The current diplomatic confrontation–farcical so far—in Geneva between Russia and the United States is entirely unnecessary, for the sound reason that enmity between the two countries since 1991 has been largely unnecessary. Russia has not been a Communist country, threatening the destruction of America and international capitalist society by provoking the Red revolution around the world, for more than three decades. She is, indeed, more a capitalist society and economy herself than not, while the United States is a considerably more socialistic place than she was the same year. The differences between them are no longer ideological but due simply to traditional nationalistic rivalries on both sides, and to the reflexive hostility that lingers from the Bolshevik and Cold War periods.
Were Russia not a nuclear power, there would be no need for Washington to pay greater attention to her than it does, say, to India, save for one thing, and one thing only. That is the American liberal-left’s inability to reconcile itself to the fact that Russia is no longer a Communist power and a beacon for oppressed and enslaved mankind, and that Russian society is no longer totalitarian but authoritarian instead. Were Vladimir Putin a Communist and his government a carbon copy of Stalin’s, we should be hearing no diatribes and dire warnings against him and the Russian system from the New York Times, all the dirty little socialist-Communist magazines published in New York City and elsewhere, CNN, and the rest of comrades.
The United States and Washington need not admire, nor even like, one another in order to work together to their mutual advantage, the greatest of which would come from opposing imperial China together. Donald Trump seems, in fact, to have had some such de facto alliance in mind before he was elected President—a thing the Democrats’ Big Collusion Lie about the election made impossible. Had it not been for that, and for the left’s relentless attempts to find a Russian under every Republican politician’s bed while otherwise sabotaging his administration for four entire years, the odds are probably something like nine to one that Trump and Putin would have reached some sort of political, economic, and military accommodation well before the 2020 elections. Because that was not permitted to happen, post-Communist Russia is now an enemy of America and pulling closer every day to Communist China, which under President Xi is reverting rapidly to the inhuman brutality, bureaucratic imbecility, and military adventurism of Maoism. For the present, there is no good reason for Washington to be overly concerned with Xi’s and Putin’s renewal in the 21st century of the 19th’s Great Game in Central Asia (where they are both allies and rivals at the same time), but the Eastern Pacific is another matter entirely, should the Kremlin decide to back up Beijing against Taiwan especially.
The American left, taken broadly and as a whole, always has peace and security in its mouth. How often has it talked both and provoked war and chaos instead?
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