Posted on 03/24/2023 4:11:23 AM PDT by FarCenter
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Writing in 1950, as American grand strategy began to cohere around the Cold War challenge presented by the Soviet Union, US State Department official Paul Nitze explained the period of upheaval that defined his generation’s experience of international affairs:
"Within the past thirty-five years the world has experienced two global wars of tremendous violence. It has witnessed two revolutions – the Russian and Chinese – of extreme scope and intensity. It has also seen the collapse of five empires – the Ottoman, the Austro-Hungarian, German, Italian, and Japanese – and the drastic decline of two major imperial systems, the British and the French."
Nitze, the architect of one of the Cold War’s primary strategy documents, NSC-68, observed a world in which “the international distribution of power has been fundamentally altered.”
Among the reasons for that alteration and upheaval were the two revolutions he wisely acknowledged, the Russian and Chinese. Two revolutions whose consequences, we should now recognize, have not fully ended.
We should remind ourselves that 21st-century Russia and China – and the leaders that run them – are products of the original Russian and Chinese revolutions that Nitze understood would shape the history and geopolitics of his lifetime. Xi and Putin, as products of these revolutions, are also heirs to their anti-Western ideas and strategies of confrontation.
As American spymaster Jack Devine points out, Putin’s career took shape in Dresden, East Germany, ensconced in the Warsaw Pact world and he has called the Soviet empire’s collapse “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.”
Now, as chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi is heir to what the party calls “the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation”, a project of national revival that originated with Mao’s “New China” and has continued on in various forms since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949.
Xi’s China seeks confrontation with the US and the establishment of a new order with China to “take center stage in the world.” In this endeavor, Putin’s Russia is Xi’s chief collaborator and “strategic partner.”
This is the biggest geopolitical blunder of the 21st century, the American regime completely burnt all goodwill it had in Russia by trying to treat it as a conquered nation and now the China-Russia split is completely mended.
None of this would be happening if NATO had been dissolved in 1995.
Sure, and then Reagan's success would have been overturned and a new Iron Curtain would have descended over eastern Europe.
After the fall of the USSR there was a golden opportunity for stablity in Europe. What did the Clintoon Goons and the globalist Bushie wing of the GOP do? The worse possible thing; not only did they not get rid of NATO they expanded it!!! Were you even alive in 1995? Those "bad" decisions were all about the $$$ and defense spending...
You put your faith in Biden like a good little cuck and now all your little hopes and dreams are blowing up in your face.
During the Cold War other countries positioned themselves somewhere between the US and the USSR depending on the relative strengths of attraction and repulsion with each superpower.
The NeoCons thought that once the USSR was removed, all the other countries would move towards the US. This ignored the strength of repulsion with respect to the US and took for granted that other countries would only be attracted to us.
However, in many other countries, large factions are repelled by the US. Thus, once they were no longer repelled by the USSR, they moved away, rather than toward the US.
The obvious case is Islamic countries, which are repelled by US moral and social attitudes. But the principle also applies in other countries, such as Latin America which have long had a strong “Yankee, go home” faction.
Lack of stability in Europe is NOT because of NATO, but because Putin's Russia has not lost its imperial expansionist ambitions. Why is Finland joining NATO? They understand that Putin has violated international agreements regarding borders, and therefore cannot be ever trusted.
LOL.
LOL.
Sure, let's not ask why NATO is so popular. Also, why neither Austria nor Switzerland are concerned by being surrounded by this "hostile, aggressive alliance" and seeking protection from it.
Credit Suisse, UBS Among Banks in DOJ Russia-Sanctions Probe
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-23/credit-suisse-ubs-among-banks-facing-doj-russia-sanctions-probe
Thanks you idiot neocons!
Natural outcome when you poke eyes of bear and dragon
BBB. BBB. Build back better, by Biden and Blinken.
So I guess a better policy is appeasement. Surrender eastern Europe, and Asia/Taiwan. Better future?
You can’t make this up?
Japan didn’t trust the Germans. With Siberia underdeveloped Russia should be worried-built in angst.
We took out Saddam and the Shiites(Iran) benefitted.
Just think of all the labor Europe gained when Hillary took out Khadafy.
Why can’t we just take a $hit like Castro did with the Mariel boat lift. Mexico’s doing it by sending in ‘not their best’.
Yes, but we have to deal with thier mistake, and the World as it is now.
Yes, a direct result of the weakening of the USA by its fifth column of "woke" useful idiots, serving the cabal whose objective is the destruction of the USA from within.
The cabal is right on track.
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