Posted on 01/25/2022 1:13:58 PM PST by Signalman
Many conservatives these days are channeling Neville Chamberlain, the former UK Prime Minister whose failure to stand up to Hitler helped bring on World War II, often recycling the arguments for appeasement that he used to undermine British preparedness and hasten Nazi aggression.
Particularly among conservative cable commentators, the legacy of Ronald Reagan is being trashed by a new kind of isolationism. Largely spearheaded by Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson, the case for letting Putin help himself to Ukraine is growing, shattering the national security consensus that has dominated the right for seventy years. At the same time, the modern “useful idiots” that have always enabled authoritarian regimes to sap the will and resolve of defenders of freedom are hard at work.
Here’s what they are saying:
1. “It’s not our fight.” This chyron, recently displayed on the TV screens of America, even on conservative news channels, is as misleading as it is dangerous. Did not Pearl Harbor and 9/11 teach us anything? Can any true conservative maintain that when Russia or China take another step to subjugate tens of millions of people, taking away their freedom, that this is somehow “not our fight?” Whether the challenge comes in Ukraine or in Taiwan, the battle is the same and the imperative for free nations to unite and stand up to repression is the same. The fifty million people whose human freedoms are in peril in Ukraine and the twenty-three million at risk in Taiwan do not want to fall under the sway of Moscow or Beijing and the US must stand with them.
2. “We don’t want another war.” No sane person can possibly advocate that the US battle Russian troops on their own border six thousand miles away. But those who cower before that specter are knowingly misleading us. Nobody is proposing anything of the sort. Economic sanctions and a US oil embargo against Russian petroleum and gas would be a significant blow to their economy. Russia sells the US about 25,000 barrels per month, making it the third largest source of foreign oil after Canada and Mexico. Cancelling the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, a position embraced by the Germany foreign ministry and the EU (but not by Biden) would be the most effective thing we can do.
3. “Putin is right.” Some apologists for Putin even say that he is right to fear Ukrainian membership in NATO and liken it to what we would say if Mexico allied with Russia. But the comparison is specious. NATO is a purely defensive alliance, obliging its members to fight only if one of their number is invaded. We are not planning to invade Mexico, so a parallel treaty would never come into play. Remember that when Hitler marched into the Rhineland, shattering the Treaty of Versailles, Lord Lothian, the appeasement-minded UK ambassador to the US said that he had merely walked into “his own backyard.” Soon he was marching into France.
4. “Russia just wants to extend its sphere of influence.” To the diplomat, the Russian threat to Ukraine is a move on a global chessboard. But to fifty million freedom-loving Christians, it is a very personal threat: That their rights and liberties will be extinguished.
5. “Why worry about the Ukraine border when our own is being violated?” The argument that domestic priorities can blind us to a major erosion of American power is an old one, usually parroted by the left. But now conservatives have taken up the chorus. Defending global freedom and securing our own borders are hardly mutually exclusive.
6. “We must not be the policeman of the world”. Yes, but we do have to defend our vital national security interests and stopping Russian and Chinese aggression is paramount.
Still not worth planting one of my son’s over...
COMPLETELY MISSES THE POINT.
Biden is an incompetent national security risk. Everything he has done is signal to Russia the green light.
Trump’s policies were a not-so-quiet version of the walk quietly and carry a big stick philosophy. Not only did Trump grow the metaphorical stick, but his warnings were never treated as bluffs.
<< Defending global freedom and securing our own borders are hardly mutually exclusive. >>
That’s not the way it’s played out on either front, Dick.
Morrins is ill informed. He is ignorant. His attitudes express the overblown rhetoric of a pompous ass. This is one of the last 2 jerks anyone should listen to. The other one is his old boss.
Dick, stop being a Dick.
The time to fight is when we are prepared. The weakness and vacillation of the left has left us woefully unprepared. Thanks to the left, we have a woke, sissified, woefully ineffective armed forces.
The time to fight is when we have our allies firmly behind us, and our enemies are in disarray. Thanks to Biden and the left, our allies—especially Germany—are not behind us. And you can bet that if fighting breaks out in the Ukraine, China will be attacking Taiwan as soon as we are committed. We can’t handle both fights at once.
We should fight on time and ground of our choosing. Putin has maneuvered us to fight, if that is his intention, on time and ground of his choosing.
Britain almost lost to Germany. But for the huge economic power “across the pond,” it in fact likely would have lost. What other superpower is there to back us up?
Ukraine DOES NOT BELONG IN NATO.
Period.
If war is to be avoided, it’s because Germany will lead the way to keep Ukraine out of NATO. Biden has clearly shown his weakness and stupidity for all the world to see. Europe will continue to ignore him. Thank God.
Dick Morris’ puff piece is all about himself. No common sense.
Morris misses one reason for not getting involved: There is nothing we can really do about Putin taking eastern Ukraine - nothing unless we want to start a horrible war that might go nuclear.
This situation is quite different from the Chamberlain vs. Hitler 1938 situation. Back then France had a huge army on Germany’s border. The UK and France could have crushed Hitler had they chose so. Tragically, they chose not to.
I would not bet for our gender bender woke military to beat the Bahamas girls soccer team. We want to fight Russia?
He should go back to sucking toes.
And, make no mistake whose implementing the policy -- the far left lead by Tony Blinken and George Soros along with the neo-con globalists.
Was this ever ratified by The Senate? If not, it is not binding.
Try telling that to Russia, even to this day. Honestly they probably see us as only once removed from Germany, what with our propensity to go shoot something up just for fun just when it's politically expedient. Difference is that Germany has a comparatively short drive to Russia.
Tucker is right on. Sick Morris, the 1980s called and said they want their Foreign Policy back!
What a Dick.
Go suck on a toe, Dick.
It truly is not our fight but we should arm them up as a consolidation for them giving up their nukes on the promise that we would defend them.
Our war is within our borders and is with the communist deep state. It is being wagged against us right now, as we peacefully watch. Law is the weapon of choice against us. This is the failure of the second amendment, conservative gun owners are the most law abiding amoungst us. We play by the constitution, they despise it. I have no solution, just an observation.
Toe Sucker strikes again???
Dick(head) Morris? ‘Nuff said. We should ask Debka Files for their input.
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