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Predictable. No word yet on whether the evil witch floats or not. The entire thing is a fairly transparent attempt to gin up some anti-russian sentiment in th
by nimbius 8y ago
Predictable. No word yet on whether the evil witch floats or not.
The entire thing is a fairly transparent attempt to gin up some anti-russian sentiment in the wake of a growing presidential scandal under active investigation that keeps turning up damning evidence. At best it pulls the administration out of the fire for a few days but frankly all its doing is insisting the US is open for business until we find a big enough bus to throw you under for our own political gain.
Same with Huawei. Its difficult to cast an outright ban on import as anything less than telecom players waving their hands and crying red-scare to an audience of congressmen that are either old enough to remember duck-and-cover drills or ancient enough to have actually participated in some of the clandestine blacklisting and CIA funded government overthrow in central America.
- qaq 8y agoI think no external help is needed Russia is doing pretty well stirring up anti-russian sentiment through their own actions.
- pabloski 8y agoWhat actions? The bullshit you read on MSM? Do you want to talk about US actions? Like invading north and south east of Syria, in violation of the UN charter? Like shooting down treaties they have signed ( with Iran ) under UN supervision? Like the hybrid war they are fighting in Ukraine since the 2014 coup in Kiev? Oh, talking about Ukraine, let's talk about this "proud" american journalist https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/ukraine-should-blow-up-putins-crimea-bridge https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/ukraine-should-bl...
- qaq 8y agoWhen was the last time US annexed someone's territory?
- cbrozefsky 8y agoIf you count military bases, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan are the most recent ones that come to mind. Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo is another example At least in the Crimea they had a referendum... One can make semantic arguments about wether any of those are annexation, but speaking as an US citizen, I think it would be quite ignorant to ignore that the US consistently subverts the national sovereignty and territorial integrity of countries when it suits their needs.
- qaq 8y agoNo I do not count military bases and it's not just a semantic difference. The result of previous annexation in Europe was WWII.
- dleslie 8y agoHawaii in 1898, the Philippines in 1902. Been a while since outright annexation, it seems; but the USA sure loves to meddle!
- to_bpr 8y ago>Do you want to talk about US actions? The US generally isn't a topic open for criticism on HN. Which is fine, since it's a US site run by a US company, and never claims to be a bastion of free thought and critical thinking.