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Kaganism: The People Steering Us Into Another World War
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2023/08/13/kaganism-the-people-steering-us-into-another-world-war/ ^

Posted on 08/20/2023 12:20:54 PM PDT by FarCenter

The Iraq war debacle, the relative (to Bush) restraint of the Obama administration, and the 2016 anti-interventionist campaign of Donald Trump may have seemingly discredited the neo-conservative movement and its personalities, but they have come roaring back.

This new stage in American foreign policy could be characterized as Kaganism: neither Democrat or Republican, but rather a non-partisan 21st century crusade for “liberalism.”

Donald Kagan, the patriarch of Kaganism, followed a similar intellectual trajectory to his colleagues Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz: Marxist academics who transformed into rabid Reaganoid Cold Warriors in response to the Soviet Union’s support for Arab nationalism and anti-Zionism in the 1960s. Donald was quite clearly in the Republican camp, though his children have dropped some of the “right-wing” elements of the neo-conservative doctrine (previously used to mobilize Evangelical Christian voting blocs) and replaced it with a unified American state ideology that is as at home in the Democratic Party as it is in the GOP.

Donald’s sons, the American Enterprise Institute’s Frederick Kagan and the Brookings Institute’s Robert Kagan, were highly influential in the George W. Bush administration through think-tanks such as the Project For A New American Century and the Foreign Policy Initiative, though today they have largely distanced themselves from the GOP following the party’s alienation of Jewish elites through Trumpification.

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1 posted on 08/20/2023 12:20:54 PM PDT by FarCenter
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To: FarCenter

Descendants of the Ukrainian Bolshevik, Lazar Kaganovich I’ll wager.


2 posted on 08/20/2023 12:25:51 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: FarCenter

We have a leftist supreme court justice by that name too.


3 posted on 08/20/2023 12:30:46 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: mac_truck

Descendants of the Khazar Empire?…


4 posted on 08/20/2023 12:33:20 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: FarCenter

We’ve got more than our share of useful idiot followers of the Neocons.

And THEY ARE FERVID and promoting this war with religious ferocity.


5 posted on 08/20/2023 12:34:45 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAX’)
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To: FarCenter

We should not be concerned with the plans that China has on Taiwan.
We should rather be worried about China’s designs regarding the US, considering that Biden resides in Xi’s pocket.


6 posted on 08/20/2023 12:35:38 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: FarCenter

Is Donald Kagan a Fauci twin?


7 posted on 08/20/2023 12:37:45 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: House Atreides

Russia invaded Ukraine.

Russia occupies Ukraine.

Only blood lust warmongers support Russia’s continued attacks and plundering of its neighbors.


8 posted on 08/20/2023 12:40:36 PM PDT by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: FarCenter
...though today they have largely distanced themselves from the GOP following the party’s alienation of Jewish elites through Trumpification.

No. The Jewish elites hated the Republican party long before Donald Trump was on the scene.

9 posted on 08/20/2023 12:43:52 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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To: Justa

Sorry but this war should NEVER have been allowed to start. But it has and now the OTHER-PEOPLE’S-MONEY and OTHER-PEOPLES’-BLOOD is flowing in vast rivers. The K-Street bars and restaurants are hopping.


10 posted on 08/20/2023 12:48:42 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAX’)
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To: mac_truck

Donald Kagan, now deceased, was born in Lithuania.


11 posted on 08/20/2023 12:50:26 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: FarCenter

The people who need to read this won’t. Jack Keane, the warmongering Fox general, gets a paycheck from this cabal.


12 posted on 08/20/2023 1:06:21 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: FarCenter

what an evil pack of demons and sadly many G W MORON lovers worship these people and demand death for thousands of people on the other side of the world. These people never take up arms themselves, they only enjoy sending others to their death. It’s a game for these freaks.


13 posted on 08/20/2023 1:35:15 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: FarCenter

Ping


14 posted on 08/20/2023 1:44:11 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: FarCenter
There is a credible and honest basis for criticism of American foreign policy and even of the Kagan family's views -- but this juvenile name-calling is not it.

The fallen nature of man does not permit people or nations to engage in wishful thinking about their security. "Just leave us alone" does not work as a basis for personal security or in foreign policy.

For people and countries alike, if you have things that other people and countries want, you have to defend them or suffer losses. And that means thinking realistically about how to deal with bad people. The Kagans may not be correct, but they at least are engaging with the issue.

15 posted on 08/20/2023 1:51:12 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: FarCenter

Does this mean you’ve figured that these monsters are the ones responsible for the proxy war in Ukraine?


16 posted on 08/20/2023 2:02:35 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Rockingham

>>”Just leave us alone” does not work as a basis for personal security or in foreign policy.

“Think and act as we do, or we will force you to” does not work as a basis for personal security or in foreign policy either.


17 posted on 08/20/2023 2:05:20 PM PDT by FarCenter
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To: Rockingham

Are you going to Ukraine?


18 posted on 08/20/2023 2:06:24 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

No, that’s stupid nonsense, more what the book of Revelation 5alks about.


19 posted on 08/20/2023 2:20:06 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AN GLOBALISM! Trump 2024, NO more Mr Nice)
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To: FarCenter

Kagans Like Piss-losia mafia family.


20 posted on 08/20/2023 2:36:44 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (MURDER IS MYRDER)
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