By Mark Langfan, INN
Everybody saw “The Video.” What video? The video of then-Vice President Biden bragging that he had threatened to withhold billions of dollars in free US aid money if Ukraine didn’t fire the Ukrainian prosecutor who just so happened to be investigating the Ukrainian company in which his son Hunter was involved. Hunter, it seems, was reaping over $3,000,000 in “pay-to-play” payola for doing nothing and having zero experience in the company’s business affairs.
Even though allegedly, Ukrainian officials likely held tons of documentary evidence that Hunter Biden and Joe Biden conspired to defraud the American government with Biden Senior’s threats, nothing ever really surfaced. In fact, that is because then-President Donald Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives for actually following and properly executing the law and trying to uncover Ukrainian evidence of Biden-Sr.’s crimes.
Had Ukraine revealed that anti-Biden alleged criminal evidence, which it is claimed existed and still exists today, we would not be in the grips of what looks like a possible World War III. Today, even though,
- Ukraine is not part of NATO,
- holds absolutely zero strategic value to the United States, and
- holds huge strategic value to Russia,
the now President Biden is constantly escalating the conflict with Putin’s Russia to push the US into its first ever direct war with Russia. Disaster for America will come, and quickly, unless President Biden pulls the hurtling war-train off its tracks.
As a preliminary query, why does Biden – or America – care about the borders or “territorial integrity” of Crimea, or Eastern Ukraine for that matter? Biden certainly doesn’t care about the borders or “territorial integrity” of the United States of America. Shouldn’t defense, not only charity, begin at home? If President Biden and the Democrats don’t care a whit about the American border, I don’t care a farthing about anybody else’s border.
Historically, Britain and France fought what I believe is the most stupid war in the history of mankind when, in the 1800’s, they fought the Crimean War (aka “World War Zero”) defending Christian countries against the then-Islamic Ottoman Empire, prisoners of the now anachronistic theory of “keeping Imperial Tsarist Russia out of the Mediterranean Sea.” In retrospect, wouldn’t it be great if Russia was our partner in defending us from an Islamic Middle East?
Currently, President Biden:
- has actively erased America’s sovereign southern border with Mexico, and invited and paid for millions of illegal immigrants who came into the county because borders are “racist.”
- With no Southern border, China is pouring fentanyl into the country, murdering a hundred thousand Americans a year.
- We’ve just catastrophically lost a 20-year war against the ‘backward’ Taliban in Afghanistan by picking up and leaving.
- We are in the process of losing (if we have not already lost) the war we started in Iraq to the Iranians who are suctioning up Iraq and Syria one village at a time.
- A nuclear armed North Korean is threatening 30,000 American soldiers in Korea.
- Iran, the world’s greatest terrorist nation is on the cusp of nuclear weapons.
- America is in the middle of a pandemic where American soldiers are being axed because they are Republicans or haven’t been injected with an experimental vaccine.
60% of Americans are against any war with Russia, and 0.01% of Americans might be able to find Ukraine on the world map. Oh, and by the way, we are idiotically pushing Russia into the welcoming arms of Communist China who is playing both Russia and America for the total idiots they are. Communist China is laughing all the way to the bank, and to control of the world, by letting the two other superpowers fight between themselves.
So, one would think America has enough problems inside its own country for America to recall and follow President George Washington’s sage admonition of “Beware of foreign entanglements.” But no, President Biden and his puppet-masters are intent on pushing America into an actual direct America v. Russia war.
Throughout its entire history, America has never fought a war against Russia. In fact, just the opposite. The Soviet Union and America defeated the greatest world threat ever (excluding the current Communist Chinese Regime), Adolf Hitler and his Nazi war machine. The war in North Korea of the 1950’s was only a proxy war with Russia, where it was an actual direct war with Communist China’s Mao Zedong, not the Soviet Union’s Stalin. Chairman Mao, not Stalin, sent over 1,500,000 Communist Chinese troops across the Yalu River into Korea to kill tens of thousands of American GIs in Korea.
There exists no rational overt reason to defend a bunch of Nazi-loving, Nazi-saluting Ukrainians who helped and participated in co-murdering millions of Jews in World War 2 with the Nazis. What logical overt reason does America have to start a war thousands of miles away with a Russia armed with hyper-sonic missiles, a home-game military advantage, short supply lines and a quasi-legitimate reason to keep NATO from encroaching onto its borders? What difference does it make if Ukraine joins NATO? None, except echo-chamber hyperbole mouthed by no-nothing media talking-heads, and a couple of Republicans who think warmongering with Russia helps their chances to be nominated for the 2024 Presidential race.
So, if there is no overt logical reason, we have to look for other covert “logical” reasons. And, the biggest most likely covert, very logical, but criminal, reason is that Ukraine may hold some extremely incriminating documentary evidence of criminal conduct in Biden’s pushing for the Ukrainian prosecutor, evidence that allegedly would land President Biden in jail.
Instead of impeaching President Trump for the Ukrainian “Perfect Call” where President Trump was digging into then Vice President Biden’s Ukrainian malfeasance, President Trump should have been given a medal. More importantly, had President Trump uncovered real evidence of Biden’s criminal actions, America wouldn’t now be facing a possible unnecessary war with Russia where America stands to lose hundreds, if not, thousands of American soldiers.
It will be the ultimate tragedy for America if the Democrats, in their blind partisan hate of Republicans and quest for absolute power, impeached President Trump for trying to uncover high-level corruption that would have simultaneously rooted out the real highest-level corruption, and avoided America losing World War 3 with a nuclear superpower.
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T@SEBASTIEN-
Tes, I know all about what you have written, dates also.
BUT- I have also read, in more than one book dealing with those times and the subject, that the California Gold Rush, was a STRONG influence on later Russian policy re Alaska.
The Russians reasoned thus…They held Alaska, a huge territory, not contiguous to their own landmass, by virtue of less than 1000 Russian settlers, whom really did not govern or do anything except hunt for skins.
They had no means of defending Alaska in the event of a takeover by the US or the British Empire, the logical countries to do so. The reason they were influenced by the Californian situation is that when gold was discovered and the Rush began, the country was very sparsely peopled, something like, but a bit more than Alaska,. Nearly a half million gold seekers crowded into California and STAYED afterwards, began settling, building cities etc.
The had found indications of gold here and there in Alaska. They expected Alaska would be inundated by Americans and Canadians if gold was really discovered, and besides it was so remote and indefensible that it was useless to them.
So THEY approached the US Govt, offering to sell it.
This is what I have read.
@Reader I don’t believe they whipped up the masses against the Jews just to divert attention from themselves. That’s the classic Marxist explanation. Fascism – which isn’t the optimal form for capitalism, anyway, being actually a quasi-socialism, doesn’t require antisemitism to take power, eg Italy, Japan. The antisemitism was primary. There was a wing of the Nazi party in the 20s, that admired the Soviet Union, even.
@ reader
I believe the expression is “wake up and smell the coffee” which is also very popular in Korea, today. I don’t disagree. Problem is, the hostile Arab Fifth Column and the useful idiots who enable them today make Israel just as unsafe, assuming there isn’t another Holocaust which I don’t see happening in the forseeable future.
@Sebastian Zorn
Is it sort of like “Germany was the best country for the Jews until Hitler came to power… Sigh…”?
The vast majority of the Germans, the Austrians, etc. were flaming antisemites, and all that was needed for them to attack the Jews were the right circumstances and the right excuse.
And, of course, it can’t happen HERE!!!
Wake up, it’s already happening.
Obama and Kerry are small fish compared to those people who actually start wars.
And they start wars to divide the territory, to come out of crises (which they themselves created), and to control the mob (and maybe to just have a little fun in the process?) – but they always have to hit the Jews first to draw the mob’s attention away from themselves and focus it on the perennial scapegoat (who are usually too naive or too much in denial to understand this).
I think the stuff that is happening now is happening because the unipolar world is coming to an end and there is a big effort to reverse the process of history (which never works and always ends up badly – but not for the real culprits).
@Reader (East) Asian countries mostly used Chinese characters for writing at one time, and to some extent, many still do. In Korea, for example, there are two kinds of numerical counting system widely used in different countexts, one Korean and one Chinese. China is another one that yearns for its former imperial glory, though most of its empire is intact. There is a difference though. Crimea and the breakaway provinces of Georgia – and is there another one, I forget? – want to rejoin Russia. Also Turkey and Iran.
Thank God, the Germans haven’t gotten into the act again. The Austrian-Hungarian empire – as it was called in its last 60 years – was actually a golden age for Jews in Europe.
Isn’t it ironic? the 20th century opened with the dissolution of the old empires. Will the 21st open with their revival?
But, this latest round began with the Obama/Kerry coup in the Ukraine.
@Reader
Well, royals always intermarried and had more in common with each other than the common people, including the language they spoke before the modern era though that didn’t stop them from going to war with one another so it’s kind of a moot point.
Not just the known world. I recently read that the Korean upper classes didn’t use Hangul, the Korean alphabet invented by King Sejong the Great in the 15th century before 1945. Reform rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl, senior rabbi and cantor of Central Synagogue in New York, whose father is of Rumanian Jewish descent and had a Jewish upbringing and an Orthodox conversion, is a direct-line descendant – of King Sejong, whose grandfather, King Taejo, in turn, founded the 500 year Joseon dynasty, the last dynasty of ancient Korea. She was on a PBS discover your roots tv program and she didn’t know this either. She grew up in America. Mother is a Korean Buddhist who grew up in Japan but encouraged her Judaism without, herself, converting. Her parents met in Korea in a class her father taught and they came to America when she was 5.
@Sebastien Zorn
Yes, most of the known world before the year 1917 was, in fact, ruled by one family.
I don’t care who was or was not paid, I just wanted to share that piece of information.
I don’t prefer one 19th country century country over another, I just don’t see why the US hated Russia and its tzars so much if those tzars were nice, Ariyan Westerners and the closest relatives of the British royal family.
Actually, I do.
Russia has occupied most of the continent and everyone wants at least a piece of it, so they’ve been demonizing it no matter who ruled it and how.
@Reader I can’t find anything about Russia not getting paid but, honestly, why do you care? Do you think America was wrong to want to remove European outposts in this hemisphere? Do you really sympathize with even the 19th century Russian Empire over America? Seriously?
@Edgar G The California Gold Rush was 1848-1855 and the Alaska Purchase was 1867. Gold was discovered in Alaska in 1896. The first Alaskan oil claims were also in the 1890s. So, how were the Russians influenced and what did it incline them to do?
“The Senate approved the treaty of purchase on April 9; President Andrew Johnson signed the treaty on May 28, and Alaska was formally transferred to the United States on October 18, 1867. This purchase ended Russia’s presence in North America and ensured U.S. access to the Pacific northern rim.”
Purchase of Alaska, 1867 – Milestones: 1866–1898 – Office of …
@Reader “King George V of Great Britain and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia on the one hand, and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany on the other – were first cousins. Their grandmother was Queen Victoria.” And all of those royal families were originally German.
“Thanks to a history of intermarriage, Europe’s royal families are all tied to each other in some way. For instance, Queen Elizabeth II is third cousins with most of Europe’s monarchs, including Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, Margrethe II of Denmark, and former Belgian ruler Albert II.”
“Marie Antoinette Josèphe Jeanne ( née Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last queen of France before the French Revolution. She was born an archduchess of Austria and was the penultimate child and youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I. She became dauphine of France in May 1770 at age 14 upon her marriage to Louis-Auguste, heir apparent to the French throne. On 10 May 1774, her husband ascended the throne as Louis XVI and she became queen.”
@ SEBASTIER=
I recall reading in a book I have, that the Russians were influenced by the California Gold Rush , which I KNOW too place sometime in the 1840’s I can’t recall how it was influenced. I’ve seen a photo of the actual cheque of the price. I didn’t know they even had cheques then.
@Sebastien Zorn
Sure, it was purchased by the US and transferred to it but I remember reading somewhere awhile ago that it was never paid for (the money was promised but not delivered – the ship sunk in the middle of the journey, or something, maybe it was just a crazy story).
BTW, the Romanovs (the Russian tzars) were not Russian.
They were actually part of the British royal family (very close relatives) – that’s why the poor tzarevich had hemophilia (it’s not a conspiracy theory, every geneticist knows it).
@Vivarto I agree with your comment.
It was purchased for $7.2 million (in 1867 dollars) See Alaska Purchase in Wikipedia. Opponents called it Seward’s Folly or Seward’s Icebox as it held little value and was sparsely settled at the time. The Czar wanted to get rid of it since it was undefendable and he needed cash. This was before gold or oil was discovered.
I also agree with the argument that most of the population of Crimea refuses to identify as Ukrainian.
Does anyone here read anything I write?
The US government is the fist of giant corporations.
The main (not the only) reason for the drums of war is to stop the Russian supply of natural gas to Europe through Nord Stream 2 (google it) and replace it with much more expensive (but “safe from the evil Russia”) liquefied gas.
The USSR used to consist of 15 republics and a number of ethnic autonomous regions and areas.
The USSR handed Crimea over to the Ukrainian republic when it was perfectly strategically safe to do so.
It did this to ensure a better water supply to the peninsula.
When Russia realized that Crimea is about to turn into a grave threat, Russia took it back.
Fair or not – Russia had no choice in the matter.
What would happen if Alaska seceded from the US and the Russians decided to set up a military base there (BTW, the US never did pay Russia for Alaska, as far as I know).
@Adam
The main Rusophobic force within Europe is Poland.
In the past, both Russia and Poland had their imperial times.
Poland colonized and occupied big parts of the Rus for centuries, and Rus did the same to Poland when they could.
At the present neither country has the means to colonize each other.
Russia is America’s natural ally against their real geopolitical adversaries; China, and Iran.
It is insane of America to antagonize Russia and push it closer to China. https://video.foxnews.com/v/6293457818001#sp=show-clips
Russia is better qualified to be a member of NATO then Ukraine. Neither country is free, and neither has free market, however Russia is substantially better in both respects.
@Adam
Well, from most of Crimean people’s perspective, Crimea was under Ukrainian occupation. Some 95% of population considers Russian their mother tong. This includes even the Ukrainian minority there. So, when the idiots in Kiyev passed a low that outlawed Russian in all public offices, Crimean people revolted. They voted and democratically chose to be a part of Russia. There is not the slightest doubt that if the vote was taken today majority of the population would again choose Russia. I see nothing wrong with people having a say. This is the same principle that America used in Kossovo when it was separated from Serbia.
This concept is pure fiction. It never existed, and it does not exist. There is nothing sacred about international borders. They have always been fluid, and will always remain so. For example even during the height of Roman power, there were constant wars at the edges among others with Persians, Germans, Scots.
Exactly, Israel has taken Golan from Syria and would be STUPID to give it back. I hope Israel soon takes the “West Bank” from the so called “Palestinians”, too.
American has set that precedent when it took part big parts of Mexico. Also when it took Florida from Spain, and Hawaii, well… from Hawaiians. Before America every other great power did so. England, France, Turkey, Japan, China, Persians, Romans, Assyrians, Egyiptians, etc, etc.
On the contrary, Israel is in a perfect position to have even better relations with Russia.
There is no connection at all. Rather on the contrary, when the Suni Arabs see that they cannot rely on America for their defense, they’ll form close cooperation with Israel in common front againts Iran.
Not really. – Russia’s seeming alliance with Iran is purely tacical. It is the Russian way to poke the Americans. A way to force the Americans that thy can’t ignore Russia. While Russia is much too weak to directly threaten America, Russia can create problems for America indirectly by supporting a few ugly and anti-American dictorors here and there. However, in relations to Israel, Russia has been most cooperative allowing Israel to destroy Iranian assets in Syria.
Not a parallel situation; While America has huge strategic interest in Taiwan, it has ZERO stategic interest in Ukraine. And while China is a real geo-strategic threat to America, Russia poses zero threat to America. Rather on the contrary, Russia is a natural ally to America, much more so than Ukraine.
Highly unlikely again. India is rapidly growing in strength and is becoming an important strategic partner for America, Japan and Australia. Their military is getting modernized, and on long term they may surpass China.
Very unlikely. And again, unlike Ukraine, the Persian Golf indeed has strategic importance for America, though not as much as Taiwan.
Well, US is NOT a paper tiger, but Ukraine is none of America’s real concern. A completely irrelevant shithole.
>When a great power openly seeks to expand its territory by force or threats,
Well, from most of Crimean people’s perspective, Crimea was under Ukrainian occupation. Some 95% of population considers Russian their mother tong. This includes even the Ukrainian minority there. So, when the idiots in Kiyev passed a low that outlawed Russian in all public offices, Crimean people revolted. They voted and democratically chose to be a part of Russia. There is not the slightest doubt that if the vote was taken today majority of the population would again choose Russia. I see nothing wrong with people having a say. This is the same principle that America used in Kossovo when it was separated from Serbia.
>Once the concept of the sacredness of interenational frontiers
This concept is pure fiction. It never existed, and it does not exist. There is nothing sacred about international borders. They have always been fluid, and will always remain so. For example even during the height of Roman power, there were constant wars at the edges among others with Persians, Germans, Scots.
>After all, many countries besides Russia have territorial claims rooted in their past history. Or they wish to act out their hatred of another people (read Israel)
Exactly, Israel has taken Golan from Syria and would be STUPID to give it back. I hope Israel soon takes the “West Bank” from the so called “Palestinians”, too.
>Russia sets a precedent for the use of force to achieve its goals.
American has set that precedent when it took part big parts of Mexico. Also when it took Florida from Spain, and Hawaii, well… from Hawaiians. Before America every other great power did so. England, France, Turkey, Japan, China, Persians, Romans, Assyrians, Egyiptians, etc, etc.
>The first country to suffer from Russia’s ill-considered actions will be Israel.
On the contrary, Israel is in a perfect position to have even better relations with Russia.
>Iran and its local allies, Hamas, Hesbollah, and probably the PLO and Syria, will be emboldened to launch a major attack on Israel.
There is no connection at all. Rather on the contrary, when the Suni Arabs see that they cannot rely on America for their defense, they’ll form close cooperation with Israel in common front againts Iran.
>Russia has allied itself with Iran for decades,
Not really. – Russia’s seeming alliance with Iran is purely tacical. It is the Russian way to poke the Americans. A way to force the Americans that thy can’t ignore Russia. While Russia is much too weak to directly threaten America, Russia can create problems for America indirectly by supporting a few ugly and anti-American dictorors here and there. However, in relations to Israel, Russia has been most cooperative allowing Israel to destroy Iranian assets in Syria.
>Other victims will be Taiwan, which China will almost certainly attack if Russia gets away with annexing more Ukrainian territory.
Not a parallel situation; While America has huge strategic interest in Taiwan, it has ZERO stategic interest in Ukraine. And while China is a real geo-strategic threat to America, Russia poses zero threat to America. Rather on the contrary, Russia is a natural ally to America, much more so than Ukraine.
>India, which will probably be attacked by Pakistan, with Chinese support
Highly unlikely again. India is rapidly growing in strength and is becoming an important strategic partner for America, Japan and Australia. Their military is getting modernized, and on long term they may surpass China.
>Iran is likely to annex Bahrain, which it has claimed for years, and may also attempt to take over the eastern region of Saudi Arabia, where it oil is, and the Shi’ite population resents rule by the Sunni Saudis.
Very unlikely. And again, unlike Ukraine, the Persian Golf indeed has strategic importance for America, though not as much as Taiwan.
>All this will happen if it is perceived that the U.S. is a “paper tiger,” unwilling or unable to come to the aid of allies when they are attacked.
Well, US is NOT a paper tiger, but Ukraine is none of America’s real concern. A completely irrelevant shithole.
The arguments used to justify tolerating Russia’s military threats to Ukraine are same arguments exactly that were used to justify the Nazi regime’s annexation of Austria and its conquest of Chechia and Poland. Poland, it should be remembered had in and of itself no economic or strategic value to Britain and France. Yet these two countries declared war on Germany in response to its invasion of Poland. Why? The British and French governments concluded that Hitler’s willingness to use force to expand Germany’s Reich would inevitably lead it at some point to use its military power against their countries. This could take the form of an invasion or the threat of an invasion unless Britain and France agreed to demands that would reduce them to vassal status in relation to Germany. They decided that confronting Germany now rather than waiting for a German attack in the future was the least bad option.
The U.S. and the NATO alliance now face a similar problem. Putin has made it chrystal clear in both his ultimatum to NATO and his 6,000 word essay published in Russian newspapers that his territorial ambitions go far beyond Ukraine. He wants all of the former Soviet territories returned to Russia. And he wants the Eastern European countries that used to be Soviet satellites restored to Russia as its sphere of influence. The West Europeans and Americans never felt secure with Russian armites so close to the Western Europe, the heartland of the West’s economic-industrial complex. That is still the case now.
The Western powers are not contemplating any direct military involvement in a Russo-Ukraine war. But they are considering economic sanctions on Russia, and they are sending some arms to Ukraine to help the uKrainians defend themselves. Having recognized the Ukraine’s independence in1991, Russia has no right to reconquer Ukraine. The Western powers must make this plain to the Russians that their invasion of Ukraine will severely strain their relationship with the West and will lead to sanction against Russia.
THIS IS THE REASON FOR THE WARMONGERING:
They couldn’t stop Nord Stream 2 directly (without it Europe would have to buy the more expensive liquefied gas from the US), so they found a way around it, out of love and caring for the poor, little Europeans who may stay without heat in winter because of the big, bad Russia cutting off the gas supply!!!
WOW!!!
The best con in the world if you don’t count “the virus”!!!
@Adam Dalgliesh
Russia took back Crimea because it didn’t want an American military base there and it didn’t want to become landlocked in the South.
I agree with both your excellent comments.
Russia c0onsiders Ukraine joining NATO and act of war because it endangers Russia. Reacting to this could supersede the Agreement.
The main Rusophobic force within Europe is Poland.
In the past, both Russia and Poland had their imperial times.
Poland colonized and occupied big parts of the Rus for centuries, and Rus did the same to Poland when they could.
At the present neither country has the means to colonize each other.
Russia is America’s natural ally against their real geopolitical adversaries; China, and Iran.
It is insane of America to antagonize Russia and push it closer to China. https://video.foxnews.com/v/6293457818001#sp=show-clips
Russia is better qualified to be a member of NATO then Ukraine. Neither country is free, and neither has free market, however Russia is substantially better in both respects.
I don’t agree with Langfen and Tucker Carlson, who has taken a similar position on this issue. Russia, when the Soviet Union broke up, signed agreements with the other former Soviet republics to recognize their existence within their borders at the time that the SU was dissolved. In particular, they signed an agreement with Ukraine that accepted Ukrainian sovereignty over the Crimea and all territory that was part of Ukraine in 1991, inncluding the Crimean peninsula, which Khruschev “gifted” to the Ukraine in 1953. The Russia-Ukraine agreement granted Russia the right to maintain military bases and facilities for it Black Sea fleet on the peninsula in return for recognizing Ukrainian sovereignty over the peninsula.
When a great power openly seeks to expand its territory by force or threats, it creates a chaotic, free-for-all situation in the world. Once the concept of the sacredness of interenational frontiers is abandoned by a great powers, many smaller countries will inevitably get into the act. After all, many countries besides Russia have territorial claims rooted in their past history. Or they wish to act out their hatred of another people (read Israel) and feel entitled to do this once Russia sets a precedent for the use of force to achieve its goals.
The first country to suffer from Russia’s ill-considered actions will be Israel. Iran and its local allies, Hamas, Hesbollah, and probably the PLO and Syria, will be emboldened to launch a major attack on Israel. All the more so because Russia has allied itself with Iran for decades, and Israel’s enemies will grasp that Russia is unlikely to back away from this alliance just to protect Israel.
Other victims will be Taiwan, which China will almost certainly attack if Russia gets away with annexing more Ukrainian territory; India, which will probably be attacked by Pakistan, with Chinese support, as the Pakistanis see an opening to make good their lontime claim to Kashmir. Iran is likely to annex Bahrain, which it has claimed for years, and may also attempt to take over the eastern region of Saudi Arabia, where it oil is, and the Shi’ite population resents rule by the Sunni Saudis.
All this will happen if it is perceived that the U.S. is a “paper tiger,” unwilling or unable to come to the aid of allies when they are attacked.