Comments by "nuqwestr" (@nuqwestr) on "Did NATO promise Russia never to expand to the east? | DW News" video.

  1.  @valentintapata2268  I think your response supports my assertion. No question we in the US are guilty of genocide against indigenous populations, and broke promises, but these "tribes" were not Nation/States, and would not exist today if most of the promises were not kept. The 31st Vice-President of the US, Charles Curtis, was native American, Native "tribes" fought for the South in the Civil War, one chief was a brigadier general in the Confederacy, Stand Watie, owned slaves, a number of "tribes" became oil rich in Oklahoma because treaties were honored, and the Ho-Chunk are now very rich through gaming and other real estate endeavors, they've been a client of mine, so have first hand experience. You have a narrow view of life and human nature.
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  2.  @valentintapata2268  "broken treaties" w/native tribes something of a false equivalency. Which of these "tribes" are part of the UN?
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  3. No "Russian Hacking" made a difference in US election outcome, we did that to ourselves.
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  4. "imperialism" for you has quite a broad definition, and "expands" into magical thinking, having fun?
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  5.  @davidjacobs8558  So was the 31st VP of the United States, Charles Curtis, what's your point.
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  6.  @davidjacobs8558  Many Apache War Chiefs had been captured European children who grew up Apache and became leaders. What are they?
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  7.  @davidjacobs8558  Jim Thorpe also had French and Irish lineage.
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  8. True, except: "February 2015, two Russian Tupolev Tu-95 "Bear" nuclear-capable strategic bombers entered Irish-controlled airspace without permission, without forewarning, with their transponders switched off and failed to file flight plans, causing serious concern at the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA), which was forced to divert a number of civil passenger aircraft out of the path of the Russian bombers as a precautionary measure. The Russian military aircraft were interrogated by RAF Eurofighter Typhoon jets scrambled from the United Kingdom, demonstrating the lack of an Irish military response and the reliance on the UK for the protection of Irish airspace.
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  9.  @elimlinrr6898  Whether you agree with it our not, the "Monroe Doctrine" of 1823 was well established in the Americas by 1962, and invoked many times. No such equivalency exists between Russia and Ukraine. No double standard.
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  10.  @exadios8736  I was "invoking" JFK's use of The Monroe Doctrine against Soviet offensive weapons in Cuba, which were not just directed at the US, but much of Latin America.
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