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Has nothing to do with a memory hole. None of that has anything to do with what's going on now.
It's the international equivalent of saying "oh that guy that the police unlawfully killed was convicted of some drug crimes a decade ago so it's okay. He was no angel."
Whether or not a country is corrupt by American standards should be unrelated to whether or not that country is allowed to exist.
The implication otherwise is that the United States should just be able to decide that a country is insufficiently worthy of sovereignty and borders, and declare it void.
Which, by the way, is what is ongoing in Ukraine. There is an ongoing debate as to whether or not Ukraine is a country, and one side of that debate wasn't succeeding with words so they decided to try using tanks instead.
I disagree. An unfree country has no right to exist. It is a sliding scale. It doesn't mean if Japan is less free than the United States it wouldn't make it legitimate to overthrow the government. But certainly Cuba, Russia, North Korea Iran, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela are illegitimate states. The only question that matters is if it is in the rational self interest of a free country to overthrow those governments.
Why is Russia any more of an illegitimate state than the US ?
Putin is always demonized as being ex-KGB. Wasn't Bush head of CIA? Wasn't the USSR equivalent to CIA the KGB?
Putin is always demonized as being ex-KGB. Wasn't Bush head of CIA? Wasn't the USSR equivalent to CIA the KGB?
It is more about the hypocrisy.As long as your point is that both should be equally demonized for heading ruthless, murderous spy agencies, then to that extent I agree wholeheartedly.
If it's just another "He did it too" attempt, especially considering almost nobody around here holds Bush in high regard, epic fail.
It is more about the hypocrisy.
I certainly don't like the Bush's.But if those demonizing Putin DON'T hold Bush in high regard, there is no hypocrisy. And like I said, you'd be hard pressed to find anyone here who holds Bush in high regard.
I certainly don't like the Bush's.
What POTUS do you hold in high regard?
Coolidge was going to be my pick.Being an an-cap I don't really hold any politicians in that high a regard, but if I had to pick a couple of presidents who weren't TOO horrible, Coolidge and Jefferson come to mind.