Posted on 10/29/2022 12:25:50 PM PDT by Vlad0
Of the Vietnam War, Henry Kissinger, former national security advisor and secretary of State under Presidents Nixon and Ford, said, “We should never have been there.” Before long, Americans, even the politicians inside the Beltway, will reach the same conclusion about Washington’s Ukrainian proxy war against Russia.
No one in the White House, the Senate, or the House consciously set out to turn the proxy Ukrainian war with Moscow into a contest of “competitive societal collapse” between Russia and NATO. But here we are. No one imagined that the Biden administration and the bipartisan war party would drive Americans and Europeans into a political, military, and economic valley of death, from which there is no easy escape. Yet that is precisely what is happening.
For the moment, Washington remains blind to these developments. Whether in print, radio, television, or online, the narrative is clear: despite horrific losses—at least 400,000 Ukrainian battlefield casualties including 100,000 soldiers killed in action—Ukrainian forces are winning. Moreover, the narrative says, America’s financial and economic dominance will ultimately overwhelm the deceptively weak Russian economy.
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I beg to disagree. There are bunches that favor and relish war. They don't have to fight it. They only profit from it.
One Word: C O N F L A G R A T I O N
Oh. This is McGregor...
Why?
Putin seems to be going defeated on cheap!
I have assembled this list without preference to orientation, both pro-Ukraine and anti-Ukraine factions.
Let's surprise ourselves and try to discuss the article and the issues it raises, and avoid ad-hominem attacks on those you disagree with. I know this is hard and that this is a very contentious issue.
Just this once, to see if we can do it, OK!
Special Incentive: If we can I'll reward everyone with a free-for-all thread tomorrow!
Note on Source: The American Conservative, frequently referred to as TAC by readers, was founded by Pat Buchanan, Scott McConnell and Taki Theodoracopulos in 2002 to oppose the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan which the main "Conservative" outlets were all pimping for, having been taken over by, or created by, Neocons. (National Review, The Weekly Standard, Commentary, etc.)
At the time many of the founding writers at National Review had already been "purged" by National Review under Buckley for divergence from his credo. These included not only Pat Buchanan by the great Sam Francis and many others.
The ownership and editorship of TAC has changed, but they maintain their identity as a paleo-conservative outlet.
“No one in the White House, the Senate, or the House consciously set out to turn the proxy Ukrainian war with Moscow into a contest of “competitive societal collapse” between Russia and NATO. But here we are”
Actually, that was exactly and precisely the plan.
Did you read the article?
Thanks for reposting the same links that have already been spammed on 20 other Free Republic threads!
That’s tight!
Yet there is also a measure of “true faith” at work, a condition of national narcissism, inside the Beltway that believes Washington can control what happens thousands of miles away in Eastern Ukraine. The message resonates in Congress because it rests on a critical strategic assumption that American citizens have yet to challenge: that American national power is limitless and unconstrained—as though a series of strategic failures, from Vietnam to Afghanistan, never happened.
'nuff said.
“Who isn’t evil?”
Its hard to tell in international relations.
After seeing that the piece was written by Douglas Macgregor, it was obvious that the thread needed some interesting real news about the topic of the Russian invasion in Ukraine.
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