by Pa Rock
Former Geography Teacher
Mike Pompeo may cloak himself in the self-important title of United States Secretary of State, but deep in his political soul he is just a two-bit bully of a Kansas congressman with a strong dose of Christian evangelical self-righteousness..
But Saint Michael, who considers himself a key player in getting things in order for the Rapture, also seems to have his feet mired in the grimy clay of real life. Just yesterday, while giving an interview to a journalist, Mary Louise Kelly of National Public Radio, Pompeo let his guard down and, temporarily - at least - revealed his true self to the journalist- and subsequently to the world.
Pompeo, who along with Vice President Mike Pence sees stirring things up with Iran as being key to triggering the "Rapture" and bringing Christ back to Earth, agreed to do an interview with Ms. Kelly yesterday on the subject of Iran. The journalist, however, maintained that she had an agreement with Pomepeo's peeps to also question the secretary of state about US policies and actions toward the country of Ukraine.
Pompeo was uncomfortable with discussing Ukraine and promptly ended the interview when that subject came to the fore. After it was over, according to Ms. Kelly, he turned on her with a surprising vehemence and seemed to accuse her of deliberately making an issue of Ukraine. She reported that Pompeo told her, amid some expletives that included a repeated use four-letter euphemism for "fornicate," that most Americans could not even find the Ukraine on a map. She said that his tirade lasted longer than the original interview.
Then, to prove his silly point about the geographical ignorance of "most" Americans, Pompeo had aids bring out an unlabeled map of Europe and challenged the reporter to locate locate Ukraine on the blank map - something which Ms. Kelly (who has a master's degree in European Studies from Cambridge University) promptly did.
But Pompeo's point is nevertheless well taken. Ukraine, a former "republic" and part of the old Soviet Union, occupies a pivotal physical position in Eastern Europe, and Americans should familiarize themselves with its location and the reason it is such an important political and military player in the region.
Not only does Ukraine have a long border with Russia, once a traditional enemy of the United States, it also has a long coastline on the strategically important Black Sea, and borders six other nations: Moldavia, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, and Belarus - and with the exception of Belarus, the Ukraine forms a land barrier between Russia and the five other countries.
Ukraine is the key nation in keeping Russia in check along its European front. Screwing with US military aid to Ukraine directly benefits Vladimir Putin and his big Russian Bear - and someday it might just blossom into something more substantial - like a Trump Tower in Moscow or a Trump golf resort in Sochi.
Messing with NATO could be serving the same agenda.
Geography, in fact, goes a long way toward explaining bromance between Trump and Vlad.
It's all right there on the map!
(See you at the Rapture, Mike. I'll be working the grill in one of the taco trucks!)
Former Geography Teacher
Mike Pompeo may cloak himself in the self-important title of United States Secretary of State, but deep in his political soul he is just a two-bit bully of a Kansas congressman with a strong dose of Christian evangelical self-righteousness..
But Saint Michael, who considers himself a key player in getting things in order for the Rapture, also seems to have his feet mired in the grimy clay of real life. Just yesterday, while giving an interview to a journalist, Mary Louise Kelly of National Public Radio, Pompeo let his guard down and, temporarily - at least - revealed his true self to the journalist- and subsequently to the world.
Pompeo, who along with Vice President Mike Pence sees stirring things up with Iran as being key to triggering the "Rapture" and bringing Christ back to Earth, agreed to do an interview with Ms. Kelly yesterday on the subject of Iran. The journalist, however, maintained that she had an agreement with Pomepeo's peeps to also question the secretary of state about US policies and actions toward the country of Ukraine.
Pompeo was uncomfortable with discussing Ukraine and promptly ended the interview when that subject came to the fore. After it was over, according to Ms. Kelly, he turned on her with a surprising vehemence and seemed to accuse her of deliberately making an issue of Ukraine. She reported that Pompeo told her, amid some expletives that included a repeated use four-letter euphemism for "fornicate," that most Americans could not even find the Ukraine on a map. She said that his tirade lasted longer than the original interview.
Then, to prove his silly point about the geographical ignorance of "most" Americans, Pompeo had aids bring out an unlabeled map of Europe and challenged the reporter to locate locate Ukraine on the blank map - something which Ms. Kelly (who has a master's degree in European Studies from Cambridge University) promptly did.
But Pompeo's point is nevertheless well taken. Ukraine, a former "republic" and part of the old Soviet Union, occupies a pivotal physical position in Eastern Europe, and Americans should familiarize themselves with its location and the reason it is such an important political and military player in the region.
Not only does Ukraine have a long border with Russia, once a traditional enemy of the United States, it also has a long coastline on the strategically important Black Sea, and borders six other nations: Moldavia, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, and Belarus - and with the exception of Belarus, the Ukraine forms a land barrier between Russia and the five other countries.
Ukraine is the key nation in keeping Russia in check along its European front. Screwing with US military aid to Ukraine directly benefits Vladimir Putin and his big Russian Bear - and someday it might just blossom into something more substantial - like a Trump Tower in Moscow or a Trump golf resort in Sochi.
Messing with NATO could be serving the same agenda.
Geography, in fact, goes a long way toward explaining bromance between Trump and Vlad.
It's all right there on the map!
(See you at the Rapture, Mike. I'll be working the grill in one of the taco trucks!)
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