Tidewater News and Opinion Forum
A place for civil discussion of the events of the day for Tidewater residents without the limitations imposed by media forums.
The question, “Who sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines, and why?” remains unanswered. I have my guess. What’s yours?
My guess: The U.S. Navy sabotaged the pipeline. The purpose was to prevent Germany from reconciling with Russia by abandoning Washington-imposed economic sanctions.
A few days ago we had the curious story of the Nord Stream sabotage. Now this. I sense a media narrative being constructed.
Continue reading “Russian nuclear submarine armed with ‘doomsday’ weapon disappears from Arctic harbor: report”Imagine there’s no Heaven. — John Lenin
Of the several points the writer makes there are two I find compelling.
The first is that federal disaster spending should be offset by cutting back other spending. This is the responsible thing to do since the alternative is to print money to fund disaster relief or else to raise taxes, both of which are clearly irresponsible.
The second is the idea of eliminating federal disaster spending in its entirety. I doubt the American public can ever be convinced that doing so is a good idea, but theoretically, at least, I see some merit. For example, the certainty of federal disaster relief surely encourages populations to inhabit riskier locales than they otherwise might.
This story inspires various observations.
Least interesting by far is the hypocrisy of demonizing Russia for spending $300 million to influence international politics when the US spends a hundred times more doing the same thing.
Continue reading “Perfidious Putin!”Were I to fault the writer, it would be for seeming too calm. If one is going to show that America’s civilization is ending, one is expected to be loud and furious about it.
On the other hand, there are probably very few Americans who suspect America is collapsing, and being loud and furious might only put them off the message.
Vladimir Putin’s speech on the occasion of signing of accession treaties yesterday with four of Ukraine’s oblasts is worth reading in its entirety. It remains for the Duma to formally recognize the oblasts as new members of the Russian Federation. Only then will the territories they represent become officially Russian.
The speech criticizes the United States and the West rather harshly. I noticed, however, that all but one the very same criticisms have been made in Tidewater Forum at one time or another by leftist commentators. And the one exception (genderism) is vaguely reminiscent of the old leftist complaint that Western Civilization is morally corrupt.
The speech illustrates an inversion: Those who once loved the Soviet Union, or at least Communists, now hate Russia.
This brief essay interests me because it presents a Russian opinion of contemporary America. The introductory paragraph is particularly striking:
Continue reading “American Roulette”Donald Trump has offered to negotiate for peace between Russia and Ukraine. Some people hate the man, but since no one else is expressing any interest in avoiding a nuclear WW III, I’d hope they put their hatred aside.
Or if the Trump haters cannot stop hating Trump, perhaps one of them could negotiate for peace. Not appeasement, mind you, but peace.
Source: The American Conservative.
U.S. geopolitical power isn’t what it used to be. As the ascendant nation in the aftermath of WW II, we could work our will on global adversaries by isolating them from the international commerce our enormous economy allowed. The writer suggests this is no longer true.
If you want to know why the referenda that concluded in Ukraine on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved the choice to join Russia, you should explore reports of Ukrainian war crimes, as in this video. Dead bodies in the street in a non-military zone cannot easily be dismissed.
But I expect my moral “superiors” will do so.
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