Friends, Tulsi Gabbard, former Democrat and current America First all-star, has won confirmation as our new Director of National Intelligence. Wow! Words cannot express how much the D.C. hawks and the political establishment loathe her. I, for one, look forward to seeing what kind of mischief she can make, and how much corruption and duplicity she can expose. Kudos, Tulsi!
In a closely related development, President Trump had a long conversation with President Putin of Russia today, and it looks like the wheels are in motion regarding a settlement of the Russia-Ukraine War. Trump appears to understand that Ukraine will never be in NATO, and that ominous (if speculative) prospect was the main trigger for all this senseless slaughter, lest we forget. Alas, we can't undo all the damage that the arrogance and naivety of the Biden Administration and the Western security elite caused, but we can end this ridiculous war, and we can try to patch up America's relationship with Russia, which ought never to have deteriorated this badly. There is far too much at stake for us ever to court WWIII so blithely again.
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ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: I wrote a comment on DNI Gabbard and Ag Bondi's law suit agst NY but I kept getting that error msg. Now the test goes thru(?) I'll try again with shorter posts.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack : I see Ag Bondi is suing NY for violation of Federal Immigration Law. The immediate cause is NY's enthusiastic (my word) provision of drivers' licenses to illegal aliens. I hope this is the opening salvo in a concerted effort to bring lawless marxist NY state back into the Union.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Oh, Biden could have done this but his obsequious refusal to do so yet again confirms the intent of the far leftists who controlled him to flood the country with illegals and then declare them a protected class more equal than banal law abiding citizens.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: This may well be a test case to set precedents and parameters for further prosecution of NY gov't for offenses such the onerous burdens increasingly put on NYers in accordance with unjustified "Green New Deal" dictation. Also perhaps due for Fedreal reckoning may be NY's insouciant and often affirmed determination to enact ever more restrictive gun laws in response to Scotus rulings enjoining the opposite.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Federal defense of the 2nd amendment rights of NYers is particularly appropriate due to Pres. Trump's recent EO affirming these rights.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: In 1957, Pres. Eisenhower sent elite Airborne trained troops into Arkansas when that state refused Federal Court orders to comply with Federal law. Arkansas quickly relented. Well, the 10th Mt. Division is in Watertown, NY already; just sayin'.
ReplyDeleteThe law abiding common sense minority of voters in NY have long been treated with withering contempt by NY's one party Dem dictatorship. Relief from the Feds is much to be hoped for.
For now its AG Bondi vs. law dismissive NY AG James and Gov. Hochul and the Supreme Soviet style NY legislature. Let the redemption begin!
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DeleteThe 10th Mt. Division fought with distinction in Italy during WW 2, if I am not mistaken, and is now based at Fort Drum, NY.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I declare my prediction that AOC would be the Dems '28 nominee summarily inoperative. She's more likely to end up in Federal Blue (prison garb). Her on line posting of advice to illegals apparently advocating avoidance of enforcement of Immigration law certainly smacks of criminality. Oh yeah, she words it very slyly so as to protest no such intention should she be charged. BTW that is a very common criminal ploy. One would think the House should consider appropriate action against her too.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: If the substance of DJT's dialogue with Putin is as it appears, that Nato membership for Ukraine will not be forthcoming ( something the US has the power to assure) then DJT has so wisely gone to what always was the heart of the matter. Rugged, brutal Russia would never tolerate such an affront and fundamental national security risk - PERIOD! If he ends the war on that basis and in an instant gainsays all the Western leaders who have so foolishly taken us to this all uncalled for nuclear brink then he already deserves to be called a great President.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack : Well! NY Gov Hochul and AG James are mightily miffed at America's AG Bondi and of course DJT and they are propelling verbal blue whistlers at their insolent detractors. They WILL NOT COMPLY and that is that! Yeah, . . . "segregation now, segregation forever. . . " do those two remember how that turned out?
ReplyDeleteAG Bondi was terribly impressive in her frank statement on our suit against NY and on her determination to do America right by prosecuting it to the full. Oh I hope criminal charges are in the offing if our NY Presidium foolishly proceeds as per their oh so valiant rejoinders to AG Bondi.
Meanwhile, to all who reside outside the People's Republic of NY, we of common sense and Americanism in NY are sorry for how our state has polluted our national polity. Increasingly ridiculous Senate Guerrilla Minority leader Schumer and ominous House Minority Leader Jeffries are both NYC's gift to our national legislature. We simply don't have the vote to send them to the margin where they belong. We don't enjoy living in a pariah state but much of it beyond the amoeba on the Hudson is a really nice place to live and its home to us. We long for the day our state may rejoin the Union and it does still seem distant. But this great change in the nature of our polity gives us hope. Please back AG Bondi as she confronts the incipient totalitarians who try our state so unrelentingly. We want to fully participate in American freedom and not be confined in a bizarre appendix of the nation.
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Dr. Waddy from Jack: I heartell that the U.S. may propose a security arrangement for Ukraine which does not involve Nato. Should it involve any Nato nation Russia would understandably be on its guard. But we stand at the heart of Nato and could perhaps make such a promise knowing we could fulfill it despite the objections of our allies, who are far more dependent on us than we on them. We would not be backing off from Nato meeting any other Russian aggression, like say against Nato itself. If that is what it takes now, taking into account our mistakes in bringing this war about, perhaps it is worth doing.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: YES! One thousand and one hurrahs for DNI Gabbard!. How redeeming to have one of her fortitude and political courage gracing and strengthening our wonderful new national administration.
ReplyDeleteAnd now RFK too. Despite my now much mitigated misgivings I celebrate his appointment. DJT has proven himself an exceptionally skilled recruiter of outstanding individuals who,we have good reason to be confident , are ON BOARD with his program. How intriguing it is to see another Kennedy in the Cabinet, looking as he does so much like his father. Will it be New Frontier II in his office? I think the Kingston Trio still performs!RFK is in really good physical shape. Will he be promoting 50 mile hikes like his Uncle and his Father did? I did one; its hard on your feet.
Ray from Jack: Ft. Drum is right near Watertown NY , about a 5 hour drive from the state capital . Trivia: did you know Hugh Drum was the highest ranking General in the Army at the beginning of WWII? FDR reached over him to get to Marshall. Marshall wanted a field command but he was a SOLDIER and any career officer who went through the interwar period was used to disappointment. Truman said Marshall was the greatest man he ever knew.
ReplyDeleteCould the rulings of federal courts be enforced in blue states by the U.S. military, in the last instance? I guess so, sure. I suspect even more effective would be the jailing of even a single Democratic lawmaker or Governor or Mayor for undermining federal law or law enforcement. Suing a state to make it comply is all well and good. Incarcerating a grandstanding leftist demagogue would be far more impressive.
ReplyDeleteBoy, I had never considered until now the fact that BOTH the Dem leaders (in the Senate and the House) are New Yorkers. Thanks, Jack -- now I'm doubly ashamed to be a New Yorker! Eek.
Hmm. A U.S. security guarantee to Ukraine? What would that be worth? I mean, what would we be pledged to DO if Ukraine was attacked (again)? I can't imagine we would do anything that we haven't already done...with considerable futility, I might add.
Yes! The Kennedys are back, which is to say all Kennedys but one have been put out to pasture. I delight in their discomfiture!!!
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I enthusiastically agree with you that the lawful incarceration of a recalcitrant far left state administrator who insists on resisting Federal law in its several forms because it violates their personally held emotionally reinforced far leftist convictions, would set a very salubrious example. These people love to blat totalitarian in their far leftist salons and enclaves but when confronted with even a hint of the summary power routinely exercised in the tyrannical states they extol: why , they fluff, they wilt! I haven't the strength of their convictions which results from severe trial. They have only their smoky dorm room dreams
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ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Security for Ukraine: Perhaps though, a Russia severely tried by this war , if it had a simple credible guarantee from the US or Nato itself that Ukrainian membership in Nato will NEVER BE AGAIN PROPOSED (sans any apology, due to Russia's terrible brutality), would be willing to accept some carefully worded statement that we would no more tolerate another Russian invasion of Ukraine than Russia understandably refuses to tolerate Ukraine in Nato. We could term any new invasion an unacceptable heavily armed approach to Nato's borders through a Ukraine we also (as does Russia)see as a buffer and as an agricultural region very important to all of Europe, including Russia. Russia might see such a quid pro quo as a face saving way out of this savage conflict. A settlement worded thus could satisfy some of Russia's outrage that Nato had no respect for Russia's astonishing withdrawal to its borders after the fall of communism. That hubris on the part of the West may have helped to move Russia to take such terrible action . It suggested to still proud and rugged Russia that we might take further presumptuous liberties with them and Russia has had quite enough of that. We worked all the transformation on Russia we should expect to get away with when we helped bring down communism.
ReplyDeleteTo assert this is in no way to countenance Russia's murderous onslaught on Ukraine. It is simple reality in a still terribly dangerous world. Russia is what it is and we cannot change its essential historically, climate and geographically determined character.
Joseph Conrad ( a Pole), once opined that Poland's position on a plain between Germany and Russia, was hopeless. Unanticipated membership in Nato was a blessed deliverance from that age old danger. Ukraine is in a similar terribly situated place with its geographic and historical significance for "neighbor" Russia. But such an agreement might preserve most of Ukraine from always onerous Great Russian rule. Its the best we can do for them , aside of course from helping them rebuild, an obligation we incurred when we foolishly encouraged Ukraine to seek Nato membership in the face of what many informed people KNEW would be absolute Russian outrage and intolerance. That is a risk our national security requires that we not take again and for which we must regret having misled Ukraine. Who could blame Ukraine for seeking any hope of keeping the bloody Rus at bay?!
Jack, any settlement between Ukraine and Russia will certainly include a stipulation that Ukraine will never be in NATO. Might it also include some sort of (weaselly) Western security guarantee for Ukraine? It might, but I can't imagine that this would include troops or bases. Maybe some Western countries could unilaterally pledge air support to Ukraine if invaded again? Not much Russia could do to prevent that.
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