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re: I missed the quote. What did Obama say the US would to to Russia?
Posted on 2/28/14 at 8:38 pm to baybeefeetz
Posted on 2/28/14 at 8:38 pm to baybeefeetz
My question is why this is being framed as a US vs.Russia issue when the genesis of the entire crises is a split in Ukraine regarding whether to hitch their wagon to Russia or the EU?
Are the leaders of the EU and their heads of state hiding under their desks?
I find it very bizarre that the EU is seemingly staying out of something in which they are the primary player while the pressure to handle it is put on the US.
Are the leaders of the EU and their heads of state hiding under their desks?
I find it very bizarre that the EU is seemingly staying out of something in which they are the primary player while the pressure to handle it is put on the US.
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Posted on 2/28/14 at 8:39 pm to Scoop
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I find it very bizarre that the EU is seemingly staying out of something in which they are the primary player while the pressure to handle it is put on the US.
Are you surprised by this?
Posted on 2/28/14 at 8:42 pm to Scoop
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why this is being framed as a US vs.Russia issue
It's not, that's just how the American media is portraying it so that you'll tune in.
Posted on 2/28/14 at 8:51 pm to Scoop
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I find it very bizarre that the EU is seemingly staying out of something in which they are the primary player while the pressure to handle it is put on the US
That's because the world has gotten used to using us as their hired goons to do their dirty work. Check out what Robert Gates said about the Saudis:
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When Gates visited Riyadh in August 2007, he got an earful from Saudi King Abdullah, who urged “a full-scale military attack on Iranian military targets, not just the nuclear sites.” The chain-smoking Saudi monarch warned that if the United States refused to attack, “the Saudis ‘must go our own way to protect our interests.’” The conversation made Gates, who firmly opposed military action, livid: “As far as I was concerned, he was asking the United States to send its sons and daughters into a war with Iran in order to protect the Saudi position in the Gulf and the region, as if we were mercenaries.”
LINK
This is how most of our "allies" see us.
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