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  1. yardmeat

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    can't argue with something that's never happening!
     
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    Aleksander Ulyanov Well-Known Member

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    Muskie was a DINO. The only memorable thing about him is that he inspired Hunter Thompson to write "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail"
     
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    I certainly dont believe people who remove context from my quotes before they quote me, like you just did.
     
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    modernpaladin Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Do you not understand what an example is, or are you trying to pretend I didn't say it was an example?
     
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    DOI doesn't know what fascist means.
    He really is becoming à joke.
     
  9. Pixie

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    Why is it that when your nonsense is shot down, you never defend it. You just post silly poor weak comments like this?
    Don't you believe in what you post or is it à case of "copy and paste once and move on"?
    You need to go back to propagandist school, mate.
     
  10. Tofiks

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    What context I removed? And You should not believe me, just read the book or find it and quickly look at it, and You will found out, that non-mainstream media is just manipulating with auditory. They are tearing out quotes from context, and seems that You are ok with that. Because for people like you, is all about believing, not thinking.
     
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    modernpaladin Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Compare what I said with what you quoted and you'll see what you removed.

    As to your assertion regarding what Brzeziński meant in his book you supposedly read, here's the same interpretation from a more 'mainstream' source, Putin’s Dilemma - CounterPunch.org ,one which our esteemed fact checkers rate as:

    Bias Rating: LEFT
    Factual Reporting: MOSTLY FACTUAL
    Country: USA
    Press Freedom Rank: MOSTLY FREE
    Media Type: Magazine
    Traffic/Popularity: Medium Traffic
    MBFC Credibility Rating: HIGH CREDIBILITY
    CounterPunch - Media Bias/Fact Check (mediabiasfactcheck.com)

    Thats about as good as it gets from our mainstream media these days. Of course the story was written way before the invasion of Ukraine, so we get a lot less of our own propaganda with it than we do today. I spose today it would be pure, unbridled 'Pootin Propaganda...' but here it is anyway.

    APRIL 23, 2014 (<<<<pay special attention here;))
    Putin’s Dilemma
    BY MIKE WHITNEY
    "The last decade of the twentieth century has witnessed a tectonic shift in world affairs. For the first time ever, a non-Eurasian power has emerged not only as a key arbiter of Eurasian power relations but also as the world’s paramount power.” (p. xiii)

    “Now a non-Eurasian power is preeminent in Eurasia — and America’s global primacy is directly dependent on how long and how effectively its preponderance on the Eurasian continent is sustained.” (p.30)

    Excerpts from The Grand Chessboard : American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Basic Books, 1997

    “We were promised in Munich that after the unification of Germany, no expansion of NATO would take place in the East. Then NATO expanded by adding former Warsaw Pact countries, former U.S.S.R. countries, and I asked: ‘Why are you doing that?’ And they told me, ‘It is not your business.’ ”

    – Russian President Vladimir Putin, Moscow press conference, April 2014

    The United States is in the opening phase of a war on Russia. Policymakers in Washington have shifted their attention from the Middle East to Eurasia where they hope to achieve the most ambitious part of the imperial project; to establish forward-operating bases along Russia’s western flank, to stop further economic integration between Asia and Europe, and to begin the long-sought goal of dismembering the Russian Federation. These are the objectives of the current policy. The US intends to spread its military bases across Central Asia, seize vital resources and pipeline corridors, and encircle China in order to control its future growth. The dust-up in Ukraine indicates that the starting bell has already been rung and the operation is fully-underway. As we know from past experience, Washington will pursue its strategy relentlessly while shrugging off public opinion, international law or the condemnation of adversaries and allies alike. The world’s only superpower does not have to listen to anyone. It is a law unto itself.

    The pattern, of course, is unmistakable. It begins with sanctimonious finger-wagging, economic sanctions and incendiary rhetoric, and quickly escalates into stealth bombings, drone attacks, massive destruction of civilian infrastructure, millions of fleeing refugees, decimated towns and cities, death squads, wholesale human carnage, vast environmental devastation, and the steady slide into failed state anarchy; all of which is accompanied by the stale repetition of state propaganda spewed from every corporate bullhorn in the western media.

    Isn’t that how things played out in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria?

    Indeed, it did. And now it’s on to Moscow. Putin’s survival and that of the Russian Federation depends to large extent to his ability to grasp the new reality quickly and to adapt accordingly. If he decides to ignore the warning signs hoping that Washington can be appeased or that the men who dictate US foreign policy can be persuaded to abandon the so-called “pivot to Asia”, he could face the same end as Saddam or Gadhafi. So the first priority is simply to accept the fact that the war has begun. All future policy decisions should derive from that basic understanding."

    So, Mr. 'I read Brzezinski!'... did our mainstream fact checkers get it wrong, then, and Counterpunch is just more 'Russian State News'?
     
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    Yes, anyone can compare. How anyone can say, that Russian propaganda is true, when they lied for months to World and to Russian population. Or You think is exception? Spoiler - it's not. :)

    I just know, that Berzinski did not wrote about "drawing Ukraine into Washington’s orbit would deliver a major blow to Russia". Just read the book, not some noneme websites.

    And this is also a lie, because there were no promises, no agreements of that kind. But is ok for You, right?

    For those who slept geography lessons at school - Middle East is in Eurasia.

    Are there any facts, which conforms this bullshit? Spoiler - there are none facts. :D
    US left Afghanistan last Year. I guess it's in the frame on this policy, right? :)
     
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    Do we know what it has to do with Chicago?
     
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    Well, to be fair, half a swastika.
    They can't manage the other half.
     
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    You're trying to dodge the question.

    Was Counterpunch.com (a media source rated as "highly credible" by MBFC) pushing Russian propaganda in 2014? Or is it just me pushing 'Russian Propaganda', even though Im saying the same thing they did?

    Im just trying to determine whether you have any intellectual consistancy or not.
     
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    I don't know about Your "media fact-checker", but the text you copied here is total bullshit in the manner of Russian propaganda. There were no attempts to "to establish forward-operating bases along Russia’s western flank " or "encircle China in order to control its future growth". US can turn down any growth of China just banning China export to US, it would be catastrophe for China economy, no need for single base.
     
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    Ah, so you're not saying a fact-checked "highly credible" source is Russian propaganda, you're saying a fact-checked "highly credible" source said the same thing as Russian propaganda.
     
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    Yes, your text is total bullshit in the manner of Russian propaganda, and I explained why. Cant understand Your focus on some "fact-checker". Just try to think instead of blindly following something.
     
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    I dont really care about your personal analysis of Brzinsky. I can understand what he says well enough, and it appears to me you just dont like what hes clearly saying and you want it to mean something else. W/e.

    What Im sick of is being accused of 'Russian propaganda' for saying things that were common knowledge before Russia invaded, but after became taboo because people today need 'the bad guy' to not have any legitimate claims because their fragile sensibilities cant handle the complexity of the situation.

    Putin can be (and clearly is) correct that the west is trying to make a Russia-less world it can dominate, and at the same time its still wrong and evil for Putin to invade Ukraine over it.
     
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    Uh huh

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    And we are back to Bill's "Preparing to defend yourself against someone is an act of aggression" excuses for his favorite imperialist nation.
     
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    I didn't give any personal analysis of Brzinsky, I just noticed that Your no name website just tearing some quotes from context from Brzinsky book and add statements, which were never written by Brzinsky.
    And You did not read Brzinsky book, so You don't know what he has written there.

    If you are sick of it, then stop spreading Russian propaganda. It's simple.


    Yes, of course, it's wrong and evil deed to invade in neighbor country for land grab and kill thousands of innocent people. It's not wrong for You? Be sure, it's not wrong for you till the moment when someone with weapon will come to your house, rape your wife, rob and kill You. At that moment, this kind of deeds will stop become acceptable for people like you.
     
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    Someone learned to put a dots on map? Bet it's great success for people like you?
     
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    And maybe one day you'll learn what the dots represent. I'm not holding my breath though.

    Another day, another deflection.
     
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    wth are you talking about?
     

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