Janko on the Russia-Georgia crisis

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Sometimes Buchanan comes off like a nutjob

Buchanan is the closest thing to traditional, old-school American thought once epitomized by the Monroe, the Jefferson and the like.
America gained a reputation of freedom for refusing to play 'games for kings'...and planting bogus straw-man governments around the world IS 'a game for kings'...to create baited fields to justify further belligerence once such front-man governments are exposed or collapse on their own.
Sadly since the 1898 war with Spain, the USA are 'just another hoodlum' in international politics...
The main difference being that they put great care in the gimmick and angles for their Hulk Hogan to raise the curtain in conniptions waving flags and singing 'real American'...
Japan once invaded China to secure its Empire...Russia does the same...little to no attention is paid to gimmicks and freaks waving flags...
Casualties?
As the Dresden bombing, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, the Irak embargo, Vietnam etc etc show, invasion & war bring lots of innocent victims...
the difference is victims of 'bad' regimes (the bad regime of the day, that is ) are granted mourning days and counted and re-counted until the number makes you blush...victims of the 'good' regimes are barely acknowledged, or numbers are exposed as a hoax peddled by tyrants interested in bad-mouthing 'democracy'.
Strictly speaking again, the USA have a political infrastructure that was top-notch modern...in the XVIII century...