Christmas decorations are still up.
We left off yesterday writing something snarky about the abject failure of Team USA to stop the maniac next door from committing genocidal acts1.
Turns out that Steven’s fourth trip to Moscow last week produced zero results.
Days after the trip, JD blurted out:
“If this doesn’t stop, the Ukrainians aren’t winning the war,” Vance said. “I think there’s this weird idea among the mainstream media that if this thing goes on for just another few years, the Russians will collapse, the Ukrainians will take their territory back, and everything will go back to the way that it was before the war. That is not the reality that we live in.”
He added that a few more years of war would lead to the “collapse of society” because “the demographics of both countries [Ukraine and Russia] are a real nightmare.”
“If the war continues for a few more years, millions of people could die and it could escalate into a nuclear war. It has to stop,” JD said on the Charlie Kirk Show podcast.
Another bogus Team USA talking point on Ukraine is that Donald has done more in three months to end the war than the previous US administration did in three years. Little Marco says that often, adding that if progress is not soon made by Ukraine and Russia to agree to a truce Team USA will have no other choice than to move on to other pressing foreign policy projects, like subjugating Greenland and repossessing the Panama Canal.
Donald continues to repeat that it’s not his war. He says he is on the side of Ukraine, which “will be crushed” in several years if the fighting continues2.
100 days in, we see bureaucratic complicity and ineptitude from Team USA. There is zero enthusasm for fighting systemic evil. Team USA is paralyzed by the fear that Team Russia might resort to nuclear bombs to get what it wants. This is an excuse for acting to prevent more atrocities, which cannot be avoided.
The reality we live in: Donald and JD prioritize national interests over moral imperitives.
On the running jacket, more running.
This morning in the middle of nowhere I ran into a very large Ridgeback. Luckily, the owner called him off before he could eat me for breakfast.
We had a Malinois when I was a kid, so I have zero fear of dogs, but this pooch might have been a challenge to subdue.
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