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Wed Dec 11, 2024, 06:54 PM Dec 11

Without Firing a Single Shot: This is How the Cold War Ends (for now). [View all]




President-elect Donald Trump has picked the worst picks humanly possible to sit on his future cabinet: Unvetted, unqualified quacks, wonks, polemicists, misogynists, racists, conspiracy theorists, oligarchs, TV personalities, kleptocrats, dipsomaniacs, and Islamophobes. We need not go into their names again as they have been painfully burned into our braincells.




Future Republican policies will intentionally weaken, sicken, pauperize, and demoralize the American people with their destructive health, social, and economic programs.

Friedrich Engels described this as “social murder” and a Russian TV host gleefully claimed that “Trump’s Cabinet picks will dismantle America.”

Senior intelligence officials have already signaled their departure when Trump assumes the Presidency and only a sober and sane US Senate confirmation process might help mitigate the future catastrophes that await the American people. But hope is not a plan as the US Army taught your humble author decades ago.

The American people can thank Fifth Columnists like these two Republicans below for helping to hand our country over to the Kremlin without them having to fire a single shot.


Two perfect examples of Lenin's “useful idiots.” (Photo: Jeremy Pelzer/Cleveland.com)




In October 1962, President John F. Kennedy ordered a naval blockade of Cuba to prevent Soviet nuclear missiles from reaching an island 90 miles from our shore. The Cold War was inches or seconds away from becoming atomic hot.

So terrified were people of a nuclear war with the USSR during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Noël Regney (music) Gloria Shayne (lyrics) quickly wrote and produced this melodic song (in the key of C Major) as a plea for peace:



The Kennedy Administration competently and coolly resolved the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Kremlin withdrew their missiles from Cuba; the US in turn removed Jupiter nuclear IRBMs from Turkiye and atomic Armageddon was averted.




So, what would WWII hero and Cold Warrior President Kennedy say today about the United States of America and the individual pictured at the bottom?



POTUS #45 Donald J. Trump during his first "Reign of Error." (Photo: 5 Dec 2017, Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Images)



Sources:

https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/russia-trump-cabinet-picks-kash-patel-tulsi-gabbard-rcna182927

https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2024/11/intelligence-igs-head-exit-trumps-return/401203/

https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/wars-conflicts-and-operations/cuban-missile.html

http://ereserve.library.utah.edu/Annual/POLS/5660/Lobell/cuba.pdf
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