Who put up the Iron Curtain? From Finian Cunningham at strategic-culture.su:
The Cold War demarcation of Europe and the wider world is back with a vengeance, promoted by the same imperialist powers that created the last one.
The European Union, which has become a virtual clone of the U.S.-led NATO military alliance, is erecting a new Iron Curtain across the continent – more than 30 years since the Cold War supposedly ended.
In the new division of the European continent, Russia and Russian citizens are deemed to be unacceptable, demonized and excommunicated. The EU is proposing to ban Russian citizens from entering the EU states as innocent travelers. Cars with Russian registration plates are to be excluded from crossing national borders, at risk of being confiscated from their owners.
EU states like Latvia are moving to outlaw the speaking of the Russian language in public, even though a quarter of its population are ethnic Russian speakers. Russian cultural figures are vilified when participating in concerts, ballet or literary events.
Russian news media are blacked out and no questioning or an alternative perspective on the war in Ukraine is allowed. The historical context on how this conflict originated, the duplicitous expansion of NATO, are expunged from any public discourse. Put simply, according to the West, Russia is an evil aggressor, its leader Vladimir Putin is a Hitlerian tyrant and the entire nation is a pariah (apart from Western-approved “dissident” figures like the conman Alexei Navalny).
Juvenile sophistry, masquerading as informed opinion.
The Iron Curtain was a barrier erected to keep people inside it.
Finian Cunningham is either too young to remember this, or else too mendacious to point it out.
So who is the West forbidding to escape to beyond it?
Where?
Ever?!?
You think Russia is a nice place to live?
DLTDHYITAOYWO
Go, and in haste.
Maybe winters in Venezuela, and summers in Pyongyang, amongst their allies.
The West finally told Putin “Not this time” when he came for Ukraine for only the fourth time since Russia’s 1991 treaty pledge to respect, and even defend with force of arms, Ukrainian sovereignty, in exchange for Ukraine unilaterally giving up the nuclear weapons in its possession after the fall of the Soviet Union.
The idiocy of that bargain is readily apparent now, and to the whole world. Nuclear counter-proliferation had a stake driven through its heart at the end of February 2022. Putin did that. And as a result, it’s never coming back. Welcome to 1950. Enjoy what follows like the opening of Pandora’s Box.
You’ll forgive those of us, who went through Cold War and nuclear MADness the first time, who elect not to share your surprise and thrill at watching it play out every day, everywhere.
If Kiev had sent 20 megatons of hate to Moscow via special express on a flatbed truck last year, or even could have, Putin never would have invaded.
What the West has done, and is doing, is pushing the Iron Curtain that Putin’s trying to rebuild back, and now it only encompasses Russia.
Boo frickin’ hoo.