Hitchens points out that NATO has surrounded the western Russian enclave of Kaliningrad on three sides in recent days pointing out that NATO is making threatening gestures towards the Russians.
While we have to be careful, but Russia is no longer an enemy.
Muslim terrorists are the enemy and we need to fight those together and Russia is willing.
Hitchens has always been an apologist for the Communists, of almost every stripe.
Russia did NOT win WW2 all by itself. If it weren’t for American planes, trains/box cars (8,000 of them), and other equipment, the Red Army would have been more crippled than they were (after Stalin’s purges of the late 30’s and German victories all over Europe/Russia until Stalingrad and Leningrad).
Hitchens loves to forget, on purpose, Soviet aggression against Poland (Ribbentropp-Molotov secret Treaty and Protocols), the killing of anti-communist Poles, Czechs (Masaryk wasn’t learning to fly out his window), Hungary (the illegal seizure of old established German families there, keeping Eastern Germany and E. Berlin, the Baltic (independent states), etc.
No Western European state (except Nazi Germany) ever posed any military threat against the Soviet Union/Russia, not even Ukraine. The seizure of Crimea, Georgia, Ossettia etc, and the eastern part of Ukraine by Russian forces (under Col. Grilka etc) was pure aggression.
Don’t forget the Soviet supplying of the No. Korean Army and their directing of the invasion of So. Korean which led to millions of people being killed or enslaved (See Monat Pavel, LIFE magazine, late 50’s on the hidden role of the USSR in that invasion).
Pat Hitchens reminds me of the Cockburn Politboro of writers, a bunch of lying red bastards who wouldn’t know the truth if it bit them in the balls. I took on one of them on radio many moons ago (I think it was Andrew), and literally destroyed him because all he could do was call people names and spew demonstrable lies.
Communism/Marxism is truly man’s most dangerous form of insanity because it destroys the human mind and replaces it with an ISIS, Khmer Rouge, North Korean, Stalin/Beria mindset of human destruction and blind obedience to lies.
I liked Chris Hitchens. Only met him once but he was one of the more honest of the “Left” writers and thinkers, though I strongly disagreed with him on many issues.
At least Chris Hitchens was a more honest leftist who recognized communist aggression when he saw it (Hungary 56, Czechoslovakia 68) Gadansk shipyards, Poland and even Indochina to some degree.
Junior ain’t so smart or so hot!
There’s still many people out there who will call you a “Putinista” if you simply point out that the agenda of progressive- left, globalist propaganda and fear-mongering against Russia is a political ploy, and extremely dangerous as well
That may be....Russia is not our friend or ally