Comments by "Edward McLaughlin" (@edwardmclaughlin7935) on "Niall Ferguson: Are we the Soviets now?" video.

  1. It is frightening to hear from such an esteemed observer as Niall Ferguson, when he clearly signals that he shares Lynsey Graham's 'best dollars we could spend' attitude, whereby the US/UK pact pumps in the funding so that Ukrainians can do the dying. He speaks as though firmly in the grip of the hackneyed view that Putin is the new Hitler and this is our 1938 moment all over again - that the only way to deal with Putin is eradication, otherwise he will rampage all the way to Lisbon. This is simply an untenable proposition, given that his huge efforts have brought such small territorial gains, fighting just the one army. He shows that he is totally oblivious to the predicament in which Russia finds itself. No mention is made of NATO's relentless move eastward and the positioning of missiles and military bases right up to Russia's border - some fifteen US bases are being installed just in Finland, for example. How is Russia supposed to react to that? How would the US react to such encroachments on its borders? Sure, they even have the Monroe Doctrine that categorically prohibits such developments. The Biden administration's dealings with the Russians over Ukraine, are described by Ferguson as 'appeasement'. How, in any way, can appeasement take the form of the repeated, stated aim of dismantling the Russian Federation by using Ukrainian forces as a proxy? The bottom line is that the US/UK pact can and will survive if Russia achieves its objective in Ukraine; while Russia knows that it is in a fight for the very existence of its sovereignty, and that the push from the West seeks to wrest power from Russians and to seize the land mass of Russia, with all its resources so as to then gear-up for the march on that other perceived enemy. Is China supposed to be too unsophisticated to recognise this?
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