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Not Surprising

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Iran is losing the war with America (and Israel). The flow of money into the country has been severely limited, the Revolutionary Guard may or may not be getting paid, and the government is not on steady ground. So what is Iran doing? It’s working very hard to get a nuclear bomb so that it can be the bully on the block.

On Friday, Trending Politics posted an article about increased activity around Pickaxe Mountain in Iran.

The article reports:

New satellite imagery reviewed by the Institute for Science and International Security shows additional earthen barriers and soil around entrances at Pickaxe Mountain, a deeply buried facility President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to strike.

Imagery from Sept. 11 shows roadblocks still blocking access to western tunnel portals, according to the institute.

The group said the restricted access supports its assessment that the facility is not currently being used for normal operations, while also suggesting valuable equipment or materials may remain inside.

Analysts also identified additional soil placed over one western tunnel portal and a nearby cluster of older entrances.

…“Washington can do what it’s traditionally been able to do with sites that are underground, hardened and fortified, and that’s to bury their entrances and raise the political cost to the Islamic Republic of being able to dig out,” he said.

“While there may not be the perfect munition just yet, Uncle Sam always has a bigger bomb,” Ben Taleblu (Behnam Ben Taleblu, senior director of the Iran program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies) added. “And in the meantime, what they can do is show that they mean business by burying the entrances.”

Separate satellite imagery also shows Iran rebuilding another sensitive facility at the Parchin military complex southeast of Tehran.

Iran is not historically a Muslim country. Before the Islamic takeover in 1979, the state religion in Iran was Zoroastrianism. Iran was a Persian country–not an Arab country. If Iran is able to obtain a nuclear weapon, it will not hesitate to use it–first on Israel and then on America. The goal of the current leadership of Iran is to create chaos in order to bring back the 12th Imam. Mutually assured destruction (MAD), which was America’s policy toward the Soviet Union during the cold war, does not work with Iran because they welcome nuclear war. Shiite Islam is essentially a death cult. We don’t need to allow them to follow through on their wishes to develop and use nuclear weapons.

A Solution That Is Being Ignored

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On Sunday, Townhall posted an article suggesting how President Biden could end the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The article suggested following some of the example set by President Reagan.

The article reports:

President Reagan famously ramped up military spending. He increased the defense budget by over 40 percent, and that included the creation of his space program called SDI. The media mocked it and nicknamed it the Star Wars program and relentlessly attempted to brand Reagan as a dunce who was a former actor who knew nothing about foreign policy. We know in hindsight that the Soviets were enraged that the U.S. could own space and potentially shoot their weapons right out of the sky with the SDI program. In response, the Soviets ramped up their spending on similar programs. 

But, Soviet money didn’t grow on trees.

A lot of the money grew, so to speak, in the wheat fields of Russia. Wheat has long been in the top three biggest Soviet exports and President Reagan unleashed our farmers to produce grain. 

We need to end the restrictions on American energy production.

The article continues:

Another aspect of Reagan’s Cold War strategy was taking the reins off of American oil producers and ramping up our oil production. It not only gave us a great advantage to produce our own energy here, it also dramatically lowered the price of oil on the world market. Oil was and still is Russia’s top export. 

In addition to domestic production, Reagan worked behind the scenes to encourage Middle Eastern oil producers to increase the supply on the world market. The Soviets took a HUGE hit in the pocketbook when their oil suddenly became worth a fraction of what it was when Jimmy Carter was president. 

President Reagan also waged a PR war against the Soviets. 

The most famous moment was Reagan’s speech at the Brandenburg gate when he told the Soviets to tear down the wall that was separating the free people in Western Europe from those imprisoned in the oppressive communist system on the other side of the wall and razor wire. 

Reagan also sent funding and arms to freedom movements around the world that were resisting the Soviet Communist takeover of countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. 

And it worked. The USSR is on the ash heap of history. 

If we do not learn the lesson of President Reagan vs the Soviet Union, America will wind up on the ash heap of history. Unfortunately, the Biden administration is racing toward that heap.

Russia Is Playing Chess, America Is Playing Checkers

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The U.K. Telegraph posted an article today detailing the rapidly changing situation in the Ukraine. As it stands now, Russia admits that it has moved troops into the Ukraine, and the Ukraine has regained control of an airport taken over by Russian troops. Please follow the link above to the article to read about the latest events.

The article reports:

US Secretary of State John Kerry attempted to relieve diplomatic pressure that has increasingly assumed Cold War overtones by announcing that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had assured him that Moscow “will respect the territorial integrity of Ukraine.”

Putin also appeared to take a more conciliatory approach late on Thursday by vowing to work on improving trade ties with Ukraine and promising to support international efforts to provide Kiev with funds that could keep it from declaring a debt default as early as next week.

As I said, checkers.

I don’t have a lot to say about the situation in the Ukraine, because I believe there may be a whole lot of things going on under the radar that I am unaware of. However, I will say that I suspect that there are many people in the Ukraine that are longing for freedom as they have seen it in the West, rather than the type of government they have seen in Russia. My prayer is that this situation will end peacefully with a free Ukraine. However, Putin is flexing his muscle, and America right now does not have a muscle to flex. That is not good.

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