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Monday, March 02, 2015

Re-igniting Europe

I've stated here many times before that I do not trust Russians. I have good reason for that:

Valdimir Putin’s Russia has waged war against Georgia for the breakaway province of South Ossetia and recently signed a “border agreement” with South Ossetian leaders that Georgia condemned as a move closer to Russian annexation of the province. It has annexed the Crimean peninsula and is waging war in eastern Ukraine. Last November it signed a “strategic partnership” agreement with Abkhazia. Russian warships and military planes repeatedly have conducted military exercises near Latvian airspace and territorial waters in the Baltic, an effort, according to British defense officials, to destabilize the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

Putin’s Russia has been an accomplice to Iran’s efforts to build a nuclear bomb. It is engaged in military cooperation with China of a “systemic character,” according to Russia’s Defense Minister. Russia is currently in the midst of a $700 billion rearmament program.

At home, Putin continues to crackdown on any opposition. Boris Nemtsov, a vocal critic of the Putin regime, was murdered recently in Moscow. Nemtsov joins Alexei Navalny, Stanislav Markelov, Anna Politkovskaya, Natalia Estemirova, and Alexander Litvinenko as Putin opponents who have been murdered or assassinated under “mysterious” circumstances.

Vladimir Putin has let loose on Europe the giant marauders of war and tyranny. Putin is one of those “wicked men” described by Churchill who has reinvigorated the “aggressive urge” of the mighty Russian state. He combines tyranny at home with aggression abroad, and appears to be erecting a new iron curtain in Eastern Europe.


What particularly concerns me about Putin is that he has no interest in cloaking his desires with feigned adherence to Marxism, but is rather interested purely in power and aggressive expansion. His predecessors in Russian rule, whether the Soviets or Tsars, at least had some limits within which they were required to operate. Putin believes in no such limits. His only concern is if he can get away with it. With weak leadership in Europe and non-existent leadership in the United States, he can get away with a great deal indeed.

We have a man sitting in the Oval Office -- who I now officially refuse to refer to as a President -- who threatens to shoot down aircraft belonging to our allies while leaving our borders alarmingly porous to terrorists and foreign agents, all while reducing our military forces to a nub. If we're lucky, this business with Putin will simply reinstate the Cold War -- which will be cold comfort for those eastern European states who will be sucked back into totalitarian rule.

If we're unlucky... well, none of us will be worrying about it for too long. You can be certain that $700 billion rearmament program isn't just building tanks, planes and rifles. The Soviets were convinced that first strike nuclear warfare was a winnable proposition under the right circumstances -- those circumstances being an overwhelming warhead count coupled with effective ABM systems. Putin was among the hardest of the hardline Soviets, and was thus very familiar with first strike scenarios. He has proven one thing over the last few years: he's not afraid to throw the first punch. Like all bullies, he'll keep pushing until he's forcefully stopped.

So congratulations are in order for Mr Soetoro and his neo-Anarchist handlers like Bill Ayers; they've managed to severely weaken the United States and bring the world to the brink of World War III. I'm starting to think that was their goal all along.

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