Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "CaspianReport"
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It isn't a "crazy radical mindset" to invade Iraq, Afghanistan, or come to the aid of South Vietnam against the face of communist insurgency where civilian population was the target of the Viet Minh, Viet Cong, and paramilitaries. Iraq would have been ruled by Uday Hussein, who tortured, raped, and murdered people for sport, while his father invaded Kuwait and threatened to invade Saudi Arabia.
America and her allies did the world a favor ousting Saddam, since most of Asia relies on Middle Eastern oil to run their industries.
No nation on earth has come anywhere even close to the levels of charity, humanitarian relief work, donations, and defense that the United States has provided. The US isn't the only nation to help build infrastructure abroad, but is the most prolific with the most resources to do so. Russia isn't all evil in that regard, and tried to build infrastructure in Afghanistan, despite overthrowing the government after assassinating their President at the time.
When I look at Finland, for example, Czarist Russia built most of the Finnish railroad network under one of their governors around the time of the US Civil War, and Finland has benefitted from that connection with Russia for trade to this day, as Russian rail tracks are wider than most used in Central Europe.
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A huge problem President Eisenhower had was disobedience and insubordination, particularly from the CIA. During the transition to JFK Admin, Ike warned JFK about this serious challenge, as they were both military men used to discipline and subordinates immediately following orders. Once you understand that the CIA was penetrated by at least 200 double agents for the NKVD before Langley was even stood up in 1947, geopolitical events involving the US, West Germany, Cuba, Vietnam, Argentina, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, start to make much more sense.
For example, why did the CIA order Francis Gary Powers to continue another overflight of the Soviet Union, when President Eisenhower had ordered a temporary halt to the flights before his scheduled speech in the Soviet Union? Why was the POW camp at Son Tay completely empty of US prisoners when the rescue force arrived? Why did one of the main agents from Berlin base run a spy network from his villa on the Austrian-Czech border for 20 years, compromising the NATO strategic order of battle plans every 6 months, when he was listed as a security risk from the start?
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Da Uberbunny: Study some critical thinking standards before making an argument, because yours is full of fallacies. Russia's actions are not the direct result of US actions. Russia's actions are a direct result of Russia's curse of expansion and contraction with her neighboring peoples, since Russia has no significant geographic barriers between her and her neighbors that aren't easily bypassed.
Internally, Russia goes through cycles of weakness and strength, based solely on the ability to maintain security on her borders with an expensive military complex. Once she spends her resources on securing the periphery, the internal economy collapses, then the neighbors re-assert themselves, and the process repeats.
With the increasing military capacity of bordering nations, Russia's ability to project power is extremely limited, forcing the cycle to resonate off the interior with even more pressure than in the past, while the rest of the world watches and cuts even more trade off with Russia for her belligerence. It's a matter of geography, not internet evil for Russian people.
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Russia has invaded more nations since 1990 than America has in the past century. Russia has murdered more of its own citizens and civilian neighbors, only topped by China, dwarfing even Hitler by a huge factor.
To come to the conclusion that the US is even comparable to Russia is pure ignorance of history, to the insult of the families of tens of millions of people in Ukraine, Poland, Finland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Afghanistan...you get to the point where you have to start a research project just to get a grasp on all the nations Russia has invaded, raped, plundered, and used for Russia's peripheral buffer zone for security, since Russia has no significant land borders to protect her from border disputes.
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