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nikto

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15. I totally agree with you, but maybe your example isn't ideal
Thu Feb 5, 2015, 11:42 PM
Feb 2015

Not sure if Texas was the best example. Maybe Mexico or Belize would have been better? Or maybe not.
See where the neocon jumped in there and tried to use that one analogy's weakness
to invalidate your entire point?
(Typical--That's all they've got ).

Perhaps there is no true parallel.
But that doesn't make the US/Euro role, right, or moral, or even practical (except for corporate profit$).

IMO, both Russia and US/Euros are bad guys here, who (in the name of
those compassionate, humanistic Bank$ and corporate interest$) basically want to
plunder Ukraine of its many assets (land, agriculture, timber, minerals, pipeline routes
and maybe even cheap labor, if they can outlaw unions and stuff).

We live in a Banker's World now---Predatory lending and powerful, term-dictating
and va$t foreign investment on a national scale, and Austerity are the way plunder is done nowadays.

So I ask:
Who's in it for UKRAINE and its PEOPLE?

Looks like neither side, to me.

Just the frikkin' truth.

We knew that from day one of the so called 'velvet revolutions' malaise Feb 2015 #1
Thank you for posting this newfie11 Feb 2015 #2
No, that's not what America did in Ukraine. nt Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2015 #7
Please enlighten me then. Nt newfie11 Feb 2015 #9
Your analogy makes no sense. Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2015 #10
Sorry newfie11 Feb 2015 #11
Studying what? Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2015 #12
well let's hear how it was done Duckhunter935 Feb 2015 #28
Yes, a lot of people need to stop falling for the propaganda we are bombarded with sabrina 1 Feb 2015 #30
I totally agree with you, but maybe your example isn't ideal nikto Feb 2015 #15
Apprarently not subscribing to an alternate reality on world events makes one a neo-con in your head Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2015 #16
I know a Cuban-American whose family was forced to leave Cuba after Castro (she was a child) nikto Feb 2015 #22
All that I'm asking for is that people remain honest about the events in Ukraine. Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2015 #24
Glad to see you have doubts about fighting a proxy war with Russia, via Ukraine nikto Feb 2015 #29
Putin stonecutter357 Feb 2015 #3
Back at ya! MattSh Feb 2015 #6
Probably not but that doesn't make the former KGB colonel the good guy either. hobbit709 Feb 2015 #4
Duh nikto Feb 2015 #13
If one searches for innocent foreign involvement in Ukraine, good luck with that. pampango Feb 2015 #5
"Putin retaliated by adroitly seizing Crimea....." Nye Bevan Feb 2015 #8
"Putin, who is 347-times worse-than-Hitler, retaliated by seizing Crimea in his hairy claws....." nikto Feb 2015 #20
I feel the presence of neocons, hovering around this thread nikto Feb 2015 #14
Oh, I'm sorry -- Did U.S. armed forces invade while I wasn't watching? Blue_Tires Feb 2015 #17
You haven't been paying attention. We invaded with 'cookie' forces not armed forces. pampango Feb 2015 #18
Hush neocon! Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2015 #19
Can't you just accept that Barack Obama and Joe Biden are determined to seize Ukraine? Nye Bevan Feb 2015 #21
Innocence? You Want Innocence? Teutonic Samuel Feb 2015 #23
Shame on NATO for speaking to other countries! SHAME! randome Feb 2015 #25
They focus on personality just like they did with Saddam/Gadaffi/Assad. CJCRANE Feb 2015 #26
K&R nitko. nt. polly7 Feb 2015 #27
LGBT phobia apologia. joshcryer Feb 2015 #31
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