{"id":32772,"date":"2025-04-01T05:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=32772"},"modified":"2025-03-31T21:15:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T01:15:49","slug":"let-me-see-whats-going-on-31mar2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/let-me-see-whats-going-on-31mar2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Me See What\u2019s Going on 31MAR2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, first of all, Europe has gone all in on lawfare to prevent their own people from electing candidates on the Right<\/a>.\u00a0 I guess I can paraphrase this as. \u201cIf you can\u2019t beat them at the ballot box just round them up and jail them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMonday’s court sentence declares Le Pen ineligible to stand for president in 2027 and gave her a four-year prison sentence \u2013 half of it suspended \u2013 for embezzlement of European parliament funds.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the League party Matteo Salvini called the court’s ruling a “declaration of war by Brussels”.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“A bad film that we are also seeing in other countries like Romania,” wrote Salvini on social media. <\/strong><\/p>\n

“We don’t let ourselves be intimidated, we don’t stop: full speed ahead my friend!”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Romania’s electoral bureau in early March rejected the candidacy of far-right politician Calin Georgescu for the re-run of presidential elections in May.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The fierce EU and NATO critic shot to prominence last November, when he unexpectedly topped a first round of presidential voting before the constitutional court annulled the election after claims of Russian interference and a “massive” social media promotion.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Georgescu, who denies any links to Moscow, has slammed the vote annulment as a “formalised coup d’\u00e9tat” and the subsequent banning as “a direct blow to the heart of democracy<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s interesting.\u00a0 It\u2019s kind of what they tried against Trump only their people are so cowed that it\u2019s successful.\u00a0 I guess the question I\u2019ll ask is are their people such slaves that they\u2019ll put up with that forever?\u00a0 I guess we\u2019ll find out.<\/p>\n

The other big \u201cinternational\u201d development is that the New York Times admitted that the United States military has boots on the ground in Ukraine.\u00a0 And in fact, the CIA is coordinating missile attacks on the Russian homeland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, the U.S. military and C.I.A. were allowed to help with strikes into Russia.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The hardest red line was the Russian border. But in spring 2024, to protect the northern city of Kharkiv against a Russian assault, the administration authorized the creation of an \u201cops box\u201d \u2014 a zone of Russian territory within which U.S. officers in Wiesbaden could provide the Ukrainians with precise coordinates. The box\u2019s first iteration extended across a wide swath of Ukraine\u2019s northern border. The box was expanded after North Korea sent troops to help fight the Ukrainians\u2019 incursion into Russia\u2019s Kursk region. The U.S. military was later allowed to enable missile strikes in an area of southern Russia where the Russians staged forces and equipment for their offensive in eastern Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Longstanding policy barred the C.I.A. from providing intelligence on targets on Russian soil. But the C.I.A. could request \u201cvariances,\u201d carve-outs to support strikes for specific objectives. Intelligence had identified a vast munitions depot in Toropets, 290 miles north of the Ukrainian border. On Sept. 18, 2024, a swarm of drones slammed into the munitions depot. The blast, as powerful as a small earthquake, opened a crater the width of a football field. Later, the C.I.A. was allowed to enable Ukrainian drone strikes in southern Russia to try to slow advances in eastern Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So, we\u2019ve been playing chicken with the Russians for several years in Ukraine.\u00a0 Is this still going on?\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Have we officially lost any personnel to the war officially?\u00a0 Unofficially?\u00a0 Is there any reason why we should?<\/p>\n

From what I can see of Europe\u2019s approach to \u201cdemocracy\u201d I don\u2019t see any meaningful difference between Russia, Ukraine, France or Romania.\u00a0 None of them are really democracies in any real sense.\u00a0 So why are we choosing winners and losers there?\u00a0 They\u2019re supposed to be grown-ups.\u00a0 Why can\u2019t they sort out their own messes?\u00a0 Why should American money and blood be involved in any way?<\/p>\n

From what I can see we have no more place telling the Russians or the English how to run their lives than we do the Afghans or the Chinese.\u00a0 They\u2019re not us.\u00a0 We\u2019re not them.\u00a0 If they don\u2019t shoot at us, they can do whatever they damn please.\u00a0 They can even say mean things about us.\u00a0 Now as far as buying whatever crap they make in their country, as long as we have the same tariffs on them as they have on us, have at it.\u00a0 The crap we get from China is no better or worse than the crap we get from Mexico or Canada.\u00a0 It\u2019s all still crap.\u00a0 If they want to make their crap here and pay Americans to make it, well, that\u2019s another story.\u00a0 Now we\u2019ve got something to talk about.\u00a0 If Toyota builds a plant in Tennessee, then God bless Toyota.\u00a0 They\u2019re my kind of foreigners.\u00a0 We can do business and we can even be friends!<\/p>\n

I hope Donald Trump understands that blowing people up to \u201cmake the world safe for democracy\u201d is just a globalist bumper sticker.\u00a0 Minding our own business to make America safe for Americans is a policy that can help make America great again.<\/p>\n

Just my two cents today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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