Is Putin Winning?
The public relations people at Biden's White House are thumping their chests. Several news outlets have picked up their “message of the day” and are running with it: “America no longer in decline – World Respect Growing!!!”
How do we know this is a disinformation campaign, and not real? Because it first appeared in “Politico”, which is almost a dedicated outlet for PR pieces by “unnamed spokespersons".
And this [b][i]IS[/i][/b] a brilliant message of the day. It's been 48 hours since any new top secret Biden docs have turned up. We can now change the topic! America is respected again! Because of Ukraine!! Wait . . what?
How does America throwing a few Billion dollars at Ukraine mean “world respect”?
Please note that Biden's White House is NOT taking questions on ancillary topics like: “Germany refuses to supply Leopard tanks to Ukraine.” WTH?? How can Biden be winning, if he can't even persuade Germany to part with a few tanks?
To be fair, “Winter is coming”. And Germany probably DOES have a back-channel agreement to get Russian natural gas if they agree to drag their feet on this sort of stuff. This is why NATO sucks in the first place. There is always some BS member like Turkey, or Germany or obscure member states (Montenegro, I'm looking at you) which barely qualify as nations at all. These guys always say no to everything.
I learned something interesting from NPR about Germany's Leopard Tanks. They're actually better than America's “Abram Tanks”. Stop laughing – the logic is very convincing. Although the US Abrams tanks have magic armor and a main gun which is a full 5mm (1/8th of an inch) larger caliber than other tanks, it apparently can't travel for more than 2 or 3 hours without needing refueling. With aviation jet fuel. Because the Abrams tank is powered by a turbine (Jet) engine.
There's a reason why none of the world's cars, SUVs, 18 wheelers, or construction equipment use jet engines. They are INCREDIBLY inefficient (bad MPG), and jet fuel is astonishingly expensive and explosive. And hard to protect on the battlefield. Oh . .and Abram's tanks require “a long training period” because they are “very complicated”.
All of this is true, of course. But NPR forgot to say that the Pentagon doesn't really want some random Abram's tank – with its magic armor and $50 million high tech fire control sustem – falling into Russian hands during a battle over some Crimean pig farm. Even though Abram's tanks DO come with a self-destruct button right out the Star Trek. (For the record, so do many US military helicopters).
America is great again! Wait – that was Trump's slogan, wasn't it? It seems absurd for Biden white house flacks to be leading with that. Don't they have memories longer than 2 years?
Russia just threatened (again) to start a nuclear war if Ukraine wins. So, if you believe them, why would you even send tanks to Ukraine? You might just be hastening the end of humanity, whether you send Abram's tanks, Leopard tanks, or Chihuahua tanks from Mexico. (I just made this up - there's no such thing.)
Sorry, White House flacks – I don't think America's respect is rising around the world if NATO members are so split. It actually sounds like we have been outfoxed by the demented little man in the Kremlin. The same guy the White House also told us would be dead from cancer or killed in a coup by now.
I'm just sayin' . . .
How do we know this is a disinformation campaign, and not real? Because it first appeared in “Politico”, which is almost a dedicated outlet for PR pieces by “unnamed spokespersons".
And this [b][i]IS[/i][/b] a brilliant message of the day. It's been 48 hours since any new top secret Biden docs have turned up. We can now change the topic! America is respected again! Because of Ukraine!! Wait . . what?
How does America throwing a few Billion dollars at Ukraine mean “world respect”?
Please note that Biden's White House is NOT taking questions on ancillary topics like: “Germany refuses to supply Leopard tanks to Ukraine.” WTH?? How can Biden be winning, if he can't even persuade Germany to part with a few tanks?
To be fair, “Winter is coming”. And Germany probably DOES have a back-channel agreement to get Russian natural gas if they agree to drag their feet on this sort of stuff. This is why NATO sucks in the first place. There is always some BS member like Turkey, or Germany or obscure member states (Montenegro, I'm looking at you) which barely qualify as nations at all. These guys always say no to everything.
I learned something interesting from NPR about Germany's Leopard Tanks. They're actually better than America's “Abram Tanks”. Stop laughing – the logic is very convincing. Although the US Abrams tanks have magic armor and a main gun which is a full 5mm (1/8th of an inch) larger caliber than other tanks, it apparently can't travel for more than 2 or 3 hours without needing refueling. With aviation jet fuel. Because the Abrams tank is powered by a turbine (Jet) engine.
There's a reason why none of the world's cars, SUVs, 18 wheelers, or construction equipment use jet engines. They are INCREDIBLY inefficient (bad MPG), and jet fuel is astonishingly expensive and explosive. And hard to protect on the battlefield. Oh . .and Abram's tanks require “a long training period” because they are “very complicated”.
All of this is true, of course. But NPR forgot to say that the Pentagon doesn't really want some random Abram's tank – with its magic armor and $50 million high tech fire control sustem – falling into Russian hands during a battle over some Crimean pig farm. Even though Abram's tanks DO come with a self-destruct button right out the Star Trek. (For the record, so do many US military helicopters).
America is great again! Wait – that was Trump's slogan, wasn't it? It seems absurd for Biden white house flacks to be leading with that. Don't they have memories longer than 2 years?
Russia just threatened (again) to start a nuclear war if Ukraine wins. So, if you believe them, why would you even send tanks to Ukraine? You might just be hastening the end of humanity, whether you send Abram's tanks, Leopard tanks, or Chihuahua tanks from Mexico. (I just made this up - there's no such thing.)
Sorry, White House flacks – I don't think America's respect is rising around the world if NATO members are so split. It actually sounds like we have been outfoxed by the demented little man in the Kremlin. The same guy the White House also told us would be dead from cancer or killed in a coup by now.
I'm just sayin' . . .
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