‘Zelensky overplayed his hand.’

This video sums up the meeting.

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The Fall of the USS Gettysburg

“…Going even deeper – and this is perhaps more concerning in the long run – USS Gettysburg completed all the pre-deployment training required for a ship to be certified to deploy. However, the ship had performed at what would have been, as recently as the first decade of this century, a failure-level. Indeed, Gettysburg’s substandard performance continues to be a matter of jest in the strike group to which Gettysburg belongs – the strike group responsible for certifying the ship as ready for deployment, and assignment to the Truman Strike Group. Indeed, the training performance of the entire strike group appears to have been sub-standard, and not just Gettysburg.

How does this happen? Why would we send a ship or a strike group to a war zone if they aren’t deemed to perform at an acceptable level?

The fact is that there are too few ships of the type and capability of Gettysburg. That fact is that there are too few aircraft carrier to meet the unquenchable demand of the military’s Combatant Commands. Everyone wants aircraft carrier strike groups in their neck of the woods, and the fact that the Navy is steadily decreasing in size, is not the Combatant Commander’s problem. It is incumbent upon the Navy to say, “no.” Yet, the Navy does not say no. The Navy is determined to pull its own weight and respond to the demand signal. The result is that the Navy will not say, “let’s take a pause here. This ship isn’t quite ready, and she needs more work. We will fill the gap with another, more ready ship.” There simply are not enough ships – and certainly not enough Aegis cruisers and aircraft carriers – to allow for this. Instead, the ship is certified.

Of course, this is a different Navy, today, and as is the case with the shortage of cruisers and aircraft carriers, this is a larger issue and one which should concern us all in any future conflict…”

It’s like Democrats live minute to minute without memory of things past and therefore without embarrassment or shame for hypocritical or contradictory statements and actions. It could also be that they are simply shameless liars and hypocrites that will say and do anything to gain and maintain political power and advantage, and that they do not deserve the assumption of good faith.

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The Long FreeCon

“A central element of the conference was a basic inability to come to grips with the political reality of the United States in 2025.”

“…Fusion Conservatism, the brainchild of National Review’s William F. Buckley and the canonical philosophy of the Reagan Revolution, is one of the many casualties of the Trumpian era of American politics. There is, as always, a remnant. A number of these banded together and, in 2023, issued a new manifesto, the Freedom Conservative Statement of Principles, seeking a new lease on life for the “dead consensus.” These few, these unhappy few gathered Monday at the Freedom Conservative convention to rally the troops for retaking their place as the torchbearers nonpareil of True American Conservatism.

The atmosphere of FreeCon 2025 would have been familiar to anyone brought up—as I was—through the circuit of college conservative intellectual organizations, down to the seating arranged around circular tables and the many bowties—some 23, perhaps. Conversation was dominated by the trivialities common to the class, stuff that would make angel-counting schoolmen blush: a professor musing on the qualities of a local Catholic basilica, a think tanker and a government consultant discussing the philosophical grounds for school choice. A comfortable environment for the bookish and bespectacled, an orderly, stoop-shouldered affair far from the raucous populists at CPAC. My kind of gathering, really—but completely unfit for anything that might approach effective American political leadership in 2025…”

Down By The Glenside (Those Bold Finnian Men)

Equally good

I’ll Take You Home Again, Kathleen

Everybody’s Dancin’ – Room Full Of Roses

 

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