Friends, this week's Newsmaker Show reflects on Joe Biden's "Art of War" (an instant classic), and the strange logic that's propelling the West closer and closer to direct conflict with Russia. NATO, for example, can't give up the fantasy that Ukraine will someday join the alliance, although no NATO country shows the slightest inclination to fight alongside Ukraine. Curious, no? In addition, Brian and I discuss the maverick presidential campaign of RFK, Jr., Trump's legal headaches and the 2024 race, the (limited) impact of the Hunter Biden scandals, what a biased media can and can't achieve, the upcoming GOP presidential forum in Iowa, hosted by Tucker Carlson, the Gal Luft accusations against the Biden family, and the potential impact of Cornel West's campaign for president.
Man, oh man! This week's show was so packed with riveting insights on current events that we didn't even have time for history... How about that???
https://wlea.net/newsmaker-july-12-2023-dr-nick-waddy/
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In other news, the FBI has been helping the Ukrainian version of the CIA suppress the ability of Americans to criticize U.S. government policy with respect to the Russia-Ukraine War. Sounds like a great idea to me! I mean, Zelensky walks on water, from what I hear. That's the kind of guy you want to get behind!
https://nypost.com/2023/07/11/wh-insists-it-backs-press-freedom-when-asked-about-ukraine-censoring/
And here's some good news, for a change: it appears that U.S. inflation is gradually lessening. Let's face it: any improvement in the inflation picture will help Joe Biden win reelection in 2024. On the other hand, easing inflation may be coupled with a cooling economy in general, i.e. lower growth and fewer jobs, which, in turn, will hurt Biden's reelection chances. How will the public perceive the economy in November 2024??? Your guess is as good as mine. (Not really, but you know what I'm getting at.)
Dr.Waddy from Jack: No history!? "Now by all the gods Romans bow "(bowed) down to" I here declare unremitting hob on such thunderous blasphemy by omission!
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DeleteDon't want to get you in trouble with the FBI, but what is your own personal opinion/position on The Ukraine?
I always find it fascinating that before the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, the favorite place of American Left Wing intellectuals was Red Square in Moscow, having their photos taken with beaming faces. Looks like their favorite Marxist dictatorship is now the PRC. What went wrong?
Dr.Waddy from Jack: . . . these nations' yearning to be finally free of dread of execrable Great Russian rule is poignantly understandable. Nato sans Ukraine can guarantee this, except for Ukraine. But Russia may relent from further engaging an unexpectedly capable Ukraine if Nato membership for Ukraine is painfully abandoned.
ReplyDeleteRay from Jack: I would suggest that antiamerica's favorite marxist haven is an America they assume is doomed to their eventual, perhaps even imminent, totalitarian takeover. Just imagine what a feat it would be for them to destroy their worst enemy, nemesis itself to them for far too long.
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: I've never fully trusted the implied infallibility of "its the economy stupid". Certainly it has been incidentally the prime factor. But the antiamericans keep turning up the heat, tightening the culturally marxist screws. Eg.they have deeply infected our military with their airy and patronizing woke forays into counterintuitive transformation. They are doing the ingrate Clintons proud. As it becomes more blatant will it become more publicly notorious? Their by now undoubtable determination to dissemble and then forcefully rebuild our nation may not yet be fully obvious to America but "what the hell are they doing now!?" has become a byword . Ever increasing alarm at this fundamental onslaught on all we cherish, on all the true progress we have painfully achieved, may already have become the salient issue in our politics (?)
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Re:the broadcast perhaps the cooler heads in Nato intend letting membership for Ukraine to die on the vine. Anyone with common sense knows that the risks far outweigh any benefits. They CANNOT BUT know it. So why does Lindsay Graham play with nuclear fire? I don't get it! Now the antiamericans, the left, the dem "cadre": can it be they actually crave a harrowing close call or even a WWI style repeat of Russia's WWI dissolution. . .in our very country? Good old Fidel reportedly urged Khruschev to launch his nukes on the US. Must have been he thought Marxism would survive the internal maelstrom. Well we do know how the american left reveres Fidel and of course his buddy, exalted "CHE!"
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ReplyDeleteRay, my position on Ukraine is pretty simple: we were wrong to try to lure Ukraine into NATO, and we were wrong to goad the Ukrainians into a war that they can't win (although they may or may not "lose"). What's more, I fundamentally don't care about Ukraine, which is a strategic and economic backwater, and thus I feel that ruining our relationship with Russia, and risking World War III, over Ukraine is a monstrously bad idea.
ReplyDeleteJack, I naturally agree re: Ukraine. All this fancy rhetoric about Ukraine joining NATO is almost certainly empty, because anyone with sense knows that NATO membership is the very first "chip" that Ukraine will surrender in any future "peace" deal. Ukraine has already telegraphed a willingness to do so.
Jack, that's an interesting notion that the culture wars could be decisive in '24, and that revulsion over wokeism could tip the scales. In 2021, with Youngkin's victory in Virginia, it seemed that way, didn't it? Yes, many aspects of Dem cultural Marxism are irksome to ordinary Americans, but you have to counterbalance that with the mainstream media narrative that Republicans are "extremists" who hate blacks, women, and gays, and Trump is a traitorous gangster who belongs on the scaffold. There's little evidence, so far, that the backlash to wokeism will be the deciding factor, I fear. The polls don't back that up.
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'Twas nothing! Incidentally, as I just posted, I'm not sure what to make of Trump's position on Ukraine. Does he really want to end the war? Could he? Would the powers-that-be let him, even if he did become president again? They didn't let him leave Syria. I'm not sure why Ukraine should be any different.
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