REALPOLITIK
'Realpolitik is the approach of conducting diplomatic or political policies based primarily on considerations of given circumstances and factors, rather than strictly following ideological, moral, or ethical premises. In this respect, it shares aspects of its philosophical approach with those of realism and pragmatism. Wikipedia.'
REALITY #1 - DO NOT ALLOW TRUMP TO STEAL OFFICE OF POTUS
It is time to step back and simulate the Presidential election of 2024 transfer of power.
trump and MAGA forces may try to delay the Constitutional election certification so that the newly elected President cannot take office, either permanently or until all the votes are certified. Several States already have installed MAGA supporters in the election certificating process. They may succeed in preventing a certification as required by the Constitution in a timely manner; it is likely that any votes so challenged will be for Harris. If that happens, trump may claim the he is the rightful winner and demand that his forces seize the White House. MAGA has shown they do not abide by the rules of law.
If Biden/Harris choose to follow a strict interpretation of the laws, they may hand the office to trump. This is a terrible idea; it will end permanently our elected Republic.
Biden and Harris should not concede the election under any circumstances, if that concession may install trump as POTUS. At the very least, they should not leave the office until ALL votes are counted and certified and trump is the Electoral College winner. Harris most likely will have a significant majority of the popular votes, but there may be some questions about the Electoral College votes.
REALITY # 2 - MURDER ON THE INTERNATIONAL STAGE
Tyrannical forces test every President to see what she/he is made of:
Harris WILL face a challenge to the United States that shows whether she values life more than our National Interests.
If she chooses to spare a life instead of taking a life, then tyrants will understand that she is vulnerable. If she chooses to take a life, then she will be recognized as a leader.
REALITY POLAND # 3 -
Here is a story about Poland in WW II that we forget at our peril. NSFW, courtesy of historian James Fell.
'James Fell. Poster based in Canada
The European theatre of World War II began in September of 1939 with the fucking Nazi invasion of Poland. On a per-capita basis, Poland lost more people in the war than any other independent nation, a whopping 17% of the population killed. Five years after the invasion, a heroic but ultimately doomed uprising in Warsaw against Nazi occupation began.
--On This Day in History Shit Went Down: August 1, 1944--
In the summer of 1944 things were not going well for the fucking Nazis. The Western Allies had established a solid beachhead in France and were moving inland, and on the Eastern front those Nazi assbuckets were dropping like cicadas after a mating frenzy. With the Nazi dick towels in retreat out of Poland and the Soviet Red Army camped just outside the city, the Polish Resistance decided it was time for some motherfucking payback.
But it was also political. The Polish resistance were fans of the democratic Polish government, which was in exile in London. With the Soviets ready to “liberate” Warsaw, Poles didn’t want to trade one oppressive external ruler for another. So on August 1, 1944, they said fuck it we’re taking this city back ourselves. Despite being poorly supplied, the Poles had early victories against those Nazi fucks. But that murderous mass of manatee mucus Adolf Hitler said oh hell nein and sent in reinforcements to fight the uprising.
What followed was brutal street-to-street fighting. With superior weaponry, the fucking Nazis crushed the rebellion. Meanwhile, the Soviets sat just outside the city and watched it happen, doing nothing to help the Poles. The battle lasted two months, and despite pleas from Churchill to Stalin to get off his ass and do something, it’s near certain Stalin ordered his Red Army to allow the Polish resistance to be crushed so that when they moved in and kicked out the fucking Nazis there would be little resistance to the USSR setting up a communist puppet state in Poland. Because that’s exactly what they did.
The British and U.S. tried to help the beleaguered rebels with air drops of supplies, but it wasn’t enough. Approximately 16,000 members of the Polish resistance were killed and around 200,000 Polish citizens lost their lives in the uprising. Most of the civilian deaths were due to mass executions carried out by fucking Nazis. Warsaw was almost completely destroyed, and another 700,000 fled the city.
The Soviets had encouraged the uprising just two days before it began, sending out a radio broadcast, saying “Fight the Germans!” and that they were “all together” to “pursue the enemy westwards.” Some historians are Stalin apologists, saying there was intense fighting elsewhere on the Eastern Front and so the Red Army was too busy to stop a mass murder of Warsaw citizens. Knowing Stalin’s reputation, however, I can totally see that maniacal dickcheese purposely withholding support so he could control the city more easily after the war.
Get the book ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY SH!T WENT DOWN at JamesFell.com/books.
