tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post9004292127723954017..comments2024-03-28T12:43:42.127-04:00Comments on Waddy Is Right: The West's Latest CrusadeNicholas Waddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14650770835328089297noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-53858478460105881012023-03-02T21:42:28.180-05:002023-03-02T21:42:28.180-05:00Jack, I quite agree: Russia was ALREADY fully &quo...Jack, I quite agree: Russia was ALREADY fully "contained", from the U.S. and NATO's perspective, before we decided to dabble in Ukraine. Basically, we for some reason won't take "yes" for an answer from the Russians, when the question is, "May we dominate the world, pretty please?" We insist on kicking them when they're down until they fight back (feebly) so we can enjoy rousting them some more. Ridiculous.<br /><br />Ray, Yeltsin's decision to liquidate the entire Russian/Soviet empire does rather smack of inebriation, and it certainly doesn't change the fact that Ukraine and Russia are historically and culturally attached at the hip. I continue to believe that Ukraine HAS NO FUTURE except in friendship with Russia.<br /><br />Agreed: Zelensky is an very odd figure to be leading Ukraine, and to be the West's front man in Eastern Europe. Politics makes strange bedfellows?<br /><br />Does nostalgia for communism color Western leftists' present anger at Russia? I dunno, but I've never seen any evidence of it. Remember: Russia today IS mostly socialist. I think all major industries are public. Are Russians heavily nationalistic? Yeah, I guess so, but so are Ukrainians, especially right now, and the Western Left loves every minute of it!!! I'm not sure there's any making sense of it, frankly. It's classic us-versus-them myopia and stupidity.Nicholas Waddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14650770835328089297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-66921846795194644932023-03-02T10:27:03.982-05:002023-03-02T10:27:03.982-05:00Sorry: Feliks not Alex.Sorry: Feliks not Alex.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-29128419049368602422023-03-02T10:21:24.172-05:002023-03-02T10:21:24.172-05:00Ray from Jack: Lots of factors to be considered: S...Ray from Jack: Lots of factors to be considered: Stalin certainly did play the Mother Russia card during WWII. But the Russians are usually pretty hard on other countries they rule. As a Georgian, could Stalin ( and his hellhound Polish secret police head Aleks Dzherzinski) have delighted in killing Russians? Was his collectivist effort an ideological or nationalist effort? He told Churchill that it was by far the most difficult task he had had in power and it certainly manifested a strong Marxist-Leninist conviction. I've seen monumentally naive american leftists displaying Stalin's portrait in their rooms; either that or that of "Che", a Stalinist murderer too. In many American intellectual circles it is possible to declare oneself a communist and be applauded. I think resentment of Russia for jumping ship by such people might be plausible but I am not certain of it. Yeah I was amazed that Russia let Ukraine go and though Yeltsin was a gutsy guy he did like his glass.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-69651721988126153292023-03-01T19:40:53.537-05:002023-03-01T19:40:53.537-05:00RAY TO JACK
Just because Russia supposedly renoun...RAY TO JACK<br /><br />Just because Russia supposedly renounced communism, does not mean that they renounce aggression. Remember that Stalin was far more a Russian Nationalist then he ever was a Bolshevik or Georgian, and he wanted to preserve The pre-1917 Revolution Empire, of which The Ukraine had been a part. Putin is also a Russian Nationalist, as are many Russians. Kind of strange that in 1991, Russia gave independence to that area so quickly. Must have been Boris Yeltsin did that when he was drunk (literally), which was frequently. Which begs another question: What the hell is a Jewish Stand up comedian doing as president of a Orthodox Christian country? Did he convert? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-44481970226876314972023-03-01T16:58:38.077-05:002023-03-01T16:58:38.077-05:00Dr.Waddy from Jack: I think leftists resent Russia...Dr.Waddy from Jack: I think leftists resent Russia for its having renounced communism. Before the Soviets fluffed the left concentrated its disdain on the US, which had earned its scorn by keeping Stalin and his brood in check. Fanatics have a special animus toward apostates and I wonder if that motivates the leftists who dominate academia, the msm and the administration in their ill considered support for Ukraine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-89686478481192714002023-02-28T16:37:09.855-05:002023-02-28T16:37:09.855-05:00Dr. Waddy from Jack: After the Battle of San Jacin...Dr. Waddy from Jack: After the Battle of San Jacinto, Texan commander Sam Houston wisely spared the life of Mexican dictator Santa Anna and may well thereby have secured Texan independence.Most Texans and probably Houston himself would have gloried in avenging the Alamo upon Santa Anna's very person but Houston courageously refrained. Believe me, if we had known in say, 1980, that Soviet communism would fall soon, in our astonishment and relief we might have thought it a serendipitous miracle subsequent to which we should follow up and forever eliminate Russian power to terrify the world. And that's just what we set out to do and we succeeded beyond any hope which would have seemed plausible in the Cold War. We completely transformed Stalin's shield of captive Eastern Europe and built Nato to such strength that Russia would not have dared provoke it, SAVE for a fundamental affront or an existential threat! So then we went and did just that by countenancing the possibility of Ukrainian membership in Nato. It was a rash, ill considered position for us to take. The result is tragedy which already suggests 1914.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com