Your essay -- once again -- a vital corrective to the MSM and status quo nonsense. Why I am a devoted reader, even if not always in full agreement on all points. One respectful point about Finland and energy. They are a world leader in 21st century nuclear power. Highly efficient plants, and they seem to have come up with a waste stor…
Your essay -- once again -- a vital corrective to the MSM and status quo nonsense. Why I am a devoted reader, even if not always in full agreement on all points. One respectful point about Finland and energy. They are a world leader in 21st century nuclear power. Highly efficient plants, and they seem to have come up with a waste storage solution second to none. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYpiK3W-g_0&t=12s
So they are not dealing in Green Deal delusions which rely on conflict rare earth minerals or those stockpiles controlled by China. I do give the Finns serious credit for that, as well as for the general quality of their school systems. That said, I'm with John J. Mearsheimer and many others on NATO -- or rather, the USA leadership of NATO -- as a general risk to both Eurasia and by extension the world. Except for USA ambitions, NATO could have -- and likely would have -- ended shortly after the reunification of Germany and the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Reading a decent scholarly tome on that which given your background you might well already know: Sarotte, M. E. (2021). Not One Inch More: America, Russia, and the Making of Post–Cold War Stalemate. Yale University Press.
The one part of the history I'm sure you know, because you've posted on it before. In return for his cooperation, the USA leadership promised Mikhail Gorbachev "not one inch more" of NATO expansionism. Well, if anyone wants some free maps with some background context on what happened next: https://rpubs.com/Thom_JH/Mearsheimer_NATO Suffice to say, NATO expanded considerably -- starting in 1999.
No Marshall Plan for the former Soviet Union states, and the economically devastated ant intellectual property-looted Russia (thank you, Yeltsin) with sharply declining life-expectancies was NOT under the USA's watch to be economically or politically integrated with the rest of Europe. Even if this what many Western Europeans nations wanted at that time. We wanted to or needed to keep Russia -- a weakened shadow of its former WWII / Soviet Union imperial self -- as an enemy.
Keep in mind, please, if it were not for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we would have one clear candidate for the rogue nation of the 21st century: the USA. Why? To start, the War on Terror in Iraq, Libya, and Syria -- all on false pretenses. The 20-year war in Afghanistan, for which the primary objectives had been accomplished by year 2. The global economic collapse of 2008 caused by American elite greed and lack of government oversight.
And the Covid-19 pandemic, which like the old-fashioned I-phone, was evidently manufactured in China -- but for which the designs and the money came from the USA. No Fauci funding of Dazsak, whose earlier proposal based on Baric's chimerical virus plans was REJECTED by DARPA but forwarded to Wuhan, and we have no reason to believe this pandemic happens.
So, let's do the list. A series of forever wars, a global economic meltdown (2008), a global economic crisis again with a pandemic and public health crisis (2019-2021), and now -- because of the desire to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian rather than insisting on a negotiated resolution -- a risk of global food shortages and even famine. A risk even of WWIII.
This may sound perverse to you and your readers, but I consider myself an American citizen who is loyal to the constitutional republic and to the people. My point being: the 21st century has NOT been our best century.
Your essay -- once again -- a vital corrective to the MSM and status quo nonsense. Why I am a devoted reader, even if not always in full agreement on all points. One respectful point about Finland and energy. They are a world leader in 21st century nuclear power. Highly efficient plants, and they seem to have come up with a waste storage solution second to none. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYpiK3W-g_0&t=12s
So they are not dealing in Green Deal delusions which rely on conflict rare earth minerals or those stockpiles controlled by China. I do give the Finns serious credit for that, as well as for the general quality of their school systems. That said, I'm with John J. Mearsheimer and many others on NATO -- or rather, the USA leadership of NATO -- as a general risk to both Eurasia and by extension the world. Except for USA ambitions, NATO could have -- and likely would have -- ended shortly after the reunification of Germany and the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Reading a decent scholarly tome on that which given your background you might well already know: Sarotte, M. E. (2021). Not One Inch More: America, Russia, and the Making of Post–Cold War Stalemate. Yale University Press.
The one part of the history I'm sure you know, because you've posted on it before. In return for his cooperation, the USA leadership promised Mikhail Gorbachev "not one inch more" of NATO expansionism. Well, if anyone wants some free maps with some background context on what happened next: https://rpubs.com/Thom_JH/Mearsheimer_NATO Suffice to say, NATO expanded considerably -- starting in 1999.
No Marshall Plan for the former Soviet Union states, and the economically devastated ant intellectual property-looted Russia (thank you, Yeltsin) with sharply declining life-expectancies was NOT under the USA's watch to be economically or politically integrated with the rest of Europe. Even if this what many Western Europeans nations wanted at that time. We wanted to or needed to keep Russia -- a weakened shadow of its former WWII / Soviet Union imperial self -- as an enemy.
Keep in mind, please, if it were not for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we would have one clear candidate for the rogue nation of the 21st century: the USA. Why? To start, the War on Terror in Iraq, Libya, and Syria -- all on false pretenses. The 20-year war in Afghanistan, for which the primary objectives had been accomplished by year 2. The global economic collapse of 2008 caused by American elite greed and lack of government oversight.
And the Covid-19 pandemic, which like the old-fashioned I-phone, was evidently manufactured in China -- but for which the designs and the money came from the USA. No Fauci funding of Dazsak, whose earlier proposal based on Baric's chimerical virus plans was REJECTED by DARPA but forwarded to Wuhan, and we have no reason to believe this pandemic happens.
So, let's do the list. A series of forever wars, a global economic meltdown (2008), a global economic crisis again with a pandemic and public health crisis (2019-2021), and now -- because of the desire to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian rather than insisting on a negotiated resolution -- a risk of global food shortages and even famine. A risk even of WWIII.
This may sound perverse to you and your readers, but I consider myself an American citizen who is loyal to the constitutional republic and to the people. My point being: the 21st century has NOT been our best century.