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Anastasis

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  1. Of course we should have foreign policy. And hopefully one that is informed by the outcomes of our past policy failures. Speaking of Russian oligarchs, shock therapy is a good example in this exchange.
  2. This one is fun as well, if you want to do the Rise of Putin origin story.
  3. Nothing I have said here was outside of the mainstream media ca 1996-2014.
  4. Y'all are right, obviously. None of the people I noted know anything about the long-run history wrt Russia, the post-cold war landscape, nor predicting exactly how this would all play out. Certainly not the architect of Cold War strategy. Forget the fact that they have been largely proven correct and prescient. Old, out of touch, and washed up. And y'all claim that I am the one consuming propaganda. Really choice shit y'all running out there.
  5. Y’all all look like neocons to me. Sad!
  6. Y'all telling me that this is all Russian propaganda right off Lavrov's desk, but the talking points related to the inevitable outcome of NATO expansion and straight from the mouths of George Kennan, Stephen Cohen, Bill Burns, Bob Gates, and numerous other US Ambassadors and diplomats. Not everything that is opposed to our dysfunctional foreign policy strategy is a Putin talking point your clowns.
  7. You and I can tell Russia whatever we want. They view military build up by the west and Ukraine admittance into NATO as an existential threat. They will continue to throw meat into the grinder as long as it takes or until shit gets wild and they roll out tactical nukes. Some of you guys are very happy to see that handle keep spending. Some of you are very comfortable with nuclear brinkmanship. I’d prefer to find a pathway to deescalating this shit and learn from our mistakes. Not sure that I would hold my breath on that last part.
  8. Fantasy land stuff. What I pointed out was that American foreign policy incoherence makes for the worst bedfellows, eg “AQ is on our side in Syria.” Courtesy Mr. Sullivan. And of course under his watch Julani with a 10mm terrorist bounty from the US on his head took over the presidency. For wildcats rhetorical purposes this translates to “supporting gas attacks on civilians.”
  9. I am cheering no such thing. I think that this war needs to come to an end as quickly as possible. Two ways forward, either Ukraine fights on for another who knows how many years, or some form of ceasefire and terms happen. I wish that that the latter would have been achieved back in 2022. Would have saved tens if not hundreds of thousands of lives. If the people of Ukraine want to keep this going for another 3+ years, that is certainly their prerogative. You mentioned family in Kyiv. Curious what their positions are? Do they support going to the negotiation table to bring hostilities to at least a temporary end, or do they want to continue on?
  10. Here are two senators rallying with a neo-nazi and the media treatment at the time. But tell me more about who sided with neo-nazi nationalists in Ukraine. https://grabien.com/story?id=517212 HAYES: “When Senator John McCain and Senator Chris Murphy went to stand with these protesters in December, they stood next to this guy, who is an opposition leader and who also happens to lead Ukraine's right-wing nationalist party, Svoboda. They were also first registered as a neo-Nazi party and they're in the streets right now shooting at police. You know what arguably could be called naive? Going on stage at a Ukrainian opposition rally and not realizing you're standing next to a man who heads Ukraine's right-wing nationalist party, a party that was first registered as a neo-Nazi party, which is exactly what John McCain did back in December when he stood next to Oleh Tiahnybok, the leader of Ukraine's Svoboda Party, which according to 'The New York Times' traces its roots to the Ukrainian partisan army of World War II, which was loosely allied with Nazi Germany.”
  11. Pissed off Ukrainian nationalists. Somewhere in that timeline Biden also put NATO membership on the table, and notably more temporally proximal to the invasion. https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-10-14/ukraine-protest-zelensky-peace-plan Far-right groups protest Ukrainian president’s peace plan
  12. Zelensky ran on ending the conflict with Russia.
  13. When this all ends, you think that the ultimate terms will be better or worse than what could have been achieved in Istanbul?
  14. Agree that they should hold elections to determine the matter.
  15. Go find Lindsay Graham and you will probably find one nearby.
  16. FTR, that is not a direct quote of what I said.
  17. Just a bunch of jingoistic bullshit. I do think it's funny that you and other posters constantly try to plant a flag for me on positions that I have never taken. Some of y'all want to fight this thing to the last Ukranian. I get it. I think that Ukraine would have been better off coming to some sort of an agreement back in 2022. But what is a few hundred thousand more dead bodies with few meaningful distinctions in outcome, I guess.
  18. You didn't like the splitting of the point and the flat on the board? I tend to agree. Maybe a little under? I generally prefer slicing the point perpendicular instead of separating. But the reference was Cornyn's brisket, which was an abomination before all things Texan and holy. Anyways, palette cleanser for you.
  19. I am on the American side of finding a path to cease the death and destruction quickly, and stop dumping endless amount of US taxpayer dollars into conflicts all around the world that only undermine our national security interests in the long run.
  20. A foreign policy strategy that incentivizes nuclear proliferation? Jesus Christ, what do you think American military interventionism over the last 25 years has demonstrated quite clearly? We have been demonstrating to the world, and in particular the Arab world, that without nuclear deterrence you are subject to the whims of American interventionism and capricious regime change based on whichever way the winds (and the propaganda) blow at the moment in DC. Again, and more to the point in this particular situation, there were lots of people out there beating the drums about the dangers of our NATO policy after the fall of the USSR. They were fucking telling us that we were doing would be viewed as an existential threat, was going to spark and get out of control, was going to end up threatening our national security as well as Europe, and potentially bring us to the brink of nuclear war. And here we fucking are. Your answer is "mOaR oF tHe SamE PlEaSe".
  21. You are one sick puppy dude. Clowns like you that want to prolong and drag out a proxy conflict between nuclear powers are worried, in rhetoric only of course, about policies and actions that increase the risk of nuclear war. What a world.
  22. That one does look a little tight in the flat, huh.
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