So the Egyptian Court sentenced over 500 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to death

[go west young man]

43. I think you misconstrue peoples intentions....

some of us understand that sometimes it's better to stick with what you currently have in certain countries than to quickly jump on the next best thing that suits the neocons agenda. Look at Iraq...the hardcore left warned you...look at Libya....we also warned you....the hard left has pointed the finger at Saudi Arabia saying there goes your rights abusers, there goes your 9/11 attackers, there goes your instigators for unrest in other countries....yet not a peep from our "Deep State" on that one.

There is far too much simplistic cheerleading when it comes to these issues and some of us may feel that it's actually counter productive for human rights when your country backs one despot over another and then topples the one that doesn't suit their needs and replaces them with one that is far more nefarious.

Putin, for example, is not a perfect leader...but for Russia he has cut crime in half and grown their economy...lifting many people out of poverty and maybe unbeknowingly laying the groundwork for future freedom. Many on this side of the pond seem to miss the point that some countries aren't on the same wavelength as posters here at DU when it comes to equal rights. I wish it was so but it takes critical thinking to understand Russia can actually spiral backwards and human rights can suffer more greatly under a different leader.

As it goes with Ukraine at this point...the party that toppled the government has released this video.

It speaks very loudly about what you can end up with. All the cheerleading and Putipants pics will be quite useless if Russia had a similar platform to the one in the video. My gut tells me that many of these noncritical thinkers would be wishing for Putin to be back in charge...especially as we would never want partys like this to have access to nuclear weapons.