{"id":179975,"date":"2017-08-24T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T00:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/08\/24\/while-we-are-on-the-subject-of-abject-failure\/"},"modified":"2017-08-24T19:06:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T00:06:00","slug":"while-we-are-on-the-subject-of-abject-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/08\/24\/while-we-are-on-the-subject-of-abject-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"While We are on the Subject of Abject Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of Defense James Mathis is <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/347827-mattis-trump-admin-actively-reviewing-sending-ukraine-weapons\">trying to gin up support for US military involvement in the Ukraine<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Defense Secretary <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/james-mattis\">James Mattis<\/a> said Thursday that the Trump administration is \u201cactively reviewing\u201d whether to provide weapons to Ukrainians who are fighting Russian-backed rebels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the defensive lethal weapons, we are actively reviewing it,\u201d Mattis said during a press conference alongside Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will go back, now, having seen the current situation, and be able to inform the secretary of State and the president in very specific terms what I recommend for the direction ahead.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is a permanent war party in Washington, DC, AKA, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/05\/08\/magazine\/the-aspiring-novelist-who-became-obamas-foreign-policy-guru.html\">The Blob<\/a>,&#8221; and they haven&#8217;t won a war, since 1945, and they haven&#8217;t made the world a better place, or had a diplomatic success in almost as long a time.<\/p>\n<p>They were the ones, in the person of Victoria Nuland, who fomented a coup and a civil war in the Ukraine in the first place. <\/p>\n<p>And now these idiots are back in command of our foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>What the hell, it&#8217;s just more blood and treasure sacrificed on the altar of pointless American hegemony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of Defense James Mathis is trying to gin up support for US military involvement in the Ukraine: Defense Secretary James Mattis said Thursday that the Trump administration is \u201cactively reviewing\u201d whether to provide weapons to Ukrainians who are fighting Russian-backed rebels. \u201cOn the defensive lethal weapons, we are actively reviewing it,\u201d Mattis said during &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[489,588,394,441],"class_list":["post-179975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-civil-war","tag-fail","tag-foreign-relations","tag-former-soviet-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}