My computer is still totally messed up… So… I may go in to town today and pick up a tower. It'll give me an excuse to finally separate the video editing machine from my main BME updater box. They really should be in distinct boxes anyway.
Anyway, computer failure means a pessimistic morning entry.
I want to talk about what's going on between the US and Russia for a moment. As some of you know, Russia has already issued diplomatic complaints that US bombing is potentially targetting the Russian embassy in Iraq (more), and now a fleet of Russian diplomats has come under direct military fire, quite possibly by US forces (more) — although we'll never know with certainty who it was. I've explained in previous updates how the outcome of this war has the potential to shift hundreds of billions of dollars (if not more) of profits from China and Russia to US companies, and the US has just now again confirmed that those countries will be specifically blocked from any of that money (more).
The US has issued increasingly stern warnings to Russia and other countries providing military aid to Iraq… Russia is said not only to be supplying the Iraqis, but also to have assisted in preparing them for war with the US (more)… and the constant demonstrations of “low end” Russian weaponry destroying top-of-the-line US military equipment is doing wonders for their weapons sales (more) and hurting US sales in return.
Russia, China, and other countries have now banded together to form a new coalition designed to “keep the US in check” — or, to put it more bluntly, a military alliance with the potential of killing everyone in America (more). After all, with the US acting with unilateral aggression, they really have no choice. If I was an American, I'd be pretty wary about continued threats against a pile of nations that hate America (more), are sitting on a lot of deadly weapons designed to kill Americans at home (more), not to mention a functional space program (more).
Don't think Russia and China are backing down or just posturing — Russia just sent a pile of nuclear subs to the Gulf (more), and by April 11th, an entire sqadron of ships carrying nuclear weaponry will be there conducting “peaceful naval wargames” (more). Russia and China are pulling India, another nuclear power that's deeply anti-American, into its alliance to destroy the US. And why should India care about America? Pakistan, a nation that publicly sponsors international terrorism, became US ally number one during Afghanistan, while continuing to sponsor terrorist attacks on the US the whole time.
And who is going to pay for all this? The people of the United States… Will Bush's legacy be millions of smouldering corpses? Yeah, I know no one cares when America murders thousands of people overseas… but how will you feel when it's California that's being nuked?
Ask yourselves this: Before WWII, Germans legally elected Hitler. He did some good for the country. But then things went bad… When do you think the German people realized that they were on the losing team? When do you think they realized that they were the bad guys?
America may win the Battle of Iraq, but this is not a war that will be won by anyone.
PS. And don't think the Russian people aren't pissed that America takes the credit for winning WWII when everyone with any knowledge of history knows that it was Russian blood that eventually won that war… The Russians paid a terrible, terrible price for that victory, and have not forgotten the insult of Americans taking the credit for it — how could they forget? It's been on TV every day for the past two years.
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