Is Donald Trump the ‘Peace President’?

• American public supports Trump’s non-interventionist foreign policy stances.

By Patrick J. Buchanan —

With Democrats howling that Vladimir Putin hacked into and leaked those 19,000 Democratic National Convention emails to help Trump, The Donald had a brainstorm: Maybe the Russians can retrieve Hillary Clinton’s lost emails. Not funny, and close to “treasonous,” came the shocked cry.

Trump then told The New York Times that a Russian incursion into Estonia need not trigger a United States military response. Even more shocking, by suggesting the U.S. might not honor its North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) commitment, under Article 5, to fight Russia for Estonia, our foreign policy elites declaimed, Trump has undermined the security architecture that has kept the peace for 65 years.

More interesting, however, was the fact that Americans seem neither shocked nor horrified. What does this suggest?

Behind the war guarantees America has issued to scores of nations in Europe, the Mideast, and Asia since 1949, the bedrock of public support that existed during the Cold War has crumbled.

We got a hint of this in 2013. Barack Obama, claiming his “red line” against any use of poison gas in Syria had been crossed, found he had no public backing for air and missile strikes on the Assad government in Syria. The country rose up as one and told him to forget it. He did.

We have been at war since 2001. And as one looks on the ruins of Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Yemen, and adds up the thousands dead and wounded and trillions sunk and lost, can anyone say our War Party has served us well?

On bringing Estonia into NATO, no Cold War president would have dreamed of issuing so insane a war guarantee.

Dwight Eisenhower refused to intervene to save the Hungarian rebels. JFK refused to halt the building of the Berlin Wall. LBJ did nothing to impede the Warsaw Pact’s crushing of the Prague Spring. Reagan never considered moving militarily to halt the smashing of Solidarity. Were all these presidents cringing isolationists? Rather, they were realists who recognized that we were not going to risk a nuclear war, to achieve it. Period.

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In 1991, George H.W. Bush told Ukrainians that any declaration of independence from Moscow would be an act of “suicidal nationalism.”

Today, Beltway hawks want to bring Ukraine into NATO. This would mean that America would go to war with Russia, if necessary, to preserve an independence Bush I regarded as “suicidal.” Have we lost our minds?

Eisenhower, the first NATO supreme commander, said that if U.S. troops were still in Europe in 10 years, NATO would be a failure. In 1961, he urged JFK to start pulling U.S. troops out, lest Europe become a military dependency of the U.S.

Was Ike not right? Even Obama today riffs about the “free riders” on America’s defense. Is it really so outrageous for Trump to ask how long the U.S. is to be responsible for defending rich Europeans who refuse to conscript soldiers or pay the cost of their own defense, when Eisenhower was asking that same question 55 years ago?



 

In 1997, geostrategist George F. Kennan warned that moving NATO into Eastern Europe “would be the most fateful error of American policy in the post-Cold War era.” He predicted a fierce nationalistic Russian response.

Was Kennan not right? NATO and Russia are today building up forces in the eastern Baltic where no vital U.S. interests exist, and where we have never fought before—for that very reason.

There is no evidence Russia intends to march into Estonia. But if she did, how would NATO expel Russian troops without air and missile strikes that would devastate that tiny country?

And if we killed Russians inside Russia, are we confident Moscow would not resort to tactical atomic weapons to prevail? After all, Russia cannot back up any further. We are right in her face.

On this issue Trump seems to be speaking for the silent majority and certainly raising issues that need to be debated.

How long are we to be committed to go to war to defend the tiny Baltic republics against a Russia that could overrun them in 72 hours?

When, if ever, does our obligation end? If it is eternal, is not a clash with a revanchist and anti-American Russia inevitable? Are U.S. war guarantees in the Baltic republics even credible?

If the Cold War generations of Americans were unwilling to go to war with a nuclear-armed Soviet Union over Hungary and Czechoslovakia, are the millennials ready to fight a war with Russia over Estonia? What is needed now is diplomacy.

The trade-off: Russia ensures the independence of the Baltic republics that she let go. And NATO gets out of Russia’s face. Should Russia dishonor its commitment, economic sanctions are the answer, not another European war.

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Patrick J. Buchanan is a writer, political commentator, presidential candidate and author.

6 Comments on Is Donald Trump the ‘Peace President’?

  1. Pat Buchanan has been listed as a Knight of Malta! Need I say more? The best vote is no vote. Stay home and refuse to participate in another sham…

  2. Into 9/11 attacks,the zionist BLUE LODGE of USA encoded END TIMES…Visit Google-MASSONIC FINGERPRINTS LEFT ON 9/11 CRIME SCENE, for the details!

  3. Trump or Killary shall play out the role of TRIUMPHANT Antichrist which shall rise now at the END TIME in Ama-rica,the Motherly,female,Dragon-Serpent continent,copying Milky Way,the real Dragon-Serpent,since the zionist BLUE LODGE of USA follows the Maya-Mesoamerican NUMBER pattern and symbols! Trump is high ranking mason and his name and skyscraper figure in National Geographic Magazine,February 1989, where on pages 140-185 is depicted the END TIME calendar in the 24 skyscrapers architecture! But it is Russia who has in her Great Seal(Double headed Eagle), at its center, GEORGE-THE DRAGON SLAYER,sitting on the Horse of Apocalypse with SWORD in his hand!

    At the END TIME, the zionists shall bankrupt USA,throwing it and the world into a deliberate chaos and WW3…Purification of Earth will start from above and below,when our current Galactic alignment will repolarize our Sun and planet Earth as well…Our Dual and Bipolar world will end up in WW3,where shall be NO winners,but Russia(East) shall slay USA(the West)…In the East was placed the Eden(Mesopotamia/Dark Rift in Milky Way),and from the East shall start rebirth-resurrection,as well as New Dawn of new civilization and new Anno Magnus/Great Year…The reason,why all Russian Orthodox cemeteries face East!!! Either Trumpor Killary shall be the Triumphant Antichrist of the END TIME around 2033…33,the highest masonic number and hidden date of END TIME…2000 years after Christ crucifixion at the age of 33…With Liberty Street 33,confirming that date… And this is the reason,why the satanic zionist Blue Lodge stirred up troubles with Islamic world and with Russia as well…For the END TIME scenario to be played out….

  4. America’s smartest diplomat, Patrick J. Buchanan proposes that:

    “Russia ensures the independence of the Baltic republics that she let go. And NATO gets out of Russia’s face. Should Russia dishonor its commitment, economic sanctions are the answer.”

    Diplomat Buchanan: How did sanctions work against Iran, which now has $150 billion the U.S. was holding, and a road-map to nuclear weapons? Ditto for Ukraine and Georgia.

    What you’re proposing regarding the defense of NATO nations Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, is surrender.

    What is the point of Article 5 of the NATO agreement, that an attack against one nation is an attack against all nations?

    If NATO doesn’t back up its promise of mutual defense, it is pointless and impotent.

    Mr. Buchanan, you may as well surrender Europe and America while you’re at it.

  5. Pat Buchanan is now and always has been a right wing tool. I don’t know why AFP is even giving him a venue to spew his garbage.
  6. Crooked Hillary is going down like Monica, BALLots and all.

    -Trump has 11 MILLION followers on Twitter.
    -Hillary has only 8.35.
    -Trump’s rally crowds overflow stadiums, arenas and aircraft hangers.
    -Hillary can’t half-fill a union hall or a church hall or a school gym.
    -Trump has 10,346,260 followers on Facebook.
    -Hillary has only 5,566,782.

    But we all know Trumps followers are all faked, right? 🙂

    -GOOGLE hits I got for a “Donald Trump” search are; ….. 228 million.
    -GOOGLE hits for “Hillary Clinton”? . . . . 145 million.
    -YouTube live streams for Trump are 30,000 per stream.
    -Clinton?…. 500.

    Follow the herd and fight this system of corrupt power and force change to rebuild America. Democrats are always “moving forward” but the last eight years it was in the wrong direction.

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