Putin’s War on America


HIS REAL AIM: TO DESTROY WESTERN DEMOCRACIES AND TOPPLE THE U.S., SAYS DICK MORRIS.


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ladimir putin’s real goal was not Ukraine. It was about bringing down


the United States as a world power. The Russian president


made abundantly clear that the battle in Ukraine was no more about Kyiv than Pick- ett’s Charge was about con- trol of Gettysburg. The invasion was just the


opening shot in a new Cold War with the goal of bring- ing the U.S. down, hobbling NATO and undermining de- mocracy everywhere. Putin told his Russian au-


dience that America was “the global con artist” and had per- petrated an “empire of lies.” He claimed, falsely, that


the U.S. was seeking to equip Ukraine with nuclear weap- ons to destroy Russia. Putin added: “Overall, it


appears that nearly every- where, in many regions of the world where the United States brought its law and order, this created bloody, non-healing wounds, and the curse of in- ternational terrorism and ex- tremism.” He also asserted that


America’s social experimen- tation was a grave threat to Russia.


Putin said that the U.S.


“sought to destroy our tradi- tional values and force on us their false values that would erode us, our people from within, the attitudes they have


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been aggressively imposing on their countries, attitudes that are directly leading to degradation and degenera- tion, because they are con- trary to human nature. This is not going to happen.” No doubt, Putin is going


for our jugular, as Adolf Hit- ler did, and we must not let latter-day isolationists pave his path. For 70 years, the Repub-


lican Party and its conserva- tive philosophy and support for “national security” gave America the backbone it needed to respond to the glob- al challenge of communism and Russian expansionism. Before the Japanese attack


on Pearl Harbor, isolation- ism was the dominant ideol- ogy among Republicans and a strain of it has never quite disappeared. Even after World War II,


some Republican isolation- ists opposed NATO and dis- agreed with the Marshall Plan’s funding of European recovery. But it was President Dwight Eisenhower who ar- gued that we had to stand fi rm as Stalin gobbled up Eastern Europe. At


the 1952 Republican


Convention, the ultimate iso- lationist


— Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio


— faced off against Eisenhower for the soul of the GOP.


Ike won and the GOP has


led the country in being the party that best supports our nation’s security. Today, we again have seen


the re-emergence of a strong isolationist faction, one that made clear its position before the invasion of Ukraine. For example, Tucker Carl-


son in his prime-time perch on Fox had parroted some of these points. “You can’t say it enough,


Ukraine is not a democracy,” Carlson said, a claim that is simply false. But after Putin’s inva-


sion rhetoric turned into real blood, Carlson did an about- face.


He admitted that Putin


had started the war and is to “blame for what we’re seeing.” Putin’s invasion will


change many minds. It has changed Europe, where there is now almost near unanim- ity in the view that they must stop Putin. Meanwhile, President


Biden, like his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama, has “led from behind.” Looking back, we know


that Hitler made clear his in- tent and his plans in his many speeches. Likewise, Putin is not de- ceiving us when he says this is a war on the West and the United States.


Dick Morris is a Newsmax contributor and political strategist.


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