America and Britain traded Eastern Europe to Stalin, their WWII ally of necessity, for “peace” in 1945. What followed was 45 years of living in fear and fighting proxy wars in Indochina, Africa, and South America. The Russians supported overtly and covertly America’s adversaries from the Red Army Brigade terrorists in Germany, communist expansion in Vietnam and Nicaragua, the list goes on. Millions of Eastern Europeans were drafted into their armed forces and trained to killed Americans in a potential conflict. America drove Soviet Russia into bankruptcy and the world breathed easier for a while. Eastern Europeans willingly and eagerly joined the Western economic and military alliances. Their soldiers are equipped with weapons purchased from American manufacturers, they are some of the most loyal and reliable of America’s allies. After a short period of relative freedom, the Russian people traded their liberty for the illusionary stability of authoritarianism. Putin has chosen (contrary to his official propaganda and his useful idiots’ claims) to take his empire back onto the path of confrontation with the West. Ever since being handed power, he has been obsessed with destroying Ukrainian statehood and national identity, the most important step towards his explicitly stated goal of rebuilding the Muscovite empire.
America and Britain traded Eastern Europe to Stalin, their WWII ally of necessity, for “peace” in 1945. What followed was 45 years of living in fear and fighting proxy wars in Indochina, Africa, and South America. The Russians supported overtly and covertly America’s adversaries from the Red Army Brigade terrorists in Germany, communist expansion in Vietnam and Nicaragua, the list goes on. Millions of Eastern Europeans were drafted into their armed forces and trained to killed Americans in a potential conflict. America drove Soviet Russia into bankruptcy and the world breathed easier for a while. Eastern Europeans willingly and eagerly joined the Western economic and military alliances. Their soldiers are equipped with weapons purchased from American manufacturers, they are some of the most loyal and reliable of America’s allies.
After a short period of relative freedom, the Russian people traded their liberty for the illusionary stability of authoritarianism. Putin has chosen (contrary to his official propaganda and his useful idiots’ claims) to take his empire back onto the path of confrontation with the West. Ever since being handed power, he has been obsessed with destroying Ukrainian statehood and national identity, the most important step towards his explicitly stated goal of rebuilding the Muscovite empire.