Posted on 04/08/2023 11:04:06 AM PDT by Chode
I focussed on major wars. So sad Our country does not learn from history. We need to stop playing world police. We can’t afford it, plain and simple. Protect our own borders before protecting Ukraine’S borders.
Pretty sure it’s accurate that European borders moved back and forth for more than a 1000 years ..
How is that mot accurate? You may disagree with the context but the statement is accurate.
You thought the relevant part of that post 8 and the purpose for making it was the mention that European borders have changed over time?
This is an interesting video. I’ve not heard the author before and only listened to about 10 minutes of the video. I will listen to the entire video later, though.
From what I heard in the first 10 minutes, I tend to believe the author’s assessment seems accurate. He explained the why - not if the phenomena of a large NATO is a good thing or a bad thing. The latter part is where I get to chime in.
NATO is setting us up for WWIII. If we want peace in the world, we should not have doubled the size of NATO in the last 20 years. That’s the bottom line.
The hard facts in the world point to a new world order in our future. In the period from 1945 until the early 2000s (roughly 60 years), the USA achieved many great things, and we were clearly the hegemonic leaders of the world.
That has all changed (and is changing) for several reasons.
1. Global competition — primarily economic and demographic competition from China and the Asian countries. The world power is moving from east to west. Early on, it was Europe to America, and now it is America to Asia.
2. The growth, maturity, and sophistication of developing countries (China, Brazil, Mexico, India, Africa, Middle East, etc.) that represent the majority of the world’s population.
3. Blowback from our abuse of power in forcing our views of how independent countries should be run — including clandestine and direct military actions around the world if they do not comply. That includes invasions of Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, and the like. It also includes deep-state invasions of countries via color revolutions like Ukraine, Arab Spring, Venezuela, and other sovereign countries. An invasion is an invasion, whether clandestine (color revolutions) or direct military action. They are the same in the eyes of the recipient.
It is the latter that has energized those on the receiving end of these actions and those who see the handwriting on the wall to take action. That action includes organizations like BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and the recent movement to de-dollarize the world by some of these same groups (which will be a devastating blow to us).
In other words, just like NATO exist as a group to protect the individual interest of the member sountries, so too are these new challengers doing exactly the same. That is, joining as a group to defend and protect themselves.
If we had real leaders, they would recognize the world has changed and develop strategies to deal with these changes with dialog and discussions and NOT direct kinetic and aggressive attacks. Those attacks are achieving just the opposite of what they hope to achieve. In other words, we are seeing confrontation and blowback that may easily end with WWIII!
We are forcing the challengers to accept our way or the highway, and they’re choosing the “highway!”
Our so-called leaders believe they can bully the rest of the world just as they bully those of us in this country. Initiatives like ramrodding transgender and LGBQTXYZ lifestyles down our throats (including our children’s), vaccine mandates, deep state election theft (that was learned from years of doing the same outside the US), thought control, gun control, and free speech control(censorship, i.e.) and defunding police.
So while we sit back and take these demented abuses from our leaders, it is obvious the rest of the world WILL NOT accept them — and they are doing something about it!
This will not end well!
You guys are making a mistake that I made here once by not paying attention.
It is Cavalry as in Reagan, not Calvary as in Jesus.
Unfortunately for me, it was a very long thread so of course the corrections went on and on.
You tell me what was relevant. You wrote the post. Was it the part about American intervention? We have been around 244 years I don’t understand how that’s not accurate.
For more than 100 years of European history, the fight over Europe’s borders has taken 100s of thousands of American lives.
Your wording leaves that out and implies you mean the last 1000 years and that we haven’t been dragged into their border wars before now.
Interesting you should mention the two world wars.
The first was a good example of a war which the USA should never have involved itself in, and in my opinion, our involvement in only made these worse in Europe over the subsequent decades.
The second, of course, we had no choice after Japan’s sneak attack on December 7, 1941, and Germany’s declaration of war on December 11, 1941.
European wars are dangerous for all living things.
Thanks, I should have known being in an Airborne Cavalry Squadron way back when. However, with this being Easter, Calvary is on my mind.
thx
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“ It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world - George Washington”
And if Russia ever becomes a peaceful country there will no longer be a need for NATO and NATO will be dissolved by its members.
Lord haste the day!
I’d rather America became a peaceful nation
Isolation was a good strategy for a remote new country with a small population and vast potential. It does not work though when that country has grown to become a global power.
You misspelled "UNDERMINE".....
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