You can't even concentrate on Ukraine.
the op is an annatta sock
posting rubbish for rubles
Putin begins his invasion by sending in troops, which he terms "peacekeepers".
Manatta will Pivot With Putin and that is the term you will now see them use.
NO.
This is partly about humiliating America...he will go boldly.
1, he already called them peacekeeping forces, so I guess no doesn't mean no to Putin, sorry.
2, it's about rebuilding the Soviet Empire.
Stick to getting rubbed in your off topic threads Hawkeye.
We have rarely 'helped' anyone unless there was something in it for us. Typically oil. Or a strategically placed air base. It used to be a lot easier before we made billionaires out of cave dwellers.They are world class hypocrites.
Enemies combining for a short time to fight a third enemy isn't news.
Read your history; before the Russians invaded Kabul was a westernized city like Tehran, New Delhi and other third world nations.
Nation-building, like house building, doesn't work without the proper foundation. A 7th century culture can't be tossed into the modern world with a little money and computers. Those things help, but it's a growth process. The culture itself has to grow into it.
With people, like farmers with crops, cultures have to be grown, not built like walls. That doesn't mean they have less rights or that anyone has a right to abuse them.
Where do we draw the line between helping people and carrying them?
Nope. The Taliban didn't 'win'. They screwed up and didn't lay a foundation for accessing the money that was owned by the legitimate Afg. govt.. They are NOT a recognized govt., and they will not get the money. Afghanistan owes the U.S trillions of dollars.The Taliban won. They are the government. The US must release to Afghanistan the 7.5 billion dollars of Afghan money that it holds. Sour grapes and name-calling won't make their money American. Biden is a thief.
We have rarely 'helped' anyone unless there was something in it for us. Typically oil. Or a strategically placed air base. It used to be a lot easier before we made billionaires out of cave dwellers.
We armed Afg. against USSR because we thought that we had the ability to stop the spread of Communism.
In that region, you will never be able to 'help', or 'carry'. There are too many tribes who simply cannot live together. I hope we are past our 'Arab Spring' fantasy, where we could turn every oil rich nation into a true democracy that will love us.
Sadly, we got young Afghanis to taste what the real world is like, and now they're back in the stone age under the Taliban.
https://redstate.com/streiff/2022/0...kless-and-unreliable-security-partner-n525804What we have just experienced was one of two things. Either Putin punked Joe Biden and left all the world to gape in amazement at the ease and audacity of the act, or he worked hand-in-glove with Biden and Anthony Blinken to carve up Ukraine at virtually no cost to Putin–sort of reminiscent of how Poland was dismembered in 1939. Either way, US credibility suffered the same damage and Putin was able to show that Joe Biden is just not up to the task of responding to challenges. What happens over the next few years will be ugly.
Now that Manafort isn't being paid tens of millions of dollars by Putin to install pro Putin players in the Ukraine govt..Ukraine has it's own government. The current President won the election. Sour grapes won't change the fact that Ukrainians voted overwhelmingly for their current government. If your side loses the election, can they just have another country invade? That seems to be your argument.
We have rarely 'helped' anyone unless there was something in it for us. Typically oil. Or a strategically placed air base. It used to be a lot easier before we made billionaires out of cave dwellers.
We armed Afg. against USSR because we thought that we had the ability to stop the spread of Communism.
In that region, you will never be able to 'help', or 'carry'. There are too many tribes who simply cannot live together. I hope we are past our 'Arab Spring' fantasy, where we could turn every oil rich nation into a true democracy that will love us.
Sadly, we got young Afghanis to taste what the real world is like, and now they're back in the stone age under the Taliban.