A WWI Repeat

by Mustang

There Are Only Eight

That’s right.  Only eight human beings living today were alive during the First World War (1914-1918).  How much of it they remember is another question, and I don’t know about that.  The oldest person alive is Kane Tanaka, born on 2 January 1903.

She is Japanese … and in her youth, quite attractive.  So, she could possibly remember when Japan was an ally of the United States during World War I and an enemy of the United States during World War II.  And she might agree with Daniel Greenfield, who thinks that the current crisis in Ukraine is less like World War II or even World War III … and more like World War I.

Mr. Greenfield observes, “Centuries of invasions, wars, and subsequent population transfers have left the region pockmarked with national and ethnic groups with a fierce sense of their own destiny and culture that don’t fit into any kind of workable national borders.”

He told us recently in FrontPage Mag, The Russian invasion of Ukraine is yet another in a series of regional conflicts between two competing groups of nationalists over borders and territory. As the victim of an invasion by a larger power, Ukraine naturally has the sympathy of many Americans. But, contrary to the facile analogies of political propaganda, this isn’t World War II, let alone World War III.  It’s World War I.”

Greenfield thinks this because Biden (ostensibly, the leader of the free world) (God help us) is playing the role of the League of Nations (which everyone remembers gave us World War II).  He’s standing on the sidelines lecturing everyone about such things as international norms and protocols while imposing sanctions that can only accomplish one thing: make our world less safe.

The final session of the League of Nations, April 1946. Courtesy of the League of Nations Archive.

“League of Nations and Military Might and Loyality Patriotic USA God Bless America Unsent Old Glory draped Carbine Rifle” by UpNorth Memories – Don Harrison

Here’s another bulletin.  If you think the League of Nations didn’t work worth a damn, what must you think about the United Nations?  How many wars has the UN avoided?  Maybe a better question would be, how many people have died because the UN isn’t worth the powder it would take to blow it off the face of the earth?  The UN wants the world’s countries to give up their national identities — to diffuse conflict between nations.  Right.  Well, here’s yet another bulletin: Russia is NOT going to give up her national identity … and neither should we.

“File:The United Nations Secretariat Building.jpg” by Steve Cadman

But here’s the question that needs answering: since the UN and EU and NATO are organizations with no natural teeth, who seem to exist at OUR expense for no other reason than to stick their noses in everyone else’s business — what business is it of ours (America’s) to save the world from itself?  Does any American (not of Ukrainian heritage) have any stake in whether (or not) Russia invades Ukraine, Crimea, Georgia, or Moldova?

I looked this up on the internet: The United States of America is NOT the world’s police force.  I sure as heck do not speak for anyone other than myself … and there are around 328 million different opinions about this … I don’t want to write any checks to the UN or to NATO to pay for their crappy services or pay the pensions of the heirs of European nobility who now serve as the kingpins of the globalist organizations.  I do NOT want a single American serviceman or woman being sent to fight Russians, Chinese, Koreans, or Bedouin A-rabs.

Greenfield observed, appropriately, “Being the policeman of a ghetto world means having to police the endless domestic disputes of overlapping nationalisms at the service of Western nations who are still foolishly pretending that nationalism will go away once everyone learns to sing, ‘Imagine.’”

Here’s my idea:  Since Russia is in Europe, let the Europeans deal with Russia as best they can.  Not our problem.  If you agree with me, let’s also agree to stop voting for idiots to serve as our president who thinks that what happens in Russia, Ukraine, Crimea, or Georgia is our business.  It isn’t.  And if the Ukrainians honestly believed that we Americans were coming to their rescue, then guess what?  The Ukrainians are DAFT … and so is anyone who voted for Biden.

I’m betting Kane Tanaka didn’t vote for Biden (although she may have), but I can imagine that she’s utterly depressed.  In the 119 years (and 59 days) of her life, nothing has changed in the world, except for everyone’s stupidity … and it’s only getting worse.

Mustang also blogs at Fix Bayonets and Thoughts From Afar

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