3 March 2014 From a
hooch to the hobo jungle
Cassi Creek: Actually, that should read “from a foxhole…”
The NY Times
article reinforces the existence of a class war being waged in the U.S. The Harvard, Yale, Stanford, admission slots
don’t usually go to the sons and daughters of blue collar workers.
Meanwhile, in the underbelly of eastern Europe:
“In Crimea, more Russian troops
arrived, surrounding military posts and other facilities and taking effective
control of the peninsula from Ukrainian authorities. What they planned to do
next remained unclear. In one ominous incident, a Ukrainian Defense Ministry
spokesman said the commander of Russia's Black Sea fleet boarded a blocked
Ukrainian warship and issued a threat.
"Swear allegiance to the new
Crimean authorities, or surrender, or face an attack," he said, according
to the spokesman, Vladislav Selezne”
Lacking the nuclear weapons once deployed by the USSR in
Ukraine, it very unlikely that the blatant seizure of the Crimean peninsula can
be reversed by force of arms. The
Russian military still wields a very big stick.
There is, of
course, a sizeable demand coming from the GOP for the Obama administration to
intervene and repel the Russian forces. These
demands are yet another demonstration of the lack of connection between the GOP
and the real world. We lack the military
manpower to replay the Cold War. Nor
should we attempt to enforce a military response using our troops or NATO’s.
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