{"id":5985,"date":"2015-01-03T20:59:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T03:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/?p=5985"},"modified":"2015-01-03T20:59:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T03:59:32","slug":"is-us-russia-war-in-the-cards-for-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/?p=5985","title":{"rendered":"Is US-Russia War in the Cards for 2015?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Either Obama and Putin enter negotiations over Ukraine or the war in Ukraine gets bigger and wider<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Pat Buchanan (Patrick J. Buchanan)<\/div>\n

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So far it’s a proxy war<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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This article originally appeared<\/a> at Patrick J Buchanan<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cIf you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you,\u201d said Calvin Coolidge, whose portrait hung in the Cabinet Room of the Reagan White House.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Among the dispositions shared by the two conservatives was a determination to stay out of other people\u2019s wars.<\/p>\n

Peering into 2015, there are wars into which our interventionists are eager to plunge that represent no immediate or grave threat to us.<\/p>\n

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But the most determined push for war in 2015 will come from neocons and interventionists who want a U.S.-Putin confrontation and regime change in Russia. And as Russia has a nuclear arsenal to match our own, this is a matter of real gravity.<\/p>\n

Because of U.S.-EU sanctions on Russia for its role in Ukraine and the collapse in the price of oil, Russia\u2019s principal export, the ruble has lost half its value, and the economy faces a contraction of 5 percent in 2015.<\/p>\n

Real hardships lie ahead for the Russian people. But it seems they are not blaming Vladimir Putin for their troubles.<\/p>\n

They are blaming us.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to the respected Moscow \u2018Levada Center,\u2019 which measures political sentiment in Russian society,\u201d the New York Observer reports,<\/p>\n

\u201c74 percent of Russians have negative feelings towards the USA. \u2026<\/p>\n

In the 1990s, 80 percent had positive attitude toward America.<\/p>\n

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\u201cCurrently, 76 percent of Russians hate Obama personally and only a meager 2 percent like him. \u2026<\/p>\n

These are the maximum peaks of anti-American feelings in Russia in years. \u2026<\/p>\n

Just last week Visa and MasterCard completely stopped their operations in Crimea, leaving more than 2 million people there without access to their money.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One Moscow supermarket is using American flags as doormats, and customers are wiping their feet on them.<\/p>\n

Before going home, Congress voted to levy new sanctions on Russia and authorized U.S. lethal weapons to be sent to Kiev to enable Ukraine to retake Luhansk and Donetsk and perhaps Crimea.<\/p>\n

Obama signed the bill.<\/p>\n

With Republican hawks taking over all congressional committees dealing with foreign and defense policy, peace and war, in the new year, there will be a competitive clamor that Obama send the guns to Kiev.<\/p>\n

And what happens then?<\/p>\n

Will Putin abandon the rebels and face the rage of the Russian people for backing down? Will Putin wait for the U.S. anti-tank weapons and ammunition to arrive and be sent to eastern Ukraine?<\/p>\n

Or will Putin, a decisive sort, send in the Russian army before the U.S. weapons arrive, hive off a land bridge to Crimea \u2014 and maybe more for bartering purposes \u2014 and call Obama\u2019s bluff?<\/p>\n

In his New Year\u2019s message to the Russian people, Putin hailed the annexation of Crimea as an achievement that will \u201cforever remain a landmark in the national history.\u201d<\/p>\n

Doesn\u2019t sound as if he\u2019ll be giving Crimea up any time soon.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s tough to make predictions, especially about the future,\u201d said the wise Yogi Berra. But one prediction seems not too risky.<\/p>\n

Either Obama and Putin enter negotiations over Ukraine or the war in Ukraine, with 4,700 dead since April, gets bigger and wider.<\/p>\n

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