This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

The other day, Jared Kushner had a long private discussion with House Minority Whip Hakeem Jeffries. Strange bedfellows indeed. What subject could they possibly have in common to talk about? A month ago, the United States authorized Ukraine to build Patriot missiles under license. Now look at that from a Russian perspective. The US is giving direct aid to Ukraine, making Russian attacks less effective. Last week, the UK government signed off on Ukraine building their own Storm Shadow missiles.

Look at it from the other side. Russia has imported over a million artillery shells and hardware from North Korea and drones from Iran. Russia sees the issue differently. Seeing a big difference between importing basic military hardware, versus high technology weapons. High technology without any external control. Giving Ukraine the keys to the kingdom. They can build as many as they want and use them however they want.

CIA head John Radcliffe flew to Moscow for secret negotiations. I think I know now what Jared and Hakeem were discussing. There is some really dark shit on the horizon. Radcliffe flew to Moscow on a C-117 military aircraft. He could have flown to Moscow on one of a fleet of government civilian aircraft. If Krash Patel didn’t need them for date night. But Radcliffe flew on a military aircraft, because this was a military mission. And the US was making it clear this wasn’t just a friendly social call. Radcliffe was delivering a message from the US military directly to the highest levels of the Russian government. I wonder what it could be?

I had scoffed when I first heard the US cover story. Supposedly, Russia was planning an attack on a NATO country. I thought, ridiculous, sensational, impossible! Russia’s army has lost all of its tanks and armored personnel carriers. Their air force is an aging fleet of jets just as likely to fall from sky due to maintenance issues than from enemy missiles. Why attacking NATO would be tantamount to Russian suicide! Then, It began to dawn on me what Jared and Hakeem were most likely talking about. This was a private heads up. A direct message from the adults in the room to the other adults in the room.

The Russian economy is in tatters and nearing collapse. Suffering intense fuel shortages and a destroyed retail sector, the Russian public is becoming enraged at what it sees as a powerless plutocrat Putin. Winter comes early in Russia, and shortages of heating oil could spell death and disaster. Without any heating oil the populace will switch to electric space heaters, which will collapse the already weakened electrical grid. A vast humanitarian crisis, the likes of which has not been seen in Europe since the end of World War II.

Sun Tzu famously said, “If you have cornered a foe, give them a golden bridge to escape across, or they will fight like tigers.”

John Radcliffe went to Moscow either to offer Vladimir Putin a ride out of the country or to warn him not to do what they are considering doing. I even suspect I know which country Russia has in mind. For some subliminal reason, ever since the time of the Russian Revolution. The Russians have always had a serious hard-on against the United Kingdom. I’ve asked my UK friends and colleagues why? But I haven’t received a suitable answer. Patriot missiles are one thing, but Storm Shadow missiles are something else entirely.

Maybe you could quit your job, or take drugs or drink heavily. Spend your retirement money on a new Ferrari or a boat. Go see your kids. Enjoy life while you still can. Maybe you could build a bunker in the basement and stock it with groceries and fresh water. What? Did you really expect them to tell you the truth? And upset the stock market? No way!

But they sent Radcliffe because he’s not a diplomat. This is far too serious for the clown college of JD Vance or little Marco Rubio. It’s questionable, if they even told Mr. Trump the truth of what was cooking. Don’t get him involved in this, if at all possible! This is way too serious for the Moron Brigade. Too serious for the frozen Republican rump Duma in Congress. Do you begin to see now? The quiet whisper in private to responsible parties. “Hey, just between you and me, I need to tell you something.”

James Carville raged at Jefferies for involving himself with this band of thieves and cutthroats. I agreed with Carville that the optics looked terrible. But then I thought; Jeffries is a party politician, but he’s no idiot. If he thought it important enough to meet with Jared Kushner, maybe something is up that they don’t want to or can’t discuss publicly. Russia is headed for a brick wall at a hundred miles an hour and might be willing to pull the chicken switch.

Will they go down with a bang or a whimper? It has long been alleged that the CIA actually runs US foreign policy. Radcliffe’s mission solves that mystery. The message and the mission were far too important for the likes of Trump, Vance, Hegseth or little Marco. “You guys shut the fuck up and don’t breathe a word of this to anyone, or you could get millions of people killed.”

If Russia uses battlefield nukes on Ukraine, Pandora’s box is open. If Russia attacks NATO with nukes, it’s a full scale thermonuclear war. It could be that Russia is only posturing as they have been known to do in the past. But the situation in Russia is becoming so dire, that we can no longer take that to the bank. I’d like to think there is another reason for the visit, but the symbolism says otherwise. This was a deadly serious meeting, the likes of which the world has never seen before. Like something out of a political thriller or an apocalyptic, science fiction movie.

You had to know, or at least suspect, maybe even just a little bit. That electing Donald Trump could put us in a situation like this, eventually.

“We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, ‘Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.’ I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.”  ― J. Robert Oppenheimer