Posted on 07/17/2023 11:08:07 AM PDT by MeganC
Free? I’m not free. Free elections are a thing of the past in America. America is currently ruled by a 100% legit crime family. And as far as Ukraine is concerned, it is certainly not free under Zelensky.
“Is Zelensky not part of the regime which was established in 2014?”
No. In 2014 he was making movies and Ukrainian TV shows. He didn’t start to get involved politically until 2018.
“Free? I’m not free. Free elections are a thing of the past in America. America is currently ruled by a 100% legit crime family. And as far as Ukraine is concerned, it is certainly not free under Zelensky.”
Well, perhaps you’d like to relocate to another country. Which one strikes your fancy?
Such b.s. Seriously.
Obambi and Putin agreed to split Ukraine (think Crimea). But then Joey was clearly so weak, Putin took advantage of the situation to take it all back.
Note that nothing happened between 2017 and Jan 2021.
“IIRC, the Ukraine had a democratically elected government which the current regime ousted in a coup d’état.”
Yanukovych was facing a no confidence vote in the Rada, and he knew he would not prevail. So, he beat feet to Russia in the 11th hour. That’s hardly being toppled in a coup; that’s being held to account, per Ukrainian law.
Well, since then, Zelensky has been creeping slowly but steadily into into being more like Putin with more heavy handed tactics.
But this article is garbage. Putin wants the Soviet Union back - he has said so. Any other reasoning is just propaganda to justify imperialist expansion.
During those years Trump was taking aggressive military actions against Russia, from ending Obama’s weapon boycott of Ukraine and he started shipping weapons to Ukraine, to reactivating V Corps and moving it closer to Russia, to Poland, building up our nuclear forces, and withdrawing from the INF treaty.
Nah, that’s the coward’s way out. I think I’ll stick around and see what can be done to save my country thank you very much. But I am sick and tired of hearing the words “freedom” and “democracy” coming out of the mouths of our current Western leaders. How on earth are we fighting for freedom and democracy in Ukraine when we don’t have either here at home?
“Nah, that’s the coward’s way out. I think I’ll stick around and see what can be done to save my country thank you very much.”
I’m glad to hear that.
“But I am sick and tired of hearing the words ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ coming out of the mouths of our current Western leaders. How on earth are we fighting for freedom and democracy in Ukraine when we don’t have either here at home?”
Well, we are a republic, not a democracy; specifically, we are a constitutional republic. I am very much opposed to a pure democracy, because that is nothing but tyranny by majority. Our republic was specifically created to protect against that kind of tyranny. I prefer the term “self-rule” over “democracy;” but a constitutional one, where the rights of ALL are protected. Don’t fall into the trap of equating the government with freedom, because the government is the opposite of freedom. Our constitution established the government to ensure that the rights of the people were protected, which was its primary. Hence, our constitution created a limited government. Unfortunately, ne’er do-wells and egoists took control of government and instead of assuring the rights of the people were protected, took that limited power and increased it exponentially for their own benefit. We, the people, are not blameless, because we let them get away with it, to the extent we now have to face that which we allowed to metastasize.
“Well, we are a republic, not a democracy; specifically, we are a constitutional republic.”
Yeah, yeah I know. Oftentimes, when people use the term American democracy they are merely referring to the right to vote and pick their own leaders and not the theoretical form of government called democracy.
If Mexico ever showed designs of being “free”. it wo;uld certainly fuel “war fever” in the US - as it has done three times already.
That might have made sense during the Cold War, but there has been a proliferation of travel between Russia and the outside world that has only grown exponentially over time. Heck — we have professional athletes who compete as Russians in international sports but spend 95% of their lives here in the U.S. There’s no controlling the narrative anymore — at least with people who WANT to know about things outside their own borders.
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