Posted on 06/10/2023 9:47:01 AM PDT by Kazan
This Washington, D.C. establishment is dedicated to maintaining the posture of Cold War relationships and interpretations. Why? Because even though the “Establishment” is often deemed conservative, in reality it is not -- its members are inward looking, progressive in their self-interests, and casually opportunistic. They will do anything if it perpetuates their careers, and provides security to them professionally and personally. That means that enemies must be constantly created and maintained because fear and uncertainty are their currency.
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America and Russia could be allies and natural business partners, or at least stable competitors. But the Cold War mentality of the Establishment in Washington makes a living off fighting, fear, and friction. It also of course represents U.S. corporations and other interests that see Russia as a natural resource prize; that was largely the excitement of 1990 during Glasnost: Western interests could grab Russia’s prized resources in minerals, oil, gas, agriculture, and certain engineering and manufacturing, and engage in an effective hostile takeover. Trump wasn't immune to some of these interests either, but his overall approach was engagement, and instead the U.S. is following a dangerous path of ignorance and escalation.
Trump was actually a peace president, including in his correct understanding of the dangers of a nuclear-armed Iran. The Biden administration is by contrast, going down a dead-end policy path, facilitating a three-pronged global risk consisting of support for radical Islam, a superpower conflict with Russia, and U.S. domestic civil war. None of these would have existed or existed in the same manner and to the same degree under a Trump presidency.
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“Conservative” has become the go-to buzz word for the neocons posers. Just like they used it to describe open border globalist Bush, over and over.
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RUSSIAN FEDERATION PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN 🇷🇺
Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin saved his nation from the impending cataclysm in which it surely would have suffered. He took over a broken nation being led down a dark path by a bumbling drunk, Boris Yeltsin. I believe that Vladimir Putin was sent to the Russian people by providence. If Putin had not taken over leadership on May 7, 2000, the West would have been able to fulfill their longtime dream of raiding Russia, which they have had designs on since 1917. They would have caused upheaval all throughout Russia, which would have been an instant replay of what happened to the Soviet Union in 1991 and Yugoslavia in 1992. The West did actually make two attempts with the uprisings and horrific civil conflicts in Chechnya and Dagestan. Fortunately at a high human cost, Russia was able to put these CIA funded insurgencies down. The Russian Federation would have been split up into 4 to 5 different nations with the West drawing the borders like many times before in Palestine, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, not the inhabitants. The bandits of the West would have raided these weakling Russian states for every natural resource in which they possessed.
After 21 years of Vladimir Putin observing the United States and NATO surround his nation with the NATO military alliance, utterly decimate the Middle East and North Africa, and not be held accountable for a single war crime by the crooked ICC or UN, he clearly seen the writing on the wall. Western Ukraine has had a Fascist following bread into their population since the days of Adolf Hitler, but Banderite Nazism was infesting more and more of Ukrainian society. Then the CIA overthrow of the legitimate President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych in 2014, and the abuse of the Russian leaning Eastern Ukrainians following that was a bridge too far for Putin. Eight years of being deceived by Ukraine, Germany, France, and the European Union with the Minsk Agreements to negotiate peace in Eastern Ukraine was the straw which finally broke the camel’s back.
On February 24, 2022, at a decisive moment in history of fight, or flight, Vladimir Putin, the brave soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces, and the Slavic peoples of Russia took on the degenerate West. I TOTALLY support the Russian Federation’s preemptive strike into Ukraine and believe that they should have committed to this in 2014. Now with the help of the United States and NATO funding, arming, and training the UAF, the NAZI scourge has exploded in Ukraine. I personally believe that there is no other answer at this point except for the total defeat of Ukraine to eradicate this mongrelous NAZI Banderite ideology, which is a lethal threat festering on Russia’s border.
Billions of people around the world in Africa, Asia, and South America hold Vladimir Putin in the highest regard possible, and there’s noting that the West and their shitstream media can do about it. I also have the highest respect for Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin and wish him, the Russian Armed Forces, and the Russian people success and good health…🇺🇸🤝🇷🇺
#PutinPower🇷🇺
If we had been fair with Russia, they could have been our allies or, at least, friendly trade partners. Now, thanks to Biden, Victoria Nuland and the neocons and their desire for a proxy war with Russia, Russia has aligned with China and BRICS and de-dollarization have accelerated.
“..Russia didn’t have to be our enemy. ..”
I believe that the negotiators on both sides in the 1990’s, when the USSR was breaking up and Germany was being reunified, wanted and had a genuine desire for continuing peaceful relations. And subsequent NATO leaders blew it!
The following makes it clear: https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017-12-12/nato-expansion-what-gorbachev-heard-western-leaders-early
I used to like Putin prior to 2014. Check my posting history and you’ll see.
But somewhere along the line he decided he wanted to raise the USSR from the dead and subjugate and enslave other people. Kinda lost me there.
I guess he also did things like ban evangelism and celebrate and promote Russia's prostitution industry by "providence" as well? Brought back the Soviet national anthem? Erected a statue to murderous tyrant Fidel Castro and personally dedicated it? Having Soviet era statues of murderous tyrants re-erected in occupied territory of Ukraine? Etc., etc.
Christianity is thriving in Russia. Putin has spent billions building churches. There are house of worship of all different sects of Christianity, Judaism and Islam.
What Putin and the Russian government has banned are cults and polluted Western denominations that promote perversions like the LGBT agenda.
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