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    From Nick@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 10 09:22:09 2023
    The Coming Battle: ‘Who Lost Ukraine?’

    An effort to rewrite history is happening in real time.

    James W. Carden Aug 7, 2023 12:03 AM

    As it becomes more and more difficult to deny what is happening on the battlefield in Ukraine, a grinding war with hundreds of thousands of casualties, establishment media continue to present a picture of the war designed to rally the public, should its enthusiasm for this latest
    American overseas adventure begin to flag in the face of long and hard realities.

    In June, the Atlantic published a cover story by Anne Applebaum and
    Jeffery Goldberg which asserted that “The future of the democratic world
    will be determined by whether the Ukrainian military can break a stalemate
    with Russia and drive the country backwards—perhaps even out of Crimea for good.”

    On July 12, New York Times op-ed columnist Nicolas Kristof informed his reader(s) that “The Ukrainians are sacrificing for us. They’re the ones doing us a favor, by degrading the Russian military and reducing the risk
    of a war in Europe that would cost the lives of our troops.”

    National Review put it even more starkly. Two days later, July 14, senior editor Jay Nordlinger wrote, “The nationalists among us, as much as
    anyone, ought to be inspired by what the Ukrainians are doing: fighting
    for their national survival, trying to fend off a behemoth neighbor that
    seeks to re-subjugate them.”

    As Gore Vidal quipped, “There is little respite for a people so routinely— so fiercely—disinformed.”

    Yet the above examples also appear to be part of an effort by these
    individual writers to decontextualize the Ukraine War, to wipe away its
    messy history and present it in its most simplistic form: as a battle
    between good and evil. It is a strategy that seeks to avoid a substantive conversation about how and why Russia and the West arrived at this, the
    most dangerous point since the Cuban Missile Crisis.

    These sorts of pieces are an elite project designed to shrink the
    parameters of permissible thought with regard to the war in Ukraine. And
    it serves to purposely confuse and infantilize Americans’ understanding of what is actually happening in Ukraine—and why. But that, one might
    suppose, is the point: Applebaum and the rest are laying the foundation
    for what is to come, once it becomes undeniable that Ukraine has lost the
    war.

    In the nearly ten years since the Maidan Revolution, a handful of us have
    been sounding the alarm over the possibility of war breaking out between
    Russia and the West. For nearly ten years, a small minority of writers and thinkers have relentlessly advocated for a peaceful solution to the
    Ukraine crisis, and in the process have, at various times, been smeared, mocked, marginalized, denied employment opportunities, branded “terrorist” sympathizers, and placed on a Ukrainian kill-lists for the crime of
    telling the truth about what has been happening in eastern Ukraine since
    2014.

    And as the war in Ukraine grinds on to its disastrous denouement, we can reasonably expect those who are responsible for helping set off this conflagration—along with those who cheered this ludicrous and unnecessary
    war from the beginning—to pay about as severe a price as that paid by the architects and cheerleaders of the Iraq fiasco: none at all.

    Advocates of a restrained and sensible foreign policy ought to prepare for
    an even nastier period of recrimination and finger-pointing that will make
    the Russiagate years (2016-2021) look like a time of national serenity.
    Indeed, it is all too easy to imagine that 2024 and the years following
    will be dominated by a “Who lost Ukraine?” crusade not unlike the
    poisonous “Who lost China?” debate that midwifed the McCarthy period of
    the 1950s. The coming campaign will no doubt consist of a litany of
    accusations of unpatriotic disloyalty leveled against American opponents
    of the war by a parade of Eastern Europeans and their vocal and powerful
    lobby in Washington.

    The corporate media and their many progressive and liberal allies in
    Congress will, with great enthusiasm, link arms with their neocon friends
    in order to cast blame and further shrink the bounds of the sayable and
    the thinkable. They will continue to police the parameters of public
    discourse with the same sadistic efficiency with which they treated
    critics of the now discredited idea of “collusion” between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.

    The tragedy that of course they fail to see is that Ukraine need not have
    been lost. Moreover, it would have been helpful if there had been a wider understanding that it was not ours to lose in the first place. Had the
    advice proffered by a small minority of us, that neutrality was the best
    course of action for Ukraine to survive, been heeded, the horrible ordeal
    that the Ukrainian people are now going through would have been avoided.

    _A simple declaration by the U.S. and NATO withdrawing its pledge, made in_ _Bucharest in 2008, that Ukraine and Georgia “shall become” members of the_ _alliance, would have gone a long way toward establishing a peaceful way_ _forward between Russia and Ukraine. But no._ For the past four U.S. administrations (Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden) the ideologues were at the
    wheel. And the idea that Ukraine had “a right to choose its own
    alliances,” and we had a duty to enable it, came to be treated as holy
    writ.

    A Ukrainian defeat will reinforce the narrative, so painstakingly built up
    over the past decade by the very same people who drove this country to
    disaster in Iraq, that American interests are inseparable from the welfare
    of an ethno-nationalist kleptocracy 4,000 miles from our shores.

    Two centuries ago, the British statesman John Bright warned against “following visionary phantoms in all parts of the world while your own country is becoming rotten within.” Yet for these people, visionary
    phantoms are all they see. To these people (many only very recently
    arrived in the country for which they presume to speak) a “good” American is one who disclaims any responsibility or care for their fellow citizens
    in favor of a feverish identification with a foreign country.

    And if that becomes the baseline measure of what a good American is, then
    the future of our country will be a dark one. Yet it doesn’t have to be
    this way.

    In the coming year the voting public will have an opportunity to send a
    message to the administration regarding its handling of the war. There are alternatives, however imperfect, to the claque of liberal and progressive
    war hawks now in power, and who for years have not only given Ukrainian
    leaders wondrously bad and reckless advice, but have serially misled the American people about the extent of the dangers involved.

    Remember at the polls, the choice between war and peace is too important
    to leave to those whose mistakes got us here in the first place.

    About The Author

    James W. Carden served as advisor on U.S.-Russian affairs at the State Department during the Obama administration.

    https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-coming-battle-who-lost-ukraine/

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?0JjQu9C40LXQskJH?=@21:1/5 to Nick on Thu Aug 10 07:54:47 2023
    On Thursday, August 10, 2023 at 12:22:11 PM UTC+3, Nick wrote:
    The Coming Battle: ‘Who Lost Ukraine?’

    An effort to rewrite history is happening in real time.

    James W. Carden Aug 7, 2023 12:03 AM

    As it becomes more and more difficult to deny what is happening on the battlefield in Ukraine, a grinding war with hundreds of thousands of casualties, establishment media continue to present a picture of the war designed to rally the public, should its enthusiasm for this latest
    American overseas adventure begin to flag in the face of long and hard realities.

    In June, the Atlantic published a cover story by Anne Applebaum and
    Jeffery Goldberg which asserted that “The future of the democratic world will be determined by whether the Ukrainian military can break a stalemate with Russia and drive the country backwards—perhaps even out of Crimea for good.”

    On July 12, New York Times op-ed columnist Nicolas Kristof informed his reader(s) that “The Ukrainians are sacrificing for us. They’re the ones doing us a favor, by degrading the Russian military and reducing the risk
    of a war in Europe that would cost the lives of our troops.”

    National Review put it even more starkly. Two days later, July 14, senior editor Jay Nordlinger wrote, “The nationalists among us, as much as anyone, ought to be inspired by what the Ukrainians are doing: fighting
    for their national survival, trying to fend off a behemoth neighbor that seeks to re-subjugate them.”

    As Gore Vidal quipped, “There is little respite for a people so routinely—
    so fiercely—disinformed.”

    Yet the above examples also appear to be part of an effort by these individual writers to decontextualize the Ukraine War, to wipe away its messy history and present it in its most simplistic form: as a battle between good and evil. It is a strategy that seeks to avoid a substantive conversation about how and why Russia and the West arrived at this, the
    most dangerous point since the Cuban Missile Crisis.

    These sorts of pieces are an elite project designed to shrink the
    parameters of permissible thought with regard to the war in Ukraine. And
    it serves to purposely confuse and infantilize Americans’ understanding of what is actually happening in Ukraine—and why. But that, one might suppose, is the point: Applebaum and the rest are laying the foundation
    for what is to come, once it becomes undeniable that Ukraine has lost the war.

    In the nearly ten years since the Maidan Revolution, a handful of us have been sounding the alarm over the possibility of war breaking out between Russia and the West. For nearly ten years, a small minority of writers and thinkers have relentlessly advocated for a peaceful solution to the
    Ukraine crisis, and in the process have, at various times, been smeared, mocked, marginalized, denied employment opportunities, branded “terrorist”
    sympathizers, and placed on a Ukrainian kill-lists for the crime of
    telling the truth about what has been happening in eastern Ukraine since 2014.

    And as the war in Ukraine grinds on to its disastrous denouement, we can reasonably expect those who are responsible for helping set off this conflagration—along with those who cheered this ludicrous and unnecessary war from the beginning—to pay about as severe a price as that paid by the architects and cheerleaders of the Iraq fiasco: none at all.

    Advocates of a restrained and sensible foreign policy ought to prepare for an even nastier period of recrimination and finger-pointing that will make the Russiagate years (2016-2021) look like a time of national serenity. Indeed, it is all too easy to imagine that 2024 and the years following
    will be dominated by a “Who lost Ukraine?” crusade not unlike the poisonous “Who lost China?” debate that midwifed the McCarthy period of the 1950s. The coming campaign will no doubt consist of a litany of accusations of unpatriotic disloyalty leveled against American opponents
    of the war by a parade of Eastern Europeans and their vocal and powerful lobby in Washington.

    The corporate media and their many progressive and liberal allies in Congress will, with great enthusiasm, link arms with their neocon friends
    in order to cast blame and further shrink the bounds of the sayable and
    the thinkable. They will continue to police the parameters of public discourse with the same sadistic efficiency with which they treated
    critics of the now discredited idea of “collusion” between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.

    The tragedy that of course they fail to see is that Ukraine need not have been lost. Moreover, it would have been helpful if there had been a wider understanding that it was not ours to lose in the first place. Had the advice proffered by a small minority of us, that neutrality was the best course of action for Ukraine to survive, been heeded, the horrible ordeal that the Ukrainian people are now going through would have been avoided.

    _A simple declaration by the U.S. and NATO withdrawing its pledge, made in_ _Bucharest in 2008, that Ukraine and Georgia “shall become” members of the_
    _alliance, would have gone a long way toward establishing a peaceful way_ _forward between Russia and Ukraine. But no._ For the past four U.S. administrations (Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden) the ideologues were at the wheel. And the idea that Ukraine had “a right to choose its own alliances,” and we had a duty to enable it, came to be treated as holy writ.

    A Ukrainian defeat will reinforce the narrative, so painstakingly built up over the past decade by the very same people who drove this country to disaster in Iraq, that American interests are inseparable from the welfare of an ethno-nationalist kleptocracy 4,000 miles from our shores.

    Two centuries ago, the British statesman John Bright warned against “following visionary phantoms in all parts of the world while your own country is becoming rotten within.” Yet for these people, visionary phantoms are all they see. To these people (many only very recently
    arrived in the country for which they presume to speak) a “good” American
    is one who disclaims any responsibility or care for their fellow citizens
    in favor of a feverish identification with a foreign country.

    And if that becomes the baseline measure of what a good American is, then the future of our country will be a dark one. Yet it doesn’t have to be this way.

    In the coming year the voting public will have an opportunity to send a message to the administration regarding its handling of the war. There are alternatives, however imperfect, to the claque of liberal and progressive war hawks now in power, and who for years have not only given Ukrainian leaders wondrously bad and reckless advice, but have serially misled the American people about the extent of the dangers involved.

    Remember at the polls, the choice between war and peace is too important
    to leave to those whose mistakes got us here in the first place.

    About The Author

    James W. Carden served as advisor on U.S.-Russian affairs at the State Department during the Obama administration.

    https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-coming-battle-who-lost-ukraine/

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  • From Nick@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 10 15:59:53 2023
    On Thu, 10 Aug 2023 07:54:47 -0700 (PDT), ИлиевBG wrote:

    On Thursday, August 10, 2023 at 12:22:11 PM UTC+3, Nick wrote:

    The Coming Battle: ‘Who Lost Ukraine?’

    An effort to rewrite history is happening in real time.

    James W. Carden Aug 7, 2023 12:03 AM

    As it becomes more and more difficult to deny what is happening on the
    battlefield in Ukraine, a grinding war with hundreds of thousands of
    casualties, establishment media continue to present a picture of the
    war designed to rally the public, should its enthusiasm for this latest
    American overseas adventure begin to flag in the face of long and hard
    realities.

    In June, the Atlantic published a cover story by Anne Applebaum and
    Jeffery Goldberg which asserted that “The future of the democratic
    world will be determined by whether the Ukrainian military can break a
    stalemate with Russia and drive the country backwards—perhaps even out
    of Crimea for good.”

    On July 12, New York Times op-ed columnist Nicolas Kristof informed his
    reader(s) that “The Ukrainians are sacrificing for us. They’re the ones >> doing us a favor, by degrading the Russian military and reducing the
    risk of a war in Europe that would cost the lives of our troops.”

    National Review put it even more starkly. Two days later, July 14,
    senior editor Jay Nordlinger wrote, “The nationalists among us, as much
    as anyone, ought to be inspired by what the Ukrainians are doing:
    fighting for their national survival, trying to fend off a behemoth
    neighbor that seeks to re-subjugate them.”

    As Gore Vidal quipped, “There is little respite for a people so
    routinely— so fiercely—disinformed.”

    Yet the above examples also appear to be part of an effort by these
    individual writers to decontextualize the Ukraine War, to wipe away its
    messy history and present it in its most simplistic form: as a battle
    between good and evil. It is a strategy that seeks to avoid a
    substantive conversation about how and why Russia and the West arrived
    at this, the most dangerous point since the Cuban Missile Crisis.

    These sorts of pieces are an elite project designed to shrink the
    parameters of permissible thought with regard to the war in Ukraine.
    And it serves to purposely confuse and infantilize Americans’
    understanding of what is actually happening in Ukraine—and why. But
    that, one might suppose, is the point: Applebaum and the rest are
    laying the foundation for what is to come, once it becomes undeniable
    that Ukraine has lost the war.

    In the nearly ten years since the Maidan Revolution, a handful of us
    have been sounding the alarm over the possibility of war breaking out
    between Russia and the West. For nearly ten years, a small minority of
    writers and thinkers have relentlessly advocated for a peaceful
    solution to the Ukraine crisis, and in the process have, at various
    times, been smeared, mocked, marginalized, denied employment
    opportunities, branded “terrorist” sympathizers, and placed on a
    Ukrainian kill-lists for the crime of telling the truth about what has
    been happening in eastern Ukraine since 2014.

    And as the war in Ukraine grinds on to its disastrous denouement, we
    can reasonably expect those who are responsible for helping set off
    this conflagration—along with those who cheered this ludicrous and
    unnecessary war from the beginning—to pay about as severe a price as
    that paid by the architects and cheerleaders of the Iraq fiasco: none
    at all.

    Advocates of a restrained and sensible foreign policy ought to prepare
    for an even nastier period of recrimination and finger-pointing that
    will make the Russiagate years (2016-2021) look like a time of national
    serenity.

    Indeed, it is all too easy to imagine that 2024 and the years following
    will be dominated by a “Who lost Ukraine?” crusade not unlike the
    poisonous “Who lost China?” debate that midwifed the McCarthy period of >> the 1950s. The coming campaign will no doubt consist of a litany of
    accusations of unpatriotic disloyalty leveled against American
    opponents of the war by a parade of Eastern Europeans and their vocal
    and powerful lobby in Washington.

    The corporate media and their many progressive and liberal allies in
    Congress will, with great enthusiasm, link arms with their neocon
    friends in order to cast blame and further shrink the bounds of the
    sayable and the thinkable. They will continue to police the parameters
    of public discourse with the same sadistic efficiency with which they
    treated critics of the now discredited idea of “collusion” between the >> Trump campaign and the Russian government.

    The tragedy that of course they fail to see is that Ukraine need not
    have been lost. Moreover, it would have been helpful if there had been
    a wider understanding that it was not ours to lose in the first place.
    Had the advice proffered by a small minority of us, that neutrality was
    the best course of action for Ukraine to survive, been heeded, the
    horrible ordeal that the Ukrainian people are now going through would
    have been avoided.

    _A simple declaration by the U.S. and NATO withdrawing its pledge, made
    in_ _Bucharest in 2008, that Ukraine and Georgia “shall become” members >> of the_ _alliance, would have gone a long way toward establishing a
    peaceful way_ _forward between Russia and Ukraine. But no._ For the
    past four U.S. administrations (Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden) the
    ideologues were at the wheel. And the idea that Ukraine had “a right to
    choose its own alliances,” and we had a duty to enable it, came to be
    treated as holy writ.

    A Ukrainian defeat will reinforce the narrative, so painstakingly built
    up over the past decade by the very same people who drove this country
    to disaster in Iraq, that American interests are inseparable from the
    welfare of an ethno-nationalist kleptocracy 4,000 miles from our
    shores.

    Two centuries ago, the British statesman John Bright warned against
    “following visionary phantoms in all parts of the world while your own
    country is becoming rotten within.” Yet for these people, visionary
    phantoms are all they see. To these people (many only very recently
    arrived in the country for which they presume to speak) a “good”
    American is one who disclaims any responsibility or care for their
    fellow citizens in favor of a feverish identification with a foreign
    country.

    And if that becomes the baseline measure of what a good American is,
    then the future of our country will be a dark one. Yet it doesn’t have
    to be this way.

    In the coming year the voting public will have an opportunity to send a
    message to the administration regarding its handling of the war. There
    are alternatives, however imperfect, to the claque of liberal and
    progressive war hawks now in power, and who for years have not only
    given Ukrainian leaders wondrously bad and reckless advice, but have
    serially misled the American people about the extent of the dangers
    involved.

    Remember at the polls, the choice between war and peace is too
    important to leave to those whose mistakes got us here in the first
    place.

    About The Author

    James W. Carden served as advisor on U.S.-Russian affairs at the State
    Department during the Obama administration.

    https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-coming-battle-who-lost-
    ukraine/

    И това ли мнение според онзи е без значение?

    Да не кажеш че има цензура. Веднага го публикуваха и на български:

    Нямам спомен да съм твърдял някога нещо за цензура. Авторът намеква за
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  • From Ivaylo Ivanov@21:1/5 to Nick on Sun Aug 13 15:47:51 2023
    On Thursday, August 10, 2023 at 5:22:11 AM UTC-4, Nick wrote:
    The Coming Battle: ‘Who Lost Ukraine?’

    An effort to rewrite history is happening in real time.

    James W. Carden Aug 7, 2023 12:03 AM

    As it becomes more and more difficult to deny what is happening on the battlefield in Ukraine, a grinding war with hundreds of thousands of casualties, establishment media continue to present a picture of the war designed to rally the public, should its enthusiasm for this latest
    American overseas adventure begin to flag in the face of long and hard realities.

    In June, the Atlantic published a cover story by Anne Applebaum and
    Jeffery Goldberg which asserted that “The future of the democratic world will be determined by whether the Ukrainian military can break a stalemate with Russia and drive the country backwards—perhaps even out of Crimea for good.”

    On July 12, New York Times op-ed columnist Nicolas Kristof informed his reader(s) that “The Ukrainians are sacrificing for us. They’re the ones doing us a favor, by degrading the Russian military and reducing the risk
    of a war in Europe that would cost the lives of our troops.”

    National Review put it even more starkly. Two days later, July 14, senior editor Jay Nordlinger wrote, “The nationalists among us, as much as anyone, ought to be inspired by what the Ukrainians are doing: fighting
    for their national survival, trying to fend off a behemoth neighbor that seeks to re-subjugate them.”

    As Gore Vidal quipped, “There is little respite for a people so routinely—
    so fiercely—disinformed.”

    Yet the above examples also appear to be part of an effort by these individual writers to decontextualize the Ukraine War, to wipe away its messy history and present it in its most simplistic form: as a battle between good and evil. It is a strategy that seeks to avoid a substantive conversation about how and why Russia and the West arrived at this, the
    most dangerous point since the Cuban Missile Crisis.

    These sorts of pieces are an elite project designed to shrink the
    parameters of permissible thought with regard to the war in Ukraine. And
    it serves to purposely confuse and infantilize Americans’ understanding of what is actually happening in Ukraine—and why. But that, one might suppose, is the point: Applebaum and the rest are laying the foundation
    for what is to come, once it becomes undeniable that Ukraine has lost the war.

    In the nearly ten years since the Maidan Revolution, a handful of us have been sounding the alarm over the possibility of war breaking out between Russia and the West. For nearly ten years, a small minority of writers and thinkers have relentlessly advocated for a peaceful solution to the
    Ukraine crisis, and in the process have, at various times, been smeared, mocked, marginalized, denied employment opportunities, branded “terrorist”
    sympathizers, and placed on a Ukrainian kill-lists for the crime of
    telling the truth about what has been happening in eastern Ukraine since 2014.

    And as the war in Ukraine grinds on to its disastrous denouement, we can reasonably expect those who are responsible for helping set off this conflagration—along with those who cheered this ludicrous and unnecessary war from the beginning—to pay about as severe a price as that paid by the architects and cheerleaders of the Iraq fiasco: none at all.

    Advocates of a restrained and sensible foreign policy ought to prepare for an even nastier period of recrimination and finger-pointing that will make the Russiagate years (2016-2021) look like a time of national serenity. Indeed, it is all too easy to imagine that 2024 and the years following
    will be dominated by a “Who lost Ukraine?” crusade not unlike the poisonous “Who lost China?” debate that midwifed the McCarthy period of the 1950s. The coming campaign will no doubt consist of a litany of accusations of unpatriotic disloyalty leveled against American opponents
    of the war by a parade of Eastern Europeans and their vocal and powerful lobby in Washington.

    The corporate media and their many progressive and liberal allies in Congress will, with great enthusiasm, link arms with their neocon friends
    in order to cast blame and further shrink the bounds of the sayable and
    the thinkable. They will continue to police the parameters of public discourse with the same sadistic efficiency with which they treated
    critics of the now discredited idea of “collusion” between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.

    The tragedy that of course they fail to see is that Ukraine need not have been lost. Moreover, it would have been helpful if there had been a wider understanding that it was not ours to lose in the first place. Had the advice proffered by a small minority of us, that neutrality was the best course of action for Ukraine to survive, been heeded, the horrible ordeal that the Ukrainian people are now going through would have been avoided.

    _A simple declaration by the U.S. and NATO withdrawing its pledge, made in_ _Bucharest in 2008, that Ukraine and Georgia “shall become” members of the_
    _alliance, would have gone a long way toward establishing a peaceful way_ _forward between Russia and Ukraine. But no._ For the past four U.S. administrations (Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden) the ideologues were at the wheel. And the idea that Ukraine had “a right to choose its own alliances,” and we had a duty to enable it, came to be treated as holy writ.

    A Ukrainian defeat will reinforce the narrative, so painstakingly built up over the past decade by the very same people who drove this country to disaster in Iraq, that American interests are inseparable from the welfare of an ethno-nationalist kleptocracy 4,000 miles from our shores.

    Two centuries ago, the British statesman John Bright warned against “following visionary phantoms in all parts of the world while your own country is becoming rotten within.” Yet for these people, visionary phantoms are all they see. To these people (many only very recently
    arrived in the country for which they presume to speak) a “good” American
    is one who disclaims any responsibility or care for their fellow citizens
    in favor of a feverish identification with a foreign country.

    And if that becomes the baseline measure of what a good American is, then the future of our country will be a dark one. Yet it doesn’t have to be this way.

    In the coming year the voting public will have an opportunity to send a message to the administration regarding its handling of the war. There are alternatives, however imperfect, to the claque of liberal and progressive war hawks now in power, and who for years have not only given Ukrainian leaders wondrously bad and reckless advice, but have serially misled the American people about the extent of the dangers involved.

    Remember at the polls, the choice between war and peace is too important
    to leave to those whose mistakes got us here in the first place.

    About The Author

    James W. Carden served as advisor on U.S.-Russian affairs at the State Department during the Obama administration.

    https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-coming-battle-who-lost-ukraine/

    И това ли мнение според онзи е без значение?

    --
    «地 球 誕 生 在 牛 市 的 小 時 — Earth is born in the Bull's hour»

    Глупости на търкала, както можем да очакваме от "The American Conservative".
    Между другото - войната в Украйна нито е сред първите 10 грижи на американците
    преди следващите избори нито се очертава да стане такава в идните 15 месеца
    (освен ако Путин не използва ядрени оръжия в Украйна).

    А долкокото помня Украйна е на три дни от пълен разгром и загуба на войната
    от 24 февруари 2022 та чак до днес.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Nick@21:1/5 to Ivaylo Ivanov on Mon Aug 14 04:00:07 2023
    On Sun, 13 Aug 2023 15:47:51 -0700 (PDT), Ivaylo Ivanov wrote:

    On Thursday, August 10, 2023 at 5:22:11 AM UTC-4, Nick wrote:

    The Coming Battle: ‘Who Lost Ukraine?’

    An effort to rewrite history is happening in real time.

    James W. Carden Aug 7, 2023 12:03 AM

    As it becomes more and more difficult to deny what is happening on the
    battlefield in Ukraine, a grinding war with hundreds of thousands of
    casualties, establishment media continue to present a picture of the
    war designed to rally the public, should its enthusiasm for this latest
    American overseas adventure begin to flag in the face of long and hard
    realities.

    In June, the Atlantic published a cover story by Anne Applebaum and
    Jeffery Goldberg which asserted that “The future of the democratic
    world will be determined by whether the Ukrainian military can break a
    stalemate with Russia and drive the country backwards—perhaps even out
    of Crimea for good.”

    On July 12, New York Times op-ed columnist Nicolas Kristof informed his
    reader(s) that “The Ukrainians are sacrificing for us. They’re the ones >> doing us a favor, by degrading the Russian military and reducing the
    risk of a war in Europe that would cost the lives of our troops.”

    National Review put it even more starkly. Two days later, July 14,
    senior editor Jay Nordlinger wrote, “The nationalists among us, as much
    as anyone, ought to be inspired by what the Ukrainians are doing:
    fighting for their national survival, trying to fend off a behemoth
    neighbor that seeks to re-subjugate them.”

    As Gore Vidal quipped, “There is little respite for a people so
    routinely— so fiercely—disinformed.”

    Yet the above examples also appear to be part of an effort by these
    individual writers to decontextualize the Ukraine War, to wipe away its
    messy history and present it in its most simplistic form: as a battle
    between good and evil. It is a strategy that seeks to avoid a
    substantive conversation about how and why Russia and the West arrived
    at this, the most dangerous point since the Cuban Missile Crisis.

    These sorts of pieces are an elite project designed to shrink the
    parameters of permissible thought with regard to the war in Ukraine.
    And it serves to purposely confuse and infantilize Americans’
    understanding of what is actually happening in Ukraine—and why. But
    that, one might suppose, is the point: Applebaum and the rest are
    laying the foundation for what is to come, once it becomes undeniable
    that Ukraine has lost the war.

    In the nearly ten years since the Maidan Revolution, a handful of us
    have been sounding the alarm over the possibility of war breaking out
    between Russia and the West. For nearly ten years, a small minority of
    writers and thinkers have relentlessly advocated for a peaceful
    solution to the Ukraine crisis, and in the process have, at various
    times, been smeared, mocked, marginalized, denied employment
    opportunities, branded “terrorist” sympathizers, and placed on a
    Ukrainian kill-lists for the crime of telling the truth about what has
    been happening in eastern Ukraine since 2014.

    And as the war in Ukraine grinds on to its disastrous denouement, we
    can reasonably expect those who are responsible for helping set off
    this conflagration—along with those who cheered this ludicrous and
    unnecessary war from the beginning—to pay about as severe a price as
    that paid by the architects and cheerleaders of the Iraq fiasco: none
    at all.

    Advocates of a restrained and sensible foreign policy ought to prepare
    for an even nastier period of recrimination and finger-pointing that
    will make the Russiagate years (2016-2021) look like a time of national
    serenity.

    Indeed, it is all too easy to imagine that 2024 and the years following
    will be dominated by a “Who lost Ukraine?” crusade not unlike the
    poisonous “Who lost China?” debate that midwifed the McCarthy period of >> the 1950s. The coming campaign will no doubt consist of a litany of
    accusations of unpatriotic disloyalty leveled against American
    opponents of the war by a parade of Eastern Europeans and their vocal
    and powerful lobby in Washington.

    The corporate media and their many progressive and liberal allies in
    Congress will, with great enthusiasm, link arms with their neocon
    friends in order to cast blame and further shrink the bounds of the
    sayable and the thinkable. They will continue to police the parameters
    of public discourse with the same sadistic efficiency with which they
    treated critics of the now discredited idea of “collusion” between the >> Trump campaign and the Russian government.

    The tragedy that of course they fail to see is that Ukraine need not
    have been lost. Moreover, it would have been helpful if there had been
    a wider understanding that it was not ours to lose in the first place.
    Had the advice proffered by a small minority of us, that neutrality was
    the best course of action for Ukraine to survive, been heeded, the
    horrible ordeal that the Ukrainian people are now going through would
    have been avoided.

    _A simple declaration by the U.S. and NATO withdrawing its pledge, made
    in_ _Bucharest in 2008, that Ukraine and Georgia “shall become” members >> of the_ _alliance, would have gone a long way toward establishing a
    peaceful way_ _forward between Russia and Ukraine. But no._ For the
    past four U.S. administrations (Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden) the
    ideologues were at the wheel. And the idea that Ukraine had “a right to
    choose its own alliances,” and we had a duty to enable it, came to be
    treated as holy writ.

    A Ukrainian defeat will reinforce the narrative, so painstakingly built
    up over the past decade by the very same people who drove this country
    to disaster in Iraq, that American interests are inseparable from the
    welfare of an ethno-nationalist kleptocracy 4,000 miles from our
    shores.

    Two centuries ago, the British statesman John Bright warned against
    “following visionary phantoms in all parts of the world while your own
    country is becoming rotten within.” Yet for these people, visionary
    phantoms are all they see. To these people (many only very recently
    arrived in the country for which they presume to speak) a “good”
    American is one who disclaims any responsibility or care for their
    fellow citizens in favor of a feverish identification with a foreign
    country.

    And if that becomes the baseline measure of what a good American is,
    then the future of our country will be a dark one. Yet it doesn’t have
    to be this way.

    In the coming year the voting public will have an opportunity to send a
    message to the administration regarding its handling of the war. There
    are alternatives, however imperfect, to the claque of liberal and
    progressive war hawks now in power, and who for years have not only
    given Ukrainian leaders wondrously bad and reckless advice, but have
    serially misled the American people about the extent of the dangers
    involved.

    Remember at the polls, the choice between war and peace is too
    important to leave to those whose mistakes got us here in the first
    place.

    About The Author

    James W. Carden served as advisor on U.S.-Russian affairs at the State
    Department during the Obama administration.

    https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-coming-battle-who-lost-
    ukraine/

    И това ли мнение според онзи е без значение?

    Глупости на търкала, както можем да очакваме от "The American
    Conservative".
    Между другото - войната в Украйна нито е сред първите 10 грижи на
    американците преди следващите избори нито се очертава да стане такава в
    идните 15 месеца (освен ако Путин не използва ядрени оръжия в Украйна).

    А долкокото помня Украйна е на три дни от пълен разгром и загуба на
    войната от 24 февруари 2022 та чак до днес.

    Това според кого? Според теб? Ти изобщо прочете ли статията?

    --
    «地 球 誕 生 在 牛 市 的 小 時 — Earth is born in the Bull's hour»

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
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  • From chorbalan@21:1/5 to Ivaylo Ivanov on Mon Aug 14 19:34:03 2023
    On Mon, 14 Aug 2023 08:20:21 -0700 (PDT), Ivaylo Ivanov wrote:

    Виж, ако Русия нападне
    НАТО (и Тръмп не е президент) нещата ще са съвсем други.

    По-скоро ще стане обратното.

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  • From Nick@21:1/5 to Ivaylo Ivanov on Tue Aug 15 04:27:15 2023
    On Mon, 14 Aug 2023 08:20:21 -0700 (PDT), Ivaylo Ivanov wrote:

    On Monday, August 14, 2023 at 12:00:09 AM UTC-4, Nick wrote:

    On Sun, 13 Aug 2023 15:47:51 -0700 (PDT), Ivaylo Ivanov wrote:

    On Thursday, August 10, 2023 at 5:22:11 AM UTC-4, Nick wrote:

    The Coming Battle: ‘Who Lost Ukraine?’

    An effort to rewrite history is happening in real time.

    James W. Carden Aug 7, 2023 12:03 AM

    As it becomes more and more difficult to deny what is happening on
    the battlefield in Ukraine, a grinding war with hundreds of
    thousands of casualties, establishment media continue to present a
    picture of the war designed to rally the public, should its
    enthusiasm for this latest American overseas adventure begin to flag
    in the face of long and hard realities.



    About The Author

    James W. Carden served as advisor on U.S.-Russian affairs at the
    State Department during the Obama administration.

    https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-coming-battle-who-lost-
    ukraine/

    И това ли мнение според онзи е без значение?
    Глупости на търкала, както можем да очакваме от "The American
    Conservative".

    Между другото - войната в Украйна нито е сред първите 10 грижи на
    американците преди следващите избори нито се очертава да стане такава
    в идните 15 месеца (освен ако Путин не използва ядрени оръжия в
    Украйна).

    А долкокото помня Украйна е на три дни от пълен разгром и загуба на
    войната от 24 февруари 2022 та чак до днес.

    Това според кого? Според теб? Ти изобщо прочете ли статията?

    Прочетох статията, да. Глупости на търкала, както написах. Не зная от
    къде да започна ако трябва да я обсъдя сериозно.

    Ами започни от началото.

    Между другото, какво според _теб_ би представлявала украинската загуба
    във войната? Какво би представлявала руската победа? Без отговор на тези
    въпроси всякаква дискусия по темата е безсмислена. А самата теза, че

    За да задаваш такива въпроси, доброто възпитание предполага ти пръв да
    отговориш на тях. Но ти и възпитание?!

    Украинците вече са загубили и загубата им започна още през 2014 г. Преди
    време ти казах да се поинтересуваш за волинското клане през втората
    световна война. Ако го беше направил, нямаше да пишеш глупости сега.

    Ти нали беше некрофил и все за руските жертви говореше тук - погледни
    украинските. Има един доклад на института Джеферсън за Украйна, потърси го
    и го прочети. Между другото, този институт е американски, не руски. Само
    не казвай, че и докладът е нелеп.

    американския елит ще се вайка "кой загуби Украйна", каквото и да
    представлява тази загуба, е нелепа. На Байдън и американския елит им
    дреме на оная работа за Украйна. На определени хора от елита може да им
    дреме, но ако ЕС не беше реагирал, така както реагира в началото,
    администрацията в САЩ нямаше дори да си мръдне пръста за Украйна. Виж,
    ако Русия нападне НАТО (и Тръмп не е президент) нещата ще са съвсем
    други.

    Я, просветление ли виждам - че САШ воюват с Русия в Украйна до последния
    украинец. В този смисъл на елита ви не му пука за Украйна и украинците.
    Иначе за останалото си помисли пак.

    А тезата ти, че ЕС има самостоятелна политика спрямо Украйна и Русия е
    също толкова нелепа.

    Нещата щяха да са съвсем други, ако не бяхте организирали преврата в
    Украйна през 2014 г. И Крим щеше още да е украински, и Донбас също, и
    война нямаше да има. Така, че избягвай да говориш, че Русия ще нападне
    НАТО - по-скоро ще е обратното, както ти казва и Чорби.

    И си потърси признанията на Меркел и Оланд за споразуменията от Минск.
    Само не ме питай какви са, няма да ти кажа.

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    «地 球 誕 生 在 牛 市 的 小 時 — Earth is born in the Bull's hour»

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