https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/03/the_ukraine_crisis_may_be_more_of_a_boon_to_the_globalists_and_western_lefts_agenda_than_is_apparent_at_first_glance.html
March 15, 2022
The Ukraine crisis may be more of a boon to the globalists and Western left’s agenda than is apparent at first glance. By Jared Peterson
First, the obvious:
We -- the US -- bear much of the responsibility for creating the poisoned atmosphere that inclined Putin to attack Ukraine. Thirty years of spurning Russia’s openly expressed desire after the Soviet collapse for peace and normalcy between itself and Western Europe, including twenty years of gratuitous, deliberately threatening behavior by the West -- in 1999 and 2004, actual NATO expansions, in 2008, a promised further expansion, and in 2014, overt anti-Russian meddling in Ukrainian politics -- all culminated in Putin’s desperate and dangerous act.
In 1991, when the Soviets’ external and internal empire dissolved, newly emerged and shrunken Russia’s proffer of peaceful relations was real, the first actual chance for cooperative relations between Russia and the West since Tsar Alexander I helped to defeat the marble-tombed war-maker, Napoleon. That early 1990’s Russian offer was successfully resisted through the Iago-like whisperings of America’s military/industrial complex, fearful of losing the militarily powerful enemy that was key to its budgets, weapons systems, jobs, and profits.
But in today’s world, another motive for the West’s stubbornly antagonistic stance toward Russia has entered the picture: without regard to the Ukraine war, Russia of late was as much the object of the Western left’s loathing because of its return after the Cold War to nationalism and cultural conservatism, as it was the object of the left’s admiration previously because of its embrace of Communism. The resurgent Western left, now allied with the globalists, for years has despised Russia for its return to tradition, just as they despise Poland and Hungary for the same reason. Now, in the case of Russia, they can mask their cultural loathing in the more respectable garb of opposition to war.
So, through the war we provoked, America’s military industrialists have secured for at least a generation Russia’s status as an enemy; and America’s left (and globalists) have isolated, weakened, and now hope to destroy, a powerful opponent of their various insanities and plan to impose them on the entire planet through unopposed, Western-sponsored globalism. Thus, the Ukraine war, brought to the world by 30 years of spurning peace and 20 years of deliberate provocation, all urged on America’s political elites and by its military industrialists, serves the interests of both our militarists and left globalists.
> The globalists and neocons did EVERYTHING it could to make and enemy of Russia... <
We evidently disagree with regard to Putin’s current behavior. But I certainly agree with your statement above. The two greatest threats to Western civilization today are radical Islam and Communist China. The United Stares and Russia would have made natural allies against those two threats.
It is interesting to note that Putin behaved (if that’s the right word) when Trump was president. So I’m guessing that behind the scenes Trump said and did everything right.