Comment

Seth Meyers: Jan. 6 Panel Grills Giuliani for Nine Hours; Kellyanne Conway's New Book

73
lawhawk5/24/2022 5:01:55 am PDT

re: #7 JC1

F*ck Kissinger with a rusty bayonet.

finance.yahoo.com

A crushing defeat of Russia is precisely what will help with long term stability across Europe and Asia.

Let me count the ways:

Russia’s weapons are revealed to be paper tigers, and can be easily defeated with Western weapons. Russia loses foreign weapons business.

Russia’s ability to reinstitute an empire is shattered, as it can’t expand its sphere of influence due to lack of military and other capabilities. Stopping Russia in Ukraine is the way to end Russian threat to all of Europe and Asia. China too can stop Russia in the East, and since China’s weapons often look to Russian/Soviet design, this too shows where/how their failings are. Russian weapons failures also put India in a delicate position since they’ve built out their military using a whole lot of Russian gear.

Russia’s soft power is degraded given resurgence of NATO and EU, which shows that Europe can not only fend for itself, but that a strong US partner can help deal with larger scale threats in a holistic way.

Kissinger still thinks that we’re dealing with a bipolar global paradigm. He’s right, except that he got the wrong country in the counterveiling balance to the US.

It’s China and the US. With a strong US and a strengthening EU, you’d have a tripartite system, and that would help balance power.

Oh, and Fuck Kissinger. I studied his PhD thesis, and even now, he ignores the lessons from his own earlier work.