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9. Because it is a red herring and a silly lens to try to view the real story through
Mon Mar 24, 2014, 04:34 PM
Mar 2014

A lot of "useful idiots" fell for Russian pumped propaganda about the truly unexceptional fact that part of opposition to Russian domination of Ukraine is Ukrainian ultra-nationalists.

Well, duh. It is a type of propaganda that is very insulting to the reader because it presumes the reader is so dumb as to "pick sides" based on extraneous emotionally loaded junk.

That factoid doesn't have any meaning because the overall story is not a story about neo-nazis taking over Ukraine and brave Russia trying to stop them, and nobody was basing their argument against Russia bullying Ukraine on the proposition that there was no ultra-nationalist party in Ukraine.

The neo-nazi types are a minority portion of the total opposition to Russian dominance of Ukraine, and the fact that some Ukrainians opposed to Russian dominance of Ukraine are assholes is the non-story of the year.

If Mexico tried to seize Arizona a lot of opposition to the move would come from tea-party types. It's true.

Which says nothing at all about the equity of hypothetical Mexican dominance of Arizona.

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