With two or three guys per event, that’s three dozen catastrophes happening in one week if not one day.

And do what? Stored energy is easily available. See McVeigh “And Others Unknown”. Or hijack a gasoline tanker.

And so we tell our gullible relations, “You voted for that.” Not much satisfaction.

(How’s that for diversity?!)

Richard Cook on January 31, 2024 at 4:25 pm said:
The West does not want to survive.

Well, large numbers of your fellow citizens think that your survival at least, is “problematic” or outright undesireable. And they have been directing their political energies for decades now at solving the problem of your continuing existence by cutting away the foundations of your life … and doing so on your taxpayer dime.

Nonetheless, once the catastrophy does occur, plenty of sensitive conservatives will fall all over themselves for the chance to leap into the breach and sacrifice for those who were mere months before trying to destroy them.

They will celebrate the “fact” that their lefty retired schoolmarm aunt Jane, and Democrat political operative neighbor Jim, local race hustler Tariq, and corrupt pol Joe have ” come to their senses”, and that “we are now all in this together”.

But of course fear does not really erase crazy and corrupt in the case of the left; and like the proverbial dog they will return to their resentment driven vomit and lashing out once the immediate threat has passed. The sensitive conservative knows it.

It’s just that his own fears make delusional living more comfortable for him. And then there may be that other “benefit”.

The 2023 movie “The Killer” has a climactic scene in which a character recites an old joke about a repeatedly bumbling hunter and his prey, a large bear.

The insight into the ways of the sensitive conservative provided by the old joke, is that it provides an alternative take on the old saw that ‘crazy is engaging in the same futile behavior again and again and expecting a different outcome’.

Instead circumstances might not be what they at first seem to be, at all.

He’s the one who famously said, *Never let a crisis go to waste.”. i.e. if there were to be a terrorist attack on American soil, the administration would likely view it as an opportunity to push some new measure on the country.

“Aren’t the Iranians considered a Russian client state?”

I think it would be more accurate to say that they have a common ally in Syria.

Aren’t the Iranians considered a Russian client state?

No. They are Russian allies or at least “colleagues” and “business partners” but Iran is its own actor, and has its own ambitions that well exceed what Moscow can control and if anything predate it.

Here is where Trump’s instincts, if not his execution were on point. If our relations with Russia were not in a deep freeze, Putin might have been inclined to keep his Iranian client on a much shorter leash. But since Biden decided it was more fun to antagonize him, Putin doesn’t give a rat’s ass and can’t be co-opted.

You’re giving the ability or inclination of Russia to control Iran way too much credit. You’re also ignoring that Biden is quite fine co-opting Putin to work on Iran… in order to come up with a new version of the Iran “Deal.”

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/biden-admin-relies-on-russia-to-finalize-iran-nuclear-deal-as-putin-invades-ukraine/

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202202285698

As for “antagonizing Putin” or “Putin keeping Iran on a leash”, Trump did not go out of his way to antagonize Putin but he did do several things that greatly undermined the bear (such as fossil fuel policy) and he responded to Russian provocations like he responded to those of others, by inflicting a mixture of negotiation and pain mixed with theater. This is much wiser than we think and why attempts to portray him as a Russian puppet were stupid and dishonest, but it also is why his relations with Putin diminished over his first term, precisely because he would not let himself be walked over. Ditto with Iran.

Meanwhile there are varying levels of cooperation and conflict and even co-dependence between Russia and Iran but neither very clearly has the upper hand over the other or the ability to call shots. So they will work together when they see reason to (and their shared alignment with much of the “resistance bloc” means they will do that a lot) but they will also work at cross purposes when they see a reason. But the ability of either side to give orders to the other and say “STOP” is not really there.

Russia’s not the Soviet Union any more and even the Soviets found it somewhat difficult to deal with allies or client states of Iran’s size, power, and prestige (as shown by their issues with Ceaucescu in Romania and even East Germany and Poland, to say nothing of those further afield).

But that’s a bit (or more than a bit) fanciful.

Much more likely is that “Biden” is on the same page as “HIS” Mullah pals, which all the bluster between them is meant to disguise and conceal…similar to all the bluster between “Biden” and his pal,…..PUTIN.

It appears that there is no one from TX at the border of Eagle Pass–what happened to the big stand off?