Colonel Douglas MacGregor has disclosed another shocking revelation no doubt based on the Russian military performance in Ukraine.
that's right, what we lack is leadership that's worth a damn.I will call bullshit on that.
We easily possess a ground force capable.
If you include guard amd reserve and just the army it's over a million
Civiliam leadership at that.that's right, what we lack is leadership that's worth a damn.
The bill did have some hundreds of millions of dollars for 'refugee and entrant assistance' included on its own, and was intentionally split apart from HR2 (the 'sweetener' border bill that was talked about in prior months--much as I don't think that one was a good idea just because e-verify is fricken terrifying). Congress directing funding to specific usages on border security as that bill did nullifies much of executive discretion when it's blanketed to agencies wholesale (which was a problem in prior bills on the topic that just assigned funds to CBP), and certainly is better than more refugee assistance.
More broadly, once again the bill is just Republican jello-spining in full effect. When you have something every member of the minority wants, you have leverage to pass other things you want alongside of it. Johnson's promise not to do omnibus bills went dodo quick, but instead of using the package of Ukraine-Israel-Taiwan aid (and refugee assistance, and economic assistance and etc.) to obtain more Republican priorities, he used it to just pass the thing Democrats wanted with a minority of Republican votes. It's McCarthy's debt-limit surrender all over again. From a pure political-strategy perspective it was an abject failure even independent of all argument about its merits.
Won't it be hilarious if Putin dies before the conclusion of this war?
If Putin dies he will be replaced with a hardliner. It's similar to the Israeli/Palestine thing, some westerners fail to understand how united the population is on this.Won't it be hilarious if Putin dies before the conclusion of this war?
I am hoping for the same. It doesn't matter to us whether Russia or Ukraine becomes the victory, but a destabilization of the region could be very fruitful if you remember what the only other major independent polity in Russia is.
A hardliner for sure, but a hardliner in what? That is if they don't have a hardliner shadow war for a decade or two. And then decide that picking fights with the West is not worth the effort and redirect their fun and profit initiatives to Central Asia or somewhere else most of NATO powers give less of a damn about than middle of Europe.If Putin dies he will be replaced with a hardliner. It's similar to the Israeli/Palestine thing, some westerners fail to understand how united the population is on this.
Specifically any successor during the war will likely drop any rhetorical semblances of this not being a conquest.A hardliner for sure, but a hardliner in what? That is if they don't have a hardliner shadow war for a decade or two. And then decide that picking fights with the West is not worth the effort and redirect their fun and profit initiatives to Central Asia or somewhere else most of NATO powers give less of a damn about than middle of Europe.
Putin is proverbially married to his own decisions, but his replacement may have some freedom in picking and choosing what parts of Putin's legacy he wants to keep and throwing the dead guy under the bus. Much like Putin has shifted a fair amount of blame on the previous guy despite taking power from him amicably.
That Putin himself did already, many times.Specifically any successor during the war will likely drop any rhetorical semblances of this not being a conquest.