“Yesterday Putin authorized the use of the military outside Russian borders.” So has our congress. Our congress has capitulated war making powers to POTUS since Vietnam. “None of this would’ve happened if Trump were president!” is the chorus of the quasi-conservative, NYC-centered, talking heads regarding Putin’s aggression in Ukraine. Meh, maybe, maybe not.
America has had its share of bad presidents. They are getting exponentially worse culminating in the grinning baboon currently occupying the White House. Combine them with historically treasonous State Departments beginning with FDR’s and its only by the grace of God we’re not speaking Russian or Chinese already (see: Trading With the Enemy: An Expose’ of the Nazi-American Money Plot, 1932-1949; and, How Democracies Perish by Jean Francois Revel).
Russian communists are experts at exploiting democratic vulnerabilities – Biden being just the latest glaring one. They used our press (particularly the NY Times) during the ’60s to foment the false idea that whites were burning black churches by the hundreds across the nation (see: Deception by Iop Pacepa). One of Pacepa’s revelations states that the Agi-Prop Department in the KGB has developed the American Left particularly the media, the race organizations, and the “intellectual elite” in the U.S. to such a level that they can “take their hands off the controls and they will conduct the revolution from within themselves without Russian fingerprints on it.” No further proof is needed than the successful Clinton coup against President Trump. Yeah, the Durham report is out now but the damage was done. Russians are experts at taking two steps forward to accept one step back.
Putin needn’t be so “savvy” nor a “genius” to follow the example of one of the most ignorant recent Presidents to arrive at a deceptively legitimate political excuse for invading eastern Ukraine. He only had to look to Bush, Jr. the Yale cheerleader. It reminds me of the scene in Patton where George C. Scott exclaims “Rommel, you bastard! I read your book!” (see: Attack by Erwin C. Rommel).
Bush, Jr. always reminded me of a three year-old holding a loaded, cocked .45cal pistol waving it around a playground during recess. Having the icon of the military-industrial complex as his VP didn’t help. So, after winning the peace in Afghanistan, he invaded en masse the Graveyard of Empires to make his VP richer and the Pentagon more decorated then, sucked the support from that invasion to invade Iraq – all to “export democracy”, “Global War on Terrorism”, then “Peacekeeping.” ad infinitum. For being such an idiot, Bush, Jr. was an excellent professor for Putin.
Confucius say: “You don’t use a sledgehammer to kill a gnat on your forehead.” The all-hat-no-cattle, Texas president, called a “seagull” by his fellow Air National Guard pilots (a seagull doesn’t fly unless it absolutely has to), opined to his VP “why have a military if we don’t use it?” Of such an imbecilic idea was our invasion of two Muslim countries based – countries that Icons of Counterinsurgency like Robert K. Thompson, David Galula, and Frank Kitson knew we would never have the “perceived legitimacy of the population” and therefore no chance of victory by any legitimate definition. Twenty years of war – crowned by a historically humiliating withdrawal – proved that.
So we can really thank Jr. 43 for providing Putin with a precedent. Thanks a lot, Georgie.
One can safely say Putin would not have invaded Ukraine under President Trump. When faced with real strength, communists revert to propaganda in the form of “peace talks” and treaties where they can gain “pre-negotiation concessions” (see: Revel) from the feckless State Department. Reagan knew how to fight communism without bankrupting America (if you don’t count SDI). He fought it politically and surreptitiously by providing Solidarity with real-time intelligence and other countries with advisors and the military capability to resist. (it was a great time to be a Green Beret). Trump fought communism with the tool he knew best and it was a viable vulnerability of the communists – economics and weapons to the targeted countries. Both gave hope to millions of enslaved human beings. So, yeah, Putin probably would not have invaded Ukraine if Trump was president. But, like jet jockeys say: “If you tied a jet to a cow’s ass it could fly over the moon.” It’s a moot (pardon the pun) point now. Maybe ask the RINOs who genuflected to the Dems’ stolen election in 2020 how they feel about the two human tragedies – and counting – their boy Biden has caused now?
