I heard on the news this morning that Trump has halted all military aid to Ukraine. The “official” reason is that it’s a temporary halt to evaluate the effectiveness of the aid. Bullshit. The two purposes are to feel macho by punching down like bullies do and to give Putin time to take more territory before the Europeans get their aid packages ready.
Trump is giving his state of the union speech tonight. What I fear is that Democrats will remain totally spineless; and I note that they’ve already selected a “moderate” to give the Democratic response. (The Republicans will be utterly shameless, but that will come as no surprise.)
I’m beginning to lose all hope that America can avoid becoming a failed state.
Weep? For America? I think I speak for many people when I say: boo fucking hoo.
sonofrojblake: I take your point. That was probably a bad title; but I was upset and probably not thinking clearly.
I kinda gotta agree with sonofrojblake – it’s probably a global good that the US has decided to face-punch itself right in the empire. There’s a chance, after this, that powers which otherwise might be considered beholden to the US will break away. NATO, for example, has to be collectively realizing that yes, in fact, they are a European branch of US, Inc., and the US was comfortable putting them in the line of fire as soon as the right autocrat bought out the right oligarch. Sure, it’s disappointing for us, too, since we have to confront that we never really had a legit opposition party, the democrats were just pretending.
Imperialists don’t do a good job of engineering a “soft landing” because, at the root of their imperialism, is the expectation that everything will go their way. When that fails, it’s temper tantrums. History is full of jumped-up imperialists who thought their military or tighter social control could get them out of every problem. Whups, no, it only works for a couple hundred years.
Because of its over-reliance on fossil fuels, the US is going to collapse anyhow when agriculture fails. Maybe it’s good to get a little practice in before the big ones start to hit.
It seems a significant portion of the population in the USA is part of a death-cult. Posted over on Mano’s post about families of fired federal workers celebrating their suffering:
Dallas area church school celebrates their abysmal vaccination rate.
Yes, these church-run indoctrination factories are so “pro-life” that they’re not content killing just their own congregation; they want to kill other people, too.
Here’s Musk going after AMTRAK: