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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPutin was not “emboldened by Obama”: he was inspired by Bush.
http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2014/04/07/putin-was-not-emboldened-by-obama-he-was-inspired-by-bush/"
Take a gander at that flock of sphincter birdies: they were paid political operatives sent to Florida to stage a fake riot at a Board of Election, thus helping steal the 2000 election for Gee Dubya Bush. The idea was; create a false impression of public outrage and dissent that the government had to deal with right away, thus allowing extraordinary measures to be taken to preserve public order. As we all know by now, that effort was a success, and the Bushistas robbed, pillaged, and murdered their way across the country and the Middle East for 8 interminable years of illegitimate government.
This year in Crimea, Vladimir Putin and his oligarch buddies followed the same model: they sent in faux demonstrators to create the impression of disorder, and so Russia just HAD TO send in troops to restore order and allow the oppressed locals the opportunity to shuffle off those dreaded shackles of Western Oppression, blahblahblahblahBLAHblahblah. (Guns were required in Ukraine because they, unlike we wimpy Americans, were unlikely to allow a bunch of corrupt billionaires to steal their entire nation. We rolled over and accepted it without a fight.)
Now in Eastern Ukraine, what was done in Crimea and Florida is being done again. The Russians are staging more fake riots and creating a need for immediate intervention yadayadayada. And any number of Right Wingnuts would have you believe this is being done because of Obamas weakness.
Nonsense: a President who orders the invasion of sovereign countries to kill our enemies there (via drones and SEAL teams, mostly) is not a wimp. And we have ample proof of this. Ask the Taliban and various Al-Quaida groups: well, ask the surviving members, that is. He has killed a s***load of em, and never shed a tear.
No, if Putin needed guidance from an American Prexy, he got it from the Shrub. What Russia is doing in Eastern Europe is straight out of the Republican south Florida playbook.
Its just as transparent, just about as illegal, and just as successful as it was in 2000."
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