LIBERTARIAN MISES ORG MISSED UKRAINE, AND LANDED IN RUSSIA

PARROTING THE KREMLIN'S TALKING POINTS in MISES' Unpleasant Facts: What You aren’t Supposed to say about the War in Ukraine

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In its haste to conflate a large number of Tucker Carlsonite factoids urging non-intervention as a response to Russian adventurism, the pro-Putin isolationist MISES’ frontpage, Unpleasant Facts: What You aren’t Supposed to say about the War in Ukraine missed every single bullet point the author had asserted. Read the article first.

MISES’ four assertions:

·      The “Revolution of Dignity” Was a US-Backed Coup

All we have as “evidence” is a recorded conversation for HOPE & CHANGE and the handing out of stale bread at Euromaiden. Nuland’s and Obama’s chosen socialists were rejected by Ukraine’s people. That is why there was no coup.

·      There Is a Significant Neo-Nazi Problem in Ukraine

Did the author mean the leader of Russia’s Azov Battalion who met his maker fighting for Putin; and to whom Putin posthumously awarded the HERO OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION medal? Or perhaps these good fellows?

·      The Russians Always Objected to NATO Expansion into Ukraine

While ignoring NATO’s objection to Russian expansionism into Ukraine, a nation Russia, and not NATO, invaded.

·      Biden Could Have Prevented the War

Russia could have prevented the war by not invading and violating the treaty and security guarantees to which they were party.

To buttress his claims, the author whined about missing historical context both Democrats and Republicans failed to provide to the American People. He then went about excluding the most important context of all:

History itself.

The war for Ukraine’s independence fought between 1917-1918 against Putin’s predecessors in the then-Kremlin, defeated the Russian forces - for a while. The Ukrainians never considered themselves Russians (though most Slaves in the region possess cultural similarities). Ukraine has always fought for its independence, having declared sovereignty in 1917. History did not begin in 1949 the author imagines it - at the NATO Pact.

Ukraine’s independence wars go back to the Czars in the 19th century, hundreds of years before the revolt of 1917-18 in the early 20th. Accordingly, I recommend HARVARD’s Ukraine Research Institute. It was the Russian’s, and not America’s coup, that enslaved the Ukrainian people for a straight 72 years. This, after Russians murdered 7 to 10 million Ukrainians in the Holomodor. MISES never heard of the Holomodor.

One genocide for MISES was not enough, was it?

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Russia demanded NATO to back off Ukraine, citing its “need” for a military buffer zone to keep NATO contained. Ignored by Russia and America’s paleo-con (Buchananite) pro-Putin media, is that the EU also needs a buffer zone to keep Russia contained.

Russia was contained until it invaded Ukraine.

Russia proved not that NATO threatened Russia, but that Russia has aimed its forces at Europe again, with expansionist policies going back to Peter and Catherine the Great.

Another context the author omitted. History.

In the modern age Russia has been waging war against Ukraine for 105 years! That is specifically why Russia left Ukraine just one unpleasant choice: it joined the Nazi Axis in WWII not to stay under the Russian boot.

The author, again, left out historical context because the author has no sense of history.

Neo-Nazis have existed on both sides of the fence for decades, in Ukraine, and in Russia. Regardless of how the pro-Putin pundits spin it, even with the alleged coup fiction with Victoria Nuland handing out stale bread at the Euromaidan protests, the fact is this; from Ukraine’s minuscule 0.13% Jewish population, the “neo-Nazis” of Ukraine elected a proud, Hebrew-speaking Jewish leader. Just another context the author omitted.

And what a leader! To see into the “soul” of this remarkable man who appears to be more nebbish than warrior, see NETFLIX’ comedy: Servant of the People. The nebbish you are watching slack-jawed - as it were, no one could have remotely predicted his future - became an Israeli Maccabee.

The Maccabee story repeated itself 2000 years later, in Ukraine.

The so-called “coup” that never happened had achieved none of its goals. The coup that never happened failed to install Nuland’s and Obama’s chosen candidate and their candidate’s party. Refer to the Nuland tapes to confirm who the chosen were. The coup was a conversation bearing a Kenyan’s Hope 4 Change - and that’s about it.

With or without Victoria Nuland’s participation, and whose greatest achievement was handing out stale bread, Euromaidan was a genuine popular uprising. The same as the Hungarian Revolution, Prague uprising, Polish Gdansk-Walesa protests nearing the end of Putin’s former regime that Vladimir wanted to restore, the November 1830-31 Polish uprising against Mother Russia a century earlier, and the same as Tiananmen Square.

States surrounding Russia were in fact a cauldron of discontent through the reign of the Czars, going back centuries, and continuing through Russia’s communist rule.

The dunderheads at the blundering CIA and the rot within the Department of State would have, could have, neither added to, nor taken from, the results playing out today in Europe.

Biden could have prevented this war by shutting his mouth. He made mistakes early, telling Putin, go ahead, take a slice of Ukraine, before walking it back. Then Biden slow-walked the global response - the transfer of arms - until both sides of the political divide went into the streets to demand action.

MISES’ author left out enough context in his rebuttal to a muscular American response to have demolished his own - and Tucker Carlson’s - assumptions.

It was Donald Trump who armed Ukraine after Obama-Biden withheld it.

Parroting Kremlin talking points, blaming the victim for the crimes of the victimizers, and NATO for the Black Swan and Rapid Trident 2021 war games to defend Europe from the very invasion that went down, he left out all context, all meaning:

These games were NATO’s response to Russian war games at the Ukraine border.

As for Biden “could have prevented this war.” The context is, Russia, and not the USA, invaded Ukraine in the first place. Moreover, if not by treaty, by EU and NATO understandings, all of Europe will be defended by joint interests. The American interest. Maybe Trump could have prevented this war, but Biden encouraged it.

The bottom line: No former eastern bloc nation ever want Russian boots on their faces or on their territory again. These nations are NATO members. The US is NATO’s leader obligated to defend NATO’s - and The American Interest.

Ayn Rand called Russia "an accidental cesspool of civilization."

That, is the whole story.

I know, because I’ve been there, and done that.

So why should a sovereign Ukraine see it any other way?

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Andrew G. Benjamin is in finance, real estate and equities, a former advisor to New York City mayor ‘s office (Subcommittee on Taxation, Finance and the Budget). Benjamin wrote extensively about politics, transnational and domestic, intelligence and military affairs, security and strategy, economic issues, Mideast, terrorism, technology and high end audio.