Sen. McCain has worn out his welcome in Washington for me years ago. President Trump's characterization of Sen McCain was right on. McCain is a disgrace. He should have been jettisoned from the US Navy long before he found himself shot down by the enemy in Vietnam.
McCain is part of the cabal that has perpetrated the greatest hoax on the American people, that the former USSR, now Russia was any threat to the USA. They never were except for nuclear weapon exchange, and because of the mutual destruction each nation posed for the other, there was no real threat. Russians were every bit as much afraid the USA had the intention of a first strike, just as we were frequently led to believe here in the USA, and we spent trillions of dollars to defend against such a threat and ultimately had tens of thousands of very powerful nuclear weapons, and Russia the same. And it was never enough we were told. Our defenses were weak how many times in the last 75 years? And as a side note, I believe Carl Sagan indicated it would take as few as ten nuclear weapons detonating simultaneously that would cause nuclear winter, resulting in the death of every plant on the planet, and ultimately most of human life. Now his estimate could be off, but what would just 200 going off at the same time do?
Fact is, Russia goes six months at a time failing to pay their military, and they are left to scrounge the countryside for food, robbing the civilian population's dachas of fruits and vegetables to survive. This is the fire breathing dragon we have been made to fear. What a true travesty!
And as Lavrov does state, we have so much that we share in common that we should be allies. Putin is a dictator in my humble view, but we have once again a common enemy, ISIS. ISIS should be every civilized nation's enemy.
And in regard to the nation Ukraine, they did not want Russia involved in their country, and they declined the opportunity to become part of NATO, for they did not want the USA in their backyard either. So, I have zero empathy for the stupid f*&^ing Ukranians. ZIP! From my view, Russia does have some small legitimacy to claim the lands of part of Ukraine. Kiev was once the capitol of Russia. The Crimean peninsula prior to its full seizure was largely occupied by five Russian military bases that were agreed to between the two nations when they split.
Trump needs to follow a bit in Reagan's path and be a true leader, and not listen to the military industrial complex hacks like McCain and once again attempt to end the differences between the two countries.
Please read Buchanan's piece in it's entirety by going to the URL.
The founding fathers of the Munich Security Conference, said John McCain, would be "be alarmed by the turning away from universal values and toward old ties of blood, and race, and sectarianism."
McCain was followed by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov who called for a "post-West world order." Russia has "immense potential" for that said Lavrov, "we're open for that inasmuch as the U.S. is open."
Now McCain is not wrong. Nationalism is an idea whose time has come again. Those "old ties of blood, and race, and sectarianism" do seem everywhere ascendant. But that is a reality we must recognize and deal with. Deploring it will not make it go away.
But what are these "universal values" McCain is talking about?
Democracy? The free elections in India gave power to Hindu nationalists. In Palestine, Hamas. In Lebanon, Hezbollah. In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood, then overthrown in a military coup welcomed by the world's oldest and greatest democracy. Have we forgotten it was a democratically elected government we helped to overthrow in Kiev?
Democracy is a bus you get off when it reaches your stop, says Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, autocrat of Ankara, a NATO ally.
Is freedom of religion a "universal value"?
Preach or proselytize for Christianity in much of the Islamic world and you are a candidate for martyrdom. Practice freedom of speech in Xi Jinping's China and you can wind up in a cell.
As for the Western belief in the equality of all voluntary sexual relations, in some African and Muslim countries, homosexuals are beheaded and adulterers stoned to death.
In Nuristan Province in U.S.-liberated Afghanistan this month, an armed mob of 300 besieged a jail, shot three cops and dragged out an 18-year-old woman who had eloped with her lover to escape an arranged marriage. Beaten by relatives, the girl was shot by an older brother with a hunting rifle and by a younger brother with his AK-47.
Afghan family values.
http://buchanan.org/blog/lavrov-vs-mccain-russia-enemy-126589
