EMBARRASSING STUPIDITY ON DISPLAY AT GOP DEBATE

September 28,2023

Some of us were not smart enough to ignore the Fox News “debate” of the GOP hopefuls last night `.                                        and watched their chaotic performance. I plead guilty. I had seen enough after about 55 minutes. 

The “debate” did reveal the embarrassing stupidity of several of the war monger neo-conservative “hold over from Bush” class of candidates. Their answers to the questions regarding support for the Ukraine War was revelatory.  It seems clear some remnants of the war monger element are still alive in the old GOP.  These folks—Pense, Haley (who would even send special forces troops into Mexico a close ally and economic partner.) , and Christie, simply have learned nothing from our awful history in foreign policy over the last decades.  One wonders where have they been? Thankfully, these candidates all  have GOP voter-support only in the single digits..  They eagerly support the un-winnable  war in Ukraine. For them, the US policy-goal is to degrade and destabilize Russia, a nation seen as an intractable enemy. Their reasoning is irrational. 

Ukraine has lost about 20% of its most industrialized and valuable Black Sea coast to Russia. That area will be very difficult to take back. Ukraine’s  so-called “summer offensive” failed. That failure has been exposed, not by media reports, which control, ignore, and hide such information, but by the actions of the Biden Administration itself. As the war effort stagnated in Ukraine, the US Administration has consistently escalated the conflict by increasing the number and destructive capacity of weapons, as well as their range. Ukraine now has  our best armor, tanks and top fighter-airplanes. We have also provided them with iternatinally banned and illegal cluster bombs. These are all signs of desperation which simply  underscore the fact that Ukraine is NOT winning. 

There is no possible “winner” in this war. Ukraine can not defeat Russia. The outcome can only be either a political compromise and territorial settlement —-or a wider NATO vs Russia Nuclear War.  The latter result would be a disaster for all of Europe and the western world. The result would be the horror of a radioactive, smoldering failed state on the border of eastern Europe with an angry and nuclear-armed Russia, under the control of even more radical elements in Moscow.  

Think back to the decisions of of the “geniuses” in the US State Department and Washington, DC that made similar decisions about Libya in 2011, and the awful outcome there.  Only this war in Eastern Europe would be much bigger and much worse.  

But evaluating the candidate’s stated rationale for this war—one recognizes that they have none.  The idea that our goal is to destabilize and weaken an eastern European nation..with the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons on Earth and simply hope that after we achieve this goal that all of Europe will be safe  ——is so ridiculous— it deserves no response. 

Europeans take note.  You will be the close neighbor of another failed state  the USA war-monger neo-conservative interventionists will have created not in Ssouth America but in the heart of Europe.