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"The AfD has not yet taken any position on conscription, but it is a nationalist party that would like to see the sanctions on Russia lifted and does not support any European-wide defense initiative."

Similar political movement toward the Right is evident in other European countries as well as in the US. As someone old enough to remember when it was different, I can't get over the irony of embracing the Right as the most promising political force against war.

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I remember when neocons were Republican.

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So you are under 24? Most of our major military adventures of the 20th century started under Democrats.

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Dec 20, 2023·edited Dec 20, 2023

The idea of global 'full spectrum dominance' was announced by a group of Republicans in a 1997 letter to Clinton, demanding he finish their Iraq War.

The letter was drafted by the husband of Biden's new deputy secretary at State.

Joe and Clinton's wife have been hawks all along, but neocons like Nuland running Dem foreign policy under Sleepy Joe is fairly new - though 'Fuck the EU' Nuland started as Cheney's foreign policy advisor in the year her husband's pals finally got their second Iraq war, and seems to have been running policy in Eastern Europe from then onward, under Clinton and her successors.

I loathe the upstart clown who succeeded Obama, but as I said to friends in 2016: "At least he's less likely than Killary to start WW3, except on a bad hair day."

I'm starting to feel the same way about the other cold warrior the Dem machine forced on Obama in 2008.

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I think war is like everything else in our political system: party no longer matters, except to determine who gets paid off to implement the wishes of those really in charge.

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Labeling anyone who wants peace as "the Right" doesn't make it so.

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IMO, the use of the term "right" or "far-right" is very misleading and quite incorrect as these political parties are essentially conservatives along the lines of what is known as Classical Conservatism--preservation of the past and longstanding family and religious-based values while constructively forging ahead by moderately modernizing the economy and society. The US political movement known as the Progressives grew out of that political philosophy and were primarily Republicans. They combined with what was known as the Social Gospel Movement and many became New Dealers and advocates for neutrality during the 1930s. The record shows they were very successful. Today's world would be vastly different were it not for WWs 1&2 whose affects still afflict today's world.

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