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Mark, I am posting from London, Ontario. This is the first time I am commenting on your page. I read you regularly and admire you immensely given your own background and the sort of American patriot I imagine you are. On the subject that you write in this edition of yours, I simply wanted to point out to you some texts on the period, which you likely know about or have read, to contextualize your discussion. AJP Taylor's "The Origins of the Second World War" is in my view one of the finest studies in the diplomatic history of the twenty years between the two world wars, and despite the many books written since Taylor his discussion of the Stalin-Hitler or the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact remains timeless. Then there is Isaac Deutscher's biography of Stalin covering the period especially from 1926 through the outbreak of the war, and how Stalin looking back prepared for the eventual contest with Hitler's Germany. Much has been written lately about Stalin, especially the two volumes so far published by Stephen Kotkin, but again in my view one of the most illuminating revisionist histories of Stalin-Trotsky struggles (and neocons being the progeny of Trotskyites) is "Stalin: The Enduring Legacy" by Kerry Bolton. Stalin's crimes are now part of history, as is that Hitler or Mao. The point I want to leave you with is Trotskyism represented the ideology of Marxist/Bolshevik world revolution, and Stalin's policy of "socialism in one country" represented in retrospect the defense of "national sovereignty" of what by 1941 became Mother Russia. In our time the neocons have been pushing "world revolution" under the umbrella of American imperialism (unipolar hegemony post-Cold War) that fuses with the Globalist Agenda of the WEF pushed by the EU and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals to impose the concept of one borderless world and obliterate nation-state sovereignty. The neocons are the reincarnation of Trotskyites and their war against Russia in Ukraine ironically is "karmic", the repeat of the period when Trotsky was still a force after Lenin in Moscow till he was expelled from the party, and then his ideology of world revolution fused with the Cold Warriors's ideology of turning America into an imperialist power subverting the very foundation of the republic and the warnings of the founding fathers. The war in Ukraine is not simply any longer a war against Russia, which it is, but it is also a war that American patriots have to win to save their republic from the neocons and their Globalist agenda or America will no longer remain the great republic and bastion of freedom based on individual rights as founded in 1776.

God bless.

Salim

(p.s. I would love to communicate with you if and when time permits either of us. My email address is: smansur26@gmail.com)

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perle's avatar

I knew a long time ago that there were many and devious reasons behind the diplomatic maneuvering in the 1930s. So everybody, including eventually Hitler, miscalculated. I will give them this. Compared to our current crop, they were all geniuses and had rational motives. Nowadays....except for maybe Purin, who is banking on our stupidity.

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