The West Must Prevail in Ukraine!

Dr. Raymond Havlicek & Friends Podcast

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Following WW2 the US was immediately challenged by our former ally the USSR as they switched from being anti German Fascism to anti-democratic capitalism. The reason being that Stalin believed that Russian Communism could not survive in a world dominated by successful thriving and expanding democratic capitalism.

Stalin’s view was not new. The Bolsheviks’ violent takeover of Post czarist Russia following popular support for the socialists and the failure of workers to revolt as predicted by Marx occurred because Lenin realized that communism would not survive if it depended upon elections. Russian workers had experienced rapid improvement in their standard of living thereby turning them off to a revolt against what was working for them. The Bolsheviks knew that their so-called “social-justice” Marxist theories would never survive unless Marxist ideology was forcibly imposed upon Russia. The proletariat was not sufficiently intelligent to understand the vicissitudes of Marxism.

Fast forward to 1945. Stalin being a dedicated Bolshevik realistically understood that Eastern Europe would quickly turn to the West following liberation from the Nazis unless he stopped the transition. Stalin’s secret police and military forced Russian Communism upon Eastern Europe thereby subjecting many millions to the tyranny of Russian oppressive totalitarianism. Witness Stalin’s murder of at least 4 million Ukrainians who were punished for resisting Stalin’s communism. Witness those murdered for merely attempting to leave East Germany. Witness the Soviet tank invasions of Czechoslovakia and Hungary to suppress the freedom aspirations of those nations’ citizens. Witness Soviet support for violent communist takeovers in NK, Vietnam, and Cambodia. Stalin’s takeover of Eastern Europe occurred with the approval of the U.S. FDR and Truman believed their decision to enable the Soviet imposition of its sphere of influence upon Eastern Europe would lead to better relations with the USSR.

They were wrong! The Soviets continuously bolstered its military with more men, tanks, jets, Satellites, submarines and nuclear weapons. The Soviets were not fearful of the west though they tried to make their citizens believe that the west was the enemy of the Soviet union’s people. The Soviets built up their military to force the west into accepting their aggressive efforts to extend their control and influence. Communism spread to NK and Vietnam and would have expanded further had America stood up to the communists.

Ronald Reagan stood up to the USSR. Recall his speech in West Berlin: “Mr Gorbachev take down this wall!” Reagan also said “trust but verify” to those on the left who demanded unilateral accommodation of the communists. Reagan militarily outspent the decaying Soviet empire which led to its disintegration. Reagan demonstrated that American self-confidence is effective. This is a point that contrasts Reagan’s America first self confidence with today’s weak American Republican isolationists like Tucker Carlson and Jesse Watters. Republican former governor Chris Christy is right when he recently stated that Trump is assisting Putin.

You might have thought America would have learned its lesson from Chamberlain’s attempt to appease Hitler in Munich, 1939. The actual

takeaway should have been you can’t appease a psychopath who has a lot of weapons and who believes he can win with those weapons.

Another theory advanced by America’s left and it’s libertarian isolationists to explain why the Soviet Union was so militaristic is that NATO is to blame. These dedicated weak isolationists claim that we imposed NATO on the Soviet Union’s European borders to intimidate the Soviet Union. The reality is that former Soviet Satelite Eastern Europe nations who were severely oppressed for decades by the Soviet Union’s milita

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