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Are we really in an ideological war with Vladimir Putin’s Russia today, as we were throughout the Cold War with Stalin’s USSR?
“He might be an SOB, but he’s our SOB.”
So stated President Franklin D. Roosevelt of Nicaraguan totalitarian Anastasio Somoza, and how very American. For, from its first days, America has conspired with autocrats when the nationwide interest required it.
George Washington danced a jig in 1778 when he discovered that our diplomats had effected an alliance with France’s King Louis XVI. The alliance, he knew, would be essential to an American success.
In April 1917, the U.S. went to war “to make the world safe for democracy” in collusion with 4 of the world greatest empires: the British, French, Russian and Japanese. All four annexed brand-new colonial lands and peoples from the triumph for democracy we were decisive in winning.
In World War II, we gave massive military help to Joseph Stalin’s USSR, which used it to squash, dominate and communize half of Europe.
Antonio Salazar, dictator of Portugal, was an establishing member of NATO. Throughout the Cold War, we allied with autocrats Syngman Rhee of South Korea, Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines, the shah of Iran and Gen. Augusto Pinochet of Chile. The second biggest army in NATO is under the autocratic guideline of Turkish President Recep Erdogan.
Our significant allies in the Arab world are Egypt’s Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who toppled a democratically chosen president, Mohamed Morsi, and the numerous kings, princes, sultans and emirs along the Persian Gulf.
Yet, President Joe Biden has specified the global battle as between democracy and autocracy and stated, “Democracy will and need to dominate.”
Have something to say about this column?Visit Gab– The social media network that champs complimentary speech– Remark without Censorship!Or visit Pat’s FaceBook page and publish your remarks …” We concur with that tactical vision, “echoed The Washington Post. But is this an accurate representation of terrific power competition today? If the autocratic-democratic divide is the fault line, on which side do Erdogan, Sisi and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman fall? Are we really in an ideological war with Vladimir Putin’s Russia today, as we were throughout the Cold War
with Stalin’s USSR? We have quarrels with Putin over Crimea and the Donbas, and he wishes to keep Ukraine and Georgia from joining NATO. However
where is the proof that Putin seeks to alter our democratic kind of government into an autocracy? Putin’s objections to us are to our policies
, not our democracy. Back in the 1950s, Nikita Khrushchev had boasted that America’s grandchildren would live under Communism. When has Putin announced any such grand ideological Kremlin objective? Is our quarrel with China ideological in character?
China is a fantastic and growing financial and military power, with quarrels with the majority of its next-door neighbors. It has trade problems with Australia; a border dispute with India in the Mountain ranges; and differences with Vietnam, the Philippines and 4 other nations over who owns the
islets in the South China Sea. China also
declares Taiwan and the Senkaku Islands inhabited by Japan. View the most recent Videos on Our Buchanan-Trump YouTube Playlist! But with the exceptions of Taiwan and Hong Kong, which it claims as sovereign Chinese territory, Beijing has actually not pushed any country to adopt a political system similar to that of China’s Communist Party. It exists side-by-side with Communist Vietnam, autocratic Myanmar, theocratic
Afghanistan, and democratic India, Australia and Japan. Beijing’s quarrel with us is not that America is “a democracy.”China’s objections are that we block its ambitions and back the nations of South Asia and Southeast Asia that thwart its strategic objectives. The quarrel is not ideological, but political and strategic. Why, then, turn it into a war of systems? Where is the evidence that Beijing is attempting to communize her neighbors, or alter their political systems to comply with her own? Nevertheless, there is
considerable proof to demonstrate that the United States actively seeks to subvert the rule of Putin in Russia. Though Putin’s Kremlin is accused of having hacked the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s
campaign in 2016, even if true, how would that compare with U.S. interference today in the internal affairs of Russia? Are Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe goal and neutral in their coverage in Russia? Do the many nongovernmental organizations and the National Endowment for Democracy take a hands-off technique to the internal politics of Russia? What did the Kremlin do to advance the political aspirations of Donald Trump to compare to what our diplomatic and governmental organizations and quasi-government agencies appear to be doing to undermine Putin and advance the candidateship of Alexei Navalny? If American democracy is in an ideological war with Russia, who is on the offensive here? Who wishes to change whose political system? “The U.S. national interest and the promo of democracy, or a minimum of political stability, abroad are not so easily separated,”composes The Washington Post. However where did America obtain the right to interfere in the internal affairs of other nations to change them to comply with our own? If our objective is to equalize Russia and China, i.e., change their political systems to conform more carefully with our democratic one, is that not identical to a statement of ideological war by us? Is this not the essence of ideological warfare? And who, then, is the assailant in this new ideological war
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