With an
American currently under arrest in Russia for spying, it seems that a New Cold
War is afoot, with Vladimir Putin re-arming the Russian military to reassert
Russia’s position in the world. What is going on? Russia was supposed to have
been outspent in the Cold War, and happy to be a power among powers gladly
accepting American preeminence. This is the common conception. This is the
common error.
Why are
Russia and America in constant conflict?
There
seems to be an endless war with Russia fueled by an American need to hate the
Slavs. Race has a place in the discussion. Slavs, and people east of the Elbe,
have been regarded as inferior ever since Rome drew its borders along the
Rhine. We are the cultural inheritors of this European tradition of regarding
Russians as inferior beings by virtue of their mere existence astride their
swath of the Eurasian landmass.
There
was a fear in America, a fear of communism, which flared up with the
destruction of the Tzar. It is called the Red Scare, and predated McCarthyism
by a few decades.
The first Red Scare dates from the
20s and 30s with the Moscow show trials. It seemed that Russia had some power
to turn humans into Marxist Zombies.
In
WW2 the Soviets lost more people than any nation in the fight against Hitler,
of which Stephen Ambrose has never written a book. Stalingrad, Vyazma, Kursk,
Berlin. These battles destroyed the Reich. Russian armies got their trucks from
America freeing their factories to produce T-34s, the best tank of the war.
Who
financed the Russian buildup? Elites in the West. This is a fact. Russia was a
society which ran on money and needed to get this money somewhere. Lenin was
transported by train to Russia by the German monarchy. He only won majority
once and named the Bolsheviks after this fact. Russian slave labor was used in these Russian projects.
We responded in the 50s with Gestapo
tactics against those who were Communists. We then instituted MK Ultra and
hired ‘ex’ Nazis to do our work, begging the question why we even bothered to
fight a war against them in the first place. Meanwhile European Russia was
still largely a wasteland from its occupation by the German Army. The Cold War was
a mutual paranoia of two superpowers and their people. World War 2 has a lot to
do as to why both countries expected a surprise attack: both nations entered
the most destructive war in history via surprise attacks, in spite of the
multiple warnings they both received about Pearl Harbor and Barbarossa.
Curiously,
WMDs and MAD that kept conventional war between the two powers from erupting.
Our strategy now seems to be to ignore our current nuclear stockpile and deter
WMD attacks via invasion, in opposition to our approach during the cold war.
The Cold War ended with the U.S. having ‘outspent’ the Soviets, and then promptly
adopting the same type of military overspending and insane governmental policy
that ruined the Soviets. Since Putin, Russia has kept up the type of economic
growth only dreamed of by U.S. presidents and maintains a tax code that is fairer
than ours. In addition, Putin has reined in oligarchs following the financial collapse.
We gave them TARP.
Russia
has maintained a conservative foreign policy. We have surrounded both Russia
and China with bases and did not admit Russia to NATO when they asked to join.
There has never been a Russian-American alliance against China. In their war
against Chechnya, we have not taken their side despite apparent common
interest.
The Cold War was a perpetual war.
Sun Tzu says this is bad. It is.
Let’s
compare Putin to Obama.
Putin:
probably shot and tortured people.
Obama:
organized some poor people to, whatever, grumble?
Putin:
high level Judo combatant
Obama:
Beat a…….Mormon….in the last election….
Get it
together America
Though
at press time it has been reported that Obama had taken up the practice of
extra-judicial killing.
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