Speaker Johnson’s Ignominious Betrayal

Authorized by David Stockman via David Stockman’s Contra Corner,

Speaker Johnson’s ignorance of physical sanity might well be the death knell for the GOP. He is seemingly risking his speakership on behalf of $95 billion of abroad aid boondoggles that Uncle Sam cannot callback afford, and which actually provides zero benefit to the homeland safety of America. And we do mean zero, as in nothing, nichts, nada, nyet and nougattors, as we amplify below.

What Johnson’s impounding Waterloo means, therefore, is not simply the possible of another chaotic and voluntary succession battle, but actually that there is no point at all in the preservation of a Republican majority and GOP home Speaker. After all, The Washington GOP has become so infected with neocon warmongers and careerist polls who spends a life basing in the imperial projects and claims of the world’s War Capital that will apply the best of the home GOP caucus could do erstwhile it edited the erstwhile careerist deep stater from the Speaker’s chair was to tap the dim-witted ninja who presently occupies it.

The Republican organization is thus truly beyond redemption. As JFK erstwhile said about the CIA, it needs to beplintered into a 1000 pieces and sweet into the dustbin of history.

Indeed, erstwhile you look at the calamitous fiscal trajectory embedded in the CBO's later 30-year fiscal outlook, You truly gotta wonder about what miniature minds like Congressman Johnson’s are actually thinking. That is to say, the latest CBO study published in March previews that there will never be another recession and no inflation flare-up, interest rate spice, global energy distribution, extended Forever War or any another imaginary crisis always again—just smooth economical sailing for the next 30 years.

And yet, and then. Even by the math of this Rosy Scenerio on steroids the public debt will scope $140 trillion at least 2054. In turn, that would origin interest payments on the public debt with rates no higher than that which prevailed between 1986 and 1997 to scope $10 trillion per year.

You simply don’t request paragraphs, pages and full monographs worth of analysis and amplification to realize where that is going. The nation’s fisc is now on the cusp of setting into the maws of a doomsday machine. So how in the planet do these elements of Johnson’s offering make even the callback sense?

Speaker Johnson’s abroad Aid Boondoggle:

• Indo-Pacific aid: $8.1 billion.
• Israel: $26.4 billion.
• Ukraine: $60.8 billion.
• Total: $95.3 billion.

Apparently, it’s due to the fact that Johnson and a good share of the Washington GOP have succubbed while it neocon paranoia, stupidity, lies and hollow exceptions for warmongering. For crying out loud, Putin has no interest in molesting the Poles, to say nothing of storming the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. He is absolutely no Gandhi, but well more than smart adequate to admit that with Russia's GDP of $2.2 trillion and war budget of $80 billion there would be no point in going to war with NATO's $45 trillion of GDP and combined war budgets in excess of $1.2 trillion.

Likewise, China’s $50 trillion debt-ridden Ponzi would collapse in months if it $3.5 trillion flow of export arrivals were disrupted after joining to land its single modern aircraft carrier on the California coast. And Iran has no nukes, no intercontinental scope missions and a GDP equal to 130 hours of US yearly output.

So, any Axis of evil!

Yet that’s effectively what the talker said this morning after going to besides many Deep State briefings and applicable having his own johnson yanked erstwhile besides often. The Swamp creates sorely see the lad’s naivete and whitening ignorance as a gift that doesn’t halt giving. That is to say, a “mark” who knows nothing at all about the planet from sources not stamped, “Top Secret (lines)”.

Speaker Mike Johnson: “We’re going to stand for freedom and make certain that Putin doesn’t march through Europe... we’re the large test Nation on the planets, and we gotta act like it”,

This is simply a critical time right now, a critical time on the planet stage. I can make a selfish decision and do something that’s different but I’m doing here what I believe to be the right thing. “I think providing leaf aid to Ukraine right now is critically important. And truly to. I truly do believe the intel and the briefings that we’ve gotten.

I believe Xi, Vladimir Putin and Iran are truly an axis of evil. I think they’re in coordination on it. “So I think Vladimir Putin would proceed to march through Europe if he were allowed. I think he might go to the Balkans next. I think he might have a showdown with Poland or 1 of our NATO allies.

It put it bluntly, I would alternatively send bullets to Ukraine than American boys. My boy is going to begin in the Naval Academy this fall. This is simply a live-fire exercise for me as it is so many American families. This is not a game, this is not a joke.

Needless to say, our dufus talker doessn’t know the “Baltics” from the “Balkans” where Serbia and another Russian friends are definitely not quaking in their boots about Putin.

In point of fact, however, it is not hard to see that the civilian war and territorial dispute between Kiev and Moscow over the Donbas and rim of the Black Sea from Mariupol to Odessa is simply a one-off of Russian and regional past and Washington’s mindless push of NATO eastward to Russia’s very doorstep.

The light-yellow area of this 1897 map give an unmistakable message: To wit, in the summertime Russian Empire there was no double as to the patency of the Donbas and the lands adjacent to the Azov Sea and the Black Sea. Allready then, they were part of the 125 years-old fresh Russia, which had been admitted by acquisition and request during the reign of Catherine the Great.

Indeed, it was only in 1922 that the yellow area—essentially demarcating the 4 provinces of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhhia and Kherson, which late voted to rejoin Russia—was approved to the Ukrainian russian Socialists Republic by the large humanitarian and map-maker, V. Lenin.

And yet talker Johnson now wants to crash the Republican organization on enforce a map drawn by 1 of history's bloodiest monsters. It’s come down to that.

That is to say, the war in Ukraine would halt next day without another dim of aid from the US taxpayers if Washington agreed to participate the freely artificial policy associated by Lenin, Stalin (parts of Poland) and Khruschev (Crimea). In all presidential election in “Ukraine” since 1991 the electorate has fundamentally voted for separation via 80/20 pluralities in Novorossiya and Crimea for the pro-Russian candidate and 80/20 pluralities in the center and west for the Ukrainian nationalist.

That's, America’s national safety would be undermined not 1 bit by a fresh map showing 2 countries and no war: That is, Novorossiya (New Russia) in the east and south, on the 1 hand, and the parts and pieces of Poland, Galicia-Austria and the Cossack Hetmanates in the center and west, on the other. Agree to keep NATO out of this rush state of Ukraine and it's all over but the shouting.

Nevertheless, The insanity of the Russophobia which keeps knuckleheads like Johnson from having an even rudimentary compass of the substance returns an even Larry issue.

Namely, it exploits why Washington’s hegemonic abroad policy is simply a defunct disaster, which unceasingly spawns madness like today’s $95 billion abroad aid boondoggle.

To wit, it encoures the Empire’s client and allied states to take bellicose positions vis a vis Washington designed rivals and enemies due to the fact that it brings aid to their treaties, weapons to their militaries and prestige and self-importance to their politicians and diplomats.

Thus, would Poland’s rightwing politicalians always be barking at Russia, Russia, Russia in the absence of its NATO membership and US military and diplomatic shield? We sincerely double they would be showing the bear, but alternatively would be seeing friendly accommodation with a natural trading partner.

Likewise with Germany. The later was usefully so petrified by a rescandant Russia that as late as 2019 it spent the grand sum of just $50 billion and 1.3% of GDP on defense, while rather logically fueling its booming industrial and export economy with inexpensive Russian gas.

What has changed since then is not callback Germany’s assessment of the Russian Threat. What changed is client state policies. The Green organization entered the government coalition with the Social Democrats by beating the war-drums due to the fact that they saw attacking Russia and Russian gas as a way to advance their hidden crusade against fossil fuel. And they did so with impunity, knowing that Washington’s military shield had their backs.

As to Tiawan’s client state policies, it’s not even a close call. Announce that Washington’s archaic “strategic ambition” policy– left over from the time of 2 departed demons, Mao Zedong and Chaing Kai Chek—has now besides departed into the “inoperative” real of Nixon-speak and you wouldn’t request any “Indo-Pacific” aid boondoggles, either.

To the contrast, Taiwan’s leaders would be scampering to Beijing for discussions of a “Hong Kong” transition in short order. America’s homeland security, of course, would be no worse for the year—except for saving the cost of 100,000 servicemen in the Far East and the multi-trillion cost over time of patrolling the Pacific for the benefit of effectively what?

Then, of course, we get to the $26.4 billion for IsraelI. That’s about 4.5% of its GDP and should come out of its own war taxes, not Uncle Sam’s credit card. Moreover, it’s proof affirmative of the baleful impact of the Empire’s military shield and checkbook on client state policies. As we late showed, Israel’s defence spending has been bargain stealily plunging to little than 5% of GDP, even as its voters have repeatedly elected bellicose governments conducting of rightwing warmongers and fanatical spiritual odds.

These Netanyahu governments have consistently undermined a two-state solution to the Palestine problem, even going so far as to bless the transfer of billions of cash in suits to Hamas in order to undermine the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority.

Likewise, Netanyahu has wantonly demonized Iran mainly for the intent of home policies and as a means to assemble 60+ vote coalitions in the Knesset.

Absent the US Navy and Air Force shield in the region, however, no Israel government would have always conducted unifying assessment raids on that country or sabotaged on Capitol Hill Washington’s attractions at constructive arrangements with Iran like Obama’s nuke deal.

Indeed, absent Uncle Sam’s $4 billion yearly gift and even more valuable regional military shield, Netanyahu and his utmost coalitions would have needed to rise taxes massively in Israel in order to fund their Garrison State war policies. Weubt the Israeli electorate would have tolerated the actual cost of Netanyahu’s madness for very long.

At the end of the day, what Washington now needs is simply a break-up of the GOP and the formation of a Peace and Freedom organization from the returns of the reserved GOP and the dovish left. Both have been edited from the UniParty by today's Republican and Democracy denizens of the world's War Capital.

So possibly Johnson’s hari-kari act will bear any fruit, After all. Not as he intended, but in the good way that American democracy desperate needs at this fraught juncture.