Vladimir Putin and the Monroe Doctrine

WND ^ | February 19, 2024 | Scott Lively

[Jan_Sobieski]

As we approach the second anniversary of the NATO-provoked Russian military invasion of Ukraine, and the world is finally getting to hear Russia's side of the story thanks to the courageous journalist Tucker Carlson, I would like to republish my article of March 23, 2022, that might have saved us all from two years of war propaganda and social manipulation had it gotten that kind of exposure and had conservatives adopted its quintessentially American talking points.

Why? First, because it summarizes the history and reasoning of our own Monroe Doctrine as the most logical basis for comparing Russia's demands, and second, because it links to Vladimir Putin's "Empire of Lies" speech on the night of the invasion – explaining in his own words why Russia had no choice but to take military action in Ukraine, citing specific, systematic and factually verifiable U.S. and NATO provocations.

In 1823, when the emperor of Tzarist Russia invited the United States to negotiate a resolution of contested coastal lands along the northwest of the North American continent, President James Monroe responded with a proclamation in an address to Congress that would forever-after be called the Monroe Doctrine. In his own words, he said that when "the rights and interests of the United States are involved … the American continents … are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.

We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety..."

[Jan_Sobieski]

Were you the one that posted Major General Smedley Darlington Butler’s book, “War is a Racket”, that blew the whistle on US Military Interventionism prior to WW2?

[dfwgator]

It wasn’t me.

[Jan_Sobieski]

👍

[Vermont Lt]

“ As we approach the second anniversary of the NATO-provoked Russian military invasion of Ukraine, and the world is finally getting to hear Russia’s side of the story thanks to the courageous journalist Tucker Carlson,…”
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Not a comment on the content of this article, but this reads like it was written in the Kremlin in 1956.

It’s difficult to read such stuff and take it seriously. Clearly, this was translated from some language that uses far too many modifiers.

[TigersEye]

To put it in simpler terms, it was a giant ‘pissing contest’.

Well put.

Both sides had reasons to distrust the other from the start, both sides played deadly games of provocation with the other and neither side wanted the all out war they were both using as the ultimate intimidation tactic.

Both sides indulged in lots of hatred, paranoia and stupidity.
Thankfully neither side committed the ultimate act of insanity.

[TigersEye]

... this reads like it was written in the Kremlin in 1956. It’s difficult to read such stuff and take it seriously.

That's why no one (else) commented on it.