I recently was in touch with a nice lady about a possible endorsement from her group for my campaign. She ended up writing me that the group decided to not endorse anyone for Thurston PUD Commissioner. Disappointed, I wrote thanking her for their consideration & asking if she had any feedback for me. To my surprise and her credit, she wrote me back with exactly what I asked for. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Your current website is very heavy on a wide variety\u00a0of foreign policy issues, many of which are tangential, at best, with the duties of a Thurston PUD Commissioner.\u00a0 In trying to build a winning coalition for any office, highlighting controversial stances on issues not related to the office is unlikely to be helpful.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was thankful for the response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since February of 2022, the US public has been sleepwalking, behind our political leaders from both parties and the military industrial complex they represent, towards World War 3. This will likely be the bloodiest, most destructive war the world has ever seen. If direct war ever comes between the US and Russia, China, or both, it will be a nuclear war and civilization plus much of the life on earth will be destroyed. The whole world ending barrage of missiles could be exchanged over the course of 72 minutes. The worst thing about it is that the whole thing could be caused by a mistake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Less than a month ago, the US and EU were considering allowing Ukraine to fire US and EU made long range missiles to hit targets deep into Russia. These missiles can’t be fired without the direct guidance of US\/ NATO military technicians. Putin said very directly, if Russia gets hit by these missiles, it will consider itself to be at war with whichever country or countries that was responsible, via their military technicians providing the targeting abilities, & that they would respond directly against them. Thankfully, at least someone in the group of unelected officials currently running the US, had some sense to heed the very clear warning, so far. Unfortunately the coverage by mainstream news of Putin\u2019s most dire and serious warning was negligible, nigh it was negligent!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Direct war between the US and Russia was something that was an unthinkable horror during the Cold War. Every US & USSR administration worked steadfastly to prevent MAD \u201cMutually Assured Destruction.\u201d The press covered the issue, the public built bomb shelters, practiced drills and organized demonstrations against nuclear weapons. Diplomacy eventually, after years and years, led to treaties that reduced the number, type and location of nuclear weapons in both countries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well today almost all of those treaties are gone, all ended or not renewed by the US despite Russian wishes. The US also pushed closer to Russia\u2019s borders with nuclear capable missile systems in Poland for example. Then there was our direct involvement with overthrowing the elected President of Ukraine in 2014 in a violent coup followed by the installation of our select choices throughout every level of their government. George Soros was proud of his CIA driven color revolution\u2019s success which only cost our government $10 Billion and 10 years to foment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Their next step was to continue their goal, previously stated in 2008, of bringing Ukraine and Georgia into NATO, something that Putin made clear was a total red line. They\u2019d argue it\u2019d be like Russia building a base and putting nuclear missiles in Mexico. They\u2019d argue that Republican President George H.W. Bush promised after the USSR and the Warsaw Pact, which was their equivalent to NATO, peacefully dissolved that they would not expand NATO east. Clinton broke that commitment and then so did every President afterwards.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, the US is pushing right up against Russia’s borders. We’re arming our proxy Ukraine to fight to the last Ukrainian. We’re actively provoking Russia and other countries with our aggressive moves. We’re weaponizing our international financial system to steal their foreign reserves and sanction them and every other country that doesn’t do what we want. We’re pushing them together to form new world institutions, like BRICS, without the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On at least two occasions during the Cold War nuclear war was barely averted by the skin of our teeth. Once was during the Cuban Missile Crisis. A Russian nuclear armed submarine off Cuba was in a dire situation and needed to surface, not knowing what was happening because they were unable to communicate. Suddenly a US sailor in a ship above them, apparently as a prank, dropped a grenade onto them under water which exploded. They thought they were under attack and their instructions were in that situation to fire their nukes. The two commanders agreed to fire but luckily for the world they had a civilian USSR official on board who out ranked them and told them to not fire. He saved the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In another situation, in 1984, the US\/ NATO put on an enormous military exercise in the Baltic Sea. The USSR didn\u2019t know what was happening, whether the US was about to attack. At one radar station what appeared on their screens was what looked like the US had fired nuclear weapons at the USSR. At that moment, the commander in charge there had only a few minutes to confirm that missiles were actually fired and put in the call to fire retaliatory nuclear strikes. The commander checked and rechecked. Up against the deadline, he made the judgment call that he was guessing that the radar equipment was wrong and he chose to not return fire. It turned out he was right.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The story of that incident reached President Ronald Reagan and he was shocked! He couldn\u2019t believe the USSR actually might\u2019ve mistaken the NATO military exercise as a sneak attack which nearly caused them to fire all their nukes thereby destroying the world! It shook Reagan to the core. After that near disaster, Reagan and Gorbachev started up talks that lead to an end of the cold war and was actually very close to an agreement of FULL nuclear disarmament.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As close to calamity as those two incidents came, the situation right now is even closer to nuclear war. In fact the League of Atomic Scientists who created the Doomsday Clock back in 1947 put the clock at 90 seconds to midnight which is the closest it has ever been. Since the beginning of 2022, the chance of nuclear war has gotten closer and closer. When the Israeli conflict started up it got even closer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today we are in dire straits and the media isn\u2019t even covering it despite it being two years since Biden spoke at a fundraiser about how the situation could be \u201cArmageddon.\u201d The lack of serious media coverage or grassroots protests should raise red flags for people about the state of our media and democracy. What happens instead is that people, like myself, who bring up the issue, are ignored or ridiculed, especially from the political class. What is harder to ignore and ridicule though is the fact that, last week, the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize went to Nihon Hidankyo, of Japan’s leading atomic bomb survivors organization,<\/a> that works on ridding the world of nuclear weapons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I wonder what local political candidates were talking about during the Cuban Missile Crisis? Should I assume they were ignoring it like people expect me to be doing today? My understanding was that the entire nation was discussing the Cuban Missile Crisis intensely rather than ignoring it. My dad remembers the climb under their desk drills during school and that many people were building nuclear bunkers. Today, despite the danger being even greater, this important conversation seems to be subdued. Maybe it’s more accurate to say, although it’s tough to prove, that this conversation is being actively silenced. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Keep in mind, JBLM is the fourth largest military base in the world and it is right next to Thurston County. If war breaks out, that means that 55,000 military and civilian employees of the base, plus their families, are likely affected in some way. JBLM is also a priority military target in case of a nuclear war. An even bigger target if nuclear war breaks out is the Bangor Trident Base in the Hood Canal, which has approximately 500 nuclear weapons.<\/a> Most people don\u2019t realize that, had our Dementia-in-Chief allowed Ukraine to hit Moscow with US missiles, the world might’ve already been ended a few weeks ago. Maybe if the public had known the severity of the situation, they might’ve stood up to say: HELL NO!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most people in the US, on some level, understand that they are being lied to. It wasn’t that long ago that the US went to war in Iraq based on lies about Saddam Hussein having weapons of mass destruction. Yet, despite the American public having been lied to about a war that cost lives and put the US trillions in debt, no one in power was held accountable. Therefore, many of those exact same people, or their underlings, are now continuing to create new illegal attacks, proxy wars and pursuing egomaniacal plans for wars against other super power rivals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2003 I was marching with 25 million others worldwide against the coming Iraq war and today we’re on the verge of war with Iran and the biggest protest I can find is 200 people in a park in upstate NY.<\/a> That makes it clear to me that the only thing that the US learned from the disasters of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars was how to dismantle all grassroots or political voices against our foreign wars of aggression. This always begins with the media teaching Americans to hate whatever country the US intends to go to war against, especially their leaders. The story is always the same, the leader is a dictator, their people are brainwashed or yearning to be free like us, and we’re the good guys spreading democracy and freedom with our aircraft carriers and bombs. I’m seeing this same trope play out today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As Thurston PUD Commissioner, I would have no say on any of this. I’m not running based on anything to do with my positions on geopolitics and my stance against the US involving itself in foreign wars. I made this blog several years ago and decided it would serve as a good enough candidate website. I’m not trying to hide who I am from the public. Why should I? I was proudly against the last wars, I’m against the current wars and I’m already against the BIG ONES I see coming. It’s the smart position to take, least of all because this coming war, America will lose. That’s not something I want to see. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How does this relate to my race for PUD Commissioner? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n