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To: rod5591

“All of this is the fault of Biden and the Dimocraps. They are driving Russia right into the arms of the enemies of the USA (China, Iran, N Korea)—the byproduct of their stupid and illegal sanctions against Russia.”

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Well, those “stupid sanctions” as you say were put in place by both the Obama and Trump administrations, after Russian illegally invaded Crimea in 2014.
Before that crazy invasion there were zero US sanctions on Russia.

Russia attacks, invades, levels cities and town to the ground, but Russia should not be met with at least sanctions in response? Is that what you mean?


4 posted on 04/15/2024 10:37:54 AM PDT by USA-FRANCE
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To: USA-FRANCE
Russia attacks, invades, levels cities and town to the ground, but Russia should not be met with at least sanctions in response? Is that what you mean?

Not by us. It's not our business. I'm all for SELLING things like weapons to the good guys (i.e. Israel). I'm also for sanctions/tariffs/import restrictions that WE put in place onto goods coming from countries that do the same to us (i.e. Trump trying to leverage other countries to drop their import restrictions on us).

But it's a bunch of mess when we get too much into other countries' wars and squabbles. We're not the world's policeman.

6 posted on 04/15/2024 10:44:17 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: USA-FRANCE
Sounds right to me.   We don't own Eastern Europe.
During the New Jewel Movement, the Soviet Union tried to make the island of Grenada to function as a Soviet base, and also by getting supplies from Cuba. In October 1983, during the U.S. invasion of Grenada, U.S. President Ronald Reagan maintained that US Marines arrived on the island of Grenada, which was considered a Soviet-Cuban ally that would export communist revolution throughout the Caribbean. In November, at a joint hearing of Congressional Subcommittee, it was told that Grenada could be used as a staging area for subversion of the nearby countries, for intersection of shipping lanes, and for the transit of troops and supplies from Cuba to Africa, and from Eastern Europe and Libya to Central America. In December, the State Department published a preliminary report on Grenada, in which was claimed as an "Island of Soviet Internationalism". When the US Marines landed on the island, they discovered a large amount of documents, which included agreements between the Soviet Government, and the New Jewel Movement, recorded minutes of the Committee meetings, and reports from the Grenadian embassy in Moscow.[2]
Ukraine to the Soviet Union (Russia) is no different than Grenada was to the USA.   We muscled into Grenada the same as Russia muscled into Ukraine, and rightly so on both counts.

We invaded Grenada because Americans were at risk of harm and Russia entered Ukraine because Russians were at risk of harm.

We have no right or obligation to intrude in Russia's national security.

If you want to fight Russia, go to Ukraine.   We have no dog in this hunt.   You can cry until the cows come.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenada%E2%80%93Soviet_Union_relations

22 posted on 04/15/2024 5:14:35 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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