Politics

Friday Firesmith – The death of america (as we know it)

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Trump’s plan to take by force the territory of a NATO country is the third rail of his presidency. As of yet, nothing he’s done seems to shake the MAGA folk from believing the truth that this is a person who has no business running a hot dog stand much less a country.

The invasion of Greenland will end the world as we know it.

If you thought tariffs were a stupid idea, just wait until we’re cut off from buying or selling anything from Europe, or anything that has to pass through Europe to get here.

We’re going to lose every base we have in Europe, including those in Germany we fly wounded troops from Iraq to when needed. How are we going to supply the men and women in uniform without NATO’s help? How are we going to respond quickly if Iran invades Iraq, which they can do now that America is cut off from the Middle East?

If Trump attacks NATO, an organization we helped build and maintain for over seven decades, who will trust us after that?

Putin will have no force on earth to restrain his dream of a Greater Russia. With a NATO blockade of the Suez canal oil coming from the Middle East could be cut off easily, and there is nothing America could do to get it back. Without the bases in Europe, America is an island in the Atlantic with nowhere to land planes.

It gets much worse, and it gets there quickly.

Iran can take Iraq in less than a week setting up a Shia Superstate. China can take Taiwan and become the Pacific Superpower dictating trade and movement of ships without interference from America at war with their former closest friends. Taiwan is the biggest and most important producer of computer chips on earth, and a war with NATO hands them to China.

The Middle East goes hard over to Islamic Extremists, who have long yearned to be rid of American influence. India will be forced to become closer to Russia or China, simply because after attacking NATO, America will lose the trust of everyone on earth.

Go through your house and toss out everything not made in America. Your jeans, appliances, your car, your dishes, your flooring, your computers, and you’re going to find that Trump doesn’t produce anything but conflict and strife.

We cannot wake up one day, elect a leader who is both sane and knowledgeable, and hope the world as a whole trusts us again.

Unless we rise up against the end of America as we know it, and we do it soon, everything we have ever known will simply wither and disappear, leaving us with nothing but memories if the way things once were, and landfills full of red hats.

Take Care,

Mike

Friday Firesmith – the invasion of greenland

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(trigger warning for those overly sensitive readers ~ admin)

If you aren’t paying attention to why Greenland is suddenly becoming a hot topic, let me remind you of a few things.

First, reading is a habit I picked up about age four. It was, and still is, the most important method of retaining information the human brain that has ever been created. Video information doesn’t have the impact of reading as far as information retention is concerned, and if you have a camera and half a brain you can make a video.

Second, Greenland is the cork in the bottle, the stopper that seals Europe’s northwestern borders from Russian aggression. We, the Unites States, help operate, maintain, and use extensively, the passive sonar systems that cover vast stretches of icy ocean waters in that part of the world. We, the United States and NATO, keep the Russian submarine fleet under near constant surveillance and we know where nearly every Russian missile submarine is at all times.

Russian missile submarines carry nuclear warheads that target American cities and military installations.

We, the Unites States of America, are one stupid decision by an aging and slightly coherent orange painted elderly narcissistic felon away from losing this protection from the Russians, forever.

If you are stupid enough to think we shouldn’t try to defend against nuclear weapons that are targeting our nation simply stop reading this right now, because you are not intelligent enough to understand the threat. If your loyalty to a president is greater than your love of America, and you are fine with a nuclear arsenal aimed at your children, then leave now.

We can’t get that system of protection back once we lose it. The moment we declare war on Greenland we lose the faith and trust of our NATO allies. We can’t elect anyone who will be able to go to Europe and tell them it was all a mistake, and the Good America is back.

Europe will respond to all things American as an existential threat, as well they should. All trade treaties and immigration will halt.

Every military installation in Europe will be seized, or worse, will surrender to European forces.

If you think the American military will blindly allow American security in the northern Atlantic to be totally destroyed by the whims of a man who wears a diaper and cannot speak coherently on his best days, you are deluded.

We, the United States of America, have voted into office the one person on this planet that could create the conditions for a military coup.

Men who have spent their entire lives hand in hand with our European Allies to protect this nation are not going to sit idle while the best military alliance in human history is destroyed. They shouldn’t. They should do what they have to do to keep this nation safe, as our military has always done.

You want to know who I trust? I trust the collective of humanity who believes that the unity of free nations is more important than the personal ambitions of two elderly white men who are going to be tried for crimes as soon as they leave office.

If you do not believe this, if the wall falls down, and we discover that isolationism is suicide, I hope your bunker is deep enough to stop a nuke. I hope it’s deep enough to be the final resting place for Democracy, and the dream that the Constitution offered humankind as a guide of governance.  Across the world, people are holding their breath, waiting, wondering, and asking, “Where are the Americans?”

Where are we?

Take Care,

Mike

(admin note – Damn, son!)

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