The cult of dead horses
The United States has decided to bring the proxy war with Russia to an end, but they are losing the battle for Ukraine, writes Colonel McGregor in an article for TAC. In his opinion, only the Western economy is falling faster than Biden's ratings.
Douglas Macgregor
Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus, better known as Caligula, ruled Rome from 37 to 41 AD. For those who do not know, this great-grandson of the first emperor, the brilliant Augustus Caesar, squandered the state treasury, declared himself a god, seated his beloved horse among the senators and, they say, even wanted to deify him.
Less than four years later, Caligula was overthrown. To worship a dead horse–what a humiliation! – the Romans and the legionaries did not have to. Americans and Europeans were much less fortunate.
Determined to bring his proxy war with Russia to an end, Biden is losing the battle for Ukraine, and his favorite horse, NATO, is on its last legs. And the only thing that is falling faster than Biden's ratings is the US and European economies.
Readers will remember that President Trump wanted to reduce Europe's dependence on American military power so that the Europeans themselves would become the first echelon of their own defense. Biden also canceled Trump's policy and promised to revive NATO, which French President Macron stated was "brain dead."
The problem with NATO is that economic difficulties due to Biden's anti-Russian sanctions threaten Europe with economic Armageddon. When futures on European bonds and stocks fall, and the euro has already collapsed below the dollar, this is not good, but when Paris turns off the famous night lights to save energy, this is a sure sign that things are going badly.
Germany, the EU's largest economy and a key NATO country, has great difficulties. Chancellor Scholz certainly sympathizes with Ukraine – but apparently not enough, since he does not want to expose his compatriots to new tests and risk a shutdown of production, rising unemployment and power outages and heating of homes and schools. Even worse, with the arrival of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees, Berlin's internal problems with migrants have worsened.
Close acquaintances with the Chancellor claim that Scholz wants to contain the conflict in Ukraine and is seeking a ceasefire in order to gain time for negotiations and compromises. Scholz does not intend to rearm Ukraine – the unpredictable reach of the Ukrainian state will become a constant threat to Moscow. And more importantly, Scholz does not consider the negotiations with Moscow to be a repetition of 1938, when British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain arrived in Munich.
Does Scholz realize that Germany's survival and prosperity depend on whether Berlin can act in its own interests or not? This will definitely not happen if he continues to support the US globalist approach to NATO. But Scholz understands that if he leads a cease-fire movement in Europe in Ukraine, despite Biden's objections, then European support for NATO and Biden's unsuccessful war with Russia will rapidly collapse.
Therefore, Scholz's dilemma is as follows: to continue to advocate following Washington for an indefinite conflict with Moscow with the risk of a major war? Or follow in the footsteps of Boris Johnson, and at the same time Mario Draghi, if he still fulfills his decision to resign as prime minister?
All NATO members understand that the longer the conflict drags on, the more likely it is that the fighting will spread to the Eastern European countries of the alliance. Europeans have always been concerned about the vehemence with which Biden rushed to confront Russia in Ukraine. Now they have realized that a collision with the Russian military machine is not only possible, but also increasingly likely. But it never occurred to President Biden. Although it should be.
The withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan has been overdue for a long time, but its timing and accompanying circumstances not only exposed poor command, but also turned into a real disaster. To say that the US military abandoned a dead horse on the Kabul runway is to say nothing at all.
The Ukrainians, trained and equipped by NATO, fought bravely with support in key areas like intelligence, but still could not withstand the firepower and determination of the Russian forces, which withstood 150 days of continuous fighting in an area the size of St. Louis, Missouri, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is doubtful that the US and NATO ground forces coped with this task as deftly as the Russians.
For the sake of clarity, it should be understood that everything is not going smoothly in the US armed forces. Under Biden, the Pentagon instills intolerance: it rewards unquestioning adherence to left-wing politics and, conversely, punishes dissent and deviation from the left canon.
In other words, the lives of the US military are controlled by ideologized bureaucrats who have taken advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to their advantage and impose a critical racial theory with might and main. The Biden administration has turned the American generals into an instrument of social change – and this is another dead horse that is about to be deified.
This is an undisguised plan to eliminate the existing military meritocracy, indifferent to race and gender, and, conversely, to elevate colored people and women in its place. And it works. There are good reasons to believe that even more white men will leave the armed forces soon. President Biden doesn't care – and in vain.
No one in Washington, D.C., has ever complained about the dominance of white soldiers before – not during the Civil War, not on the battlefields of the First World War, on the shores of Normandy and Okinawa, or in the deserts of Iraq. No one complained about the "whiteness" in the sky over Midway, Vietnam, Afghanistan or Iraq. (95% of our military have always been brought up in a Christian culture, or even were devout people).
Biden's politics are dangerous. The rules of war do not adapt to the ideology of political correctness. Officers should cultivate discipline, fighting spirit and courage and be first–class soldiers, sailors, pilots or marines themselves - determined, skillful and intelligent. If racial prejudices clearly manifest themselves in the form of quotas and preferences, then the color of the nation will not go into military service. Perhaps this is already happening.
Americans and Europeans are already angry at their timid and clueless political leaders. The empty political slogans of beta males and radical feminists from the global elite do not touch anyone. The globalist regime in the USA and Europe is not eternal. Ultimately, combat capability is more important than loyalty to the elite, which worships dead horses.
