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Meanwhile, I recently reread the parts of Philip Short's long and magisterial Putin: His Life and Times (2022) that touch on Ukraine and want you to read this one page, about the situation in late 2013.
Everything TV watchers and newspaper readers is told is very incomplete.
America has been engaged in power games throughout the world since the end of the Cold War, as before.
The liberal view of the world is not necessarily wrong but two dimensional.
About Donald Trump there is very much to say, pro and contra.
As for J.D. Vance, I can be succinct. What he said in his speech on Friday was what I have been saying here for a decade.
Oh the giddy fun to have spoken the truth to power and to have taken power by surprise, though the speech showed the European politicians how little power Europe has.
As J.D. Vance said, vast waves of migrants and authoritarianism are the dangers to Europe, far more than Russia.
You heard it here first.
For saying free speech is severely restricted in Europe he was accused by journalists, for whom freedom of speech should be important you'd have thought, of authoritarianism and seeking to overturn democracy.
John Helmer, the very left-wing veteran Moscow correspondent, thinks Trump is (literally) going mad. Unlike the British media he does not suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome because he loathes the US defence establishment as much as he does Trump.
He also thinks Trump wants to be on good terms with Russia in order to fight racist wars against China, Iran and the Arabs. Taking out the word 'racist' and changing 'wars' to 'conflicts' and he is right.
No more cold wars with any country say I.
Helmer believes a lot of bizarre theories, thinking Russia not involved in the poisoning of the Skripals, thinking the CIA responsible for the Moscow concert blast etc, but has some good insights.
He also thinks Trump wants to be on good terms with Russia in order to fight racist wars against China, Iran and the Arabs. Taking out the word 'racist' and changing 'wars' to 'conflicts' and he is right.
No more cold wars with any country say I.
Helmer believes a lot of bizarre theories, thinking Russia not involved in the poisoning of the Skripals, thinking the CIA responsible for the Moscow concert blast etc, but has some good insights.
I like the idea of the Monroe Doctrine 2.0 and letting the eastern side of the planet get on without us. Seems more manageable. Not sure about how to keep China out of South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand. Perhaps extend 0 latitude a smudge west to border the Nine-dash line. Anyhow, Sydney and New Zealand are comfortably within the Western Hemisphere. Just wondering at what point Xi Jinping will make his grab for Taiwan. Does he want to risk casting the dice with Trump in office?
ReplyDeleteAsk me, “catastrophic train wreck” is understated for the level of destruction Nuland and Biden and their many toadies have heaped upon the Ukraine.
ReplyDeleteI don’t know what you mean by “the liberal view of the world”. If you mean the loony ideas promoted by the ideologues on Biden’s side, it sure is two dimensional, and that makes it dangerously wrong.
Of course that is right - and yet many people still ascribe to the homicidal maniac school of history and think Putin (or Hamas for that matter) etc can be understood simply as evil psychopaths.
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