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K “So what happened?”
J “Not sure. Not sure that we are intended to know what happened. If anything happened.”
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K “The last person he sees has the most impact on his latest whim. That is considered by some to be a bit disconcerting.”
J “Looks like he meets with the Europeans and Zelensky today.”
K “Then who does he talk to next before spouting some incoherent drivel?”
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J “Stay tuned.”
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K “We are in it.”
J “Full tilt boogie.”
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Bumper stickers of the week:
“I Have A Bad Feeling About This” Obi-wan Kenobi
MAGA is dead. RI . . . P?
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K “Biden clearly was not in charge. Trump appears not to be in charge. The U.S.A. escalated and expanded its war with further charges on and charges dropped on Russia. The most powerful faction in his fractured administration is committed to war and making the command decisions.”
J “They are hitting dangerously close to home.”
K “They could hit dangerously close to home.”
J “The fundamental nature of war has changed in two big leaps. First, the use of drones in the Armenia and Azerbaijan war in 2020 voided so many legacy weapons. Second, hiding and moving the drones in mobile innocuous appearing civilian vehicles and using them on civilian infrastructure is a game changer. Technology and technique are rapidly evolving.”
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K “I could end the war in one (1) day. Others have not the ken, the courage or the clear vision to craft a solution. Cease the ISTAR [intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance], no war; continue the ISTAR, war. The U.S.A. elected to escalate and expand the war. One profound and effective way to cease the war in under twenty-four (24) hours is to warn the combatants that every deployed missile will be redirected back to land on its point of origin. And then just do it once.”
J “They could hit close to home.”
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K “And then there is the exploding bodaciously bad budget bill.”
J “At least that action is being done with Congressional approval.”
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Bumper sticker of the week:
Cease the ISTAR [intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance], no war; continue the ISTAR, war.
[See the e-commentary at Special Edition. Deciphering Derivatives. Oh, And Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! (March 17, 2023).]
Bumper stickers of the week:
How many Frenchmen does it take to liberate Paris? . . . None. The U.S. always has to do it.
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K “There is a new sheriff in town. And now a new deputy.”
J “Two political hacks.”
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K “The dynamic duo of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel will provide a much needed overhaul and transformation of the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.”
J “I hate the sheriff, and I do despise the deputy.”
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K “Chris Wray said the FBI spent about twenty-five percent of its resources on the J6 prosecution. His last speech in office warned that China presents a tremendous threat. What was he doing for four years about the tremendous threat?”
J “Protecting the country. They should have committed even more funds to the investigation and prosecution.”
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J “And we mark the third anniversary of Putin’s War.”
K “Biden’s War. Will Trump embrace it or will he end it? He has three months to resolve it before it becomes Trump’s war.”
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Bumper stickers of the week:
There is a new sheriff in town. And now a new deputy.
I hate the sheriff, and I do despise the deputy.
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J “Russia.”
K “U.S.A.”
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K “Both countries are getting extended.”
J “One country is retreating.”
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K “Russia had little choice. Russia is moving purposefully because it must move purposefully. The U.S. is moving clumsily because it always moves clumsily.”
J “This is the biggest game changer in recent years.”
K “Turkey is the emerging big player.”
J “I do not doubt that there will be many unintended consequences.”
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K “When you have someone cornered, you are in the same corner.”
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K “They all certainly extended and expanded World War III. More war, more death, more destruction, more violence. More war, more death, more destruction, more violence. More war, more death, more destruction, more violence. And as I have said many times, when the tide shifts, the blowback over the next 100 years will be unprecedented in human history.”
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“When two neighboring countries fight each other, just know the USA visited one.” Nelson Mandela
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K “A mentally incompetent lame goose President is further provoking World War Tres after his party and ideas were resoundingly rejected and repudiated by a majority of Americans. He really has no legal or moral authority to do anything more than pack his bags and leave.”
J “Until a new President is inaugurated, he is in control.”
K “But is he? He is not. Those in control are evil beyond compare.”
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K “The actual date when the U.S. and its vassals declared war on Russia is not clear at this time because it has been gradual, but the two decisions to allow the use of ATACMS missiles controlled and operated by Western technicians and also to use land mines may mark the red letter dates.”
J “Russia invaded. That is my fundamental factor.”
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K “When the NYT is not mature and sober and responsible enough to see that nuclear war is not ducky, we are all doomed.”
J “The West needs to hold the line.”
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Bumper stickers of the week:
The U.S. Declares War on Russia. Again.
Give complete nuclear annihilation a chance
The nuclear family, not the nuclear war
Dragon < Eagle > Bruin; Dragon + Bruin > Eagle; Eagle + Bruin > Dragon
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K “Two months ago, they drafted Frank Murkowski to shill for the Draft. Release the trial balloon from the far North and let it drift down to real America. Get a few people chatting. Then have some other MSM publications publicize the idea. And voilà, the idea is floating around out there in the public space and is a part of the Narrative.”
J “And published the piece on the Winter Solstice, the darkest day in the North. He packaged it as two years of public service. That I support. But there is another message lurking between the lines.”
K “Two years of public service, I heartily support. The Draft is problematic. I have said that it may create a tiny constituency opposed to war, but that is a quixotic notion.”
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J “As I recall, I noted back on Armistice Day in 2017 that in the early 1970’s, the Draft became an inconvenient nuisance for the well-connected such as George Bush, Richard ‘Dick’ Cheney, Rudolph Giuliani, John Ashcroft, John Bolton, Mittens Romney and Donaldo Trump. Dodging the Draft required pulling strings with the local draft board to get a deferment or hiding in the state national guard or fleeing to Europe or faking a hangnail. In response, many corporate think tanks, some owned by their parents, started thinking of a scheme to keep their kids out of tanks and in the corporations. The answer was to end the formal Draft now, release their kids from the duties of citizenship and . . . impose economic indentured servitude on the underclass. That changed the incentive structure for war.”
K “And Bill Clinton. Those sound like your exact words.”
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J “It is a real head-scratcher. Democrats such as John Kennedy, George McGovern, Max Cleland and Jim Webb are decorated war veterans who questioned America’s pursuit of unending war all over the globe all the time. Al Gore and John Kerry have lost their way. The Bush, Cheney, Giuliani, Ashcroft, Bolton, Romney and Trumpi Republicans are craven draft dodgers who fledged into chickenhawks and favor and savor sending other people’s kids off to die in useless wars that advance their economic interests.”
K “Life in America. And death in America. Have you noticed that the warring class who use other people’s money to take money from other people also take other people’s kids to take other people’s lives in their wars?”
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K “Continuing to pursue World War III through the next stages is going to require more cannon fodder. Despite using poverty as the incentive for enlistment, a growing number of kids recognize they will indeed be little more than cannon fodder for wars that never end. They are listening to what is happening and not enlisting.”
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K “His piece reads like an endorsement for a new Civilian Conservation Corps, but I suspect he is really trying to corral the cannon fodder.”
J “He is.”
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Bumper stickers of the week:
Chickenhawks For War
“No one man nor group of men incapable of fighting or exempt from fighting should in any way be given the power, no matter how gradually it is given them, to put this country or any country into war.” Ernest Hemingway, “Notes on the Next War: A Serious Topical Letter”, “Esquire”, September 1935.
Crafting the Lottery for the Draft:
Automatically Assigned Draft Number 1:
Draft Number 2:
Off spring means all children and grandchildren between the ages of 18 and 45.
Deferments are limited to those who qualify as disabled according to 2024 standards. Faking a disability will result in a thirty-year (30) prison sentence with no parole.
Any decision to intervene militarily triggers the Draft. Only after everyone with Draft Numbers 1 and 2 are inducted and serving will anyone else even be summoned for the Draft.
Any decision.
Draft beer not boys and members of the Ruling Class
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K “No one gets it. How do I get folks to get it.”
J “You don’t. No one wants to get it.”
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K “This is the real thing. Everything before August 6, 1945 was pre-nuclear. Everything since is post-nuclear.”
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K “Someone once observed: ‘All wars are bankers’ wars’. That is true. The Banker Boys are the real force driving the United States foreign policy. The BRICS+ team is the first serious threat to their veiled but complete control of the United States and most of the world. The BRICS+ team could co-exist with the Bankers; the Bankers will not tolerate the existence of a viable and thriving BRICS+. However, the BRICS+ will not be deterred. If the BRICS+ capitulate now, they are done and done forever. They know that. The Banker Boys know that. The Banker Boys are still driving toward a nuclear show down if necessary to maintain their dominance.”
J “One group is going to win big. One group is going to lose big.”
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J “The big players are a big problem, yet the little players are also a big problem. So many non-state actors in a world awash in weapons could trigger a black swan event that kills the white dove.”
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K “No one can back down in the Middle East. If Israel quits or is defeated, it is over for them. If the Palestinians quit or are defeated, they will never regain their homeland. It truly is life or death. This may be the big showdown.”
J “They have killed and are killing and will continue to kill. If there is one Israeli standing, he or she will kill a Palestinian. If there is one Palestinian standing, he or she will kill an Israeli. It is a way of life. Yet it is no way to live.”
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K “Yellen says the United States can afford to fight two wars. The United States cannot afford to fight one war. We shall see soon. Very soon.”
J “No one in power is admitting that ramping up another War will ramp up hyper-inflation to a level that will provoke a public outcry. Or worse.”
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K “The grand irony in the War on Terror is that the United States is the single largest sponsor of terror in the world and in the history of the world.”
J “I cannot disagree.”
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J “I’ll say it again. So many non-state actors in a world awash in weapons could trigger a black swan event that kills the white dove.”
K “We are deep into what will be known later in the vernacular rather uncreatively as World War III for want of a more insightful description. But only a few dozen folks recognize that reality and the scope of the expanding skirmish.”
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Bumper stickers of the week:
When your very existence is at stake, it becomes existential.
Defund The Department Of State [War]
K “Russia is PLANet B! At every environmental rally, someone sports a sign proclaiming: ‘There is no PLANet B’ for us (the US?) to exploit. The letters ‘PLAN’ and ‘B” are in capitals and usually in a contrasting color. But there is a ‘PLANet B’! It is Russia. The West is not attacking Russia because Russia is a threat, the West is attacking Russia to purloin its resources. The current Western aggression lead by the Big Uncle is another chapter in the history of colonial oppression of the world by the West. It is so obvious when it is obvious.”
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J “In a moment of unguarded weakness, I admit that the West would like to dismember and distribute Russian resources that was started when Yeltsin was in office. The U.S. must counter China’s control of world resources. It is not always pretty.”
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Bumper stickers of the week:
There is no PLANet B!
There is no PLANet B Russia!
Save the Planet! It’s the only one with beer!
“West” / “North”: $98.1 Trillion in resources ???
“East” / “South”: $211.7 Trillion in resources ???
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