All true. Love Childers, but for apparently putative self-preservational (1) and blind-spot (2) reasons he has failed on two key subjects.
1. He will not address the funding of Israel or the nature and scope of the Israel Lobby (see: Mearsheimer and Walt) in the manner of a very rational Thomas Massie. Such is the power and reach of the b…
All true. Love Childers, but for apparently putative self-preservational (1) and blind-spot (2) reasons he has failed on two key subjects.
1. He will not address the funding of Israel or the nature and scope of the Israel Lobby (see: Mearsheimer and Walt) in the manner of a very rational Thomas Massie. Such is the power and reach of the both centralized and decentralized lobby and influence operation. People dare not speak the words. Not even Childers.
2. On Russia/Ukraine, two things can be true at the same time. Putin is a murderer. He is a thug. He cares not one whit about human life, neither Russian nor anyone else. He cares about something that only someone who understands the Soviet mentality can fathom. Nobody actually believes that the West would ever invade Russia. You cannot invade a nuclear power, in fact, the most powerful nuclear arsenal in the world. And the one country in the world that has never been conquered by any foreign power, in any epoch. Of course there was massive mismanagement by Democrats and neocons. All related to the military industrial complex and Israel-first policy, and personal corruption. This is not an us-versus-them situation. It is a full on no-win situation. The Ukrainians are going to have to concede soil to Russia so Putin can save face. America is going to have to try to extract promises from Putin that of course mean nothing, but allow the West to save face and be out of this war for now. And to save the larger part of Ukraine for the Ukrainian people, for now.
Whatever admiring things a Trump says about Putin or little rocket man in public, he'd better realize what insane slave Gulag states these people run, or want to run, and never forget it in the longer game. It may not help to constantly denigrate them in public, but in the long run you better have a plan to keep them absolutely at bay. Ditto CCP.
Every single one of those regimes want the destruction of America with extreme prejudice. To not know that is the height of fatuous folly.
Childers is so exasperated by Biden's corruption and the dishonesty of corrupt neocon neverTrumpers that he comes out effectively defending Putin. Inexplicably forgetting that two things can be true at the same time.
Yes, the invasion was brutal, murderous, totally unproductive, and not necessary to "protect Russia". That wasn't even Putin's initial claim and excuse for making the invasion. It was a special military operation to take territory that he felt was historically Russia. To "protect the Russian minority" in those regions. Straight out of the Soviet/Nazi playbook.
He would use the same excuse or some variation, cynically, to invade Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and many others, just as they did in gleefully starting World War II with the Nazis. How quickly we forget, deny, and gaslight.
All true. Love Childers, but for apparently putative self-preservational (1) and blind-spot (2) reasons he has failed on two key subjects.
1. He will not address the funding of Israel or the nature and scope of the Israel Lobby (see: Mearsheimer and Walt) in the manner of a very rational Thomas Massie. Such is the power and reach of the both centralized and decentralized lobby and influence operation. People dare not speak the words. Not even Childers.
2. On Russia/Ukraine, two things can be true at the same time. Putin is a murderer. He is a thug. He cares not one whit about human life, neither Russian nor anyone else. He cares about something that only someone who understands the Soviet mentality can fathom. Nobody actually believes that the West would ever invade Russia. You cannot invade a nuclear power, in fact, the most powerful nuclear arsenal in the world. And the one country in the world that has never been conquered by any foreign power, in any epoch. Of course there was massive mismanagement by Democrats and neocons. All related to the military industrial complex and Israel-first policy, and personal corruption. This is not an us-versus-them situation. It is a full on no-win situation. The Ukrainians are going to have to concede soil to Russia so Putin can save face. America is going to have to try to extract promises from Putin that of course mean nothing, but allow the West to save face and be out of this war for now. And to save the larger part of Ukraine for the Ukrainian people, for now.
Whatever admiring things a Trump says about Putin or little rocket man in public, he'd better realize what insane slave Gulag states these people run, or want to run, and never forget it in the longer game. It may not help to constantly denigrate them in public, but in the long run you better have a plan to keep them absolutely at bay. Ditto CCP.
Every single one of those regimes want the destruction of America with extreme prejudice. To not know that is the height of fatuous folly.
Childers is so exasperated by Biden's corruption and the dishonesty of corrupt neocon neverTrumpers that he comes out effectively defending Putin. Inexplicably forgetting that two things can be true at the same time.
Yes, the invasion was brutal, murderous, totally unproductive, and not necessary to "protect Russia". That wasn't even Putin's initial claim and excuse for making the invasion. It was a special military operation to take territory that he felt was historically Russia. To "protect the Russian minority" in those regions. Straight out of the Soviet/Nazi playbook.
He would use the same excuse or some variation, cynically, to invade Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and many others, just as they did in gleefully starting World War II with the Nazis. How quickly we forget, deny, and gaslight.