Escalating war on our W.W.2 ally is terrible- inexcusable really. Strategically it is completely daft. Russia lost 3/4 million soldiers to stop the Nazi invasion in 1941, and then it needed 2.6 million soldiers to remove the Nazis from Ukraine in 1943. They have paid heavily for defending their ancient homeland. Russia’s September 1943 900 mile front enabled the American landings a month later in Sicily. Germany had a million casualties on the Eastern front with operation Barbarossa. Russia and friends took away a lot of Nazis that otherwise would have met the U.S.A. at Normandy too. The U.S.A. lost 4,500 soldiers at Normandy on D-Day. Biden trusts Europe more than Russia for all the wrong reasons. Students of Biden’s generation just learned western civ in school- nothing about Russia really-except cold war stuff. So the early learning was retarded. Joe Biden is the anti-Reagan.
People forget history and lack pragmatism in politics. The Clinton-Yeltsin swindle stealing Ukraine from Russia set the stage for war when Russia became strong enough to fight to get it back. Without a negotiated peace with Russia keeping what is has presently their isn’t hope for anything beside escalating risk to the entire human race. The United States should really think about staying out of European lunacy instead of joining it. The U.S.A. should lead towards a free world with stable borders and people moving toward ecological economics.
Joe Biden simply wants to be re-elected and maybe get a little glory. He is like one of the belligerent Diadochi in the Third Diadochi War that wants a piece of Antigonus’s action circa 315-312 B.C The national scheming is something U.S. rube Presidents are better off staying out of. Euros shouldn’t be encouraged in such perfidies in the Anthropocene era.
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Russia didn’t exist during WW2. The country was USSR and represented a union of countries forced to be part of it by conquest. It was lead by a Georgian. The people dying in WW2 were not only Russians. They were Polish, Ukrainians, Bulgarians, Kazakhs, Bashkirs, Armenians and so on.
USSR had an ideology, the radical left, called communism, where the workers rule the country and the capitalists are sent to labor camps. This ideology knows no border and it is what you get if you let USSR happen again. It won’t spare you. It hasn’t stopped trying to crawl back to existence. It works with rebels in the gulf, warlords in Africa, and living gods in North Korea. Why is beyond me but the literature is very clear that it is the case.
Regarding this ancient homeland statement, Russia is a very recent country. It was created on December 25th 1991. It claims to inherit the Russian Empire that was founded in 1721, which claims to inherit the Tsardom of Muscovy from 1547. Here’s a map of the Tsardom of Muscovy:
Note that the dark green area doesn’t cover more than 10% of the present-day Russia, and most certainly doesn’t cover Ukraine. 1547 is recent times in the European history, my own country was founded in 681.
Russia has no ancient history and if anything is their ancient homeland, it’s the area around Moscow.
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Most historians weren’t born yesterday. Russia pre-existed the Soviet Union and all of the Russians in Russia at that time were compelled to have communist government. Even so Russians were the largest ethnic group in the Soviet Union and about 6 million ethnic Russians died fighting to free Ukraine and other areas of what was Russia before the communist takeover (an unelected revolution from the top).
One may pretend that Russia is not the historical Russia. It is rather humorous. Consider if the United States were taken over by a communist government next month and that it existed for more than a half century before disappearing. An international body allocates the states of the Soviet States to be independent nations. A few years later the region named the United States decides to recover its lost states. Then someone writes that the United States never existed and that the ‘new’ United States has no ancient history. LOL!
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