Better dead than red

Better dead than red ...

... justified our wars from 1947 to 1975 in SE Asia. More coups in S America to put in right-wing tyrants who love killing non-violent opponents like me!

 

Our lack of magnanimity after Moscow ended the Cold War, led to us showing no empathy for the feelings of Russian nationalists as we put the boot in and welcomed the former USSR satellite states into the American led Western camp.

 

The enormous, formal military alliance of NATO has now shown up even more how Russia lost almost everything and everyone to the USA and Europe. No wonder Putin has turned away from America and tried to balance things up with the BRIC nations - Brazil, Russia, India, China. He's building a kind of 'empire', only to counterbalance our All Dominating and Powerful American led Western Empire. 

 

NATO should have gone when the Warsaw Pact disbanded, I believe. There would still have been an informal, unofficial coalition of like-minded Western, liberal democracies in very nearly all of Europe. And it would have been far less provocative to proud Russians like Putin. 

 

Next, our greedy grabbing of Ukraine in the 'Revolution of Dignity' has been catastrophic for Ukraine and Russia. Western loving Ukrainian hotheads were to blame wanting to be part of the American/Western Empire. They revolted when they should have waited for the next General Election to  be rid of Yanukovych.

 

Our Empire could not resist egging them on. Encouraging them to come over to our side. Now 11 years of war and another decade to come I expect. The folly and idiocy of we humans!

 

We've already had 1,000 years of intermittent war between Russia and Ukraine. Read Sixsmith. Violent humans are an absolute menace, whether they be the Greatest Briton who has ever lived (Churchill) or Netanyahu/Putin. We're all the same from generation to generation.