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Helena Prikryl's avatar

We should not only say what we think but what we feel too. Most of the time anyway. I think that most animals are like this. But if we have a bad and unjust thought what do we do with it? I think we should do nothing with it, just let it pass through our minds, like the Buddhists let it do.

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potshot's avatar

Speaking of bulls___ your introduction to this piece is. President Gorbachev agreed to the reunification of the two Germanys and the withdrawal of 130,000 Soviet troops in 1990. This was contingent a promise made to Gorbachev by Secretary of State James Baker and other government officials that NATO would not expand “one inch” east of Germany toward Russia. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and beginning with President Clinton in the late 90s, NATO has embraced fourteen other countries including Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia right on Russia’s western border. NATO, which is to say the United States, has stationed troops in these former Soviet republics with nuclear capable missile batteries.

Putin, even the Western puppet Yeltsin, have long been opposed to what they perceive as the security threat of NATO expansion. As far back as 2014 Putin has been adamant that NATO would not be allowed to incorporate Ukraine. The Minkst Accords create a road map to peace that the US has refused to honor because it wants to remain the hegemon and set the terms of the “rules based international order.” That is to say, whatever the US and the corporations that own it, want.

In 2014 the US sponsored a coup in Ukraine that deposed a democratically elected president, and brought to power another Western puppet. The coup government outlawed the Russian language and customs. At this the majority ethnic Russian-speaking people of the Donbas in east Ukraine seceded. There has been a civil war there since.

When there is international conflict what is usually the causitive factor? The origins of the current crisis should be traced to the 2014 US-sponsored coup.

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