The fascinating thing about the #Ukraine war is the sheer number of top #Western strategic thinkers and scholars who have warned for years that it was coming if we continued down the path. No-one listened to them and now we have fools putting the blame solely on Russia and Putin.
A small compilation of some of these warnings, from #HenryKissinger to #Mearsheimer are presented here (compiled by RnaudBertrand).
WESTERN STRATEGIC THINKERS WHO HAD WARNED OF UKRAINIAN CONFLICT
Calling paleocon Pat Buchanan and Russian philosopher Aleksandr Dugin “Western strategic thinkers” is a priceless hoot. Robert McNamara brought us Vietnam. Kissinger put us into Cambodia and the coup against Allende happened on his watch. Many of the rest might have a cogent point to make if Hungary, Poland, and the Baltics are seen as mere pawns lacking agency. Were they forced to join NATO at gun point or did they have to make an effort? Would Hungary and Poland prefer to revert to the Warsaw Pact?
Since when did the wishes of small nations like Poland, Hungary or any without the means to defend themselves against great powers matter at all? The USA actually PUSHED North Korea into becoming a nuclear power. Now they have the nerve to call this "Russian Agreession", it is such a stupid statement, but the American BORG lap it up.
When you corner the bear, don't expect it to lay down and die at your feet. No one has ever succeeded in conquering and holding Russia and this time around Putin has said that an invasion would be met with a nuclear response. Keep pushing and that is what you will get . . . .
@Archeus_Lore So you are saying the wishes of Poland or Hungary mean nothing to you? Should they get bulldozed over by Putin’s ego? Are you what they used to call a tankie? Seems you got sucked into a Borg cube that former Russian satellites want no part of for very good reason.
North Korea’s paranoid great leaders pushed themselves into acquiring nukes. I guess you could give a shit less about South Korea too. Or Japan.
The old Russia called and wants its obsolete tsarism back where it belongs locked in a historical archive. Ironically on a nonbeliever board you are pushing for Russian Orthodoxy and the return of Byzantinism.
@Scott321 Damn, you are saying some seriously stupid things. "So you are saying the wishes of Poland or Hungary mean nothing to you?" Do you think that how I feel about the wishes of Poland or Hungary are in any way going to change a fucking thing? As for North Korea, you seem to have forgotten just how much the USA destroyed of North Korea with bombs, and the resulting reaction of those who were fortunate enough to live through it, and I doubt you have ever even contemplated what they went through in any serious way.
"The old Russia called and wants its obsolete tsarism back where it belongs locked in a historical archive. Ironically on a nonbeliever board you are pushing for Russian Orthodoxy and the return of Byzantinism."
Another dumb statement. You do not know me, and yet you make clueless claims about me. Keep trying though . . . .
Even if all the warnings are true...it doesn't matter. If the world is headed to a nuclear showdown Putin and Russia will still loose. Maybe the world needs a good enema anyway. Time to wipe the shit off the asshole of the world I say...