Friday, October 23, 2015
He was right.
Five years ago I asked why Stalin felt it was necessary to subvert US society and government after WW2. Based on Robert Parker's "Headquarters Budapest", plus some radio commentaries in '46, I concluded:
[As seen from Europe,] our military had saved Europe's ass in WW1 and WW2, but before and between the wars our government had failed to form an intelligent and coherent foreign policy. Would we hold steady after this war, helping the other Allies to conclusively and decisively punish Germany? Or would our financiers and industrialists fall back to their natural preference for Germany, carrying Congress with them as they had done in the 1930s? From this angle it's easy to see why Stalin wanted to have a firm hand on American policy, wanted to insure that the United Nations Organization served Russia more than America. From this angle, letting America return to normal meant letting Germany return to power. It wasn't mainly about Communism; it was mainly about Russian and European national interest.In 2010 the result wasn't clear. Now it is. The new Axis is US/UK/DE. The new Allies are BRICS. Joe was right. We did end up collaborating with Kraut tyranny again. The new Axis doesn't have the same organizational chart. Old Axis was Germany trying to kill everything. New is Germany killing Europe and USA STRONG killing everything else. (Except Israel, of course.) ¶ 4:24 PM
