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Proxy War narrative shifting continues as corporate media flips the script again; democrats stumble over Trump’s third arrest and indictment; and another beauty queen dies in a mysterious accident.

Good morning, C&C, it’s Friday! Your roundup today includes: Proxy War narrative shifting continues as corporate media flips the script again; democrats stumble over Trump’s third arrest and indictment; and another beauty queen dies in a mysterious accident.

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🚀 I’d sarcastically say “nobody ever saw this coming,” since we all saw it coming, but corporate media’s new, improved Ukraine narrative is that they always knew the Proxy War would end this way, because the Ukrainians are bad at war, and because NATO was too stingy with its very best weapons.

The New York Times ran the story yesterday headlined, “Ukrainian Troops Trained by the West Stumble in Battle.” Yikes. The sub-headline added more context: “Ukraine’s army has for now set aside U.S. fighting methods and reverted to tactics it knows best.”

Well that ought to do it.

Keep two things in mind as this story continues. First, remember all the braying laughter from pro-Ukes all year long, as they bragged until our ears bled about the one successful Ukrainian military action late last summer repelling the Russians from a single advance on Kiev that in hindsight looks like it was always a feint. It is now more obvious than ever these war boosters are execrable scumbags, because of the second thing.

Second, remember all the unfortunate, ordinary Ukrainians whose war-torn country has been used as the Deep State’s ashtray, and who were sold out by their elected leaders and an Eastern European culture of corruption that allowed the country to be hawked to the highest bidder. We pray for them, and will gladly share our last cracker.

The Times quoted Michael Kofman, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace who recently visited the front lines, who explained that Ukrainians are just too stupid to understand modern warfare. Plus, everybody knew it wasn’t likely going to work:

“Arguably, the problem was in the assumption that with a few months of training, Ukrainian units could be converted into fighting more the way American forces might fight, leading the assault against a well-prepared Russian defense, rather than helping Ukrainians fight more the best way they know how,” Kofman explained.

The Western-trained brigades received only four to six weeks of combined arms training, and units made several mistakes at the start of the counteroffensive in early June that set them back… Some units failed to follow cleared paths and ran into mines. When a unit delayed a nighttime attack, an accompanying artillery bombardment to cover its advance went ahead as scheduled, tipping off the Russians.

In the first two weeks of the counteroffensive, as much as 20 percent of the weaponry Ukraine sent to the battlefield was damaged or destroyed

Military experts said that using newly learned tactics for the first time was always going to be hard.

Haha! It was always going to be hard! That’s what they always told us, right? They always warned there wasn’t enough time to train the Ukrainians properly. Right?

So there’s that. And there was another narrative reversal. Remember back when they laughed and predicted Russia would be out of ammo and manpower in no time? Consider this ominous line from the article: “President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has increasingly signaled that his strategy is to wait out Ukraine and its allies and win the war by exhausting them.”

Oh.

Try to keep up, dummies. At this point, the narrative has spun around to the reverse opposite of what they were telling us ten minutes ago. It used to be our strategy to wear down the Russians. Now it’s Russia’s strategy to “exhaust” Ukraine plus all of its NATO allies. And now Vladimir “V” Putin — oddly now including his middle initial — does have a strategy. So after all he’s not just a mindless, bloodthirsty warlord bent on destruction at all costs. And not only does Putin have a strategy, but — per the New York Times! — his strategy is working.

According to the old, now discarded narrative, the Russian people are totally sick and tired of Putin’s lack of a strategy for Ukraine and this endless war, and corporate media assured us that the Russian troops also hated Putin so much they were ready to defect and join the Wagner uprising. Remember that one?

But the “Wagner uprising” doesn’t look much like an uprising anymore, not in hindsight, since the Wagner forces are now happily threatening Poland — and thus NATO — along Poland’s border with Belarus, and Wagner is single-handedly capturing the entire continent of Africa. For Russia.

There are only seven continents. So.

The so-called “Wagner uprising” now looks like it was yet another successful Putin strategy to dupe the hapless CIA out of $3.2 billion dollars in U.S. taxpayer dollars, I mean failed bribe money, that is now sitting around earning interest on deposit in the Russian treasury.

Those Wagner boys are pretty busy, considering they were just brutally suppressed after an alleged failed coup attempt:

Do you suppose the CIA’s botched billion-dollar bribe violated sanctions? Maybe the CIA needs a special prosecutor. How many bad calls does the agency get before we fire them and get a new CIA? Or … can the CIA even be fired anymore? Whose CIA is it anyway, these days?

But I digress.

The New York Times’ point was: the Ukrainians are following their own strategy now. So if it fails, guess what? It won’t be NATO’s — I mean Joe Biden’s — fault. Try to keep up.

In other words, the political blame balloons are now aloft, bobbing around Eastern Europe, and they are going to blow up all over someone else so that Biden can have a clean presidential campaign. Well. Clean except for filing seventy criminal cases against his political opponent. Except for that.

🔥 Careful C&C readers will recall my prediction earlier this week that the new Biden Banana Prosecution of President Trump was backfiring. Let’s check in and see how things are going.

Trump surrendered yesterday for yet another arrest and arraignment — his third arrest in four months.

Apart from the unhinged left, who were celebrating this travesty of a failed republic, reactions were pretty strong. From Rogan yesterday:

“The people that love Trump, they feel like this is a witch hunt. They feel like all the things he’s getting indicted for are bull*** anyway… These are the actions of a banana republic, you take your political rival and you arrest him. Specifically, you charge him with things you're f**ing guilty of."

https://twitter.com/theblaze/status/1687188176236908544

Fox News’ Jesse Waters:

“Biden's attempts to arrest Trump are backfiring. Trump’s now demolishing the primary field and is tied with Biden in the general. This is the strongest Trump’s been  politically this cycle. The harder the Washington establishment tries to separate Trump from the people, the tighter that bond becomes."

https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1687299215696007168

From comedian Chris Rock (a couple months ago, but still relevant):

“You guys really going to arrest Trump? You know this is only going to make him more popular. It’s like arresting Tupac, he’s just going to sell more records. Are you kidding me?”

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1686543585456316416

Meanwhile, Team Biden is doubling down, releasing a goofy “Dark Brandon” campaign ad implying that he personally directed Trump’s arrests:

https://twitter.com/OldRowSwig/status/1687212083191181312

Anonymous officials in the White House said Biden’s next move will be for democrats to arrest Trump for failing to abate a smokey chimney.

The democrats really don’t get it. They are rapidly creating a campaign issue bigger and more compelling than any campaign issue in history.

Before I continue, let me remind everyone that I am a huge DeSantis fan. How could I not be, after what we went through in Florida during the pandemic? From March 2020, I gave up my cozy, well-run boutique litigation practice to work full time to stop the slide into biomedical despotism — and the Governor was an essential part of that life-altering experience. I personally think DeSantis was instrumental in stopping FEMA camps and restoring sanity to the U.S., and maybe the world. A hundred percent. He would be a terrific president.

And for many reasons, President Trump is a deeply flawed candidate; and DeSantis has none of Trump’s baggage.

But — thanks to democrats and feckless Republican officials should be shutting all this down hard but aren’t — I now predict the upcoming presidential election won’t be about policy, inflation, recession, jabs, Russia, China, Taiwan, Disney, drag queens, the deep state, January 6th, or Proxy Wars. Instead, it will be about a singular, existential crisis in our rule of law, a crisis affecting every single American whether they admit it or not.

In other words, if they can do this to President Trump, they can do it to anybody.

If we aren’t there already — and if we’re not, we will be soon — it’s not going to matter whether Governor DeSantis (or anybody else) is better able than Trump to brake this runaway political prosecution train.  Trump’s absolutely compelling campaign message will be: you can’t let them get away with this. Because if they get away with it, there won’t be any stopping it, not ever.

In other words, if the Trump prosecution works, the Dark Brandon of the apocalypse will be out of Hell’s barn and galloping toward your house.

Again, do not misunderstand me. I am not stumping for President Trump in the primary. My preferences are not public and don’t matter. I am only predicting what Trump’s campaign issue will be, a campaign issue that is unprecedented in American political history. Cycle after cycle, politicians have campaigned on made-up existential issues, like global heating, global cooling, running out of fossil fuels, polar bear drownings, nuclear war, and the proper spelling of the word “potato.”

But this time — thanks to literally unbelievable political over-prosecution — it will be an  existential issue, an issue that is manifestly and painfully real to a whole lot of people. Trump can argue that if he loses the primary or even the general, the polls prove it was only because they arrested him for everything they could think of — up to and including running Mar-a-Lago’s sprinklers on a Tuesday.

The truth of it is painfully and inescapably obvious. And it is already starting. Here’s just one example from an AOC parody account, but it’s not at all funny:

Three arrests and three indictments are at least two arrests and indictments too many for most sane people. The democrats have badly overplayed their hand, and it’s probably too late to stuff the Biden Bobblehead Doll back in its box. Even if they dismissed all Trump’s charges tomorrow — which they won’t — the issue is firmly front and center.

It’s not just Trump. The January 6th prosecutions of grandmothers and firefighters, the FBI raids on soccer moms complaining at school board meetings, the Gretchen Whitmer Fed-napping plot, and the Biden Administration’s vast social media censorship bureaucracy will coalesce around the Trump prosecutions to make the inarguable case that it is now or never.

I’m not saying DeSantis is out of it. There is a brief moment in time right now — before Trump starts campaigning for real — where DeSantis could take the lead on this issue. I’m just a lawyer, and not a political consultant, but it seems to me the Governor should fiercely make fixing the lopsided legal system his main campaign issue and never shut up about it. But it would take unprecedented courage, because he’ll have to defend a rival candidate, but mostly because if Governor DeSantis successfully campaigns against the deep state’s lawfare, then he will likely find himself in the crosshairs as well.

Before this weeks indictment, it would be fair to argue they wouldn’t possibly try this on another Republican candidate, at least not in the same campaign cycle. But we’re now well past the time that argument would get any traction.

Don’t believe any predictions about what’s going to happen. Nobody can predict this, because it has never happened before in modern history. But mark my words: this campaign will be the most contentious, most hyperbolic, highest-stakes campaign in our lifetimes.

💉 It’s been a tough week for beauty queens. The current Miss Venezuela, Ariana Viera, 26, who was set to compete in the 2023 Miss World pageant, and was described in some reports as “one of the most promising models in the world,” died suddenly and unexpectedly in a mysterious car accident in Florida on July 13th.

According to reports, Ariana may have “fallen asleep” behind the wheel. What we know is she crossed the lanes and hit a truck in Lake Nona, Orlando. She was revived by emergency personnel, taken to the hospital, but then had a heart attack and never woke up.

Media reports have highlighted an awkward Instagram video posted months before her accident, which the young model captioned, “Recording myself for my future funeral because it’s always me who takes the videos; no one takes them of me.” Focusing on that irrelevant post is more interesting to the media, apparently, than focusing on the cause of her mysterious accident and subsequent heart attack.

Even if the presidential campaigns forget about the jab issue, here at C&C we never will. Not ever. Not until there has been full accountability.

Have a fabulous Friday! We’ll re-convene right back here tomorrow morning for the excellent Weekend Edition.

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