Scattershots – 20may22 (updated 22may22)

George Rebane

‘Biden’s Strange Help for Cuba’  To be charitable, Team Biden’s foreign policy continues in chaotic shambles.  Cuba, Russia’s prime ally in the western hemisphere, is economically and politically on its ass, and Biden is now going to help stabilize the country by relaxing travel restrictions, money transfers, and commercial financing from the US.  From the 20may22 WSJ, “The Administration says it wants to help the Cuban people. But like the Obama Administration, Team Biden fails to acknowledge that the cause of the island’s privation is the regime itself.”  This is the same for America today where Biden daily denies that the cause of our privations is his incompetent cum anti-American regime.

[21may22 update]  To those of us who continue to suffer the outrageous slings and arrows of woke progressives in our daily round of jousts, the words of Charles Mackay (1814-1889) are an ever-timely tonic.

[22may22 update] ‘Russia/Putin & the West’ is an extensive two-part pro-Russian harangue on today's geostrategic politics and the evolving world order by someone signing himself as ‘Sam Parker’.  The document is published on an extensive website called Behind The News Network, and it was composed just before the Ukrainian invasion which it anticipates.  The piece came across my desk from a correspondent questioning the authenticity of the essay, which in Part1 starts out as sober and neutral look at the modern history of Eurasian Russia cum USSR, and then (in Part2) morphs into a pro-Russian propaganda piece detailing the country’s military superiority over anything the US and NATO can muster to counter Russia’s just aims to militarily defend itself against the geo-strategic machinations of the sinister US-based ‘Rockefeller Empire’.  To me it comes across as a sophisticated outlet of anti-western fake news.  Judge for yourself.

Comments

[Bill Tozer]

Well, at least Colin Kap found out how popular wearing a Fiedel T-shirt in Miami made him. And here we were told by Punchy that all those Puerto Rica moving to FLA after the hurricanes would change the demographics and Fl would turn blue. Replacement theory is not not perfect.

Since theUS has the cleanest oil extraction and refinery processes in the world, why does Biden declared our oil bad but Nicolás Maduro’s oil good?

https://www.facebook.com/PatriotPost/photos/10158878718160914/

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[Don Bessee]

Creepy grampa joe is going back to the future -

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2022/05/20/dow-jones-industrial-average-on-longest-losing-streak-since-1932/

;-)

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Somebody is going to have to remind me why we didn't normalize relations with Cuba decades ago.

"Team Biden fails to acknowledge that the cause of the island’s privation is the regime itself."

It seems to me that that's their own business.

[George Rebane]

scenes 103pm - We might have a concern or two if they decide to again base Russian missiles there or lease them or China a naval base. Since their communist govt is now the target of citizen demonstrations, is it not better to do all we can to foment collapse of the present regime and/or its transformation into one of a more greedy capitalist nature?