Russia’s Attack on the Kiev Regime Forces is the Right Thing to Do at Exactly the Right Time

Nobody likes war but sometimes violence is necessary if it prevents even greater violence in the near future.

It is Friday 2:20 PM in Vancouver BC, Canada, as I write.

There is not much news from Ukraine as one would expect during a military conflict changing by the minute. But I’ll stick by what I published yesterday in the very early morning before I knew that the Russian forces had attacked Ukraine. Putin is wise to do what he’s doing and his wise action was taken as a last resort, but taken at the best possible time once it became clear that Kiev and Washington were not going to listen to reason. The destruction of the US supplied weapons and the hamstringing of the Kiev forces is making the world safer from the danger of US/NATO hostile, even nuclear, confrontation against Russia which Kiev’s insane foolishness would have made inevitable in very short order if it were not checked.

Putin did what he had to do and it is the right thing. I assume Russian forces have already destroyed the Kiev forces' Air Force and air defence missiles and now they are destroying all the weapons the Americans have given them. I'm sure Russian military Intelligence people had informed Putin and the Russian generals that the Kiev forces were preparing to overwhelm the Donbass and then declare Ukraine a member of NATO. I heard that during the last conference days ago Zelensky had said he wants to "renegotiate" Ukraine's status as a non-nuclear power. That would be the last straw for Putin very understandably. "If the fight is inevitable, hit first" he said. Good advice. He did that in 2014 by incorporating Crimea. He did it in 2015 by coming into Syria and saving Syria from ISIS. He and Medvedev taught NATO a lesson in 2008. Now the lesson needed repeating and he's done it. The whole world is safer from the danger of nuclear war because of Putin. The US has no means of doing anything in Ukraine except watching and bleating like a sheep. I'm very glad to see it. Nobody likes war but sometimes violence is necessary if it prevents even greater violence in the near future.

If Putin had been weak enough to have let Kiev go on bombarding the Donbass and building its forces he’d have repeated the stupidity of France and Britain in March of 1936 when Hitler sent a few thousand of his poorly equipped and unprepared Nazi German troops into the Rhineland in defiance of the Locarno Treaty according to which the Rhineland was a demilitarized buffer zone between Germany and France. During those fateful days which made World War Two inevitable, the president of France, Blum, wanted to mobilize French troops to toss the Germans out as the Locarno Treaty, and the Treaty of Versailles, gave him power to do but his general, Gamilin, was a traitor and wouldn't let him. If Blum had done the right thing the French forces would have walked over the pitiful German troops and Hitler's government would have collapsed and there'd have been no world War Two. William Shirer, correspondent in Berlin at that time, knew that the British government was advising the French that they should not oppose the Germans and that Britain would not support France if they did! Shirer even knew that Hitler’s generals had ordered the German troops to immediately withdraw without a fight if the French advanced! Shirer knew, and wrote, that if Hitler had been humiliated by France in March of 1936 his government would have collapsed. I was amazed when I read Shirer’s diary entries to know how much was easily available knowledge at the time!

I have a first edition copy of William Shirer’s Berlin Diary 1934-1941. His eye witness accounts of the days of March 7 through March 29, 1936 read like a live stream; nobody else could have so vividly captured the reality of those fateful days. He was in no doubt that the re-occupation of the Rhineland by Hitler and the “stupidity of the French” in allowing it and the complicity of the British government in diplomatically restraining France, which he found infuriating, was well known in Berlin, and known to be a prelude to a second great war, sooner or later and probably sooner. In the event, the great debacle was 3 years away. And every fatal step toward the brink was plain for contemporaries to see coming.

I found this thunder-striking book, published in 1942, on a used bookstore shelf by sheerest chance. Heaven only knows how this volume survived so long on somebody’s shelf. It had its original paper cover but it was so torn and so stinking that I threw it out. It had plainly been unopened for so long that I had to air it out to let it off-gas the stink of long confinement on somebody’s very neglected bookshelf. It is a treasure for a history enthusiast like me. You don’t have to put up with the problems of an old book because you can get a Kindle version from Amazon and I hope you do.