{"id":17835,"date":"2022-02-17T10:29:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T15:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=17835"},"modified":"2022-02-17T10:29:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T15:29:17","slug":"ukraine-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/17\/ukraine-really\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine?\u00a0 Really?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the classic Seinfeld episode,<\/a> those two morons Kramer and Newman are playing Risk on the subway.\u00a0 Kramer taunts Newman on the feeble nature of his position and he states that the Ukraine is weak.\u00a0 Where upon a Ukrainian \u00e9migr\u00e9 takes offense and smashes the board sending Kramer\u2019s armies flying in all directions.<\/p>\n

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If you look at a map of Europe Ukraine is a large country pressed between Russia and the former Soviet block countries.\u00a0 It has over 40,000,000 people living in it and among European countries only Russia has a larger area.\u00a0 It has also been a part of the Russian civilization in one form or another for a thousand years. \u00a0Thinking that the Russians in their current revitalized nationalism would allow the Ukraine to join NATO is a bit daft.\u00a0 The Russians can bring to bear enormous military pressure on the Ukraine.\u00a0 In addition, there is a very strong Russian minority living in the Ukraine.\u00a0 And NATO consists of countries that are not willing to send their armies into the Ukraine to fight the Russians toe to toe to save it.\u00a0 That leaves one other alternative.\u00a0 The United States would have to launch an all-out thermonuclear strike against Russia.\u00a0 Whether China would have to be nuked too is debatable.<\/p>\n

So, Dementia Joe is going to blow up the world for Ukraine.\u00a0 I think not.\u00a0 All that is going on is Biden is trying to distract the country from runaway inflation, COVID fascism, rampant crime in the cities and critical race theory being taught in the schools.<\/p>\n

I doubt that anyone takes this seriously other than the Neocons.\u00a0 They\u2019re probably practically orgasmic just contemplating Ukraine (and sure why not Belarus) joining NATO.\u00a0 But they\u2019re dopier than Newman and Kramer.<\/p>\n

To be totally honest twenty years ago when Russia was on the ropes with the Chechnya revolt in full swing, it might have been possible to consider a scenario where Russia collapsed into the arms of NATO and joined Europe as a client state.\u00a0 Those days are far behind us.\u00a0 A more likely future might see the Eastern European countries balancing their interests between the EU and Russia to get the best of both worlds.\u00a0 Western Europe has proven itself much more problematic in terms of intellectual and cultural freedom than these eastern countries imagined.\u00a0 With the Soviet Union gone, places like Hungary and the Czech Republic find threats to their freedom and cultural heritage coming from Brussels not Moscow.\u00a0 In fact, Russia\u2019s pro-Christian, anti-woke orientation is more inviting for these recently freed states than Western Europe\u2019s post-religious, pro-immigrant stance.<\/p>\n

And even the much wimpier claim that the West will employ trade and monetary sanctions against the Russians rings pretty hollow when you realize that Europe depends on natural gas to keep it from freezing in the winter and the Russians can increase the price of that commodity very easily.\u00a0 In fact, Germany is waiting very patiently for the Americans to wake up and realize that Russia is about to become Europe\u2019s energy provider with the Nord Stream 2 about to come on line.\u00a0 At that point, Germany will become a client of Russia and knowing the Germans they will prove very cordial neighbors.<\/p>\n

So, not that it really needs to be said but Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine is just noise.\u00a0 And that noise can\u2019t be heard over the screaming about the real problems that the Democrats have caused in this country.\u00a0 That tail just won\u2019t wag that dog this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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