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2022-03-01 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Victor Davis Hanson: The Crowded Road To Kyiv

[ZERO] One of the oddest commentaries about the Russian invasion of Ukraine is the boilerplate reaction that "borders can’t change in modern Europe" or "this does not happen in the 21st century."

But why in the world should the 21st century be exempt from the pathologies of the past 20 centuries? Are we smarter than the Romans? More innovative than Florentines? Do we have more savvy leaders than Lincoln or Churchill? Are they more mellifluous than Demosthenes? Does anyone now remember that some 130,000 were slaughtered just 30 years ago in the former Yugoslavia, as NATO planes bombed Belgrade and nuclear America and Russia almost squared off?

Has globalization, the "rules-based order," the Davos reset elite, the "international community" so improved the very way humans think that they have rendered obsolete the now ossified ancient idea of deterrence? Will the Kardashians and Beyoncé tweet our pathway to global peace?

How about transnational NGOs? NATO? WHO? The UN? Are all their recent records of service proof of our more exalted modern morality? Will some new engineered Wuhan virus alter human nature, end its innate ancient pathologies, and so eliminate war as we knew it? Are we not the League of Nations because Putin is now chair of the Security Council?

Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-01 01:33|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Ukraine, the number one reason why the US should leave NATO.
Germany, the number two reason.

Posted by Vespasian Ebboting9735 2022-03-01 07:33|| 2022-03-01 07:33|| Front Page Top

#2 The world is playing with fire. The end result is uncertain. Like the Cuban missile crisis except the Ukraine fiasco is already hot.

I'd hate to be Biden's speech writer and try to make the State of the Union look good tonight. What kind of crock of shit is he going to try to dish up?

Posted by JohnQC 2022-03-01 11:50|| 2022-03-01 11:50|| Front Page Top

#3 I'll read the text tomorrow; but I expect the usual word salad of delusions and outright fabrications.

Posted by Tom 2022-03-01 12:28|| 2022-03-01 12:28|| Front Page Top

#4 I'd hate to be Biden's speech writer and try to make the State of the Union look good tonight.

More likely it's a committee and I can just picture them in a conference room all with their laptops and sweating it out. I bet they're still working on it right now. I wouldn't want to be there. But that's why they get paid the big bucks.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-03-01 13:14|| 2022-03-01 13:14|| Front Page Top

#5 The WH Doctor must be going crazy trying to balance the dosage of the puppet's meds to keep him awake, semi-coherent. I look for a "Bless those little Ukrainian girls who I'm sure smell delightful. Mmmmmmm" moment.

Posted by Frank G 2022-03-01 13:33|| 2022-03-01 13:33|| Front Page Top

#6 The nihilist Biden decision voluntarily to cancel new pipelines, federal leases, ANWAR, and leverage loss of bank financing for fracking, and to give up well over 2 million barrels of daily production will be seen not just as an economic disaster. It was a strategic catastrophe.

Way, way back in the 1960's I understood that oil is dirty, polluting and bad. But I also understood that if the Soviets had it, we had to have it too. If I could understand that, even as a kid way back then, why can't Joe Biden understand it now?

Oh, I know. It isn't Biden. It's Obama or Soros or the Squad. Whatever. Why don't they understand that with all the threats we face in this world we need energy to successfully confront them? The only conclusion I can reach is that they really are trying to destroy America.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-03-01 14:15|| 2022-03-01 14:15|| Front Page Top

The only conclusion I can reach is that they really are trying to destroy America.

Watch what the hands are doing, ignore what the Big Mouths are saying.

Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2022-03-01 15:27|| 2022-03-01 15:27|| Front Page Top

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