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Russia in Central America. Again.
WSJ ^ | July 2018 | Mary Anastasia O'Grady

Posted on 07/14/2018 8:40:20 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

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And gee I wonder where the refugees end up...
1 posted on 07/14/2018 8:40:20 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Russia....again.


2 posted on 07/14/2018 8:43:51 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
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To: rrrod

This message is brought to us by the “Deep State”?????


3 posted on 07/14/2018 8:46:32 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODYS BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: rrrod

“Russia....again.”

Yep, the communist tentacles always looking for a “sh!thole” country/situation to assert and gain influence. It is what they do.....


4 posted on 07/14/2018 8:49:06 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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Russia....again

We engineered the overthrow of governments in Cairo, Damascus, Libya, Kiev etc ad nauseum. If instead of causing chaos in far-reaching parts of the world we had concentrated on Central America, it wouldn't be the mess it is now.

5 posted on 07/14/2018 8:54:49 AM PDT by grania (President Trump, stop believing the Masters of War!)
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To: Nextrush

So you really think the Russians are our friends?


6 posted on 07/14/2018 9:04:04 AM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Exercise Sea Breeze 2018 Kicks Off in Ukraine

https://www.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/1574544/exercise-sea-breeze-2018-kicks-off-in-ukraine/


7 posted on 07/14/2018 9:05:55 AM PDT by McGruff (We must accept this result and look to the future. - Hillary's concession speech)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

As long as they aren’t spreading communism I really don’t care. Let them knock themselves out.


8 posted on 07/14/2018 9:06:18 AM PDT by Brilliant
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Are the EU our friends?


9 posted on 07/14/2018 9:07:38 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

“The Soviet Union was an Ortega ally in the 1980s”

As were Tom Harkin and John Kerry.


10 posted on 07/14/2018 9:08:06 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
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The sanctions aren’t stiff enough. All govt officials should be banned from travel to the US and their US assets frozen. Hit them where it hurts. Seize all those condos in Miami.


11 posted on 07/14/2018 9:11:46 AM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

John McCain backs opposition leaders telling Ukraine protesters: ‘America stands with you - Ukraine will make Europe better’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2524179/John-McCain-tells-Ukraine-protesters-We-support-just-cause.html


12 posted on 07/14/2018 9:14:57 AM PDT by McGruff (We must accept this result and look to the future. - Hillary's concession speech)
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To: bigdaddy45

They are not the demon. They are “competitors” as heck I’ve heard the likes of GW Bush speak of China.

It seems to me some of GW’s followers out there are forgetting what he said about a pretty nasty nation-China.

Saudi Arabia also is an authoritarian state yet their oil and energy resources cancel out the truth about a theocracy where women still are very second class. They can drive a car but...


13 posted on 07/14/2018 9:15:16 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODYS BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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Like Afghanistan, South America is a bottomless pit.
The Brits found out. Ditto the Rooskies.
We've been there for two decades...
14 posted on 07/14/2018 9:16:49 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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As long as they aren’t spreading communism I really don’t care.

Nor do I.....

Since the article mentions Honduras and I have a family member from there who still has family there, I can't see what that country has to offer the Russians (other than fruits and vegetables) that they would want to butt heads with the drug cartels that now control the country.

15 posted on 07/14/2018 9:24:22 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I once found a needle in a haystack but it wasn't the one I was looking for...)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

The title could have just as easily read “America in Central Europe / Central Asia / Eastern Asia / Arctic Ocean. Again.” War is a racket, and racketeers are always scheming for it.


16 posted on 07/14/2018 9:34:53 AM PDT by Always A Marine ("When you strike at a king, you must kill him" - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: rrrod

russian guns....probably an array of Fast & Furious cannons....


17 posted on 07/14/2018 9:57:50 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

“Since April 19 more than 300 people have been killed while protesting against strongman Daniel Ortega”

And where is the Saintly Left on this?

Ortega was their new Che.

How right they were. Just another Spaniard Mass Murderer, putting down Los Gusanos who were impudent enough to criticize him.

But what does the world say of this?

Crickets.

When Communists kill people, it’s a regrettable necessity according to them.


18 posted on 07/14/2018 10:04:51 AM PDT by Regulator
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“If instead of causing chaos in far-reaching parts of the world we had concentrated on Central America, it wouldn’t be the mess it is now.”

And exactly what form, and when exacrtly, would that “concentrated on Central America” efforts have taken place, without them being characterized as “meddling” by the political classes in Central America, or as corrupt crony-capitalist thanks from them, without any domestic improvements therein??

Foreign influence in small countries is easier to come by from nations far away, over any big giant neighbors, as faraway foreigners are more often seen as less likely to try to dominate them than the big giant neighbor. For instance we are viewed with less suspicion in many small nations of Asia than is their neighbor China. Rejection of the big neighbor is sort of natural and not necessarily related to the politics of that neighbor.


19 posted on 07/14/2018 10:05:45 AM PDT by Wuli
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You apparently do not read Ms O’grady much, or you’d know that her exoertise across Latin America has always been as a critic of and outside the “deep state”. She always hits the nail on the head with what is going on in Latin America and very often what is going on with our deep state’s involvment in shenanigans there. Her biggist criticism is our deep state’s frequent blind eye to the Left’s shenanigans in Latin America including the works there by the Castros, Cuban intelligence, and cooperation between them and Iran and Russia.


20 posted on 07/14/2018 10:11:55 AM PDT by Wuli
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