Teetering On The Brink

Never underestimate the stupidity of third-world primitives whose medieval religious fervor is so easily whipped up by their overlords, the puppet masters living in splendor far from the battlefield. Any excuse for jihad? A documented missile misfire by Islamic jihad, confirmed by intercepted communications and video, blows up a hospital but is spun to make Israel the culprit. NPR and some of our Democrat elected officials still claim that the evidence hasn’t been substantiated and stand by the Hamas’ propaganda, further inflaming tensions in the region. And the result: attacks on the American embassy in Beirut whilst Palestinian authority leaders and the Jordanian president snub the feckless American President Joe Biden. Who incidentally brought New York Governor Kathy Hochul along for the ride. Perhaps Kamala wasn’t available for the role of phenomenally vacuous female sidekick. But I digress: Our response will predictably be to pour more money into the conflict, money we don’t have, meaning we either borrow it or print it. Two distasteful options for our economic well-being. Meanwhile, China is allowed to comfortably sit back and make measured strategic moves that will benefit them on the world stage, using Russia and Iran as proxies to deplete our wealth and military stockpiles with their eye on the prize: Taiwan and replacing the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. Alas, the US can’t continue to operate as the global policeman and a piggy bank for global conflicts. Not without planning for the future in an increasingly dangerous world. Step one: China cannot continue to benefit from US technology and innovation. Our yielding chip manufacturing, pharmaceutical production, battery technology, and LED technology are glaring examples. We need to bring manufacturing home, reclaim the pharmaceutical industry, and bolster our own economy. That may also require making work a far more attractive alternative for the non-productive members of our society suckling at the government teat by eliminating our generous social programs that enable sloth. Step Two: We also need to return to a state of energy independence. Importing oil from hostile state polluters who can’t extract energy as cleanly and efficiently as we do is a ridiculous policy that sends more capital to the bad actors in the Middle East, South America, and Russia who seek to do us harm. 17 days left in the strategic oil reserve is not strategic at all. It’s self-defeating. And step three: Stop appeasing Iran. When they say they want to annihilate Israel and destroy the Great Satan, perhaps we should take them at their word. Return to punitive sanctions and choke their economy. Their population has increasingly become restless and daring in their protests against the regime, but as long as we continue to release billions to the mullahs, their stranglehold over the people will increase and their ability to fund the quest for a nuclear weapon will continue in earnest. We can’t rely on Israel alone to prevent that impending catastrophe. Step four:  replenish our depleted munitions. The war in Ukraine is draining our munitions stockpiles faster than we can produce them. And with promises to send more munitions to Israel will further deniers our reserves. If China moves on Taiwan, we have insufficient munitions to support a sustained conflict. What happened to America’s manufacturing might?  And lastly step five:  let’s get our own house in order. We are led, or at least purported to be led by a noticeably impaired president who stumbles and mumbles his way through scripted appearances that hardly instill confidence in the American public and certainly don’t instill fear in our enemies. And the B team, be it Kirby, Kamala, Austin, or Sullivan, aren’t much better, all excuses for their ineptitude provided by the outrageously empty suit, but historic box checker,  KJP, an embarrassing Kewpie doll without any ability to think on her feet. Her nickname “The Binder” is so apropos. This entire administration has to go. And stop smirking, Republicans. Your house is in similar disarray. We are facing an unprecedented world crisis on the heels of our disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, facing the prospect of yet another military quagmire in the Middle East and you idiots are quibbling over who to elect as speaker of the house, showing the democrats once again in lockstep but you, with a slim majority, unable to form a consensus. Why would anyone consider returning you dopes to power? Nice move Matt to introduce chaos with no follow-up plan. Another useless idiot. Nancy Pelosi may have been the devil in a pantsuit, but you gotta hand it to her, she got the job done and brought her detractors to heel. Don’t let her make a curtain call. And speaking of repeat performances: let’s not make the same mistakes we made in Afghanistan. The world is watching. And the stakes are getting higher.