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newthinking

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18. I have not been to chechnya nor do I know people there
Tue Jun 9, 2015, 11:56 AM
Jun 2015

Nor do I know as much about the region and the truth of that location.

I am not here to argue what I don't know. But I *do* know Ukraine and that the bullshit that people have been fed is just that. I know that the party that took power were minority parties, who disenfranchised the country, persecuted the other party members, hunting and even killing some of them; essentially destroyed the foundations of political competition, they did indeed align with and now have actually absorbed extremists including neo-nazis and in fact acted out policy for them, and they have and they are not the nice good guys we are fed to think of them of. I KNOW they are right wingers and extreme right wingers and if not for the propaganda I have no doubt that most on this site would see them as worthy of support.

So are you basically saying that the Salon writer does no know what they are talking about or are lovers of Putin?

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Addendum: Not just Salon: The Nation Mag, Counterpunch, Project Censored, and many other newthinking Jun 2015 #1
You mean people believe "the news?" I thought we all assumed they lied, especially re WAR. nt valerief Jun 2015 #7
Yes, yes, yes! Jackpine Radical Jun 2015 #9
Why do folks refuse to get it that Russia loves NATO nuclear missiles on it's borders as much as America Fred Sanders Jun 2015 #2
You get it newthinking Jun 2015 #6
You know what would have prevented NATO expansion into Ukraine? jeff47 Jun 2015 #10
You lost me at "Karl Rove." Nitram Jun 2015 #3
Me? Salon wrote it. And if you actually dig you will find the NeoCon's are very much all over this. newthinking Jun 2015 #8
Not you, the author. Nitram Jun 2015 #17
fuck putin..... stonecutter357 Jun 2015 #4
fuck all propaganda, period. newthinking Jun 2015 #5
This article is insane. jeff47 Jun 2015 #11
Bloomberg: One year later, Crimean's prefer Russia newthinking Jun 2015 #12
Hrm...if only I had explicitly addressed this in the post. jeff47 Jun 2015 #13
Trouble is that is not what happened. Russia secured the area during what the Crimean parliment newthinking Jun 2015 #14
No, it is exactly what happened. jeff47 Jun 2015 #15
I have not been to chechnya nor do I know people there newthinking Jun 2015 #18
Because you have to personally meet them before noticing the anti-Russia bombings. jeff47 Jun 2015 #19
Take it or leave it newthinking Jun 2015 #20
Because you can't find google and type in "Chechen Rebels"? jeff47 Jun 2015 #21
1,000 Recs - swilton Jun 2015 #16
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