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The Ukrainian invasion may not have happened if the American government had not tried to push NATO to the borders of Russia. Conflict happens in international relations and does not require woke ideological hysteria as a response . . .

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Well done, Dr. G. My only question is whether the US should even be providing military assistance to Ukraine. I have no objection to–actually I’m favor of–humanitarian assistance (food, medical supplies, clothing etc.) combined with efforts to encourage some kind of negotiated settlement between Ukraine and Russia (if indeed that’s even possible). In the end it’s their conflict–not ours. Of course, this will fall upon the collective deaf ears of the as often as not unelected oligarchy that runs this country, who take pride in their status as “The Best and The Brightest.”

And where have we heard THAT phrase before?

March 13, 2023 Hans Bosse Reply

It is true Cheney pushed NATO to Russia’s borders, but only after Putin repressed popular regional governors and assasinated libertarian editors. But repatriating ROCOR Birchers infected Russia with conspiracy theories that prevented Russia from fully engaging the international system. Soon the USA will similarly find the system they chose not to engage in will overwhelm them; Thornburg was the last to try to imbue ever growing system with Madisonian values. He who doesn’t attend to his home will have it collapse on him.

March 13, 2023 Vasos Panagiotopoulos Reply

“It is true Cheney pushed NATO to Russia’s borders, but only after Putin repressed popular regional governors and assasinated(sic} libertarian editors.”

Even assuming your claims were true, that ids a good reason for provocatively “push[ing] NATO to Russia’s borders” why? We’ve seen the result — Was it worth it?

March 14, 2023 Gandydancer Reply

The whole “West” lives under a managerial oligarchy headquartered in Washington DC. Historically, the most frightful thing about oligarchies is their gross incompetence, and our own oligarchy’s reaction to C19 and the Ukrainian war in the past 3 years does not inspire confidence in its abilities.

What happens if we are confronted with a real problem, say a nuclear strike or seriously dangerous pandemic?

March 14, 2023 Tobias Schultz Reply

US military aid to Ukraine has mainly had negative effects for Ukraine. First, it has prolonged the war which means more death and property destruction. Second, it has given the US control of Ukraine’s war policy and decision making, which has led directly to Ukraine rejecting two attempts to negotiate peace before things became too out of hand. Third, Ukraine will now have to pursue a woke Marxist agenda or else. The US has their hook in and will now push degeneracy onto them. Fourth, with US backing Zelensky has the external protection to ban other political parties and religious organizations that oppose Zelensky’s/US’s policy.

https://thecrosssectionrmb.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-ethics-of-liberty-punishment-and.html

March 14, 2023 RMB Reply

Where did you get the idea that Grant’s middle name was Simpson? I have always understood it stood for nothing and resulted from a benefactor’s error in his application to West Point.

March 14, 2023 David Monahan Reply

This time around, Russia’s war in Ukraine – a clear fratricide war – is not motivated by a desire to grab Ukrainian land. Let us not forget that Donbass and the Crimean peninsula were not ” Ukrainian lands” proper, and neither is Ukrainian Bukovina or Bugeac in Moldova. The Romanian-populated Bukovina was attached from Romania to Ukraine by Stalin in 1945. Donbass and the Crimean peninsula were taken from Russia while Bugeac from Moldova. They were placed under Kiev’s administration during the 1950’s by a Soviet leader from Ukraine, Nikita Khrushchev. When that happened, the republic of Moldova lost access to the Black Sea. The Ukrainian claim to these territories is shaky, to say the least, as Kiev was put in control of them recently by the leaders of a state entity, the USSR, which does not exist anymore.

Quite a few experts now seem to believe that NATO expansion to the East was in fact motivated by a desire to extend the lifespan of an otherwise obsolete alliance. The French and the Germans don’t want it anymore, especially after the Iraq invasion from 2003, but some of the USSR’s former satellites, especially the Baltic republics and Poland, were keen to keep NATO engaged in Europe. This was a HUGE error, as the aftermath of the current war will demonstrate.

For more than 2 decades now, the US elites have acted in blatant diregard of geography and history in their approach to global strategy. Madeleine Albright was the first to state this ,when she declared about the inclusion of the Baltic republics into NATO that from then on, geography doesn’t matter anymore (she was referring to these liliputian countries’ proximity to Russia ).

Sadly, todays American democratic elites wish to also abolish the very biological basis of our existence, the distinction between the sexes and so on. If an elite ,American or otherwise, is willing to give the individual the right to choose his or her own sex, one cannot expect such an elite to be a responsible stakeholder in the area of international relations and to make educated and logical statecraft decisions.

March 15, 2023 Florian Pantazi Reply

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