Lately we have heard Russian President Vladimir Putin vilified all over the news media because he is trying to protect the interests of his own country from the west. If the same thing were happening in a country bordering our what would the US do? It's not Russia stirring up the strife in Crimea, it's the international oil corporations. They want to gain control of the oil in that hemisphere like they have in Iraq, and like they have attempted to do in Iran and Venezuela. They use black ops and destabilize the government, undermine their rulers, and compare them to Hitler to get us behind them. Then they use the US military to go and take over. And now we see Mrs. Hillary Clinton chime in with comparisons of President Vladimir Putin with Adolf Hitler. For the last forty years this has been a tried and true way to get America pumped up to go to war. It seems that Mrs. (want to be president) Clinton has traded in her dove wings for the heavier warhawk wings. What a change time has brought about.
Besides being underhanded, there are other reasons to not take any action against Russia. Do we want to start the cold war all over again? Do we now want to have trade wars? Since this episode began, the price of gasdline has already shot up 15 cents a gallon. Do you think the oil companies how much we pay for gas solong as they get what they want? Remember, they have been gouging us since the Bush/ Cheney administration, so don't think they don't want it to continue. And once they gain control of that oil, we'll really be pying "sky high " prices.
And here's another very good reason. Since the Viet Nam war, this country has failed to live up to it's obligations to those who have fought and been wounded or worse. Our children come back from these wars with broken bodies and troubled minds and becomes homeless people with no help from the people who sent them there and no one in government will take action on their behalf. Many, including president Obama, have SAID that they would remedy the situation, but as of this present moment no one has done nearly enough to show concern about the plight of our wounded warriors. Even American veterans from the Viet Nam war era are still battling to settle claims from "agent orange", a defoliant used to deforest that country in the 1960s and 70s. The Iraq war brought us exposure to depleted uranium bullets, which claims haven't been settled either. And now our children are coming back from Afghanistan seriously disturbed by all they've seen in war. It should enough to cause the citizens of this country to say 'ENOUGH"! But we have plenty of money to continue to fight these wars because anytime one of our leaders compares people like Saddam Heussein, Manuel Noriega, Mohammar Qadaffi and now Valdimir Putin, it makes us mad enough to fight another war whether they are telling the truth or not, or whether it's justified or not. It doesn't matter that all this foreign aid and all these wars are bankrupting the country, we just want to FIGHT HITLER!
It's about time we stopped listening to "dog whistles", as one of our political parties are so adept at using, and look at solutions instead of using and losing all our resources on losing causes. Let the oil corporations obtain that oil by bargaining, not by using our military to TAKE it from the people who it rightfully belongs to. No, it is not Russia or Vladimir Putin causing the problem here, it's something more sinister!.
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