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1 posted on 05/04/2022 8:44:20 AM PDT by PGR88
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Pinochet was a great man. He was the first person in history to successfully depose a Communist regime and he did it at a low price of making fewer than 1800 people disappear.

In one generation, Chile graduated from the third world to the first world because of what he did.

2 posted on 05/04/2022 8:51:18 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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I’m sure after they level the cities those well known reformers the Russian army will bring Enlightenment and peace to Ukraine.

This article is kind of like the Manson family breaks into your house kills half your family and then start telling people you were not recycling.

Brought to you by the same people who are now announcing that Sweden is a nazi country.


3 posted on 05/04/2022 8:53:26 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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6 posted on 05/04/2022 8:55:02 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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Early this year the Polish Legislature passed a law banning these radical Ukrainian ideologies.

So what did the Ukrainians do in Feb? They condemned the Polish.

There will NEVER be any peace in that region with these groups running around.

Zelensky tries to broker a peace deal? He will be assassinated within a few weeks by one of these groups.


7 posted on 05/04/2022 8:57:11 AM PDT by crz
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A few years ago, I read a book about an Orthodox priest from England who was visiting some monasteries in Greece. While there, he met an Orthodox priest from the Ukraine who was trying to gain permanent residency in Greece because he feared for his life back in the Ukraine. He claimed that the government then in power (this was about 2016, pre-Zelensky) was "fascist," was targeting and murdering Christians, and had been installed with the assistance of the CIA.

At the time, I had no idea what he was talking about, but articles like this have shed some light on it.
8 posted on 05/04/2022 8:57:48 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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I was curious as to what was meant by "neoliberalism", so I read the article and found this - which is intended as a criticism::

It is this progressive modernizing discourse that allowed Zelensky to camouflage his plans for neoliberal reforms, launched just three days after the new government came to power. Throughout the campaign, the idea of “progress” highlighted by Zelensky was never linked to privatization, land sales, budget cuts, etc.. Only after Zelensky had consolidated his presidential power by establishing full control over the legislative and executive branches of power did he make it clear that the “normalization” and “civilization” of Ukraine meant the privatization of land and state/public property, the deregulation of labor relations, a reduction of power for trade unions, an increase in utility tariffs, and so on.

That sounds very much like what Thatcher did in the UK. He's trying to turn Ukraine from a centrally-planned socialist state into a capitalist one.

9 posted on 05/04/2022 9:00:04 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin (Sounds like a lot of malarkey to be)
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About Max Blumenthal, owner of the blog:

“..Blumenthal has contributed to broadcasts on RT (formerly known as Russia Today) on many occasions.[10] In December 2015, during a visit to Moscow presumed by multiple sources to have been paid for by the Kremlin,[15][18] Blumenthal was a guest at RT’s 10 Years On Air anniversary party attended by President Vladimir Putin, then-Lieutenant General Michael Flynn of the United States and English politician Ken Livingstone.[15][10][19] In an interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News in November 2017, Blumenthal defended RT against “the charge that it’s Kremlin propaganda.”[10][20] He has also contributed on multiple occasions to Sputnik radio,[18][21] as well as to Iran’s Press TV[22][23] and China’s CGTN…”


11 posted on 05/04/2022 9:03:34 AM PDT by libh8er
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The Grayzone is a left-wing to far-left news website and blog founded and edited by American journalist Max Blumenthal. The website, initially founded as The Grayzone Project, was affiliated with AlterNet before becoming independent in early 2018.


15 posted on 05/04/2022 9:23:15 AM PDT by Wuli
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So what’s wrong with a Pinochet-stye liberal? Is this a back-handed attempt at a complement?


19 posted on 05/04/2022 9:56:29 AM PDT by LuxAerterna (/)
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“Propagandists may repeat the mantra “Zelensky is a Jew, so he cannot be a Nazi” as often as they want,”

One under the apparently *shocking* theory that Jews are human just like you and me, they are capable of treachery, tyranny, murder, duplicity, opportunism, and bribery.

Two, it’s a fact that Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, and half the Bolshevik leadership was Jewish. From Alinski, to Ayers, etc the revolutionary socialist movement in America has been lead by Jewish people. So they are capable of being fine totalitarians joining in with the best route to power wherever they are. This happens with moslems and Christians and atheists also.

In Nazi Germany, SS member number 2 was Emil Maurice, right behind Adoph Hitler who had membership number 1. There were more than a few high ranking Nazis suck as Reinhard Heydrich and yes, Der Fuhrer himself that had Jewish roots.

Shockingly also, even in Israel itself, Jews run the range from salt of the earth capitalists, to doctrinaire pure communists who love the PLO. They even vote differently. One faction has even assassinated the leader of the other side!

So Zelensky is a corrupt guy, who ran on a platform of ending the Galician attack on the Donbass by implementing Minsk II. He was steamrollered by the Galician nazis and cannot control them. On video they told him to his face they would NOT remove their heavy weapons. He answered “I am the president, you cannot talk to me that way!”. But they did.
Azov threatened to hang him if he pushed more. That is on video Azov released. Now he is showing his authoritarian side by closing media outlets and arresting people for social media posts, and closing opposition parties. He is first class grifter a-hole.

We should really operate under the idea that Jews are fully normal and can appear anywhere on the spectrum of politics.
His Jewish background does not tell us if he is a nazi tool or not. This same concept goes for all religions.


20 posted on 05/04/2022 10:58:40 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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America must intervene in Ukraine to guarantee relentless corruption and kickbacks to American politicians. What is Ukraine good for without dozens of bioweapons lab there funded by the USA?

All of these new billions Biden and henchmen want sent to Ukraine will never be used to improve the lives of the Ukrainian people.

American weapons sent to Ukraine will be blown up by the Russians as soon as the weapons arrive with rejoicing from American arms manufacturers for the opportunity to build even more at U.S. taxpayer expense.

The billions in weapons abandoned in Afghanistan were not a flaw. They were a deliberate feature making sure the U.S. government would have to spend billions more ordering new weapons from the arms makers (with 10% set aside for the Big Guy).

All you need to know about Ukraine is Zelensky is a partner in crime with Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff and the other Leftist criminals who no doubt have fat bank accounts thanks to Ukraine’s corruption.


21 posted on 05/04/2022 11:10:16 AM PDT by Gnome1949
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Very good piece! No doubt the CIA and Soros people will be along shortly to say it’s “Disinformation from Putin!”


22 posted on 05/04/2022 11:26:55 AM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Putin is behaving rationally.The war is on Biden and Obama. )
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So basically it’s a civil war, Eastern Ukraine v Western Ukraine. And it’s been going on for over 10 years.

But now the Western Side has the direct backing of the US and NATO, while the East has Russia on their side.

So it really is a proxy war, NATO v Russia. With lots of dead bodies in Ukraine.

What a giant steaming pile of stupid.


24 posted on 05/04/2022 11:30:17 AM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Putin is behaving rationally.The war is on Biden and Obama. )
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Well I guess it’s not easy being pro russia in Ukraine since March 2022:-)


25 posted on 05/04/2022 11:50:21 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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