eat it vlady
He probably delayed economic sanctions, just like any other president would do…regardless of party.
Per this article thanks to US aggression pushing China into Russia’s waiting arms Nord Stream 2 has lost its leverage.
Should Joe ask Hillary if he can use her Russia Reset Button? 🤣🤣🤣
www.militarytimes.com
I’ll read your link. I respectfully ask that you watch this video.
www.antiwar.com
How about the Readers Digest version? I'm not a big video person to begin with but then make it 51 minutes and I won't watch it.I’ll read your link. I respectfully ask that you watch this video.
War in Ukraine? NATO Expansion Drives Conflict With Russia - Antiwar.com Blog
From The Grayzone: Pushback with Aaron Maté Russia is seeking a legally binding pledge that NATO will stop expanding east, including to Ukraine. If the US refuses, is war next? Scholar and author Richard Sakwa analyzes the growing Russia-Ukraine conflict and how Russiagate fueled it. Support The...
It’s difficult to boil down 32 years of history in less than 51 minutes. Essentially the US guaranteed it would not expand its (NATO’s) military force “one inch eastward” if Russia would agree to allow East Germany to join West Germany. Before the ink was dry on the agreement the US began infringing and creeping closer and closer to the Russian border, installing military bases. The US has been the aggressor from the beginning while manipulating the American public with propaganda that Russia is seeking global domination and must be stopped “there” in order to keep it from attacking the US. I would posit that the article provided by @On Tulsa Time is a prime example of the propagandistic manipulation being force fed Americans by the “security state” wing of our government. The link he provided comes nowhere near explaining what’s really happening. Since you don’t want to watch the podcast I’ll assume you think the discussion is “Russian/left wing propaganda.” You would be surprised at how hostile is their criticism of the Democrats and progressives and the kudos they give to Donald Trump for at least saying he wanted a diplomatic resolution with Russia.
For the record I do not now, nor have I ever claimed to be a conservative. I am a libertarian of anarchist persuasion in the mold of Albert J. Nock and Murray Rothbard. As such I regard the actions of any government official or agency with deep suspicion. And the last thing someone can say about me is I am a Russian apologist. Your comment is nothing more than an attempt to assassinate my character so you won’t have to engage in any criticism of American foreign policy, adventurism or empire building. It would appear you have a very naive notion that anything our government does is for good and anyone our government labels as an enemy is evil. I wonder if you have ever read a conflicting viewpoint. Of all the people on this board it is my opinion you would be the one best served by listening to the podcast. Assuming, of course, you would actually listen to what is being said.
Ok you are libertarian.
You’re assumption makes you look like an idiot.
Try this, it takes less than 51 minutes.
www.paulcraigroberts.org
This is fruitless because you keep trying to draw equivalencies. I reject that and that is the basis of your arguments.
www.heritage.org
ashbrook.org
Y'all so angry - and just after celebrating the birthday of the Prince of Peace. What's wrong? You need somebody to talk to?
It’s sad that you might interpret that as anger, sometimes things are just matter of fact.
This is fruitless because you keep trying to draw equivalencies. I reject that and that is the basis of your arguments.
If Putin is smart he knows the nature of NATO and knows it does not intend now or ever to invade Russia as long as it plays nice with its neighbors and doesn't invade them first.
America Needs a Grand Strategy
America’s basic strategic posture has not changed since it inherited Britain’s mantle of world leadership during World War II. Preserving national sovereignty and independence while simultaneously ensuring countries can freely navigate the world’s oceans and airspace continue to be essential for...
The rollback strategy is needed again.
"Their society is economically weak, and it lacks the wealth, education, and technology to enter the information age. They have thrown everything into military production, and their society is starting to show terrible stress as a result. They can't sustain military production the way we can. Eventually it will break them, and then there will be just one superpower in a safe world ...."
And then there are generational conflicts.
"We're always going to have to be involved [in the Middle East]. Maybe it's part of our national character, you know we like to have these problems nice and neatly wrapped up, put a ribbon around it. You deploy a force, you win the war and the problem goes away. But it doesn't work that way in the Middle East. It never has, and isn't likely to in my lifetime...."
An Indispensable Nation After All - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
We start to see again why Madeleine Albright, when she was Secretary of State, called America “the indispensable nation.” It was because back then, and before — a long time before; say, from 1941 forward — we were just that:...spectator.org
America: The Indispensable Nation - Ashbrook
In 1999, Time gathered a list of public figures to make a once-in-a-century pronouncement. Their task: determine who the “Person of the Century” was to be. In the end, after much deliberation, the honor went to Albert Einstein. A worthy choice in many ways, Einstein changed the world, and...
Because I said I would I have now read your second link, the one from The American Spectator, and here are my thoughts. Because Mr. Murchison and his fellow travelers within the security state apparatus have determined the US is indispensable as the only entity in the world that can hold back the thuggish evil malefactors who intend to conquer all humanity as part of their satanic vision, it is therefore necessary to embrace its destiny and conquer all humanity on behalf of goodness, which they represent.
And now I’ve read your third link, the article by Cameron Taylor, and there is a great deal he says that I thought was good, although IMO he went a little overboard on the cheerleading, and ignored some of the low lights (for example the internment of Japanese-American citizens, and the generally accepted notion that Roosevelt knew the Pearl Harbor attack was coming ahead of time and wanted to use the deaths of those soldiers as a reason to get the US in the war). But I digress. Taylor’s article conveniently stops at the point the security state began ramping up. So essentially what I said in my last reply can be repeated here.
