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| Sohrab Ahmari: that ol' 2002 Feeling--WAR FEVER on the Potomac as Liberal Hawks Fly Again |
| 2022-03-24 |
| [CompactMag] Liberal hawks are flying high once more, talons extended for the hunt. For weeks now, Javelins, NLAWs, and other “defensive” arms have been flooding Ukraine, courtesy not just of the Pentagon, but good liberals and social democrats in Brussels, Berlin, Paris, Stockholm, Lisbon, Madrid, and elsewhere. Hawks dominate TV news and major editorial pages on both sides of the Atlantic, and their propaganda multiplies online, aided by friends in Silicon Valley. A NATO no-fly zone over Ukraine would lead to a direct and possibly apocalyptic confrontation with nuclear Russia. Nonetheless, some hawks continue to press for it. When even The Guardian publishes claims that a NFZ “shouldn’t be off the table,” it becomes clear that a deep consensus is in formation. Judging by some polls, broad majorities in the West favor a perilously escalatory response to Vladimir Putin’s misbegotten invasion. At home, war fever manifests in sordid expressions of Russophobia: attacks against Russian businesses, the effective “cancellation” of Russia’s literary and philosophical masters, the firing of Russian artists from Western orchestras and operas. Anyone who dares question the prudence of escalation, or the wisdom and justice of US and NATO policy toward Moscow, faces the usual censure and censorship so characteristic of the “open society.” In short: It feels like 2002-2003 all over again. Partisan differences mean nothing in these circles. What matters is commitment to Democracy, Inc. |
| Posted by:Craimp Thromoque2362 |
| #10 Think that sums it up rather well. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2022-03-24 18:12 |
| #9 Neocons are not conservatives. They are liberals who have co-opted Conservative Inc. to push their war aims. Along the way, they have turned the already squishy Conservative Inc. grifters into rabid libs. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-03-24 10:53 |
| #8 Democrat neocons are trying to drag us into WW3 against evil Pootie. |
| Posted by: Spats Forkbeard9021 2022-03-24 10:50 |
| #7 Democrats have historically been warmongers. Neocons under W Bush changed that for a short while but the Republican DNA was never really compatible so the Neocons become never Trumpers and latched onto their Democrat host again. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2022-03-24 10:44 |
| #6 These idiots weren't content to provoke Russia in Ukraine. Now they want to provoke Russia to launch a nuclear war with the West. |
| Posted by: Vespasian Omereque5237 2022-03-24 10:11 |
| #5 |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-03-24 10:06 |
| #4 He means CHICKEN hawks. The same shits who sat at home and cheered at hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths in Iraq, Libya and Syria. Ukraine is the new Iraq. Posted by Grampaw Fluper9312 Yeah, there are a lot of them out there lib and conservative...that have never seen the elephant...never been wounded, shot at, buddies killed or maimed, or attacked with high explosives. But, watched a lot of it on TV...missiles and tanks and AK-47s oh my!...it gets their little peeties all excited! |
| Posted by: Tennessee 2022-03-24 09:50 |
| #3 ...like Saddam invading a sovereign state, Kuwait. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-03-24 09:47 |
| #2 Hawks dominate TV news and major editorial pages on both sides of the Atlantic, and their propaganda multiplies online, aided by friends in Silicon Valley. He means CHICKEN hawks. The same shits who sat at home and cheered at hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths in Iraq, Libya and Syria. Ukraine is the new Iraq. |
| Posted by: Grampaw Fluper9312 2022-03-24 09:27 |
| #1 Uranium, oil and technology: How Russia got stronger as Bidens and Clintons got richer |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-03-24 09:18 |