Nothing good is allowed to come out of a GOP-controlled congress when there is a Democrat in the White House, not even to support crucial, urgent national interests. OK, there is one exception: when it hands lots of money to corporations that generally can be counted on to donate to GOPer campaign coffers. Other than that, Nothing.
The GOPers would rather wait until unemployment is a full percentage point below the historic average (which was 5.6% in the 60 years to end-2007) before recognizing the necessity of investing in infrastructure and the obvious savings of doing it at low interest rates.
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citanon has some interesting ideas.
→ upgrade our conventional military footprint in Europe.
In response to cyber attacks on our democracy? Doesn’t seem appropriate.
→ recapitalize and reinvigorate our nuclear weapons enterprise and expand our deployed arsenal back to parity with the Russians.
See above. You don’t fight a cyber war with nukes.
→ vigorously pursue the third offset in military capabilities.
Ah, now we get to next gen systems.
→ develop and put into practice covert cyber band disinformation capabilities centered around Russian vulnerabilities.
Much more appropriate.
→ continuation of a robust sanctions regime.
Old school. Minimally useful against widely dispersed attackers.
→ long term continuation of a low ceiling in global energy prices.
Totally off subject and likely to do more long-term damage than anything.
→ utilize conciliatory diplomacy to define the overt US Russian competition within safe boundaries and seek cooperation where ever possible. Our strong and far reaching actions need to be offset by conciliatory and face saving words in public.
When did “face saving” become a military or national security necessity?
The GOPers would rather wait until unemployment is a full percentage point below the historic average (which was 5.6% in the 60 years to end-2007) before recognizing the necessity of investing in infrastructure and the obvious savings of doing it at low interest rates.
= = = = =
citanon has some interesting ideas.
→ upgrade our conventional military footprint in Europe.
In response to cyber attacks on our democracy? Doesn’t seem appropriate.
→ recapitalize and reinvigorate our nuclear weapons enterprise and expand our deployed arsenal back to parity with the Russians.
See above. You don’t fight a cyber war with nukes.
→ vigorously pursue the third offset in military capabilities.
Ah, now we get to next gen systems.
→ develop and put into practice covert cyber band disinformation capabilities centered around Russian vulnerabilities.
Much more appropriate.
→ continuation of a robust sanctions regime.
Old school. Minimally useful against widely dispersed attackers.
→ long term continuation of a low ceiling in global energy prices.
Totally off subject and likely to do more long-term damage than anything.
→ utilize conciliatory diplomacy to define the overt US Russian competition within safe boundaries and seek cooperation where ever possible. Our strong and far reaching actions need to be offset by conciliatory and face saving words in public.
When did “face saving” become a military or national security necessity?
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