These People Frighten Me!
Part II
June 1, 2024
Some years ago I wrote a piece for LewRockwell.com with the title THESE PEOPLE FRIGHTEN ME!
Except for everything Ron Paul said, those were the most memorable words uttered in all the 2008 presidential debates.
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You may remember the moment. It was in the first Democrat debate of the 2008 cycle. One of the candidates, former US senator from Alaska Mike Gravel, looked at the candidates preening their bellicosity on the stage around him, including the notorious warmongers Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and said, “I got to tell you, after standing up with them, some of these people frighten me — they frighten me.”
Gravel had long noted the madness of the political classes. Years earlier in the Senate, Gravel distinguished himself for his opposition to the Vietnam War and the draft.
If Mike were alive today, he’d have more reason to be afraid than ever. After all, that debate was before Libya and Syria. It was also before almost four years of Biden, during which we’ve used Ukraine as a proxy in a needless war with Russia. We’ve had the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage, which like driving Russia into the arms of China, will have major reverberations in the future of the world order. And we’ve had to live under the reality of Biden’s mental deficiency which renders him capable of doing something catastrophic at any moment. Something really crazy like what this Politico headline revealed just the other day: Biden secretly gave Ukraine permission to strike inside Russia with US weapons.
As I say, any day now he could do something really crazy. With the election approaching, we must hold our breath.
Oh, that it were only Biden. But it’s not.
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President Trump closed out 2017 approving the sale of weapons to
Ukraine. For those who wonder how Ukraine afforded the arms, Daniel
McAdams, executive director of the Ron Paul Institute, provided the
familiar answer: “We give them the money, they give it back to us, and
they get weapons.” It’s the same playbook Biden uses. A Washington Post
story on Trump’s arms sales concluded that “it’s one sure sign that
Trump’s foreign policy views are evolving — or at least being
influenced — as his presidency progresses.”
Evolving. Right. In the 2016 campaign Trump was reported repeatedly asking his advisors why the US couldn’t just use its nuclear weapons. Trump denied it. But according to the Washington Post, just days ago Trump told a group of campaign donors that he would have bombed Moscow and Beijing had Russia invaded Ukraine or China had occupied Taiwan under his presidency.
Mike Gravel didn’t live to see this. He passed away in 2021. But he would agree, the political classes are more frightening today than ever.
This poor country.
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