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Originally Posted by LarryW
I guess you could say that all information is mis-information, and that the Russians really didn't go into Ukraine, that it's all just cooked up malarkey by Kiev and the evil empire, that this is actually just a disagreement between rational people, and that there's really nothing to be concerned about, that Putin is really a compassionate peace maker trying to help out. "Nothing to see here, Comrade. Move along."
I'm not persuaded.
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Thanks that was funny..
No I don't think Putin is a compassionate peacemaker trying to help out any more than I believe that Obama just wants peace and democracy for all the underprivileged of the world.
I do know that a lot has been said and done on the basis of absolutely no proof. Considering that the US State Dept has to release "evidence" in the shape of Digital Globe sat images of well what could be anywhere. Are their own satellites all in for service?
I'm just for not being BSd by politicians or media be it from anywhere. Maybe a little more thinking needs to be done on this matter before something happens that can't be undone.
Ukraine aside. What about when Obama, Cameron and Kerry etc were going to act in support of the Syrian rebels. Of course they were only going to arm the Moderate Ones. Now you've got Isis/ Isil etc swarming over Iraq. I guess they're not the moderate ones right? Are there hard and fast rules as to who is "moderate" and who is maybe a little on the extreme side. How do alliances tend to work among rebel groups. Who is strong and who is weak how will the demographics of a rebel alliance look in several months? Not quite the same as they would to the western mind would be my guess.
Now the Kurds are to be armed. Its great for them and also for many who think that they need to be empowered and one cannot help feeling good for them being as oppressed as they have been. But how does this change the balance of power. Lets say ISIS manages to be curtailed. But now the Kurds decide that they need a Kurdish homeland. Great. but that means that they'll need some oil to sell and of course now they have serious weapons. Do they go along with foreign policy or do they become yesterdays friend/ tomorrow's enemy? Just asking.