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Post by mrkrenden on Aug 2, 2023 1:53:11 GMT -6
Implementation of Minsk II would in effect destroy Ukraine as a sovereign country. The DNR and LNR would be reincorporated into Ukraine but as distinct political, economic and legal entities tied to Russia – thus introducing a constitutional Trojan Horse that would give the Kremlin a lasting presence in Ukraine’s political system and prevent the authorities in Kyiv from running the country as an integrated whole. Indeed, radical devolution to Donbas might well prompt other regions to press for similar powers, causing central authority to unravel and effectively balkanizing Ukraine. J.R.Nyquist, from the comments section of his blog.
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Post by mrkrenden on Aug 2, 2023 1:55:01 GMT -6
I am waiting for you to cite evidence, make a point, or fashion an argument. And please stop this whiny “before you delete this comment” nonsense. Also, don’t put words in my mouth. I have never favored “grinding Russia down.” Ukraine has been invaded. They are fighting hard to stay free. Nobody has to grind Russia down. Just arm Ukraine to deter Russia from continuing this madness. As for nukes, the Russians can launch a nuclear war at any time. One reason they cannot launch such a war is that Ukraine is free, and Moscow cannot use nukes on their Slavic brothers. So they are stuck in a conventional war. This is lucky for us. If we blink, however, they and they’re Chinese friends will murder us all. J.R.Nyquist, from the comments section of his blog.
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Post by mrkrenden on Aug 2, 2023 1:59:14 GMT -6
Of course, we should not go to war over Ukraine. America must avoid a direct conflict with Russia if possible. But Obama’s formula needs to be reciprocal. Is Russia offering up Cuba and Venezuela in exchange for Ukraine? Fair is fair. (I would not barter away a country, but Obama wants to give it up on supposed realist grounds WITHOUT bartering — and I ask what kind of deal this is? Not one America should embrace.) Question: Why is Ukraine a vital interest for Russia to rightly invade while we must keep our hands off Cuba and Venezuela? This is crude political reasoning, but it is Obama’s reasoning that leads us to ask at all. And why not press Obama for consistency? Is not Cuba and Venezuela our vital interest? Have we repudiated a mainstay of American foreign policy since John Quincy Adams was Secretary of State? — that is, the Monroe Doctrine, formulated by Adams? Is this unknown to Obama? Or does he simply read from Moscow’s script? Why is Obama so ready to restore Russia’s hegemonic rights to Ukraine and no attention is given to America’s role as a defender of the Western Hemisphere? It seems like another one of Obama’s hypocrisies — a one way street where Russia (and China) gets the advantage. All the same, America supporting Ukraine’s independence by extending loans or selling/giving weapons does not require war. Again, look to Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. Hostile nations, very close to our shores, regularly acquire Russian weapons without calls on our side for invasion. In fact, there are Russian troops in Venezuela last I checked. And Moscow has agreed to send troops to Nicaragua. Who is advocating military measures against these states? So far, I see no American troops operating in Ukraine — yet Russia plays the victim and we must turn a blind eye to Russia’s doings in Latin America. For all this want of symmetry, America has not invaded or threatened to invade Cuba because Russian support for the island. Is Cuba a vital interest to America and not Russia? What is “sauce for the goose,” as they say, “is sauce for the gander.” Obama is and was a Russian shill. This is just one more proof of it. He should have been investigated for ties to Russia, far more than Trump. J.R.Nyquist, from the comments section of his blog.
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Post by mrkrenden on Aug 2, 2023 2:02:35 GMT -6
According to Steven Mosher the Chinese have a concept called "Ba," having to do with political order. It was invented 2,800 years ago by ancient Chinese strategists and is based exclusively on naked power. The concept of an all-powerful ruler at the head of an all-powerful state is central to ancient Chinese political culture. According to Mosher, "Chinese strategists of old may be said to have invented totalitarianism more than two millennia before Lenin introduced it to the West, in order to achieve a kind of super-superpower status." It is intrinsic to Chinese political ideas that, in Mosher's words, "the premier goal of foreign policy should be to establish absolute dominance over one's region and, by slow extension, the world." In accusing the United States of "hegemonic" ambitions, noted Mosher, the Chinese were engaging in a "political form of Freudian projection, for China's elite clearly covets the title of Hegemon for itself." China, in effect, has its own built-in doctrine of Manifest Destiny. Today in Ukraine we find that the Kremlin shows a similar desire for regional dominance which must be understood as extending to eventual global dominance. It would seem that the leaders of both Russia and China consciously or unconsciously follow the path of "Ba." J.R.Nyquist, quoted and linked. Back From the Dead: Return of the Evil Empire Commentary for 25 August 2014
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Post by mrkrenden on Aug 2, 2023 2:03:10 GMT -6
According to Steven Mosher the Chinese have a concept called "Ba," having to do with political order. It was invented 2,800 years ago by ancient Chinese strategists and is based exclusively on naked power. The concept of an all-powerful ruler at the head of an all-powerful state is central to ancient Chinese political culture. According to Mosher, "Chinese strategists of old may be said to have invented totalitarianism more than two millennia before Lenin introduced it to the West, in order to achieve a kind of super-superpower status." It is intrinsic to Chinese political ideas that, in Mosher's words, "the premier goal of foreign policy should be to establish absolute dominance over one's region and, by slow extension, the world." In accusing the United States of "hegemonic" ambitions, noted Mosher, the Chinese were engaging in a "political form of Freudian projection, for China's elite clearly covets the title of Hegemon for itself." China, in effect, has its own built-in doctrine of Manifest Destiny. Today in Ukraine we find that the Kremlin shows a similar desire for regional dominance which must be understood as extending to eventual global dominance. It would seem that the leaders of both Russia and China consciously or unconsciously follow the path of "Ba." J.R.Nyquist, quoted and linked.Back From the Dead: Return of the Evil Empire Commentary for 25 August 2014
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Post by mrkrenden on Aug 2, 2023 2:04:20 GMT -6
I am very sorry to deny the existence of a political Santa Claus, or a non-aggression Easter Bunny, but the Allies only won World War II because they finally created superior military forces with which to stop the Germans and Japanese. The United States and NATO, after decades of weakening, are acting toward Russia today as the Indians acted in Tibet. They are pushing on Russia, subverting Russia’s position in Ukraine, without giving sufficient weight to the fact that Russia has the most modern nuclear forces on the planet and Europe is dependent on Russian natural gas. That is to say, we are threatening Russia with an unloaded gun; and that is dangerous, because Russia’s gun is loaded. As the example of India in 1962 shows, those who play at war without serious preparations are headed for defeat. In practical terms, we should have bombers in the air as Russia does. We should be matching them division for division. But we cannot do this because we believed in the “peace dividend” which we have spent. And we had conservative politicians like Newt Gingrich, who famously said, “I am a hawk. But I am a cheap hawk.” Righteous and Unrighteous Power Commentary for 24 March 2014, by J.R.Nyquist
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Post by mrkrenden on Aug 2, 2023 2:05:40 GMT -6
Once upon a time there was a nation, free and proud. It was armed and ready for war. Its warriors were battle-ready and disciplined. But the leaders of this nation were socialists, and they were opposed to their own country's armed forces. In secret collaboration with a foreign power, they ordered their country's disarmament. They eliminated military units, they slashed military spending, and promoted commanders who were willing to disband their own armed forces. Here was a patriotic and warlike nation which had no hope of freedom or independence, because it lacked one simple advantage: It lacked leaders who were ready to defend the country's sovereignty. The educated strata of society, from which these leaders were drawn, had been indoctrinated to oppose national defense on ideological grounds. Instead of caring for their country, their ideal was to care for the international working class. In other words, they believed in something that has no real existence; and they were willing to betray their country in order to serve this unreal thing. Is this a fairy tale? Not at all. The country I refer to is real, and its people suffered much more than the loss of their independence. They were conquered, and 10 million citizens from this country were systematically exterminated little more than a decade later. The final count of those exterminated throughout the period of enslavement (lasting 70 years), is staggering. The nation I refer to is Ukraine; and recent archival discoveries put the number of Ukrainians killed within the borders of the Soviet Union (between 1917 and 1991) at approximately 50 million. J.R.Nyquist, quoted and linked. www.financialsense.com/contributors/jr-nyquist/what-is-past-is-prologue
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Post by mrkrenden on Aug 2, 2023 2:07:21 GMT -6
One can hardly get past the idea of Obama accomplishing something as difficult as the overthrow of a foreign government. This is doubly laughable when we reckon that the number of Russian agents in Ukraine must be in the thousands. What does the CIA have in Ukraine? Perhaps they have fifty agents, or maybe 200 if you count Russian dangles. Please, let’s not be so ignorant as to misunderstand the nature of the post-Soviet Ukrainian reality and how outgunned the CIA must be in every “former” Soviet country. J.R.Nyquist, quoted and linked.www.jrnyquist.com/the-dark-side-of-the-moon.html
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Post by mrkrenden on Aug 2, 2023 2:08:53 GMT -6
So Russia has invaded Crimea? So Russia is loading 30 nuclear bombers in Voronezh? So Russia is positioning forces in Belarus? So Russia is uniting with China, India, Iran, North Korea, Vietnam, Venezuela, Nicaragua, South Africa, Angola, Congo, Brazil, Bolivia, and Ecuador? What do you suppose it all means? One clenched fist is what it means. The Communists are pulling together their forces, pushing for dominance in the open, knowing that the West is too weak to offer serious resistance. Do we imagine that Communism’s faked death – this 22-year deception – was for laughs? Do we expect a naked Communist to pop out of a cake and say, “Ha, ha, we were Communist all along! Wasn’t our deception amazing?” Or does the deception end more realistically, with a drawn gun or a missile barrage? It is time, as well, to bring down the Western financial system, crash the U.S. dollar, crash the Western markets. Will Russian and Chinese gold be used to break Western paper currencies? We are already hearing about the supposed collapse of China’s “shadow banking system” as the Chinese premier publicly warns that we must prepare for “a wave of bankruptcies.” Are we starting to see the forest for the trees here? J.R. Nyquist, quoted and linked. www.jrnyquist.com/is-the-ukraine-crisis-a-provocation-.html
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Post by mrkrenden on Aug 2, 2023 2:09:55 GMT -6
Such a person, say Vaknin and Rangelovska, “is incapable of loving and of living.” He is also incapable of deep insight into people and events. Dependent on cues from the environment which feed into his fragile persona, the narcissist is vulnerable to manipulation by a psychologically sophisticated enemy. A neurotic of this type is obsessed with a false idea of life, being determined to follow a false path. If only superficial outward appearances conform to the accepted error, the narcissist will be unshakable in following this path to self-destruction. Here is a partial explanation as to why our leaders are unable to come to grips with the strategic realities of today.J.R.Nyquist, quoted and linked. www.jrnyquist.com/the-lunatic-and-the-narcisist.html
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Post by mrkrenden on Aug 2, 2023 2:14:03 GMT -6
The problem of starting World War III (for Russia and China) is the problem of two untrustworthy partners committing to a military offensive at the same time. Both partners have to move together, in coordinated fashion. If one commits and the other hesitates, the side which commits too early can find itself isolated and outgunned by the civilized world. Therefore, in the matter of two powers starting a war together, the way forward is through Mutual Assured Commitment. As of today, 10 March 2014, if Russia is planning to push deeper into Ukraine, then China and/or North Korea must make trouble in the Far East. As Russia gradually commits, China must commit. If one partner goes too far without the other, the one partner risks abandonment along an irrevocable path. And therefore, in order to build trust upon trust, they must go together or not at all. J.R.Nyquist, quoted and linked. www.jrnyquist.com/mutually-assured-commitment.html
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Post by mrkrenden on Aug 2, 2023 2:15:24 GMT -6
This is a point of view we even find in the work of Aleksandr Solzehnitsyn. But if you ask a west Ukrainian, you will get an entirely different answer. No money can buy this answer. No circle of conspirators at Langley, or in the White House basement, summoned this answer into the streets of Kiev. This movement was, in fact, organic to Ukraine. It is not the product of American money, even if such money was used. To declare that Ukrainian feeling is something mercenary is far more than ignorance. It involves a blind cynicism and a readiness to believe the new Russian lies. Please remember that America is a signatory of the Budapest Memorandum, and is thereby obligated to defend Ukraine's national independence. J.R.Nyquit, quoted and linked. www.jrnyquist.com/the-dark-side-of-the-moon.html
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Post by mrkrenden on Aug 2, 2023 2:16:56 GMT -6
We must keep in mind that Russia's policy today is not based on deceiving the West that Russia is a friendly country. Today's Russian policy, which is a war policy, more resembles Stalin's policy of 1939-40, when the Red Army annexed Eastern Poland, the Baltic States, and invaded Finland. In this policy there is no pretense of friendship with the West. Here the hostility is open, frankly acknowledged, and accompanied by actual troop movements. Or as Putin allegedly boasted to Ukraine's president, "If I wanted, Russian troops could not only be in Kiev in two days, but in Riga, Vilnius, Tallinn, Warsaw or Bucharest, too." J.R.Nyquist, quoted and linked. www.jrnyquist.com/ukraine-as-strategic-stepping-stone.html
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