"Below is Part 1 of the report compiled by Glenn’s research team for Monday’s special “The Red Storm”. Part 2 will be posted Tuesday, followed by Part 3 on Wednesday.
George F. Kennan was a United States diplomat serving as deputy head of mission in Moscow in 1946. The war was over and the entire world was in the process of rebuilding and moving on. One very large obstacle was Stalin and the Soviet Union. The U.S. Treasury department’s International Monetary Fund and World Bank were gaining traction, but they couldn’t get the Russians to support it. The Treasury Department asked Kennan to explain what the deal was.
Kennan’s response would later be dubbed “The Long Telegram”. It was an 8,000 word communique that warned of Russia’s plans for the future of Europe.
“The main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies … "
This is an excellent lesson in history. I would highly advise watching. If we do not know our history we will repeat it. Putin knows exactly what he is doing, all dictators do.
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