There were on for their usual half hour this morning. And not a word was said about Brexit. I guess the show was taped sometime before Friday, when the British referendum results came out. They did talk quite a bit about Venezuela's collapse. The liberal members of the show (most of 'em) tried to explain the Venezuela problem as anything but socialism. Yeah right.
The also talked about NATO's plan to station ONE battalion (1000 men) in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Poland. Total 4000 troops. This is nothingness. Four divisions, 40,000 men would be more like it. Hitler launched a hundred divisions in 1941. Then there was some yellow belly talk about how the Baltic states don't really matter and we should not be risking war with Russia over them . I'll admit that war with Russia is a real downer, but letting the Russians take over free and independent countries sticks in my craw.
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Sunday, June 26, 2016
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
What would America fight for?
Cover story from The Economist, a London based weekly news magazine. Written from the point of view of Europeans, terrified that the Americans will let the Russki's eat them up. The article reaches no worthwhile conclusions. They don't know what the Americans might do. For that matter I don't think we Americans know what we might do.
With the exception of the Brits, the rest of Europe has disarmed, and can offer no more effective military resistance to a Russian invasion than the Ukrainians have. Plus, the Russians can turn off the heat all over Europe if they please, so the Europeans are timid about economic sanctions. In actual fact the Russians have more sanctions to lay on the Europeans than the Europeans have to lay on the Russians.
So far, the Russians are attacking an non NATO member, and are going to some trouble to disguise their land grab as another Anschluss, (the people really want to become part of Russia). After the Ukraine aggression has cooled off, say in a year or two, the Russians may try the same thing on a NATO member. Would the US live up to its treaty obligations and defend NATO members? The Europeans fear that we won't.
And if we don't, the Russians will move on Europe, country by country, and in a few years control everything up to the English Channel.
With the exception of the Brits, the rest of Europe has disarmed, and can offer no more effective military resistance to a Russian invasion than the Ukrainians have. Plus, the Russians can turn off the heat all over Europe if they please, so the Europeans are timid about economic sanctions. In actual fact the Russians have more sanctions to lay on the Europeans than the Europeans have to lay on the Russians.
So far, the Russians are attacking an non NATO member, and are going to some trouble to disguise their land grab as another Anschluss, (the people really want to become part of Russia). After the Ukraine aggression has cooled off, say in a year or two, the Russians may try the same thing on a NATO member. Would the US live up to its treaty obligations and defend NATO members? The Europeans fear that we won't.
And if we don't, the Russians will move on Europe, country by country, and in a few years control everything up to the English Channel.
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