Friends, we now have a ceasefire of sorts in place with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Basically, the U.S. has agreed to stop bombing Iran for 14 days, and Iran has promised to reopen the Strait of Hormuz (apparently under their supervision and subject to the payment of tribute to them). Meanwhile, Israel has agreed to nothing and will carry on bombing Iran all it likes. It doesn't sound like much of a basis for "peace" to me, but it is a basis for continued negotiations, about which DJT is surprisingly optimistic. We shall see. I guess Persian "civilization" gets a two-week reprieve, so good for them!
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116365796713313030
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-war-2026-trump-deadline-latest-news?st=7o681D
In other news, Marjorie Taylor Greene's successor will be...a Republican, and a much less crazy one than her (which admittedly is a low bar)! This is good news. We certainly don't need to be losing deep red districts to the dastardly Dems.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I think MSNBC actually tried to get people to believe that President Trump was literally promising the imminent "fundamental transformation " of Iran into a parking lot. "Well, words matter!"President Trump's purposeful vulgarity and hyperbole has them stung to the quick : 'why its so icky!" And they recoil from it much in the disingenuous way they did from Pres. Nixon's recorded crudeness.
ReplyDeleteLets see how they react to current accounts of a popular commentator in Michigan who lauds 9/11's murderousness and the mongol horde rapaciousness of Hamas on Oct. 7. And he is publicly embraced by a far left/Dem seeking that compromised party's Senatorial nod.
And how about Madam Pelosi's advocacy of "fumigating" the White House after DJT's first term, or Schumer mounting the Scotus building steps and summoning a Biblical style curse to the umpteenth generation on heretic Scotus justices. Or Slick Willy's customary conduct of juvenile obscenities in the anterooms of the Oval Office, even while conducting official business, albeit on the phone. "Don't make no nevermind" to them! Oh, DJT is just too "common" for their rarefied tastes.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I see Northern Macedonia is a member of Nato and for good measure Greece is too, of course.
ReplyDeleteWell there is the obvious solution should Iran prove to be yet intractable (I mean, that cache of 60% enriched uranium MUST be secured. A normal country would not use a few nukes on any of the existing nuclear powers or their alliances for obvious reasons. But a dictatorial nation which lauds perceived redeeming suicide might do.) So I propose the following backup remedy: recruit a 30 something Macedonian officer named Alexander and have him lead a corps of his countrymen and, for good measure , Greek "allies" , well drilled in the use of the invincible phalanx, to Iran's border. Take care to see that an oxcart bearing an impossibly complicated neoGordian Knot be placed there with visible reminder that its solution will open the door of "Asia" to whomever accomplishes it. This should be enough to deter Persian/Iranian resistance but if necessary the force could proceed to Persepolis. I will hasten to forward this idea to VP Vance.
"But seriously folks. . . ." Could it be that Iran is simply buying time while it prepares a little surprise? Highly unlikely , due in part to our enhanced intelligence capabilities but I'm just sayin'.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I see that our hombre President got Nato's attention when he publicly mused about quitting it. Nato's executive head scrambled to request summary audience with our President. "These Americans; can't live with 'em ,can't live without 'em" That "suggests" that the imperious and unhelpful members of the alliance , eg. the French and the Spanish, are not necessarily seconded by some nations ,who are grateful for U.S. "support". Its reported that several former Warsaw Pact countries have been cooperative in our effort against a country which would , with very little provocation or justification violate them too. Perhaps one must have the academic and omniscient strength afforded an Ayatollah (a station for which reputedly the equivalent of several PhDs is required) to be able to predict just what might offend their 7th century sensibilities.
ReplyDeleteBut a commentator today on Fox opined that we ought, instead of leaving Nato, find a way to reward those Nato members who have aided us in this necessary reduction of an aspiring scourge to all of little faith. That might also include material sanctions for those Nato countries which seem to take our expensive protection for granted. DJT is just the kind of no nonsense , non chump guy to do it and those disdainful cynics know it.
Or , we could just leave them all to their own devices ; they would probably be alright. But it might be a shame to abandon those countries for which experience of totalitarian oppression is recent enough to keep them in very well concentrated mind of how bad it really was and that they have U.S. power to thank for their deliverence. Most past American Presidents would have cavilled and waffled on this but DJT will not hesitate to unapologetically use the undeniable reality of our superlative power and the historical fact that our use of it has resulted in vast human benefit, to remind our beneficiaries of what they owe us. For some of them, it is ALL.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Re Marjorie Taylor Greene's seat in Congress: I've often thought of asking the Ithaca N.Y. (seat of Cornell U.)leftists who run for the House from our area " why are you are you running to 'represent' us anyway? This is a heavily conservative area; In having your expressed views , you cannot 'represent' us . So why are you running; is it to "correct" us ignorant hayseeds?"
ReplyDeleteI think the same of the current presumptuous far left reinvasion of the South . The new Governor of Virginia, who is obviously bent on teaching her state a lesson in political correctness, is a grotesque example of this.
So, yes, it is encouraging to see MJT's seat stay in the party which truly represents the patriotic and down to earth South.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Re Nato: It can of course be plausibly argued that we have already done all the Nato nations transcendent benefit by taming the Bear.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Re far left/.Dems trying to represent us: I think the antiAmerican incipiently totalitarian DSA types have captured that once loyal party. So no matter how unctuously a far left/Dem candidates might plead their "moderation ", if they go to Congress they will have to toe the party line. Look how that dishonest Governor conned Virginians. Now she is on a rampage of patronizing reformation of her erring state.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: My attitude about Nato is evolving. I like this Mr. Rutte, the administrative Leader of Nato. He seems like a good guy.His manner appears gracefully well spoken , courteous and most refreshing , open to the reasons moving the person he is negotiating with.
ReplyDeleteOf course , our President's reflexive European detractors and his domestic haters (lets call it what it is!) are prompted by this possibly constructive dialogue to use all the usual derogations and castigations against him. Some of them have called Mr, Rutte a "Trump whisperer" but a Fox commentator had a good riposte for that, suggesting that Mr. Rutte is , rather, a "Trump listener".
Those of Mr Rutte's statements about the progress of this dialogue I have heard have shown him to be clear, frank and concise in stating his position and genuinely empathetic to President Trump's concerns. And oh how that riles those who believe that our President does not deserve common courtesy.
I get the impression that this is a guy we can work with. One suggestion made attendent to this meeting is that the we shift American Nato assets out of Nato countries which have demonstrated haughty and ungrateful unwillingness , even in denying us their airspace(!) to help us combat the world hating Iranian regime. Such craven behavior is low life stuff, bush league all the way. A shift of those economically valuable establishments to countries , many of them in Eastern Europe where people remember the hellish Marxist regimes the U.S. delivered them from , is perhaps a plausible thought. Its sometimes asked " would we fight for Latvia if it were invaded by the Bear?" I expect we would if we had a big U.S. base there.
I think the fact that this dignified man hastened to sit down with our Head of State indicates that for all the French style bravado some of them hazard, Western Europeans are very much troubled by the prospect of going against a still amoral and ruthless world without Americans there to do the heavy lifting and to assure victory. Hard fighting level headed Sweden and Finland both have close understanding of Russia and they finally considered themselves constrained to join a Nato they had avoided for decades. I would guess they presumed continued U.S. membership.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: So maybe there is some reason to consider staying with Nato(?).But that does not gainsay the powerful argument against it. Sans the burden of the alliance we might well conclude newly negotiated , even handed alliances with probably worthwhile partners, eg the UK, Canada, Germany and others. We might even continue a working relationship, short of membership, with a mostly European Nato.
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