Defenseless

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:

This is where I plan to flee after the Zombie Apocalypse.  Because there’s nobody to stop me from moving there and living like a king.

 

 

The epitome of the European ideal: welfare for all, retirement at 42 after working a few hard years of 30 hour weeks, universal medical . . . but of course, none of it can be supported if you also defend the country.  So obviously . . .

 

Joe Doakes

Watching the disarmament of Europe – as if history really did end in 1991 – has been amazing; the typical continental European state, Germany and Norway and the Netherlands, has about 1/6 the military power it had in the Cold War.  Sweden (and Belgium) are worse; France and the UK, better.  Only Poland and Finland – Russia’s neighbor and enemy – and Greece and Turkey, who hate each other, are the exceptions.

It makes 1940 look positively stable.

9 thoughts on “Defenseless

  1. Europe is embarked upon a slow motion capitulation to the Jihadists – I doubt there is another King Jan Sobieski to hold the line against Islam the way he did 9.11.1683. Barring a return of reason portions of Europe will be part of the Caliphate in 10 years.

  2. Meanwhile, Russia, the country that Romney said was still a threat to the U.S. but was ridiculed by his excellency Barackus Obamanus during the 2011 debates, continues to build up their military.

    NORAD tries to downplay the increased incursions into our air defense zones, but NATO commanders are more forthright and concerned. They are deploying new defensive weapons in newly established Arctic bases. Further, our navy has been caught with their pants down by Russian fast attack submarines that have been in the Gulf of Mexico off and on for the last year.

    Putin is ex-KGB, is gaining popularity in the Soviet Union and is pissed at the U.S. for the economic sanctions for the damage it caused to their economy. If anyone thinks that he won’t launch a first strike, just look at the Ukraine. Many experts think that it was a test to see how the rest of the world would react. There are some theologians that are tying Putin vs Obama to biblical prophecy. Although much of the bible is subject to speculation, the case they present makes sense. Some military experts, think that Putin may be planning something humiliating to launch against the U. S. and a blast in the atmosphere that would emit an EMP pulse that would render our electronics driven defense systems and cripple our grid for at least 4 years.

    Personally, I think that is pretty far fetched, because even if he was planning to invade us, he wouldn’t want the cost of rebuilding the infrastructure. But then, we only need look at history to see that far fetched ideas have worked on several occasions.

  3. bosshoss429,
    Putin doesn’t have to invade US, just Canada (35 million people, incredible natural resources, full control of the north atlantic and north pacific) and maybe reunite Alaska with the Federation. this would give him de facto control of the Northern Hemisphere.
    This would not be a problem with Obama, he’d make some token chirps of defiance but capitulate. Putin’s only problem is timing. Too soon and he might inadvertently pitch the election to a republican other than Trump(who manifestly lacks the intellectual or moral horsepower to deal with Putin). Hillary is his best choice as successor to Obama because she can easily be bought.

  4. kel,
    Great point. I didn’t even think of that. If he throws in Mexico, which would pretty much be a pushover, he’d really have us. Imagine him controlling the drug cartels.

  5. You always hear about people born between……say 1870 and 1910, and lived into their 70s-90s. In their lifetimes, society went from basically not all that different from what it had been for 100s of years (with some exceptions, such as the steam engine), to having electricity, indoor plumbing, telephones, radio, automobile, TV, air travel, space travel, the beginning of the computer age.

    I wonder if those born in the 1960s-70s, are seeing a similar transformation of society over our lifetimes. The end of western civilization as we know it. The end of widespread Christianity (I see the criminalization of Christianity not that far off). The capitalism that made us wealthy. The end of marriage. And with open borders, somewhat the end of certain ethnic groups (French, Swedes, British). Or think of Germany. An ancient civilization that is being invaded by thousands of people each month. Today ethnic Germans are a minority in most German cities. Imagine what another 20 years will see.

  6. Hillary is his best choice as successor to Obama because she can easily be bought.

    She doesn’t need to be bought, BH. The Russians already have everything they need from her server to blackmail her.

  7. I wonder if those born in the 1960s-70s, are seeing a similar transformation of society over our lifetimes.

    I have noticed a quickening of the advancement of technology over the last 30 or so years.

    The end of western civilization as we know it.

    As I commented on FB yesterday regarding the failures of past “empires”: We have 2 things no other government/country/society has ever had: 1) a (somewhat) representational, (somewhat) constitutional governing body, and 2) 300 million guns and 50 million people willing to use them.

  8. Monroe Doctrine:
    “The American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.

    We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety . . .

    With the Governments who have declared their independence and maintained it, and whose independence we have, on great consideration and on just principles, acknowledged, we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them, or controlling in any other manner their destiny, by any European power in any other light than as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States.”

    After Obama:
    “The days in which our agenda in this hemisphere so often presumed that the United States could meddle with impunity, those days are past,” President Obama – April 2015.

    So there’s nothing to stop Russia messing about in our hemisphere.

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