Ukraine v Russia II

Don’t know if you’re a Frontline fan, but their latest documentary, “Putin and the Presidents,” is pretty interesting. Trump is in a class, since while other presidents may have misjudged Putin or were weak in response to his aggressions, he alone basically embraced what Putin was doing.

Biden, on the other hand, never trusted Putin. Always saw him and his actions through a Cold War lens that’s proven to be an accurate representation of the despot.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/putin-and-the-presidents/

 

Tankies are like reverse neocons…their enemies are simultaneously nearly omnipotent and also very feeble. Whichever serves the current discussion.

 

It's going to be even slower for Abrams. They have to be new built - we don't export any Abrams with the depleted uranium armor. They currently say August.

 

While doing this would be responsible journalism, don't imagine that this would push the needle one way or the other with Trump's support.

 

You're quoting me out of context - I'm not sad about his death, just pointed out the "why" we killed him. In retrospect, that wasn't the right thing to do or we didn't managed the "after Gaddafi" the right way if you look at what Libya has become

 

But you didn't point out "why" Qaddafi died. You didn't accurately state a single thing.

36/100 read actual work by academics.

 

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Their basket of commodities would be backing their currency which would be required to acquire them. We killed Gaddafi for less than that - of course it matters.

He was planning the launch of the African Gold Dinar - a single currency for Africa back by gold.

 

At the time of the Libya revolution to overthrow him, the country had like 7 billion worth of gold, not nearly enough to back a global currency.

The whole idea that that is the reason he was overthrown is an internet myth.

The idea was not bad, the African union using all of their gold reserves for their own continent wide currency, but like free trade talks and other projects, it was all talk, lack of trust on who and how this would be managed meant that the idea was not going to go anywhere.

 

Russia has a fresh supply of 18 year old and younger girls who have not been warned about him.

 

Can anyone think of another multi-national currency that had any lasting success? I'm coming up blank on the concept. Establishing the Euro was a Herculean task for some of the most stable and economically advanced democracies (and not every country in Western Europe bought into it). A pan-African currency started by a rogue nation like Libya? Not really something the West needed to be afraid of.

 

The CFA franc has gone on for a long time but it is pegged to the French franc. The nations involved have to have reserves on deposit in Paris. The internet conspiracy theorists that complain the most about this mostly intersect with the one who believe in the Gaddaffi assisination theory.

 

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If you really believe this shit, you better start reading other internet sites.

 

He doesn't actually believe any of this. He wants to because History 102 said colonialism bad. But Colonialism Bad =/= Dictator Good, a lesson we all know he knows.

 

I mean, if we're looking for the list of the peoples most victimized by colonialism and imperialism, the Ukrainians should be somewhere in the top 10% (or bottom 10%, depending on how you look at it). The Russians have centuries of conquest, ethnic and cultural erasure, and outright genocide in their ledger. There's a reason most of their neighbors hate them. For some reason, though, many supposedly anti-colonial and anti-imperialist people have a blind spot when it comes to this history. Would they be as milquetoast about the situation if Russia was invading, say, Mongolia?

Reflexively opposing US foreign policy is just as dumb as automatically supporting it.

 

Of course not, we wanted to bring democracy to Libya

I think they are just after their interest and not out of some newfound Russian patriotism or their history.

Except when they benefit us

 

Not only that, it's a group of countries that hate and/or don't trust each other.

 

What possible interest does, say, Brazil have in seeing Russia oppress Ukraine?

I can see countries in the Global South not caring about this conflict, unless it somehow has a direct negative effect on them. But, there have been plenty of leaders in that part of the world that seem determined to excuse and support Russia in this conflict.