Thursday, March 31, 2022

RETHINKING - MARCH 31, 2022 - RUSSIAN PROMISES

 

During the last few days, the media was talking about the meeting of Russian and Ukrainian negotiators in Istanbul, Turkey for a cease fire.

 After all the recent actions of President Putin, I don’t believe the Russian leader wants to stop the war, accepting the bad results of the campaign of his troops. For him, at this moment, the withdrawal of the Russian soldiers from the Ukrainian territory is a very bad defeat.

My opinion posted in the WSJ Online sector for bloggers was:

“I don't trust Russian negotiators. From my view, Mr. Putin is trying to gain time to prepare a mortal attack against Ukraine.” 

The members of the WSJ Community agreed with my opinion.

SOURCES: The Wall Street Journal, Deutsche Welle, my own think tank.
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Wednesday, March 30, 2022

RETHINKING - MARCH 30, 2022 - AMERICA'S MILITARY

 

In an interesting opinion column titled “America’s Declining Military”, the Editorial Board of The Wall Street Journal wrote that the “Biden’s budget widens a window of vulnerability for at least a decade.”

" Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has alerted most Americans that the world is becoming a far more dangerous place. Count it as a befuddling failure, then, that the military budget President Biden unveiled Monday doesn’t meet the moment. It treads water amid inflation and invites autocrats to exploit a widening window of American weakness."


After I was rethinking the concepts posted by WSJ about the difficulty between the politicians of the Republicans and Democrats to agree in a military budget that puts again the United States in the level it was in other times, this was my opinion, that I posted in the blog comment sector of the WSJ Online:

"America needs: 

1) that the politicians unify criteria and decisions about America's defense. 

2)The American defense has to be the first national priority.

3) It is necessary to think that if we want peace, we have to work hard for the war.

4) our military budget has to be big enough to level our fighting power in the level China + Russia fight power together. (We don't have to be naive, never China and Russia will be our friends.)

This opinion was approval for a series of other members of the WSJ Member Community with LIKED

SOURCES: The Wall Street Journal, my own think than

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Sunday, March 27, 2022

RETHINKING - MARCH 27, 2022 - WAR OF WORDS


In the last few days, different media including Deutsche Welle, the Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and others commented on the verbal attacks of President Biden against Russia's President Putin in his visit to Poland. 

Personally, I believe that the President has to be careful about their public comments against the leader of the enemy when he is visiting other countries. 

This was my blog comment posted in the WSJ Online: "The statement of President Biden about President Putin was not appropriate for an American President visiting another country. ('Vladimir Putin ‘Cannot Remain in Power')" 

 Other members of the WSJ members community voted my opinion with LIKED.

 The war of words can become in the start of bullet and bomb wars. 


 SOURCES: The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Deutsche Welle.

 

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Saturday, March 26, 2022

WSJ BLOG COMMENTS - MARCH 26, 2022

 Domingo Trassens

 Post 13.3 WSJ blog comments


Ukrainians were very naive when they returned the nuclear weapons. Nobody can believe in the respect of a peace treatment in the time.
Posted 1d ago
Democrats are in very bad shape for the November elections.
Posted 2d ago
It is time to prevent possible chemical and/or nuclear attacks from Russia. The initiative to advise Ukrainians about this issue is necessary. When a cruel enemy is humiliated, frequently looks for revenge.
Posted 2d ago
We must only accept refugees that come with legal papers and under the special refugee programs. No more illegals, or criminals with dresses of angels!
Posted 2d ago
Russians have to pay a high cost for the Ukraine invasion: dead soldiers, loss of equipment and weapons.
Posted 3d ago
Finland is in a risky location if Mr. Putin decides to extend the Russian borders for the north.
Replied toJay Kay 
No mercy to Putin's soldiers!
Posted 4d ago
Biden Administration has to develop a new solid strategy related to the two worst enemies of the United States: Russia and China.
Posted 4d ago
Ukraine has to continue the resistance and makes all the possible damages to the Russians.
Posted 6d ago
This is more than a "new Cold War!"
Posted 1w ago
Crime over crime without end. Russians deserve a terrible defeat and Mr. Putin a Gallow.
Posted 1w ago
Putin's dreams are falling despite all his threats.
Posted 1w ago
Till now the Russians don't know all the consequences of this war. This is only the beginning.
Posted 1w ago
When we receive refugees, we have to be selective and make strict controls. We cannot open the door to everybody without checking key information about the people who enter the country.
Posted 1w ago
President Zelenzky plays like a David in front of the Russian Goliat.
Replied toFelix Strange 
Good observation.
Posted 1w ago
The gay is gay. The change of the name, nothing changes.
Posted 1w ago
If the Democrats and President Biden don't reverse the energy crisis, nobody will vote for Democrat candidates next November. The defeat will be huge.
Posted 1w ago
Sweden outside NATO is alone in in times of a war that can hit everybody.
Posted 1w ago
The American energy crisis is consequence of a wrong American energy politics.
Posted 2w ago
Mr. Putin has to pay a huge painful price for this invasion
Posted 2w ago
This is not a problem that only concerns to President Zelensky and Ukraine. All the free world is at risk because Russia wants to rebuild the Soviet Union and together with China, they want to defeat the United States. The end target of both are the 
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Posted 2w ago
We cannot deal with a man with the criminal background of Mr. Putin (Georgia, Syria, Crimea, Ukraine...). He only will listen the language of our weapons.
Posted 2w ago
It is a crime to increase the price of the gasoline because our President doesn't want to re-open of the Canada-US pipeline.
Posted 2w ago
It is easy to answer massacres happen every time...
Posted 2w ago
Mr. Putin has to prepare for receiving the sacks of dead Russian soldiers that will come to Moscow. He deserves that the Ukrainians massacre his troops.
Posted 2w ago
Obama and Merkel acting with cowardly in front Putin.
Posted 2w ago
Putin is pursuing big civilian massacres.
Posted 2w ago
The Western World has to act fast, before China following Russian invasion of Ukraine, takes Taiwan. Surely, President Xi is ready to the island's assault.
Posted 2w ago
Germany needs a big political purge.
Replied tohenry blaufox 
Yes, meanwhile, how much massacres will Putin make?
Posted 2w ago
Putin never was our friend. Why will I be confident with him? No sincere dialogue is possible with a mass-destruction-maker.
Posted 2w ago
In the last decades, the Western leaders were dreaming in an eternal peace, while Russia and China worked hard to be the new owners of everything in the planet. The mistakes of America and Europe was huge.
Posted 2w ago
Great analysis of the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Posted 3w ago
Putin and President Xi are in the same business of the killing of freedom.
Replied toRob Bruce 
You are right.
Replied toChris Robbins 
You are right; however, we have to go through this apocalyptic time,
Replied toMichael Bland 
I believe that Putin will have a bloody end to his life.
Posted 3w ago
President Biden has to show more effective actions related with the Russian massacre of Ukrainians.
Posted 3w ago
It is necessary that Mr. Putin has to be stopped before he makes a crazy action with nuclear weapons and/or other weapons with poison gas.
Posted 3w ago
This is the moment to show the world wants freedom and democracy and hates the dictators and cruel tyrannis.
Posted 3w ago
Germany is acting in the right way. Great!
Posted 3w ago
Ukraine needs an effective support and a military assistance from U.S. and the western world.
Posted 3w ago
Very interesting observation from William. Barr. We have to see how many Republicans pay attention to this issue.
Posted 3w ago
Our first target is not climate change. Our first target is to fight against dictator regimes like Russia and China. (Please, remember that President Xi wants to invade Taiwan with similar intention Mr. Putin attacked Ukraine.)
Posted 3w ago
Mr. Putin is not alone. He is surrounded by a strong group of cronies who think like him. He is a new Lenin or Stalin with the power of the nuclear weapons, the malware and the technology weapons.
Replied toBERNIE COWGER 
We are living in a completely different world from ten years ago. In my job I am surrounded by black people, some of them are good persons but others are more racist than the extremist white people.
Posted 4w ago
I respect your opinion. However, I don't believe in Chinese partnership with U.S. China and Russia have stronger links and both countries are enemies of America.
Posted 4w ago
Mr. Biden cannot help Ukraine with "words" and verbal threat. The only way is with weapons and "boots". But Americans don't want a direct conflict with the Russians.
Posted 4w ago
Sanctions has to produce pain in the top of the Kremlin.
Posted 4w ago
Without any doubt, Mitt Romney was right.
Replied toStan Pakulla 
President Obama always showed fear in front Mr. Putin and refused to meet him in crucial moments. President Biden talks with the Russian President only by phone, but he doesn't want to take a risk a war.
Replied toJohn Doe 
The target of President Putin is clear: to recover the territories of the former Soviet Union.
Posted 4w ago
Ukraine-Russia crisis can become a new "pandemic" from the economic view....
Posted 4w ago
The provocations can submerge Ukrainians and Russians in a cruel war....
Posted 4w ago
The progressives only like their own colleagues.
Posted 5w ago
The Russian provocation goes up!
Posted 5w ago
Mr. Putin deserves a bloody end.
Posted 5w ago
Russia continues playing with all the western leaders that try to put "peace" over the negotiation table.
Posted 5w ago
An Olympic event used as political propaganda of a totalitarian regime doesn't deserve to be followed...
Posted 6w ago
The subject that Peggy Noonan put on the table is to rethink the current political moment of the United States. The authentic Republicans have to stand against excess from the two sides.
Posted 6w ago
President Putin tries to have Germany under the Russian boots, but this is the opportunity of the Germans to grow strong as one of the leaders of the free world.
Posted 6w ago
The point of view of President Putin about Ukraine makes impossible an agreement between Russia and the Ukrainians who want to a free country.
Posted 6w ago
Democrats are losers in Florida since long time ago,
Posted 6w ago
While the U.S. and Europe were sleeping in the old glories of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Russia worked hard to rebuild its military power. At that time, China joined it as a good "partner" in its ambitions.
Posted 6w ago
From my view, Mike Pence is not dead because he has the US Constitution on his side, and this is the most valuable pillar of an honorable politician.
Posted 6w ago
It is obvious that the worker absences stop the economic growth of the country.
Posted 6w ago
China is manipulating the Olympics with political purposes. We must ignore the results of these Games.
Posted 6w ago
Progressives are damaging the Democrat party and the President. But the worst is that they are generating more divisions in the country.
Posted 6w ago
The WSJ Editorial Board is right when it says "Not all Republicans agree with Ms. Cheney and Mr. Kinzinger, but some do. By the same token, not all Democrats agree with Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, but some do. When political parties 
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Posted 7w ago
It is interesting to compare the situation of Ukraine and Taiwan because both countries are at risk to disappear as independent states. Both need to develop their own good defensive plans, but they will lose if they don't have a firm support of 
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Posted 7w ago
India is a huge country with potential to be a great country, but till now, it is weak compared with China and a possible association between China and Russia.
Posted 7w ago
To give Mr. Putin what he wants is a new weakness signal.
Replied toEileen Pollock 
A lot of police officers and security officers from private security companies are victims of the aggression of bad guys.
Posted 7w ago
President Putin is in a hard position. He accuses NATO and the United States of provocation. He doesn't show willingness to move the 100,000 away from the Ukrainian border. With this scenario, it is not possible to see a peaceful agreement.
Posted 7w ago
It is easy to enjoy the life of the colleges and universities with the money of the taxpayers.
Posted 7w ago
To be tracked has pros and cons.
Posted 7w ago
Political game!
Replied toDAN WOJCIK 
President Xi cares for his personal glory.
Replied toALAN SEWELL 
Americans are losing the pride of being Americans.
Posted 7w ago
The threats of President Putin against Ukraine make him the enemy of the Europeans who want to live in peace and prosperity. And Ukrainians will frustrate his goal of rebuilding the Soviet Union.
Posted 7w ago
The criteria to select the members of the Supreme Court by race and gender will create more division also inside the top justice institution of the country. Wrong!
Replied toStephen Ward 
During the last years, the hurricanes hit the Gulf of Mexico and the Northeast coasts.
Posted 8w ago
Maybe, you are right...
Replied toAndrew Kennelly 
Good comment. Thank you for sharing your traveling experience to Ukraine.
Posted 8w ago
The good times of Apple continue.
Posted 8w ago
The criteria that President Biden is using to nominate the Justice that will cover the vacancy of Stephen Breyer is a discrimination against the best candidates to integrate the U.S. Supreme Court.
Posted 8w ago
Probably Democrats are forcing Justice Stephen Breyer to retire before they lose the control of the Congress.
Posted 8w ago
During the last few years, the social media made an intentional campaign to put down the police as the institution of the enforcement of the law. Now, we see the consequences.
Posted 8w ago
President Putin went very far to return his troops to its garrisons without fight.
Posted 8w ago
Very regrettable, but steal cars is part of the business of the car industry.
Replied toJohn Gall 
If the American education does not teach higher math, we will have to import all the scientists from abroad.  The higher math is one of the pillars of the scientific innovation. and the advanced technological disciplines.
Posted 8w ago
The semiconductors industry always goes forward. And the advance in microchips impacts in all the other sectors of the technology. In addition, the technology is pushing ahead other industries.
Posted 8w ago
This battle that President Biden lost is worse than Afghanistan because it shows a big miscalculation.
Posted 9w ago
About the Peggy Noonan introduction of this column, I think President Biden looks more than tired.
Replied toSteve Bodges 
Maybe you are right, but the majority of the WSJ readers think different.
Replied toMICHAEL WILLIAMSON 
The majority of the tech mergers end with the identity of the acquired company .
Replied toDaniel Kelly 
Expanding NATO with a series of passive members is wrong. The situation is different if all the members are active and make good contributions in money and troops.
Posted 9w ago
Covid is cutting our freedom to decide for our lives.
Posted 9w ago
Russia and China want to dominate the world, bending the free people under the boots of their troops.
Posted 10w ago
We need a leader who stops the ambitions of Mr. Putin.
Posted 10w ago
Vice President Kamala Harris lost a year with very poor performance.
Posted 10w ago
Britons like to generate "scandals" for secondary problems.
You are right.
Replied toRick Schaer 
She will never be a good candidate.
Posted 10w ago
From my view, the Kazakhstan crisis is in the Putin’s expansion plans.
Posted 10w ago
We will never know the truth about the vaccines' effect.
Posted 10w ago
Nord Stream 2 is a Putin's weapon to recover part of Europe.
Posted 10w ago
Today the Catholicism doesn't solve the problems of the poor people in the same way of decades ago.
Posted 10w ago
We are familiar with this kind of resignation.
Posted 10w ago
The era of the electric vehicles started.
Posted 10w ago
Peggy, you say: "The current moment is much like 20 months ago. " From my view, a lot of people want to continue like 20 months ago. . Covid-19 is a good business for some sectors of the society and the power.
Posted 10w ago
Another scandal!
President Putin always does what he wants.  Nobody stopped him during the last decade.
Posted 10w ago
You wrote "the lawyers said the men didn’t intend to kill Mr. Arbery.", but they killed him.
Posted 11w ago
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