Hi Ann I respect your perspective but I watched the Munich Conference on C Span (so I haven’t read Ferguson’s article yet); however, to link those disparate and very different conflicts as “an almost unitary effort to destabilize the West…and the US” not only strikes me as “Paranoia will destroy you” but also the same tired justification…
Hi Ann I respect your perspective but I watched the Munich Conference on C Span (so I haven’t read Ferguson’s article yet); however, to link those disparate and very different conflicts as “an almost unitary effort to destabilize the West…and the US” not only strikes me as “Paranoia will destroy you” but also the same tired justification for increased military spending. I watched J. D. Vance make a crowd and panel squirm when he rightly pointed out that the US currently lacks the industrial capacity to support a two front war, which has been our policy for most of the past half century. Policy makers will have to choose and Vance thinks we will pivot towards Asia (Israel appears to be taking care of the Hamas menace by itself basically). And honestly, if you live in the US and follow current events, we are destabilizing ourselves quite nicely on our own, thank you
Thanks for the civil reply. You owe it to yourself to watch the GoodFellows episode I mentioned. It’s actually more informative than Ferguson’s Bloomberg essay, and they make a compelling case for the unified effort of Russia, Iran, and China working together to destroy the western alliances. They also have nothing good to say about J. D. Vance, who has been ridiculed across the media, and not the “MSM” in the pejorative sense, but by those I respect such as the GoodFellows, the WSJ, and The Bulwark writers. It may be true that we don’t have manufacturing capacity NOW for a two front war, but we had better start ramping up NOW, because the Europeans anticipate a Russian invasion of the NATO countries in the next approximately 5 years, especially since Russia is now on a war footing and has redirected their entire economy to upgrading and producing weapons capacity to something like 10 times where it was two years ago. Vance didn’t even attend the most important meetings in Munich, and he has been ridiculed because of it. He launched a few verbal bombs and then went back to his hotel to research dolphins or something equally stupid on his laptop. I have no respect at all for Vance, but I have tons for Ferguson, Cochrane, and Senor. They are the experts. Vance is a politician.
Hi Ann I respect your perspective but I watched the Munich Conference on C Span (so I haven’t read Ferguson’s article yet); however, to link those disparate and very different conflicts as “an almost unitary effort to destabilize the West…and the US” not only strikes me as “Paranoia will destroy you” but also the same tired justification for increased military spending. I watched J. D. Vance make a crowd and panel squirm when he rightly pointed out that the US currently lacks the industrial capacity to support a two front war, which has been our policy for most of the past half century. Policy makers will have to choose and Vance thinks we will pivot towards Asia (Israel appears to be taking care of the Hamas menace by itself basically). And honestly, if you live in the US and follow current events, we are destabilizing ourselves quite nicely on our own, thank you
Thanks for the civil reply. You owe it to yourself to watch the GoodFellows episode I mentioned. It’s actually more informative than Ferguson’s Bloomberg essay, and they make a compelling case for the unified effort of Russia, Iran, and China working together to destroy the western alliances. They also have nothing good to say about J. D. Vance, who has been ridiculed across the media, and not the “MSM” in the pejorative sense, but by those I respect such as the GoodFellows, the WSJ, and The Bulwark writers. It may be true that we don’t have manufacturing capacity NOW for a two front war, but we had better start ramping up NOW, because the Europeans anticipate a Russian invasion of the NATO countries in the next approximately 5 years, especially since Russia is now on a war footing and has redirected their entire economy to upgrading and producing weapons capacity to something like 10 times where it was two years ago. Vance didn’t even attend the most important meetings in Munich, and he has been ridiculed because of it. He launched a few verbal bombs and then went back to his hotel to research dolphins or something equally stupid on his laptop. I have no respect at all for Vance, but I have tons for Ferguson, Cochrane, and Senor. They are the experts. Vance is a politician.