Political trash talkers, global rearmament.

 TALKING TOUGH, GOOD FOR ARMS BUSINESS

MANY SHOULD BE FIRED FOR LOOSE TALK

It is now almost a daily occurrence that some government leader or official makes threats of war. In most case it is trash talk, in an attempt to appear tough or decisive, it usually results in increased war preparation and worse diplomatic relations between all involved. We have many examples, George Bush 2 in his infamous declaration about the "Axis of evil" describing Iran, Iraq, and North Korea. At that time they had little cooperation or any real connection to each other. This statement was directly followed by the invasion of Iraq and the move by Iran and North Korea to obtain a nuclear deterrent. North Korea has since become a nuclear power, but Iran has decided it was not the direction they wanted to go, but the trash talking continues and it is wonder that they have not become a nuclear power. They have since become more cooperative with each other.

Then of course there is the Russia/Ukraine situation, U.S. trash talkers run their mouths off contumely, demonizing Russia, boasting about killing Russians and encouraging Ukraine that they can prevail over Russia.  A disaster for Ukraine and a massive rearmament of Russia and NATO. This week we heard an Italian leader of NATO suggest that NATO should consider a pre-emptive strike on Russia, we can only assume he meant a nuclear strike.  Russia's response was clear and then also caused more trashing talking about Russia's aggression. We could only expect that Russia will push to shorten the time needed to respond to any such provocation. We also had a U.S. general in NATO brag that NATO could take over Kaliningrad, a Russian parcel in the Baltic, in days. He didn't mention what would happen after that. Both these high ranking bull shitters should have been fired immediately.

We can also remember a pacific operations U.S. air force general that predicted we would be at war with China by 2025. Then we complained and were astonished by a huge increase in Chinese military preparations. This guy should have been fired immediately.

Today, it's now South America were military preparedness is being increased by nations in the region often with the purchase of advanced weapons from Russia and China. Much of this trash talk is coming from the administration and the consequences will be an increase, if that is possible, in distrust of all things U.S.

While the long term diplomatic consequences are still unknown we can expect none of this talk produces a positive result. Of course, it will increase the debt of many of these nations and will be good for arms manufacturers, maybe that is what it is all about anyway.