"Three hundred and thirty-four people, including more than 180 children, were killed in the massacre"
Some might think the Russians were provoked.
Posted on 03/24/2023 7:58:23 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
In 1984 on the 40th anniversary of D-Day, Ronald Reagan ascended the windswept stage of Pointe Du Hook, Normandy to commemorate one of the greatest sacrifices in the defense of freedom the world had ever seen.
“We in America have learned bitter lessons from two World Wars,” Reagan declared. “It is better to be here ready to protect the peace, than to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. We’ve learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with an expansionist intent.”
Nearly 40 years after he spoke those words, Reagan’s remarks should serve as a stark reminder and warning to leaders looking out at an increasingly unsettled world who are tempted by the siren’s call of American isolationism, rather than declaring and reaffirming the value of American leadership.
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Agree 100% but get a lot of push back on your second claim. Indeed the UK could not stand that an uppity Germany was building a dreadnought. In school I think we are taught a Britain centric view of history. Which is why I don’t see the Boers as the enemy the British made them in the Boer War. The British also abandoned Israel leading up to and beyond 1948.
We allowed Britain’s Navy to choke off Germany, and not allow US ships to enter German ports, and expect the Germans to just sit back and take it, while we supplied Britain?
A true neutral would have told the Brits, to allow our ships to go to German ports, or else we won’t risk our ships and men to supply Britain. But we were never really “neutral” were we?
Reagan built the greatest war machine the world has ever seen, was clandestinely fighting the Russians all over the globe, and had just invaded Grenada when that election happened.
Reagan’s military muscle prevented the 1984 attack from Russia that so many of us anticipated and had marked as the year.
“”The idea of seriously risking a nuclear exchange with the USSR was anathema to Reagan””
That sure isn’t my memory, Reagan was pushing Russia to the wall on nukes, it is why the 1980s were all about nuclear war and survival with all kinds of publications created to fill the public’s need for knowledge and ways to survive it, and the movie theaters full of the films and TV documentaries and specials.
Europe was in flames with terrorists, bombings, and kidnappings Putin funding the massive demonstrations against Reagan and his nuclear aggression, the mid-range missiles and the military build-up, and massive Reforger exercises
Under Reagan, Americans were prepared to fight.
Neocons, spit, neocons should be tarred and feathered and then driven into the sea.
Under Reagan, America still stood for something good.
"Three hundred and thirty-four people, including more than 180 children, were killed in the massacre"
Some might think the Russians were provoked.
Maybe Zelensky letting his Nazis murder Russian speakers in Eastern Ukraine was not such a good idea. Maybe allowing the deep state to install a compromised idiot in the oval office was not such a good idea either. Hoping we all make it to 2025 alive.
“100% correct. Too many conservatives are blinded by their hatred of Biden to see beyond domestic politics and look at the larger world.”
Biden and Dems are pissing away one trillion to their climate change cronies. Including a few projects to pump CO2 underground. Called carbon sequestration. Which has FAIL and dumbass written all over it.
What funding we send Ukraine is nothing, compared to these Greenie garbage giveaways.
Losing wars has consequences. And no one rapes like the Russians. The amount of raping the Russians did across much of Eastern Europe after winning WWII pales in comparison to the raping the West did after winning the Cold War.
If Germany had won WWI, they would have raped. Look how they raped the French after winning the Frano-Prussian War. Heck, they even raped the Russians after Russia signed the Treaty of Best-Litovsk during WWI.
Your:
“Would it not be just as effective in stopping Russia’s ability to wage war in Ukrainem by the USA drilling, fracking, and pumping oil like mad to lower the world price?”
Correct.
Joe Biden et al blocking the Keystone Pipeline [further] development, was exactly what Putin needed.
That is also why, I consider that part of the problem with Ukraine, may be, that the leftists (formerly aka “Democrats”) protest too much. Somewhere in the mess, there is a draw play intended to suck in Joe Biden’s vanity . . . and others with that.
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