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This article takes a very realistic look at Israel and what is and has been going on Gaza. refreshing and something knew which is a publication willing to speak truth to Israel.
SOMEONE NEEDED TO SAY THIS SINCE ISRAEL HAS ALWAYS USED THIS TO DO WHATEVER SHE WANTS, WHICH INCLUDES ALL HER PREVIOUS ATTACKS ON THE PEOPLE IN PALESTINE AND THE WEST BANK.
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There is a wide range of possible outcomes and no one really knows how it will work out. Got a very pessemistic view from Mr. Davis and a modestly pessemistic view from Professor Mearsheimer. I wouldn't pretend to know how it will work out.
One thing I would point out is that Professsor Mearsheimer says that the Russians would not invade the Baltics. He is right, but that is largely the result of NATO membership which he (and I too) opposed. I'd like to hear him say someday that maybe (only maybe) he was wrong to oppose NATO expansion.
The Baltics are attacking a substantial Russian minority while abusing and denying human rights. Balt nationalists celebrate Nazi morons and the Judenrein status of these three Quisling states. They are loudmouthed NAYOYO partners hosting substantial threats to Russia. This was demonstrated last year with Washington's puerile B-52 cruise missile training runs aimed at St. Petersburg.
Georgia, Moldova, Rumania, and Bulgaria are also on Russia's list of Yankee collaborators to be crushed into grovelling submission.
These countries will recognize Russia's right to peaceful existence and honest commerce or be smothered.
The White West will do the same for every other country or find their influence and trade smothered.
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Funny, I thought I was being reserved and polite about you stating your opinions as though they were actual facts, and the fact that you were stating opinions based on insufficient research.
If you do that in a platform like this, you shouldn't be surprised to be challenged and corrected.
I know that can be a bit embarrassing and I am sorry about that, but those are the rules of the game.
I don't have time to watch the video. Perhaps I will sometime. I don't mind being challenged and corrected. I don't mind people expressing views contrary to my own even if they are uninformed provided they provide reasoning. My recollection is that you provided no reasoning and just insulting; that I do not appreciate.
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I think that Mearsheimer left out two possible conflicts, Venezuela and Kosovo, and maybe more. If the US/NATO/AUKUS ends up over committed in Ukraine, the Middle East, and East Asia, then it is very likely that other regional powers are going to see it as their chance to rectify old grievances.
There are doubtless others out there. If things go far enough I could even see European conflicts emerging over territorial disputes like Germany/Poland or UK/Ireland. For better or worse, the cold war and the unipolar moment kept a lid on a great many conflicts and that era is rapidly coming to a close.
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Blame the Russians for our corruption in Ukraine turning to Israel to see how many people don't see how plan A didn't work out so well for us and so we were forced to move to the more assurant plan B.
Oh, Five Eyes and EuroTrashLandia and Taiwan and Japan and NZ and Klanada, et al, they want Germany to be the next front to tackle Russia.
Pepe, who I respect, again, the "west" has not even begun to be defeated. The "west" is BlackRock, and Vanguard, and the reality is digital gulag, unfortunately, is acceptable to China and RUssia, so all those passports and DNA scans and bank accounts tokenized, it's the "west's" project, but the rest of the fucking totalitarians -- i.e. billionaires -- have lock stepped into agreement.
He who controls the data, controls the food, water, money, people and destinies.
The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) motto for Davos24 (ongoing) is “Rebuilding Trust”. This is worse than a joke because what the WEF propagates openly – a Polygon Cyberattack, a not yet identified virus “X”, already somewhere out there (say Bill Gates and WHO’s Tedros), and more — as well as the untold secret behind closed-door topics, is anything but “Building Trust”. See this.
See this brief fictitious address to Klaus Schwab by an apparent official WEF invitee, captured by a 19-second video-clip that flashed around the world today, 17 January 2024, in warp speed. It is fake, a satire, produced by Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Yet, it is telling in more ways than one. It reflects the sentiment of just about the entire non-elite world, some 8 billion people. And second, the fact that it was produced by high-quality AI – the very AI pushed to the crushing end by the WEF and its handlers — also shows that AI can be neck-breaking, even, or especially, for those who propagate AI and absolute digitization, including by transforming humans to “humanoids”.
Inventions no matter how brilliant, used for diabolical purposes, tend to backfire on those who misuse them. WEF beware!
They tried their best to scare me to death about Russia as a kid, and when I was 8 I gave it up along with Santa. I have never taken the position as an adult you're either with us or against us which put me on one side of humanity, and against the other. I am much more frightened of the US then it's proclaimed enemies, considering what has gone on in these past 23 years. Israel with our complicity is implementing a genocide, no doubt creating a neocon agenda of her own, and very well may trigger WWIII. The coup in Ukraine and our neocon support for it told me a war in Ukraine was the very likely outcome, and we welcomed it even as it killed hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, since according to our half there and half not president Putin has got to go.
All I remember as a child was Russia, Russia Russia, and of course I also heard of those name's pinko and and commie. As a kid I just got fed up with People using Russia like she was the boogieman.
I can do that. Winning is allowing the people of Ukraine to decide their fate. I believe they would choose the same path as Eastern Europe which means integration into the EU economically and institution-wise. The end-game is for Russia to have the same option but they don't have to. They can remain separate but they have to live in peace. Ultimate goal is to eliminate the need for NATO at some point in the future.
Why would Russia want to part of NATO? The agenda of the US in it's proxy war in Ukraine was to see Putin gone, and diminish Russia's power and influence. Who wants the US at their backdoor when everything it does is to maintain it's number one position in the world and should you get it the way it will take you out.
I said EU; not NATO. The ultimate goal is for there to be no need for NATO. I do recognize that is not on the horizon for many decades but as with world peace, it is something to aspire to.
Every since I was a kid the Russians were always presented, even in school, as the other, separate and apart and up to no good. That continues to this day. The US NATO under it's control, and no doubt is the biggest reason they don't call what is going on in Gaza a genocide, since that would make the US complicit in it. Look at what Biden said after his return trip from Ukraine a while back, Putin has got to go. We don't seem to approve of countries unwilling to do our bidding, or are in anyway a threat to our number one position in the world. Since according to US we are and should always be number one.
I grew up on US military bases during the Vietnam War. There were protests outside the base and teachers made inappropriate comments to children about those protests. Most of us had fathers who had been to Vietnam and most knew people who died there (I had a cousin who did). I am saying all that to say, I never once was told the Russians were evil; Communism was and still is evil in my mind. Terrorism is evil too.
Fortunately, Communism in its worst forms, is gone. Someone wants to be Communist, I say fine, but you try to export it and there will be a problem. That is something I disagree with the Professor on. We should be realists, but if we can nudge a country into freedom loving, democratic capitalists, it is a good thing. Slavery would still exist in my opinion if the UK wouldn't have taken a strong stand in the 19th century and I'm willing to take strong stands for freedom in the 21st century but obviously it won't work in some places and I don't want to cram it down the throats of countries.
Have some limited familiarity with Maidan (or whatever those protests were called). Russians say the protestors were paid by someone; I don't know who they say was paying but I imagine the US. A fact that is not true. Even if, as I believe, it was an illegitimate overthrow of a regime and I doubt, but don't know with certainty, that I would not have supported, there certainly have been legitimate elections since then and here we are. Russia should have stayed out of the Ukraine and let them decide.
The link below describes the US backed coup in Ukraine.
"US President Barack Obama’s recent interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakiria reveals the United States’ involvement in the Ukrainian crisis from its outset and that the country worked directly with Ukrainian right-wing fascist groups, experts told Sputnik."
Yep we worked with neo-nazi's to overturn a pro-Russian government.
On Sunday, in his interview with CNN, Obama admitted that the United States “had brokered a deal to transition power in Ukraine.”
Now that you have admitted that you are "under-informed" about Maidan, you should get to work and do the research before commenting in such a self-assured manner, don't you think?
Also, are you equally uninformed about the Minsk Agreements?
And the Istanbul heads of agreement in April 2022 that Boris Johnson [at the direction of the Biden Admin] told Zelensky to rip up?
Is it becoming clearer now that the Ukrainian people have had nothing to say about this debacle for quite some time?
Surely you've heard that Ukraine is allegedly the most corrupt country in Europe?
Yes I am familiar with the reputation for corruption. I do not have sufficient knowledge to call it the "most corrupt" and I very seriously doubt that is true. Bellarus probably gets that award. I do not claim to be an expert regarding Ukraine but I will claim to be more familiar with good governance than you.
What are you wishing more death, more destruction in a war where the US's main interest was to see Putin gone? If we cared about Ukrainian lives maybe we wouldn't have supported a coup where our sole interest was to bring Putin down.
I guess greedy corrupt thieving liar Vlad Putin shouldn't have believed his intelligence services and launched his 72 hour "special military operation" huh!
Well, at least he' s not abetting a genocide in Gaza, or has he engaged in multiple wars in the Middle East carrying out a neocon agenda that killed and displaced millions of people as it destroyed their countries, and all based on lies. He didn't help implement that coup in Ukraine in 2014 helping a bunch of neo-nazis, and on and on, nor did he implement a proxy war using Ukrainian lives to bring down Putin as Biden did. Ever think what Americans would do if Russia decided to take up residence some where close by with the intent of attacking your government, like Biden said after his trip to Ukraine, "Putin has got to go." If you want to blame someone, blame America's agenda that used Ukraine as a way of bringing Russia to its knees that way we did in Afghanistan feeding weapons to the Mujahideen, a proxy war.
"When you look at Western decision making in decent times, it's hard to have much confidence in the decisions people make."
Great summary of the problem, John. Why might we end up with American troops in Ukraine? Because we're led by idiots. I'm 50+, but if those idiots try to draft my late teen daughters to help "queer the Donbass", we're leaving the country. I have the resources to do it, and I would not hesitate. It's not a political thing; it's a safety of my kids thing.
I can understand not wanting to put US troops in the Donbass nor would I want such a thing. Still, the US would be better off without people not willing to obey the laws that are designed to serve the interests of their descendants. Without voluntary compliance with the laws that you had a role in determining, the entire system breaks down so I would encourage you to get going sooner rather than later.
Jenny's correct that changing countries is very hard, so I see no reason to do it unless it becomes absolutely necessary.
As to your second issue, the Anglo world has a long tradition of refusing to obey laws that are unjust. Trial by jury (jury nullification) is part of that tradition. And as for "laws that you had a role in determining", how much of a role does an American citizen really have when our elected "representatives" campaigns are financed by NGOs and unions and corporations (who all benefit from the federal largess that is then steered there way) while nearly every major political issue is no longer decided by said representatives in the Capitol Building but instead by 9 people in black robes next door?
If the US government tried to restart a draft, you know that there would be a lawsuit demanding that women be drafted (in the name of equity of course) and the courts would mandate it. And our "representatives" would hold up their hands and declare there was nothing they could do about it.
Nullification certainly happens but it is not a tradition; it is very properly rare.
In Wisconsin one of the things the state does is fund various advocacy groups (United Way does it too) so that all, including those unable to speak for themselves have a voice. It means only urgent needs get funded but I think it works reasonably well. I've seen such litigation work successfully. My wife has been invited to meet the governor (she passed it to someone else who was much more stressed). I'm pretty sure I could meet with the governor if I had a pressing need and meeting with representatives is fairly easy. Had a cousin whose wife was able to get a law passed in Illinois to toughen drunk driving laws many years ago.
When I was young, the process was foreign to me but I now know that for the most part, impacting laws is just a matter of showing up and being willing to be a part of the sausage making process. It is a major headache but if you were terribly upset about something and persistent enough, you could do so.
Now a draft issue is something that your or my voice would not be something we as individuals have that much impact as everyone understands and would not happen without great consensus for the need but if your daughter gets drafted, I would expect her to serve and if not, she should go to prison. Nothing wrong with being a prisoner of conscience but you have to pay the price.
I'm glad your electoral process works. I live in CA. Mine does not.
However, that doesn't change my point above, that all contentious political issues (even at the state level) are now decided by judges not elected representatives. No "involvement in the sausage making" matters when the sausage is redesigned or tossed out afterward by people who have no accountability to you or any other voter.
It may be a stretch to call such a state of affairs authoritarian (as some on the Right do) but it is accurate to say it is fundamentally incompatible with a republic.
I can't deny that you are right, but judicial review was established right at the founding of the Republic, so it isn't something I'd like to change even if the judges out in California are, in my view, crazy. I think the courts pick and choose when to follow the Constitution, and I always thought that things went crazy back in the 1930s. I made the mistake of asking someone I respect when he thought things went wrong, and he said during the Civil War, I didn't have the nerve to ask him why as I was afraid he would post something pro-Confederate States of America.
We elect our Supreme Court justices in Wisconsin. There are some good judges, but many times, things feel much more political than they should. No system is perfect.
I feel the same way to an extent, but there is some accountability and change does take place. Whether one is for or against abortion, I think it is hard to argue reversing Roe wasn't a good thing. Even in states that ban it, getting to one that allows it is pretty easy. As long as opinions are well written, I can tolerate it. I wouldn't want to rewrite the Constitution; if we did, we'd make a mess of it.
This might help. https://odysee.com/@luogocomune:5/ukraine-the-other-truth:2
Professor M. I became familiar with you on you tube, always a delight to give a listen to your educated insights.
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The Greater Goal In Gaza
For Lasting Peace, Israel Must End Its Occupation of Palestinian Land
By Marwan Muasher
January 15, 2024
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/greater-goal-gaza
This article takes a very realistic look at Israel and what is and has been going on Gaza. refreshing and something knew which is a publication willing to speak truth to Israel.
"Putin’s Minister Blasts Israel Over Gaza; ‘Can’t Do Just Anything Because They Faced Holocaust"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmMYEIe_hDs
SOMEONE NEEDED TO SAY THIS SINCE ISRAEL HAS ALWAYS USED THIS TO DO WHATEVER SHE WANTS, WHICH INCLUDES ALL HER PREVIOUS ATTACKS ON THE PEOPLE IN PALESTINE AND THE WEST BANK.
Netanyahu has to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The objective of the war is economic. Freedom, Democracy et al are the means to an economic end.
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The Rubicon was crossed when Russia pivoted towards Asia making the outcome more imperative for the US.
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Though America seems to have over estimated its economic muscles, the main black swan so far seems to be Gaza.
https://thinwa.substack.com/p/chilly-remnants-of-a-passionate-start
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There is a wide range of possible outcomes and no one really knows how it will work out. Got a very pessemistic view from Mr. Davis and a modestly pessemistic view from Professor Mearsheimer. I wouldn't pretend to know how it will work out.
One thing I would point out is that Professsor Mearsheimer says that the Russians would not invade the Baltics. He is right, but that is largely the result of NATO membership which he (and I too) opposed. I'd like to hear him say someday that maybe (only maybe) he was wrong to oppose NATO expansion.
The Baltics are attacking a substantial Russian minority while abusing and denying human rights. Balt nationalists celebrate Nazi morons and the Judenrein status of these three Quisling states. They are loudmouthed NAYOYO partners hosting substantial threats to Russia. This was demonstrated last year with Washington's puerile B-52 cruise missile training runs aimed at St. Petersburg.
Georgia, Moldova, Rumania, and Bulgaria are also on Russia's list of Yankee collaborators to be crushed into grovelling submission.
These countries will recognize Russia's right to peaceful existence and honest commerce or be smothered.
The White West will do the same for every other country or find their influence and trade smothered.
Please explain why the Russians would invade the Baltics, even if they weren't in NATO.
Isn't it clear to everyone at this point that NATO now equals NEOCON Globalists?
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Same reason they invaded Ukraine.
No offense, Jeff, but it seems you need to do a bit more research.
Nice. Insulting; no factual statements; just pure emotion. I get things wrong all the time but I can disagree without being rude.
Funny, I thought I was being reserved and polite about you stating your opinions as though they were actual facts, and the fact that you were stating opinions based on insufficient research.
If you do that in a platform like this, you shouldn't be surprised to be challenged and corrected.
I know that can be a bit embarrassing and I am sorry about that, but those are the rules of the game.
Here's some more help on Ukraine.
https://odysee.com/@KJ17:4/HistoryofUkraine:6?fbclid=IwAR3kOFR1IxaxJZehK6nuCCrrbEazJBXCbYy9-VSTD80nF-C9mpKPKNzfylc
I don't have time to watch the video. Perhaps I will sometime. I don't mind being challenged and corrected. I don't mind people expressing views contrary to my own even if they are uninformed provided they provide reasoning. My recollection is that you provided no reasoning and just insulting; that I do not appreciate.
Genocide Joe was always so proud of being able to sustain multiple wars at the same time in different theaters
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I think that Mearsheimer left out two possible conflicts, Venezuela and Kosovo, and maybe more. If the US/NATO/AUKUS ends up over committed in Ukraine, the Middle East, and East Asia, then it is very likely that other regional powers are going to see it as their chance to rectify old grievances.
There are doubtless others out there. If things go far enough I could even see European conflicts emerging over territorial disputes like Germany/Poland or UK/Ireland. For better or worse, the cold war and the unipolar moment kept a lid on a great many conflicts and that era is rapidly coming to a close.
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Blame the Russians for our corruption in Ukraine turning to Israel to see how many people don't see how plan A didn't work out so well for us and so we were forced to move to the more assurant plan B.
Oh, Five Eyes and EuroTrashLandia and Taiwan and Japan and NZ and Klanada, et al, they want Germany to be the next front to tackle Russia.
Pepe, who I respect, again, the "west" has not even begun to be defeated. The "west" is BlackRock, and Vanguard, and the reality is digital gulag, unfortunately, is acceptable to China and RUssia, so all those passports and DNA scans and bank accounts tokenized, it's the "west's" project, but the rest of the fucking totalitarians -- i.e. billionaires -- have lock stepped into agreement.
He who controls the data, controls the food, water, money, people and destinies.
They all need bats to their heads!
https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/a-billionaire-here-a-trillionaire
The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) motto for Davos24 (ongoing) is “Rebuilding Trust”. This is worse than a joke because what the WEF propagates openly – a Polygon Cyberattack, a not yet identified virus “X”, already somewhere out there (say Bill Gates and WHO’s Tedros), and more — as well as the untold secret behind closed-door topics, is anything but “Building Trust”. See this.
See this brief fictitious address to Klaus Schwab by an apparent official WEF invitee, captured by a 19-second video-clip that flashed around the world today, 17 January 2024, in warp speed. It is fake, a satire, produced by Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Yet, it is telling in more ways than one. It reflects the sentiment of just about the entire non-elite world, some 8 billion people. And second, the fact that it was produced by high-quality AI – the very AI pushed to the crushing end by the WEF and its handlers — also shows that AI can be neck-breaking, even, or especially, for those who propagate AI and absolute digitization, including by transforming humans to “humanoids”.
Inventions no matter how brilliant, used for diabolical purposes, tend to backfire on those who misuse them. WEF beware!
https://youtu.be/P7_8rp3PKLE?si=zJc4yURdC_4P0AUq
They tried their best to scare me to death about Russia as a kid, and when I was 8 I gave it up along with Santa. I have never taken the position as an adult you're either with us or against us which put me on one side of humanity, and against the other. I am much more frightened of the US then it's proclaimed enemies, considering what has gone on in these past 23 years. Israel with our complicity is implementing a genocide, no doubt creating a neocon agenda of her own, and very well may trigger WWIII. The coup in Ukraine and our neocon support for it told me a war in Ukraine was the very likely outcome, and we welcomed it even as it killed hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, since according to our half there and half not president Putin has got to go.
Probably wasn't Russia.....more like Communism?
I was called a commie in the US many times or pinko!
All I remember as a child was Russia, Russia Russia, and of course I also heard of those name's pinko and and commie. As a kid I just got fed up with People using Russia like she was the boogieman.
Yeah. It was like it was inbred.
I don't know who started it all but I now about the McCarthy period.
You had foresight.
Growing up in S. Lanka and the Uk I never had/heard anything about communists.
Later in Sri Lanka I did but ignored it mostly because it was always hushed up.
My Dad loved the Queen so we all had to toe the line which eventually I didn't.
We grow up and we remember. I think at the age of 74/5? I know MORE than I used to.
Interesting life Jenny!!!!!!!!
Yeah. Mindblowingly sad at times and joyful at others. Not much different from a LOT of people.
Oh, do I know what you mean.
2024 is the year Ukraine will move from air parity over the skies of Ukraine to local air superiority in all relevant combat zones.
Ukraine cannot win in 2024. Nor can Russia. With air superiority, and then air supremacy, Ukraine will win. 你能相信我。 Ukraine will win.
Please be so kind as to define what you mean by "winning".
I'd like to know the following:
What does "winning" mean for Ukraine?
for the USA?
for NATO/EU vassal states?
for the globalists?
Are the meanings the same?
Are they different?
If different, in what ways?
What does "winning" mean for Russia/Russian people of Ukraine?
Are the meanings the same?
Are they different?
If different, in what ways?
Any help you can provide would be appreciated.
I can do that. Winning is allowing the people of Ukraine to decide their fate. I believe they would choose the same path as Eastern Europe which means integration into the EU economically and institution-wise. The end-game is for Russia to have the same option but they don't have to. They can remain separate but they have to live in peace. Ultimate goal is to eliminate the need for NATO at some point in the future.
Why would Russia want to part of NATO? The agenda of the US in it's proxy war in Ukraine was to see Putin gone, and diminish Russia's power and influence. Who wants the US at their backdoor when everything it does is to maintain it's number one position in the world and should you get it the way it will take you out.
I said EU; not NATO. The ultimate goal is for there to be no need for NATO. I do recognize that is not on the horizon for many decades but as with world peace, it is something to aspire to.
Every since I was a kid the Russians were always presented, even in school, as the other, separate and apart and up to no good. That continues to this day. The US NATO under it's control, and no doubt is the biggest reason they don't call what is going on in Gaza a genocide, since that would make the US complicit in it. Look at what Biden said after his return trip from Ukraine a while back, Putin has got to go. We don't seem to approve of countries unwilling to do our bidding, or are in anyway a threat to our number one position in the world. Since according to US we are and should always be number one.
I grew up on US military bases during the Vietnam War. There were protests outside the base and teachers made inappropriate comments to children about those protests. Most of us had fathers who had been to Vietnam and most knew people who died there (I had a cousin who did). I am saying all that to say, I never once was told the Russians were evil; Communism was and still is evil in my mind. Terrorism is evil too.
Fortunately, Communism in its worst forms, is gone. Someone wants to be Communist, I say fine, but you try to export it and there will be a problem. That is something I disagree with the Professor on. We should be realists, but if we can nudge a country into freedom loving, democratic capitalists, it is a good thing. Slavery would still exist in my opinion if the UK wouldn't have taken a strong stand in the 19th century and I'm willing to take strong stands for freedom in the 21st century but obviously it won't work in some places and I don't want to cram it down the throats of countries.
I'm sorry, but do you REALLY believe the Ukrainian people have anything to do with deciding the fate of Ukraine?
You are aware of what happened in Maidan in 2014, aren't you?
And what about what happened in April, 2022 with the heads of agreement that Russia and Ukraine had that the Biden Admin destroyed?
And the Minsk Agreements that were abandoned?
You say nothing about any of these things, which undermine your self-assured pontificating.
As I said in another comment, no offense, but your research is a bit lax.
Back to work.
Peace.
Have some limited familiarity with Maidan (or whatever those protests were called). Russians say the protestors were paid by someone; I don't know who they say was paying but I imagine the US. A fact that is not true. Even if, as I believe, it was an illegitimate overthrow of a regime and I doubt, but don't know with certainty, that I would not have supported, there certainly have been legitimate elections since then and here we are. Russia should have stayed out of the Ukraine and let them decide.
The link below describes the US backed coup in Ukraine.
"US President Barack Obama’s recent interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakiria reveals the United States’ involvement in the Ukrainian crisis from its outset and that the country worked directly with Ukrainian right-wing fascist groups, experts told Sputnik."
Yep we worked with neo-nazi's to overturn a pro-Russian government.
On Sunday, in his interview with CNN, Obama admitted that the United States “had brokered a deal to transition power in Ukraine.”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/washington-was-behind-ukraine-coup-obama-admits-that-us-brokered-a-deal-in-support-of-regime-change/5429142
You realize your source is Sputnik News Service?
"A fact that is not true."
What an amazing statement!
Now that you have admitted that you are "under-informed" about Maidan, you should get to work and do the research before commenting in such a self-assured manner, don't you think?
Also, are you equally uninformed about the Minsk Agreements?
And the Istanbul heads of agreement in April 2022 that Boris Johnson [at the direction of the Biden Admin] told Zelensky to rip up?
Is it becoming clearer now that the Ukrainian people have had nothing to say about this debacle for quite some time?
Surely you've heard that Ukraine is allegedly the most corrupt country in Europe?
Yes I am familiar with the reputation for corruption. I do not have sufficient knowledge to call it the "most corrupt" and I very seriously doubt that is true. Bellarus probably gets that award. I do not claim to be an expert regarding Ukraine but I will claim to be more familiar with good governance than you.
What are you wishing more death, more destruction in a war where the US's main interest was to see Putin gone? If we cared about Ukrainian lives maybe we wouldn't have supported a coup where our sole interest was to bring Putin down.
Corruptionnaires and kleptocrats hate democracy.
Looking forward to Big Lie 2.0 failing again.
S.ame S.hit, different aSShole.
Well, I hope they don't attempt to use Ukrainian lives again.
I guess greedy corrupt thieving liar Vlad Putin shouldn't have believed his intelligence services and launched his 72 hour "special military operation" huh!
Eric. Do you ever read or watch and above all else HEAR?
Well, at least he' s not abetting a genocide in Gaza, or has he engaged in multiple wars in the Middle East carrying out a neocon agenda that killed and displaced millions of people as it destroyed their countries, and all based on lies. He didn't help implement that coup in Ukraine in 2014 helping a bunch of neo-nazis, and on and on, nor did he implement a proxy war using Ukrainian lives to bring down Putin as Biden did. Ever think what Americans would do if Russia decided to take up residence some where close by with the intent of attacking your government, like Biden said after his trip to Ukraine, "Putin has got to go." If you want to blame someone, blame America's agenda that used Ukraine as a way of bringing Russia to its knees that way we did in Afghanistan feeding weapons to the Mujahideen, a proxy war.
Whataboutism is the Kremlin's go-to tactic. Too bad it's failing dismally. What's it like doing Hitler's spade work?
"When you look at Western decision making in decent times, it's hard to have much confidence in the decisions people make."
Great summary of the problem, John. Why might we end up with American troops in Ukraine? Because we're led by idiots. I'm 50+, but if those idiots try to draft my late teen daughters to help "queer the Donbass", we're leaving the country. I have the resources to do it, and I would not hesitate. It's not a political thing; it's a safety of my kids thing.
I can understand not wanting to put US troops in the Donbass nor would I want such a thing. Still, the US would be better off without people not willing to obey the laws that are designed to serve the interests of their descendants. Without voluntary compliance with the laws that you had a role in determining, the entire system breaks down so I would encourage you to get going sooner rather than later.
Jenny's correct that changing countries is very hard, so I see no reason to do it unless it becomes absolutely necessary.
As to your second issue, the Anglo world has a long tradition of refusing to obey laws that are unjust. Trial by jury (jury nullification) is part of that tradition. And as for "laws that you had a role in determining", how much of a role does an American citizen really have when our elected "representatives" campaigns are financed by NGOs and unions and corporations (who all benefit from the federal largess that is then steered there way) while nearly every major political issue is no longer decided by said representatives in the Capitol Building but instead by 9 people in black robes next door?
If the US government tried to restart a draft, you know that there would be a lawsuit demanding that women be drafted (in the name of equity of course) and the courts would mandate it. And our "representatives" would hold up their hands and declare there was nothing they could do about it.
Nullification certainly happens but it is not a tradition; it is very properly rare.
In Wisconsin one of the things the state does is fund various advocacy groups (United Way does it too) so that all, including those unable to speak for themselves have a voice. It means only urgent needs get funded but I think it works reasonably well. I've seen such litigation work successfully. My wife has been invited to meet the governor (she passed it to someone else who was much more stressed). I'm pretty sure I could meet with the governor if I had a pressing need and meeting with representatives is fairly easy. Had a cousin whose wife was able to get a law passed in Illinois to toughen drunk driving laws many years ago.
When I was young, the process was foreign to me but I now know that for the most part, impacting laws is just a matter of showing up and being willing to be a part of the sausage making process. It is a major headache but if you were terribly upset about something and persistent enough, you could do so.
Now a draft issue is something that your or my voice would not be something we as individuals have that much impact as everyone understands and would not happen without great consensus for the need but if your daughter gets drafted, I would expect her to serve and if not, she should go to prison. Nothing wrong with being a prisoner of conscience but you have to pay the price.
I'm glad your electoral process works. I live in CA. Mine does not.
However, that doesn't change my point above, that all contentious political issues (even at the state level) are now decided by judges not elected representatives. No "involvement in the sausage making" matters when the sausage is redesigned or tossed out afterward by people who have no accountability to you or any other voter.
It may be a stretch to call such a state of affairs authoritarian (as some on the Right do) but it is accurate to say it is fundamentally incompatible with a republic.
I can't deny that you are right, but judicial review was established right at the founding of the Republic, so it isn't something I'd like to change even if the judges out in California are, in my view, crazy. I think the courts pick and choose when to follow the Constitution, and I always thought that things went crazy back in the 1930s. I made the mistake of asking someone I respect when he thought things went wrong, and he said during the Civil War, I didn't have the nerve to ask him why as I was afraid he would post something pro-Confederate States of America.
We elect our Supreme Court justices in Wisconsin. There are some good judges, but many times, things feel much more political than they should. No system is perfect.
I feel the same way to an extent, but there is some accountability and change does take place. Whether one is for or against abortion, I think it is hard to argue reversing Roe wasn't a good thing. Even in states that ban it, getting to one that allows it is pretty easy. As long as opinions are well written, I can tolerate it. I wouldn't want to rewrite the Constitution; if we did, we'd make a mess of it.
It's not easy to change Countries!
Good for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JJ Mearsheimer is right about everything, but he should realize that not everyone works on Wall Street.
what does that mean that Measheimer if right, but not everyone works on Wall Street? I really don't understand what you mean.
Not everyone is paid enough money to subscribe to JJM's substack as well as NYT, WaPo, WSJ, Bloomberg, etc.
Oh, Okay, now I get it. Thanks.