Posted on 02/22/2022 12:22:30 PM PST by RandFan
I’m a hell of a lot more worried about what Trudeau is doing right now than Putin.
The reason Nordstream 2 was built in the first place was to avoid Ukrainian theft and corrupt DC scions demanding gold plated featherbed jobs.
WHY?............
Wonder how many of them are combat veterans...
All throughout the Cold War America was extremely careful not to directly challenge the Soviet Union and they were equally careful not to directly challenge the US. The few incidents that did take place, like the Cuban Missile Crisis were mistakes due to poor signaling on both parts and could have had shattering consequences. Then we “won” the Cold War and since then the Left in particular has acted as if it was okay to use Russia as a whipping boy...a distraction from domestic issues. So far there haven’t been any serious consequences and there won’t be...unitil there are. Then it will be too late. It used to be both political parties had adults who could separate domestic politics from the world stage. Now both parties feel emboldened by America’s supposed might. But the “peace dividend” eliminated a lot of America’s advantages because it seemed as though we didn’t need a sonobuoys all over the planet and a special division of the military to exclusively handle our nuclear weapons. But we need to act as though Russia is still dangerous because as it gets weaker it gets more desperate to be seen and treated as an “equal.” The new nuclear powered drone submarine with the largest nuclear bomb ever built is not a weapon deployed by a confident power. It’s a doomsday weapon deployed because they feel too weak to keep America at bay.
As far as how to handle the current problems, I have zero confidence in America’s current political class. Because of that I think we should leave it to Europe.
Send Victoria Nuland to Ukraine to fix the problem
Notice how Trump had the situation under control? Putin had the stability of knowing his border with Ukraine was not going to be screwed around with by the imbeciles now leading the west. He also knew, with certainty, that Trump would cut his economic throat if he tried this. The threat of Trumpian tariffs and sanctions and an increase in the flood of American oil pacified the Russians. Of course, our new regime pi$$ed all that capability away.
Interestingly, I posted the image Meme without comment, (no text whatsoever).
True.
Darn that Putin, using Evil Capitalist and Free Market tactics against those Noble Marxist Democrat Protectors of even more Noble Maidan Color Socialist Revolutions!
“However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbor, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in war simply on her account. If we have to fight it must be on larger issues than that. I am myself a man of peace to the depths of my soul. Armed conflict between nations is a nightmare to me; but if I were convinced that any nation had made up its mind to dominate the world by fear of its force, I should feel that it must be resisted. Under such a domination life for people who believe in liberty would not be worth living; but war is a fearful thing, and we must be very clear, before we embark upon it, that it is really the great issues that are at stake, and that the call to risk everything in their defense, when all the consequences are weighed, is irresistible.” - Neville Chamberlain 1939
Well, who woulda guessed? Biden is as good at defending Ukraine’s borders as he is with America’s!
Many people think that the best way to escape war is to dwell upon its horrors and to imprint them vividly upon the minds of the younger generation. They flaunt the grisly photograph before their eyes. They fill their ears with tales of carnage. They dilate upon the ineptitude of generals and admirals. They denounce the crime as insensate folly of human strife. Now, all this teaching ought to be very useful in preventing us from attacking or invading any other country, if anyone outside a madhouse wished to do so, but how would it help us if we were attacked or invaded ourselves that is the question we have to ask.
Would the invaders consent to hear Lord Beaverbrook’s exposition, or listen to the impassioned appeals of Mr. Lloyd George? Would they agree to meet that famous South African, General Smuts, and have their inferiority complex removed in friendly, reasonable debate? I doubt it. I have borne responsibility for the safety of this country in grievous times. I gravely doubt it.
But even if they did, I am not so sure we should convince them, and persuade them to go back quietly home. They might say, it seems to me, “you are rich; we are poor. You seem well fed; we are hungry. You have been victorious; we have been defeated. You have valuable colonies; we have none. You have your navy; where is ours? You have had the past; let us have the future.” Above all, I fear they would say, “you are weak and we are strong.”
After all, my friends, only a few hours away by air there dwell a nation of nearly seventy millions of the most educated, industrious, scientific, disciplined people in the world, who are being taught from childhood to think of war as a glorious exercise and death in battle as the noblest fate for man.
There is a nation which has abandoned all its liberties in order to augment its collective strength. There is a nation which, with all its strength and virtue, is in the grip of a group of ruthless men, preaching a gospel of intolerance and racial pride, unrestrained by law, by parliament, or by public opinion. In that country all pacifist speeches, all morbid war books are forbidden or suppressed, and their authors rigorously imprisoned. From their new table of commandments they have omitted “thou shall not kill.”
It is but twenty years since these neighbours of ours fought almost the whole world, and almost defeated them. Now they are rearming with the utmost speed, and ready to their hands is the new lamentable weapon of the air, against which our navy is -no defence, and before which women and children, the weak and frail, the pacifist and the jingo, the warrior and the civilian, the front line trenches and the cottage home, all lie in equal and impartial peril.
Nay, worse still, for with the new weapon has come a new method, or rather has come back the most British method of ancient barbarism, namely, the possibility of compelling the submission of nations by terrorizing their civil population; and, worst of all, the more civilized the country is, the larger and more splendid its cities, the more intricate the structure of its civil and economic life, the more is it vulnerable and at the mercy of those who may make it their prey.
Now, these are facts, hard, grim, indisputable facts, and in the face of these facts, I ask again, what are we to do?
-Winston Churchill 11/16/1934
No. No. Yes.
It's because the Czar was mean to the neocons' ancestors.
That was certainly the Russian view of events. But I’m not sure they are exactly an unbiased party.
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