Would You Like to Play a Game, General Petraeus? – Flopping Aces

Exciting news this week!  General Petraeus (former commander in Afghanistan 2010 and 2011), during an interview in France, stated that a “multinational force” led by the U.S. may intervene in Ukraine.” Apparently, Biden already authorized the deployment of approximately 4,700 U.S. troops with the 101st Airborne Division near the Ukraine border in Romania.  According to the division’s Deputy Commander, Brigadier General John Lubas, “Yeah, this is not a training deployment, this is a combat deployment for us. We understand that we need to be ready to fight tonight depending how the situation escalates across the border.”  That sounds like a well thought out plan-sort of like Viet Nam (FUBAR I) and Afghanistan (FUBAR II). What could possibly go wrong?

An ancient philosopher, Sun Tzu wrote The Art of War and said, “That the greatest victory is that which requires no battle.”  He also believed that “war is to be avoided as much and as long as possible because of the potential for catastrophic loss.”  Sounds like a smart dude.

Unfortunately, it is very plausible that our mumbling, bumbling (not so smart) Commander in Chief has never heard of Sun Tzu, desires war and couldn’t care less about catastrophic loss of life.  Biden may accidentally or on purpose, “let slip the dogs of war” and start WWIII.

WWIII will be similar to WWII…until some moron comes up with the brilliant strategy of using tactical nukes on the battle field. That is a game changer and could quickly escalate the war and totally destroy most of the planet.  Bummer.  I really like this planet.