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In reply to the discussion: 5 Reasons Why Leftists Should Defend Russia | New Eastern Outlook [View all]arendt
(5,078 posts)Any time a thread appears on DU that is not 100% anti-Putin, you are right there, in the face of the poster. (BTW - I reject the personalization of the conflict. Any Russian leader would have to take actions in response to what is going on right next door in Ukraine. It is utterly irrelevant, from a realpolitik POV, to drag in gay rights. It only makes public acceptance of reaching some kind of compromise harder - which is exactly the intention of the personalization.)
I have yet to hear you admit that there is any legitimacy whatsoever in the idea that there is any other narrative but your own. In fact, you are the pilot of the lead plane to bomb anyone who expresses such a narrative.
You completely deny the neocon presence in this whole situation while demonizing the other side. You minimize or completely whitewash the neo-Nazi element in the political and military situation. You display the kind of kneejerk, murderous, counter-productive, anti-Russian rage that Curtis LeMay did.***
You ignore the fact that our military budget is bigger than the rest of the world combined, that it is ten times bigger than Russia's. Instead of admitting that the least 25 years of NATO expansion have pushed Russia to the wall, geopolitically, you insist they are the ones with expansionist desires that must be "contained".
Several times in this thread, people have clutched their pearls when I have said that WW3 is a possibility if we do not stop doubling-down on our failed policy to "contain" Russian "aggression". So, I ask, what is your endgame? Do you insist we continue to raise the ante with Russia - and since they don't dare back down, slide down the slippery slope towards a direct (and potentially nuclear) confrontation? What would cause you to stop demanding, ala McCain channeling CLM, that we "bomb, bomb, bomb"?
What does your policy (whatever it is) offer the Novorussians?
No bayonets and battleships from me.
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*** (I do not say you are not entitled to that rage. Maybe CLM was entitled to his rage too; I do not know his personal story. CLM was a war hero and Chairman of JCS, even though he himself said that if we had lost WW2, he would have been tried as a war criminal.)