Comparing Putin and Russia to Sauron and Mordor is a good analogy.
I can understand Buchanan and Paul cautioning us not to rush to fight another war but they miss the fact Russia is already at war and we are Russia’s target.
Their defense of Russia as the victim and Ukraine as the aggressor is delusional. I don’t take either of them to be stupid though so they have no honor in knowingly lying about the facts of just what is going on.
Paul has always said liberty is the most important value but he is outspokenly against anyone else’s liberty such as the Ukrainians. How do they imagine we will remain free and prosperous when the rest of he world is overrun by the Russians and Jihdists?
“but he is outspokenly against anyone else’s liberty such as the Ukrainians.”
My posting history clearly shows I’m no Paulastinean, but he has said that we shouldn’t be INVOLVED in Ukraine.
He has not spoken out against anyone’s liberty.
This kind of hyperbolic BS is exactly why we are, where we are today.
If (God forbid), Russia takes (or re-takes as the case may be ) Ukraine, does anyone think they’re going to stop at that?
Moldova, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, etc. are all there for the taking. We’re practically going to go back to the map of the cold war.
BTW, I wonder how Buchanan felt working under Reagan as his communications director, who does not think like him in terms of foreign policy...
I’m certain he couldn’t be the one who helped to draft the historic “Tear Down This Wall” speech.