ICYMI, Politico reported:

*** US Secretary of War Crimes Delivers Another Boring, Unimaginative Speech ***

The most underqualified Secretary of Defense in US history, a pro-Kremlin alcoholic who was accused of paying $50,000 to a woman he sexually assaulted in 2017, launched a full-throated attack on post-Cold War US foreign policy, castigating former presidents and generals by name while declaring the age of American "utopian idealism" over.

US Secretary of War Crimes Pete "Hic!" Hegseth, mired in an idiotic OPSEC imbroglio of his own making ("Signalgate") and accused of ordering the murder of defenseless alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean Sea, bleated talking points to a bored audience at the annual Reagan Defense Forum. The heavily-tattooed misogynist outlined a new military focus on the Western Hemisphere, demanded allies fend for themselves, and emphasized taking a more conciliatory approach to China's armed forces. In essence this lickspittle conceded that Dummkopf Trumpf will let Beijing eclipse US military hegemony in the Pacific, therefore potentially abandoning allies like Taiwan, South Korea, or Japan.

The former second-rate weekend TV tumor for Faux News mindlessly parroted the scrambled ideas released in the new National Security Strategy.

"Out with idealistic utopianism," Hegseth brayed. "In with hard-nosed realism."

The white supremacist, called an "abuser of women" by his own mother, only made a passing reference to Russia, ignoring the staggering amount of lives lost on both sides, the dangers of radiation leaks from Chernobyl caused by Russian attacks, or the Trumpf junta's failed peace plans which worked in the Kremlin's favor. Link: Ukraine Update

The chisel-chinned sycophant's screed revealed the nefarious Trumpf junta is moving toward a policy that recognizes zones of influence by the great powers and will ignore war crimes committed by Russia and Israel, as well as Chinese internal oppression of Uighurs, Tibetans, Falon Gong members, and Honk Kongese democracy advocates, while divvying up the world's natural resources, like oil or rare earths.

*** Dummkopf Trumpf Unleashes Tirade at Our Former Allies ***

"Dummkopf Trumpf denounced Europe as a "decaying" group of nations led by "weak" people, belittling the traditional US allies for failing to control migration and end the Russia-Ukraine war, and signaling that he would endorse white supremacist, pro-Kremlin political candidates in European elections.

The broadside attack represents the junta leader's most virulent denunciation to date of these Western democracies, threatening a decisive rupture with countries like France and Germany that already have deeply strained relations with the Trumpf junta.

The Dotard-in-Chief bleated he could extend anti-drug military operations to Mexico and Colombia.

Trumpf also urged good-for-nothing reactionary geriatric SCOTUS Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas to stay on the bench and keep collecting robust paychecks for themselves so they can continue running judicial interference on behalf of the ruling oligarchs and Trumpf's self-serving junta."

I recommend reading The Manchurian Candidate (1959) by Richard Condon. He is an excellent wordsmith.

When John Frankenheimer directed the superb film version (1962), Americans saw karate on the big screen for the first time. (Judo and ju-jitsu had already been inserted into American films.)

The Manchurian Candidate was banned for several years following the assassination of JFK.

Vladimir Putin launched his brutal invasion of Ukraine in order to recreate the glory and power of the former USSR with his satrap-oligarchs in charge of the satellite countries under a Pan-Slavic Union who will then pay billions in tribute to the Kremlin while ostensibly protecting Russian-speaking minorities in those countries. These satraps will exploit the resources for themselves and the Kremlin, like the rare earths in Ukraine.

As intolerable for the US to have nuclear weapons 90 miles from its shore in Cuba in 1962, having a powerful NATO country on its border was deemed intolerable by the Kremlin. Most of the invasions the Russian people suffered through arose from the West, not the East: the Teutonic Knights, Sweden, Napoleon, the Kaiser, Der Fuhrer. Russia and the USSR have wanted buffer zones between themselves and powerful Western countries.

Moreover, watching Ukraine not only join NATO through the Partnership for Peace (PFP) program but also the EU was deemed dangerous by the Kremlin. Under the EU, Ukrainians would prosper and enjoy civil liberties, raising envy and resentment with the poor people suffering under Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus, which would have a destabilizing influence on their despotic regimes.

*** Lithuania Declares Emergency Situation over Belarus Balloons ***

Hegseth was speaking at the Ronald Reagan National Library? I'm surprised he didn't spontaneously combust.

#40 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2025-12-09 01:16 PM | Reply | Flag: Spot On Observation

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