You are right when you say that we should not intervene in the independence (or in the affairs of other countries); but this depends on how that independence or those affairs harm us.
As you have ever written, you taught history for 30 years and were in the Vietnam War, so you must be in your seventies.
As a history teacher, you must know the phrase of Confucius: "The people who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it." ... Put more simply: "Man is the only animal that stumbles twice on the same stone."
At this time we are in the same position as in 1939; when Russia and China have an understanding, just as the Nazis and the Soviets had, on August 23 of that year, with the Ribbentrop - Molotov treaty, which contained a secret protocol establishing the division of Poland and the rest of Eastern Europe in spheres of Soviet and German interest.
Eight days later, Wehrmacht troops, applying blitzkrieg, crossed the borders of Poland and, two weeks later, Red Army tanks joined the eastern flank. But as the phrase goes: "There is no honor among thieves" and Adolf Hitler had always considered the German-Soviet non-aggression pact as a tactical and temporary maneuver. Thus, codenamed "Operation Barbarossa", Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, in what was the largest German military operation of World War II. The Nazis needed more 'Lebensraum' (living space); and now China needs more living space.
In a previous comment a few weeks ago, I wrote that Xi Jingpin was the new Führer, which follows what Deng Xiaoping established about the color of the cat. China is no longer communist, nor is it capitalist, now it is fascist. Just look at the Chinese military parades and compare them to those of the Nazis.
Putin has an authoritarian regime in Russia with the appearance of democracy, but it is not convenient for him to look like Lenin or Stalin. I heard him say that Lenin was a great revolutionary, but he was not a great statesman, so he distances himself from the communists. He dreams of the empire of the tsars of what was later the Soviet Union.
As you say, he got his training in the Soviet KGB; he therefore knows the history and he knows that China's approach is a tactical move.
Russia has weapons and a vast territory, but it lacks an economy and a population. China has weapons, economy and excessive population, but it needs territory.

Machiavelli recommends in his book "The Prince" that when the monarch has a problem within his borders that is very annoying, he should look for a serious problem abroad to establish tight control inside. In this way he will be able to accuse those who are against him of being traitors; saying they support the enemy. Enemy, which of course, he himself has created.
An example was the case of General Galtieri in Argentina, when in 1982 he decided to take the Falkland Islands or Malvinas from the British, to resolve the serious internal problems that could put an end to the military dictatorship.
In the case of Ukraine, there is an interest on the part of Putin to create a situation that serves to control the problems he has with those who oppose him in Russia; but there is also interest in this matter here in the United States, because of the situation created by the policy followed by those who manipulate Biden, who have seen written on the wall the biblical prediction that says: Mene Tekel Fares, regarding the possibilities of future of the Democratic Party.
It will be necessary to find a solution so that the confrontation in Ukraine does not turn into a total war, since it is something dangerous because it can lead to a nuclear war, where there would be no winners, we would all lose.
We can turn the tables on the Russians and do what Khrushchev did (when they were the owners of the USSR) in the case of Cuba, forcing Kennedy to accept a commitment not to invade that island for the next 25 years, in the days of the Crisis of the Missiles in October 1962.
In the current case, the Russians should agree not to invade Ukraine, returning Crimea (going to the status quo); while NATO would agree not to plant weapons in that country or accept Ukraine as part of that organization, lifting all sanctions against Russia.
On the other hand, the US must define and determine to remove from the side of the American hemisphere the poisoned thorn that Cuba and Venezuela represent, countries that could serve the interests of China; in which Putin has threatened to play the same role that the Soviet Union (which has not existed for more than 30 years) played in Cuba, having expired in 1987 the commitment not to invade that country.
I think that the true enemy of America is not Russia, but China; and Putin knows it.
The problem of Taiwan is more important than the problem of Ukraine and the wrong policy followed in the past in which allies were given to the enemy (Cuba, Taiwan and South Vietnam) to solve a momentary problem, without a vision of the future, must be rectified.
In Cuba in 1961 it was allowed the capture of the Cuban invaders in the Bay of Pigs and subsequently the Soviets installed the missiles with which they threatened the United States a year later.
Taiwan, where those who were the US allies during World War II took refuge (who were not Mao's communists), and South Vietnam, were unprotected and the last one handed to the communists, to attract communist China, recognizing it in the UN, giving it the power of the veto, which we may regret, also helping it to emerge economically, which allowed it to have converted to fascism.
Vietnam has turned against China and has now made friends with the US, which shows how inconvenient the war was in that country.
It is necessary to force China to accept the independence of Taiwan, where its inhabitants are against integration with continental China, since that island has turned into a republic with a democratic government.
Here it is worth mentioning the UN's decolonization policy, which is similar to what is happening in Taiwan, and that this body hold a referendum on that island, to determine peacefully on this matter.
As for the problems of the American hemisphere, it is time for the US to address the problems of America in their entirety and re-introduce the Monroe Doctrine: "America for Americans", bearing in mind that all who live in both Americas are Americans.
It would be ideal to change the name of "Organization" to "Confederation" of American States with a Constitution similar to that of the United States and promote a single currency that could be called “Amero” to replace the dollar and all other currencies, forcing all investors who have put their money in China, one way or another, to invest it in countries like Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and others, where there is cheap labor; as well as to combat government corruption, crime and narco-terrorism, which would be the end of illegal immigration, since no one would have the need to flee from the place where they were born; and without going to autarky, we would not depend in any way on Europe, Asia or Africa, turning America into an impregnable fortress.

According to Machiavelli, when the Prince has a problem within his principality that is very annoying, he looks for a problem abroad to downplay it. Thus he will be able to accuse those who are against him of being traitors; saying that they support the enemy. Enemy that he himself has created.
An example was the case of the dictator Galtieri in Argentina, when he decided to take the Falkland Islands from the British in 1982.
In the case of Ukraine, there is an interest on the part of Putin in creating a situation that serves to soften some internal problems; but there is also an interest in this matter here in the US because of the situation that the policy followed by Biden has created, by order of his puppeteers, who have seen the writing on the wall that says: Mene Tekel Fares, in relation to the possibilities future of the Democratic Party.
Here it will be necessary to find a solution so that the situation does not develop, since it is something dangerous because it can turn into a nuclear war, where we would all be losers.
It can be done what Kennedy did in the case of Cuba, when the missile crisis in October 1962, but upside down. The Russians agree not to invade Ukraine and return Crimea, while NATO agrees not to plant weapons in that country or accept Ukraine as part of that organization and lift all sanctions against Russia.
On the other hand, the US should define and terminate the situation in Cuba and Venezuela, where Putin has threatened to play the same role as the Soviet Union (which has not existed for more than 30 years) and the commitment not to invade expired in 1987.
I believe that the real enemy of América is not Russia, but China; and Putin knows it. The Taiwan problem is more important than the Ukraine problem.
It is time for the US to deal more with the problems of this hemisphere and reintroduce the Monroe Doctrine: "America for Americans", taking into account that everyone who lives in both Americas is American.
It would be ideal to change the name of the OAS to the Confederation of American States and to promote a single currency that could be called Amero, forcing all investors who have put their money in China, in one way or another, to invest it in countries like Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and others, where there is cheap labor, because with that we would put an end to the invasion of illegal immigrants through our southern border; and without going to autarchy, we would not depend in any way on Europe, Asia or Africa.

If you are an independent and you voted for Biden because Trump was ugly, what is your position on Biden? If you approve of what he is doing, it is a contradiction to what you write.

Congratulations. Apparently the light has manifested to you through your wallet.

After reading what you have posted, I honestly do not understand your position. What is written is not against Trump, quite the contrary. I understand that this person does not understand how Biden was elected president and is clearly referring to conspiracy theories.
It is necessary to read the article published in Time magazine about the plot to defeat Trump and "save democracy" to understand what happened.
2bltap is right. Biden is the one residing in the White House due to massive voter fraud.
Those who voted for Brandon, I say Biden, are not guilty of having chosen him, since for every real vote that this puppet obtained, his opponent obtained two votes.
When I meet someone who voted for Biden, I ask him: How much does the price of gasoline have to go up for you to accept that you were wrong to vote against Trump? Because it is true, they did not vote for Biden, they did so because they hated Trump, influenced by all the propaganda that was made against him.

You should change the word conservatives for leftists like Bad Bob and others who respond with imojis and stupid things to what they have no argument to answer. The best you can do is what you have done other times, when you have not had an argument to refute something. Be quiet!

Cowards tend to make threats from anonymity. I identify you with antifa and I also remember the performance of the members of the KKK, with white hoods so as not to be recognized.
You ignore history and talk about what you don't know.
I recommend that you be careful with your threats. Karma is terrible and you can find a possible victim who becomes victimizer as happened in the case of Kyle Rittenhouse.
Your username (tactful) is an antithesis of what you write, it would be better if you change it to "poltroon", it is closer to what you say.
I see that you threaten to provide the terrorists with the names of the people you are threatening; and I am sure, that you do not have what men (if you are a man) have to have inside their pants to face someone in equal conditions. Here in Florida we have the stand your ground law.

Hillary Clinton backed Harris, claiming “there is a double standard” for women in politics.
Clinton said, “It’s sadly alive and well.”

God or the devil? he raises them and they come together.

Indeed, the profession of teacher is noble. Even in the Sermon on the Mount it is said: "Teach those who do not know", but when that noble profession is adulterated by teaching what is conveniently political to a system of oppression, it goes from being a noble activity to a criminal activity. The communists use teachers to indoctrinate children and turn them into programmed machines that do not hesitate to betray their parents if they do something that is not according to what they are taught.
I see that you were obliged to teach what was determined by the county curriculum and even that you had small discrepancies; I suppose there were not many, according to what you write here in OPP.
I am sure you have not read the answer I gave to a comment of yours previously,
or the one I gave Peter S, where I tell both of you how things really were with regard to racial integration; but I am also sure that you never taught that history, as it did not suit those who made the study plan.
Marxists go to great lengths to control the teaching and communication media, and you cooperated in their efforts for 30 years by teaching the history of the United States in the correct and properly political way.

The following I posted here on OPP 9/29/2020. you certainly didn't read it.
I have much more written on this topic.
African-Americans and the Stockholm Syndrome.
Stockholm syndrome is a term used to describe an incongruous psychological experience in which an emotional bond develops between hostages and their captors. This psychic phenomenon takes its name from the Swedish capital, in which in a robbery at a bank in that city, a woman cashier falls in love with one of the robbers. No specific treatment is needed for its cure, since with time and after recovering routine life, benevolent feelings towards the abductor usually disappear. -------------- Apparently a large part of African-Americans, for decades, have been affected by this psychological experience; and only recently, some of them are returning to normality. ---------- When discussing the racist history of the Democratic Party since its founding in 1828, immediately the defenders of that party claim that history changed in the 60s of the last century; and that from that moment on the roles were exchanged, with the republicans being the racists against the blacks. ------------- By repeating this fallacy, following the practices of Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda of the Nazis, they have managed to make it seem true, and even African-Americans themselves repeat it as a dogma. -------- This lie has been almost as successful as the one promoted by the Stalinists, that Nazi-fascism is a doctrine of the extreme right, when in reality it is a socialist doctrine of the Marxist left, which in last year the EU, through a resolution, equated the so-called Soviet socialism, completely disqualifying the Stalinist lie .---------- According to the aforementioned fallacy advanced by the Democrats, Lyndon B. Johnson, is the one who ended up with racial discrimination, but an analysis of history would expose that lie .--------------- The true champion of civil rights, conveniently forgotten, was the Republican Senator from Illinois Everett McKinley Dirksen, Senate Minority Leader in 1964, who introduced the bill, stirring heaven and earth to get it passed, facing record filibustering that lasted for fifty-seven business days. ----------- By June 10, the stage was set. West Virginia Democratic Senator Robert C. Byrd sat down after speaking for fourteen hours and thirteen minutes, and Georgia Democratic Senator Richard Russell summed up for the southern opposition. Senator Dirksen spoke. "Louder than all armies is an idea whose time has come," he said, quoting Victor Hugo. “The time has come for equal opportunities in participation in government, education and employment. It will not be postponed or denied. It's here." For the first time in its history, the cloture was invoked in a civil rights bill. The hero of the moment was not Johnson, who for political expediency saw fit to sign the passed law. ------------------- Previously, Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower had integrated minorities into the armed forces and proposed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 to Congress, being one of the main opponents of that law, Lyndon B. Johnson, then leader from the Senate Democratic majority, who realized that passing that law through Congress could destroy his party, since for nearly a hundred years, since the Civil War ended, Democrats opposed racial integration; but later, the situation that was created made him understand that it was convenient to act differently on this matter and years later he said: "These blacks, they are becoming very optimistic these days and that is a problem for us, since now they have something that they never previously had the political momentum to back up their optimism. Now we have to do something about it, we have to give them something, enough to calm them, not enough to make a difference". ------ The following can be read in Ronald Kessler's book “Inside the White House" on page 33: During a trip [on Air Force One plane], Johnson was discussing the civil rights bill with two governors. Explaining why it was important to him, he said it was simple: "I will have these ni***rs voting for Democrats for two hundred years". "That was the reason he pushed the bill," said McMillan, who was present during the conversation. "Not because he wanted equality for everyone. It was strictly a Democratic Party political ploy. It was bogus from the start”. ----- In our days the same thing happens with the current leaders of that party. Their attitudes are just a ploy to win the vote of African-Americans. -------- Withholding evidence of a police incident, they fabricate a racist “false flag” act of police brutality; and then Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and other Democratic politicians can be seen kneeling in the Capitol to pray for George Floyd, even handing the family a flag, as is done in the case of a soldier fallen in combat, and almost he was posthumously awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor and intended to be buried in Arlington Cemetery with all honors; trying to demonstrate by all means their support to African-Americans, in order to erase the bitter impression that Biden's words made to a black journalist, when he dared to say that he wanted to ask him more questions in an interview: “Well, I'll tell you something, if you have a problem deciding if you are with me or with Trump, then you are not black ", which seems to coin the words of Johnson:" I will have these n *** ers voting for the Democrats for two hundred years", as if blacks were the property of the Democratic Party, making it clear how the left annuls freedom of expression, pretending that he cannot even be questioned, since the individual has to respond to the collective, not as a militant, but as a slave. An example of the above is the case of Tulsi Gabbard, who is attacked by Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton for saying that the reform of the Democratic Party is necessary.--------In rejection of this collectivization, some Afro-Americans, such as Candace Owens, Larry Elder, Brandon Tatum, Ann Coulter and others, breaking the connection with Stockholm syndrome, called months ago what is known as « Blexit » , the exit of the blacks (black exit) of the democratic party; and therefore from the left, emulating what the United Kingdom's Brexit was with respect to the central power of the EU, with which these Afro-American freethinkers seek to show that their color does not define their thinking .-----------------Owens highlights how the lack of knowledge leads many African-Americans to ignore how harmful Democratic figures such as Joe Biden were in Congress, where he promoted segregation in schools (of what he was accused in a debate by his now running mate, Kamala Harris), until the 1994 crime law was drafted (as a senator under Democrat Bill Clinton), which particularly affected the black community and gave the state the power to apply the death penalty for more than 60 crimes and imposed life imprisonment for repeat offenders, boasting before Congress that he presented a law that penalizes crimes without victims and even criminalizes infractions, saying verbatim: “This law does everything except hang people for crossing the street where they shouldn't”; but this is not a mere outburst from the presidential hopeful but the continuation of the historical legacy of deep racism within the Democratic Party.-----------------Dr. Thomas Sowell, who is African-American, concludes that "racism is not dead, it is maintained alive by politicians (I say, above all democrats), traffickers who profit from racism and people who have a sense of superiority when denouncing others as racists"; being the worst, those who promote it within their own race to the detriment of it, without having to mention any person because they are well known. ----------------In fact, under the Obama administration, Robert Byrd, leader of the Democratic Party and longest-serving member of the Senate, who had a high degree of hierarchy within the Ku Klux Klan, passed away; and Hillary Clinton, referred to Byrd as the heart of the Senate and also on the YouTube page of the State Department, when she was in charge of this office, there is still the testimony where she regrets the departure of her “mentor.” ------------ Byrd was a member of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940s, but subsequently denounced the organization. He served in the Senate for 51 years and I have previously mentioned his failed filibuster against the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964. He later apologized for both actions, saying that intolerance has no place in America. He died in 2010 at age 92 and President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and former President Bill Clinton gave speeches at his funeral at the State Capitol in Charleston .--------------------------- A private university in West Virginia recently said it will remove the name of the late US Senator Robert C. Byrd from its health center, and said his name had caused "division and pain" without explicitly mentioning his complicated racist past .----------

The following I posted here on OPP 9/26/2020. you certainly didn't read it.
I have much more written on this topic.
Nazism and the racism of the Democratic Party. 9/26/2020

Attendees of a Florida Republican conference (Sunshine Summit) clapped and laughed during a speech in which author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza said that the Democratic Party was historically the party of the Ku Klux Klan and racial segregation, the "party of slave plantations"; and that the political platform of that party bears a lot of similarity to the political platform of the Nazi Party of Germany, if the word "Jew" were replaced by "the 1% privileged" .--------- The president Trump pardoned D'Souza in 2017, who was sentenced to 5 years in prison for an excessive donation (of his well-earned money) to a friend who was a candidate in the political campaign in 2014, which was taken advantage of by those he harshly criticized, to attack him and apply the same law that they violate as a system, for which the President considered that they had taken an unjust political revenge against him. .--------------- Following D'Souza's thought, the question arises as to whether there are more similarities between the Democratic Party and the Nazis, so what came first emerge, the egg or the hen, but it is no less true that a hen comes out of an egg; and it is worth asking: what came first the white supremacy of the KKK or that of the Aryan race of the Nazis? --------It is recommended to read the book: "Ku Klux Klan: The armed wing of the Democratic Party." (Kindle Edition), by Aitor Hernández, where the operation of this organization is demonstrated and its similarity with the Nazi’s one can be appreciated. ---------- Reading the aforementioned book, serves as a cognitive basis, to accept what was stated in one of the recent books on Nazism, which can be very disturbing for American readers, its title being: "Hitler's American Model: America and the Creation of Nazi Racial Law" by James Q. Whitman (Princeton) .---- According to this author, in "Mein Kampf", Hitler praises America as the only state that has progressed toward a primarily racial conception of citizenship, by "excluding certain races from naturalization." ------ It is noteworthy that when Hitler is writing Mein Kampf , the liberal democrat president, Woodrow Wilson, a few years before had revived the KKK, which had been eliminated by the Republican Party at the end of the 19th century, being notorious how this president had the film "Birth of a Nation" screened at the White House with a pro-KKK argument from D.W. Griffith, which Dinesh D'Souza recently antagonized with his movie "Death of a Nation." ------------- The history of Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, is well known, who at a meeting of KKK women urged «closing the doors of immigration» to those «whose condition it is known to be detrimental to the resistance of the race», recommending to accentuate «the best racial elements in our society» in order to wipe out the most defective «human herbs that threaten the flowering of the best flowers of American civilization» (Very similar to what the Nazis expressed) .-------In 2016 Hillary Clinton wreaked havoc in the middle of the presidential campaign when the largest abortion provider in the world, Planned Parenthood, presented her with the Margaret Sanger Award, named after the founder of the first abortion clinic, a character Hillary said "greatly admires." --------------- According to Pastor Clenard Childress, author of the Black Genocide page: "The most dangerous place for an African-American is the belly." He argues that there are communities where for every black baby born, three are aborted, making a parallel between abortion and white supremacy; and how support for the former, contradicts criticism of the latter. Since its legalization in 1973, more than 20 million abortions have been performed on black women. --------- Much can be written about the similarity of the Democratic Party and Nazism, as well as about its history of racism, which continues to be practiced by different means than those used 60 years ago; but avoiding to tire the readers with a very lengthy article, I want to end by pointing out that BLM and Antifa are used to help in the cases of "false flag" against the Republican Party (as they did with the case of George Floyd), because racism and fascism are not inherent in this party, and although the current President is accused of being a nationalist as if it were a crime, in order to assimilate him to Hitler, the truth is that the latter was a Marxist-socialist and a racist, contrary to the President who is a supporter of the market economy, opposing Marxist-socialism; and furthermore, there is no proof that he is a racist; in what the democratic leaders, have pronounced themselves as socialists; and as for racism, they accuse each other of this sin, as was done by Kamala Harris, who accused Joe Biden as such, when she opposed him in a debate to obtain the presidential nomination. -------------- Thomas Sowell concludes that «racism is not dead, it is kept alive by politicians (especially Democrats), traffickers who profit from racism and people who have a sense of superiority in denouncing others as racists»; being the worst ones, those who support it against their own race, without having to mention any

I have observed that dogs look a lot like their owners.

The serious problem that the Democratic Party faced in the 2020 elections was the lack of leadership. Most of the hopefuls to be the candidate for the Presidency declared themselves socialists, except for Tulsi Gabbard who seems a decent person and with his own criteria, which put Kamala in the trash can,and that promoted the anger of Hillary (Why?) who attacked Tulsi saying that she was a Russian asset.
Kamala's poor performance did not prevent her from being named Vice President, which is indicative that she is expendable material and her performance as Vice President has been disastrous; therefore it is to be expected that she could resign, maybe due to some sickness unknown by her until this moment.
Obama himself said that the leftist demonstrations of the aspiring candidates were not convenient and therefore Biden was nominated, as if he were a moderate liberal; also with a history not close to leftism, rather of right-wing actions, sometimes even racist. His age was also taken into consideration, so that Joe would rule for a short period of time.
Remember that this is Obama's thrird term, imposed by Soros, the owner of the Democratic Party, using dark methods. I think everything has been orchestrated to apply what I said in the previous comment.
While Kamala Harris will do everything ordered if she were President; on the other hand, she lacks the personality to hold the position.

I think that Kamala must first resign so that someone who will replace Biden is appointed in due course, who will later appoint who will occupy the Vice Presidency. The precedent of Spiro Agnew and Nixon must be remembered.