{"id":68717,"date":"2024-06-21T19:17:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T00:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68717"},"modified":"2024-06-21T19:17:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T00:17:01","slug":"david-stockman-on-the-ukrainian-border-war-folly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68717","title":{"rendered":"David Stockman on The Ukrainian Border War Folly"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"content-header fixed\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-header content-list-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/internationalman.com\/articles\/david-stockman-on-the-ukrainian-border-war-folly\/\">David Stockman on The Ukrainian Border War Folly<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"content-thumb\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/internationalman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/shutterstock_2267824265.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/internationalman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/shutterstock_2267824265.jpg 600w, https:\/\/internationalman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/shutterstock_2267824265-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/internationalman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/shutterstock_2267824265-272x182.jpg 272w\" alt=\"The Ukrainian Border War Folly\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Someone should tell the European ruling elites to take a long jump off a short pier. Their endless whining about the Ruuskies and Putin is just plain pathetic because\u2014<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s not justified\u2014Russia bears no hallmarks of an expansionist imperial power.<\/li>\n<li>The Russia-Ukraine conflict is none of western Europe\u2019s business\u2014since its essentially a territorial and civil war within the borders of historic Russia.<\/li>\n<li>If EU officialdom is really concerned about the purported Russian threat why do they spend just a pittance of their GDP on defense?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yet, here we have Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, former German defense minister and full-throated war-hawk, talking absolute nonsense:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cRussian President Vladimir Putin wants to see empires and autocracies back in Europe, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told the European Economic Congress in Katowice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Speaking alongside Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, von der Leyen insisted that she stands for a European Union that is ready to do whatever it takes to protect Europe, and especially Ukraine.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c<\/em><strong>Putin\u2019s war is about redrawing the map of Europe<\/strong><em>, but it is also a war on our Union and on the entire global rules-based system,\u201d she said.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, that\u2019s rubbish if there ever was such. The only time the borders of Ukraine have been redrawn at the barrel of a gun is when Lenin, Stalin and Khrushchev did it between 1922 and 1954. That\u2019s right, this bureaucratic half-wit wants to embroil the world in WWIII in order to enforce borders drawn by a trio if history\u2019s most blood-thirsty tyrants.<\/p>\n<p>As explained below, there never was a country even remotely resembling modern Ukraine until the Soviet communists decreed its existence&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Stockman on The Ukrainian Border War Folly Someone should tell the European ruling elites to take a long jump off a short pier. Their endless whining about the Ruuskies and Putin is just plain pathetic because\u2014 It\u2019s not justified\u2014Russia bears no hallmarks of an expansionist imperial power. The Russia-Ukraine conflict is none of western [&hellip;]<\/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":[2120,6228,694,821,862,891,1823],"class_list":["post-68717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-david-stockman","tag-international-man","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-war","tag-world-war","tag-world-war-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68717","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=68717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68718,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68717\/revisions\/68718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}