Americans don't care about events abroad. Their lives will be dictated by these events, and they will suffer for indulging in their ignorance.
A number of months ago at Desicritics, the daughter site to Blogcritics Magazine, I wrote an analysis of why no country should trust the United States. It was to be a series, and I was going to use Israel as the example. But we have a far better example to see unfolding in front of us today — Gruzia, known in the west as Georgia.…
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26 - Jordan Richardson
The States went into Iraq to unhorse a dictator and they did so.
Absolute utter crap.
27 - Ruvy
[Ruvy] The States went into Iraq to unhorse a dictator and they did so.
[Jordan] Absolute utter crap.
Please Jordan,
Don't waste your time on irrelevant issues. It doesn't matter anymore. The States are finished as a country for having sunk all that money, manpower and prestige into the swamps of the Tigris and Euphrates - and having gained nothing by it - not even a way out! As the dollar depreciates, all the profits of the war profiteers will dissipate also. And when the dollar finally crashes, the banks will be gone, too.
But Putin will still be there, and his army will still be ready to roll. Keep your eye on the target - and on the enemy.
28 - Jordan Richardson
Okay. I'll try and keep that in mind.
29 - Ruvy
UPDATE...UPDATE...UPDATE...UPDATE...UPDATE
There we have it, folks. I told you Putin would not fight a "cold war" - this is heating up fast.This just arrived in my inbox: From AP reporting in the Jerusalem Post
Norway: Russia to cut all military ties with NATO
From the article:
30 - Dan Miller
Ruvy,
If the U.S. were not spread so thin, do you really think that our response would be different? I don't know the answer, and don't have enough information to speculate intelligently. Perhaps (I hope) you do.
Dan
31 - Ruvy
Dan,
Look at my "Sunday school lesson" (comment #18). The answer is there. I live in one of America's "condom countries". Come to think of it, so do you.
32 - Dmitry
First of all Russia protected the citizens, but before it Georgia has literally exterminated more than 2 thousand peace citizens SO after that you name Russia an aggressor! Lie. And if you did not see interview of citizens SO I to you will inform - all population SO against joining of Georgia and all condemn their policy and all population SO is grateful Russia what they have stopped the Georgian armies, thus and all the rest to Georgia delivered the weapon USA and in every possible way helped them, help now and support that violence which have made the Georgian armies concerning SO, why?!Thus America does not tell a word about the Georgian aggression concerning South Ossetia at United Nations sessions!
33 - Ruvy
Dmitry,
First of all, the Russians have no damned business in the Caucasus. The Romanovs pushed the Russian empire there, pressuring the Gruzian kingdom and finally annexing it. The Romanovs were, as was the USSR that succeeded it, and now the Russian Federation that has succeeded the USSR, imperialist and expansionist powers. Put simply, the Russians wish to now control as much or Gruzia as they can. The Russian empire in all of its forms, has never given a damn about the dignity of the Ossetians or the Abkhazians - a fact you know as well as I do, whether you are willing to admit it or not. And with America in its weakened and flaccid state, that is a distinct possibility. Ossetia and Abkhazia are merely excuses to exercise Russian imperial ambition.
Second of all, I have yet to see the Russian who apologizes and recognizes as sinful the 50 millions of people put to death under the régime of Yosef Stalin. Russian Jews in Israel don't generally apologize - they were the next victims in line and are grateful that Stalin died when he did. But I have yet to see the Russian non-Jew who says that the wholesale murder of millions on Russian soil in the second quarter of the twentieth (Christian) century was a sin. Stalin made Hitler look like a damned piker, a cheapskate by comparison to him. Before any Russian complains about Gruzia (or anybody else, for that matter) killing people, they need to bow their own heads in shame over how their own leaders rinsed their boots in blood. I'm waiting, Dmitry.
Thirdly, Dmitry, I'd advise you to remember who you so arrogantly inform of your propaganda. I'm a Jew in Israel, not some soft American who has an easy life. And as a Jew, I generally regard Russia as a land of savage Jew-haters laden with Cossacks and pogroms - a Russian word, I might add. When the Ukrainians under Khmelnitsky, and later your damned Czars split up Poland, you ruined the most prosperous Jewish community in Europe. Russians made Jews act like animals just in order to survive in your sick empire, and led them to act with hatred towards each other. Our own people paid for that needless hatred with the Nazi holocaust. In addition to leading our people to act like animals towards each other, your communist regime erased Jewish culture in your country, causing many Jews to forget who they are and turning them into savages - like Russians are. And now thousands of them infest this country with the rotten habits of your culture - a vicious hatred, violence, drunkenness, organized crime and prostitution. So if it appears that I carry a grudge against Russia, I applaud you for your sharp perception. I do.
But you Russians have not yet been judged for your sins against my people. So far as I am concerned, Israeli nukes should be aimed at Russia and the Ukraine to seek vengeance for the evils Russians and Ukrainians perpetrated against my people. But since our weapons are not strong enough or numerous enough to do the job properly, I call upon My G-d, the G-d of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to judge you and your people with the cruelest severity instead. And I'm confident that our prophets have your people in mind as one of the nations to be destroyed during the historical period we live in today - The End of Days.
Fourthly, bear in mind that understanding what kind of nation your country is, I fully realize what kind of threat Prime Minister (and former President) Putin presents to the world. He is the most dangerous man on the planet. He is a trained member of the Spetsnaz, a former KGB officer, a trained blackbelt - in short, a man who thinks like the leader of a wolf pack. None of the leaders of the world's nations who talk with him have his training or his determination to attain to his goals. He has demonstrated how to exercise power, cowing the European members of NATO into submission. His fleet sits in the Mediterranean, with a likely base in Syria, his military helps Iran develop it nuclear ambitions. Your government has intimidated the Israeli government to hand over to the Russian government prime real estate in the center of Jerusalem, OUR national capital. I have a great deal of respect for this leader of the Russian wolf pack.
And I understand clearly that he is an enemy of the Jewish people, just as is the Protestant aristocracy ruling the United States.
Finally, Dmitry, this brings me to the point of my article. The point of my article was not the evils of Russian aggression. I don't generally belabor the obvious in my articles. Any European will testify to the savageness and uncivilized behavior of Russian soldiers of occupation. The point of my article was the stupidity of any nation relying on the United States to be a loyal and reliable ally.
34 - Dmitry
Well in the first in all nations there are bad people, and it is erroneous to name Russian the enemy number 1 for Jews, personally I and my friends in any way we do not respect those who with contempt concerns other of the nations, and such people full and not only in Russia, but also in other countries. If to mention history and to act in a role of the vindictive avenger in the world the chaos, now absolutely other situation will start to be created. In SO first of all the Georgian armies have started to attack the Russian peacemakers and inhabitants SO, our armies long enough waited for the permission to input of armies to territory of Gruzy and SO. The NATO in this of situations has not reacted in any way. And to whom was to rescue defenceless people SO? Time you have mentioned history why you not упамянул Germany, whose purpose of Dictatorship has been directed on destruction of Jews? And thus that dictatorship for a long time already have condemned! Also what now and Germany should apologise before all world? IT in the past, and now at all countries absolutely other interests. And it is absolutely not clear to what the USA aspire - they have armed and have trained the Georgian army which has in turn begun растрел the peace population, it is normal? So that reaction of Moscow монжно to understand. Concerning Stalin. I also as well as you condemn its policy and in Russia not I one such, here more 90%граждан so consider. Any country for murder of the citizen is ready presently on improbable acts. In the conflict Southern Ossetias and Gruzy all was lost more than two honeycombs of Russian citizens, and for the sake of what?, and in order that the Georgian armies have terminated растрел population SO. The USA to a campaign of it does not see. And still, Ruvy, give we will not mention a more ethnic theme. Is very insulting to hear such words in the address when it at all so. (Type Russian main enemies еврееям), in Russia very few people so considers, and if consider, only idiots and such people are in all countries.
35 - Al
As I can see evryone makes a coment what they heard from their states press propaganda. everything is a bit more complicated if to bear in mind that Gorgias Sakashvili is a pupet of USA...For us pure people the true will be known maybe in 300 years, when no one cares...
36 - Al
Ruvy... I see that you a very inteligent guy, but you are full of hate and anger, it looks like you will exspload from all the hate you keep in yourselfe, calm down, cos that just makes people sick... live in pease and enjoy your life to the full., and stop reading history that will destroy you, we all know that there were times bad, and yes u have bed and good people everywhere, but don`t forget the bad people coming from the people like you with all that anger wich one day exsploads and creats awfull things......pease......
37 - Ruvy
I see that Russians do not like being told off (see Dmitry's barely coherent fuming in comment #33 - and others would tell me not to harbor anger - that it's bad for my health.
What a joke!
Dmitry's comment shows that he cannot comprehend that someone is looking down at Russia and Russians in Russia as mere savage and poisonous insects - dangerous and to be respected - but that they are not the point of the article. My article condemns those fools who place faith in America.
The last two comments to this thread by Al show the root of how evil succeeds in the world. "Good" people shrug and say the truth cannot be known "For us pure people the true will be known maybe in 300 years, when no one cares....", says Al.
Secondly, see his abjuration to me.... "you a very intelligent guy, but you are full of hate and anger, it looks like you will explode from all the hate you keep in yourself, calm down, cos that just makes people sick... live in peace and enjoy your life to the full., and stop reading history that will destroy you,"
Someone has to speak the truth and stop ignoring the history that will destroy him. It is this ignoring of history that will destroy you that has led America to its sorry and pathetic state today.
Fools ignore history and sit silent while evil men cause death and misery. The refusal to see and denounce evil eventually turns on he who shuts his eyes to it.