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2022-03-13 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Francis Fukuyama: Well, he's been right before? Or not...

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Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [16 views ] Top

#1 It took two years before the Russian army got its act together in ww2, it won at the end.

Posted by BernardZ 2022-03-13 04:24|| 2022-03-13 04:24|| Front Page Top

/\ The Russians had the Wehrmacht directly up their arse until Uncle Sam came to their assistance. In 1948 the US, UK, and FR joined their sectors in an effort to unify the German people and heal the land. The Russians countered by cordoning off their sector and claiming it as a client state. How quickly the Russians had forgotten US and Allied assistance.

World War II Allies: U.S. Lend-Lease to the Soviet Union, 1941-1945

Even before the United States entered World War II in December 1941, America sent arms and equipment to the Soviet Union to help it defeat the Nazi invasion. Totaling $11.3 billion, or $180 billion in today’s currency, the Lend-Lease Act of the United States supplied needed goods to the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1945 in support of what Stalin described to Roosevelt as the “enormous and difficult fight against the common enemy — bloodthirsty Hitlerism.”

400,000 jeeps & trucks

14,000 airplanes

8,000 tractors

13,000 tanks

1.5 million blankets

15 million pairs of army boots

107,000 tons of cotton

2.7 million tons of petrol products

4.5 million tons of food

Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-13 07:46|| 2022-03-13 07:46|| Front Page Top

#3 The program sent nearly 2,000 locomotives and innumerable boxcars to the Soviet Union. In addition, almost half of all the rails used by the Soviet Union during the war came through Lend-Lease. - cite.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-03-13 08:03|| 2022-03-13 08:03|| Front Page Top

#4 After Russia is defeated, we'll break them up into small parts, easily dominated and the threat they pose to our rulers will be removed.

Then, the immigrants. Africa is bursting at the seams with people who want a new life. Russia is undergoing a demographic collapse. A massive importation of new people is exactly what is needed to rescue the former territory of the Russian Federation. Moreover it will ensure the Rus, a danger to the world since they were a people a thousand years ago, never emerge again.

Posted by Omomolet Phutch9064 2022-03-13 08:33|| 2022-03-13 08:33|| Front Page Top

#5 That's the "new order" and "completely different principles" the man is talking about in the last tweet.

Posted by Omomolet Phutch9064 2022-03-13 08:34|| 2022-03-13 08:34|| Front Page Top

#6 Putin at this point has committed the bulk of his entire military to this operation—there are no vast reserves of forces he can call up

Just spit-balling here...
Xi looks at mighty Russian military:
a) producing copious amounts of fail
b) mostly sitting in the west of the country, leaving the east barebones.
c) pissing off almost all potential allies

Starts thinking about all that tundra and resources just sitting there for the taking.

Maybe. If China starts badmouthing Russia and/or sympathizing with Ukraine, that'll be a real indicator.

Posted by Mercutio 2022-03-13 09:11|| 2022-03-13 09:11|| Front Page Top

#7 /\ Perhaps your excellent theory of potential Chinese Mongolian expansionism could be given some....negative economic encouragement.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-13 09:19|| 2022-03-13 09:19|| Front Page Top

#8 All those "Chinese speaking Siberians, looking for protection from a madman" crying out to Xi?

Posted by Frank G 2022-03-13 09:23|| 2022-03-13 09:23|| Front Page Top

#9 Preparing for DefeatFrancis Fukuyama

Oh FFS... not this idiot again. The "intellectual" who told us liberal democracy would sweep the world and bring about the "end of history" - the most retarded phrase coined by any intellectual since Marx and Engels. This was the delusion, as Mearsheimer puts it, behind the Nuland-Obama wrecking crew's idiotic pretension of being "21st century people."

The foolish doctrine of liberal internationalism has done such extraordinary damage to the US. This has killed more of our and the world's people, caused us to lose wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, helped ruin Libya and is the ultimate cause of the disaster in Ukraine.

God save us from neocon shitheads like Fukuyama. Go back to Palo Alto, little man. Enjoy your thruple with McFaul and Condi Rice

Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-13 09:26|| 2022-03-13 09:26|| Front Page Top

#10 When I worked in Washington every policy maker I knew had a copy of that fairy tale prominently displayed in their offices
I read the danged thing and decided it was a wish list for foreign policy geeks

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2022-03-13 09:42|| 2022-03-13 09:42|| Front Page Top

#11 The Biden administration’s decisions not to declare a no-fly zone or help transfer Polish MiGs were both good ones; they've kept their heads during a very emotional time.

Seriously, the Biden administration? Looked to me that they were trying to bait Poland into the transfer.

Posted by davemac 2022-03-13 13:01|| 2022-03-13 13:01|| Front Page Top

#12 Fukuyama: I’ll stick my neck out and make several prognostications

Like this joker's "End of History" prognostication?

Or is Frank just fibbing again, as he did the last time there was Trouble in Neocon Paradise?

Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-13 13:14|| 2022-03-13 13:14|| Front Page Top

#13 as F says, at least Biden is handling the Ukraine situation better than the Afghanistan disengagement

Of course that is a very low bar.

Posted by Lord Garth 2022-03-13 13:22|| 2022-03-13 13:22|| Front Page Top

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