Posted on 03/18/2014 8:53:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
He saw a Mother Russia that had been looted by oligarchs abetted by Western crony capitalists, including Americans. He saw millions of ethnic Russians left behind, stranded, from the Baltic states to Kazakhstan. He saw a United States that had deceived Russia with its pledge not to move NATO into Eastern Europe if the Red Army would move out, and then exploited Russia's withdrawal to bring NATO onto her front porch.
Some parallels there with Germany and The Versailles Treaty, and we all know what that inevitably led to.
“US is a force for good and protector of freedom in the world,” but Obama is not that. Putin is not an evil man. Russia today is more capitalistic than America
Be very afraid of Russian nationalism, especially if you're Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish or any type of Slav. Pat wrote an article a while back saying that the Germans had to invade Poland, because the Poles had attacked a radio station. I used to like him, but he is way too much of isolationist for me.
God forbid we ever mind our own business. Just look what playing world cop has got us.
Broke, beat, untrusted, with the national treasure looted after 40+ years of disastrous foreign policies, leaving us with government who now even spies on it’s on people...
*bump* !
I agree 100% Putin is the only one in the world who is making sense.
I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or just insane.
I’m with you, except for the Obama Administration’s love for abortion and homosexuality, and threatening nations with withdrawal of foreign aid unless they enslave their religious convictions to that aid. Wait...
What happened to the End of History? Has it ended?
I agree with Pat on this. Russia is just playing the old game of power politics—a game we in the US have forgotten. Look to what the French do—they too are masters of the old game. They will say all sorts of things and still sell an aircraft carrier to Putin’s Russia. In truth—Cremea should never have been given to Ukraine in the first place. Putin understands all the sanctions, Red Lines, UN pronouncements in the world do not trump T-90s and boots on the ground—This has been the rules of history since they were written by Sargon I so long ago in Mesopotamia (By the way Sargon I and his dynasty brought 150 years of peace to the Middle East—not an east feat then or now).
“The US is a force of good and protector of freedom in the world.”
Obama is not that.
The US is a force of good and protector of freedom in the world, used to be called that by rational people, now has become nothing but a traditional saying
Like a sky with no blue or a well without water.
“Pat wrote an article a while back saying that the Germans had to invade Poland, because the Poles had attacked a radio station”
Do you have a link to that article?
Okay he doesn't blame it because of a radio station, but says Poland had started the war.
Here's the Free Republic thread at the time. I have no use for Pat Buchannan.
Then there are the risk-takers, the gamblers, the ones who push the envelope.
If they succeed -- if their gambles pay off -- then they're considered not only rational, but brilliant.
If they fail they're regarded as crazy and dangerous.
I'd put Putin in that category.
You could see that behavior a century ago -- countries essentially playing chicken with each other and expecting the other side to get out of the way.
It's not good for the world, but if the other fellow chickens out, the reward for you can be great.
Merkel is someone who stays within the established limits and doesn't risk or gamble -- all the better for her, for her country, and for the world -- so it's not surprising that she sees Putin as irrational or out of touch with reality.
bkmk
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