Kristian Kahrs
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First and foremost, I am profoundly disgusted by all kinds of aggressive war, also the one Russia started against Ukraine It would have been enough with Russian peacekeepers in Donbass, and Russia should have worked diplomatically to reach its goals.
Yes, the headline is dramatic, but it is true. NATO countries have made an enemy of Russia, and for all practical purposes, the NATO alliance is at war against Russia, even if we do not yet have a hot war between soldiers between NATO and Russia.
We could have avoided this war from the beginning, but we keep on insisting that Ukraine should be able to join NATO.
See my video diary below and more videos below the Serbian translation.
Tucker Carlson with criticism against the Secretary of State Antony Blinken for allowing fighter jets from Poland into Ukraine. And he also confronts Vice President Kamala Harris for inviting Zelensky into NATO.
Col. Douglas MacGregor: The war in Ukraine is over.
Dr. John Mearsheimer and Ray McGovern about the consequences and causes of the Russian invasion.
Video description: To a hammer, everything looks like a nail. To an empire, everything looks like a crisis to justify a multi-trillion-dollar military-industrial-security complex as dictators of the world. The crisis du jour for the American empire is Russia‘s aggression against Ukraine. The political establishment and the mainstream media assign responsibility to President Putin’s megalomaniac ambition to recreate the Soviet empire. The Committee welcomes Ray McGovern and John Mearsheimer as a breath of fresh air. They shoulder the United States with a fair share of the blame: the never-ending expansion of NATO cheek by jowl to Russian borders provoked the invasion. Russia fears nuclear weapons on its borders as more menacing than the Cuban Missile Crisis was to the United States. Ray and John will offer some thoughts regarding how to bury the hatchet and move forward. We all look forward to what we know will be a robust discussion.
John Mearsheimer returns for the third time as a salon speaker. We hosted John for his trenchant analysis of the abject failure of our quest for global dominance and for his courageous book with Steve Walt on the liability of American support for Israel. John is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He graduated from West Point (1970), has a Ph.D. in political science from Cornell University (1981), and has written extensively about security issues and international politics. In 2003, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2020, he won the James Madison Award, given by the American Political Science Association to “an American political scientist who has made a distinguished scholarly contribution to political science.” His principal work on Ukraine is “Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault: The Liberal Delusions That Provoked Putin,” appearing in September-October Foreign Affairs 2014. The video of his talk has been viewed more than 14 million times.
Ray McGovern is a long-time Russian specialist. After serving as an Army combat intelligence officer in the early 60s, Ray joined the CIA’s analyst ranks. His first portfolio focused on the Sino-Soviet conflict, which was deftly exploited by Nixon/Kissinger (with more than just interpreter assistance from our own Chas Freeman). As chief of the Soviet Foreign Policy Branch, Ray’s analytical team supported the SALT negotiations and he was in Moscow for the signing of the ABM Treaty, the cornerstone of strategic stability for the next three decades. Ray correctly predicted Brezhnev’s invasion of Czechoslovakia but incorrectly predicted Putin would not invade Ukraine. Ray thinks the new Russia-China entente helps explain Putin’s gamble. See Ray’s website raymcgovern.com and posts on antiwar.com.
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Kristian Kahrs describes himself as a former NATO aggressor and warmonger in Kosovo, turned into a warrior for peace, democracy, and freedom of speech. Kristian is a Norwegian living in Belgrade, Serbia, and there is more about him on his website ohrabrenje.com, the Serbian word for encouragement, where you can sign up for his newsletter. Also, follow Kristian on Gab, Telegram, and VK.
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With regards to your fist paragraph, what rock have you been sleeping under? The Ukraine and US have been accusing Russia of invading Ukraine for years. Are you now accusing them of lying all this time? If so, this would defeat the whole purpose of diplomacy to reach it’s goals as at least one party (in this case the Ukrainian regime along with its US master) is not acting in good faith.
I have a nice geopolitical pillow, so I do not have to sleep under a rock 🙂 War is hell, no matter what, and we should do all we can to avoid it. But I guess the Russians decided that they needed no relations to Western countries, something which makes me very sad. Europe and the US have wasted good chances to make strategic partnerships with Russia, but instead, we embrace wokeism and “pride” flags…
Russia tried for 7/8 years to negotiate with Zelensky to no avail, what was Putin supposed to do, sit back and let the West crap all over him
Some of the contributors to the debate on the Ukraine – Russian war are clearly silly, what has the evolution of political life in Russia got to do with the crisis?, Russia is not asking any country to comply with its system. The real problem is about Russian security interest. Let’s ask the same question of the US, does it not absorb countries all over the world, dominating and controlling them in a direction that is against their own interests. In Ukraine, who says that the majority of the people want to join NATO and Europe?, a lot of presumption… Read more »
“It would have been enough with Russian peacekeepers in Donbass, and Russia should have worked diplomatically to reach its goals.” Oh really, Kristian? Have you been asleep this past eight years? Have you really not noticed that the Russians, particularly the incredibly restrained and tolerant Sergei Lavrov, have been attempting patient and courteous diplomatic work all that time; only to find themselves getting the bad-faith runaround by the DC Swampies – and their obedient underlings in Europe/Britain – whilst those same dishonest ‘negotiators’ were busily pushing their military plans forward in Eastern Europe, including the Ukraine, right up to the… Read more »
SPOT ON mate.
Where has this guy been, Russia has been negotiating with the Ukraine for 7/8 years, It is called the Minsk agreements and other parties signed up to the deal, Zelensky refused to implement the deal, and was calling for Kiev to produce nukes, if that was not a red line for Russia I don’t know what is, Russia did right in invading Ukraine. And this was not a shock and awe campain like the US does who, completely destroy a country before sending in troops, and they still get their back side kicked, Afghanistan anyone.
Since the original Nazi German SS organization came under CIA control, and since the CIA is not under the control of the US president, it is interesting to hear that nazi units in Ukraine are not under the control of the President of Ukraine. So familiar!
Putin did NOT say that he would use nuclear weapons if other nations intervened, instead, he said there would be severe consequences beyond which you can imagine. That is quite UNSPECIFIED.