Seems dear old Dad is right this time. Rand is not.
The Ukraine War is a Racket
Ron Paul Institute ^ | 25 Apr 22 | Ron Psul
The comments will be...interesting.
Bla bla bla…BUT…. The but means it’s all our fault. He is going to explain how.
He nails it.
The remaining question is who else has to die in order to prove him wrong.
Some people don’t understand the difference - to caught up in the fake drama 🤪
What was the justification for the Iraq invasion?
Rand is completely correct here. No excuse for what Putin did, but it is still possible to explain his motives.
There was no justification for Hitler invading another country. But there is an explanation. During the 30 Years War, parts of Germany lost half their population. And Germany was only 1/40 the size of Russia, meaning it was vulnerable to foreign invasion. In some ways, Russia could be seen as rightfully German territory, given that the Romanovs were partially-descended, from Catherine onwards, German nobility.
It’s difficult to comprehend people have trouble understanding this. You can understand Putin’s reasoning and even agree with it. It doesn’t make you “pro Putin”
Well put.
Mr. Ryan is absolutely brilliant for a retard.
It’s been over 20 years and I still haven’t figured out why we bombed the crap out of the civilians in Belgrade for 78 day, supposedly over Kosovo.
Perhaps when it’s finally disclosed I’ll be able to think we’re not into double-standards for Russia.
How about letting the continent on which it is being fought decide the issue?
This is a European issue. We need to stand with our treaties, but Ukraine is a money laundering haven for the left.
Trump tried to stop it and got impeached.
Russia is doing expansion, did it in Georgia and Kazakhstan and Crimea, and Biden didn’t give a damn. Suddenly his son Hunter’s money train in Ukraine is threatened and our grandkids have to pay for it?
No thanks.
Like Rand says, invasions on sovereign nations are bad (let the reader understand) but since when is this John Q Voter’s fight?
And I hope for peace all around.
Soros
The whole idea of justice in international affairs is naive.
Yeah, the explanation is this is yet another war over oil & gas reserves. We kicked Saddam back to Iraq when he invaded over oil, and we’ll kick Pootypoot back to Russia now that he has invaded over oil & gas. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4050958/posts
The Russians weren’t even interested in eastern Ukraine until oil was found there. Their interest is simply in raping that country. Russia gets 60% of its revenues from oil exports. Europe gets 40% of their oil from Russia.
In 2012 massive oil and gas reserves were found in Crimea. Crimea signed a $10 billion exploration contracts with Shell and Chevron to develop the new found oil and gas fields. These oil and gas products would compete in Europe with Russia’s oil and gas, reducing Russia’s oil revenues, which we recall amount to 60% of their total GDP. Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, cancelling the contracts with Shell and Chevron.
But Ukraine still had massive reserves in, you guessed it, Donetsk and Luhansk, and other areas East of the Dnieper River. In 2019, Energy Secretary Rick Perry visited Ukraine, and soon after Ukraine awarded exploration contracts to a consortium of U.S. oil companies. Again, these oil reserves would compete in Europe with Russian oil, so Putin is invading Ukraine to shut down this latest attempt to extract Ukrainian oil and sell it in competition with Russian oil.
This explanation makes more sense to me than the “Putin feels threatened by NATO expansion” excuses for the invasion.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4044221/posts?page=1#1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CmdSzVFSKc
If the Ukes allow some small region in the west to be its own republic, but the OIL belongs to Ukraine, do ya think Pootypoot would allow that? Nope.