{"id":104926,"date":"2016-08-30T13:45:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T21:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=104926"},"modified":"2016-08-31T06:23:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T14:23:13","slug":"russia-vs-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=104926","title":{"rendered":"Russia Vs USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comments<\/a>: * The correct question is whether Russia would ring the U.S. with military bases if it could. The answer is, of course, yes. There\u2019s nothing we\u2019re doing to Russia that Russia wouldn\u2019t do to us given the chance.<\/p>\n

Those of you who defend Russia, those of you who seem to implicitly think that a neutral, isolationist America is possible much less desirable, really, really don\u2019t get it. There is no balance in international relations. There is no fair play. There is no global social contract or independent, impartial body to play referee. The UN is a toothless tiger (by design, incidentally) and has no monopoly on any legitimate use of force.<\/p>\n

International relations is Game of Thrones. It\u2019s dominate or be dominated. If we don\u2019t do it, someone else will. There are legitimate arguments to be had over how best to do that, but make no mistake, that is the inherent nature of the game.<\/p>\n

And, for a nation as large as ours, neutrality simply isn\u2019t an option. This Buchanan-ite sentiment that we can somehow retreat within our borders and stay out of the global Great Game is childish and naive. It ain\u2019t 1850 anymore.<\/p>\n

With Putin and Russia, take the rose-colored glasses off. He\u2019s not a role model, and he\u2019s not your friend. Nor is he just a humble, reasonable Russian patriot seeking to defend his homeland. He\u2019s a dictator and a kleptocrat who plays by the rules of realpolitik. He, and Russia, will do whatever they can get away with in order to expand Russia\u2019s power and its borders. That\u2019s nothing unique to Russia, mind you\u2013China\u2019s doing the same thing in the South China Sea; that\u2019s just how the game is played.<\/p>\n

The biggest mistakes we made were: 1) not integrating Russia into the West\u2013and NATO\u2013in the 1990s the way we did Germany after WWII and 2) buying into the notion that the \u201cpath to Moscow\u201d ran through Kiev instead of the other way around. Had we had our shit together 25 years ago, NATO would extend across the Northern Hemisphere, the Arctic would be a Western lake, and there\u2019d be NATO bases all along Russia\u2019s southern frontier with American and Russian troops serving side by side. Alas, though, it\u2019s way too late for that.<\/p>\n

* And WASPs in The U.S are the worst in terms of lacking a tribal identity. The vast majority of them do not even exhibit English pride, let alone White pride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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