"The Most Important Thing That the Zelenskyy Meeting Showed to Me".
Europe is deindustrializing--choosing to become actually poorer and more dependent--and lectures us about how we don't do enough for them. The average EU citizen is now poorer than the average Mississippian, but if you mentioned Mississippi to any of them they would laugh at them as rubes. They laugh at all of us as rubes, and then demand we defend them. Germany cannot put 20 fighter jets in the air. Its tanks are falling apart. No European country could defend its own borders, no less push back Russia.
I am reminded of Dean Rusk's question to Charles de Gaulle. When Charles de Gaulle requested the removal of American troops from French soil, the United States, through Secretary of State Dean Rusk, famously asked if that meant "Does that include the dead Americans in military cemeteries as well?".
People - and apparently whole countries - never seem to learn.
Located on 65.5 acres in the country’s southernmost province near the town of Margraten, the Netherlands’ only American military cemetery honors about 10,000 US soldiers who died in World War II. There is an adoption program that was started by the local residents to honor the American soldiers buried there, Eve today there's a waiting list of people who want to adopt a soldier. Other cemeteries in Europe have these programs but I don't know if they're as popular.
ReplyDeleteI remember that Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of empire building by George Bush.
He answered by saying that, "Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return."
It became very quiet in the room. You could have heard a pin drop.
The Great Powers in Europe aren't great, so any war will be like St. Barts invading Aruba. Except much colder and muddy.
ReplyDeleteIf the EUniks had any sense, they'd get some imam to declare Jihad! against Russia.
Kill two snakes with one stone.
Alas, they're more likely to conscript the native born to clear the field for the immigrants.
Trump taught Zelensky the meaning of FAFO, for sure.
ReplyDeleteIn the meantime, the Dems are repeating the same stupid shuck they pulled last time: “Trump’s a Russian agent, and there’s another horrible plague just around the corner in China.” Same shuck, different day. It’s tedious.
In 1992, Noriega, leader of Panama, was jailed in the US for racketeering, drug smuggling, and money laundering. Just sayin. I remember and I'm sure you do too.
ReplyDeleteOh, yes, I remember.
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