RETHINKING - September 26, 2021 - The Future of the West in German Elections

The question of today: What will be the future of Germany after the federal elections?

In an editorial column, the Wall Street Journal wrote about the German Elections of today "Germany’s new players are essentially unknown in the U.S. Leading in the polls is the Social Democrat Olaf Scholz. Behind him trots Armin Laschet, the equally uninspiring candidate of Ms. Merkel’s Christian Democrats. He is trailed by the young Annalena Baerbock of the semi-left Greens and Christian Lindner of the Free Democrats. Mr. Lindner, an old-style liberal, speaks for them all: “We secure the country’s center.”

From my point of view, the future of Germany is uncertain because Merkel moved the country from the west to the east in a dangerous way in the last period of her cycle. 

None of the three more important candidates look like a good friend of the United States.

We have to observe these elections carefully because the results will impact the future of the Western World.

SOURCES: The Wall Street Journal, Deutsche Welle, The New York Times

WSJ BLOG COMMENTS - September 23, 2021 - Haitians Deportation

This is my opinion about the new Haitian migration

U.S. Special Envoy for Haiti Resigns in Midst of Migrant Crisis

Haitians do make nothing to go out of the swamp they live from decades.

Sep 23, 2021 8:38 PM | 1 Likes

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U.S. Special Envoy for Haiti Resigns in Midst of Migrant Crisis

 For my work in the security industry,  I learned that really the Haitians don't love America. 

Sep 23, 2021 8:36 PM | 1 Likes

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U.S. Special Envoy for Haiti Resigns in Midst of Migrant Crisis

In this case, a massive deportation is a right action.  The Haitians don't come here to become great American citizens. They only come to steal more  money of the taxpayers.

Sep 23, 2021 8:35 PM | 3 Likes

RETHINKING - September 22, 2021 - Peru in the path of Marx

For decades, in Peru, military and security forces were fighting against terrorist and extremist groups. But never the Andean country found good leaders to conduct the people through civil paths in a continuous democratic life

The news is that Pedro Castillo, a Marxist-Leninist, assumed the presidency of the country exactly at the moment that legendary Abimael Guzmán,the founder of the Shining Path died.

About the news, the journalist Álvaro Vargas Llosa posted an opinion column in the Wall Street Journal titled “Peru’s Dim Future from Shining Path”.

Vargas Llosa wrote: "It’s no small irony that Abimael Guzmán —the Maoist revolutionary who founded the Peruvian terrorist organization Shining Path some 50 years ago and died on Sept. 11—lived just long enough to see a Marxist-Leninist, Pedro Castillo, assume Peru’s presidency."

My opinion is:

After a hard terror war across Latin America, the former terrorists are defeating the democratic institutions, gaining their war in the political arena. This is the case of Pedro Castillo in Peru.

SOURCES: The Wall Street Journal, Deutsche Welle, The New York Times

RETHINKING - September 20, 2021 - Despite French howls

The Wall Street Journal story titled "A Smart Submarine Deal with the Aussies" says "The new partnership serves U.S. interests, despite French howls."

After that , the story continues "President Biden’s deal to deepen the U.S. strategic partnership with Australia and the U.K. as a counterweight to China is being denounced as Trumpian by critics in France. The AUKUS partnership, announced Wednesday, will begin with the joint development of Australian nuclear-powered submarines, as opposed to the diesel-powered subs Paris planned to build for Canberra."

It is evident that the French feel upset, but in war times, the problems with friends happen if they are not aligned with our interests.

From my point of view, in this conflict with the French there are two crucial issues:

1) The United States needs to improve its defenses in the Pacific due to the advance of China and the risky situation of Taiwan. Australia is a natural ally of America and a country also with interests in the Pacific. Good that the U.S and Aussies can work together in strong association.

2) France, like Germany, it is wooing China for its own interests in deals that are dangerous for the new defense strategy of the United States and the western civilization in counterweight with the imperialist ambitions of the Big Asian Dragon. 

SOURCES: The Wall Street Journal, Deutsche Welle, The New York Times

RETHINKING - September 18, 2021 - Unforgivable Mistake

In the story titled “The Deadly Kabul Mistake” posted by the Editorial Board of The Wall Street Journal, we can read: “The Pentagon acknowledged Friday that a U.S. drone strike killed innocent civilians on Aug. 29 amid the frantic American exit from Afghanistan.” 

This is not the first mistake the United States made using drones in the war against terror. If we review information available about this war of the last twenty years, in different times, drone attacks have also killed innocent people. 

However, the case of Kabul was a terrible mistake because the drone didn’t point against the terrorists involved in the bombing attack of the Airport. 

Always that the military uses drones as remote weapons, they need to make a previous intelligence work to determine if the drones are pointing exactly against the enemy target. And they have to observe the potential attack scene before the shooting.

Technology in the hands of irresponsible operators can make terrible mistakes that don't have pardon.

SOURCES: The Wall Street Journal, my own think tank

RETHINKING - September 17, 2021 - Despite some horrible mistakes, America has values

The Wall Street Journal opinion column titled "America Has Lost the Thread" written by Peggy Noonan starts with this comment: "It feels like we no longer live in the country that came together after 9/11. How do we get that back?"

After that again Ms. Noonan criticizes all the mistakes related to the Afghanistan war from the beginning to the withdrawal.

My blog answer was:

"America has till now a lot of  good people and great values despite the recent mistakes and the bad behavior of some politicians and other leaders. Also, here we can disagree in public, something that is not possible in China, Russia, Iran, North Korea... "

SOURCES: The Wall Street Journal, Deutsche Welle, The New York Times

WSJ BLOG COMMENTS - September 14, 2021 - Taxes are not the solution!

 Blogging the WSJ Opinion column titled "Here Comes the Biden Tax Bill"

I wrote: 

1) "The Government has to learn  to govern with the money that it has and not the money it wants to capture from who generate the national richness "

2) "Taxes don't solve  old real problems, but they create new real problems."

SOURCES: The Wall Street Journal, the Blogs of D. Trassens