Category: Foreign Policy, Page 17
Mark Levin: I Believe In “America First”
Occidental Dissent - Apr 25th 2022 12:55pm EDTWhat is America First? America First means being a normal country with normal aspirations in the world. It means returning to our traditional foreign policy of non-intervention and peaceful commerce with Eurasia. This was the foreign policy the United States pursued until the Spanish-American War. The opposite of America First is liberal hegemony. It means […]
Tucker Carlson: Joe Biden’s Foreign Policy Is War With Russia
Occidental Dissent - Apr 19th 2022 10:57am EDTWe’re currently in the Lend-Lease phase of World War III.
Occidental Dissent Endorses J.D. Vance
Occidental Dissent - Apr 19th 2022 9:56am EDTJ.D. Vance: “I gotta be honest with you, I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or the other.” Donald Trump just endorsed this guy for Senate. Sickening.#OHSen #PutinWingpic.twitter.com/dnSlcTVEOa — Republicans against Trumpism (@RpsAgainstTrump) April 19, 2022 There are a lot of reasons why I haven’t been that excited about J.D. Vance’s Senate […]
Apostolic Majesty: How the Ukraine Became Ukraine (1187-1992)
Occidental Dissent - Apr 18th 2022 8:27am EDTI’ve been brushing up on my Ukrainian history. In doing so, I have been reminded why I care so little about the current imperial war between the United States and Russia over Ukraine. The war is currently being fought over the Eurasian steppe which has been like the interstate of Eurasia for thousands of years. […]
Brian Kilmeade: Why America Must Lead The World
Occidental Dissent - Apr 17th 2022 10:39am EDTBrian Kilmeade’s views on foreign policy are the opposite of my own. The United States had a good run for about about a century after the Founding because Atlanticism was rejected in favor of Jefferson’s vision of westward continental expansion or Hamilton’s vision of internal economic development. Even though power swung between the two major […]
Overthrow: 100 Years of U.S. Meddling & Regime Change
Occidental Dissent - Apr 15th 2022 12:34pm EDTI’m going to have to get this book. Trump was overthrown by these forces in a classic color revolution in 2020.
CNN: Zelensky Confiscates Viktor Medvedchuk’s Assets
Occidental Dissent - Apr 15th 2022 11:07am EDTThis is a war between good and evil. This is a war between democracy and autocracy. Russia is an autocracy because Putin’s nemesis Alexei Nalvany has been sent to prison for six months. Nalvany isn’t a traitor even though he openly sides with Russia’s enemies in NATO and supports their information warfare campaign. Putin is […]
Lavrov: West Is Demonstrating Totalitarian Intolerance of Different Opinions
Occidental Dissent - Apr 14th 2022 4:53pm EDTThis is a war between democracy and autocracy. While I agree that Russia is an autocracy, Ukraine is also an autocracy. Zelensky has banned his opposition, shutdown independent media and arrested and tortured his political opponents. The world’s autocracies include Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Austria, the Baltic states, Slovakia, Greece, Germany and the United Kingdom. […]
Patrick Lancaster: 18+ Mariupol Residents Expose War Crimes
Occidental Dissent - Apr 14th 2022 2:16pm EDTNow watching.
FT: Putin: The Disorder The Far Right and Far Left Have In Common
Occidental Dissent - Apr 13th 2022 1:59pm EDTIf you hate the Global American Empire (GAE), well, you hate America. FT: “One oddity of the Ukrainian war has been watching far-right leaders such as Marine Le Pen, Matteo Salvini and Nigel Farage scramble back from their adoration of Vladimir Putin, while their far-left peers tone down the excoriations of Nato. It must have […]
The Atlantic: The Miracle of Ukrainian Survival
Occidental Dissent - Apr 13th 2022 11:45am EDTWhat does our liberal establishment have in store for Ukraine? The Atlantic: “This friday, as Passover begins, my thoughts will turn to my late grandmother. Born in Ukraine, she survived the Nazis, the only one in her immediate family to escape the guns of the génocidaires. Each year, at the beginning of the seder, she would stand […]
Senate Unanimously Revives Lend-Lease Program
Occidental Dissent - Apr 13th 2022 10:41am EDTThere was actually a robust, and even bitter debate over the original “lend-lease” in 1941 — a full 31 senators ultimately voted against it. “Remember, if we lend or lease war materials today, we will lend or lease American boys tomorrow,” Sen. Burton Wheeler (D-MT) declared https://t.co/ftTaAt03pm — Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 12, 2022 A […]
Jimmy Dore: Twitter Censoring Ukraine War Coverage
Occidental Dissent - Apr 12th 2022 4:36pm EDTAnyone who is saying Twitter’s ban violates the First Amendment doesn’t know Twitter is a private company and the First Amendment protects individuals against government. — Robert Reich (@RBReich) January 9, 2021 In Musk’s vision of Twitter and the internet, he’d be the wizard behind the curtain – projecting on the world’s screen a fake […]
Zelensky Announces Arrest Of Viktor Medvedchuk
Occidental Dissent - Apr 12th 2022 3:28pm EDT??BREAKING: Pro-Kremlin lawmaker, Putin’s crony Medvedchuk captured. Zelensky announced that Viktor Medvedchuk, a lawmaker with the pro-Kremlin party Opposition Platform was captured by the Security Service. Medvedchuk is accused of treason. He escaped house arrest in February. pic.twitter.com/M3SIi65uht — The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) April 12, 2022 This is a war between democracy and autocracy. In […]
The Bulwark: Putin Wants to Break NATO. Republicans Want to Help Him.
Occidental Dissent - Apr 12th 2022 8:06am EDTYes, we do. We have our own reasons to get rid of NATO. I’ve yet to hear a compelling case for NATO in the 21st century. The Bulwark: “Vladimir Putin’s central objective in Europe isn’t to capture Kyiv, the Donbas, or any other part of Ukraine. It’s to weaken the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which […]
Coach Red Pill: Scott Ritter and the Battle of Donbas
Occidental Dissent - Apr 11th 2022 5:56pm EDTNow watching.
Patrick Lancaster: The Missing of Mariupol
Occidental Dissent - Apr 11th 2022 5:41pm EDTWar correspondent and hero Patrick Lancaster reports from Mariupol.
George Packer: How We Can Be Worthy of Ukraine
Occidental Dissent - Apr 11th 2022 12:44pm EDTUkraine is viagra for Boomers and liberal imperialists and especially those Americans who fall into both of these categories and who write for establishment mouthpieces like The Atlantic. The Atlantic: “Don’t forget about Ukraine,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said last Sunday at the end of an interview with CBS. “We have the same values, we have […]
Mark Levin Is Sick Of The Putin Wing Of The Republican Party
Occidental Dissent - Apr 11th 2022 9:59am EDTThe feeling is mutual. We’re sick and tired of people like Mark Levin who have squandered trillions of dollars and whose legacy is nothing but a trail of destruction that runs through the Balkans, North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and now eastern Europe. We’re sick of them sowing chaos abroad and neglecting our […]
Fareed Zakaria: Will Putin Hinder Rightwing Populist Leaders?
Occidental Dissent - Apr 10th 2022 9:18pm EDTWhy did Zemmour fade and Le Pen surge in the French presidential election?@compactmag_ has the one piece of analysis you need to read. Bottom line: Zemmour went against his own insight from 2019: The French right can’t rely on the bourgeoisie. https://t.co/jx6iYcL2w8 — Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) April 11, 2022 Results for France’s established conservative and […]
WSJ: The Right’s Russia Temptation
Occidental Dissent - Apr 10th 2022 6:52pm EDTJeffrey Scott Shapiro is alarmed by our lack of hostility toward Russia. In the 19th century, the United States had good relations with the Russian Empire. We bought Alaska from Russia. We traded with the Russia of the tsars. This was at a time when the Russian Empire controlled Ukraine, Central Asia, the Baltic states, […]
Caspian Report: The Ukraine War From Russia’s Perspective
Occidental Dissent - Apr 10th 2022 12:06pm EDTIn the United States, we have an unfortunate tendency to look at foreigners through the prism of good and evil, angels and demons, Autobots and Decepticons. It is part of our evangelical Protestant cultural heritage which we share with the UK. The Serbs, Russians, Iranians, Iraqis and Italians have all taken turns being on the […]
Jimmy Dore: United States Admits To Spreading Lies About Ukraine War
Occidental Dissent - Apr 10th 2022 11:37am EDTIt says a lot that this isn’t a scandal. Joe Biden is lying about Putin’s WMDs. This has been confirmed. We’re so used to “journalists” lying and spreading state and corporate propaganda that it barely registers anymore.
Breaking Points Audience Revolts Over Tucker Carlson Take
Occidental Dissent - Apr 10th 2022 10:38am EDTI think I have solved the mystery. Younger voters who dislike the political establishment and who like Tucker Carlson and Breaking Points and who consume independent media are far more skeptical and opposed to U.S. intervention in Ukraine than Boomers who get their news from Facebook and cable television. If your views on foreign policy […]
Counter-Currents: What’s Really At Stake In Ukraine
Occidental Dissent - Apr 9th 2022 3:47pm EDTGreg Johnson thinks that Western nationalists should support Ukraine. Counter-Currents: “In my debate with E. Michael Jones on the Ukraine war, my opening statement argued that nationalists in the West — and indeed, around the world — should support Ukraine against its invader, Russia. E. Michael Jones argued that Westerners should not support Ukraine. Jones began with […]