Putin and the Night Wolves
By G. Murphy Donovan
Introduction by
Julio Severo: Donovan, a former
Intelligence officer, shows that the biggest threat today is Islam and that
while the U.S. and Europe are focusing on a Russia that has restored
Christiniaty in its national life, Islam and its hordes of immigrants are
conquering Europe. While the West is oppressing Russia with wicked sanctions,
terrorist Islamic nations as Saudi Arabia face no sanctions. Franklin Graham,
son of the famed evangelist Billy Graham, has also said that the U.S. needs to join forces with Russia against Islamic terror.
Read Donovan’s excellent article:
The Russian president rehabilitated the Russian armed
forces, too, in the wake of the Afghan/Chechen debacles. More recently, Putin
has unchained the bear and altered the complexion of politics and dissent in
the Caucuses, Georgia, Ukraine, and now Syria. Russian pushback against NATO
expansion and regime change follies is a predictable, if not understandable,
response to a hapless Brussels. Why
European politicians seek a fight with Russia in the middle of an Islamic migrant blitz is a mystery to
tacticians, strategists, and veteran diplomats alike.
The Russian president recently exposed Turkey, too, as
NATO’s Achilles’ heel, a terrorist 5th column between East and West. NATO
turned a blind eye to the Erdogan/Baghdadi oil
cartel until the Russian Air Force began destroying northbound convoys. The
CFO for the Turk/ISIS consortium appears to be Billy Erdogan, son of the
duplicitous Turkish president. Across the border, Syria was another small war
stalemate until Putin stepped in.
Russians still carry American astronauts into space,
too, while Washington maintains spite sanctions against Moscow -- a testimony
to Russian character and Obama era vapidity. With Putin, diplomacy is often
just a door left ajar.
The Russian space taxi serves Americans at NASA and affirmative action
astronauts worldwide. The cutting edge of extra-terrestrial travel now requires
a Kazak base and a Russian rocket.
Unlike European and American leaders, Vladimir Putin
has no illusions
about existential threats like open borders, Islamic imperialism, or religious
fascism.
The Muslim world has been providing fighters to a half
century of global jihad that targets and kills Americans and West Europeans
with near impunity. Ironically, no
Muslim nations are burdened with economic sanctions like those imposed on
Russia. Indeed, America and Europe are now suffering from atrocity fatigue.
Muslims continue to kill and maim while Washington and Brussels continue to
rationalize global terror as the new
normal.
For apologists,
calling Islam a “great” culture is the feckless rhetoric of enablers.
The boycott,
divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel is similar to the Russian sanctions,
movements motivated by bias and historical bigotry. Just as Israel won a series
of wars against predatory Arabs, the West won the Cold War with inept Communism
-- and Europe still can’t take yes for an answer from a Russia that has
reinvented itself.
Victory Day, celebrating Soviet success in World War
II, has become the most significant holiday on the Russian calendar under
Putin.
While the Russian president cultivates “a never forget”
ethic, the American president seems to never remember. Indeed, Barack Obama, as
with Muslim history, seems to be ignorant about the legacy of uncommon cultures
-- and the difference between friendly and lethal competition. If a liberal like Roosevelt could make
common cause with Joseph Stalin and a conservative like Ronald Reagan could do
business with Mikhail Gorbachev, how is it that a political footnote like
Barack Hussein Obama can’t do business with Vladimir Putin?
The face of 21st
century fascism is religious – and Islamic. There’s not much difference
between secular and religious totalitarians. Coercion, terror, and atrocity are
what they have in common. Alas, Europe, with the possible exception of
Brexit England, seems to be channeling early 20th Century behaviors that
enabled National Socialism. Recall that Italy and Spain made common cause with
fascism. France and Belgium rolled over like tarts, and most of Scandinavia
allowed Hitler’s vermin to take control uncontested. “Neutrality” in Europe
before and during WWII was another word for appeasement. In the North, the
flavor was Quisling; in the South, collaboration was called Vichy. The EU and
NATO are not about defense today so much as they are about flirting with similar
historical folly.
The parallels between midcentury Europe and early the
early 21st Century European Union are difficult to ignore anymore. Eurocrats seem not to have a clue about
common cultural or common kinetic defense. Terrorists live cheek to jowl with
oblivious Belgians. The European Union seeks to solve the 5th Column problem
now by making Turkey an open border too!
Some days it’s
not difficult to conclude that clueless Europe and ruthless Mecca deserve each
other. In the distant past, Islam was at the Gates of Vienna. Now the crescent
and sword knocks on the doors of Westminster Abby. If common sense were
currency, the European Union would be insolvent.
The loss of a clueless West Europe is sure to provide
new opportunities for new
alliances. Given the endemic chaos and aggression emanating from the Muslim
world; Russia, China, and the United States might be the logical core for a new
“big three,” alliance against 21st Century totalitarians. One of the most
obvious advantages of a new global military coalition would be economy. Unlike
NATO dependencies, the Chinese and Russians will surely pay their own way.
Ironically, China and Russia are already fiscal allies,
in so much as both have emerged as a kind budget Viagra for the US Department
of Defense. It’s difficult to justify
“huge” defense budgets at the Pentagon if the real threat is 5th column
migrants and terror driving a Toyota.
Only one candidate in the US presidential primaries
suggests that small wars, strategy, and alliances should on the table in 2016.
Hard as it is to forecast how such a discussion might go, any movement in new
directions would be an improvement over the “new normal;” cooked threats,
sanguinary inertia, and suicidal appeasement.
Time is not a
European or American ally when conflict is a war of a thousand cuts.
G.
Murphy Donovan
is a former Intelligence officer who writes about the politics of national
security.
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