12-11-2021, 10:45 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-11-2021, 10:46 PM by Anthony '58.)
But spoiling for a fight with China over Taiwan isn't the only danger we face.
Spoiling for a fight with Russia over Ukraine is also a definite possibility.
And a totally pointless possibility too: Both Crimea and the Donets Basin are more than 75% Russian - and the reason the Russians had to retake them in 2014 is because Khrushchev arbitrarily transferred them from the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1954, which didn't really mean anything until the Soviet Union shattered in 1991.
We're poised to make the same blunder that Bill Clinton made when he chose to recognize Tito's similarly arbitrarily-drawn internal borders for Yugoslavia, only to see those borders get blown sky-high when the center couldn't hold there either (it was a miracle that Tito's successors managed to keep the lid on that pressure cooker for a decade after he died).
Spoiling for a fight with Russia over Ukraine is also a definite possibility.
And a totally pointless possibility too: Both Crimea and the Donets Basin are more than 75% Russian - and the reason the Russians had to retake them in 2014 is because Khrushchev arbitrarily transferred them from the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1954, which didn't really mean anything until the Soviet Union shattered in 1991.
We're poised to make the same blunder that Bill Clinton made when he chose to recognize Tito's similarly arbitrarily-drawn internal borders for Yugoslavia, only to see those borders get blown sky-high when the center couldn't hold there either (it was a miracle that Tito's successors managed to keep the lid on that pressure cooker for a decade after he died).
"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation" - Justice David Brewer, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892