Posted on 08/20/2023 12:20:54 PM PDT by FarCenter
The Iraq war debacle, the relative (to Bush) restraint of the Obama administration, and the 2016 anti-interventionist campaign of Donald Trump may have seemingly discredited the neo-conservative movement and its personalities, but they have come roaring back.
This new stage in American foreign policy could be characterized as Kaganism: neither Democrat or Republican, but rather a non-partisan 21st century crusade for “liberalism.”
Donald Kagan, the patriarch of Kaganism, followed a similar intellectual trajectory to his colleagues Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz: Marxist academics who transformed into rabid Reaganoid Cold Warriors in response to the Soviet Union’s support for Arab nationalism and anti-Zionism in the 1960s. Donald was quite clearly in the Republican camp, though his children have dropped some of the “right-wing” elements of the neo-conservative doctrine (previously used to mobilize Evangelical Christian voting blocs) and replaced it with a unified American state ideology that is as at home in the Democratic Party as it is in the GOP.
Donald’s sons, the American Enterprise Institute’s Frederick Kagan and the Brookings Institute’s Robert Kagan, were highly influential in the George W. Bush administration through think-tanks such as the Project For A New American Century and the Foreign Policy Initiative, though today they have largely distanced themselves from the GOP following the party’s alienation of Jewish elites through Trumpification.
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As for Donald Kagan, his academic background was as a classicist specializing in the Peloponnesian War, the great conflict between Sparta and Athens and the subject of Thucydides' foundational work of history. Having read both Thucydides and much of Kagan's work I have considerable respect for both.
Alas, I was too young for Vietnam and am too old for Ukraine — and with health issues and bad eyesight to boot.
He was born Donald Kaganov about 500 miles from Kiev and had five uncles.
Anti communism communist now
Just like all of the ukraine
Fighting for dnc Marxism - ‘ diversity ‘
Tis a war we should not be involved in. And don’t bleat NATO. From that perspective, NATO means any country in the general European area.
If you’re gung-ho for it, get over there and fight. If you’re too old, convince your children to go in your stead.
But for God’s sake, stop expecting other people to fight this Euro regional war for you!
Ukrainians are
Just cannon fodder patsy mercenaries
In the dnc brave new world war
the KGB Empire of Russia invaded Ukraine. That’s anti-nationalist. This isn’t about the Democrat policy, except in the minds of those having the Biden equivalent of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Ukraine isn’t Biden or the DNC, regardless of how much Trump and his supporters wish to prove the Leftist lie that Trump is in bed with Putin.
Morphine drip much
Nato is the old germany
Needs to be de nazified again
Diversity is not democracy
It’s fascism - Marxism
The new Hitler axis
Is still anti Jew - Christians
The bolsheviks gifted those russian territories
To ukraine to embrace the communism
That Russia has done way with
Spain barely survived manifest destiny
Dnc Marxism too
Read revelation 13
It explains everything
Morphine drip much
Nato is the old germany
Needs to be de nazified again
Diversity is not democracy
It’s fascism - Marxism
The new Hitler axis
Is still anti Jew - Christians
The bolsheviks gifted those russian territories
To ukraine to embrace the communism
That Russia has done way with
Spain barely survived manifest destiny
Dnc Marxism too
Read revelation 13
It explains everything
Nato is the old germany
The First Reich? NATO is run by the US. You'd have a better case for the EU.
Needs to be de nazified again
Nazis? Neo-Nazis in Europe mostly support Putin. Wagner was names after the Neo-Nazi Utkin's nomme de guerre. The National Bolshevik ideologue Aleksandr Dugin is taught at Russian war colleges.
Diversity is not democracy
It’s fascism - Marxism
Marxism and Fascism are distinct ideologes. It's racial and cultural marxism, which is a tool of Marxists to undermine their enemies.
The new Hitler axis
No. The Nazis were not diversity advocates. You have no understanding of National Socialism
Is still anti Jew - Christians Yes, Cultural Marxism is.
The bolsheviks gifted those russian territories
The Bolsheviks invaded Ukraine in 1919 and committed genocide against Ukraine in the 1930s. Russians in Crimea are colonists. It belongs to the Greeks, Goths, Alans/Ossetians, and Tatars who have loved their for thousands of years. The Bolsheviks committed genocide and cultural genocide against these populations.
As a practical matter, the genocidal Muscovite colonists are a majority and Crimea should go to Russia. it should have occured by vote, not Russia invasion, and ethnic cleansing of remaining Tatars after disappearing their leaders.
To ukraine to embrace the communism Ukraine isn't communist. You also don't understand communism.
That Russia has done way with
With what?
Spain barely survived manifest destiny
What? Now the 19th century US is evil? The only territory the US took from Mexico was Florida, which they had barely colonized. the term "Manifest Destiny" was coined in the 1830s, a decade after the end of New Spain in North America thanks to Mexican Independence. Manifest Destiny targetted Mexican and British territories, as well as the Pre-Columbian neolithic peoples therein.
DNC Marxism has nothing to do with Ukraine. The most left wing Democrats are the least supportive.
3rd way babble
Holy Vatican usa
Pig latin
I studied real Latin. VAtican? I’m Jewish. You don;t understand Naiism, communsism, fascism, and cultural Marxism. I took political theory and can cite primary and secondary sources. Thanks for playing and for proving the adage that conspiracy is the false sophistication of the ignorant.
4th Reich Germany - USA
Want to redo ww2
You’re all in on it
The Soviet Union called the US and West Germany Nazis. You are a heretics spreading literal Soviet propaganda.
Your cult
Can stick pin
Baby dolls
Yes, indeed it did. However, it seems to me that all enemies of communism were called that - just like stroppy six-year-olds calling everybody a „poo-poo head“ who doesn’t agree with them.
:-)
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