Posted on 01/24/2022 4:34:09 AM PST by MtnClimber
Those who are too addled to remember or understand the past may doom us all to repeat it.
For those who pay attention to history, it’s completely unnerving watching Joe Biden seemingly plan to drag America into a war in and over Ukraine. The great powers’ focus on this little country is eerily reminiscent of the start of WWI, a war that laid the groundwork for everything wrong with the last 108 years of Western history.
Ukraine, a small, corrupt country on Russia’s southeastern edges, was once part of the former Soviet Union. For reasons that make absolutely no sense, the U.S. is determined to see Ukraine join NATO, although NATO is less thrilled about that given Ukraine’s corruption and the fact that it does nothing to help defend Europe against Russia (which, after all, was the point of NATO).
Meanwhile, Putin is absolutely horrified at the thought of Ukraine joining NATO because that means he has a putatively hostile country sitting immediately on his border—and, worse, potentially affecting his access to the all-important warm water port that is the Black Sea (which leads to the Bosporus and from there, eventually, to the Mediterranean). That’s why Putin is making such a big show of massing troops on Ukraine’s border.
It's unlikely that this would have happened on Trump’s watch, for he never would have let matters get to this point. True to his credo, he would have figured out a deal that would have allowed all parties to maintain face and defuse the situation on the border.
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We'd all either be dead or in our bunker. Hillary wanted a nuclear war with Russia over ....... Syria! Thank Goodness for Trump.
yep!
If you look at Russian history since the time of Napoleon, Russia has good reason to be paranoid.
Excellent observation on the parallels of interbred monarchies and today’s “aristocracies”. I had similar thoughts when writing my post so I’m glad you jumped in with the way you’ve stated it, especially the part about our progeny.
As some wag once observed: “History doesn’t necessarily repeat itself but it does rhyme quite often.” Here’s hoping the wag is incorrect this time.
I can’t think of anything that would break up NATO faster than Bidet going to war in Ukraine and expecting all of Europe to follow.
Was that ever ratified by the Senate?
Break out the thermite grenades, boys...we got some marshmallows to toast...
Me too, but then I started thinking about oil and how the Saudis only except payment in dollars. Petrodollars is why the US went to war with Iraq. Saddam was stupid thinking the Saudi would not call in the USA.
Go back further !
1. Crusades by the German Catholic military monastic order - Teutonic Knights against Russian Orthodox Christians,
2. Mongol invasions,
3. Western (Catholic) interference in Rusian dynastic issues - roughly 1600s (see ‘Time of Troubles’).
4. Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (again viewed as Western Catholic anti-Orhtodox interference) occupied much of Ukraine.
I’ve left a lot out !
I think Xiden is posturing. I don’t know if Putin is or not but I think Xiden is. If Putin decides to go in he goes in and a few battalions here or there isn’t going to change a thing.
I have noticed that the last two years FR has been infested with new members, many that are those that belong on Dummy Underground, and now that Biden is going to involve us in another war, some of those new freepers are pro war.
That's because in your limited experience and narrow world view, you've never had a son that sat on the board of Burisma.
That's nonsense. It was called the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union because of all the countries that were invaded by Russians. The only countries that have a good reason to be paranoid are neighbors of Putin.
Ask Bill Clinton. He was behind this!
Anyone else remember when Clinton was in trouble he declared war against Serbia?
So he dropped a bunch of bombs on them, left and that began 10 years of chaos in the region.
Much of it still hasn’t returned to normal.
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