In Some Parts Apparently Scarier Than President Putin!

Extremely Scary Highschool Graduate (The Girl not the Man)

في بعض الأماكن على ما يبدو أكثر مخافة من الرئيس بوتين

в некоторых местах явно страшнее, чем президент Путин !!

If you're not prone to excessive fear, you can check out this scary story here.

On to law school!

AA Providential Warning – US Way of Life and Future Under Attack -- End of Civilization As We Imagine It

Another Public Service from AA

Who monitors the news so you don’t have to?  And reports serious stories you need to know?  

AA of course.  

What follows is clearly a three tinfoil hat level threat. And that's why I'm using both digital and old media to sound the alarm tocsin. 

Despite the title, this post is not about TISVP, though there’s no reason that it wouldn’t be him in the background.  Or that it would be him in the background.  

As reported in The Guardian, Larry Fedora, head coach of the University of North Carolina football team, sounded the warning:  

“Our game is under attack,” Fedora said on Wednesday at the ACC’s preseason media day in Greensboro. “I fear that the game will get pushed so far to one extreme that you won’t recognize the game 10 years from now. And I do believe that if it gets to that point, that our country goes down, too.” 

Fedora illustrated the point by recalling a conversation he’d had several years ago with a three-star Army general who attributed the success of the US military to football.  

“I had a question for him: What is it that makes our country, our military, superior to every other military in the world?” Fedora said. 

“He was like: ‘That’s easy, we’re the only football-playing nation in the world. And most of our troops have played the game at some point in their life at some level and the lessons that they learned from that game makes us who we are.’”  

That's football, not soccer!  You can call you game "football" but you'll never have a military superior to ours as the picture below demonstrates.

The story may also explain the peculiar features of American “thinking” to those confused by what they see happening in the former colonies.

 

 Strong Virile Football Playing American General Comforts Weak Soccer Playing European Officer

July 2018 The US - Russian Summit A Moment in History

Courtesy of The Sun, UK.   Gulf News has yet to post a video.

A great start.  Sunglasses off.   

Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more.

AA Explainer: Whay Are There Basic Difficulties in US - Russian Relations and Summits

TISVP

Why are there basic difficulties in US- Russian summits and relations between the United States of America and the Russian Federation?

Here's an "AA Explainer" to help you understand why.

Since the President of the Russian Federation began wearing reflective sunglasses to summit meetings, his American interlucutors, especially those from one particular US political party, have had trouble looking into his soul.

And, if you assume that when they look into the sunglasses, they are able to see their own souls, it's got to be quite a disturbing event.

Responding to a Direct Challenge AA Corrects The President of the Russian Federation

The Incredibly "Scary" Vladimir Putin (TISVP)

On 27 October Bloomberg reported that the President of the Russian Federation had dismissed charges of attempting to influence the US Presidential election in remarks at the Valdai International Discussion Club. 

One particular quote attributed to TISVP caught AA's sharp eye.

Is America some kind of banana republic? America is a great power. If I’m wrong, correct me.

If you've been following the news of late, you of course know that Mr. Putin is one incredibly scary individual with seemingly unbounded powers and a will of steel.   Not a man to be trifled with or provoked.  The media is in total agreement on this.

Yet, on the other hand, according to Bloomberg, he did ask to be corrected if he was wrong.

AA thought long and hard on this issue and decided to take Mr. Putin at his word. What better day to reply to TISVP than Halloween?

Here is AA's considered response  to the banana republic question.

While you are correct that the USA is a great power and that banana republics have typically been small rather weak countries (economically and militarily), I'd like you to consider that a good argument can be made that a key, perhaps the key, distinguishing characteristic of a banana republic is the nature and quality of its politics and politicians.

Singapore is a small country, yet no one would call it a banana republic (BR). 

AA can think of a couple nuclear armed states (outside the G-8) whose politics definitely qualify them for BR status. 

And would offer this recent blogpost for your consideration.