The Triumph of Stupid

Jul 05, 2025 As all but the most pitiful imbecile could have predicted, now that Boy Carnage has bought wholesale into Trump’s 5% protection racket, we are getting the full court press from the thought leaders at CBC and the Globe on how we might pay for all these goodies. The goodies in question being 88 F-35s at $100million a pop; 12 submarines at, conservatively, 4 billion $ per hull, and 15 surface combatants. The last batch of warships ended up costing a billion per hull, and that was thirty+ years ago. Not to mention further gazillions for tanks and troop carriers and drones. All told, we’re looking at at least $500 billions in “defence” spending over the next ten years. Already some of the sharper pundits are mooting “increased taxes and spending cuts,” as in spending on the usual frills-we-gotta-cut; education, health care, and housing. Why? So we can face down the threat from Russia! Frankly, it’s a little late for that. Since February of ‘22 Russia has methodically eliminated the best weapons systems in the US-NATO arsenal. They have proven technical superiority in hypersonics, drones, and air defence. American commentators outside of the “mainstream” routinely posit that US/Western missile tech is decades behind Russia. That’s what happens when you spend ten years fine-tuning your pronoun protocols while the Rooskies are fine-tuning their hypersonics. And that’s just Russia’s advantage at the high-tech end. Artillery shells are pretty much as old as gunpowder, but the US/NATO/ glorious defenders of freedom and democracy can’t figure out how to build them. Apparently there’s a new production line in Texas that’s gonna pump out 30,000 155 shells per month when they work the bugs out of the system. Meanwhile, Russia worked the bugs out of their arty production during the WWII and has no trouble producing 300,000 per month. In a pinch, they can also import from their allies, of which, contrary to the bullshit our msm has been serving up, they actually have quite a few. This idea that we must gird our loins for war with Russia seems criminally stupid to me. They already whupped NATO in Ukraine. Let’s admit that and move on! After all, if you look at a map, or even better, a globe, geography parks us smack-dab between Russia and the USA. That’s a fact that screams out for Canadian neutrality.