Don’t worry, the U.S. is not going to war with Russia

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theQuestion: Should we be concerned about war with Russia?*

It’s been a great challenge debating Petr Pospisil in this column over the past year and a half. We’ve clashed rhetorical swords in 65 separate Duels and I can fairly say Petr landed a few blows that delivered more than just a flesh wound. I wish him well.

Turning to Russia, Petr makes a valid point that many leaders around the world “report to puffing up external conflicts to scare their populace.” I agree. And, in the case of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, she is ratcheting up anti-Russian rhetoric to distract American voters from her disastrous contribution to Obama foreign policy and her potentially criminal handling of classified emails during her tenure as U.S. secretary of state.

The European Union and NATO are also guilty of war mongering in an effort to scare the British public in advance of last summer’s historic referendum to leave the EU. But voters rejected military chest-thumping and voted to dissolve a disastrous economic partnership that had morphed into a soul-crushing, anti-national, anti-democratic political union.

While it could be argued that the globalists running NATO and the EU pose a more serious threat to world peace than does Vladimir Putin’s Russia, I confidently believe there is no genuine possibility of war.

There are two possible outcomes in next week’s U.S. Presidential election and neither would lead to war with Russia. If Donald J. Trump wins and becomes president of the United States, the country would turn towards its traditional policy of non-interventionism. There is simply no credible evidence that a Trump presidency would lead to war with Russia. Hillary’s attacks prove my point. On the one hand, she charges Trump is best friends with Putin and the other, she argues Trump is a demagogue and would start a war with Russia. Hillary is grasping at straws. And, no wonder. As of Friday she is now the first presidential candidate in history to run while under criminal investigation by the FBI.

What then if Hillary wins? Well, assuming she is not indicted and forced from office, I predict she would lead a hasty retreat and move to shore-up relations with Russia. Putin and Clinton share a common bond, they are both gangsters and thugs. Hillary knows exactly where the proverbial bodies are buried — in this case the 20 % of U.S. uranium assets she allegedly helped sell to the Russian government.

*First published in 24hrs Vancouver ‘theDuel’

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