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More support for Ukraine? For what . . . so they can keep up bombing in Dombas?! These people need to stop watching TV "news" (curtesy of our State Department). Putin recognized two states which voted for secession. I have no problem with self rule. Maybe these folks should review the history of Texas (or Kosovo . . . or the USA).

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Yet - the truth is soo obvious and soo simple... The original modern sin is -- the Russia-gate HOAX.

SAME lying team that concocted the Russia-gate hoax and 2014 bloody coup that overthrew democratically elected Ukraine government Jake Sullivan, Hillary strategy advisor had a KEY role in launching Russia-gate hoax – he is now national security advisor to Biden.

SAME people that launched the Russia-gate hoax are now hollering that Russia invasion of Ukraine is "imminent". All to "save democracy" there -- in order to distract from the fact that St. Obama organized in 2014 bloody coup against democratically elected Ukraine government. St. Obama installed Biden and his CIA pal Brennan as de facto governors of Ukraine -- immensely enriching US "elite" and posting and removing government members, judges and heads of industry with billions of corrupting cash -- in "fight against corruption".

US War party’s key exports are – coups, wars and all-encompassing US corruption.

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Feb 23, 2022·edited Feb 23, 2022

In the US, we're always trying to divide the world into good guys and bad guys. For the media, that generates clicks, too.

There are no good guys here. Putin is an ex-KGB guy doing what you'd expect an ex-KGB guy to do (although Russia could have done much worse). Zelensky was put into power and is controlled by Kolomoisky, who stole $6 billion from the Ukrainian people through a bank he controlled, laundered it partly through the US, and has openly bragged that the Ukrainian president is among the assets he owns.

Pity the Ukrainian people, who continue to be stolen blind no matter who ends up in control. But there are no good guys. We cannot fix this. And it is most certainly not in the interest of the average American to expend blood or treasure on this.

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Do you suppose these protesters will be arrested and will have their bank accounts frozen?

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So, for these demonstrators making childish comparisons of Putin as Hitler, it's worth WWIII, which will end all possibility of a future habitable civilization, to defend a former Russian state now governed by literal Nazis, that the US was vitally instrumental in installing in a 2014 coup, with no more democracy than anyone can locate in Washington DC. They couldn't have things any more backwards. These people have obviously never learned a thing from the countless atrocities the US has visited on the planet for the past hundred + years. The Democrats are now to the right of former Bush/Trump Republicans, and yet they see themselves as liberators. It's the United States of Mass Delusion.

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It's telling that there are hardly any anti-war protesters (and Africa is justifiably on many of their signs). Anti-war is not allowed under Democrat Presidents (hopefully the protesters avoid the fate of the January 6th protesters.

Where were all the NAZI flags in the pro-Ukrainian American rally? At least Canadian Freeland is proud and open about her Ukrainian NAZI connection. The Azov Bandera thugs have NAZI symbols worshipped throughout American Ukraine.

This really seems to be just another war for the Big Oil Companies competing with cheap natural gas from Russia with their expensive fracking gas. And likely Hunter and the "Big Guy" get a cut. ukrainegate.info.

Too bad the emasculated EU refused to stand up to American war-mongering, again.

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I guess I shouldn't be surprised we have people advocating for war. Morons.

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And -- An outstanding book:

The Plot to Scapegoat Russia: How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Putin

by Dan Kovalik Esq., Alex Hyde-White, et al

https://www.amazon.com/Plot-Scapegoat-Russia-Conspired-Vilify/dp/B07771BMV8/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1645575140&sr=1-1-ef9bfdb7-b507-43a0-b887-27e2a8414df0

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A must see: Tucker Carlson Today – interview with Dan Kovalik: “Russia, Russia, Russia” (Feb. 4, 2022)

This and Tucker-Tonight should be available on Rumble and elsewhere

An outstanding 4-part Fox-Nation video – “Who is Hunter Biden”

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We must join the fight alongside Ukraine because deep down inside every Ukrainian, there is an American yearning to be free.

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It’s funny how so many people posting here seem to care A LOT about what Putin likes and how that needs to be respected, but nobody seems to care about the people of Ukraine. Those people, Ukrainian- or Russian-speaking, want to live in a country that’s free and non-corrupt, in other words anything like Russia. You want to know how good life is in a Russian-manufactured separatist enclave? Leave aside your preconceived ideas - this isn’t Scotland or Canada - and find out how life is in Transnistria.

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"Bye bye Miss American Pie", took my propaganda to the newstanda and watched my government lie, and lie, and lie.

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This support for US aggression and NATO in Europe is pathetic and anti-historical. However, it builds on a century of anti-Soviet, anti-Russia, anti-Putin propaganda. Putin gave a very reasonable speech outlining his views on the Ukraine, which he explains is essentially a failed, undemocratic state that has been internally divided politically since its inception. Ukraine is historically the origin of the Russian state, but not all of it. As Sergey Khrushchev explains, the western part of Ukraine, where the new-Nazis come from, Polish and Germanic peoples, was stuck onto Russian-oriented Ukraine after WW II when the Soviets conquered Nazi-occupied territory. Ukrainian nationalism failed as a result of the US-inspired Maidan coup in 2014. In my mind, 2014 marks the dissolution of the Ukraine as a nation, let alone a democratic nation. It approaches the status of a failed state with no political will for a diplomatic solution, such that Minsk II offers. The US props up this monstrosity with its Nazi roots to further its hegemony in Europe. No good can come of this until the politicians and diplomats see things as they really are instead of seeing a fantastical chimera.

https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/119639.pdf?v=053ccaed8b88c16189cfe713ac4f3550

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As of a few minutes ago, Russia has invaded Ukraine for real, ordering all Ukrainians to drop their weapons or face destruction.

Fuck Putin.

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Feb 23, 2022·edited Feb 23, 2022

I am certain the U.S. media will give this international crisis, and these two competing protests, the thoughtful consideration and exposition they deserve. If the journalists from legacy media have demonstrated anything over the past five years, it is their seemingly unlimited capacity to deliver unbiased, nuanced, and informed perspectives predicated on verified facts and incisive analysis resulting from critical thinking and reasoning.

In fact, all this independent journalism is hokum and nonsense, and we would all be better off if we devoted the entirety of our time and attention to the legacy corporate media to learn about current events. The only thing more productive than consuming the output from mainstream media is slamming our various genitals between two large bricks. In fact, I think I will get right on that!

Irony and sarcasm aside, Matt, in partnership with Ford, has once again provided interesting and thought provoking news about our current political discourse based the incoherent policy machinations of a failed administration. Thanks Matt and Ford, and I look forward to more from you both as this disgraceful situation evolves!

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The irony of comparing Putin, bad as he is, to Hitler is a glaring example of the American people's glaring ignorance of history, a history that has to be to aught, but isn't. The fact that the U'S. leadership is hoping upon hope that Ukraine militia that numbers about a thousand (more or less is hard to tell) DOESN'T get the hands on the weapons and ordinance we're sending, because they are openly sympathetic to the Nazis goes almost without mention in MSM news, that Ukraine's leadership during WWII SIDED and ASSISTED the Nazis is lost on most people in the US. Then there's the fact that it was Russians defending their home from the Nazi invasion lost more lives than another nations combined in that effort, that even our inclusion into the broader war effort hinged entirely on the Russians breaking the Nazi war machine, and they did, with losses so grievous it would have ended other nations. Whatever we think of Russians, we need to rethink this effort to make Ukraine a member of NATO and back off on the Sabre rattling. We're in the wrong here. Though, we're in the wrong so much is entirely done to thew propaganda we're subjected to and no matter how many times it is proved that our government has lied it's way through an all too willing, we collectively STILL buy whatever is sold, while we pay prices we never recover in any value.

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"Nuclear war is good for the economy"- DNC 2022 election slogan

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