Do you favor NATO enlargement to include countries such as Georgia and Ukraine?
What is your position on the Visa Waiver Program?s possible expansion to include other CEE countries, such as Poland?
What is your position on U.S. assistance to ensure energy security in the CEE region?
What is your position on the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)?"
Ultimately this is about one thing, starting warwith Russiaand China. For the last 50 years, the one demand all the emigre populations have is the destruction of Russia.
According to the Independent"Nato risks a nuclear war with Russia within a year if it does not increase its defence capabilities in the Baltic states, one of the alliance's most senior retired generals has said."
Disputin' Putin
Before going on, one point needs to be established. Is Russia a threat to its neighbors? If everyone is screaming about an imminent invasion of Poland, Estonia or Latvia has anyone asked why Russia would bother? Do they need the land? Is any of these countries a threat to Russia? Do they hold material or cultural treasures that Russia desperately needs even a little bit? Perhaps a recipe? Are they really being threatened?
Simple questions deserve simple answers.
Russia has no interest in attacking any of these countries. This Harvard University article puts the nails in that coffin. Russia really isn't interested and you don't have to take my word for it. If no one in these countries is worried about a Russian invasion, why go to war with Russia or risk nuclear war just because a few whiny nationalists want it? According to the corresponding monograph from the US Army War College, "It was the unanimous view [of academics] that overt military action by Russia against the Baltic States"is unlikely in the extreme ." Sorry Gen. Breedlove, check and mate. Your own military researchers think your credibility is a little light these days.
If Russia isn't a real threat why do all these countries hate Russia so much?
First and foremost is understanding where the CEE countries are coming from politically. Each country is a new country that came out of the Habsburg "Spring of Nations" and are Wilson Doctrine countries. All of these countries were bordering or close to bordering Imperial Russia, later the Soviet Union, and today the Russian Federation.
The governments were designed to be two-tier ultra-nationalist which means they bowed to a greater nationalist country. Picture Nazi Galicia under Nazi Germany. You can see that in their attitudes and actions from the run-up to WWII and onward. All of them sided with the more successful German Nationalists and most of the CEE country emigres in the US and Canada are Nazi Waffen SS families.
Nationalism and Fascism were set up as a prophylactic against Russian or Soviet influence inside each country and the corresponding Diasporas. If you ask why they hate Russia, you are more than likely going to get an unintelligible rant instead of a reason. They simply don't know and don't care to look at the history.
The problem in Donbass is the lack of a concrete Russian military response foiled any aggressive response from NATO and the west toward Russia.
The sagging impotence of the Ukrainian nationalist government in Kiev has produced a nation that failed nations like Somalia look down on. Poroshenko has successfully destroyed a country that was richer than Russia in 1991. Poroshenko's government has shown the worldhow rich white Ukrainians can steal billions of dollarsand be cheered on by the IMF, US Congress, US State Dept, and the USPresident. The price for their enrichment has been close to 50,000 dead in Ukraine.
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