What to do and what to avoid

Aurelien, of Trying to Understand the World has two recent posts Ukraine:, A Guide for the Perplexed and Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed. I recommend reading both. It provides the basis for this post.

Aurelien’s conclusions about Ukraine’s prospects are well-founded. What follows are my thoughts about the impact of Ukraine’s fate on ours in the U.S.

Anthony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State, who said, “Russia has the second best army in Ukraine” should tender his resignation. Joining him should be Lloyd Austin the U.S. Secretary of Defense. He has seriously misled Congress in his testimony of things Ukraine. Joseph “Genocide” Biden should announce his decision to not run for re-election. (This is not an endorsement of Trump!) If your Congressional representative is a Ukraine flag waving imbecile who lit $61 billion on fire last week, then your assignment is to vote for someone else.

For those thinking that much of the recent Ukraine aid package is yet to be manufactured and will never reach Ukraine I have this to say. Those weapons have proven to be vastly inferior to those possessed by the Russian forces. Our military hardware needs complete redesign. Our procurement methods need to be reformed. Our military needs new leadership and need to be repurposed to a strictly defensive force with an emphasis on deterring attack by showing how costly an attritional battle would be to invade us. This means manufacturing plenty of simple weapons that function in a combat environment of protracted duration. To achieve this will require nationalizing our defense industry. Our corporations are too corrupt and greedy to be entrusted with our munitions systems. And to achieve that will require a new political class that is not in service of the ultra wealthy.

We should claw back the illicit profits garnered by our military industrial complex and too, in concert, place assets stolen by the profits of an induced asset class inflation back in the public domain.

When pigs fly? No. The above needs to happen to secure our nation and to have any hope of combatting environmental disaster.