Outstanding commentary & observations, Christian! I like the term & suggestion "quiet quit" for NATO & recommendation for neutrality in the Ukraine/Russian war. Good advice, but we still have many in Congress who want U.S. taxpayers to keep subsidizing Zelensky.
My only disagreement with this article is vis a vis Ukraine. The Russians are in even worse shape than NATO. I don’t know how it ends. I don’t know what final territorial integrity looks like. Putin is too deluded to grasp Trump is throwing him a life line. My guess is Russia continues to make marginal gains then collapses. Failure will end Russia as it is currently configured. The first casualty will be Putin either through ouster (less likely) or retirement (more likely). He has at least temporarily thrown any progress away. Russias only hope is to untapped its natural and Human Resources. It is a long way from realizing this and may not happen in my lifetime
Can a leader retire in Russia? Obama gets standing ovations at basketball games. Putin out of office would probably have trouble getting cable TV connected.
Outstanding commentary & observations, Christian! I like the term & suggestion "quiet quit" for NATO & recommendation for neutrality in the Ukraine/Russian war. Good advice, but we still have many in Congress who want U.S. taxpayers to keep subsidizing Zelensky.
Because the goods we sell and send to Ukraine come from various Congressional districts whose representatives don't want to upset the gravy train.
My only disagreement with this article is vis a vis Ukraine. The Russians are in even worse shape than NATO. I don’t know how it ends. I don’t know what final territorial integrity looks like. Putin is too deluded to grasp Trump is throwing him a life line. My guess is Russia continues to make marginal gains then collapses. Failure will end Russia as it is currently configured. The first casualty will be Putin either through ouster (less likely) or retirement (more likely). He has at least temporarily thrown any progress away. Russias only hope is to untapped its natural and Human Resources. It is a long way from realizing this and may not happen in my lifetime
Can a leader retire in Russia? Obama gets standing ovations at basketball games. Putin out of office would probably have trouble getting cable TV connected.
Dims and Europe are the same enemy.
And we need to start killing the Dims in massive numbers.
The divergence of Europe's (+UK) economy from the American one was also described in a recent essay by Yasha Mounk:
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-great-divergence
Nothing spells decline by ineffective governance better