Guest Post by Pat Buchanan
If Putin makes a military move into Finland, the U.S. will go to war against the world’s largest nation with an arsenal of between 4,500 and 6,000 battlefield and strategic nuclear weapons… To go to war with the Soviet Union over the preservation of Finnish territory would have been seen as madness during the Cold War.
At the NATO summit in Madrid, Finland was invited to join the alliance. What does this mean for Finland?
If Russian President Vladimir Putin breaches the 830-mile Finnish border, the United States will rise to Helsinki’s defense and fight Russia on Finland’s side.
What does Finland’s membership in NATO mean for America?
If Putin makes a military move into Finland, the U.S. will go to war against the world’s largest nation with an arsenal of between 4,500 and 6,000 battlefield and strategic nuclear weapons.
No Cold War president would have dreamed of making such a commitment — to risk the survival of our nation to defend territory of a country thousands of miles away that has never been a U.S. vital interest.
To go to war with the Soviet Union over the preservation of Finnish territory would have been seen as madness during the Cold War.
Recall: Harry Truman refused to use force to break Joseph Stalin’s blockade of Berlin. Dwight Eisenhower refused to send U.S. troops to save the Hungarian freedom fighters being run down by Soviet tanks in Budapest in 1956.
Lyndon B. Johnson did nothing to assist the Czech patriots crushed by Warsaw Pact armies in 1968. When Lech Walesa’s Solidarity was smashed on Moscow’s order in Poland in 1981, Ronald Reagan made brave statements and sent Xerox machines.
While the U.S. issued annual declarations of support during the Cold War for the “captive nations” of Central and Eastern Europe, the liberation of these nations from Soviet control was never deemed so vital to the West as to justify a war with the USSR.
Indeed, in the 40 years of the Cold War, NATO, which had begun in 1949 with 12 member nations, added only four more — Greece, Turkey, Spain and West Germany.
Yet, with the invitation to Sweden and Finland to join as the 31st and 32nd nations to receive an Article 5 war guarantee, NATO will have doubled its membership since what was thought — certainly by the Russians — to have been the end of the Cold War.
All the nations once part of Moscow’s Warsaw Pact — East Germany, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria — are now members of a U.S.-led NATO — directed against Russia.
Three former republics of the USSR — Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania — are now also members of NATO, a military alliance formed to corral and contain the nation to which they had belonged during the Cold War.
Lithuania, with 2% of Russia’s population, has just declared a partial blockade of goods moving across its territory to Kaliningrad, Russia’s enclave on the Baltic Sea.
To Putin’s protest, Vilnius has reminded Moscow that Lithuania is a member of NATO.
It is a dictum of geostrategic politics that a great power ought never cede to a lesser power the ability to draw it into a great war.
In 1914, the kaiser’s Germany gave its Austrian ally a “blank check” to punish Serbia for its role in the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne. Vienna cashed the kaiser’s check and attacked Serbia, and the Great War of 1914-1918 was on.
In March 1939, Neville Chamberlain issued a war guarantee to Poland. If Germany attacked Poland, Britain would fight on Poland’s side.
Fortified with this war guarantee from the British Empire, the Poles stonewalled Hitler, refusing to talk to Berlin over German claims to the city of Danzig, taken from her at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.
On Sept. 1, 1939, Hitler attacked and Britain declared war, a war that lasted six years and mortally wounded the British Empire.
And Poland? At Yalta in 1945, Winston Churchill agreed that a Soviet-occupied Poland should remain in Stalin’s custody.
Putin is a Russian nationalist who regards the breakup of the USSR as the greatest calamity of the 20th century, but he is not alone responsible for the wretched relations between our countries.
We Americans have played a leading role in what is shaping up as a Second Cold War, more dangerous than the first.
Over the last quarter-century, after Russia dissolved the Warsaw Pact and let the USSR break apart into 15 nations, we pushed NATO, created to corral and contain Russia, into Central and Eastern Europe.
In 2008, neocons goaded Georgia into attacking South Ossetia, provoking Russian intervention and the rout of the Georgian army.
In 2014, neocons goaded Ukrainians into overthrowing the elected pro-Russian regime in Kyiv. When they succeeded, Putin seized Crimea and Sevastopol, for centuries the home base of Russia’s Black Sea fleet.
In 2022, Moscow asked the U.S. to pledge not to bring Ukraine into NATO. We refused. And Putin attacked. If Russians believe their country has been pushed against a wall by the West, can we blame them?
Americans appear dismissive of dark Russian warnings that rather than accept defeat in Ukraine, the humiliation of their nation, and their encirclement and isolation, they will resort to tactical nuclear weapons.
Is it really wisdom to dismiss these warnings as “saber-rattling”?
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“We Americans have played a leading role in what is shaping up as a Second Cold War, more dangerous than the first.”
“We” is quite a stretch. The drooling puppet shouldn’t be the one who takes all the blame.
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Why not? One good reason. What he deserves is to swing from gallows erected on the Capitol steps, along with all the co-conspirators under RICO. Add the Clintons as well.
Because “we” refers to all Americans, 99.99999% of whom have no say in the matter.
Not sure where it stands now, but at the time of the invasion, at least 75% of americans were on board with hating Russia. I know because I lost numerous friends by telling them exactly what Buchanan just wrote here. I was called a Putin Stooge and a baby killer who supported the slaughter of innocent civilians. No longer speaking with those assholes, so I don’ know of they ever wised up. I doubt it.
Poland is 100x as based as the us ever will be
ha ha ha …Poland has a long history of being based , then bitchslapped back into whimpering cur mode.
Correction: Poland WAS based. They opposed abortion and the EU demands to invite a foreign (Muslim) population in to subsume its own culture. In recent years, they’re rejecting Catholicism (which, for them, means rejecting Christianity) and trying to align themselves with Western Europe’s woke requirements. They want to be part of the cool kids of the West. The young people of Hungary are at risk of following the same path, not realizing that Orban is the best leader in Europe.
Hopefully young people in Europe will pull their heads out of their ass and realize that the countries that aren’t Uncle Sam’s lapdogs are the actual cool kids.
I think Pat has written and published this article before… just feels familiar .
Whatever happens next, we can be sure of one reliable outcome of the money changers third world war. Germany loses again. Poor Germany.
Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II
by Sean McMeekin
World War II endures in the popular imagination as a heroic struggle between good and evil, with villainous Hitler driving its events. But Hitler was not in power when the conflict erupted in Asia—and he was certainly dead before it ended. His armies did not fight in multiple theaters, his empire did not span the Eurasian continent, and he did not inherit any of the spoils of war. That central role belonged to Joseph Stalin. The Second World War was not Hitler’s war; it was Stalin’s war.
Drawing on ambitious new research in Soviet, European, and US archives, Stalin’s War revolutionizes our understanding of this global conflict by moving its epicenter to the east. Hitler’s genocidal ambition may have helped unleash Armageddon, but as McMeekin shows, the war which emerged in Europe in September 1939 was the one Stalin wanted, not Hitler. So, too, did the Pacific war of 1941–1945 fulfill Stalin’s goal of unleashing a devastating war of attrition between Japan and the “Anglo-Saxon” capitalist powers he viewed as his ultimate adversary.
McMeekin also reveals the extent to which Soviet Communism was rescued by the US and Britain’s self-defeating strategic moves, beginning with Lend-Lease aid, as American and British supply boards agreed almost blindly to every Soviet demand. Stalin’s war machine, McMeekin shows, was substantially reliant on American materiél from warplanes, tanks, trucks, jeeps, motorcycles, fuel, ammunition, and explosives, to industrial inputs and technology transfer, to the foodstuffs which fed the Red Army.
This unreciprocated American generosity gave Stalin’s armies the mobile striking power to conquer most of Eurasia, from Berlin to Beijing, for Communism.
A groundbreaking reassessment of the Second World War, Stalin’s War is essential reading for anyone looking to understand the current world order.
The emperor has no brain and the vandals stole the handle, while outside in the distance, a wildcat did growl.
There’s something wrong with Biden.
Tragicomedy is what we have left here in the US of A.
Biden is full steam ahead, or whoever is pulling his strings in the epic new multimedia work ‘Titanic over the Cliff.’
Congress is full grift, Executive branch is mostly for sale with golden handcuffs, courts are whittling away and the populace is prey to the cartels, multinational investment management corporations, big pharma, the medical-hospital cartel, but the list goes on.
Don’t forget the children, Texas Rep Mayra Flores has not, children being trafficked for sex.
Prayers to God for blessings and thanks for all the good enemies to fight.
Life was filled with guns and war
And everyone got trampled on the floor
I wish we’d all been ready
Children died the days grew cold
A piece of bread could buy a bag of gold
I wish we’d all been ready
There’s no time to change your mind
The son has come and you’ve been left behind
A man and wife asleep in bed
She hears a noise and turns her head
He’s gone
I wish we’d all been ready
Two men walking up a hill
One disappears and one’s left standing still
I wish we’d all been ready
There’s no time to change your mind
The son has come and you’ve been left behind
Life was filled with guns and war
And everyone got trampled on the floor
I wish we’d all been ready
Children died the days grew cold
A piece of bread could buy a bag of gold
I wish we’d all been ready
There’s no time to change your mind
How could you have been so blind
The father spoke the demons dined
The son has come and you’ve been left behind
You’ve been left behind
You’ve been left behind
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Larry Norman
Oh, yeah, baby …. keep pushing down our throats that rapture hopey-dopium.
(Larry Norman was awesome!! Really. He was HUGELY reviled by the establishment church at the time …. called a heretic, demonically controlled, blah blah blah ….. because he had long hair and played rock, which Jesus hates, dontchya know.)
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“the rapture” is not Scriptural. Period. Yes, I ‘get’ where the seed of the theory germinated, but the whole ball o wax didnt come about til a couple of centuries ago.
I read the linked article above, and the author is right on a few points, and very wrong on several others, main one being that upon Jesus return, He WILL be ‘angry’. The Bible is very clear on this. Final judgement will not be pretty. Jesus plainly says that those who dis not wish Him to reign will be slain at His feet. The Word implies that He will ask some to assist in that process… 🙂
Because I’ve read enough to know that the Rapture is Judaized bunk, also associated with Jews ruling over the entire earth and the goyim left behind after Jesus’ return, I didn’t read Stuck’s article, but if you’re interest here’s another from 1942 putting the false Rapture doctrine to rest.
Sevenfold Errors of “Dispensationalism”
These last days are to be marked by multiplied deceptions in regard to the manner of Christ’s coming.https://www.ministrymagazine.org/archive/1942/11/sevenfold-errors-of-dispensationalism
Here’s the song ….
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One moar — “Why Should The Devil Have All The Good Music?”
Theme song from a movie that I saw in the 70’s. I’ve always liked this song, but I no longer agree with the programming that the movie is based on. I was young, and I had no clue that the majority of adults were lying to me. Lying about so many things, even pastors lying to me.
Yes, many folks have been genuinely deceived, but each individual is responsible to seek out truth. Parents not seeking truth to be sure that their children are not deceived is irresponsible parenting. Jer. 16:19
Pastors lying, there’s no excuse for you.
NATO has always been at war with Russia….otherwise it would have no reason to exist..
NATO is a money changer construct.
NATO is like cancer. An uncontrolled increase of cells leading to death. The North Atlantic is pretty far from the Baltic Sea or Lapland.
You think that’s far? How about Georgia? They even want to rope Asian countries into NATO.
Mr.President , please sir don’t interrupt energy production of petroleum and products .
Response : Got a phone call from Barrack and he said cut it so I did
Mr. President it will ruin our already struggling economy !
Response No it won’t Barrack said we have the strongest economic strength in decades !
Mr. President your policies could cause a nuclear exchange that coil kill millions .
Response , Huh ??? Oh Nap Time !
Get vaccinated there are to many of you still around !
Using gas and food so a war is the only card left !
We have already screwed everything up as much as we can and the WEF still need more sick and dead Americans especially you unvaccinated trouble makers
Right Mr President , I mean Barrack
Response That’s to many white Americans on the right Joe
BlackRock
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FAyglKJXMAcVN5C?format=jpg&name=900×900
I have written about that in the past Arch. I included the huge black magnetic iron slab in the UN building, not a cube but definitely a “black rock”. They are significant.
Brilliant!
The Saudi Royals are Khazarian Jews.
Aren’t they Ishmael’s kin, from Hagar?
The Germanics and Celts are being pitted against the equally white Slavs. Shemites VS Japethites at the instigation of the Kenites(Satans hybrid progeny by way of Cain). Extermination and DNA corruption by Vaxx or by Race mixing with Negroids and or their Mulatto cousins of N Africa and Middle East.
These Kenites morphed into what are incorrectly called Jews and using an army of scholars and journalists and other intellectuals from the Jewish owned and operated universities and seminaries have erected an extravagant fairy tail about the chosen ones by way of the Schofield reference Bible. This fairy tail is used to bludgeon any who dare to go against the Hitler bad Capitalism good narrative. That narrative has served it’s purpose and the veil is about to be lifted to reveal the ugly face of Khabbilist Communism. They will own and control everything and fill the role of commisars in a feudal system of heartless Satan worship.
This is (((Dr. Carol Baker))), M.D., Professor of Pediatrics Molecular Virology and Microbiology at Baylor College ….. also, she chaired the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices from 2009-12.
Here she says —> “Get rid of all the whites”
Lesson: KNOW YOUR ENEMY!!!
The Jewdar is strong with this one.
Looks like cheap plastic surgery face. She sucks regardless.
Above, I commented on pastors lying. The greatest source of their lies is based on the Schofield Reference Bible. They knew better than to equate Bible commentary with Scripture, but they did it anyway, and continue to do so. Mostly for a paycheck I suppose, the love of money trumps the love of truth.
2 Thess. 2:10-12 Bye bye ye who love to lie
“Those who call themselves Jews but are not.”
Spewing propaganda since the 70’s
(Guest)
https://www.unz.com/article/jeffrey-sachs-and-philip-giraldi-the-ukraine-war-is-yet-another-neocon-war/
https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/how-jewish-is-the-war-against-russia/
1. Russia can not afford to lose …. it would be a disaster on par with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Putin has made it quite clear Russia will not lose, no matter what.
2. The United States can not afford to lose …. at stake is the end of NATO and the eventual dissolution of American Empire. Dementia and the entire MIC apparatus has made it quite clear America will not lose, no matter what.
What do you think will happen when these two Immovable Forces collide? Do you really need to ask if war is “inevitable? (Not to mention that we are ALREADY at war! Whether or not there are “boots on the ground” is completely irrelevant!)
That may all be true, but I reject Buchanan’s premise that Russia is going to “move into Finland”. At least at this time. Putin knows that Sweden and to a lesser degree Finland have been de facto NATO members for a long time. Becoming de jure members isn’t a huge deal. If the US puts nukes in Finland or a big ground force (if one could even be assembled), then things could get hot (like really hot) fast.
Unless Finland has some US “missile defense” systems installed in their country, then all bets are off.
“… two Immovable Forces collide…”
That may be true, but one positively exudes Competence (Putin/Lavrov) while the other (Biden/Blinken) projects a startling moronicity.
Stucky, The Empire of Lies is flailing about in its death throes.
That’s true, jo.
But, a declared war is more likely BECAUSE Biden/Blinken are startling morons. Never ever give a fucking retard access to nuke codes …. something I thought we all knew since kindergarten.
Britain did not declare war on Hitler when he occupied Poland with Stalin over Poland’s refusal to allow German access to Germans in Danzig as agreed. War was declared when Stalin/USSR was attacked. Stalin was a puppet of Jacob Schiff of Wall Street who had put $20 million into the Bolschevic revolution. He seized the 600 million gold rubles from the Czar’s hoard as booty.
“The United Kingdom declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939, two days after Germany invaded Poland.”
War mongering by the historical ancestors of the Federal Reserve/Wall Street is well documented.
The Barons, who as King John’s appointed territorial governors would have had to staff and fund the invasion of Normandy which was induced by London bankers, mutinied at Runnymede. Ref. FATAL EMBRACE by Benjamin Ginsberg.
They set up the HMS Lusitania to start WW I. Ref. WHO STARTED WORLD WAR ONE ? by Harry Barnes.
They set up Pearl Harbor to start WW II. Ref. DAY OF DECEIT by John Stinnett.
They pushed the CIA to lie about Iran having WMD.
They pushed the DOD to lie about Tonkin Bay attack.
Reb you’re on a roll, keep going. It’s always good to hear I’m not alone with that.
Rabbi Joshua Stanton says the Jewish community proudly helps Muslims settle in America to fight ‘White Supremacy’.
https://mobile.twitter.com/TheCompositeGuy/status/1546889495873716224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Tis’ why Queen Isabella kicked them out of Spain in 1492, thus kick-starting the so called Protestant Reformation, that was really a massive money changer financed attack not only waged against the unified Christian Church, but a huge psyop and hot war against Spain.
If you think you know history, you’ve never read William Thomas Walsh
Isabella of Spain
William Thomas Walsh
https://www.libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=D981C1329EC86A7E9BAE05E65AE3028B
Hardly had the Mohammedan Arabs subdued and organized the
Berbers of north Africa when they were invited by the Spanish Jews
to cross the nine-mile strip of water at Gibraltar and possess
themselves of the Christian kingdom.
… it was generally felt that
in a crisis they would prove to be Jews at heart, enemies of
the Christian faith, and the allies, as in the past, of the half-oriental
and circumcised Moors.
The Jews had invited the Moors into Spain;let the sons of the Jews pay for
driving them out again.
In medieval Spain the Jews came nearer to building a New
Jerusalem than at any time or place since their dispersion after the
Crucifixion. Had they succeeded – and several times they came
perilously near success—they might conceivably have managed, with
Mohammedan aid, to destroy the Christian civilization of Europe.
Their ultimate failure was caused chiefly by the life-work of Isabel.
Well done anon. You must be the smart one of the 50 anons.
Isabella was the true Iron Lady. Riding around the countryside dispensing justice when the Judges failed in their job.
Thanks bruh, but no anon here . Just forget to fill in the blank.
Another check by my name, I’m sure.
Oh. It figures. There can’t be more than one smart anon.
It appears the NATO”allies” are beginning to loose their resolve. That will leave the US neocons out there by themselves. War with Russia is less likely than it was a month ago. Still, these affairs seem to have a life of their own once started.
Don’t worry Pat:
If Putin needs to invade Finland, i.e attack NATO, he will attack the US first.
That Finland is now obligated to fight Russia all along that border if any junior NATO country’s Young Global Leaders (Romania, Lithuania, etc) should decide they want to throw down for Great Reset and filthy D.C. lucre. It makes no sense why the Suomi people would let their historically peaceful govt sign up for that suicide pact.
Because the people are retarded.
But even the retards knows how to run away gooded enough.
applause
I say we fight for this monogrammed stuffed suit’s right to steer the federal Ship of State to the rock bottom of our national Nietzschean abyss. What say you glowie note takers, stray off script for the lulz and ring the palace against Zulu usurpers?
Voted best metaphoric hyperbole in the thread.
“……To go to war with the Soviet Union over the preservation of Finnish territory would have been seen as madness during the Cold War.”
Sustitute Russia for Soviet Union, and Ukranian for Finnish, and behold the modern madness.
https://slang.net/meaning/based#:~:text=Social%20media%20and%20forum%20users%20use%20the%20word,meant%20to%20label%20them%20as%20freaky%20or%20eccentric.
Russia should’ve invaded Finland the second those twerps submitted their “application” to join NUTSO.
The solution is for the US to quit NATO. If the rest of Europe wants to go to war with Russia over these eastern European countries, that’s their decision. But they should decide to make that commitment knowing that we in the US are not going to backstop them. They’re on their own. Europe for the Europeans.
Europeans don’t want war with russia. We want europe to go to war with russia.
Even without a kinetic war minus atomic weapons, the American Empire has mortally wounded itself. 30 trillion dollar of debt and growing will doom USA
Thought about that; U.S. hegemony could manage to survive comfortably by drafting able bodies for a full 20-year hitch and staking a claim to South America after annexing Mexico and bombing Central America into the ocean. It would be ugly and vicious, no doubt, but it has to be a potential back up plan for elite.
They could claim since Big Sur folk were basically American citizens anyway, since no legally enforced southern border, then welcome aboard, we’ll just tack a few more stars on this flag of the United Americas.
However, due to the global emergency and difficulty getting former govt databases transferred over, there may be delays getting those Nuevo Central Bank Digital Currency reparation checks out… please inquire with your imperial recruiter for details, Señor Destino Manifiesto.
The only way the US and Russia will ever go to war is if the US invades Russia. If that happens, it will end the same way every invasion of Russia has ended with the defeat of the invaders. Intelligent people study history to learn from the mistakes of earlier generations. The people who run our government are no intelligent by any definition of the word.
Napoleon had made an attempt and he failed…Biden has not a chance.
What world do you live in? Russia and the US have been at war for months.
If Russia expands the fighting outside Ukraine, it will be strikes at Poland where all the foreign weapons are staging before entering Ukraine.
There will most likely be war. Banker backed NATO and the western empire want to continue to rape the world with impunity. Like any bully one day he gets called out on his false position of strength. That day has come for the west. Greed and power will determine the fate of mankind. This fourth turning potentially could be a return to sticks and stones.
Dr. Naomi Wolf has hinted at the possibility that a greater than human evil is driving us to self-immolation. I agree. It must be the Reptilian aliens.
Ummm…. he sorta forgets that truman, eisenhower and johnson were all on the ‘other’ side. Each was a (((puppet))) doing exactly as they were told.
Hmmmm , NATO tactics , fail . hypersonic misiles , fail . Minuite man test , fail . Taiwan , yet to fail but working on it . Energy , fail can’t fight Russia without the strategic oil reserve . The list goes on , a dying empire in its death throws .
As long as the neocon knuckleheads are in charge it seems inevitable.
Its almost like psychopathic Jews with ulterior motives are running US foreign policy, isn’t it Pat? I said: Isn’t it Pat?
Ken- Pat is a Jesuit lapdog with a hand up his ass making him talk shite, damn that was funny.
Thanks Jim for publishing Pat Buchanans stuff. We all think we are damned smart about world geopolitics affairs but we are late to the game. Buchanan has been ahead of the curve long before us and his take on things is as true now as it was when he was writing speeches for Reagan.