Winter is Coming...

 

by Craig Willms

Hey Nero, put that fiddle down!

Winter being an unsubtle metaphor for war it is always right around the corner. Even in the height of summer we know winter is coming. Our country is waking up from a long slumber and it needs to. With a new administration we are seeing a renewed effort to prepare America for a war we hope we never have to fight. Unfortunately, we are miles behind. Do we realize that the nation that spends more on defense than most of the rest of the world combined is not prepared to win wars? 

America in its lore and continuing self-image is the nation that defeated the Nazis and the Imperial Japanese. Well, for one we didn't do it alone and we were an unapparelled industrial power then. We are no longer unapparelled and we are a greatly diminished industrial power today. 

Short of leveling the world in a nuclear holocaust we haven't the army or the industrial might required to win a major war. With the advent of drone technology and precision munitions military actors from anywhere could castrate our nation. 

I bring this up because we have an undercurrent in the political rhetoric that seems hellbent on taking Russia to war for their crimes (perceived and real) against Ukraine. The EU and the American left are saber rattling as if war with Russia is the only rational solution. President Trump campaigned on stopping the current wars, while rebuilding our fighting capacity and ridding the Federal government of waste and fraud, yet he is being opposed at every turn by the peace and love party. Other than opposing Trump at every turn because he is Trump none of this computes. Up is down, left is right, hot is cold and evil is good. 

The entirety of the Biden years were devoted to absolute nonsense. They beat their chest like a rabid gorilla and then went to tea parties with their transvestite friends. They goaded Russia with covert and not so covert actions in Ukraine for more than a decade while floating NATO expansion over and over... This while they attempted to dismantle what is left of our industrial and energy substrate and encouraging our chief ally to do the same. The EU is a military joke - and they know it. The one nation with the skill and work force to be a significant industrial power has been laid to waste by preserving butterflies and flowers. Germany is lost, and with it so is Europe. France is stumbling in the weeds of its own contradictions and Great Britain is a shell.

The question is, were the Biden puppeteers really fiddling or was it by design. In all honesty I believe it was the latter. 

The left, the communists, let's call them what they are, want the United States and our capitalist ways to fall. It's not even debatable. Their opposition, the feckless Republicans and the country club crowd want to act like we can give in to the leftists here and there as well as spread out productive capacity (and get cheap labor to boot) and magically all will be well with the world. Well obviously, that's wrong. Giving into the left only emboldens them. Nothing is ever enough. Even in the face of utter failure nothing will turn these people into moderates. Their ideas must be crushed, Karl Marx must, for once and for all, be completely discredited.

Trump sees that. He coopted the Republican party to inject a dose of reality. Time will tell if he can succeed, if he's allowed to, if he can get out of his own way. If he can subdue his titanic ego - a very tall order - he can take a giant step toward making America sturdy again. It seems his top priority is to reindustrialize the nation and re-militarize our armed forces. That seems like an oxymoron considering armed forces is another term for military, but what Biden's puppeteers were doing was sissifying our military and making it a social justice cause instead of a fighting force. I hope enough people can see that. 

Because America is protected by oceans and supposedly friendly neighbors to the north and south, we have a measure of protection, or at least we did. What Canada and Mexico have been doing violates the friendly neighbor clause. They are staging ground for China to flood the U.S. with their cheap goods and their drugs (and Chinese migrants). Our friendly neighbors also use tariffs to prevent American goods from wrecking their own production. As in, from what I hear, 250% on dairy products from the U.S. Lately we've been hearing the term "reciprocal tariffs" instead of just tariffs so that the point can be made. Almost every country protects its industry with tariffs in one way or another. Trump is playing tit-for-tat in order to prod manufacturing back to our shores. It's smart. But the media makes it seem like Trump is just being a jerk and rocking the boat because he can. Well, yes, he can, and he should. 

If war was to come to us in a big way right now, we'd be screwed. Our delicate infrastructure could be devastated before we could ramp up a war machine. We don't even make the components in this country that support our own infrastructure. The left would get its dream and the rest of us would be living hand to mouth and groveling for scraps. The United States would go the way of the Romans, a footnote in the history books. That's what the leftists want. Please tell me you can see that...