Blinken's UN Speech - Incitement or Appeasement -Which Will Keep Russians From Breaking Out?

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Feb 17, 2022 at 12:12

As the business of the Ukraine is being argued in the United Nations and the Russians are maneuvering all over the terrain in the Ukraine, one wonders why negotiations, and not antagonisms, are underway in this period of unsettling circumstances that if left to the politicians, nothng will be settled except the melted mud after the drills of military madness have stirred enough territoery commeasurate with the Kursk tank battles of the Second World War. Sec Blinken mentioned the issues that America faced when intervening in European affairs from both of the earlier world wars and how the uneasy alliance with the former Soviet Union while fighting the Nationist Soscialists did not get any easier after the Nazi's were done and they were replaced by the socialistc ambitions of the Soviet Union. In modern terms, this is the same dilemma today, desires of imperial ambitions being exported for reasons of territorial tyranny that Sec Blinken does not have a good argument to offer for releasing the tensions his inadequate posturing is causing. The Russian Leader knows he's got the upper hand because the old fears of Soviet persuasion are now back and NATO never had the upper hand when facing the Warsaw Pact then; and certainly not its modern apparition now.

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