I wish Merkel luck in her negotiations with our POTUS. She’s going to need it.

It is rather nice to see our President know his edge and to really push it. This has not happened in quite some time. For how many decades now have we all had to witness America being given away like a rented mule?

There you go showing off your pressure washer again. That is a very cool unit and the bond between a man and his very masculine pressure washer is something not to be underestimated. A pair of aluminum mags on it would be a nice upgrade. I would love to take that thing for a extended spin at my place.

Enjoy the new roof and thanks again for the analysis!

The purpose of NATO is not to have Europe have a strong military so that Russia won’t attack Europe. Instead, the purpose of NATO is to keep the military forces of Europe under the control of NATO and the US so that no other European country or coalition of European countries will attack other European countries or Russia.

So, with NATO — again, we’re defending against the attacker in the last war — we can’t have Germany with a Hitler unify with the other German speaking areas, come up with a faked up reason to attack Poland, and try to go for all the land on a line from Stalingrad to Moscow to Leningrad (or whatever the names are now), the oil along and under the Caspian Sea, and the farm land in Ukraine.

For this role of NATO to be successful, NATO has to be reasonably strong. Or, a shell, paper tiger, weak, or empty NATO might tempt Germany again to build up their military and grab power in whatever ways.

And for Russia, the broad, coffee table style strategic theory is that Russia wants good warm water ports for good access to the Atlantic Ocean. So, for now, Russia can use and look for more access in the Baltic Sea. For more, Russia would want land routes to ports on the coasts of the North Sea, English Channel, or the Atlantic itself. For access via the Mediterranean, even with a good land route to the Med., Russia would be less excited due to the bottleneck of the Straits of Gibraltar. But I don’t take this theory seriously; that is, I doubt that Russia takes this theory seriously.

Of course, Angela is unhappy about something or other! Maybe she’s unhappy because she and Germany signed on to all that divinity school dropout Gore’s CO2 is sin earth worship religion and spent a lot of money on it while now Trump says about fossil fuels “drill, baby, drill; mine, baby, mine; burn, baby, burn,” clean out the earth-worship fanatics in the EPA, and get on with business! Good for Trump!

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