Russian media are discussing how John McCain was given a gift by George Bush when the latter seemed to give the green light to the Georgian president to invade South Ossetia with US-trained shock troops on 8-8-08. They are pointing out, correctly I might add, that lower class Democrat males are particularly easy to manipulate when there seems to be a war “against us” that they want to see a “strong response” to.
Never mind how dumb it is to misrepresent and antogonize the people of the largest consumer economy in Europe (Russia surpassed Germany last year for automobile purchases with $34Billion worth of cars and trucks heading there). Never mind how Americans felt it was their duty to protect US citizens in Grenada and Panama (at the time only radical left wingers said that America supposedly invaded Panama to conquer it forever).
Now, of course, everyone with a brain knows how stupid it was for anyone to militarily attack Russians who will never leave South Ossetia and Abkhazia. That has been a disaster, seen clearly from looking at the photos on Russian military blogs like www.milkavkaz.net.
The Russian people are seeing 8-8-8 as the Americans saw 9-11. Whether or not 2000 civilians really were killed by the Georgian attack on South Ossetia, the point is that the American advisors to Georgia probably gave the green light to the horrifying idea that Russian civilian casualties would be accepted by the Russian population with anything less than the rage Americans felt at seeing the World Trade Center fall.
The US needs a Congressional Investigation to see just who might have made this terrifying miscalculation. It may be OK to send death squads against terrorists and drug dealers in the mountains or jungles, but not against our friends the Russians on what they consider their native soil. That would be like someone sending death squads against Americans along the border with Canada or Mexico.
Think about it: if Mexico was having a border dispute with Texas, how would Americans feel if a sudden skirmish left 2000 American townspeople dead? Would it be business as usual regarding the dispute? Or would Americans suddenly up the ante and want regime change in Mexico City?
Furthermore, don’t think most Europeans haven’t noticed that this is exactly like Kosovo but in reverse. This time the US is embarrassingly supporting someone who is using the same rhetoric that Milosevic did about not wanting breakaway province to split away. Even more hypocritically, Bush’s blatant disrespect for Russian men caused him to recognize Kosovo independence even while he was training Georgian death squads from preventing their own Kosovos from splitting.
Don’t think the official US government attitude, that Russian men are drunks and their women “mail order brides”, hasn’t percolated into the sponge-like brains of Bush Neocon war planners.
It is high time for the Neocon reign to end and for responsibily pro-war libertarians to take over the Republican Party.
Read this interesting and amusing take on how Putin might have led the USA better than Bush has since 9-11. More of that kind of article would relieve the boredom I get reading the usual American media swill.
True, some educated (in addition to the redneck) people are talking about how the Russians really wanted (before alleged Georgian massacres in South Ossetia) to take over the entire country of Georgia and crush it like Stalin did, which is fair enough to talk about in addition to other arm-chair theories. Just as valid is that they really are ticked off at the death squad killings of their citizens.
Real conservative men in the US, however, aren’t so quick to agree with George Bush’s opinion on events anymore.
George Bush has systematically destroyed men’s rights in the USA over the past 5 years. Neither Vladimir Putin nor Dmitrie Mevedev has allied with any Russian feminists to take away the rights of Russian men.
So why should American males side with the one who betrayed them without some careful investigation on this matter?
You can be sure that the US feminists, basically in charge of the Republican Party, don’t like Putin.
A real man would, before shooting off at the mouth against our Russian friends, investigate both sides and maybe learn some Russian so he can read the Russian blogs and news sites about this or any future conflict.
Most American men read the book “1984″ in high school. In that book, after the government totally betrayed Winston by disclosing to his girlfriend Julia something he had said to them, Winston settles down in front of the television on the last page of the book and enthusiastically cheers for his nation’s new war against a new enemy that he instantly hates.
The book “1984″ specifically mentions how wars start in order to “protect small allies” even if those allies started things going over minor border disputes. Conservative males condemned Bill Clinton for “Wag the Dog” wars.
Would a real man punch out another man simply because an untrustworthy woman said “He hit me, please hit him back?”
American men are not going to vote for the pro-feminist John Mccain simply because he hates Russia and its strong economy and it’s pro-male anti-communist culture. McCain’s one-sided anti-Russian rhetoric could seriously hurt American businesses dealing with Russia.
The War in Georgia needs to be quickly settled along the lines of the French Peace Proposal that Nicolas Sarkozy has personally delivered to Tbilisi. This would cement the status quo of August 6th and prevent anymore needless military adventurism regarding South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
But Americans, if they were in the Russians’ place, would implement regime change.
