The Republican party would, in theory at least, like to win an election once in a while. So why are they being so lethargic in their opposition to what should be the single biggest political issue today?
Consider the following facts.
As I wrote previously, the Biden administration was all but certainly behind the Nord Stream bombing. The whole incident is concerning, but the single most alarming aspect of it is Biden unilaterally making a direct act of war against Russia (who we are not at war with) and Germany, and an actual US ally (at least on paper). If he was willing to play that game once, who’s to say how many other times he’s done it? What if, just to list a few possibilities, he was also behind the Crimean bridge attack, or one of the numerous drone strikes and terrorist bombings on Russian soil (including the violent Ukrainian incursion into Bryansk this week).
It’s not even a question of is Russia good or bad, or are attacks on Russia right or wrong, justified or unjustified. Even if we accept the premise that Russia is a bad aggressor that deserves to be attacked, it’s not a decision that can be constitutionally made by the president without congressional approval. But, frankly, war with Russia is not a question that Biden’s team would ever dare pose to American voters, because their answer would be a resounding and obvious war. The public is placated by assurances that we are only supporting our progressive democratic LGBTQ Ukrainian allies but not directly getting involved in the war, and there is no risk. It’s increasingly obvious that this premise is a lie, and was a lie from the beginning.
Second, there’s the obvious criminal connection between Ukraine and Biden himself. There’s his son’s shady shady no-show job with Burisma and his lost laptop – all obvious signs that the Biden crime family is deeply corrupt and compromised by foreign entities. After Zelensky’s weird and disrespectful visit to the White House last December, I floated the idea that Biden might in fact be getting blackmailed by the Ukrainian mafia, and he has no choice but to give Kiev whatever they demand. Then there’s the disastrous FTX partnership with Ukraine. At least some American taxpayer money to Ukraine was laundered right into the pockets of the Democratic party in the form of donation’s from FTX. And yet, barely so much as a whimper from Republicans and conservatives.
Then there’s the sheer scale of our government’s expenditures in Ukraine. In 2022 alone, Congress approved $113 billion, and that’s just what we know of, because Democrats refuse to allow an audit. In terms of cost and effort, this is in every sense of the word an American war. The only thing that’s not happened yet is American troops openly participating in direct combat. We’re funding the entire Ukrainian military, including the pay of individual soldiers, and also footing the bill for their civil government as well. Including, ironically, Ukrainian pensions. Imagine, Biden is using Americans’ tax dollars to write welfare checks for the citizens of a foreign country. It might be unprecedented.
Some Republicans, like Lindsey Graham, wholeheartedly support the war. That’s to be expected. What’s much more concerning is the rest of the Republican party and conservative establishment says very little in opposition, and does even less.
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The actual Republicans, I would say, don’t even deserve the mention – it is still the Uniparty that’s the name of the game, they’re deep state pets same as the other subset of the Uniparty. And since the war on Russia seems like a dedicated deep state project and not someone’s pet initiative, whatever opposition they voice has to be ineffectual, else they’ll be removed from the trough and replaced by the next in line who is more ready to cheerlead, or at least keep mum and carry on obediently.
What’s interesting here are the “non-systemic” conservatives being predominantly chill and disengaged. That, I’d say, is more the fault of what Andrei Martyanov keeps on repeating (because it bears repeating) – the quality of their actual information about the world is in the gutter and they get their worldview from Hollywood and wildly edited history, sometimes even when they have access to much better intelligence or information sources. American elites’ education is a joke, to the peril of themselves and the world – they still believe Russia is of no threat or consequence and they have nothing to fear from antagonizing it all the way up to directly overseeing armed attacks against its settlements and murder of civilians. They think stuff like the Chernobyl show (written by a Banderite, natch) is factual documentary material, and that Russians can’t do anything to wonderful American super-tanks and planes and would be destroyed without any losses should they have to be, and that Russian nuclear missiles are all rusted shut and will never leave their launch tubes because those backwards Slavs can’t make anything. The myth of American supremacy and invincibility holds them fast asleep – if anything, reading some American conservatives’ texts and hearing them talk suggests to me they’re embracing it harder out of spite for the Woke politics wave’s hostility to all things putatively American, being turbo-patriots ready to put rah-rah over reason because the wokies are turbo-anti-patriots and likewise abandon reason for blind hatreds. In those conditions, it seems they think a war with Russia is not something to fear because they believe Russia is weak and helpless and wouldn’t be able to hurt the US back even if it wanted to, especially not the actual US territory back home.
This applies both to leader figures and to rank-and-file conservatives. Even if they don’t believe America could crush Russia in hours or that Russia cannot hurt the US mainland, they’re still dining richly on cold war mentality fare and russophobia is part of their daily breakfast. Their hatred ensures that, even if some worry about such an eventuality, it’s not because they think it’d be a bad idea in theory – so they tacitly accept the not-quite-proxy-anymore war because that russophobia makes it feel good to them.
What compounds the danger here is that there already are American forces present on the ground and involved, they’re just sheep-dipped to be deniable and mostly trying to stay out of the front lines. And while for American figures that’s enough to claim they’re uninvolved and act like Russian accusations of American participation are somehow false, Russians keep on seeing that participation themselves and are building up more and more of a wish for payback. And to Americans, that’ll yet again be presented as “unprovoked hostility and aggression”, and so the spiral of apocalypse unwinds.
Damn good comment, Red Outsider. Brilliantly written, accurate and true.
Two “Conservative”, actually Neocon sites I’ve posted on for years are now suppressing my comments. My guess is the owners got visits from men concerned about the welfare of their families and then say they were never there.
“There’s his son’s shady shady no-show job with Burisma and his stolen laptop”
The laptop wasn’t stolen. He forgot to retrieve from the repair shop and the shop had a legal right for the ownership. Unless you’re talking about another laptop.
You’re right, I don’t even know why I used that word. I made the correction, thanks!
you might have been thinking of the “laptop of death”:
https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/201409/is-the-laptop-of-death-bogus/
https://lobelog.com/suspicions-persist-about-iranian-laptop-of-death/
The Constitution is dead. We are breathing the embers of our dying Republic. Familiar, Ian?
A commenter wrote that on the fabiusmaximus blog and the owner, you know who he is, put it up on the front page of his site.
“Fabiusmaximus” is a hell of a man. A former Scout Master like me. He was a great mentor for me and prepared me for you.
I’m buying Ultraviolence for my brother as a birthday present since he likes Sci-fi. I told him, “Oh man! Do I have a book for you!”.
Lindsey Graham is a Warmongering War Profiteering Neocon Nazi like John McCain.
I emailed Graham’s office and told him to go to the front line in Ukraine. He’s a typical Nazi deviant and probably a crossdresser too.