{"id":6299,"date":"2015-03-08T08:12:03","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T13:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6299"},"modified":"2015-03-08T08:12:03","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T13:12:03","slug":"revanchism-and-russophobia-the-dark-undercurrents-of-the-war-in-the-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6299","title":{"rendered":"Revanchism and russophobia: the dark undercurrents of the war in the Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Revanchism and russophobia: the dark undercurrents of the war in the Ukraine<\/a><\/h3>\n

The situation in the Ukraine is more or less calm right now, and this might be the time to step back from the flow of daily reports and look at the deeper, underlying currents. \u00a0The question I want to raise today is one I will readily admit not having an answer to. \u00a0What I want to ask is this: could it be that one of the key factors motivating the West\u2019s apparently illogical and self-defeating desire to constantly confront Russia is simply revanchism for WWII?<\/p>\n

We are, of course, talking about perceptions here so it is hard to establish anything for sure, but I wonder if the Stalin\u2019s\u00a0victory against Hitler\u00a0was really perceived as such by the western elites, or if it was perceived as a victory against somebody\u00a0FDR could also have called \u201cour son of a bitch<\/a>\u201c. \u00a0After all, there is plenty of evidence that both the US and the UK were key backers of Hitler\u2019s rise to power (read Starikov about that) and that most (continental) Europeans were rather sympathetic to Herr Hitler. \u00a0Then, of course and as it often happens, Hitler turned against his masters or, at least, his supporters, and they had to fight against him. \u00a0But there is strictly nothing new about that. \u00a0This is also what happened with Saddam, Noriega, Gaddafi, al-Qaeda and so many other \u201cbad guy\u201d who began their careers as the AngloZionists\u2019 \u201cgood guys\u201d. \u00a0Is it that unreasonable to ask whether the western elites were truly happy when the USSR beat Nazi Germany, or if they were rather horrified by what Stalin had done to what was at that time the single most powerful western military \u2013 Germany\u2019s?<\/p>\n

A few days ago I saw this picture on Colonel Cassad\u2019s blog:<\/p>\n

\"Stalin<\/a><\/p>\n

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Looking at that photo I thought that for the western elites, to see these men must have been rather frightening, especially considering that they must have known that their entire war effort was, at most, 20% of what it took to defeat Nazi Germany and that those who had shouldered 80%+ were of an ideology diametrically opposed to capitalism.<\/p>\n

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Revanchism and russophobia: the dark undercurrents of the war in the Ukraine The situation in the Ukraine is more or less calm right now, and this might be the time to step back from the flow of daily reports and look at the deeper, underlying currents. \u00a0The question I want to raise today is one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2384,281,1458,3990,3988,3989,3991,821,862,965],"class_list":["post-6299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-elite","tag-europe","tag-hitler","tag-revanchism","tag-russian","tag-russophobia","tag-stalin","tag-ukraine","tag-war","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6300,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299\/revisions\/6300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}