it knows. it saythe s unmanned drone was harassed and damaged by two russian fighter jets ove over w international waters.. it s all we have. we s all we have. we re going have to take re e their word for it. everybody else seems to be. lierybody else seems to be. lindsey graham didn t ask many penetrating questions. no, he moved immediately, seized the opportunity to demanthat thed the pentagon k the russian air force.here he here he is . what we should hold them accountable and say that if you t nearever get near another upsa flying in international watersl. your airplane would be shot down.ld what would ronald reagan do right now? ronalhe would he would startn e shooting russian planes down if they were threateninreg our assets. what would ronald reagan do? good quewould ronald reagan do? oh, good. senator graham. ronald r. senator graham. question. senator graham, ronald reagan s two term presidency was notablen for the fact that he did not declare war on the russian
is not at war with russia. with ruthis is ukraine s war to figh. uk the second thing we have heard over and over again is that ukraine is winning that wa thar. rave ukrainian troops are brave and noble. russian troops are evil. and incompetent. the ukrainians are beating the russians. ir victo in the end, their victory i is inevitable. now, you re very familiar with these points because you heary day since ever last february. you ve heard them repeated by every power centem repeated , the united states , the pentagon, the white house, the leaders of both partie s in congress, ceos and celebrities, and most insistently of all, m from you ve heard them from virtually every single outlet lyy along the entire spectrum ol our national news media. these are the two essential themes of the war in ukraine and both of them are lies. k we know that they re lies because late last week, leakedea intelligence about the war in ukraine began to appear on social media briefing slides prepare
fe s reacting against what h we feels inside, which is the steady loss of his power as a man. the faster thatthe faster poa recedes, the more franticallys he asserts it. .e is raging against the dying of the light. the ligt these last embarrassing decisions are, in fact, hisroes. death throes. it s sad, really. it is reallunfortunately, whatt fo men also tends to happen to the systems they create. for the last 80 years, our world has been governe0 d by a system formed in the final months of world war two. its features.tures de define oue free and open global trade routes guaranteed by the g us navy, a universal currency called the dollarreme and overseeing it all p one supreme power, the world s largest economy, the united states of america.system it s been a great system in most ways, but for manyg th reasons, including the passage of time thate system is dying. what comes next is not entirely clear , but how to influence it to america s greatest possible advantage. gr
many similar movements that arae on the way. inevitably, and the few visionaries who have grasped this obvious truth weirdly , have not been welcomed by blue am america. they have been mockeda, they and derided as prophets, always are. a fewfe years ago, foro, example, a blue blond woman from montana called rachel dolezal declared that she wanas black because she decided that she was black . blackness was rachel dolezald lived experience, but she was not greeted as liberators. t gr she was almost immediateh booed off the stage and then she disappearee d and tellingly, none of the people yelling atye rachel dolezal ever explained whdy she couldn t be black. why not?t? in this country, you can change your , but not your race. really, how does that work? what species of science are weec talking about here? it was note are we defensible al and so over time, like alle ar indefensible arguments, it will collapse someday. the new york times will give g rachel dough s all its
is a form of white supremacy. as a result, not surprisingly, car burglaries have risen quite a bit. mr. daria, the attendant is not white, but apparently he s sick of watching other people get robbed. so he told the man to get out, leave the garage. in response, the man pulled out a handgun and fired four times ,hit there in the head. and the stomach was a nightmare. but somehow matsudaira had the presence of mind to wrestle the gun from the man and then fire back before the man could shoot him or anyone else. by the time police arrived, both men were lying on the sidewalk bleeding. now, what do you think happened in a scene? self respecting society said the area would have received a medal if not a ticker tape parade. but in the city of new york , he was arrested and charged with attempted murder and illegal possession of a gun. the same gun that had been used to shoot him. darryl woke up in bellevue hospital shackled to his bed. the new york post ran this pictur