THE GREAT AMERICAN RETREAT - Part II
THE UKRAINE-RUSSIA WAR HAS SPLIT THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT - EXACTLY AS THE KREMLIN WANTED IT!
See PART I - THE GREAT AMERICAN RETREAT: From the Founding onward, from Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Truman, Eisenhower, to Reagan to Trump, America was always a NEOCON nation!
“…‘War’, in Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz’s most famous dictum, ‘is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.’ A generation of Democrats — the American variety, but also European Christian and Social Democrats — have sought to ignore that truth. Appalled by the violence of war, they have vainly searched for alternatives to waging it. When Vladimir Putin ordered the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Barack Obama responded with economic sanctions. When Putin intervened in the Syrian civil war, they tried indignant speeches.
When it became clear that Putin intended a…larger military incursion into Ukraine, Joe Biden and his national security team opted for sanctions once again.”
Niall Ferguson, SPECTATOR “Vlad the Invader: Putin is looking to rebuild Russia’s empire”
The 1930’s communists made inroads into American and Euro politics. As an answer in support of European fascism, the isolationist Alt Right was born. In Charlottesville, to Donald Trump’s detriment, it was reborn.
Shortly afterward the leader of the Alt Right, Richard Spencer threw Donald Trump under the bus to vote for Joe Biden.
Bear with me. This story is not going where you might think.
SOURCE SCEEN SHOT: Col. Charles A. Lindbergh (left) with R. Douglas Stuart, Jr., National Director of the America First Committee, when the aviator enrolled in Chicago as a member of the AFC.
EXIT THE NEO-CONS, ENTER THE ALT-RIGHT…
The leaders of the 1930’s America First movement (not the same as Donald Trump’s MAGA) reversed themselves after the war, after their ideology was rejected wholesale, and joined the fascistic International Left. The new Alt Right’s leader Richard Spencer, after Charlottesville, kicked Donald Trump and America to the curb, and joined fascistic Joe Biden’s attack against civilization.
History repeated itself. The 2020’s apple did not fall far from the 1930’s tree.
It’s been said many times that the two extremes: right, left, are two sides of the same coin. They are literally interchangeable.
EXCERPT: Williams College professor Susan Dunn wrote for CNN that it was "extremely unfortunate" that Trump "chose to brand his foreign policy with the noxious slogan 'America First,' the name of the isolationist, defeatist, anti-Semitic national organization that urged the United States to appease Adolf Hitler…
The AFC, and opposition to entering World War II, all but vanished after Pearl Harbor, and Lindbergh retreated from public life…the AFC's other major figures later emerged as born-again internationalists, supporting the United Nations and other forms of global cooperation.”
Just as the earlier retrograde Alt Right wrapped itself in the American flag, likewise do today’s retrograde Alt Right. Both told Americans that European security, military movement in international waters and airspace, and the international trade that made America prosperous, are not in the national Interest.
What is in America’s interest?
National isolation and national poverty?
Substitute it all for the Russian Trade?
As we draw the curtain, we find that the Alt Right have surreptitiously adopted the very narratives of the Old Left, the New Left, and the Leftover Left - literally word for word.
Characters on the Old Left became today’s Alt Right, as I will demonstrate here. Having split from the Old Left, some became NeoCons with zero connections to the alt-Right. Others became the New Left (progressives). Both adopted new identities.
The Alt Right who didn’t join Richard Spencer’s Biden & Co. are now campaigning for Russia against western security. Their predecessors campaigned for Germany earlier. Both used the very same left-wing anti-war rationale for their justifications. Back then Germany just wanted a small slice of Ukraine, er, I meant Czechoslovakia – before it expanded its military campaigns far beyond Sudetenland - to Finland, Sweden, France, Italy, Greece, Russia, and the U.K.
The Kremlin used Hitler’s playbook to a T. It planned the re-invasion of Europe two decades ago by having modernized its military. (Note my photos of the Russian navy in the Murmansk region preparing for the Ukraine invasion.)
Germany militarized itself following WWI - two decades before it invaded Sudetenland.
Buchananite paleocons and libertarians, today’s Alt-Right I rename perfectly here as the Alt-REICH, were ejected from the conservative movement by the father of American conservatism, William F. Buckley. They never forgave him or Ronald Reagan for it.
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Before walking it back due to political pressure, but still clueless about foreign policy, Florida’s provincially-minded governor Ron DeSantis’ Ukraine plans are neither Reaganite, nor Wilsonian nor Trumanite, nor Eisenhowerite, nor Bushite, nor Trumpian, nor Churchillian, nor American. Vivek Ramaswamy, even more clueless, doubled down on the isolationist narratives that crushed DeSantis’ polls a few weeks earlier.
Ron’s and Vivek’s Great American Retreat, epic miscalculations, take cues from Tucker Carlson, where both are frequent guests and from which Vivek launched his campaign to surrender the national interest. Their narratives constitute a discredited-over-decades Buchananite isolationist ideology. It was rejected by every Republican president to date and the nation’s conservatives for two centuries, including conservative Democrats and Cold Warriors JFK, Jacob Javits, Scoop Jackson, and Patrick Moynihan.
It should be rejected by the nation too, lock, stock, and barrel.
Right after his willingness to drop support of Ukraine, DeSantis’ presidential aspirations assumed room temperature. Polling at one third Donald Trump’s numbers, Ron is now changing his tune. Vivek’s numbers will follow suit, albeit at a greater rate of descent.
Anyway, Donald Trump would slice and dice any contender at the primaries.
Ron’s best chance is the Soros-paid NYC DA and the Deep State’s taking Trump down over a jaywalking ticket – the literal severity of his alleged “crimes.” It won’t happen either, as the DA’s future too, will likely be buried with the evil of his agenda.
Just about all of Trump’s enemies have bitten the dust.
THE REAGAN DOCTRINE RULES AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY – PERIOD!
Before it, the Jefferson, Monroe, Wilson, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower and JFK doctrines. All of them summed up in Reagan’s vision: “We win; they lose.”
Reagan defined the muscular American posture that will not kneel to other nation’s agendas.
America First!
America will fight for the national interest as it was described by America’s most conservative pundit, Mark Levin - an America that will build and use the best military on earth to insure that Americans will kneel to no one.
The Reagan Doctrine is the same as the Trump Doctrine. Just as Obama defunded and weakened the U.S. military, as Joe Biden left wounded Americans and the American military’s arsenal behind in Afghanistan, Trump re-funded and built up America’s military. As Biden vetoed Polish jets and strong-armed the UK to not supply advanced weapons, and then vaccillated for months before supplying Ukraine, Trump used America’s might.
Neither Ron nor Vivek is a ‘Ronald Reagan,’ in spite of Tucker Carlson’s and Laura Ingraham’s delusions, equating them with the great president. Both lack Reagan’s and JFK’s understanding of history, a sense of who we Americans are or a historical sense, Trump’s international and foreign policy chops, and Reagan’s Churchillian vision.
Republicans are divided. Kremlin-propagandized isolationists flip off centuries of American courage, honor, sacrifice, and tradition. The United States fought two world wars at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives and unimaginable treasure - and won both. The U.S. won the Cold War because Eisenhower, Truman, JFK, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan never backed down.
The Iron Lady of the U.K. and Sir Winston never backed down. England is free.
Boris Johnson, the leader of the free world never backed down.
Neither has Donald Trump.
“To be free is better than to not be free. Anyone who tells you otherwise should be treated with suspicion.” – Marge Thatcher
The division is visible - BREITBART: Florida Congressional Republicans Seek to Stay Out of Trump vs. DeSantis
The narcissistic, self-righteous, chuckling-at-their-own-jokes TV gasbags who pretend to be foreign policy wonks, recommend MALA (Make America Lesser Again). Ideologues and religious fanatics, they’ve lied about conservatism, Reagan, American history, the National Interest – as well as Russia and Ukraine. All to promote themselves, their ratings and clickbait, and THE GREAT AMERICAN RETREAT.
The principles of risk and reward - capitalism, free markets and international trade - are what made America prosperous. Courage, not weakness, made America prosperous.
“Russia will nuke you!” these pundits warn with serious faces, trembling lips, and white-knuckled fists, sweat breaking out on their brows.
As Putin’s troops perpetrate genocide in their wake, his norm in illegal warfare, the West’s Russified talking heads prop up a predatory Russia that’s been waging a War of Empire against Ukraine and Europe for easily 400 years: from Catherine the Great through Stalin through Khrushchev through Andropov through Putin.
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THE REAGAN DOCTRINE:
“…The doctrine served as the foundation for the Reagan administration’s support of “freedom fighters” around the globe.”
“Reagan began his foreign policy comments with the dramatic pronouncement that, ‘Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few; it is the universal right of all God’s children.’ America’s “mission” was to “nourish and defend freedom and democracy.” Reagan declared that, ‘We must stand by our democratic allies. And we must not break faith with those who are risking their lives—on every continent, from Afghanistan to Nicaragua—to defy ‘Russia’-supported aggression and secure rights which have been ours from birth.”
Reagan concluded, “Support for freedom fighters is self-defense.”…”
SOURCE: The alt-REICH and Old Left never agreed with Reagan and other presidents’ doctrines. Neither have Tucker Carlson, Doug MacGregor, Tulsi Gabbard, Laura Logan, nor Glenn Greenwald.
The alt-Reich, as you will find here, are the other side of the Old Left coin.
ADDENDUM:
GLENN GREENWALD’S WEB OF PROPAGANDA
Due to Greenwald’s association with the leftwing Washington Post, Salon and Guardian - and MSNBC, he was...described by Rachel Maddow...as "the American left’s most fearless political commentator."
EXCERPT:
“Among Greenwald’s most egregious claims, he has:
Justified the murder of Fort Hood soldiers by Nidal Hasan and the murder of British soldier Lee Rigby by an Islamic terrorist.
Justified the murders committed by ISIS and al-Qaida.
Justified the killing of Israeli civilians by Hamas and Hizballah.
Denounced Israel, not Iran, as the “bogeyman” in the Middle East, claiming that Israel is a major terror actor.
Likened U.S. actions in Iraq to the Nazi seizures of Austria and Czechoslovakia.
Accused the U.S. military of deliberately targeting Muslim civilians instead of targeting actual terrorists.
Characterized the terrorists held at Guantanamo as patriots who were merely defending their lands from foreign invasion.
Claimed that officials declare an act to be terrorism only when Muslims commit it, rather than when non-Muslims are the perpetrators.
Claimed that the FBI is targeting Islamist terrorists and simply framing Muslims.
Claimed fancifully that the U.S. media uncritically parrots U.S. government claims.
Charged writers and thinkers who criticize Islam with an “anti-Muslim animus.”
Claimed that criticism of Palestinian terrorism leaves the Palestinians with no options to fight Israel’s “occupation.”
Charged that accusations of anti-Semitism are just ploys to shut down criticism of Israel.
Denounced the U.S. killing of jihad terror mastermind Anwar al-Awlaki.
Sided with Marc Lamont Hill and justified his genocidal call “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
* There’s truth to number 10!
Greenwald…participated in numerous conferences and events sponsored by U.S. Islamist organizations, such as the Hamas front, the Council on American Islamic Relations (“CAIR”)….”
Most importantly, Greenwald facilitated the elite capture of Edward Snowden by Kremlin operatives who spirited the Pentagon’s top secrets directly to Putin’s desk. After the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Vlad Putin granted Russian citizenship to Ed Snowden. Pertinent question: Did Greenwald also get Russian citizenship? Living in Brazil with his “husband,” Glenn has not yet been extradited to the U.S. That’s why Carlson had to go to Brazil to visit him “privately.”
Predictably Greenwald, Green, Tucker, and the rest are spinning the latest intel leak as an act of “heroism.”
To those on the left and right, don't make leaker a hero — he's a traitor! - consevrative columnist DOUGLAS MURRAY
The Conservative Movement needs to unite under conservative principles, to conserve what is good.
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PART I - THE GREAT AMERICAN RETREAT - THE NEOCON NATION
PART III – THE AGE OF EMPIRE IS OVER!
PART IV - THE CASE FOR WAR IS THE PURSUIT OF PEACE!
© 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.
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