Nation Gone Ballistic – The Star Bungled Banner

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Written by Julian Macfarlane, Tokyo based investigative journalist, writer, author, geopolitical and military analyst

The US is ballistic

Like an old-fashioned ballistic missile, it blasted off with fire and fury, as people cheered. The first stage separated. The second stage took it beyond the atmosphere. Now momentum propels it through the ether.

People say, “how wonderful!”

No one really knows what its target is –or even if it has one — just that it has velocity and direction— a trajectory– but when it comes down there will be a huge explosion and a lot of people will probably die!

You see, the missile will circle the globe always returning to where it started, which is most likely where it will come down.

Sad, because this missile could be nuclear.

US foreign policy is ballistic

Basically, unguided once launched.

So it is that the US is engaged in a proxy war against Russia, using Ukrainians to fight for it and does not really know where the war is going – just that hoping it will end badly in a ball of fire for the “other side”.

But Russia is growing and prospering. And likely, in the end Ukraine will also do fine—since as part of Russia, it will have a bright future.

You will not be able to say the same for the US’s new colonies in Europe, Oceania, the Far East and the Americas—and, when the US has exhausted their resources, the US itself.

The US is a rocket without mind or purpose or meaning.

Oh, say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air.

Forewarned is forearmed

How do you deal with crazy people?

Carefully.

The Russian SMO is proceeding incrementally and slowly towards moral and military victory, supported by and simultaneously supporting the development of the Russian nation and the multipolar world.

In military terms, Russia advances at a snail’ s pace – a village at a time—for the battle is not for territory or even for lives — but for hearts and minds. Russia is successful. Ukrainian soldiers are deserting, surrendering, and joining the Russian army. The end of this conflict was decided long ago. It has always been in sight. Just now more visible.

The trajectory of US policy seems almost accidental. And, as I said, it is ballistic. It cannot be changed in flight.

So Congress has voted US $61 billion in “aid for Ukraine”. The overall amount provided to Ukraine for the purchase of weapons would be $13.8 billion. Ukraine would receive more than $9 billion of economic assistance in the form of “forgivable” loans.

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“Forgivable” at the discretion of the president – which might be Trump .

As you know, I have dyscalculia– meaning I am bad at simple arithmetic— but it seems to me that this aid to Ukraine is not actually $61 billion—but about $23 billion— with 13.8 billion going to buy weapons, which, if past experience is any indication, will not arrive for two years or so, if ever.

In two years there maybe not independent Ukraine.

$9 billion goes to pay salaries and governmental expenses. LOL. You know what that means. Another villa for Zelensky.

Is it my bad math or is $37 billion left over?

That appears to go to US defense contractors to pay for weapons already supplied. Pay back plus alpha, of course. You have to add in the politicians cut . Er… Political donations from corporate budgets.

I think the idea is to “replenish” US stockpiles, which again might take a couple of years.

The US has finally admitted that it has already supplied Ukraine with 100 ATACMS missiles, each one worth $1.5 million. A single Patriot battery is about $1 billion.

$$$

In other words, this war is really aid for MICIMATT. You gotta include the media, think tanks, and academia in this—in addition to the military-industrial complex and the political class. They are all stakeholders.

The $61 billion is part of a bigger package – $95 billion for aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Similarly, this is really aid to the US defense industry– which sells unnecessarily sophisticated weaponry, whose “added value” often as not just means “added cost” and added impracticality. It’s US business underwriting the death of innocents.

Not that weapons are as advertised.

We have seen the failure of US weaponry in the Ukraine. More recently, we have seen it in Israel.

Such outlay is intended to prolong the conflicts in Ukraine, Israel, and the South China Sea. But the rocket that is US policy is old in a faltering close Earth orbit and must eventually come down. Where? When?

For the time being the Russians – and the Chinese and the Iranians – just want the Americans to do what they do best – live beyond their means and destroy themselves.

In the case of the Ukraine, the intransigence of the US and its NATO thugs will mean that Russia can never be secure until it takes all of Ukraine and puts nuclear missiles on the Polish border.

As for the US, a new song is needed:

The star bungled banner hangs limply

O’er the Land of the Unfree

And the Home of the Shameless

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