Also see the link below for one story on the Buchanan/Putin peacekeepers robbing a bank.
http://www.timesnow.tv/NewsDtls.aspx?NewsID=13690
Buchanan isn’t defending the Russians, he has been predicting how the Russians would respond. And it’s undeniable that PJB was - once again - correct. It was completely foreseeable, and the West’s impotent response was foreseeable, too. Not one Western soldier will be sent to defend Gori or Tbilsi, or wherever.
Here’s PJB’s prescient analysis from earlier this year. It is instructive how far people will go to smear Pat. His was a sober warning:
From PJB’s January 4, 2008 article entitled
Should Americans Die for South Ossetia?
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...to persuade Europe to bring Ukraine and Georgia into NATO, which means a U.S. commitment to treat any Russian attack on Kiev or Tbilisi like an attack on Kansas or Texas.
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Can any sane man believe the United States should go to war with a nuclear-armed Russia over Stalin’s birthplace, Georgia?
Two provinces of Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, have seceded, with the backing of Russia.
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To bring Ukraine and Georgia into NATO would put America in the middle of these quarrels. We could be dragged into a confrontation with Russia over Abkhazia, or South Ossetia, or over who owns Sebastopol. To bring these ex-republics of the Soviet Union into NATO would be an affront to Moscow not unlike 19th century Britain bringing the Confederate state of South Carolina under the protection of the British Empire.
How would Lincoln’s Union have reacted to that?
With a weary army and no NATO ally willing to fight beside us, how could we defend Georgia if Tbilisi, once in NATO, defied Moscow and invaded Abkhazia and South Ossetia – and Russia bombed the Georgian army and capital? Would we declare war? Would we send the 82nd Airborne into the Pankisi Gorge?
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As Anatol Lieven writes in the Financial Times, McCain supports a restoration of Georgian rule over Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and NATO membership for Georgia and Ukraine. He wants to throw Russia out of the G-8 – and talks flippantly of bombing Iran.
Says McCain, “I would institute a policy called ‘rogue state rollback.’ I would arm, train, equip, both from without and from within, forces that would eventually overthrow the governments and install free and democratically elected governments.”
Wonderful. A Second Crusade for Global Democracy. But with the Joint Chiefs warning of a war-weary Army and Marine Corps, who will fight all the new wars the neocons and their new champion have in store for us?
Please put me on your ping! thanks for gettinga Georgia ping started!
Seems to fit the Russian Army rather well. Bank robbers.
They are totally uncivilized.
That is too horrible for words.
Thank you both for the pings.
Thanks, too, for the link, MarMema.