re: Obamas statement on middle east and Ukraine from the white house just now

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I lived through it. I know what happened. I don't know how old you are, but it was Reagan who finally forced the USSR over, after years of a mostly United Western Front against the Soviets.

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That was one of the factors but the USSR was just not able to sustain its self throwing that along with the people in other countries they tried to wipe out standing up for themselves.

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You think Putin is invincible? Don't you think he has enemies internally?

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No but Putin is just does not care and has been known to have his enemies fall off the face of the earth.

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And why not help out the Ukrainians with conventional weapons? You're ok with the Russians running roughshod over them, and anyone else who gets in the way of their quest to restore the Soviet Union?

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Yes since proxy wars work out so great esp for our Gov't.

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The point of my original post is that an aggressive Putin was a foregone conclusion once he saw a weakened Bush, and a President who is silly enough to send over a Re-Set button and draw shifting Red Lines in the sand . How do you think Mr Tough Guy reacted to that?

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If Romney was president Putin would have done the same shite. His ideology does not care what other world leaders think. He does what he thinks is best for Russia and he believes in restoring the Russian Empire. To think if we had someone else in officer this would not happen is just silly.