@judgedread Comment from the Z Blog (which I refuse to link), so reproduced here in full. Basically: we were right


"Trump is being backed by the defense industry and its aligned people in Silicon Valley, such as Peter Thiel (opposed by non defense LinkedIn Reid Hoffman) as Ukraine has exposed the useless nature of the boutique American weaponry. The ATACMS missile is first rate, and takes 38 months to build. Quantity indeed has its own quality.

No one associated with Bolton who has trashed Trump as unfit to lead and endorsed Harris is going anywhere with Trump if he wins. The same is true with neocons like the Kagans (who also trashed Trump as unfit) or their Congressional Allies. Trump has made it clear that Elon and Thiel and other Defense Associated moguls are going to be in charge of personnel selection.

Ukraine absent a draft and massive US casualties is lost anyway. The US Army War College put out a whitepaper outlining US intervention in Ukraine and projected 50,000 casualties a month. Requiring a draft BEFORE intervention as the US combat personnel in Europe is only about 90,000. A draft even with Trump would not be politically sustainable (as only straight White men aka “Garbage” would be drafted).

Most likely: tariffs to sustain domestic production of everything, steel, auto, ship building, aircraft, lower income taxes to offset higher prices, subsidies for domestic production transition, radically increasing the Navy and Air Force, and withdrawal to the Western Hemisphere leaving Europe on its own, the same for Japan and South Korea and Taiwan. The Russians and Chinese have been projecting power in and around Alaska which is poorly defended and resource rich.

Note: Keir Starmer has sent over 1,000 Labor Party activists to the US to campaign for Harris. At the same time his CCDH Think Tank has schemed to work with the EU to destroy X/Twitter and extradite Musk for criminal prosecution in the UK and EU. Which though they don’t understand it is a direct threat to the US Defense Dept. [It is rumored that Musk has sent up a LOT of classified US assets in space, and is the only launch capacity at scale]. This is going to create a brush-back pitch by the Defense Dept.

In other words, Trump is not just Trump this time — he is the tool of the Defense Dept. and elements of Wall Street that can add two and two and get four"