Comments by "Alan Friesen" (@alanfriesen9837) on "Fareed Zakaria says the US has made a strategic error with Russia" video.

We didn't have to have foes. We forced them, and are still forcing them, to stand up against us.
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Don't hold your breath.
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@KnarfStein What level is that, pray tell?
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@larryholou I don't know that we shouldn't care about Ukraine and its people simply because they are far away, but I do think that we should recognize that they are a relatively small country in Russia's backyard and we should be trying to help them get along with and prosper from their overwhelming neighbor rather than using them as a tool to get under Russia's skin.
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@KnarfStein You think Russia wants the west to be a stagnant petrostate? I haven't been to Russia. Perhaps you have and you know better. But I'm not sure Russia is as stagnant a petrostate as you think. I know Russia has been modernizing and cleaning up its cities and towns over the last twenty years. That's not to say that Russia is any kind of paradise. Standards of living are lower on average in Russia than they are in western Europe. I think this combined with a more authoritarian governance that rotates around the personality of Putin keeps most Westerners from immigrating.
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