from a dusty playbook. Trump has been alleged to be a Russian plant, a Russian Manchurian Candidate, since Hillary’s campaign, through the law firm of Perkins Coie, paid for the Steele Dossier that was packed with fake Russian intel that lead to a two year investigation that showed the Clinton people were colluding with Russia rather than Trump, and led to an impeachment based on hearsay about a phone call and selected leaks from “whistleblowers”.
Since Trump has only been in office for five weeks, we are going to have to imagine what actions, if President Trump had won in 2020, he would have taken to help his buddy Putin, his boss in the Kremlin.
Here are a few he might have considered:
Maybe he could weaken the US economy by unleashing a wave of useless spending to set off a wave of inflation and interest rate increases.
Or he could have waived sanctions on Nord Stream 2 AG, the company overseeing the project, and its CEO, a decision that reversed earlier U.S. efforts under the Trump administration to halt the pipeline through sanctions. Lifting sanctions increased Russia’s leverage over European energy markets, potentially boosting its revenue and geopolitical influence before the invasion.
Maybe he could announce and launch attacks on the US domestic energy production. Maybe start by cancelling approvals for the Keystone XL pipeline permit and paused new oil and gas leasing on federal lands (January 2021), reducing U.S. energy production, increasing global oil prices and indirectly benefiting Russia, a major oil exporter. Oil prices did rise from around $50 per barrel in early 2021 to over $90 by early 2022, before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, per the EIA. Russia’s oil revenues reportedly surged, with estimates suggesting $66 billion in oil export earnings in the first half of 2022 alone (International Energy Agency). However, U.S. production still hit record highs under Biden—12.9 million barrels per day by late 2023.
Maybe continue those attacks on oil and gas by placing moratoriums on new federal leases or banning natural gas exports.
Maybe he could signal to Putin that the US would take limited/no action as long as his military incursions into Ukraine’s Donbas region were “minor.” That would include being slow to deter Russia’s military buildup along Ukraine’s border in 2021, possibly giving Russia time to prepare its invasion.
Or, I suppose he could have initiated a national embarrassment by running out of Afghanistan in August 2021, sending the world a signal of U.S. weakness and emboldening Russia. Putin invaded Ukraine six months later.
Maybe he could impose sanctions post-Ukraine invasion (February 2022) that completely avoided targeting Russia’s energy sector fully, allowing oil and gas exports to continue to Europe. In 2022, Russia earned roughly $200 billion from energy exports despite sanctions, according to the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, as Europe scrambled for alternatives. This hesitation gave Russia an economic lifeline to fund its war effort.
Oh, wait… These are all things that the Biden administration actually did.
So, what would one suppose would be different if Biden had been trying to help Putin and Russia?
Maybe Democrats should take a breath and think a minute.
Hahahahahahaha! Who am I kidding? There are no self-reflective Democrats left. Sometimes I just kill myself with my rapier wit!
Boots on the ground? From Daniel Jupp
Through much of the period of US global dominance, even in competition with the Soviet Union, the leadership of the ‘Free World’ was a poisoned chalice, requiring vast spending in ways that did not really serve the interests of the average American at all. While the Cold War did provide some genuine threat and some genuine moral imperative, few Europeans ever felt genuine gratitude for American protection. It was expected in the same way a spoilt teenager expects the use of daddy’s car. The hot coal of resentment was far more the standard European attitude to American supremacy, and the European elite were dedicated to the EU precisely as the means by which they could sneer at America with a loaned collective strength rather than as individually clapped out former powers.
We need to always remember that this is essentially a class and snobbery issue. Within the US, the strongest supporters of the Democrat Party, the strongest believers in the kind of self hating Cultural Marxism taught in the universities, and the strongest and most fanatical opponents of Trump, are American snobs. They are people who believe in themselves as a kind of aristocracy, while sneering at the mass of Americans as ‘deplorables’. This is the attitude they share with European elites, who despite numerous revolutionary spasms are more convinced of their innate worth and our innate worthlessness than they were when their nations were truly, independently powerful.
In Britain, every contest between sanity and arrogant insanity is determined along class lines. Remain EU lovers were middle class and upper class. Brexit voters and Brits who admire Trump are nearly always working class.
What USAID did, and what the CIA became, is the ultimate Gentleman’s Club deciding that the peasants aren’t fit to make the real decisions, at home or abroad. From Skull and Bones LARPing student rich boys to US political dynasties, and from the attendees at WEF gatherings to the trustees of great Foundations, all of them decided that the surface of Democracy should be just that-a surface, beneath which the real powers operated, doing what they willed as correct, rather than what any US, British or European electorate actually wants.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jupplandia/p/boots-on-the-ground-and-aristocrats?r=183tu6&utm_medium=ios