The Democrats have been taken over by the extreme left of the party. This is now a party that endorses infanticide and the castration and mutilation of children. The Governors of Virginia and New York have passed extreme laws on abortion that permit the killing of infants that have survived an abortion. The Democratic party also supports the transgender movement which endorses the process of “transitioning” for children. In addition, the political left which is the base of the Democratic party supports allowing men who consider themselves female to use the ladies facilities thus overthrowing conventional norms of propriety and morality.
I am not a Republican nor am I “right wing”. I consider George W. Bush to be the worst President in American history. I consider Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice, and Paul Wolfowitz and the rest to be war criminals. The invasion of Iraq unleashed the rise of ISIS and the subsequent genocide. The invasion of Iraq set the stage for the Obama administration’s intervention in Libya which led to the overthrow of that regime and which turned Libya into a failed state in which Al Quada and ISIS established a presence.
After Libya, the Obama administration armed and supported the various Syrian “rebels” all of whom were associated with Jihadism one way or another. The whole of the region became a slaughter house with one third of Iraq and one third of Syria coming under the control of ISIS. In addition, the wars in the region created a wave of refugees which flooded Europe. Greece was heavily impacted by the refugee crisis. In 2015-2017 Paris, London, and Brussels were bombed by members of ISIS. While the Obama administration deserves blame for its own policies, it was the Bush administration that started the whole business of “regime change”.
This brings us to President Donald Trump. There is an old expression that you should not judge a book by its cover. Donald Trump is in many ways inarticulate and does not express himself well. He does tend to say stupid things, and I cannot state that I agree with what he says on these occasions.
However, I look beyond the cover and read the book. Donald Trump has presented himself as a welcome alternative to both major political parties. Donald Trump opposed the wars in Iraq and Syria, and the intervention in Libya. Most significantly of all, he desires warm relations with Russia. President Trump removed American backing for the the so called “rebels” in Syria and allowed the Russians to save Syria and to prevent that country from becoming a failed state.
All is not perfect. Turkey has been left occupying parts of Syria and the Trump administration abandoned the Syrian Kurds who fought heroically against ISIS. These are serious moral lapses. Yet, Trump at least has begun making a change to traditional foreign policy. There is reason to believe that with a second term things may work out better.
One of the greatest and pressing concerns that I have with the Democratic party which is even more serious than the lunatic stances on social issues mentioned above is the blatant anti Russian hysteria it has come to espouse. The Bush administration was criminal for its actions in Iraq. The Democrats are willing to go even further and provoke tensions with a nuclear power like Russia!
The pathetic rabble that calls itself the Democratic Party blames Russia for Donald Trump’s election win in 2016. This is pure madness and a dangerous escalation of tensions with Moscow. We are expected to believe that the great Hillary Clinton could not have possibly lost the election because the electorate rejected her!
Hillary Clinton demonstrated that she has a big mouth when she compared Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin with Hitler! Unbeknownst to Mrs. Clinton with the big mouth, the Russian President was born in what was then Leningrad after the war. During the war, Leningrad was under siege by the Nazi invaders and massive numbers of Russians starved to death. Among them was the Russian Presidents older brother. The Russian President’s father fought in the Red Army in defense of the city, and two of his Uncle’s were killed fighting Hitler’s armies.
The Hitler comparison is even stupider considering the support that her husbands administration gave for the pro Nazi regime in Croatia during the 1990’s which was responsible for the ethnic cleansing of over 200,000 Orthodox Christian Serbs. Furthermore, the Ukrainian militias that Russia has been fighting are Neo-Nazi. Incidentally, Neo-Nazi propaganda and holocaust denial have been outlawed in Russia under President Putin.
I see things from a rather unique vantage point. I am cognizant of Byzantine history and heritage. Nine hundred years ago, the Byzantine Empire with its capital in Constantinople was the center of the world. This was the political and spiritual center of Orthodoxy. The Empire lived with the Muslim world in the east and the world of the Latins (ie Roman Catholics) in the west.
At the end of the eleventh century, the Roman Catholics launched the Crusades against the Muslim world when they conquered Jerusalem and committed genocide against Muslims and Jews. Previous to their conquest of Jerusalem, the Crusaders passed through Constantinople. Tensions were very apparent as the Greek Orthodox came to loathe them.
The same tensions are apparent nine centuries later between Orthodox Russia (the successor to Byzantium) and the the western heirs to the Crusades (America, Europe, NATO). The Crusaders waged war in the name of Christianity, an idea the Orthodox east did not endorse or understand. Today, the west wages wars in the east (and more crucially near the borders of Russia) in the name of democracy.
There is much to criticize in the neoconservative elements of the Republican party who have an agenda not consistent with that of the Christian east, but for the moment it is the Democrats who represent the greater danger for the Orthodox world with their rabid and unrelenting Russophobia. A political party that embraces the belief that there are more than two genders and which has zero knowledge of history cannot be trusted with the authority to conduct foreign relations with a country like Russia, or to formulate policies in the Middle east. The Democratic party has emerged as the anti intellectual movement of the twenty first century.
Its leaders and rank and file members possess an unending expertise on matters such as “diversity”. Let them concentrate on matters such as “gender studies” and other garbage. They know nothing about world history or foreign relations. Their rabid Russophobia might lead the United States into a greater debacle than that of Iraq.
President Donald Trump is the anti war candidate. His administration has tried to end the endless foreign interventions in the middle east. His efforts to reconcile with Russia are admirable. The President without question has a greater understanding of the complexities of the world than his detractors in the Democratic Party.
Regarding the corona virus. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (he of the liberal abortion law that permits infanticide) insisted that the virus should be called the “European” virus, and not the “Chinese” virus on the grounds that the virus was transmitted to New York from Europe. This proves that Democrats are incapable of rational thought. Where did Europe get the virus? Europe got the virus from China where it originated because of the infamous wet “markets” and the unsanitary conditions.
The Chinese government waited two months before it took action to contain the spread of the virus. It allowed the citizens of Wuhan where the virus originated to gather and celebrate the Chinese new year. At the beginning, several Chinese doctors investigating the disease were warned by the communist party to keep their mouths shut. Those doctors have “disappeared’.
It is well known that the World Health Organization (WHO) is under the influence of the Chinese Communist Party. Its director general has been Beijing’s man since he was the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Ethiopia. The Chinese government nominated him for his posting at WHO. WHO does not seem to have taken an interest in the fates of the Chinese doctors who are missing and ignored the warning from the authorities inTaiwan that the virus had spread to that island.
Innocent people from around the world have died, economies have been destroyed, and virtually all citizens everywhere have had their freedoms and their lives disrupted. The Trump administration cut off funding to WHO in light of the Chinese Communist influence over that organization. The Democrats are more preoccupied with not giving offense to that Stalinist regime than they are in formulating plans on how to successfully reopen the United States.
Then there is the Democratic party’s attempt to thwart the majority of the American electorate by attempting to overturn the elections of 2016. The attempted coup against the President occurred over the utterly stupid matter of Ukraine. We are expected to believe that President Trump bullied the Ukrainian government of President Zelensky for partisan purposes so he could get dirt on his opponent in the 2020 elections, Joe Biden.
Anyone who has read the transcript of the conversations between the two Presidents would know that there was no pressure or coercion exerted on the Ukrainian President by Trump. If one wants to know what pressure and coercion really are, here is Democratic President Lyndon Johnson speaking to Greek Ambassador to Washington Alexander Matsas at the White House in 1965,
“Fuck your parliament and your constitution. America is an elephant, Cyprus is a flea. Greece is a flea. If these two fellows continue itching the elephant, they may just get whacked by the elephant’s trunk, whacked good…If your Prime Minister gives me talk about democracy, parliament, and constitution, he his parliament, and his constitution may not last very long.”
quoted from “Cyprus” by Christopher Hitchens
The Johnson outburst was in response to Ambassador Matsas rejection on behalf of the Greek government of the Acheson Plan for Cyprus which would have required Greece to cede the island of Castellorizo to the Turks among other concessions.
Furthermore, in 1999 Undersecretary of State Richard Holbrooke representing the Clinton administration at Rambouillet sat down to negotiate with the Serbian government over Kosovo. He presented a plan to the Serbs that would have required Belgrade to give up part of its territory (Kosovo) after three years. The price for rejecting this plan was bombing. Serbian targets (including civilian institutions such as Churches, hospitals, television outlets, and trains) were bombed for three months.
President Trump’s conversation with President Zelensky was polite and pleasant and in no way resembled the nasty and abusive manner in which Johnson spoke to the Greek Ambassador. Furthermore, Trump did not threaten the Ukrainian government and never proceeded to bomb that country. The only threat to Ukraine came from former Vice President Joe Biden who by his own admission threatened to cut aid to Ukraine if that government did not fire the prosecutor who was investigating the gas company that employed Biden’s son.
The Democrats therefore attempted to impeach President Trump for an offense that was committed by Vice President Biden. All that President Trump did was to attempt to ascertain whether the Ukrainians had any evidence of wrongdoing by the former Vice President. The Democrats embarked on this impeachment at a time when the corona virus was spreading worldwide. If the administration was not bogged down defending itself in this attempted coup perhaps it could have concentrated on the spread of the virus and the lockdown could have been avoided.
Mention has been made of Serbia. The Democrats and their media allies such as CNN enthusiastically supported the Clinton administrations war on Serbia, another Orthodox country. The anti Russian hysteria today very much resembles the anti Serb sentiment of the mid to late 1990’s. Russia is not Serbia. From Syria to Crimea, the Russians have proven that they will both fight and win if they are provoked.
Former Democratic Presidential Candidate Julian Castro championed the cause of abortion rights for “trans females”. That is, for women who have become “men”. Who the hell can possibly consider voting for these people? These people have completely lost their minds!
Another former candidate Beta O’Rourke stated he would strip Churches of tax exempt status if they refused to perform gay marriages. Here we have an open declaration by a Democrat that he would begin the process of abolishing religious freedom.
All this is by no means to suggest that Trump is without his flaws. Trump has made some very serious errors. He badly mishandled the white supremacist gathering at Charlottsville and waited much too long to condemn the Neo-Nazis. He brought neoconservative lunatics such as John Bolton and Mike Pompeo into his administration. He also nearly triggered a war with Iran through the assassination of Iranian General Soleimani.
President Donald Trump has made mistakes. Even so, a second Trump administration is much preferable to that of a Democratic administration. As of this writing, former national security advisor Susan Rice has blamed the Russians for the riots that have broken out throughout the United States. Is there anything the Russians are not responsible for?
“Filmmaker” Michael Moore has made an anti Trump film where the poster shows the President playing golf with a nuclear blast in the background. Trump is the anti war President who also tried to pursue reconciliation with the Russians. Considering the massive amount of hatred being directed at the Russians by the Democratic Party, who is more likely to provoke a nuclear war?
In addition, the Democrats criticized President Trump’s harsh rhetoric against North Korea and suggested he would provoke a war. When President Trump through diplomacy was able to bring North Korea to the negotiating table all of a sudden he was accused by the Democrats of being soft on North Korea. The Democrats are incapable of formulating any stance based on reason, facts, or reality. Everything is strictly partisan and ideological.
Regarding Greece and Cyprus. The Clinton administration extended recognition to FYROM as “Macedonia” (despite promises made in the 1992 Presidential campaign) in 1994. On January 31, 1996 the Clinton administration pressured Greece to withdraw from the islet of Imia in order to appease Turkey. Support for Turkey continued unabated by both the Clinton and Obama administrations. The Obama-Biden administration’s Syrian war flooded the Greek islands with refugees. Greek American justification for supporting the Democratic Party cannot be sustained by historical facts.
One question for my fellow Greeks. In November 2015, Turkey shot down a Russian plane. Would it not have been a good thing to have had a pro Russian Donald Trump at the White House at that time?
At the present, the United States has been engulfed in riots emanating from the murder of an African American man in Minnesota. One can be sympathetic to and endorse the effort to fight racism and promote civil rights while unequivocally rejecting the extremism of the Marxist radicals who make up a good part of the base of the Democratic Party. Yes to the effort to reverse injustices and stop abuse of African Americans. Yes to the peaceful protesters of goodwill but no to the anarchists that have hijacked a legitimate cause.
In 2016, Donald Trump wanted to go after the Islamic State which was committing genocide against Yazidis, Shiite Muslims, and Christians. Furthermore, the Islamic State was responsible for reviving the institution of slavery in the form of slave markets that trafficked in Yazidi women. Neither President Trump nor the Russians will ever be given credit for stopping these massive human rights violations.
In 2016, Donald Trump viewed Islamic State as the threat to the United States and the world. The Democratic Party viewed Russia as the threat. In 2020, Donald Trump views Communist China which through negligence spread the corona virus throughout the world as a threat to the United States. The Democratic Party still views Russia as the threat to the United States.
Nine centuries ago, the officials at the court of the Greek Emperor of Constantinople looked upon the western Crusaders that passed through the Great City as barbarians. A year from now, Moscow which is the heir to the great spiritual heritage of Constantinople may encounter a new generation of barbarians should the Democrats win in November.
