Friends, more and more Europeans want to end the Russia-Ukraine War by flooding what remains of Ukraine with Western troops. Sure, Ukraine wouldn't be in NATO, per se, but the presence of large numbers of NATO troops in the country, plus a U.S. security guarantee, would amount to...exactly the same thing. Russia says: no thanks! The terms that our European "partners" want to impose on Russia and Ukraine, while they might allow Russia to usurp control over much of the Donbass, would bring powerful NATO military forces right up to Russia's borders. Is that really what we want to commit to, going forward? I think not. A truly neutral Ukraine is acceptable to all, so why not...accept it, as we should have done before this ridiculous war even got started? Ukraine would be infinitely better off, and NATO, including us, would not be exposed on its eastern flank. In fact, the best way to protect Ukraine, for years and decades to come, might be for NATO to retreat, or for it to wind up its operations and cease to exist, because it's NATO that causes heart palpitations in Moscow to begin with. Long story short: NATO isn't always the solution. Sometimes it's the problem.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd0n5e1pdz9o
In a rare flourish of rationality, one highly developed country, Japan, is expanding its commitment to nuclear energy. Bravo! The "zero carbon" future that global elites envision can't be achieved unless "green energy", in the form of wind and solar, can be supplemented with...something constant and reliable. That something ought to be either hydropower or nuclear energy. Sure, nuclear energy comes with some potential risks, but it also comes with essentially zero pollution, relative to fossil fuels. The technology is safer than ever before, and it can be, in the long run, delightfully cheap. It's high time for America to up its game in terms of nuclear energy, and I hope that we'll do exactly that in the next four years.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yeyy3y1ejo
Finally, there's talk in legacy media circles of "collective action" against the Trump Administration, meaning a media blackout of presidential and White House events. I say: bring it on!!! The less the mainstream media covers the Trump Administration, the better, because their coverage invariably seeks to undermine and denigrate Republicans, conservatives, Trump, and Trumpers. Let's accelerate their decline into irrelevance and support their self-defeating boycott!
Nicholas, the Breitbart article mentions three legacy sources -- hardly a majority of "legacy" media. A boycott has been proposed as one alternative, but one that pretty much has been rejected. The alternative is to keep covering, but being more aggressive -- such as when Trump says Ukraine started the war with Russia, to call out the lie.
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Dr. Waddy from Jack: You hit it right on the head! Russia WILL NOT tolerate Nato in Ukraine in any form: PERIOD. They went to very war to prevent it and Russia of all nations, knows the horror of war. Yes, they tolerated Nato coming to their border in Poland but Ukraine is for Russia a unique concern, for geographic, strategic and historical reasons which are for Russia absolutely compelling. This is a grim reality we cannot change.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Again, you are spot on. This is a very good time to boycott the traditional three "newsmaking" networks plus MSNBC and CNN and the AP. There are plenty of common sense alternatives now and Fox especially is militantly contradictory of these antiamerican radical shills.
ReplyDeleteJack, Nick wasn't suggesting boycotting the legacy media as much as noting the legacy media were thinking of boycotting the White House. That's not going to happen. That's just a few media people expressing frustration.
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Dr. Waddy from Jack: A developing story in NY state but one which could have political consequences down the road. Mostly common sense Western New York ( 300 long miles from NYC); our shame, our product, disingenuously radical Gov. Hochul ,is making quite a name for herself . Thoughts of 2028 maybe? After all, being of a exalted gender, she already has a leg up; just ask PM Trudeau.
ReplyDeleteFirst she passionately pledged herself and NY state to disobey DJT's executive orders concerning counterlegal and virtue signaling "sanctuary state " measures - for illegals - not for the law abiding to be sure - in this unAmerican governed state. And she has strongly suggested reflexive resistance to ANY insolent Trumpian presumption.
And now, well, she has a right old dilemma on her hands . Corrections Officers - "guards" -in a NY ruled by criminal lovers - their protest including some officers at legendary Attica - have been driven by desperation and professional pride at the onerous, deliberately morale busting strictures imposed on them by radicals in NY state gov't who harbor only withering contempt for law enforcement, to resort in desperation to an illegal strike.
Gov. Hochul is their boss and her initial reaction is to denounce their insubordination and threaten to bring in the National Guard. There are several layers of irony her stance.First, a by definition Dem model of compassion threatening armed force? Second, Guardsmen, with no experience of inmate deviousness, are badly equipped to administer prisons, especially with the criminal loving command and restrictions our Governor would impose on them too. Third: should she continue her defiance of Federal Executive authority she may well be herself facing U.S. military control in the near future.
What then does she do? How important is her national image to her? (Its a ludicrous thought , we all remember her as the Buffalo area's pedestrian County Clerk). Does she "manhandle" law enforcement professionals sick to death of ignorant liberals constantly shackling them in their daily dealing with the thugs they know so well beyond anyone else? Does she front an unfelt common sense stance in order to ride the common sense wave sweeping our country and disingenuously offer the officers token satisfaction? Does she say "to hell with the consequences and I'll break those brutish 'guards' "? Does she offer the officer's token reforms (because she knows after all that they are risking their livelihoods) so as to get them off her back for now ( she is privy to advice that there are myriad ways government can show favor to criminals) . Oh my, what will she do? The beleagured dems may look to her for exemplary guidance in this, their probably "long night of the soul".
No doubt, Jack. Our venerable governor has made a name for herself, and it's not pretty.
DeleteHochul's radical defiance of Trump and her contempt for law enforcement has and will continue to backfire spectacularly.
The time is up on any positive "play" her sanctuary state nonsense and coddling of criminals stance creates.
It has not only alienated Western New York's common-sense voters, but her threats against striking corrections officers have created a rift with blue-collar and union voters.
She's a sinking ship—her governorship's demise seems sealed as conservatives and independents rally against her failed, witch-like, virtue-signaling reign.
Rod from Jack: OK , I see your very plausible point. Dr. Waddy addresses this issue at much greater length in his next post.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: How dare you doubt the convictions of those who ( some from the very'60s, that exalted time) have held forth often en masse against the indisputable evil of nuclear power. What about Hiroshima and Nagasaki?! Shame, shame unending!
ReplyDeleteThe always practical Japanese (after their very unpractical reach for dominance over East Asia) have insolently affirmed the utility and even the very virtues of nuclear power .
What an interesting cul de sac the radical environmental left has stumbled into withal. "All fossil fuels are irrefutably, forcefully with unimpeachable resolve, PROSCRIBED! What ! You now propose an energy source which has survived the introductory travails all technology experiences and insolently purports to have "learned" from its mishaps (i.e. it has "progressed") ! What thunderous blasphemy! The Inquisition convenes forthwith, in blessed Berkeley, there to render correction unto your grievous misapprehensions and willful contumely. You maintain that nuclear power does not generate the ancillary and polluting phenomena to which we so object? Fie on this condemned presumption no matter what empirical evidence you may venture to present. It is of no moment beside our emotionally endorsed convictions!"
Richie from Jack: With ya 100% on your comments on our disgraceful Gov. Perhaps her misconduct will open the way for GOP Gov. Its not impossible. GOP Gov. Pataki did a lot of good in his tenure. He cracked down on criminals, yes he did! I saw it first hand while working in state prisons.
ReplyDeleteRod, you make a good point. Whenever any mainstream media organization calls Trump a "liar", for daring to speak his mind in a way that offends establishment sensibilities, it too should be banned!
ReplyDeleteRod is probably right that no media boycott of Trump and the White House will happen, which leaves Trump free to give these lefty outlets the cold shoulder, one by one, until only Sean Hannity is left in the briefing room. Sounds good to me.
I, for one, feel for anyone who works in law enforcement, including corrections, in any blue state or city. Talk about a thankless (and incredibly dangerous) task! I fear striking won't make matters significantly better. My advice is: move to where you and your profession are appreciated.
A GOP Governor can't be ruled out in the Empire State, but the precondition is a strong Republican performance overall in '26, which is possible but unlikely, if history is our guide. I say: to hell with history! (Ha!)
Nick, when Trump announces that Ukraine started the war with Russia, he is lying. When he declares that Zelenskyy has a poll rating of 4% when it is 57%, Trump is lying. When Trump says that his own polls are 69% and 71%, he is lying. When he says that Zelenskyy refused to meet with Bessent yesterday, and then video emerges that the two did meeting, Trump is lying. When Trump says that 85% of the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico is American, he is lying. So, if you believe that the news media ought to be banned from press conferences, and other presidential events because they tell the truth, then you are not the defender of the republic that I thought you were.
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