In 2001 when the United States was preparing to invade Afghanistan Vladimir Putin reached out to George W. Bush and agreed to provide logistical aid and political clout to convince the Uzbeks to let their country be a staging ground for the invasion of Afghanistan.\u00a0 Bush made some statement about looking into Putin\u2019s soul.\u00a0 Whatever that meant there has never been any indication that we ever considered a way to have a positive relationship with Russia.\u00a0 And after the numerous CIA color revolutions in the former Soviet lands and now with the existential threat that we have handed the Russians in Ukraine I think we must consider we\u2019ve made them permanent implacable enemies.\u00a0 And that\u2019s not a good thing.\u00a0 The Russians are not the Iraqis or even the Iranians.\u00a0 In addition to a nuclear arsenal, they are intelligent, resourceful and highly vindictive.\u00a0 That\u2019s not a good combination in an enemy.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not thinking ahead to nuclear Armageddon.\u00a0 Let\u2019s leave that scenario for another day.\u00a0 But what Russia might do is make us pay a price at home.\u00a0 What occurs to me is our porous southern border.\u00a0 And come to think of it, all of Europe\u2019s borders.\u00a0 The United States and Western Europe have spent the last two decades saying that the world is welcome to traipse into their countries at will.\u00a0 Well, what if the Russians start sending some of our middle eastern \u201cfriends\u201d with some munitions they provide and direct them to those borders.\u00a0 That would be a very frightening thing.\u00a0 Or how about men who claim to be Ukrainian refugees?\u00a0 Could we really know that they weren\u2019t Russians?\u00a0 I kind of doubt it.<\/p>\n
There hasn\u2019t been much in the news lately about Al Qaeda or any of the other crazies that used to be in the news 24\/7.\u00a0 But I believe they\u2019re all mostly still there and now we\u2019ve left them several billions of dollars\u2019 worth of war materiel in Afghanistan and all that\u2019s lacking is a little seed money and plans.\u00a0 And let\u2019s not forget the Mexican Drug Cartels.\u00a0 They aren\u2019t our friends.\u00a0 They have already set up shop in the border states and elsewhere and certainly wouldn\u2019t object to some arms smuggling if the price was right.\u00a0 Things like infrastructure sabotage and downing airliners seem like no-brainers.\u00a0 How exactly would we find a needle of determined saboteurs when they\u2019ll be hiding inside of a haystack of millions of illegal aliens that we\u2019ve allowed to flood our country.\u00a0 I think the answer is we can\u2019t.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re providing the Ukrainians with top-of-the-line American arms and we are assuming that the Russians won\u2019t pay us back.\u00a0 Somehow that seems absurd.\u00a0 We\u2019ve attempted to starve the Russians out with sanctions and we give the Ukrainians real time location of the Russian senior staff for missile targeting and we think they\u2019ll just sit back and take it.\u00a0 That seems incredibly na\u00efve.<\/p>\n
In fact, I really wouldn\u2019t want to be Joe Biden, Lloyd Austin or General Mark Milley.\u00a0 They\u2019ve made this very personal for Vladimir Putin and his government.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think they\u2019re the kind who think of it as impersonal and just \u201cbusiness.\u201d\u00a0 I remember reading about the prosecution of the Chechen war.\u00a0 It was a dirty, nasty slog where vendettas and revenge were an integral part of winning.\u00a0 I would not be surprised to hear that kidnapping and torture became a part of this war.\u00a0 The Ukrainians have already declared a blacklist of American civilians that they consider targets for assassination.\u00a0 It would surprise me not at all that the Russians have something similar.<\/p>\n
So, the neocons have their war.\u00a0 They hate the Russians viscerally and now the Russians hate us too.\u00a0 Brilliant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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