With Donald Trump out of the way, the neoconservatives have wasted no time in filling the vacuum in the Republican Party. Republican Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi is without question one of the most ignorant and poorly informed individuals holding elected office. The Democrats are intellectually depraved with their insane ideas about defunding the Police but this Republican is trying to outdo the Democrats by expressing ideas that are even more catastrophic.
The Einstein of Mississippi believes the United States should consider going to war with Russia over Ukraine. What kind of poorly informed person is it that can lightly suggest something like that? Russia is a nuclear country and is the country that crushed Napolean and Hitler.
The Republicans have their own lunatics and Roger Wicker is one of them. What made Donald Trump a good candidate and President was the fact he was not a fanatic or a believer in interventionism abroad. Trump understood America should not be trying to impose itself on other countries and understood the horror that resulted from the wars and interventions in Iraq, Libya, and Syria.
Trump respected the Russians and on that issue alone demonstrated a superior intellect to conventional politicians in both parties. Ukraine has a complex history and American neoconservatives and liberals do not understand the religious and cultural issues regarding Ukraine. In addition, neoconservative fanatics such as Victoria Nuland are back advocating for a strong anti Russian policy.
American Democracy is dead and has been for decades. Donald Trump temporarily revived Democracy for four years but now the war mongering pseudo intellectuals and think tanks have resurfaced. Victoria Nuland and Geoffrey Pyatt (Ambassador to Ukraine in 2014) supported the violent overthrow of Ukraine’s government in 2014 which forced the Russians to intervene to block Ukraine from being used as a base by NATO to attack Russia in the future.
The question of admitting Ukraine into NATO should have been permanently settled then. But fanatics like Nuland and many others who have never been elected to public office and are not accountable to anyone are proceeding to instigate wars under the noses of the members of Congress and the intellectually challenged members of what passes for media in America today. The think tanks are far more dangerous than the CIA ever was during the period of the Cold War.
Attacks on Joe Biden are beginning. National Review is hysterically accusing Biden of supporting autonomy for Eastern Ukraine. If this is true (and I have doubts about that) then Biden should be praised not criticized. American gestures that contribute to the easing of tensions with Russia are productive and correct.
It appears that the historically illiterate war mongers in both parties are going to bring Hitler back. Hitler has been sighted over three decades in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, and Syria. Some of us thought he committed suicide in a bunker in Berlin in 1945. Every time a Republican or a Democrat wants to start a war they refer to a particular leader as the new Hitler.
The Hitler comparison has always been stupid and anyone who really believes that Slobodan Milosovic, Saddam Hussein, or Muammar Khadafi ranked with Hitler is devoid of intelligence. Such comparisons minimize the horrors of the Holocaust and the genuine evil that Hitler and his movement genuinely represented. Hitler caused the deaths of over fifty million people during a six year period, a record of mass murder that other dictators are no where close in matching (maybe Stalin and Mao).
It was Hillary Clinton who compared Vladimir Putin to Hitler in 2014. For war mongering opportunists Hitler is good propaganda. For those who have studied history and rely on knowledge and not propaganda, it is fairly obvious that Hitler’s murderous reign is being diminished.
Even worse. Vladimir Putin is the leader of a country that lost over twenty million lives to the racist regime in Berlin that considered Slavs to be subhuman. Hitler’s war on Russia was a barbaric war aimed at subjugating the Russians and seizing their land and oil. Vladimir Putin was born in Leningrad in 1952. During the war, the Nazi death machine laid siege to that city and brought about the starvation of over one million Russians.
Vladimir Putin’s older brother died during the siege. Putin’s Uncles died in defense of Leningrad. Only those who are stupid and are knowledgeable in political slogans do not recognize the danger of demonizing Russia. Now Senator Wicker joins the geniuses in the Democratic Party and calls for war on Russia.
It was the cretinous and vulgar barbarian Paul Begala (a Clinton administration official) who recommended that Donald Trump bomb Russia in 2017. These people are all psychopaths. The stupidity increases when considering that Nuland, Pyatt and the rest have been supporting Neo-Nazi militias in Ukraine that the Russians fought against.
Who supports Neo-Nazis? Those who support aggression against Russia. Among the Ukrainians who have found favor in Washington, the memory of Stephan Banderas the wartime Nazi collaborator is honored.
It would be nice if those who have political influence knew what they were talking about. It would be nicer if Congress proceeded to take control of the think tanks that have been running amok for far too long.
2 replies on “Russophobia In The Post Trump Era”
The NEOCONS and their kindred cousins on the other side of the aisle-the NEOLIBS-would have America involved in a war in every corner of the world if they thought they could get away with it. Wicker is your typical example of ‘shoot first, ask questions later’ NEOCON leadership in the GOP. What interests does the USA have in Ukraine? Absolutely none, this is all about pushing NATO presence on the doorstep of Russia. How would America feel if the Russians did the same thing in Mexico? Whatever our thoughts are in the situation in Ukraine we have no vital interests there. Further, eastern Ukraine is heavily ethnic Russian-that is reality. This country cannot afford another Trillion Dollar MIS-adventure, especially with nuclear war risks. People like Roger Wicker need to be broomed from foreign relation posts in the GOP, they are reckless and lacking in commen sense needed for those roles.
What makes all this even more insane is that the media and both parties view Russia as a threat when China has clearly loomed as the real threat. Look at the way we are living because of the Wuhan lab.
The scientific community was funding Chinese gain of function research. Instead, the media bashes Russia .