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CJCRANE

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4. Common interests can be found

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Reply #3)

Sun Mar 9, 2014, 09:35 AM

Mar 2014

like in the cooperation over settling the Iranian nuclear issue and the Syria chemical weapons issue.

Playing a game of "us vs them" only plays into neocon hands to promote more conflict and instability in the world.

Neocons gain when conflicts start and oil prices go up.

Neolibs gain when there is stability and free trade.

These are the two poles in the world today, not East vs West.

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Kremlin�s Eurasian ideology and its propaganda about the Kiev uprising.(Another view) [View all] Are_grits_groceries Mar 2014 OP

I think there are people on all sides playing fast and loose with the situation. CJCRANE Mar 2014 #1

There are two stories: The Geoplitical, and what is happening to the people of Ukraine newthinking Mar 2014 #2

When you are in a situation of us vs them as Are_grits_groceries Mar 2014 #3

Common interests can be found CJCRANE Mar 2014 #4