The #NeverTrump Camp Apparently Does Want WWIII

The Other McCain brings us Never Take Military Advice From (Or Give Money to) #NeverTrump Grifters.

Rick Wilson, Twitter personnality extrodinaire, wants to send the A-10 tank-killer (usually called the Warthog) to Ukaine.

But as Jim Thompson explains, the scheme of sending A10s to Ukraine on a sort of lend-lease arrangement is unworkable for several reasons. The A10 requires extensive backup in terms of experienced ground crews and so forth that simply can’t be transferred to another country in the way that Javelin missiles can.

Such is the power of war fever, however, that Rick Wilson’s tactically impossible suggestion got nearly 600 likes and 6,000 retweets from his Twitter following. And anyone who points out the folly of Wilson’s suggestion will be accused of being a Traitorous Putin Stooge.

There is so much more about the Never Trump Camp, and what they were doing during the Tea Party era. That period in ancient history (2002 to 2006) when the establishment GOP managed to gut the Republican Party.

It is one thing to sell arms to Ukraine, and we could do more with the Javelin, the NLAW, drones, etc. But if we send American planes to kill Russian tanks that will not end well.

And where are our contingency plans? I saw this stage of the Russian invasion coming in 2014, after the Crimean annexation, and I am not clairvoyant. Germany had 8 years to rearm, and did nothing. We had 8 years to get the people of Ukraine armed to repell an invasion, and we did very little.

The “norms” and “principles” to which #NeverTrump profess devotion turn out to be difficult to define beyond an ironclad certainty of their own intellectual and moral superiority to anyone who disagrees with them.

I suppose I will be attacked for not wanting to see a nuclear war in my lifetime, but if there is a war between the US and Russia, or NATO and Russia, it will probably turn nuclear, or at least that is my estimate. And I'm also sure that the same people who didn't see this invasion of Ukraine (not to mention the previous invasion of Ukraine) will assure everyone that the Russians will never go nuclear. Or something.