LIMITED NON-WAR SORT OF

 I would be fascinated to learn who President Trump selects this time for his national security staff and hope that a few of them are students of history and war. One of the things he can do right off the bat without exciting any fanatical opposition from the sane left is to announce a complete air and sea blockade on Yemen until they stop their attacks on all shipping. We'll get played of course but I think President Trump is in a playful mood now so we'll see how that works out for Yemen and Iran. And of course if we have to shoot down any Iranian planes we'll just say it was an accident. We've done that before so there is precedent and Iran knows it.

I think the President can probably end the war in Ukraine by simply stepping up and announcing the Zelensky memorial Nobel Peace Prize and by calling in that little weasel and telling him that the current front-line is the new eastern border of Ukraine, that Ukraine is effectively cut off entirely from every form of weapon and ammunition the US provides and that the War is Over. One of the things us sane people know for a fact is that Putin does not want anything out of Ukraine except what was agreed previously by all the Powers and he wants NATO to stay the fuck out.

I think President Trump might also send in some forensic auditors to find out just exactly who the Ukrainians have been bribing with the billions of dollars we gave them and how many of our people they bought and then prosecuting the hell out of all of them and wrecking their lives forever. A million dead men killed in a particularly stupid and savage war need some justice.

I honestly don't think that President Trump will do much to reconstitute the old Cold War Army/Navy and Air Force because it is not needed or wanted and if we leave something like that lying around again the damned neocons will undoubtedly find some war to plug it into just to make a little profit. No, there is no great concern about China taking China since all have been in basic agreement since before reunification of Hong Kong that there is One China. It has always been a matter of time for when it pulls itself back together and guess what peeps? China doesn't want Indochina and it doesn't want Thailand, Singapore or South Korea. What it wants is oil, gas and its supply lines to Africa and Australia intact and barring a complete domestic collapse the only country that China is a threat to lies to its north. There is no reason on earth for the United States to go to war over any resources lying on the bottom of the China Sea. It's not our Sea and they are not our resources. If ASEAN want to fight for them, let them build their own power and use it to scare China into sharing. Our Navy doesn't work for the Philippines or even Japan.

I have no real solutions to cleaning the fouled houses of the Bureaucracies, Intelligence Agencies and Military. Those were seeded with utterly corrupt left wing fanatics who have spent the last 30 years self-selecting themselves and their ilk for promotion and they now control every level of the Bureaucracy and military. Every general, every admiral is a product of selection boards that met and considered officers for promotion without regard to merit but with only a measured and critical eye as to how steeped in the new evil they were. The ones wearing stars now are all of the evil variety. You can take it to the bank. Ditto the Senior Executive Service, Senior Foreign Service and every Agency based in DC.

Those people are long overdue for transfer to their new offices in Lawrence, Kansas, Montgomery, Alabama, and other idyllic spots like that.  Hell, you can put them all up in Oahu for all of me. That would be far enough away unless we throw in Guam and American Samoa. That supreme idealism that sees so many young and upcoming patriots thirst to lap up the public service spirit is mostly based on getting their butts to Washington, DC and I suspect it will fall off in direct proportion to how far away they are from their goal.

We're going to need a good man running the Senate but I'm afraid we'll get another squish. The uniParty is always in control even when it looks like the more evil side has fallen on its sword. Still, there are a number of things a President can do despite the uniParty and the squishiness of our Congressional servants.

When you think about these the United States and you consider the last batch of candidates do you think what we were offered comes anywhere close to our best and brightest? Feel free to hate the men but the people I saw supporting the Trump campaign were some of our better and brighter people. I cannot say that about the Dems.

I live in the midwest now in a town stuffed with doctors and lawyers and professionals of every type and any one of them on a bad day is a better American than what was offered us by the uniparty this time or the last time or the time before that. What is it going to take before real Americans start standing up and taking back the Parties from the pirates and thieves running them now?