This is not our war.
I wish we could look at this world, that is changing so fast it’s
blinding, and accommodate it. Because if we don’t, we’re going to be behind the
train watching it go down the track.
We know that US military budgets are not going to fail in US Congress.
55%… of the Defense Budget goes to contractors
The United States is cornered because of the decisions of this Administration
as a military professional, it’s clear to me the war has been a recipe for complete defeat.
Ukraine will be toxic for decades.
“What it all comes back to is a very short-sighted desire for political scoring.”
War, and its sister war in Iraq, were glaring cesspools of corruption, fraud and waste that succeeded only in enriching corrupt officials, empowering warlords and profiting arms and development companies while building governments and armies that were nothing more than houses of cards.
We told them after they disbanded the Warsaw Pact that we could not expand NATO, not one inch. And we did that, we lied.