When
President Clinton pressured Boris Yeltsin to redraw the map of Europe
it was a short sighted policy. A very weak Russian federation named
C.I.S. with a President who would wander around the White House lawn
drunk in his underpants while Bill was being jobbed could not be
expected to represent Russian sentiments about giving up the
historical heartland of Russia-the Ukraine.
The
early 90s political anomie in Europe was a time that required
stability in a new normal decency with a community of understanding
and respect. Instead the Clinton administration launched a cruise
missile war on Serbia seeking to shed its Muslim historical problem
that had been suppressed by Marshall Tito and the communist
government of Yugoslavia. The Serbian war was an importunately timed
affair that undermined European stability as a kind of sideshow
distraction. For humanitarian reasons Americans generally supported
the intervention-yet it gave the wrong impression to the Muslim world
that it might use American intervention on behalf of Muslims to
expand the network of jihad and war against the west. Russia too
encountered problems with restive Muslims in several engagements.
American responses were that they were just trying to get rid of
communism. I believe that analysis was mistaken.
Bill
Clinton's policy of fake liberalism that simply concentrates wealth
and undermined U.S. nationalism also subverted European stability
and integration with Russia's economy in anything like a free-trade
paradigm. Liberating American minorities from the prosperity they traditionally had with Republican leadership (that ended slavery and integrated schools etc.) is the glitz side of the coin of dumbing down Democrat intelligence. The expropriation of Ukraine as just another nation being
liberated from communism was plain wrong. Ukraine is were Russia
began. Kiev was the heart of the Russian state from the beginning and
the move northeast just followed commercial interests. Taking all of
the Ukraine from a temporarily weak Russia and defending the
exclusion of Russia from Ukraine completely is just bad policy.
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