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Post by scumbuster on Sept 13, 2022 3:11:45 GMT -5
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Post by vikingo on Sept 14, 2022 8:54:25 GMT -5
Putin fooled a lot of people, many high-ranking European politicians and especially a large German guilt-ridden population whose historical leaders were responsible for the death of 27 million Russians in WW2 according to Gorbachev, more than half of the total deaths caused by the war which is estimated at 50 million. After the collapse of the Soviet Union thanks to Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan who convinced him to end the Cold War came a time of peaceful coexistence between the Europeans and Russia and all went well for years until Putin decided to annex the Crimea. Even then Europeans reasoned that the Crimea was given to the Ukraine by Nikita Khrushchev in 1954 a decision which was condemned by the Soviets after his death in 1971. On a side note: When Eisenhower invited Khrushchev in 1959 to visit the US he was accompanied by his intellectual son Sergei who at the age of 24 was awestruck by the US accomplishments especially with Disneyland, many single-family homes and the amount of big cars on the freeways and after the Soviet Union's collapse, Sergei who had become a rocket and space scientist, moved with his wife to the US, they became dual citizens and lived happily ever after until he put a bullet in his head for unknown reasons at the age of 84.
Putin's invasion of the Ukraine in February and his brutal warfare against civilians, especially women and children with more than 300 dead kids by now changed the entire mentality of the Europeans, something Ron Paul seems oblivious to. Feelings of guilt for denying the Ukraine a membership in NATO in 2008, mainly at Putin's request, which would have avoided the war sunk in, add to that the 'Holodomor' in Ukraine's history when Stalin ordered the starvation of rural Ukrainians in 1932 to 1934 with up to 5 million victims. Yes, Europeans who have been living high on the hog will suffer somewhat and pay higher utilities and many heartless and selfish Europeans are up in arms about the sanctions, but they are effective, not necessarily monetary, but there is a growing trend in Russia to remove Putin from the Kremlin, he is definitely severely weakened and so will be the Russian economy in the long run. Why else is Putin trying desperately to have the sanctions removed? The European Union's desperate trend to change the climate by shutting down nuclear power-plants with questionable results on climate change doesn't help their predicament on heating homes. Add to that the enormous population density in Europe, several cars in every household and the refusal by the green environmental party in power in Germany to drill for available gas. A very similar situation in the EU as in the US. Russia has supplied Europe with heavily discounted crude oil and gas ever since the cold war ended which created a dependency on Russia that Donald Trump warned the Europeans about not too long ago, but he was laughed out of the room. They aren't laughing now.
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Post by vikingo on Sept 15, 2022 17:20:08 GMT -5
A video I just saw from the political scientist William Spaniel,PhD on the subject.
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