Full article:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/06/patrick-j-buchanan/natos-anti-russian-aggression/
Excerpt:
For the House has passed and Sen. John McCain is moving a bill to provide Ukraine with anti-armor weapons, mortars, grenade launchers and ammunition. The administration could not spend more than half of the $300 million budgeted, unless 20 percent is earmarked for offensive weapons.
Congress is voting to give Kiev a green light and the weaponry to attempt a recapture of Donetsk and Luhansk from pro-Russian rebels, who have split off from Ukraine, and Crimea, annexed by Moscow.
If the Pentagon is indeed moving U.S. troops and heavy weapons into Poland and the Baltic States, and is about to provide arms to Kiev to attack the rebels in East Ukraine, we are headed for a U.S.-Russian confrontation unlike any seen since the Cold War.
A US military historian once remarked that nuclear war is inevitable but that in his opinion nuclear war will start from
a series of miscalculations rather than a designed intent.
If you read the postings under yahoo news articles it is clear most voting Americans think the USA could easily defeat Russia using all modern military weaponry. Apparently, this is testament as to why democracy is preferable to sanity and common sense.
I really don't think Russians want war. Least of all to be bogged down in wars that cost lots of money. I think Putin and Russians want to remake Russia great in their vision of what "greatness" entails. I think in part that means for them to have strong national security, to build a robust, resilient economy, and to have regional and international influence.
Does that sound so drastically different than what Obama and Americans claim they want for the USA?
NATO should have never pressed so far into the former Soviet region. Okay, its like gang bangers and cartels that are never satisfied with the turf they have but want to continually expand until they own 100%. That's exactly what it's like. I don't care how many Americans get offended. Okay, albeit complexities exist, multiple layers of issues are involved in various questions or problems geopolitically. But really, a lot of this is not rocket science. If adults were not so juvenile, if adults in DC were better than Chicago teenage gang bangers or adult crackheads, then they'd be able to peacefully resolve differences with Russia. But they're not better and in fact are often worse.
I should be the one constantly in beef with people on the streets of Milwaukee to streets of Kiev and Moscow. But I'm not. I'm not a juvenile. I'm an adult. Even in threatening environments far more dangerous for me than Russia is for anyone in the USA or Western Europe, I still stay out of beefs and drama
nearly always.
The Ukraine isn't even as simple a black and white issue as the USA likes to make out. I'm no scholar on that region or country but from what little I do know
there are no innocent "good guys" over there. They're all "bad" on both the Western leaning and Russian leaning sides. Mobsters on both sides. Corruption on both sides.
While I don't believe the Russians want war (as Western puppet masters keep claiming), and really want to do
business (supposedly, that's what Americans want but they vote for war more than any other nation on earth), I do think Putin and Russia will use nukes if they perceive Russia to be cornered with no other options.
