1914: Austria tries to overthrow King of Serbia, which leads to World War I and millions dead. Epic Fail.
1917: Idiot schemers in German government give Vladimir Lenin safe passage from his Swiss exile back to Russia to overthrow the Russian Provisional Government and take Russia out of the war. Lenin succeeds, but then unleashes the worst regime in history on Russia—a regime that subsequently threatened all of Europe. Epic Fail.
1919-1920: Following World War I, punitive treaties formally dissolve Habsburg, Hohenzollern, and Ottoman regimes. Europe and the entire Middle East are further destabilized, leading directly to World War II. Epic Fail.
1963: CIA backs military coup to overthrow South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, thereby deepening U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Epic Fail.
2001-2021: U.S. occupation of Afghanistan, resulting in tens of thousands dead, tens of thousands of traumatic brain injuries, and trillions spent, achieves nothing, leaves Taliban in power. Epic Fail.
2003: Overthrow of Saddam Hussein unleashes years of violence, chaos, and ISIS on Iraq and strengthens Iran. Epic Fail.
2011: U.S. leads military action to overthrow Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, unleashing a civil war and humanitarian crisis that persists to this day. Epic Fail.
2011-2026: U.S. support of Islamic terrorists to overthrow Bashar al-Assad of Syria thrusts country into years of civil war and unleashes a massive refugee crisis with catastrophic consequences for Europe. Epic Fail.
2014: U.S. National Endowment for Democracy (NED)—long suspected of being a CIA front organization—provides key support for Euromaidan protests that oust Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovich, who sought better relations with Russia to prevent Ukraine from being made into a NATO proxy. Epic Fail.
-- John Leake
Many Republicans pride themselves on their chess-playing acumen. Dems write a tax increase bill, GOP players write one that doesn't increase taxes, and say, "We'll just checkmate these revolutionaries and WIN this one." Sometimes they do. But Since the Goldwater days, they've been whipped 90 percent of the time. So they study chess tactics harder.
In next three years, the Dems are rolling out an army of tanks. First mission: roll over every chess board and destroy them, leaving the elephants to wander around aimlessly, not knowing how to do politics.
How do we know this? Zoom calls over the last year. The Dems are done with chess.
Kunstler: "Democratic Party election ninja Marc Elias knocked himself out for two years registering new voters by the bale, as in manufacturing them. . . illegal aliens. . . homeless junkies. . . straight-up fictitious persons. . . in order to flood the zone with fake mail-in ballots, that is, in-your-face fraud. And the reason they did it was so ...
"No man is big enough to run this great Republic. There never has been one. Such domination was never intended. Tranquillity, stability, dependability—all are assured in party sponsorship. and we mean to renew the assurances which were rended in the cataclysmal war.”
Warren Harding, July 1920.