JD VANCE = JD DENSE

by Colin Liddell

JD Vance should be called "JD Dense." Almost everything this couch-fucking hillybilly does or says sounds incredibly stupid.

Above-average American stupidity, by the way, seems to be the defining qualification for being included in this American administration, but Vance is supposed to be the Peter-Thiel-annointed intellectual heart of the MAGA "soft coup." He isn't, it's a void and it will fail.

On the recent infamous Signal chat with a number of other top-ranking MAGA morons about military strikes against the Houthis -- on which the Russians, Chinese, Iranians and probably the Houthis themselves listened in on -- Vance, in addition to being party to a major breach of security, expressed his usual moronic views on Europe, a continent that he seems to have a deep, seething hatred of.

Vance argued (rightly) that very little US trade passes through the Red Sea to the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean:

"3 percent of US trade runs through the suez. 40 percent of European trade does. There is a real risk that the public doesn’t understand this or why it’s necessary. The strongest reason to do this is, as POTUS said, to send a message."

From these basic facts, Vance then, like the complete moron he is, concluded that the attacks were therefore the US pulling Europe's ass out of the fire.

"...if you think we should do it let’s go. I just hate bailing Europe out again."

To this, Defence Secretary (and alcoholic) Pete Hesgeth replied: 

"VP: I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It’s PATHETIC. But Mike [Walz] is correct, we are the only ones on the planet (on our side of the ledger) who can do this. Nobody else even close."

Yes, the words that will be remembered by all America's supposed NATO allies in Europe are "loathing," "free-loading," and "PATHETIC."

There is obviously some truth in the fact that America has more ability to conduct these kind of rock-and-sand-blasting strikes in remote Third World shitholes than the European part of NATO, but that's because Euro-NATO and Murica-NATO were evolved for different purposes, as this graph should make clear:

Yes, Euro-NATO is more designed to bear the brunt of a real war, while US-NATO is more designed for sailing happily around the Third World blowing up colourful bits of tent and mountain goat. This is also an admission that the USA is a country that bleats like a stuck pig and runs away any time it suffers military causalities and even when it doesn't. 

As for military spending, it is not clear how efficient any of this is, but it seems highly likely that there is a lot more waste and pork barrel on the American side. This is because one of the key functions of the US "military" budget is to keep areas of the USA that would otherwise economically atrophy alive.

Not sure Wing House could survive without US military pork barrel

But this is not the main problem with the arrogance and stupidity of the Signal chat. The real problem is that the Houthis are an entirely American created problem.

Houthi attacks on shipping are a direct response to US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza, where there is currently a massive push to both directly kill Gazans and to render living conditions so bad that they will be forced out or killed by malnutrition and disease.

These actions are only possible by Israel because it is backed up by a US administration prepared to torch American soft power and moral authority in return for corrupt Zionist donations into the Trump family. 

The key point about all this is that what the Trump administration is doing is not going to help anyone anyway, least of all itself or its Israeli bribers.

The Houthis will just become more determined, while America will look weak and stupid and continue to alienate allies. Then, with the degrading of America's superpower brand, Israel will be increasingly left out on a limb. Let's see how this works out.

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Colin Liddell is the Chief Editor of Neokrat and the author of Interviews & Obituaries, a collection of encounters with the dead and the famous. Support his work by buying his book here (USA), here (UK), and here (Australia), or by taking out a paid subscription on his Substack.

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