When you stop and think about it, Hollywood breast implant and D. C. staffers are oddly similar: They’re both designed to help the “actor” sustain a certain photo.
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It’s only show business, child!  ,
Even though we can tell who uses them on our own, it’s rude to point them out in front of the paying audience because it destroys the players ‘ style.
Society runs on similar historical fables. We all know them: Every bride is beautiful, every kid is cute, your boss ‘ ideas are always brilliant, and when someone asks,” How are ya”? you DO NOT inform them about your severe depression and/or continued bedwetting episodes. The correct response is,” Excellent”!
But often, our self-deceptions may be significantly damaging.
Usually speaking, the purpose of flowery language is to give someone’s feelings. Although the Computer crackpots have given it a poor name, it’s generally benign. Hey, if an old crippled but man wants me to call him a “differently-abled cisgendered top citizen”, that’s never gonna be my hills to kill on. I’ll contact him whatever he wants.  ,
It’s good habits to treat people with respect.  ,
That typically includes names, including those that I detest physically. Look, I’ve often thought it’s crazy when boys named Richard deliberately choose to be called Dick, but if that’s what you want, that’s what I’ll call you.
I’m a people-pleaser.
There’s an inherent harm, however, when you’re deceptive about your true purpose in foreign plan because there are life-and-death political factors that outweigh cultural niceties. And besides, when you’re dealing with an atom-splitting Soviet kingdom with 5, 580 nuclear weapons, your margin of error is limited.
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Blundering our way into nuclear war is n’t in anyone’s best attention.
This past month, we learned that the lame-duck Biden-Harris administration has Suddenly given the Ukrainians the go-ahead to flame U. S. supplied and U. S. built rockets into unquestioned Russian territory.
Russia responded quickly by lowering the cap on nuclear weapons implementation. As we noted tuesday:
The Russian Federation reserves the right to employ nuclear arms in a conflict with conventional arms, according to a Kremlin official.
The spokesman also confirmed that Russian missile strikes, which were approved by Biden-Harris, “would be in line with the revised doctrine and was detonate Russia’s nuclear arsenal.”
Missiles and arms are just methods. In and of themselves, they mean everything. What’s of paramount importance is our overall strategy. Although foreign policy decisions are usually republican, America’s Ukraine-Russian plan is an entirely Democrat technology: Putin invaded Ukraine during the Biden-Harris management, and throughout the entirety of the conflict, just Democrats have been Commander-in-Chief and Secretary of Defense.
This is 100 % a Democratic strategy. ( Aided and abetted by the occasional neocon, of course. )
And the Democrats ‘ approach is now easily obvious: It’s not for Ukraine to succeed. If we wanted Ukraine to succeed, we would’ve given it the natural lighting years earlier or upped our efforts. We’ve been touching checks, but obviously could’ve done more.
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But, it’s not for Russia to get either.
Rather, what the Biden-Harris management has been hoping for is a lengthy, drawn-out, insoluble bloodbath.
It’s a deliberate policy selection by the National state: Pit Russia in a long, protracted fight that chews up its equipment and depletes its artillery. And after on, even if it manages to destroy Ukraine, ideally, it’ll be too weakened to induce problems abroad.
I’m not actually referring to the Democrats ‘ blatantly cunning plan as being wrong! ( I’d prefer a weakened Russia to a strong Russia, too. ) Twenty years from now, we could look up at this legislation and ponder it a indicate.
But I am saying we need to get honest with ourselves.  ,
The most likely result of our conflict may be tens of thousands more Russian and Ukrainian dead. Perhaps more. ( Exponentially more, should the nuclear genie escape from its bottle. ) It’s a battle we’re not actually trying to win, but constantly perpetuating — the higher the figure matter, the better. It is a Soviet- and Ukrainian-written policy.
And one’s telling the truth about it.
