Posted on 08/06/2014 12:40:19 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As Vladimir Putin’s tanks begin to roll forth from Russia like Sauron’s legions from Mordor, a pair of American villains is working hard to undermine our resolve against the greatest threat from Europe to American values and power, and indeed to world peace, since Adolf Hitler.
Evgeny Feldman, a photographer for the maverick Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, recently visited a book store in Moscow and tweeted [1] a photograph from amongst its shelves. Among volumes on one topical shelf such as The Crimes of the U.S.A. and The Third World War and Forward to Victory, in which authors offered bloodthirsty attacks on America and her values and called for its obliteration, one tome stood out. Emblazoned on its cover was the Russian title Прокончит с ФРС by an author identified as Рон Пол.
This was a Russian translation of 2009′s End the Fed [2] by former Texas congressman and presidential primary contender Ron Paul, latched onto by Russian nationalists as an admission by an American that America is a fundamentally evil country leading the world down a path that leads to global ruin.
Days earlier another former U.S. presidential primary contestant, Pat Buchanan of the disgraced Nixon administration, published an opinion column in which he asked, seemingly on behalf of the Russian Kremlin: “How Would We Feel If Putin Told Us What To Do? [3]” Sounding just like Neville Chamberlain, Buchanan viciously attacked Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, for proposing legislation standing up to Russian aggression in Ukraine and Georgia, and urged the U.S. to simply ignore Putin’s bloodthirsty [4] reign of terror there.
Paul and Buchanan are two individuals who have been decisively repudiated — humiliated, really — at the polls by the people of the United States. More than two-thirds [5] of the American population currently views Russia as an enemy, precisely as Mitt Romney said during the last presidential campaign, and major magazine covers [6] bluntly and dramatically reflect the nation’s horror at Putin’s aggression. Indeed, signs of it are everywhere [7].
Yet the likes of Paul and Buchanan continue to beat the drum of appeasement and indeed collaboration with Putin’s evil, neo-Soviet regime. Time magazine called [8] End the Fed a “curious mix of the sensible and the delusional” and said that it teaches nothing about economics but much about what goes on inside Paul’s skull. The same can be said of Buchanan. Both men mix tiny bits of truth with great tidal waves of delusion to come up with policies that obliterate American values and world leadership and leave the field to despotic tyrants like Putin in the belief that nothing can touch Fortress America, which should simply watch the world burn.
Siding with Corker, Republican Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi shows by his deeds that he knows Buchanan and Paul don’t represent sensible American policy. He recently fired off a letter [9] to Attorney General Eric Holder demanding that he investigate Putin lackey Mikhail Lesin, who has been feverishly buying up U.S. real estate [10] with funds looted via all manner of corruption. Lesin could be viewed as Putin’s Goebbles, deeply tied to the Kremliln’s English-language propaganda apparatus and struggling furiously to divide the U.S. from its allies and blunt American resolve on Ukraine and Georgia.
Over on the House side, Speaker John Boehner presciently warned the world [11] all about the dangers of Russian aggression before the last presidential election, but unfortunately the voters did not heed his advice and the Obama “reset” continued to fuel the fires of Russian aggression.
Indeed, it seems not even Vladimir Putin is as tough on the U.S.A. as Paul and Buchanan are. Putin recently let American traitor Edward Snowden’s Russian visa expire without renewal [12], a clear signal that Snowden is starting to be viewed as more trouble than he’s worth. And Putin is slowly dithering in his support for the maniacal pro-Russian forces in Ukraine who shot down a Malaysian airliner killing hundreds of innocent people. He’s provided these goons with guns and many Russian soldiers to lead them, but he’s ignored their pleas for Russian invasion and watched the elected government in Kiev launch a firm effort to seize control.
From Norway [13] to Japan [14], the entire world is united in horror at Russian aggression in Ukraine. Even the milquetoast Barack Obama has appointed a new tough-as-nails ambassador to Russia, John Tefft [15], who has proved his mettle by having the Kremlin pitch a hissy fit [16] before he’s even arrived in country. Putin has proved to be the greatest gift to NATO ever, reinvigorating and unifying the creaking alliance, which has now gotten to the brink of providing military support for Kiev to stave of Russian invasion.
But Buchanan and Paul simply do not care about facts or reality. Like the Russians themselves, Buchanan and Paul prefer to dwell in the world of illusions that was openly celebrated by the Russians during the opening ceremonies to this year’s Olympic Games, which Russia hosted. Instead of increasing American power and influence, and instead of standing up for American values, Paul and Buchanan urge the country to retreat like a tortoise into its shell.
More than 80% of Russians [17] (Russian-language link), for instance, believe because of the non-stop tsunami of lies on Russian state TV that it was the Ukrainian army, not the rebel forces, who shot down the Malaysian airliner. Vulgar, brazen displays of wanton Russian aggression on social media [18] confirmed how far out of touch with reality the Russians really are. The delusional attitudes of the people of Russia are eerily similar to those of Paul and Buchanan and even more disturbingly reminiscent of those of the people of the USSR.
Buchanan crazily argues in regard to U.S. demands that Putin release his grip on Ukraine and Georgia that while “a small, weak country might accept this dictation from a superpower” mighty Russia will never do so but will “tell the Americans just what to do with their ultimatum” and “laugh it off.” After it stops laughing, Buchanan says, Russia will then invade Ukraine and seize Kiev to block it from accepting military support from NATO of the kind Russia provided to Crimea.
Nobody can claim that Russia is small in terms of territory, and it certainly has nuclear weapons. But Russia has zero economic growth, it doesn’t rank in the top 125 nations of the world for life expectancy, and it exports virtually nothing except crude fossil fuels. Russia’s military history is littered with spectacular losses and victories so costly that they are better thought of as defeats. It has no significant allies, and the only real threat it poses is one of terrorism, like that posed by North Korea and Syria. Since when does America back down from terrorist bullies?
Buchanan’s text reads disturbingly as if he were threatening his own country on Putin’s behalf. He ends his diatribe by stating: “The American Imperium is folding up.” This is exactly the type of language Putin himself uses. The text is totally devoid of any hint or suggestion as to how the U.S. can combat Russian aggression in Ukraine in an alternative manner to what Corker suggests, meaning that what Buchanan wants is simply to deliver Ukraine and Georgia, and whatever other parts of the former USSR he wants, to Putin on a silver platter. The fact that Ukraine borders three NATO countries the U.S. is obligated to defend means nothing to Buchanan since he clearly believes those allies should be sold down the river as well.
EU , Soros agenda
I don’t know about Buchanan but Ron Paul has been a non-interventionist for a long time on many different situations. Even if you don’t agree with Paul’s non-interventionism, I don’t see how a case can be made that Paul is a Putin apologist.
That is exactly what they did too. It is also what Obam is doing as we speak.
No, but he qualifies as an “useful idiot,” in the Russian’s eyes.
No media concern for Benghazi American victims, Marine in mexican jail...
Comparing Putin and Russia to Sauron and Mordor is a good analogy.
I can understand Buchanan and Paul cautioning us not to rush to fight another war but they miss the fact Russia is already at war and we are Russia’s target.
Their defense of Russia as the victim and Ukraine as the aggressor is delusional. I don’t take either of them to be stupid though so they have no honor in knowingly lying about the facts of just what is going on.
Paul has always said liberty is the most important value but he is outspokenly against anyone else’s liberty such as the Ukrainians. How do they imagine we will remain free and prosperous when the rest of he world is overrun by the Russians and Jihdists?
“but he is outspokenly against anyone else’s liberty such as the Ukrainians.”
My posting history clearly shows I’m no Paulastinean, but he has said that we shouldn’t be INVOLVED in Ukraine.
He has not spoken out against anyone’s liberty.
This kind of hyperbolic BS is exactly why we are, where we are today.
If (God forbid), Russia takes (or re-takes as the case may be ) Ukraine, does anyone think they’re going to stop at that?
Moldova, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, etc. are all there for the taking. We’re practically going to go back to the map of the cold war.
BTW, I wonder how Buchanan felt working under Reagan as his communications director, who does not think like him in terms of foreign policy...
I’m certain he couldn’t be the one who helped to draft the historic “Tear Down This Wall” speech.
He's stuck in your craw and you can't spit him out.
RE: My posting history clearly shows I’m no Paulastinean, but he has said that we shouldn’t be INVOLVED in Ukraine.
He has not spoken out against anyone’s liberty.
In other words, he is for anyone’s liberty but we as a country should not even so much as HELP them achieve that liberty.
What he has said is pretty clear.
It’s is also pretty clear that you are putting words in his mouth to make a point.
Pat Buchanan wrote a book (see excerpts at his site) that state we should not have become involved in WW2 against Germany.
RE: It’s is also pretty clear that you are putting words in his mouth to make a point.
OK, explain to me what he means when he says he is for anyone’s liberty... if that country or person’s liberty is at stake what does he propose to do?
My impression is he sits back even when the bully is trying to pry away that person’s liberty.
If that is not what he means, then please explain to us what exactly he means...
RE: Pat Buchanan wrote a book (see excerpts at his site) that state we should not have become involved in WW2 against Germany.
Did he explain in that book what America should have done right to prevent the Pearl harbor Attack from Japan?
That probably wasn't Reagan's own thinking, but I'm not sure that a post-Cold War expansion of our global obligations was something Reagan would have favored either.
“That probably wasn’t Reagan’s own thinking”
No, it wasn’t.
It was the American Left’s idea, though. Remember how happy they were to spend the “Peace dividend!” once Clinton took office?
I'm not saying Reagan would approve of Pat's isolationism and pro-Putinism, but I wouldn't assume that Reagan would have made some of the decisions subsequent presidents did.
A lot of good Republicans and good Americans have been skeptical about some of our involvements abroad over the years, and I wouldn't throw them over just to oblige Washington elites who made some really bad decisions in foreign policy.
Thank you. Some here seem to be more worried for others liberty than they are our own. Right now, ours is on the line.
The US is no longer going to be prepared to fight wars all over the place. Obama has seen to that. If Europe is worried, perhaps they need to spend some money on defense rather than their socialist entitlements and Muslim outreach. Then other people wouldn’t have to to the heavy lifting.
If people want a democracy, they should have allowed elections without involvement from outside nations on either side. Democracy is not freedom. People seem to confuse the two.
The problem is that the US no longer really believes in liberty. The US doesn’t care about liberty for Ukraine. It is the excuse that is used to swallow Ukraine into the world order.
That is happening to us right now. If you hadn’t noticed, the Constitution is being kicked to the curb to get us in line with the world community. That is also why we are being smothered with illegals from all over the place. That is to rid us of any national pride and to get rid of our sovereignty. The US is just one big happy member of the New World Order.
“China takes Hawaii- Yes”
Good God....
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