West obsessing over making Russia enemy
truth from lies.” He fails to realize that you can only hide reality underneath rhetoric for so long. McCain might be pleased to learn that the European Parliament recently passed a resolution to “counteract propaganda against it by third parties.” But what constitutes propaganda? Is it the worldview that establishment politicians would prefer us to adopt? Or is it the reality that they’d prefer that we not discuss?
Either way, you can bet that it has something to do with Russia, of course.
McCain and his travel buddy, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina took their neo-McCarthyist road show to Germany last week, with Graham declaring at the Munich conference that “2017 is going to be a year of kicking Russia in the a-- in Congress.” If only that improved the daily life of American voters.
Since there’s little ideological daylight between Russia and the West these days, and we can’t claim that Russia wants to turn the West communist since Russia isn’t communist anymore, I guess we have to assume that Vladimir Putin just wants to build alliances with as many countries as possible. This is a problem for McCain, who sees Western values as superior.
“And through it all,” McCain said in Munich, “we must never, never cease to believe in the moral superiority of our own values — that we stand for truth against falsehood, freedom against tyranny, right against injustice, hope against despair ...”
The Western establishment has become the new USSR. Fiscally, culturally and ideologically, Europe is a mess. That’s what happens when you take countries that never fully broke free from socialism and overwhelm them with impositions from the rest of the world.
Know who isn’t doing things that way? It’s Russia. And it’s Russia that Syria and now Libya have called upon to fix the mess left by the sort of interventionist foray that McCain consistently encourages.
Russia is the enemy to establishment fixtures such as McCain and Graham only because it’s a distraction from their own political failures.