The analysts are all over Russia and Vladimir Putin now.
Front Page Mag weighs in...
On October 3, 1938, Adolf Hitler’s armies marched into Sudetenland, a part of Czechoslovakia. Germany said it was responding to separatist demands from the large German population that lived there and that she was merely honoring their desire for reunion with Germany. Hitler’s tanks took over a vital part of an independent country that had largely rejected his overtures and allied itself with the West. Neither Britain nor France nor the United States did a thing to stop him.Like I said in the last post, it appears that history is repeating itself. See:
On August 7, 2008, Vladimir Putin’s armies marched into South Ossetia, a part of Georgia. Russia said it was responding to separatist demands from the large Russian population that lived there and that she was merely honoring their desire for reunion with Russia. Putin’s tanks took over a vital part of an independent country that had largely rejected his overtures and allied itself with the West. Neither Britain nor France nor the United States did a thing to stop him.I've been thinking that Vladimir's agenda is like that, too.Encouraged by his occupation of Sudetenland, Hitler continued his designs on Czechoslovakia itself and invaded the rest of the nation a few months later.
Will the Free World allow itself to, once again, be paralyzed, unwilling to do anything but utter strong words and hold meetings, practice "diplomacy" and carry on and on and on... at least until the next Pearl Harbor or something?
Listen to the Left now. I actually have some Leftist commentors coming in to cheer on Russia, just as they'd be cheering on the Third Reich...
I doubt that the leadership of the Left (hey, Soros, Strong et al., that means you, pals!) will be ordering any "demonstrations" with bizarre-looking, brainwashed, politically-correct, "open-minded" youth carrying picket signs equating Putin to Hitler, either. Why not? Well, talk about useless idiots; as if they're going to hurt their own cause! (Don't forget who gave us the Left since the USSR began its interference in the Free World)
Just like I said yesterday...
If the United States appeases Russia now, it will pay the same price British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain paid in the 1930s. This invasion must not be allowed to stand or, at the very least, it must be contained to South Ossetia and not allowed to lap over into the rest of Georgia.If we, however, just flap our gums at Russia and Vladimir now, then Vladimir will interpret it as a green light to continue his imperialist march, annexing further territory and amassing anew the Evil Empire's might, threatening the Free World again with nuclear war...
Further analysis worth reading, to help you cut through all the confusion, competing claims and incoming Russkie propaganda: Russian Imperialism - It's Back
Just listen to the Left take those last two words as their cue to say, "American imperialism...", as if America was anything like Russia! Just listen to the Left's apparent mental disorder and failure (why, because they can't or won't?) to see differences between starkly different entities.While it is still not clear whether it was Georgia that escalated the conflict first, or Russia through its local puppets and mercenaries who provoked Tbilisi, the basic fact remains that the fighting is taking place exclusively within the internationally recognized borders of Georgia. Despite the Western media’s persistent description of the Russian military in South Ossetia as “peacekeepers,” they are and have always been nothing but an occupation and invading force.
In fact, Russia has used the same method for years elsewhere. In Transnistria, a secessionist area of Moldova, Russian “peacekeepers” have kept the local gang of unreconstructed Stalinist smugglers since the early 1990s, and in Abkhazia, another breakaway Georgian territory, it is the same “peacekeepers” and mercenaries who have ethnically cleansed the Georgian majority and de facto annexed the area.
The pattern has been the same in Abkhazia and South Ossetia – Russia has unilaterally granted citizenship to the secessionists and then, when Georgia has tried to recover its territorial integrity, claimed that it has the right, and duty, to defend its “citizens” - a claim repeated on August 8th by President Dmitry Medvedev, and reminiscent of the old Soviet “struggle for peace” in places like Afghanistan.
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What the world should keep in mind is that the present conflict is not over the 3,900 square kilometers of mostly barren South Ossetian mountains but over the fate of Georgia as an independent state and, even more importantly, over the West’s ability, or willingness, to take a stand against the blatant revival of historic Russian imperialism.
The Left is going to stand up for Russia. Just as they stood up for the Nazis... until the Nazis attacked Russia. The Left likes Nazis, at least until they attack Russians/communists.
Like hell the Left will tolerate the Free World taking any concrete action to push back the Russian Bear. The Left can be counted on to make it as hard as possible for our national leaders to decide to do the right thing.
And I suspect that the mainstream media may well, notwithstanding what we've seen so far, take Russia's side. I'd hope not, however.
I guess some Leftists will probably accuse me of "hatemongering" against Russians now, of being a Russiaphobe and so on... right, Terry, Peter? ;) They'll probably ask me if I personally know any people of Russian heritage, if I have any Russian friends. As if simply knowing a couple of Russian-descent folks will tell me a damn thing about Russian imperialism and its threat to the Free World, to freedom, democracy, the rule of law and human rights... Sheesh, such useless idiots, those Leftists... Oh, wait! Maybe I'm wrong; after all, the Left thinks it's ok to speak the plain, nasty truth about evildoers... so long as the evildoers are white... so maybe, just maybe the Left will allow itself to condemn Russia and call for its pushback via war? Nah!
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