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Election Musings
The current presidential election cycle is the least attractive I have ever watched.
Donald Trump is doing his usual talk giving promises which no one believes he will keep.
Kamala Harris is as disagreeable as many have feared. She is basically an empty vessel with a tendency to authoritarianism. The vessel is ready to be filled with whatever new war project the neo-conservatives – see Liz Cheney – are planning for.
Biden was and is clearly beyond the point of pursuing another presidency. Moving him aside was the best thing the Democrats could do. Offering Harris as a replacement – without any campaign, vote or legitimization – was the worst thing they could do. They will rue this mistake.
My hunch is that Trump will win the election. What policies will follow will largely depend on the people he will select to run the show. He had previously chosen people who were opposing and sabotaging his policies. He lacked the authority and/or will to rein them in. I do not believe that he has learned from it.
Whoever may win the presidency will anyway not make a big difference.
I expect the new president to double down on the anti-Russian project in Ukraine and on support for the genocide the Zionist are committed to finish. The U.S. will continue to be bogged down in Europe and west-Asia. The 'pivot to Asia' to counter China's rise will continue to stall. The economic standing of the U.S. will continue to deteriorate.
This is good news for China, Russia, the BRICS project and those involved in it. As the old world order continues to drag itself down the new one gains time and space to evolve from it.
This is good news for China, Russia, the BRICS project and those involved in it. As the old world order continues to drag itself down the new one gains time and space to evolve from it.
Concur, though there are now numerous indicators Empire has prepared the ground for the option to abandon the Israel experiment. As for all others, expendable.
As observed previous it is now the expanding BRICS+ in the driving seat, due long patient buildup, quiet in-depth diplomacy & Geo-strategic patience with a long term set of defined goals.
Constantly raising ‘their’ sustained ‘Strategy of Tension’. Pressure here, there, everywhere holding the line & pushing forward, not merely back. Stretching Empires strategic, operational, political, regional, economic/trade/resource capacities/capabilities/access ever thinner. The rubber band that Empire is will snap when, not if, stretched too far. Ukraine proxy conflict and ongoing Israel insane genocide/War crimes have only further compounded & exacerbated the disparity of opposing blocs re correlation of forces strength/projection/sustainment re Soft power/economic power/military power/military-industrial capacity, etc.
Empire will, ultimately be forced to fall-back, withdraw geo-strategicly as it is progressively diminished. Will not go toe-to-toe to now clearly aligned two ‘more than peers’, two near peers, increasingly capable State/non-state capable regionally threatening ‘Resistance’ (And growing).
Clearly a reverse McKinder is in play & developing. Empire will be gradually denied trade routes/air routes/access, to accelerate the processes. Vassals will be pealed off, desrt/defect & revisit the NAM concept to try to save their sorry asses. Empire will react where possible, brutally. See: Reverse of, for example Cuba sanctions/blockade going back to ’56, extant.
Ansar Allah, alone, has materially defeated the USN/Royal Navy. USN is in dire straits re vessels/crews/fleet expeditionary capability/sustainment even merely basic servicing/maintained. Essentially nil capacity to replace materiel losses as they ‘will’ occur. USN/Royal Navy are a’cruisin’ on a death ride to Davy Jones Locker.
Merely one aspect: Increasing diminution of the ‘Jesus Nut’ of Empire, Naval ‘Dominance’ of the Oceans/Seas globally, along with trade routes & actual trade, loss of the ability to project & apply dominant military force re all prior re all declared/designated enemies, diminishing capacity to defend/support/sustain disparate puppet vassals outside Continental Western EU/CONUS locale, as each is confronted/challenged/threatened in turn.
Far too many spinning plates in play … whence they all topple and smash to the ground ?
Empire is akin to The Wicked Witch: “I’m melting! I’m melting!”
Only variable now is the time-frame, until Empire probably in time reverts to US status 1840’s. Cry for neighbor States & Latin America. 🙁
Note, for example:
Last year ’23 RF, alone, produced ~1.4M indigenous drones of all types. Far more than one for each & every individual Ukie ground pounder?! By end of this year, ’24 alone, projected ~14M. RF alone now exceeds the military-industrial capacity & growing, of NATO/US combined. Same for non naval actual military forces. China now produces, in a peacetime economy(!) vessels at a ratio of 400:1 to US. Unlike RF, PRC, NK, Iran, even Ansar Allah, Empire has no hypersonics, no near term possible attainment, nor any effective defense against same.
We are cursed(?) to live in, Interesting times … far quicker, accelerating, rate of change than ever expected.
2c is up.
Posted by: Outraged | Oct 22 2024 16:59 utc | 54
Further reply to Malaeuca in response to Melaleuca | Oct 22 2024 5:14 utc | 134 – October 21, 2024 “Democracy” in Moldova
More appropriate here than OT in above.
AUKUS grift/loss of sovereignty/future status, fate.
AU will never receive the subs. The $Billions already gifted(& increasingly ongoing) to create new plant/worker recruitment/training/supply chains to provide new ‘sovereign assets’ for US/UK have no AU rights/shareholding. $Billions ongoing will never result in provision/delivery of subs ‘to’ AU under AU sovereign control, not even flag.
The entire process has four objectives:
(1) substitute & buildup AU as sustainable/strategic depth, replacement for indefensible/unsustainable/unsupportable(in conflict) Guam and Diego Garcia,
(2) fully prep AU as an expendable proxy for an optional War Plan re a rogue, plausibly-deniable, attempted first-strike decapitation strike on China(PRC). As well as the foundational forward base/pivot point for establishing/extending military operational dominance throughout region & beyond, especially criticality of Malacca straits transit and transit to & from South China Sea, west & south of frontline Philippines. Trade. Access denial. Indonesia’s position, fate ?
(3) Nullify remnant AU sovereignty in partnership with long suborned AU politicians, Business/Military/StinkTank/Legacy Media. Essentially sieze absolute control of agricultural/mining/gas/oil/rare earth/etc resources for exclusive use/sustainment of Empire.
(4) Regardless all above, massive ongoing wealth extraction via masked tribute re all related projects. NO subs will ever be transferred/delivered to AU & never under AU operational command(Already insitu re Collins). 100’s upon 100’s of Billions for warporn junk to profit MICC/War profiteers. Extraordinary level of grift, which will only continuously balloon exponentially.
(5)AU has long had as a strategic policy since late 50’s/early 60’s, and a rapid breakout capability to sudden nuclear arms power status. See: Japan.
The now ongoing transition to ballistic missiles/long range anti-shipping missiles/point & base/facility defense (US/US military assets) ADS/ABMs, and now no AU subs, ever, other than US/UK operating from AU as if it was occupied Hawaii or occupied Cuba bases/port/facilities(Guantanamo Bay), development and expansion of ‘civilian’ nuclear capacity to support (5). An entirely ‘expendable’, non sovereign, nuclear attack-dog, regional military forward bastion for power projection/sea-lane, trade control (Vessels/Subs/Missiles/BMs, etc), Empire/US/UK.
See: From AU ‘Australian Naval Institute’ Re Congressional Report on AUKUS Pillar 1
Current cost details, blah, blah …
… Congress approved enabling legislation for Pillar 1 as part of its action on the FY2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) (H.R. 2670/P.L. 118-31 of December 22, 2023). The potential benefits, costs, and risks of implementing (2) and (3) can be compared with the potential benefits, costs, and risks of an alternative of procuring up to eight additional Virginia class SSNs that would be retained in US Navy service and operated out of Australia along with the U.S. and UK SSNs that are already planned to be operated out of Australia under (1).”
Do recommend the full Congressional Research Report as at Oct ’24 here. (PDF) Especially Re above ‘italicized’/’bolded’. October CRS report says it all.
No refunds! NO Subs for you, AU! Not even, a Chicken!
AU being re-colonized a second time. Occupied. Loss of even former partial sovereign nation vassal status.
Fate to be an expendable/disposable, foreign owned & occupied, Military/industrial/self-supportable, modern Alamo.
Sorry Aussies …
Posted by: Outraged | Oct 22 2024 17:31 utc | 76
On lawfare, that is luckily difficult in USA. Trump actually promised to send Hillary Clinton to jail in the past, did not happen. But he may learn from his failures on that front.
Posted by: Piotr Berman | Oct 22 2024 16:46 utc | 47
Someone hasn’t been paying attention the last 4 years! By my count, the Democrats have tried 8 times to prosecute Trump since he left office, one time using a special law passed solely for Trump, invented laws, and their favorite, turning a bookkeeping entry into 34 felonies, and telling the jury to pick whichever theory they wanted in order to convict, which they have used to parrot over and over “He’s a convicted felon”, which is patently absurd, but effective on the brainless.
Obamacare was a blatant giveaway to the FIRE industry, same as the bank bailouts of 2009, when 8 million families were thrown out onto the streets, and the banks were gifted billions.
Under Obamacare, working Americans were forced to pay hundreds of dollars a month to the insurance companies, or the US government, using the IRS, would take the money anyway at the end of the year.
It amazes me that any American would blow off the stopping of Obama’s “mandate” as inconsequential to workers. It made a big difference to millions, but I guess they don’t count to those with TDS, who think that working at McDonald’s is “humiliating”.
As for the Middle East, if you’ll recall, Trump tried to remove US troops from Syria, and the Pentagon ignored him. They stayed. Then they orchestrated two “gas attacks”, the first one only months into Trump’s presidency. Then, when Trump bombed an airfield in “retaliation”, the media fell all over themselves praising him, the first and only time in 8 years (except when he killed Gen. Soleimani). They apparently explained to him that they were staying in Syria in order to steal the oil, so he repeated that, and got trashed by idiots for saying the quiet part out loud.
When he called off the military maneuvers threatening DRPK, and then went and shook hands with Kim Jong Un, they went nuts again. I thought it was hilarious that he said that the military exercises wasted too much oil. Well, duh, but the climate change pushers don’t care when it comes to the military, do they?
Al Gore headed the US team to the Kyoto Accords in 1996, and personally made sure that the US military is exempt from any concerns about climate change. Draw any conclusions you wish from that.
The whole thing is a farce. On or about Nov. 5th, our rulers will announce who will be placed into the White House next January, and that will be that.
We have no recourse, especially since there are still Jan. 6th protesters sitting in jail, almost 4 years later, and they have already announced that questioning this election will make you a “domestic terrorist”. Who is going to complain about another stolen election, when you could get thrown into jail without a trial, or droned?
Posted by: wagelaborer | Oct 22 2024 17:48 utc | 88
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