Consequences. Consequences Everywhere. by Scott McKay

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 Consequences. Consequences Everywhere.
Putin smelled blood in the water.
by Scott McKay
February 24, 2022, 11:10 PM

So, how’s your week been going?

Probably not great if you’re European. Or if you’re invested heavily in the market. Or if you’re in Joe Biden’s trash presidential administration. Or Justin Trudeau’s trash government.

Or if you’re Ukrainian. Or Taiwanese.

The whole world’s starting to go to hell, but the thing is none of what’s happening right now is even remotely a surprise.

How could it be? There are consequences to actions, you know.

And this has been Consequence Week.

This column was by no means the first or the only place you saw it written that our disgraceful bugout from Afghanistan would lead to foreign policy outcomes we don’t want. Well, Ukraine is just such an outcome.

Vladimir Putin is many things, most of them terrible. But Putin is three things that make him an exceptionally formidable geopolitical adversary.

First, he’s crafty as hell, and he strikes when he knows he has the advantage.

Second, he’s utterly ruthless. He’s like the honey badger — he takes what he wants.

    Vladimir Putin knew that the time when he could take Ukraine without a peep of resistance from either Joe Biden or anyone in Western Europe had come.

And third, Vladimir Putin is, for whatever good and bad this entails, a Russian patriot. Putin couldn’t give an ice-cold damn about the “global community,” or “world peace,” or the “international system.” What Putin cares about is Mother Russia, and his idea of what serves the interest of the Rodina is an old-school one. That means conquering territory where he can, it means stealing wealth and resources where he can, and it means bullying and intimidating neighbors and trading partners where he can. Vladimir Putin comes from a tradition in which it’s much better to be a pillager than a villager, and while he runs Russia the prime characteristic of its government will be a willingness to do evil where he forecasts a positive outcome for his country.

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https://spectator.org/biden-provoked-putin-to-attack-ukraine/

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Reducing emissions is a good thing.

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Electing relics of previous generations, fearful of progress and irrelevance, is self-damnation.

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Global Climate Change is dangerous nonsense that obstructs progress.

The future is tomorrow.  The past is yesterday.  The present is the interection of both.

Let's dare to be the America that "puts a boot up your ass, because that's the American way."

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