The Cold War Racket Never Ended for the United States by Jacob G. Hornberger!
(2022-01-27 at 23:49:03 )

The Cold War Racket Never Ended for the United States by Jacob G. Hornberger!

There is something important to recognize about the Cold War: It was not ended by the United States government. Instead, it was ended by the Soviet Union. If it had been up to the United States national-security establishment, the Cold War would have gone on forever because it is the best racket in United States history, one that continually expanded the tax-funded largess, power, and influence of the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency.

In a sense, the United States national-security establishment considered the Soviet Unions unilateral decision to end the Cold War a betrayal. The Soviets were not supposed to do that. The supposed international communist conspiracy to conquer the United States that was supposedly based in Moscow was serving as a fantastic boogeyman that was used to frighten the American people into supporting the continuation of the Cold War racket.

There is something else to recognize about the Cold War: For the United States government, it really never ended. They were not about to let the Reds dictate the end of their racket. They were bound and determined to figure out some way to keep the racket going.

That is what keeping NATO around was all about, along with the gradual absorption of former Warsaw Pact countries (without the express approval of Congress), which enabled NATO forces to get closer and closer to Russias borders.

Stalingrad 1942

Thus, why in the world would the Soviet Union want to start another war, especially knowing that it would be fighting the United States, its World War II partner and ally, whose officials had nuclear weapons and were more than willing to use them against populated cities?

What about the continued Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe?

It was not justifiable but it certainly was understandable. The Soviets had just been invaded by the Nazi army, which had come very close to conquering the Soviet Union. Once they pushed the German army back and then defeated it, the last thing the Soviets were going to do was give up their Eastern European buffer against future German invasions. Moreover, we must not forget something important: At the Yalta Conference, United States President Franklin Roosevelt agreed that the Soviets could have Eastern Europe.

When the Soviets unilaterally dismantled their empire and exited Eastern Europe in 1989, the United States had an excellent opportunity to do its part to restore a peaceful and harmonious world.

It should have dismantled NATO immediately.

NATOs ostensible mission of protecting Western Europe from the Soviet Union was over.

If NATO had been abolished, there would not be a crisis in Ukraine today.

It is because the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency kept NATO in existence and, even worse, began absorbing former Warsaw Pact countries that there is a crisis in Ukraine today.

Just as the United States officials go ballistic at the thought of Russia installing missiles in Cuba, Russian officials go ballistic over the thought of NATO installing missiles in Ukraine, which is on Russias border.

United States interventionists claim that Russia is being paranoid.

They say that the United States government is a peace-loving nation that would never attack Russia.

Really??

I wonder if the Iraqi people and the Afghan people would agree about that peace-loving bit.

But there is something else to consider: It is not just the United States that is in NATO. So is Germany - the nation that invaded the Soviet Union in World War II and wreaked massive death and destruction there. Why would it surprise anyone that Russia might be reticent about having German troops and missiles on Russias borders??

Germany seems to get this, which would explain its refusal to send weaponry to Ukraine. Other NATO members are chiding Germany for being "weak" in the face of Russian "aggression." In actuality, Germany is showing that it understands Russias position.

Yesterday, I wrote about how President Kennedy would do his best to step into the shoes of an adversary in order to try to understand why his opponent was taking certain actions.

In that way, JFK was able to fashion a solution to a solution to a crisis that would take into consideration his opponents concerns. That is how President Kennedy was able to resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis without going to nuclear war with the Soviets, much to the anger and even rage of his enemies within the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency.

Too bad President Biden is unable to do that.

What President Biden should do is declare an end to the Cold War and abolish NATO immediately.

Unlike President Kennedy, however, President Biden is deferring to the power of the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency and, in the process, letting them continue their dangerous and destructive Cold War racket.

Reprinted here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Libertarian Website!!