What the Mainstream Media isn't telling you about the situation in Kiev.

[libdem4life]

35. informative thread. I have another viewpoint to share because I know nothing about this situation.

But I do know that every little country the US invades, liberates, controls, ends up with a military base or two, an embassy or two, and gigantic price tag we pay, and pretty much nothing else changes. The people mostly go back to their regular lives, corruption just changes hands a bit, and all of our "good works" being concluded, life remains essentially the same...except for one more token on the Risk Board for the US. We don't change cultures...occupying troops never do.

I do not want an absolute American Empire, which is sadly the only place this leads to, other than some cataclysm. Manifest Destiny has been re-directed to the entire globe. This country has a well-functioning Kleptocracy...thievery with "permission"...corruption aplenty and governmental social control of our own. The Christie situation is the norm, not the exception. His hubris outreached his clever political machine.

Imagine the 1%'s glee when we own the whole globe...where this logically ends, without some cataclysm. Just like ambulance chasers, they'll be along in a jiffy. Imagine the tax burden when we have bases, soldiers, support services, huge "green zones", vehicles, gasoline guzzlers at 4 miles to the gallon, all over the world. (Remember, the 1% pay little or no taxes) We're Number One...in being taxed to death. Minimum wage? Sorry. Social Security? Going to have to work longer. Food Stamps...got to feed our soldiers and the rest of the world, sorry. Pensions? (crickets).

There were many reasons the Roman Empire collapsed...and it wasn't a military collapse. It was in a large way, the above situation. The Citizens could no longer fund the Empire.

Does that make me heartless when North Korea and other countries act inhumanely? Does that make me ignorant that many countries have corrupt political systems? But do I want to pay to "not fix it"? No.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Without an opposition axis...regardless of how evil or inhuman or, possibly misrepresented, the American Empire marches on? Imagine our current crop of Republicans/DINOs et all ruling the globe. Sobering.

Here's a link I post every now and then...as a reality check... http://academic.evergreen.edu/g/grossmaz/interventions.html It was mostly black and brown countries, but now we seem to be going for the Slavs/Balkans, as well.

After we concluded killing our own, we started on the rest of the globe.