Thursday, June 5, 2025

Dear Senator Graham:

 


“What I learned on this trip was 

he’s preparing for more war,” 


Graham said of Putin.


Newsflash:

He has been preparing for this war

for a long time.


2007 Munich speech of Vladimir Putin

Legacy

"Both during the run-up to and shortly after, the launch of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the speech was revisited with some political analysts and commentators arguing it to have been a revelation of Putin's intentions that was at the time misread by the West and not taken seriously enough. According to Andrew A. Michta's opinion published by The Wall Street Journal in August 2022, Western leaders had failed in 2007 to recognize the speech "amounted to a declaration of war on the West."


The uncomfortable truth people just dont wanna face:

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Yup.


Calling Russia's Attack 'Unprovoked' Lets US Off the Hook


"In 1997, dozens of foreign policy veterans (including former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and former CIA Director Stansfield Turner) sent a joint letter to then-President Bill Clinton calling “the current US-led effort to expand NATO…a policy error of historic proportions.” 

They predicted:


"In Russia, NATO expansion, 

which continues to be opposed across the entire political spectrum, 

will strengthen the nondemocratic opposition, 

undercut those who favor reform 

and cooperation with the West 

[and] bring the Russians to question 

the entire post-Cold War settlement."


(Is that not exactly what happened?)


"New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman (5/2/98) in 1998 asked famed diplomat George Kennan—architect of the US Cold War strategy of containment—about NATO expansion. Kennan’s response:


"I think it is the beginning of a new cold war. I think the Russians will gradually react quite adversely and it will affect their policies. I think it is a tragic mistake. There was no reason for this whatsoever. No one was threatening anybody else."


"Of course there is going to be a bad reaction from Russia, and then [the NATO expanders] will say that we always told you that is how the Russians are—but this is just wrong."


"Despite these warnings, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic were added to NATO in 1999, with Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia following in 2004."


He then went out and developed new weapons systems.

Vladimir Putin unveils new nuclear weapons systems

3/1/2018


And now here we are 

in the situation we are in today.


Senator Graham?

How long have we been preparing for this war?

Cause it sure seems like

Russia and China have been preparing 

a lot longer than we have sir.





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