The world was happily willing to enter into trade agreements with Russia. Unfortunately, Russia could not contain its imperial ambition.
a nation that just recently thwarted Communism
Russia did not "thwart" communism, Reagan forced it to the economic breaking point with an arms race.
shared hostility of both US and EU leadership towards Eastern european countries who resist the march towards enforcing woke
Poland is an example of a more Christian country than Russia that resists being woke. There is NO great hostility to it from the US. Why?
And for those of you who are still snoozing away, Putin is a villain
Yes, Putin is a villain for unleashing an unprovoked invasion on its Christian neighbor in order to annex territory which unleashed massive misery, destruction and death.
Can't understand how any Christian can find that admirable.
Poland’s Conservative Law & Justice party are the dominant force in Polish politics.
Go do a search for articles about them. They’re full of handwringing, and negative comparisons to other Eastern European “neo fascist” movements.
You cherry pick Poland, because their leaders have made more of an effort than other Eastern European countries to strike a balance between staying in the good graces of the EU and not alienating their own citizens.
But the rhetoric directed towards Poland’s dominant political Conservativism is full of the same secularist name calling and dire warnings that are applied to the rest of Eastern Europe.
On the other hand, Western journalists and plenty of Western political operatives are full of praise for the CCP.
The friendliness towards China and hostility towards Eastern European Christian nationalism go hand in hand for Western elites.
But go ahead and make believe this dynamic doesn’t exist. Make believe it doesn’t play into the Western elite’s long term geopolitical strategies. Keep looking for any little exceptions to the rule you can find to deny it’s existence.
And keep ignoring the fact the the Wolfowitz doctrine of “weaken Russia” was drawn up immediately after the fall of the Iron Curtain.
And while Reagan’s policies helped to weaken the USSR, the Russian people ultimately rose up to create a bloodless coup. And if Reagan’s policies worked so well, why weren’t the same policies applied to China?
Because the Western elites hated Reagan as much as they hate Eastern European Christian nationalism. American politicians and journalists absolutely loathed having to pretend they were happy about the fall of the Berlin Wall.
And it’s this sentiment that inspired our leaders to want to keep Russia and the rest of Eastern Europe as far away from each other as possible, right from the moment the Russian people danced in the streets with Boris Yeltsin in 1993.