Comments by "Vierotchka" (@Vierotchka) on "The Jimmy Dore Show"
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@joni8090 The majority of Ukrainians are natural Russians. Kiev is the cradle of Russia. The Ukraine wasn't even a region one thousand years ago. It became a Russian region a few centuries ago but had been part and parcel of Russia for centuries. The Ukrainian language (which a huge proportion of Ukrainians cannot speak) is simply a Russian regional dialect. The westerm part of the Ukraine was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth for a while (The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and, after 1791, as the Commonwealth of Poland, was a country and bi-federation of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch in real union, who was both King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, and was
founded in 1569), and then was part of the Austro-Humgarian empire. Geopolitics led to it becoming a part of the Ukraine. At the beginning of the 20th century Ukrainian lands were part of the Austro-Hungarian (Galicia, Transcarpathia, Bukovina) and Russian (the nine right-bank and left-bank provinces) Empires. In 1918–19 the Ukrainian territories of Austria-Hungary were consolidated to form the Western Ukrainian National Republic. After a brief period of independence it was occupied by Poland (Galicia), Romania (Bukovyna), and Czechoslovakia (Transcarpathia).
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@thegovernment3653 Tell us then in what manner what Afghanistan had to do with 9/11. The logistics to invade Afghanistan were practically all already in place before 9/11. Afghanistan sits over trillions of dollars of largely untapped natural resources, especially rare earths and rare metals, as well as a huge reserve of natural gas and a very large reserve of oil. Then, there was Unocal's pipeline project to bring Caspian Sea Basin oil down to Karachi via Afghanistan. The fees that Unocal offered the Taliban for the transit of oil and gas were pretty low, and the Taliban refused. They were then told that it was their choice, either they would receive a carpet of gold if they accepted or be buried under a carpet of bombs if they refused.
Insider accounts published in the British, French and Indian media have revealed that US officials threatened war against Afghanistan during the summer of 2001. These reports include the prediction, made in July, that “if the military action went ahead, it would take place before the snows started falling in Afghanistan, by the middle of October at the latest.” The Bush administration began its bombing strikes on the hapless, poverty-stricken country October 7, and ground attacks by US Special Forces began October 19.
It is not an accident that these revelations have appeared overseas, rather than in the US. The ruling classes in these countries have their own economic and political interests to look after, which do not coincide, and in some cases directly clash, with the drive by the American ruling elite to seize control of oil-rich territory in Central Asia.
The American media has conducted a systematic cover-up of the real economic and strategic interests that underlie the war against Afghanistan, in order to sustain the pretense that the war emerged overnight, full-blown, in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11.
The pundits for the American television networks and major daily newspapers celebrate the rapid military defeat of the Taliban regime as an unexpected stroke of good fortune. They distract public attention from the conclusion that any serious observer would be compelled to draw from the events of the past two weeks: that the speedy victory of the US-backed forces reveals careful planning and preparation by the American military, which must have begun well before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
The official American myth is that “everything changed” on the day four airliners were hijacked and nearly 5,000 people murdered. The US military intervention in Afghanistan, by this account, was hastily improvised in less than a month. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, in a television interview November 18, actually claimed that only three weeks went into planning the military onslaught.
This is only one of countless lies emanating from the Pentagon and White House about the war against Afghanistan. The truth is that the US intervention was planned in detail and carefully prepared long before the terrorist attacks provided the pretext for setting it in motion. If history had skipped over September 11, and the events of that day had never happened, it is very likely that the United States would have gone to war in Afghanistan anyway, and on much the same schedule.
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