Sunday, March 20, 2022
Hate..
Following his much-watched meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the G20 summit, United States President Donald Trump, for a change, made a coherent statement: “Time to move forward in working constructively with Russia.”
However, allegations of interference in the U.S. presidential elections by Democrats notwithstanding, it is unlikely that Mr. Trump’s suggestion of forging a “constructive” partnership with the Cold War foe would find any takers in the U.S. foreign policy establishment. For, despite it being more than a quarter century since the collapse of the erstwhile Soviet Union, the U.S. and its allies have rarely shown appetite in building a good relationship with the Russian Federation.
They have, to the contrary, only fostered a greater sense of insecurity in the minds of Moscow through the expansion of their military power, to the point that there is direct weaponry targeting Russia.
The first is that Putin sees Russia as a victim of aggression rather than perpetrator. The second is that his purportedly benign attempt to forge a sphere of influence in the country’s neighborhood has been seriously threatened by the continued expansion of NATO since the end of the Cold War.
Russia views this as a threat to its own sovereignty, much like India views China’s construction activities along the border with Bhutan as a threat to its own security.
Putin gives an impression of betrayal and pain when he says Mikhail Gorbachev, though he obtained verbal assurance from the U.S. that NATO would not be expanded to the east of the erstwhile German Democratic Republic, did not insist on a written declaration.
Grave..
Democrats Will Regret Becoming the Anti-Russia Party and the war support.
Democrats and the broader progressive community argue that a hostile nation worked to defeat Hillary Clinton and install a president that Moscow could influence, perhaps even control. Those allegations have become increasingly shrill and over‐the‐top.
As Clinton’s smear of Trump and Heilemann’s attack on Nunes illustrate, the progressive hysteria about Russia dovetails into impugning the integrity of anyone who disputes the narrative that Russia poses an existential threat to America and its democratic system. Sanders epitomizes the technique with his Twitter comment that “we need to know whether the president’s foreign policy serves the best interests of our country or the best interests of Russia.”
Progressives need to adopt a course correction. Those who sincerely believe their shrill rhetoric need to get a grip and not succumb to Russia Derangement Syndrome. Those who are cynically using the anti‐Russia hysteria as a club with which to beat the Trump administration need to pause and consider how their actions are triggering a second “cold war” with the one power that has the military wherewithal to destroy America. In either case, their current behavior is doing their country a grave disservice.
Thursday, March 17, 2022
Reason..
Does anyone explain to the American people what is the issue between Russia and Ukraine?
Other than labeling the Russian leader with dictatorships and label the Ukrainian President as someone who is defending Democracy.
Did anyone try to solve the issues causing these problems instead starting the fire?
President Biden got nothing to talk about in the past month other than the war... This came out in time of the low ratings as a result of the high inflation, oil prices, Covid-19 and the deaths of over 800,000 US citizens, etc.
Let us find a reason for peace. It is usually better for all of us.
Just a thought.
Amnesia..
In the emotional appeal, Zelensky missed to remind this president with the recent War problems we started under variety of reason.
He asked Americans to put themselves in the shoes of Ukrainians by remembering Pearl Harbor "when your sky was black from the planes attacking you" and the Sept. 11 attacks, saying that "every day now for three weeks" Ukraine has seen death.
Mr. Zelensky forgot the obvious, the recent Wars that Mr. Biden was instrumental in starting and continue with no care whatsoever who dies as a result. Something similar to the current situation in Ukraine with minor difference. The country of Libya was not a threat to the USA but the war and destructions were done in favor of others.
Mr. Z also forgot USA invasion of Iraq followed by invasion of Syria with more than a million death and 12 million refugees.
Mr Z share some desire of grandiosity in this current fight, his own. He wants NATO to start world War 3 and he is looking to be the cool dude of this war.
Just a thought.
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