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Originally Posted by Robbie
I think the rest of the world NEEDS to stop letting the United States Govt. boss them around like children.
We invade and the occupy complete foreign countries.
Russia takes back a section that is full of Russian speaking Russians and we stick our nose in it and start shit.
It's ridiculous. Especially at a time when the world economy sucks.
But the guys in Washington D.C. think that they can boss everybody around.
It's that kind of thinking that has us living in fear of terrorism. And if Washington, D.C. keeps on bullying every other country in the world & sticking our nose in everyone's business, it's going to come back and bite us in the ass again.
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While I agree with the sentiment, I think this particular situation calls for more analysis - maybe you are only seeing the "US does this, US says that" analysis on TV without reasons why Europe is silent on this.
Much of Europe depends on Russian gas - has done for a long time. If Europe went in with all guns blazing, then Russia would (rightly) cut off Europe from (or at least hike prices enormously with) its gas. The US has FA to do with Russian gas, so is being the front man to do all the talking.
If troops go on the ground (like it looks like they already are), it'll be UN troops not US.
This will never be a US-led war (never was), but more of a big pissing match for who gets the rights to Ukraine (East vs West). Ask why the Russian govt actually intervened, just when a pro-Russian govt gave way to a pro-euro interim govt?
Ukraine has always been pissing territory between east and west and it looks like history is again repeating itself - the US is just playing the Voice.