As I tried to show in the previous column about Biden’s foreign policy, the Democratic party did not successfully resist the siren song of neoconservatism.
great stuff.as upset as i was as one who supported obama over hilary in 08 and against mccaind romney i felt obama's foregin policy turned into disaster while biden was much much worse. i identify as democratic socialist and bernie would be maybe only one that is close to my leftist politics and while i held noise for biden and harris because of trump which i really didn't want to do especily in 24 but trump was too unhinged and i would rather stand with 60% of democratic voters who support ceasefire.i believe one of factors for dems disaster in 24 was gaza.when harris saud no difference from biden she signed her and contry's deaths entence and gave us back trump.
i have been trashing proxy war in ukraine since 2022.I don't excartly love putin but too many ignore the us double crossed russia on anto expansion which they view as threat.ignoring history after wwII stalin was mainly cornced with preventing another attack by germany and other european powers.Putin acted like us would if we were surrounded by hostile nations.if russia did in mexico like us has dne in ulraine we would have invaded them too.Putin has wanted to talk to end it but biden refuses.and i remain skeptical trump will do anything to stop it.irony is us is responable for ptin coming to power.
while he made mistakes and has mixed record only decent post jfk president was actully carter. clinton,obama,biden all disappointments but biden is the worst post JFK prsident even lbj/at least lbj did some good things domesticly and in 1968 entire democratic party wasn't destroyed which put a bit of check on nixon.
and if i go off on what i think about israel this would be even longer rant lol
Thanks, James Anthony, I look forward to reading this, but I have a feeling I disagree with with Chris. Putin/proxy war? I don't think so. He's looking for a warm water port, but what's he going to ship? Does Russia have anything to trade???
Ellen, the best book on the Ukraine/Russia war is by Scott Horton, and its called Provoked. America and England lied five times to Moscow about not moving NATO eastward if the Russians would remove their troops from East Germany. They also said that NATO would really be less a military pact and more a trade pact. They then used NATO to bomb the Balkans and then Libya. America then swallowed up almost all the survivors of the Warsaw pact into NATO. They installed defensive missiles in Poland and Romania which can easily be switched to Tomahawks equipped with nukes which can hit Moscow in 12 minutes. Horton's book has 6,000 footnotes in it.
JFK said [IMO obviously he had the tension between the US / NATO vs the USSR / Warsaw Block at that time, in mind]- You don't force a nuclear-power into a choice between facing a humiliating defeat / retreat vs going to war. Yet that's exactly what NATO's encroachment toward Russia culminating in the current debacle in Ukraine, has done.
Stalin certainly made every effort to take control during WWII and control Poland politically after the war. Poland didn't really get away until the late Eighties.
But Ellen, that was as part of the buffer zone between Russia and Germany since the Germans had invaded Russia twice in 25 years with horrendous consequences. That all changed with the collapse of the Berlin Wall, Gorbachev coming to power, the unification of Germany and dissolution of the Warsaw Pact. Many have argued that it was the forced humiliation of Yeltsin and Russia that brought Putin to power.
You know, my husband was born in Munich in 1949. His father was stationed in Germany after the war and one of his jobs was to search out routes to get the Americans out in case the Russians and East Germans came across the border into West Germany. Also, Putin worked with the Stasi for several years and I think he had good relations with the East Germans. Russians may not like Nazis, but I don't think they dislike of fear Germans per se. Yeltsin seemed like an early version of T and to me, the Russians' mistake was not supporting Gorbachev and the CP officials making themselves into oligarchs in which Putin happily joined. If he's afraid of the West, it's because their weapons are disintegrating and they're running a police state with a limited amount of popular support. I have never seen an instance in their entire history in which the Russian people have acted in their own best interest except WWll.
great stuff.as upset as i was as one who supported obama over hilary in 08 and against mccaind romney i felt obama's foregin policy turned into disaster while biden was much much worse. i identify as democratic socialist and bernie would be maybe only one that is close to my leftist politics and while i held noise for biden and harris because of trump which i really didn't want to do especily in 24 but trump was too unhinged and i would rather stand with 60% of democratic voters who support ceasefire.i believe one of factors for dems disaster in 24 was gaza.when harris saud no difference from biden she signed her and contry's deaths entence and gave us back trump.
i have been trashing proxy war in ukraine since 2022.I don't excartly love putin but too many ignore the us double crossed russia on anto expansion which they view as threat.ignoring history after wwII stalin was mainly cornced with preventing another attack by germany and other european powers.Putin acted like us would if we were surrounded by hostile nations.if russia did in mexico like us has dne in ulraine we would have invaded them too.Putin has wanted to talk to end it but biden refuses.and i remain skeptical trump will do anything to stop it.irony is us is responable for ptin coming to power.
while he made mistakes and has mixed record only decent post jfk president was actully carter. clinton,obama,biden all disappointments but biden is the worst post JFK prsident even lbj/at least lbj did some good things domesticly and in 1968 entire democratic party wasn't destroyed which put a bit of check on nixon.
and if i go off on what i think about israel this would be even longer rant lol
I am not sure I will change it until I get all the details about it Chris.
How will your review change now that Biden has negotiated a ceasefire and a 2 nation plan?
Thanks, James Anthony, I look forward to reading this, but I have a feeling I disagree with with Chris. Putin/proxy war? I don't think so. He's looking for a warm water port, but what's he going to ship? Does Russia have anything to trade???
Ellen, the best book on the Ukraine/Russia war is by Scott Horton, and its called Provoked. America and England lied five times to Moscow about not moving NATO eastward if the Russians would remove their troops from East Germany. They also said that NATO would really be less a military pact and more a trade pact. They then used NATO to bomb the Balkans and then Libya. America then swallowed up almost all the survivors of the Warsaw pact into NATO. They installed defensive missiles in Poland and Romania which can easily be switched to Tomahawks equipped with nukes which can hit Moscow in 12 minutes. Horton's book has 6,000 footnotes in it.
JFK said [IMO obviously he had the tension between the US / NATO vs the USSR / Warsaw Block at that time, in mind]- You don't force a nuclear-power into a choice between facing a humiliating defeat / retreat vs going to war. Yet that's exactly what NATO's encroachment toward Russia culminating in the current debacle in Ukraine, has done.
I"ll try to find it. However, in general I think Poland et al were more concerned about Russian aggression. I will admit though, Libya fried me...
I think they wanted economic integration with the EU. Russia has little interest in Western Ukraine, much less Poland.
Stalin certainly made every effort to take control during WWII and control Poland politically after the war. Poland didn't really get away until the late Eighties.
But Ellen, that was as part of the buffer zone between Russia and Germany since the Germans had invaded Russia twice in 25 years with horrendous consequences. That all changed with the collapse of the Berlin Wall, Gorbachev coming to power, the unification of Germany and dissolution of the Warsaw Pact. Many have argued that it was the forced humiliation of Yeltsin and Russia that brought Putin to power.
You know, my husband was born in Munich in 1949. His father was stationed in Germany after the war and one of his jobs was to search out routes to get the Americans out in case the Russians and East Germans came across the border into West Germany. Also, Putin worked with the Stasi for several years and I think he had good relations with the East Germans. Russians may not like Nazis, but I don't think they dislike of fear Germans per se. Yeltsin seemed like an early version of T and to me, the Russians' mistake was not supporting Gorbachev and the CP officials making themselves into oligarchs in which Putin happily joined. If he's afraid of the West, it's because their weapons are disintegrating and they're running a police state with a limited amount of popular support. I have never seen an instance in their entire history in which the Russian people have acted in their own best interest except WWll.