PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS TO SEEMINGLY INTRACTABLE PROBLEMS
RUSSIA
The Duchy of Moscow has added territory approximately the size of the Netherlands every year since the mid-1500s, and shows no sign of changing. It has repeatedly invaded Ukraine and Estonia.
Solution:
Deny the country, its citizens and entities, access to American financial settlement services. Twenty-four hours later the country ceases to function.
The Pandemic
Although we receive daily a number of announcements of new records of infections, we don’t need to pay attention to them. The important number is admissions to ICUs. Don’t take my word for it; ask your family physician. We are also told that anyone refusing to get a vaccination is “the enemy.” The risk of serious complications from the virus for people under 20 is lower than the risk of serious complications from the vaccine. Additionally, any male under 40 with any heart issues should be cleared by his physician, as should any woman of any age who is pregnant or breast-feeding.
Solution: Declare victory over the virus, and imitate Sweden. Focus efforts on the old and the fat. Leave everybody else alone.
The Supply Chain
We are told by the Biden Administration that there are no shortages of items to buy, there are supply chain problems. That is actually funny. Supply chains, without interference, form themselves naturally. With broadband and State-of-the-Art Systems, they can span a continent in a day. There is no supply chain problem. There are policy problems. Making it easy to live well without working, and then threatening voting blocs that do not support you with loss of their jobs if they don’t submit to irrational policy and actually follow real data, there are serious shortages of workers in key positions.
Police, firefighters and nurses decline booster shots ad infinitum, and working low-cost treatments (Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine) are declared “fake news.”
Solution: Get out of the way. Pay for Cadillac Insurance Plans for any trucker willing to travel empty to a port.
Border Crisis
Solution: Cede the states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California to the drug cartels, acknowledging reality. Arm the state national guard troops of Nevada, Idaho, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana with nuclear weapons.
Foreign Relations
We asked our NATO Allies to join us in Afghanistan, invoking the “mutual assistance” clause of the NATO agreement. We then unilaterally withdrew without informing them.
Solution: Apologize, explaining that we don’t mind religious persecution and child rape, if they would just first smell their hair.
"The Duchy of Moscow has added territory approximately the size of the Netherlands every year since the mid-1500s, and shows no sign of changing."
I like ya, but you're telling me this map is inaccurate?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Territorial_Expansion_of_Russia.svg
Modern Russia is nowhere near the size of Imperial Russia nowadays. For that matter, the amount of territory annexed by Russia post-1914 is that little chunk of Tuvaland, to the west of Lake Baikal. Literally, outer Outer Mongolia. 1914 was pre-Soviet days, at that; more of the Tuva region was apparently annexed in 1945, but if that's an accurate map, that appears to me to be the only Soviet-era addition to the territory of the then-USSR.
Crimea has more geostrategic importance to Russia than the Panama Canal had to the US; I get why the Russians want to maintain control of the peninsula that hosts their most historic naval base south of the Baltic Sea.
Bad day, Bill? But I am being unfair in not writing something myself. I do agree that the cognitive dissonance (great phrase) about the Supremes debating a mandate requiring use of a countermeasure against a pathogen that no longer exists in it's original form. In practice the countermeasure had some minimal effect but failing in it's broader objectives in earlier days. But the pathogen changed with the countermeasure having little effect, if any. And the countermeasure had some negative effects as well. The theater of the absurd.
This struck home today https://twitter.com/FatEmperor/status/1478887001118154754 retracing the statements of leaders not too long ago. They are quite incapable of admitting error. Note how they speak with great assurance and authority delivering their message. We have been conned. If there may have been alternatives we are not permitted to hear of them by these same authorities.
Sorry to hit the one point you didn't fully pounce on. We could indeed bring Russia to it's knees but hope the noise works. I suspect Biden company cares little about Ukraine other than trying to keep JR out of it.
Regarding the border (I am quite near in NM), we are creating a problem that results in the collapse of the welfare system or so seems to be the desire. This has been a long term goal and it may work. Proponents want a shift to a more socialistic system greater than now. Removal of work requirements for benefits is a part of that scheme. As Clinton had to evolve in old reforms, Biden will be forced into the same place and the immigration flood will really stress the system. The 2023 Congress must deal with the impact which coupled with inflation mean a lower standard of living for most of us. The Biden bunch is quite unable to deal with the '23 economy and I expect it will be ugly.
But I am more worried about what late '22 brings. When Tesla is worth (on paper) more than all the auto makers combined, what then? Apple worth much more than the largest producing companies? The history here can hardly guide us. No government has ever created so much money in such a short period. The pandemic has been a lovely item to distract us. Your thoughts?