WHY would we want to “avoid” Cold War II????
The options are a HOT WAR or appeasement!!!!!!
That in tha Photo of Putin, he looks like someon from out of Wizard School awith Harry Potter.
Unless Russia uses decrepit nukes, it is in no position for any kind of real war, hot or cold, with the United States.
There are some serious geopolitical issues between the United States and Russia. The article discusses many of them. The first issue is exactly what kind of relationship we should have with Russia? The current regime has not even addressed that question. Russia may have given us reason to expel diplomats, but “hacking our election” isn’t one of them. We should have expelled a whole bunch of Chinese diplomats if that’s our policy standard.
I can’t wait to get some proper adults in charge of our foreign policy.
A very incisive yet positive essay by Buchanan without excessive rhetoric, timely and well done.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_status_referendum,_2014
Russia didn't invade Crimea. There were 20,000 troops were based there as they had been for a century. NATO’s promise not to expand and move forces eastward was trashed by Obama's warmongers.
Henry Kissinger on NATO's Kosovo war:
“The rejection of long-range strategy explains how it was possible to slide into the Kosovo conflict without adequate consideration of its implications … The transformation of the NATO alliance from a defensive military grouping to an institution prepared to impose its values by force … undercut repeated American and allied assurances that Russia had nothing to fear from NATO expansion.”
NATO has not only become costly and not serve U.S. interests (besides giving the perfumed princes an all-expenses-paid European vacation), but it has become very dangerous and destructive. American military for America. Not Davos.
Obama will go down in history along with Napoleon and Hitler as suffering from narcissistic overreach. We all know that Russia is in a downward spiral. Their demographics are horrendous and their ability to populate their nation, and secure their borders in the near term is in doubt.
Obama and Hillary thought that they could speed the process along, lean on Russia and it will collapse. But, failing to heed from history, they backed the Russian bear into a corner.
What Trump has to do IMO, is to help Russia, ‘die with dignity’ not unlike the British Empire. That means not provoking them, but at the same time not allow them, in their death spasms, to threaten their neighbors from the Baltics to the Black Sea. It’s a fine balancing act.
I can see no reason to consider Russia an enemy, though I can’t see them as a real friend either. What do they have that we don’t have or can’t do without; what do we have that they don’t have or can’t do without? If they decide to kick Europe’s @$$ it’s not our problem; we bailed them out twice in the last century. Let ‘em do for themselves for a change!
They need to focus - both of them - on the worldwide threat from islam.
Not to mention China.
And North Korea.
It’d be nice to have Russia allied with the US.
BS! Russia didn't do it.
And the DNC insider who gave Wikileaks the emails has been murdered by the Clinton machine.
What would clean this fake news up in a hurry is:
for Trump on Inauguration Day, to grant Assange complete immunity, and have him explain to the whole world, the source of his information, and the crimes committed by the Clinton cartel and the Democrat Party.
I agree with this article.