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The U.S. Won’t Save You
Russians and Israelis Should Read the Room
When we say “fight for freedom” in the U.S., we don’t mean “freedom” for all people around the world. We mean for ourselves. Like we mean, free of YOU.
So go ahead Russia, make 40+ million Ukrainians want to kill you for the next couple of generations. We could stop giving Ukrainians weapons tomorrow but that won’t take away their kitchen knives. You have trouble sleeping at night, especially on the border? You shouldn’t have let your country degenerate into a grotesque autocracy of old men.
Putin is simply mad. You’d think the nation that birthed Dostoevsky would have seen that coming.
As for you Israel. You’re no longer a democracy. You too “fight for freedom”. To be free of the Palestinians. Well, once we’re gone. GET IN LINE. You expect your neighbors to take them? HA. No one does delusional like Israel. Expect arrivals, not departures.
It’ll take time, but we’ll go back to the power, Saudi Arabia, who kills only a journalist from time to time. Who really likes journalists anyway?
As for us, we’re alright. True, we wait 12 months for a Doctor’s appointment with a physicians assistant. Our pharma industry has a final solution for families who used to work on farms or in factories. We allow any nutcase…