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To: Old Teufel Hunden
Those manuevers happened in response to Russia's aggressiveness, not the other way around.

I don't know. Maybe, or maybe not.

Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union represented aggressive, globalist, even messianic, ideologies. Even Saddam Hussein had to ridiculously claim he represented true Islam and the 1600 year-old battle against the Jews when he invaded Kuwait. Putin and Russia today do none of this. In fact, they are the opposite. They represent their own culture, their own religion, their own sovereignty. They clearly have said they are pushing no ideology on the world, except that of national sovereignty.

Russia can invade Poland, but to what end? To make them Russian? How will they hold and organize it? With what ideology? As some kind of 19th century Czardom? I don't think so.

Ask yourself - who and what is the aggressive, globalist, utopian ideology of our present time? Who is promoting it?

31 posted on 12/30/2016 12:33:53 PM PST by PGR88
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To: PGR88

Putin said that when the Soviet Union fell he thought that was the darkest day in history or some such thing. I have no problem with Russian nationalism, in fact I encourage it. However, that doesn’t mean that if there are Russian speaking peoples in Georgia he can invade it or the same in Ukraine. These are sovereign countries that he has interfered with by invading.

I don’t think he wants to invade all of these countries. I think he could invade the Baltics which he hopes (and I think also) would break up NATO because we would not come to their aid as we are treaty bound to do. This would break up NATO and all of the former soviet satellite states would eventually turn towards Russia instead of liberal democracy you would see nationalist autocrats come to power in these countries.


34 posted on 12/30/2016 12:41:47 PM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
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