“On my wall, the colors on the maps are running”
“On my wall, the colors on the maps are running”
Two years ago in a post entitled “Those who cannot see must feel”, I wrote:
That’s the translation of an old German saying that I used to hear from my grandmother when I misbehaved. It is pretty clear that, over the next four years, the American public is going to do a lot of feeling …. The results will range somewhere in between bad, disastrous, catastrophic, and cataclysmic, depending on how badly foreign affairs are bungled ….
I have some hope … because both China and Russia are smart enough to figure out that they can get what they want by bribing Trump without resorting to armed conflict.
Although I never published it here, below is the conclusion of an email I sent to several correspondents six months ago:
Ever since Trump’s election, the lyrics of Al Stewart’s song about the 1937 Spanish Civil War, “On the Border,” have been going through my mind:
“On my wall, the colors on the maps are running …”
and I have thought that 2019 is the time of maximum peril to Taiwan and Ukraine.
The midterms were less than three weeks ago. Today Russia blocked the Kerch Strait, entrance to the Sea of Azov, effectively cutting off one of Ukraine’s ports. Ukraine says its navy is leaving port.
Between now and the end of 2019 is the most dangerous time, because any potential U.S. Foe will want to have any aggressive move be a fair accompli by the time the 2020 U.S. Elections are underway, let alone by the time a replacement for Trump can be inaugurated.
Good luck to us all.
[UPDATE: In case you’ve never heard it, here’s a link to the song.]
So you’re basically admitting that the Democrats are war mongers who will involve us in many more pointless and unnecessary wars if they are elected? Given that both parties are equally awful in selling by working people out to the rich, if Trump continues to actually avoid starting another war (however bellicose his rhetoric), he’ll get from me the first vote I’ve ever given to a Republican.
The difference is democrat war mongers are positive toward GLBT……..
40/48 senate ‘democrats’ filled the 2019 pentagon trough with $717B, of course there is a solid pro war party across the faux aisle!
While screaming to confront Russia over their patrol boats taking out Ukraine artillery platforms near their bridge across the sea of Azov… include a worthy share of pro war democrats….