America is completely and utterly out of control. Any hopes that a Trump Presidency would reverse course or hold position have now faded away. Last night the President lobbed nearly 60 Tomahawk cruise missiles into Syria.
- The US military fired more than 50 tomahawk missiles at al-Shayrat military airfield at 8.45pm EDT Thursday
- Moves comes just hours after Trump said ‘something should happen’ following Tuesday’s gas-attack atrocity
- Trump took action after more than 80 were killed and many more were injured in the Sarin poison gas attack
- ‘Even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack,’ he said after launching the strike
- Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued a furious response calling airstrike an ‘illegal act of aggression’
- US called ‘a partner of ISIS’ by al-Assad’s spokesman who said missile strikes are ‘reckless and irresponsible’
- Trump says airfield used to store toxic weapons and was the base for the aircraft involved in the Sarin attack
- Claims that nine were killed, and more were injured, in the strike which has severely damaged the airbase
- US told Moscow it was launching an airstrike about 30 minutes in advance – but did not ask for permission
Bombs away, suckers… Daily Mail.
The public, those few who are somewhat awake, seems elated. As of this writing, 65+% of a Drudge poll see the action as favorable. I ask, “favorable to whom”?
Not everyone is happy. Rand Paul cautiously reminded the President that, per the Constitution, Congress is supposed to approve war. A little too late, Rand. This episode, if worth nothing else, proves definitively that the old Constitution is dead and gone. Cling at your own risk.
Nigel Farage, an early Trump supporter, cautioned:
The MEP hit out by warning that those who voted for the US president would be ‘worried’ by his retaliation.
‘I am very surprised by this. I think a lot of Trump voters will be waking up this morning and scratching their heads and saying “where will it all end?”, he said.
‘As a firm Trump supporter, I say, yes, the pictures were horrible, but I’m surprised. Whatever Assad’s sins, he is secular.’
He added: ‘Previous interventions in the Middle East have made things worse rather than better.’
Current UKIP leader, Paul Nuttal, was a bit more blunt: “The U.S. bombing of Syria last night was rash, trigger happy, nonsensical and will achieve nothing. I hoped for better.”
We all hoped for better. Hope in one hand and ….
Vox Day criticized the move:
That being said, I will certainly be disappointed if the God-Emperor makes regime change in Syria an objective of his administration, and I will continue to oppose any military involvement in the Middle East, Europe, the Ukraine, and any military activity directed against China or Russia.
The Russians are beyond livid:
“That’s it. The last remaining election fog has lifted. Instead of an overworked statement about a joint fight against the biggest enemy, Isis (the Islamic State), the Trump administration proved that it will fiercely fight the legitimate Syrian government, in a tough contradiction with international law and without UN approval, in violation of its own procedures stipulating that the Congress must first be notified of any military operation unrelated to aggression against the US. On the verge of a military clash with Russia.
“Nobody is overestimating the value of pre-election promises but there must be limits of decency.
“Beyond that is absolute mistrust. Which is really sad for our now completely ruined relations. And which is good news for terrorists.
“One more thing. This military action is a clear indication of the US President’s extreme dependency on the opinion of the Washington establishment, the one that the new president strongly criticised in his inauguration speech.
“Soon after his victory, I noted that everything would depend on how soon Trump’s election promises would be broken by the existing power machine. It took only two and a half months.”
-Dmitry Medvedev
Medvedev correctly pointed out the attack was both illegal and came within an inch of initiating a real war with a real and capable enemy.
Where to start with this???
The underlying Sarin gas attack is questionable at best. The U.S. media has taken the government’s word verbatim. Still, there is no definitive proof it happened. And, if it did happen, there’s no proof Assad was behind it. And, even if it happened and Assad is responsible, there is absolutely no American interest in the matter and nothing to be gained from intervention. It is not our damned business.
Is this what you voted for? Trump is now enacting the worst fears associated with the Clinton campaign. He’s running headlong towards war with Syria, North Korea, and maybe even Russia – in addition to ongoing actions in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, Libya, and God knows where else. Madness. Sheer utter madness. I advised you all to abstain from the election. Hey, voters, this is on you!
The problem, for us, with radical Islamists, has nothing to do with their activities in their home nations. The problem is with their terrorism in our countries, like Sweden, home of the latest predictable attack.
The solution is very simple: 1) stop bothering these people in their countries, and 2) get them out of ours. Damned simple. And obviously not going to happen just yet. There must be a little more money to be given the banksters and the MIC. You voted for this.
You also voted for the jumbled, same-as-always home agenda. Trump, the businessman and outsider, is working hard to surround himself with more insiders and Wall Street criminals. He cannot marshal the idiots in the GOP, even as they hold a complete majority in D.C. No healthcare reform. No tax cuts. The wall may stall. The deportations and travel bans also stall even as easy solutions abound. A “neutral” budget with no redress of the $20 Trillion (on-books) debt nor the Fed’s funny money. Your vote wasted again.
*In fairness, the man is working to create some jobs and cut some regs. There’s that. Small things, mice among the elephants.
As Vox noted, the real war for the West will be fought in the West. The other side has been fighting for some years now, even as you’ve stared at the TeeVee. All the attacks on all the foreign nations are mere distractions. They garner easy support. Yet, few actually want to fight at home – fear of being called “racist” or something. I hear local Muslims are concerned about fictional backlash from tomorrow’s terrorist attack… The media, the SJWs, and the dullards will lend pitiful support. Madness.
None of our interventions in the Middle East and elsewhere over the past 25+ years have done anything except kill people, displace people, overrun the West with “refugees”, break things, empower terrorists, and waste money. We can’t ever win these wars because there is nothing to win or to gain. Syria is no different except that we risk war with Russia. And, that, we certainly cannot win.
All the while a real war (we must win if we are to survive) rages around us.
I love fun and games as much as the next man; I’m having a blast this Masters’s week. Yet, maybe, just maybe, it’s time to wake up and wise up.
Expect nothing but trouble (certainly no help from) the Washington-Wall Street-Fed-globohomo-MIC-media-GOP-DNC-Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama-Trump cabal.
Nothing. Maybe it’s time to revive that letter to Putin…
PERRIN LOVETT 
My last, fading hopes for the Trump regime vanished last night. Lord, I hope I’m wrong about all of this. I think I’m not…
I have always been an optimist. As a young and impressionable armed forces medic, I believed in my country, my leaders, and in the job that I had chosen. I am 50 now and see the world through wiser glasses. Politicians become politicians because they crave power and wealth. A person who wants to be a politician, should never be allowed to for this very reason. The whole system from the top down is a sham, politicians, the healthcare sector, the police force, the cancer is even found in social services where social workers are too afraid to report incidents of child abuse on a huge scale because the perpetrators were Asian men, and to blow the whistle on them might be seen as a racist hate campaign. Everyone, everywhere is winging it, the people in charge of everything do not know what they are doing, neither do their experts, insiders and Wall street advisers, and nobody questions it for fear of losing jobs or face, or they simply have no idea that they are being duped into a feeling of false security, they don’t want to be the one that points out that the emperor has no clothes on.
There is nothing that I can do about this, I can’t change any of it. Being free to vote is a ruse to make the masses feel that they have a say in the running of their country, this is not true. We vote to elect a person, who then goes on to do what the hell they want with the power that we so eagerly gave them. This isn’t democracy, this is Virtually communism, or perhaps Fascism Lite. Whatever it is, like I say I have no control over it, or the events that transpire from it. What I can do is prepare. I am in charge of what I keep in my cupboards and in what amounts I choose to do so. I have control of how I can best prepare for what is the inevitable excreta hitting the ventilator. My house is my castle, my jet fighter, my sanctuary, I say what goes on here, I can’t have a gun, someone in charge said so. I can have a crossbow, however, so I have one of those instead,
Though I very much doubt that the guy who is trying to get into my house has the same outlook as myself with regards to government rulings on firearms ownership. But hell, at least I tried. I tried to take control of an uncontrollable situation.
I will continue to stock up on food, paracord bracelets and potassium iodide and hope that it doesn’t go pear shaped, like I say, I’m an optimist, an optimist who is also learning to speak Russian, just in case.
Jon
Englandistan.
“Prepping”, praying, and living one’s life as free as possible is about all one can do. There are certainly no political solutions. “A person who wants to be a politician, should never be allowed to for this very reason.” – gotta remember that one!
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