Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Cold War Xenophobia Returns and is Applauded by the Left and the MSM" video.

  1. We're seeing a media blitz reminiscent of the run-up to the Iraq War. But I think people have wised up - or some of them, at least. I remember being surprised at how many liberals were all fired up to mess up Iraq. How the media universally beat the drums, and how cool it was for them to be "embedded with the troops," fawningly reporting on our heroes in the desert, in lock step with what George II wanted to do. I never was, because I knew the U.S. didn't have the economic will to follow through on the killing with a serious Marshall Plan. As I expected, they half-assed the Peace, destroying military assets and seizing key strongpoints, but we really didn't commit enough troops or humanitarian and institution-building resources to get 'em up 'n' runnin', so we could set 'em loose, with the memory of the destruction that'd rain down when they flouted international law and the sovereignty of their neighbors.
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  2. Russians are essentially defensive-minded. You don't like to see them expanding beyond their more or less natural boundaries at the expense of sovereign nations around them, and yet, if you look at their history, they are profoundly paranoid about the stupid mistakes of crazy governments on their borders - FOR GOOD REASON. It's easy to forget just how BAD the war with Germany was. And before him Napoleon tried the same crazy shit. Both were defeated mainly by the long distances between USSR/Russian border and Moscow. The Iron Curtain was a turrible thing, but putting myself in their shoes, after the bloodiest war, EVER, that I WON, DECISIVELY, you're damn right I want to put vassal states between myself and those nutcase Europeans, especially. Their natural borders sufficed to stop Napoleon. Mechanized Armor pushed the reach of wars of aggression clear to the Western edge of the former Warsaw Pact. Recall, Hitler, with 1940s technology, laid siege to Moscow by winter of 1941. With modern weapons, the Russians probably have their sights on all of Europe, just as they've always had their sights on obtaining deep, warm-water ports throughout their history, which reminds me of the Crimean War with Great Britain (warmwater access to the Mediterranean). I mention this, because the recent furor over annexation of the Crimea seems to ignore the fact that Crimea was about 90% Russian, before the annexation, and it's territory Russia has owned, off and on, for a very long time. So we get our panties in a bind, when a country that basically gave back all of Eastern Europe in 1988 looks to re-absorb territory that's 90% Russian, ethnically, anyway, clear on the other side of the planet from us and RIGHT on their access to the Mediterranean. It's not a perfect port, because access to the Med is through Turkish-controlled the Bosporous and Dardanelles Straits. So you know the Russians will always prefer to own it or make damn sure the Turks don't mess with their access. But by comparison to the U.S., with WONDERFUL ports on the West Atlantic and East Pacific have no such insecurities. And look at what's happening in Europe, and how patently insane those policies are. Just the sorts of policies to CREATE situations in which nutcases come to power, who want to KILL people. They make gov't too BIG to be NICE, and then that BIG GOV'T TURNS MEAN, because of how those collectivist (precursor to identity politics (or vice versa)) ideas polarize the population, between those who take + those who are kind and those who are sick of paying everybody else's bills. How long do you think it'd take a fascist regime in Europe to decide Russia was the Great Satan, and turn their eye Eastward? It's the ones actually doing the work and paying in, while others take out who end up being the dangerous ones. And the leftists' good intentions create the conditions that weaponize the resentment. And because the ones taking out are spending other people's money on yet OTHER people, the waste and corruption are inevitable, given enough time, and enough chances for idiot climbers to rise to decision-making positions. In other words, Europeans are nuts, and they've dragged us into 2 world wars, already.
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  3. Reds under the bed. Yes, Trump took the proper line. I'm a little hinky on supplying arms to Ukraine, but it's not like we're sticking up for them, so much as allowing them to defend themselves.
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  4. I think Putin understands this kind of thing, and, being Russian, he's not crazy, even though he's got to always be worried that OUR leaders and elites will GO crazy. Trump performed Job 1, letting Putin know that Priority #1 is for us to not NUKE one another. Meanwhile, our press wanted him to call Putin an evil lying bastard to his face, and return to America in a righteous and rightful state of outrage, justifying more stupid stuff, like killing each other. Idiots. Trump played it just right. Stern policies already in place, and an "I believe you, but I must also believe my own intelligence community. You're a good guy. Trust and verify." Exact right tone.
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  5. Lots of common ground on nonproliferation and preserving our shared values (Putin's an Orthodox Christian!), which is but a stone's throw from Enlightenment Values and Limited Government, i.e., LIBERTY.
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