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So Russia is doing exactly what the western media has expected of him by conjuring up reasons to send troops into the Ukraine.
So Russia is doing exactly what the western media has expected of him by conjuring up reasons to send troops into the Ukraine.
To what extent is the leader of a kleptocracy immune from sanctions? Could sanctions hurt the global economy more than they hurt Russian oligarchs?
It’s crazy that this war is being live tweeted, hell there’s a traffic jam according to google maps as Russian tank columns cross the border.
There’s no point in the discussion if you are going to be disingenuous to the extreme. Presumably your understanding of the term imperialism isn’t limited to the rules of a boardgame. Consider how much of our global military presence is dedicated to controlling and protecting American investments in foreign markets. Jesus fuck, we have an actual real life US territory 1000 miles from Miami that we have literally neglected in favor of spending *trillions* of dollars protecting middle eastern oil reserves.
This isn’t as much about Russian “security” as the greed, bullying and bruised ego of Russian authoritarianism.
Several coordinated sanctions and condemnation is about what we can and should do…probably.
People do realize that Trumps first impeachment was due to his trying to intimidate the Ukrainian government and that he spent the last 4 years lower NATO spending and weakening the organization, right? Like that’s not political that’s factual.
Already seeing posts on facebook and other social media saying that if Trump were still POTUS this would never have happened. Apparently the news that Trump called Putin a genius and "savvy" hasn't reached them yet (or, more likely, they just refuse to believe he said it).
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