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2022-01-28 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

[Epoch Times] Most Americans oppose the notion that Russia can simply dictate the future of Ukraine.

Yet Americans also grudgingly accept that Ukraine was often historically part of Russia. During World War II, it was the bloody scene of joint Russian-Ukrainian sacrifices—over 5 million killed—to defeat the Nazi German invasion.

Americans publicly support NATO.

Yet most Americas privately worry that NATO has become diplomatically impotent and a military mirage—a modern League of Nations.

The second-largest NATO member, Turkey, is closer to Russia than to the United States. Its people poll anti-American.

Germany is NATO’s richest European member and the power behind the European Union. Yet Germany will soon be dependent on imported Russian natural gas for much of its energy needs.

In a recent Pew Research Center poll, 70 percent of Germans voiced a desire for more cooperation with Russia. Most Americans poll the exact opposite.

Worse, 60 percent of Germans oppose going to the aid of any NATO country in time of war. Over 70 percent of Germans term their relationship with the United States as "bad."

We can translate all these disturbing results in the following manner: The German and Turkish people like or trust Russia more than they do their own NATO patron, America.

With Putin’s nemesis, Trump, gone, Russia assumes the appeasement years of the Obama-Biden administration are back again. As in 2014, once more Putin is moving against his neighbors.

Finally, there is the unfortunate role of recent Ukrainian government officials. Some were deeply involved in greenlighting the Biden family grifting and profiteering to ensure massive American foreign aid.

Some Ukrainian expatriates and current government members worked with the American Left to ensure the first impeachment of Trump.

Now Ukrainians are exasperated that their prior intrusions into domestic American politics have backfired with the disastrous Biden presidency—and his apparent de facto acceptance of an inevitable Russian annexation.

Where does this entire mess leave America?

Posted by Bobby 2022-01-28 08:32|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 I got the nifty photos in, but it should be VDH, not BDH. Sorry.

Posted by Bobby 2022-01-28 08:41|| 2022-01-28 08:41|| Front Page Top

#2 So my prediction is simple. Iran will go after the UAE in open warfare. Saudi will not fight and we will have to help defend them. This will be the distraction Putin needs to invade and we will be so focused on helping the UAE that the Ukraine falls.

Posted by 49 Pan 2022-01-28 09:26|| 2022-01-28 09:26|| Front Page Top

#3 NATO is finished. In the early-mid 1990s, after NATO's reason for existence vanished, the saying was, "NATO must go out of area -- or go out of business." Hence NATO's involvement in the disastrous Afghan War.

Now that war is behind us, and NATO is incapable of responding in a coherent way in its own area. Germany and Turkey are closer to Russia than to us. What is the justification for preserving NATO now?

If we could reach a security agreement with Russia, we wouldn't be subject to Turkish blackmail. We could actually contain China. We might even bring an end to the Syrian mess and finally destroy ISIS.

But Hunter and The Big Guy would need to go back to selling daubings to fund their habits.

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-01-28 09:52|| 2022-01-28 09:52|| Front Page Top

#4 With the best will in the world from our side, I don’t see Russia ever viewing America as anything other than a rival or a patsy. At the moment they’re playing us as a patsy.

But yes, NATO needs to be finished. How much longer the EU continues is a separate question.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-01-28 10:53|| 2022-01-28 10:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Lots of iron rice bowls will have to be smashed to make that happen.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-28 11:09|| 2022-01-28 11:09|| Front Page Top

#6 The Russians have played us for patsies since Lenin

Our in-house fifth columnists have a blind spot about their role as useful idiots

Iran attacks the UAE and then Putin goes off on the Ukraine

That’s China’s cue to invade Taiwan

Our sissified military can barely fight one was at a time

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2022-01-28 13:09|| 2022-01-28 13:09|| Front Page Top

#7 Biden administration sure is beating the drums of war.

Posted by JohnQC 2022-01-28 22:57|| 2022-01-28 22:57|| Front Page Top

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