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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat do you consider morally acceptable U.S. responses to the situation in Ukraine?
Last edited Fri Jan 24, 2014, 12:07 AM - Edit history (1)
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Anything, including nuclear war | |
1 (33%) |
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The use of conventional weapons and the deployment of NATO/US ground forces | |
0 (0%) |
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Any form of rhetoric, even if it caused options #2 or #1, and tying it into great power rivalry | |
0 (0%) |
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Clear condemnation, but without tying it into great power rivalry | |
0 (0%) |
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Other | |
2 (67%) |
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0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided. | |
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What do you consider morally acceptable U.S. responses to the situation in Ukraine? (Original Post)
Ken Burch
Jan 2014
OP
I meant U.S. responses...have now edited the thread title. Sorry for the confusion.
Ken Burch
Jan 2014
#6
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)1. We should invade Venezuela.
stevil
(1,537 posts)2. By whom?
n/t
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)4. I was thinking the same thing.
I mean, a long as it remains an internal struggle, I don't think we should offer more than moral support. If the Russians invade? Whole new ball game.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)6. I meant U.S. responses...have now edited the thread title. Sorry for the confusion.
n/t.
stevil
(1,537 posts)11. Stay out of it.
What other option is there?
1000words
(7,051 posts)3. Considering it's none of our business ...
nothing.
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)5. The poll would be better in my opinion if
you stated who would be the target of this violence.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)7. Russians and the half of Ukrainians that are allied with them. n/t.
Identity of the aggressor. Is this bait? Ken Burch, answers por favor?
stevil
(1,537 posts)10. You replied while I posted this.
Thanks.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)8. I suggest we stay out of it -- for once.
solarhydrocan
(551 posts)12. "morally acceptable" and US in the same sentence? Absurd.
The United States has been involved in and assisted in the overthrow of foreign governments (more recently termed "regime change" without the overt use of U.S. military force. Often, such operations are tasked to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Regime change has been attempted through direct involvement of U.S. operatives, the funding and training of insurgency groups within these countries, anti-regime propaganda campaigns, coups d'état, and other activities usually conducted as operations by the CIA. The United States has also accomplished regime change by direct military action, such as following the U.S. invasion of Panama in 1989 and the U.S.-led military invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Examples:
2 During the Cold War
2.1 Communist states 194489
2.2 Syria 1949
2.3 Iran 1953
2.4 Guatemala 1954
2.5 Tibet 195570s
2.6 Indonesia 1958
2.7 Cuba 1959
2.8 Democratic Republic of the Congo 196065
2.9 Iraq 196063
2.10 Dominican Republic 1961
2.11 South Vietnam 1963
2.12 Brazil 1964
2.13 Ghana 1966
2.14 Chile 197073
2.15 Argentina 1976
2.16 Afghanistan 197989
2.17 Turkey 1980
2.18 Poland 198081
2.19 Nicaragua 198190
2.19.1 Destablization through CIA assets
2.19.2 Arming the Contras
2.20 Cambodia 198095
2.21 Angola 1980s
2.22 Philippines 1986
3 Since the end of the Cold War
3.1 Iraq 199296
3.2 Afghanistan 2001
3.3 Venezuela 2002
3.4 Iraq 200203
3.5 Haiti 2004
3.6 Gaza Strip 2006present
3.7 Somalia 200607
3.8 Iran 2005present
3.9 Libya 2011
3.10 Syria 2012present
Regime change has been attempted through direct involvement of U.S. operatives, the funding and training of insurgency groups within these countries, anti-regime propaganda campaigns, coups d'état, and other activities usually conducted as operations by the CIA. The United States has also accomplished regime change by direct military action, such as following the U.S. invasion of Panama in 1989 and the U.S.-led military invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Examples:
2 During the Cold War
2.1 Communist states 194489
2.2 Syria 1949
2.3 Iran 1953
2.4 Guatemala 1954
2.5 Tibet 195570s
2.6 Indonesia 1958
2.7 Cuba 1959
2.8 Democratic Republic of the Congo 196065
2.9 Iraq 196063
2.10 Dominican Republic 1961
2.11 South Vietnam 1963
2.12 Brazil 1964
2.13 Ghana 1966
2.14 Chile 197073
2.15 Argentina 1976
2.16 Afghanistan 197989
2.17 Turkey 1980
2.18 Poland 198081
2.19 Nicaragua 198190
2.19.1 Destablization through CIA assets
2.19.2 Arming the Contras
2.20 Cambodia 198095
2.21 Angola 1980s
2.22 Philippines 1986
3 Since the end of the Cold War
3.1 Iraq 199296
3.2 Afghanistan 2001
3.3 Venezuela 2002
3.4 Iraq 200203
3.5 Haiti 2004
3.6 Gaza Strip 2006present
3.7 Somalia 200607
3.8 Iran 2005present
3.9 Libya 2011
3.10 Syria 2012present
How about setting an example and fixing the US before wondering how to get even further involved in other countries? To say nothing of the fact that the US is not only broke, but in debt.