How did that 2004 Color Revolution (Orange Revolution) work out for Ukraine?
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About as well as the Arab Spring.
How did the fall of communism in 1991 work out for Russia?
Are you like Putin and miss the glory days of the Workers Paradise?
The 2004 Orange movement helped move Ukraine away from Russia levels of corruption. It’s still corrupt, but increasingly less so.
Outright vote rigging diminished after the 2004 presidential election.
The 2014 movement pushed that further. And ukraine’s move to be an affiliate member of the EU also reduced corruption further. It still has a long way to go, but it’s on the road away from Russian-level corruption
Recent reports, denied by the United States, allege that Putin is negotiating with the Taliban to buy some of the abandoned American arsenal to help replenish Russia’s enormous materiel losses in Ukraine. What helped the Soviets win World War II were the American gifts of 400,000 trucks and Jeeps. Over 60,000 American armored vehicles, Humvees, and trucks, now in the hands of the Taliban would be a valuable addition to Putin’s arsenal. The media assures us that poorly equipped Russian soldiers struggle with obsolete guns dating back to the early postwar period, while assuring us that either the Taliban would not sell, or Russians could not use, over a half-million late-model American automatic pistols, assault rifles, and machine guns.
Please set asiide some time to digest this article. Prof Hanson makes many, many great points worth pondering - and getting angry over!
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Hillary was happy.