Hmmm… as will be made apparent later, I think my original leading paragraph from exactly 4 years ago still applies:
As we watch the Democrats peddle their warmongering interventionist and laissez-faire let’s-wait-for-war attitudes, ie as they play their war games on their way to the fall brawl known as the midterm elections, where voters will probably vote Democrat to bring us nookular annihilation, I’ll take a look at some literal war games. Cold War video games, anyway.
Today, we’ll look at a game I had wanted to do 4 years ago with the rest of the Missile Command games that were part of the War Games series, but I never got around to buying the hardware. Ironically enough at that time I had the disposable income to do so but thought it’d be too expensive, but now that I finally bought it I financially shouldn’t have!
The Game
Not much to say here that wasn’t said in the last one. This is pretty much the Atari 5200 version, though I’m wanting to say the cursor movements felt as smooth as the Game Boy Advance version, and looking at a comparison video of the 400/800 and 5200 versions I’m wanting to say that the 400/800 is faster, though the graphics are the same. That much struck me immediately about it.
Spotlight On The Atari 400
It blew my mind that this machine came out in 1979. I thought for sure it was later than that. Just look at the quality of the games on it and its computing power, and compare that with its competitors at the time (and note that for the TI-99 the games start looking better when they’re ports of Atari 400/800 games- but not like the originals!). The keyboard keys though… those were very interesting, and I enjoyed playing with them. Too bad I’m giving this one to my cousin and keeping the 800XL I bought, but he’d want this one because it came with the box and manuals whereas the 800XL was a PAL model that didn’t even come with connection or power cables… just a copy of Pac Man that was missing its back half for some bizarre reason.
Throw-Away Warfare
This post underwent many changes. I started this in the fall of 2021, then worked on it in the days right before the Ukraine conflict when it looked like the Biden Administration was lying about Russia’s intentions (I thought I was wrong for a few months because the Biden Admin made it sound like they were lying when they said Russia would invade, but then the Biden team freely admitted to a loving media that they really WERE lying and Russia’s invasion was just a coincidence- this wouldn’t be the last time they lied about Ukraine.). I added more stuff about Democrats provoking a war, then over the first month of the Ukrainian conflict I added all sorts to it, then abandoned it because it just got too messy.
It wouldn’t be part of the War Games series if I didn’t talk about war, and boy are Democrats into that this year! Remember how I predicted a conflict with Russia 4 years ago if Democrats had their way? Well here we are, and Democrats started it- in 2014! I’ll get to that in a moment, but first I need to go over the Left’s attitude towards war.
Today’s trend can be traced back to just after World War II. China could’ve gone communist or not, it was up to America to decide. The non-communists in China had helped us during World War II. Democrats- whose party had been infiltrated by communist spies– decided to abandon our Chinese allies to the genocidal ferocity of the Chinese Communists who still maintain that practice to this day. Democrats didn’t care then, they didn’t care when China wiped out millions of its own people (in fact, I’ve seen Leftists in various forums deny that anyone was killed), and we see it today with the Leftist love of China’s genocidal history, where alleged civil rights activists ally themselves with the racist/genocidal Chinese regime (and the liberal/Democrat-ran media and allies in Big Tech cover it up- indeed they believe America is worse than China), where BLM civil rights allies defect to the racist/genocidal Chinese government. A police officer can’t even shoot someone attempting to murder people without BLM pouncing on them (well… not unless the one killed is white, then BLM doesn’t care about alleged police brutality), yet the Chinese police can arrest people for no crime at all and harvest their organs and BLM sees them as a friend. Kind of makes you suspicious on what BLM really wants.
But the point of the above is that Democrats/Leftists/Liberals/whatever you want to call them used the anti-communist Chinese in World War II and then threw them away once they outlived their usefulness. This happened again in Vietnam. The Leftists started that war. We are taught that Nixon was eeeeeevil and corrupt and the most rotten thing ever to be in the White House (before Trump of course), but as I posted about in the link above, Nixon actually ended the Vietnam War on terms that allowed South Vietnam to exist. All we had to do was keep money coming to the South. A quick side note- yes we did need to pay the South Vietnamese because we were the reason they existed in the state they were in, it was our responsibility (the Democrat-ran American government had its CIA remove a stable leader who didn’t want American soldiers there and may have brokered an agreement with the North, a move that led to the war’s outbreak and the North’s mass-murdering ways being inflicted on the South) because actions taken by Democrats in Power (D.I.P.s) led directly to the threat faced by innocent civilians.
Anyway, once Gerald Ford finished what Nixon started that made Democrats so mad they impeached him (let’s not kid ourselves, Democrats cheated against Nixon in both 1960 and 1968, so the only reason they went after Nixon over doing exactly what they did is political, probably because Nixon ended their little war) the Democrats- who owned Congress- decided that they’d no longer protect the civilians their reckless policies endangered and withdrew funding for the South Vietnamese (again, as referenced in my post linked earlier). Done with their South Vietnamese allies, they tossed them to the wolves, just like they did with the Chinese. It gets better though- Democrats refused to take in refugees from South Vietnam.
And no, these aren’t the mythical Democrats that switched over to make the Republican Party racist in some sort of secular retelling of Lucifer being cast out of paradise (you atheist Lefties like to substitute government for religion in your war against religion (and you atheists don’t mind mass murder), so I see why you needed to have a creation story like this to explain where your devil came from), unless you think Jerry Brown and Joe Biden are Republicans.
This brings us to the modern age- Iraq and Afghanistan. Republicans started those, yes, but there was bipartisan support. Then Democrats took over and destroyed all progress in Iraq, even ignoring President Bush’s prescient statement that if we left too soon a new terror cell would rise. He didn’t know at the time that this would be called ISIS, and didn’t know that the next Democrat President would aid ISIS in addition to creating circumstances allowing ISIS to rise while tossing aside our friends in the region and deliberately abandoning efforts to create a democracy. Next came Afghanistan, where the well-organized withdrawal that the Republican Trump scheduled was thrown away by Democrats along with every ally we had in Afghanistan (barring the occasional political stunt, but also for fear of a failed rescue attempt making them look bad politically, so better not to try at all was their reasoning). Democrats didn’t bother consulting with allies for days after the withdrawal started, in fact they said on August 13th they weren’t closing the embassy in Kabul down and the city wasn’t in any danger, but even while they spoke the staff was getting ready to evacuate and by the 15th the building was empty as the Taliban took the city. They lied a lot about the withdrawal as it happened- they bribed the Afghan President (Didn’t Democrats say quid pro quo deals were impeachable? Or is that only when it’s not a Democrat making them?) to lie that Afghanistan was in no danger thus making people think they didn’t need to leave the country, during the evacuation they told people NOT to evacuate and that they wouldn’t bother coming for them, then to top it all off they lied about people being stuck there (and Biden thought it was a joke)! And all that chaos and death just because Biden wanted to meet a political goal, and you Democrats would vote for him again in a heartbeat after that.
As you read in the links above America made a commitment to get our Afghan allies out and Trump’s plan allowed that to happen. But then Democrats showed up and threw away our allies once again. What else do you call it when the Democrats in charge tell other NATO countries to stop withdrawing their friends and forces because it exposes the Democrats’ lies about why we abandoned everyone (worse- Biden withdrew the military before the civilians yet with less than a month until the 9/11 deadline he didn’t even have a plan for getting our civilians and allies out, caring more about the political victory than bodies on the ground)? Democrats didn’t just throw away our Afghani allies that time, they tried to throw our NATO allies out too and demanded they stay in the trashcan just so Democrats could look good! (Speaking of, Democrats were happy with how the disaster went and insisted that all the women they threw away in Afghanistan are better off now than they were before the withdrawal. No, no they are not, but even though Democrats are becoming aware of the problem they’re still happy to campaign on what happened as if it were great.)
I guess in a sick way that’s to the Democrats’ credit that they finally realized after 80 years how unpopular their policy of throwing away allies after they’ve outlived their usefulness is to folks outside their party. They tried to hide their usual scheme of ditching our Afghan allies by telling lies about how we couldn’t evacuate them even as our NATO allies easily evacuated their Afghan friends- and even telling our NATO allies not to evacuate their people so that the Democrats’ lie would look better. They also actively interfered in civilian efforts to get people out. trying to stop that from happening. They tried to hide their abandonment of our Afghan allies and violations of our promises to them by just shoving as many random people onto the evacuation craft as they could and hoping the public would be fooled into thinking that taking a bunch of strangers was the same as fulfilling promises to friends, friends who were hunted down and brutalized by the Taliban using the billions of dollars of equipment the Democrats left for them.
Oh and we still have Americans trapped in Afghanistan. You know how they just let anyone on the planes? They STOPPED Americans with papers from boarding the planes. They stopped women and orphans from boarding the planes in favor of fighting-age males who might be tied to terror cells. I hope at least the Americans left behind were all Democrats, because that would be the only bit of justice we’ll see in this world for the Democratic Party.
What We See In Ukraine
I predict the same thing in Ukraine. Democrats started this conflict in 2014, and they’ll abandon their allies there too. I promised an explanation so here it is.
Democrat God-King Barack Obama who had a flawless, scandal-free Presidency that represents the golden era of America (because creating ISIS, saying that America will never again have a good economy, and creating racial strife made him a deity for Democrats) decided to overthrow Ukraine’s government. No real reason for it, he just didn’t like how a foreign election went so he overthrew that government and installed one that he did like. This adds a layer of irony to the Democrats’ complaints about Russia interfering in our elections, as if Democrats would never do such a thing despite doing it to our allies- and it wasn’t a practice confined just to Ukraine. Democrats attempted it in Israel by using taxpayer money to fund the Prime Minister’s opponent in an election, and (while still President) Obama campaigned in England to oppose Brexit as if it was his personal business what a foreign country did with its own internal affairs. As if any of these incidents weren’t foreign interference, as if what Obama did in Ukraine wasn’t an “attempt to overthrow Democracy” as Democrats like to say these days, as if what Obama did in Ukraine wasn’t the same regime toppling that Democrats (repeating here that Democrat/Leftist/Liberal are being treated as synonyms) condemned Republicans like Reagan and Bush for doing.
Naturally, when you “overthrow democracy” like Democrats did, that leads to instability and factions. Some factions would want to reunite with Russia. Ukraine was part of Russia for a couple of centuries, so the broad-minded among you might understand how some Ukrainians would want to help Russia regain power over their country, or at least understand how heavily Russian some parts were. At the same time that Obama was destabilizing the Ukrainian government and helping some Neo Nazis gain power (every member of their party who is now saying Republicans are fascist, that has been lying about Trump saying Neo Nazis were fine people just to smear him as a sympathizer, are silent about their scandal-free Democrat President ensuring Neo Nazis ran a country), he was showing weakness to Russia while creating a fascist puppet state on their border so they decided to seize Crimea. While ethically not the right thing to do, strategically it totally was the right thing at the right time.
Look at it from Russia’s perspective- for centuries, they have been invaded over and over again by European powers. That is why they want buffer states. Centuries of valid paranoia led to this attitude of mistrust that the Russians have. Yes, NATO never wanted Ukraine, but how is Russia supposed to believe that when you topple Ukraine’s government and install a NATO-friendly one full of Neo-Nazis (y’know, the heirs to the most recent guys who invaded Russia)? So they took Crimea, which wasn’t much because a lot of folks there were friendly towards Russia anyway because of that centuries-long relation I mentioned.
Russia did want more, but a ceasefire that no one adhered to was reached and a very violent peace ensued up until February 2022. During this time, Russia took advantage of the big open border and friendly ethnic Russians to arm separatists. See Democrats, this is one of the downfalls of an open border policy… then again, you hate America so I guess you’d be happy if any power- including Russia- took advantage of your open borders policy to do the same thing to America. Strangely, under the anti-Russian Democrat rule, there’s been a nearly 2000% increase in Russians coming illegally into the U.S. over the border as compared to the election year for the alleged Pro-Russia-Putin-Puppet-President where you Democrats warned that the Putin Puppet might win if Russia was able to interfere. Kinda weird then that Russians didn’t start crossing until after the Putin Puppet lost, unless the current President and his political party had strong ties to Russia and would be seen begging Russia for oil… nah, how likely is any of that, Democrat?
Back to the history lesson- put aside the 6 years of being told Russia is the enemy and consider Russia’s point of view. Suddenly, as I talked about in 2018, this world power with nuclear missiles who was your best friend after you invaded a sovereign nation (Hillary Clinton wanted to make Russia a technological competitor to the U.S. and Obama wanted to be their friend while the bodies of their victims in Georgia were still warm), and still a friend after you seized part of another sovereign nation, is saying they hate you and want a war with you. Worse, they’re lying about you in order to get their citizens to support this war. Reread the 2018 War Games posts- Democrats openly said they wanted war with Russia! And this power that wants war with Russia had just “overthrown Democracy” in a country on Russia’s border to install confirmed Neo Nazis. And like I said, Russia has been invaded many times in its past, including by Nazis.
Now we come to the end of 2021. The Biden Administration is begging Russia for oil to lower our gas prices. Democrats lied to the world that we invaded Iraq for oil, and now those same Democrats who voted for that oil invasion are in charge and want Russia’s oil- the same Democrats who overthrew a government on Russia’s border and suddenly love George W. Bush whom they previously accused of invading Iraq for oil. The same Democrats who are now saying Russia will invade Ukraine, which is at this time a lie as I mentioned earlier, as much of a lie as Democrats say the WMD pretext for invading Iraq for its oil was- Democrats even admitted after the Ukraine war started that they were just lying about Russia invading, that they really had no idea it was going to happen. Oh, and suddenly those folks who were accused of lying about WMDs in Iraq are saying Russia is a threat (and lying about things being Russian efforts to interfere in elections) and are treated with love by the Democrats. Hmmmmm…
At this point, Russia has several options on the table, the worst of which is invading Ukraine. But their government is horribly corrupt and ran by a monster so they choose invasion. Since Russia has hardly changed in anything except labels (ie. monarchy, communist, democracy, oligarchy, but all still just as corrupt and imperialist as the other) it used its 19th century mentality to conclude invasion is what should be done. In today’s world with today’s morals it’s awful, but Russia isn’t from today’s world. So while it’s horrible and brutal, it shouldn’t have been unexpected that Russia would do the (morally) exact worst possible thing they could do in their situation.
Throwing Away Ukraine
Democrats had a lot of money tied-up in crooked Ukraine. Some biowarfare labs too, I guess getting around our various treaties on such things by outsourcing the work. That may be why Obama overthrew Ukraine’s government in the first place, “overthrew democracy” to use a Democrat phrase in vogue now- to ensure the Biden family and other such families could profit from the place (and use their puppets there to interfere in future elections), much as what America did to Cuba in the leadup to its communist revolution (ironic how those kids in the Che Guevara shirts and the Castro-loving media created the same corruption in Ukraine that led to their rise, but instead call you a traitor if you have a problem with it. I guess it’s ok to “overthrow democracy” everywhere else, and it’s not “overthrowing democracy” to assassinate their political opponents according to them). It shouldn’t be unexpected they’d do stuff like this- remember that Nancy Pelosi risked World War III just to help the family business in Taiwan, and saw an immediate profit from it. So with Democrats and their globalist friends financially tied to Ukraine it’s no wonder they’d play up this invasion the way they did.
Even if the conflict in Ukraine was not capping off 6 years of anti-Russian histrionics and lies, they’d still have overplayed Ukraine’s importance. Look at what they have tied-up.
- Neo Nazis that Obama supported. They lost a bit of power since Obama was in charge, but they’re still a force. The Democrat-owned media in the U.S. even ran fluff pieces talking about how awesome these Neo Nazis are, and the Democrat-owned fact checkers and mobs of Democrat liars on the internet try to deny that these Neo Nazis exist.
- Money.
- Biowarfare labs. The Biden Administration admitted these places existed in Ukraine. Really, Russia should’ve used them as a pretext for invading, because bioweapons are considered WMDs. It wouldn’t justify Russia’s brutality, but it would justify invading, as all the Democrats who voted for invading Iraq would tell you.
But now that it looks like Ukraine is losing while we send them billions of dollars (that disappear with the weapons we send) at a time when we are facing Democrat–induced destruction of our economy (once again), the Democrats’ media friends are starting to admit the truth that Ukraine could lose. This is very significant. You were a traitor if you even thought such a thing, the media/Democrat narrative had been Russia will lose if we just keep sending money to Ukraine. Now the truth that this never was true is being allowed to be expressed. Too late for the people the Democrats tried to cancel for saying this months ago. It won’t be long before support for Ukraine collapses, and they become just another cause Democrats tossed aside.
Ukraine’s offenses are few, far between, and failed moves for the sake of political optics rather than winning a battle. Russian planes fly free over the country. Ukraine’s benevolent, uncorrupt leadership just voted to give themselves a pay raise that’s funded by YOUR taxpayer dollars. Their military is quitting. They warned US citizens to evacuate.
Unfortunately, like with South Vietnam, Democrats made this situation much worse than it needed to be. How much of the barbarism would’ve been ended sooner had the Democrats not promised Ukrainian leadership support (and who knows what else) in their struggle? Russia has offered Ukraine terms. Would they have been taken more seriously, indeed would negotiations towards a favorable outcome for both sides, have happened already if Democrats weren’t encouraging the Ukrainian people to keep up the fight? By the way, guess which politicians the people manufacturing the weapons we send to Ukraine are donating to. The Republicans aren’t the only ones in the military-industrial complex. Consider this- days before Russia invaded, CBS’ 60 Minutes reported on February 20 that in response to Russia hurting Ukraine economically the U.S. was shipping WEAPONS to Ukraine. Not economic aid, WEAPONS. At the same time the Biden Administration was lying (as cited earlier) about Russia being aggressive.
Speaking of weapons, I noticed that the Russian Collussionists try to say Trump is a Putin puppet and delayed aid to Ukraine for political reasons that he needed to be impeached over (he actually delayed it because 1. he noticed the corruption that has now led to aid disappearing during a war and wanted something done about it BEFORE people would die from it and 2. he was hoping his refusal would pressure other European countries to do something instead of making us do all the work). He was actually the first to ship them- after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014, and for the next 2 years, Obama sent money and a few items that couldn’t be used as weapons. Trump sent actual weapons. Biden was the one who cut out the weapon shipments in 2021, right after Biden was paid by Russia to allow them to finish their pipeline (between this and Biden’s aforementioned quid pro quo with the Afghan President that cost lives, how has HE not been impeached?).
Think about that- in 2015 Democrats refused to provide weapons to Ukraine and threatened to withhold a billion dollars in non-lethal aid a year after Russia invaded, threatening to withhold the aid unless they fired a prosecutor investigating businesses tied to Democrat Joe Biden’s son. They had just praised that prosecutor too, but then Democrats threw him under the bus. Some friends they are! They overthrow Democracy in Ukraine and then when Russia invades they refuse to provide weapons and threaten to withhold all aid unless they let the Democrat Vice President’s son’s friends get away with corruption, and they demand the head of a friendly prosecutor they praised because he dared investigate a Biden. Then they accuse TRUMP of trying to bribe Ukraine with aid and impeach him over allegedly doing what Joe Biden actually did.
What a tale of hypocrisy and total disregard for lives, ethics, and Democracy that the Democratic Party has created here. As I opened this section with- are you really surprised Pelosi risked a war just for money? And again- they don’t seem to care about the Ukrainians who could’ve been saved if peace had been declared, nor about the Europeans facing an economic and humanitarian disaster with their own citizens because liberals over there obeyed green-groups backed by Russia and became dependent on Russia’s energy (in other words, they pulled a California. And just like with California you can bet the elites in society and lawmakers who advocated for this misery won’t be impacted by it. They’ll just pretend they care about the damage they did, win an election by hook or by crook, and go on doing what they’ve always done).
What Do You Think?
Looks like such a fun game, vote Democrat and make it happen! Oh wait- you already did, because this is what you wanted! And now Putin has threatened nuclear war and your vaunted Democrat leader of Congress almost started a war with China so that she could make a quick buck, except we don’t have any defenses against nuclear weapons like what were shown in the video game this post covered. As mentioned in the original post about this game- Democrats mocked the very notion and instead focused on making sure America could never launch a nuke, while allowing Russia and China (and even helping them) to build their arsenals. Democrats actually reduced our nuclear defenses in exchange for nothing from Russia. The same Russia they said we should hate.
Like say for example when the Biden Administration lied about having evidence Russia was about to invade Ukraine- the Biden Administration said it, the journalists and think tanks and intellectuals said it was true and cited their friends in the Biden Administration, then it turned out to be a lie and their response was “so what? It made the public do what we wanted them to do so it was a good thing”, as if following a blind path of propaganda towards nuclear Armageddon was good for humanity. But these lies are what those in power say to each other and to you, so it must be true! And if you look back, this is how World War I started, how we got “the lost generation”, millions dead, because the societal elites who thought war would be fun on paper aren’t, as with Ukraine today and nuclear war in the future, the ones doing the fighting and dying.
C-Gaymer 