Too Much Madness in the World Is Unsustainable
The hapless, hopeless Chicago Bears just beat the Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles, and are on a five-game winning streak. Our hapless, hopeless president is snuggled up with Vladimir Putin, abandoning Ukraine and enabling a genocide in Gaza. Hapless, hopeless Russia’s last night drone strike against Kyiv, destroyed half the city’s electric capacity, and a McDonald’s was burned to the ground.
All else (with the possible exception of the Bears win) was business-as-usual in worldwide chaos.
But even the Orange Man has his limits, and I think he may have just hit peak unsustainability with a Kyiv McDonald’s in flames.
Russia is engaged in a campaign to break Ukraine’s civil resistance this winter by attacking its energy infrastructure, as the war heads towards its fourth year.
That’s pretty much okay with the Donald.
He offered a Putin-approved 28-part agreement that gives Vlad what Vlad wants, and Ukraine what crumbs are left on the floor.
According to The Guardian-UK, ‘nearly 600 drones and 36 rockets were fired into the country in an attack that its president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said highlighted Ukraine’s need for western help with air defense, as well as other financial and political support.’
No comment from the Orange Man.
President Zelenskyy said, “We must work without wasting a single day to ensure that there are enough missiles for our air defense systems, and that everything necessary for our protection and for pressure on Russia is in place.”
No comment there either.
Although Zelenskyy still has, in the opinion of the United States President, “no cards to play,” the attack on a McDonald’s restaurant may have been a bridge too far.
Everyone has a point beyond which they will not, or should not, venture. Trying to identify that point for the Orange Man has flummoxed the best minds in the prediction business. Custer had his Battle of the Little Bighorn, MacArthur his Bataan, Napolean his Waterloo, and Hitler his attack upon Russia. Yet, none were predicted.
The Orange Man has yet to flinch upon the circumstances of another man’s invasion, where other people’s children die, and he has no financial risk in the game.
Bone-spurs or swollen ankles be damned, our man in the Oval Office remains stone-faced, and accepts what must be accepted, as long as there’s a profit in it somewhere for himself or his family business.
But Putin’s wanton destruction of the home of the Bacon-cheese burger, with fries and a Coke, an American icon, may be a game-changer.
Attack a man’s obsession, and you strike at the very heart of his manhood, a tender issue in this man’s case.
In the Orange Man’s world, Putin may have touched a nerve Epstein could never equal.
“For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; for want of a horse the rider was lost; for want of a rider the message was lost; for want of a message the battle was lost; for want of a battle the kingdom was lost—and all for the want of a horseshoe nail.”
A seventeenth century quote.
But, what goes around, comes around.