Kuwait was once a province of Iraq and they are all Arabs and speak Arabic.
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Kuwait was once a province of Iraq and they are all Arabs and speak Arabic.
Hillary Clinton, ‘Smart Power’ and a Dictator’s Fall
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/us/politics/hillary-clinton-libya.html?_r=0
The president was wary. The secretary of state was persuasive. But the ouster of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi left Libya a failed state and a terrorist haven.
Ukraine was protected from both Russia and western territory grabs/meddling by Budapest Memorandum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Security_Assurances
Syria is a multi-faceted civil war.
It's simplistic "Assad must go" mantra ignores the question.. "and replaced by what?"
Assad is the devil we know. Do you want to exchange him for the devil we don't?
This?
Following the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in 2014, the US,[6][7] Canada,[8] the UK,[9] along with other countries,[10] stated that Russian involvement was a breach of its obligations to Ukraine under the Budapest Memorandum, a Memorandum transmitted to the United Nations under the signature of Sergei Lavrov, amongst others,[11] and in violation of Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity.
On 4 March 2014, the Russian president replied to a question on violation of Budapest Memorandum, describing current Ukrainian situation as a revolution, when "a new state arises, but with this state and in respect to this state, we have not signed any obligatory documents".
Russia stated it had never been under obligation to "force any part of Ukraine's civilian population to stay in Ukraine against its will." Russia suggested that the US was in violation of the Budapest Memorandum, describing the Euromaidan as a US-instigated coup.[
We have no control over what happened in Syria. The Europeans are stuck with 6 million Syrian refugees.
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It's ironic to see you citing an opinion piece by Seumas Milne, noise. Do you know who he is? He's the right hand man of Jeremy Corbyn, the far leftist who took over the British Labour Party three years ago. I think Milne hasn't quite taken on board that Russia is no longer communist but quasi-fascist.
Btw, that piece was published in April 2014. Since then there have been internationally-monitored parliamentary and presidential elections in Ukraine which even Russia recognized as legitimate. So much for the neo-Nazi takeover, lol.
the elections have no meaning in the east.
What do you think the Donbas war is about?
You completely miss the events described in the OP. It's much more then "elections".
Of course I know who the author is..You can find zillions of western propaganda that the Maiden was some organic revolution -clearly it is not. His writings are spot on -why I chose him for the OP
let Europe have them
But for Bush's invasion of Iraq there would be no ISIS.
of course. but if it were not for Obama's calling them "JV" and ignoring their blitzkrieg across Iraq, when they were easily strafed by air power, they wouldn't have gobbled up large chunks of Iraq either..
why again is this relevant?
I don't give a damn why he was calling them - I do care that he completely missed the fact they were on a roll from Syria, and could have easily been stopped.
This was a turkey shoot: convoy of ISIS fighters in Anbar Province, Iraq, in January 2014
I don't give a damn why he was calling them - I do care that he completely missed the fact they were on a roll from Syria, and could have easily been stopped.
This was a turkey shoot: convoy of ISIS fighters in Anbar Province, Iraq, in January 2014
No they couldn't easily have been stopped.. and they still aren't stopped.. 10,000 of them have moved into Eastern Afghanistan.. and they still hold Ghouta.
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Wasn't this also true during the Cold War?
Also, do you have dual citizenship yet, or are you still here on a green card?
Tranquillus in Exile
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The internationally-monitored elections had no meaning in eastern Ukraine because that's where Putin fomented his uprising, supplied and directed from Russia. I was following it quite closely. There was separatist sentiment in Donbas, but the leaders of the "People's Republics" were previously unheard of - they came and went about once a month, and some who could be identified were not from Ukraine at all but from Russia.
Same as the 2008 war in Georgia (separatists there too, lol), the crushing of Chechnya, and the ongoing destabilization of the Baltics (numerous cyber attacks, no "People's Republics" so far).
Here's a clue: it's the guy who said "the collapse of the Soviet Union was a geopolitical disaster".
Milne, Corbyn and Co. are NOT friends of America. They are friends of Hamas, Hizbollah, Iran, you name it - because those folks are progressive and (same thing) anti-western.
But I think you know this. For some reason you have chosen to peddle their (and Putin's) propaganda.
Vladimir Putin, a middle-ranking KGB operative in 1991, sees Stalin as the greatest national hero of the last century and has said that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a “geopolitical disaster”.
Nomad
Every trumper is a N4T.
Yours = 100%.
Why aren't you criticizing and vilifying Putin for supporting a butcher the way you vilified Hillary for casting one vote authorizing Bush to use the military against Iraq?
Putin could reign Assad in if he wanted to.
Or at least quit supporting him while he butchers and massacres his own people.
But you're a hypocrite so you don't.
Ghouta? what about Raqqa?
anyways that is Syria - you do see a convoy -right?
Now picture a strafing run against that convoy - what is the result? chewed up dead ISIS
Yours = 100%.
Why aren't you criticizing and vilifying Putin for supporting a butcher the way you vilified Hillary for casting one vote authorizing Bush to use the military against Iraq?
Putin could reign Assad in if he wanted to.
Or at least quit supporting him while he butchers and massacres his own people.
But you're a hypocrite so you don't.
Russia didn't get involved in Syria until 2014.. Now they want the Europeans to pay to rebuild Syria.. and they didn't take in any Syrian refugees.
We sure have a lot of pro-Russian posters on here.