From George F. Kennan, architect of America’s “containment” policy after World War II, in a letter to The New York Times, February 5, 1997:
Expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-cold-war era. Such a decision may be expected to inflame the nationalistic, anti-Western and militaristic tendencies in Russian opinion; to have an adverse effect on the development of Russian democracy; to restore the atmosphere of the cold war to East-West relations, and to impel Russian foreign policy in directions decidedly not to our liking.
Wise and prophetic words. See “A U.S.-Russia War Over Ukraine?” by Patrick Buchanan, “The Murderers of Kiev,” by Justin Raimondo, and “Stephen F. Cohen on the U.S./Russia/Ukraine history the media won’t tell you,” An Interview with Patrick L. Smith, all posted on SLL 4/17/15. See also “A Half-Hearted Tribute to George Herbert Walker Bush,” by Robert Gore, SLL, 2/22/15.
I believe/hope that the Kiev regime, an impossible combination of Jewish banksters and billionaire oligarchs with neo-Nazi enforcers, will collapse before our neo-con globalists stumble into an outright war with Russia, nuclear or not. Another restraining factor is the European attitude toward this misbegotten adventure which – as mentioned by Vicky Nudelman herself during the famous intercepted phonecall – is not altogether supportive. Finally, lost wars have usually been a major factor in the collapse of Empires; and the declining American Empire of the Debtbuck could well be brought down altogether by a military defeat/diplomatic backdown forced by Russia. Something, in other words, to look forward to