Posted on 04/12/2021 7:26:10 PM PDT by Broker
Our corrupt foreign policy and the left are as, if not far more, responsible for the hostile relationship with Moscow.
We do everything we can to undermine Russia and spends billions and billions to do so. We embrace, support and arm their enemies, even encouraging revolutions like the one in Ukraine in 2014. We intervene in countries like Syria and associate with Muslim jihadists in order to undermine Russia.
We have driven Russia to associate with our enemies even though, domestically, Russia is far more like the United States and Europe. In fact, Russia is pretty close to being the kind of country Ronald Reagan envisioned it could if we would stop trying to cripple it economically.
Poor analogy, Putin is no threat to invade the US, as Hitler was to invade France.
I don’t see Putin or any successor Russian or Chinese invading the U.S. directly, as shown in the first Red Dawn movie. However, the leftist domination of the Federal government and most civil and cultural institutions alienates the sort of men who have fought this nation’s wars from the War for Independence through the Iraq and Afghan conflicts. I don’t believe that the Alvin Yorks, Audie Murphys, Carlos Hathcocks, or Chris Kyles of this generation would respond to the likes of Joe Biden or Kamala Harris calling for a patriotic response if we become involved in Ukraine or Taiwan.
Our enemies are within.
You post crap complaining that Russia aligns with China and other 'adversaries', and seem to be wholly surprised that Russia acts to further its interests, finding other partners when the USA and NATO continue to break promises and militarily push, push, push against their borders.
If the US had kept to Reagan's promise not to expand NATO borders (or even better, had dissolved NATO after the Soviet collapse), the geopolitical scene would be very different.
Imagine if China took over Mexican politics with massive donations, supplies of military weapons, etc. and decided to mass their troops on the US southern border. Do you suppose that the US would simply go "oh well, Mexico is sovereign, there is nothing we can do?".
I theorize that you are stuck in a Cold War mentality, and cannot break out of this thought cycle. Russia is no longer Communist, and it is time to get over it. I've lived in modern Russia, I have property and assets in Russia. This stuff is safer than equivalents would be in the USA. There is no sign of Communism. Lets move on.
Donald Trump slammed President Obama Thursday on TODAY for failing to take a stronger line against President Vladimir Putin in dealing with Ukraine, saying he feared Obama would now make up for lost time with imprudent moves to "show his manhood."
The real estate mogul and reality-TV star, who has criticized Putin for sending military troops into Crimea, said Obama must now take fierce steps to prevent the situation from escalating further.
"We should definitely do sanctions and we have to show some strengths. I mean, Putin has eaten Obama's lunch, therefore our lunch, for a long period of time," Trump said. ..."
http://www.today.com/news/donald-trump-putin-has-eaten-obamas-lunch-ukraine-2D79372098
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Heres the interview w/ Matt Lauer on YouTube...
Donald Trump (2014): Vladimir Putin Has Eaten Obamas Lunch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzURUENf1ns
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2015...
Russia and North Korea declare 2015 a ‘year of friendship’
“The biggest cause for concern is the growing military alliance between Russia and North Korea, with the two regimes recently announcing plans to conduct a series of joint army, navy and air force exercises this year.”
—Julian Ryall, Tokyo - Mar 11, 2015 - The Telegraph
Secessionist Yugoslav Orthodox, Catholic and Muslim factions waged dirty wars against each other, neglecting to first wipe out the 9% of the population that attempted to do away with religion in Yugoslavia, proving the wars were orchestrated and controlled by the communist faction.
interesting...
Just know that I don’t read any of your ‘regurgitated’ lengthy postings regarding Ukraine or Russia , which have time and again been plastered across threads. I have my own resources both historically, politically and current far more reliable and without bias.
Yet again your repeating yourself.
Nothing wrong with a Velvet Divorce, as happened with Czechoslovakia.
The USA is not the only country that is allowed to have alliances and care about their national and economic security. Every time the USA refuses to acknowledge Russian interests and try to negotiate fair compromises, we push them into further relations with the rest of the world.
You also seem to like to pretend that Ukrainians are somehow "good guys". Their government is hopelessly corrupt, filled with opportunists who are willing to do the bidding of anyone who shows up with a bag of money. The world would be a lot safer if Ukraine were under Russian administration. At least you would know that Russian interests would be primary, rather than having someone's wallet in that position.
Historical because you say so? You don’t read ETL’s stuff because it completely dismantles your entire Alt-Right Neo-fascist Putin narrative.
Russia, has no more of a legal claim to Crimea-Ukraine and the Baltic republic; than Mexico does to the Sovereign states, of California Texas and the entire SouthWest region by your logic we should give them all back to Mexico while giving Russia back our Cold War victory.
While we’re at China the South Pacific Islam their pice of the pie etc et. Appeasement for all my question to you nationalist populist there’s a war in your mind man Non-interventionist for whom will you have commerce with if Russia China and all their proxies controls everything?
It's your boy KGB/FSB Putin who's trying to bring back the Soviet era, with his aggressive, expansionist actions in Ukraine and elsewhere. His continual propping up of hard left regimes like Venezuela, Cuba, other Latin American dictatorships, North Korea, Iran. Their huge and increasingly serious military alliance with communist China.
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"the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the [20th] century" -Russian leader Vladimir Putin on the collapse of the Soviet Union...
"World democratic opinion has yet to realize the alarming implications of President Vladimir Putin's State of the Union speech on April 25, 2005, in which he said that the collapse of the Soviet Union represented the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.'..."
"The more I see and read about Mr. Putin, in power since 1999, and his 'managed democracy,' the more apprehensive I become about the future of Russia and the safety of its neighbors.
If Putin believes that the dissolution of the Soviet Union into 15 independent states represents the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century,' then it follows that Putin might well believe he should do something to repair the loss..."
http://web.archive.org/web/20090415000000*/http://www.hooverdigest.org/053/beichman.html
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pftt!
Drop dead, you Putin butt kisser. You’re sick in the head.
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