Selwyn Duke has an article today at the American Thinker today entitled As Nuclear War Looms: Does Russia Have a Right to Its Own Monroe Docrtine? Duke makes the case that for Putin, the current war in Ukraine is an existencial threat. At the same time, for Biden and the idiots who are running him, Ukraine is just a gpower paly. Russia can not back down. If we don't want this to end in global nuclear war, it will probably have to be us. Otherwise, it seems we are heading for WW III, and this time, it will be Biden's fault.
At Crisis Magazine editor Eric Sammons has an article Understanding the Roots of the Ukraine-Russia Conflict.What is The Narrative regarding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? It states that the war is the result of the unbridled expansionism of Vladimir Putin, who wants to recreate—and enlarge—the old Soviet Empire. He’s a modern-day Adolf Hitler with paranoid delusions of Western aggression, a man to whom negotiations would be fruitless. In The Narrative, the West is spotless in its dealings with Russia, and this invasion occurred within a vacuum, with no history behind it.
While this Narrative, like every Narrative, might contain a few truthful elements, it is not the whole story. In fact, it leaves out so much as to essentially give a false story. What is the actual history behind this conflict, and what has been the role of America and the West in fostering it? That’s the subject of an excellent new book by Benjamin Abelow, “How the West Brought War to Ukraine.”...snip...
In his short book, Abelow examines how Western arrogance toward Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union—expanding NATO to Russia’s borders, unilaterally abandoning nuclear arms treaties, placing missile installations within those new NATO countries close enough to destroy Moscow within 15 minutes, ignoring repeated warnings from Russia about Ukraine’s entrance into NATO, and assisting in a coup that overthrew the pro-Russian leader of Ukraine in 2014—all laid the groundwork to today’s conflict.
Understanding this history is vitally important for the cause of peace. Like Abelow, Catholics should not mindlessly follow The Narrative when it comes to the Ukraine-Russia conflict, but instead should seek to understand what has led to it, for this is the way to peace... .Isn't peace what we all want?
Still think that the NATO and Russian history arguments were distractions. Putin invaded the Ukraine to secure his monopoly position in fuel for Europe. Ukrainian gas, oil, and coal could have defeated Russia's monopoly. Plus the Ukraine had the facilities and people that made a lot of Russia's missiles, air craft, and ships. Pre-WWII, the Russians, as Soviets, starved many Ukrainians to death (Holodomor) and executed tens of thousands of Poles (e.g. Katyn Forest). Russian officials have announced that 1-2 million Ukrainians would have to be executed ( liquidated) to "de-Nazify" (i.e. pacify) the Ukraine. The victims found near Izium indicate that ex-KGB Major Putin will be following the old maxim that dead victims are not a future threat.
ReplyDeleteSweden and Finland applied for NATO membership and many European nations donated weapons and ammo to the Ukraine because they know that they are next on the menu.
The babble about "Peace" reminds me of PM Chamberlain (UK) who ensured war with Germany with his appeasement. Russia could have built their economy and reputation as a reliable friend, but it chose the route of conquest. Russia gunna be Russia. They learned a lot as Mongol vassals, but not enough to counter determined Ukrainians with NATO weapons.
Peace is Surrender and death in a FSB extermination camp. That is all Major Putin understands, so if you want "Peace", be prepared for war. Putin and his colleagues don't understand anything else. The only "peace" that those understand is a bullet to the back of the skull.
The current war in the Ukraine does not threaten the Russian state or people. The Russians can stop any time they wish. Until then, they laugh at "Peace". They are showing how little "Peace" matters in the bodies that they leave in their wake. Peddle your "Peace" babble somewhere else.
Mike-SMO,
DeleteThanks for commenting. Certainly the old Roman maxim applies "If you want peace, prepare for war." Several things though. We are seriously unprepared for war. Then there is the threat of thermonuclear war. Do you really think we can survive that? Finally, Biden has continually poked the bear until it has come to the place where he must finish Putin off. He might have been smarter to walk more softly while carrying a much larger stick.
But maybe you are right. Time will tell.