The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

Pax Americana has been so thoroughly discredited that I am amazed that there are presumably sentient humans who still believe that we can be the world's policeman without any downsides.

We carried NATO for its entire existence, and gave the Euro-trash a perfect excuse to spend their money on welfare rather than defense. So the taxpayers of America paid for those cool fast trains and 32 hour work weeks and month-long vacations and cradle-to-grave benefits that have been one of the main drivers of Western European senescence, and the current sclerotic and pathetic societies that focus not on their culture, but on insane woke policies and appeasement of their soon-to-be conquerors...Islam.

We tried to create some sort of weird Jeffersonian democracy in Iraq...and that failed. Afghanistan was a fiasco. Our billions of dollars that are funneled into every failed state in the world is mostly looted, and our soldiers are restricted by insane rules of engagement that get them killed!

And that's just recently. Do you want to talk about Korea and Vietnam and Somalia and Lebanon and....

US Envoy Says Putin Agreed to Security Protections for Ukraine as Part Trump Summit

Special U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff said Sunday that Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed at his summit with President Donald Trump to allow the U.S. and European allies to offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO’s collective defense mandate as part of an eventual deal to end the 3 1/2-year war.

“We were able to win the following concession: That the United States could offer Article 5-like protection, which is one of the real reasons why Ukraine wants to be in NATO," he said on CNN's “State of the Union.” He added that it "was the first time we had ever heard the Russians agree to that.”

Let Europe protect Ukraine. Let them risk their soldiers. Let them risk their cities. Let them risk a charming little tactical nuke exchange with Russia. But keep America out of it. We have done enough for the security of Europe, and it is time for them to put their big-boy pants on and defend themselves, and whatever shared culture they have left (aside from Pakistani rape gangs).

Trump doesn't rule out sending US troops to Ukraine as part of peacekeeping efforts: 'We'll be involved'

Speaking during a brief media availability alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office, Trump told reporters that both Europe and the United States would be involved in securing a post-war peace for Ukraine, but he refused to say outright that American troops would not be put on the ground to maintain that peace.

Et Tu Donald?

No American boots on the ground. Let some hapless Belgian battalion be the tripwire for another European war. Or even better, make it some pathetic United Nations blue-helmeted rapist battalion, so they get their balls shot off by the Russians if and when they decide to take a bigger chunk of Ukraine.

But I don't care... as long as it isn't American blood and treasure being expended for the miserable post-modern cowards of Europe.

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posted by CBD at 11:00 AM

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