And Bush senior was head of CIA . So??
What do you fear most?”
"I fear that love is not enough "
He obeyed the rules of the US Constitution. Putin doesn’t obey rules, he makes them.
And if you don’t follow them, you die.
He followed the constitution so closely he broke international law from iraq to panama and declared to the world in 1990 a new world order and the United States of America was the global hegemon, unchallenged US empire
What do you fear most?”
"I fear that love is not enough "
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He’s dead. When he was President, he was racist and ran a bombing campaign that killed civilians. Letting that go kept the door open for worse from his son, and eventually Trump.
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As all play pin-the-tail-on-the-Nazi, this one is particularly worth studying. Call this an opener.
And you can provide proof?
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" [Oleksiy Danilov – putin and Hitler are Siamese twins]"(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91MfuOtwhWY)
As all play pin-the-tail-on-the-Nazi, this one is particularly worth studying.
Call this an opener.
I have not seen anyone play pin-the-tail-on- the- Nazi. It’s a game played blindfolded. Can you show proof in any form?
I am trusting that this is not AI generated. We are going to have some real challenges, given the propaganda system that has been engaged; the censorship; the many sources that do not deserve our trust, and the new technology. Once again pin the tail on the Nazi:
Just like the serbs were labelled as animals by NATO allies
What do you fear most?”
"I fear that love is not enough "
Quote? You cannot just post unsupported slander without a shred of proof.
Serbia - Slavs, Orthodox, Balkan
After Tito’s death in 1980 and the collapse of communism in eastern Europe over the course of the following decade, resurgent nationalism reopened old rifts in Yugoslav society. Serbian (and later Yugoslav) leader Slobodan Milošević attempted to craft a “Greater Serbia” from the former union, but his policies instead led to the secession of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Macedonia and civil war in the early 1990s.
The civil war caused the death or displacement of hundreds of thousands of people and prompted international sanctions against the country. In the late 1990s more blood was spilled when the Albanian-Muslim-dominated Serbian province of Kosovo declared independence, resulting in the intervention of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the United Nations, the bombing of Belgrade, and the placement of Kosovo under UN administration from mid-1999.
Milošević was later defeated in presidential elections and arrested and tried before the International Court of Justice for war crimes, but the rump Yugoslavia remained unstable, as Montenegro threatened to declare independence before negotiating an agreement that maintained the country’s unification in a loose federation.
In 2003, after the ratification of the pact by the parliaments of Serbia, Montenegro, and Yugoslavia, the renamed Serbia and Montenegro replaced Yugoslavia on the European map. In 2006 this loose federation came to an end, as Montenegro and Serbia were recognized as independent nations. Meanwhile, multilateral talks to determine Kosovo’s future status failed to yield a solution acceptable to both Serbs and Kosovars.
Despite Serbia’s opposition, Kosovo formally seceded in February 2008.
Up to one-third of Serbia proper is in broad-leaved forest, mostly oak and beech. The regional name Šumadija literally means “forested area,” but large areas that were formerly wooded long have been cleared and put to cultivation. In mountainous areas trees cover two-fifths or more of the territory, depending on elevation and soil thickness.
Serbia has a rich diversity of wild animals. Among larger mammals, deer and bear abound in forested areas. Wild pigs (Sus scrofa) are a distinctive feature of beech forests in the mountains.
So who were the Nazis in Serbia?
True enough, although western Ukrainians say they are the real Ukrainians.
Obviously that stems from Srebrenica.
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And kosovo
What do you fear most?”
"I fear that love is not enough "
Kosovo was nothing compared to Srebrenica. I don’t know why NATO supported Kosovo independence at all. It was pouring fuel on a fire.
Thanks, excellent review. Yes, the US is not without mistakes. But I do not believe that the US always acted in its own National Security Interests.
I have read the actions that warranted critique, but I also want to show the other side of the question.
From the pdf.
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION AND INTERNATIONAL LAW: TOO MUCH LAWYERING AND TOO LITTLE DIPLOMACY
This long bill of particulars certainly gives the standard view of the Bush Administration’s relationship to international law some plausibility. Nevertheless, as I will explain, the standard view is both too simplistic and in some ways the reverse of the truth.
As an initial matter, this view omits from its description some affirmative contributions that the Administration made to international law. More importantly, this view glosses over the fact that the Administration almost never directly repudiated international law and in many cases advanced perfectly respectable legal arguments to support its controversial actions. In light of these complications, I will suggest a lesson from the Bush Administration’s relationship with international law that is different from the standard view:
Most of the problems associated with the Administration’s approach to international relations did not result from a failure to treat international law as law. In fact, in some respects the problems were the result of the opposite—the Administration was too focused on the law and failed to take adequate account of other, non-legal considerations that are often central to good diplomacy.
The situation improved during President Bush’s second term, as the Administration became more pragmatic, and less legalistic, in its approach to international law. At the outset, it is important to note that the Administration made affirmative contributions to particular areas of international law. Consider, for example, the area of nuclear non-proliferation, one of the most important issues in the world today.
The Administration played a leadership role in pushing other nations to comply with and help enforce the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and one of the Administration’s major foreign policy successes was to persuade Libya to agree to give up its nuclear program.
1 It also worked with the United Nations Security Council to craft several key resolutions
2 Furthermore, it helped launch the “Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction,” to which it provided billions of dollars in funding.
3 Perhaps not surprisingly, the Bush Administration also made significant contributions to international law concerning counterterrorism and criminal law enforcement. After the September 11 attacks, the Administration worked with the Security Council to establish a Counter-Terrorism Committee, which has focused on restricting the financing of terrorist organizations and making sure that nations extradite or prosecute terrorists.
4 Concerns have been raised about some of the processes used by that Committee, but it is nevertheless an important development in the area of international law dealing with terrorism. After September 11, the United States also persuaded other nations to support the concept of a self-defense right in the context of terrorism.
5 In terms of law enforcement more generally, the United States helped negotiate and conclude important treaties on subjects such as cybercrime and organized crime.
Just sayin…
Incidentally, it seems Sarah Ashton-Cirillo isn’t even a Ukrainian. She’s just another righteously pissed off person. But that won’t stop people from pretending she’s a spokesperson for the Ukrainians.
"Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, also known as Sarah Ashton and Sarah Cirillo, is an American journalist who enlisted as a combat medic in the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War, having previously worked as a war correspondent in that conflict. "
I do concede your analysis here. I followed back several links to the closest source, and while her affilliation with the military of Ukraine is real, and they may regard her as an English spokesperson, her relationship is loose enough for her to pull this off. Possibly this will help reduce any confusion:
Here is a bit of evidence that free speech is alive in Ukraine. It may be thwarted, but it is alive; barely:
And then too, sadly:
Pacifism and Nazism. Looks like freedom. I see people interviewed from Ukraine regularly. Nothing indicates suppression of speech, except of course the violent kind
You havent looked in eastern ukraine
What do you fear most?”
"I fear that love is not enough "