EITHER WAY, IT IS TIME

 I see in the Commentary articles today that the usual pundits are welcoming the increased arc of America's alliances with mighty powers like Sweden and Finland and bragging about some sort of ARKAUS thing in the Pacific alongside some sort of Quad alliance thing over there as well and describing how America's interests lie in propping up every stinking country on earth forever and ever.....against our adversaries.

I wonder just who our adversaries are. It can't be China. We offshored almost 100% of our heavy and high technology industry to China starting over 30 years ago with no sign that it is ever coming back. They are high up there in the list of our Major Trading Partners. It is kind of inconceivable that we would wage war on China over any thing or cause. It's not just the total lack of laying out any strategic objectives that would lead to winning such a war and cessation of hostilities, it is the lack of any meaningful ability to inflict any kind of crippling injury on China. Pushing Russia and China together to form the largest Economic and Trading bloc on the planet doesn't look terribly smart in hindsight.

When they talk about our "allies" I'm always put in mind of the runty little punk that starts really pissing off the entire football team at high school because he has an "ally". WTF wants to be that ally? NATO is dead as a meaningful alliance of any kind and has been for decades. It will never come back. The BOAR and the giant German Army/Air Forces are gone. The AUKUS initiative where Australia pays our thoroughly awful shipbuilders billions for nuclear submarines it will NEVER find crews for or deploy from their berths in distant Australia will never come to the assistance of anyone.

One way or another it is time for the adults to start criticizing our overall strategy and policy. Lining up more and more dependent vassal states of no meaningful use or ability is pointless. Propping up endless African dictatorships for whatever prestige that gains us is stupid. Trying to pay power games against an enormous land power armed with potent anti-naval assets is stupid and counterproductive.

The neocons and their predecessors tried to tie the world together into an interconnected and increasingly networked and deeply entangled web of economic alliances that were beneficial to all. The problem is that the people implementing the policy all graduated from Yale and Harvard, never worked a day in their life and failed to realize that by giving away 100% of productivity they have pissed away the last dregs of the former Arsenal of Democracy. There is nothing left to counter soft/economic power and that is blazingly obvious to anybody watching Putin putting together an entire world alliance of like-minded people tired of and the useless sanctimony of the West and the West's obvious intention to keep them impoverished forever by claiming Global Warming ties their hands, or that they lack representative democratic governments in lands that are still almost entirely tribal.

I really don't know who the adults would be. That part is a bit of mystery. Outside the Hoover Institute all we get is more of the same dismal failures like Victoria Nuland, Robert Kagan and the entire faculty of Yale and Harvard along with all the oh so clever former generals and leaders of the intel communities. What that is is rather dismal prelude to revolution. 

People never ever think that Revolutions can happen again. They say, "oh that's so last century ago...." The fact that they come along every hundred years or so and overturn the Old World escapes them because they never study or read history.

I can almost hope for a hard left commie led revolution. They ALWAYS stand their brothers and sisters in arms up against the wall and shoot them first. Pinochet was the last good Revolutionary and look what it got him in the end. On that note, recall how the Junta in Argentina thought they could extend their grasp on power? That's right, they took a long look at the faded giant that was Great Britain and wagered that they could knock off a nearby piece of the Empire and make the masses in Buenos Aires happy just a little bit longer or at least until Galtieri and the rest could figure out a way to safely retire without all getting shot. The Royal Navy isn't even a shadow of what it was when Corporate went down. And that is the picture of the whole rest of the world. It's ripe for Revolution.