Does Bidens Degraded Mental State Matter? By Jacob G. Hornberger
(2024-06-29 at 02:07:12 )

Does Bidens Degraded Mental State Matter? By Jacob G. Hornberger

Most everyone, especially Democrats, is expressing alarm over President Bidens mental state after his debate performance last night. Biden, who later said that he was suffering from a cold, displayed attributes of severe mental decline. Many Democrats are even saying that Biden needs to drop out of the presidential race now so that the Democrats have plenty of time to promote a new candidate before the November election.

While critics are focusing on the political ramifications of Bidens apparent mental decline, the real issue is the fact that he will still be president for the next five months. This is especially important given the proxy war that the United States is waging against Russia in Ukraine. That is a war that could easily turn nuclear, especially if Biden inadvertently engages in actions that trigger a severe Russian response.

However, it is not Biden who is in charge of running the United States proxy war against Russia. That is the good news. As I have long argued, the people who are in charge of that operation are the ones inside the United States national-security establishment - the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA. That is the bad news.

Longtime readers of my work know that I have long recommended an excellent book by a man named Michael J. Glennon entitled National Security and Double Government. Glennons thesis, to which I subscribe, is that it is the United States national-security part of the federal government that is actually running the show, especially in foreign affairs.

They permit the president, the Congress, and the Supreme Court to maintain the veneer of being in charge, so as to keep people tranquil and pacified. What matters is that they wield the real power over the federal government.

Glennon is not some sort of crackpot. He is a professor of law at Tufts University and a former counsel to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Read his bio here. His thesis deserves to be taken seriously. If every American were to read Glennons book, I have no doubts that most of them would end up agreeing with his thesis.

The big problem we have with the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA is that we are dealing with people with military mindsets. It is all black and white with these people. Russia, bad. China, bad. Iran, bad. North Korea, bad. Syria, bad. Gaza, bad. Cuba, bad. Vietnam, bad, now good. In their minds, the purpose of a massive military establishment is to put bad regimes down by whatever means possible.

As most everyone now realizes, the national-security establishments goal since 1945 has been to bring Russia to heel - and make it a full-fledged loyal lapdog of the United States Empire, much like Great Britain is. That necessarily means regime change, just like the regime changes that the Pentagon and the CIA have brought to so many other nations.

For a while, it appeared that the quest to bring down Russia ended with the end of the Cold War. Not so. That was just a temporary interlude.

Almost immediately the Pentagon and the CIA embarked on a quest to use NATO, an old Cold War bureaucratic dinosaur, to begin absorbing former members of the Warsaw Pact, with the ultimate aim of absorbing Ukraine, which would enable United States officials to place their nuclear missiles, troops, armaments, planes, and tanks right on Russias border, all of which, it was hoped, would end up bringing the goal of regime change in Russia closer to fruition.

Throughout this process, and knowing that Russia would never permit Ukraine to join NATO, United States officials were training the Ukrainian military to fight a defensive war, once NATO succeeded in provoking Russia into invading Ukraine. The idea was that a Ukrainian victory would almost certainly result in the ouster of Russian President Vladimir Putin, at which point he would, it was hoped, be replaced with a loyal United States lapdog.

The scheme has not worked, and it has become painfully clear that the United States cannot win this war. The only real question is what a Russian victory will ultimately look like.

And that is where the danger of the military mindset comes into play. The national-security establishment cannot bear the thought of the United States losing to Russia, even if it is a proxy war with Russia rather than a direct war.

Rather than simply acknowledging that they should never have started this war and simply withdraw from the conflict, the military and the CIA are doubling down.

The risk is that they will do whatever is necessary to prevent a Russian defeat of the United States in Ukraine. That is why they are now talking about putting NATO troops and armaments into Ukraine in the hopes of staving off defeat. And that is where the very real prospect of nuclear war comes into play.

Would the United States be better off with a president who suffers from a severe downgrade in mental faculties being in charge rather than with generals and CIA officials being in charge?

The question is irrelevant because the reality is that it is the military-intelligence establishment that is actually in charge. And that is why we are getting ever closer to the prospect of a life-ending nuclear war.

Reprinted here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Libertarian Website!!