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In reply to the discussion: Wealthy and powerful who wanted us to replace Yanukovich in Ukraine are learning they were wrong. [View all]kenny blankenship
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Despite pledges given by his predecessor to Gorbachev that we would not expand NATO's military frontier eastward, given in exchange for not getting in the way of German reunification. Now we have missiles in Poland (intended to peel back Russia's deterrent force and render them vulnerable to attack) and military alliances & joint exercises with other former Warsaw Pact countries. Dangling NATO inclusion in front of GEORGIA and UKRAINE, both former SSRs on Russia's southern flank, and pouring billions into destabilizing them (Color Revolutions) is nothing outside the trajectory of aggression set by Clinton. US foreign policy under Clinton, Bush and now Obama is following the SAME STRATEGY : to encircle Russia and carve parts of the former USSR away from it, one by one, eventually leading to destabilization of the Russian Federation state itself. Then there was the Clinton era "Reconstruction" of Russia by Team Rubin, and IMF Chicago school boys, which resulted in economic disaster for Russia, as seen in collapsing production and GDP contraction by FIFTY PERCENT, widespread hunger, declining life expectancy, deaths outstripping births (a trend that was reversed only last year), the rise of the Oligarchs, etc. - a slide into anarchic social dissolution which has taken more than a decade to halt.
And who was it who signed into law the Iraqi Liberation Act, calling for US action to bring about regime change in Iraq? That was Bill Clinton. Who was it who just COULDN'T let go of Iraq, long after it was clear that their military was a shambles and their OMG! weapons of mass destruction were, if not eliminated to the last drop, then certainly no longer existent on a scale to actually threaten their neighbors? That was Bill Clinton again. if he had trouble with Republicans he bombed Iraq. If he had Bimbo Eruptions, he bombed Iraq. Meanwhile, thousands of innocent Iraqis died due to the sanctions regime which in effect strangled imports of food and medicine. This savage farce played out for his entire 8 year blow job Administration. A small price to pay, according to Clinton Sec. of State Albright, for the failed state basket case Iraq has become under our empire.