Eric Arthur Blair
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- Jul 21, 2015
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I'm sorry but as much as I usually endorse Tucker Carlson he's just wrong here.View attachment 614861
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Is America "Demo cracy"???
Carlson on Monday drove home an argument that has lingered on the fringes of the conservative movement for some time — that the United States and the West invited this war with their support for admitting Ukraine into NATO, a step that Russia finds unacceptable.
To be clear, the idea that NATO expansion into countries such as Ukraine is provocative and might even be a bad idea is not a fringe position; it has long been espoused, dating to prominent, establishment foreign policy voices in the 1990s. But Carlson took things a good few conspiratorial steps further, arguing that the push for NATO was deliberately intended to provoke this war.
Carlson said it was “obvious” that “getting Ukraine to join NATO was the key to inciting war with Russia.” He noted that Vice President Harris was sent to Europe as Russia massed troops on Ukraine’s borders and that she said, “I appreciate and admire President [Volodymyr] Zelensky’s desire to join NATO.”
It's a Cold War move expanding NATO to Ukraine and even other nations that were in the former sphere
of the Soviet Union.
And much like Communists occupying Cuba and Venezuela (Biden said and did nothing about this
and recognized Juan Guaido as the new Hugo Chavez in Venezuela) we realize absent any overt signs
of ominous war, such as Khrushchev moving nuclear missiles into Cuba, we cannot compel other nations
to defer to our borders like a dog reacting to an electric fence.
I'm amazed at all the people who are sympathetic to Russia's demands that clearly any nation that
wants to belong to NATO must defer to Vlad Putin's wishes.
Carlson sounds like he is part of this new Cold Warrior mentality.
Putin has no right to tell us we cannot accept Ukraine as a NATO member and even as Putin wages war
on Ukraine, because they insist they will do what's right for Ukraine and not the dictator of Russia,
the very fact that Putin will bomb hospitals and nurseries to assert his self declared right to invade and control
what nearby nations will do only affirms that Ukraine is doing the right thing.
Putin has already taken three healthy chunks off Ukraine and now goes for more.
When will he stop? How much more does he want (obviously he wants it ALL).
If the world stands by and watches it happen this is just like Europe appeasing Hitler all over again
and if Putin wins then China is emboldened to follow suit and grab what they want too.
Carlson has taken a serious misstep claiming it's within a monster like Vlad Putin's right to control the lives and destinies of so many people outside of Russia. I'm wondering how he went so wrong.
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