Friends, hearty congrats in advance to our pal Elon Musk, who is set to become the world's first trillionaire...tomorrow! That's because the big SpaceX IPO is finally happening, which will elevate Musk's net worth a bunch. What will he do with all that wealth? Go to Mars, apparently. If you're nice to him, he might even take you with him...
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy034q89j4o
In other news, the conflict with Iran will be over any second now, says DJT, because our buddies in Iran have agreed to all our demands! How nice. I sure am relieved. I can't think of anything that could go wrong...
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78y6w78828o
Finally, poor Steve Hilton is finding out that it ain't easy bein' red...in deep blue California. He made it to the runoff in the Governor's race, but polls say he's gonna get creamed. I believe it, too. 2026 isn't likely to produce a red wave, which is what would be needed to take a Republican over the finish line in Cali. Mind you, that doesn't mean we'll have a blue wave either, or a Democratic House. I'm not conceding that race just yet!
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/governor/general/2026/california/hilton-vs-becerra
Ray from Jack: Please refer back to my reply to your recommendation that I read Devin Sper in June 6 WaddyisRight.
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DeleteThanks for reading Sper. I figured you would like him. Read some of his past articles which I think you will find highly interesting, and still relevant to today. Sper is very timely. Keep reading him as he publishes new articles. His idea about a big Israeli/U.S. Base in Gaza is excellent. The U.S. needs to get out of NATO and leave the EuroWeenies to their own devices. Wish we would get of the UN also.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: More power to Musk and enervating frustration to his Marxist Inquisitors. His outstanding enterprise and merit have no doubt established for him a guaranteed reservation in a tumbrel if "the revolution" triumphs. But meantime he will be busy reaffirming free enterprise's proven unequaled benefit to humanity.
ReplyDeleteRay from Jack: I agree with you and Sper on Nato. General MacArthur once opined before a Congressional committee: "If one nation carries ninety percent of the effort, its quite inappropriate that nations that carry only a small fraction of the efforts and the responsibility should exercise undue authority upon the decisions that are made".
ReplyDeleteI think the reasoning which forms that view is relevant to our relationship with both Nato and the UN and its time to act on it. NATO is an unnecessary burden both on the American taxpayer and on our national security. It makes little sense for us to promise to go to war with Russia over the Baltic Republics; Europe is more than capable of defending them and itself. Adding Sweden and Finland together with Poland's increasing military credibility greatly enhanced that ability.
I think we should though, be very careful to preserve the special relationship with the U.K. They may soon throw off their far left yoke and empower Nigel Farage, with whom we may get on famously.
As for the UN: all it amounts to is simply a playground for tin horn dictatorships and a haven for Jew haters, to exercise undeserved influence. Let's relieve the burden it is to US taxpayers by giving that proven failure a couple years to clear out.
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ReplyDeleteThe only "special relationship" we have now with the U.K. is the English language, and that's debatable. The only real Special relationship we have is with Israel.
*****On that note, please give a read to a Devin Sper Article titled "The Nazi Roots of Palestinian Nationalism"*****
Ray from Jack: I will look up that article. I already know a little about Haj Amin al Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem's , admiring cultivation of Hitler. I actually once ran into a WWII reenactor in the uniform of the Palestinian unit in the SS.
ReplyDeleteI think we have a close and valuable cultural relationship with Great Britain. I'd go as far as to say I consider their history before the 19th century to be ours too. And PM Farage and President Trump or President Vance could be as fruitful a relationship as was PM Thatcher and President Reagan
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DeleteI have to rethink our relationship with Great Britain all the time. It blows hot one day and cold the next.
I'm all for a U.S. departure from NATO, but we're well into Trump's second term and there's no sign of it happening. Maybe President Vance will take our sovereignty and exceptionalism a bit more seriously? Fingers crossed.
ReplyDeleteOh, I'd say our relationship with Britain is "special", but it's not the same as it was under Thatcher or Churchill by a long shot. Britain has very little to offer now in terms of its defense capabilities. It has very little impetus to join us in our foreign adventures either. It's been one of the prime instigators of the West's anti-Russia hysteria, but I wouldn't consider that a particularly valuable contribution to Western security. Oh, it was the Brits who came up with the Steele Dossier, so I suppose that's something they're good at: skullduggery.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I suppose that if Russia were to move on the Baltic Republics that the UK would be much involved if resistance was to be made by the other Baltic or Baltic proximate nations. If the US were by then to be out of Nato, either a remnant of Nato or some alliance coincident with the Russian move would almost certainly include the UK.
ReplyDeleteBut: its been approx. 4 years since Russia invaded Ukraine and very much of the West ,including the UK, did react unwisely and apparently reflexively to it when it started.
The fundamental issue remains: Ukraine , encouraged so by Nato, gave Russia to believe it would try to enter Nato. To Russia this was an unbearable affront and a direct threat to their national security. Ukraine, understandably yearning to be free of the cursed ever present prospect of Great Russian oppression, eagerly and precipitately , consequently sought such blessed relief. The West is at fault for recklessly encouraging Ukraine in this hope but after the brutal Russian offensive commenced it shrank from admitting as much . It chose rather to reinforce Ukraine, justifying it by judging Russia as "expansive" when Russia's intent was probably self defense.
So yes, I think the West's reaction might be supportably characterized as hysterical ; it was at the least wrongheaded and the UK was a strong proponent of it. It was based on a mistaken perception that a reeling post Soviet Russia was ready to concede ANY approach to its borders. Russia was NOT willing; it believed it had conceded enough with Poland in Nato and that a Nato incursion in a Ukraine for which Russia has such strong historical and geographical affinity was a contemptuous "bridge too far". What further Western presumption it might bode was also Russia's lookout.
Oh, the U.K. definitely bears much of the blame for the current Russia-Ukraine quagmire. They were front and center in goading Ukraine into anti-Russian idiocy. Would the Brits aid the Baltic states if they were invaded by Russia? Well, the question would be: with what? Possibly the RAF could be useful, but otherwise the Tommies are rather short on military potential these days.
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