Great read and spot-on analysis. It's like the whole military/industrial/media complex is gaslighting the whole country. Down the memory hole are warning of blowback from NATO expansion, exposes of Ukrainian corruption and kleptocracy and breathless reporting on Neo Nazi militias in Ukraine. It was less than 6 months after our humiliating defeat in Afghanistan (the righteous war) that the whole complex narrative seamlessly shifted to our sacred democratic duty to defend Ukraine. There was not even the most trivial critique of how we spent 20 years fighting medieval goat herders and lost. Not one critique of 20 years of politicians and generals telling us we were winning in Afghanistan. McCrystal, Petraeus, Mattis, et al just transitioned to the industrial side of the complex and are now making milliion$.
I'm a retired 26 year colonel and took 10 years of military leave from my airline to fly C-17s in Iraq & Afghanistan. My wife is a flight nurse and did 8 deployments to Iraq/Afghanistan literally carrying thousands of wounded troops to Europe and the US. I'm really pissed at the incompetence, corruption and failure of our "leaders" and their abject failure over the last 20 years. They've made our country into a big, blundering oaf breaking shit around the world while other people pay the price for their incompetence. We blunder in Iraq based on faulty intel on WMD and turn it into an Iranian client state. We bomb the shit out of Libya and turn it into an anarcho terror state and the main importation point for chaos into Europe. We spend 20 years in Afghanistan and end up leaving rainbow flags over the embassy and George Floyd murals in Kabul while US people are evacuated.
So I'm with you, let's stay the hell out of Ukraine, we've got a lot of stuff that needs fixing in our own country before we blunder around breaking more stuff around the world. Lets start with some analysis on how our country has failed so badly over the last 20 years.
Well said. Sadly, we professionals are now out and the woke political senior officers are in. We will have to fire every one of them and the senior DOD civilians to course correct. Thats why I ran for US Senate in the first place, to try and stop the destruction of the American non-partisan military culture.
Great read and spot-on analysis. It's like the whole military/industrial/media complex is gaslighting the whole country. Down the memory hole are warning of blowback from NATO expansion, exposes of Ukrainian corruption and kleptocracy and breathless reporting on Neo Nazi militias in Ukraine. It was less than 6 months after our humiliating defeat in Afghanistan (the righteous war) that the whole complex narrative seamlessly shifted to our sacred democratic duty to defend Ukraine. There was not even the most trivial critique of how we spent 20 years fighting medieval goat herders and lost. Not one critique of 20 years of politicians and generals telling us we were winning in Afghanistan. McCrystal, Petraeus, Mattis, et al just transitioned to the industrial side of the complex and are now making milliion$.
I'm a retired 26 year colonel and took 10 years of military leave from my airline to fly C-17s in Iraq & Afghanistan. My wife is a flight nurse and did 8 deployments to Iraq/Afghanistan literally carrying thousands of wounded troops to Europe and the US. I'm really pissed at the incompetence, corruption and failure of our "leaders" and their abject failure over the last 20 years. They've made our country into a big, blundering oaf breaking shit around the world while other people pay the price for their incompetence. We blunder in Iraq based on faulty intel on WMD and turn it into an Iranian client state. We bomb the shit out of Libya and turn it into an anarcho terror state and the main importation point for chaos into Europe. We spend 20 years in Afghanistan and end up leaving rainbow flags over the embassy and George Floyd murals in Kabul while US people are evacuated.
So I'm with you, let's stay the hell out of Ukraine, we've got a lot of stuff that needs fixing in our own country before we blunder around breaking more stuff around the world. Lets start with some analysis on how our country has failed so badly over the last 20 years.
Well said. Sadly, we professionals are now out and the woke political senior officers are in. We will have to fire every one of them and the senior DOD civilians to course correct. Thats why I ran for US Senate in the first place, to try and stop the destruction of the American non-partisan military culture.