Comments by "Norma Mimosa" (@normamimosa5991) on "Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East | Lex Fridman Podcast #399" video.

  1. Very interesting and inspirational. The US Democrat Party has morphed from a classical liberal party, with an expectation of debate, into a hybrid marxist-totalitarian-fascist party without possibility of debate. There can be no debate over whether to destroy a country with, say, three million migrants versus five million migrants, along with far-too-high legal immigration. There can be no debate whether to support over 500,000 KIA for a manufactured US hegemonic, proxy war against Russia versus 1,000,000 KIA for such an evil war. In other words there can be no debate about degrees of destruction and evil. Only action to stop them. I agree completely with the end goals in the Middle East, particularly the immediate Israeli/ Palestinian crisis, being first strength, then better lives for all. A hurdle not mentioned is the tiny, already overcrowded, geographical space for two exponentially growing populations.
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  2. Russia did not take Georgia. Russia did go into Georgia to protect the Russian enclaves in Georgia. At the time there was a US affiliated Georgian president, and his troops committed violent atrocities against those Russian civilians, not unlike the Ukrainian genocide against the Donbass Russians. One of the key reasons for Russia's activating its SMO was to end the Ukrainian genocide against the Donbass Russians, let alone the US/NATO acts of war against Russia from Ukraine, a non-NATO country. For Russia, the war is existential. Biden has gone out of his way to vilify Putin, Russia and Russians in an attempt to justify his war against Russia. The EU, NATO, West have been loudly and explicitly clear about the goal to tear Russia and Russians apart. Of course Russia is fighting back - for its very existence, just as Israel is fighting back for its existence. Crimea had been Russian since 1784. It was not Ukrainian before that. Ukraine did not exist. In1954, Khrushchev arbitrarily transferred administration of Crimea to Ukraine SSR, without the approval of Crimea and without regard for its Russian demographic. He did it to gain support from the elite of Ukraine. In 2014, Crimea voted overwhelmingly (97% with an 83% turnout) to be repatriated to Russia. The Ukraine war is nothing less than an evil US, manufactured, hegemonic war against Russia, using Ukrainian killing fields and unwilling Ukrainian conscripts as proxy fodder to die for this evil US/NATO/West proxy war. The ground work for the war was laid by Obama, with Biden as his point man in Ukraine behind the Maidan Coup to oust a duly elected Ukrainian president because he favored friendly trade relations with Russia. The US had no more bushiness interfering in Ukraine as a foothold for war against Russia than Hamas has in Gaza as a foothold for war against Israel.😢😢
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  3. Hopefully, Jared is just attempting to be diplomatic by saying that he has great admiration for the anti-democratic despot, Zelensky.
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  4. In government, despite all the games, there must be integrity, honesty, and ethics, all an integral part of freedom and democracy. Society cannot be ethically whole until those traits are restored. No one has faced appropriate consequences for the traitorous, seditious plots against President Trump. They are still given a voice and still push hatred and lies. Intelligent people become corrupt and dishonest, supporting a political party long after it has become wrotten to the core. Perhaps political parties should be abolished. Replaced by individuals voted into power for their ethics, decency, intelligence, education, experience, record, and accomplishments, to rise successfully or fall on their own swords.
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