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To: Disestablishmentarian

Disestablishmentarian to TEXOKIE
Agreed. I was not able to read it all in one go. I had to break it down into 3 sessions.
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Whew. Glad to hear that in a way. :) I was wondering what kind of trip you had sent me on when I was slogging through the part about all the different patriarchs of the orthodox church.

T:
[LOL! I can understand about the slogging part with the orthodox church.... I guess I should have warned folks, but I have an interest in church/religious history, so found it fascinating, and by the time I got around to pointing to the article, I had forgotten just how long that part was! ]

Still don’t understand the playing field in Ukraine and how it provides the key to everything.

FWIW, Turkey is equally murky.

Venezuela may be getting there too.

I think the common denominator is: When trying to sort out the bad socialists from the worse socialists, there is no right answer.

T:
[Good point. The derps do tend to muddy things up a bit, don’t they? Chaos and confusion IS the strategy!]

That’s because they are all heading towards the same totalitarian destination—just some are further down the road (to Hell) than others.

T:
[Well said!]


442 posted on 05/05/2019 9:22:31 AM PDT by TEXOKIE
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To: TEXOKIE
You can think of Ukraine in East-West terms. The western part of the country is pro-West, pro-NATO, pro being a separate country and ANTI remaining in the Russian orbit. The eastern side of the country has a lot more people who moved there from Russia when it was all soviet, so they have deep family ties with and warm feelings for Russia. It doesn't help, though, when Russia offers practically any Ukrainian dual citizen-ship so he can pack the east with people who would rather align with Russia. That's how he justified the in the province of Crimea.
453 posted on 05/05/2019 9:33:52 AM PDT by ichabod1 (He's a vindictive SOB but he's *our* vindictive SOB.)
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