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Glad you wrote about this article. Just read it too a bit ago. Zhou’s administration is desperate. I see it now more so with the MSM going on the attack as Zhou’s ratings drop.

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The following statement sure sounds like something that Pelosi/Schumer/Blinken/Susan Rice might say, but someone else said it. Can you recognize the context: '“We have three tasks: eliminating the [xxxx] regime; dealing with the negative consequences of his administration; and launching a process of profound changes in [xxxxxxxx] society. After that we have to make sure that the toppled regime does not make a comeback.”

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Well Steve you got me. Who said it? Thanks

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Oleg Tyahnybok, leader of the neo-Nazi Ukrainian Svoboda party, in a March 31, 2013 interview https://web.archive.org/web/20131224112832/http://ukrainianweek.com/Politics/76092, discussing relative role of opposition parties led by himself, Klitschko and Yatsenyuk (the trio later anointed by Victoria Nuland). Full paragraph:

"Let me emphasize the following: our three political forces are different, not only ideologically but also in the way we work with the electorate. There are parties that work more through television or the Internet, and there are those that put a premium on street rallies. Svoboda is a classical street party. We have always held and will continue to hold street rallies. The main thing is that we have a common goal which is to topple this regime. Our actions do not necessarily have to be completely the same! We have three tasks: eliminating the Yanukovych regime; dealing with the negative consequences of his three-year rule; and launching a process of profound changes in Ukrainian society. After that we have to make sure that the toppled regime does not make a comeback."

Tyahnybok and even more radically neo-Nazi Pravy Sektor and C14 then provided muscle for the US and EU to depose democratically elected president (Yanukovych) in an actual insurrection (now termed by Ukraine and US as the "revolution of dignity". At all stages of the Maidan insurrection, US politicians and officials (esp McCain, Biden, Chris Murphy, Kerry, Nuland, Obama) condemned even the slightest attempt by government to protect against insurrection and even sanctioned any officials who had temerity of arresting insurrectionists.

The endorsement of neo-Nazis by Beltway officials, Dems and McCainites in regard to the actual Maidan insurrection in Ukraine is quite a contrast to their pearl-clutching and punitive persecution of Jan 6.

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Shoulda known.

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not much practical difference between policies to eradicate Yanukovych and to eradicate Trump.

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That's the great thing about American Exceptionalism--it works at home as well as abroad. :-(

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That would be a feature, not a cost.

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