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JR Elrod's avatar

This situation is far more complex than what the idiots in the MSM are leading the public to believe. The history of the Ukraine region in general is fascinating and if it isn't part of the current discussion, then people are being misled. For a more nuanced discussion of the situation, I'd recommend this YouTube channel called The Duran:

https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDuran

One of the guys that runs The Duran just posted a video which I think provides a pretty accurate description of the current state of affairs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUidDVQxFKM

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Thanks, JR--I'll try to check that out.

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JR Elrod's avatar

Forgot to add; thanks Mark for the work you put into your site. I'm here just about every day.

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Sarcastic Cynical Texan's avatar

Джо Биден aka Иосеф Столен sent the VP and SoS to the "summit", maybe they won't come back, and good riddance!

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Brad Crawford's avatar

Let's never forget how strong the evidence is that both China and Russia have politically lethal amounts of compromising material on Biden and almost certainly on other regime players besides him, including of past administrations. I can see all the idiotic stuff the regime does even in the absence of such material, but it should always be kept in mind that it's out there as a factor, shouldn't it?

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Mark Wauck's avatar

I believe that was pretty much John Roberts' bottom line, too. I know he went through the rigmarole about whether or not it was a tax, but I believe he also said that at some point Congress makes the laws.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Can't go wrong there!

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Mark Wauck's avatar

I'm dumbfounded that so many "conservatives" think it's OK for the US to go around the world overthrowing elected governments and installing puppet regimes--which is what we did in Ukraine in 2014. And Putin is the bad guy for objecting to what's going on next door to Russia. As if we would have nothing to say about that in a comparable situation.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Can you cite specific passages where "its seems that Putin wants ALL of Ukraine." I didn't see those words.

Streiff refers to "Russian boilerplate snivelling", but that "snivelling" doesn't seem so different than our own snivelling about Russian missiles in Cuba--when we had installed our own missiles in Turkey before the Russian missiles showed up in Cuba.

Are you sure you're viewing this objectively?

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Mark Wauck's avatar

I think he's saying these historically accurate things to educate the wider world to the complexity of the historical and cultural factors that are involved. Is there a problem with a national leader discussing history in this way?

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I would want to see the original Russian. Based on the translation he appears to me to be suggesting that Russia has gone the whole route of decommunisation but that Ukraine has only gone halfway. It seems to be an implicit criticism of the corruption that is endemic in Ukraine--perhaps the most corrupt country on earth by most standards.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

There's another factor--Ukraine has steadfastly (at the urging of the US) failed to live up to the Minsk Accords that it signed onto, with regard to the breakaway areas.

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"Putin has always voiced a desire to gain back part or all of the lost states that compromised the USSR."

I he has always voiced the desire to reincorporate part or all of the former parts of the USSR it should be easy to offer a citation. Can you? Or has he simply expressed views analogous to our Monroe doctrine?

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