Oh, really, don't see much of a persistent dip, tbh.
Do you?
Also, here is a news flash for you, it is not just the exports to the USA, your companies build stuff there and sell it to the whole world.
Corporate greed, got it.
Care to share anything else Psaki says?
You can keep trying to deflect and deny USA's/Bush's responsibility in this mess, but he didn't have to invade Iraq, and no amount of deflection or cope will change that.
You can keep trying to deflect and deny USA's/LBJ's responsibility in this mess, but he didn't have to invade Vietnam, and no amount of deflection or cope will change that.
You can keep trying to deflect and deny USA's/James K. Polk's responsibility in this mess, but he didn't have to invade Mexico, and no amount of deflection or cope will change that.
Need I go on, glass houses and stones!
Oh, I don't know, despite the Media and the neocuck' best efforts a lot of people are waking up, as well as a lot of posters on here.
But you do you.
It's hilarious you try to pretend I am just echo'ing the Biden Admins lines, when you know damn well I've call all their shit out too.
I was on SB when the shit happened in 2014, I was on their when the rebels shotdown that Malaysian airliner because they were reckless assholes, I was there when Russian tanks first moved into the Donbass and took Crimea. Russia is not innocent in this, and the West did not enact a war of aggression to seize territory in an imperial like manner, and Russia did invade Georgia when it tried for NATO membership.
I will call out the West's screw ups, but that does not mean I feel they are 'more guilty' here than Putin.
It was not the West who turned the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone into a war zone. Putin is spitting on the graves of everyone who died to contain/mitigate that disaster by waging war anywhere near it or putting troops in it/through it.
It was not the West who decided that he could not allow Ukraine to challenge Russia's purse when the oil reserves were found off Crimea and in the Donbass.
It was not the West who decided they also want to take the Baltics and probably part of the Balkan's as well.
It was not the West who could not accept that the USSR is dead and that the second Putin attacks NATO soil is the second all of the agreements go out the window and nukes start getting armed and lobbed at Russian forces.
Ukraine is not NATO and shouldn't be in NATO, but Putin's action have just justified NATO existence like nothing else could.
While I will grant you that Putin carries some of the blame, it's not for the reasons you espouse. He did have to invade Ukraine; that was set in stone the moment the Maidan coup (which was backed by America and Europe; so if anyone hold the lion's share of the blame, it's them) took control of western Ukraine. Putin should have invaded as soon as possible, and tried to restore the legitimately elected government of Ukraine. He didn't, partly because he still feared what America might do if he pushed too far, and instead decided to settle for rescuing Crimea and backing the rebels in Donbass. That was a mistake; one he is currently paying for.
You do realise that there are other factors, don't you?
Putin's a 3rd World dictator, and more than a bit of a monster, but he didn't randomly invade everybody on a daily basis. The simple fact is there's factors from the West, from both the US and Europe, that pushed to make this happen.
I'm not saying that the US caused this. I am saying that they contributed.
Given what happens to pretty much every dictator who bends to the US, I can see why Putin's desperate enough to do this. Push a monster hard enough, and it's do insane things. That's why some of us are looking at the potential of WW3, and/or a atomic war, and people who can't see the desperation leading to such decisions? You're not helping.
And none of what we've been talking about includes the connections between the Biden crime family and Ukrainian companies.
Did you forget what his pet rebels did to that Malaysian airliner; they might have had some moral ground to stand on before that. Nothing that happened in the Maidan, which you know I understand we are not innocent in, excuses that.
After that, with the way Russia blocked any justice for that, it became clear who the bad huys were, even if I had sympathy for the fact that the Donbass region was part of Russia for a long time.
I'm aware of the intricacies; I just happen to not be willing to excuse what Putin has done here just because of what happened in the Maidan. I am also aware of the Biden's ties to Ukraine, and frankly wish we had a DoJ that would have done something about that; doesn't change who sent tanks into another country.
If Putin had limited his action to just putting forces in the LPR/DPR to make 'independent', instead of moving on Kiev, Mairupol, and Odessa, maybe I would have accepted that the Biden Admin and such were overreacting to the situation.
But that's not what happened, is it?
No matter how fucked up what the West has done in Ukraine since Obama, none of it justifies Putin's actions once the tanks crossed into Chernobyl and missiles started raining on Kharkiv.
