Quote from: K-Dog on Jun 08, 2024, 12:10 AMWhat, they are not communist any more? That does not matter. You are not supposed to know that. They still must like communism since they were once anyway. Go with it. Truth is, any old excuse will do because America still wants to carve up Russia like it is a Thanksgiving Turkey. And that is the imperialist truth of it.
Drink from the cup and hate on Russia. It is your American duty. Your religion.
Empires always have & need "enemies" that pose an ever-present threat that justifies maintaining a military force. The military force is necessary to keep growing by acquiring economic control over more land and the people inhabiting that land. It was necessary to maintain control over the trade routes between different regions and power centers.
The enmity between the "Rus" and Western European Kingdoms predates communism and goes back to the split and collapse of the Roman Empire. Prior to WWI you had the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire in control of the eastern half of the old Roman Empire. When the Barbarians were at the Gates of Vienna, they were coming in across the Russian Steppe from the east. Besides the Rus who were descendants of the Vikings, you had the "Cossacks", horsemen from Kazkhstan who were descendants of the Mongols and Genghis Khan. The Ottoman Turks ruled the eastern Roman Empire from Constantinople for a millenium after the fall of Rome.
After WWII, the economic division of the world left it with 3 great power centers, the Soviet Union, China and the FSoA and it's vassal states in Western Europe. The last 80 years has been all about these 3 power centers jockeying for econommic hegemony over all the 3rd World countries they needed for resources and labor. Overall, the Capitalists were much more successful bringing those places into their orbit through the banking system, backed up by the enforcement arm of the FSoA military, which up until around the time of Desert Storm at least was competent enough to have enough ammo. Cracks in the competency became evident beginning with the Vietnam War, and the last 50 years has seen the game change to economic warfare on one side and terrorism on the other . Assymetric warfare in other words.
Both Mother Russia and China ended up quitting on communism in different ways, China turned into a cheap labor manufacturing economy and the Ruskies shrank from their client states and relied on their own energy resources and their own military industry as supplier to anyone trying to get out from under FSoA control. Their weapons systems may not have as many bells and whistles, but Kalishnikovss come in at a competitive price and they don't run out of bullets to load them with. lol.
Neither Russia or China gets painted as Communist much anymore, rather they are portrayed as being anti-democratic totalitarian states with Dictatorial rulers. Vlad the Impaler has managed to maintain his hold on power for 25 years, and Xi in China for a decade with the CCP in control of China unbroken since Mao and the revolution. Of course, the CCP of today doesn't resemble anything Marx or Lenin would recognize as communist, but they keep the name. lol.
Anyhow, the Tri-lateral division of the world has been the fundamental geopolitical model all international policy of the FSoA has followed since the time of Kissinger, regardless of what political party was in the White House. I don't think Trumpovetsky is any more likely to avoid a war with Mother Russia than Uncle Joe Biden. Either of them will do exactly what the Banksters tell them to do. That's how it goes, Everybody Knows.
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