Posted on 01/24/2022 12:54:42 PM PST by Hojczyk
The Biden administration wants us to believe that Russia is seeking to regain its former greatness by overthrowing the government of Volodymyr Zelensky and replacing it with a puppet government that it would control. The neocon-dominated establishment in both of our political parties wants us to believe that the Soviet Union still exists and is inherently expansionary.
Just as the nation was sold a hoax about Russia having elected President Donald Trump in 2016, another illusion now is being sold. Do not believe a word of it!
Russia has explained repeatedly it has one core concern — Ukraine being admitted into the NATO military alliance.
Responding to the buildup, a Russian official explained in a Tass article: “We are alarmed by reports some member-countries of NATO have stepped up the deployment of lethal weapons and military personnel to Ukraine.”
And if Ukraine were admitted into NATO, with its strategic location, Russian knows that NATO and the U.S. could place missiles literally on its border, creating an existential threat to Russia.
Let’s put the current conflict into a historical context. If President John Kennedy was justified in risking war to prevent nuclear missiles from being installed in Cuba in 1961, then why exactly is Russian President Vladimir Putin being reckless in risking war to prevent NATO weapons from being installed in Ukraine in 2022? Would any great nation allow the development of such a threat on its border?
With those as the stakes, it would be wise for Biden and Blinken to listen to what Putin is saying and consider why Russia believes its vital national interests are at risk. If the United States has no comparable national interest to that of Russia, that should be the basis for de-escalation.
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The Soviets took casualties equivalent to D-Day every day of the war. Not to mention NKVD executions of “deserters, etc…) that equaled our losses in Vietnam in 1941 alone. They may not be that tough today, but even 10% of that is formidable.
I am thankful to God for your prayers for Scott’s family in Ukraine!
My garndson and wife are next door in Poland.
They’ve been playing with tanks for a few months there.
https://usdefensestory.com/u-s-soldiers-prepare-tanks-for-exercise-in-poland/
“I do believe we should at least insist on truth in the world media. ( wishful thinking)”.
We should at least insist on observation of the Budapest accord, where Russia promised no incursion.
Ukraine gave up its immense nuclear missile capability with the promise at Budapest that its borders were inviolable.
Crimesa’s 2014 loss to Russia should never have happened. That was an Obamanation.
The West can always stop Russia at Hungary or Poland /
No, I made it perfectly clear, this is NOT our concern. You can try and twist this into something else but I don’t blame the Russians a damned bit just as I would expect our leadership to respond to foreign mobilization in Mexico or Canada as Russia seems to be doing in Ukraine.
Stalin. That is most certainly true. And the memory of it is burned into the psyche of every person of Ukrainian extraction I've ever known. Being partly Irish, I can relate it to how some view 800 years of Norman English domination of their neighbor.
But the point I think you made in sarcasm is accurate, i.e., what the destruction of the Kulaks and so many others shows about the importance of the Ukraine to Russian national interests. Question is whether potentially going to war over it is in our national interest or just in the financial interests of the Biden family and others?
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